skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did what you described just yesterday. I couldn't remember offhand if the compiler I was using would automatically convert a uint8_t to an int (because I didn't want to have to add two levels of parentheses by explicitly casting the high byte and then shifting) and very quickly threw together a

// test if we need a<<8|b
// or (a<<8)|b
// or ((int)a<<8)|b
// or (((int)a)<<8)|b
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdint>
int main() { uint8_t a = 2; uint8_t b = 38; printf("%d\n", a<<8|b); }

More than half of the time is the uninteresting parts: writing the includes, creating a temp file, exiting to compile, forgetting a parenthesis, reediting and resaving, compiling again, running, deleting...

In a REPL---particularly one with stdio/stdlib included by default---this would take 30 seconds but instead takes 3 or 4 minutes. It's not much, but tight feedback loops really, really keep you in a great mental state.
But doesn’t knowledge imply understanding? Otherwise it would just be facts without context.
Great idea! Will be taking this on all my long walks. Tokyo is lovely for this. Neighborhoods are so dense.
I believe what you are referencing are hydroxyl generators. I looked into these vs ozone generators when I bought an old very stinky and smoke filled house. They cost a lot more than ozone but are thought to not be irritating like ozone. Plus ozone breaks rubber and silicone down.
Is piping to /dev/null webscale?
> but is 6 years old now

Hmm. The techniques used today were invented in the 1970s-80s.
KPI should do that. However it is very hard to measure the useful things in advance. The real measure is the bottom line after the product is released until it stops production. If you have an apprentice plumber cleaning out clogged drains it is easy as you work for a couple hours and then you get a check a month later. (this is a reasonable example of something easy to measure, but I doubt any plumbing company ever operated this way). However a lot of software is on a very long release cycle with hundreds of other developers. Even if you are Google and deploy to production often it can still be a long time before you start work on some feature and it is actually useful to customers, and then you are constantly enhancing things for the next version so that is even more noise making it hard to measure what has a useful impact.
> because it's not really a constant.

Way back when, we used to joke about "Murphy's Variable Constant", the fiddle factor required to make any equation balance nicely. It's sad that the Hubble Constant is now a variable.
This is why experienced managers should consider, “what’s a way we might superficially achieve this while yielding neutral or negative actual results?” and then set up more KPIs to detect that happening.

It’ll never be perfect, but it’s probably better than nothing. Company-destructive assholes and metric-gamers can run their playbooks with or without KPIs or OKR:
that works well when the deliverable shipped and the value can be easily understood by the audience is targeted to, for example product team shipping updates to non-technical people. When working on a backend refactoring, CI/CD pipelines, infra work and other things it's only valuable if the audience is engineering, other people aren't gonna understand the value of a new CI/CD pipeline for example
I think this is overstated.

My driving instructor was (rightly) very hot on the principle that you must always be able to stop within the distance you can see. Speed limits are not set with this in mind.

In the UK, for example, that means that on winding country roads you should often be doing a lot less than the 60mph speed limit.
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Ctrl+Z for undo would be super helpful here, I kept doing that out of habit and it was annoying to have to go into the corner to click the undo button
first, paper ballot suffer the exact same problem..

In fact i strongly believe that Bolsonaro would do the same thing regardless of the system, if we had paper ballots he would complain it is not electronic.

The same trust attack you can do on electronic system you can do on analogical systems. Anything you do will be subject to this problem

second, the truth is that electoral system does not care if people trust in it or not. Even with Bolsonaro attacks and a massive distrust by the right wing on the system it was still used and the results accepted.

The only thing that matter is whatever you can prof in the electoral court if there was fraud and no one was able to do it, not even bolsonaro.
You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_English
But if you don't have self-awareness, are you aware that you're having the "qualitative experience"? And if you aren't aware that you're having it, are you really having an "experience"?

Or by self-awareness, do you mean that you're aware that you're aware of having the experience?

To the larger point: I think we're using different definitions of "consciousness". Which is really the problem: we don't even know how to define it yet.
I know multiple people who have worked at companies where KPIs were not adjusted for paid time off... 2 week vacation means your numbers are going to tank, which will reduce bonuses and opportunities for promotion.
If you create a financial incentive for a behavior, you're telling your employees you want to see that behavior. If it was a problem and KPIs work, they should have changed them to make them align more with the business needs.
Damn you're right. I should have stayed in bed today.
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
https://www.amazon.com/Close-Machine-Technophilia-Its-Discon...
I think that is among the most copyrightable parts of an OS.

And that doesn’t prevent you from doing your little hobby project for your grandmother at all; you just couldn’t sell or distribute it.
Well I could say the same for a human driven cab or transit. My rides are often too short to do anything productive anyways. Even if I were driving, I could listen to a podcast for leisure, same as when I take other forms of transport.
FWIW - I found "The Bug", by Ellen Ullman, to be a really engrossing piece of fiction to read. I wasn't aware she'd authored other works. I'll have to check them out!
>PIP

Have you ever talked to an engineer that was forced to work with someone on their team who providing negative value? That doesn't drive collaboration, that drives low morale and eventually people moving on. If you need to identify low performers then you now have an metric explicit or implicit that identifies them.
Maybe learning to live with scarce resources and recycling everything could be useful technologies to develop for both space and Earth.

Should we also stop making entertainment and games until we fix this little planet of ours? Don't do anything else that isn't "fix the earth" related? If not, why is space singled out as the one thing we're not allowed to do?
The anxiety in your comment is almost palpable. Let me heighten it a bit. Some time ago, there was a post about obtaining minimal code coverage. They achieved this by adding a number of useless statements for every increase in code size. I also really hope that's not true. http://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/11dou0s/found_t...
Generally, if the plate is for a special-interest group, part of the registration fee is a "donation" to that group.

In Kentucky, part of the registration/renewal fee is an "ad valorum" tax (based on the assessed value of the vehicle). The state constitution requires taxes to be based on assessed value. This value drops every year until it hits the minimum assessable value of $200 for (land) vehicles and $100 for motor boats.
It's more like "you're wrong, because your theory does not even correspond to evidence we have around us." The reasons why your doom-laden prognostications did not inevitably come to pass are not, however, reducible to a paragraph or two.

As for being verbose, compare it to the post I was replying to.
I think that people today are also just much more familiar with EDM than British folk music. e.g. on the radio, in commercials and movies, etc.
I also wrote my AHK functions to have hotkeys to cycle through (or toggle) windows from an application! Here:
https://github.com/diogotito/autohotkey-scripts/blob/desktop...

and here's where I declare most of my hotkeys:
https://github.com/diogotito/autohotkey-scripts/blob/desktop...

It uses AHK's window groups.
I only regret having written this in AHK v1, which was a bit of a pain in the neck.
I intend rewrite them in AHK v2, which looks like a halfway step to ES6 with lambdas, closures and all. So many quirks gone! I tried it a bit and it felt more fun and productive.

As a simpler alternative (which I use for work), one can pin the 10 most used applications on the taskbar and do:

- Win+<N> to launch, toggle, or choose a window from the Nth application

- Ctrl+Win+<N> to launch, toggle or cycle through the windows from the Nth application

- Shift+Win+<N> to launch a new window

- Alt+Win+<N> to bring up the Jump List

Then you can use a simpler hotkey manager (like PowerToys' Keyboard Manager) to bind to the Ctrl+Win+<N> shortcuts.

> Plus a tweak: When launching, programs may open in the background because Windows attempts to prevent applications stealing focus when you are working in another program. I overcome this by focusing the tray before launching.

Aaah! That explains some things. That does happen to me sometimes and it's a bit annoying. I got used to pressing my hotkey again when I noticed the taskbar icon blinking green to bring up the new window, or just spamming WinActivate and hope for the best. Thanks!
I've witnessed this far too often in sales. First, a team lands a giant deal that is far above plan and celebrates with Club status and a trip to a tropical Island. The next year the algorithm decides they need to get that deal + 30% more out of the same customer. There is literally no new workload to sell and the team underperforms plan despite a massive run rate from the original deal.
Why not make the KPI mirror what you want from the employee?

Here is a book that makes that quite clear. Adam Smith published it in 1776. This is not a new idea. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300

I remember a recent story about Ziff Davis killing old web pages. If that is KPI psychosis, the fault lies with the person who set the KPI to be average page hits, not total page hits across their web footprint.
This is a cute implementation. Though for anyone wondering, an actually interactive C++ REPL does exist: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangRepl.html

See also: https://github.com/root-project/cling
I had a similar report structure, and generally we would relay the same information. "Here's a graph of measurements from before and after the code change, showing a 20% reduction in resources saving us $X/year".

Generally that was good enough.
>> if you achieved 100% of your goals every quarter, you weren't being ambitious enough

The CEO directly created the perverse incentive: actually hitting your goals only meant more work.

> How you apply it matters.

The CEO applied KPIs in a way that disincentived hitting your targets, and the team responded accordingly.
I read the article, and I see nowhere that the author states that the title of their review is the title of the book. However, whatever was being reviewed seemed interesting enough to ask here. So, except for your arrogant way of telling me so, I am thankful that I now know, so that I can look up the book.
There is this thing called stretch goals in OKR that is supposed to be really hard to achieve. So if you meet all 100%, you either don’t have these stretch goals or the team is lying.

Now of course, whether OKR works depends on culture as well. Sometimes, asking people to stretch amounts to asking them to work harder, so naturally the system will be gamed in that context.
What I wouldn't give to see such a thing :-)
The real failure is the CEO didn't make a system where by gaming it you made things better for the company. This is a hard problem - but CEOs are paid big bucks to solve hard problems like this.
Hear hear. Anything that replaces humans at the wheel is a fantastic thing in my book. Road traffic injuries kill close to 1.5 million people every year. The sooner we can have robocars and robobikes replace all driving, the better. I don't care how much privacy that erodes in the short term.
Cygwin aside, WSL became pretty good actually.
It takes a lot of work to decide the right investments and manage the companies you've invested in to ensure they don't go kaboom.

Private equity takes active ownership in the companies they own, unlike BlackRock that invests and at most takes a few board seats.
They’re saying that $100/mo out of pocket is unsustainable to keep it live. If they can at least offset the hosting cost they’ll leave it up and be able to show a recruiter. Otherwise they will have to only show pics and source code.
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You put your laptop to sleep in the middle of a backup?
When you manage over $9 trillion [1], you will touch everything.

1- https://www.pionline.com/money-management/blackrocks-aum-cli...
Hmm, this was the #1 reason I was paying for Nitro (or maybe it's Nitro Lite?). I was sick of my photos being rejected unless I downsized them. I'll probably still keep it for video uploads since those are bigger than 50MB sometimes.
Love this. Not because of the Airport Pianos per se, but it reminds me of the Internet's early days where people created websites to just celebrate their niche interests out of love with no profit motive. No ads, no paywalls, no newsletter, no tracking scripts, just wholesome content about airport pianos.
No, I think the confusion here is the difference between "acceleration" and "expansion rate".

It's less ambigious when using math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model#Cosmic_expans...

a is the scale factor, which goes as sinh^(2/3). a' and a'' will always increase, but the _expansion rate_ a'/a will approach a constant value from above.

Besides the Hubble tension discussed in the article, there is no real discrepancy between observations and theory.
I mostly called local BBSes. I had to get on CompuServe first, to even find the numbers for local ones. I ran my own BBS for a while, also! Fun times. I still miss those days.
Clarity of vision above all else is what drives a business forward.
I don't see the point of any award for people who never call in sick as it encourages people to come in sick and spread around whatever they have, even if the award is only symbolic.

Also, not getting sick is not a personal achievement that's up to you, unless you live like Bubble Boy[1], it can happen to anyone even if you're usually healthy as a horse and take care of yourself. Accidents can happen if you leave the house and viruses spread around if you socialize a lot.

It also fosters a culture where you get looked down if you have more sick days than others, as if it's a competition, even in places where sick leave is legal.

I've lost track of how many times I got sick from someone form the office who came in coughing and sneezing, even though we live in Europe where you can take sick leave without any repercussions, but NO, they felt that their work for the company was more important than their health or the health of their colleagues and didn't want to be looked down as a weakling who takes sick leave every time they get the sniffles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Boy_(film)
Yeah it's actually refreshing.
Are you using Windows’ built-in Powershell? If so, are you allowed to install the newer Powershell Core (based on .NET Core)? The latter has a lot of fixes and improvements compared to the built-in Powershell.
Got an offer where they refused to put job description, work hours, or the promised remote work in the contract.

They own all IP I create outside work hours, unrelated to the company. I need permission to work on my side business, which basically got me the job. That business has a community I've built over 5 years.

HR called me early morning, and three times without warning during office hours of my current job. Their first offer was about the same as my public sector position, where the salary is public.

I tried hard to resolve these problems with HR but most of the time I was just gaslit, as if the problems didn't exist. The hiring team and work seemed really great.
> The point though is that timidity in a driver is actually more dangerous than exceeding the speed limit.

This is a bizarre claim, since most accidents/deaths would be avoided by cars being slower. Unless you have data on this, this is just "I like to drive faster" with more words.
In 2023…
I don’t think full-brain simulation is possible, but if it were, I don’t think the simulation would be equivalent to the original embodied human being. A lot of ethical attitudes are dependent on the human being embodied (and thus limited by biology and physics) and not easily modifiable like a computer program.

That doesn’t mean it would be okay to “torture” the simulation and I’m not sure how that would work, but at the very least it would be a different ethical situation from real humans.
I like this quip, tho QI says it is due to William Bruce Cameron:

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-e...
>* At least two 3.5" bays for floppy and zip

Floppy and zip drives?

>* At least 4 5.25" bays for optical and floppy drives.

a 5.25" floppy drive?

Are there even any motherboards that still support floppy drive cabling? Are their any BIOSes that support floppies any more?
> That is a problem even now though. Sometimes LLMs just goof up for no reason. Maybe they are conscious.

LLMs are neural networks trained on huge volumes of text. They are statistical machine that learns patterns and relationships from the training set. The text is diverse: from fiction to scientific. An LLM predicts (autocompletes) the next word in a sentence based on context from the preceding words.

Hallucination happens because LLMs are designed to generate text that is coherent and contextually appropriate rather than factually accurate. Training data contain inaccuracies, inconsistencies, fictional content and the model has no world view or principles or experience or an opinion or other way to disinguish between fact and fiction. So what it outputs aligns with patterns in teh training data but it isn't grounded in reality.

Putting it differntly, LLMs lack ground truth from external sources.
I have been buying health insurance that uses Blue Cross Blue Shield’s network in the US, and in 4 different states with 4 different health insurance companies on east and west coast it did not seem to make any difference.

I have bought them on healthcare.gov, and I have received them from employer, and it all seems to be interchangeable from my experience over the last 10+ years.
Death, the heavy metal solution to climate change.
They should have made a list of concrete papers or companies that came from this project. It’s hard to parse from the text. But from their website it seems like they have 2200 journal publications associated with HBP, but would be nice to have a ranked list so one can browse around.

600 million is insane. You could fund 100 new chaired professors for 600 million.

Did the HBP accomplish better/more than 100 professors randomly selected from decent institutes within a similar time frame?
> The expansion rate drops because the energy density goes down due to the expansion.

I thought the idea was that Dark Energy increased with the amount of empty space; so as the space between galaxies expands, the energy driving the expansion also expands - hence the acceleration.
Is there some reason you can't report on performance improvements and bug fixes?
Tears of a get-rich-quick guru
If this is true then it will be amazing and very widely adopted. Pandas in Excel would be cool. Fingers crossed.
Where are these third party developers that made decent money and Microsoft didn’t subsequently try to eat their piece of the pie?

It is a repeated pattern and people are not stupid. (See also the Sherlock phenomenon with Apple). Valve, for example, have to invest in proton as the ultimate back up plan. For me personally that has proven quite helpful, but your initial business has to be wildly successful for you to be able to play defensive moves like that.

This leads to a situation where mid sized companies are few in number and unstable.
I thought they were using some kind of Zebra (or similar) embedded computer now?
The problem is what you really care about is the bottom line. For just-in-time manufacturing this isn't too hard as you make it and sell it at about the same time. However engineering often takes years of work before you can sell anything, and until you do you have no idea how successful you will be, except for proxy measures which might or might not actually line up with long term success. Of course there is a lot of in between.
keep talking about how you love the ads and soon your kids will reject them
What does it mean when an LLM “hallucinates” & why do LLMs hallucinate?
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Good question but arguably they don't have to match 5%, they might put these notes in things like a low climate impact fund where conscious investors accept lower returns for the sake of the climate/environment.

I'm just thinking out loud though, I'm just an armchair investor, for all I know these notes are paying 10%, although I doubt it.
Because this is way more complicated than checking that your CRUD REST API is valid.

We're talking bandwidth here.

Checking for upload is not the issue imo, the issue is that you can watch a 1080p stream a non nytro user, if you don't check it at the upload stage then you should make sure that people can only watch 720p streams.
The key difference is that F4, F7, and embedded chips in general don't have an MMU. This is a strong requirement for "regular" Linux (and other desktop OS's).
Yep, and those smartly can fold down! Also used for storms I assume.
But the whole point of storypoints is allow forecast estimates to be made without giving a date estimate to management!
Can you describe the pain points?

I've been shipping non-IoT embedded Linux products for over a decade and, honestly, I don't give a shit about what version of Linux it's running as long as the necessary drivers are compatible and working well. USB, ext4, SD/MMC, SPI, I2C, PWM, GPIO, backlight, framebuffer video...all pretty mature now.

Agonizing about being mainline is a distraction from getting things done, IMO. ARM Linux will never be fully up to bleeding edge.
My friend, it happens to everyone.

I typed in my first BASIC program in ‘89. I dropped out of high school in the late 90’s to program uh… high quality adult entertainment websites. I had a small e-commerce site for a while selling weird stuff. I eventually finished school and tried to move on but I got back into programming for a living to this day.

Twenty some odd years of doing it professionally. For fun. For curiosity. And looking at trying to keep at it for twenty more. Life’s a trip.
KPI's help PM's stay relevant easily by having them talk sht about KPI's that no one understands but them.
From what I could find at 1 atmosphere propane is liquid but it has to be -42C. At 21C propane has to be at 850kPa (123 psi) to liquefy it.
> The kings of England also claimed the title of King of France until 1802, even though they lost the very last enclave on French soil in 1558:

I imagine a future where China badly loses an expansionist war but continues to identify itself as Protector of Tibet for 10 more generations.

Then again I can also imagine a future US Gov rejecting the Confederation of Desantia after it's Bugs Bunny style secession from the US - and continue to use it's archaic name of Florida.
There is no point launching to Mars from the Moon.
》Python calculations run in Microsoft’s Cloud
No thanks!