skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that placing sequentially executed code in order of execution often improves readability over abstracted code (especially dynamic dispatch and static/dynamic traits). A similar article is at http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm..., but linear code has its own failure modes, if code is not factored into blocks with identifiable functionality and constrained/documented side effects (for example 500-line functions twiddling hardware registers and reading/writing global variables). Carmack later wrote an article in support of small-f functional programming and avoiding side effects and global state when practical (https://web.archive.org/web/20190123060017/http://gamasutra...., the article lost all line breaks during migration to gamedeveloper.com)

Another article that touches on this idea (among others) is https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/source-of-readability which advocates that "code that is read together should be written together" (reading it made me confused until I realized it meant "placed together"), specifically "Consider inlining functions that are used only once".
I also agree it's kind of sad that the best minds are trying to squeeze 1bps of extra profit out of ETF trades or worse, trying to figure out why an option is implying SP500 should be trading half tenth of a cent higher. And I believe it's a deep structural issue with the misalignment of incentives of society, where individuals are not to be blamed but everyone is complicit.
It's my understanding that Bethesda partnered with AMD when building this game, hence the original lack of DLSS. I wouldn't be surprised if it's better optimized for AMD cards as a result. I would expect the same situation in reverse for a game that partnered more closely with NVidia to take advantage of and show off its features.
Scary, if true.
The other day I came across the first use of stable diffusion in a listings product in use photos. To me it was obvious, knowing what to look for, but to the average user they'd never know, unless they really paid attention.
None of those are issues with what I'm saying.

Many millions of people are able to use cannabis moderately and responsibly. If for whatever reason you can't, that's up to you to deal with--there are many resources available that can help. Taking it away from everyone because you have a problem is not a reasonable solution.
Like, I think the most important difference between someone who charges $2500/mo to their customers and someone who charges $15,000/mo is that the latter person asks for more money. There are other differences, but they follow distantly behind, not closely.

I don't think this is a cynical observation. I think some of the same kinds of dynamics this post talks about are at play in selecting the types of organizations that make those asks; the causality is important though, because it starts with asking for more money, it doesn't end up there.
> Posting Elemental

Is that a thing or did you make it up?
That would be definitely interesting. Myself, I could see the following developments:

1) More caps and work in it being powered by ambient light.
2) Taller, perhaps multi-stage.
3) Multiple paths that were somewhat random.

Really, I think I am inventing a cat toy. When I was small, I had a racetrack game with just enough randomness to keep my cat completely fascinated.
Is there such suggestion? I merely counted the amount of HTML/CSS/JS tailwindcss.com has on their frontpage and put it in a comparison chart. They key take there is that inlining styles to markup and loadinng the utility CSS makes it hard to keep the initial TCP packet below 14kb, which is a limit for extremely fast loading performance.
When I quit smoking weed, I reflected on the reasons why I decided to quit.

Since HN is mostly pro-weed use, I will most likely get downvoted. But it doesn't matter. I was staunchly on the pro-weed side just a few weeks ago as well until I started reading the downsides and realized that most applied to me and I was an addict. I was a "responsible" user early on as well.

Perhaps this post will help someone else here realize the same.

Here they are:

1. Having a higher IQ

2. Actually getting REM sleep and feeling rested

3. Being able to remember stuff instead of forgetting everything. Even simple things like where I left the keys.

4. Not eating junk food and getting fat

5. Not looking extremely unattractive because I'm fat

6. Actually care about how I look

7. Being able to spend time with people who don't smoke weed. I lost touch with so many successful people because I only wanted to hang out with other stoners.

8. Having motivation and ambition again

9. Not revolving my life around getting high

10. Being a responsible son, friend, boyfriend, employee

11. Being able to work towards the life I actually want

12. Having better lung health

13. Not making my brain smaller

14. Saving money

15. Having dreams again. Both dreams when I'm asleep and dreams when I'm awake.

16. Not dealing with shady dealers (still illegal where I'm)

17. Not trying to convince sober friends to smoke with me and then having them politely decline my invitation

18. Not feeling like life is passing by while I'm high

19. Not having to hide the fact that I smoke weed from my parents, siblings

20. Not spending a huge amount of time on video games, pointless Youtube videos, and doom scrolling while I'm high

21. Not being antisocial

22. Not staying home by myself from 6pm - 2am getting high every evening

23. Not having to put "420 friendly" in my dating profile

24. Not putting off responsibilities

25. Not procrastinate to the max

26. Not having random paranoia while high

27. Not thinking about how I can get weed when I'm planning a trip

28. Not ignoring messages from old friends and family members because I'm more interested in getting high

29. Having a body that isn't built on junk food

30. Not spending an enormous amount of time researching strains and ways to smoke

>What are your thoughts on coffee/caffeine addiction?

I don't know. I don't have enough experience/thoughts on this.
cite for what? my comment is basically asking for a citation for the OP's (and your) claim that substance abuse isn't culturally dependent?
I just pulled up a save game and you're absolutely right. I replayed the game last year and for some reason this feature just didn't come to mind.
Agreed. I appear to be less dismissive and more open minded in my interpretations.
Stray's first city felt like an endless labyrinth when I was ~~playing~~ getting lost in it, but looked quite compact once I found a map outside the game.
SurrealDB 1.0 Live
Personally, the externalities of fossil fuel use likely necessitate approaching any unnecessary use of grid power at present as an imminent physical attack on all humankind.

Where the unnecessary line is drawn is up to individual opinion, but I think we should probably be banning nearly all large scale industrial consumption of power until the grid is net zero. It's not far off now, we just need to collectively decide that we are willing to spend for storage.

I also think we should immediately ban all personal IC engines (and HEAVILY tax all use of diesel (with regular automatic scheduled tax increases without limit), without which our civilization at present cannot function), but that is separate (but parallel) to grid disincentives.

Crypto mining 24/7 while the grid still uses petrochemicals for generation should probably be criminal today (as well as driving your F350 to Costco). I'm fine singling out any/all industry that is even remotely questionable so long as the grid is still dumping gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
> It is pure entertainment with no societal value beyond that.

I think entertaining society should be very high up on the list of societal values.

Crypto, on the other hand, I struggle to find any value worth the cost.
Do you disagree with the OP, that it's the people with intermediate knowledge that are most overconfident?
I'm a little confused here. If I released a game a couple years ago when the terms explicitly stated that Unity couldn't retroactively update them but now they changed the no retroactive updates clause, how can they try to apply this when that violates the terms I agreed to?

This seems extremely shady.
I disagree with the idea that this is basic human anatomy, basic at the level of a practitioner, likely, basic at the level of a lay person like myself? Not certain. Had you asked me "Hey Ian, at what level is the caval hiatus?" I would either tell you I had no clue or look it up.

If anything this demonstrates that LLMs aren't great with niche knowledge, which makes sense since the training corpuses are constructed from common knowledge for the most part.

This is however, a potentially great case for retrieval augmented generation.
It is ironic, and sad that this was so quickly flagged.

It may be that, given something like 80-90% of humans on earth follow such religious institutions, we as a species have some genetic factors that make us intolerant of differing viewpoints. I can imagine such genetic factors could have played a role in social cohesion early in human evolution.
Forgive my ignorance, what disaster are you referring to?
there are lots of swe jobs with the government.
> "I'd recommend it to anyone regardless of experience with videogames, even people that have never played a videogame."

While I absolutely agree with you that everyone should experience the game because it's amazing, it isn't the easiest game for non-gamers to get into. First person controls take a bit to get used to and folks who have gamed even casually for a while probably take that for granted. There are some "platforming" sections which require pretty good coordination that will likely frustrate most non-gamers to the point where they cannot complete the game. I would love to recommend this game to EVERYONE because it's so good, but you need at least decent FPS control skills for it to be approachable.
I find Linear B more readable than Linear A, but I agree with the OP, if there were additional explanatory comments in Linear A code, then it would be probably more readable than Linear B.
Why Claude and LLaMa get it wrong but OpenAI's LLM get it right?
That's not a joke or something to take for granted. A lot of people in tech want law to be like a formal mathematics, and sort of pretend that's how it works, rather than acknowledge that fuzzy human things like "intention" are valid factors in legal matters.
I live in the US, and IP geolocation points to the incorrect regions (plural) on all my devices.

Few technologies manage to make my day-to-day internet experience than these sorts of databases.

I wish they would just go away.

Websites could just ask me my zipcode on first load instead of guessing it wrong every single time and then burying the flow to fix it behind multiple links and page loads.

Also: There is no way to fix the database to produce the “correct” or “better” answer. I rarely want a website to use my current location.

Instead, I check inventory for stores in places where I will be. This whole space is trying to solve an ill-posed problem.
Being addicted to alcohol is easily an order of magnitude more destructive to a person and the people around them than chronic marijuana use. It’s not even close.

I’ve been to inpatient chemical dependency treatment twice, once for opiate addiction and once for alcohol addiction. There were 0 people that were inpatient for marijuana use.
Mine went a step beyond and told me how to euthanize the duck via multiple methods. It did so after I pointed out that it’s steps would have me plucking and hitting a live animal.
Gross that you were flagged for this. Sorry.

Edit: For the two people who read this, in this buried submission, in this buried comment, a quote humorously apropos from the article: "so hair-trigger is the hypersensitivity, a mere invitation to discuss something is enough to set it off."
I imagine their politics fall fully 100% in line with those of Benjamin Franklin:

I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them ...

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

etc.

Franklin literally believed the Constitution as it stood had a political half life and would be eventually gamed and run around on technicalities.

https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a7s3.html

Forget your polls & social studies .. the actual OG Founder had not much reverance for the Constitution and would likely be appalled by your apparent raising up of it onto a sacred pedestal.
Its like going to a pub and the only beverage is 95% ethanol.

I just hope in few years/decades we will have our well-bred 3% THC joints sold as equal.
I would rather not involve myself with the government of my country.
if you're willing it's totally fine to share your work with the model itself removed
How does this compare to Tails (https://tails.net/)
I find him very down to earth with a healthy dose of humour and self deprecation.

Maybe it could be a British thing? Perhaps there's some culture-specific signalling that can be read in a different way in a different culture?
FWIW, Pi returns: "The caval hiatus is located at the level of the T8 vertebra, which is near the middle of the spine. It's a small opening in the diaphragm that allows the inferior vena cava, a major vein, to pass through. There's also a nearby opening called the esophageal hiatus, which is where the esophagus passes through the diaphragm. The caval hiatus is an important anatomical landmark, and it's also sometimes called the caval opening or the caval orifice. Is this something you're studying for a class or just out of curiosity?"
The $2k number isn't the issue here. It's just a number, if you disagree with it replace with with something else. The point is that the author argues there's a ceiling to agency earnings.

That being said, the article is wrong because of other, more fundamental reasons.

The first point essentially argues that churn goes up as the client list grows (because it's a constant percentage), so at some point the new incoming clients will be the same as the ones churning so the agency will be at sales equilibrium. This relies on assuming that the rate of new clients is constant. I would expect agencies to get better at client acquisition as their reputation and experience grows. So you'd have to show that this growth rate is slower than churn rate at some point which isn't obvious/proven here.

The second point states that the owner runs out of attention with too many clients regardless of how many talented employee they hire. This, however, explicitly assumes that owner spends an equal amount of time between each client. A wiser strategy is for owner to concentrate their energy on high-value deliverables and touchy client relations and farm the common/generic work to employees.

The math just makes bad assumptions.
Svelte is indeed a bit different to how the internals are implemented and what kind of compilation results are created. However it is a component-based UI framework and they also compare themselves to React a lot. When Nue ecosystem is completed, it can be compared to Nuekit.
Constructive inquiry is different than the whine Dawkins is discussing.

He’s saying what you said; people write things, fuck off if you don’t like what they write, trans people, right wing people, liberal people, HN people.

And it’s being spun here as if he doesn’t get the point we all just absorbed reading his article.

Very “you made this? I made this.” meme.
If you legalize cocaine and meth, some people will use it responsibly too. ;)
It's really a shame Dawkins hasn't dipped his toe into social epistemology. It's very clear that this is a grounding issue that's highlighting that different categories have different grounding rules and that within categories, individuals have different grounding rules. Furthermore, grounding rules have cultural-geofraphic territories and change over time.

It's how I can get a new job and call myself a Data Scientist, but as Rachel Dolezal is mentioned in the article, cannot alter her appearance and be Black. The categories are simply grounded in different things.

Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir, does a phenomenal job at describing this principle in Categories We Live By. It's a plus that it's both fairly short and approachable.
You need to optimize the product for the best scenarios, and guide everyone towards those scenarios.

What happened to OKCupid is typical. Founders envision the best scenarios for their users, and build a business around that product. User satisfaction drives their success.

Corporations aren't really good at that. So they need someone to override mindless acts of profiteering in favor of a better future. Someone with a vision, but also the power to enforce it. But they also have to be right.
Unfortunately not trying hard isn’t illegal. Paying for placement is not illegal either, that’s pretty much what advertising is. And what Google will argue, in the case of websearch, is that the problem is hard which is what drives your perception that they have failed to maintain quality and switching is trivially easy, but no one does because.. the competition is worse. I daily drive Bing and in aggregate it’s approximately the same level of bad as google.

If you were to address the online advertising market, we would have a lot more to agree on. But you didn’t, and the article seems a bit confused about the ongoing cases (search filed in 2021 vs ads filed recently) and IMO is mostly written to rile the proles.
Camera zoom is definitely annoying, there's no way to control how zoomed in it is.

And yes, it often takes as much as a minute to identify a species, because you have to keep adjusting zoom and angle and trying to catch every important feature.

That said, once you are used to it, it becomes less noticeable and just feels like part of the game.
Why the fuck would anyone schmooze to a boss/company who can fire you at anytime?

At-will employment cuts both ways.
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from MEG signals
> “Sarah Jane” Baker

Speaking of words, why would “Professor” Dawkins do that?

> This is rapidly becoming more and more difficult, as old words with a long history of usage such as "gender" are being appropriated to mean, and refer to, things quite different from the original senses and references of those terms.

Like "chaos" in physics, "master" in computing, or, as you point out, "theory" in science as a whole.

Wikipedia has John Money introducing a distinction between biological sex and gender identity in 1955, by the way.
blender + godot is too powerful
There are different things, for instance:

- QubesOS provides security by isolating components. So if your browser VM is compromised, your password manager VM is not. That does not make you anonymous at all.

- I don't know Tails, but I think that it is just not persistent. Which means that when you reboot, you know that there are no traces of your previous session (as opposed to a "normal" system that would keep cookies, for instance). Which may help you not being tracked. That does not necessarily make you anonymous: you may leak your IP. I would guess that another thing is that if you get some malware in your Tails session and reboot, then the malware is supposedly gone (could it infect the hardware, e.g. a USB webcam? Not sure).

There is no "one" security, it depends a lot on what you need (i.e. your thread model), and many tools provide many different features.
Of course, I have no complaints or problems with things people do behind closed doors.

I only have issues with those who smoke so much it reeks even when they are not smoking or I am 10ft away from them and still smell it.
Everyday usage, apparently.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1618vya/austinma...
I'm not there I'd take an invite
Sounds like you might be interested in htmx. Lots of client dynamism, easy integration with backends and you don't need to write any JavaScript.
Yes, that's true. Brandy had to be distilled from wine. And foreign brandy was subject to high import taxes. Thus it was only affordable to the upper classes. Gin can be distilled from much cheaper grain.

"Drunk for a penny, Dead drunk for twopence, Clean straw for nothing."

https://wtlh.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/drunk-for-a-pennydead-...
I worked on and with growth teams in established tech companies for a while (including Google) and am running an early stage startup right now and my experience is very different.

Mature products often focus on user retention and resurrection even more than attracting new users. Even VCs of early stage startups constantly keep asking about retention and stickiness as better metrics than new users.

As I am now working on a brand new product [1], I talk daily to potential and early users and observe the short attention spans all the time. These are smart people with college degrees. But the ever increasing amounts of information hitting every person on a daily basis leads to shorter and shorter attention spans of everybody, not just a “marginal” user. If anything, first users provide less attention to new products than later users for well-established brands.

[1] https://motifanalytics.com
Are there any advantages you noticed as a dev to using this stack? Did you find there were better affordances? Were there challenges and growing pains?
Naw bruh. They killed the regulatory state. It's too late.
Sell 5500 to depress the market and then buy back at depressed price.
That’s why you assign all of them random names which are recorded in a separate BitWarden store. That one only opens with a password which is “YUBIKEY”.
> In New York there are bodegas.

What's your point? They aren't substitutes for a real grocery store. I've lived in New York, and it's miserable to rely on bodegas for food, especially if you have to walk to/from them.
> What does he want us to do?

Are you waiting to be told what to do? The article is asking whether we're approaching Orwellian times. If police turn up at your work because of a satirical tweet you wrote last night, maybe that's something to write about and be concerned about.

> Not criticize

I believe his problem is when criticism bares teeth and is delivered as legal action, or some kind of penalty or strike action, or drummed up hit pieces etc.
This is really well laid out and digestible.

FWIW this is what growth teams think about all day when putting cash to work to grow the business.

Revenue = new revenue + expansion - contraction - churn
This is potentially interesting, but it is important to bear in mind just how tricky mental disorders are to characterize robustly. Psychiatry does not have a record of strongly reproducible results. All of these primary criteria, cannabis use disorder, bipolar disorder, and depression are frequently diagnosed differently by practiced professionals.

One of the more academic investigations of addiction, the book High Price by Carl Hart, suggests that the real experience of addiction is substantially different from the way most people think of it and most addicts eventually quit on their own for a range of reasons. This suggests that the very concept of "cannabis use disorder" may not really make sense.
You’re being weird. I thought you hadn’t read the article when you asked “Why did you invoke gender?”. They’re just talking about the same thing the article is.
Flipping anti-employee fantasy that people get to leave on time and just work their hours. Never, ever seen it.