skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats exactly what happened. People that tried to do it right, got punished as they ended up working weekends all the time. People that did as you suggest and went high, were stress free.
Reminder that in TeX you want to escape functions so they aren't rendered in italics as a product of separate variables, i.e. "\log" not "log"
Couldn't have found this video at a better time - I have an assignment on blimpy due tomorrow.
Passing around functions that have already been partially applied means that downstream users can't incorrectly call or accidentally modify the arguments which have already been applied. Whether this actually results in more safety is unclear, as there are other language features or API design that accomplishes the same thing.
Agreed, I will almost always take someone with 5 years of experience at a couple of good shops rather than 20 years of experience broken up across 10 different ones.
This reads like you either pasted someone's listicle, or wrote your article in that style. This is not a great style for HN - we prefer a style that has more signal and less noise.
Replace deleted with passed to ChatGPT and you'll have VCs lining up.
Linear values are "displacement metrics", exponents are "scale metrics".

It thus follows that power functions becomes "linear displacements" when log-log-transformed.

Logarithm should really be called "scale-metric displacement-ifier" or "linearizer-for-quantities-that-have-an-absolute-zero" or something along those lines
Seems like there were three options:

1. Ship Word with Windows and not get paid for it, even though they had hundreds of engineers working on it.

2. Ship no word processor with Windows, and make the end user find one on their own.

3. Ship a basic one and let the user upgrade to Word if they needed something more.

At the time with option 2, it's not like you're going to hit google and download some FOSS solution - you would need to go to the computer store and pay $200 for something in a box off the shelf.

I'm thinking option 3 was a good middle ground, and a win-win for MS and the customer.
IIRC, this book had a 5.25" floppy inside that allowed one to fly the simulator around some pyramid shaped mountains. This brings back fond memories, thanks for posting.
Sorry, it's 16v (15.5v) 48v is coming later this year.
> In our demos, we had to stand in a precise spot to see the proper 3D effect

> the viewing sweet spot is narrow enough that two people standing side by side would have to put their heads (literally) together to have the same 3D viewing experience at the same time

- PC Mag

Could be interesting to demo but sounds like it’s not there yet. It looks like they’re targeting business/pro’s and not the average consumer though, so maybe it’ll find an audience.

Me? I’m waiting until 3D headsets aren’t so heavy and actually have the resolution to serve as a monitor replacement. My Vive pro 2 isn’t anywhere near being adequate for that, and from what I understand the upcoming apple headset isn’t hitting the specs needed yet either. Maybe in a few more years.
Careful, if there's no calling code left to delete it might just go after the programmer :-)
How Better Tech Could Save Lives in a World of Bigger, Faster Fires
https://archive.ph/L9ucC
Complexity and understandability are very difficult to separate. If a coding style is unknown / bizarre to most coders on a team, but beautifully simple to a few who know the technique, which is it?

There should be a balance between teaching new ideas, and acknowledging the truth of what people are comfortable with.
Sure you can - you just have to be willing to throw what you have away. If the outcome of that is having to rewrite one of five experiments because it is a hit, that is a _great success_, not a failure.
Analysis of “Shut the Box”
Is that true when the entity itself is fraudulent? At what point can we separate SBF & Co's fraud from the company itself?
Ask HN: What are you using to print source code these days?
I was an old school guy who always printed his reams of source code out on a 132 character dot matrix printer - green bar paper, everything. These days this is just not possible. What is the current thinking of printing source code if this is important to you?
It's this:

https://github.com/progfolio/blimpy
> becomes progressively less valuable compared with newer systems.

Indeed, business people do not typically model depreciation curves for software as they should. That doesn't mean that the plant control system becomes less valuable (the value is tied to the operation of the plant, probably for the lifetime of the plant), but in many other situations it does mean that.
It's the same the whole way down in high schools for things like football.

I was big and for my age--I was over 6" by the time I was in 8th grade and could pull a 200lb stack on a lat pulldown exercise.

Some dudes who were middling 5 foot would come back absolutely jacked after a summer. I was big, working my ass off with weightlifting and couldn't remotely catch up.

And our school was a nobody in terms of sports.

It wasn't until decades later that I found out they were all juicing. I still wouldn't have done it (academics were my ticket to college--not sports). However, I would have been much happier as a high school student knowing why I could never catch up.

This is why I have a a HUGE problem with celebrities who are obviously juicing and lie about it. I don't care that you are juicing--you do you. It's the lie that I have a problem with.
“Story points” help you predict your work in the future. Knowing what and when you deliver can be valuable!

Say you’re developing software for the next Super Bowl broadcast - it’s useful to know whether you’ll deliver what you said you would. If it’s looking like you can’t, you can start to make educated decisions about what work to cut and get a better idea of what you actually will deliver.
Stress free and delivering at a predictable rate. Nailed it.
Except in some of the linked Reddit threads the game authors explicitly said they would train models with curated content that’s under their control and open in license, which is not the open internet.

Indiscriminate crawler trained models are one thing, but models trained by the game developer directly should be handled differently. In that case they actually are the same as a generic asset, as they were assembled and curated by the game developer with an understanding of copyright compliance. But there are cases where they didn’t - particularly with audio.
Quantity. One of the big issues with nuclear power is that we aren’t building frequently enough, and therefore lose expertise and capability, which drives up costs, both from screw-ups and from not being able to amortize over a large production run. To give an analogy, imagine if Boeing only made one 737 every five years. That aircraft would be insanely expensive.

Personally, I’m bullish on the companies in the micro reactor space that have minimal site construction. I’m less bullish on Oklo, given that their application had some glaring omissions and got denied an NRC license.
Pre-loading at boot time is a tradeoff, and it'd be nicer not to have to pay it.

Cold load times aren't terrible on modern systems, but wordpad is much faster. (Microsoft Office isn't great at fast loading either).
>It's also banned everywhere that smoking is even though it doesn't generate particles.

I vape nicotine. That's not true in the slightest, unless you're using some wacky definition of 'particle'.

I agree that the restrictions around where one vapes might need to be a little less lax when compared to cigarettes, but to claim that it doesn't 'generate particles' is disingenuous.
Programmer: makes minor typo

Vigil: THE HERESY MUST BE PURGED
Call me cynical but my immediate impression that the gamedev is lying and exploiting the perceived asymmetry between the indie dev and the behemoth that is Steam. Attaching your game to controversy around AI is a great way to generate discussion and serves as a form of guerrilla marketing.

Maybe if the rules are "your game shall not contain AI", then don't write a ChatGPT integration for it.
Now searching the Federal Register: Any incentive to create the world's largest tensegrity sculpture?
Elon Musk Ponders Twitter Poll on Banning ADL from ‘Free Speech’ Site
I know your comment was sarcastic, but today I was wondering if you could do remote control via SIPRNet or JWICS (military computer networks) and avoid the issues associated with conventional controls.
Shaq played a genie in the movie Kazaam :D
Ultima Underworld - The Stygian Abyss from 1992 enjoy ;)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ultima_Underworld_-_The_St...
If I wanted to refute a bunch of random scholar's books and papers I'd be in academia already.

The fact that you think a reference ending in cambridge.org and princeton.edu is "credible" quite laughable. They're literally a government's propaganda reserve. It's like claiming studies funded by narcotics companies are credible for informing you about the benefits of smoking to your health. (Hate to "mansplain" for you but the main source of funding for universities are governments.)
So without someone like you they would literally not repair some units? I guess they chuck and replace them?
Always look for counter-examples to the trend:

The B lane swimmer who manages to be a nice person. The silver medalist who's genuinely pleased to have done that well.
That has to be the fastest I’ve seen someone concede a statement is true that they just called “CCP propaganda” a moment ago.
It works for me, but I have an older kindle Paperwhite on my account. Because of that I they have an option to download a version of the ebook specifically for that kindle, which calibre can unlock with the serial number of the Kindle.
Yes, it's not the full equation. But that type of environment gives you a mindset that isn't present in most other types of coding. The ability to think under pressire, identity the fastest solution, and store a number of approaches in your head should you encounter dire edge cases.

.

>the skill is more having a detailed knowledge of the inner workings of every layer of the system so that you can come to the right conclusion

Yup, and that's transferable skills from competition coding. You're not juggling algorithms in your head per se, but you juggle whatever tribal knowledge needed as options to cycle through. That combined with the above mindset can lead to such skills.
As a blank check, sure. But there are specific regulations that could be removed. For example, the U.S. prohibits automatic load following equipment in nuclear plants, while the French allow it. It would allow for a control room operator to not have to constantly micromanage the reactor.
May I ask what the context of your message was? Presumably one of the people on that server reported you, and in the messages you posted, people seem taken aback (eg "did you just..."). I'm curious what the context was and why they took the impression it was unusual? What were these ASNs in relation to?
Chinese firms invest heavily in Israel
Usually this kind of thing comes from “trying to keep costs down” at a poorly funded firm, usually startup-ish. I’ve worked places where the oldest engineer was 30 and it’s rough, quality and stability just aren’t in the average 25 year old’s toolkit.
I can understand overlooking homophones, but plurals was just stupid.

Someone came up with a clever idea, and clearly they had some math/cipher skills. But w3w clearly had no linguists on staff. Even Wordle did a better job filtering their word list.

Though with some of the words being so lengthy and linguistically complex, they would have been better moving to a four word system and assuring simpler words that was better filtered.
Microsoft used to distribute source code for a WordPad sample app with Visual Studio.

https://github.com/microsoft/VCSamples/tree/master/VC2010Sam...
In my experience, crashes are usually my error.

Swift helps a lot. It has a lot of safety in it. I haven’t had a memory leak in ages.

Also, Xcode has gotten really good at letting me know when I have a future crash.
It still sucks at opening HL7 files, which have line endings as CR (and just CR). WordPad handles these out of the box.
> I really wish you would have said that a long time ago.

Why? If I accept your premise, what difference does it make if I'm familiar with the details?

> Oy, I can't believe that's a serious question.

It's dead serious. Why do you have such a hard time believing that?

> I count constituents by the number of people, not the number of dollars.

Do you not think that supporting one of the leading industries in the state you represent, an industry that directly employs tens of thousands of people and indirectly employs hundreds of thousands more, counts -- or is at least defensible -- as being supportive of your constituents even when measured by people rather than dollars?

Also, if I have money then chances are that I earned it by being productive. Why should that not entitle me to greater consideration than someone who has been less productive as adjudicated by the free market? (Yes, I know earlier I said there were no free markets. The phrase "free market" meant something different there than it does here. There it referred to sellers, here it refers to buyers. The U.S. does have a relatively free market on the demand side, just not on the supply side.)

BTW, counting constituents by number of people rather than dollars has never been the American way. It's actually a very modern notion. At the founding, only white male land owners could vote. The founders specifically designed our system to not make all voices equal. Again, I'm not saying this is a good thing. I don't think it is. But it's a fact.
The site makes the common mistake of blacking out portions of addresses on their pictures of postcards and envelopes, not realizing that leaving the barcode visible is usually sufficient to pinpoint the address, per https://youtu.be/1bmK3dQQ4Us?si=GK8P8dFL3PLUWuI9
The issue is that US tax code is based on a lot of information the IRS doesn't have access to - disability, number of child, marriage status, etc.

And then the other issues is that the information the IRS has comes from 3rd parties like your employer, your financial institutions, colleges, etc. That information can have errors in it, so you need to review everything and make sure it's correct anyways.

This happened to me when I worked in a country that automatically filled out your tax return - I pulled together all the information just like I would in the US to make sure it was correct. And guess what? My employer made an error that would have cost me several thousand more in taxes!

So the benefit is really pre-filling a form with numbers. Otherwise the work is very similar to just doing your taxes on your own anyways.
Chris Hecker and Jon Blow (among others) wrote good math and physics content for Game Developer Magazine, but the one I most associate with it is Jeff Lander. He's got copies of the articles he wrote throughout the years hosted on his website here: http://www.darwin3d.com/gamedev.htm
I have heard a Japanese person comment on the large quantity of disposable "wood" stuff in Japan, but I have no idea whether they were including bamboo as "wood".
The problem with the story is there is a reasonable solution for the bean counters: you log time against tickets you work on or help with. Then maybe prorata the points to the hours.

The issue now is of course you are just incentivising taking overestimated stories. This cat and mouse never ends. Crucially you are punishing/removing the glue people that do the stuff not specified that needs to be done. So now you need every little thing on the board. And a lot of time on arguing about what should be on.

It is worse when the tasks allowed on the board
have to be agreed by a committee that meets on a Wednesday. Not joking that has happened! But that is another story.
Yeah the issue is that beginners are not learning web dev or even front end, they are learning React.
Processing 100B edges in 1s: Empowering Graphalytics with GPU Acceleration
>Because the band-aid with all its ugliness becomes the permanent fix because there is no revenue box to place the work in takes to fix it into

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Especially in my industry, we don't get too many chances to convince the product managers to "go back and actually fit the code". From a business sense, it's a great skill, but business realities equate it to the ability to plug up a dam with a cork.
Rarely isn't a good term either. I use a fair number of open source apps that were picked up by a different maintainer after the original one got bored. I have no idea what the overall rate is, but it works well enough for me.

Maybe PhantomJS wasn't as critical as you thought it was? Or maybe the JS ecosystem doesn't lend itself towards this model because JS developers have the attention span of a goldfish
> These days this is just not possible.

Why not?

I still format my code to an 80 column width.

I can still use `pr` to paginate my source for printing, and use `enscript` to produce a PostScript document of it, then `ps2pdf` to convert that to PDF, then I can spool that PDF to any printer.

And, on my home network, I have a HP LaserJet 2300dn and I can actually just shove the plain text output from `pr` straight to the JetDirect port on 9100/tcp.

What exactly is the obstacle that's preventing you from printing out your source code?
Baresip – An Open Source modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support
What happens if you underestimate one time? You get a pip. Better to overestimate.
> At least in the official docs, things should be cleaned up and made much more user friendly.

The source of clojure.org is at https://github.com/clojure/clojure-site/ and it gets a pretty constant stream of updates these days (it even accepts PRs!). It's a huge improvement over what it used to be -- so it depends on what/when you're comparing it to.

If you have specific criticisms or suggestions, I expect they'd be welcomed.
> strictly 2D (planar curve).

A single curve segment is indeed planar, but it might be too strong to say strictly 2D? You can certainly make 3D quadratic curves. I use cubic and quadratic Beziers mostly for fur and hair, and some people do mention to me their concerns about quadrics being planar, but I think it’s not an issue in practice at all. (And quadratics are simpler and have some big advantages over cubics.) When you piece together multiple quadric segments and match tangents properly, it’s a 3D spline and you can’t really even see the planarity, each segment is a different plane. 2 quadratic segments do a pretty good job of approximating 1 cubic segment.

I like thinking about B-splines more that individual segments, and for a B-spline, you can think about the difference between quadratic and cubic as more like a smoothing factor and little else.
Silicon Valley’s elites can’t be trusted with the future of AI
I guess every language needs a variant of JavaScript: The Good Parts. Believe Go, despite its many shortcomings, gets readability better than most languages: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#TOC_4.

On the topic of Kotlin, it is really one is the better (perhaps the best?) JVM languages out there.
I found it pretty useful, since it’s easy to just search online or ask a few people what the going rate is. Not everything is about money
Sindre does amazing work!
I never implied you just "add up percentages like that".

The point is, if your effective income tax rate is 35%, you also need to add up all the taxes that aren't income tax, like the 20% VAT, gasoline taxes, alcohol taxes, property taxes, stamp duties, etc, etc.

Add all that up and I wouldn't be surprised if many people had an effective tax rate >50%
The article seems to be reporting the facts in a fairly reasonable manner. We have friends who are there and they told us this exact same information: They've been told to conserve, no porta-potty cleaning is coming anytime soon, they may not make it out until Wednesday.

The article doesn't even say they are running out of supplies, other than the organizers have told people to conserve.
what I meant is that any parabola, no matter how you orient it in 3D space, will always fit on a flat piece of paper, because only two vector directions are ever involved in its construction (the starting velocity and the acceleration direction). And a single quadratic bezier is simply a segment of a parabola.
China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere, Help Us Catch Them
Maybe tangential, but what kind of source code did you all print out? Anything memorable? Also, what were the reasons for printing them out?
I find that most conferences are a scam and there is a lot of spam that follows this pattern. Many conferences also give you a speaker plac if you sponsor the event.
Word for Windows 6 was a proper version of Word -- far more capable than Wordpad. An image search will refresh your memory.

Wordpad is very basic in comparison.
For Pluto, for what I know, they did use the technique of taking two images of the sky at different times and looked at them through a machine, but instead of relying on stereoscopic vision, they switched back and forth between the two, everything that isn't the regular star background would be moving or blinking.

So, relying on movement perception.
I don't know if Office Space is the cultural touchstone it was 20 years ago, but I think this can be neatly summarized by the observation that: "But real gangsta-ass [gangstas][0] don't flex nuts
'Cause real gangsta-ass [gangstas] know they got 'em"

[0] A shockingly large amount of the dialogue in the movie has to be censored for broadcast television, including this song.
TL;DR Keep your documents in a hierarchy with three top level labels: Projects, Areas, and Resources.

Put your short ongoing projects in Projects

Put your responsibilities in Areas (of Responsibility)

Put your long term information storage in Resources

Also, create an archive with the same top levels (Projects, Areas, Resource) for docs that you don't need right now but may in the future

My suggestion: Don't use an app. Use a file system and SyncThing.
It is considered wood and used as such.
Totally, I understand and agree, I just wanted to rant for a minute about how that might not matter in practice, but obviously it depends on how you’re using the curves and what you need.
precondition is something which must be true before some code executes

postcondition is something which must be true after some code executes

invariant is both: something which must be true both before and after some code executes.

So it's the other way around. An invariant is a postcondition, but a postcondition is not necessarily an invariant.

(you can check all three with assertions, but they will generally exist whether you check them or not)
The binary for Microsoft Paint is called mspaint.exe, and there is no "paint" alias AFAICT -- typing "paint" in the run prompt results in "Windows cannot find 'paint'".

You could create a paint.bat file in C:\Windows\System32 (usually the first dir in %PATH%) that calls Paint.net instead. Something like this should work:

"C:\Program Files\paint.net\paintdotnet.exe" %*
I agree that morally and presumably legally these are completely distinct. But from a policy perspective, they aren't going to be able to verify that the output came from one model or another. So allowing any models is tantamount to allowing all models, because people who wanted to use eg Midjourney could simply lie.

If you tasked a human being with sufficient knowledge, latitude, and resources to investigate a game with a significant fraction of their time (eg they had a caseload of like 1-3 games) then I'm sure they could figure this out on a case by case basis. But I doubt they're willing to make that kind of investment.

But none of that makes it right, of course. I'm ambivalent about Valve's decisions here.
The C-u C-u trick at 2:03 is such a neat hack.
Goes to show how with Emacs you don't have to compromise between customization and productivity: a true hacker can have both.
Tour guide?
Mountain guide?
Personal trainer in a gym?