skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A number of youtubes pop up.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=DIY+recuperator

and the goog has a few more.
https://www.google.com/search?q=DIY%2Brecuperator&rlz=1C1CHB...
> from 2020 to 2022

so the largest growth of remote jobs were only included in the data? what about the last year that had the largest tech layoff in 2 decades and RTO mandate?

Looks like i was right after all.
I mean this is just talking about the US but looking at job postings for any large company over half are bow for people not in the US.
IMO that particular aspect is what made Google stand out to the general audience. Most people don’t search by keywords, or optimize their queries to hint the engine. They just type a question and assume Google will make sense of what they meant. Google usually does that very well, and that high level understanding is not compatible with our keyword query expectations. To us that feels broken, but to the majority of people it’s working as designed.

Instead I think search results have been getting worse for everyone because of SEO. Companies want to optimize for number of ads viewed, not quality of content, thus quality goes down in favor of clickbait and keyword stuffing.

I don’t think there’s much Google can do here to resolve this issue. It’ll always be a game of cat and mouse between Google and companies using SEO to push more ads for less money.
That epigram is referring to a fundamental asymmetry of information between words and pictures. Having a machine that can come up with many different pictures from a few words doesn’t only not say anything about how to make a picture from any 10K words, it somewhat reinforces the epigram’s point.

Those models may be more adequately described by #63:
When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out that we do and they don’t.
That’s because of the giant amounts of land to the east of 280 that you’re not allow to build on

Convenient for existing land owners..
If I understand, this only affects system with Secure Boot turned on.
Great advice.

The firm I was referring to above was sold to a private equity firm and they lost all their good, longstanding talent in the process, myself included.

Take care of your good employees and the rest follows. There is a King of the Hill episode about it. Mr Strickland calls Hank his "golden goose".
Does he address how many schools have run from March of 2020 to today despite the regulations?
Reading Math and other test scores have plummeted across multiple states at their public schools.
Nuclear weapons aren’t part of common healthcare practices, so i’m not sure the analogy holds a lot of water - but i get your point
Yeah, between this and the recent unnecessary vaccine mandate, sure seems like Brazil's going down a dark path
It would be weird if everyone wanted the same thing, Vulkan or otherwise, but it seems quite clear that where Apple wanted something and some others did not, Apple got its way more often than not.
I'll pass it on. I'll note that when I tried to create an archive link with archive.ph, its crawler also reported that it failed with 403. The archive.org (unrelated organization) crawler worked as expected. Which makes me think it's probably not specific to your setup, but some sort of anti-DOS protection gone awry. The sudden HN load probably looked abnormal, and it erroneously started blocking legitimate requests from some parts of the internet.
Utterly destroyed their reputation? Um, no. These trucks hold their value unlike almost any other vehicle. A 20 year old Dodge RAM with a Cummins will still sell for $20-$30k if it's halfway nice.

The first thing most owners of a Dodge RAM with a Cummins do is install performance modifications. They will flash a custom tune in the engine control system, change the fuel injection, intake and turbocharger, etc. and set it up so that it can "roll coal" they don't care one iota about emissions.

The Dodge RAM was the last full-size truck made with a manual transmission. I have been watching Craigslist and FB marketplace for one of these with a Cummins to come up in factory stock condition. They are rare. They've almost all been modified.
No, not everything is a slippery slope. It is possible to ban one kind of content without being forced to inevitably ban all content, or any content anyone might object to. Most human beings are capable of discernment and of comprehending context and nuance in this regard.
I think you may be right. The library author said he made many changes because implementing the eviction policy following the paper's design was pretty awful.

> First, I tried to implement cache on hash table and lock free queues, as the authors wrote. I was annoyed, s3-fifo was indeed many times faster than lru cache implemented on hash table with global mutex, but still lost to ristretto and theine, which use bp-wrapper techniques. The profiler also showed that it was the eviction policy that was spending the bulk of the time. And I was only able to beat ristretto and theine after rewriting the implementation using bp-wrapper.

> In summary, I completely disagree about the scalability advantage of S3-FIFO over the other policies

> Though to be honest, what was causing the hit ratio to go down in DS1 I still don't understand

https://github.com/Yiling-J/theine-go/issues/29#issuecomment...
I don’t know. I don’t think there is a path forward left, just a path backwards. But sometimes in history you go backwards to go forwards.
Constructing a map (an opaque type) just so you cast it to a carefully duplicated struct so you can steal the function pointer is kinda nutso.

Did you look at the linked code in maphash?
Some bad takes in that old discussion.

"Consulting doesn't scale"

"Sure it does, just look at Accenture!"

No, Accenture is big because consulting is not very profitable and it's easy for Accenture to accumulate smaller shops for the bodies. Sooner or later, people running smaller shops get bored and sell to companies like Accenture. Big companies can also more easily leverage foreign, low-cost labor and provide a complete solution. It's hard to provide a complete solution, including QA/testing, test writing, documentation, etc if you are a small body shop with 10x engineers that you need to bill out at $400/hr.

Accenture will never come close to the profit per employee of a company like Google or Meta due to the poor scaling.
Not what I read:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/27/busi...
If a JSON.serialize function did exist, would it do the same thing as JSON.stringify, just with catchable exceptions when one tries to serialize something that can't be (e.g. functions, date objects)?
Mainframes or minicomputers of course, mostly from IBM (mainframe) and DEC (minicomputers). There were other players and IBM sold minis and DEC sold mainframes but those two dominated those two niches.
One often overlooked aspect of BASIC's and COMAL's success was the educational benefit of line numbers.

Several teachers who taught BASIC/COMAL in the 1970ies and 1980ies have commented to me, that the line numbers made them much easier to teach than for instance PASCAL.

The line numbers enables the teacher to say "Now, look at line 240" which is much more precise and concise than "Look at the statement in the IF inside the WHILE" etc.
Tencent rocked by new Chinese online gaming restrictions
The question is are they doing anything about it?
If the abuse doesn't stop, it doesn't matter if you are attending public school private school or home school
BASIC was the thing that allowed non-programmers to easily start out. It was the whole reason home computers initially took off - they all ran BASIC, source code was mostly compatible across systems (as long as you didn't use special features unique to your computer) and anybody could learn it in a day. It's never been replaced or improved upon. You could argue Python is the modern BASIC but it's much more complicated and far slower, bit banging the hardware is also not something easily experimented with in Python whereas with BASIC it was the next step beyond learning the keywords on your machine.

The GOTO guy has done more damage to computing than Microsoft and Google combined.
Headline literally has the word “losing” in it. Hehe. But because the data doesn’t bear that out gotta hedge bets in the article, as long as you’ve got the clicks.
<prediction>

Toyota CEO is so wrong. Let's wait ten years and see how many cars are electric. Repeat after 20 years. In 50 years, remnants of Toyota will be purchased by a Chinese company that makes electric cars and scooters.

</prediction>
As someone who has lived in SF for 13 years and loves it, 100% agree. So much preventable human misery here.
How about "If you put blue lights everyone will think it's an unmarked police car" then? The argument works the other way around too, if you put turquoise lights on a 1999 Subaru nobody will think it's self driving.
laughs in "never needed any of these weird mechanisms to manage my own memory"
Addendum: the positions of the atoms shown in that video and other figures are NOT smoothed or snapped to a grid in any way. They are directly drawn from the experimental results! They really are just that clean.

This also extends to the gorgeous rotational symmetry in the "imperfections" of the outer incomplete shell, which is perpendicular to the reflective symmetry of the inner "perfect" J-27 shells.

It's very neat to zoom so far in on reality and see such a well-ordered structure.
A related point: medieval philosophers often divided things into 'male' and 'female', or 'male', 'neuter', and 'female', but it seems like they weren't attempting to convey anything gender-based, but rather found that the most intuitive way (grammar-based?) to make bi- or tri-partite distinctions.

That made me wonder why so much of the world is easily modeled by black-white (or black-white-red) distinctions — I eventually came to the conclusion that if 'n' is the real number of species within a given genus, after one has taken even subtle differences into account, well: for any given finite horizon there are many more n's that are divisible by 2 than by 3, and by either of those than larger primes...

(The chinese philosophers, who loved to stuff things into 5 categories, made things difficult for themselves by this model. Then again, other people loved to make 7-way categorisations, so maybe they all just thought binary splits were too easy to show their erudition?)
Yeah, one side is a blow hard, the other is actively persecuting journalists. I judge by actions. Apples and oranges indeed.
It's not a big mystery how this will get accomplished however, which is why participants in the field seem hopeful (if modest and tempered). The theory of quantum error correction is rich and pretty well developed. It's just that engineering a system which has enough runway to be error corrected requires a lot of development and innovations in a lot of directions: qubit design and fabrication, quantum compilers, rapid experimental procedures, etc.

Edit to edit: Thinking of gate depths as permitting such-and-such megabyte databases as being "uploaded" isn't really a good or accurate metric in my opinion.
This. Many of the folks I worked with liked 35 hour weeks and stayed in consulting because they were avid cyclists/surfers/hikers/etc.

The sort of folks that like high pay and poor work/life balance end up at big valley companies in my experience.
He loves to Cherry pick as well
I can guarantee you if he has kids they weren't doing ZOOM classes since March 2020 like some kids.
I assume the cheat is something like using the playlist API that returns individual results for whether a video exists or not.

So you issue an API to create a playlist with video IDs x, x+1, x+2, ..., and then when you retrieve the list, only x+2 is in it since it is the assigned ID.
There's Volkswagen, that had diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested and changed the performance to improve results. These engines emitted nitrogen oxide pollutants up to 40 times above what is allowed.

And there's there's this. This is INSANE if you ask me. It's modifying a diesel engine where the sole purpose is to emit an excessive amount of black smoke. It's a form of 'f*ck you anti-environmentalism.
eeep chrome engine based browsers only
To put this in a better perspective: VW is the second biggest car manufacturer in the world, selling 7x as many cars as American darling Tesla.
Sorry, you can't redefine every word and have useful discussions with people. If you think using the correct terms for things so people can have a better understanding of what you are talking about is "intellectual judo", I don't know what to say.
Wait, who is scared off by parallel's --citation?
This is not the definition of backward compatibility I have in mind. Backward compatibility also includes "continuity", that is the new features flow from previous design.

React has been redesigned 2 times and now with server components its even less of an extension of previous ways of doing things.

Building 3 different frameworks where the old way to write code still works but nobody builds on top of that in any meaningfully useful way is a very minimal definition of "backward compatibility"
also NAL I'm not sure that holds... there's no "anti-copyright". I can take the lyrics, the melody, and register something. How is suno.ai say I can't copyright it if they don't own it themselves?
As a Frenchman myself, I find it very French to complain that compensation isn't enough while others might just think that you're lucky to get compensation at all ;)
I'm yet to see a single business case of money entering the QC value chain outside of (a) other QC businesses and (b) moonshot investments.

After ~15 years of literally the world's smartest people trying to come up with exactly that (some of which are dear friends), the only way conscionable way I can regard QC is as a vapor bubble.
Thank you for the link, the skin colors are off in almost all retouched shots, overly saturated and lacking the natural tone transitions. Really weird, like a generic netflix movie cover picture.
“The beauty of BASIC is that everything is so concrete. Every line has a number, and you just keep going down the page unless you hit a GOTO. It's easy to reason about what's going on inside the computer. Abstractions make a language powerful, but also harder to learn.”

I will try to say this without bitterness: a wistful statement like this could only come from someone who hasn’t had to maintain production software of any size written in BASIC, which was my situation from 2016–2021. It was incredibly fragile and difficult to reason about, *because of* its so-called simplicity, global variables and line numbers with GOTO/GOSUB in particular.

Abstractions do not always make a language harder to learn. A language with the right set of abstractions for the problem space is going to be easier than a “simpler” language that is insufficient to meet the size or complexity of the actual problem. Machine code is the most concrete of all: by your standards it ought to be the most beautiful language of all.

The appropriate problem space for BASIC is “an alternative to assembler for teaching programming to middle-schoolers” — which was how I first encountered it. Using it even for that use case is irresponsible in an age where we have Python and Pyret.
Actually this reply makes it seem a lot more like someone did than no reply would have
Do you consider the power of the teacher's unions to shut down in person education for years in response to covid "incredibly frightening to see and just how much power the teachers Union lobbying group has"?
Really? Typing in my iPhone 12 Pro has become a nightmare. I suspect it is because of predictive typing ML shit. It happens all the freaking time now. The symptom is that my whole device just froze for a few seconds while the next word is squeezed out. How do I turn it off?
Our professor in college got us this in the printed study materials about the C language, so I remember that I typed it in by hand once.
I've seen a lot of these refusal to dismiss listed as if there was a judgement recently
I'd be (pleasantly) surprised; look at how long it takes them to allow system apps to get replaced with downloadable 3rd party.

And even then, the activation keyword is likely to be whatever Apple says. Similar logic as 3rd party keyboards, don't want user input to get stuck on even merely potentially untrustworthy or buggy code.
Are you saying that changes on Israel's part could cause Hamas to stop their aggression? That seems very unlikely - Hamas doesn't even pretend to be open to peaceful coexistence with Israel. Their best offer was a 10-year ceasefire in exchange for 1967 borders.

Or that it could lead to Gazans overthrowing Hamas? It's possible, but it would take a violent rebellion since Hamas doesn't hold elections, and realistically it would probably take generations for sentiment to change. It would be hard for Israelis to just accept that they will be attacked for generations, with increasing sophistication (mainly thanks to Iran's support), with no response.
2023 Economic Year-in-Review
Heh, I wrote a pascal program to draw the mandelbrot set. To make a print out I wrote a fortran program to convert it to postscript. I printed it on a giant lab printer that took up a wall of the lab. It normally printed 60+ pages a minute. My 300 dpi mandelbrot keep it busy for a few minutes, the lab attendant was about to kill the job, I asked for a bit of patience and everyone in the lab came to look at the result.
Yeah, I’m usually a very scientific man deferring to studies over personal feelings, but I can literally feel the mental fog clear up by the minute if I open a window on the afternoon in my study/work room after forgetting to do so in the morning.

Hell, if I have a day where I am quasi-forced to spend most of it in musty rooms, I get a guaranteed headache.
> an average of 450 days

To put this into perspective, this adds 5% to the cost of a project in financing alone [1]. That’s $70,000 for a median home [2], about half of the city median household income [3]. Half of a household’s production in an entire year, just in delays.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

[2] https://www.redfin.com/city/17151/CA/San-Francisco/housing-m...

[3] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocit...
> The memory safety stuff is 90% writing safe code then fighting the compiler to agree with you.

This isn’t my experience, from a decade of occasionally watching and helping others learn Rust, personally and professionally. Rather, it’s normally writing code that you believe is safe, wrestling with the compiler and finally realising that it was right all along, or giving up before reaching this stage but it was still. There are certainly some cases where this isn’t the case, and this article talks about the most common and most notorious one, but seriously, the compiler is normally right.

Somewhere along the way, things click and your intuitions subsequently almost always match the compiler’s, and you have a much happier time of it, seldom needing to wrestle. And your coding in other languages tends to improve, or at least focus on ownership more in ways that tend to make later maintenance easier.
What the Solow Model can teach us about China
I'm still hoping to see unobfuscated Perl.
This is a good reference: https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/
Legalization & certification of quality is a good endpoint, if you can buy cheap heroin of good purity and stable dosage, no need for underground sources laced with fentanyl of variable purity.

I’m here for the FDA regulating what is on the label matching what is in the pill. But there is so an argument for optional certification; it might end up that the steady state cost for FDA compliance leaves room at the bottom end of the market for Mexican underground labs, and I’d rather have US above-ground labs filling that niche (because there are other recourses for egregious behavior like lacing oxy pills with Fentanyl if your supplier is in the US, which are not available against cartel labs in Mexico). It’s an empirical hypothesis though, you might not see prices high enough to matter with FDA compliant labs.

Another temptation to resist is taxing the drugs to pay for social services, “sin tax” in this case would again leave the door open for illegal labs. Again you can tune the parameters when you have evidence from the market.
No, that is not true. But not all bioplastics are biodegradable.
I hope things go back to normal soon. Good to see you here, Sedat. Cheers.
Like CGI, this is another case of identifying when it’s used badly but not noticing when it’s used well. Criterion, for example, uses every single one of these AI techniques to do their restorations. They just do it well.

>“You see this mindset at work whenever an AI fetishist posts a stable diffusion image of a woman with 13 fingers, 40 incisors and comically huge breasts. There’s an entire portion of the population that takes overt pleasure in the over-smoothed, perverts that prefer all media to be fast, high frame rate, and scrubbed squeaky clean.”
Why does the author conflate imperfection with perfection here? AI is equally capable of mimicking perfection and imperfection. Thats one of the reasons why it’s so exciting.

There are plenty of people that use AI to generate organic imagery and noise and I wager that more rough, textured imagery is about to get in vogue again, and the reason will be because AI has made it easier to achieve.

Just take a look at Poor Things. The imagery is so ornate and full of rough texture elements. I don’t know exactly how they made it but I’d hazard a guess that AI was either involved or that they were inspired by AI art like Refik Anadol and/or the generative art movement coming out of the NFT space right now.
"Temporarily embarrassed millionaire"[1] describes this mindset. It is quite prevalent in America's poor. I've seen too many poor Americans exhibit this mentality to not believe it is more or less a truism at this point. The propaganda of the wealthy and connected in this country has been remarkably effective.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed
>major caveat, all the data harvesting and background check firms generally do not proactively purge their data sets as they’re supposed to.

if they 'are supposed to' then it sounds like a potential civil liability if they have not done what they were supposed to do.

>It’s your obligation to follow up with every single one of them individually

or a lawyer could find some firms that did not do as they were supposed to, and some people that would have standing to sue, and ka-ching? This of course depends if my understand of "are supposed to" is correct.
Page does not display for me in Firefox. Use the PDF link at the top.

https://longform.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accountin...
One suspects there's a certain amount of grinding in Fickmühlen.
Actually, I haven’t. I said that the comparison of a human child to a dog is not appropriate. Considering that exact language (e.g. “they are animals”) has helped perpetuate a genocide of Palestinians.

I’m not entirely sure if you’re even disagreeing with me here tbh.
That's for all of VW group no?

What about VW badges specifically, what are the numbers there?

It's relevant because of brand recognition. If the brand differences didn't matter, they wouldn't have kept them, it would all be under one brand.

It seeks pertinent, given the confusion, to clarify that the first comment above was about the Vw brand, second about the group. It's confusing to conflate the two. In service of more clear and concise communication it may he helpful to focus on one or the other to make a point.