skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is more true in good code than it is in bad code. If you use atomic reference counting everywhere or you're constantly allocating memory and freeing it all over the place, like a lot of "modern" code, you do tend to get quite flat profiles. But in good code, which allocates very infrequently, and is designed around flat arrays of data being processed in loops, you naturally do sit in tight loops a lot.
I'll add one more:
Fintech app users constantly ask for short sessions.

As the developer, I really didn't want to add it, but who cares what I want.
@rafaelero I'm working on a blogpost (https://colinharman.substack.com/) to demonstrate this fact since I get a lot of tiresome questions like "why don't you just train instead of retrieving"

Do you have any scripts you could share for the training/eval process? Would love to credit you in the post
That doesn’t bother me as much when people get exceptionally easy to verify completely open facts wrong. If they can’t even bother fact checking to the point of a simple google search, why should I trust anything else in the article?
I wonder what the impact of social media has been.

1. I was on Runscape in the early 2000s. There was no Twitter, Facebook was very new and not really that popular, and nothing else existed. Like, I think Gaia was one of the more popular forums I knew of lol. That meant that Runescape was actually a highly social experience - it's insane the kinds of relationships I built as a 14-18 year old who played the game somewhat obsessively. Staying up all night, meeting strangers. Not actually "playing" the game - like, that was something to do for fun, but so much of it was hanging out with people.

With social media I get a lot of that from other sites. And in general I don't need it as much as I'm not staying up until 4am anymore lol but man it was something else to socialize through a "forum" like Runescape. Even the organic fact that people could "overhear" your conversations just because they were near you in the game led to so many funny "meet cutes", for lack of a better term.

2. The other side of social media influence is that there's a lot more flexing, memeing, and appealing to masses. When I played Runescape it was like... a shameful thing lol, I literally told almost no one at school, and when it came up it was kind of a secret between the few kids who played. It was lame, period , and we did not want to be thought of as lame. No way in hell would I have been posting online about it, nor was there any place to post about it like Reddit - you either posted on the RS boards (probably not tho), or in your clan's custom forum that someone set up.

But now, re (2), there's a lot more room to posture. You can brag way more about your 99s, show them off, show off what you're doing etc. And I think that probably leads to a lot more of the 'grind', which, again (1) was not the point. The point was to run through the wild with your friends at 4am and get scared when pkers came after you and you'd lose a bunch of your shit but who cares. The money we made was genuinely just to fuel those good times. No one actually thought they were going to be the next Zezima - I say this as someone who had multiple 99s, it was mostly just for fun. And it's interesting that you bring up the capes - all of my 99s were after the capes, they were definitely a part of the ceremony.

Viewing RS as a game with an "endgame" or as a game where the points matter is just sort of baffling to me and it's a bit of a shame to me that that's where it apparently has gone.
Same here. Open Tibia servers were the first code bases I explored and tried to modify when I was a kid.
That's kind of the premise of Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje...
The only unbreakable law [video] (2022)
It’s weird a DeepMind author is on this as they experimentally studies these methods in Gopher and found it was useless.

Even the layer duplication trick they were using doesn’t work. I tried a refinement of that where you fine tuned the activations of the added layers to match the original activations which helped a bit relative to what DeepMind found but it still wasn’t material enough to be worth bothering with
How do we know that there are no non-Google patents which cover parts of WebP?
Recent Podcast where Ricardo Hausmann Explains Why Economic Complexity Is So Important https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/how-economic-complexity-expla...
I enjoyed the async part where the author built up Future and a runtime from first principles. If the topic interests you, these two videos are good follow-ups into Rust async [1] [2]. Rust's model is a little different and more powerful than other languages.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThjvMReOXYM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3krAQtD2k
It’s 20kg of force evenly distributed on a little chunk of glass. It would be fine.
I'm dating a middle school teacher right now. And she tries so hard to stop bullying, constantly trying to show videos and have discussions about how "words matter!!!! Choose your words carefully!!" On and on.

I told her.. why don't you teach kids the truth.. the words don't matter. If a someone calls you stupid, and you aren't, who cares? If a bum calls me a loser, do I get upset? I move on. Only if someone you respect has a critique of you should you even pause for a split second and think about the critique.

If some dude calls you fat, personally I would think "what kind of wierdo harps on someone's weight.. there must be something wrong with him. Thus, I don't care what he even says."

But we instead teach kids "words matter!" So when they do get teased and bullied, they take the words to heart. So stupid.
The proof of almost-universality won't apply to subsets of bits, and many applications of hashes only use a subset of bits. The construction techniques used to get almost-universality might even make some subset of bits very poor in their performance: or at least my experience with designing linear codes for error detection/correction has been that strong codes often have some bits that are surprisingly weak.

So hopefully people have tested this empirically that the collision rates for the top and bottom n bits are all reasonable looking for varrious values of n (and might be useful to know which bits are the strongest, assuming you get a choice). Assuming there are no hidden gotchas like that, this looks pretty great.
In game? Like what?
There’s a ton of these pseudo-security measures bestowed upon us by various outdated security benchmarks, which we have to follow or risk losing our certification or regulatory permissions, even though said measures in most cases reduce security.

I’m looking at you

- Sudoless single-user machine users

- VPNs

- AVs on servers

- Disabled ports

- Disabled ota protocols

- etc
Sadly this is looking more and more like the rich countries becoming more like poor countries in terms of income distribution within country than the poor countries looking more like the rich countries, though likely some kind of meeting in the middle ( still a bad outcome if you are interested in rising standards of living for poor globally)
Nope. 1 gram spacecraft, 20kg of thrust. Glass is tough.

A 1 gram flat chip of glass with about 6cm2 of area (the proposed “spaceship” design) would withstand even more than steel by nearly a factor of two.

People are freaking out about 20,000g, but you could push a flat disk of glass like that at about 60,000,000g before it failed. Good Glass has a compressive strength of about 1000 megapascals.
Back when the economy in RS wasn't bad, the play I did would be to run an RSPS server and sell items, stats, ect. in it for gold in actual Runescape and then sell that gold for actual money. 1m was like a little over 1$ back then.
A post should be flagged if in a foreign language, spam, or abuse. If it's wrong, it should just be downvoted. If it's off-topic, it maybe should be downvoted. If it's deliberately off-topic, maybe it should be flagged.

That's kind of the standards I use. But there's no hard-and-fast rule (that I recall) about when and how. We're allowed some discernment and judgment.
I am relieved that the source is just shy of 200 lines, because my initial thought was "there's some bookkeeping, sure, but that doesn't sound too bad".

(I'm actually surprised it's that small, and it's clearly written for clarity not size. nicely done!)

For anyone not used to more than simple concurrency stuff though, yeah, loads of subtle footguns. And they're often the sort of thing you might not notice in normal manual tests. Thanks for the link and maintaining it!
They charge so much and do so little, they better do a good job with it. Or rather, not doing anything is a very low bar to be defined as a "good job".

(I'm aware subscription includes RS3, but the OSRS playerbase far eclipses RS3. You are paying for OSRS with RS3 as a cherry on top, not the other way around. Also, RS3 is funded with microtransactions.)
I recall slashdot absolutely flipping out that the Matrix used a genuine SSH vulnerability.

Why, here it is!

https://slashdot.org/story/35036
My complaint about these stats about CEO pay is they always limit it to the CEOs at the top 100 corporations to every employee.

There are millions of CEOs in the US, more in smaller companies than larger companies, and shockingly small companies pay CEOs much less.

So why not do that comparison? Oh yeah, because the numbers aren't clickbait worthy.
Yes. Someone blogged about this last year and it generated a lot of discussion here as well.

https://sporks.space/2022/02/27/win32-is-the-stable-linux-us...
In the context of video games the distinction between words and actions seems very mucky. For example, is it an action to in a competitive team game (say Dota) to get on the mike and just keep talking so you drown out everyone else? Why is that less of an action than instructing your computer to say something to a sever so that it registers an action that you didn’t take? Normally we might distinguish actions from speech by saying actions effect the world, but “actions” like grefing don’t impact the world either.

I was on and developed mods for a Minecraft server (https://www.civcraft.co/) as a teen where moderation except for cheating was self policing. I think there was a news story that I can’t find now talking about how some Jewish kid had been majorly harassed in a very antisemitic way, but I actually think the severs behavior there was fine. They wanted to provide tools for the community to police itself and I think that’s a cool and worthwhile experiment, but also it’s totally fine and maybe reasonable for Microsoft to decide that hate speech is more important to them than someone just cheating. Hate speech can at the extreme end have much more impact in the real world
It's not "not scanning" completely, it has less aggressive scanning by default. You can turn it off fully if you want, but then, you can do that with folder based exclusions on NTFS folders too.

So, I'm not sure the perf increase can just be attributed to malware scanning. ReFS has some features that NTFS doesn't have like copy-on-write which might help in read-only I/O perf.
What if you're a pathological liar?
You may find it hard to believe, but some people care about the inequality with the global South too.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...

https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/1...

https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/

Even with more conservative approaches, wage growth of lower earners is far outpaced by top earners.

https://www.aei.org/articles/have-wages-stagnated-for-decade....
That "space stuff" is why crop failures are no longer a routine occurrence.
This is only an abstract concern. It's the equivalent of NIMBYism.
Spot on. Inexperienced people want to rewrite because they may not know the problem domain. Experienced people do rewrite because they know what they want to achieve.

And there's many ways to rewrite and migration strategy other than full rewrite.
Do you truly think someone needs some losers in a video game to toughen them up for losers in the real world? Do you think the groups of people who have slurs said to them don’t already experience it often in their real lives? Do you not think maybe they don’t want to deal with said losers during their recreational time?
Strange, I’ve avoided it by understanding just about nothing.
Absolutely. 20kg pushing evenly on a flat piece of glass an inch in diameter is no big deal. People are forgetting that small things are really, really tough.

People have a bias against high forces because they’re made of meat.
lambda x: print(x) or x
> "Modern" techniques (meaning since the "green revolution") have focussed on large areas of monoculture supported by various land additives sold to farmers by a few large corporations.

And what's inherently wrong with that? I'm fine getting my CPUs and cars from just a few companies.

> This sort of evidence is tantalising

I wonder, do people really think that all farmers are morons?

> Scaling up allotment style production is not a trivial ask, but we live in a time where automation techniques look plausible to achieve it.

I grew up in Russia during 90-s, during the time of extreme poverty. We had a 1000 square meter plot where we grew some crops: a bit of potatoes, apple trees, pumpkins, tomatoes, etc. It required tending every week, for a day or so, with 4 people working. And it still needed fertilizers.

And even so, we mainly did it to introduce variety in the diet, rather than provide the raw calories.

That's why I'm so utterly skeptical of people bringing up all those ideas.
This is where pronouncing SQL as squirrel would help.
It seems like a significant portion of that 10 months was spent refreshing the angular 2 repo hoping to see a change.
In business, being direct is efficient and efficient "transactions" drive the business. In your personal life, at least in certain cultures, being transactional is seen as being shrewd and self serving.
I’m sorry, did you reply to the wrong comment? Or did you quote the wrong quote? I genuinely can’t make link your response with either my previous comment or what you just quoted.

Taken in isolation your sentence is correct, I agree 100% with it: of course I want control over what runs on my computer. Of course the TPM is often used to steal that control away from me. Of course that is bad.

What made you think I don’t think that?
Absolutely slamming the nostalgia region of my brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNW9TAwImBY

Something very deep inside of me is triggered by Runescape. I think staying up all night for days in a row playing just permanently ingrained certain emotions of my teenage self, and nothing lets me access them the way Runescape does.
Prediction Market Conference (R. Hanson, patio11, Manifold/Polymarket, more)
You can cover a parking spot with 3-4kW of solar though.
Check out Tibia as well. Online since the 90s.
I experience this frequently working with Asian companies. There doesn’t seem to be an understanding of the value of coaching or planning. There is a strong desire to set out minimal business requirements verbally to the lowest skilled and cheapest engineers and a desire or willingness to treat engineering like an LLM.

Iterate. Yell about the results. Fire people, save face, do it again. Complain about the poor quality. Do it again until you get a barely usable product.

Like an LLM that works for solving particular problems but it is not general intelligence.
Not only that, they put the link to the site in the email.
They will greatly surpass us unfortunately in the end. Just for the simple fact that they can read and understand more than what humans can in a lifetime by learning in parallel. And then one model can be run in parallel to serve many. Just those two attributes destroy human brains as LLM and related tech gets better.

The only long term advantages the human brain has is its extreme energy efficiency and ability to create/grow them outside of a multibillion dollar chip fab.
GPT-4 can already write a lot of useful software based on a prompt. There are multiple startups doing it.

It definitely has significant limitations at this stage as far as the size of the source code and knowing about up-to-date APIs. But the core capability to create software from a prompt is well documented. It's a matter of degree of capability at this point, not 16 versions away.

I built multiple versions of that already. Previous version: https://aidev.codes/ Limited scope and somewhat unreliable if you are hoping to one-shot something without iterating, but still able to produce basic live web applications from a few prompts a fair amount of the time.

But I didn't have a marketing budget and people didn't want to pay for the VMs. So I am working on a version 3 that has more focused scope in terms of the types of web applications and also has templates built in so they look better by default.

But this type of thing is underway, it's not some science fiction concept at this point.
It is like prompt engineering for humans :-)
Morris Chang founded TSMC, the most valuable company in Asia
> Your claim of "in Go values must always be useful"

I said no such thing. I said idiomatic Go indicates that you must always make values useful. This is an onus placed on the programmer, not something guaranteed by the language. However, since the Either monad here was said to be introduced to wrap idiomatic Go code, not whatever haphazardly written Go code you happened to find in a SourceForge repository, that is of relevance.

> was rebutted multiple times

Cool. I must not have read it. There was a lot of weird shit in there that had nothing to do with anything. I'm not sure how that would even find relevance to the discussion taking place. I get that first year computer science programs are starting up and you're excited to share what you learned in your first week, but I really don't care. You are not going to tell me anything I haven't heard many times before.
Chronosort
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> you're inadvertently arguing that 702 isn't really doing much of anything. So there's no harm in continuing it, right?

One would assume that a useless programs should be discontinued, simply because it’s not free to continue them.
There is absolutely no reason to expect equal wage growth to begin with.
I feel like in addition to the cultural East-West and young-old biases mentioned in the article, there's also one about gender. At least in the US, girls/women are traditionaly encouraged to be sensitive, helpful, considerate (guess culture) while boys/men are encouraged to be assertive, clear/factual and not worry too much about what people think (ask culture).
I doubt that, since he can just plug in a god mode that makes him (and whomever else he pleases) unblockable without removing features people actually rely on.
> One thing they can't seem to get consensus on though is a new skill - every attempt I'm aware of has been downvoted by the community, seemingly for reasons similar to "it would devalue my investment in X skill".

Sailing recently got enough votes that they've started development on it:

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Sailing

I suppose it could still get shut down by the community later.
Everything except cooling/heating and propulsion uses an insignficant amount of power.
> Their way being "badly". In fact I think this is the problem

Not always. Many punk bands are extremely accomplished.

> The scene effectively made "non-corporate" and "untalented" synonyms

Nonsense! "Corporate" and "bad", are synonyms. Talent has little to do with it.

Nobody gets to hear the enthusiastic, but bad, opera singers. Too much capital involved in putting on an opera. Every body in earshot hears the enthusiastic, but bad, punk rockers because DIY.
Or play on servers with stricter moderation. Why should there be only one level of moderation/surveillance not for just an entire game, but for every game on a console?

It is ironic the GP demands an "option", while advocating for an approach that takes away every option but one from everyone.
I remember not being able to play Diablo 2 on my iMac running mac os X and I was so sad about it. I've used Windows ever since.
You underestimate Russia's induced ignorance about Chernobyl. Most of these 20-year-olds were from remote, shit-poor areas of Russia, and even if they went to school of some sort, it didn't matter much. You think those textbooks mentioned the incident? No.

To this day, Chernobyl is a pain point for Russia - f--k knows why because it didn't even happen there. When HBO's Chernobyl came out, Moscow went into a full-blown hysteria. They released their own show with an alternate version of events, where the whole explosion was a CIA operation.

So, no - they didn't know. That's 100% plausible.
I thought for a while now that the healthcare industry should have the highest profit margins in a properly functioning economy. Surely saving lives should be rewarded more than serving ads or reality television.

It seems like the common thought is that goods and services that are the most valuable should have the least rewards and incentives for people to produce, when in fact we should incentivize them the most.

For the economically-minded folks out there, there's a difference between profit incentives and total cost. Ideally the economic system would be set up to drive cost of goods down in general.
Agreed. If things look good then I enjoy looking at them more, and life is to be enjoyed. But more importantly, it's wrong that plain text is always the best way to communicate. A picture is worth a thousand words (often), and a good layout can make things easier to read.
I don't mind a transactional mindset at work, but I'd prefer my personal life to not be treated and gamed as a set of transactions.
PAROL6 Is an Industrial-Style Robot Arm You Can Print and Build at Home
The issue is at that time updates for most shrink wrapped software were almost non existent and distribution even worse. Windows had an update facility and I bet you sim city for dos did not. So, either windows yielded and patched it’s behavior to run sim city or sim city users couldn’t run it under windows full stop until maxis distributed a new distribution on media.

In todays world it looks like a ludicrous solution to the problem. The game vendor needs to HTFU and distribute a patch via steam or whatever and that’s a totally reasonable stance for microsoft or apple to take, because the infrastructure for patch distribution is pervasive and robust now.
Dear Tim Cook,

I have an idea for Apple's next great product. Bring back Xserves, but with M-series processors in them this time. Then hire the Asahi Linux developers and get Linux running very solidly on them. Make it so you can buy them with either macOS or Linux pre-installed.

Sincerely,

lockhouse
I would argue that the stop loss (ship react in 10 weeks and step down if not) is misleading. What it really means is it becomes someone else’s problem. That someone else is management and the team, and simply put, no longer yours.