skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't read the book yet but it seems to be about design principles, abstraction, divide and conquer, single responsibility and the like. Man made objects tend to be single-purposed and interact with few other components. Over the years I have come to appreciate the nature more and more. In nature, things are always multi-purposed and exist in a web of relationship. A bat is a pollinator, pest control, fertilizer and food source all at the same time. But if we are to replicate the role of bat, we need seed, pesticide and artificial fertilizer. And if we want to grow only one kind of crop, we will need even more control. See monoculture [1]

In software, every named domain can and will grow into its own forest. There was only nginx(or apache) serving html. There wasn't "frontend" and "backend". Nginx served also the analytics. Now they all seem to mean its own thing. There are and always will be manual interacting with the software. What we do is first manually interact, and then write automated script, and then manually interact and make demo video, and then manually interact and make tutorial, and then manually interact and illustrate the user journey, etc. Telemetry is "engineering", analytics is "product". The division goes on forever. Man made concept grows into isolated forest. The more division, hence specialisation, we have, the more gluing we need. People seem to talk more about infinite scaling is a fool's errand. I say so is specialising without seeing the forest first.

I find occasionally zoom into other direction immensely helpful and refreshing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture
I can’t believe there isn’t a single mention of this thread of the “father” of heated yoga, Bikram Chowdry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikram_Choudhury

In summary, the guy was a scamming quack, and his most prominent accomplishments include extensive molestation and rape. Never forget his evil.
I've came to the same conclusion as the author some time ago, my cookiecutter template is more opinionated https://github.com/ArcHound/python_script_cc . Best for use-cases when you need to do some automated API calls. Will checkout Typer and Textualize too, thanks HN!
I'm going to take it easy for a few weeks, just out of abundance of caution; just in case there's something else that got missed.

I'm not into any competitions or races. I run for health purposes only, so I'm okay losing some fitness. If the symptoms disappear, I'll certainly ramp up again. If they don't, I'll play it by ear :)

My understanding is that 35-50% of endurance athletes have what I have (including symptoms), and they continue to train without any harmful effects.
Of course it is, safer than drunk humans at least.

The problem is not safety, it is what happens after many get killed by machines.

And what happens to those inside the machine as it kills someone.
This reminds of the Biden administration changing the definition of recession because it suddenly doesn't fit their narrative. Everyone here is getting upset at a metric for the exact same reason. It is a random metric but it is one and it is measuring something.
> to "prove" the logical construct you've created

You're making guesses about my standards that aren't warranted at all. They absolutely can be met.

First off I'm specifically worried about large objects, a meter or larger.

And let's see, autopilot has done 3 billion miles? Okay, if FSD can manage 1 billion miles of freeway driving with zero or one crashes into large objects, then I'll be convinced they're solving the problem.

That should be fair, right?

> But in the real world they obviously are.

Obvious according to what?

Autopilot wasn't, because it managed to hit entire vehicles repeatedly. There is (or was) a specific warning in the manual that it might hit stationary vehicles when going over 50mph.

What makes it obvious that FSD avoids this specific problem?

> But you and everyone else will swear up and down that you'd never drive over a shed tire or whatever, even though evidence says you totally would.

You made this up about me from nowhere. Please never do that to anyone.
It is economically feasible to repair, that’s why there are many repair shops. Check out the video I posted about the machine for repairing screens, they even talk about the economics of it.

> Are people actually gatekeeping repair right now? Seriously?

Nope, it’s just not repairing. Call it right to swap modules at home and you will have correctly named movement.
WinUI 3 is now open source
He explicitly stated his support for Hamas and Hezbollah in this tweet: https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/171333500612114051...
Everyone in a certain generation did, yes. But it didn’t carry over to their children as such, unless you were a member of fantasy communities I think it’s largely positive that you haven’t heard about them. This is obviously anecdotal, but I grew up in the 80/90ies, played dnd and was a general fantasy nerd and nobody in our community had read them before the movies. Even after the movies a lot of us never made it through all the running around in the second book, which was a staring point for a lot of us after having watched the first movie. Our younger siblings never got into it, they got into Harry Potter instead. For todays youngsters LOTR is basically non-existent.

While anecdotal like I said, none of the “fantasy” stores around my city sell anything LOTR related while some of them have entire floors dedicated to Harry Potter merc.

But you’re absolutely right about what we call the 57’ generation. They all ate it right up. Everyone in my parents generation read it during their early university years, and I do mean everyone.
Cargo culting is the best, which is what you are doing here. /s

Even if it is exactly a multiple or even the same number, without vsync, you’ll still get tearing. Why? Because fps is a dynamic number. It’s a measure of how many frames your card can generate in a second. By the time you measure, the frames are already output and gone from the buffer.

The refresh rate on the monitor is a constant, never changing value.

Even if you set the fps to 30, you’ll sometimes render 30.1 or 29.9 frames in a second due to random jitter from the geometry/shader complexity quickly changing on the screen.

There is no such thing as constant fps.
The thing is that 50% (even more) of the population should not be allowed to drive to begin with and we shouldn't wait for any technology to be ready to remove them from the road. That is the real elephant in the room that nobody wants to mention, especially political representatives who would be afraid to lose votes.
Linus pretty much set the culture for Linux development, it is strongly guided by the taste of a handful maintainers. You could never take something from the two week sprint people and get it merged, it would be scrutinized in minute detail by maintainers that have an opinion on exactly how the whole is put together and understand every part under their watch.

So you could argue that Linux in reality is developed by only a handful. The orbiting thousands of developers is the force multiplier. Once in a while someone drenched in the culture slowly dissipates to the inner circle. That's how it survives. By way of a strong culture. The downside is that it can also be a bit unforgiving.

Linus style of project leadership is quite well known, but the guy has very good taste and is in it for the long run. That's the secret to making it all work. That, and the luck of being at the right place at the right time.
Star Citizen's StartEngine Demo [video]
Why would you exclude them? They're relevant.
What’s the difference between arcade ROMs and arcade hard disk images? Do these cover different games?
I sometimes think of a bigger version of this question. Would it be better if rennaisance and scientific revolution had come way later than it did. Maybe humans would have been more evolved and ready for the changes and can make better decisions. Progress is inevitable, but the rapidity of change might be our downfall.
The true history of spaced repetition (2018)
Alastair Reynolds covered this theme extensively in Chasm City, including technology advancements being transmitted to generation ships en route from the home system and the consequences of that. Super interesting reading!
Balsamic vinegar is likely fake (2023)
blender is also one of those where order matters. »Oh, you want me to render after loading the file, then you should have told me«
sure. but now your sample only contains the outliers of humanity.
the name was a bit of a mouthful as well "windows phone 7 series". or even worse if "microsoft's" had to be added at the start of it
Bikram routine doesn't include downward dog posture.

You'd have to try at least 20 - 30 sessions not spread in time too much to make any kind of attempts at judgement.

First class will feel over intense (I thought I'm going to have heart attack), but it gets better quite quickly and it's great to see your own progress every class.

There is a sweet spot somewhere around 80-90% of your "max I can do" that can keep you through the class without feeling of being in torture chamber. The nob is quite flexible between simply standing or even lying down and doing maximum effort.
the term for them is 'agent provocateur'.
"All models are wrong, some are useful".

People refer to the OSI model because it's useful, and can be explained in about 1/30th of the text needed to produce this rant. Why not propose an equally-concise yet more useful model instead?
This is my pick. Self documenting code ftw!
Yes, although some need both. ROMs are images of physical ROM chips. The hard disk images are called "CHDs" and are usually hard disk images but can also be laserdiscs.
I'm not a cardiologist (so take my comment with a pinch of salt). But I was an avid runner (running average 10km a week for 2 years) but a few years later, I developed a form of Ventricular Tachycardia called RVOT.

I went for a battery of tests similar to the OP. The results shows my heart is structurally OK. The doctor diagnosed that I had RVOT and recommended I do ablation. He says that this is a very very common procedure.

I did the procedure. However, the symptoms started coming back again.

After reading this article, I wonder if I should have just left my heart as is.
Code that identifies if anything is stuck under the car would be useful for a lot of cases but especially if an accident already has happended.

Besides that, hard edge cases will always exist and can only be solved by a human (or an AGI?) in the loop. But they are't too common, so just detecting that the situation is not solvable by the algorithm, doing nothing and waiting for a remote operator should scale well enough.
I feel the same way.

Python has been my goto language for a long time, but lately I've been noticing that I've been holding off on writing new tools with it because on the back of my mind I have this nagging feeling that making them robust and portable will take too much work—and so I don't even bother getting started.

It's this trap of yes you get to ~99% pretty fast, but the last 1% (packaging/distribution) then take forever.

But I'm still looking for a good alternative... Golang does the job—no question, but it doesn't spark joy for me.
I'm asking an honest question, not slandering the scientific endeavor.
In addition to the comments proposing some other kind of exercise as a control group, I’d want to see whether “being prescribed something but then being waitlisted“ prolongs depressive symptoms compared to, say, “being prescribed and receiving {placebo intervention}”. Our health care system is, itself, crazy making.
It's like saying "If you can predict the future, you'll know whether to invest or not!"

Well duh, but first find all those coefficients and then come back and we'll talk yeah?
https://archive.md/zyJnx

>revamped app on the Apple TV box will include a new side panel on the left-hand side for navigating between video categories, matching a design aesthetic used by Netflix Inc. and other[s]

And maybe even dismantling pay per video from itunes essentially funnelling people to buy a whole new device and stop watching long videos on their handhelds.
Motorola 68k has this kind of aligned variable length instructions (in their case it’s always aligned on 16 bit boundaries). It’s not super difficult to support this in compilers though
> Using an LLM to do it or not is inconsequential.

I disagree about that, because the act of writing in itself is valuable IMHO, and even with LLMs you want to ensure there's a baseline competency because programming isn't just about "writing code". I'd appreciate it if people wouldn't lie to me about it just because they disagree.

"I think it's fine to lie because I think it's inconsequential" is the argument you're making, not "there is no lying involved".
In this case, I think it has more to do with an overly cynical tendency on HN to assume everyone else is a bad engineer.

932 “must” come from a lazy performance calculation because they came in assuming it is wrong and that is the first error they think of
Same for me! I just started working on a Voronoi-based experiment[1] yesterday. This is my progress so far.

[1] https://7887885e.vorannoy.pages.dev/
If you drive a car that kills a child, you (potentially) go to jail.

If you are in a car that is driven by Waymo and it kills a child, the car drives away with no repercussions.

Are you really advocating a world where we change the laws to give Waymo a license to kill?

That won't ever, ever happen.

Also, "no negligence from the manufacturer" is very much begging the question. Read the typical software EULA, it is negligent by default.
I am glad that it charges via USB-C - it's Intel-powered sibling [1] still uses a random barrel plug to charge, requiring you to definitely carry extra equipment to charge both your phone and your tiny laptop.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/354652391581 (as a non-endorsing example, this seems to be sold under many names)
this is the most disgusting thing you can do to a human being. worse than gas chambers
I saw this and thought it interesting :)

I've been watching a fair few buy-a-farm-in-southern-europe vloggers pick their own vines and olives, but now realise none of them seem to talk about making vinegar.

What I long for, but can't find in any supermarket on the continent, is Malt Vinegar. Malt vinegar is the mainstay vinegar in the UK and absolutely essential for the classic fish and chips. Yet it doesn't seem to be widely available outside the UK?
Finally software to explain ladder theory in timecube language and vice versa
EU 'in touching distance' of first laws regulating artificial intelligence
You're right the sensors help a lot too - but if a city doesn't have them then thats physical infra that needs to be bought and installed. Unfortunately, this isn't that easy any more in the US at least.

Maps/Waze data is a good point and I saw an article recently that Google is providing anonymized data to cities to help them optimize their traffic lights.

The one thing the driverless cars get you is the ability to traffic shape. You could imagine cities granting permits to waymo/cruise/etc only if they support dynamic pricing (or dynamic taxes, whatever) and dynamic routing to help distribute vehicles more evenly in space and time.

On the public transit thing... mainly because shared driverless EVs are basically a form of mass transit and I think a really good one. You can see some of my other comments on why...
To edit PDFs in Figma, it exists pdf.to.design now. https://pdf.to.design
> I believe for the insurance purposes, this difference is irrelevant.

Can you explain this some more?

My understanding is that an insurance policy is valid in a certain set of circumstances.
Hard Lessons from Israel's High-Tech Border Failure
Interesting article that goes over the cascading systems and tech failure that Hamas exploited to conduct its recent attack.
Food is dopamine. If you’re struggling with cravings that’s your brain telling you it needs a reward to feel good, and if you need to take something to feel good, it’s because you don’t feel good.

Consider therapy. With so many distracting sources of easy dopamine in the modern world it’s easy to become emotional disconnected from oneself without realizing it.

Read Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke. She explains cravings like these and why they happen.
The first place I checked was 38 €. This, coincidentally is 30 € plus the inflation since 2018. I hardly can blame them for inflation.
That’s because your example, a bat, is a high level of abstraction. If you dig into the cellular level things start becoming very single-purpose, even more so down to the atomic level, and so on. The architecture of recursive composition usually done in building large software was found in nature first.
Yeah; as somebody who was taught the OSI model at university, they basically straight up told us to ignore the OSI model above layer 4, and to treat the remaining stuff as a starting point rather than the whole story.

So criticizing layers 5/6/7 is not really helpful. Those are not actually taught anymore.
The Software Supply Chain Song (I'm Goin' to Production) [video]
They can argue that if you drive in in unintended conditions, it's your fault and they won't pay?

(But if it's true, it just make me want a self-drive car even less)
Your quote states the Cruise vehicle did slow down.
No, there is absolutely no way to integrate the Kinect into games in a meaningful way. Name just one example where it was done so that you would think "wow this has potential". Throwing grenades by gesture in call of duty? Biggest LOL ever. When I'm playing a competitive multiplayer title, I want precise, quick controls, and not let go of my controller to gesture around like a brain-damaged monkey.

With Kinect, you had to make a game that was entirely designed around it, and not have some random mix where you play with the controller and occasionally use gestures. And there really only are so many types of games you can come up with where it doesn't feel like you made something for the Kinect just for the sake of it..

I think the market tried quite a few things with Kinect on the 360, and the most convincing game to me was dance central, because it didn't entirely feel like a casual game with a bit of tech-demo scent, where you'd lose interest after a week and then maybe only ever pull it out again when you have friends over.
Watch the person operating the jackhammer go to a golf course, or watch someone operating a jackhammer and then visit a golf course myself? Your sentence is ambiguous.

Are you trying to say that you think that some manual labor roles are overpaid? Why can't a jackhammer operator play golf if they want to?

In my country an entry level jackhammer operator makes about $60K and an experienced one about $100K. Doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
>Software design, in my opinion, is both a science and an art so my stance is that we need both the formal theory and science as well as the philosophy and that they shouldn't be viewed as mutually exclusive.

What formal theory have you ever used for designing your software? I would argue you've never used anything. Every abstraction you've ever made was likely a gut feeling, an instinct or following some vague hand wavy rule of thumb.

At best we use type theory for type correctness and complexity theory to calculate efficiency. That's basically as far as it goes with "theory" and these two things aren't even about "software design".

Software design in practice as most engineers use it today is, practically speaking (key phrase), 100% art. Sometimes people come up with big fancy words like "dependency injection" or stupid Acronyms like SOLID to create the illusion of formal theory, but these things are nothing of the sort. It's just tips and tricks.

The plane, the car, the bridge? Those things use both design and formal theory... software design as most engineers use it, again, does not use ANY formal theory, it's almost just purely design all the way down.
This is a fun way to describe the academic domain of CS theory, but practice demands an enormous amount of mechanical sympathy.
>C_b = (T_s - T_v) * ROC * 1/52

I have so many problems with this line
I wonder why they don't list that under ultimate plan? On pricing page the selling point for ultimate is like: Hey, help us test things and help us by giving some money: https://kagi.com/pricing
Fascinating, I've never thought about cold blooded animals this way. From reading wikipedia there seem to be different ways in which an animal can be cold blooded.
Wait... Almost every kind of sport and exercise has an effect on depression. How did they control for that? Besides, if I read "may" and "yoga" in the same sentence, all my alarm bells go off. Not speaking about against yoga as such, but the way the wester reappropriates it for everything is highly pseudoscientific. You're 30-something, a bit alternatively oriented, and want to "work with people"? Chances are you either work as a yoga-"teacher" or you give massages. At least that is the trend around where I live, since roughyl 20 years.
Unfortunately, we can't exclude humans that drink, text, have anger issues etc. from driving on the road with you. At any point, the driver next to you could have a stroke, pass out from doing drugs, have a panic attack, etc.
one of the best features is that is doesn't need energy for maintaining the screen. Only updates require power, so its perfect for low power applications.
By that logic, somebody was so desperate to get convenient warm food that they decided to "invest" for decades in side-projects like airplanes and bombs just to finally get a microwave-oven, obviously true purpose of everything that came before.

Just because something else in civilization might somehow help someday isn't enough to make it part of "the investment" which a company or individual is deciding whether to make or abandon for a different goal they are focused on.
OS updates are damn easy nowadays!
Microsoft announces results for the third quarter 2023
Your definition of "progress" is telling.

Someone else's definition of progress could include a heightened respect for comic strips as art, rather than base fodder for merchandise and commercial exploitation. Watterson's stance did help with that, at a time (late '80s) when it was still a very niche position in the US.
What purpose did the moon landing have? It didn't benefit anyone!

But the surrounding research and advancements in all scientific fields did!
It is good to remind yourself once in a while that “networks” don't exist, they are an illusion based on processing of independent packets based on magical numbers in them. In theory, there is nothing strange in a system that decides to hold all IP addresses higher than a certain number, or offer some service on all even ports at once. It only needs a different mathematical operation on those numbers to be performed.

Also, in theory, we can have internet-wide broadcasts (in a multicast-like or some other graph traversal manner). Then, say, ALL p2p file sharing can be reduced to a single standard request "WHO-HAS The.Matrix.DivX.l33tR1pZ.avi". Then one starts to think why it is not possible in practice.
We all know it's just:

1. eating well

2. exercising well

3. sleeping well

But it doesn't mean that one form or exercise can't be more effective than the other.

Intense sweating and higher cardio through heat, stretching, compression etc. on top of exercise may have better effect on ie. lymphatic system, circulation etc.
The point of science is to learn. Maybe there's nothing practical to LIGO, maybe in 200 years we have artificial gravity. There's no way to know.
My org forces ChatGPT to be used through Bing Chat when internal company data is involved. It’s an avalanche of popups, dialogues, links, “did you know”s, color and animations.

Quite unpleasant to use compared to just vanilla ChatGPT, which offers a zen-like experience in comparison.