skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure on corrosion/rust - I’m experiencing this on a very small scale now - I’m working on repainting my old barbecue, it’s incredible how much time it takes to strip, apply rust remover, clean, fill, sand, prime and repaint the metal parts. Easily 5 to 10 times as much effort and time than it would take to paint fresh parts.
Thanks so much for this. This is precisely the sort of nitty-gritty I was wondering about. I appreciate your time and your efforts in the emulation scene a lot.

I looked but couldn't find much information on remaining games that still have emulation issues. This was about all I found: https://ares-emu.net/compatibility/21?status=3000

Last I looked into it, even Overdrive 2 was emulated pretty well...
The obvious, much quicker way would be to drop the required 60 tonnes of paint from Canadairs in a fly by. /s
I dont. Ive gone down many rabbit holes thanks to, for instance, subtly incorrect or outdated docs in working cultures that valued not being interrupted and it's a recipe for anxiety and a huge waste of time.
This was exactly my take. This language just got a whole lot of significant focus behind it
I just use 'degradation.'

Not everything has to be jargon.
If Windmill had Langchain and/or LlamaIndex integration, that would be incredibly awesome. That's the AI integration I'd love to see in a low-code product.

Langflow/Flowise (especially the former) has almost everything I need within the AI world, and Windmill has everything else. Bridging the gap between them would be pretty great.
iPhone slump wipes £100B off Apple's value
Sprinkling small malloc and free-s everywhere, where every object has their own individual lifetime to be managed, is very often not the best approach. Using STL containers often means using that prolific allocation strategy -- it just makes the numerous small allocations implicit. A region based approach is often far simpler conceptually, and more performant. This is a decent article on the topic: https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-all...

C++ is a big language and there is a lot of diversity of opinion in what a sensible subset of the language is, with numerous concerns influencing those decisions -- one common one is compile times. Using C only headers generally ensures a much lower ceiling for compile times compared to using typical C++ headers. And C++ headers are slightly more likely to use the prolific allocation strategy from above. As such, C++ headers require far more scrutiny before acceptance, in my view.
4.77MHz ought to be enough for anybody
For me it's the other way. I used to drive to work. Now I walk before and after work.
lmao

(a) it's an industrial lab.
(b) if there's any optimism to be commended, it's that of the South Korean researchers who worked on this on-off for ~20 years.
Yep, this is learning. Asking for help is a key part. Without trying first, asking for help is asking for someone to do it for you.

In office, remote, whichever - I've been ignored. It took a while to learn to ask questions.

People will help, but "the squeaky wheel gets the grease", and all. There's movement [or an attempt] implied with this.

The locality doesn't matter, effective communication can exist in either.

It's possible to foster a remote environment where Juniors do ask questions - I've worked in several. As such, I'm skeptical of this 'Think of the Juniors' concern. It's manageable.

It's also worth pointing out, Junior and Senior aren't diametrically opposed. It's relative and nebulous depending on context.

I'm a Senior Architect, but know very little about the specifics of our network devices - for example. I'm Junior to our 'Network Engineering' team, making an Ouroboros of Seniority

Recognizing where strengths are helps greatly. Productive environments have their Seniors evangelizing this awareness
On the one hand, I agree from personal experience. Banging my head on the wall is how I’ve learned quite a lot of what I know and developed many helpful instincts.

But on the other hand, I think that value comes from more than the persistence alone: it depends a lot on what you hope to get out of it. And I also say this from experience. Banging my head to “make it work” has almost always been an enormous waste of time and effort, but to “learn how/why it works [or not]” has been the exact opposite.
What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor?
> Don't think pictures of Greek Statues count as "graphic oral sex".

Not sure when I saw a greek statue in any school, what does this have to do with anything?

> Something to get the right-leaning parents fired up to go storm the school board.

This is a comment out of ignorance. If you believe people would take time out of their already busy days just because they wanna go to a school board meeting... wait... do you have kids? (I'm guessing you don't...)

> "Nobody has banned books" -> Literal Book Banning https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbook...

Which (again) requires you to redefine the word "banned". You can still get all of these books. They are just not allowed in certain areas. They are still legal. You can still own them. Various private areas and some public places have chosen not to allow them or to carry them.

"Banned or _challenged_". Yeah. Not banned. "Challenged".
Ted Gioia just wrote about renaming.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/we-have-entered-the-self-loa...

BigVirtuousTech is now BVT!
You know, I prefer to patronize my local public library. I'm not a voracious consumer of media, except maybe for YouTube. Downloading torrents all day is not how I roll. Part of the joy of a library is the physical experience of walking in there and being in an environment that's conducive to browsing and learning and expanding my horizons. It's about being around my neighbors, people in my town, families and people my age. These days, there's a café in my library, so I purchase a bite to eat, hang out with the free WiFi, do what I want.

Sometimes I visit the stacks and peek at books, and I've checked some out. Books are great because you can open up an exercise/yoga book and set it down, and you can see it while you're working out, and the book passively shows you exactly the page you want to see, for as long as I'm looking at it.

There are reference librarians working the desk all day. And they know how to find everything! They seldom serve me a sponsored link! One guy even brought up the subject of Tor/Onion networks!

I enjoyed browsing for DVDs and music in the library, too. My library even offers seeds, that patrons can "check out" (we never need to return them) and we can start to grow a vegetable or herb garden.

There are classes, workshops, and special interest groups. The librarians and volunteers will teach you how to use an iPhone from scratch, or they will teach you how to search online databases and use the Advanced Options.

I can't get those perks on an app, or a website. But I can access the Internet in the library. I can use a public computer, I can bring my Chromebook, I can use my smartphone. There's a charging station right there.
I agree that the topic was 'exploited' mainly by the Green Party in the 80s, but in the area I grew up (south east Germany near the Czech border) the forest is definitely in a much worse state now than at any time during the last 40 years, even including the heavy environmental pollution caused by the GDR industry.

Since the last 5 years or so there's so many grey, brown and empty patches in the forests that it's getting downright scary.
The lead developer seems to have move on to https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
I am personally grateful to your contributions and talks, Rich. Thank you for everything so far.
Asked ChatGPT to rephrase in plain English.

Sure, I understand your point about not wanting to support the FDA, but simplifying the argument to "I care about saving lives while the FDA only cares about politics" oversimplifies things. The FDA exists because of political decisions, and we're currently facing a major crisis of knowledge, especially among certain groups of U.S. voters. Some of these groups are determined to break down regulatory agencies. Ignoring this situation could likely put any potential advantages of the FDA at risk.
Nothing built primarily from human-generated internet content is going to be competent in the way you mean.
It's important to begin a journey of self-improvement from a place of mental health, not a place of dishealth. Public shame is one of the quickest ways to damage mental health.
In the case of Reddit, AI had nothing to do with the API being turned off. Why? Take a look at their robots.txt

https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt

there is nothing in there that stops you from sucking down some page like

https://www.reddit.com/t/nfl/

and extracting all the text from it unless your bot is named "voltron", "MJ12bot" or one from a very short list. It is all about

https://kottke.org/23/01/the-enshittification-lifecycle-of-o...

that is, the reddit experience on the web keeps getting worse, they blend in more ads to the point where it is hard to tell the blended ads from the actual conversations. The official reddit mobile crapplet is beneath contempt, they'll take away the old interface someday, etc. What they can't stand is competition for their awful interface which means users will leave to places like

https://tildes.net/

see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty_Model

Some of the real winners will be companies that have an answer to the IP question. For instance, Adobe trained generative fill for Photoshop on stock images that they've got the rights for. This product will keep people renewing their creative cloud subscriptions because it can do things like remove spots, power lines, draw extra rows of bricks, etc.
Ukrainian drone disables Russian warship near Russia's Novorossiysk port
> HP wanted some ridiculous thousands of $$ for like 16MiB of RAM. After some inspection it was discovered that the RAM is nothing more than 72pin SIMMs.

Nothing’s changed on that front.
which, is kind of cheap isn't it? Some movies that use it:

LOTR Return Of the King
Meet The Spartans
Team America World Police
SpaceBalls

Opinions aside, one of these movies is not like the other and didn't need to include a meme scream for nostalgia
If you don't mind, since you have experience targetting WASM with both Rust & Zig, what advantages does Zig have over Rust in this particular use case?

Are the memory safety guarantees that Rust offers over Zig not as important or critical when targeting WASM?

I've been interested in checking out Zig for a while now.
I always thought the Texas crazyness was similar. Texas makes a huge fuss with insane abortion laws at the same time as people were talking about moving from the liberal west coast, often with Texas in their sights.
> winter and summer temperatures close to the equator are very similar.

Do you actually know where the equator is on that map?
＞ It's for both men and women.

Then it goes on solely discussing male muscles, attracting women, and basically no mentions of women specificities after that. Welp.

> It's primarily for beginners, but there's plenty of science-backed advice for intermediates too.

More and more "science-backed" feels like a dirty word, mostly used in grifting and fad movements. I wonder if we shouldn't get back to something more simple like "factual" or "experience-based" when referring to research results, as that's probably the meaning that we want to convey.
> Instead of properly adapting the onboarding and mentoring

But... how? Remote check-ins with juniors every 30-60 minutes? That's crazy. But that's basically the only way to replicate the in person experience.

The best mentoring results for me as the mentee and for me as a mentor have been when we're sitting next to each other. The mentor can visually tell when the mentee is stuck, and mentee can tell when the mentor isn't focusing on anything important and is more willing to ask for help.

No matter how many times you tell junior engineers to ping you at the first sign of trouble, they're not going to do it. They're going to toil for way longer than needed, unless you're sitting right next to each other.
https://archive.ph/2r05t
>You pay the minuscule extra cost of downloading and installing the extra code you don't use.

This really is where I have the issue. If I have to pay for my ISP to allow me to access the internet and use my bandwidth to download it, my power bill to allow my PC to install it, use up my storage space to host the software, then I should be able to do whatever I want to/with it and you shouldn't hinder me from doing so.

If I have to pay a fee for premium, and then additional components are downloaded and installed, fair game.

I wonder if there's any law that covers such a scenario, aside from EULA allowing the software dev to do what they want as long as the user agrees.
Hah, very fitting way to put it :)
Could not disagree more strongly that Datomic is well maintained. I'd view it as a significant liability in any organization using it without very good reason. My experience operationally supporting Datomic at even a moderate scale was a total nightmare and soured me on the Clojure ecosystem as a whole.
I don't think this is that unfair at all? What people are invested in is Linux desktop popularity. The old Windows vs Linux (desktop) thing. The Linux desktop has somewhat of a muddier definition than other desktops, but it's whatever free desktop stack people use - Gnome, KDE, or whatever other X.org/Freedesktop based stack people use.

If Linux is only popular on Android, Chromebooks, SteamOS, servers, embedded devices it strongly suggests to me that people are perfectly content with using Linux as long as they don't have to use the Linux desktop. (I know it's available on the Deck, but it's not the primary UI for it).

The Steam Linux numbers used to be indicative of Linux desktop popularity. If their large rise now is in large part due to the Steam Deck, that doesn't quite mean that the Linux desktop is getting popular. So it seems this is a totally fair nuance to me?
It's not. The guy is an incompetent right wing a-hole who babblers populist ideas like this to get the people riled up like he's standing up for them with their best interest at heart, instead of focusing on the real issues that people face (housing, cost of living, healthcare, education, immigration, the economy, etc)

He's basically the Donald Trump equivalent of Austria but instead of raising border walls to "stop Mexicans" he's, "crusading for cash, and stopping Romanians" instead of the actual issues.

Calling him based is like calling Trump based.
That's true, but I don't see how this relates to pandemic or being remote?

Also not reaching out when getting totally stuck is a bad thing, but again unrelated?
WhyteSpyder is hiring a fully remote Technical Analyst.
Remote work requires asynchronously communicating more.
Not in NYC where the article takes place
This didn't get any steam, that's unfortunate, this series is super interesting, will try to post it again next month, perhaps the title isn't engaging enough
Don't think Rich Hickey is "retiring" retiring, just that he's retiring from Nubank and "commerical software development".

TFA: I look forward to continuing to lead ongoing work maintaining and enhancing Clojure with Alex, Stu, Fogus, and many others, as an independent developer once again... Retirement returns me to the freedom and independence I had when originally developing Clojure. The journey continues!
You should see the look on my parents' HK church friends whenever I unintentionally start talking about science, it's like I said a swear word.
To add to your point. Just because there's a tradeoff one way doesn't mean we shouldn't make that tradeoff.

Yeah, there might be some impacts to junior engineers. But if it improves the efficiency of your more expensive senior devs, isn't it worth it?

And just because your team has a problem with onboarding and mentoring junior devs in a remote environment doesn't mean A) Everyone has the same problem, B) you can't fix that problem yourself. Self improvement is the name of the game here anyway
The abstract (all I read) doesn't explain why Saturn is a failed gas giant. I thought it was considered simply a gas giant?
Humility is a lovely thing. Thanks for your candor.
I’m not sure I understand your point. Are you trying to say that people shouldn’t be paying attention to this? I would personally be horrified if I found out that the paper on the synthesis of a room temperature superconductor went through the normal peer review process instead of letting the world know they discovered something huge.
Currently the context is limited to your database schemas, your resources, and the current script code. But we will soon augment it the rest of your code. The techniques applied here would remain relevant but you would need to find the most relevant context of your codebase first since you can't (or shouldn't) cram all the codebase in your prompt.
Thank you. Very clear and reasonable explanation.

Mining of auxillary materials to pair with all that energy would be a problem. Multi-planetary scenarios for humans aren't realistic in anywhere close to the near term... But mining asteroids instead of the earth might be realistic. Many solutions which may not be realistic now could be with such an energy source.

It will be a precarious time. That's for sure.
In addition to the other comments here, there seems to be a significant difference in the ease of making calls from different numbers in the US vs EU, both in caller id and in the call source. I get constant spam calls to my US phone lines, never from the same numbers and now usually from geographically nearby area codes (same-area-code spam seems passé these days). I get a handful of spam calls a year to my EU phone lines, but they are usually from international, outside-EU numbers, seemingly in hard-to-pursue jurisdictions. (This ignores some of the impressive texts in the EU a few years ago that managed to come from short names of real banks; those seem to have been an unusual exception and I assume the exploit involved was fixed.)

Looking at VoIP sites, I can easily get a phone number in seconds, for cents, with almost no documentation, and any area code, in the US. Lines in the EU cost significantly more, take longer, and often require documentation, especially for geographic area codes.

I expect that the type of access used in the US for these calls simply isn't feasible in the EU, and so the calls there need to be from 'real' numbers in countries where the scammers are safe, which then makes them easy to filter out and far less effective. The access in the US just seems weirdly open.
Think of the idea of a self reinforcing meme. If people think we are supposed to be, then we will be. "By force if necessary". Typically individuals that fall too far out of what society expects may be culled by one means or another leading to a cultural definition of 'supposed'.
There’s a difference between the population that worked remotely before and after Covid.

The population before Covid were often highly experienced, disciplined, and proven workers.

The population after Covid, was well, everyone who worked with a laptop.

Not everyone is cut for working remotely.

In addition, there’s a difference between 1 out 20 people working remotely full time and 20 out of 20.
It's Verilog in this article.
Lol yup. Who's going to take swole advice from this guy? https://farm1.staticflickr.com/496/18306982748_e272f519fc_b....
I think once Valve ships an installable ISO of Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3.0 you'll start seeing an uptick of people installing it on their desktop gaming PCs.

There seems to be a rising sentiment of discontent with Windows 11 and the general direction Windows is heading. There's been positive coverage of SteamDeck and the new SteamOS that is driving previously skeptical people towards being open to trying out Linux for gaming and as a general desktop OS.
Huh, the riddle about 12 balls with different weights that you need to weigh is fun.

It's a good exercise in thinking about how to get the maximum amount of information out of a measurement.
Who suggested checking in with juniors every 30-60 minutes? GP certainly didn't. You're arguing against a strawman.
might be because Nubank is a brazilian company and in Brazil, English isn't the first language.
Hopefully you updated the docs as you encountered them and figured out the most up to date context.
In the grand tradition of podcasts being a single wikipedia page stretched out to an hour long podcast (which is freaking 90% of "tech" podcasts), this one is apparently an hour long podcast from reading the tech tree of Sid Meier's Civilization.
We make it too easy for the bugs:

a) Monocultures of trees originally grown in higher altitudes with high water demands make it easy for the bark beetles to thrive (esp. in this warming climate).

b) Additionally, these monocultures usually lack multiple levels of vegetation, allowing wind to pass through (it should go over) and further drying the land, harming the trees and creating a favorable environment for the beetles.

c) We've deforested the countryside so that only small forest areas remain, with large clearings, enabling the wind in again. Thanks to this the forests are losing their ability to hold water and produce new rains, worsening the drought conditions.

d) The removal of dead wood and litter further exacerbates the drying and destroys biodiversity, making the conditions even more suitable for the bark beetles to infest.

e) Furthermore, we tend to prioritize the felling of the strongest and biggest trees, with deep roots, weakening the overall resilience of the forest.

f) Instead of letting the trees mature with deep roots, we cut down the plantations when they're only 40 years old (youngsters).

g) The spruce and pine monocultures are the most susceptible to destruction by beetles, and when they're felled and sold as round wood abroad, the cycle continues with the replanting of the same type of forest.
> All RISC-V architectures use 32 general purpose registers (GPRs)

Strictly speaking this is incorrect. There are variants called rv32e/rv64e which have 16 general purpose registers. These are particularly nice as a VM ISA since the reduced number of registers allows you to JIT the code to AMD64 (which itself only has 16 GPRs) without having to spill the registers.
I am on a big corporate mess, but its a decent one (AT&T fiber).

After being on this connection for ~2 years, I cannot imagine going back to Comcast. I've actually been looking at moving, and my #1 filter is fiber network availability. I will literally skip an otherwise perfect property if it doesn't have access, or the ability to add access for <6 figures.
But human lifes matter much more than the whole planet's ecosystem! No one likes to sacrifice their own comfort to keep the globe cool, so keep belief in infinite growth of economy and generate money from thin air!
The Steam Deck is basically a mobile workstation that costs a fraction of what comparable hardware in a laptop would cost you.
There can actually be logic to that. Many managers spend most of their time in meetings—with people scattered around the world larger organizations. And they spend a lot of time with customers too. What’s the point of having Ann office aside from occasional in person team events?
Maybe for you.

Working from home means I make healthy lunches for me. It's a lot easier to eat right when you have a full kitchen and pantry at your disposal.
Without Clojure and the immense effort of the community around it and ClojureScript, OrgPad would not be possible and the individuals on the team would probably be stuck in some academic or corporate structures instead of having basically a two-families startup/ company. So thank you Rich and thank you to everybody else, who supported You on the journey to create something that makes coding predictable, productive and almost fun instead of laborious work. ;-)