skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1-way and 2-way doors in the Amazon lexicon is useful.

Worth noting:

Most decisions are 2-way doors. Very few decisions are 1-way doors. It takes experienced folks to identify true 1-way doors and apply the brakes. Having a culture of thoughtful document reviews, for example, gives space for people to identify 1-way / 2-way doors and push back. Having institutionalized knowledge gained from 20 years of running the largest public cloud provider helps in identifying 1-way doors in software development too.

All of that is to caution... yes, Bezos says useful things, can you take it and apply it to your company? Maybe. Do you implement / have the rest of what made it work well for Amazon too?
You are correct to an extant although there are mandatory sentencing guidelines, and plea bargains play into this.

But at the end of the day my point is to help introduce nuance to the discussion which often seems to be an argument between a loud group that advocates that everyone in prison is just a misunderstood jan valjean that was a victim of circumstance and should be helped instead of punished, and those who feel that criminals are need to be punished for violating the social contract and are sociopath threats to an orderly and just society. The first group likes to point to young people who had incredibly difficult environments as justification for their point whereas the latter group points to child molesters and cold blooded gang members for their point.

Both exist, both should be taken into account, and trying to depict all criminals as one or the other leads to nonsensical, impracticable ignorant solutions that come more from a desire to feel right than actually doing good.
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But only once every 60 Hz (for a 60 Hz display). So, if you have an LCD display with higher latency but also higher refresh rate, you could on average be spending less time waiting for new information.
I don't see how Intuit has any pull on Canadian tax law or influence with the CRA. And there are plenty of alternatives. I used ufile.ca for years, way cheaper. And honestly, just picking up the form and doing it yourself is all my parents did for years.

I'm pretty sure we'll see what you're asking for within the next 5-10 years. With them already having the T4s, etc. I don't see why they couldn't have you login to their site, confirm everything, and submit.
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The Apple II is rather hard to emulate correctly. While most Apple II software is relatively easily supported, some corner cases are absolutely brutal to get right.

For example, you can mostly treat the video system as a dumb framebuffer. But there are cases where this fails. It is possible to detect the vertical blanking period on an Apple II. [1] This relies on capacitance on the Apple II bus and very strict timing. On a real Apple II the value read from a non-existent memory address is not always 0, sometimes it's the last value read, which is sometimes the last value read by the video system which is overlapped with the CPU. To emulate this right, you need to emulate the whole video system lock-step and cycle accurate with the CPU.

The disk system is another major pain point. All of the timing and track movement is handled in software. Arbitrary disk formats can be created in software. One single spiral track was used by some games as copy protection. To support the Disk II completely requires emulating at a much lower level than that of 256 byte sectors. Some emulators going all the way for accuracy, use a structure, that is basically a map of the flux transitions on disk.

[1] http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/megademo/vapor_lock.html
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I would love to see some different concepts for RSS reader UI. The left pane with a big list of feeds, and a vertical list of articles does work but I think there's room to expand there.

A more passive newspaper-grid layout would be cool. Selectively chosen headlines and images, tap to see full article. Each personal "newspaper page" is static, it won't change after it's been viewed, only new posts added to the bottom. Then you could scroll back thru pages per-day.
But see, that's the thing! The argument you're trying to make is not the one you're presenting! That object-level objection does not actually support your meta-level argument.

As I pointed out, the fundamental premise of the GPL is not "there can be no restrictions in license to use a work", it's "the only acceptable restriction is restricting others from restricting their own work". Which, itself, is a laudable goal, but it's an argument that fs folks instinctively shy away from - because they know it invites the immediate counter, "if you admit there are acceptable exceptions, why is that the only one?"

And that's the rub, because the next question is, "So why is it wrong for someone to want to see the fruit of their own labor when someone else is profiting off of it"? Especially when they themselves are offering their own work to the commons, free of charge. If someone is contributing to the freedom of information, they should be able to rest easy knowing it is not being gated by someone else. Of freedom of Use, Redistribution, Study, or Modification, it can only be said to weakly violate "Use", and even then, only when you refuse to compensate the original author. (Art is also unlike software; you can't "use" a painting to manage your payroll in a copyright-prohibited way)

(Also interesting that you bring up the "four freedoms," because one of FDR's four freedoms - those that inspired Stallman's list - is "freedom from want". And living under capitalism, under copyright, one of the chief ways want is addressed is by profiting off selling your own intellectual labor. If you know that you'll get any profits that are generated directly from your work, it makes it much easier to surrender it to the common good.)

You don't make the honest argument, because you know that changing the argument from "no exceptions in the terms of Use" to "only this exception" becomes an argument of "so where do we draw the line", which is much more complicated than a simple black and white.
Completely agree, I’d like a LIMIT on UPDATE too
I got (if I'm reading this right) 5500 emails (junk+delivered) to my personal mail account from 12/01/2023 to 12/31/2023. So that's a minimum, since I don't see the ones that get flushed out before I even see them.

1 spam a month would be .018% of emails and
5 x 4 spams a month would be .364% of emails

So I would have gotten about .346% more spam based on the number of emails. In reality, because I don't see all of the mails, it's less. Is a touch more than a third of a percent a 'big difference'? YMMV.
The affluent are a very, very minor group here. The state policy is not in any way controlled by them. It's the "commoners" and the populist socialist parties they vote for (that have way over 30% of the parliament and lead the government) who want to and do preserve the status quo even though it's actually bad for them. They label the affluent ones, who indeed would like exactly what you're suggesting, as dangerous liberals that will destroy the traditional values of this country.

ADHD is a classic example, it's actually being discussed in the media right now - the drugs and therapy are labeled as one of the dangerous liberal ideas, the mainstream suggestion is stricter parenting, which of course includes beating the children - that's a traditional value here as well ("we survived it, they will survive it too", right?).

My suggestion to Americans - don't let the "commoners" use the state to capture your healthcare like it happened here. Countries like ours need you to develop new treatments. System like ours will never produce anything and will never move forward without your example. If you adopt this kind of system, the world is fucked.
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A lot of things have been fixed, but historically I can recommend to watch some youtube videos by Douglas Crockford, he wrote a book "JS, the good parts". At the time JS was universally hated (this was more than a decade ago), esp. by serious programmers doing Java, C# and the like. So much so that companies created languages and tools that generate HTML & JS, so the "real devs" didn't have to touch JS (one example is the Google Web Toolkit).
> Go after the churches and religious organizations first

This veers into whataboutism, and changing the subject. Both can be done at the same time as they are not mutually exclusive. It is not an either or question and it distracts from the original discussion.
> On the other hand, in software-related matters, I have the increasing feeling that kludges and temporary decisions made in the "First do it" stage, tend to get carried on to infinity through the other phases

This is true, unless you also follow the "throw away your first draft" process. If you do that, then you also throw away all of the duct tape and bubble gum you put in while figuring out what you're actually doing.
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So you're not hiring then. You're in the wrong place then
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So is there a way to use the IMB style font, or it's impossible?
In my opinion a more apt analogy would be McDonalds selling low quality food that includes ingredients known to very likely ve bad for your health without ever making that clear. Sure a customer could technically dig into research and health studies but that's not really the point here.

Is it consent if you aren't made aware or given reasonable access to information that the average person could be expected to understand?
Maybe have a submission fee? I don't know if that helps, but it would be a deterrent for massive amounts of machine generated garbage.

The worst case in my opinion is massive amounts of AI garbage being submitted which will require equally bad AI filtering to "solve" the problem with the result being an overall reduction on quality for everyone trying to participate in good faith.
To be honest, I have no idea. All I know is that you definitely need quite a few cite-able sources, if for any reason, just to tick boxes
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It's funny because I worked in that repository for a few years, and routinely built a custom "shell" (what Chromecast is) and when this guy suggested Brave my thought was... eh, yeah, sure, but I could also just roll my own or just run stock chromium :-)

I personally like that Firefox isn't based on webkit/blink.
> They have always been a safe-haven for ideas that go against the fray.

Every academic knows that you have to "play ball" to get to tenure, and that's regarding the direct subject matter of your own scholarship. Electoral endorsements are practically the only form of outspokenness that cannot and will not be used against you, only because the courts would come down too hard on the institution.

Everything else is office politics!
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Have u guy tried ChatGpt or other alternative?
> and pilots must be very sure they have clearance before entering a runway

The word "clearance" is used uniquely in the context of landing and departing exactly to avoid mistakes and has to be repeated again by the aircraft before ATC confirms.
Ah, I see. Great idea! I hope they see your comment.
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I've always found it fascinating that the guy who came up with the theory (Wegener) died in on the ice sheet in Greenland while attempting to resupply a research station. Having spent some time on the Greenland Ice Sheet at Summit Station, life on the Greenland ice sheet is much more cushy nowadays...
I understand the problem, I'll think of a solution to facilitate this. I didn't notice as I know my application too well.
You’re trying to give a specific kind of input to a controller (l, r, a, b etc….) at a speed higher than the controller was designed to input

So if you can vibrate the controller on a way that your input rate increases it doesn’t matter how you make it do that
re: decomposing video to triangles - That makes me think of State of the Art[0] and Nine Fingers[1], though I don't actually know how they worked.

[0] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=99

[1] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=100
Frisco is also a city in Texas, so named because it was on the path of a railroad headed to San Francisco.
Awesome! Is there a similar technique for the Apple vision ‘Copy Subject’ feature? I’ve become extremely reliant on it, but it feels very limited in access.
I understand that these distinctions might make sense for professional musicians. My point is that they're overwhelming for beginners. Its too much stuff!

I suspect the ideal notation for beginners might be different from that of professional musicians. Thats certainly the case in programming, where we have different languages which are better suited for different use cases. We don't write webpages in assembler, or operating systems in Squeak.

I've only been playing for 18 months at this point. I don't understand the subtle style implications of the time signature being 2/4 or 2/2. Is the best way to express those style difference really swapping crotchets for quavers in every measure? Seems a weird choice. Why not just have more marks at the top of the song naming how it should be played? Then beginners can ignore that mark and experts can play accordingly.

But what do I know? I'm just a beginner with a beginners' perspective. If sheet music isn't designed to cater for my needs, well, honestly thats a bit crap.
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"Israel has a right to exist and defend itself" is allowed but will certainly get you subjected to both overt and under-the-table harassment. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/queering-an...
> We have so much wealth, food and stuff in Western countries. We could provide a basic level of comfortable living for anyone with no strings attached. We could then remove minimum wage and all the things we do to subsidise low income workers and let the market find the floor that motivates people to work for a more luxurious existence.

1. How is a system fair in which some people work producing food and other people get that food for free? The people who work will not put up with such a system. Why should they?

2. In such a system, over time, fewer and fewer people will choose to work. The economy will shrink, the country will become poor, and it will no longer be able to afford UBI.

When we have robots performing labor then we can reassess all this. Until then, means tested welfare is the only acceptable kind.
> Our org structure is less-hierarchical than traditional studios: we don’t have Engineering Managers, and instead, we rely on team members to be self-directed and to reinforce a high-performing culture of accountability. We’re building a studio that empowers creatives to do the best work of their careers.

I'm intrigued, how does a "lead" position fit with a low/no hierarchical structure?
That may make sense for some games, but for a game that has two directions, it makes less sense.

Probably better to completely disable the arrow keys -- or better, limit it to the spacebar -- to reinforce single-button design.

Or, just intuitively support left & right.
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I care a lot, but I'm not going to write a good version. Instead, I just don't use those apps (except at work where they force us to use Teams) -- that's a whole lot easier.
>The amount of time Americans spend watching TV is staggering,

Anyone have the distribution curve for that? Is it like alcohol, where the top 20% of drinkers consume almost all of it?

https://archive.is/j3lg3

>in my opinion, often to their own detriment.

If they are giving up TV, what are they doing instead with that time? Volunteering to prepare meals for elderly shut-ins? Or social media doom-scrolling?
Very nice!

Dillo is handy to have on lower specced machines. I've used it on m68k. I really should see why it doesn't compile on VAX, though...

Thanks!
Yes, the broad class of tax advantages used to launder political spending through churches and universities should be revoked and that money should be paid up to the government in taxes. Elections should be publicly funded, too!
We haven't benchmarked against 0.5.2 yet so I can't share exact numbers. We will benchmark it once it is released.

We think our approach will still significantly outperform pgvector because it does less on your production database.

We generate the index remotely, on a compute-optimized machine, and only use your production database for index copy.

Parallel pgvector would have to use your production database resources to run the compute-intensive HNSW index creation workload.
> Something about the excessive politeness and constant apologizing and clarifying gives it away, right?

That's part of it for sure. Somehow it manages to be obsequious, patronizing, corporate, disingenuous, corporate, useless, and passive-aggressive, all at the same time.
If its confusing enough, some consumers will pay top dollars for crap
Apparently here, but I don't know how to get past the menu.

https://archive.org/details/wolfenstein-1-d
Nice. I've got some old cellular type blinds (TIL what they're called!) and some years ago ordered some parts online, it's a known brand; I had to get replacement end caps, a plastic wall mount, err. Probably some more bits. A few euro each plus shipping, a few minutes of work, and they were a lot better again. Cheaper than getting a new one, although the material is looking a bit tatty.