skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Borland's Pascal. And I know this: it had insane compile/build time, even with TurboVision or OWL libraries for UI. Borland's C++ compiler of same age weren't even close. And despite all language extensions, Pascal was quick to parse and to generate not great, but okay code. Over 20 years later, GCC without -O1 generates countless coping for very simple C code.
Not to mention all brainpower and money behind C and C++ versus behind Pascal.
This quote proves that computer industry often goes after the worst option and is very fond of reinventing wheel.
I believe it's selfish to keep somebody going when they have absolutely 0 ability for self-maintenance.
These are metadata layers on top of file formats, expecting to process many files (where schema may change) in typically object storage, with volumes in excess of a petabyte. There is nothing preventing you from using sqlite with iceberg, for example - except implementing it (may involve implementation in your execution engine too). It already supports Parquet, Orc, and Avro (which is more row oriented than column oriented)

Iceberg and Sqlite might be interesting if you wanted to colocate two tables in the same file, for example. A smart enough data access layer with an appropriate execution engine could possibly see the data for both.
Spotify doesn’t pay a 30% cut to a 3rd party either. They don’t allow in app purchases in iTunes.
Per-clock performance is THE metric. Apple can't sustain those peak clocks for more than a few seconds before throttling down. Once both chips are running at a sustainable 2-2.5GHz, the IPC starts mattering a lot.
Well the bitcoin supply is limited, so it's quite a big loss.
>But none of this really matters because the judges are not impartial.

Of course they are not impartial, in the US they are elected. If you're not "tough on crime" you're getting replaced next election.
Maybe you are living in IT centers like Amsterdam or Berlin, but anywhere in south or east Europe 100k USD annual salary is almost unreachable for local employment.

Best talents are not paid at the similar level globally. Even tech giants like Google have different salary for same levels in different countries inside EU. You can get x2 if you move from Warsaw to Dublin or x3 if you move to Zurich.
Bliss via relinquishing desire and agency is different from optimism.
Scratch itself can be fun for kids just making characters and objects move around like an animated cartoon, then add game elements like navigating the character through a maze, then adding stuff like kicking a ball through a goal.

You can probably get that far in a day or two. And if interest persists, advance to customized Minecraft or Roblox.
FOIA request? :) https://www.muckrock.com/ Enable crowdfund mode for the request and I'll pay the $5.
This is how Apple has implemented its “StoreKit external purchase link” system: https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

It’s important to note this is US only, not UK. It appears to apply to net new subscriptions being solicited through iOS apps which also have in-app subscription enabled.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL (2019)
Most developers are already using a platform like GitHub, which allows them to publish releases for free. There is no point in paying for that service other that being forced to.
Doing the dishes is boring but it's offset by the satisfaction you feel from having a clean kitchen. Some tasks are both boring and make you feel useless after because all you're left with is a report that will rot in a middle management storage cabinet. I think a few 19th century German philosophers wrote about that extensively :)
There can actually be significant value to limiting optionality. This is the solution to "the paradox of choice"; sometimes it's actually better to have fewer choices!

I find this very unintuitive and even mentally rebel at the idea when I think about it, but I still think it's true.

But for example, consider three scenarios:

1. Work from home, with a consistent habit of going on a ten minute walk and reading for half an hour before and after work.
2. Commute with a ten minute walk and half hour train ride, with a consistent habit of reading on the train.
3. Same as (1), but family responsibilities and other distractions end the moment work begins and begin the moment work ends.
4. Same as (2), but spend the train ride doom scrolling.

For me (1) is best but also unlikely because there are too many other "choices" of what to do before and after work, so in practice I end up doing (3).

But option (2) of commuting by train would actually be better than (3) despite having less optionality! I would have more wind-up and -down time each day, and get more reading done.

But the risk of option (2) is that there is still too much optionality; instead of reading, I could scroll crap on my phone. Removing that optionality somehow - by getting a dumb phone or some other solution to keep myself from this bad habit - would be another improvement.

Clearly it would be better to make better choices without limiting options, but human nature being what it is, it often turns out better in practice to not have the other options at all.
>Someone somewhere is spending a lot of money on promoting those views to the sort of people who don't change their browser or their homepage.

The thing about these people is they really don't matter. They are on deaths door anyway and pretty soon they won't be part of the conversation. The important people are the young car buyers of tomorrow. They seem to be quite fond of Tesla and EVs in general.
I could have labelled the boxes, even though A and C are interchangeable in what I wrote.

A is your React app, C is your Java service, and B is the hypothetical bff that might be inserted between.

Decoupling is not disconnection.

If B is (well-)implemented, your React app and Java service do not know about each other.
It's the longest grammatically correct sentence composed entirely of one repeating word.
Monumental: Automating construction with robotics and software
I didn't know it was taken off YouTube.

And a personal level, I never said the lab leak theory was impossible. I simply figured it was a racist dog whistle because Fox News was the one parroting it. Furthermore, focusing on the "suspicious origin" of the "wuhan flu" while broadly ignoring public health advice diminished the credibility of those talking about it.
Yeah and the 3 week one coincided with the Android 14 / OneUI 6 upgrade so it's kinda understandable because there was a lot more testing.

It's not perfect but I like it now (In the TouchWiz days Samsung was really bad at updates, they've improved a lot)
They take 30% of the revenue customer’s pay them and distribute the rest in a pool they give rights holders.
I'm glad I keep bookmarks of my favorite pages
I think you forget the fact that his son has 0 ability for self-preservance. In some cases, we may make things that have no chance to exist on their own, persist, but in this case, what does it serve, but our own selfishness?
You are right of course, I am not claiming they are actual people. The "corporations are people too" slogan is ironic.

But they are people in a sense that they may own property, be sued, etc. What interests me is why they are called an "artificial person" in the first place. Why are they not just called a "business" by law or a similar term. Calling something a person, even if it's artificial carries with itself great implications.
And you can also make the vtable `const` so it goes into the read-only data section.
Great questions here!

> How do you rate the correctness? Some complex LLM answers seemed to be correct but not in as much detail as the expected answer.

We support two different modes: a strict pass/fail where an answer has to have all of the information we expect, and a rubric based mode where answers are bucketed into things like "partially correct" or "wrong but helpful".

To be honest, we also get the grading wrong sometimes. If you see anything egregious please email me the topic you used at max@talc.ai

> How do you generate the answers? Does the model have access to the original source of truth (like in RAG apps)?

You guessed right here - we connect to the knowledge base like a RAG app. We also use this to generate the questions -- think of it like reading questions out of a textbook to quiz someong.

> And in your examples what model do you actually use?

We use multiple models for the question generation, and are still evaluating what works best. For the demo, we are "quizzing" openai's 3.5 turbo model.
Sure, we can simplify it as such....

Deploy it to what? How? Via what? Who is managing it? Who is paying for it? Who physically installed the server, and setup your ability to DrawTheRestOfTheHTML?

Personally - while we want abstraction in our deployment understandings to smooth ramp understanding - its important to see all the supporting inputs that made your SFTP of an .html possible.

>>I once saw him teach a philosophy lesson about a pencil. A Fuckin' Pencil!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
"A canal on one side of the planet is broken? Just use the canal on the other side of the planet."

I'm enjoying that sentiment very much. I wonder if there's a mileage breakdown of China -> US (around South America) versus China -> US (through the Suez Canal).
Ignorance is bliss. Conservative parents raise more ignorant teens.
Garbage AI on Google News
Okay but this completely irrelevant to the argument at hand.

If you want to choose apple music over Spotify for the sake of the artists. Good. Though I'd also he cautious, Spotify does have a much stronger market share than apple in this regard but precedent seems to indicate that apple will happily leverage their strong position to squeeze money out of people.

These companies are all wanting to make more money, this money needs to come out of somewhere. Users, artists, developers...
The problem for Panama is that the cost of rail transport is dominated by the time for loading and unloading; once you've gotten to the point that loading/unloading on trains makes sense, suddenly many more countries in that area are competitive; if I recall correctly Mexico is building a rail line across their narrowest part.
Apple allows developers to distribute their apps on MacOS “for free”, so I’m not sure why asking for similar treatment on iOS is considered such a bizarre, insane request.
In practice, crypto scams, Mr. Beast giveaway scams, and many other types of scams are freely displayed on the front page of YouTube, in the #1 spot of Recommended videos. This is what Google is allowing their platforms right now.

Any excuses that originate from stricter duty to protect against obvious scams should be really easy to see through. Personally I don't think they should be asked to act on ambiguous borderline cases where something could be interpreted as a scam by someone, but allowing "send 1 BTC, get 2 back" to display on the front page of Youtube is inexcusable.

Either way, they're going to continue doing whatever they want and it's not like they're going to face consequences in our lifetime.
They maybe denying climate change but, as a matter of fact, did the admin add an arbitrary multiplier to the numbers?

The article gives very specific details about the fraud
100% that was my first thought when reading the GP comment. Autoscaling isn't a magic fix. Just like the article says, you need to find the red arrow first to figure out where the bottleneck is and whether or not that bottleneck is actually something within the auto-scaling context or not. You've pointed out a couple of good examples of potential bottlenecks. Another possibility is a downstream 3rd-party service. If you start auto-scaling because a downstream service is struggling, you're just going to end up hitting it even harder and essentially contributing to a DoS attack against them.

No silver bullets and all that. Still need to do engineering analysis to figure out what's actually happening before you start shooting.
Very true. Tools are often abandoned for being too restrictive and I’ve seen it several times just with formatters alone.
Why should Apple be obligated to serve two product categories? I have a phone that serves the role of general purpose computer just fine. I run mostly open source apps and even have a real terminal. It's just not an Apple phone.
Is this also true of an hour spent winding up or down by going on a walk or reading a book or some other adult hobby?

Personally, I don't believe I must either be working or spending time with my children every moment they are awake. I'm a person too, not just a worker and parent, and need to have my own time.
There are things you can love. It might sound silly unless you've climbed mountains in the winter, but I love my ice axe. It's let me go places I'd never be able to go otherwise.

That said, it is different from the love I have for people. When my son was young and would treat people poorly over things, I told him there are three kinds of things we can love: people, places, and things. When there's any conflict, the priority should almost always be in that order.
It's not hate of russians, it's the dislike of being enslaved and murdered by russians.

The same thing that you are currently doing in Ukraine.
Not necessarily. You can sign a contract and push all legal stuff to the employee. Employee creates an LLC or other entity and selling consultancy services to the US client. No labor law attached to this relationship.
All it takes to get somewhere is to walk there, and yet we've dreamed up all these complicated machines that get us there even faster.
HTTPS fixes that
Does it really matter if it is AI or not at this point?

SEO spam has been a thing for a long time that has made their way into top rank spots for some queries making it frustratingly hard to find answers.
This is a discussion of social media which should not be flagged.
I use Bing way more than Google now, but I also love phind for more detailed coding answers. Claude is best for writing prose. I try bard sometimes too, it writes really good SEO and Etsy listings.

It's still early days so finding the best solution with ai is still a WIP, since dalle3 came out I've used Bing chat way more.

image creator gives you 15 images per day, Bing chat does a better job with images by reiterated prompts with adjustments and gives near unlimited uses if using the chat interface.
No, the alternative is working through it, processing it, and integrating it into your story of yourself as something you've overcome.

"Letting it go" lands the same as "excise it from your life," which isn't possible. Your body and your mind were shaped by it whether you wanted them to be or not. You have to find a way to integrate it or you'll just keep fighting a losing battle for the rest of your life.
Scientists are looking at layers of minerals left behind on mammoth tusks
A good starting point for making actually working games is text. I used Twine with my kids relatively successfully.
https://twinery.org/
Maybe he should figure it out? This curling cripples kids. Source: Me

I'm only good at the things I was forced to figure out myself, as no one else knew. Like the family computer, installing it etc. Then building my own, installing and troubleshooting Windows etc.
Didn’t SSC reopen/rebrand shortly after the “doxing” kerfuffle as ACT on substack anyway, with some subscriber only content?
Experts Confirm: Icelandic Faultline Has Awakened After 800 Years
Do these engines avoid AI-generated content?
i think for company-critical databases, the best you can do without invoking a terrible headache for your security officer is going multi-cloud: one big tech cloud, and one smaller firm that is completely disconnected from the other one

maybe they could even use a relatively inexpensive colo/baremetal provider to simply mirror the bigtech deployment on a smaller scale (would need to be quite flexible/vendor-agnostic to make that work...)
Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era (2017)
great article but was wondering if there's an updated one as this was written in 2017
Corporations are also groups of people. There are owners, managers, employees, and contractors. We can take "corporations aren't people" too far, and forget that the individuals are all still humans, with feelings, motivations, and rights.

Americans have the freedom of speech, and they don't lose that every time they join up with a few mates and e.g. walk down the street (and perhaps protest together), or run a business (and perhaps donate money to political candidates together).

The people who own Apple, who work at Apple, etc. They do have feelings and desires, etc. The thing is, we're talking about a huge number of people. Very few - if any - actually know you personally. Some are nice people. Some are not.
Lol what? 100% yes. It's super common to have a separate holding company for the real estate that the business leases from.
I think part of the article is just the author venting that people make design decisions without understanding the ramifications.

Operating a queue as a buffer would be absolutely fine if there were also service level agreements implicit in every queue in operation - i.e. one queue reaches half capacity or is experiencing explosive growth, leading to reactive techniques such as spinning up larger queues/servers, alerting stakeholders to the performance issue(s), and possibly even dynamically rate-limiting end-users.

But this is a whole-system centric view of the design. What they're specifically bemoaning is the asinine focus on component-centric design - your widget/service performs slowly? Throw a queue at it (and wonder why you broke everything 100 features and 10x customer base later)!

For legitimately small problems, this is OK. But then, you accept that you aren't scaling, and you bake it into your design assumptions. And you sell that, explicitly, to the customer "hey this will only work for 1 thousand/1 million customers, if you want more we can talk".
Meteorite Reveals Young Moon's Crust Held Far More Water Than We Ever Realized
I honesty haven't had a single issue with my Pixel. I'm curious what has gone wrong with yours.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/28/1160162...
> trivially definable

People who try to work within fair use rules will disagree on that point.
point me to where they tried to "impose" this on others...
That sentence isn't the longest valid English sentence, for example, this sentence is longer. In fact, as that Wikipedia article says, you can extend that sentence as well:

> Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos"; any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct.

Anyone who wants to go down that rabbit hole, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...
> There’s overwhelming evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are causing climate change, that those emissions are supercharging deadly weather disasters, and that transitioning to clean energy is the only way to tackle the problem at scale.

I would like to see evidence that climate change is "supercharging deadly weather disasters". I don't believe that evidence exists. Whether climate change has caused (or increased the severity of) "extreme weather events" is a question that has no simple answer.

Also, it absolutely is a concern that developing countries will suffer as fossil fuels become more expensive. It's also a concern that people will simply burn wood or dung if they can't get coal.
Given the new EU laws saying they need to do the exact opposite I highly doubt that.

Also non-AppStore content works fine, setapp for example is still commercially viable
At least the machinists remark of "I hate metric, too much math." makes sense. If he's using manual machines with imperial scales you would need to convert everything.

Of course if he's using CNC or DROs primarily it's a lot less valid of a complaint.
Yes, I want to be nickeled and dimed for content. There's no way I'm going to sign up for any more subscriptions. But I would be happy to pay a few cents for individual articles or videos or podcasts if it was a single click process.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-case-for-micropayments/
It's turtles all the way down. At some point, it's _not really_ a queue.

For example imagine a computer program to fetch the contents of a list of URLs. Perhaps it makes some number of parallel requests.

If the URLs are hard coded, e.g.:

fetch("https://news.ycombinator.com/")
fetch("https://bbc.co.uk/")
fetch("https://archive.org/")
...

When the maximum concurrency is reached (which could simply be 1) and all requests are blocking, then back-pressure is applied. The callers wait before submitting more work.

In this example the queue is the code, and the program counter acts represents the head of the queue. I wouldn't regularly refer to that as a queue.

Perhaps instead it reads a list of entries from a file. The queue's state can be represented by file offset. And so on.

Computers are by definition carry out sequences of operations. A sequence can be viewed as a queue. Everything is a queue.

So yes, ignore requests and make the caller implement their own queue _is a completely correct take_ in a sense, but I don't find it productive.
This exists in Google too with just writing “MDN” at the end of your query.
I think it's okay for The Onion to make satirical news reports, but maybe not okay to make a realistic deep-fake of someone. An actor could dress and act like that person though.
Yep, I strongly dislike working from home on days that the kids are home. But I also highly value the flexibility.
As with all words, it's all in the context. "Love" can mean really, really like, or it can mean the emotion of love, depending on how it's used.
That is still Haskell.

Getting features into WG21 still requires some effort to get them through, regardless of what people in the outside think, and yeah I do agree it could get some more direction.

C++ may seem to get everything dumpped into it, however any language nerd that feels like diving into what the history of languages with similar age (Python, Perl, Ada, C#, Java, F#, OCaml,...) have across all their versions, standard library, main interpreter/compilers, .... will find out those aren't much better either.
I didnt know EV the size and performance of a tesla had a 430 mpg. If I did it was obvious someone was lying. Anyone with any knowledge of thermo knew that was utter BS.
RPG Maker as well, my daughter had fun with that at a young age.
This only works as an argument if you count the change cost but ignore the default cost. Like, if changing the world to stop global warming costs $5 trillion of which much is borne by the poor that's hard. But if doing nothing means $40 trillion in cost and even more lands on the poor, well now what? It's easy to criticize doing anything at all, but the most likely outcome of making perfect the enemy of good is that no coordinated action happens at all and everyone just acts for themselves. And that's ignoring a lot of ways the developing world have acted to make themselves far worse off, yet then constantly have cried wolf about blaming others. Fatigue even amongst those who cares matters, as does relative advantage and leverage.
The Anti-Ship Missile Arsenal Houthis Are Firing into the Red Sea
The linked article gives no examples unless you "sign up" to actually read the thing. I don't know who this is, why should I give them any consideration? Toss this in the garbage with all the rest.
I encourage you to read Murray Rothbard's Anatomy of the State.

https://cdn.mises.org/Anatomy%20of%20the%20State_3.pdf
At risk of nit picking: you can shout fire in a crowded theater. That was a metaphor used in a historic case that’s been pretty radically walked back given how bad of an opinion it was.

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha... Is a good read on the topic.
where is the link for pasts years?