skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070613184827/http://yudkowsky....
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
https://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html#HTDO
https://unqualified-reservations.org/2008/04/open-letter-to-...
http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopi1.html
Businesses are about profit not values. An NGO is a better vehicle for pushing values than a business.
Meanwhile if you look at someone like Ken Parker ( https://kenparkerarchtops.com/archtoppery#new-page-1 ) you see someone who does obsess over the best tools _and_ the best process.

Now, admittedly, Ken Parker is a lightning rod for disagreement, but you can't deny that he makes a well-made product.
Yes! And amateurs focus on tools, pros focus on execution/getting it done.
The city centre is walkable and bike-able, but head out to parts of the burbs and its not so doable unless you dont mind walking for about an hour, or spending 20-30mins on a bike.

Cant have an ebike either because the state doesnt like their limited revenue generating and prosecute-ability, judging by the news outlets lamenting ebike fires and deaths, whilst not mentioning the virtue of working smoke detectors.
Indeed, bytes are the smallest addressable unit, which is 8 bits in most architectures. You can't address a bit, so to do anything with it you have to get the byte it's in and twiddle.
Fundamental trade secrets... like how to build a large social network platform. Yes, it would surely be impossible for the Facebook and Instagram folks to build another platform without stealing “trade secrets” from Twitter. /s
I know what a VC start-up aim is, that's basic knowledge.

But talent pool is limited and all is being either offshored or using for VC gambling when they clearly have many local problems by the author's assertion.

You seriously missed my point.
I checked again and have a bunch of flagged submissions, mostly deliberate, but there were certainly some accidental ones in there. Great feature indeed.
Natural selection is pretty much the opposite of heuristic. Complex adaptive systems embodied in self replicating chemical nanobots create random variation when they replicate. The varieties that can't reproduce or not as efficiently are dead ends. There is no teleology, and conditions change in non linear ways. There is no final condition, or any meaningful way to infer a better pathway in advance.

Evolution by natural selection is literally just biochemistry brute forcing survival.
Near me, they keep the products locked up in the back room, and the person who you talk to on the floor often doesn't have direct access and needs to find the person who has access to get them the product.

It makes sense. There's not a pile of 1000 Macbooks on a pallet back there. It's locked up in a cage, and they go in and get one at a time.

But makes for a slow shopping experience.
The book constains Perl one-liner-style equivalents of these UNIX utilities which you can just drop into your bin directory.
Do you have conclusive scientific evidence on your hypothesis? It doesn’t sound like it is based on science and might suffer from the replication crisis.

The Gottman Institute has produced solid work for relationship counseling.
Yep, on occasion. They work just like a normal monitor. I've had code/terminals/etc open while watching Netflix on a side monitor.

When Nebula is open, they simulate 3 individual monitors. Nebula is simply responsible for positioning the screens in space and keeping them where you want.
Are the Arduino and ESP32 microcontrollers?

Hint, might check their libraries/SDKs before answering.
This a major piece of work. I find it chilling and somewhat convincing, assuming that great-power competition continues to dominate in our world of nation states.
"It is true that playing the lottery doesn't work out for everyone, but it worked really well for us!"
Building an editor is one of our highest priorities. We've been laying the groundwork for this for awhile and we would like to have tangible progress here within the year. We can't commit to specific dates, but know that a full editor experience is a central part of our plan. Code-only will always be an option, but we firmly believe that visual editing is a critical piece of the gamedev puzzle.
Pro photographers, including sports, don't like to change gear much, and don't care for over-expensive "best" gear either. The stick to use a knocked out battered old camera they trust rather than rush to get any new "best" model.

But they will pay for stuff that is needed for the job, like expensive fast and light enough teles, or multiple continuous frames (but up to a point).

Youtube "pro photographers" do, because they get their money through gear reviews, peddling cameras, and sponsorship deals.
Both of the statements in the title are false. Programming is like the ultimate toybox. Getting started with a new tool can be like Christmas. It doesn't hurt to reward yourself every now and then especially when there is often a real advantage provided by the new tool. Obviously you can't spend all of your energy on that but it doesn't mean it can't be routine to try out and apply new things.

Mastery of tools is also not a useful primary objective. In fact, in the modern era of software development, it's counterproductive. Because it will not leave you time to try any of the new stuff that could be a more more efficient way to make that particular type of software.

I would say that a professional software engineering approach is to focus on delivering business value.

That means you need to emphasize understanding the business problem and iterating on features that solve that. To be effective those things should take some precedence over other activities, like learning new tools or mastering old ones.
The giant reason to do this with the headset in particular is that getting it wrong means a literally painful and/or nauseous experience. Meta is willing to let that happen with its $300 headsets mostly bought as gifts for children, but the bar is a lot higher for a $3500 device and Apple is already acutely aware of the blowback from "you're holding it wrong"-type scenarios.
While I do not disagree in general – things not being black or white is probably correct – I think in Mr Savages case you could argue that knowing how to geek with/over tools is the mastery part.
>And yet, I've never seen a professional guitar player use a cheap shitty guitar.

Professional guitar players use "cheap shitty guitars" all the time. From the Beatles to the biggest stadium bands, not to mention people who make it a point of pride to do so, like Jack White.
"A big thanks to Yeonmi Park for sharing her story with us"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park#Veracity_of_claims
My dad worked on that! He says it got canceled because at the time Microsoft only kept projects that made XX millions of dollars, and even though the project was profitable, it didn’t reach that threshold. They also made Arthur and DW animatronics.

He got to meet the guy who voiced Barney. Apparently he did some profane jokes in Barney’s voice, and then asked them to not save those recordings. Too bad.

He still has an unopened retail box of Barney. Probably not worth anything.
I'd suggest perhaps donating if it is awesome.

If you can't donate there are lots of ways to help: add a feature, host a pkg repo mirror, clean up docs, fix bugs, add/manage a package, donate older hardware for compat testing, help out with community support, github issues. Telling people it is awesome also helps but maybe a more detailed why would go a bit further to promote it.

Would be more helpful though if corp OSS users who have their entire operations underpinned by financially undersupported OSS projects stepped up to help.
Numbers of instruments sold would be extremely low and as a result the price extremely high if only people who actually use them bought them.
No idea about Fender's quality range in Jaco's time (although to be fair, Fender was the original electric bass and there were fewer options overall in the 70s), but nowadays Fender basses vary quite a bit in price/quality depending on what line you're getting. At the cheapest end you have their Squier line, and then you have MIM/MIJ (made in Mexico/Japan) Fender basses, and at the top of the line are American-made Fender basses, which have their own price variations. But even the most expensive Fender basses pale in cost compared to like, a Wal.

I think what's notable about Jaco is less that it was a Fender and more that (the story goes) he DIY'd his fretboard with a butter knife. So the point of comparison would be between someone today, who feels like they can only get a good fretless tone if they go out and buy a fretless Wal for $10k, versus buying your own Fender for less than a tenth of that modifying the fretboard yourself—just like Jaco did.
he's not entirely wrong though, there's an online bootcamp dedicated to literally doing this, using AWS as the backend, might take more than a few weeks but the point is that until you start to worry about web-scale a jr dev could do the implementation of front-end/back-end in a month or two.
Part of mastery is selecting a good tool, or building one if it doesn’t exist.
People will abuse [u]intptr_t to compare addresses from different objects. There is no guarantee that the integer value stored in such variables is representative of a linear memory space and you're supposed to treat them as opaque data but most platforms permit such comparisons. All you're permitted to do is cast a pointer into those types and cast it back to the original type.
Which isn't part of the standard, and no compiler is required to support to achieve certification.
From 'man perlop':

Customary Generic Meaning Interpolates
'' q{} Literal no
"" qq{} Literal yes

--

where {} can be any bracket pair.

my $string1 = q<a single quote '>;
my $string2 = qq<a double quote ">;
I personally have had the experience of having to talk to two people (with a third person required to fetch the product from the back room) at an Apple store in Toronto. You stand there waiting on the side for 10 minutes while the gopher finishes with a couple of other customers.
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She'd have to sue every student that writes an essay on a book they'd read
Debian will work fine with secure boot. MX Linux can as well, as long as it's using a Kernel from Debian.
This article is a companion to the main piece, providing a broader overview of the situation: https://archive.is/kkHN4
Right, those "solutions architects" like "Techical Account Managers" which act like moats against receiving any kind of good support. Those guys are just terrible IMO unfortunately.
Large amount of work done again! When you get to the ui work in the what’s next part, do you plan to integrate one of the existing bevy ui crates? Or will you learn from them and build a new one? Really looking forward to getting some progress in that area. I feel like contributing (made the PR for swapping Y axis on UI for 0.9) but the status quo is a huge mental block to even get started.
Again, awesome project!
The thing to remember here is that speed is relative. I haven't checked but Ruby 3 is probably faster than Perl 5.0. For most scripting purposes on modern hardware Ruby is plenty fast enough. Whilst there may may be marginal speed differences between Perl, Ruby and Python the differnce is insignificant.
Nah, they were categorically "shitty", since they were not well made and a bit difficult to play.

"I’ve been playing the most difficult guitars to play all my life. But with all the changes I had to deal with—people I never played with before, two days of sessions in New York, two in L.A.—I didn’t have time to monkey around with antique guitars in that moment."

https://blog.evhgear.com/2018/06/jack-white/
It's not a gaming device. It's two tiny iPads that you can put right up to your eyes and use hand movements to control.
The blurrier font in the non-native one is another difference.
The issue to me is not the generation of code. It's that the person using it is inexperienced with the given language. We will never be able to place 100% faith in AI. At least in my lifetime. Given that, I think it's a relative danger that is washed away in all the hype. A junior dev copy-pasting code from chatgpt. I couldn't imagine a more dangerous combination.
Usually the investors - the funding amount means that the founders and early employees can get paid a living wage at least (as a former VC-backed founder I can say that they probably don't get paid exorbitantly). But investors will get rinsed if the company can't either reach IPO or raise a subsequent round at a higher valuation. This becomes very difficult when the company is already worth $200M on paper, and need to get the revenue to a point where that valuation is justified.
Parent means he was a famous example of doing that.

Not that White became famous because, or in any part due to, using inexpensive guitars.

And he was a particular prominent example, because he didn't just do it, he advertised doing it as part of his philosophy.

And he is not in any case the only example, tons of famous guitar players use cheap guitars, in stage and on records. They just casually use them, they don't make a point of it, unlike White.
Right lol this is also my experience. Do you need help setting it up? No thank you. Bye! I've never felt patronized at the Apple store, honestly it's the one electronics store where I feel like the staff kind of know what they're doing and are hovering around tentatively ready to help me actually purchase the thing.
Mark Zuckerberg: “We’re moving very slowly” (2012)
Abercrombie blew their brand up by doing that. In today’s world that is an atrocious idea
Okay, I stand corrected.

Examples at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#featured and this new information give better understanding of the spec. (I find it quite confusing anyway to be honest).
> like enum class introducing at least 3 changes at once

changes to what? they don't clash with the original horrible enums at all - all your code that used original C-style enums will still work.
Buy it online via the app and designate the store as a pick-up. You will barely have to speak with anyone. Stores are busy, that’s just how it is. I’ve bought all the products you mentioned and didn’t have to deal with any “help” or delay.
Larne Craigyhill bonfire: 17000 pallets
Your bit about taxis seems hard to believe. I haven't been in China in around 15 years, but there are still tons of foreigners visiting China for business reasons, and they need to get around. Requiring them to jump through these sorts of hoops to merely ride in a taxi seems a bit unbelievable.

Granted, sometimes the business we were visiting would send a car to our hotel, but not always, and not when we were going out on our own. Is cash still accepted by taxi drivers? That's how we usually paid when visiting for work.

I haven't traveled to China as a tourist since around that same time, when we (again) paid cash when taking taxis. China presumably (at least, pre-pandemic) still gets a lot of tourists, and it again seems unlikely that the only way a tourist can take a taxi is to get a random local to vouch for them, and/or an ability to open a local bank account.
How is this supposed to work 10 years from now? "I'm a 25-year-old with a 15-year-long work history" is going to be a tricky sell.
I think it could also help experienced doctors who may be a bit stuck in their way of thinking and any doctor trying to diagnose rarer diseases and disorders. so many medical issues seem to have overlapping or identical symptoms so it would certainly help to remind doctors of the more rare options they may need to test for.
Hence the clarification of only swapping TWO stickers on a corner. ;-)
>Every business will run into trouble, sooner or later.

Even large businesses that have comfortable cushions and safety nets?
My experience of the same has been the opposite. Friends I showed it to telling me "interesting" then moving on and never mentioning it again. And I felt the same. It went to storage less than a month after I received it.
I should say differences -- in behaviour when compared to traditional enums.
There's already at this early point a curious amount of hostility in the comments - the height of Geller's fame was in perhaps a more woo-oriented time (post hippydom) and now he just seems like a clever showman who capitalised on his exoticness and niche ("its not magic, you see, its psychokinesis") to charm his western audience like some classic guru.

He kept a straight face, and maybe even believed it a bit himself.

His efforts now to stay newsworthy doing things like moving the Ever Given are obviously tongue-in-cheek and funny.

There has never been any "debunking" needed because he's subject to the same physics as the rest of us. Of course he's not really bending stuff with his mind! People were just more ready to believe he had some special exception, and he ran with it.

Randi's obsession and anger (reflected here a little?) seems as old-fashioned and silly as Geller's spoon-bending antics.
Just order the item you want for store pickup before you leave and it’s usually ready by the time you get there. That’s my experience and it’s quite literally in-n-out.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia, Wikipedia is actually quite reliable, in that "most" (>80%) of the information is accurate (per random sampling). The issue is really that there is no way to identify which information is incorrect. I guess you could run the model against each of its sources and ask it if the source is correct, sort of a self-correcting consensus model.
This is all trivially easy to setup in any environment.
I actually love the fact that you can get pretty much anywhere in the city within 20-ish minutes by bike…
I don't think the writers thought Geller wasn't a fraud. They verge close to saying so repeatedly, comparing his work to deepfakes, quoting him as admitting, “Doesn’t matter how I do it, whether it’s real or not,” holding back only due to "civility and fairness," etc.

So the NYT didn't "fall for" anything. The point is that at the end of the day he successfully tapped into people's desire to be duped and turned it into wealth and renown, whereas his naysayers spent a lot of time and energy but never really landed a knockout. Speaking as an admirer of Randi (and Martin Gardner and others) back in the day, I think that it ended up a win-win. Geller the hustler got to retire off of fleecing stupid mining companies, whereas the good guys got to write book after book that helped mainstream skeptical inquiry. And lots of curious kids took up the honest craft of magic.
... on a book that they’d illegally acquired then read.
The interesting thing to me is why we don't have more universities starting in the short term. We'd expect there to be a bunch of polytechnics or technical unis.

Harvard should obviously conform to fully uniform visibly non-discriminatory if it wants tax privilege and funding through the state.

Perhaps the thing is that student loans make price competition impossible.
I am a pianist, by the way. My current instrument at home is >$50k but I play a lot. My starter instrument years ago was $1000, and was a great starter upright.

If you're learning the piano don't get a keyboard. Just don't.
There are numerous quotes in the text describing the 3D API for creating and manipulating 3D content. For example:

"Present 3D content, animations, and visual effects in your app with RealityKit, Apple’s 3D rendering engine."
Interesting: he says that the famous 1202 error may sometimes crash the spacecraft and sometimes land successful in some other cases. And also that it depends on many factors. So, the sane thing to do at that moment, AIUI, was to abort the landing.

The Apollo 11 landing was not a tragedy be sheer luck. IIRC Armstrong asked ground control about 1202 and they tell him to ignore it. Ground controllers, probably unknowingly, bet Armstrong and Aldrin lives.
Slightly more detailed info is available here:

https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore

(note you have to go into the settings to change various assumptions, like what state, number of miles driven per year and much more)
Glad to see the ECS scheduling was cleaned up a bit. I was a bit overwhelmed by the verbosity of the APIs in the last release.
It's possible in 7 bytes + length of string (including terminator). "xchg ax, bp" will save 1 byte over what is in that article.
I've been looking for a new source of news, now that Reddit, et.al. have been going weird. I've subscribed to the Washington Post for a bit now, even though I'm on the West Coast.

This is the sort of thing the NY Times has been pushing lately, which seems to be obviously some sort of weird re-writing of history for several topics. It's not the mainstream topics, but it is enough to raise up alarm bells and wonder what's pushing this. All of the articles on Netflix "The Bear" falls on the same thing, and they're pushed as front page news/promotions.

I do like a top word-game, and NYTimes is the pinnical. But, it seems like they're obviously pushing something, not sure what. I don't think all major news sites are like that, but maybe they are.
This cycle getting UI ready for the editor is my primary focus. I'll be considering all of our options (improvements to the existing system or embracing one of the many community Bevy UI plugins). I can't give much more clarity than that until I've committed more time to the space. But this is next on my plate (right after getting Bevy Asset V2 finalized and merged)
I think that free public transport makes a lot of sense. Ticketing infrastructure costs a shockingly large amount of money (billions for large systems [1],[2]). Reducing those costs whilst improving uptake makes a lot of sense. Of course, you then lose the revenue from people paying for tickets, but that can be paid for with taxes (which generally have a more progressive structure than ticket prices anyway).

Free/simple tickets allow for better competition with private cars etc. When Germany made their €49 D-ticket for all public transport, it was immensely popular.

For an example, Portland OR's transit operator TriMet gets approximately double the amount of money from federal grants than it does tickets [3], but both of those pale in comparison to the amount of tax funding. It would make sense to just scrap fares altogether, and encourage more people to use the services.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/16/myki-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card#Operator
if you can spy without consequence on a sitting president, why not on your ex as well?