skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any friends in the tech industry? I have at least one friend who wound up at a job whose chief responsibilities were factory-based, and therefore that involved his frequent and extended travels to China.

I believe that probably the most common travel from US->China would be business-related, and I also believe that most of those travelers really don't feel like they have a choice where they travel to, since that's where the factories are and that's where the electronics come from. For now.
http://archive.today/TazYv
What, you mean a carmaker won’t willingly forgo $15,000 in pure profit just because someone on the Internet complained?
A small jurisdiction with dislike of USA hegemony may be a start, like .ch or .se. Somewhere with a Google presence and where you host your website.
That's crazy to me, just move the mouse around really quickly and you'll quickly notice it's not 120hz (if you are used to it).

What blind test did you use?
I object to the use of my material for helping to train AI. Humans are far less likely to be using it for that purpose, if only because you can't do it at scale with humans.
That's also why many employees get hired! Talent denial.
Sure, I can summarize the web page you linked to. Here are the 10 best nonfiction tech books of all time, according to The Verge:

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling. This book chronicles the early days of the internet and the rise of hacking culture.

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong. This book explores the impact of technology on human communication, from the invention of writing to the rise of the internet.

Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Richard Sennett. This book examines the rise of the "knowledge worker" and the impact of this new class of worker on society.

Readme by Ellen Ullman. This book tells the story of a woman who works as a software engineer in Silicon Valley.

Death by Video Game: Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline by David Sheff. This book explores the potential dangers of video games, as well as the pleasure and obsession that they can bring.

Life In Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman. This book is a sequel to Ullman's first book, Readme. It tells the story of her continued work in Silicon Valley and her observations on the tech industry.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. This book tells the story of Theranos, a biotech company that was founded on false pretenses.

There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future by Douglas Rushkoff. This book tells the story of the merger between AOL and Time Warner, which was one of the most disastrous mergers in corporate history.

The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet by Paul Ford. This book tells the story of the development of the internet protocol suite, which is the set of rules that govern how computers communicate on the internet.

These are just a few of the many great nonfiction tech books that are out there. If you're interested in learning more about the history, impact, and future of technology, I highly recommend checking out one of these books.
> And when it gets noticed, sometimes really weird things happen.

....such as?

If you have any proof you can probably get a nobel prize.
Thanks for the lecture on semantics.

If you chose to stay away from value-adding tools solely because services are charged, you are free to do just that.
Ha. Human problems never get fixed, just moved around. There's nothing new to help get the racism or of the justice system - a core piece of the problem is that there are only disincentives for mercy and no checks whatsoever on individual biases. We still have a racist system in the US sixty years after the civil rights movement, and I don't see anything changing that anytime soon.

Tech problems sometimes get fixed, and occasionally either eliminate a class of human problems or create new ones. It's the only thing that changes... Rejecting tech wholesale means embracing the status quo.
AI combined with CRISPR precisely controls gene expression
>The problem with a careful but non-methodical approach is that it requires the programmer to correctly determine the stability value of their design. We often overestimate the importance of architecture on stability, or worse, architect something that is harder to maintain than the naive solution

There is EXACT SAME PROBLEM with choosing to cut engineering tho. And the cost of getting it wrong is far higher.

If you catch a problem early, well you just wasted the amount of time you tried to save.

If QA catches the problem before you get it to the client, that's 2-3x the cost right there. 5-10x when it gets caught on production. 20 to near unbound when it causes some long standing issue that's noticed too late

>With buggy ship-it-now software you have a known bounded risk - bugs will occur in some cases but the software will ship and the bugs can be fixed because it’s simple.

>With prematurely architected software the risk is unbounded - the project may get bogged down indefinitely in its own complexity without shipping.

Not every software is a startup. If you have a requirements, first verify that they make sense in wider scope, then implement carefully while caring about potential edge cases. Not even handling them just making sure that they error out instead of propagate potentially invalid data further. That doesn't cost you even 2x the productivity.

> The inverse extreme can also be a problem, of course A project that is maintained for a long time on the naive implementation will also become unmaintainable. However, this will be due to _known_ architecture problems encountered during maintenance. These problems can be addressed in a relatively bounded amount of time. They are also quantifiable and thus explainable to management.

In vast majority of cases those end up as pieces of spaghetti legacy code that are worked around by the rest of the org, not fixed. "Fixing it later" is more and more and more expensive the longer it is in production and the more code grows around it.
Even moving the mouse quickly should be a very different experience between 60 and 165
Do you really think that they don't train on AGPL code?
Bloat is, of course, anything you aren't using!
True,—This!
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand!— itself a nothing!—
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars—and to strike
The loud earth breathless!—Take away the sword—

States can be saved without it!
Desktop computers are heat-limited. We could have much faster computers if we found a way to cool them down. Thus, compute per watt is the ultimate metric to optimize for. If your cooling capacity is 500W, then obviously you'll want to fit as much compute in that as possible.

Mobile devices are energy-limited. You'll want to do as much compute as possible on a limited battery.
> If the only possible outcomes are "beat Amazon" and "fail hard",

If you start a car company, are your only two options 'beat Wolkwagen" and fail hard? How many car companies do we have?
Location: SF Bay Area, USA

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That's exactly the risk: if you don't want AIs to steal your work, don't make it public anymore.
I would not say brainfuck is obscure. Definitely esoteric, but it seems like every cs student and junior engineer has at least heard of it. Writing a compiler for it is a great starting project.
I find a 2Kish (2560x1440or1600) resolution on a 24-27" Monitor to be the most usable for text.

I understand things like fonts render smoother on a 4-6-8K monitor but it also draws more power usually to power all those pixels.

The use of a Chroma 4:4:4 capable 4K tv is also often really helpful because one 4K screen at large enough size gives four 1920x1080 working surfaces.
4K seems to become useful at 38" Or so in a TV.

Is there something I'm missing out on in terms of option that are superior to 2K for external monitors in terms of usability?

Many of the ultrawide monitors sometimes have worse or close to the same resolution as a single 2K monitor.
Google Maps is also really prejudiced against railways! Maps by the Ordnance Survey (the national cartography agency of Britain) have railways indicated by a solid, thick black line - more prominent than most roads. Google Maps shows railways less visibly than a footpath!
Vital demand for a resource caused people to go looking for the resource. Attributing this discovery to 'the simulation' or benevolent gods seems silly to me.
This kind of thing is not so unpopular in some kinds of user interfaces. I think GitHub has a repo deletion confirmation that asks you to type the name of the repo. It's not quite the same as flag naming, but it's a big flashing light signalling to you that you're doing something important.
I just include writing robust code in my estimates and don't tell anyone.

Shoddy code only happens in "the production is on actual fire, not manager-imagined fire" fixes and not for long.
Sad to see this—libjpeg-turbo is great! I once built it into an iOS project to allow reading & writing of giant JPEGs when the first party API used too much RAM.
> Dell’s 32-inch 6K monitor (U3224KBA), a productivity monitor that offer..

I stopped reading after this lol
In addition to lobbying, utilities will often purchase or create "local news" websites and have them publish seemingly independent articles criticizing whatever the utility doesn't like. They work very hard to hide their ownership and editorial control. It should be illegal if it isn't already.

https://heated.world/p/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-fake-news
Next week, Marc Andreesen on how quantum computing is the next game changer.
I once wrote a final exam for a linear algebra course with a section "all the following are false, explain why." I did it to make it easier than a T/F, but it was unintentionally devious. So many students said some of them were true anyway and tried to prove them...
Sadly, true. Although things work differently these days I'd hope.
Every member of this forum that has sold a company has had a life changing benefit from selling. It’s not just billionaires.
> The funny thing is the site which should have been removed like the of Stackoverflow spam clones, or sites like Canva and Pinterest that make thousands of similar looking pages with slightly different heading are still allowed and rank on Google.

I recommend this userscript https://github.com/vladgba/Back2source for avoiding Stackexchange clones, it saved me a lot of time.
We're going to go further green, with industrial mining directly in the earth's water supply. And it will all be eco green and not joker green.

From fix, to accelerate.

Now if there were a plug about the titan/titanic the story would be complete.
> Then I bought macs for everyone

Chromebooks would have been cheaper.
The problem with operator overloading is not really numericity, IMO. The problems are:

- hidden control flow (function calls should look like function calls, an operation should never mask a function call)

- global weirdness. If a library changes the language, how does that affect some other code you're pulling in? Where do you effect those changes?
You missed #3 all books get rated.

Terrible books likely have fewer readers, thus fewer and likely zero people would post a review.
For Carlos Santana, a Passion for Rock Began as a Walk in the Park
There's a proposal for complex numbers: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16278

Vectors are already first-class types via @Vector, aren't they?
the last time I tried it (it was years ago) std::regex was taking a measurable number of milliseconds to evaluate which is kind of a very long time even outside of performance critical paths.
Hi, I’m the writer. I was, obviously, paid nothing by TMC or any other company. If you’re interested I can link all the peer reviewed publications on which I based the calculations. The Economist's style is not to show our workings on things like this in copy, but I’m happy to do so myself
https://archive.ph/GxI2L
It’s stated in the article.
Absolutely. One of the biggest dis-services that SQL does is getting people thinking of relations as "tables" with "rows" which ends up making them think in an iterative, sequential, tabular model for something that I think they'd be better off thinking more abstractly about.

The whole relational model clicked for me a whole lot more once I started thinking of each tuple as factual propositions (customer a's name is X, phone number is Y), and then all the operations in the relational algebra start to look more like "how would it be best to ask questions about this subject?"... "I'm interested in facts about..."
That is not public, I guess they are not. I mean not for the public-facing AIs. Obviously they use them internally.
That's more to your dad not managing to install any crapware many computer-clueless users get baited into rather than hardware itself.

Even the bottom line machines nowadays are perfectly fine for "living" (internet, multimedia, office apps etc.).
I have 3 24" Benq 2K video grade monitors running at 2560x1440 giving me nearly 11 million usable pixels. It has a huge boost in productivity for me.

4K TVs only seem to become usably readable with Chroma 4:4:4 at 38" or above, ideally curved, to get 4 usable 1920x1080 quadrants.

When the screen sizes go smaller, absolutely detail and quality increases, but for software development or text centric work is concerned, am I missing something when it comes to 6K or 8K Monitors?
Ask ChatGPT to improve your prompt to stop it hallucinating. I’ve had a lot of wins doing that.
I hold that as an instrumental belief in trying to use twitter well. Just follow <20k accounts who are near me in-person, or in social-graph. It feels more like a group chat app, and less like the weight of the world, advertising/thread-vertizing hole, and I avoid much of the convenient dunks or quote-hate-fest.
It’s a monarchy as well.
I don't think it makes much sense to compare a fiction book to a non-fiction book. There's not enough points of comparison. While both can be compared on quality of prose, the fiction might be judged on characters and plot, and the non-fiction book on accuracy and detail.

You might as well ask the question: Who is the better Tennis player? Roger Federer or Garry Kasparov?

A system would need to draw some kind of boundary conditions so you are comparing things that have more in common than "printed on paper and bound".
I don't think atheism is essential, but perhaps instead the belief that a person's worth comes from their work/output.

Religion certainly provides a way "out" of that conundrum for people who lose meaning in their work, due to automation or injury or any other reason. But then, so does eg hedonism.
> I'd like to hear what is as portable and better than iostreams

Have a look at fmtlib. The interface is more like printf, but type safe and format strings are parsed at compile time. I believe it’s what std::format is based on, which could also be an option for you depending on how recent your compiler/language version is.
He used the Retro Encabulator to generate this text.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w (my favorite version)

It's an old engineering in-joke.

Edit: oops, thought your comment was a reply to 'mindcrime. I'm keeping it here though for the lucky (very lucky in this case) 10,000.
You mean overflow checking? It only applies to the `x + 100` in bar. Bar can still panic if the `x + 100` in foo overflows. Why should it be any other way?
> Compared with a year earlier, Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks beginning April 1 was down 59 percent

This statement is disingenuous at best. Elon did not own twitter a year ago. Tell me how advertising has been doing compared to when he took the reins, not including the initial diaspora driven by cries that he would start selling n-word passes or something.
I never said we'll mentally rise to the level of AIs. That won't happen. I only said AIs will be able to communicate complex ideas to us, in a way that's totally unlike our ability to communicate complex ideas to cockroaches.

For example, if the AIs could design a complicated building, using our level of technology, they could explain to us how to build that building. And we could build it. Whereas if we come up with a better cockroach-house design, we cannot communicate it to the cockroaches, we simply cannot give them the information. So the AI->us is a very different relationship from us->cockroach.

This doesn't preclude that there might be some things the AI cannot explain to us. Only that there will be many things (infinite in fact) which they can explain to us.
The fuck is a "check" ? We don't have those here for decades.
Photonic chip transforms lightbeam into multiple beams with different properties
Same difference between 30 and 60hz I imagine. Feels like you go from mega choppy to smooth as butter.
Actually, that's a really a good point. It's also especially weird considering we get lots of debugging support through the OS stack on every system. They have APIs, libraries, tools, etc. But actual crash control, a kind of thing where you want black box recordings after the fact, isn't really a thing anywhere unless you roll it yourself. It's a big shame.
Every person I know who is involved in machine learning research and AI work - by which I mean people who have PhDs in the field, rather than the self-proclaimed experts who are actually crypto-bros trying to come up with another scam (like Altman is) thinks that AI is overhyped. And I am inclined to believe them.
From wikipedia

>[Justice Alito] has been described as one of the Court's "most conservative justices".

Baseless accusations of bribery aside, don't you think Apple would do better to try to bribe the more moderate members of the bench? Why bother influencing someone who was already going to vote your way?
I believe he has mentioned it more than once, but one podcast that includes that discussion IIRC, and many other AI-related topics, is the April 7 episode “Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy”. If you’re on iOS:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id...
Google Cloud Domains officially confirmed to be shutting down
Previously, Gergely Orosz tweeted that Google Cloud Domains would be shutting down as a part of the sale of Google Domains to Squarespace, citing a private source.

Google have now publicly confirmed the shutdown.
Right click image, open in new tab, read URL of image which is helpfully descriptive, search wikipedia for that bridge. Wikipedia article shows location of the bridge on a map.

In reality, I didn't cheat until the 2nd picture, because a picture of some guys shaking a politician's hand isn't really that helpful. If the image didn't tell you what union was talking to what politician, I wouldn't have been able to look up the street address of the union hall. Even then, I still couldn't find the town on the map, so I had to eyeball it to get 0 mi.
Wow, that's amazing! We'd love to talk to you about your experience and hear your feedback -- my email is michael@phind.com.
That hilarious. Y[a]MCA :notes: Yet another Mac Chat App
The Truth about Phuket
a week in Phuket - a much to love place
Some CPUs don't have a MUL or (like some 32-bit RISC architectures) DIV instruction, and on these, the C compile has to fall back to a function call.
Not that agree with prohibition, I don't; but the general answer to your question is because that's how society works. Sometime you have to give something up because in net in makes things better overall.
There's definitely an audience for debunking x-risk, but probably not one that attracts institutional funding. Being a tech critic in the mode of Timnit Gebru or Emily Bender will get you media attention, but I doubt it's lucrative. (And empirically the media ecosystem doesn't appear to incentivize being fair-minded enough to persuade a fence-sitter, either.)
That’s not a DEI issue inherently. Not any more than a startup founder hiring incompetent friends any more a “meritocracy” issue.

how do do know it was dei specifically anyway? Was it explicitly said they were hired because of their gender or nationality?
M&S is not fundamental, I didn't ecen exist as a concept untill fairly recently in the history of Capitalism.
>Most people don’t experience dementia

>In the first nationally representative study of cognitive impairment prevalence in more than 20 years, Columbia University researchers have found almost 10% of U.S. adults ages 65 and older have dementia, while another 22% have mild cognitive impairment.

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-10-older-americans-h...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstr...
Not just too many. But inconsistent ones, hard to use ones and badly designed ones. std::unordered_map anyone? The iterator-based APIs are just cumbersome and error-prone to use, etc... it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot by forgetting to explicitly implement specific constructors, or by passing the wrong iterator (like begin() vs end()) to an STL template.

The C# specification isn't significantly smaller than the C++ one (can't check the exact length right now) but the language is still much easier to understand, even if it has really hairy corner-cases like the difference between readonly fields and normal fields' generated IL or the logic for defensive copies. Most programmers don't have to care, and even if you do, it's not a nightmare to test or experiment with.

In C++, I kind of feel I'm trying to squeeze water out of a stone. And even with the huge standard library, basic things are missing from it like a string startswith.
"Universal visible emitters in nanoscale integrated photonics" (2023) https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-10-7-8... :

> Visible wavelengths of light control the quantum matter of atoms and molecules and are foundational for quantum technologies, including computers, sensors, and clocks. The development of visible integrated photonics opens the possibility for scalable circuits with complex functionalities, advancing both science and technology frontiers. We experimentally demonstrate an inverse design approach based on the superposition of guided mode sources, allowing the generation and complete control of free-space radiation directly from within a single 150 nm layer Ta2O5
, showing low loss across visible and near-infrared spectra. We generate diverging circularly polarized beams at the challenging 461 nm wavelength that can be directly used for magneto-optical traps of strontium atoms, constituting a fundamental building block for a range of atomic-physics-based quantum technologies. Our generated topological vortex beams and the potential for spatially varying polarization emitters could open unexplored light–matter interaction pathways, enabling a broad new photonic–atomic paradigm. Our platform highlights the generalizability of nanoscale devices for visible-laser emission and will be critical for scaling quantum technologies.
I haven't touched my NAS for months. Just Debian dist-upgrade once every 2 years
Alright, sent! I haven't had a problem since relaunching it after the crash. It's nice and snappy! As a convenience feature, I'm missing syntax highlighting for code snippets. But maybe that is what makes the other apps so slow? :)

And as far as features go, I don't see a way to set the temperature.