skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the time Far Cry, Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 came out, shooters were very common on consoles. There were many more console shooters apart from Halo. The fact that we see hardly any PC-exclusive AAA shooters anymore, but did back then, calls for an explanation. And it's not just shooters. In general there are few AAA games nowadays that are PC-exclusive or mainly targeted at PCs and only ported to consoles. The situation was very different in 2004.
I think this is why the article is confusing. The interpretation with the least friction is so banal that it seems unlikely to be the intended meaning.
What’s Next for Apple’s AirPods: Health Tracking
More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/14nx7v5/t...
I also had to make sure I'm running a decent enough MESA and a recent enough llvm and a recent enough linux-firmware. It's not trivial.

But if you're on a distro with a recent enough version of those things, it Just Works.

I do wish distros like Ubuntu were more on the ball with regards to hardware support though. Ideally, someone running an up to date Ubuntu LTS should have a system which just works with new AMD hardware within at most a few weeks. It's currently a matter of many many months.
Please don't spread misinformation. AMD GPUs have had full 3d acceleration out of the box for several years now. I use Linux exclusively and had great performance in 3D games on R9 380, RX 570, and RX 580, all using the mainline (obviously FOSS) driver.
My computers were always Macs at home. It’s no wonder I saw IBM compatibles and even Apple IIs and thought of them as ridiculous. I think it probably pushed me into thinking of computers as tools for accomplishing a task instead of as a hobby, as many of my peers did. It took me a long time to appreciate what early hobby computers were.
Do the people who actually work for his companies generally feel the same way?
That's not a memory safety issue.

And well, like people keep pointing on that discussion thread, C and C++ undefined behavior isn't just an operation you don't know the result; it's a much deeper and crazier thing that no other language has (unless when they inherit it by sharing compiling tools).
Sure. Searching M1104273380R should return https://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.... and this paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19829 .

Interestingly, when I tried this just now, I did get the paper as a result. I could swear I tried this same search yesterday and had zero results.
> All the talk of a recession last year was always just bluster to justify layoffs

Or, a signal of the tail end of an undeclared recession.

If you compare unemployment rate to recessions, they usually begin before the unemployment spike. The unemployment spike then usually plateus around the end of the recession.
What's the canonical pronunciation of this?
43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)
I know crypto is a curse word here, but what you're describing is literally a perfect use case for IPFS and a DAO
I can get behind the "Android isn't Linux" argument when it comes to claims of how numerous Linux users there are via smartphones. The userspace is quite distinct from anything GNU-like.

But the Steamdeck uses very much a full-blown Arch-derived Linux distro. So I'm not sure it makes sense to categorize their users as anything other than "Linux gamers".

The fact that AMD landed on the Steamdeck vs. NVIDIA or Intel is noteworthy. Their continued investment in mainline Linux support has clearly paid off.
Paranoia. :)
You can specify as many profiles as you want, you have a property called firefox.profiles that can be an array and you would declare as many settings you would want in it. They still need to be names though (either through a variable like an username or a name you would set yourself).
By the author's metric is even worse to read a book. If you are looking for the exact answer to your exact code maybe that is the problem.

To get free training so you can solve your problem yourself and understand the overall situation seems a very good deal. The example to complain about seems very badly chosen.

I think that Google is getting worse and that advertisements in webpages should be regulated. But to complain that you are being taught to fish instead of given a fish seems too entitled.
I only yet this once every 6 months. And the issues are resolved in minutes following the printed instructions (as opposed to crawling through arch wiki or whatever).

Most of the time the deprecations require no action on my part, I simply rather keep things tidy and make the warnings go away.

> In a way, it’s reassuring to see that niche Linux distributions have changed so little in the decade since I last used one.

You are misunderstanding what I am saying. The situation is very different. There are still Linux/Wayland/NVidia/Whatever issues, but configuring NixOS is not among them.
The proliferation of SEO fluff makes it way too convenient to use ChatGPT instead.

I'm well aware of ChatGPT's ability to confidently say wrong things, but the cost of reading SEO fluff is so high I'm more than willing for that tradeoff.

Interestingly I've found that GPT also tends to use SEO fluff, likely because its trained off SEO-fluffed content.

The difference is that I can just tell ChatGPT to be concise and the fluff is gone
The number one reason blogs do this is because of links, which are very hard to build. Actually, these days nobody gives a flying fuck about linking to anyone else’s site anymore and Google knows this. They’ve openly stated that they want to devalue backlinks as a ranking metric.

So, what is the alternative? You plaster the page with an eBooks-worth of content because that satisfies Googles EAT (something something topical authority) signals. It’s that simple.

In many ways you can steer Googles results in a direction but developers are too lazy to make a /link section on their blog and save a bookmark once in a while. It actually helps the people whose content you like and it costs you absolutely nothing.
It works really well for questions that have easy answers and that are asked a lot.

It works less well when you have a question that doesn't have an obvious answer.

For fun, try 'How can I write to a Parquet file in Java without Hadoop?'. It will vacillate between giving answers that pull in hadoop dependencies, and nonsense that doesn't compile at all.

(here's a useful proper answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59939309/read-local-parq...)
I like to use the Bing AI for that because ChatGPT can sometimes hallucinate while Bing will use its knowledge + stuff from websites which makes it a more reliable source for things which should match reality.
I absolutely hate the SEO crap that shows up these days, so much that I've become accustomed to immediately scrolling down past the first few results.

In contrast, I read all of K&R before writing a single C program, and when I had to learn PHP, I went to the official documentation (it was a downloadable .chm) and read through most of it first. It's a larger upfront investment, but I think taking the time to understand the language first instead of "JIT'ing" knowledge is worth it.
For the uninitiated, writing Emacs Lisp is pretty easy. The only thing that requires some getting used to is all the existing functions to work with Emacs. There are thousands of them, acting on different facets of the editor, like for receiving user input, manipulating text and interacting with "modes" ; Emacs' abstraction that specifies behavior based on which file is currently being edited.
> How is this the number one link on Google?

Because it's rich in content, it's long, has a table of contents, the whole site is relevant to the search query, etc etc etc; from a search engine's point of view, it's more authoritative than Stack Overflow where the authoritartativity (?) is debatable at best, decided by consensus otherwise.

What should happen is that the community behind Python (in this case) works their ass off to make authoritative sources, like MDN did for web standards. And they had to work and fight for years to overtake w3schools.
I've noticed the same thing recently: Googling for common programming stuff (in a language I don't normally use) will turn up results that usually answer the question, but they're bloated with preamble and filler.

I wonder how far Google could get with manual curation. Like if they said, these sites (eg, Stack Overflow, official documentation) have been around forever and have high-quality content, let's crank up their rankings for the appropriate classes of queries. That has its own problems, but it's gotta be better than the status quo.
To run just Wikipedia it seems quite sufficient. It’s KTLO on multidecade old technology with no real upgrade or new feature added in as much time and no exponential scaling needs. They should be set for a decade if not More even if their engineering stack is shit (which it’s not). They publish their spending. They are not spending on their website.
Why Nations Fail is a great book that everyone has to read. Says that economic inequality is because of political institutions.

Specifically, "inclusive" institutions where everyone can become part of the economic system. Anyone can be a government supplier under the same terms, everyone can start their own business under the same terms, everyone can get financing under the same terms, and everyone get the same protection to their own private property.

There's a nice Economic effect called "Hume-Cantillon Effect":

> Furthermore, he posited that the original recipients of new money enjoy higher standards of living at the expense of later recipients. The concept of relative inflation, or a disproportionate rise in prices among different goods in an economy, is now known as the Cantillon Effect.
> ... the rate of interest was determined by the supply and demand on the loanable funds market—an insight usually attributed to Scottish philosopher David Hume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_t...
I find it a bit odd that this review only discusses the things it's metabolized into and not either of the things that seem more relevant (at this point: the effect of tasting it psychologically, and then whatever it is in your gut that does the metabolizing.

Like, great, I believe that if you inject those chemicals into me in the right spot I'll be fine. But didn't you skip a few steps?

Not that I care much either way. It sounds like it's safe, toxicologically and epidemiologically speaking. But there's still a difference between eating things that taste sweet and not doing it at all-- beyond the molecules that end up in your blood.
A lot of this depends on whether developers get upside for taking risk or not.

Part of the problem isn’t so much trust but covering my behind. If I support/propose buying some new entrant, I can be blamed for choosing them. If I choose the industry standard option, everyone else also did that so how could I be at fault?

So the big incumbents are automatically better for my purposes as that is an easier decison to defend.

“Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” remains true today.
Why is your way better?

Because they complain about all the consequences of their actions without changing them? They complain about their tiny apartment, about their out of date phones and computers, about how much their animals cost in time and money, about how they have to take suboptimal medications because they can't afford the correct ones? Then when an emergency happens they have to beg money off their friends. "Having a different value system" is almost always code for shitty behavior and poor impulse control.
I agree, if I’m driving my car for a single leg of the journey, then my “origin” is where my private vehicle is parked.
The point of this is that you can use it in format strings where you may be printing a whole bunch of other things.

In particular there are some APIs where you need to submit the whole format/string in one go, an example from libc is syslog(), but other libraries do this as well occasionally.
turning off the money hose was a big adjustment for the whole market

participants needed to find a way to trade without guaranteed liquidity and they did

not all markets are in bull runs, the credit markets are still declining, housing market is still pulling back, commercial is still hanging by a thread
Gold hasn't existed for years when they cancelled it and made reddit premium which also happened to be 3x as expensive and offered less.

That was also when I stopped my subscription and the start of the downfall of reddit IMO. This started way before spez was CEO. I think it was Ellen Pao during her time of "making reddit profitable".

But I don't think reddit will ever be profitable. The value extraction on users and the big money interests are so counter to niche communities that made reddit what it was, that reddit will just kill itself over it.

I'm sure it will still exist in some form. But not as we know it (or have any kind of use for). Similar to how predecessor https://digg.com still exists but is just around to serve no one.
i found this completely incomprehensible, and i have been a commuter in london for over 30 years. can somebody else explain?
I know I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but I think one of the most underrated advantages of ChatGPT is simply that it says everything in exactly the same tone and style. When I google for things, who knows what page I'm going to land on. It could be full of ads. It could have tons of content I have to parse before I get to what I care about, as said in OP. It could be written clunkily, in a way that's hard to parse, or it could be littered with spelling mistakes. It could be overly verbose, or explain things that I don't need to know. All this creates high variance in the actual time it takes to parse out what I need.

When I ask ChatGPT it'll always give me the answer in a few paragraphs, and it's always written in the exact same way. What a boon!

> How is this the number one link on Google?

It's the number one link on Google because one proxy Google has to know if you got a result is that you lingered on the page for a long time. This is also, tangentially, why cooking recipe websites are so long. If you bounce immediately off a website, Google thinks that means that you didn't find it to be useful. ChatGPT does not have this problem.
WebAuthn Is Great and It Sucks (2020)
Oh crap, you're right, I'm off the loop.

So he just made it private?
Obviously, yes. I just pointed out the dotcom boom companies as examples of that.

Free server hardware would have helped Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. to scale up faster too but they managed to grow just fine having to pay for servers. Their business models were so incredibly successful that they could have afforded to pay for software too without drastically lowering their growth.
> We relate the degradation results to the numerical stability in training. fp16
format uses a smaller range for the exponent than bf16. While bf16 uses 8 bits for the exponent, fp16 only uses 5. Most floating point formats also have denormalized numbers which allow for a
soft underflow. This can get exponentially closer to 0.0f for each additional bit in the mantissa.
This makes underflow more of a concern for floating point formats.
I'm inclined to agree with you about whether this is the best path to a good life.

But I also don't think the essay actually does romanticize "great work". I read it as, "if you are the kind of person who naturally has this kind of ambition, this essay will speak to you, and if you aren't that kind of person, it won't". That is, I think it's necessary for you to be that kind of person, in order to read the essay as a romanticism. And clearly you have that in you, as your anecdote about piano demonstrates. And even though you have concluded that this is not a good facet of your personality, it's hard to truly shake it.

Personally, this plight really speaks to me (and I'm sorry if I'm just projecting that onto you...). When I really think about it, the happiest most chill times in my life and career are when I've just been plugging away doing useful and well-compensated work, but definitely not "great work" in the essay's sense. I have told myself many times to just do that and do fun and enriching things with my friends and family and be content with that. But it never fails, I always get the nag eventually, to be more ambitious, to try to do work that is more impactful, more "great". So this essay spoke to me, because of that trait I seem to have, even if I'm totally unconvinced that it is the best path to a good life.

And I don't think this is universal. I think nearly everyone I know would instead read this essay as "that sounds exhausting and terrible" and, as the essay alludes to at the end, would not make it very deep into it.

But yeah, striving to do the kind of "great work" that this essay is talking about is certainly not what I want for my children... The best outcome is succeeding after a huge life-impacting amount of work, and the more likely outcome is constant nagging doubt without any pot of gold at the end.
>The type is set to module. This has something to do with the migration from requires to imports. Why do we have to care about this, again? The extensive pain you’ve experienced trying to importing ES5 modules from ESM modules and vice versa overwhelms you again.

Would anything truly have been lost if Node simply ignored ESM?

The half-measure seems, abstractly, worse than announcing that Node was all-in on ESM, deprecating CJS by a certain LTS release, as the end-user has no real notion of the ultimate destination of ESM in a Node project; what is the struggle for?.
The article itself even has a half dozen examples of (Japanese) men doing exactly that.
What is "woke" political stuff, specifically, vs non-woke?
The argument you’re presenting here is an argument by exception.

Plenty of people survive accidents when not wearing seatbelts. That does not prove that not wearing seatbelts is okay.
Cheat sheets are the best for this sort of thing. Every language probably ought to have a set of them.
> Turns out that the phone was still locked, the seller had neglected to logout from his Xiaomi account. Even worse though he had forgotten his login and password.

I thought this bit was phrased a little too kindly. While it's unclear whether it was the case here or not [0], usually when you buy a locked phone off eBay and the seller has "forgotten" to log out of their cloud account and has "forgotten" their password (and login too, to boot!) it's because the phone was stolen.

[0]: OP claims "seller went above and beyond" to get the phone unlocked, which I initially interpreted as "figured out the locked account info" but then continued to read and learned that the use of an unlock tool was involved.. making me once again doubt the veracity of the "forgetful seller" story.
If it makes you feel better plenty of Americans feel the same way. We just don't stock the stores and choose the menus :(
> 30th June 2015 23:59:60 has no unix timestamp (which isn't a valid return value of any time API I've seen)

https://go.dev/play/p/I8GcKBoAVXi
While you're right, of course, it does depend on whether you expect to be spending enough time on the language to be worth the investment. Anecdotally, a lot of developers will switch technologies or languages every couple of months or years; there's few left who say "I am a $language developer" and stick with that for, say, a decade. So for them it doesn't feel worth investing the time.

And also, googling for something has a high hit rate; nine times out of ten, googling 'how to sort in python' gives a good result.

And also also, these questions are often one-off; you need to look up how to do X in $lang, then either you can copy / paste, or you never touch it again; why put in the time investment if you don't need to rely on your memory?
It turns out cognitive bias cannot explain why I’m fat. My ability to count calories is on par with top athletes. So what’s the big deal

I think deep down we all know the truth. Obesity is a capitalist invention to sell more gyms.
I let my kids watch Disney. I don't think I'm uneducated nor brainwashed (but I guess someone brainwashed would say that).

So do almost all other parents I know, btw.
You're asking a good question. Here's what I see in practice: project management is getting bigger and faster, driven by more stakeholders having more access to work-in-progress.

For example, my client's CEO is checking the project board daily, and asking the project manager "Can we ship feature X this week?". The project board is well-maintained and well-detailed, such that the CEO can actually see and understand dependencies, resources, and timelines, and the PM can actually move tasks and have it stick. This is for a company where everyone's on board with rapid changes and continuous delivery i.e. not waterfall, not scrum, not sprints.

This way of working can be excellent for higher-velocity higher-trust agile teams. The engineering manager and team can feed the board with options including cost/time/resource tradeoffs, and can have ongoing high-touch communications with the PM, then the CEO & PM are empowered to pick-and-choose features as they wish.

However, this way of working can be terrible for slower-velocity lower-trust teams. When an engineering manager and team aren't feeding the board with enough detail about tradeoffs, or when there's insufficient communications among the PM and others, then the CEO & PM won't have enough information to lead, and the outcome can feel like the PM is trying to do the job of the engineering manager and messing about with the engineering work.

The best approach IMHO is lots of communication about the company's goals, such as for the ways of working, the roles and responsibilities, and the projects and plans.
I've been using Kagi [1] for both technical and non-technical searches recently, and not having to mentally filter ads out of results is a delight. The top result is almost always very good.

[1] https://kagi.com
It's more confusing because you're quoting parts of sentences.

"It’s an empirical observation that rail riders who are faced with a transfer are much more likely to make the trip if it’s near their home than near their destination."

Rewritten and removed the introduction part:

"Rail riders who need to do a transfer are much more likely to make the trip if the transfer is near their home than if the transfer is near their destination.

Of the two options below, first one is more liked.

Home -> 3 minute train -> station -> 15 minute train -> destination

Home -> 15 minute train -> station -> 3 minute train -> destination