skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One example that I enjoyed listening was The Count ot Mount Cristo. The story is long, it boring a lot of times, but a good narrator with good French pronunciation makes it more enjoyable. And being able to phase out during the boring parts is a good feature.
Based in NOLA, sent you an inquiry
I just donated a couple of ~20 year old Vista machines.

One was an Athlon; the other was a Core Duo. They both had 1GB RAM.
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully and avoid snark, as the guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
AI-generated content, other unfavorable practices get CNET on Wikipedia banlist
You're literally ignoring every argument in favor of your "detector." Who's not acting in good faith here again?
Sedentary behavior increases mortality risk
The current spike is mostly because of the interest rates. They will either come down or the house prices will eventually start going down. For now everyone just expects rates to go down soon, so nobody sells or buys houses.
Resonates. The concept is basically that written word may inspire or produce joy, but code is about producing results, so no results means no real value.

The part I like is bringing coding back to results.

But the comparison of "coding as results only" vs "writing as expression only" is a strawman.

Professional Writers write to earn a living, persuade, inform or entertain, probably choosing two or three of those as much as possible. If you don't have readers and you don't entertain persuade or make a living, your writing has failed by the same metric your Professional Coder's code has if it failed to solve the problem.

But in the personal / semi professional worked, writing for its own sake is called practice, as is coding for its own sake. Neither of those have intrinsic value, beyond learning, and if something good results, then sharing.
>Is the claim that the secretive info being shared is the actual rents tenants are paying? Are companies and people not normally allowed to share that?

Companies and people generally do not share this information publicly and most companies consider it extremely proprietary.

So yes, that what's these lawsuits are about. All these companies share this extremely sensitive data (Vacancy data, actual rent and length of rental contract) with RealPage, Realpage algorithms use it to price rent.
Unitedhealth IT labor force is vastly offshore, the system is inherently insecure.
Why Not 100% Equities
Yes, however it is sub standard and hard to use. Look at IdP
> This attitude will likely be viewed in a similar light a hundred years from now as we view slavery today.

A fun (when done right, for some people at least) activity is contemplating various strategies one could execute to accelerate this process, and thousands of other much needed cognitive optimizations.
Agreed. When dealing with low hanging fruit, you often improve both.

Later though… once your system is somewhat optimized, you will tend to make latency vs throughput decisions. For most people though, slight changes to latency are the cost to large increases in throughput, but that may just be my experience.
I guess as long as daily driving (regarding online activities) isn't much more than browsing reddit and Facebook that might work, but wouldn't using Online-Banking/PayPal/Amazon on a system that hasn't been patched in years make you nervous? I mean the browser is a good sandbox but still...
>> my assumption is that they are scam artists.

If you sincerely believe they are scam artists, then please explain something for us.

The finding, shared at the EU 2017 conference here https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=7y46wMAHnsI , documented on video, is an example of a Langmuir probe (a tungsten rod) evaporating.

After the tungsten rod evaporated, the Safire team tried a much larger tungsten rod which did not immediately evaporate, but rapidly decayed, as was documented.

If the Safire team is a team of scam artists, how were they able to do something new that had not been done* before?

Is there any example of this given before year 2017? Is any other team able to take credit for this finding?

[*] done unclassified, many suspect this knowledge was already attained in classified (as in national security secrets) type environments.

>> your claim does not show up on Google.

I want to make sure I answer your question, can you narrow down which claim you are asking about?

As far as "which laboratory verified the results of the Safire type 3 reactor rendering radioactive material benign?", I will reach out to them and just ask them.
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Most people always preferred to have space. It just wasnt plausible before mass market cars, so people suffered in the cities. Of courts plenty like you and me prefer urban living, but the vast majority do not. We absolutely should look at policy that makes urban living easier and cheaper, but dont delude yourself that anywhere close to most people want to live like that.
Of course number 2 is the reason. The author knows that too, it's obvious to the point of not needing mentioned. It doesn't change what they say though, the end result is that poorer people are more surveiled.
I appreciate measuring productive when profit is the objective. Still, there exists code that does resonate and evoke emotional response. Quines, code golf, adding a paradigms to a lisp in a few lines of code, categorical haskell or the Doom wtf algorithm.

Beauty is something to strive for, it is just not the purpose of business programming. Unless you are Dijkstra.
Requirements are important and some organizations and all kind of engineers struggle to define or follow them. However I don't agree with the article that one has to choose between creativity vs defining and following requirements. There is space for both and the context of the business will clarify the most suited balance.
I do the manual mount too! I have /mnt/usb directory and the devices I mount are usually something like /dev/sdb1 on my laptop.

So ctrl+r and the command `mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb` is in my history already. No difficulty here, as I mount a USB device like once a month or two.
Canada de-facto banned most type of homes/appointments due to regulations and zoning. Both in conjunction makes building housing expensive and slow.
Canada is ways past of useful regulations.
Over-regulation costs lives.
Depending on what the future might bring, maybe all of it - or at least some aspect of everything. Since we base much, if not all of of our understanding on what we think we know: when those beliefs get thrown out then it will affect everything. This is admittedly not very useful in everyday life since we can't know beforehand exactly how earthshattering the new knowledge will be. Except, useful perhaps as a certain antidote to the potential suppressive damage done by those who are absolutely certain of the things we know now to be true for ever.

Example: what if it turned out that time itself had qualities no-one had suspected before? Time is one of those fundamental things in existence that may (or likely will) still reveal some previously unknown aspect. Which in turn would likely affect our perception of all things in existence.

Which means our "primitive" concept of time (and everything in it) would perhaps not be wrong, but incomplete. Or plainly wrong, for that matter.
Also insightful:
https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/housing-starts

Has the Biden administration made any progress at all into fixing this? Seems like there was plenty of advance warning so I would hope so, but maybe they have other priorities.
I think you can make art out of just about anything. Constraints and limitations add to art, not detract. I'm certain plenty of people add artistic flourishes into their work. There's no shortage of code used to create art. The code itself can be artful as well.

Similarly writing can be used for non-artistic and more practical purposes.

I just see so many counter examples I wonder if I'm missing the point.
(author) Front end or back end? Anything interesting about its operation or the protocols?
Same is true for maritime racon navigation marks which transmit a morse code letter as identification in response to the reception of a radar pulse...the morse code is then visible on the radar display.

We had to learn morse code for Hong Kong's "grade 1 pleasure vessel certificate of competency" -> a credential required to operate pleasure vessels greater than 15 meters in length.

It's pretty easy to pick up and there are a few phone mobile phone apps that make learning morse code fun.
>I wouldn't count yourself out just because you are a junior. Companies love hiring junior devs because their salaries are the lowest. It's senior devs that should be worried.

This sounds right but it isn't, at least in my experience. Most fresh junior devs need a whole lot of hand holding to get even the basic stuff done; particularly in a codebase that isn't that great. There are some junior devs that are just natural stars, but they are few and far between.
Heard definitely. I guess I was trying to liken "building product" to "writing a passion piece". Definitely not all writing vs all coding should have been more clear.
Thank you for the answer and all the resources. I've tried starting rust a couple of times but somehow something else came up always, I'll give it another go.

I've been trying to focus my time on moving towards machine learning and its a paradigm shift for me because I've never been a fan of mathematics. I've started with Deep Learning Specialization on coursera but I don't know if that's a good resource. So if you have a better resource or a learning path you can suggest for this, that'd be great.
If the wrong people are hired, they will spend 5 days a week drinking coffee, attending meetings that generate more meetings to seem super busy, and generally slacking off.
Great idea!

I like dub techno and minimal berlin-school downtempo for coding myself, and I recently did a pre-release of some myself that is 100% sequenced in Scheme!

Tremendous Machine - The McCarthy Church Orchestra Vol 1. (ba doom cha)
https://soundcloud.com/iain-duncan/sets/mccarthy-church-orch...

Composed and produced with Scheme for Max running Ableton Live
https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
https://www.youtube.com/c/musicwithlisp
Yeah… I’m both a software developer and an author. This is crap.

Code is like words. If they don’t make a complete whole, you’re not doing it right. You can have the most beautiful words and even sentences, but if you have no story or convey no information, you have completely failed to produce anything of worth.

For me, it’s the end result, the resilience of what I have made, that matters.

You can get caught up in the elegance of any level. You can have a perfect, beautiful product and miss the market. Maybe something uglier works better than your art piece for a company's purposes.
Although writing game servers for commercial games is already "difficult", isn't writing game clients for commercial games a huge issue copyright wise?
This is mostly true and is part of what helped soften the absolute disaster that the Trump administration was. In multiple instances, Trump and his ilk wanted to do absolutely illegal and unconstitutional things but we're thwarted by career civil servants.

However, they've learned. At the end of his term, Trump created a new classification of employment, Schedule F. Schedule F employees did not have civil-service protections and could be fired on a whim. Fortunately, he lost the election before he could use it. Biden removed it.

Now, Trump-aligned groups like the Heritage Foundation are running programs to recruit Trump loyalists whose main and almost sole qualifications is loyalty to Trump (see Project 2025). They don't want a repition of last time where federal employees had the gall to actually follow the law instead of the dictator.
If you say “I want a raise because people in the same position at other companies make more money” is that collusion too?
Definitely – I guess I was going for "building product" more than writing code.
Construction has also been down, immigration has been up. Who would have thought these things have consequences.
Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API
DirectDraw existed in old versions of DirectX. After a while it was deprecated in favour of using Direct3D even for 2D planes.

So you don't really need to fall back to GDI. Though I wouldn't say older versions of DirectX would be any more secure than GDI.
Only 17k commits behind Chromium.

Interesting project though
I like it. I wrote Piku (https://github.com/piku/piku) with much the same interest in fixing some of my pains, so I get where you're coming from with this. Will drop it into one of my current projects to build ESP32 binaries :)
> $16,150 … in 2024 dollars

The self-reinforcing improvement loop that is technology is absolutely magical. So many things get better and cheaper, faster and faster.
I'm sure there are ways to make a gun shot sound without having an actual gun, too. If police responds every time within a few minutes, it's also very easy to find out which device/firework will do.
I get that this is beside the point, but it might make the author to feel better to know that writers are no less prone to same character flaw of becoming overly attached to their own implementation of an idea, often to their detriment in the marketplace. Hence the common advice to writers that you must "kill your babies".
Do you happen to know what's the CppCon talk called ?
The opposite I would say. Facebook and Reddit are the worst hogs you can find. Advanced productivity software and most websites have no problems running on old machines.
The problem with all the new stuff (OS, Apps etc) is that you are no longer own them. They are lend to you, and so, it can be easly rendered unusuable by companies by simply pushing special update. I hate auto updated with passion. It all looks cool on paper, but if we talk about security and control its big fail. Why? Because all those companies have their own agendas.

People should wake up, or we will end up in place similar to China, where few clicks from gov official will exclude person from society.
Depends on who's doing it. For career criminals, sure the stolen car and gun are probably easy. If it's anybody else, say some bored high school kids, then the speaker is probably a much easier option.
List of mobile virtual network operators in the United States
Some folks prefer Debian as vm host as it’s considered stable. 2003/xp or even dos can be considered a stable host for browser. Why not? These days I don’t have to manually install many apps a browser meets most my needs.
Crash of the Titan: a short history of Apple's doomed car project
Huge archive that's heavily biased towards text adventures / interactive fiction. There are only three titles published by Lucasfilm Games, and they predate Monkey Island.
I step onto the Windows GUI occasionally for work and I always walk away missing Sway. There's those snap windows but despite that the whole UI just seems so busy and crowded.

This could just be because at some point everything I did was either in a terminal or browser (when did that happen?) and Windows always seems to be sitting around waiting for you to open some windowed app.
The core of the multi-layer self-contained plasma fusion reaction is the size of a baseball, and the overall size is larger than a basketball, which is visible to the naked human eye.

What goes on inside of the Intel CPU you specified is not visible to the naked human eye.

Considering the scales very obviously involved (if you bothered to look), it's harder to come up with a dumber analogy than the one you presented.
If you're able to accept ABI breakage or changing the C code, then I don't think any major language which is capable of calling C code is missing support for unions.

The same cannot be said for varargs, though.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark, name-calling, or fulmination?

You may not owe bushy-eyebrowed smarmy tiktok-making jerks better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Windows XP is the last version of Windows that's generally thought to be free of backdoors and US spyware. This is possibly why Putin seems to still use it

Despite every major news outlet reporting this back in 2019, this is actually fake news. People saw that the taskbar appeared blue in a low-res photo, and concluded that it must be Windows XP. Very sloppy journalism.

If you look at the full-resolution version of that 2019 photo, it's clear that it's Windows 7 (or maybe 8 with a Start menu mod): http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big2x/W2kaDAtDz...
There is a double whammy. Typically, someone sells their home to buy a different home that is better suited for them. Right now, there is a massive disincentive tp sell (as the seller would lose their sweet low rate 30 year). This depresses supply even more. In Canada, this isn't even a big factor (we don't have 30 year fixed rates) but shelter inflation is one of the biggest elements of inflation. I am surprised this is not causing inflationary pressure in the US.
Why car and home insurance costs are surging
I would guess they are racistly referring to Satya Nadella, who is Indian-American.
I don't think anyone's ever argued that Jobs was toxic af to work with, however some engineers respond to that kind of treatment by producing best-in-class work. It's one of those trolley problem style questions, would you want this software to be twice as good at the expense of knowing ten devs were bullied like that?
Billionaires building bunkers buying islands– prep for apocalypse or feudalism?
I was thinking of adding that line! "Kill your darlings" is like kill the weak products that make no value!
I think this thread is old enough to ask something like this, but instead of learning performance optimizatoin, is there a way to be hired to work on this? I am fascinated and I always loved when I had to optimize something (mostly code in my experience, algorithms, etc), but that's only a very small percentage of the work I do.
It reminds me of how Eric Weinstein talks. It's either a complete lack of communication skills, or will to actually share knowledge, just an attempt to make what you're talking about seem impenetrable. It's a sad display of intellectual insecurity by the author.
Does GDI/non-GDI distinction really matter if the only job for GDI is to blit already rendered framebuffer after Skia library (up-to-date part of browser) to the hardware? I.e. when GDI is actually not exposed to the fonts and vector graphics downloaded from the web, just pixels? To me it seems highly unlikely that GDI can be exploited via colors of pixels.
But yes in comparison to Stata which is its main competitor in the space where I am using it. This does make it possible to write much more modular, legible, and well-tested R code than Stata do files.
Lol I read the headline and I thought of the app. So weird because I am actually a ham radio operator and I have done morse in the past. I still do ham but I never enjoyed morse, I do a lot of digital now. I was just learning it to get the more capable license but then the requirement ended up dropped anyway.

It's funny how a mindset can change so quickly and terms can change their meaning completely.

But 1956 is a bit weird of a date for telegrams, as it was invented way before that.

I'll watch it later because it sounds interesting.
A friend of mine called this back in 2019. Even wrote a short story about it; https://www.ectoplus.com/shorts/replacement/ - apparently I was the only person among the beta readers that figured it as a horror piece.

It'll be a damned seductive business model. Reach out to people in their moment of greatest grief, offer a customized service with a subscription attached, and they never have to let go. Receive photos, videos, phone calls with an AI model of their partner. Why grieve at all? It's just like switching to a long distance relationship. Worse, unsubscribing would be like letting your loved one die all over again. The potential for abuse is... astronomical.
>If you think now is bad imagine trying to get a job in 2002 in tech. Tech was deader than dead.

After 6 months of unemployment (with 4 years experience) I had to move to another city to find work and it was definitely a pay downgrade. As you remember not only did the dot bomb happen but shortly after: 9/11. This was also when outsourcing really started to take off. Prospects were certainly grim. Fortunately I landed a job with a codebase that needed a lot of help but was very cool. I learned a lot and proved to myself that I was a lot better than I thought I was.

>Figuring out how to become not broke after college is the most fun game of your entire life.

Lol I'm not sure I ever felt that way. I wouldn't want to do that again in a million years. Certainly one of the most stressful times of my life.
People will always choose the most convenient option over the most secure or the most strategically sound.
Front end. I was a Mac programmer.

It was basically AOL. I am pretty sure that AppleLink became the basis for the first AOL clients (or vice-versa). We had the exact same "You've Got Mail!" sound, and a lot of the same graphic assets.

My claim to fame, was disassembling Finder, to nail a mistake in Apple documentation.

Back then, processes could communicate directly with each other. Security folks would absolutely defecate masonry, if they saw what it was like.

The issue was that we used Pascal strings, and one of the structures that was used to share information between processes, had a Pascal string (one-byte length, followed by up to 255 bytes of ASCII string).

Their docs said it was optimized (no padding beyond word), so a 2-character string would take 4 bytes (1 length, 2 string, 1 pad).

In fact, they always reserved the entire 256 bytes, and ignored the bytes beyond the end of the string.

I had to actually disassemble Finder, to figure that out.

This is neither here, nor there, but GEIS was the most dysfunctional organization I ever worked for. In the 18 months I worked for them, they had 3 reorgs.
Hopefully all of the "me too!" features other platforms (Instagram Shorts, Facebook Reels, etc.) go down with it too.

They're the perfect combination of addicting and entirely useless.
I always loved playing adventures from Level 9 Computing [1], particularly The Worm in Paradise. At that time, no solutions were available, so there was a lot of trial and error involved. I played on Spectrum, and I remember being amazed at their graphics engine that managed to present a full-screen (well, technically a half-screen) illustration for every location in the game. There definitely wasn't enough memory for that, so they probably have used some generative algorithm.

[1] https://www.solutionarchive.com/list/company%2C4/