skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve done something similar in one of our production services. There was a problem with extremely long GC pauses during Gen2 garbage collection (.NET uses a multigenerational GC design). Pauses could be many seconds long or more than a minute in extreme cases.

We found the underlying issue that caused memory pressure in the Gen2 region but the fix was to change some very fundamental aspects of the service and would need to have some significant refactoring. Since this was a legacy service (.net framework) that we were refactoring anyway to run in new .NET (5+), we decided to ignore the issue.

Instead we adjusted the GC to just never do the expensive Gen2 collections (GCLatencyMode) and moved the service to run on higher memory VMs. It would hit OOM every 3 days or so, so we just set instances to auto-restart once a day.

Then 1 year later we deployed the replacement for the legacy service and the problem was solved.
I’m genuinely curious about PHP because lots of people seem to really like it!

Is it like C++, in the sense that there are still a lot of footguns but people who invest the time to know where they are grow to like the language? Or have they actively removed the bad APIs in recent versions?
Businesses do not have an inherent right to exist. If you can't pay a living wage, comply with regulations, and be profitable, your business model is not valid and your business should fail and close.

Predictions of dire consequences rarely pan out. Fast food employees in Seattle are earning $15-20/+ per hour and prices did not double - in fact they're not significantly higher than in neighboring counties with lower wages. It turns out that labor costs are only a small fraction of overall costs.
This is the truth. And it's also the reason why this stuff will be in court until The Singularity itself. Most people will never be able to come to terms with this.
Will be interesting when stuff like this gets animated:

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/165cmc2/sd...

https://old.reddit.com/r/aiArt/comments/17zmx1n/unreleased_1...
Scanning to the bottom, it seems like the most likely use is to improve the ergonomics of simple scripts that need to shell out in some cases and also to streamline some of the more mundane package.json scripts, like deleting a directory when cleaning.

Personally, I think it seems like a nice tool blending JavaScript and shell scripting.
When someone says that skepticism in human-level AGI probably lies in religious beliefs, it tells me that the person likely believes that they have an idea what science and philosophy are saying on the matter. But I strongly suspect that they never actually looked.

Among the small but growing number of modern idealists (the philosophy that consciousness precedes matter), a great deal are actually computer scientists who originally set out to work on AGI from a materialistic frame of reference, but bumped into the conscious machine problem. Once they more closely explored what the cognitive fields working to find answers to this problem are saying, they realized that most scientists approaching consciousness as an emergent property of matter will probably never get anywhere with this.

Why is "the hard problem of consciousness" inextricable from human-level AGI? Because intelligence is only one component of our mentation. There is a back and forth between processing and experience that make up the whole thing. A machine can have or even exceed human processing power, but it will not experience the simplest of colors. Its approach to "creating" can be random hit-or-misses, or formulaically from existing input. But without subjective experience it cannot be as intently creative as an artist trying to come up with a new genre, or as funny as a comedian that relies on the shared subtleties of feelings and emotions (conscious experience) to make original work that other humans can resonate with. It cannot have the intuition of a gifted chef who suspects that two seldom combined spices might be an unexpected but resounding success in her new dessert.
A few things are better, but the core design decisions were all bad, and they can't really be changed over time. No matter how many surface problems they clean up, you will always be better off using any other language.
I’m confused. Are you in the business of rocketry? I mean are you speaking from personal experience as a member of the aerospace industry?
That's the domain of longscamism
How much would keep people motivated while solving the problems of society?
I met Graeber once or twice because we went to the same graduate program. He was a very modest person in some ways, almost shy sometimes, while of course quite politically unusual in some ways, and often irascible.

I didn't agree with everything he had to say, and I thought that as he became more successful, his writing got sloppy sometimes. But he had a gigantic impact in the world unlike almost everyone else from academic anthropology, and I'm glad he got to do that.

I was hoping from the headline that the OP would explain why he died so suddenly.
Slavery ended as industrialized agriculture was taking off. While farmers are paid better now, there are a lot fewer of them.

Perhaps we will see the same with animation; there will be a few well-paid and highly-skilled artists that are automating with a bunch of AI. I doubt that will be the solution to equality though.
Vapid nonsense that was probably copied from some business influencer on LinkedIn.
You can easily turn non-leaking program into a faster and leaking program, but the inverse direction is hard, so that criterion is entirely justified. Any optimization of this sort should be guarded against a compile time switch that simply swaps `free` with a placeholder. I think CPython did this for a long time, before the global initialization step was completely removed.
Free will as an individual means that you should be able to make better choices for yourself without having to rely on a hypothetical mafia-style union
SharePoint itself was only built so that it could be marketed as a "Notes killer". It doesn't do nearly what Notes did, but most shops only found that out after they were told to try to replace their Notes apps with SharePoint.
"Fixed" might be strong, since PHP rightly values backwards compatibility highly, but it is true that most of these issues aren't anything you need to think about when developing in recent PHP versions with recent frameworks.

"Recent" here means roughly "from within the last eight years".

That said, there are many, many ancient PHP codebase out there that depend on all the worst features of ancient versions and are not going to get fixed any time soon.

The fact that things can be done sanely now doesn't really fix the decades where they couldn't.
I miss this web :(
That's a great point. Niche anime is likely subsidized by merchandise and people addicted to gacha and pachinko gambling that use their most popular IPs.
I can't buy a $13 cellphone case without looking at the reviews. I can't imagine buying any kind of travel without doing the same. To hand over money to a company that hasn't had a single customer - ridiculous.

Then again, I guess I'm not their target market:

"I lost large sums of money twice in my life by trusting people to do what they promised. I did not want to risk a third financial disaster."
> Ie., if some company pays you to build a piece of software and you hand it over when you're done, you were not engaged in research/experimental expenditures if you paid people to build said software.

Then it's your customer's R&D, and they have to amortize their payment to you. If you're doing outsourced software development for SMBs and startups, you might not be directly taxed under this rule, but your customers are, which significantly affects the market for your services.
Eval with an uncanny valley shell whose commands behave similar to the way you expect, but not necessarily exactly the way you expect.
Weird Tanks – Tank Chats [video]
Why are you accusing the parent poster, who mostly agrees with you, of making an argument comparable to perpetuating slavery?
You make a great point... Somehow they duped us into paying for the privilege of paying them rent. Never considered that before. I have revised my world view accordingly. You have my thanks.
Maybe not free will in philosophical terms as we are all programmed in some way or another by our parents, our education, our environment, etc... but we certainly have enough amount of Free Will to change jobs...
I've been trying Gleam of and on for a few years and different tasks. When it works it's really neat, but I find myself constantly having to write your code in Erlang which kind of defeats the joy of using it.

The biggest missing feature for me though is the lack of a receive syntax. Sending and receiving messages should be a first class citizen on the BEAM.
There is a very limited workaround in the standard library, but I guess the requirement for type safety means we'll have to wait forever for anything that can actually do things like listen to PIDs or the inbox without Erlang or if the box.

I'm still hopeful this will be tackled, as I really can't stand the concurrency primitives of most other statically typed languages and Gleam has the most promise to fill that niche.
It’s underpromising and over delivering.

They knew internally that it could fly 16x more. They just didn’t want to say it in a statement publicly.
The US Government is a well-armed insurance company. Most of the money goes to healthcare and retirement benefits. As a fraction of national GDP, the US isn't in the top 10.
As all things in tech, it was born out of a grand vision of unified identity (in this case) & was squashed by corporate greed into using IDs of commercial tools for authentication into other commercial tools.

I've dreamed many times about my Matrix or Nostr identity serving as the ultimate key to all the tools & services I access, but as the greed turns grand visions into their parodies, these grand visions can't exist without financial support & motivation in some sort of gain for some party.

No one is going to implement a free, unified ID, not attached to a commercial product, which is going to get wide spread adoption. Many tried, and just as many have failed.

Such is life.
> but it's boring to get it.

I plop the channel’s URL in my feed reader and it finds the feed on its own. Don’t most popular readers do that?
Good to hear you guys made the right decisions. Bun is awesome and the more performance you guys can squeeze with zig, the better. Keep it up! Bang up job already.
Absolutely false and a misinformed statement. Every language has design mistakes (like what does “this” mean in JavaScript?). The only question is - how bad is it? PHP’s pretty average now, but gets more Java-like every release. I could make a very long list of quirks in JavaScript you’ve learned to ignore.

Performance is also no longer a significant issue. Facebook, PornHub, Wikipedia, Etsy, Slack, and more are still happily ticking on PHP codebases.
Maybe no one. There is no rule that says someone has to get rich out of every industry. You don't see a lot of agriculture billionaires. Nor airline billionaires. Some industries just kind of suck.
It's on the list, to buy an Everdrive -- cannot wait for Part 1 of Portal64 (RIP Part 2).
Novelist Rie Kudan Scoops Literary Prize–Then Reveals She Used ChatGPT
It is actually a viable strategy if you are heavily optimizing for the executable size [1]. It's essentially a radical dead code elimination scheme.

[1] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...
>> If people were paid fairly, most productions would be untenable.

>A similar argument was used in favor of perpetuating slavery prior to the civil war.

I suspect the end result here will actually be fairly comparable to post-slavery agriculture, in that technology will eliminate a lot of these jobs. Tough to imagine that GenAI doesn't have an enormous impact on anime over the next few years.
Ok thanks for the heads up
> the US has an extremely strong punitive blame culture

Fwiw, here's a related outlier. I long ago had an anthropology professor who described his thesis on a small South American fishing community culture as, AFAIR very fuzzily ...

Sh-t happens wasn't a concept. Anything goes wrong, it's some individual's intentional fault. So not long-ago pacific island "let's war on the neighboring island - this was so unusual, they must have done it to us". And not even Papau's ongoing "let's gossip together to decide who here is the witch causing these notable problems". It's "everything", all the time, intentionally, by family members and coworkers and neighbors.

Some fish escaped the closing group net? Stop, figure out who intentionally let them go, and... I no longer recall the "and then what". But stub your toe? Rain harms your crop? Pay the local witch doctor to find out who put the whammy on you. And pay him to whammy them back.

Resulting in interpersonal relationships that, pervasively, were toxically hostile. Singularly so in his experience. An antithesis to community warm fuzzies, charity, and blameless postmortems.

Exploring broader context can be fun. In addition to saying, say, "extremely corrupt", there's "more corrupt than this other, less than that other, and similar in this way, different in that way". Nifty high-dimensional spaces. Are there Ashby-ish charts for subcultures? Is principle component clustering of culture surveys available? In customer design discussions, the differences between multiple proposals create a vocabulary for discussing the space.

Sometimes having a "yay, we're better than that" touchstone can be useful. Like perhaps the USA lost something valuable when the USSR folded - it seemed a helpful set of "that proposal would make us too much more like them - that's not who we are" and "they're making us look bad" arguments faded out.
Or cyberspace
Plenty of people use Windows for development, Linux for development and gaming, and macOS for everything including servers. It’s all about preference.
I didn’t say anything about not paying labels. My point was you should buy music rather than counting on it to trickle down from Spotify.

Note that many of the artists I’ve been buying from aren’t on major labels, though.
Employees also do not have a right to any particular career. That's nice that people have a dream to make anime for a living. I hope they get to realize it. But the world does not owe them a particular wage for what they want to do just because it's a job that they want. If you can't make enough money doing a certain job, maybe go get a different job then.
privacy oriented but I have to make an account and the only payment methods are also not private
I really have a "scientists asked if they could not if they should" feeling about this one. I've seen and tried lots of solutions like that in different languages, but believe now it's a wrong level of abstraction. If you want to provide some crossplatform way to execute ls, providing an "ls()" function is much cleaner. Otherwise you start accumulating issues like: which flags are supported, does it support streaming, what about newlines in file names, how do you deal with non-utf filenames, what happens with colour output, is tty attached, etc. These are new problems which you didn't have when using the native JS filesystem functions. And when they bite you, it's not trivial to see where / why.

None of the examples really look that hard to replace either. The current solutions are not great. But shell-in-js is putting a familiar lipstick on a pig without addressing the real issues.

Also, the clock is ticking for the first "string got interpolated instead of templated" security issue. It's inevitable.
> I guess the idea is that the model trainers are ignorant of this

Maybe they're ignorant of it right up until you announce it, but then they're no longer ignorant of it.
Huh, cardboard cans for motor oil, thanks! Didn’t even realise that was a thing.
AI is absolutely going to be the end of many inbetweeners, and on one hand that's a good thing because of how exploited they are, but that's kind of a problem too because you need people to have a way to get started in the industry who can develop their skills, learn how production works, then get promoted to doing key animation or move into other roles that get paid better. If we let AI take all the work from the people at the bottom we'll lose a lot of talent that never had a chance to get off the ground or find a place within the industry
this bit from the article surprised me

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I spend an inordinate amount of time helping the kids set up their build environments, and having this built-in to the IDE or dub would be immensely helpful for using D for learning.

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it does seem to have worked out in the end, but I would personally not have considered anything where building was not one click of a button in an ide; build toolchains add a tremendous amount of complexity to learning a new language, and especially if this is also an intro to programming I would consider it a fatal lack.
Imagine what they have today with the advance in behavioral science
Vocational awe is a curse. If you have an endless supply of people willing to work pennies then the industry will build itself around paying them pennies. This does not mean that this is the only way you can build an animation industry - just that this is the path Toei and Sunrise took.

The amount of money that goes into the industry is not static. The original linked article specifically cites cases in which members of the production committee (often toy companies like Good Smile[0]) decided to deliberately take less money because they didn't want their control diluted. They're only able to do this because they can fleece animators into working longer for less money rather than having to get more capital in the project.

As for animators having to find new work... good? The current situation is one in which animators pursue their passions, and then have their passions completely take over their life and crush their soul. If they quit en masse, that would be backpressure against productions that want animators to fall on their swords, and production committees that want shit done cheaply.

[0] Who, incidentally, funded Hiroyuki Nishimura's[1] buyout of 4chan in exchange for all those J-List ads the site had.

[1] Former operator of 2channel who got pushed out in an incredibly sketchy way by his website host.
I don't think that's the definition usually used for "independent" when talking about voter affiliation. US politics has a long history of people telling pollsters (and filling out voter affiliation info in actual elections) that they aren't affiliated with a specific party because political parties have generally historically been seen pretty negatively in the US. In reality, many of these self-identified "independent" voters have voting records that are heavily skewed (if not straight-ticket) to one party or another. I don't have actual numbers on what % of independents this is (I too am interested in the parent's question on this matter), but it's definitely not a "definitionally, none" answer.
Myopic internet bro sounding tweet.
Or with MathML: https://jsfiddle.net/31ug4kdw/
> What do you mean by mechanistic?

So, I’ve only used it in a “I understand what it means and what I mean by it” manner in the past, and I haven’t rigorously defined it for myself.

I’ll do the best giving an off-the-cuff definition, but I’m sure it will have some holes and would be improved with some time spent thinking about it, or reading to crib a definition from someone else who has already put in that time.

I think my definition of a mechanistic universe would be:

A universe that transitions from one state to an adjacent state through a consistent set of rules.

From your options:

- mathematical? I’m think yes, but potentially only if “mathetics” is defined broadly.

- Deterministic? I don’t think this is a requirement for a mechanistic universe. My bet would be on a deterministic universe (through an Everettian interpretation lens), but I think something can be mechanistic while being stochastic, so long as the rules determine the probabilities. That is, I would consider a computer with a true source of randomness to still be mechanistic.

> Non-dual with no unmeasurable causes?

Non-dual, yes. That is the primary meaning for me. “With no unmeasurable causes” is a phrasing that makes me slightly uneasy. I could imagine a situation where, if the universe is stochastic you could end up in a situation where you cannot precisely identify the specific cause for a specific event. But, I think as the spirit of this question is intended, yes.
I have not seen that John Oliver segment before, but I have had personal experience with this.

I handled the final affairs for a family member who wished to be donated to science. This family member died unexpectedly and many decades before you’d expect people to make advance and specific arrangements for anatomical donation.

So we got to work. We engaged with what we learned was an outfit based in California that was not up front that they would part out your deceased loved one to researchers who require specific organs for research.

Our second attempt was a university that runs a “body farm” which was actually the specific wish of the deceased, and so we were able to make that happen in short order, which we didn’t expect.

It taught me to only trust universities with this sort of thing.
You're assuming it happened all in one go. Instead, the protein was probably inserted into a germ cell by a retrovirus, and then was available in descendants as grist for further evolution, eventually being incorporated into the placenta.
I see. That addresses my concerns, and it's starting to make a lot of sense. I'm gonna study this in depth, starting with the post you linked. Thank you.
Webb was 15 years late and 900% over budget.

That's the wrong kind of overperforming.
Before the 2017 change you could and should have if they were not engaged in actual R&D. But people used to lump them into R&D anyway because of the preferential tax treatment (you also used to get special treatment for NOL, which you can't any more).

Software development doesn't generally follow GAAP's model because unless you're IBM or Oracle the same people sometimes fix bugs and sometimes develop new features.

The GAAP rules aren't insane: if your company buys a HQ building it's assumed to last 40 years. And since each year you "get some value" (e.g. you don't pay rent to someone else) you split the value of that purchase over 40 years. If you buy a computer you amortize it over 3 years because you're likely to "use it up" and replace it after that.

And so if you're a car mfr you might have some people developing a new automatic transmission. You expect to then put those things into new cars for some time to come. So GAAP says the R&D that went into the new transmission is amortized while the cost of making one and sticking it into a car you sell is indeed COGS.

If you're an early stage pharma startup almost all you do is R&D for quite a long time. For a software startup you can say the same thing: even if you ship your MVP, every bug you fix is turning it into the "real thing" (unlike Oracle, above, who can split maintenance and development into two buckets).

So I favor accelerated recognition of R&D costs for startups. Not sure about established companies.
I hate auto correct.
No, it did not scan. They did not have any url listed below. I was using Barcode Scanner from zxing. I snapped a photo, edited, and then scanned.