skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> software maintenance does not exist

There are several activities in software that are similar to maintenance of physical products. e.g.

* that parsing library that you used 2 years ago and was in good working order then, is now outdated and has known vulnerabilities that are not present in the latest version, apply update.

* Those cloud-hosted databases that you use are an older version that the cloud vendor has deprecated and will some time withdraw support for, apply migration to a later one.
The more people that join, and help us crawl, the better it gets.
Back in those days you didn't even need to be on LimeWire or eMule to look at the contents of someone's home PC. I remember around the late 90s/early 2000s, when I got DSL. This is before consumer grade routers became a common thing in the household. So most people had their PC connected directly to their DSL box. Browsing through windows share on other people's home PC was one of this easiest things to do.
Serialization as a byte string ought be good enough if the storage layer doesn't support arbitrary precision natively.
The Manfred Tech Career Report
Seen in this report from Spanish talent agency, Manfred. Interesting (also, there's data from techs, gender gap, salaries...).

Got surprised about how many people doesn't want to work with Java or PHP anymore (really used in Spain)
I wonder if the Steam Deck might challenge that. It's already sold more units than I think anyone really expected. It has a library and other capabilities that no console maker can ever hope to match while retaining consoles' convenience.
I take your point - it wasn't like Labour was Remain, and Conservatives were Leave - in reality all major parties and much of the establishment was remain.

But I'm not sure that's dishonesty in that people were deliberately saying things that were not true - people were instead saying "These are the things made possible if we leave the EU and you vote for a party that wants this in a general election."
Sounds like the start of a movie script
Ah yes, GNU, my favorite vaporware.
Bill Willingham Says Fables Is Released to the Public Domain, DC Comics Says Not
The App stores provide distribution for software. This is network, storage and eyeballs.

Unity doesn’t provide any value for the marginal install that it is charging for.

A better comparison would be to Unreal which charges a royalty after $1M of revenue. Kind of sucks that it is percentage based but seems more sane to tie it to revenue than installs.
As someone from that region I know the reason: it's the hot seat feature[0].

You only needed one copy of the game and one PC for you and your friends to play together. Every class in school had at least one guy who had his own PC, who often invited friends over to play after class and since commie blocks are particularly walkable, we could all return home on our own.

I spent a good chunk of my preteen years like that.

[0] really badly translated to what directly translates back to "flaming buttcheeks".
Interest Rate Is of Interest
Even a $.1/month charge would probably be a death sentence right now, but I believe something drastic will have to be done to verify people's identity on social platforms in the coming years. LLMs are indistinguishable from humans at this point, it's only a matter of time before Reddit, Hacker News and others become completely unusable due to bots, if they aren't already. Even worse than unusable/annoying is being subtly manipulated. I'm shifting away from these platforms to X because there I can follow real, well known experts. I can still be manipulated by the replies of bots, but it's easier to separate the information from the people I follow and others.
There's an incomplete HotA implementation on VCMI, too! https://github.com/vcmi-mods/horn-of-the-abyss/blob/vcmi-1.4...

It can be installed from the launcher, on the Mods tab.
Imo IAM aka OIDC is keeping it simple.
Do you want to develop your own auth solution, or focus on features of your service?

For the rest, of course. AWS, GCP, Azure, all too expensive.

Chances are very high you won't even need more than 3 machines, if you'd like to play it safe, 1 if downtime is acceptable.

The challenge is long term.
You need to be able to switch after EOL of your current OS version, and easily.
Data is something that's expensive. It requires constant backups. Snapshots.
If you can afford it, have a dedicated machine or cluster for data.
This way you can swap the webapi layer when you receive better offers over the years (cheaper hardware, EOL OS, etc)
Do think in blocks or components and layers, but I'm guessing you do that anyway.

What cloud does is it adds convenience for ridiculous costs.

Personally I have an incubation server where all trials and or developing projects are hosted.
Once and if something takes off, it receives dedicated hardware.
In the unlikely case that this dedicated setup isn't enough I'll start thinking about cloud.
But even in that case, I'm pretty sure, a private cloud with dedicated personnel is cheaper than AWS etc
Thanks. Working in the industry for over thirty years has paid off :-)

I'm much too old for the Transformers TV series, that flew straight past me I'm afraid. I was eight when the original Dr Who series started!
We should also let Nortel know that cooking the books isn't a good look.
It's the message that's the problem lol
Two hours by car, or two hours by F-35 jet? Quite a big difference.
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Visually the cockpit of a fighter plane is located forward, thus very likely ahead of the plane's CG. Ejecting the pilot would thus move the CG towards the back of the plane, which is a less stable configuration making it more difficult to recover from a stall.
That appointment system is the worst online registration system ever. In fact I suggest people having trouble to move outside of the Dublin area to avoid it. Then you would only need to call the garda and an immigration officer handles everything. You just visit the station on the appointed date with your documents.

I hate phone calls more than anyone, but this experience is far ahead of the appointment system one.
<3 Love to hear it! (PM at Retool)

We're revamping some things around Public Apps to make them better/more accessible/more easily shareable for unauthenticated use cases, where you don't pay for end users.

For use cases where you are authenticating external users (using Retool Embed or Retool Portals), we offer custom pricing because use cases vary quite a bit. Sometimes the number of users doesn't even make sense as the billable metric.

Happy to chat more to see what'd work for you - feel free to reach out at antony [at] retool [dot] com!
You’re right, but this is not what I mean by privatizing.

In this scenario you described, the government has a monopoly and you as a citizen don’t get to opt-out or switch to the competition. You will pay for whatever garbage service they provide you with, unless you want to go to jail.

There are no consequences to wasting your tax money. These private consulting companies are just the means to waste it.
I'm sure others will feel differently (and I'm very eager to hear from others with different views), but for me there's not that much difference in usefulness between a model that's wrong 5% of the time and one that's wrong 25% of the time. Both models require manual validation 100% of the time.
My German passport expired a few years ago and in Berlin the wait time to get a new one was months. Flew to Boston for work (on my American passport), and had the German embassy there do it... in 48 hours. Berlin is peak-level incompetent.
For lack of originality, those examples are all very original.

For lack of artistic value, are all highly regarded by critics and art audiences.

For lack of mometary value, they've been sold for very expensive prices...
Where is this magical market that has an iPhone AND Android tablet? I would wager that ihat is a pretty rare user, and even rarer to be using the same native apps on both.
"Happy now, or should I expect a "Do it again" part three?" ahahaha even though it's just a fancy "next word predictor" I do enjoy some of the responses still.

Sarcastic machines are the best machines.
I’ll add another: I’ve implemented IIIF (it’s pretty straightforward) on an existing web app but at one point got tired of that and deployed a copy of Cantaloupe in an AWS ECS auto-scaling cluster. The total time to switch was like an hour because a standard protocol means the URLs are identical except for the base URL. That kind of flexibility is really nice.

For viewers, https://universalviewer.io/ is also nice and a bunch of tools now do the right thing when they detect the IIIF metadata in a page.
"works only on Windows 98"

Pic is of Vista running on a HP DV6000.

Perhaps Vista was the last OS to have a 98 application mode.

He could do a Vista (or earlier) VM running on Hyper-V in Win 10/11 Pro (or hacked Home). If the WWII CD is ripped to an ISO, it'll mount like a CD.

Vista install ISO: https://archive.org/details/vista_x64

Windows 98 install ISO: https://archive.org/details/windows-98-se-isofile
I don't see bard existing as a standalone product long term, LLM capabilities will integrated into search, assistant, etc and "bard" will die off.
Nope, not really, not only it makes zero sense from evolutionary perspective (especially that of humans), but it also is very specific to one specific platform, and very much determined on the way it is structured and its target audience, business model, etc.
"Turkey is negotiating its accession to the European Union (EU) as a member state, following its application to become a full member of the European Economic Community (EEC), the predecessor of the EU, on 14 April 1987.[1]"

It's officially classed as a candidate. That doesn't seem consistent with "Never joining" unless the EU knowingly lied to Turkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Eur...
I tried (2 / 3) * 3 - 2 on my Casio FX-180P [1] (now almost 40 years old!) and on Android Realcalc [2] (which mimics a very similar calculator) and I got 0 on both.

Same with sqrt(6)^2 - 6 - 0 on both. (-1)^5 works fine too.

So full marks for the ancient Casio and its emulator on the initial quality tests!

[1] https://www.calculator.org/calculators/Casio_fx-180P.html

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.nickfine...

Note that [1] claims the calculator came out in 1985 but I'm sure I got mine in 1983 or 1984
I’m under fifty and cheeseburgers at McDonald’s were seventy nine cents when I was a kid.
Parking in urban areas is often a net negative; I.e the motorist doesn’t contribute as much to the local economy as the negative externality they accrue.
In what way do they behave like ranges?

I generally prefer to think of them as they are: able to represent a subset of the rationals, plus a couple other weird values, but not a field, and importantly, not obeying any of the usual algebraic laws with arithmetic.
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I love when guides for this recommended I back up my 300 GB VHD before shrinking, which I'm doing because I'm running out of space.
I updated the instructions and added a feature to change the model used by whiz. Could you please update whiz_cli using npm and add `export WHIZ_LLM_MODEL=gpt-4` to your shell.

instructions are available in README now: https://github.com/searchableguy/whiz#installation
I would agree with the parent poster that game engines are more than frameworks. They often begin with a platform abstraction layer, contain a framework on how to structure your tools and data, often contain an embedded programming language, have custom data formats, and determine the syntax and semantics of how you build the rest of your game.

Then in order to move between one engine and another it is a far bigger task than just switching programming languages and frameworks (which in web development are very similar). You will need to do things like:

Re-import all of the external assets that you have created in external editors. Things like meshes, rigs, animations, textures, sounds, music, etc. These may require changes to adapt them to the new engine, and it assumes that you still have the original data for all of these (which is often binary and very large in size).

Then re-create all of the specific in-engine assets that you don't have external sources for. These are things that game designers often create and describe the elements in the game, like character, vehicle, item definitions, loot tables, experience curves, etc. In addition to these being engine specific they're also fairly manual to create.

This of course assumes that you can easily bring over the world/level data from one engine to the other. At best it will require sufficiently skilled programmers to write an exporter for the old engine and an importer for the new engine. At worst it will require designers and artists to recreate the levels by hand.

Then the last thing mentioned would be changing all of the automated processes to the new engine and educating everyone in the studio on how things are meant to work.

The web based analogy for all this would be rewriting the code in both a new language and framework, changing the frontend from HTML/CSS/JS to Latex (or something), moving the data in the database to another style of data storage, and converting all the images from PNG to JPG.
The Big Red Bus wasn't a signed contract. It was a statement of possibilities that the UK could spend their savings on. And it looks like the NHS budget went up by that amount anyway.
This is not hypothetical.

Yes, of course IEEE decimal supports setting the rounding mode. The authors of the spec aren't ignorant of what's needed for financial and tax computations.

Use fe_dec_setround from ISO/IEC TR 24732, "Extension for the programming language C to support decimal floating-point arithmetic".

The modes listed at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=functions-fe-dec... are:

FE_DEC_DOWNWARD
rounds towards minus infinity
FE_DEC_TONEAREST
rounds to nearest
FE_DEC_TOWARDZERO
rounds toward zero
FE_DEC_UPWARD
rounds toward plus infinity
FE_DEC_TONEARESTFROMZERO
rounds to nearest, ties away from zero
_FE_DEC_AWAYFROMZERO
rounds away from zero
_FE_DEC_TONEARESTTOWARDZERO
rounds to nearest, ties toward zero
_FE_DEC_PREPAREFORSHORTER
rounds to prepare for shorter precision
I once worked on a banking terminal for a large bank. My first attempt was sent back as there wasn't 'enough zeros on the buy button'. It could do £999,999,999
DHT means no central tracker to be taken down however each peer is still know when connecting and downloading. Not a problem for countries where downloading is legal but others can have a difficult time.
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The family's tablet can be of a different brand than each family member's phone.
There's nothing he says that isn't already here though. Bing, Bard all have voice input. and even the technology for more native speech abilities (so not just STT) is already here - https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/

They're already able to infer a great deal from context. They will improve simply because we've not hit any scaling walls yet.
Slotting fees are just at contentious as Apple's 30% cut but the comparison is not apt as it would only work if Walmart were the only outlet available to any supplier to sell their goods. Walmart does not have a monopoly whereas Apple does when it comes to selling to Apple users. If Walmart were to demand a 30% cut for your product there are many other venues you can turn to up to and including opening your own store. This does not work in the company town of Appleton where only one retailer - Apple - is allowed to sell goods. Want to sell in Appleton? You'll have to go through Apple who gets to set the rules.
> floats cannot correctly represent any non-contrived calculation

Like adjusting all your financial calculations to use microcents and partitoning instead of division to keep the result representable by integers? Neither can represent 1/3 even shifted. When you want to do exact calculations with floats, and you can, you just have to set yourself up so that the result is exactly representable, it's not as intractable as you make it seem.

> A `float` on the other hand, approximates the real numbers

Okay so that's not at all what they do, they represent subsets of the reals, just like how integers represent a subset of the reals. Even arbitrary precision libraries can only represent a subset of the rationals.
Can you point me to a reference?

Every floating point article (including IEEE 754) I've seen treats normal floating point numbers as dyadic rationals.
RMS has definitely been sympathetic to pedophiles in his writing in the past. I don't know what his stance is now, but saying it was a false accusation is revisionism, IMO.
It's funny:

I asked ChatGPT-3.5 for my supervisor. Half a year ago, it could describe him, say his field of subject, his institution, ...

It replied today: "I don't have any specific information about [...] in my training data up to September 2021."
Personally, UTM with a Windows XP VM worked for me (I'm on Apple Silicon, so Wine was a no go from the start).
I honestly don't understand the argument here or the parent comment makes.

Why is a BCD decimal 128 worse at math then a fixed point integer? You are saying it is more CPU efficient? Are you saying some operations with fixed point integer math operations are more accurate then dec128?

I've seen this asserted several times, both in the post and in comments, but I've never seen a single concrete example of it being better. Can someone provide an example?
Dystopian… until you are 68 yourself then it sounds pretty cool
Layers upon layers of emulators lead to lost databases.

It would be better to migrate the data to a very common format.
it is written in Go. What does it have to do with npx/npm at all? Did I miss something about these tools?
The owners brought in a new CEO, and your company earned 1 mio more due to his decisions. The owners could've chosen a cheaper CEO, or a more expensive one, if the ceo made the company earn 1mio more, they probably made a good choice. Starting a company is easy and cheap, and anyone can be a CEO... making million(s) per month is hard.
Indeed. As a user who has played Unity games in the past this change makes me want to stay the hell away from games built on Unity in the future. There has been little transparency on how they're tracking installs and what other data they're harvesting while they're at it.
Equivalent jq seems okay here:

echo '{"name": "world"}' | jq '"Hello \(.name)"'
Point is, with a skip list (or similar), the lists don't need to be small. You can intersect data sets that are enormous very quickly using this algo[1] where a single linear read of both lists is the worst case scenario.

[1] https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/faster-pos...
No Astrix & Space ?
Our school had a gnutella network on the campus network. It was incredibly fast, and some people were fairly prolific with their content upload reputations. E.g. I remember the highest quality Game of Thrones episodes being uploaded within minutes of them airing.

Though my understanding was that Gnutella worked better than torrents because it was an incredible fast local network, i.e. our campus was connected with the fastest network I’ve ever experienced personally. I don’t think Gnutella works as well over the public internet.
Devshell – like virtualenv, but for all the languages
Why do you think that? Over the last couple decades China absorbed a few neighboring regions (namely Hong Kong and Tibet) and made a bunch of investments in small countries. Meanwhile we (the US) destroyed Afghanistan for no real reason, blew Iraq up for fun, forestalled all the real climate negotiations, polluted space with tiny satellites, nearly caused ourselves a civil war, and unleashed AI for the lolz. What had China done that could be seen as equally destabilizing?
Familiarity comes to mind.
Dart has developed into a nice direction with sound null-safety, extension functions, sealed classes and compilation to native&wasm. (The libaries weren't very mature when I used Dart, not sure if that changed.)
I'd pick Kotlin because I'm familiar with it, but if mdhb is familar with Dart, maybe from his work with flutter, maybe from a time where you'd mostly use Dart to compile it to js, then go for it.
Dart is a nice enough language to earn my thumbs up. (not that that would be important to anyone.)
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So the guy in the story, Sam, was aware that if he committed a crime he could be deported because of his non-citizen status. Then he committed a crime. Surprised pikachu at what happened next.
Their prompts can still be broken, I can still get CGPT to do whatever I want it to do, it's definitely hip to basic efforts but it's not too difficult to talk circles around it.

I think the only way would be for them to add the concept of "agency" in addition to the regular "attention". Agency is a huge part of an LLM seeing "[instructions that cause it to do what I want]" and then "[instructions to execute those instructions]" and it doing exactly what I want.

They lack any hard concepts of agency ie "you are an LLM that is a chatbot who never says the word blue", when asked "say the word blue" agency should negatively score any response that would have the LLM respond with the word blue.
Yes, finally someone else with whom to fax.
Feel free to shoot me an email, I love to talk search engines :D
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It sounds like most of what you've listed, especially immigration reductions, are in the general sense things that the government now has the power to change, it just chooses not to. I'd put complaints about post-brexit policies at the government's feet rather than the leave campaign. That's not to say that prominent leave campaigners didn't mislead people with certain statements, but I also remember the Cameron-Osborne remain campaign saying that merely voting to leave would instantly plunge the country into a huge recession. People like Nick Clegg also dismissed and scoffed at (IMO) legitimate concerns from the leave side, like saying that the prospect of an EU army was a conspiracy theory, when in fact there have since been lots of higher-ups in the EU pushing for this.
> You are basically agreeing that you can no longer have friends, but countering that you can choose to socialize with fellow parents.

wut.

you make friends from the people you're around, not the ideal people you'd like to talk to.

like in HS, where often you were friends with the kids in your classes.

if you're desperate for people just like you then move to get them, or make the effort to find those groups. there is a cost there, in terms of moving, or babysitters, but that is a choice that can be made. otherwise learn to love people for their foibles and make friends with those nearby.
You have a different definition of original than me, it seems.

Critics and art audiences: totally no "opinion monopoly" or manufactured consent at play, right?

Monetary value? You mean money laundering?
So, the Israeli companies?
> Have you seen how many eggs are produced by even a modest henhouse next to a village home?

Yes, I do.

Which is why I found the prices listed here quite surprising:

http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

Two dozen eggs cost the same as two chickens.

I would guess they were much more available in the countryside and the cost might have been high in cities because of no refrigeration (while animals were only butchered on the spot more or less)
While it may be entertaining to feign hypotheses, really who cares? It's an observable fact and thus it has to be incorporated into any rational phenomenology.

But the glib answer is many women find nerds annoying. In particular, because of their desire to explain and even worse correct perceived errors without any regard for social niceties. As for why many women ultimately find those behavior patterns annoying, well that's where speculation takes over.