skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the other direction, Lattice C used 32-bit ints on the 68000, where 16-bit was more efficient. This led to a bunch of code explicitly using short instead of int, and then later being converted back to int for later platforms -- sometimes with amusing results, like a comment labeling an error code as meaning "the buffer is too int."
https://web.archive.org/web/20231110014435/https://www.nytim...
Another one I like is monkeytype
Get well soon Woz!
The paper letter would be one such side channel. jeff@amazon.con would be an even better such example. You will get a response from a "Executive Customer Relations" team, which is likely still a tiered tech support team, but the lowest tier is already capable of actually solving most problems that would get completely stuck in the regular support queue. It doesn't get much more intentionally designed than that.

For banks and other regulated industries, if something is a sufficient clusterfuck of incompetence and getting-the-runaround, filing a complaint at some supervisory authority also works. That generally gets the attention of the "troubleshooting" team mentioned, which is usually all it takes. The supervisory authorities know this, and most complaints likely get resolved this way (getting it in front of someone with some level of competence and authority).

I think the tiering structure is reasonable (some of my requests simply need a Tier 1 person to press a button that they have and I don't), and I've seen cases get escalated appropriately, but when the escalation fails/doesn't happen quickly it's incredibly infuriating.

Other side channels can be (real examples):

- legal department (note: this can be a one-way street and can make the company only talk to you through a lawyer, but if e.g. you have a complaint with a company that would result in a small claims court judge shake their head over the company's behavior, and are willing to take it to small claims court, this can be really effective). To reach them and get their attention, filing a small claims court case can be effective!

- Really bad feedback (0/10 on every category, including the "are you satisfied with the person on the other end", not just the company) on a customer satisfaction survey

- Social media (the common way to escalate "beyond the abilities of normal support channels" issues with tech companies). There are teams specifically for tracking and escalating social media feedback, but that's again a tiered system. Bigger shitstorm = higher tier.
The usual suggestions apply: Fiverr, Upwork, Toptal(?) assuming you have some digital skill of some kind, could be anything! These are marketplaces to sell your services, like graphic/web/product design or consulting, IT tasks, copywriting, etc.. What about making your own online software product/company?
but looking at it from a top down perspective, it does seem like google treats these contractors no better than the janitors and cooks. So i dont think you can say it's different merely because the nature of the work is not the same.
Legally speaking, ESA is not in Europe and is not obliged to follow any nation's law.
If you flip a coin and it lands on heads, that’s not an accident, it’s just chance. You get a risky procedure and die, well that’s chance too.
>when we can pay employees in cyrpto and they can use cyrpto to heat their houses, then maybe it will be a viable option.

None of crypto is able to do this. Even worse is how this did exist about a decade ago, but it fully regressed into an exotic account for wealthy individuals.
Thank you.

Mistranslation of military speak.

I actually think of it as conus.
Undervalued skill! I think having access to quality typing skills enables a smoother interface to computers in general, which makes using them substantially more pleasant.

I don't quite type as fast as I think, but as I type this, I'm considering my phrasing more than I'm considering how to put the phrasing into the text box, so I feel like I'm experiencing a slower version of what you're talking about.
It would be more credible if he acknowledged and debunked some common reasons people use to justify using CSPs, but this article reads as if he's never heard or thought of anything more substantial than "everyone else is doing it."

He also seems to believe it's a trend that started in 2022 related to COVID lockdowns, but EC2/AWS had been selling like hotcakes for a decade and a half before that.
Can LLMs Follow Simple Rules?
It what way, please give us more details.
The New York Times's official onion address also works without a paywall (or at least I haven't been blocked yet):

https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2l...
A whole lot to say not much. It’s reviews and forums.
It makes no evolutionary sense to reduce nerve conductivity and thus function when attempting to flee or migrate in a situation when carbs are scarce.

Further, keto/VLC diets are neuroprotective.

Highly skeptical.
the preceding knowledge acquisition before starting programming takes the overwhelming majority of typing. this includes web searches, asking questions in forums, IRC,.
...
Looks awesome, but I'm reminded of something I read ages ago that planes occasionally land in the USA with bullet holes in them and its "normal" according to ATC. How would something LTA deal with that?
Elder Scrolls exploration is much more scripted - for better or worse. I got my money's worth from all 3 games
> Nevada is a sovereign state

I think this is why you're getting downvoted. A "sovereign state" is a state that has the highest authority over a territory, but Nevada remains subject to US Federal law.

(I do not know to what extent US states have leeway on banking regulations)
But they still aren’t “profitable” yet in having positive net profits, right? What is their path there?
The microsoft lawsuit applied to the contractor staffing agencies, too. I'd google it for you, bute they had so many orange v-badges back in the day, that it has to be pretty easy to google.
I think there needs to be a law that unless you are committing a crime, the bank cannot refuse to work with you. Probably won't pass muster at the courts, but something has to be done to say wait a second, financial services should be a right, either let the post office do it as a bank of last resort, or force the corporate banks to stop discriminating.
> you might still wake up to find that while you were working on your project, two distant teams were also working on the same idea, and the time has come to fight it out because only one can proceed

Or you might not, in the case of Waze and Maps. I don't want to know what sort of politics were involved in the decision to keep both products rolling in parallel for 10 years.
The amazing stuff often has certain level of challenge, excitement, and reward behind it that compensates for the long feedback loops. It's not necessary for sure, but it sure is nice!
I did sign up even though I hate facebook from the bottom of my heart, but let’s see.
I was really hopeful seeing this announcement, but they're not releasing this in Australia.

I wonder why?

We're a small market, but high income & high disposable income, no language barrier, similar business environment. I'd assume it was easy-as to also do business here.
The article answers it - it's cheaper to train a person to be good enough at one thing than training them to be good enough at all the things.
Another moment that I thank our lord for e-mail clients
uncommon vatican W
That is insane, I had not heard of that when I lived in NYC, but I also did not hire anyone to do that kind of work.
Not being forced to use iOS, but if you are on iOS you are forced to use the app store.
Good use case for bitcoin. Not as user-friendly as fiat and traditional banks, but bitcoin literally can't cancel you no matter what.
It doesn't in this font? Possibly because of what they talk about where it optimistically gives as much space as possible to succeeding glyphs. You can try it on the page; the code sample boxes are editable. I see no jumping when I type "calming", their example word.

[append] Oh, I do see some jumping when I type "optimized". Honestly, it doesn't seem very jarring to me; the jumping is always right where the edit point is so the added or removed letter causes a much bigger jump.
I had a similar experience on a big multi-peak one day traverse. It was unusually hot/humid and turned into an 18 hour sufferfest. Thankfully I wasn’t the one driving afterwards, as I was hallucinating shadowy people standing in every open space along the side of the road.

Interestingly, I’ve done a few similar hikes and had plenty of energy after to cook a big pot of chili at our basecamp and enjoy a couple of beers. Exhaustion is weird.
also the x12 protocol has the same wayland concept on mind, so wayland is x12, and xorg developers are the one working on wayland, who is better to know how hard is to maintaing the software than the same mainteiners?
> and rebrand your business with a more neutral name

Can someone explain what the name means? I don't understand why it's not neutral.
I have no idea what physical shape Aldrin is in these days at 90 years old, but it's really interesting to think if he holds out another few years, he might be able to return if there's any realistic chance he could withstand the g forces and zero gravity.
> The game was originally called “advent”

Just like the precursor to Zork was called “dungeo”[0], both due to a six character file name limit!

[0] https://dungeo.org/
The government often uses regulations to shut 'undesirable' businesses off from bank accounts, when it cannot kill the businesses itself (for legal or political reasons). The prime example of this is "Operation Choke Point", but there are other, more subtle ones. Banks like money, but they are unwilling to challenge the regulators which protect them.

For those reasons (and others), I don't think your proposed legislation would work.
Ken Rockwell is the most reliable source of non-fiction fiction on the internet.
All the crypto naysayers on HN would do well to read this.
> well above current market norms

which just indicates that the cost is externalized, and the current market price is too low.

But it would take international cooperation to force such externalized costs back into the supply chain, and no gov't wants to do if not doing so is advantageous geopolitically and economically.
I'm from Texas but went to college in Michigan. I used to sometimes drive it straight through (20 hours, with stops every 6 hours for fuel, food and toilet). The times I'd stop were because I'd start hallucinating, not because I couldn't stay awake. Was always super annoying having to stop since I'd invariably be 1-2 hours from my parents place.
I think the point was honesty will only get you so far in this world. They could easily keep the business running but decided against it 'because honesty'
After reading this, I was left with the impression Google is full of under-utilized talent, has poor product vision and has systems in place that discourage innovation and risk taking.

So if this is a PR piece, then it is not a great one.
There is precedent for a new, domain-friendly bank. Wikipedia explains Silicon Valley Bank was founded to serve tech startups needing banking and loans while having no revenue yet. I expect specific banking needs have happened in other fields. And the porn industry does represent a lot of money.
Generic is good enough. Overtraining is bad.
Thank you! Updating my code with this.
rare earths are rare the same way common sense is common.
That actually checks out, because the color-detecting cones in the center of your eye are much less sensitive responsive to changes (framerate) than the rods in your peripheral vision.
FTC had to do bank fraud to do so. That's the point of these laws: they make illegal activity easy to prove and win convictions on.
Iran from a computer terminal. It's scary.
Financial services _for individuals_ should be a right. Companies don’t need any more rights than they have already.
Int in particular has that use. But there isn't a similar value in char and short and long being variable, so I wouldn't say it's a strawman.

And int has stopped being a reliable machine word size, if it ever was reliable in the first place.

Edit: I would say the most useful sizes are fixed_width and max(fixed_width, machine_word). And none of the native C types reliably fit into either of those categories.
Maybe we'll have fewer it's Uber-but-for-washing-your-underwear companies then. And maybe only really good ideas will actually get to the level of obtaining VC funding for development. That's not a bad thing. VCs for the last 15 years were throwing ideas at a wall, when one stuck, 10 other VC componies copied the idea....
Do you think every acute reaction in the body to intense exercise has to make "evolutionary sense"? Do shin splints make evolutionary sense?
Airships handle damage from small arms fire pretty well. The holes are small and pressure differential is low so leakage is limited. In armed conflicts it was necessary to use incindiery or explosive ammunition to shoot them down.
I find it hard to believe that Omegle has no standards and simultaneously has a list of standards in the Omegle Community Guidelines[1]. One of these things is false.

Can you exposit on social norms, their validity, and your methods of social reasoning? There seems to be a difference in underlying assumptions between us that is influencing how we think about this.

1. https://front3.omegle.com/static/guidelines.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-08/first-us-...

https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-power-nuscale-clean-energ...

So the state of nuclear is pretty bad in terms of "new nuclear" costs. Lazard LCOE has it basically at 500-600% more expensive than equivalent solar/wind. Yes, baseload, yes all that.

I'm probably known as a killjoy on nuclear on here over costs, but I really do think nuclear power is the coolest thing in the world and has a place in our energy future.

We just have to figure something out with regards to a competitive design. I personally think we keep retreading solid fuel designs that have hidden structural costs and paranoia-inducing issues with the public. Mostly, the dreaded nuclear waste and its transport and the fear-inducing long half lifes.

A LFTR/liquid design can theoretically use virtually all the fuel, so there is no "waste", or at least waste transport. Breeder type reactors IIRC can also take existing long halflife waste and transmute it to usable fuel isotopes again. I know it isn't actually that simple, but it is a lot better.

I simply think that is the closed waste cycle that will get a lot of regulatory hurdles over the hump. But we are probably a decade from even a design.

Nuscale was the shining star of the current generation of "practical nuclear". This sucks, because at least it kept an iron hot.
We need those benefits for the US.
Just GPT-4 without Bing
People enjoy complaining, never step up to help, and when someone step up, they discover the shit show that is trying to fix xorg, that's why the development is so much more focused on wayland, the developers know, that why xorg is dead and the only improvements are for xwayland
How do you make them more available and who is in a position to do so?
Yep but include baristas
It's also why I'm doubly sceptical of fusion, and really annoyed when it's presented as a solution we'll have "soon". Even if a breakthrough was invented tomorrow that made fusion actually work, it would still require building a massive number of fusion plants, and building them cheaper than renewables+batteries.
Disclaimer: I didn't read more than the first page of the paper

But there are lots of possibilities, right? For instance, if the alternative is glia starvation, and the myelin can be later regenerated, that might be preferable to glial death.

Separately, it's been theorized that myelin first evolved as an energy storage. It may respond to the same biological processes that cause adipose tissue to release fatty acids.

Further disclaimer: I don't really know what I'm talking about, but it seems like there are lots of possibilities why this observed result might have an evolutionary purpose, or explanation.
you can run Bazzite on them
Steve Wozniak's US Festival
> Memory access at the time was slow

Actually, memory access was fast (assuming you're referring to the time when C was developed, not when ANSI C was standardized), as you could access any individual memory location in a single clock cycle. It's once you start seeing the development of RISC systems that being able to clock processors faster than memory starts becoming a thing, and that makes memory slow.

> and if you specified an Int that you couldn't load/unload with a single instruction or fit into a register, you would kill your performance.

This is the bigger issue. If you have to do lots of extra masking or adjustment of the values to emulate an N-bit integer that isn't otherwise available on your system, that's the slowdown.
My girlfriend works for Google. I just moved to the Bay Area and I can definitely relate. She gives me tours of the Mountain View headquarters (and the campus) quite often and I just feel... it's too tranquil... it's too nice... it's too serene and it's just such a privilege to be here. The atmosphere is calm, the location is on beautiful rolling hills of California, the food is fantastic, there is a strong focus on biking/walking/community. Just lovely.
Whether it's Windows Insider or the recent OneDrive debacle, Microsoft solicits user feedback with a fervor that belies its fundamental indifference. It's a charade, and it's a waste of time to participate.
I am going to post that on my linkedin /s
Does it go near Gary?
But in that case, not memorization of the specific problem set, but "programming background knowledge." Hardly something to blame the machine for when we rely on it every day.
Here is how the insurance industry does it:

There are a bunch of people who nobody wants to insure. The government basically divides up those people, and forces insurance companies to take them on as customers, since insurance is legally required in some cases.

In order to make sure these customers don't hurt the main business, the insurance company has a separate legal entity to handle those customers.
Do they "require" total accuracy in the sense that the penalty for a mistake (or the time spent fixing it) makes it impossible to do well, or is a mistake actually disqualifying?
Try working in highly regulated environments like energy, finance or health. Now make your product work in multiple markets for multiple clients of differing scales with differing needs. Business logic can get very complicated, quickly.
“Coed” as a noun informally/imprecisely refers to female college students (for reasons that I have no idea, as it seems like it should be a symmetric label to me, given that a coed college requires both men and women, but the use of “coed” as a noun overwhelmingly means women).

“Cherry” suggests virginity.

I’ve never heard of CoedCherry until this HN post, but from the name, I’d assume they were an adult site focused on college or college-age women.
I agree. And I find it interesting that everyone seems to think the alternative is having a handful of hard coded sizes (8, 16, 32, 64). I don't think that's the answer either.

I imagine a language without any concrete integer type, instead you have to parameterize.
For example int<32> for a 32 bit integer. Syntax is debatable but that's the idea.

It's great cuz it can work on even weird hardware, I can make an int<13> for 13 bit machines.

And you can make typedefs for common stuff. Like a size_t mapping to int<32> or a word_t mapping to int<16>. Whatever you need.

I've been meaning to make a compiler to test the idea out. Someday maybe
Reminds me of this lady in the Bundestag (need to turn on subtitles with auto translate)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNLPIepG0C8

Alternatively, a pretty decent AI translation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/17rr215/german_mem...
You used to be able to. It’s becoming increasingly difficult.
Doesn't this very story look like evidence that they do?
Well, crypto can totally heat your house, just not in the way they think...
Because you can't police who is using the device at the other end. You're authenticating a client device, not a person, and that doesn't keep children any safer from abuse - if anything it means they have an incentive to keep their use of a thing secret for fear of punishment, which makes them more vulnerable.
CPU usage was definitely noticeable, but not more than 8-10% IIRC (on M1). I remember lots of tiny 0->10% spikes rather than a steady ~5% when viewing the CPU graphs.
Guesses as Compressed Probability Distributions
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this behavior changes one mouse click on a rarely used workflow into three. The only reason people are getting upset about it - the only impact, as you put it - is the cognitive load of providing a reason when they just want the computer to shut up and do what they asked. I don't believe that was intended to attack anyone, it was just a misunderstanding about how it would be received.
You have a congressman. That is, you have representation but not suffrage rights. Congresspeople will assist with making congressional inquiries. Their political incentives are a separate matter, but even advocacy ultimately has to get to the legislature. The failures of the system aren't a result of the H1Bs v/s US Citizens dynamic. In reality, there are several different groups with their own incentives. Kind of like how failures of US healthcare isn't a patients v/s doctors dynamic.
IMO, the only answer is to terminate them. They mention in comments they harass other employees and make inappropriate comments, which could lead to a hostile workplace lawsuit (and is just not cool).

You might end up having to dig out of a hole and that will suck. But just don’t let the hole form next time and take a lesson from the experience of digging out. Explain to the remaining staff how in the future we need to cross train and document, and use the “what if a bus hit someone tomorrow” parable. Folks might not relish the dealing with the mess left over, but sounds like they will appreciate the person not being in their workplace anymore.
A gig worker or freelancer who sets up an LLC is essentially no different than an individual. They should have protections.
Well, he got married to a much younger woman.

Can't be in very bad shape.
Once a certain level of violence is enacted against an action, it's rarely the exception: it's often on the way to be coded into law.
I'm surrounded by "opsec experts" (or whatever their name is lately) that keep running daily checks for windows pwned machines, against our servers which are all linux.

Like 4000 tests a day, always returning green charts, looking great on weekly meetings I'm sure.

They've demanded that we drop the WAF for them (WAF still irks me, it implies you don't know what you're running, but that's another day's topic), so that they can "better test our infrastructure".

They're completely oblivious on how a buffer overflow would be executed, and I'm pretty sure they couldn't tell me what the difference is between http2 and http.

I'm really saddened by the fact that this industry just barely runs from one breach to the next, pretending everything is fine, not understanding any of it and slapping on one-click solutions and pen-testing up the wazoo.

For christ sakes I had to correct a report saying our data was stored in a "community", because it's a third party data centre they never heard of.

I'm close to encourage my children not to get into the IT industry...
in my opinion Citus is a lot better.
its also available as a managed solution in azure under the marketting name of "Cosmosdb for Postgressql"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/postgresql...
From https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace?tab=readme-ov-file#v...

> If you want coding ligatures but do not want texture healing, you can elide the calt setting: