skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key decisions of a manager entail when and where to collapse complexity into simplicity (and inversely expand a simple system into something more complex). So you can pick out a foolish manager by their unwillingness to work with complexity in areas core to their business/craft/discipline, and you can find bad ass collaborators by examining what sorts of complexity they're enthusiastic about.

(Note: I'm using the term "manager" broadly. It could be an executive, a team lead, an entrepreneur... basically any contributor making choices.)

I personally love being around people who are willing to get dirt under their finger nails, smell the soil, ask questions, and read the documentation (ie, willing to step into complex systems). It's inspiring. It also is a good indicator that the environment I'm in is being well-cared for.

Think of a human caretaker – those with empathy (a beautiful example of willingness to engage complexity) far surpass others in both ability and impact. Think of a barista observing details like humidity while adjusting their process. And now keep this analysis while moving to higher levels of abstraction.

(BTW, this is a phenomenal essay. I love how the author left it to the reader to realize all the lessons contained in the McDonald's anecdote.)
The game is not over just because you trust a CA. If they sign a certificate for a domain, they have to also publish that they did (in the CT logs) before browsers will accept it. If they do so for an entity that didn't ask for it, that will be investigated by browser and OS vendors and it may easily end up with the CA becoming untrusted.
I'm glad you mentioned that! The existence of three distinct abstractions over the concept of function values is another good example of Ruby's flawed design.
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." - Fred Brooks, 1975
fisetin also helps for senescent cells.
FIFA games are pretty mainstream and have had them since the 90s sometime. I think the first one I played was 97 and it definitely had real ads in it.
That's unity
Specifically (to hopefully clarify your point), the operation we wish to be atomic is 'replacing the mapping path A->data X with path A->data Y'. This is hoped to be done by placing data Y in path B (which does not need to be atomic )and then using the atomicity of the rename to move around the path. This then puts an ordering constraint that any observer (whether after a crash and looking at the written filesystem, or during the normal operation of the system) sees data Y going into path B before the rename B to A, and this is what POSIX does not guarantee.
Sadly, this is a true statement. The citizens of Texas are getting what they voted for. Even if my state offered to help with electricity, which it did in 2021, it isn't allowed because the state of Texas outlawed the help, saying: "Federal tax-dollar help, we don't need no stupid Federal tax-dollar help!" (sorry, went Blazing Saddles.) People died and the gov said it would never happen again, then made practically no changes to grid.

Supposedly, the policy was created to keep the energy groups from more fed regs and taxes. In the mean time, it's roll the dice with the weather forecast and peoples lives.
memcpy seems like a reasonable baseline for a function designed to operate on things in memory

not for a database
can we use it to detect and skip parts of the video that contain ads?
Can't wait for a cartel courier kills witching a chasing police car..
I was gonna say practically the same thing
>Pirates ATTACK The WRONG US Navy Ship and Then THIS HAPPENED...

https://youtu.be/QCqNtLdqXi0?si=7L8WuN8qjn7YT7Nn
Haha yeah, I was being charitable to avoid starting a flamewar ;)
To be frank, it sounds like you're deadset on being cynical no matter what. Shopify has committed to removing carbon from the atmosphere via direct air capture, and that's what their metric is counting. Direct air capture is literally removing carbon from the atmosphere, regardless of what's done with the carbon afterwards.
Yeah this is excessive in the extreme. Wave goodbye to your copyright if you upload images to this service.

The other thing is that they want you to pay to use the generated images commercially - but (as far as we know) purely AI generated images are not subject to copyright, so such licensing restrictions can’t exist.
Have you tried? https://www.visioncortex.org/vtracer/

Not affiliated, but I've used them for a project and I was impressed
You can literally wake up your laptop from sleep and it restores the connection by logging you into the last session with the same auth. Not that easy to get sued for something as basic as that.
Yeah, people have also gotten mealworms to eat Styrofoam. My concern is more that the plastics industry successfully pushed plastic recycling heavily with marketing so that growth of their products would continue, even as said recycling was just dumping the material in developing countries where it mostly ended up burned or in the ocean. There can be a huge, huge disconnect between technically possible and what happens in the real world.
The slag is less problematic, because chemicals are destroyed by the burning process. You're basically left with ceramics, melted glass, bits of metal and a bunch of oxides. After the useful elements (mainly metals) have been removed, the remaining slag is buried.

By ecological balance I was mostly referring to the emission of CO2. While that is an inevitable part of incineration, it is largely compensated by reclaiming the metals, plus using the incinerators to generate electricity and district heating.

As I recall, incinerators have a poor reputation in the US because unfiltered incinerators were used back in the 1940s and 1950s, causing serious pollution problems. Modern incinerators filter the flue gases and the results are clean enough that the incinerators are often inside cities.
Probably of all people a lot of ruby acolytes do since a sizable portion of that community is a DHH personality cult. And plain JS is the 2nd best language ever made in that realm.
The person asking isn’t blind
Generating Virtual Wire Sculpture Art from 3D Models(2022) [pdf]
> starting in ‘Blue Mars’

Starting with Red Mars. Blue Mars is last in the trilogy.
So murder for hire produces value?
Love it. Anything that makes Ruby feel more like Smalltalk and less like Python is a win.
Looking at Fig 2 in the Executive Summary pdf, most of the CO2e emissions for physical shopping is from customer transportation to store - between 50-80% for the various scenarios they considered. For online shopping about 50% of the emissions are from packaging.

The main lessons I see are

- If you drive, then switching to online will reduce emissions by about 30%.

- If you don't drive, and instead bus or walk to shopping stores, then your emissions will be about 10-20% of the car-drivers or online shoppers.
> most normal users still use google search to search for videos.

Citation? This seems unlikely to me. Maybe a lot of users end up watching a video given to them by a Google search. But if someone is specifically looking for a video, I think most probably go to YouTube and use YouTube search (which is more than fine for “normal users”)
Another innovation is JPM coin, which is technically a cryptocurrency, and they're using that to power their internal international money movement systems.
Did you manage to recoup the investment?
location data is basically impossible to anonymise: if you have a record of someone's movements over any more than a day you can almost certainly work out where they live and work, for example. When it comes to personal data you can't just wave an anonymisation wand and say it's definitely OK now, you need to think carefully about the exact case, and especially the more data that is collected the more difficult it is to actually keep things private.
I'm sorry, it is not ethical or responsible for me to help you skip ads. In fact, the very suggestion is thoughtcrime. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Included in our comparison list here https://forwardemail.net/en/open-source/linux-email-server#e...
Anyone remember the billboard ads in (I believe) Ultima Online?
Funny you mention fundamental freedoms, when suburbia as we know it today is the consequence of severe government restrictions on everything from lot size and building height to parking.
A more elaborate version of this prank is to combine it with two more steps: unplug the mouse (or turn off Bluetooth), plus also put tape or a sticky note on the underside of the mouse, covering the sensor. Voila, they will have to troubleshoot the malfunctioning mouse three times in a row.
> If anyone's interested but not enough to listen to the whole thing- listen to the first half a minute and then the last!

This is what I always do when showing other people this song. A 20 or 40 minute track is not an easy sell lol, especially this repetitive. But showing them 20 seconds from the start, middle, and end always gets a wow. Half of them usually want to hear the whole thing after that. And half of those turn it off after 5 minutes haha.
> ...won't let two copies of a first-class app run simultaneously

Could you maybe setup two different (LÖVE and something else, probably custom) "first-class apps" and ping-pong between them?
Garn v0.0.16 ships with vitejs and GitHub pages plugins
garn v0.0.16 ships with a new plugin system and two plugins, for bundling vitejs projects and for deploying web apps to github pages
Nitter: https://nitter.net/whitetailani/status/1727576164284129654
Yeah... this tends to be the issue. Also, I wouldn't even bother trying to get removed from the UCEProtect blacklists, it's literally just extortion. (luckily I use a small hosting provider so they're not even on the UCEProtect lists)
Fearmongering.. I have been running my own mail server since 1999. No deliverability issues that I can recall.
"Every blind person this person has helped uses an iPhone" doesn't imply "every blind person uses an iPhone."
On a somewhat different note, I have been using iCloud custom domain hosting feature. The spam filtering is horrendous. Anyone else has this problem? I am tired of checking the spam folder everyday and I find legitimate emails almost 2-3 days a week. Of course, I click on not-spam but I think Apple's servers just don't learn very well (maybe due to focus on privacy?)
Depends how much cheaper it is.
The Big Cloud
Ruby has the highest ceiling for clean, elegant, and expressive solutions to problems in any language I’ve ever seen. For small teams of (one or two) highly-experienced programmers with compatible vision, you can produce truly incredible programs.

It also has the lowest floor. With the usual makeup of teams of frequently-rotating mostly-junior engineers who don’t have the experience, understanding, and restraint to use Ruby’s more… let’s call them idiosyncratic features, the sheer volume of completely inscrutable crap that can be put out in a given amount of time is truly breathtaking.
This article make it look like understanding Ruby code has become an absolute hell.

I don't mean understanding as in "I get what this demo snippet is doing kinda", but as in "what is exactly happening here, how to edit it, and what might break if I edit it".

Feels like the antithesis to Perl's write-only code. Ruby is read-only code.
Delete this before you give someone ideas.
Ah. Paranoia and the slippery slope. Always a compelling argument.
Are all of those proprietary products? I can't speak on your experience, but if linux was created in 1991, seems like in another angle you're bemoaning the rise of OSS and web.

I'm just a web developer that learned everything from online resources. So i think we are both biased on different ends on the spectrum.
It's not a guide but an opinion piece.

> Without resorting to loaded words like “freedom.”

> I do like the idea of people modifying and selling my software. That would validate my programmer ego rather than make me feel ripped off.

Whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> A lot of concepts here tie one to microsoft.

You're not kidding, they tout their "Microsoft for Startups" offering but you cannot even get past the first step without having a LinkedIn.

On another note, OPs post above (not TFA) may as well be taglined "the things OpenAI and Microsoft don't want you to see" - I'm willing to bet that it will be a long, long time before Microsoft and OpenAI are actually interested in educating the public (or even their own customers) about how LLMs actually work - the ignorance around this has played out massively to their favor.
> He currently has an iPhone but if android phones are superior for blind users, I would happily help him switch.

They are roughly identical in a11y, there is no point in switching. Apple got there first, and they had full-time blind developers on staff working on it first, so they got first mover a11y advantage, but mostly now it's a wash between the two.

> Does anyone have recommendations for how to help set this up?

If "holidays" mean the weekend, anything more than getting Siri turned on is probably pushing it. If "holidays" mean through New Years, then you have a much better chance of being useful.

Unless you are going to be there in person long-term to help him, you are better off getting him connected with someone that will, preferably a family member close by or an organization dedicated to the blind, that can help him adapt his life.

Otherwise just https://www.apple.com/accessibility/vision/ and turn those things on that make sense for him, make sure he knows how to talk to Siri and access to audiobooks/podcasts, etc.
> eventually will leak lovely chemicals into groundwater

Far better to transform them into even worse chemicals through exothermic reactions and send them invisibly through the air to all your neighbours.
Demo of this feature from the most recent Adobe Max conference:
https://www.youtube.com/live/1tbrJNP5Cjk?si=tZegLn1-kXE1axDq...

The style transfer is really impressive (watch past the underwhelming first example of the airplane).
Curious, why do people gravitate to the term "hallucination" (as if it's a person not a tool) instead of just plainly stating that it's wrong?
I've done MiaB from 2015-2017, and I've always had deliverability issues from Digital Ocean. Microsoft is particularly nasty, and Gmail kept marking me as spam silently instead of rejecting mail.

I've decided to just move on and pay Fastmail. Email isn't private anyway.
this feels like a race to the bottom which every industry player except Apple is competing in. I never would have considered an Apple TV just a few years ago, but my Shield is gathering dust ever since I made the switch.
That is my point. The "teaching git" for most developers is not actually about git at all. What people don't understand is version control. The whole concept of a tree of branches in your repository and how they get merged into each other or branched off from each other does not change from SVN to git or vice versa.

Maybe we have different experiences, but mine is that back in my SVN days, most devs were not able to reason about branching at all. And every time they needed to check something in another branch they would `cp -a` their SVN tree to another directory and people would have like four or five copies of each of their projects with various names hanging around.

My entire "hate" for SVN is not just branching. I can add more things if you like. For example, trying to merge or commit you have to be 100% certain that you won't have conflicts or that you can solve the conflicts in one go. I have seen many many people work on something, trying to commit it and getting hopelessly stuck during the conflict resolution and destroying their work. They then redid their entire piece of work (well the files that they effed up) and sometimes started creating said `cp -a` copies of the entire tree before committing. These are the same kinds of people that `rm -rf` their tree when they run into something in git that they don't understand.

In git an easy rule to never loose work (save for actual bugs) is to: always commit first. I.e. before you try anything, just commit. Whatever goes wrong, you can always go back to your commit. I don't have conflicts often but sometimes in the middle of a conflict resolution I will just reset back to the original commit I made and try again with the knowledge I gained during the first round of resolution. Sometimes the solution is to actually just squash your own commits first and the conflict goes away for example. But I don't know that in advance coz I wasn't even expecting a conflict to begin with.
The Wandering Inn, you will not be able to read anything else while reading this, if you get hooked.
You’re really likening running a company against the skills of a professional athlete? Put down the kool aid. CEOs are figureheads. Very few have ever had actual meaningful impact on the progress of their companies (or anything really) compared to their most talented engineers.

I’m done pretending they’re important. It’s a lie they and the boards have sold us and investors. The real meat of a company is who their smartest people are, and how much the company enables those people.

Pretty easy to see the difference if you consider between a company full of smart people who actually make things vs a company full of CEOs, which one will do better.
Sure A* is awesome, but taking the "star" and immediately attributing it to A* is probably a bridge too far.

Q* or any X* for that matter is extremely common for referring to the optimal function under certain assumptions. (usually cost / reward structure).
C has used ellipses for variable arguments ca 1985.
The remains of dinosaur cities.
> I cannot count the number of times that developers have gotten outright giddy when an opportunity for self-commodification comes up usually under the guise of self-taylorization.

I dunno. I'm a sysadmin, and my job is arguably to replace myself with a small shell script. Somehow I've been at this twenty-odd years and there's still more work than people.
You can flip the argument and say how corrupt and anti-capitalism are other parts of the world.

Despots don't want people they rule to unleash their potential, because that would challenge the status quo and their position.
I think having “encrypted SQLite” as a column is a bit too specific, and biased to favor your own product in the comparison. I think a more fair column would be “encrypted at rest” – even if it comes out that your own solution is the only one that ends up with a green check mark.
Thank you for pointing out this mistake. So the 40 Gbps value advertised by Intel is not the pre-encoding rate but post-encoding rate. This means TB3 pre-encoding rate is 40.25gbps. Minus encoding we get post-encoding = 40Gbps (before TB headers).

This leads me to question my USB maths. E.g.: USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 advertised as 5,000 Mbps, but is that pre-encoding or post-encoding?

Is it
`5000 Gbps pre-encoding -> 8b/10b > 4000 Gbps`
or
`6250 Gbps pre-encoding -> 8b/10b > 5000 Gbps`

Same question for USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 which uses 128b/132b (I double checked this time :P!).
Have been running Mailinabox since 2018 on a €5 VPS. 0 issues with email deliverability. Or anything really. It just works.
??? Texas's 2021 winter disaster, which the Governor stupidly blamed on wind turbines, turned out to be largely caused by frozen natural gas delivery components.
I don't want to make an impact in any organization where experienced engineers are treated like children.

So Timmy, what did you do today? Ah, cool, make sure to raise your hand if you make a boo boo, and involve your little buddy Mike, okay? Mhm, thanks.

Hey guys, let's theorize how difficult it would be to make a tree house? Would it be 1 candy? 2 candy? 11 candies? No, that's too much, let's agree on 5, parents are eagerly waiting for the tree house to be built. Okay? Thanks. Well, 2 hours passed, time to tuck you in bed.

Hey children, this is Jake, he is a bit slow in the head. He can't read yet but I have decided to make him the one deciding what is most important in your reading curriculum. I also have decided to talk only with Jake and check only with him what is your reading progress. If you haven't read all the books in the curriculum by (deadline made up by the first number which comes to Jake, and he can count max to 3), it's your fault, not Jake's cause let's be honest, he is a tool and he can't read. But if you all read your books, Jake gets cake.

I believe all those methodologies were invented because manager types are terrified of depending on people who are different from them and who they don't understand. So they decided to embed one of their own business types (who also has 0 qualifications to judge whether the engineers are doing a good work) to make sure the engineers are not playing ping pong all day.
this non-issue happened in a modern landfill near my hometown.

They just used a different grade of material and pocketed the difference.

The chemicals area leaching now into the groundwater. Any researchers reporting on that are sued. Even police is used for intimidation.

Country is Germany.
> …successful projects don't need help from ux/UI people.

Is GIMP the exception that proves the rule?
And now they ship it down south to states who are happy to take it.
Yeah a lot of the badness of UB in C and C++ is stupid and has no place in the language. UB should be reserved for cases where there is no definable outcome, and everything else should be unspecified or implementation defined. Things like overflow, null sereferences, etc should not give the compiler the opportunity to go back in time and remove preceding branches (which is what the current interpretation of UB allows).
Consider Evaluating LLMs as Search Engines
Is that two decades on the same IP space?
The emergency is when Texas gets gets to below -1c for extended periods (+2days).
I find the larger Q5 versions from theBloke to be pretty good and allow you to run a larger model than you’d be able to otherwise. But there is definitely an impact, although it’s hard to quantify. It’s sort of like how you get less effective at coding when you’ve only slept 5 hours.
AI Doomers are worse than wrong – they're incompetent
It seems like we still can't use Bard in Canada yet. Pretty annoying. I haven't been able to find an explanation of why it is not available
Very useful thanks! I guess i would just buy them then.
Of course I can't say anything about that other than I did the job I was hired to do, and I performed far above anyone's wildest expectations.

Nobody else on the planet was able to automate the tuning like I did, which had a direct influence on ROI. I know this because it required a very specific change to the AMD drivers to enable that functionality to happen.
I think first paper money appeared in China, and was government issued.

Wikipedia has a quote ostensibly from Marco Polo where he discusses this peculiarity of people accepting paper as if it was a golden coin.
We also thought of renaming it to "Mailboxes Encrypted Individually". We really wanted to make it clear that each individual mailbox is encrypted. Any other suggestions?
You can use MailChannels for free via Cloudflare and there are no volume limits.
It will be nice to see the breakthroughs resulting from what people _believed_ Q* to have been.
everyone already knows this though.... Ive never seen any software with zero bugs... maybe he is trying to bring awareness to the fact that programmers suck
Similarly, it's a technical error when I accidentally send Ubisoft executives a picture of my middle finger. Sorry guys, that wasn't supposed to make it into the email!
A shame a rigorous, controlled A/B test wouldn't be ethical, much less possible. What if it turned out to be possible to vaccinate against becoming a jerk?