skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not bad press. Bad press implies that the stories are untrue. But the stories are totally true.The city is untenable.

Drugs done openly in the streets, rampant crime getting bolder and bolder. The cops don’t do shit. And people aren’t allowed to defend themselves. You hear about the repeated armed robberies in noe valley? Mothers getting beaten and robbed for their phones. the cops had the perpetrators location and did jack shit. So what happened? they came back and did it again the next day. Same people, same block, same MO.

When you don’t intervene criminals just keep on doin crime.

So huh. People stop coming to SF. How could anyone have predicted this!? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t really blame the cops for going limp. Justice is a multi part process. Without the other parts in place, the sharp end of the stick is useless.
"Production-ready" is a state of mind.

They are widely used in production. Maybe some of them are de-facto production ready. But the developers don't want to make commitments to API stability.

And Python being Python it is very hard to statically enforce that you're upholding SemVer promises.
It was fun, I especially liked the commute and optimisation! I'm always happy to see new articles on your blog, thanks for writing and sharing it.
USSR did that. USSR collapsed. 250M of people suffered, more than 30M died.
Rinse and repeat.
I'm surprised no one mentioned vivaldi browser as alternative https://vivaldi.com/ , I've been testing it for a few months now and I'm quite pleased with it, still need to adapt my habits to control navigation on it (heavy user of Firefox here..), but overall I think it's an interesting alternative.
This is true, but true in the sense of 'actually adults tended to live into their 60s not into their 40s'. In western countries today if someone dies in their 60s it seems very young.
To me, the simplest explanation for our average drop in temperature is indeed less sick people, which means less feverish people driving the average up.
The only link between organized retail crime and any other illicit activity is money. If a group is into organized retail crime, chances are they are into other illegal money making schemes, as well. That doesn’t mean the different activities are somehow intrinsically linked together.
> Best route is actually getting rid of cars

literally fantasy. won't happen. not in my life, and not in yours.
Do you have a link to that article that you could share?
https://www.coryzue.com/

Been writing for ~6 years, mostly about becoming a solopreneur (going from day 1 and $0 to doing it full time).
Just to clarify, this is referring to being short an unhedged call option.
Portugal has also been having economical issues since the early 2000s which would probably influence the metric.
Review writers should start using code just like German employers do in the (mandated by law) employee reviews.

Like "Put in great effort" = absolute shit
There is "good form" in the sense of going through motions that work well with body mechanics.

There isn't absolute consensus on the nuances. E.g. it's common advice to lift loads with your back straight and bending your knees but as said a deadlift isn't performed that way and you can lift very heavy weights with your back bent. You'll have one sport scientist say you should have your elbows at a certain angle when you do a bench barbell press and another say it's fine to have them at another angle.

Often form is modified to fit individuals.

You should learn the outline of how a given exercise is performed and some points are important but some advice on "proper" form can be dated/wrong/adjusted from person to person. You also need to start with a small enough weight/resistance to get a feel for what works for you (and see if it agrees with your body). I think a lot of injuries are related to trying to do too much too soon, not necessarily purely to bad form.
This seems weirdly mixed between the paragraphs. 1 paragraph before they mention drug use / addiction like it's about getting money for drugs. In the quoted one it's about organised drug dealing. One of those makes more sense in theory than the other... But if the reporting can't get it straight, maybe it's not really documented either?
Now they have a 5 second delay? :-)
It is satire. They want you to do SemVer (or CalVer, etc.) properly. There are arguments against SemVer, but I don't see how this one of them.
I agree that the open source section was a bit strange and not really necessary for the article's actual focus - when I read it I immediately thought this will create a completely avoidable flame-war.
where is the doom2.wad coming from?
While this is probably satire, I sort of agree with it!

I always thought you just need two numbers, a.b

You increment b when you change something in a backwards compatible way.

You increment a when you make a breaking change.

If you are used to semver, it is like ditching the minor version and calling it a patch.

a.b is if course isomorphic to the 0.a.b system mentioned here.

The disadvantage is downgrading patch-only in semver may now be breaking change in twover but that is a rare edge case IMO.
CodeAesthetic on YouTube
I just found this. Only five videos, which I enjoyed, and then it seems to have stalled.

Would appreciate recommendations on similar channels and/or books, blogs, etc.

I can code, but I don’t think I’m very good. Learning another feature of the language isn’t what I feel I’m missing: it’s aesthetics. I don’t work in a coding environment, so I can’t absorb from colleagues.
Synonymous terms have been used in leftist/Marxist literature for a long time, that's always where I assumed it came from: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-ca...
But how do we know the angry responses aren't deepfakes?
> If a group is into organized retail crime, chances are they are into other illegal money making schemes, as well.

It's that really the case? I'm actually curious - do we know if urban crime groups specialise?
> I notice they don't actually give a good reason that robots.txt isn't suitable

It's kind of implied: specifying sitemaps/allowance/copyright for different use cases: search, scraping, republishing, training etc. and perhaps adding some of the non standard extensions: Crawl-delay, default host, even sitemap isn't part of the robots.txt standard

> We believe it’s time for the web and AI communities to explore additional machine-readable means for web publisher choice and control for emerging AI and research use cases.
The point above regarding convolution had to do specifically with accelerating 3x3 and above convolutional operations, as the product and the accumulation can be done in a few clock cycles if setup with care and love.
If there was any evidence anything in the universe outside our planet had been artificially manipulated you would've heard about it.
> Simply getting a couple of random messages with the same nonce is NOT enough.

Yes it is. You simply XOR the two auth tags and then compute the roots of the resulting polynomial (with known coefficients). There typically aren’t that many candidate roots to test. This has been known since GCM was first specified, see eg Joux’s comments: https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/block-cipher-techn...

It’s clear from your comments here and elsewhere that you don’t know what you are talking about, so I’ll take tptacek’s advice and bow out here.
> I think library authors should be more relentless and break compatibility every few years. We just need some conventions to not do so very often.

I indeed did this years ago---I'm the original author of Chrono [1]---and it wasn't well received [2] [3] [4]. To be fair, I knew it was a clear violation of semantic versioning but I didn't see any point of strictly obeying that until we've reached 1.0 so I went ahead. People complained a lot and I had to yank the release in question. By then I realized many enough people religiously expect semantic versioning (for good reasons though) and it's wiser to avoid useless conflict.

[1] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono

[2] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/146#issuecomment...

[3] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/156

[4] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#...
As Edward Gibbon said, "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery", however, you can't help but feeling that it must have been particularly awful existence for the many enslaved underclasses of Pompeii.
I guess since strlen uses an unsigned size, which has specified overflow behavior the compiler not only has to proof the initial iteration, but also all the ULLONG_MAX+1 multiples, which of course refer to the same memory address. But maybe its harder for the optimizer to see.
What's the best LLM I could run on a 12 GB VRAM GPU (Nvidia) ?
Huh, I thought for sure they were defunct.
Yes, I have no compulsion to pay off debt sooner than is more or less mathematically optimal. This strikes me as pure projection from the author.
This would be exciting to me if the module is available in quantities for PCB designs manufactured with JLCPCB as it would allow to design low-power low-cost camera-based projects without requiring to slap the whole Raspberry Pi Zero (with all the extra stuff I don't need) on top.
They could offer decent 2FA i.e. not SMS, for starters
tl;dr social programs fail when you attack and destroy them.

So the obvious conclusion in the eyes of the amazon times? Instead of helping people in crisis, we need state troops to threaten, intimidate, and attack them. You know, like the good old days, when drug policy was much worse.

The bezos chronicle strikes again!
Literally none of those languages existed when Shopify was launched. Did you expect them to get into a time machine or make that happen or what?
like omg i just can't even
That's good to know - thanks.
I am using a library called React-Tooltip and even on a very high spec computer it doesn't feel as fast as I would like. I will investigate!
I recently started working in a Kotlin project coming from a Java background.

I wrote a Builder for a data class I needed to add stuff in a loop.

Reviewer suggested I use `copy()` instead. Once I used that I was happy, I didn't need that Builder after all. I removed bunch of useless lines of code, made things simpler. Loved it!
OpenGL was that, in the early days. But GPUs started being able to do more things than OpenGL could talk about, and people wanted to use all the new features to make shinier things.

We almost had it, with Vulkan. But Apple just had to Think Different.[1] If it were not for Apple, we would not need this intermediate graphics layer. It wasn't a win for Apple; the Mac-only game market is tiny.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan
I actually ended up looking into the evidence and you’re actually right: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09666...

A flexed-back posture is associated with increased strength and efficiency of the back muscles compared to a lordotic posture. These findings further question the manual handling advice to lift with a lordotic lumbar spine.

I take it back! It might be okay to lift through your back after all, go nuts!
Love your children, and give them a safe and strong family to grow up in. Isn't that a fundamental part of raising a happy human being.
Yep, he tried to sell you something illegal. No one said that the outlaws are the best people out there. Maybe if you were an easier target, he would convince you to give him money anyway, without buying anything.

Total prohibition, prohibition of possession & prohibition of production vs decriminalization of possession & prohibition of production, means that the end product is expensive, difficult to obtain and dangerous to sell. In both cases the outlaws are normally the people selling it.

In case it was legal to produce it, poppy fields in Afghanistan would face serious competition from Portugal, and their profits should dwindle. I mean, American army weapons have be funded somehow.
Looks great - I love the design.
Indeed, AI is called out directly. Google’s laying groundwork for their own version of a regulatory moat.
It depends on the library. I personally like the minor vs patch distinction. If I see a patch version I might update immediately because I don't want a known bug in my application, but if I see a new minor feature version I might wait a bit
Seems like it's intended for content stealing from every place that doesn't immediately implement Google's New Web Order as an addition to robots.txt.

"Your do not enter sign uses font we don't like, so we'll just ignore it"
It's not fine, it's horrifying.
The only good source is a network of people you know in person. If you don't have one, working on open source projects is a good way to bootstrap one.
Your purchased Doom copy of course ; ) (just search for it, come on, the top results give it to you - just like the search results for "how to run myhouse.wad")
Should have been in a public ballot.

It is not legal in my opinion. Democracies are not dictatorships with a term
I agree with other veterans? here.

ServiceNow was the better alternative all round -- as compared to Remedy and HP Service Center.

The customizations and integrations, api, cloud were decent.

The licensing was bad. The pressure to "upgrade" to latest version every year (or lose support) was insane.

Sales was aggressive.

A couple of trends probably pushed this into a hated category --

Orgs had to customize the hell out of every workflow instead of keeping it simple and following standard ITIL.

The moment you veered away from "out of the box" features and did customizations ..your yearly upgrades risked failing.

The people in Orgs who maintain and customize the tool needed to be decently skilled. Cheapest body shop vendor doesn't cut it.

ServiceNow certifications were good initially then they became expensive/unaffordable, too many, too much to keep current.

ServiceNow themselves brought into many new features like AI, chatbots, RPA etc that it all became a huge complex beast. Basic features of a ticketing tool probably became too complex to maintain?
You don't anybody who consumes from three pay walled platforms or they don't pay for it and instead use archive.ph or similar ?

I would think my family having access to read good quality journals rather than get their news and analysis just from social media or click bait content farms is worth $50 / month ?

I know only 2 top quality newspapers not behind a paywall : Aljazeera and The Guardian, both while have decent American coverage or not amercian. Perhaps you can also include NPR, BBC and few other high quality news sources that are still free but are not newspapers.

Every high quality news source even news agencies like Reuters[1] are now behind paywalls.

[1] Associated Press is still free, given their non-profit status hopefully will remain so.
A FactoryFactory is just a poor man’s currying!
Quote from the article:

> Overdose rates have hit 12-year highs and almost doubled in Lisbon from 2019 to 2023. Sewage samples in Lisbon show cocaine and ketamine detection is now among the highest in Europe, with elevated weekend rates suggesting party-heavy usage. In Porto, the collection of drug-related debris from city streets surged 24 percent between 2021 and 2022, with this year on track to far outpace the last. Crime — including robbery in public spaces — spiked 14 percent from 2021 to 2022, a rise police blame partly on increased drug use.

> overdoses this year in Portland, the state’s largest city, have surged 46 percent.

> Residents have launched U.S.-style neighborhood watches and hired private security guards — something exceedingly rare in Europe.
Yeah then also there's partisan. I didn't figure anyone that needed to go beyond 150 nodes would fail to learn this stuff, but I appreciate you mentioning it so I don't accidentally drive-by convince someone there's an upper limit rather than engineering tradeoffs :)
The incentives are misaligned.

The general public wants something simple and useful.

The writers want recognition.

I learnt that when I wrote my own thesis. I tried to be simple and useful but I discovered something else when thinking about the subject: I wanted to make sure that my thesis gets good grades.
> Slave names were sometimes numbers.

Senators' and emperors' names were quite often numbers.

That is definitely not the distinction you're looking for.
I just rode Cruise for the first time tonight. Within the first 5 minutes of the ride, the car got stuck in the middle of two different intersections. Both times it just sat there with its hazards on while someone remotely tried to unstuck it. All the while, drivers around us were honking (rightfully so). Soon after that, the car turned right on red at an intersection with a sign saying not to.

These cars also drive much slower than others and frequently stop unnecessarily, which annoys every other driver, and causes more honking.

Based on that experience, I totally understand why folks are frustrated with them. Especially drivers who need to drive around these stopped cars everywhere.
You obviously haven’t been back recently. I recommend you check it out for yourself. Walk around downtown, duck into soma for a bit. It looks like the apocalypse. Visit the public injection site and watch people shoot up in public, in broad daylight. Step over the human feces. Walk into any store downtown and see every single thing under lock and key because otherwise people just walk in and make off with it.

I was downtown in December and there were two cops on every corner. They were trying to get a handle on the rampant smash and grabs. Which is laughable because while there were dozens of cops you could see em for a mile so the criminals just shifted their targets a bit. Without police and prosecutor follow through presence is useless.

There’s a feeling that crime can be committed with impunity.
Seriously if you think this is made up, go check it out, it’s actually kinda cool to go to a place where society is collapsing. A novel experience if nothing else. Feels a little like mad max.
See also: http://www.unlambda.com/index.php?n=Main.Mit
Watching athletes maximally exert at a competition setting is not the best way to learn to lift. Nearly every athlete will bend their own rules on proper form to eke out a performance boost in competitions.
Yeah gosh, like, wow, you can't arrest someone without a jolly good reason...

I can see the sad-faces all around, as journo's at the Oligarch's Daily Tribue lament that human rights are completely out of control now that cops can't roust people and smack them around for the crime of making their own personal choices, harming nobody.

"B..b..but what about property values?!"
The website doesn't respect prefersReducedMotion, making it extremely annoying to navigate.
This should help

https://i.ibb.co/6RX6Vx8/Screenshot-20230708-182128.png
How will you handle "undoable" requests ?
> alcohol, a much more dangerous drug than most

The overall impact of alcohol on society is not because it is “much more dangerous than most”, but because it is consumed (and abused) by orders of magnitude more people than almost every other drug.
Recognizing speech from gyroscopic signals [pdf]
http://www.randomnoun.com - a wordpress blog covering a handful of projects I've opensourced and a few software-related rants

Here's a few posts:

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/12/11/flowcharts-r-us/ - java to graphviz

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2022/10/14/make-a-new-plan-stan... - visualising sql execution plans

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2020/12/19/the-complete-history... - data warehousing

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2016/07/04/2897/ - the template language to end all template languages

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/07/09/the-constant-refrain... - musical brainfarts

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/07/24/tabstop-me-if-you-th... - grappling with tabs in HTML

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/11/27/pointless/ - grappling with drawio
https://alexsaveau.dev/blog

Mostly about performance and project internals.
Except "opinionated defaults with an option to change anything" is called "configurable", which is the antithesis of "opinionated".
You obviously haven’t been recently. Go check it out. I’ll accept your apology when you return.
I "foresee" soon a sponsored scientific research proposing to replace blood with bleach!
It's people who believe Marx's thing about how "boom-bust" cycles will eventually destroy capitalism. Unfortunately, Historical Materialism is utter and complete bullshit.
This portrayal completely dismisses the very real problems and harms to real people that these SDCs are causing.
We can use branded types to simulate nominal typing

https://zod.dev/?id=brand
Hmm, I much prefer remote recruitment. I remember the old days. You had a brief chat with a recruiter or HR, than you had to suit up, drive/fly to some far place (often it would take an entire day - if you're working at the time it necessitates a day off). You would stress, am I wasting my limited days off on these guys? Will there be parking there? Will I get there on time? Then you'd have a half an hour "initial interview", then you'd wait, sometimes for weeks to either get an invite for the interview proper, or to never hear from them again...

The whole process could take a month, require at least 2 days off and significant amount of travel.

Today? A recruiter/HR person rings you and asks, can we have a video call? You have that 15~20 min call the same day, they submit your CV to whoever makes the decisions, then they schedule one or more video interviews/tech sessions, some companies ask you to do behavioral/skill tests from the comfort of your own home. All of it can be done during a lunch break if you're a remote worker... What's not to like?

Yes, the communication bandwidth face to face is much higher, but only remote allows me to interview for a company in Tel Aviv in the morning, Warsaw midday and a Californian one in the evening all on the same day.
I guess salaries which allow people to provide for their basic needs would be a good start. Or providing secure, safe, affordable housing. Where people don't live in constant fear and material insecurity which makes it impossible to sleep without getting fucking blitzed, and where you're too busy working every hour god sends in miserable conditions, to build or maintain a supportive social network.

What, those aren't the priorities of Jeff Bezos? Huh....

Surprised to learn that, given the rosy conditions at amazon warehouses.
I basically can't play horror games because they are all too intense, but I watched a video on this mod and found it interesting but not at all scary.
Unironically good. Ken Kesey is a saint. For as bad as the current situation is, being stuck in mental institutions of that quality (which most were) is far worse.
From the same link:

> How do I know when to release 1.0.0?

> If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0. If you’re worrying a lot about backward compatibility, you should probably already be 1.0.0.
Drug usage in Oregon is not going down.
How do they define "illicit drugs" if everything is legal?
150+ Million Americans subscribed to Prime AND also Disney+ has similar numbers, so if you don't have either, you are likely a outlier.

How could you not have Disney+ if you have kids ?

Netflix is at 75M Americans paying for it (and many others sharing), typical family definitely has more than just Apple Music and HBO
I just purchased I and II from GOG, they're EXEs; i'm on a macos machine :'(
Well for one they publish them here: https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities
Why should a website with static content need JavaScript to display?
Just because that kind of "work" is legal doesn't mean that it's accepted.