skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geez, yeah. I was working at a mid-sized company's ecommerce site. And even with the amount of users we had hitting our site daily, in order to get to any type of statistical significance to assure us that we weren't wasting our time, we had to wait about 21 days. That limited our cycle time.

My boss ended up telling me that I was moving too slowly, and I needed to move on with the experiments. I was surprised, since he should be smart enough to understand statistical significance, but here, he turned a blind eye to it.

A/B testing is only the way to go when you can gather millions of samples. For web sites, this is more likely at big companies.
would highly recommend Oz look for some mental health resources. nowadays there's plenty of self-study online, no insurance or expensive therapist needed. wishing him best of luck.
Starflight is probably still ahead of its time. It does such an amazing job of capturing that feeling of being an explorer in a strange universe trying to unravel a mystery against a perceived time limit - though there is none, even if you take forever and Arth gets hit by the anomaly, the game happily continues on.

The first time you discover the 'special planet' (avoiding spoilers for a 30 year old game lol) after slowly piecing together those clues, and then eventually understanding what it all means. That sort of curve ball, but one that makes absolutely perfect sense for everything you've learned to date, to say nothing of the extreme moral ambiguity in what you eventually do (and have been doing) - it gave a feeling like nothing I've ever experienced again in 30 years of gaming.

If anybody hasn't played Starflight, I couldn't recommend it more. IMO, the version on the Sega Genesis is the best - and easily obtainable with an emulator.
For home charging, that is ... typical? And for a grid or solar storage system, again, probably a typical situation to top off. Since they are lots of cells, the battery management system can cycle topping off individual cells I would think to keep them fresh, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
In my experience the more familiar that someone is with the code, the more they think pushing code into smaller functions is the correct path. They have already built up a mental model of the code at hand, so the cleanest implementation to them is one with very few lines.

But the next person to come along has to bounce back and forth, performing mental stack push/pop operations to create the same mental model which is much harder to do when you don't have any of the original context
Is Product Hunt really such a big deal? I mean, this is a Show HN.. pointing to a blog post.. about their submission to PH. Why not just link the main page which actually tells me what this is (..adding comments on any page?).

I guess it IS marketing, but the whole article seems to consist of individual "taglines" chained together, all of them essentially saying similar things in different ways.
Heh Heh Heh. "As long as they share, it's ok". ;)
AWS also ship drives back and forth for many TB scale.. don’t recall the name, but perhaps google do something similar.
Heretic: quest for glory importing your character from one version to the next was absolutely my favorite. Too bad these types of games are no more.
Yeah, they used a bunch of completely random magical numbers: $2k/mo/client, 2 new clients/mo, asymptotic churn rate of 15%. All they’ve demonstrated is there’s likely a ceiling somewhere for each agency, which is obvious to anyone.

Big thumbs down, save yourself the click.
How is that possible?

The metal detectors and millimeter scanners are real at the very least, so I’d expect most weapons to be caught.
It’s a jobs program, that we all pay for three times over (in cash, in inconvenience, and for an unlucky minority, in harassment or worse). And because it’s a jobs program, it’s politically invincible.
NYU to Divest from Fossil Fuels After Years of Student Protests
Literally extracting the functions and then re-inlining them makes no sense. Having that as a sort of mental model while you're working on the code does make sense.
That's what I'm a bit afraid of. Will software engineering get "stuck" with just the tools we have right now, because LLMs won't be able to help with anything newer?

If you're thinking, all we have to do is wait for OpenAI to re-scrape the web and re-train GPT on the new material, well... LLMs don't "learn" so much by looking at documentation, as by looking at examples. And a new tool is not going to have a lot of examples out there, simply by virtue of being new.
Only when you take the quote out of context. For the majority of the article he focuses on gender. And in the very same paragraph as that quote comes from he invokes J.K. Rowling. It is entirely reasonable to assume that transgender people are "the oppressed minority" he's specifically talking about.
MSN Publishes AI Generated Obituary for Former NBA Player
I'm not sure I could name a single country with as many shootings per capita as the USA.
Nue does not try to be a new starndard. It tries to bring web developers closer to web standards: HTML, CSS, DOM, and plain JavaScript. New developers today start with React, learn hooks, adopt Tailwind, and writes TypeScript and distance themselves from the basics.
For a 2k price level it probably is actually the user making the decision. Maybe that's the solution here! If you charge 20k, now you move into the corporate BS tier where there is no accountability to the user and you can just manage the relationship with the decision maker
The insight that we are all Marl at some point is really important. People who think they are never Mark are the most vulnerable.
there's tons of self-guided resources online that are amazing at helping with mental illness that don't require you to submit to some person or organization that could report you. we need to stop seeing "talking to a therapist" as the only way to define getting mentally healthy.
What I think the grandparent is getting at:

You can measure the direct effect of a change now on something like conversions. But you can't measure the second order effects: things like trust from your users, or the effects on community quality and composition, etc.

This is a good part of why enshittification happens: lots of changes with immediate "good" impact that can be measured quantifiably, but there's also readily foreseeable negative consequences to them.

Of course, just running the test longer doesn't really address this for most possible changes.
Buying a week of groceries at once is not a universal constant. You could fill a cart to the brim every two weeks. You could order delivery. You could peruse the market every day for the freshest product. Lots of older folks in NYC use a folding cart. Walking is good for your health.

Cars are the most convenient option because of extensive in kind subsidies in the form of mandatory parking minimums, toll free roads, and a big FU to anyone who is dismounted through lack of sidewalks, unsafe street crossings, 45MPH speed limits and drivers doing 10 over that, etc. If we put almost all of our infrastructure spending into pedestrian friendly construction versus almost all of it toward cars then people would not need to be married to their cars.
It appears (from reddit that):

1. People rent Hetzner servers to load-up with movies

2. They sell access to those servers to multiple users (sometimes dozens).

3. The opinion is also that Hetzner is a cesspool of the Internet:

>> Hetzner seems to be a cesspit of internet, outside of russia. They're more than willing to host Indian scammers VoIP systems, as well as scam websites. They're willing to host just about anything as long as they aren't responsible for the content, and you don't get caught.

>> hetzner is the worst. whenever we have an attack at work, 7 out of 10 times its coming from hetzner
And enabled pilot suicides.

I think what's really preventing future 9/11 attacks is the attitude of the passengers.
Faster than the BIOS. Under a second
Omce upon a time, I got to learn things by reading threads like this. Now... just the introduction.
Did GP say this? Argue against what a person says not against some easier-to-argue position.
This is the correct answer right here if you have a good enough team. It is still the way I want to work. Unfortunately, I find that there are too many developers who haven't learned that you should always be considering to "refactor as you go". I'm trying to teach by example, but it's an uphill battle.
Yes. Nue is probably not a good pick for people who really like things like React and Tailwind. It's more like going backwards in time when standard HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript was a thing.
If BSD had to split apart their additions with the original unix code, then that means copyright headers should be avoided/obsoleted and only a vcs based historical viewing (who committed what) should be allowed. Since whatever anybody writes contains a copyright itself.
Maybe we should just pay for fake red team terrorists too. Even more jobs, and keeps the agents in top readiness. Basically airport Counterstrike.
What’s the reason though, any idea?
Not always true. I'm prescribed medical CBD, THC and flowers, and pure indica strains help with sleep. Sativa is as you say, it makes sleep worse.

Without "Spectrum Red #1" I sleep in 2 hour shifts. I consume about 0.3 gm (whole herb vaporiser) around 9pm, by 11pm I'm asleep for 6-8 hours. Most importantly, I don't wake wishing I'd died in my sleep.

Note that I'm on CBD, so I don't get "psychotic" side effects.

I also have some 30%THC Sativa that is used to get me going to do things. I can find more reason to push through pain and move more, which in the longer term reduces the impacts of pain and suffering.

I've seen what you've posted about your experience, and if I'd met you in real life I'd have told you "You know you're probably the kind of person who should never use cannabis". I've said that to a few people over the years. Eventually they agree with me. Sadly it's sometimes after they've fucked their lives irrevocably. Cannabis does not do that to _most_ people though, as they use it non-compulsively.
Also, many repo hosts have branch protection tools, and VS Code has a setting git.branchProtection to list branches which you want VS Code to remind you not to commit to, which can be handy.
I just got started learning about Flash so I could mod Starfield’s UI. The kill switch thing actually disgusted me, like I had to re-read the article explaining it because I couldn’t believe it was possible, let alone thinkable. All that history, just gone. I spent so many hours in the computer lab at school playing Flash games, man. Glad Ruffle exists.
I think that there is a reason that dating apps, dating sites and dating services all converge on a model which downranks intellect: the few humans who care about that characteristic are not enough to build a sustainable business.

Literally everyone says that they are different and want a smart partner, but when they actually hook up they aren't ranking high intellect.

I liked okcupids blogs. The maintakeaway I had from reading all of them was:

1. How much appearance played a role in being attractive.

2. 90+% of women attempted to hook up with the same 10% of men, while men were much more open to women not in the top 10%.

3. What people claimed they wanted in a partner had almost no relation to what they actually wanted, when looking at who they messaged, who they viewed, and who they responded to.

All apps now are very aggressively tracking everything, so they have a much better idea of what makes people open their wallets, and intellect apparently isn't one of those things.
would be helpful if you can send me one : punitsethi AT gmail DOT com
They're being downvoted because the very comment they're replying to contradicts it: "but that they also messaged the men almost exactly in tandem - uglier getting the most, with a steady drop as men's ranking rose.

OKCupid's own data showed that women rate men is ugly but message them anyway.
Well, again, I'm suggesting using work hours not extra hours. People seem against the idea entirely.
That is what I assume yes, but I don’t know where I picked it up.
That is true of well designed nonlinear code as well.The code needs to tell a story or it will be a mess.
Nice. Thanks for the encouragement!
I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin. It's far more stable and hardware decoding works out of the box.
I agree with you. Absolutely.

My stance is, just because alcohol is bad for you, doesn’t mean weed is good for you.

I’d rather not be in a room with either group though.
Standard milk is not bacteria free, standard pasteurization absolutely does not inactivate or kill all bacteria. Someone with an even somewhat healthy immune system should be fine, otherwise you could see if you could get it shipped in from Florida where some specialty suppliers run it under the beam. As with any animal or plant product the FDA and USDA can't set arbitrarily strict standards, as grown products are not perfect. I'm sure some percent of the allowed bug content in produce is infected/contaminated with bacteria as well. The US has one of the top rated food systems in the world[0], but it won't keep that rating, especially in the food access and safety net score, if most of the food is thrown away for not being "perfect". Milk naturally has calcium in it that can be treated with vitamin D3, making it a good delivery vehicle. It would probably be better if everyone capable of digesting milk drank it at a consistent level across the population, as there are currently problems in some demographics are areas.

[0]: potentially worse than the UK and Denmark, other systems are either tradeoffs or strictly worse.
> Constructive inquiry is different than the whine Dawkins is discussing.

Then Dawkins needs to get off Twitter, because it will never give him what he wants. He hasn't found a problem in society, he's found a problem on Twitter. As it stands, he's yelling at the ceiling because it's blocking his view of the sky. He needs to go outside.
and yet the only way many addicts can get and stay clean is through exactly a zero tolerance approach
This entire function is clearly a factory for a boxed pizza with toppings which is baked.

I'd argue the entire box.Close() method is slideware and wouldn't exist since it likely is just a return true. You can just as easily just say pizza.Ready = true. Reading this code afterwards I would think there was some stupid requirement somewhere for a pizza.Ready property so someone added it and would check a commit log to see if it can just be removed.

Decent catch there though, the box can also be a dependency that get's passed in.
DNS Is the New BGP
Testify for what? Ideas aren't IP. His license is permissive. He literally gave his idea away to the world for free.

How did anything Google did harm this guy in any way?
I completely disagree.

Just because it is not illegal does not mean you want your employees acting this way. Google should at a minimum have in place a program to help these folks start a small company for the purposes of acquiring, with the implied benefit for the employee that it shows their leadership capabilities. Ripping off a disabled veteran should reflect badly on Google and therefore disciplinary actions can be taken.

The fact that it isn't a thing at Google speaks volumes.
The problem is that people use very (like VERY) rare edge cases to build a whole framework based on it and bully the rest. Typical tyranny of the minority.
> Why is that the only way?

Well, you don't want to ask people to donate time. You don't want to disrupt work too much either and it shouldn't be mandated. A loud mixer mid day for people who really can't spare the time can be distracting.
I am out of the loop. What's going on with Unity?
Haven't tested recently, but FreeDOS (or SvarDOS) boots in a couple of seconds. The kernel is ridiculously minimal. From there, you could launch a text editor via autoexec.bat and voila. It is a fun system, too.

Years ago, I found a bootable USB project on Github with a tiny custom Linux kernel that only launched vi. IIRC, my computer's fan was always running full speed with it, though.
> Prosecutors believe Nils stole the van Gogh on the orders of Peter Roy K., a Dutch shipping mogul involved in drug smuggling, who hoped to use the artwork as leverage for negotiating a reduced prison sentence

That could be the plot of a Tarantino comedy
> The publication of this research led to the Norwegian press proclaiming that "The Mystery in Hessdalen is Solved"

{wiki page continues with another 9 theories}
I think it can be made. Look at the success story blender has become.
That is why paradoxically the higher the price the easier the sell, and conversely the lower the price the more nitpicking the customer will do.
I will agree that it takes some skill, not that I am great at it. It's a different kind of skill than abstraction. Reading error handling in c code offered good insights for me to learn linearity better (c code that uses goto to jump to the end of a function for cleanup when an error occurs, for example).

However, if you screw up linear code, you screw up locally. If you write poor small functions, the rest of the team screws up because they barely ever read the contents of your functions that call other functions that call other functions. I've had way more problems with stuff being called slightly out of order, than with large functions.
It works for me: Discover weekly + song radio + similar artists + genre and user playlists. I can listen to new songs until I'm tired. I love Spotify.
Related:

Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25878602 - Jan 2021 (139 comments)

Can you tell a programmer/language inventor from a killer? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455383 - June 2010 (12 comments)

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135299 - March 2008 (1 comment)

(I put 2003 on it because of https://web.archive.org/web/20031008105832/http://www.malevo... but I didn't have the patience to wait for it to load. How different can it be though, with that url...)
Is there anything, maybe a legal agreement, that can stop google from breaking this promise in three years?

They are not famous for longterm project management.
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You tell me. Units help describe what you modeled, they can't stop you from modeling nonsense.

I heated up your iron by 4 degrees and now it's 20C+4C=24C. I modeled the physical process of heating and the units provide some additional information about that.
This is definitely one of the most frustrating aspects of working within the TPM ecosystem. Sure the spec is messy, and doing simple things can feel needlessly complicated, but when you run into some firmware bug, it's horrible to debug, and the best you can really do is file a ticket with Intel/AMI/whoever and pray for something to change.
I appreciate your candor. Though I am upset, I realize this is the kind of thing that would be hard to see coming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_3D_Engine

> Open 3D Engine is a free and open-source 3D game engine developed by Open 3D Foundation, a subsidiary of the Linux Foundation, and distributed under the Apache 2.0 open source license.

> The initial version of the engine is an updated version of Amazon Lumberyard, contributed by Amazon Games.
It can be argued, and has been upthread in the top-voted comment at time of writing, that "the dynamics of the current 'cancel culture' or whatever resemble those of the traditional religious institutions Dawkins has previously critiqued."

You can choose to accept or refuse this proposition as you will; taking it as granted, it seems proper to invoke "orthodoxy" in its literal sense of "doctrine that is generally accepted," and catechism in its original sense derived 'from Greek katēkhismos, from katēkhizein "teach orally, instruct by word of mouth"'. [0]

What is generally accepted is dependent on time, location, and culture. Consider that this submission was immediately flagged within less than an hour of its posting, implying that this article is not generally accepted within the bounds of whatever time, location, and culture we are inhabiting when we post here.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/catechism
That data had poor epistemology, and was only really true if you're only looking at cishet monogamous men and cishet monogamous women.
I think, the reason for that, is that management/leadership gets compensated fairly well for it. If this management doesn't have any particular talent or skills that can justify their compensation, then it's the responsibility that they are holding.
The OP's solution seems to solve this problem though - if it's the last hour of 'work time' then people can stay for at least that hour and then if they have to leave at the normal time, they can.

If the socialisation time is always outside work hours, then yeah, people with young kids will basically never come.
When I first got online the average user’s IQ was no joke north of 120. Now of course it’s around 100.

Someone needs to come up with a pithy term for how a subpopulation’s average value for any attribute approaches the population’s average value for same as the subpopulation’s size approaches that of the population. It’s conceptually a simple, even trivial, notion, but it’s cumbersome to talk about.

That’s also why undergraduate degrees are no longer a particularly good signal. And I expect if it were easier to talk about many more cases would become apparent.
> […] An instruction set is an inherent aspect of a CPU; you can't have a CPU without one.

Oh, yes, you can.

The following examples of

– Transport triggered architecture

– Dataflow architecture

– Optical and quantum computing

represent viable, general purpose (not general availability), albeit experimental, CPU's without instruction sets. That is, none of them have anything similar to «movq $1, %r0» or «add.w %r2, %r0, %r1».

FPGA's are another and a more conventional example of a general purpose (even if specialised) CPU without an instruction set.
Mission accomplished! But then the DLCs came out.
The code is open source (Mozilla Public Licence), it's only the licence for the model weights which prohibits commercial use.

I don't think the concept of open source translates very well to model weights. The "source" is effectively the model architecture (which is freely available) and the training scripts/data (I don't know if these are available or not). With access to those, you can reproduce the weights yourself.

IMO the situation is closer to "source is open, but if you want to use our published binaries commercially, pay us". It's not free/libre, but it's also not unreasonable. Coqui is a small company, and freely releasing the weights for commercial use would deprive them of one of the few revenue streams they have.
Any counter-recommendations?
It seems pretty straightforward. The TSA doesn't focus on competence when hiring, resulting in a less competent workforce. They have an entire department dedicated to prioritizing characteristics unrelated to competence, such as skin color, sex, etc.: https://www.tsa.gov/civil-rights-diversity-and-inclusion.

This is not the case of most countries and in fact, it's illegal in many places to do so.
I'm excited to hear what the new AMD laptops are like
This is an extremely bad way to view a contract.
Wait really
Consider the availability bias: extremes are notable (easily recalled), and so become outsized in evaluations.

Example: It is likely that any given random violent crime was committed by a man. Some are therefore convinced that all men are violent on average, even though it is quite unlikely for any random man to be violent.
They decided to burn their trust with the people that use their tools for a hypothetical short term gain.