skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, don't give the corporations you don't like your data? Many people DO want to have these conversations and are okay with surveillance of a sort if they get something of perceived value in return. OTOH, there are plenty of ways to avoid surveillance via ad blocking and onion routers (which is now shipping on all Apple devices).

I'm also not sure why you think people are less human in all of this is, or why OnlyFans is "bad". Commercial porn has existed for 50 years, and like the music industry, has had its economics upended because of Mindgeek (or Reddit, or ...) giving most porn away in exchange for surveillance rather than money. OnlyFans brings the 70's NYC Times Square peepshow back to the mainstream.

The cluetrain manifesto and that crowd all saw this coming over a decade before the mobile smart phone put this into hyperdrive; to me it's not "bad" it's just "different from the 90s".
From reading this presentation in the intro [1], it seems like data oriented design is about considering the output data first, and optimizing the path taken in your program + input data for the fastest possible way to get to the output data.

Question for anyone who understands this in some depth -- is colour cycling [2] an example of the output of what a data-oriented design could accomplish? Seems like old school game designers were able to optimize for the output by doing pretty wacky things with their input and colour palette.

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[1] https://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/introduction-to-data-o...

[2] https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/660109-colour-cycling-a...
thus pattern divorces the code from the program ime

i appreciate that using an ide makes code navigation easier but i reject the notion that you should need one to navigate the code
Notice it has licence plates. Back then it was not uncommon to drive the race cars from wherever they were (here, Paris) to Le Mans and other racetracks, simply driving it on ordinary roads :)
That's not what "proprietary" actually means? It means the opposite of "free/open" in the sense of software. The implication (true or not) is that however you're doing the behind the scenes magic, you intend to keep that part a secret and/or behind intellectual property rights, such that I am not allowed to hack at it if I wish.

It is a possible way to "value-add" -- aka be the thing that people can't have unless they pay for it, that strategy is your choice and it's not a crazy or awful one per se. But I will not only always stay away from it, I'll always tell other people to as well.

So far as I have seen, it ALWAYS ends one of two ways: It ends up being open anyway or the company screws people over, eventually. I'm fine waiting for the former and not risking the latter.
Workshop manual -> Search for antennas.

No antenna. No signal. No datalink.
I’m in the middle of Guatemala. The owner of the hotel is using GPT-4 to build out his marketing plan.

Some people get it, some people don’t.

And that’s OK by me.
> Digital event tickets could be sold directly from the venue to the attendee without any of the hassle of TM.

And venues could do that (they’re not limited to selling tickets via Ticketmaster), but then they have to maintain technical
and operational expertise which is a distraction.
If the comment was in code you touched, this seems right. Typos affect searchabilty. If the typo was outside (but close to) the block you modified you shouldn't be required, and the team ought to have rules of engagement to state this.
They use it because it works. They use it for everything.

All of our interns: "How do I use this with VS code?"

They ssh using it, everything. They don't know anything else. They don't know that they are using ssh, they have a VS code terminal window open. It's kind of sad.

Meanwhile, I'm trying VS code on my 5 year old Mac, and it's like a slideshow. Open a file...wait for syntax highlighting to fill in, the keyboard response is laggy. It's so terrible. Sublime Text is a Tesla Plaid in comparison.
Unquestionably but imagine one of the Irish / Italian kids from my neighborhood was adopted by an Asian family at birth.

And the family always said "there's the harder math class? You take that one". "there's a test for the magnet school? You study for that one". "you got accepted to a more party college and a more engineering college? You go to the 2nd one"

You don't think the kid would be more likely to be a success than at baseline?
This sort of yield-enhancement-by-binning extends to almost every form of semiconductor, from amplifiers to server CPUs.
Self driving car services already exist in Phoenix and San Francisco.

Whether they can feasibly scale out to many other cities in an economic fashion is still unknown, but on a technical level they're definitely possible, because we already have them.

And yeah, cities and countries vary in difficulty, though as far as the US goes, SF is quite technically challenging in terms of urban obstacles (though the weather is of course quite mild).
It's not fundamentally superior due to the challenge of storing hydrogen at high densities.

It's superior in some cases where you have an existing pipeline network.
The entire advice is context-dependent.

Games just happen to have a lot of operations that need column-based access; but that's not true for all domains. When you go and blindly push the game best practices into other domain, you are just making everybody's life hard and most systems worse.
This is from the WSJ, a right-wing publication pushing a political agenda rather than real, prevailing sentiment.

There are companies who proscribed "We will hire from demographic A to reach B% in C years." who put too much weight on identity attributes during economic boom hire-fests, but those days won't return at least until 2030 as competency and need are now central.

You can tell when some teams haven't de-biased their hiring processes when they are and remain too homologous in either thought, values, or possibly appearance.

The goal of hiring shouldn't be to appease today's fashionable virtues of other people, but to hire the best who are cooperative enough to get along, regardless of what they look like or where they came from. Unless you're going to reinterview everyone, reducing bias uniformly and fairly in the now and forward must be more important than putting a thumb on the scale for the past while ignoring merit because there is no solution to bias of the past except to see if it's really happening and find ways to stop it from happening, i.e., resume contact detail blinding, normalize or drop regional writing signals, reformat resumes with the same font, ask everyone the same questions, standardizing peer interviewing format down to a grid layout with scoring, and so on.
It doesn't. It's a country paralyzed by narratives.
My current boss is this way and it’s almost certainly to prevent competition/control the narrative to upper management and other teams/save his own ass. As a result, I usually don’t know who I’m building software for or how they’re going to use the software. He’s a real detriment to the company and I hope he gets the ax.
Railway is removing their free tier
You can find that the free tier is gone in their pricing page: https://railway.app/pricing

They are going to offer a 5$ credit for new accounts and, after that, you need to pay at least 5$ for the services.

More information in their [migration guide](https://blog.railway.app/p/pricing-and-plans-migration-guide...)
Construction of high-performance virtual machines for dynamic languages (2011) [pdf]
Yea, it's what I'd have to do, I suppose, but it would mean driving to a grocery store 2-3 times further away, and my average trip to the store these days is only 10-20 minutes which I doubt is long enough for a full charge.

My office and home don't have chargers and probably won't for a while, so I'd essentially have to make a special trip out on the weekends to charge my car while I get lunch nearby or something.
>Extend the existing dumb automatic copyright to our personal data so that buyers/sellers have to pay royalties.

Have you seen the terms of service for social media sites? There's a clause in there that grants them a non-exclusive transferable irrecoverable royalty-free license to whatever you post on the site. What makes you think that companies won't add the same clause for your personal data?
I’d be more surprised if they didn’t make low effort feel-good posts on LinkedIn
At work some folks are obsessed with LLM’s but yet we’ve ignored deep learning for years. There may be some applications for LLM’s but as another commenter said it will likely be calling some LLM as an API. At some point once we’re doing that the hype will die down some.

Some family have heard of ChatGPT and have misunderstood what it can do, so I’ve had fun showing them the limitations of it.
This is gender affirming care.
Things like ticket master exist to solve the problem of every venue having to take care of ticket sales as well. This is again a feature out of touch people treat as a bug to fix.
This comes into tension with making names as clear as possible while still being short. Frankly, I don't find coming up with short names for things to be easy, let alone good names even when taken to the extreme.

Whether something is too short depends on your context. requests.get might be ambiguous for someone who has never seen the code base before, but will quickly get obviously with a little exposure, so does the code base have dedicated maintainers?

The skill of good naming isn't distributed evenly and OP's names are pretty good, so I'd be happy for them to come along to my code base and rename things as long as it was within other constraints (not consuming too much time, doesn't break api, etc).
As someone who has been bitten time and time again by transitive dependencies not adhering to semver while still claiming to be using semver, i totally agree. Dependency pinning is a must when you want to have full control, and even then some package managers allow pulling or updating specific versions of dependencies (looking at you, pip).
AIUI, the difference in training is not that much in the UK between sidearms and machine guns, so anyone who is certified on one probably also has the other.

Whereas in the US, every cop is armed but there's more checks on the more strict stuff.

Your airport police want to be armed but there's no need for them to be heavily armed. So in the UK they all are, because it's the same people. In the US the heavily armed folk are deployed elsewhere (SWATing someone's Twitch stream if the media tells me the truth...)
TRT is now a fully embedded thing in the United States so this isn't totally surprising.

I've talked to way too many 20 year olds who get cypionate from a doc in the box who manages to find "low T"

It's just so easy now. And if you need it, great. But for a lot of people it's just a way to boost T for athletic/aesthetic reasons without a ton of attention to the health side of it.

The risks are generally low, but boosting to higher T levels does come with real health risks that should be met with regular testing with a doctor.
Man, Baader-Meinhof is real--this topic keeps popping up for me lately.

In the modern day you might see these styles described as command-and-control versus servant leadership:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explaine...

(don't be put off by the source, it's actually a decent piece)
I agree with this, I think the only way we'll get answers to the most controversial and divisive issues are for people to discuss them. Especially since many viewpoints being shouted down as "anti-trans" are actually very reasonable and need more discussion.

For example, the fairness and safety issues with regards to males competing in women's sports, or the issues of safety and dignity in women's prisons when males are incarcerated there.
Hah, you'd think so. But the skills required to make some gears are off the charts and CNC machinery doesn't fare all that much better because you first need to figure out what to make exactly. This requires a functional part, or at least one that will allow you do determine the key dimensions.

Bodywork and such is relatively easy, suspension and exhaust parts are doable. But engine parts and drivetrain components can be serious challenges.
Ha, that's exactly how it worked for the first ~250 years at Harvard...

'Five dollars and three years out of jail' was how they described getting a master's degree back then.
No.

I have an AI startup with thousands of active paying monthly users and they are all marketing people and not highly technical
Years ago I've been on the receiving end of applications. One hard requirement was "has to have a work permit to work in country $X". Over 100 CVs right in the virtual /dev/null for not meeting that requirement. I can only imagine with full-remote there is even more noise. In this year's Google Summer of Code we saw the first cover letters written by ChatGPT, utterly unqualified students not even mentioning the job. I'm no longer impressed seeing high applicant numbers.
Mike Acton's talk "Data-Oriented Design and C++" from CppCon 2014 is the best programming talk ever given in my opinion. A must watch:

https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc
Well, of course. This could also be said as "use long names when short names can't be clear enough." Don't be afraid of long names since we have modern IDEs with competent auto-complete. Also, long names go a long way when searching a codebase.
This is reasonable. A purpose sounds like a predetermined goal, which isnt how I think about viruses. They could have an effect that leads to a benefit, npbut that to me seems different than purpose. Again maybe me being pedantic, but I’ve studied on viruses and bacteria for a good amount of time so I that may lead me to think differently. I’m not intending to be judgmental.
Also interesting to watch: "Why the US mandating all new cars having a remote ‘kill switch’ by 2026 is problematic" https://youtu.be/a50GHA_uchU
If your social credit score is poor, the self driving car can lock the doors and drive you to jail.

Alternatively, a hacker can kidnap you. :D
I haven’t figured out the math yet, but on my shelf if future projects, I have a part of a plan to tie semver to unit tests.

The theory so far is: there’s a subset of unit tests that specify the API. If you create new tests, that’s mostly fine. If have to alter a test, that’s probably a breaking change.

The main problem I can already see with this, which is why it’s on the shelf, is that some test frameworks and many tester writers cannot guarantee the invariants as stated above. You end up changing tests for minor behavioral changes. You mix tests of private fields in with tests of public ones. And even if you split them, then functional tests end up defining parts of the API.

But somewhere out there in the future is a language where types are defined by tests, and certain testing patterns indicate minor version increments and others major.
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Amazingly it hasn’t gotten much better.

I give ROCm a spin roughly once a year and shake my head. I’m hoping Intel can actually get their act together on the software side because Nvidia needs meaningful competition and I think at this point it’s clear AMD either doesn’t care or doesn’t have the ability. There’s just no other explanation for the state of ROCm at this point.

For any application other than hobbyists (per usual) time/people/opportunity cost is the most expensive thing. One of the many reasons Nvidia is so dominant in this space is because you can take any card that says “Nvidia” on it from the last half-decade, install the driver, and run nearly anything with a docker command. In minutes.

As soon as your (very expensive) team starts spending time messing around with ROCm issues at every turn you’ll be happy to throw out AMD and pay the “Nvidia tax” - because it’s actually a dividend given the persistent state of ROCm.

Come on Intel/Apple, save us from the Nvidia monopoly!!!
That's a great term for what I am describing thank you.

Basically - high expectations drive you to exercise whatever is in your power, which is often a lot (eg as exemplified by the asian American experience)

The progressive focus on the "systemic" takes away an individual's power because "hey the world is against you and unless we can change the world nothing will be good for you". I agree with you this ignores a lot of "what actually is"
But how will we download ads to your dash entertainment system?

Or remotely nerf your car if you miss a few payments?
But what will you print? This is a non-obvious question: you will have to first design the part using nothing but an existing and often failed (sometimes catastrophically so) original. It wasn't rare in those days for every car to be unique.
Wikipedia editing methodology transfered to code edits, hilarious.
"Maybe steroid abuse is too common" was my thought after watching a shirtless RFK Jr (69) do pushups the other day.
This has bitten me twice before: a transitive dep update broke my library. I now publish my npm shrinkwrap file and only officially support npm (or anything that respects the published lock file, which I think is only npm).
> The era of having a personal voice assistant that is capable, adaptable, and intuitive is VERY close

Year of the voice assistant is getting close to year of Linux on desktop.

What you’re promising has been promised time and time again, received endless hype cycles then collapsed once people realised the limits of the technology. Yes, this time the tech is much more capable than what came before but I’m inclined to believe we’ll yet again find a limit that means we’re using it for some things but our lives still aren’t drastically changed.
Getting a hair transplant carries a stigma in society, so "accept" could use some qualifiers.
We run a distributed cluster of 32 Elixir nodes across 4 data centers. Typically, we do rolling deployments -- but when we need a fast fix for something, pushing patches against the live system is real life saver!
Fuel cells require pretty exotic materials to accomplish the ox:redox reactions of water...
Theory Z: The prime motivation for every single employee in every single organization is improving their own local working and living conditions. Whether that materializes as X or Y behavior is a question of how well management can align the employee's self-interest with the organization's interest.

Aligning incentives is harder in some jobs/industries than others, so for the hard ones, behavior would tend toward X, and for easier ones, behavior would tend toward Y.
I think of GPT as a new UI paradigm. It was not obvious why the world needed GUIs, or touchscreens, but they took over pretty quickly. Conversational interfaces could disrupt them both.
You can have a desktop CM-1 if you'd like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kROJoixSFDY
So you are saying that feeding fake data into cameras and poisoning the well would be more effective?
yes. i like my job. i love my gf. i like my life. things are good.
Starts with V and rhymes with sea.
Take your current yearly salary, add 10% for raise.

Take new salary and add business overhead costs of taxes, business insurance, benefits... add this to your salary, this is your yearly loaded costs.

Take your yearly loaded costs and divide by how many weeks you want to work... for example, you want to take 6 weeks off per year, then subtract that from the weeks in a year. This is your weeks worked.

For example(with made up numbers):

Let's say you make 100k/year, want to take 6 weeks off, local business taxes are 25% and insurance is 1k.

((yearly_salary * taxes) + fixed_costs) / weeks_worked / days_in_week = minimum_day_rate
Compared to what came before, the previous (Modified AMD Jaguar APUs) and the current-generation (Modified AMD Zen 2 APUs) consoles are commodity PC hardware compared to whatever bespoke cost-optimized ISAs consoles used to be built around. So in a way, it's already somewhat commodity PC hardware under very heavy TPM lockdown.
noyb win: First mayor fine (€ 1M) for using Google Analytics
Does anyone know a cozy place in Amazonian jungle where's no phone signal?
> Is there any insight from this observation?

Yes: be deeply skeptical of anyone claiming tech they are personally invested in is revolutionary.
Product enthusiast and German/English/Chinese translator
You can ask Sherry questions using KeyPulse.
It feels somewhat exaggerated. These late Panhard are notorious for their finicky, aluminium-made air-cooled engines, however the parts can mostly be rebuild from scratch using a mill, a lathe and other common workshop tools. My grandfather (a mechanic) used to do that a lot back in the 60s for rare cars such as Bugattis.
I've taken about 40 rides in Waymo in SF with no safety driver. One thing it did handle surprisingly well was a narrow 1.5 car width road, with bumper to bumper on-coming traffic.

It took a bit longer than a human driver would, but it made it through. I should have videoed it because I thought for certain it would get stuck.

My biggest complaint with Waymo's driving was it sometimes didn't plan ahead to be in the correct lane for a turn coming up within a few blocks and then couldn't get over due to aggro drivers. They seem to have addressed this though

The most impressive feat was when it went down a narrow road to find it was blocked. It managed a 3-point turn in a difficult situation and found another route.

The biggest "bug" I witnessed was a situation with only one road going to the destination and that road was closed with a police road block. It turned around and then kept coming back to the road block, basically looping forever. Had to have an engineer intervene.

If Waymo can handle SF roads, I think it can handle anything in the US (at least without deep snow on the roads). Dunno about other places where you might have to get "creative" with your driving.
"We want Doc Burnstein’s to be No. 1 in the hearts and minds of America" there are many, many beloved regional ice cream stores — Salt & Straw, Molly Moons, Van Leeuwen for a few — all of which have no shortage of unique flavors and community goodwill. It seems far harder to scale that competitively to anything close to the national level. Even the few success stories (Ben & Jerry's, Halo Top, etc.) still exist in a crowded and saturated market space with so many alternative options.

Also see https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-... — from 2000 but still relevant here.
> Multiple states currently have lawsuits in process against them alleging that they created voting district maps specifically to devalue the vote of black people. Another state just had the Supreme Court rule against them for the same thing.

I don't think that's actually true, at least not in the current century. What happened is they created maps to advantage Party A, and black people tend to vote as a near-monolith for Party B, which had the side-effect of electing fewer of black people's preferred Party B candidates.

I'm pretty certain that there would be no gerrymandering with racial side-effects today if different races had roughly similar partisan makeups.
Two cars in close quarters seems like the ideal application for driving assistants. Robots are much better at the actual mechanics of moving the car.