skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but you can’t measure objectively the context around these people and what causes that to happen. Why do so many people die of malaria in certain places but not on others? That points to the fact that it is actually possible to avoid these deaths, with the right effort. Then you might be tempted to think: well they don’t have the money to handle it, or the know-how; then you send them money and you send them specialists and you realize it doesn’t change anything. At this point you might be thinking: if they get money and support to deal with the problem, why are they not doing it? Jumping from this to some sort of racist/Darwinist conclusion is then almost inevitable, if you are naive enough to think that the numbers explain everything. There is a very complex social-historical-cultural system of multiple intertwined factors that go way beyond the numbers when it comes to “altruism”. It is human. Relying on the numbers is just a way for people to a) think of themselves as better than other “non-effective” altruists, b) mask their prejudice with “it’s not me, it’s the numbers saying you’re inferior”, and c) to just circle jerk and find themselves two/three girlfriends at the same time. It’s not that different than right-wing ngo-hating bigots really.
PSA: those desktop machines don't run a supported version of processor. The arbitrary requirement was the cpu cutoff, tpm was just the scapegoat.
I am also located in Germany, and there are plenty of Windows jobs, it no accident that Germany is still one of the markets that is relevant for products like Delphi, with an annual conference.

Many SaaS products like Sitecore power several Mittelstand companies.
I like your point but no: eugenics has external gatekeepers and I think it's done by force non-consensually. In normal dating, ideally the participants are the only gatekeepers.
> and everything works.

citation needed.
> When I tell fellow engineers about it, they think it’s unethical because my contract specifies 40h/week (I’m an employee). I couldn’t care less what the contract says about working hours.

Honest question, do you unilaterally ignore any other parts of the contract?
The fact Google and Apple do that (for security reasons) also have the negative impact to de-responsabilize users. Which is also one of the causes of why scams work.
If users were more alert of the technologies they're using, there would be less social hacking.
When electricity price went up 3 orders of magnitude.
You're completely missing everything outside the ontological category of "things that can be broken apart into stuff that I can identify with a microscope".

Realistically this conversation is a science vs. religion argument that will end up in a stalemate somewhere around Tarski's Undefinability Theorem.

We disagree on the nature of the ground of being.
I would sign up for this right now, even paying. I think that'd be fun and refreshing even if it didn't work. Do matchmakers still exist?
You're taking the word out of context and using a different definition of it
> or used it on some other provider that still had the forced disconnect every 24 hours

German providers disconnecting customers every night is a ridiculous feature in itself. It is condescending towards customers who require to use their internet connection at night, for example because they work at night. It could lead to always-on features being broken, backups not working, and I've had countless of times where I was gaming with a German who gets DC'ed which does not work at all in competitive gaming.

In The Netherlands, yes sometimes the connection is broken at night. Sometimes, for a longer period of time. But this is because of software or hardware maintenance, and then doing such during the night makes sense as it provides the least downtime. I get that. But there is no discernible reason German providers need to disconnect every 24 hours.
Agree, and I suspect that a lot of things will also be deprecated by 2030 once modules get really integrated in the ecosystem.
I won't argue that the first example is cleaner, but both seemingly simple examples have a major issue. Lifetime.

The observer pattern is notorious for being overly complicated in C++ because you have to ensure Observer and Observable keep valid references to each other.

"Modern C++" (what ever that is nowadays) leverages RAII (i.e. scope-based resource management) to improve upon the situation.

With your typical observer (i.e. signal/slots) library you get a "scoped connection" object when registering the callback function. You store that object in your class and when it is destroyed, it breaks the connection. Furthermore, it facilitates the implementation of correct copy and move semantics.

It's not that people don't "understand" C++, the problem is that there are so so many things to watch out for, even in simple use-cases, that even experienced C++ programmers make mistakes on a regular basis.
https://www.exaequos.com
I used to use latex to write my CV. It looked beautiful and it definitely looked “better” than other CVs (I have seen hundreds of CVs while interviewing ICs).
One day I found out that I could produce the same high-quality CV using Word (I just installed the latex font, was it Modern Computer?). My Word license expired but I could produce the exact same PDF using Libre Office. I’m happy I don’t rely on latex anymore.
On a tangent. My partner worked for several years as a healthcare assistant at the (possibly?) original Charterhouse[1] in London. One of the infirmary residents he looked after was Dr Bill[2] - a truly remarkable and fascinating person who was still studying and working well after his 100th birthday!

[1] - https://thecharterhouse.org/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frankland_(allergist)
Nobody works exactly to the contract. Except perhaps in the most monitored and hellish workplaces (e.g. Amazon warehouses).
John Williams’ Butcher’s Crossing is an incredible story about buffalo hunters. If half of it is true it’s tragic. The sheer numbers; the depth of destruction for the profit of a hide. It boggles the mind that we did this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butcher's_Crossing

(Off-topic, but Williams is best known for Stoner, a truly beautiful work that you should read immediately if you haven’t already.)
A close look at the round-edged Wii U proprietary discs (2012)
That would start to resemble some sort of cool fractal.
> A fellow Slashdot poster has unknowingly made my point for me quite well, and it is what I will use to start this intro. The comment in question begins “My take on C++ is that the best programs only use a fraction of the features.”

Plot twist, that Slashdot poster was John Carmack </joke>
Nevermind the prep, the embarrassment, and the physical discomfort.

It was totally worth it because I got to watch it live on a big screen TV!

I had a heart catheterization recently. No prep, no embarassment, and only a bit painful where it went in at the wrist and bent at my elbow.

Also super cool to watch!
Say you get a lognormal by combining five gaussian-distributed factors (as in the past). Then you condition on four of those factors. The remaining factor, and hence your overall result, will be gaussian.

Now, maybe in real life there are far too many factors and we're only holding a few constant so the math doesn't apply, but I do think the math is valid.
One major problem with the dating apps is that their search is terrible. Searching just doesn't work how you want it to work. It gives way too many results that don't fit your criteria. I think this is deliberate? They don't want you to search, they want you to use their "algorithmic" matching. (This seems reminiscent of how social networks want you to use an "algorithmic" timeline rather than your own self-curated reverse chronological list.) For example, I live in a medium sized city, and I only want matches within the metro area, but the apps will give matches throughout the state and in a neighboring state, with no way to filter them out, as if I'm going to spend hours driving just for a date, and then start a difficult long-distance relationship. And I also got "likes" from way outside my geographical range. I got likes from other states and even other countries, WTF? The irrelevance is frustrating. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

And of course the ghosting is frustrating too. You manage to wade though the terrible search results to find someone who seems compatible, make the effort to write an intelligent, personalized message to them based on reading their profile, and then... nothing. It appears that a lot of people sit on the dating apps indefinitely for whatever reason, and they become "black holes" where no light ever comes out, while still clogging up the search results. If you have no feeling of urgency to meet people, then why bother being on the dating apps? The "freemium" model may be partly to be blame here, because it's free to have an account forever, as long as you don't use the "advanced" features.

I've seen it claimed that eHarmony is better about this, but I tried eHarmony, and it was absolutely not any better than the other dating apps. They all seem to be basically the same now, and are equally terrible.
Very nice - so this is the perfect exploit - pretty hard for evil people to do, but easy for the device owner to do to regain control of their own hardware.
No, you define a connection on the WiiU and provide the DNS server as a parameter. The author has a DNS server up there sending your WiiU a request that causes it to run a payload (which resides on your SD card).
C++ is very frightened of breaking existing code, including at the binary level. Some shared library built in 2007 stands a decent chance of running today if it avoided the ABI break of ruin and disaster where string and list changed slightly.

It's also widely considered a very complicated language and there's some worry it suffers in user acquisition as a result.

If you take those two properties together, the game plan of making the language look nicer without changing how it works is about all you've got. It accretes more stuff with a bias towards making some use case look nicer.

It leaves margin for faster code below it because slow choices are forever. More syntax over the same operations is a dubious interpretation of making things simpler.

Yet it lives on. People start new projects in it. Some people think the economics work out in favour.

Oh, and some people did understand it in 2007. Maybe only five but they did exist. Some of those may still be heavily involved enough to understand the current language, but I wouldn't be shocked if they're burned out and gone. We might be down to zero.
Nobody's putting words in your mouth, Doreen. Simply offering up an opinion as to why your (honestly good) idea would be dismissed outright by the powers that be.
This has always been the problem with folks in all levels of education.

They view the world with glasses looking backward applying them to the present and future. (A form of if all you have is a hammer)

If yesteryear the rote learning curriculum was about knowing Who was X and what did Y do then they’ll expect that everybody coming in today should know that verbatim and convince you it’s in your future’s best interest to commit your memory to it too.

Rarely does life work that way. More so in real (western) life, it’s all a game and you score high if you can find how to cheat the game or carve a niche for yourself.

A society that punishes heavily for failure can’t expect that people would emerge well rounded. It can absolutely expect that people would be professional gamers.
I'm confused. How is this evidence for that? It seems evidence that people are thinking of interesting ways to use it, not the opposite.
In particular what you ate the past sveral days since it takes time to go through (exactly how long depends on your diet and body, but I think 2-3 days is common and a another couple of days is not uncommon). It takes long enough that it is easy to forget.
I do think you need the discussion of distributions and variance: for all I know the 200m tends to be won by fractions of a second and there are millions of people just a second slower than Bolt.
If you're worried about getting a colonoscopy, don't be.

I got one last year and it was the best sleep I ever got.

It was two days of the prep stuff you drink to shit your brains out which is a little rough, but I have a bidet, no big deal.

Then you go to the hospital, you dress down into a gown, nurses come in, they put some things on your chest, you get a little cold, they put a nice warm blanket on you, they start an IV, they wheel you into the procedure room, and then you pass out.

You suddenly wake up and I felt like I had an amazing nap and I was incredibly comfortable. Then you have someone drive you home and that's all there is to it.

It was really no big deal.

The only thing that sucks is you pretty much just drink powerade and eat chicken broth during the prep.
Channeling spirit(s) to get things done (GTD)
Not exactly, no. But how far can you stretch that? Working 4 hours a day is half of what is agreed in the contract. Would you be fine with the employer ignoring the agreed salary with the excuse of no one following contracts exactly?
We used to use a library (multiline) to write SQL strings in Node.

const str = multiline(()=>{/*
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<h1> unicorns</h1>
</body>
</html>
*/});

https://www.npmjs.com/package/multiline
Arguably these contracts are a legacy of factory shifts in industrial revolution times.

What (most) managers want is your output, irrespective of how long it will take, may be 12h or 3h.

One could argue, that while working 3h or 4h one should still be available to support, help, communicate, meet with, your team and stakeholders for the remaining hours of that contract.

I would not have an issue with less hours provided you don't ghost for the remaining hours, if one of your colleagues hits a block, or your manager gets hit with a shitstorm, then you need to have a communication line open (which should also not be 24 hours but for the hours in your contract).
Because it became 5x as hard to do this well in 2023. The legal and community landscape changed immensely. Moderation needs to be top, and for that, profits and engagement, which is why you see the Tinder-like model.
Your battle is with yourself. You chose to impose grad school on yourself.
This could be useful for finding which region of Japan has an individual that can remotely kill with only a description of the victim.
I first heard of these cars in a story from a Croatian friend. He said they had to be careful where they parked them because pigs would like to eat the body. So it seems that it’s a real thing.
I think the accusations can be divided into several categories:

- actual rent-seeking (as you say, not really true for companies such as Microsoft and Google, except where you see e.g. government documents needing to be submitted in Word. But that's very likely incompetence on behalf of the bureaucracy rather than Microsoft)

- having a dominant market position due to having a very high quality product, or set of products that work together well

- a random grudge phrased as rent-seeking, because the Twitter user in question doesn't know what rent-seeking is, but has seen their friends accuse companies of it

I don't know what the proportions are, but I suspect the former is minimal to nonexistent for e.g. Google.
Do squats and deadlifts. You can't hope to get anywhere near an ideal form without a whole lot of leg strength.
Best advice -- find a local running club that does track workouts. The group dynamics will be incredibly helpful as a baseline. Sprinting is big on strength low on endurance, that's why you see muscular sprinters and lean 5k+ runners.

IMHO the biggest factor at being fast is training fast and understanding this is a multi-year effort not a quick fix. Odds are you will need to change slightly your foot strike pattern, this is a long term project, not something that's done in a month.

Good luck.
You on windows by any chance?
I really wish journalists could cut the crap. If science reporting is this, that's grim

There is plenty of interest in covering ideas, papers and efforts that are speculative, hopeful or early as what they are. Early, occasionally pioneering efforts to achieve something which may lead to success in the future, or enable new efforts to sprout at a tangent.

Interview researchers. Ask them questions. Interview reviewers and peers. They're accessible. Communicate science. As it is. What science is, is worth covering. Do your job.
As someone else mentioned, there’s plenty on YouTube to help re form. That said, I’m helping my elementary aged kids improve their middle distance running (I’m no sprinter, so I can’t help there) and the two basic tips I’ve been using to help them:

- practice barefoot occasionally, and pay attention to how your form changes. You’re more likely to just naturally land on your forefoot when you’ve no shoes on. Now try and maintain that when you put shoes on.

- move your legs faster. Seems simple and obvious, but most people when they try to run faster don’t actually move their legs faster. They extend their stride (more likely to increase heel strike) and try to drive more acceleration off each push. You’re training for power, not speed. Focus on a higher cadence, which will probably mean you need to make a conscious effort to take what feel like _smaller_ steps.
Group dates are comically awkward. Basically anything except your date being on the date is awkward. They've nothing of an improvement there.
I don't know much of native web view (which is the one used by tauri/rust), and since I hear a lot about WASM, could it be possible to embed the node js part as a wasm module ?
There's also the small matter that ammonia is both highly corrosive and highly toxic. Gasoline will fuck you up over years if you're exposed to it often enough, but ammonia can be fatal in a matter of seconds depending on the vapor concentration.

You drown in your own mucus; it's very high up there on the "shitty ways to die" chart. I'll never forget the cashcam video from a state trooper coming across an ammonia truck with a leak. He inadvertently walks into the gas plume, starts coughing, collapses, and you can hear him choking to death from his body mic.

Ammonia is also responsible for a lot of deaths in places with large refrigeration systems (food processing/storage, mostly.)

Toyota is jumping the shark with their anti-ev bullshit.
This I agree with. But I would say being available to help and support and whatever is part of the job. If you say you work for 4 hours, but still have to be available for all of the above for 8 hours, you are working for 8 hours, not 4.
What do you mean? As far as I know, I've always worked according to the contract.

Some of my employers had flexible timekeeping, and then I would often work a bit over 40h/week so that I could take extra days off for extended weekend trips when I felt like it.
> I realized all this class-ification effort was pure waste, since most of it would never be reused.

I don't think this is a valid take. Classes are not about reuse at all. They are about encapsulation and specifying types/providing interfaces.

> Same with all the idiomatic conversions.

What's your complain about idiomatic conversions?

> Don't get me started on boost.

Why is Boost, or any library at all, relevant in a discussion about C++? Should our opinions on C++ vary if we mention POCO, Abseil, or even Qt?

Frankly, I don't think your personal takes are well informed. It sounds like you struggled to use something different than something you knew expecting that you could simply keep writing the same code in any other programming language, and subsequently started complaining that other languages are not like the one you used. That's hardly a critique of any other language, and instead it's insight on how developers who succumbed to crystallizing their expertise end up suffering from their inability to adapt.
Is this similar how str2hax works? That’s the most common jailbreak method nowadays https://wii.guide/str2hax
Someone should probably write something about the importance of turning off updates if you want to keep this functionality, because Nintendo is probably working right now on wrestling your hardware back into their control...
Mechanistic Interpretability – Neel Nanda (DeepMind) [video]
I suspect that if you can habituate yourself to a sustainable number of daily hours (eg., 3-4) where you always work, barring illness etc. Then I believe you'd have a net positive output for most professions, and most software engineering domains.

J. Blow has much to say against this, but i've never really heard him engage with this integral of productivity given habituation. I guess his reply to my argument above would be, "sure, but are you actually working these hours? if no, it's just rationalisation for lazyness"

And i'd suppose, in most cases, it is.
Congratulations to the author for building a successful product from which they can make a living! Even bigger congratulations that the product can be maintained / extended by working few hours per day.

For example 4 hours x 31 days = 124 hours per month.

Now compare this to a corporate job where it feels like you are setup to fail.
Every day 3-6 hours of meetings / conference calls. Constant flood of emails that are often irrelevant or unclear, but you need to stay focused reading them because something can be relevant to what you are doing (often the part important to you is written in an ambigious way, since they dont know what to do with your case - so you have to ask for clarifications - more meetings).
Constant context switching due to having to drop what you are doing to do something else. Trying to do you your actual work.. often after hours, when they still call you. Or you cant even do your job, because someone who is supposed to provide something for you didnt do it on time, so you are waiting. (They update that it will be there the next day, on next day -> they again say next day and so on).

10 hours per day x 21 days = 210 hours

Of course corporate work is safer. Somehow the corporation exists and moves forward.

That's why it is so impressive that the author can be their own boss. Could even make some contracting work from time to time.
It is not only about efficiency, but also about these so called MiniPCs (N100, Raspberry, Rockchip, etc.) being sold for > 100 bucks these days and with a little effort you can build a REAL server with ECC and NVMe based on older used hardware for only a little more money with ECC RAM, similar efficiency, way more power, cool remote features like AMT / ILO and better OS / Software support due to x64 architecture.

I think the whole "Raspberry as a home server" discussion is pretty much overrated since the prices went up, because nowadays it always seems to be a compromise in terms of price / performance.
We’re working on the same thing at GOV.UK: https://www.sign-in.service.gov.uk/ (https://github.com/govuk-one-login)
This has some of what you are after ?
https://www.tikstation.com/product/mini-power-station/
Anything that does not live in AMD's ecosystem manages to avoid suckage. The AMD linux drivers are fine because Linus would not let them get away with the sort of shit they have to be doing in their internal repos. As geohot memorably noted, "this will generate dead loop." If their commit messages are like that in Linux, what is their code like when nobody is looking?

The ROCM drivers are shit. They somehow manage to get an enormous edifice of effort 99% working, then they bungle their package repository. Repeatedly. AMD have a tremendous ability to shoot themselves in the foot five feet from the end of the race, and the thing is, at this point you have to anticipate it. They have the capability to succeed, but not the temperament.
I just have Avahi and mDNS active on my machines, and access everything through .local names.
Came here to ask this very question!