skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing motivated here is your implication that the answer must be one of these two reductive answers, while so many commenters have given very reasonable and valid reasons for their opinion.
why is this detail even in the movie? seems like an easy conflict to avoid by omission
Just as some random feedback, I skimmed the site and had no idea what you do, I read it a second time with full attention and I'm still a little confused though I think I have an idea.

Some examples / showcases would be nice IMHO unless you wanted it to be sort of vague on purpose.

The idea I left with is some sort of chatGPT for more global and inter-disciplined issues?
I've been seeing the no-cipher error intermittently on Firefox as well.

The site is working for me at the moment.
I've head about Rome, but I've never tried it. My main fear there is that it dies like so many other dev tools with low adoption do.
Yes, they only beat people to market in the sense that once they release a product, everyone else realizes that's what the product should be and creates variations on it—so in hindsight it looks like Apple's take is the "first."
Corticosteroids are definitely common with older people, and aren't anything like anabolic steroids or testosterone.
The website reflects all their arrogance.
I lent a car to someone in college who only noticed the ebrake was still on when a campus officer flagged them down to ask why the back wheel was smoking.
I need some expounding on the words here please, because English is not my native language.

When the CEO writes

> The innovation and creativity you continue to show have made this a landmark year not just for Microsoft, but for our customers, partners, and communities around the world. (my emphasis)

Would landmark year refer to innovation and creativity not profitability? In my mind, if staff made the year landmark for shareholders, it would be enumerated in the second part of that sentence, but it is not.

As a side note, when I look at her EPS and associated surprise, they are but a shadow of previous years double digit positive surprises. Mid last year MSFT had her first EPS estimate miss since April of 2016.
I don’t get the 100% branch coverage requirement. If the code is off of ‘master’ why would you have to go and fix it?
It's interesting to me that Blender basically dumps everything to disk in the most straightforward way possible and lets the loader figure out how to interpret that, since it's similar to how Factorio loads save files from older versions of the game. Though in Factorio's case it's implemented with a lot of `if(saveVersion >= 0.17.123) xyz = stream.readInt32()` and compatibility gets dropped every few versions. The 'DNA' information in .blend files is a bit more complex but theoretically decouples the format from the exact version of Blender somewhat.

This strikes as a very brittle way for a program to save its state, but here's two successful programs that do it that way, so maybe it's not so bad, after all. It does mean that it's hard for any other program to read those same files, though.
> Are China really going to ban the Chinese version just because the other one exists

Yes, without a second thought.

China isn't trying to convince people inside China that the South China Sea is their sovereign territory. They're trying to push the belief on the rest of the world.
One possible issue is that compile or test time dependency resolution, especially for uncompiled languages, doesn’t distinguish betweeen explicit and transitive dependencies in most package managers/build systems. If you have a direct source dependency, imho, it should be explicit (not relied on transitively), and if not (unless a specific runtime version is necessary), transitive dependencies should not be locked or specifically annotated in a lock file. The former is overly flexible, the latter overly rigid.

I also prefer an external manifest that can lock specific versions of all dependencies, but that usually requires a separate package manager from the language provided one, which introduces a whole new set of issues.
> We run one of our projects not only with 100% test coverage, but 100% branch coverage. It’s deeply unpleasant.
Microsoft doesn't really have a "work hard" culture to begin with. The company simply owns a money faucet, and 200K+ employees are around to watch it and make sure nothing goes wrong.
I think the process of getting a car into the hands of a consumer takes much longer than 1 year so I wouldn't put this up to Elon being less involved.
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Abstract

Low energy nuclear reactions are possible in condensed matter because of image forces. They result from induced charges at the surface of metals or very polarizable media. The height and width of the Coulomb barrier in free space can thus be reduced. Nuclear fusion requires also the formation of a compound nucleus in one of its excited states, but two deuterons yield an α particle that has 2 excited states. They are respectively accessible at high or low energies. Since the reduction of the Coulomb barrier depends on the local curvature of the interface, cold fusion becomes autocatalytic, but heat production is controllable. Even microbes, plants and animals can produce transmutations. They are also due to image forces. This solves a basic problem in nuclear physics and there are possible applications: facilitated synthesis of superheavy elements and development of a new type of energy sources. They are moderate, but safe.

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I've seen bad codebases rightfully elevated to greatness because of their test suite.

The confidence it adds allows new people to make changes much faster.
How do we test for 100% branch coverage on python that covers list comprehensions?
Conditional branches, not repository branches.
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I think he's referring to branching in the code (if-then-else blocks).
If you can vote with your feet, which is the whole justification for the pay freeze, because it’s hard to walk right now. Doesn’t say much for loyalty later when the labor market tightens again.
> But 100% coverage definitely helps, especially in languages like Ruby where an untaken branch can contain a serious error that’s accepted by the interpreter, but will take down production if hit.

And if you're in a language providing more constraints, the benefits can quickly turn into a cargo cult. This is certainly the mindset of Ruby folks, and such a mindset left a native client team with 0 system devs and all web dev converts who refused to engage with our actual issues and focused only on dogma within 2 years of hiring a manager with that background. Color me skeptical of this applying to all projects.
lol, I love it
4 year old Lenovo laptop here, 16GB RAM and SSD. Bootup from cold is around 5-seconds, everything is pretty snappy even with lots of browser tabs open and VSCode running. Never had the start menu lag other people have reported. Definitely faster than it was when Windows 10 was installed.

Have you checked for viruses? Last time I saw a machine that slow booting up, even with a spinning disk, it was riddled with viruses.
I don't think presenting it as a desktop replacement was "smart" so much "the only possible way to justify the asking price", but I don't think its going to work out that way personally. Having tried many VR headsets I can't think of any I want to wear all day.

They can sell 100k of them and crow about being sold out, but I don't think even apple has figured out who this is for - thats what I got from their presentation on it. The only answer they have so far is "people who will spend $3500 on a vr headset" which isn't a use case.

For the most part we got marketing level "watch people emote joy as they do things with this device" and all the use cases sucked.
I was confused also but decided they meant if/else branching
> Schizophrenia was already there, the trip made it apparent.

That is exactly what they are saying.
The Evolution of Working from Home (productivity research) [pdf]
TL;DW: it handles like a boat and the brakes can't keep up.
> Like in the back of a book, or an old subject based card catalogue ... Dewy-decimalise the web :)

Now that is an awesome idea. I really do think we need to have category-based indexing as well as page search.
People making along trips want to charge quickly and are willing to pay ~3x the retail cost of electricity to do so. So it can be quite profitable right now.

Longer term I expect charging to become a low margin commodity business, but other networks have had serious reliability issues so people may be willing to pay a premium simply to know everything will work when they get there.

PS: Even longer term I expect in road charging to become a thing on major highways, but that’s easily 20+ years away.
What are you trying to convince people of with this rhetoric? I don't understand the point of this tangent unless you are trying to say that the two are equivalent.
Microsoft employees are some of the most complacent I've ever seen. Some of my Microsoftie friends haven't had an interview (aside from maybe one or two recruiter calls) in over ten years, having been there since graduation. Needless to say, their comp is peanuts. Yet they frequently stay at work late and have to drop engagements as a result.

Microsoft has the magic formula for lifers who don't ask much and work just as hard as anyone else, if not harder (by big tech standards — startups folks work way harder for way less).
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Hosting an infomercial for a product that no one has had the opportunity to review must be a new low for TED.
More users mean more angry emails kicking the driver team and Lisa Su in the butt. I personally gave up on them and my only bet is RustiCL becoming stable enough to become a widely used standard.
I just logged in to post the same thing — seems odd.
If you're going to use it for anything where accuracy is important, you're going to need a human in the loop, verifying each thing ChatGPT comes up with. That means it isn't going to replace nearly as much as you seem to believe (or, unfortunately, that it will replace people, but not for very long), because it isn't going to meaningfully increase productivity in any application which requires accuracy.
Moreover - <a series of incredible escalatory claims with absolutely zero sources>.

This comment fails to contribute meaningful discussion at best, and at worst is openly attempting to spread misinformation.
Exactly. You follow the link you get what is basically an image as landing page. Then you have to click on it to get to a small article/text, which doesn't tell you much either about what the actual product is. Somewhere in the text is a TedTalk video which shows and explains a little more. But when I see a link that is "whoah look at our new product" I expect more than a tagline and a picture
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I've seen great teams grind to a halt because of edicts.

The elevation of process over results is demoralizing to builders.
But it’s AI! Using sensors! With Qualcomm! What more do you need to know? /s
That’s exactly it. They won’t raise salaries if Google and Microsoft aren’t in a rush to hire their top engineers anymore. They will when those companies are.

Companies rarely pay based on contribution. They pay based on what it takes to keep someone from hiring you away.
>Power plant: https://electrek.co/2022/08/18/teslas-virtual-power-plant-fi...

That's not a power plant... they are producing 0 electricity. They are allowing powerwall OWNERS to act as a grid-scale BATTERY. A battery != a power plant and produces nothing even remotely resembling a real power plant in recurring revenue.

>Here is a grid storage project: https://electrek.co/2022/03/22/tesla-megapack-selected-big-n...

Again, they are producing 0 electricity, they are selling a battery to someone else to use.

Let me know when Tesla starts building their own solar farms or nuclear power plants and using it to power their supercharger network. That will be the only way it's at all comparable to Shell.
You're missing some key considerations is what I'll say.

It's pretty safe to assume that the basic combo of sensor outputs+vehicle logs will be retained (subject to retention period) for the foreseeable future, both of which have potential privacy issues. All the relevant companies have lots of internal discussion about this, but very little makes it into the public sphere.
> If those systems are using a spinning HDD, you're doomed. W11 is designed for SSD systems.

Does this mean anything except "Microsoft has decided not to bother being efficient with disc accesses"?
> or reasonably exceed Toyota’s market share

Hah, if only Toyota... At one point, Tesla was worth more than: Toyota, Volkwagen Group, Hyundai/Kia, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Renault, Suzuki, Daimler, BMW, Mazda and Mitsubishi combined. (Plus several Chinese manufacturers: SAID, Geely, Changan, Dongfeng).
Do you work much with legacy systems, internal libraries and work with a large team?

I do and ChatGPT code is rarely useful for me. I can prompt it well enough to do language related stuff for me, but the code it can write for me is more like a highly custom boilerplate that I still need to refactor.

Even for green field private projects, at first it looks fine, bit the bugs are more likely to be traced back to these snippets than not.
For a lot of management, "collaboration" means, "You do what I want and you get paid for it." And not, "We'll work together to figure out how to make this work for both of us."

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Really neat paper - a while ago I wrote a summary of the system: https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/06/12/foundationdb-a-distri...
Why? Hollywood has been making tons of cultural concessions to placate the American market.
> I'm concerned about who AGI will serve? Rich people surely!

Almost everything invented in the past 200 years was originally sold to rich people, because they were the only ones who could afford it -- then the price came down and middle-class folks could buy it, then the price came down more and virtually everyone was able to afford it.

Thanks capitalism!
Indeed, you don't understand. Your proposal is excellent and it would in time heal a major C pain point. However - and I'm sorry to say - your politics game is non-existent, I'm afraid. Not to be super cynical, but: the politically astute way to go about it would've been to 1) not make your proposal public to all; but 2) implant the idea in the heads of few influential committee members; then 3) wait for them to "come up with a new and excellent idea" to you, at which point you'd exclaim "what a marvelous idea". It's not even this is some exception on part of the committee members - the behavior of the members is but the norm in humans groups. And we see this too in the replies to your comment in this thread and past comments on this subject (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585357) - random people will bend backwards, not understand, misunderstand, make fools of themselves, come up with most ridiculous excuses for reasons, anything but acknowledge someone else's good idea. Maybe it's part and parcel of thoroughly thrashing an idea to see if it stands. But maybe gone too far in this case.

On a more cheerful note - I don't know how and when, I missed the event, and it may well be that it happened by accident - but C got the ability to access N-dim (N>1) array elements with dimensions known at run time, not only at compile time - learned about it in https://jorengarenar.github.io/blog/vla-usecases :

int n = ..., m = ...;
float (*arr)[n][m] = malloc(sizeof *arr); // `n` and `m` are tun-time variables with dimensions
if (arr) {
// (*arr)[i][j] = ...;
free(arr);
}
At least in my little corner of that world, Unreal has been gaining mindshare and market share pretty aggressively for the last five years. This is forcing me to start thinking about Unity again.
... as an action by Russia against the IRA's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, rather than through the efforts of Western intelligence or organisations.

This is more a commentary on Prigozhin's future than it is of the war against disinformation and troll farms.
Branch coverage means something different. If you have a function with 2 if statements, there are 4 branches. 100% code coverage could be 1 test and would run the code before + after the if statements, and enter each if statement block. 100% branch coverage would test this code 4 times: once without entering either if statement, once only entering the first, once only entering the second, and once entering both.
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What does this device do?

I spent way too long digging through all the marketing and I still don't see what the features are!

My prediction: This will be a flash-in-the-pan with gimmick features and no real functionality. This is a device nobody needed and nobody asked for.

Second prediction/observation: Former Apple is to Designers as Former Google is to Programmers.
The fact that not a single person wore the Vision Pro or showed off anything other than prerecorded/rendered videos during the keynote should have given everyone a clue about how far along in production it was.

Everything about it gave off the vibe of marketing teams overhyping a product and engineering left to pick up the pieces afterwards, which is very unlike how Apple usually works.
Games - will be available on cheaper a oculus or valve headset you can give to your kids.

Movies - same thing, also not worth the headset price.

Remote Meetings - why do I want to wear a headset that stops a video of me being recorded? The presentation they had exactly showed that people who didn't wear the headset had video of them and people wearing the headset just had an avatar card. It was the opposite of helpful. This headset makes remote meetings worse.

Porn - its an apple device - any porn will just be web based because otherwise apple won't allow it.

None of these use cases are $3500 compelling. There's no target market, and no compelling use case. It's a brand new helicopter skidoo hybrid and as impressive as it sounds its not clear why it exists yet.
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Again, unsigned ints weren't even present in C until 1978, so of course it was signed -- there was no alternative.

As far as I've ever read, negative unix timestamp values generally were not used. Since -1 was used as an error value, you cannot safely determine whether that value represents an error vs a legitimate timestamp one second before the epoch.

I'm not familiar with if/how early versions of Unix were able to interact with non-Unix files/filesystems, but I doubt they would preserve metadata such as mtime if so.