skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is

> Web developers can write shitty code because most of the time the bottleneck is in the database. You just need to write code thats faster then the database and you don't need to optimize beyond that.

Is the wrong way to look at things. Shitty code might bottleneck because of the way it uses the database. But that's like saying "you can write shitty code because it will bottleneck on global locks". But you can write better code that uses fine-grained locks or read-write locks or something, or uses a lock-free algorithm, and now it's not your bottleneck. Or you could write shitty code that bottlenecks on single byte unbuffered IO, or you could not do that and not have that bottleneck. It's the exact same idea, really. Write code with more efficient access patterns, and your database won't be as much of a bottleneck.

To say something is a bottleneck, you need to look at what it's capable of under optimal usage patterns. If you have 1TB of data to transfer, and you have a 10 Gb/s link, it's going to take you a little while. If you have 100 MB of data, but you have a tiny receive window and send small packets, it might take you a while, but you're not bottlenecking on the network. Your code just isn't using the network well.

And in the real world, if your working set is smaller than a few TB, then you shouldn't be doing disk IO on your read workloads. You definitely shouldn't be doing read IO if your working set is in the 10s of GB or less. That's not a "bypass" if that's how real-world performance works. Don't run your database on a phone with 8 GB of RAM. Batching writes will cut down on fsync calls for the WAL, so you'll get better real-world performance with actual databases.

You're right that it's not a common pattern among web developers. That's why I'm bringing it up. It's not hard, but it's also not talked about (it is known among lower level programmers obviously. e.g. they're generally not doing unbuffered single byte file IO).
Flowers were actually discussed at the time for this very same reason. In TFA I linked:

> Scott went further and suggested it may also ban flowers and perfumes as the scents can produce an emotional response.
Perhaps this is also useful for photonic quantum computing:

"Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas" (2021)
https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2021/02/light-unbound-... :

"Photonic quantum Hall effect and multiplexed light sources of large orbital angular momenta" (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01165-8 :

> Our work gives direct access to the infinite number of orbital angular momenta basis elements and will thus enable multiplexed quantum light sources for communication and imaging applications.
The downward slide on Quora started with the 'Top Writers' program, which created an elite tier of contributors who were anointed and then privileged by the platform, rather than voted on by the members. This created an aristocracy who could now guarantee high visibility for even mediocre answers, whilst hugely disincentivising everyone else - especially first time contributors - to even try and make a response.

A commentator made the point elsewhere - this type of platform should be a non-profit, maybe a community owned platform.
I have declined offers to interview with very-close-to dream companies because they wish for on site employees, and my kids cannot be uprooted at this time.

Which would be fine if I could tune for intrinsic reward vs extrinsic in my current situation. Part time, startups, taking a chance at consulting, etc.

No dice with this child care cost.
> Go back to the city

Why do you think they're from the city?
Fair, I’d say it’s fast as well and yes I definitely like it. I hope Meta takes note at how a good software experience can be, because while their hardware is good, they’ve been asleep at the wheel with software and Apple showed that in spades in so many areas of the Vision Pro (but not all of them)
"This is not a particularly obvious analogy to “data”."

Future ASI being dangerous is very feasible. For arguments, see LessWrong or Bostrom's work.
Theoretically things like that are supposed to be restricted to code but in practice it seems like enforcement ended a couple of decades ago. In the 90s, I knew guys who got tickets for having window tinting which was too dark or off-brand headlights but those are incredibly common now, and it appears that DMVs stopped checking for them at inspections and the police ignore it unless they’re looking for an excuse to search the car. If you’re a white guy in a vehicle which doesn’t radiate poverty, you’re probably more likely to get hit by lightning than stopped.

The policy is probably the de facto assumption that driving is a right: the United States has been rebuilt around the need to drive everywhere and the entire system tends to implicitly assume that anything which would impede someone from driving is unconscionable unless you get to the point of a serious collision or fatality.
In the immortal words of Óscar Benavides, "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."
I said this:

> That's still profit. It's just the profit is paid as dividends to workers.

How is that not dividends?
To clarify: what you are talking about is .NET Standard 2.X and .NET Framework 4.X

Unity currently does not support .NET (Core) at all.
Well, it's a good thing that we don't have to worry about corrupt police /s
I am taking your comment as a joke because the Windows Registry is a joke.
They're in the process of swapping out their Mono fork for a modern Core fork, which I believe they're planning on upstreaming changes to too. A few years ago, someone demonstrated a 1-week hackathon version of a game build running on Core, and recently (2023-12), someone on the forum noted that they have an internal Editor running on Core.

Most modern large games use IL2CPP, the C++ transpiler; it's a requirement on iOS, nearly a requirement on Android, and almost certainly a requirement on consoles. Perf is often nicer and it's harder to mod/hack, which some devs like.

Sibling poster notes different .Net compatibility settings. Modern Unity versions allow you to be in either .Net 4.6(ish) mode or .Net Standard 2.0/2.1 mode. The latter comports more with Core's APIs, though is pretty old at this point.

And, since we're on similar topics, Unity currently supports C# 9.0, minus a few minor features[1]. This is a massive improvement compared to a few years ago, where we were stuck with C# 4 or 6, and means you can write pretty modern and performant C#. Especially notable is Span support, a way of representing (basically) non-owning array slices.

[1] https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.3/Documentation/Manual/CSharpC...
> Ritchie isn’t digging with any destination in mind; he digs for the pure joy and meditation that comes with it.

> “I just feel like a kid again,” Ritchie said. “It really puts me in the moment and relieves stress.”

In a world saturated with "productivity porn" and side hustles, I just absolutely love that.
I cant find the source right now but when Shyamalan wrote the Sixth Sense, it was a complete script on about the fifth draft before he even _thought_ of the twist. And I think thats why its such a great movie. Its like a twist that gives you a whole new movie on top of the perfectly good one you've already seen. And the twist is not just a gimmick, it has emotional depth.

edit: I first saw the sixth sense in perfect conditions - a pirated VCD from Malaysia before any publicity for it had happened in the UK, so had no idea what I was getting myself into other than it had Bruce Willis in it. Absolutely blew me away.

edit: found the source:

According to an interview in Scenario magazine (Volume 5, Number 4), Shyamalan had written five drafts of the screenplay before an idea came to him that transformed it into something totally new, leading to a landmark film with powerful performances from the film’s stars. It happened in the sixth draft.

https://www.stevendeeble.com/2016/05/31/evolution-of-a-scree...
Measurably untrue for equity ownership which is a prerequisite for “wealth” in that you need to have undifferentiated ownership of assets that increase in value.

Equity in a for profit corporation is fixed to the current round of funding with theoretical increases at certain intervals. These increases very specifically reduce the existing size of the “wedge of the pie” - aka takes from and redistributes ownership in the new pie size. This is called “Dilution” and we’re just told it’s how the game works.

Note that the theoretical expectation is that the overall “value” stays the same despite literally being called “less than.” However, we know that those valuations are not rooted in any type of mathematical or otherwise natural function like let’s say the gravitational constant, that is unchanged and unmoved by exogenous circumstances, therefore the fact of splitting the pie Redistributes functional ownership, irrespective of what the value theoretically is.

you’ll also note that the specific function of private equity is to ensure the retention and growth of equity ownership over all goals. So specific to the mechanisms within the commerce system, specifically ownership, they are not only functionally but mathematically zero-sum.
Building regulations exist for thousand of years and for good reasons ...

lol
Labeling problems "systemic" or not is kind of meaningless. You seem to implicitly agree the problem exists. Should we not address non-systemic problems?
Troll somewhere else.
Actually, numbers run on a libertarian-communitarian spectrum
StackOverflow also raises the bar for becoming a contributor. You can't start commenting until you have some upvotes on answers or questions for instance.

I think these things turn out to be a bit important.
Not just that but part of why planning exists in the first place is so they can verify things like that there aren't buried unmarked sewer lines or gas mains back there.
> Yachts and fancy cares are the best industry in the world for resources to go

You're doing a trick of pretending that an example that's been successfully countered wasn't just an example, but the only thing in question. Obviously CEOs spend on various things, as do we all.

> in order to maximally spur overall economic innovation and productivity

If I buy a Mars Bar I'm not putting my money into what's going to maximally spur overall economic innovation and productivity. You're creating a ludicrously high bar for their spending, that you're now pretending is all on yachts and cars, to clear - one which most people's spending also wouldn't clear, if we even knew what would clear it.
We're going to have to agree to disagree.

The US has done terrible things in the too-recent future in the explicit name of making the world a better place.

At least, that rationale triggers my gag reflex.
That’s not what I said.

Tools enable success. Better tools make the job easier. They make the result better.

But having bad tools isn’t a reason to give up. It’s frustrating. But you just have to get on with it.
The C++ ports to mobile and consoles predate Microsoft's acquisition by a number of years.
You are 100% correct. The problem is, even without the incentive of money and employment there's still the incentive of fame, and negative results simply won't get the same attention and impact as positive results. We can give people with negative results PhDs and publications, we can continue funding them. But at the end of the day, people remember and researchers cite the team who invented the LLM, not the many teams who tried and invented the less-successful models.
Yeah, people don't seem to actually care. The Bitnami images were quite popular, but looking inside it they all just pull random tarballs from their server, and nothing seemed to indicate where those things came from.
Yeah good point about solitary swimming.
NTR have high specific impulse but relatively low power to weight, this makes them good in space and poor for getting out of the gravity well as discussed here. They are efficient at using reaction mass but not for power to weight.

From the article:

Early publications were doubtful of space applications for nuclear engines. In 1947, a complete nuclear reactor was so heavy that solid core nuclear thermal engines would be entirely unable[23] to achieve a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1:1, which is needed to overcome the gravity of the Earth at launch. Over the next twenty-five years, U.S. nuclear thermal rocket designs eventually reached thrust-to-weight ratios of approximately 7:1. This is still a much lower thrust-to-weight ratio than what is achievable with chemical rockets, which have thrust-to-weight ratios on the order of 70:1.
Source code for Drilbert, a short puzzle game
Nobody writes blogs anymore, so that doesn't seem like it'd help.
"I'm not sure the cost for liability insurance is that much (or at all) higher in most of Europe though."

The whole point of the article is that it's more expensive in Europe.
There is, in my opinion, an inverse correlation between the housing market and fertility.

Young couples can't have kids when they are still living with their parents way past their twenties.

Same story when they can barely afford a place for themselves.

On the other hand, when the housing market crashes durably because of demographic reasons, fertility rebounds.
.net development on VSCode is not a good story. C# Devkit may change it but Omnisharp was not such a successful story.
So because one type of intervention is "forced" all types can be? Are you trying to give the "slippery slope" argument more credit or? Just because vaccines are more or less required doesn't give any argument for doing so for other stuff. Unless you want even more opposition considering you are literally using it as a slippery slope to justify more requirements.

(I'm not saying I oppose fluoride in water, I think the attention it gets is insane for what is probably not much effects on cognition even if those claims turn out to be true. I have naturally bad teeth so I'm very happy to get fluoride, and use medical toothpastes with very high concentrations of it. But I really dislike when this type of argument is made. It only provides more arguments that slippery slopes are real, and that a certain compromise or requirement will lead to more inevitably. Just argue about the merit of fluoride in water, on its own. )
> A kernel (because that's where interrupt handlers are located)..

Thought I would pull this one phrase out to demonstrate how we are clearly talking about different systems. For many embedded control systems, I would not say "the interrupt handlers are located in the kernel." On processors that have the distinction, interrupt handlers typically run in Supervisor mode (What the x86 calls "Ring 0"), but it's entirely possible that 100% of the code will run in Supervisor mode. When the kernel provides preemptive scheduling, it may handle a single interrupt (a timer); alternatively the kernel doesn't handle any interrupts, but instead provides an API call that application developer(s) must invoke for entering the scheduler.

Many things that are called an "RTOS" in the embedded world would be called a "threading library" in the desktop world.
I'm curious what made you backpedal after shipping 250 units. I imagine you at least very least made it work at that point.
> DepositPhotos

Their pricing page says otherwise, unless it’s pricing for something else

https://depositphotos.com/subscribe/image.html?backURL%5Bpag...
Because some people's glass is half full and aren't waiting for the death of the human race? We can study exoplanets and work on saving our own at the same time; which we have the capacity for right now with nuclear fission power. the powers that be haven't been forced to be responsible yet. they eventually will have to deal with it long before humans go extinct.
PersonalMBA really is a my go-to reference because it is very comprehensive and extremely accessible online. First 5 chapters tackle the strategy behind the '5 parts of every business'

1) Value Creation 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Value Delivery 5) Finance

The next 6 Chapters deal with the tactics involved in executing that strategy. 6) The human mind 7) Working With Yourself 8) Working With Others 9) Understanding Systems 10) Analyzing Systems 11) Improving Systems

Then If you REALLY wanted to dive deeper, you can read the 99 business books he built the personalmba from: https://personalmba.com/best-business-books/

Josh Kaufman created something great here.
Wow what is that acronym?
If it's 1.4T it depends on what you're using it for. Someone on SO has a verify speed for 512 bit rsa keys at 350k/second which would leave it at I think a month and a half to run 1.4T. That's a random user and a single machine. ECDSA 128 bit verify maybe 6k/s on a single core of a not-great CPU. That puts you about a month or two of a moderate machine assuming there's no fancy gpu things for doing it.
It takes of order 6 months to do the work described in a single paper. Even if we imagine someone watching the videos at double speed, it would take 3 months per paper. And that's for an expert who can understand the material.

Folks don't have the time to read the literature thoroughly as it is. That's one of the reasons the junk gets published. So this is not practical.

Plus, imagine reporting to your funding agency, Dean, or boss, that all you accomplished this year was to watch a few videos. No new work of your own. I guess you would make a video of you watching a video. And then someone would watch a video of you watching a video ...
> Saying “ninety kilobecquerel” and writing “90 kBq” is a lot more convenient than “ninety thousand requests per second” and “90,000 requests/s”.

I think current norm is 90k rps (or qps, but it's clear in both cases).
This is awesome Sandland got some mainstream news. I look at them as a hackerspace with professional members, and sometimes mining engineers. Not mentioned is City Museum in St Louis. They let little kids roam the tunnels!
REAL programmers etch the ROM with a laser and an extremely steady hand
I'm in a suburbia (not rural), but we have more of a trail system than a lot of other places in the United States. There really isn't much I can't do on a bicycle, and when I absolutely need to transport something myself, which happens maybe once every couple of years, I've rented a truck for a few hours. My e-bike does most of the heavy lifting when my total travel distance is over 15 miles and I need to transport stuff.

I get up, check the weather, throw on clothes for whatever's happening, jump on the e-bike, buzz half a mile down to a gravel trail that runs north-south through my city, and go do what I need to do. I use panniers mounted on a rear rack to hold stuff. For groceries I tend to go to Trader Joe's which is in a shopping area off the trail about a mile and a half from my house. Hardware stuff I get from a family-owned place that's 7 miles away, 5 miles of which is on trails. Electronics is from a store that's sort of like Radio Shack on steroids that's about a mile from the trail system, but that's more like 10 miles each way. I don't need to go there often. Work is 10 miles away, 9 miles of which is on a trail. I park in a bike cage, and there is a locker room with showers.
Definitely hundreds, mine is $372/yr for $1M/instance, atop my auto/home coverage (250/500 for the auto).

The thing about it is: your risk doesn't change because you have extra coverage. All that actuarial work is priced into your base coverage. In fact, they may even have factored in that people willing to voluntarily buy umbrella coverage are a little less risky than their model predicted.
Another good book on drug and culture history is Sadie Plants' "Writing on Drugs" (1999). It's full of great short clips of history and analysis drug-fueled/-inspired literary efforts from Coleridge and Baudelaire to Burroughs & PK Dick.

P.S. Richard Evans Schultes is a very interesting figure in the field of ethnobotanical psychedelic pharmacology, and he was as interested in the plants themselves (peyote, mushrooms, ayahuasca and others) as in the cultural traditions that surrounded them (One River by Wade Davis is a good partial biography).
Generally speaking async code in a language that isn't ground up designed around that is far slower, because the language ends up using some relatively expensive mechanism like mutexs. In most languages making 90% of your code 90% slower but "everything async" isn't really a worthwhile general trade off.

Even is your language run time is fully async, it's really hard to do anything useful without touching C/C++/the kernel/system libraries, and as soon as you do that all those guarantees go out the window, because you cannot rewrite the world in $newlang.
Oh, we are definitely in that punditry window where journalists write about an Apple product as if literally none of the precursor products matter at all, clambering over all the weaknesses and shortfalls as if they were the prone bodies of regular tech journalists who — perhaps distracted by their need for a long or wider perspective - fell on the ground on the way to be one of Cupertino’s chosen few.

Also the window where wealthy early adopters confuse their ability to spend ridiculous money on a beta product with actual possession of insight or wisdom; this is the Z-tier of access journalism.
Suppose you need a car to get to work?
what does HFCS have to do with the availability (or not) of cork?
That seems to usually root cause to asshole editors.

- Thing done
- Editor makes a judgement call
- Turns out to be a bad call
- Editor refuses to admit mistake
- Things escalate
Yeah, there are very few frequency ranges where you don’t need to be licensed and meet regulations that generally prevent a given idea from working even if technically possible.
Not all modem standards had built-in error detection. If you got garbage or drop outs because of line noise or someone else trying to use the parallel phone, that was all you got. The sending side did know nothing about that. For reliable transfer of binary files, software on both sides had to implement X/Y/Zmodem or some other protocol which added metadata for correctness checks. Files that were cut too soon when copying over the modem or from one floppy to the other, or because the process moving data died for some reason, were also not uncommon.

Historical 7 bit protocols were still used. Even though systems of their origin were a thing of the past, and links had 8 bit characters, existing software handling those protocols often mangled the “spare” highest bit for its own reasons.

In simple terms, the PNG header allowed to check that the file had always been handled in binary mode, and maybe even to revert some types of the damage. Those were the last days of distinction between terminal-style “text mode” processing (with hardware or software components in the middle silently converting the code pages, line endings, and control codes if they were different on two sides), and “binary mode” direct copying, soon to become the only expected option. People writing binary data to files today almost never invent the means to escape certain “special” values in anticipation of possible transfer over this or over that.
> The idea of pretending async functions are still "functions" is kinda terrible

This makes no sense to me. An async function is just syntactic sugar for a (normal in every way) function that returns a promise.
John Rollwagen put the story about while chairman of Cray Research:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/writing/PCW/cray.htm .

There is at least one report that it was indeed just mythmaking, though: https://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html .
Also higher crime.