skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trend of less education means less marriage is interesting. I think that tells me the root cause is that 25% of 40 year olds are not financially attractive mates. I think this speaks to a broader trend of men not being able to meet the traditional expectations of the breadwinner in an increasingly precarious economy.
Would love a source either way.
$12/yr

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> and everything you build is pretty much a whole new thing.

There’s ton of cookie cutter systems being built, especially as things like could bring standardization (mostly to achieve vendor lock in, but that’s different point).

Building 100th web app for some random business isn’t whole new thing.
This is also nonsense. 99% of the time these failure modes are irrelevant. A remote call fails, the error propagates up the call stack, and someone gets an error message. Just like any of the thousands of other things that can produce errors in complex systems.

In the rare case you need to harden a particular call, you add caching or retries or whatever other logic fits your use case. It matters not one bit whether you're using futures or synchronous rpc stubs. Actually it does - synchronous code is easier to harden because it's easier to reason about.

Even javascript added await because it's better to pretend that async code looks synchronous. The failure semantics of "throws an exception" are just fine.
No it can't if you do your part
I much prefer Mocha to Jest together with some other things. I guess you get used to what you know.
You can shortcut all the effort with eight words, in my experience:

"Would you like to join a trade union?"
“Nobody was predicting a major European land war.”

I don’t think that entirely accurate. Mearshiemer is one prominent example. Nuland being another.
You don't need to explain, I am deeply familiar.

Any culture has pros and cons. You’re acting like the only positive culture history has seen has been “white” culture (which is kinda racist in and of itself). Of course people build cultures to achieve positive social outcomes!!! That’s life, meng.

What you’re explaining does not justify reparations and conveyance of generational guilt. Look at the comment I responded to. I asked whether I deserve scorn. You’re arguing that I deserve scorn and somehow need forgiveness literally for being white.

The micro fluctuations in cultural benefits you’re describing isn't tangible in any way. You’ll just be shouting into the void forever trying to equalize every culture so that no differences remain. And you’ll hate a lot of people from different cultures along the way. And guess what: our law already treats people equally, we’ve already achieved legal equality.

Finally, logically, it simply doesn't follow: culture (a) at one point in history did something we now consider wrong. Culture (a) listened and changed. Culture (a) removed the bad parts and kept the good parts. Therefore the remaining good parts must be bad and culture (a) must be dismantled and destroyed and anybody who participated in it and shares its majority skin color shall be scorned and etc.

It’s just stupid.
This is still so mind-boggling to me. AMD should be in a good financial position now that Zen was such a success, and that their GPUs are catching up too. Why are their drivers still a Clusterfuck across the board after all these years? Why not throw more manpower at the problem?

I'm sure even if their GPUs were twice as fast as Nvidia's, everybody would still buy team green because it's better to have a card that works than a broken piece of garbage. We tried to get an MI50 to work reliably at work with KVM, but that thing was a complete dumpster fire. A colleague just bought a 7900XTX for gaming and spent days getting it to work. This included three Windows reinstalls. And that use case is gaming on Windows, which supposedly is the best supported case. It only gets worse from there. Compute on Linux? Lol.

Now last time this topic came up, someone claimed that AMD is pretty much at their limits production wise, and there are a few unnamed large companies buying loads of their cards for compute and cloud gaming, and AMD basically has engineers dedicated to making sure things work exactly for their use case, so they don't have to really care about the rest. Sounds pretty wild, but not completely unrealistic...
ChatGPT Plugs In: A New Era of AI and Potential Risks
> The West doesn't understand (and never has understood) the East.

I'm glad you brought that up. (Western) Russians look to be 'everything European' yet don't act like it.

It wasn't until I watched this extended interview with Julia Ioffe on Frontline [0] did I go... this is brilliant! This finally made me understand that, no, they're not like us nor will they be.

Her retelling was apt. Start watching at 32:37 [1] for the context of the quote.

"[...] would be easier to understand Russians if they were just purple, because it was in fact confusing to Westerners, to Europeans and to Americans to deal with Russians who look European, who look white, and you expect them to act like Westerners like white Western Europeans, when in fact they are quite different and wired quite differently and have quite different cultural expectations and wiring [...]"

I strongly suggest watching the entire interview (along with the rest of the Frontline interviews that don't make it into the show).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEu0oRajJxE

[1] https://youtu.be/qEu0oRajJxE?t=1957
Huh, I'm seeing 'rate limit exceeded' in the warning popup on Chrome on macos.
I'm a Stoic.

Anyway, getting off all drugs has been great, mostly due to the hedonic treadmill/tolerance.

Similar with video games. Games are fun today, but if I play them for a few weeks, they become work.

I get way more excitement out of achieving a new 3D print design or finishing a coding feature. Not to mention, reading non-fiction is pretty great, mind blowing stuff if you find the right book, as previously mentioned.

I somewhat blame Disney, I get all excited for some hedonism, and they release a crappy starwars episode. I'm more disappointed than if I worked all night.
Used cars are never going to get any cheaper
Yes, but the Starstreak has one big missile that releases 3 smaller missiles at mach 4. I get your point, but on the other hand, what about weird British missiles?
DUde.....just thank you!
Pothole damage from electric cars is double that of petrol
I loved Don Box's books on COM and SOAP. But "Essential COM" sure made my brain hurt once it started talking about DCOM.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29593432

>Earlier I posted an article by Don Box comparing SOM and COM, and I mentioned that WebAssembly is going through a similar evolution, and might benefit from some of the lessons of COM and SOM: [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266627

>This article comparing SOM and COM was written by Don Box. (first archived in January 1999, but doesn't say when published): [...]

>Don Box wrote an excellent in-depth book about COM: "Essential COM": "Nobody explains COM better than Don Box" -Charlie Kindel, COM Guy, Microsoft Corporation. [...]

>Here's a synopsis of COM I wrote in response to "Can someone link to a synopsis describing what "COM" is? It's hard to search for. (e.g. microsoft com visual studio)":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12975257

>Glad you asked! One of my favorite topics. ;)

>COM is essentially a formal way of using C++ vtables [1] from C and other languages, so you can create and consume components in any language, and call back and forth between them. It's a way of expressing a rational subset of how C++ classes work and format in memory, in a way that can be implemented in other languages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22282936

>Apple's OpenDoc based browser, CyberDog, was also quite amazing and flexible, because it was completely component based and integrated with OpenDoc. But that plane never got off the ground, because Steve Jobs rightfully focused on saying "No" and "put a bullet in OpenDoc's head".
Nowadays the supply chain, i.e. the logistics are very different, you may find you have to source many parts, if not majority of them, from China or at least overseas, and that will get harder based on what is going on these days.
22% is a subset of the 25%, meaning there’s still roughly 20% of 40-44 that are not cohabitating and not married.

Significantly higher than the 6% decades ago. Which seems to indicate human relationships are indeed in decline (the institution of marriage Is likely also in decline, but it’s not the sole reason for the high percentage)
The Problem with Indian Economy – Indian Economy [video]
> From there it's a slippery slope to not even maintaining a facade of following the Constitution.

SCOTUS is already there. The GOP is also pretty much there.
But with a teacher, I can get a feel of their qualifications after a while (or cross-reference whatever they tell me) and if they're wrong, I can go somewhere else.
Also, a teacher is less likely to gaslight me and hopefully will research the topic in case they're not sure about something. With AI, it's always a coin toss.

I don't know, maybe I'm just a old person yelling at clouds, but I just find it crazy to use AI for learning anything. Maybe one day.
Hell, if you were making a game that looked like Ultima VI (1990) in the mid-late 90s, that would be treated as embarrassingly retro. Call it 5 or 6 years.

Once we settled on quasi-realistic 3D games with a mostly consistent control scheme as the norm, that process of obsolescence has slowed down dramatically. Games have sort of plateaued in that way. So you really can go back and play Crysis and it's still fine. It's noticeably "retro", but I think only serious graphics nerds would be bothered by its deficiencies.
Just to pitch in with a Clojurescript/Quill example, where the game loop takes a function that takes game state, modifies it, and returns it for the next iteration of the game loop.

https://github.com/opyate/minild72/blob/master/src/pong/core...
Indeed, a comment in code that indicate that a choice was probably not optimal and it was done in hurry would help the next developer to not assume to much intention when reading this part of code.
Yeah, which I assume is the “superprompt” they mentioned in the article on their website.[0]

Honestly, if you combined it with a sufficiently powerful GPU, Whisper (maybe even FasterWhisper or WhisperX due to increased speeds), and fed those into the prompts it would probably work even better and be more realistic.

[0] - https://jollyrogertelephone.com/now-gpt-powered-jolly-roger-...
Exploring the Perfect Hops with Estimand's AI
This was fascinating:

And what about all the candles used to illuminate the parts? Not a single drop of tallow or candle wax or darkening due to the close proximity of a candle has been detected or reported regarding Bach’s original parts. Touching the parts while carrying them or turning pages would tend to leave traces, but these are not in evidence. Eventually these copies of the original parts would be collected and deliberately destroyed by Bach so that they could not be used to reconstruct the cantata.
Wasn't that for the PERQ workstation?
YouTube and Google are saints compared to Meta and Microsoft, I'm sorry. And I'm someone who is actively deGoogling themselves right now.

Microsoft got so bad I had to switch operating systems (no real love lost, but I really did enjoy XP, 7 and even Vista for nostalgia reasons - first desktop PC), and Meta... do I really even need to say anything?
As a Stoic, this accomplishes my goals and makes me happier than when I'm grinding video games.
Tech's hype artists didn't predict ChatGPT either. Hype artists predict the ambitious futures found in sci-fi novels. They predict things that would be cool if they happened, without any understanding of how they would happen and the strengths and limitations of the methods that might be used. Thus, the futures they predict are not what actually occur.

Only the people actually inventing the future, things like AlphaGo and GPT, have a limited crystal ball into the future. They have some understanding of what their methods can and can't do. And even they succumb to hype when they are more successful than they expected to be.

Tech pundits on LinkedIn and Twitter and HN have rarely if ever gotten anything right about what exactly the future will look like, and I expect that pattern to continue.
I’m not entirely sure - it would be interesting to break down the cohort of the 78% of never-marrieds who live alone. Presumedly, they are single or not in a serious relationship, which might indicate that there’s a deeper societal and cultural problem than just marriage.
No, it costs $50k because they can charge that much. Just like the way everything else is priced.
Hey, I saw your old post here about working on a business may i ask how it turned out?

Here is the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25087138
Surely that part of the code is AT LEAST fair use?
Or one has to be at the wrong part of THAT historical argument (not necessarily pointing at parent)?

(Yes, I would argue that this is exempt following the ‘functional’ argument)
Reflections from retiring exchange analyst supremo Rich Repetto
iOS SDK to help grow conversion and retention
Adds a feature request list to your app where people can suggest and vote on features (works like reddit).
Best to avoid hitting any numbers. It's a good way to accidentally "agree" to charges billed to your phone number.
Calling I/o side effects makes FP seem hopelessly academic. Everything having to do with the world is seemingly a corner case - the core of the programming philosophy is only concerned with the part where we push bits around uselessly.

To be sure, I don't think this is a correct interpretation, but I do think it may play a role in the difficulty of getting people onboard with FP.
> New people are constantly coming in, saying “Surely everything is good now, right?”.

What? No. People who are naive about this are derided as “Boomers”.
Seems like psilocin is dephosphorylated psilocybin. But the main working indole structure with the side chain is preserved. So for a cell to get an extra phosphate rich in energy while producing psilocin for the host should be a bonus.

The general rationale seems rather feasible, given the application of the SSRI antidepressant fluvoxamine [1] to reduce severity of COIVD infection, as James Kirkland on STEM talk from the link below mentioned that senescence also may be induced by infections.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6...
"Honeywell AGT" being the "Abrams gas turbine", a/k/a the powerplant for the M1 Abrams tank.
A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)
> What does coming out of retirement for an assumed well paying job for up to a couple of years??? do to someone's retirement financial plans? What if you're on a fixed income from the gov't, and now you have a salary again?

Assuming they are in the US, and the fixed income they are on is Social Security (SS), what happens if you have income other than SS is that it can change how much of your SS income is taxable, and if you are under your full retirement age it may reduce your benefit (which will return to normal when the job is over).

For taxing the key is a thing called your "combined income" (CI), which equals your adjusted gross income (AGI) + tax free interest income + 1/2 of your SS income. (NOTE: SS income is not part of AGI).

For individuals if CI <= $25000 then SS income is tax free. If CI > $25000 some of your SS income may be taxable. For couples filing jointly SS income becomes partly taxable when CI > $34000.

For people who retired early, if the job pays well enough once you go back to retirement you could find that your SS benefit is higher because the SS taxes on the job earnings go into the benefit calculation so you might come out ahead even if your monthly benefit was temporarily reduced during the job.

I think those are the main considerations if you are on SS and considering taking a high paying job.
Call me cynical, but the ceo of a major defense contractor saying it’s going to take years of testing and R&D to refresh a circuit board design from the late 80s is just a cancerous grifter piggy squealing at the trough. You could crowd source a replacement PCB in a week if they published the design spec. Sure, testing is required, but call this what it is. And don’t try to tell me we can’t share missle guidance tech from the 70s, even the model rocketry community has open source thrust vectoring.
The article doesn't spend enough time on the fact that actual _interoperability_ didn't actually come to CORBA until it was already past its peak. So a key feature of the technology never really worked.

I worked at a CORBA vender for a year or two in the 1990s and even interoperability between languages, platforms and versions OF OUR OWN CORBA implementation was barely supported and down to luck more than anything else.

Note that CORBA existed as a spec for years before actually specifying an actual wire protocol (IIOP) which you'd imagine would be a fairly fundamental part of any distributed tech which had the goal of offering interoperability. And even years after IIOP appeared, getting CORBA to work between vendors' products was basically impossible.

"Interoperability" in effect meant buying 100% into a single vendor's offering and paying a load of money to consultants to manage version upgrades, getting fixes for "niche" platforms, etc. CORBA's notion of "interoperability" was more along the lines of the way old IBM offered "interoperability" between their different mainframes and minis, and not in the way understood today which is vendor neutral and open.

Another poster says that IONA (one of the biggest vendors) believed that they were going to topple Microsoft. In my opinion, it was actually IBM and the old "big vendor" model where they saw their future. They started offering (mostly broken) Transaction Managers, Service Discover agents, a Message Broker, etc. - as what they hoped would be alternatives to the then dominant big-enterprise tech like CICS/MQ. They imagined a future for big enterprises based around C++/CORBA replacing COBOL/CICS/MQ.
I remember when Los Alamos wanted to decommission some research reactor, they were interviewing 80-year-old retired staff to figure out what they were going to find down there. Because what they planned and what they built hardly resembled each other.
Another problem is that many US weapons programs are actually rural/flyover job creation programs in disguise. This makes it challenging to rapidly scale up production.
>Why do we need to give them to Ukraine?

You don't have to, but I would regard it as prudent: so that the USA - and many other countries - don't become like, or part of, Russia.
Think of Ukraine as being somewhat similar to Vietnam.
If Ukraine falls, then Taiwan is fucked, North Korea will fuck Japan and just plain say goidbye to Europe (socialist bastards that we are).
In beehives, the drones -- correction, workers -- are sterile.

This maximizes returns on capital at quarter and even decade timescales.
I believe a lot of this boils down to so many data structures not being kind to state updates. And most ways of making that work out fine are by adding more data and indirection. Even the ways of making things a bit more "performant" typically do so by adding more data to the mix, not less.

This is even harder if you work with data structures like threaded trees, where there are so many links that even the zipper approach basically falls flat. (And the zipper already has performance questions if you do a deep edit, if I am not mistaken. What could be a single value mutation is now a rewiring of every link down to the value that you wanted to change.)
Shoppers Drug Mart customers complain they were pushed to use self-checkout
You know I thought it was gonna be $12/mo, but $12/yr? Now that’s an interesting proposal.
A big problem is all the cops who are not in the jiu jitsu gym. They may well end up shooting that 260lb guy because they didn't have the grappling skills to deal with him.
You think one in five is a healthy ratio? That means four out of five don’t have someone around. That’s got to affect people as they get older and need occasional help with things, all kinds of things.
>it's implemented in good old php.

This doesn't bode well from a security perspective.
For generations, the elites have been obnoxiously discouraging family formation and fertility on account of malthusian pseudoscience.

Now they're recognizing the error but it's too late for the billions who will live and die alone and alienated from the natural rhythms of family life.

The only solace, perhaps, is people are remarkably good at coping. Most of these victims will claim despite the mountains of data that they didn't fail and they're totally fulfilled, happy, and successful.
Douglas Rushkoff: Crashing Technosolutionism [video]
Your comment might be mixing up the Microservice pattern of a single database per bounded context.

From the moment one runs a system in two nodes, one being the application server and the other the database server, that system is distributed. Two nodes is all it takes.
Putting the burden of proof on the accused is broken, and it's not a feature of the world.

It's a design choice by Youtube.
On my area my salary seems relatively above average for my role/experience… I live in Côte d’Azur. I could earn a bit more changing company but I am not that keen to change… I just had a son and the relaxed environment allows plenty of time to spent with him!
Mearsheimer is a Putin fanboy who expected Russia would win the war in a month.
But if the people vote for a party, should they not be allowed to be in power? I mean that is the definition of democracy, right? The people in Donbas, Crimea, etc. voted for many of these claimed pro Russian parties.
I'd guess something big as Windows 9x contains A LOT of licensed third party code which would be a nightmare to get permission for. Try finding five dozen rights holders after thirty years...
Starstreak is also impervious to flares.
If there was one single thing I learned from my functional programming class in college, it’s that there exists a way to implement imperative programming in a pure functional language. I distinctly remember the aha that Turing complete means Turing complete, and functional vs imperative is a style that can be emulated in any Turing complete language. Now for the life of me I can’t remember what the exact trick or mechanism was, does anyone know what I’m talking about? I’m pretty sure it leveraged one of the named functional constructs, similar to a thunk or y-combinator or something. I’m old enough that use of “monad” wasn’t much of a thing at the time.
I remember reading somewhere that while the developers of ArcaOS have the rights to continue the development of OS/2, they didn't obtain the source code. So they have to patch their changes into the old OS/2 binaries instead of changing the code.
I like doit and use it in most of my projects.

It's declarative, and can scale up to quite complex requirements. But the best things is that it scales down.
Because at the time SoftImage was still around, which meant that Autodesk owning 3ds max and maya didn't form a monopoly. Of course, Adobe now owns the defunct SoftImage brand anyway after Avid ran it into the ground.
I mean Microsoft is now building the AI that will take livelihood of hundreds of millions of people and according to some might be the first step towards AI wiping out humanity. So the jury is still out.
Parametric? Alibre. It only runs on Windows, but you can buy a lifetime license, and you get a SolidWorks-lite set of functionality. Much more usable than FreeCAD. It also comes with basic CAM software that is sufficient enough for a wood router.
At least some are not copying AI-thought-models, not? heck It must be damn cool to insert an AI into a foreign system, and see it all crumbles down...

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Must be: new Weekend-book-stuff, or ?

regards...