skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. There are some managers that do need such babysitting, particularly if you are in a non-tech industry.

Thanks for the comment. I realized I didn't mention when this kind of tactics might be useful. Added the following paragraph to the end of my post:

> At this point, you might start to wonder: What kind of incompetent managers deserve this degree of babysitting? They probably don’t in the tech industry, but not every engineer work at a tech company. They might be in retail, fashion, film production, etc., where there just happened to have a need for software development. Even those who do work in tech might wish to move to an industry that is less tech-centric, at which point these communication skills will prove handy.
I don't recommend using vkd3d. It's worse by design becasue it's trying to target crippled cases like macOS and trades performance for that by limiting Vulkan features usage to what works in MoltenVK and such.

vkd3d-proton on the other hand is using whatever available Vulkan features for best performance, so use that. I see no point in vkd3d at all on Linux.
Yes, you can essentially use GPT functions to reliably output JSON based on a predefined schema. See https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...
Except that studies of twins raised apart[1] calculate statistical IQ heritability in the range of 70% or more. Perhaps even more surprising, for the field of Psychology at least[2], these findings appear to be replicated across studies. Even if you're not a full-on IQ apologetic, IQ is at least deeply correlated with success in professional fields, like engineering from your example.

As a parent myself, I wish the scenario you described was true! That guardians had the capacity to simply nurture into reality an Al Einstein or Mikey Phelps, if they just Tiger Mom push their way through the young person's early years. But the data do not indicate that; to the contrary, most of that future person is already defined in their nature/genes at conception, and good parenting, at its best, will simply avoid catastrophe while nudging towards good goals.

All the rest is just to make the guardian feel better about themself.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.2218526
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Problems of C:

- memory safety

- concurrency

How Zig addresses them:

- it doesn't.
It seems content farms, farming keywords with just fluff has taken over google. Can't find how to do anything anymore, just pages and pages of people talking about doing something.

You could try your query on a different search engine. I've had good luck with kagi.
It pains me to learn that I'm so dumb you can't even conceive I'm asking in good faith.
My investing strategy is "picks and shovels" and "buy what you follow, but not what is hot"

IIRC my best return so far is AMD at $8 a share and ASML when it was similarly cheap, as I was reading a lot of EE/tech news at the time.
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Maybe it should be called `code-origami`
I'm thinking, what if someone would add in their blog's terms of use something like "the content on this blog is not for machine learning purposes"? Could they later sue Google if their site gets scraped by Google for LLM training?
Just give me a 2K monitor that turns on instantly, doesn’t hunt for sources, consumes less than 20W of power and I’ll be a happy guy. Bonus for having physical buttons to select explicit input sources without delays.
We've had to use this at my work a couple times. I forget the exact reasoning, but IIRC if you're using including parts of the Win32 API, you get some things that would stomp on C or C++ names, which is bad. Macros like that one prevent loading things you don't want.

One example was min and max - Win32 includes those which messes with trying to use std::min and std::max.
I feel like 1999 was peak internet optimism. The crash happened in April 2000, so 99/ winter 2000 was the peak.

After that everything was crashing and then consolidating into Amazon, google, eBay, and then Apple.
I don't know, but you could avoid resizing the hashmap and allow the collisions but then your buckets would still need resizing
I run the DELL G3223Q (144Hz 4K) and mine calibrated at ~98% DCI-P3 for reference. I'm quite happy with it.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/g3223q
10-20 years as a prediction in tech, though, generally means "shrug who knows maybe never". Historically, predictions that far ahead are virtually useless.
Ada is not a Wirth-language and only marginally inspired by Pascal. Wirth published Modula about the same time as Ada came around, but Ada is much more complex than Modula, with completely different features.
I think you can make the case that, for example, going out, taking a stick from a forest, breaking it and record the sound will be much more economical than trying to simulate a realistic stick breaking sound -- in particular in developer time trying to model sticks and wood breaking sounds in a convincing way (suppose we need say an art asset for a game).

It's something complexity theory isn't well prepared to tackle, at least on first look. Complexity theory doesn't take into account the cost of devising an algorithm itself. And complexity theory usually only is interested in asymptotic behavior -- different in both ways from what we have (n=1 and algorithm cost). I think simulations win only when there are significant gains to be had over just doing it in real life, i.e. when you are only interested in a simple aspect that can be summarized by a model, or when for some reason the real life event uses a lot of energy or costs significantly. An extremely accurate simulation of wood and wood breaking, and sound, I think would be quite computationally costly -- the wood is already very complex (not as complex as the base atomic reality -- you probably don't need to model every single atom -- but still very complex). Sticks are cheap, and breaking a stick is easy. Breaking the stick doesn't seem to take much energy, and realistically stick breaking itself (although perhaps not stick collecting) comes out ahead energetically!

It gets quite complicated quickly, and it really depends on what you want to model, but I think it's interesting to see when and if simulations are advantageous (for example, you could take the cost of raising a tree into account, or not! is the stick "free" because it would grow and decay anyway?). I think in the long term many things can be simplified into what we're interested, so models increasingly win. But realistically (in our limited lives and limited universes :)) I think there will always be a place for physical experimentation, taking pictures of sticks and recording the sound as they break. (and hopefully our relationship with trees and sticks itself still lasts for a long time...)

I say that as someone who really enjoys modelling nature! :) I think modelling and trying to recreate natural process (sometimes with an artistic touch as well) is a great way to understand and appreciate the wonders of the universe.

Note: Also, even with ideal reversible 0-cost computation, there's likely to be some kind of polynomial time overhead to 1:1 simulation of reality. This can be enough to justify experimentation instead of simulation, in some cases, when your model itself isn't a significant simplification over reality.
+1. Author here. Would you do the same over verbal communications and over presentations?
I’d love to move off of Goodreads but their export function is pitiful, to the point that I’d say it’s deliberately hobbled.

All I do is mark books 1-5 stars and record the date I read it. I recently tried to export to StoryGraph and 1/3 of my books were missing finished dates.

If youre owned by Amazon and can’t put a date in a CSV I suspect malicious intent over incompetence.
I find the Advanced Databases Course from CMU an excellent resource.
https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2023/schedule.html

You might want to look into academic papers, e.g., T. Neumann, Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware, in VLDB, 2011
https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol4/p539-neumann.pdf
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> To pass anybody, you have to take the whole of the car out from behind the car in front of you to see whether it's safe enough to pass

Well, you don't have to. I agree with you that taking the whole car out would be very dangerous.

But in many circumstances, you could take the car in (closer to the side of the road) and look ahead on the other side of the car you want to pass. Of course this requires either a long straight line stretch or a long and mild inside turn. And not much traffic.

Fwiw, I would also not drive a car with the wheel on the wrong side of it can be at all helped.
> Why is that?

Because of deep silo myopia. Meaning they have no idea what terrible things the pointy haired bosses and grifters are going to use this stuff for.
Right but those are not installed on every corner and store in every western city like standard “gait-sensing” cameras are.
> When it was crated it would be difficult and unwise to assume that an integer has size of 2 bytes

It was still a bad design. Of course this is in hindsight, but history has taught is it would have been much better if the default was for specific sized integers, with an option to use `uint_fast32_t` or whatever.
Maybe someone can help me understand why people are investing into this.

Inhousing typically means falling behind in technology but having lower operating costs. That makes the company win, not the users.

If you hinge your career on Apple, they might make your technology obsolete on a dime.

Its not the fastest, its not the best, its not the cheapest, its not some combination either.

> 'compute per watt'

With AI? The local LLM models are near useless already. There will be a time to cut down on power, but from what I've read, there is currently ~no value even with a 4090 with 512 RAM.

I suggest avoiding Windows/M$, I am annoyed with Linux bugs, and google cannot be trusted. But all of that could be said about Apple as well.

I just don't see a future with Apple hardware, it gives me some serious Nintendo vibes where they are going to be some quirky niche that is just enough for marketers to sell it. Compute per watt seems like a wiimote that no one asked for, but suddenly claim is ultra important.

Maybe someone can change my view. I don't see who buys this when they are educated on the possible options.
diversity and redundancy are inefficient by their own nature
I just tried adding 'relational algebra' in front of my 'query planning' query, and at a glance it skews more towards implementation.
8k@120Hz is going to need one heck of a video card
Got it thanks, makes sense. The way I've frequently seen this done, that goes more in line with the IaC and GitOps trends, is people making a PR to the config repo with the required values. Then a pipeline runs and does all validations, pulls data from external sources, and runs the terraform plan. If everything looks good upon review a merge applies the saved plan.
Gay/bi youth are estimated to abuse steroids about 5-6 times as much as exclusively heterosexual boys. I don't know what % of the fitness community are gay, but it's A Lot, more so in the bodybuilding/powerlifting demographic vs general athletics. Hypermasculinity and homo/bisexuality have been culturally intertwined for millennia, the Iliad is centered on just such a relationship.

EDIT: forgot the link to the study in question https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934340/
Agreed. I grew up in Pittsburgh, but even after 10 years after moving away, I immediately recognized the first picture as "somewhere in West Virginia" as if instinctually.
There is a "8MB Shrek" meme in the AV1 Discord where users encode the entire Shrek 1 movie into a Discord attachment size as best as they can.

This would be kinda fun to do on Twitter... Just to add fuel to the fire. I wonder what codecs it accepts.
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No, they were definitely not lying, and its one of the things that turned them from a Tesla enthusiast into someone who won't be getting a Tesla ever again (ongoing issues with AP/FSD being the other).

Assuming infinite fuel/charge, LA to SLC is 9 hours of driving with good traffic, in temperate weather.

In the winter, temperatures along the way can approach or drop below freezing; in the summer most of the drive is 100+ degree temperatures. In both cases, the temperature drastically lowers range before taking AC/heating into account. This has little to no effect on ICE vehicles (except at the start of the drive when the engine is warming up) but has huge effects on EV vehicles; cold can reduce EV range by as much as 40% and the heat reduces range by about 15%. This means that a Model 3's theoretical range would only be about 200-280 miles. This means the car has to be charged at least twice for the trip to Vegas, and 2-3 times for the trip from Vegas to SLC. It turns out the charging situation is great from LA to Vegas (Barstow, Baker, and Primm) but almost non-existent past Vegas (essentially nothing past Vegas until you reach St George, hence the need to plan stops.

If you're lucky and the Supercharger is available when you need it, great.. Not so great when all the spots are taken, and you're either waiting in the cold/heat or relying on the EA station a few miles down having working charging. Unfortunately, EA stations along this route generally don't have supercharging speeds...

While in Yellowstone I encountered a handful of Teslas from Angelenos who said that it took them the better part of 2 days to get there (but otherwise weren't specific about the time, route, charging situation, etc), so it's not an isolated incident.

Long story short: just because you're a techie and can optimize your EV driving doesn't mean everyone else will. Your experience is the exception, not the norm.
I guess it is easier to print out some interesting process variables, compared to trying to save and then make sense of dumps etc.
Didn't expect this to get to the top; I really just hoped for a little reassurance that I'm not the only one who has only bad experiences with those.

Also, my hate towards them stems from two additional reasons: 1) they're shaped to be wasteful, pretty much maximizing the amount of packaging relative to the amount of content, and 2) they're made from some mixed material -- and both of those reasons stand in stark negative contrast to the simple, humble, tiny, transparent, plastic jar with a lid.

Taking a charitable view to the point of stretching credulity, perhaps condiment packets are optimizing for transport costs, mostly because the very strength that makes them near-impossible to open by unaided human hand, also means they can be piled up in a container without the risk of breaking. But given the logistics of today, I find it hard to imagine this is worth the loss on volume of actual product shipped. The plastic containers may be much weaker, but you can stack them in layers with some padding in between, and save on the volume. Or better yet, ship the condiment with kegs, ship the plastic containers open and stacked, and have the staff (or a machine) dose out the condiment at the point of use - the same way it's done with soft drinks and coffee.
> I also think that AR/VR is more scary than AI

Absolutely agree. I was never bothered by Oculus, but Apple's Vision Pro demonstration was equal parts fascinating and terrifying. I can see the next generation getting completely lost in alternate realities.

Smartphone addiction got nothing on what's about to come.
Because over time the one big relational database turns into a big ball of mud. Change becomes expensive and has a large blast radius.

Contextual business domains should be the foundation of any complex architecture. You reduce complexity and change blast radius and speed up agility and feature adoption.
Microsoft faces EU antitrust probe after remedies fall short
These idiots will believe anything if you put “climate change” in front of it…

“Let’s block out the sun, it will be good for global warming” says the billionaire as plants and animals freeze and die. WE NEED THE SUN THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL US OFF. Duh if this is not self evident then you are already dead.
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Got 23 miles on the first guess!

Spoiler: https://i.imgur.com/HK6sNsf.png
Fucking hell, I've just blown another day because I'm dealing with over engineered crap.

We are on AWS, and a Postgres database that is primarily in one region, and read only in a second? That should be Aurora, and 15 lines of CloudFormation/CDK/whatever.

But that's too easy and reliable, who would need an SRE and an architect then? Instead we have multiple RDS instances, and a regularly failing PG Logical installation which requires an engineer constantly checking in on it because it silently fails and you only find out when storage starts burning out fast.

There is no feedback loop to let leadership know that they are spending hundreds of thousands over the odds for an unreliable system, and architects who seem to fail to admit someone made a misjudged call a couple of years ago.

I don't know what the solution is, but currently it's just some shitty old boys club.

Yes, they also picked Kubernetes but decided to install their own instance on AWS. Why the hell are we in a managed eco system and trying to build it in the worst way possible? Everything crashes on a regular basis.
Context: https://github.com/sleuthkit/scalpel

PS: Why not just mention the video software's name? This is entirely too vague to give any sort of decent answer.

My best guess is that it is being used to carve out portions ("cuts") of a video file.
Tesla is valuing Full Self-Driving high only when it’s convenient
If you click the question mark, you get the help page which clarifies the data used:

> ~500,000 geo-tagged images from Wikimedia Commons. Each day, a random location is generated, along with five photos within five miles.

In a remote area, there will likely only be a few notable landmarks nearby so you can expect to see many pictures of a single landmark. This might be why people think the pictures are supposed to of the same place.
Yea, I spent a few months comparing the two, and empirically i had a lot more issues with various normalized entropy problems (explosion, not converging, converging slower) with fp16 than with bf16.

The transfer pipeline I wrote for fp32->fp16 also took a lot more work than fp32->bf16
Obviously I'd only be able to say for sure if I was the downvoter but I sometimes observe lighter text on comments which make a reference without calling out the reference. It's similar to using an acronym without defining it, though possibly more confounding if it's a niche enough reference. In this case, I did not get the reference and would have wondered why the parent commenter expected that title to have already been used.

At best, such a comment is referencing something topical which most readers will get (and ostensibly be entertained by); at worst, it's a distracting non sequitur. It generally ties back to a community preference that comments are curiosity-satisfying before entertaining.
What could these 2,000 people possibly be doing behind the scenes? Reddit essentially never releases new user facing features, so what is everyone up to?
Some of the identifier names are kind of casual here. I was amused by the class called DeferGCForAWhile. I'm guessing just from reading that it's a typical RAII pattern so the "while" that will be deferred may be the scope of the object, i.e. until its destructor is called.
It is good practice to isolate any email/chat links from regular browser cookies, and similarly it is good practice to isolate PWA cookies from browser cookies.

It's not expected that the browser to dig up auth tokens from the Instagram app whenever Instagram resources are accessed from the browser. When people click "Add add to home screen", they expect this "app" to have similar sandboxing compared to their other apps.

> Time to add new auth methods specifically because Apple?

You don't need to add new auth methods specifically because of Apple. You need to add an auth method because you decided to something fancy that users and email clients/browsers don't expect.

If you use a username/password combo or an email/password combo, it works everywhere.
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Yes, it is bad...but, what are the alternatives? Where I'm from, smoking weed is equated with being a junkie, and just getting caught with a positive urine test can ruin your life and career (no joke).
Every time someone complains about being kicked off of Facebook or Youtube or some other such service for political reasons, the response from just about everyone is "they're a private business, they have a right to kick you off for any reason they want to with no explanation".

How isnt that also true here? They're a private business, they have a right to kick you off by automated systems if they think it's cheaper to have a couple of errors in the automatic system than to pay for manual reviewers. Hey, they're a private business and don't have to justify themselves, right?