skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these are both already solved issues that IDEs deal with with red-green trees
I agree that 8 GB of RAM seems weird these days. However, I bought an MB Air in 2022 with only 8 GB, and I can shed some light. My thought process was that I'm going to use this machine for just a very limited number of things and this would not become my daily driver. Therefore, I saw myself as buying merely a "smartphone with a larger screen," which is a category where I typically just buy the least expensive and lightest weight choice. The 8 GB has proven to be entirely adequate for my use case.
My wife and I watched this over the weekend. It was nice to see that the cops in Canada can be as hapless/impediment as here in the US.
Respectfully, "can be" needs to be paired with "rarely". I'm not debating that the rare small section of expansive suburbs is walkable. That's found everywhere, rarely.

The reason that I'm insistent on the distinction is the same reason that I suspect responders are insistent on giving the impression that walkability is generally possible in suburbia. That reason is that the crux of the debate is whether or not the automobile has to remain central to American travel.

My POV is that suburbia is unavoidably car centric, almost all of the time with rare exceptions. Those taking the opposite pov are generally trying to give the impression that walkability is generally possible.
I think "the game won't start" is one of the options in the Steam refund process, so if Capcom doesn't fix it, that might be worth a shot.
I prefer explicit blocks for automatic object destruction to RAII. For example,

withThing { thing => doStuffWith(thing) }

This makes it clear to me that the object is only valid within this block. There is no copy constructor madness where I might completely lose track of where the object might be alive and in scope.
Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
Was Linux ever a supported platform for the game, or it just happened to work with Proton/Wine?
Sounds like you're thinking about a startup. It's a terrible idea financially and you'll probably fail. But if you have a burning desire that you can't shake, here's my advice.

Are you looking to for a lifestyle business that allows you to work on interesting problems with interesting people or do you want to transform an industry? Don't raise VC money if you're not sure on the latter.

If you're bootstrapping, most startups take a minimum of 12 - 24 months to find sustainable cashflow. You'll want to have 1 - 2 years of expenses saved (at a very modest salary). If you already have cashflow coming in, you can cut this down.
I think you can pretty tell whether you are sticking to the speed limit or not.
If you have had your license for more than two minutes you can easily gauge if you are going 25 or 50+ miles per hour. You can drive in the slow lame and keep to the speed of the slow moving traffic when in doubt.

Saying you crashed your car because your speedometer wasn't working means your shouldn't be driving a car period. Maybe that is the problem today, we rely on information just being fed to us that we lost the ability to function without it or even being able interpret information around without it directly being given to us.
It should be, but the argument is a lot more clear for a game sold on its single-player mode being killed entirely like this. All of that list is "You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features." There's no more multiplayer, and then there's no game at all.

AFAIK, anyone with an old disc of Assassin's Creed 2 for Xbox 360 will still be able to play the single-player this Thursday. A disc for The Crew will become just junk when the server is killed.
We have them.... for SIMD vectors.
Hah, yeah that's LoRA as in Low-Rank Adaptation :P
I thought that the phosgene was created by UV and heat, not just heat; so hitting the area with a torch first might make it safer? I'm going to put that in the "best not to find out" category of adventure.
Popular content is not necessarily good content (very boring to say this, but just look at reddit). And posting articles to get upvotes, which I'm not saying this post is necessarily doing but at least _some_ are doing, leads to lower quality. HN barely has any methods for maintaining overall quality of the website and it will automatically degrade as it gets larger.

To simply allow these posts and having them hit the front page when they get upvotes is a valid position. But I think it contributes to a website that is less interesting.

I don't think these posts should be removed, but they should at least be frowned upon, and/or linked to the original comment thread.
Create an alternative async logger implementation using JCTools
C++ has enough expressive power to make you wish it had less.
The building blocks of offline support
> D's tooling and ergonomics are awful.

Can you elaborate?
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And you can go to their GitHub repos and view all of the specifications for the hardware (which is under an open hardware license), look at all the driver code, and follow their development of PopOS!

I bought from System76 in large part to support this kind of organization.
That still doesn't show you at the call site.
Can you get a refund if the game works at first, then gets broken by an update?
Psychosis and hallucinations are a symptom of manic episodes, as are paranoid delusions.
Both likely banned in the TOS.

Edit: Looked it up and to Capcom's credit, there's no arbitration requirement in the EULA for MH Rise on Steam.
European Citizens voted for the people who voted for those regulations.
Is it even possible for law enforcement to retrieve them once they get shipped in a country like the UAE?
I don’t trust anything coming out of academia anymore. First we had over 50% of psychology being nonsense, then sociology (not surprising), then the hard sciences too. But then we also have the rampant ideology problem where you are forbidden from even researching certain topics/questions and if you do, you are blacklisted. They need a hard reckoning. What happened to science? Who cares what the ideological implication is? The truth is the truth.

The icing on the cake is when these frauds retract their papers, NOTHING happens to them. Nothing.
The bootloaders should also be unlocked once the software updates stop so users can continue to use the hardware they purchased.
“ put a different plane with similar layout on every flight, then swap to the 737 on the itinerary the day before”

Question to True Believers in Free market, where is the line between free market and fraud?
The way I understand it, it's not quite so simple.

The US is really into individual liberty and self-governance. There was a sizable monarchist contingent here after the Revolutionary War, and they were involved in creating the structure and adoption of the US Constitution (and before that, the Articles of Confederation).

It wasn't at all a foregone conclusion that the US would end up as a republic.
I will frame this comment as a sign of the times. I feel like at the end of an era :-)
Serverless GraphQL Federation Router for AWS Lambda
Apologies for the double response. I hope you have an example of something that you can, as an expert, validate the consistent accuracy of. It would be useful to hear of others experiences that contradict my own. I’m not saying ai isn’t useful for exploring unfamiliar concepts to get ideas of things that can be researched more deeply but this fits more in the “newb” category you describe.
What makes software engineering special is the systems are more complex and are cheaper to test and break. You get a completely different engineering culture when you can roll back a bad change after seeing it fail during the canary push. That, and what's usually on the line is money, not life. I'd feel a lot better making a $1M mistake than making a mistake that killed someone.
Disclosure: I'm CEO of https://www.vantage.sh/ -- a cloud cost observability platform. I previously worked at both AWS and DigitalOcean.

For people looking for how to save money on AWS - I'd [selfishly] recommend connecting up to Vantage. We profile AWS for all sorts of savings and give you the information on how much we can save prior to you paying us. It can be a good gut-check if nothing else on how well optimized you are.
He's building a terminal emulator with zig: https://mitchellh.com/ghostty
> getting as much as possible out of a system for cheap is great fun

In certain circumstances, absolutely, however it's extremely aggravating to be in the position of being constantly pestered to ship features faster without the authority to overprovision some of the infrastructure the software runs on.

Waking up in the middle of the night because we saved money by allocating too little disk for the primary database or because the latest release included new dependencies that increased memory usage and the OOMKiller is picking off web servers like a wolf in the lamb's pen, or we're just swapping our way to hell while web requests 502...eh. Not for me.

More visibility into costs, though, absolutely agreed. Engineers should know that when they turn on some new cool serverless gizmo and then forget about it, it's costing $ each month.
>I for one can’t believe NASA doesn’t have reports and communications and debriefs saved in triplicate.

You know we are missing a significant amount of moon footage right? NASA doesn't archive 100% of everything because it barely has the budget to do it's actual mission.
Interesting that this is seen as a negative, C# has getters/setters that look like property access, but I don’t think I ever heard anyone complain about this.
> Fuck - from an average coder perspective, try getting a working linux DNS server for home lab use in 2005 without having to waste a weekend or two on it

I never found myself able to waste time on these sort of projects, because all of the time I spent on them invariably turned out to be a fruitful investment instead.
@gitfan86 - You would measure that the same way productivity is always measured - The company's overall economic output would be unchanged, and their labor inputs would have decreased, so the total factor productivity would have increased by virtue of automating the DEI group (just the same as when companies used 'mail-merge' to automate large groups of people doing that work manually, for instance).
Minecraft can work perfectly well without a central server, provided you have downloaded the game. They do have an authentication scheme to tell the server you own a legit copy of the game, but if that were to go down, the game would still be playable. Server software includes a "online mode" property that can easily be set to false to accept all clients regardless of central auth status. This of course opens a new can of worms but there are solutions that already exist.
You fail to see how not going out in public is a reduction of freedom?
At least in the EU, bricking after 6 months may cause some issues...
I thought it, but I wasn't going to say it. Vietnam's internet connection is notoriously unstable. The running joke is that sharks attack the fiber connections [0] because pointing fingers is a national past time. The fact that a major bank is relying on an external AWS like that, makes it even more comical.

My guess is that nobody in corporate approved this guys posting and if word got back, it would disappear quickly.

Reminds me to forward this to my buddies who run Timo, which VPBank used to own, but then dropped [1]. Timo was the first forward thinking bank in Vietnam with a great tech platform, likely because it was started and run by foreigners... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/zvo553/sharks_ate_...

[1] https://fintechnews.sg/42738/vietnam/vietnams-challenger-tim...
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Many years ago my toddler fell into the deep-end of the pool and just gradually sank into the water, not even making a fuss. I was right there so I grabbed her and pulled her right out, but it's now seared into my memory like a slow-motion video I can never erase. Teach your kids to swim ASAP if there's any chance they'll ever be near a pool.
New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
My understanding is that the zero-dependency approach was both 1) to require no transitive dependencies on install, compared to installing hundreds of packages to run some of the current standard JS tooling, and 2) to have maximum control over performance and size.

It’s an extreme approach that intended to get extreme results. One could definitely argue that you can get just good results with a good approach (like using a bundler to produce a single output, writing perf-sensitive code, continually testing for perf regression), that’s just not the path they chose from the start.
I completely missed the context. Thanks for pointing this out.
I've worked on projects with thousands of developers committing to the same repo daily.

Git is far from perfect, but in my experience it's been far superior to any of the alternatives I used before it (cvs, svn, p4).
Handguns are a bigger problem in the modern world than machine guns. How does that change your analogy?
For bonus points, they combine that with a screenshot of the Tweet they're quoting, so that you read the same quote three times.
I am interested about your experience since mine is quite different. In the last 10 years I have lived in Vancouver, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Sunnyvale, Saratoga and now in Spain. I was also choosing “walkable” neighborhoods and in my experience there is almost no places in the US or Canada I would feel safe letting my daughter ride her bike to school. For example, I was biking ~4 days a week from Saratoga to Mountain View and the schools surroundings were the most dangerous section of my commute. Lines of parents dropping their child's with gigantic SUVs ready to right hook my ass. I was having close calls almost every other days and this is in some of the wealthiest zip code in the US. I am sure there is some places where walking and biking is possible but this is the exception.
Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims
Being a resident of Dubai this is really shocking for me, I always buy imported cars, never knew they were stolen from some poor dude
I'm not sure what direction of causation you have in mind but as someone in academics (tenured professor etc) I think the answer is definitely yes.

One thing that should be setting off alarm bells now is how often these scandals in the last couple of years have involved people who are in very high-level administrative positions at these institutions. Not only because of the values that might be instilled downward in the future, but also what it says about what has been valued already to reach those positions.

I have seen and heard stuff like this routinely that never makes the press. Not everyone in academics is corrupt, but the rot is prevalent enough that it's pretty systemic at this point and affects everyone. I think sometimes people don't even realize what they're suggesting sometimes, it's so common.

I have a theory that as some indicator of success deviates from a normal tail, there's more likely to be corruption or luck involved. The incentives just don't work the other way. But I'm biased based on my experiences, which reflect one domain of modern society.
Playing it safe by delaying a flight to swap out planes looks good to aviation authorities.
By chance, after I read your comment I found a talk he gave about his project Ghostty.

Ghostty - A new terminal emulator written in Zig - https://zig.show/episodes/32/
Perhaps you should instead question why you are commenting authoritatively on a video that you did not watch?
Bing isn't objectively "better," just different. Same with DuckDuckGo. Yandex is the only way to find whatever Kiwi Farms' current address is.

It's 1997 all over again. We had to find stuff using Yahoo, Altavista and Lycos (and others) before AskJeeves and Dogpile started aggregating results. Then some weird company called Google showed up and blew them all away.
> I don't think vast majority of Google users see it this way. The canceled products might be popular in HN, but have comparatively few actual users.

For their hardware products, this is definitely the case. Stadia, When they bought Fitbit, Google Home devices are few things that come to mind.

When they shut down Stadia and refunded everyone, "I would have bought games and tried out Stadia if they at least put this as part of their release announcement". What a sad state of things really.
I'm delighted with the touchpad on my new Framework. By far my best experience and I've been running Linux as my daily driver on laptops from Sony, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, & Purism for over two decades.
Of the 200K workers laid off in the past year why are close to 40% according to the article Indian? In the US a predominately non-Indian country where Indians make up 1.35% of the population almost half of the laid off were from a single nationality. What factors explain these statistics?
Car theft is unbelievable in parts of Canada - been up there a few times in the last few months for work (near Montreal), and the hotel I stay at gave me one of the steering-wheel lock bars when you arrive - I have never seen that before anywhere else I have traveled - they also suggested I run out and put it in, even before I finished the check-in paperwork - they said cars sometimes disappear minutes after guests arrive.

...and this wasn't even a bad area, felt completely safe walking around there day and night without even a hint of worry.
Cultural output pushed by media, continuously and inarguably well after the movement ended?

If there's one thing that's clear beyond all else involved in the topic of popular culture, it's that the media chooses what culture to push and what to ignore.
If you are using a chainsaw in a wood shop, you are probably doing something wrong. The saying “learn your tools” means to spend some time learning your options and what is available to you, learning the “gotchas” and why. Woodworking tools are rather complex with “gotchas” that will kill you in less than a hundred ms.

Using Git isn’t much more complex than using a lathe (simpler even, as you can get by with no skill and rote memorization). Taking a weekend to learn the data structures, and how everything fits together is not a hard ask. Especially since you literally only have to do it once in your entire career.
It happens that a little is all there is, and you can do everything with it. Languages large enough to need progressive disclosure have made mistakes that prevent things from being as simple as they are.
PC firmware is a mess because pre-UEFI boot behavior was mostly a custom rather than a defined standard, but then standards got added over time. That basically adds up to the success target for most manufacturers being "does it boot Windows?" - once it did that, then they were done.

UEFI was supposed to make this better, I guess, by specifying everything in several hundred (if not thousand) pages, but it added a lot of complexity (esp. with Secure Boot and such). It doesn't help that most end-user visible firmware functions are rarely accessed, so as long as it does boot Windows in the manufacturer supplied hardware configuration, most people won't care or even know of any issues.

PC firmware bugs aren't really anything new. When ACPI first came out in the late 90's/early 00's, initial implementations were buggy - so buggy that I think starting from Vista, it won't boot if the BIOS date is before 2000. Linux source code has numerous BIOS workarounds in it.

El Torito, the standard enabling bootable CDs, also had problems when it first came out.

Another example:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/521293/an-ubuntu-command-bri...
Did your local jurisdiction adopt NFPA 70 or NEC? If so, the presiding judge in the 5th circuit case stated this:

"The issue in this en banc case is the extent to which a private organization may assert copyright protection for its model codes, after the models have been adopted by a legislative body and become "the law". Specifically, may a code-writing organization prevent a website operator from posting the text of a model code where the code is identified simply as the building code of a city that enacted the model code as law? Our short answer is that as law, the model codes enter the public domain and are not subject to the copyright holder's exclusive prerogatives."

The NEC and NFPA model codes (i.e. NFPA 70, NFPA 101) are most certainly model codes that fall under the ruling.
no one except apple would know the actual numbers and they wont publish it (post steve jobs era thing)
the next best bet is on estimates and this guy has a track record.
But if someone DID pull the update, the old commits would have still been in their local repo and they could have run "git reflog" to retrieve them.
"We at Boeing apologize for the door accident. Let us reassure you with a rational explanation: Basically it went all weird, due to nails being a bad size or maybe shape. It went wonky or something. Because the metal bits were wrong and/ or small or possibly the wrong type/ kind. "
Leave it to game companies to all say 1 month and always going over, right until they don't want to anymore.
Yes but it is up to a company to control its spending. It must have a process and policy in place to deal with this. It's not Amazon's fault if it hasn't.
Isn't Amazon like that, too?
> an anxious flyer with a trip coming up in six months and it'd be a lie to say I wasn't considering just driving

Sure. But someone travelling once in six months, and actively weighing flying versus driving, isn’t a market-moving customer.

I have no doubt some demand destruction is happening. But it’s not along frequent fliers. Airlines are clamouring to get their planes recertified because they know they’ll be filled.
In the same way, Woodstock '99 broke all that was left of the mainstream hippie movement, giving rise to the new metal one
This was already discussed on hn yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081166
I love the way Hunter S. Thompson described it. I'll strip it a bit for brevity, but the whole book (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) is worth reading.

San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world.

...

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
Yeah but in Zig there is flexibility how you want to handle the error opposed to Java. You don't need to rewrap everything in RuntimeException and error sets allows to specify extended set of errors without much boilerplate.
I see 2 huge barriers for a new commercial VCS:

1. Devs don't like to pay for core tools. And VCSes need network effects.

2. VCSes seem to be really hard.
Yes, but I don't really think of that as hidden control flow. I know that if foo() returns, bar() will execute next, but foo() might not return (due to panic, program shutdown, or infinite loop).

From my experience, when there's surprising behavior in software, I've frequently been surprised by silent exceptions, but I can't think of any time when I was surprised by control flow because a function intentionally shut down the program.
The standard library being designed to allow freestanding binaries makes Zig a much better language for systems software such as kernels, EFI applications, etc. than Rust.

Rust's addition of operator overloading is also a perplexingly bad decision. I don't think there is a single worse design decision in C++ or Rust than allowing someone to redefine what + means on some arbitrary type.
Jim Fan: The next grand challenge for AI [video]
Redefining pathways to dispute settlement in a post-consumer society