skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C# inherited it from Delphi, so there's plenty of experience showing that this is not an issue in practice. Thing is, if you don't have accessor methods (or some equivalent syntactic sugar as in D) in a OO language, you end up with them anyway, just ad hoc like Java's get/set methods. And then you still have to think about which methods that look like they're pure queries might actually mutate shared state.

If anything, I would argue that explicit accessors make it clearer because in e.g. C# you can't write a method that looks like a getter (but mutates state) by accidentally naming it as such. If someone made something a property, that's because they thought its semantics are property-like, which includes not mutating global state. Sure, people will still get that wrong occasionally, just as they run mutating "get" methods, but it is surprisingly rare.
Would be a random coincidence, but if you work at a large bank, I think I may know the team that had that 300k test db lol.
I consistently tried to push for cost management at my last job, but the product manager just wanted to push new features he could show off to management above him. We let costs inflate to ridiculous levels despite my constant discussion around the topic. Software engineers ultimately had no say in the matter.

I was laid off this week in a mass layoff because the company doesn’t have enough money to pay all of us anymore. It’s disappointing to see, and I wonder how many other teams ignored these optimizations and how much unnecessary total cost it all summed to.
Not to encourage you to use whatsapp but on android an empty work profile is nice for this use case.
I've been thinking about how with the rise of LLMs, we're going to uncover A LOT of "bad studies" over the next decade. Could be some sort of mass reckoning. Probably better to admit it all now than be uncovered in 5 years.
Want to think about the failure modes on that. I had a key fail on my old 1999 Nissan Maxima. It would no longer authenticate to the immobilizer to allow the motor to run (it cuts off either spark or fuel-- can't recall which). That was a pain and required a tow, but at least it wasn't smelly, too.
I'm not sure my Homepods are less responsive but Siri for sure is. Tons of "hold on" and "there's been a problem" for kitchen timers that I set. I don't know what it needs to do to be able to tell me the time on a timer, but at the end of their life (or before) that'll be it for Homepods.
Caches: LRU vs. Random (2014)
There is also the primal fear of falling down (I often have dreams of falling down and get jolted awake).

Another major issue is the awareness and helplessness. In a car accident everything happens so fast, you only have time to go 'On Sh..'. Sometimes not even that. Some people get T-Boned and die without knowing what happened.

But in case of an airliner, usually you know well ahead of time something is wrong. Engines are visibly on fire, there is fire in the cabin, it is flying side ways, it is lurching all over the place, it is spinning out of control.. etc. You have time to panic , scream, curse and cry.

Personally this is what terrifies me.
ELIZA: Is something troubling you ?

YOU: What is 2+2?

ELIZA: What answer would please you most ?

YOU: The exact answer.

ELIZA: Tell me more about that.

YOU: Is 2+2=5?

ELIZA: That is interesting. Please continue.
Clearly no link to the actual research, so here it is: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15936
Windows is supported, as is Mac and Linux - should mention that, you're right. Most of our users use Windows, so it's definitely 1st priority.

Thanks for the feedback reg CI - I'd love to hear your specific needs, as we're working on this right now.
LOL, the EU's vaccination QR codes are 90+ modules wide, BASE 45 encoded and compressed.
Well of course

But the pianist is probably deep into "free speech", "auditor" and generally right-wing bs
Lack of proper interfaces/traits is also a deal-breaker. One appears to need to do un-readable hacks to get a basic interface in Zig.
Its gotten a lot better over time as far as adding tooling to make big changes. Its the same ol' 'its fine if you know what you're doing and not so fine if you don't.' Personally I'd rather deal with git's issues but p4 has the a lot of built in support in engines.

Day to day I think its the industry tooling and the partial checkouts that have people pick P4, not esoteric problems you face years down the line.
> C is just simpler to learn

But there is a huge gap between ability to learn C and ability to write working software in C.

I've inherited a small (500 loc) C codebase with ldpreloadable library. Guess how many crashes I've fixed already? 7! And it's a security sensitive code supposed to run under root.
I would rephrase it as "no hidden function calls". Hidden function calls can make it a nightmare to debug code. It happens way too often in C++ code, less often in C#. But here's a C# example to illustrate the problem: https://web.archive.org/web/20021003203744/http://www.geocit...
> Various regulations harming open source (discussed before on HN)

But coming from a good idea - make vendors responsible for the software they put out, to prevent tons of abusive practices like shutting of cloud services making paperweights, or never updating massively holed software harder. The ramifications for open source were then realised, and the legislation which is still under planning/review has been drastically updated to make it more applicable for open source software.

> Banning encrypted messaging (almost passed)

But didn't?

> Also due to how Europe is wired up, the cost of doing startup business is higher, why there are fewer and fewer successful European software growth companies.

Which has little to do with regulations, much more to do with the size and wealth of the potential markets.

> why there are fewer and fewer successful European software growth companies

Is that bad though? Are software "growth" companies a requirement for something? There are tons of successful software companies in various European countries, just not at the level of their American counterparts. Again, with quote obvious reasoning - there are 4x the people in the US compared to France (which is top 2 by population in the EU), and Americans both earn and spend more in USD not adjusted for anything.
I use D, and there is nothing in that article that's convincing enough for me to switch

$ time make build-game

real 0m0.387s

user 0m0.309s

sys 0m0.077s

$ time make build-sgame

real 0m0.334s

user 0m0.245s

sys 0m0.057s

Complete full rebuilds of my game and game server on linux (on windows it is the double)
Managed is good, but opensource is decent these days.

You need postgres? Use crunchydata postgres operator or cloudnativepg.
Need multiple regions? setup wireguard.

IT's more work, but might not be a lot of work.
This is because CPU’s haven’t gotten any faster in almost 20 years because of the problem of heat dissipation, so all that can be done to make computers feel more powerful is to get better at writing parallelizable software… which is just a very hard problem for humans to tackle. Also, the latency to/from main memory is the main bottleneck now for all jobs whether or not they are parallelizable. And it is very hard to get insight into how you can organize things at a high level to optimize for low-level memory usage… humans aren’t good at that either. The problem is that now gains in the experience of using computers have to come from humans getting better at writing software in light of hardware constraints. You can’t get a whole lot these days from throwing new hardware at the problem.
The amount of property theft and stolen cars in particular in both Canada and the US it's unfathomable. We are talking billions upon billions every year and only a fraction is recovered in a decent state. Many are trashed, dismantled or "exported" like this particular case.

Let's not forget all of this is being paid by those who pay insurance of course, which due to many factors, premiums have sky rocketed in recent years.

With a few exceptions, there has been a general apathy in actually really fighting this type of crime. Most DAs don't really go any extra mile, the judges tend to view these cases as "some kids being dumb", the police use all of this and say "our hands are tied" but in reality the only thing "new" is how society looks and responds at this, because this type of crime and these criminal organizations always existed in some aspect of another.
Looks like Chernobyl really killed nuclear.
Hoping to see some discussion on this here. We tend to use uWSGI where we need the performance and Gunicorn where we don't, but I'd love an alternative that's both performant and not insanely difficult to configure - I discovered the other day that `uwsgi --help` outputs over 1k lines of flags and options.

Regardless, congrats on reaching 1.0 - I'm looking forward to trying it out (though it looks like it could do with some docs).
You have it backwards. Industries that are profitable are subject to disruption.
This is a great introduction into how real astrophysics is done. We don't know how far away things are until we measure, but our measurements are never precise, and we don't have very many 'calibrated' distances to compare to. Little by little it's possible to exclude possibilities and narrow down on the likely true value.
Silly request. The amount of paperwork, lawyers, and time required to connect our service makes it impossible to validate savings.

Is there an offline method? I have not looked at vantage to see if it's possible.
If my understanding is correct, it helps with coming to terms with imminent mortality.
How to Disable YouTube Shorts (2023)
From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story
1 worker with a computer in 2000 can do the job of 25 workers in 1970.

It does not follow, however, that the 1 worker with 25 times more productivity should be paid 25 times the salary. That's financial insanity.

Unless the government voted to map work week hours to productivity so the 1 workers earns the same but works 25 times less. That's financial insanity mandated by the will of the people (i.e., the world we already live in). ;D
Yeah, I saw a TikTok of a person installing a electronic kill switch in the car so that the fuel pump wouldn't run. It was a 2020 Lexus SUV, and I was baffled since it was in Toronto. Didn't realize car theft has become that bad in the city.

I had a hidden physical switch installed in my 95' civic to do the same thing in Miami since they were so likely to be stolen.
You should always calculate if you're actually going to see cost savings. Counterintuitively, running for fewer hours can increase your bill if it causes you to switch to on-demand pricing [1]. There's a break even point you need to get past.

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/modeling-on-demand-pricing/
defer has one important difference to try/finally - it places the cleanup code right next to initialization, which makes things easier to read overall.
I don't believe there's a loophole, if you're talking about the US. There are indeed mushroom products in smoke shops, but they're amanitas. The effects are much more mild.

Psylocybin and psylocin are Schedule I wherever they occur.

The only practical loophole is spores, which can be sold for research purposes, though not in all states, and are illegal to germinate anywhere. Still, many online outfits sell and ship liquid culture (mycelium suspended in liquid), which is illegal but it appears nobody cares too much.
"He's coming right for us!"
If it's unfair to tax unrealized gains from owning property, then surely it's even more unfair to tax actual work?
I don't share your praise of typescript (native perf is terrible / it's not strict enough so I routinely get hit in production with type errors through the escape hatches) but you can very well use TS with Biome, I maintain a good number of TS services / apps using Biome and SWC (so I get decent performance).

Performance is also the reason I like Biome over eslint / prettier
To my knowledge this game was never advertised as a game to play on the Steam Deck officially.

If you choose to play a game on an unsupported platform, that is your problem and not theirs.

In reality it's Valve's problem since they have pushed Linux on gamers without proper education that it is not in fact an official platform for any of these games and could break at any time.

Now if they advertised this game as playable on Steam Deck, sure! But most games don't and for good reason.
> Operate as a TCP/HTTP proxy that can delay clients so that a given service can be started when it is dormant or, even better, the service isn't serverless but you want it to be. This can't work for everything, but perhaps enough things such that the need to run always on services is reduced.

My team mostly builds internal stuff and we save tons of $$$ by using Knative + Karpenter, which basically does that on container + EC2 levels.
To be fair, growing stuff in what constitutes "soil" in Las Vegas back yards is kind of hit or miss. As a kid, with my parents help, we eventually managed some decent gardens by building a raised bed and filling that with something the plants could deal with. :-)

The point is valid though, it will throw off the Ph quite a bit if you have it mixed in with what is left of the caliche.

One of the houses on the block where I had lived refilled the hole, left when the pool contractor threw up their hands, with agricultural fill dirt. They had a very nice yard.
> So, in order to create an environment in which astronauts can be fully transparent, NASA protects them from negative media coverage.

I think this theory is plausible.

There's a different but related idea in aviation safety, to encourage reporting of safety observations, in which the reporter is protected from some kinds of retaliation.

For example, a cabin crew member on an airline, who uses a particular FAA process to report a safety issue they noticed, generally can't punished by the airline for that. (Even if a hypothetical reckless business person would really prefer that the FAA didn't learn of the problem.)

This is paired with FAA taking each report seriously.
This is not a pedantic criticism.
Only C++, D and Rust?

What about Ada, Pascal, Swift, Nim, Crystal, Carbon, Jai, etc.
The original blog post alleging falsified data was published by Sholto David earlier this month: https://forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/dana-farberications-...
Completely agree.

I didn't mean that engineers love having no control over their systems, I just see the labours of love that get posted here about getting nginx to throw out 1000 pages a second on an Atari 800, or getting LLMs designed for $2000 GPUs running on a phone.

The question should be, we currently cost $X a month and we need to half it because [reason], what can we do to bring it down? Which might be reducing hardware, or maybe something else, might be both. Puzzles can be fun.
Extremely bad

Were you born after they spread, by any chance?
Ahh, I see it... Being in the free tier, it also just looks like a feature, I might pull the price/100GB/mo into it's own cell to make it more clear. It is a pricing page afterall.
Kinda hate that "Beta" is now mostly a marketing term for "be nice to us". When you're shipping software with potential safety implications to thousands of vehicles in the wild that doesn't seem like a beta in the classic sense. It's just a release that you don't want to be judged too harshly.
I was suffering from really bad loneliness and depression. I caught wind that friends I wasn't particularly close with were having an LSD retreat. I was raised that all 'hard' drugs were bad and potentially addictive. But I decided to join them and to try it.

It turned out to be an transformative experience for me. And it wasn't from the LSD itself, the dose was too low to impact my brain in a lasting way. But it's helped me connect with others better in a more 'intimate' setting and build more meaningful relationships. It's been over a year and I've done it a few times since and each time it's been a great experience with others. That's the TLDR of my experience.
I tend to think that the rich are rich BECAUSE they don't think about those below them on the socioeconomic scale.
Yes, for some arbitrary definition of 'understanding' since there is no rigorous, concrete, agreed definition.

We're going to be on this merry go round for some time while the A(G)I hype cycle plays out. Hopefully through it all some people will keep on working on great ideas that incrementally improve the field and produce useful stuff.
I would expect the Ubisofts and EAs of the world to give a year (just enough time for you to buy the next installment on release!) with a "better" studios giving relatively long guarantees.
We spent a lot of time delaying open release to finish building federation. If that doesn’t signal our commitment to it, I don’t know what will
It depends on the stage of the startup. Once they've taken enough VC money and have a yearly budget of say $10m, they often just need a certain number of bodies to flesh out whatever idea they have already implemented in their PoC. They don't need geniuses.
try/catch seems very conditional to me. If there is an error condition, jump to the error handling code. Or am I missing something?
Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.3
It’s a cool idea but it doesn’t react very reliably
I used a Growkit with no experience at all; and it worked beautifully. YMMV.

The yield is "not as big", right, but it's still more than you can reasonably consume. I don't quite remember, but I think three flushes yielded ~50g (dry) or so out of one small Growkit. Two big glass jars full.

I want to do it again out of enjoyment for the grow process alone. It's really fun watching these things grow!
I'm not sure what you mean but running software remotely is accomplished via http://man.postnix.pw/9front/1/rcpu
From what I understand, it's not the drug that's the limitation. You can buy semaglutide from all kinds of peptide vendors "for research use."

It's the dosage delivery system that's the bottleneck, and conveniently for anyone who actually wants to try using the stuff and knows how to navigate a syringe, other people can make the drug while Big Pharma tries to get its act together with the injectors.
'Drugged, robbed, killed': The city catching US tourists in dating trap
Not being a billionaire, I don't view either scenario as very enticing.
Amazing how hard it is to find an account of an actual event, isn't it.

Ever look inside an old-style flashbulb, where a tangle of fine wires takes the place of a conventional incandescent bulb's filament? That's what you'd have if a metalized balloon were to somehow bridge the hot and ground conductors on a high-tension power line. The event would last about as long, and the power company wouldn't even notice it.

(Interestingly it is possible to attack power transmission facilities by dumping bundles of carbon filaments all over them ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_bomb ). But you're not going to do any damage with a couple of party balloons.)
> Also due to how Europe is wired up, the cost of doing startup business is higher, why there are fewer and fewer successful European software growth companies.

I really believe the primary reason is that Europe is not one culturally homogeneous area that speaks one language - like the US. Having that is such a huge benefit.

Doing marketing, promo, getting traction, legal documents, taxes, - anything - for your startup in your ONE country is already difficult. Now imagine doing it in 25 countries before you get to have scale benefits equal to the US or China.
What about the Go try/catch claim? There is no try/catch in Go. Returning errors and values is closer to Rust and Zig than D and C++.
Metal hippies? Is that a thing? I'm more familiar with the 2010s hippy festival goers eating mushrooms and research chemicals while listening to a combination of jam bands and various electronic genres
“Spatial Computing” is a new product category. Apple is not marketing this as a VR headset or gaming device. It certainly is a new product category for Apple in any case.

I’m having flashbacks to iPhone and BlackBerry comparisons. Sure, they were both “smartphones” but once the App Store came out the iPhone was clearly in a different category of device. The form factor isn’t nearly as important to defining what the product category is as what the device is used for and what problems it solves IMO. App Store policies and shenanigans will probably prevent the Vision Pro from overlapping too much with existing VR headsets use cases.

Right now it isn’t clear that many people that like the Quest would buy a Vision Pro even if money wasn’t an issue. The use cases are that different. I think the reverse is true as well, there will be plenty of people that will be interested in the VP and not in VR headsets. If nothing else that points to market segmentation.
How can this title be true? Did Musk force them to use these exact words?
FWIW, here's the article: https://archive.is/qC0bC
Thing is, Rust has full support for hygienic macros so operator overloading could've been added as part of that. You'd just have to write, e.g. int_expr![a + b] or whatever, but that would've made the syntax fully extensible.
I just want to be able to exclude "basic economy" (and its synonyms). I don't want premium economy, I don't want basic economy. I just want economy. My understanding is that it's not a different cabin so isn't possible to filter for most airlines but it's extremely frustrating to track prices on google flights et Al and receive notifications of price drops only to find that they are basic economy.
Anyone who has used one of the better models for any significant amount of time understands this intuitively.

It's only "controversial" because of strong biases.

Also, people may not be separating all of the various types of characteristics that animals like humans have. So they may subconsciously feel that to attribute "understanding" they have to give these systems all of the other abilities also. I think that actually Hinton at one point was doing this.

That causes people to deny obvious abilities because they think they are linked to other qualities that the models don't have.
Yes you’re right, it’s not technically a law.

I’m the odd duck in thinking that almost any country would easily find 3/4 of its state/provincial legislature votes needed to approve a repeal of an amendment similar to the 2nd amendment. I am more than baffled by the logic behind keeping it around.

Even the most progressive segments of the US aren’t generally in favor of getting rid of it entirely.

The list of countries with similarly permissive gun laws is basically one-hand’s worth, and none of them are G20 countries. Basically the United States is in the company of Yemen and almost nobody else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation

(Check out the “comparison” section with the maps)

Anyway, sorry, this is horribly off-topic.
What's the difference? To me, DRM is about controlling what the user can do with your software, and anti-cheat seems to match that description.
That won't stop then from trying, and with this SCOTUS court, they might rubber-stamp it
And beginnings of the labor market having its back broken of course.
News story about a bust today...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/york-police-recover-5...
“No evidence of deceit” but the data show no effect while you accidentally published an image from some supposedly “early/exploratory” analysis that does show an effect.

What would be the evidence of deceit you’d expect to find here? A video of a monologue by the evil villain disclosing their intention to deceive readers because they believe no one will reproduce their analysis before they get their promotion?