skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe phrase it more like you’re actively discussing a problem with them instead of making it sound like an ultimatum, but I agree that talking to your manager about this is a good idea. The managers I’ve had have always been fine human beings that cared about my well being as much as my productivity, and OP’s problems include both of these aspects.
> You're still missing the point, as evidenced by that very comment.

No evidence provided, other than later citing a different point I wasn't commenting on.

> I didn't leave.

When you say that you give up, that's what I'm referring to.

> There's no such mentality.

Saying that developers are tasked with something is that mentality. Developers are choosing this option. Could the option be better? Of course - any option can be infinitely better. But that doesn't mean they are tasked with anything.

> I don't know why you insist on deliberately misunderstanding that simple point.

I'm not mentioning that point. I'm talking about a different point. If you'd like to debate, or whatever you call this, the point you're talking about with someone who disagrees with it I'm sure there's someone in the comment section who'll take you up on it.
More Than 5 Thousand People Lost a Job in Game Industry This Month
Serious question: Does "something you literally wouldn't realize is happening" apply even if you're told about it in advance?

I mean… I fell asleep last night without realising it even though I knew it was going to happen. Is inert-gax asphyxia like that? If it's supposed to be like that: Why did the man struggle?
I can't make heads or tails of this.

DDD feels like a truism. Of course parts of the software system should be modelled after the business system.

What am I missing?

Who are the people not doing this and still succeeding?

I'm an "event junkie" btw.
One of the best remembered, and which led to harmful prejudice against BASIC. While the foundation of the criticism makes sense, it led to silly notions as "there is never a case where GOTOs are useful" and "people who start with BASIC are broken programmers forever"
git + nexus maybe would be the way to go ?
I had always heard that the "single exit" focus on "break" and "continue" was a misunderstanding. When wild GOTOs roamed the earth, with was common for a subroutine to end by jumping to a new part of the code, with the jump location being different depending on conditionals within the code. The "single exit" commandment was that a subroutine should always exit back into the routine that had called it. That makes it less an injunction against a function having early returns and more a rejection of continuation passing style.
Alabama Hails Nitrogen Gas Execution, a New Attempt to Address an Old Challenge
No, it's a text adventure, an RPG, online, in a browser.
I got fed up with DnD (and roleplaying games in general) for the following reasons:

* The Emperor has no clothes. Dungeons and Dragons suffers from the very thing that makes it great, all you actually need is imagination. Any rule set and you simply can know in your mind and explain to players. There are many open rule sets if you want a rule book. Thus, there is literally no reason to buy any of the books, figures, etc. unless of course you want them. But then, this is exactly why Wizards of the Coast tried to kill the open source gaming license retroactively. Because they sell a product that is simply a shiny veneer over a person's imagination. I would say games like shadowrun and vampire: the masquerade do a much better job at this because they have created a rather interesting world for characters to participate in. While dnd has scenarios, i never found them all that engaging compared to whatever it is the DM or myself would create.

* I started traveling and doing fun things in the world we live in and I stopped having fun in the imaginary world of dungeons and dragons. Simply put, it takes a lot of time to play dnd and I could be doing something else. I have had a lot of fun playing dnd throughout my life but it takes a special group of friends to play with and that only comes along when it comes along. Simply playing for the sake of playing is not fun.

* all of the online tools, apps, and all of the various technology that people want to bring into the game destroys the game for me. Why? Because every single piece of technology, even the technology of pen and paper and books takes away from the improvisational collective imagination that occurs in the game. Of course character sheets give players artifacts that represent their players and helps them feel connected to the game. But most other things, other than dice always seem to rip people out of the game and suddenly you are searching a book, app, etc. to find the rule to figure out how to do the thing instead of simply relying on the DM to decide how it should be done.

Maybe I have become overly opinionated about this having played an enormous amount of dungeons and dragons, shadowrun, vampire, starwars saga, and every other system that someone wanted to try sometime because it either was attached to some kind of show/movie (although i never played a star trek rpg) or it was a new system that promised to engage the imagination more. But I dunno, I kind of gave up. Also, I DM'ed every game I've played for the 15 years. Maybe I just became jaded. Anyways, essay over.
See https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your...
Don't forget D-1 [1], which was a hybrid monstrosity.

In the 1980s, it wasn't really yet feasible to handle digital video in a meaningful way. No true colour framebuffers at 720x480 pixels and no way to move that many bits in and out of a framebuffer fast enough, either. But digital electronics could run > 50 MHz even back then, and there were fast analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. So why not digitize the entire analog video signal, directly? D-1 does just that, sampling the the entire video signal at like 14 MHz, writing hundreds of megabits of data per second to tape uncompressed.

In other words, a perfect digital copy of the analog video waveform. Same signal the camera generated. D-1 was rather widely used in production in the late 80s and 90s, and for broadcast playback. Surviving material on D-1 is quite rare today - it was a very expensive tech and tapes got reused. Here's an example though - Depeche Mode performing Personal Jesus on German TV in 1989 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRR7rPDvh0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-1_(Sony)
What do you want to compare?

x86 real mode code with 16-bit pointers writing directly to the VGA framebuffer vs. amd64 code with 64-bit pointers calling high-level libraries.
This is a git design issue.

History should be at the keystroke-by-keystroke level, which aggregates into small, focused commits, which aggregates into large merges.

In other words, good written records have layers and organizations. A history book will have chapters, sections, sentences, and footnotes. A database might let me organize my corporate history by day and then by division, or flip it around, and organize by division and then by month.

git his one linear history, which means it is navigable in one way, and you need to pick:

- Complete record of what happened;

- Small, cherry-pickable commits;

- Clean list of when features got merged; or

- Something else

Don't make me pick!
The most moral and also advantageous way to deal with big company customer service is to express that you are annoyed at the company/problem, understand its not the CS reps fault, and that you hope they can help.

Ie - get them on your team.

From there if you aren't getting resolution you can modulate the % annoyance vs % thankfulness and eventually demand escalation, which once you've been on the line long enough they are all fairly willing & obliged to do.

Once you get escalated the manager is generally ready to put the fire out and move on.

I dealt with something along these lines with a VZ fraud issue where someone ordered 5 iPhones & new phone lines in my name and then VZ refused to cancel the bill even after being given the police report number.
The Minsk agreements were highly favourable to the Russians, since they were basically forced on the Ukrainians. That’s why Poroshenko was going around saying Ukraine would never abide by them.

Claiming the opposite is just muddying the waters. Up is down in wartime, I suppose.
Why doesn’t the King of Canada simply order the government of Canada to cut out the hormones and drop the tariffs?

Every MP in Canada swears an oath to the crown. Every new citizen does too:

> I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors
>You might dislike the idea that document authors can run arbitrary Javascript on your personal computer.

How I feel about this depends a lot on how much I trust the people who created the document and/or the person who sent it to me. I would trust a website I specifically selected with a defined TLS web of trust more than I would trust a random spam email.

When we think about the risks associated with the complex and inherently insecure format known as HTML we tend to assume the level of trust available on the web. If we package up a bunch of HTML in a standalone document then we lose that assumption.
You can put yourself on DND for up to a year. At the risk of "640K ought to be enough for everybody", I'd say that's probably long enough.
> Do you have any examples of companies building Hadoop clusters for amounts of data that fit on a single machine?

I was a SQL Server DBA at Cox Automotive. Some director/VP caught the Hadoop around 2015 and hired a consultant to set us up. The consultant's brother worked at Yahoo and did foundational work with it.

Consultant made us provision 6 nodes for Hadoop in Azure (our infra was on Azure Virtual Machines) each with 1 TB of storage. The entire SQL Server footprint was 3 nodes and maybe 100 GB at the time, and most of that was data bloat. He complained about such a small setup.

The data going into Hadoop was maybe 10 GB, and consultant insisted we do a full load every 15 minutes "to keep it fresh". The delta for a 15 minute interval was less than 20 MB, maybe 50 MB during peak usage. Naturally his refresh script was pounding the primary server and hurting performance, so we spent additional money to set up a read replica for him to use.

Did I mention the loading process took 16-17 minutes on average?

You can quit reading now, this meets your request, but in case anyone wants a fuller story:

Hadoop was used to feed some kind of bespoke dashboard product for a customer. Everyone at Cox was against using Microsoft's products for this, while the entire stack was Azure/.Net/SQL Server...go figure. Apparently they weren't aware of PowerBI, or just didn't like it.

I asked someone at MS (might have been one of the GuyInACube folks, I know I mentioned it to him) to come in and demo PowerBI, and in a 15 minute presentation absolutely demolished everything they had been working on for a year. There was a new data group director who was pretty chagrined about it, I think they went into panic mode to ensure the customer didn't find out.

The customer, surprisingly, wasn't happy with the progress or outcome of this dashboard, and were vocally pointing out data discrepancies compared to the production system. Some of them days or even a week out of date.

Once the original contract was up, and time to renew, the Hadoop VP now had to pay for the project from his budget, and about 60 days later it was mysteriously cancelled. The infra group was happy, as our Azure expenses suddenly halved, and our database performance improved 20-25%.

The customer seemed to be happy, they didn't have to struggle with the prototype anymore, and wow, where did all these SSRS reports that were perfectly fine come from? What do you mean they were there all along?
The problem is likely education (theirs, not necessarily generally). They never learned how to ask a question or be curious. When they had a problem they just said, “I need help” and then someone (a parent or teacher maybe) did it for them.

The brighter ones will figure out you get way better help when you ask a good question.
What is prompt-engineering for artificial intelligence?
“In the end, LLMs may be little more than the word processor of tomorrow”

I think this is the single most shocking thing I have ever read. How on Earth can someone with Schneier’s background not see where this is going?
https://archive.ph/9UQ52
Computer Science's H. L. Mencken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
Furthermore, their misbehaviour couldn’t even be tried in a normal courtroom, even if there was mass public and political support for such an action.

They’d have to be tried in a secret FISA Court.
I wouldn't say this makes you "weak and feeble." If the tool is solving a problem for you, then it's doing its job.

Just because I won't use AI for this doesn't mean I think others are bad for using it.

Now... _selling_ work that was produced with AI, that's a different story.
The problem is, with the Mozilla CEO trying to reduce their involvement in Firefox for some reason, will they put the effort into having a mobile iOS browser that only works for the EU?

Chrome is irrelevant because ... privacy. All I actually want is to be able to run uBlock Origin on my phone.
> Couldn't say the same for ASML

ASML is floated on a small EU stock exchange, and also NASDAQ. NASDAQ is what allows them to scale and become enormous and keep their position, other than IP laws on their techniques. I'm not saying the EU can't produce companies; I'm saying that, in this case, if it were good at it they wouldn't need to float in the US to scale.
I mean, that was the point of:

> it'll also give you something random should you go out of bounds.

Are you just taking umbrage with the word I used? "random" clearly is meant to imply that the language makes no guarantees.
The problem is they're still around in great numbers.

I'm looking at a first edition dm's guide right now on my shelf.

D&D people seem to keep everything, for some reason.
An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language
There was some environment (Ice surface movements in the South Pole I think) related researcher who rewrote his calculations from Nvidia and GPU computing to a plain C file. The NV task lasted for months; later, seconds.
I love that format. I wish it would have survived and been extended instead of all the compressed pixel heaps we got for two decades. :)

Looking at that video reminded of what it looked like to watch analog live broadcast from a high quality camera, or high quality film (Hollywood) on an analog TV set through broadcast. It wasn't bad.

Todays cable MPEG-2 SD channels actually have worse quality. (Some cable and satellite HD channels have worse quality today even, when they crank the compression too hard!)
Yes, me too sometimes. But only after I verified, that my children are comfortable with the scenario (on a new playground, we have not been before).

But what I meant was for example parents encouraging their toddlers to do unsave stuff. Like riding down a steep slide, where they could fall off left or right from it. (And some toddlers apparently did fall out - because now there is no more slide, it really wasn't a safe toy for all kids, but slightly older kids 3+, could ride it without problems).

I spoke to some of those parents and they really were not aware of the dangers, they just assumed a slide is made save for all kids. And they were thankful for the warning.
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very interesting indeed, reminds me of some of the work done by Jamie Howarth and co with the 'Plangent Process' which uses the bias tone recorded by analogue tape machines to correct flutter on high-sample-rate transfers from tape...
Yes, I don’t think it’d change the OS rules for things like having to ask to use the microphone or badging when location services are in use, but I was thinking about things like the disclosures about data resale and tracking which cost Meta a fair amount of money.

This again is an interesting angle for the EU context where things like the GDPR are protecting user privacy. Would Meta be aggressive there, or simply bide their time trying to get other governments to mandate the same platform openness for devices but without the GDPR?
Except the main theme, which was HTML export? https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/721

Though it's in the roadmap!
I can honestly say that has never once been a problem I have had, and I've had git information in the prompt for over 10 years.

Also how is "enter" less convenient than literally any other command that you'd still have to type and run to get up-to-date information in a command line?
There are going to be things you might like to know, or do, or to have happen, that sometimes, due to corporate policy, or laws, or the nature of reality, are just not going to be allowed. You are going to have to be told ‘no’.

It is one of the cruellest parts of employing customer service agents, that we ask these people to do the emotionally draining work of saying no to customers, repeatedly. Even if the customer begs. Even if the customer start to cry.

So yes, absolutely: having chat bots do that job would be a mercy.
Actually, it depends a bit. If you're feeling particularly frustrated you might be tempted to 'yell' at your chatbot, but that won't actually get you any results. So in the end you reset and try to solve your problem (relatively) politely.

And personally, someone who gives me clear and solid instructions beats someone who beats around the bush and then yells at me any day of the week.

So in the 21st century, people are often more patient with machines than with humans.

Hence, if everyone were to people at least with as much patience and kindness as they treat machines, I think it would be an improvement!
FTA: “Draft a 250-word paragraph in my typical writing style, detailing three examples to support the following point and cite your sources.” Not even the most detached corporate CEO would likely talk this way to their assistant, but it’s common with chatbots.

I don't believe this man's ever actually seen CEO interact with an employee. Bosses talk like this to their subordinates all the time. Humans are plenty capable of being rude independently of learning it from talking to chatbots. Especially where employment is concerned.
Variations of this technique is what has worked for me also. The trick is to focus your attention on something as you fall asleep, it doesn't have to be imaginary typing. Keeping attention focused as you fall asleep after you go to bed is hard, but doing it after you awake at night is quite easy if you don't wake up too much. The best way I have found to wake up just the right amount is to use a wristwatch with a vibrating alarm and set that to go off maybe two hours before I'd normally wake up. When it goes off, turn it off with as little movement as possible. It seems important to keep almost perfectly still. Using this I have been able to observe the transition to a dream quite gradually by watching hypnagogic patterns (the noise you see in the dark) turn from colored blobs and noise slowly into objects before transition gradually into an immersive scene. I find it quite hard to stay in the dream though, and usually wake up after a couple minutes.
Unix has a split(1) tool.
I'm not really sure what it's called, but mine is based on a sentence I have memorized combined with some fixed symbols. I basically take the first letter of each word and keep capitalization and symbols.

For example, if the sentence I memorized is, "I dreamt I was a butterfly! What a wonderful sight it was." my password would be: IdIwab!Wawsiw.
>the cards appears to be largely software driven (it is too simple to do any real HW acceleration)

Both redundancy encoding and DMA were hardware-accelerated by an onboard FPGA (although DMA had lots of motherboard compatibility issues)
When my wife chose iOS she didn't consent to Apple removing apps at the behest of Russian government, which Apple does. Apple altered the deal after the fact.

Apple should be absolutely prohibited from controlling what apps users want to run on their devices. If a user wants to install an app, and developer of said app wants it too, they should be able to do it without any restrictions. Or else Apple should start being honest and admit that they are only lending their devices to users, and not selling them, because selling implies full control over property.
You forgot the important part: Declare it a 'collector's item' only and ban anyone who actually uses them from official events. Enforce this with armed thugs.*

*Yes, I am aware that these are in fact two separate incidents.
Yes. He was interested in problem-solving, not philosophizing. The debates about AI going on right now are the kind he’d prefer to avoid.
I've worked places where it would be 1000x harder getting a spare laptop from the IT closet to run some processing than it would be to spend $50k-100k at Azure.
In OOP you can have data structures and algorithms separated. You can use composition over inheritance without issues.

The fact that a language is strong typed and you get compilation errors if you forgot something is a big plus.

OOP is fundamentally about no static variables.
Astronomical Data Used for Litigation (FAQ)
It's amazing how disrespectful the "dragons" can be when they don't understand the value of a product.
There is an singlefile extension that can save a page in a single self-extracting zipped html where you don't need to waste base64 anything, and can unzip to a folder and view images as is without the page
Almost nobody hears beyond 16kHz, from testing I've done, and I don't think the musical content above that freq is really useful.
US Administration Announces Pause on Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports
This is a ridiculous rant. “ oh no! We have choices”. Then you list out every choice available for what is a new space people are exploring and the list is barely a half dozen long? It’s more like this is peak “claiming everything is peak”.
> Don't act as though Apple is some powerless and altruistic party.

If you have to straw man, what's the point? I'm not mentioning altruism. They provide value; they get money. The second they stop providing value, they have no money.

That's different to power. A bureacrat can write some words and suddenly phones can't be sold any more. That's power.
> You must apply for an entitlement from Apple, and they must approve you. A part of that approval process seems to require that you stick to similar privacy protections as safari (e.g. third party cookies disabled by default).

Does it apply to third-party app stores (which was part of my more general point)?

Also, I suspect if you just brought a written order signed by a higher-up in the Party, it’d probably help get your browser through to the main app store. Refuse, and get banned in the country.