skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, agreed. In the US the incentives are against repairs, not for. I don't know enough about cars to have an opinion on whether Tesla-style cast bodies will result in more cars being written off with similar damages to other fairly expensive cars.
Elite 3 (aka First Encounters) was before my time. Braben kept wanting to get another Elite project going, but there was barely enough resource to do a decent job of the two games that were already in development at the time (Dog's Life and Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo). Most of the staff had been promised that another Elite game was imminent when they were hired. None of us could quite understand why we were making two games about dogs when we owned the Elite franchise. I still don't understand. Probably something to do with Money and Business Deals.
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
Maybe it’s the language and phrasing that implies 1 of the 2 extremes.

1. Self made, implying it was solely the efforts of a said persons OR

2. Product of timing, luck, circumstance, implying there was nothing special about what the said person did.

Reality is it’s probably often a mix of both. The person had help, the right environment etc but also talent and put in hard work. Maybe there is a better phrase than “self made”. “Through effort and circumstance”, but catchier.
Being a good web denizen: Don't strip EXIF metadata from photos
https://archive.ph/Y3OAM
Also not saying it's illegal.

The non-zero mean and relatively small standard deviation (0.4 sigma) make all the difference here.

I'd say the ethics and legality are entirely determined by how this distribution was determined and if it's consistent with promises to customers.
When I'm aiming for elegance, I like to define NAND as an N-ary function:

nand() = false

nand(x, ...) = !(x && !nand(...))

That eliminates the problem of needing arbitrary constants.
1. The study in question is from ahip, which is a trade association of health insurance providers. They have an incentive to push the blame of high healthcare costs on other companies, so claims by them should be taken with a grain of salt.

2. The above link doesn't actually actually provide the study, or mention the methodology. However searching around[1] it looks like similar claims in the past have issues, mainly due to how expenses are categorized in financial statements. Specifically, advertising/marketing spend is often lumped together with general and administrative spend, which overstates that figure.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16472/do-typica...
Monster magnet meets blood [video]
Then you can't claim they both rhyme, because I didn't provide that context...
Love these kind of memes!
Funny we call them terrorists while hundreds of millions view them as freedom fighters trying to liberate their lands. I wonder if the East and the West are destined to just always collide. The staunch support by the western governments for their permanent-colony experiment in Palestine (ie Israel) is what leads to millions of Middle Easterners continually hating western governments.
Even in the US there are enthusiasts who buy and restore super cars for cheap (relatively speaking). There are several crafty YT channels showing the process from start to finish.
You've probably just got different understandings of the term "random."
Haskell is Faster Than C?
I think it’s more so that when you are an expert in a particular system and you have very little bureaucracy/overhead in any particular task you’re able to get a lot more done.

I was watching a video from one of the creators of Fallout and he was talking about how things that used to take a day now take 2 weeks for similar sort of reasons: https://youtu.be/LMVQ30c7TcA?si=eJm_u-i1xwttfcRL

Our industry in general has added a lot of overhead and bureaucracy and does everything overly cautiously in comparison to back then. Things take exponentially longer to do in software development today. You can also observe this in how long it takes a startup to build a feature vs a FANG company.
> Among his sycophants is Michael Lewis, author of ...

Also Flash Boys, which was basically a book-length advertisement for the IEX exchange.
> Protip. If you are committing fraud in the future. Use a compiled language, do not use offsite version control and UPLOAD ONLY THE BINARY.

Until you get prosecuted and legally required to turn over the source code, as it happened here.
A difference being software engineering is a laughingstock no one expects much of, while worldclass publishing has a past excellence against which it's still frequently judged.
Everyone Daydreams About Collapse. Few Understand It
The project would be much more approachable if there was a simple native installer

Actually the very first example on https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup lists an interactive installer which asks the user some question and eventually arrives at a working docker-compose setup.

$ bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/install-paperless-ngx.sh)"

If you ask me, this is already pretty user friendly. Although I agree that if your needs are more involved, there is some reading you'll have to do.

I am currently in the process of migrating from mayan-edms to paperless-ngx and it feels pretty approachable to me if you know your way around docker (compose).
Yeah but it's an architecture that couldn't make it past the late 80s.

For one because it couldn't keep pace with Moore's law and economies of scale. Custom chips are expensive and the talent to design them hard to source.

But most importantly the bus multiplexing on systems like that -- sharing video memory between CPU and dedicated coprocessor -- makes no sense in the 90s and beyond when memory became many multiples slower than the CPU.

The whole assumption of the Jay Miner design is that the coprocessor could do things faster than the CPU.

... but then CPUs just became way faster than main memory, and those fancy coprocessors would have been sitting there waiting on the bus just like anything else.

When GPUs came on the scene, they took a very different path. They have their own memory, and do very specialist things, and for a long time were very limited in the kind of bandwidth they had back to the CPU, too.

Anyways, Amiga had a nice system for 1986. By the 90s it was pointless and mass produced ISA video cards outpaced it, and they did so with a design entirely different.

Amiga and systems like it are not "paths not taken", they're design dead-ends.
The post you are responding to is making the point that even though we have QA, dedicated jobs or even departments for these things … We, as a profession, still fail in releasing bug-free software. And that’s 100% correct.

Is that really something you are challenging? Which pieces of popular software you can think of are bug-free? And are you thinking of more than a handful?
Getting your genetic disease risks from 23andme is probably a bad idea (2017)
I see it less as an alliance and more like a shift. Being pro freedom of speech and the freedom of computing you are pushed out of the left. You can say they aren't the actual left, but the fact is their anti-free speech ideas are polling over 50% so hate to say it, but they are the left. See "The shift in Democratic views on free speech — what’s going on?"

"at least until they get to power" 2016-2020 was when the left ramped up their censorship efforts, not the right. So how do you square that sentence with what actually happened?
Well, it is Carmack we're talking about here. He's well known as a prolific programmer prodigy ;)

But also, some other things to note:

* A lot of "agile" development in corporate environments is anything but agile because of overhead in horizontally scaling human gray meat (until we get neural interfacing between one another or something)

* It was a simpler time back then. Carmack was coding against a much simpler architecture, with significantly fewer variants.

* It was a simpler time back then. Carmack could focus on blitting pixels to the screen as fast as possible, rather than spending 6 months trying to wrap his head around Vulkan.

* It was a simpler time back then. Carmack didn't have to worry about building for Windows, macOS and Linux, and iOS. And Android. And ...

* It was a simpler time back then. Carmack didn't need to worry about accessibility requirements. Web service integrations. Digital distribution complexitities. etc...

Even in the modern day there's still people who get prodigious amounts of work done when they can focus on doing something they like doing, and the stars align. A good recent example off the top of my head in game development is The Witness. Jonathan Blow + 2-3 other programmers IIRC.
Amazon rainforest conceals ancient indigenous records beneath its canopy
Indigo, the made-up color that only exists to make the acronym slightly pronounceable.
Start by removing the %s success from your faq; seems there are enough counter examples in this thread. Not sure why you would put those in the first place.
Show examples on the main web page.

Try and find an AngelScript example. It's stupidly hard. Compare it to these web sites:

https://dlang.org/

https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html

https://vale.dev/

http://mu-script.org/

https://go.dev/

https://www.hylo-lang.org/

Sadly Rust fails this too but at least the Playground is only one click away. And Rust is mainstream anyway so it doesn't matter as much. I completely failed to find a single AngelScript example accessible from my phone's browser. Even its Wikipedia page doesn't have any.
Since the beginning of the industrial era, people have been looking for side artisan-gigs to distract from how droll their day job is. This isn’t particularly different than woodworking, gardening, knitting and the legion of other hobbies used for this purpose.
68000 assembler was a delight to use, completely regular with lots of powerful instructions. I was lucky enough to write 68k software professionally for a while (on the MVME147/167). However that was part of its downfall because it's hard to make a superscalar architecture when individual instructions have many complicated side effects.

Also Intel just had way more money because of the mighty Wintel monopoly. They could scale up the manufacturing side.
That's the point, it's the entrance to their sales funnel. Convince people that they're dirty and broken, then sell them the cure.
google caching appliances. https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en
That said, 68000 interrupt responsiveness wasn't great at all when compared the 8-bit systems it was replacing. An Atari ST is positively insane in the # of cycles it took to respond to an interrupt vs e.g. the C64 which was designed by some of the same people. Wider bus, more registers, different design constraints.

The 68000 was great for doing what you mention: bringing VAX-like tech to the masses. Looking back I don't think it was a great "home computer" processor, and not great for games and the like, either.

In anyways, I'd say by the mid-90s the 68k architecture could not keep up with x86 because Motorola just stopped investing in it.
Three is an adequate number of players to ensure you get the best price. If any of these guys could lower prices, they would.
Yes Funker530 is very good. They don't pick their winner and losers

https://funker530.com/
If the physique is all you are after then it shouldn't be depressing since the solution is easily attainable (unlike many other physical attributes)
What specifically about that section did you want to share? Based on what I've read, the only defense is basically "she never said she was going to help people so you can't be mad".
Because journalism is not the way to solve this, and we all think that it will.

The way to solve it is for "investigators" to get access to said source code and give us an honest assessment. Get someone neutral, get NDAs in place, have them look at the source in an air-gapped clean room, anonymize DB access, etc etc.

Instead we go around in circles. Journalism at the end of the day then becomes "we got some info that points to X, but we have no proof, and we won't look for it. We'll just wait till someone, somewhere, at some point, who knows when, finds some proof and puts it out in the public, only then will we say it's conclusive. Until then, you all go nuts, especially the conspiracy theorists. Don't worry, we'll ride this gravy train and report on those nut jobs too!".

It's a mess, and I'm not at all surprised that conspiracy-theorists have a field day with it.

Hey, let's get a bounty up so that a whistle-blower from Google comes forward. Maybe Mozilla foundation can take some of that sweet sweet endowment they use for "Social Justice" and pony up to fund this investigative effort. After all they claim to be fighting for a free internet. I'd say this is a much better use of money than paying random DEI consultancies huge speaking fees.
There wouldn't be that kind of instruction for text generation in other languages because that's thing LLMs trained on other languages do natively. Unnatural responses are probably the result of English only rlhf and maybe limited training corpus. at least, asking for natural responses seem to work.
If you claim it's a fund to mitigate risk you probably should actually put money into said fund and not just pull some number out of your code.

So technically it's not the randomness that's the issue, and a constant or manually updated fake amount would be as bad, but to me as a layman but it seems like they use a random number to imply a sophisticated risk management system.
would it be possible to induce the vibration of the metal piece (assuming it's magnetic) without nails?

using very rapid magnetic oscillations (like a speaker??)?

I think the electronics would be different, but is it possible?
This is very useful, will save me some hassle. Thanks!
The point of SAFe is so that remote workers can be as productive as Carmack on their own side gigs during the ceremonial duties and meetings. I rather like it!
Wired who?
The term is Prevalence. I have been looking for years, and have essentially shifted careers to find it. I didnt even have a name for it until recently.
There is also no way to get the data you are looking for. As someone described it - this is akin to asking how much crime happens every day.

You could get an approximation - For resourced languages though.

Meta launched Hindi classifiers in 2021 and Bengali in 2022, covering 0.6bn and 0.24bn people, respectively. I know how poor the lexicons I have seen in the wild are, and how hard it is to stay ahead of terminology.

Meta is probably doing more to stay ahead than others. However the ARPU for a user in the US vs India is stark.

Platforms aren’t going to release the necessary data for even a rough approximation. Reddit was a potential data source to learn from, but now we have the API rules, so that is also closed off. Lucky us.

Not to mention how supremely unprepared society is to actually understand or discuss the data without making it worse.

Meta has more resources and frankly they regained my trust years ago. However, business is business. Twitter and Reddit have shown that in this current cycle, there are are no consequences for neglecting Trust and Safety, as shown by other companies. T&S teams have been reduced globally. T&S teams are being targeted and vilified.

Next year, there are ~50 elections happening, including the USA and India. The network suits certain narratives - the more insular, fear driven ones. Trust and Safety teams are themselves being exposed.

Its already looking like a perfect storm.
agreed- title vs what is written in twitter is a bit misleading than what the code actually does. at first glance it is far too easy to assume the random numbers will be around 7500 - but in reality folks may not understand stddev's, and that the random number produced in this method can still yield a negative (just with less likelihood)
If you have enough hard technical changes due to changes in monetization model or similar it might not even have any extra expenses. I think the company I currently work for might have been bankrupt by now (after due to a marked change our original monetization strategy started to dry up) if we hadn't taken advantage of the flexibility of the cloud. (But then we still might not make it, but at least we had a chance to make it which I don't see us having had we tried to have our own dedicated hardware.)

Then there are also some highly managed/opinionated "cloud providers" (e.g. not aws), while they tend to have even more absurd prices for compute power they tend to actually safe quite a bit man power (in difference to e.g. AWS where the person time savings seam to be completely eaten up by subtle complexity and need for optimizing deployments in ways you otherwise would not need to). Which can make them attractive for very small startups which very low compute requirements. Through such startups also tend to not have calssical VC.
are you using gpt4? what kind of tasks are you trying to do?
This was a delightful read, thank you!
To be fair we don't have 99% of those problems and still manage to deliver fuck all.
Using starlink at mcmurdo station in Antarctica. The IP shows as Sydney, Australia.
He still has no remorse. Says he'd do again if he could, and that he'd have no problems sending spam right now. I'm not sure if he's an actual sociopath, or if his ego just demands that he believe that he did nothing wrong and that spam isn't a problem. Either way, people like him make the world we live in worse.
There aren't too many ECAD/PCB tools I haven't at least played with a bit... Diptrace has some neat features but overall I can't quite get used to their design flow and library process. I know Stephen Kraig from the MacroFab podcast extols its virtues often, which is why I tried it out in the first place.

As for Flux.ai, that one is new and I've been out of the pure PCB world for a little bit so have not messed around with it. To be honest, I'm not a fan of browser-based tools, personally. Even Altium 365's new features (though some are certainly useful), take some getting used to - I suppose I don't really like the "data in the cloud" prospect that much. That being said, I did link Flux.ai first on my recent survey of AI/ML-based PCB tools [1] as they seem to be quite far along.

The problem is that PCB design tools all lie on a spectrum from "jump in and design the board right away" to "you'd better spend a while getting your libraries and environment ready to go". Tools like PADS seem to be more towards the latter, while Altium and KiCad are closer to the former. OrCAD is probably around the middle or so. It can be tough to give a tool a fair assessment if it takes more effort to get going on a design.

[1] https://wiki.shielddigitaldesign.com/High_Speed_Design_Wiki/...
He Raced This 114-Year-Old Motorcycle Cross-Country and Won
Livecode does all that stuff.
I was thinking exactly the same.

I'm so accustomed to instructing computers by code. It is alien to see backend instructions written in English.
It depends though. I totally see your point and when I was working in a company where we spread the oncall between all people it was a) usually no problem to swap a few hours (we did full weeks, so if you had one thing for 4h one night, usually someone would cover) and b) our response times weren't quite SO harsh - so we did some things, as long as you had cell coverage and a laptop nearby. Of course the cinema was out, or being on the road for hours, but going for groceries was no problem.

I still hated it and don't want to do it anymore because we had so many factors out of our control that made "false" alarms where the only thing to do was check if it was really a problem and then open a ticket upstream at a vendor...
Yes, you can. A language may not have explicit type declarations, but still have machine-inferable types.

"Work In Progress: an Empirical Study of Static Typing in Ruby" gives an example.

> In this paper, we present an empirical pilot study of four skilled programmers as they develop programs in Ruby, a popular, dynamically typed, object-oriented scripting language. Our study compares programmer behavior under the
standard Ruby interpreter versus using Diamondback Ruby (DRuby), which adds static type inference to Ruby. The aim of our study is to understand whether DRuby’s static typing is beneficial to programmers.

I can imagine a similar experiment where both groups use Python, but one setup uses just Python and the other uses Python+mypy, to report type issues.

(The WIP paper points out how DRuby is a lot slower than Ruby, so users aren't blind to the effect. The Python experiment should probably run Python+mypy for both cases, but only report the mypy output for one case.)
Coming back to this thread a day later. I think the real story is that: 68k could not keep up because Motorola just stopped investing in it. Dunno if this is a chicken vs egg thing due to its already declining popularity, or just bad leadership at Motorola, or both. But Intel shoveled money into the R&D furnace for x86 while Motorola spent their energies elsewhere. And so they stopped competing, and then stopped existing.
Thanks again for your detailed comment. I think I understand it now. The only thing slightly puzzling me is why waves are broken up (be it Fourier or in our ears) into sine waves, and not say sawtooth (or some other, like a semicircle as in https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1019005/what-kind-o...) waveform.

I understand how a squarewave needs infinite bandwidth for decomposing into sine waves, but a wave like the semicircle one has a vertical tangent and would not need an infinite bandwidth. Btw you're right, I've never had any signal theory classes (studied mech engg).
I could imagine they could possibly choose the amount randomly and truly deposit such amount to the fund.
> Whatever it is on your phone, it'll wait. Whatever's happening in front of you: that will not wait, and it'll never come again.

Just because something is unique and ephemeral doesn't mean it's worth your attention.
The function doesn't calculate the insurance fund amount directly, it only applies a change to the insurance fund (line 28), based on last day's trading volume. Presumably this function gets run every day, so the size of the insurance fund would be the sum of this process repeated multiple times. The chances of that going to negative would be astronomically low.
What on earth are you taking about? It’s literally a random number taken from normal distribution, used to calculate the figure.

What _possible_ justification could there be for using that as an accounting practice for a fund other than fraud?
Seems to be mostly synchros. With more views in the videos around this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbOMHQMohc0
I wonder what cloudflare saw in the emergency test this week.
Matt Levine's take on _Going Infinite_:

"Many of the reviews that I have read of the book complain that Lewis does not sufficiently explain that Bankman-Fried is Guilty and Bad, Actually, but that is not the book that he wanted to write... If you want to read a moral condemnation of crypto theft, you can get that anywhere. You go to Michael Lewis for character and story.

Also, reading those reviews you would think that the book is a defense of Bankman-Fried, but it is actually quite damning."
I could always type my passphrase faster than normal sentences after a week.
> wow! a new version of rust!

Can you compile it with the old version ?