skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how long do we wait til we decide we know better? Do we stop everything? How long is long enough?

I agree with your premise and not with the threshold.

To make an analogy: you give a kid a bike and only teach them balance as they ride it.

Someone who has a “nothing can hurt me” mentality will jump on, go down hills, jump through bushes, etc. It’s most likely that they would break bones and possible that they die before learning what they need to know to be safe (enough).

Someone who has an overcautious mentality may try to fully understand the physics of bike riding before venturing past the lawn. It’s likely they won’t get hurt at all and it’s possible that they simply never ride outside the yard.

In my opinion, both are negative outcomes.

However: if someone is of the right mentality they will experiment safely, seek to understand enough of the physics to know the dangers, and take on challenges that are appropriate for their level. They will probably get hurt and might even break a bone but they will be able to recover and keep riding.

In my opinion, if we put genuine care and attention in to thinking about system complexity before/as we progress we can avoid many of the “obvious” problems without having to stop everything. I agree that there’s no way to avoid all potential fallout, but I think we can stay with consequences we can recover from if we accept that it means seeing ourselves as a part of a much bigger picture.
My experience with overseas developers is that the communication tends to be worse on average. There are lots of exceptions. Many very good communicators who work very hard. Most aren't cheap. Written English is a very important skill for developers. Hard but not impossible to find elsewhere. In the case the communication is not worse, the difficulty of getting everyone together in one place sucks. If you don't care about team harmony, the lack of geographic proximity makes accountability harder in general as there's very little you can do regarding bad behaviour if your contractor is overseas.

And if he knows where to find large numbers of skilled technical contractors familiar with engineering systems for scale, have excellent written and spoken English, who are able to travel regularly, are highly accountable and willing to work for well below the US market rate, I applaud him.

And if the more realistic case is true and he knows how to point some poor sap from Pakistan he hired from Upwork for $15 an hour at his swanky new mobile app, I wish him the best.
Also, no income tax, which suits retirees well, and low housing costs.

The income tax thing is perplexing to me - you need to pay somehow, no? Without a graduated income tax, probably you are paying more tax overall (unless you are in the top 1%).
Boeing tracks every part in every airplane.
So instead of having one surgen work 100 hours, a novel concept might be 3 at 33.3 hours?
Thank you, I appreciate it! A few quick questions:

1. How are benefits/compensation? Competitive?

2. Are there a lot of international remote employees at SongTradr? Bandcamp has a lot of people around the globe and we'd love to know if SongTradr is likely to make offers internationally or if it'll just be near offices.

3. Do you like working there?
maybe at a 100Hz clock rate?
The writer of this is from the vitalist skull-measuring(phrenology) part of the Internet. Disappointed.

https://substack.com/@stoneageherbalist
For sure, but do we want the academic publishing landscape to be an oligopoly?
You can cause the same problems from another thread in the same process, or even from the same thread. The fact that an OS process boundary is involved isn't relevant- you simply don't form the &str if some other part of the system has that kind of access to it, whether or not the OS is involved.

The point of Rust's type system here is that it makes that distinction at all, not that the one side of that distinction has additional invariants.
It's a shame (and puzzling really) that Apple only offers lossless on the streaming side and not on the purchase side. I don't need a physical CD, just the bits on it.
There are objective truths in the world. Or, to be more precise, there are objective truth's in each person's "world", their sense of reality. "1 + 1 = 2" is objectively true given a certain system of axioms and theorems that are generally understood. Yes, you need to include that context to be objective, but that doesn't make it invalid. Another objective fact that I can confidently say is that I can think. Does that mean I know I'm not living in a simulation? Of course not, but some way or another, my perception of the world includes my thoughts. I can't prove to you that I think, because Hacker News might just be glitching and sending this reply to you (or maybe it's the simulation overseers, ha!), but I know that I think. How? Because I think. Why? I don't know and I don't care that much.

> You might say that there is an objective reality or truth regardless of whatever anyone else says, but you can’t prove that

I get what you mean here, and I agree, but it's untrue that "1 + 1 = 2" can't be objectively true. It can, as long as certain semantics are applied. A sufficiently smart alien that understands what we mean by "1", "+", "=", "2", the set of integers, what a field is, and so on can only reasonably conclude the same. It also isn't objectively true that there are no objective truths in the sense of "racism bad". We can't know if it's objectively true, but given the context of, well, the world, maybe it is an objective truth. Not that it matters, since we can't know, but still. Although you could argue that those statements shouldn't be considered statements anymore.
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I don't know if you are serious but I suspect without a peaceful geopolitical resolution we may see WWIII arrive within a few years. And it will be dominated by superintelligent weapons control systems directing swarms of autonomous weapons.

And there is pressure to make them more and more autonomous because humans in the loop are too slow.

It doesn't seem like a safe direction.

I know that governments can be generally terrible and a world government is a lot of people's worst nightmare. But the alternative might be SkyNet. Or WWIII and then SkyNet.
Will open source get me a job
Hi I'm unemployed with no degree in my mid 20's but I've been coding for 8 years, and I'd say I'm pretty good at it now. I did not manage my time very well and I regret it.
I have 19 project in my github. None of them are presentable or significant. However, I've built a project in Svelte that I know would be popular in the community and it's pretty impressive, technically.

A) Should I just manage this project as open source and will that get me a job?
B) Should write it in a more popular language/framework(React/Go/..)?
C) My efforts are futile and I should just get a degree?

Bonus question: Where do I apply with my github?
I don't think so. Epic also spun off SuperAwesome today, who are not unionized.
And the related Metafont converges to e.

Knuth for the transcendental win!
The challenges at Snap seem to have nothing to do with interest rates and more to do with a challenging ad market, which has affected pretty much all the major players, including Meta & Google.

I don't think it's so much that Snap hasn't figured out a business model - they make a billion dollars in revenue per quarter, how many companies can claim that? - it's that Snap hasn't developed a rational balance sheet due to excessive SBC. If it wasn't for SBC, they would be making money hand over fist.

Snap & PINS are two interesting case studies in how companies in a similarly challenging ad market can have potentially different strategies and outcomes. Both have very depressed stock prices, but both have a clear path to having a sustainable and highly profitable business.

Again, interest rates seem pretty irrelevant to the fate of both companies, only as much as low interest rates encourage economic investment and can fuel the digital ad market.
I'm interested in knowing what will happen to the million instances of discord image URLs copied and pasted somewhere else on discord. Discord just displays these as images (as they do every image URL), which might result in a great many broken images from the perspective of a lot of users.
And transcoding and archiving.
What in Miami compares to NYC, other than winter weather (I much prefer NYC winters to Miami summers!)? Food? Culture? Energy? Transit? Crime (much lower in NYC, iirc)? Schools (NYU, Columbia, etc. etc.)? Arts? Music? Parks? Architecture? Dynamism? Workforce talent?

I understand NYC isn't for everyone, and I don't criticize people for living elsewhere, but it's hard to compare ....
Talking about Mastodon in terms of it being "the new Twitter" is the wrong framing.

Twitter is not replicable. It was a central chokepoint for a lot of journalists and programmers, but that Twitter is gone. Nothing will replace it. In fact, given how poorly that place was run (even, arguably, before Musk shat on it), I don't think anything should.

Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky will all occupy their own corners of the social networking space. If they all adopt ActivityPub then they sort-of merge together, depending on how the instance operators decide they want that interoperability to happen.

(FWIW, a lot of Mastodon instance operators have already said "hell no" to Threads interop.)
User value and company revenue, in general, form a [pareto frontier](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front). The company can pick an "angle" (trade off some user value for more profits and vice-versa) but both extremes are bad in the long term. They need to strike a balance.

A company that continuously invests their efforts on maximum revenue subtraction eventually pushes their users out. Similarly, a company that invests too much into research and present user satisfaction, particularly when users don't pay for the product, is set to have some financial and economical problems in the future.

I think this is borderline ethical. For sure it's over 9000 in the Maquiavellian scale (I mean the gymnastics behind "please don't say that this is us pushing for worse results, that's a very negative message" are genius and I can see that working really well under certain circumstances in a corporate setup), but that doesn't mean that it's unethical _necessarily_.
Under normal conditions, I'd agree, but the Very Online (But Non Technical) specifically have a chip on their shoulder about not wanting to pay for online services, even at a fair value.
Those bad mp3 cymbals and the wash of noise...

Higher bit rates (and probably improved encoders) help though.
RDP will also send a video stream depending on what's happening on screen. It'll try to detect the appropriate transfer mechanism as chunked screen updates increase and decrease in frequency, assuming both sides support the necessary protocol versions.

Video streams can be a real issue if you're working over a slow connection, especially when your application is using small text. RDP will handle remote GUIs much better, as low bitrates tend to make text unreadable.

Of course RDP also supports streaming individual applications.

Personally, I think RDP is undefeated at what it was designed for: controlling desktop GUI applications. On Linux, that's not the case, though, and xpra will provide a very good alternative.

However, I find very few good xpra clients outside of Linux distros. For example, when I look for xpra in Google Play, the first three options are Microsoft's RDP client, two X11 servers, and RealVNC. F-Droid lists nothing at all. I suppose u could try the HTML5 client but it's kind of a bummer. The situation seems to be the exact inverse of RDP: very good Linux server, difficult to use Windows clients on all other platforms.
Fine, but it's not at all a typical or necessary part of life in most of the US. We do not need to be basing policy off of the "need" for teenagers to work when it affects tens of thousands of family's dinner tables.

Besides, what decade were you 15 in?

Finally, I don't think child labor is the answer to the forced isolation of car-dependent infrastructure.
Amtrak owns about 3/4 of the tracks between Boston and DC, so those will be their most reliable. That’s what I use it for the most. From my experience, that’s also more expensive than other trips, but I haven’t done an extensive comparison.

Elsewhere, on tracks that are owned by others, especially commercial companies, Amtrak may not get priority, so things get dicier.
As of a few months ago, Reddit no longer allows linking directly linking to their hosted images. You are directed to a pseudo-page that links back to original thread it was posted in.

This sucks because it's now not possible to use the browser's built-in image viewer which has better UX.

I am expecting them to eventually put ads on the page as well.

Random example: https://i.redd.it/144knacbw3rb1.jpg
In this fragment here:

// This looks like info about the system's satellite internet connection.
"sat_commlink_portal": {
// The connection is okay!
"status": "conn_ok",
// I'm not sure what this time is.
// It hasn't changed at all.
"time": "Sun Sep 24 22:02:19 2023"

The "time" field could be the timestamp of when the status field last changed. That's the most obvious thought anyway. :)
This is just awesome … I hope it survives all the budget cut etc. let’s archive it.
It's probably true if you assume every "first commit" project starts at 0.0.1. I don't think they put much thought into justifying it though.
Love things like this!
Yes, that is my impression. The odd thing is that the endless repetition disinformation machine works so well, 'centrist' Dems pick it up. NYC suburbs voted Republican because of the 'crime' in the city.
The rumour is that this happened without any Bandcamp staff aware, even executives, so it's different in that we're all in the dark.
MAME - the truly excellent everything emulator - is version 0.258, having first been released in 1997.
Also it’s so well written that you don’t need zillions of bug fixes like you always see in kicad and librepcb
lightdm, looks like. I'm not entirely sure how, but I've got some hacky version of unity still chugging along.
I would. We could tax everyone like $20 a year and basically double federal Amtrak grants.

Or we could reallocate existing money, maybe stop subsiding people to grow corn to make gas and spend that money on improving railroads. Or buy one fewer F-35 every year or something. Lots of options, we don't spend very much on Amtrak right now.
>How comprehensive is the part library?

I don't care as long as it has the usual industry standard footprints. For anything unusual I can make my own footprints.

>Is there auto-routing? How good is it?

I don't care, I won't use it. It's all garbage compared to what a human can do.

>"Import formats: DXF". For what, the board outline?

Yes, or silkscreen graphics or other unusual copper pours. Some people don't even mount components on the PCB, they use it as an artistic medium.

>"Export formats: PDF, SVG, pixmap, BOM, pick&place, Gerber/Excellon". None of which have enough info for import into another EDA program.

These are the only formats I need.

Been using KiCad but I'll take a look at LibrePCB.
"We get sued all the time, so how could we have known this was a special case?"
In one recent bit of research I saw, FL's net population grew quickly, but they actually lost a lot too (and gained more, of course).
The ruling also documents a pattern of Google performing badly in discovery which suggests that it is a strategy.
In my undergrad at University of Michigan it was combined. I do not remember if we covered it but I was already exposed to industry at that time and was far more advanced in the practical than the rest of the class.

The benefits of algorithm selection only really started to become apparent after years of experience and know-how in what _exactly_ an application requires or intends to be used as. Knowledge that is skipped at all levels of computer science education.
Removed the audio jack, what the?

That's a fundamental misunderstanding by the hardware designers of what Raspberry pi is.

Raspberry Pi has jumped the shark.
PuTTY is surprisingly popular among hardware hackers, for quickly testing serial devices.
If Evan sold Snap to Facebook when Mark wanted to buy it, Snap would have been turned into what is Instagram today. Mark & Facebook really only have one trick when buying companies - turn them into a newsfeed and make everything public and push celebrities and public figures to use the platform.

Instagram and Snapchat today are two fundamentally different products, and Snapchat is estimated to capture more of the younger demographics in more markets.

Sure, you can say that Instagram today has about 100 billion valuation compared to 15 billion for Snapchat, but the race is far from over. Snap recently exceeded a 100 billion valuation as recently as 2021.
Trust: I already have to trust Mozilla to design, write, and maintain a minimally safe browser written in a memory unsafe language that also properly supports Ublock Origin just so the web doesn't appear like a bunch of blinking Las Vegas signs. If they can do that, they can probably also maintain an instance of a social network written in a memory safe language (and probably hack on it, too).

Bus factor: they have more employees than can fit into a single bus

Communication: whether its web docs or an article about some clever Firefox internal, Mozilla's communication is typically clear and fun to read. If something goes wonky on their instance, or even if some part of the Mastodon is wonky enough that it messes with the UX of their instance, their write-up will almost certainly explain things in clear language, even for a neophyte.

Laziness: what would you rate as the easiest and most obvious choice of instance for an American who knows nothing about Mastodon? Let's set up a time to discuss this over tea. In the meantime I'll go on the waiting list for Mozilla's instance and probably nothing bad will happen as a result.
It would be a transcendental tragedy, because those versions only truly become transcendental when Knuth dies. :(
Snap consistently has excessive SBC - their stock awards are top in the industry.
In general, yeah, “small CL” means don’t touch a lot of files or lines of code in the same changelist (which is the unit of review and submission to the repo).

Mechanically, open CLs started retaining edit history, so they felt more like feature branches than just staging areas. I think Perforce style branches (rename my subtree using these rules) still existed but were discouraged and not well supported.
Midjourey's ungodly amount of images would still be kept on the Discord servers. Just not directly fetchable though. The way to slow that would be some pricing on commercial bots doing things like file uploads.

They got a community showcase but that's a few stuff only.
> The ruling also documents a pattern of Google performing badly in discovery...

So, Google is bad at finding things.
why separate houses instead of one large home?
I don't remember privacy being a significant part of the discussion about the Freenode takeover and the subsequent founding of Libera.chat. My memory is that the hostile takeover was a big problem for some, and the majority of the exodus happened when Andrew went crazy and started hijacking channels and banning people en masse.
>rest have toxic content and users. The large servers have maintained a block policy resembling old Twitter. Unless we want a festering swamp of toxicity, that seems like a fair compromise. Anyone desperate for Gab can join Gab.

This is why Mastodon is doomed. Instead of being a common carrier, it seeks to make a network free of 'toxicity'---whatever that means.

Anything that crosses over into regulating perfectly legal speech will draw the exact people who shouldn't be regulating perfectly legal speech.
This is so much more impressive than the Apple demo.

I’m sure some people are Apple are freaking out. Meta has a 10X more affordable product on the market.

They are all in on spatial computing and AI.

The future is exciting indeed.

I’m reading Snowcrash again and just been blown by how fiction is turning into reality.

Raven: “You wanna buy some Snow Crash, man?”

Hiro: “Snow Crash?”

Raven: “It’s the most expensive drug there is.”
> auto-routing

Side question: Has anyone used Wave Function Collapse for auto-routing?

Apologies if this is a “bad” approach. I have yet to make my first PCB. I’m suggesting it because I’m inspired by the impressive results in the game Townscaper.
> It’s not that it’s taboo or no one cares, it’s that we’re weary of the motivations of people bringing it up and how they frame this history.

The same thing is true in the United States and Canada of Native Americans.

Nobody brings it up of course but tribes extinguishing other tribes completely was a fact of life. It isn't unique to Europeans.
> I'm no apologist for Russia

false

> dozens of Fox-news style commentators on US media and talk radio who haven't said similar things before

show one

> The asshats on Russian media saying these things are basically the Russian equivalent of that crap.

Yeah. Read this channel. https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/170716092435045600...

Then repeat your lies.
Related recent thread with lots of reply-all anecdotes:

* @gmail.com (xkcd)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333848
They couldn't put ads on the search results so they didn't serve them to the DoJ.
Things can change. There was a time when search was something that Google was good at.
MotionLM: Multi-Agent Motion Forecasting as Language Modeling
No, keep --help on stdout. There's a good chance we want to pipe it to grep or less and having to write the 2>&1 incantation is a perfect way of scaring newbies off
If the 'business model' of the CPCs is to pretend they're abortion clinics when they're not, then a business search engine would want to distinguish between the two for it's clients, who aren't interested in visiting a bait-and-switch centre.
Compete in terms of what? Spending at least 5 extra hours before and after you travel in order to just get stuffed inside a tube and get treated like sht?
Blood test for Parkinson’s disease developed by detecting mtDNA damage
> Because in my layperson's eyes that's the difference between math and theoretical physics.

Not really. The distinction, to the extent that there even is one, is mostly a matter of motivation and methodology. Broadly generalizing: mathematical physicists (i.e. mathematicians) are interested in physical theories that seem like they might need interesting new mathematical tools to understand, while theoretical physicists are interested in theories that seem like they might have something to tell us about the true structure of whatever the object of interest is. There are other differences downstream of this, of course:

- mathematical physicists are rigorous while theoretical physicists will let it lapse if that gets them physically correct answers

- physicists care less about inconsistencies in theories they know are wrong anyway

- mathematicians stay long after all the physical content has been mined out (a significant fraction of just-plain-mathematics is the end result of this process)

and so on. But you can find people anywhere between these poles.

Witten can (and sometimes does) produce world-class mathematics when he wants to, but most of his work is on the physics side of the spectrum.
What if you searched "best canon camera 2023" and clicked the top (shitty probably ai generated) result https://www.bestcanoncamera2023.com? Do you think you would want to go back to that great site when you continued your research the next day?

I could see there being a lot of queries where the search is the preferred thing to repeat.
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