skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can pay people to churn out bad self-help all day, but none of those are going to be worth a damn without allowing the human element to flourish. But you still need a factory which can print the things, and as clinical as a mass bookbinding operations sounds, I really believe that you're only going to get a beautiful binding when that factory is run by people who have the connection to the work necessary to exercise taste.

Operation, innovation and maintenance. Pick any 3.

Better if done by the same team or teams that are very close to each other.

Ideally, all done to varying degrees by each person on the team because that’s where inspiration for improvement comes from.

We can split the 3 functions up into 3 groups, with 3 sets of management hierarchy. Often the result is mediocre and the people are unhappy (especially those stuck on the maintenance team - thankless but crucial work, that).

We can try to make teams responsible for all 3 functions, but often hire managers who overfit on one of them (coincidentally the one that leads to better rewards next quarter). It’s hard to champion operational excellence, diligent maintenance and hammock time in a single culture.

No wonder it’s hard.
It's a tech talk so I watched it and made some notes. It's an argument for using in-process databases when doing data science, rather than an external DB. The speaker pitches DuckDB as a concrete example, which seems to be an in-process DB for Python data frames.

The speaker presents measurements showing how much overhead the wire protocols for various DBs have. MySQL is the best, Postgresql is orders of magnitude worse due to a very inefficient binary format design. The best is still 10x worse than netcat.

Apache Arrow is trying to design a universal protocol for DB access that's more efficient than what's out there currently.

Speaker asserts that scale-out is usually not needed in data analytics, no need to use Spark etc unless you want it on your CV.

Audience member asks "what about multi-user/multi-process access", speaker admits DuckDB basically doesn't do that.

Speaker pitches for using embedded in-proc DBs inside AWS Lambda functions. Not practical to install Oracle RDBMS in something that only runs for 100msec.

A web shell for DuckDB is demonstrated, it uses WASM.

Decentralization is pitched as a reason to avoid 2-tier architecture (separate db engine w/ client protocol).
Regarding signed integer overflow

> If it is implementation-defined, it is no longer considered an error by the C++ standard

I do't understand why implementation defined can't be "throws exception/abort on overflow for debug build and something more efficient for release builds". Why do they need a new category for that?
Very nice to just be able to download the paper (how it should allways be, with public funded research).

Hope to get new insights, I live close to such a site in central europe that was likely connected to this culture and which also was abandoned ca. 1000 B.C. and apart from that, little is known about them, except the theory that a climate change forced them to move further south (or whatever else happened).
I'm Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese people you mentioned who escaped to the US decades ago were refugees. They were escaping a country where bombs were being dropped daily, famines were normal, and literally millions had died due to lack of food.

The literacy rate was 3%. In other words, the majority of those poor folks are not even fluent in writing their main language. Many of them, including my relatives, expressed the wish to learn English, but as you can imagine, it's pretty challenging. Some picked up enough to communicate, some gave up and depended on their children/grandchildren for translation. They had seen war and hell; being alive is a blessing.
> It's so pleasant to deal with fiber.

Consumers are absolutely brutal to cables. Minimum bend radius of copper cables get violated all the time, but copper has a decent chance of continuing to work if bent back. Not so with fiber. Fiber would only work with some heavy armor.

Consumer fiber was actually tried in the past: Optical TOSLINK was briefly popular in the audio world. It was cheap relative to what you’d need for modern high speed fiber, but even that was too much to win out over copper. It faded away.

Even within professionally maintained data centers, direct attach copper is often preferred over fiber interconnects when it’s possible to get away with it.

Fiber is great when called for, but copper wins in practicality when you can get away with it. It’s been proven over and over again across industries.

> Meanwhile, Apple wants $70 a pop for a single, 1m Thunderbolt 4 cable, and that's only been increasing.

You picked the absolute most expensive cable as your benchmark. Look anywhere else and prices are lower and decreasing.

Also, you are wrong about Apple cable prices increasing. They’ve actually dropped the price of their longer cables.

But again, look to the overall market and you’ll see prices going down.
what are the engineering principles of software? does team A agree with team B what they are? is there alignment between academia and industry? Electrical engineering has Maxwells Laws and math. What is the math of software? Do teams A and B agree?
OpenTyrian game natively is something like maybe 7MB, but a Snap version is more than 1GB.
Do you have any better criticism than that something is "cringe"? Otherwise this reads like something a teenager would write.
It's really not a big deal. I understand what they meant. I just think the secular variety of expression is preferable to (some) who have lost someone. Religions deal with the afterlife in different ways, and so it could be seen as someone else making "judgemental" assumptions.
My favorite ant behavior is that many tree-dwelling species will actively glide back towards the trunk if they're dislodged so they're less likely to depart the tree entirely. There's a few papers on the topic, this article has some videos :) https://insider.si.edu/2011/06/lofty-experiments-with-glidin...

I didn't see it when I searched, so apologies if I overlooked it.
R and its predecessor from 1988, S-Plus, as well.
Programming languages shouldn't have two competing two type systems in them. Static typing in a scripting language like Ruby is just poor engineering.
In almost any way. Sane data structures, a coherent namespaced stdlib etc etc. Like just how painful is it to do websockets in PHP? It requires all sorts of dependencies etc. PHP is just a mess with some lipstick, and to be honest it looks like they want PHP to be a Java clone.
OpenAI API is not ChatGPT
There's five million people in the country. And even though you can say some general things, not all five million always agree.

Plus you can be in favour of self-determination while at the same time being anti-immigration, or discriminating.
Can you 3D print metals yet? That sounds quite difficult.
That is true for the older generation (immigrating to US pre 1990-ish). The newer generation immigrating to US has a very different mindset now, and they embrace American values as much as the native born here.
8m or so is the limit for HDMI passive cables being 100% reliable.

If you want to go 15-30m--- using a video source from another part of your house, or to drive a projector in the middle of a classroom--- and you buy an "active cable", odds are it's fiber optic inside.

If you want to go hundreds of meters away, you'll get a purpose-built box that uses your own optical cables instead of a cable that hides the optical transceivers inside.
Out of interest, what did you use all that compute for?
This is for their API, not the chat service. But thanks, that's another datapoint.
You talk like a jailbreak is some "dangerous and system-destroying action".

The fact that a jailbreak is even needed to actually get full ownership of your device that's "sold" is laughable. And we have people fighting and demeaning people for demanding the full rights to devices they supposedly own?

Apple fraudulently "sells" rentals as if they were a purchase.
Those are used in multiple cases:

- long runs that are not that long. hdmi does not like long cables at all. even an overhead projector in a classroom requires super expensive cables (ever wondered why it's still mostly vga?)

- packing multiple displays in a single cable. fiber is so thin that with trunk cables you get a lot of strands in a single cable, capable of running a lot of displays

- just getting a really thin cable that can be run in existing conduits or hard to reach places

I did buy such a cable for home for the third reason, to run from the PC in the office to the TV in the living room. It runs on a bog standard OM3 MPO cable. The specific one I got comes from HeyOptics and their website already showcases a few usecases [1]. (not affiliated, just a great product that just works)

As for stadiums and more generally broadcast video, they're using SDI instead of HDMI. Those are indeed most of the time fiber, both for range and weight (think of the cameraman running along the terrain during a sport event, and their long tail of cables). When they use HDMI it's more in the control room.

[1]: https://www.heyoptics.net/products/8k-hdmi-mpo-optical-cable

(edit: fixed list formatting, I always forget this is not markdown)
The hardest part is not implementing the specifications as described (maybe AI will do this soon, doubt).

The hardest part is taking various competing requests in plain English (often in their second language) from non-technical people, having an interactive conversation to tease out actual needs, and converting that into a specification (if even only in your head) to then implement.

When we have an AI that can understand French Quants, let me know.
You are a god too. Fix it yourself.
How many European countries can you list that have stricter immigration policies today than 20 or 30 or 50 years ago? I can't list a single one. How do you square this with your claim that right leaning ideology is "taking hold"? If anything the actual data points to massively loosened immigration laws and massively loosened penalties for choosing to evade immigration laws.
Apple is pretty good at having daemons that randomly take 100% cpu with no recourse. Last one didn't have access to something I didn't know existed, and it was Apple who should have set it up :)
I'm absolutely certain there are much more non-white (Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese...) programmers than white.

And if we stop with the racism, are you sure it's not the programming that made these guys upper middle class?
These are ok but I prefer the U line, eg the U2723q. 27” 4K also, but the display is much better. I know this because I have the U and S side by side at work.

Also, the U comes with what is essentially a USB-C dock with Ethernet and a built in KVM.

Caveat: This is in the US market.
What makes the daemon start in the first place? If it's a launchd service, which I assume it is, why do they not disable it instead?
if you wanna be precise, they said that the least funny people are the ones complaining;

because they can’t come up with material that isn’t at the expense of people facing systemic oppression

There are plenty of very funny comedians (with edgy acts, even!) that aren’t complaining about “cancel culture”. Check out Stavros Halkias maybe
Even our texts.
Doesn't Clojure support this kind of variadic pass through?

Admittedly it's a bit more complicated than Ruby's syntax, which I find to be a bit ironic.

I'm not sure if Clojure has something equivalent to &block... I think you would just pass a function in Clojure since they are first class?

https://john2x.com/blog/clojure-destructuring.html
No, both numbers refer to non-Hispanic whites.

The Hispanic population of California was 13.7% in 1970. 19% in 1980, 39% in 2020:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanics_and_Latinos_in_Cal...

And over 55% of students in CA public schools today:

https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrethlevels.aspx?a...

The shift in demographics wasn't driven entirely by the increase in the Hispanic population, and in fact I didn’t mention Hispanic population at all. It also was in part driven by immigration from Asian countries.

Not sure why you’re calling me a liar.
Sure but the f15 didn’t start production until almost a decade later.
Your assertion is inaccurate.
Scaling Redis at 7shifts
Why pay someone else when you have your own “carbon removal” program and just pocket the profits?

Of course, you’ll still need to purchase the Certified Genuine Carbon Credit Approved Organic Green Sticker (R) (TM) (501c3) (NGO) (LLC) to prove you are worthy to sequester other people’s consumption sins.
They can do math - they can write code to be executed. It's not much different than me or you doing any maths more complex than reciting the times table.
> Buy goods/services from your friends

I actually don't think that's a good idea. I have observed so many friendships break this way that I think it is not worth it. I also have bad experiences personally.

Why would you want buy/sell services with your friends? To get a better deal? If you are getting a better deal out of this, you are likely to cause your friend to think they are getting bad deal and are exploited in this relationship. If you don't want to get a better deal than the market rate, just go and buy from anybody else in the market.

Even if you buy/sell with the friend at a market rate, he or you might be pressed into thinking you or them are expected to provide a better service. And this might come with the resentment ("I am being paid the same but expected to do more/better job")

If you provide services at a market rate to a friend, they might think they should be getting a better deal from you for the fact you are their friend. So for example, if you are a car mechanic and you are fixing their car, you might be doing a more thorough job but still charging them the same and at the same time they might not be able to appreciate that they are already getting a good deal and be unhappy with what they are getting.

As I work with computers / do software development, I simply refuse when friends ask me if I can do a website for them or fix their computer. I certainly could do this, but I am also certain that nobody is going to be happy with this relationship. My real hourly rate is so enormous and my website making skills so poor that they are 100x better just going to fiverr which is what I try to steer them to.

So my personal rule is to try to stay away from doing business with my friends unless they are friends that became my friends because I was doing business with them in the first place and we have healthy business relationship. I call them business friends/acquaintances. These people actually understand the business and understand the services I provide and can appreciate when they are getting a good service. I can charge them more than market rate and they will still be happy because they are getting much better service with much less risk.
I guess Azure's are spread out too. Latency higher to world wide datacentres.
A non-esoteric answer: in Forth dot prints the top of the stack and function calls are separated by spaces. Hence three dots separated by spaces is the simple and straightforward way to print the top three stack elements.
No, it's unrelated.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/064df1a9f395f8c6e32c...
Please don't assume what I wanna force or not.
I don't need a new CPU for windows, but windows wants it.
Similar with phones, I am forced to buy a glued brick each 3 years (2 years now, woohoo). And I don't need a "new video" each week from my favourite creator, one good video once in a while is ok for me. Carbon capture is not even working properly yet, but we already pushing it as a solution. Probably solution would be "it releases more CO2 in the end, but you are forced to buy it, and it would make great profit to people involved in it".
Having read the phoenix project while working at red hat I can see some value of the process for large organisations with a lot of people and teams that need to be aligned, but for smaller projects with few people then just steer clear of all this software factory stuff
Somewhat related, Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast just had an episode with the original creator of Magic: The Gathering:

> Since bursting onto the scene in the mid-1990s, Magic the Gathering has become one of the most popular games of all time, with millions of players collecting cards to battle each other in an imaginary fantasy realm. But Magic's early success came with a problem: the price of the game's most powerful and rare cards surged along with its popularity. Eventually, Magic's creators worried that the game would become too expensive and was at risk of becoming a short-lived fad. So, how do you pop a bubble in collectibles without completely alienating collectors? In this episode, we speak with Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic the Gathering, and Arka Ray, a long-time game developer at Microsoft who's now CEO of Richard's new gaming studio, Popularium. They talk about the surprising parallels between MTG and central banking, what they've learned from Magic, and how they're applying those lessons to Chaos Agents, Popularium's first new gaming launch.

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/magic-the-gatherings-creator-...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfi4_o_8Uxw (audio-only)
> Apple fraudulently "sells" rentals as if they were a purchase.

..But only because most customers feel safest inside a jail.
> master/journeyman/apprentice

Even if it's the way I learnt, it's just one way to learn.

I'm in software but my background is electronics engineering. But I can say electronics can be a craft (just build some stuff), or engineering (all the way to knowledge of modern physics, telecommunications, semiconductors design), or manufacturing (build some stuff at scale).

Same applies to programming. I've known quite a few people with computer science backgrounds. Some would have a level of comprehension and ability that's just unachievable by just practicing programming as a craft, and some others can determine any algorithm Big O notation at first glance but can't write 5 lines of code if their life depends on it.
Not answering your question, but I hear that the site performs much better if you sign out.
This part is brilliant, the user can modify the app itself while it's running.

> Lua Carousel is a "freewheeling" app that you can read and modify the source code for as it runs. The app contains all its source code.

It feels similar to a self-hosting language that's written in itself. I love the idea of giving the user the power to modify not only their own programs as they run, but the editor and runtime environment. ..Ah, the readme of the Git repo goes into more detail how it works.

https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/carousel.love
How thick are those cables versus standard consumer cables?
Now you can see in real time as Stripe freezes your account with little recourse for some reason whose specifics are kept opaque and possibly arbitrary.
I lived with a black cat some 15 years ago. Whenever it was bed sheet changing time, it was also cat tossing time. He loved being tossed "across the room" (really just a few feet) onto the matress and wouldn't stop coming back to get more.
Elon is one of the worlds greatest talent poachers, and that is much better than being a great thinker.
Assuming you have Ollama installed, you can test this with `ollama run yi:34b`.
John Carmack on a shoestring budget nearly got this working at Armadillo. If he had more money and time he would've had it working a half decade before SpaceX.
I feel like all bets are off if you're modifying your phone away from what the manufacturer explicitly supports. Not saying you shouldn't, but this says nothing about the brokenness of the stock software.
This just sounds so hilariously wrong start to finish. That any of the data you collect is useless is already a big [citation needed]
how to win friends and influence people
It's Ian Hickson - the co-creator and lead of the entire Flutter project. He described her in his post as "Jeanine Banks, who manages the department that somewhat arbitrarily contains (among other things) Flutter, Dart, Go, and Firebase". As the head of Flutter he would be directly underneath her in the corporate hierarchy.
If you look at the development of any technology there is a consistent evolution from high skilled use of simple tools to low skilled use of complex tools.

Consider the evolution of human weapons. It was very easy to make a crude throwing spear (break off a branch and sharpen the wooden tip against a rock) but a ton of strength and precision was necessary to take down a target with it.

It took a while to figure out how to make a decent bow, but once invented it spread all over the world because momentum could be imparted to the arrow instantaneously when releasing the string. Strength was still required to hold the bow at full tension; this requirement was eliminated with the crossbow. As a tradeoff, the crossbow required more significant manufacturing expertise and economies of scale, particularly with regard to precise metal locking mechanisms.

The evolution continues with guns replacing crossbows, tanks replacing horses, and ending with nuclear weapons. Each technological development requires a much greater level of manufacturing organization, and in turn bestows more power on an unskilled user. The resulting economies of scale are why only a small set of huge states are militarily relevant today, and why the idea of nomad bands posing a threat suddenly seems laughable (whereas it was a dominant worry for civilized society up until a few hundred years ago).

It is natural to glorify the work of the artisan whose disorganized but brilliant insight has not yet been commoditized. But for better or worse, progress usually takes the form of painstakingly systematizing those insights, detail by detail, until they are reproducible and robust, so that a broader range of people can consistently churn out similarly good work. It is this systematization and rationalization of the manufacturing process that really brings quality of life improvements to large numbers of people. It is also what can seem to take the magic out of the original insight, eg as Edison’s discovery of electricity becomes as mundane as flipping on a light switch. Progress happens in the transition from magic to technology.
The idea is that you can standardise the quality of the training data by taking source articles and synthesizing new data with the same "voice" and structure, as well as being able to collate insights from multiple sources.

This is the line of thinking behind the Phi lineup of models [0], as well as efforts to generate synthetic textbooks for training [1].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463

[1]: https://twitter.com/ocolegro/status/1712327588255809667
Got it, so no then right.

I love Carmack, but having an idea for something is infinitely easier than actually successfully executing on it, especially as incredibly successfully as SpaceX.
OpenAI's use of the term assistant is pretty different: they use it for their API mechanism that combines system prompts, knowledge files (a form of RAG) and actions (tool usage): https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/how-it-works
The first people to accept paper were almost certainly scammed. That's because the thing was totally unregulated in its first hundreds of years of use.
Net migration rate into Argentina is _positive_.

If you really think there is no middle class in Argentina, seriously, you need to travel around more, what can I say.
You can't do List<byte>, but need to use special types like Uint8List. This was not always available, so List<int> is sometimes still used even in official Google libraries. If it had value types you wouldn't need these special lists.

I agree that overall it feels like C#-lite, plus some baggage from early days when it was designed as an alternative to JS.

It will probably become really nice language in a few years.
Classified I imagine.
One step closer to Ray Cats