skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30 years later, QBasic is still the best (2016)
(c.1986) Telephone company accounting system with System/38 (pre AS/400) and System R (early SQL), CL+RPGIII. The call rating process required half a dozen lookups to other tables to complete each record in a batch. Something that would be well handled by a modern join. But at the time the vendor was like, "Gee Ma it works! Ship it." Compiled RPG III was lightning fast and a lot like working in assembly with fixed/prealloc string handling. I made a template and adapted it for each table that cached recent lookups for each. 6x improvement. Then realized that since records were autonomous and batches run and posted separately, it was never necessary to process calls in chrono order. Pre-indexing on destination number resulted in cache hits almost all the time and 10x speed improvement over the 6x.

When I asked my Dad how long something took, he'd say something like "2 years and 20 minutes." 2 years to get around to it. Mom took his habit into the real world and published an ad for the company with a cut out "Round Tuit" and copy, "How many times have you heard someone say, 'I'll do that when I get a round tuit.' Now that you have your very own Round Tuit, there's no limit to what you can accomplish!"

Round Tuits were cut out and appeared on walls all over town.
Westlaw is the industry standard but it's not free iirc.

E: nevermind this isn't a great answer for your question. Going to leave it up for informational purposes
The Chicago media is reporting these problems at many area charging stations. I don't know how many in total, but it's more than just one.

Also, for the stations that are working, there are many reports of charging taking way longer than normal and range on full charge being seriously diminished (due to having the electric heater cranked full blast I assume, plus the obvious inefficiencies of batteries in low temperatures).

People with gas powered cars are not experiencing these kinds of issues.
OpenAI sure doesn't seem to have much commitment to upholding any principles they set for themselves, do they?
Imagine once they hallucinate and attack friendlies.

Although if Machine Vision counts as AI then it's already widespread.
Could you work on an open-source game engine in your spare time, then use that to pivot across? And/or get a web-dev job in a games company and then try to get an internal transfer?
Aren't average workers taking more risk (of getting laid without warning, of losing healthcare suddenly, etc.)?
Everybody has heard of "the rat study" where all the rats do cocaine until death, simply by pressing a button.

What is often omitted is that those rats were deprived of their normal environments, and were thus "bored out of their gahd-damn minds," socially isolated.

A much better study is of the rat city, which showed that ONLY A SINGLE-DIGIT PERCENTAGE OF RATS would continue "pressing the cocaine button" when the study was perfomed in an area which allowed for ample "normal rat behavior," e.g. expansive cages with plenty of "rat fun" [food, territory, mates, playthings].

The latter study parallels (semi-well) to human populations that have opportunities [jobs, primarily; but functional IRL societies], where only a minority of people succumb to "drug addiction."

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Recommended drug policy reading:

Michael Pollen's "How to Change Your Mind"

Dr Gabriel Maté's "Chasing the Scream"

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I have lived speed-free 14 years, this Valentine's Day. All it took was leaving a toxic medical school environment.
> Epic should have sued over the size of Apple's cut, not it's right to take a cut

Epic charges 5% for Unreal Engine.

Apple offers developers significantly more than just a games engine.
Unknowingly so maybe, but they must have been, no?
Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get Comfortable with "Not Owning Your Games"
> we need to set some automated limits to help us enforce this. From analyzing our user’s usage, we have picked some limits that no good-faith user of Kagi should reasonably hit.

> These new limits should already be in place by the time of this post, and we will monitor their impact and continue to tune them as needed.
Having seen ChatGPT's results when you ask it to solve an ethical puzzle and substitute in various demographics to see how its answer varies (viz. with extreme bias), I'm far more concerned about how its fundamental bias will be woven into systems that develop weapons of war and provide intelligence.
Why not just force apps to collect payment through a money order sent on the 2nd Thursday of each month between 1 and 2pm. Sounds about as compelling.
I’d probably go into finance. Seeing the TC my friends brother in law is clearing in his early 30s is nutty. I’m taking $1m BONUSES
> Just call it a cartel. That’s the word you’re looking for.

No, a cartel is something different entirely. A cartel is a bunch of businesses that set the price for a market, not a collective that serves to increase the bargaining position of individual entities that are too weak to do so on their own power. Cartels are all about price fixing while keeping the competition out.
I’m 40. What I’m doing today, I wish I would have done at 30. Jiu jitsu, striving to be the absolute best version of myself, working with my hands, building other skills besides coding.

At 30, I wish I was doing this stuff at 20. Health and fitness were a priority, focusing time on things that bring ROI into life including more career oriented, less booze and idiotics.

I married and we had two kids in our 20’s, probably the best thing either of us ever did. Wish I could shift this earlier a few years as well so we’ll have more years together as they grow old and have their own families.

Sorry if confusing, on mobile.
Nod to the Rythm
How did you fix your sleep?

I have horrible sleep hygiene and it worries my sometimes. I’ve had bad sleep habits starting as a teen so it’s been hard to break out of them.
As a user of "low-spec" computers, I try to avoid software written by teams of developers working under managers.

Most of the programs I use day-to-day are (a) decades old, from the distant past before so-called "tech" companies existed and/or (b) written primarily by single authors, often as a hobby or as a result of itch-scratching. Some of them are written by me.

When I occasionally compile and run the scripts and small programs I write on more powerful computers, I am amazed at the speed. Everything I write is compiled on "low-spec" computers. Today's hardware is amazing.
> Their argument is that the 15/30% is a general fee for use of their infrastructure

No Apple's argument is that this is a fee for everything e.g. SDKs.

As well as being a highly lucrative distribution channel.
You might be correct, but it's not obvious to me unsafe is really faster. I recall reading that using unsafe invalidates most of the other optimizations because it's opaque to the JIT what you are doing. Also, if there are BCE opportunities, I feel pretty confident OpenJDK will add them, rather than being unsympathetic.
The "Mom Test": asking good questions when everyone is lying to you
Russia would have loved "EU Supreme Command" instead of NATO

the Germans would have happily given Ukraine up (and likely Poland too) if they got a few cents off their gas bill
What we need is a third-party appstore, for BOTH platforms (iOS and Android), that offers curated titles and filtering options users actually want (e.g. like by "ad-free" and "no in-app purchases").

If something like that had been in incubation and available for lawyers to draw on for their arguments I wonder if it would have impacted the case (especially when judge says things like "failed to prove the existence of substantially less restrictive alternatives").
It's clear that most of the people having issues in Chicago do not live somewhere where they can charge overnight. Not so easy to charge at night when you park on the street or in a public garage.
Colorado study recommends nuclear to replace coal plant
That's true, any sizeable fraction will probably work. There could even be multiple such collectives which may or may not collaborate on particular efforts.
Going back to ~18-20 years old: focus more narrowly when building things. Focus overwhelmingly on business services/productivity and never go anywhere near consumer oriented services. Focus more on the process of sales generation and less on unnecessary (unintended) complexity & features.

I learned the wrong lessons from the ~1994-2001 dotcom bubble era (as a teenager) and I wasted a bunch of years correcting various wrong ideas about business that I had picked up.
I have had no trouble finding wonderful beers produced by industry. I think filtering, pasteurization, and the use of grains like rice, are the main sources of the lack of flavor.

That said, anecdotally, I did see a drop in quality of Pilsner Urquell when they moved from their traditional brewery (which had quite the ecosystem in the ceiling) to the newer one. Lots of folks like to say that the crazy stuff going on over the vats affects the flavor.
Finance as a SWE or something like a quant?
And how about the chargeback fees ? Apple covers those on behalf of the developer.
I’d worry way less about what other people thought of me and focused instead on quieting down the insecure voice in my own head. I might not be anymore successful financially or politically, but I certainly destroyed several professional relationships that could’ve grown into meaningful friendships or partnerships.
Don't do that with a US resume, applying to a US company. That whole "first one to say a number loses" bit isn't 100% true, but it is generally true the more information you volunteer, the more you put yourself at a disadvantage.

OP is in the UK, presumably applying to UK companies. It's different over there.
I just feel for these families. I recall reading about the software bug so long ago and they’re just now starting to talk about getting them retired.
You would want to test it out manually day to day. That’s always the best. Some models can out score but not actually be “better” when you use it.

But there is also the benchmarking:
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder

33B Instruct doesn’t beat 6.7B Instruct by much but maybe those % improvements mean more for your usage.

I run 6.7B since I have 16GB RAM.

Quantization of the model also makes a difference.
I don't think that prevents people from bootstrapping a great product
https://perfectpacman.com/

This site has many long, detailed analyses of Mitchell's scores and conduct for his records in Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Pac-Man. While the DK records are more popular, Mitchell previously owned the perfectpacman.com domain and has made several claims about his Pac-Man scores and whether Namco gave him an additional award. The site includes extensive commentary on his lawsuits with links to filings. It also includes descriptions of financial transactions between Mitchell, Twin Galaxies, and related parties over the years. (Sorry to be vague, I'm not interested in getting sued for attempting to accurately summarize events. It's a shame that Ars Technica, which presumably has a legal budget, doesn't do a better job reporting.)
Apple Silicon isn't designed to be server chips. The M1 team thought it was a good idea but management did not want to do it. So some of the team broke off and started Nuvia to design ARM chips for servers. Qualcomm acquired Nuvia and that became the Qualcomm Oryon SoCs.

Anyways, ARM chips are being used for the backbone of the internet. They're called Amazon Graviton chips. Ampere Computing also has ARM server chips. So do many Chinese hyperscalers.
I've made several half-attempts at this over the years, but it always ends up falling to the wayside when life gets hectic. Maybe one of these days I'll finally push through though!
Only to be expected. Without cheap gas via the NordStream pipeline, and having to buy more expensive shipped gas. The German manufacturers are no longer competitive. That turns Germany from being an export-driven income-producing country to yet another deficit-expenditure country.

No exporting or manufacturing means lots of workers being laid off. And no money going into the local economy. That's called Recession. Or even Depression.
If it is okay to ask:

What helped you the most with the chronic insomnia? Do you have any advice?

Thanks
Tricky situation for sure. I don't like war or weapons personally but they are a reality. Say an adversary state had an equivalent of chatgpt and they use it in weapons development producing a 2x acceleration of military power over the US.

It's tricky.
Take the internship at Google in 2012.
There are so many problems with this take. Here are a few:

1) Many App Store apps are completely free, paying nothing to Apple except the $99 per year fee, so they have no stake in this issue.

2) My understanding is that more than 90% of developers in the App Store make less than $1 million per year and thus are covered by the Small Business Program, which charges only 15% rather than 30%. Revenue in the App Store is extremely top-heavy, with most going to a relatively small number of the top developers (such as Epic, previously). How much are developers willing to risk just to lower the 15% cut somewhat?

3) Let's be clear, you're talking about a strike. Many developers derive their entire income from the App Store, so withdrawing their apps means no income. A wealthy corporation such as Epic can survive, but what about little indie developers?

4) An individual developer uniterally striking would be futile and self-destructive. Developers would need to be organized and all strike simultaneously.

5) Strikes are very difficult to organize. Forming a union almost always has to come first. And union members typically work together in the same building, which greatly facilitates organization. Whereas there are a huge number of App Store developers scattered all around the world, and they speak different languages. How would you even communicate with all of them to organize? (EDIT: I see in another comment that you think it's easy as spreading cat memes. That's not a serious suggestion.)
>so maybe there actually is a market for sub 6" smartphones?

There is, but the problem is Android too fragmented and any sub 6" Smartphone from one brand does not make enough ROI. Brand loyalty is a real thing.

For Apple, it was selling well enough to be listed as Top 10 Smartphone in some countries but at the size of Apple, they thought it was not performing. They were used to be happy with 10M unit sold, not 10M unit dont cut it any more.
Yeah I thought that was weird. An auto-updating page is worth the constant pings to the infra IMHO.
I Will Probably Never Date Taylor Swift
Take the internship at Google.
Possibly a poor analogy, but imagine making a particle accelerator with the goal that objects of different mass put into it are accelerated and leave it going the same velocity.

The current state of technology allows that the best we can do is make one that accelerates lighter objects slightly more than heavier objects.

However, we've found a way to make an accelerator using a different design that accelerates heavier objects more than lighter objects. If we pass objects through the first accelerator, then the second, the second accelerator reverses out some of the non-linearity of the first. Unfortunately this second accelerator is very, very expensive to make.

This is how lenses of different refractive indexes are used: one element partially corrects the dispersion produced by earlier elements. Fluorite has the right refractive index to correct aberrations created in long focal length lenses.
2D Wave Simulation on the GPU
Totally agree. Have definitely seen a bad tool used but largely the problem in my experience has been human.
Having an idea that could be a successful startup is very close to unimportant. Lots of ideas can be successful startups, and having them is easy. The hard part is having a ton of drive, the right mixture of personality traits, and the privilege or luck to make it happen. I think these sorts of things are largely out of your control. Maybe instead of worrying about making a mistake and missing the boat, spend some time reflecting on why you want to found a successful startup and whether something else in life wouldn't be equally fulfilling.
I find it funny that juries are something that some people think is immutable while it's something that's unique to Anglo legal system. The first time I see jury in American media I'm immediately confused on why a random person can decide a court like that.
Ideally it would be an unmapped trap considering it’s literally how every other runtime works. The next best option is to make it read only. The dumbest option is to make it read/write as that’s going to be a vector for security vulnerabilities.
Yes, this is exactly what enables Apple to do what they do and proves my suspicion: that there are enough developers that do not see this as a problem that things would likely remain as they are. Let's be happy that dockworkers had more spine than that.
Sam Altman. There was an attempted fix and that fix failed. Evil prevailed because of public misunderstanding and mob mentality. Be real, who else would permit this? Paul Graham fired him from ycombinator.

I'm pretty sure if the public didn't support Sam he wouldn't have been reinstated.
Local vector embeddings index for analyzing ArXiv papers
A lot of the video evidence is youtube re-encodings of digital transfers of VHS video of video game CRTs (...or MAME). The video is exhaustive about what errors can be introduced in each layer of the process and how they combine.
It looks like all of them have been used.
To see why Apple’s mandatory commissions are absurd, compare phones to desktop computers. There is no fundamental difference between the two. So, why is it okay to install whatever you want and pay for it directly on desktops, but on phones it is not?

The “better security” argument just doesn’t make sense in this context.
The billionaires really, really want you to perceive this distinction as a real inequality problem. When people making $30K are resenting/fighting people making $300K, the people making $300M are sitting back and laughing.

There's really not much of a difference between the lifestyles of Hammond, IN vs. Boca Raton, FL. I mean, there's a difference, but the difference is tiny compared to the difference between them and the people whose next 5 generations can buy anything they want, have any lifestyle they want, and never have to work a day in their lives. The Hammond and Boca people both have to work for a living, they both haven't saved enough for retirement, they are both leveraged uncomfortably, they both are worried about the future for their kids. None of that is true for the billionaires. Just because one has Jamba Juice doesn't mean they're very different.
I’m not sure Epic actually has standing anymore.

They did back when they were part of the developer program. If they can make their case that it is bad faith compliance as part of their original case before the Court goes “c’ya, we’re done here”, they might have something, but Apple revoked Epic’s membership for violating their terms in the developer program worldwide and at the conclusion of this lawsuit, Apple has not been ordered to reinstate it. So Epic can’t really argue that they have or will have suffered a harm under these new terms since they’re still in a position where Apple isn’t doing business with them and their lawsuit under which they did have standing is basically at its conclusion.
> I think this does a disservice to actual victims of actual crimes.

Your original comment used the term “abuser”, which refers to a very specific kind of crime that not only frequently does involve a victim’s acquiescence to their abuser, but that is often the ultimate purpose for the abuse. I understand what you’re trying to say, but I think it’s probably for the best to simply avoid using domestic violence to make such analogies altogether.

It not only risks being taken to be in poor taste, but I think it’s also unnecessary in this context. It’s not especially difficult to understand why Apple’s market position gives it the kind of outsized leverage to force other stakeholders into engaging with unfair, even illegal, practices that are frequently contrary to their own interests. In negotiations, and within free markets more broadly, there’s a level to which this kind of uneven power dynamic can be productive, but it’s very clearly gone too far here, and is rightly seen as suppressing competition, stifling innovation, and sabotaging the potential for entrepreneurs and small businesses to thrive.

It’s precisely the kind of thing that the federal government should be on top of, but until congress resumes its regularly mandated duties (it’s my understanding that the United States Congress has been starring in some sort of reality TV program for the last several years, and must continue until they have voted all but the last remaining legislator off of Joe Manchin’s houseboat) it’s probably a good idea to explore other options, like labor unions or maybe crowdfunded federal class action lawsuits.
JSON[B] does work perfectly fine with decimal and float inside postgres and pgsql, e.g. select (data->>'amount')::numeric. The issue is moving that data in and out of postgres (or truly, any other data manager) with precision. If the JSON[B] is {amount: 12.09} then you have no guarantee that someone picking it up outside of postgres uses float conversion which could lead to 12.0899999. With BSON, amount is a decimal128 and stays that way, fromBytes() and toBytes().
I love Guinness (their nitro cans are surprisingly good for canned beer) but I really love the various Sam Smith stouts. It took me quite a while to realize I hate hops, and love roasted malt flavors, as well as "chocolatey" flavors.
My wife has suggested the latter a few times and it definitely seems like the most realistic approach. I have a small game engine I've worked on off and on again over the last few years, but it never feels like I have enough time to make real progress
This pairs pretty well with my experience. (I'm a little older, late 20s/early 30s)

I grew up in a upper-middle class income family, I was first entering high school when my parents were hit hard by the housing crisis in 2008. (Facebook also just started dominating during this time) Eventually the economy "recovered" just long enough for everyone to start telling us that we should sacrifice our 20s while we had the energy so we can enjoy our 30s. (buy a house, have a steady career, start traveling, ect)

Yeah, that advice really turn out to reflect what actually happened.

Travel? - Can't because of quarantine. Quarantine ended, to bad your relationship ended during quarantine, so you don't have anyone to travel with. Lucky enough to have been working remotely? To bad housing prices soared. Decided to invest? Hope you weren't one of the millions screwed over by any of those several historic finical fraud cases that seem to occur multiple times every year. Parents getting to old to work and lost their retirement in 2008? Uhhh... hope they/you win the lottery?

Anyway, all this is really just a long way of agreeing with OP.
I fail to see the irony. One's a platform, one's a tool for building platforms
You'd never know about it unless it happened to someone you knew (thanks to AI factcheckers burying any story about it), and even then the AI news outlets would gaslight you into questioning if it really did happen.
You should get started on organizing it and let us know how it goes.
There's something ironic about charging $75/month for this article.