skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When was the first source code control system released? SCCS was like 1973 and the Voyager code was probably pretty much buttoned by then; with whatever practices that they thought was stable state of the art practices at the time. I imaging that this was a collection of "golden tapes" or something. Now the concept of revision control seems pretty self validating but you're talking about undergoing a culture change on your software team, pretty close to launch.

Then the voyager hardware was bespoke.

We just live in a different world now, they didn't know how to do software engineering like we do. They were just figuring it out. I really don't know the history of it but Voyager systems may have been produced on punchcard. Like the original source code might be physical for parts of the system.
This conversation is a very clear sign that the article is poorly worded. If it takes this much discussion to get at its meaning, it's probably not communicating clearly.
I get there would be some caveats here, but when it comes to furniture others see, for most beds and office chairs are down on the list. Of furniture guests are apt to see and use the sofa is pretty high up.
> accelerationism

Would like to know what you meant by this even so?
What are your current issues with Fiber/FastHTTP?
Thanks for the comment. It reminds me that examples should be more real-like. Hehe. Because, yeah, I would absolutely use a custom property for it. Same with .card, a simple example which in practice may be more precise, yes.

Global scope is for base rules, yes. Rhythm, typography, maybe colors only. Still it's great to be able to style these design layers globally!

I'll adjust the examples to reflect this. Thanks for the lesson!

PS: hard to debug bugs? The inspector shows styles handily for global styles!
What would you expect from a sociopath?
I wonder how many "leaders" in AI don't have one, and therefor don't understand reasoning the same way as others do who do have it (FWIW I have Aphantasia, although it doesn't mean I can't imagine - I just can't see it).
I don't see three 9's as being unreasonable for home internet at all, getting more reliability than that is non-trivial and most people have redundancy in the form of internet on their phones or can buy a second line.
Oh. For losses that makes sense because you lost a certain amount and you lost a certain amount so every time you play you lose a dollar but you might gain more than that so your bank total will add that all together.
I think it can be location and company specific too. In some cities hiring is hard to do, so they take what they can get. And some company cultures value experience and stability, others like younger devs.

My experience has been that most devs in their 40s and 50s can run circles around those in their 20s and early 30s. If someone is already good in their 20s they're likely a savant. TL;DR the biggest thing is managing your career intelligently. I think there's more risk when you approach 50, but the same is true in every industry.
It is? 44 minutes outage per month is critical?

I doubt that's true for most jobs. But yes, there are jobs where it is, and some of us (e.g. me ;) are just finicky about network connectivity. In which case I highly recommend having a fallback connection, with a different modality than the main one. For most of us, that means LTE. Tethering is fine if you can live with <5 min outages, but sure, you can also do automated failover.

But it's not a level of service that I think is reasonable to expect from a single ISP connection. A single construction incident will burn the annual SLO budget, and there's nothing the provider can do about that.

(And of course, it'd still be nice if telcos ran their backends competently. Looking at you, AT&T)
25Mbit/sec isn’t really good enough for 4K video.

> Good thing the FCC doesn't control Ireland, or I'd no longer be able to declare that I have broadband via satellite! Well, part of the time, anyway.

I mean, you can call it what you want, but it’s under the minimum standard set by the NBP in 2012 (30Mbit, 25ms). Fortunately, if that’s the best you can get, you’re almost certainly in an NBI intervention area, so a minimum of 500Mbit via FTTH should be available to you at some point.

You can check here: https://nbi.ie/map/
I suspect people will work two hours less on Monday-Wednesday and one hour less on Thursday and Friday. Meanwhile wage theft by way of "long lunch breaks" and "volunteer" hours will increase by eight hours per week.
> Vision. Computer vision keeps getting better. Depth sensors are widely available. Interpretation of 3D scenes kind of works. A decade ago, the state of the art was aligning an IC over the right spot and a board and putting it in place.

I disagree, at least with this as evidence for your 5 year timeline - computer vision has been improving, yes, but nothing earth shattering in the last 5 years that I've seen. We've seen good incremental improvements over 30 years here but they don't seem to be approaching "good enough" yet, at least not in a way that would give me confidence we're at an inflection point. Most of the most recent interesting improvements have been in areas that don't push the boundaries - they make it easier to get closer to state of the art performace with less - fewer sensors, less dimensional & depth info, etc. But state of the art with expensive multiple sensor setups isn't good enough anyway, so getting closer to it isn't going to solve everything.

Same with the 3D scene stuff still people have been plugging away at that for 30 years and while I think some of the recent stuff is pretty cool, still has a long way to go. Whenever you start throwing real world constraints in the limitations show up fast.
Feels like it would be worth it, at least eventually. Time is worth so much more than money
The government would have records of such requests, so one assumes a person could request to know who has requested their records. Once they utilize their rights under Article 17 GDPR that data brokers delete their data and notify all recipients of the deletion, one could at least know who is stalking them.
I don't necessarily disagree. But you get what you pay for. These public institutions typically put out bids for projects and take the lowest one. Incentives matter and these types of organizations are incentivizing the production of cheap and poorly made software.
How much do you pay for internet? Maybe you should be directing your ire elsewhere.

I currently pay $60/month for 600 down.

An ISP that actually struggles to provide 100mbps down at a reasonable rate, today, is simply one that refuses to update their hardware. 100mbps is not hard to achieve with semi-modern hardware.

I know of ISPs servicing remote small communities with 1gbps down at $100/month. 300 down for $30/month.
Thanks for the reco. I would have never found this browsing Prime hidden in all of their FreeVee push.
You should start at the warehouse section and walk though it in reverse to get where you want to be.
Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
Looking at realpolitik, I can see one path: Quebec independence. If it’s achieved within our lifetime, a sovereign Quebec might offer full independence to First Nations to get them to sign a dotted line to stop trying to be inside Canada.
The pricing restriction is only for selling steam keys on external services. So if your game is priced at $15 on steam, you can’t sell steam keys on the Humble Bundle store for $12. You can match sales within 30 days, they don’t need to be concurrent - so if your game is on sale on Steam for $10, you can offer the same discount on the Humble Store any time within 30 days before/after the sale.

If you sell your game on other platforms and don’t use steam keys (e.g. distribute it DRM-free on GOG), you aren’t bound to the pricing clause. It only applies if you’re generating the keys on steam to sell elsewhere. You’re welcome to give your game away on GOG and still charge $50 on Steam, as long as you’re not giving away steam keys for your game on GOG.
> Social security. Public education. Public transportation. Walkable cities. Strict gun regulation. Not spending half of our budget in the military and police. Laws that apply to rich people. Slavery (in prison) and child labor (in farms) not protected by laws and constitution. Not relying on wars to impulse the economy. Not having our city centers crawling with desperate, dispossessed people. Probably there’s more.

Well it seems, just like Americans, Europeans love age verification laws:

https://apnews.com/article/porn-websites-age-verification-di...
You think that 8 extra hours would be the solution for humans to compete with machines and automation?
Not difficult seeing the leaves and cones. Take some photos.
> If you had a job that was on the cusp of being done by an LLM, now it's definitely gone.

If you have a job on the cusp of being done by an LLM, then it's already imminently gone. This changes nothing.
this just seems like some Wittgenstein mistake

>"thinking and reasoning require language"

we are just going to argue about what thinking and reasoning are because the sentence is meaningless.

Clearly animals think and reason and dont have language.

Or clearly thinking and reasoning is a process of symbol manipulation contingent on language itself because nothing else provides the means to ground the symbols nor the rules to encode acceptable manipulations.
Mewnwhile germany just raised it to 10Mbps
What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
I wonder if there are reputation protection companies that try a different strategy: for every user that requests their service, prop up thousands of fake identities with the user's name, but each with some inconsistent profile that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original user. So if someone search for a person, their search results would be flooded with garbage.

Since it seems very difficult to try to get a leaked identity removed, maybe try to hide a tree in the forest?
And I hope you were not around many catholic priests when you were.
This is barely even policy. It will never happen. A list of problems:

* Fundamentally what this does is offer some workers doing a 40-hour non-exempt workweek an additional 4 billable hours. But all that does is take a snapshot of current wages and offers a temporary benefit; prevailing wages will adjust to capture this phenomenon. Remember that very few full-time workers in the US make the minimum wage.

* The economy is not set up to run on a 4-day workweek, most especially for the non-exempt employees who are the only people this bill applies to. A doctor's office is not going to shift from 5-day weeks to 4-day weeks to accommodate this, so either the non-exempt intake person is going to get converted to two non-exempt part-time intake people, or they're going to work a 40 day workweek anyways.

* There is a huge swath of the economy that is in the same economic class as the median non-exempt worker but makes a salary, and, for no reason anybody backing this has explained, they get no benefit from this at all.
- Steam Input: Steam can already do XInput and DirectInput, so just support those.

- A Steam Networking equivalent is part of EOS: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/game-services/p-2-p

- Epic offers a Steam Inventory equivalent: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-games-store/services/eco...

> But many games only publish to one store anyway.

Exactly the problem. Why exacerbate it?

> Don't get me wrong, I don't think the 30% cut Steam takes is justified

So then your original comment was just you being contrarian as you said "You get what you pay for." implying Steam is in fact offering what the game creators are paying for :/
What about github?
According to this: https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?si=Df6Eq9uq6IJCApUs&t=1730

Six... eight... more like twelve... at least 15
Love this convo and the resources. Thanks for sharing this @DuncanMak and @DonHopkins
Wouldn't a better approach be to build AI that starts from a groundwork of intelligence? It's in the name. Build a system that can answer easy questions correctly, and be judged on % of correct completions before moving to difficult questions.

Tiktok, modern food, LLMs... all sugary colorful substitutes for the real thing. We are supposed to be moving away from this empty stuff, except for major corporations that are just as guilty as the teenage perpetual Tiktok browser.
Yes, male nipples are totally fine. Plus, there's a vast difference between pornography and erotica!
Actually averaging 3 9's isn't that bad. However, 3 9's looks much worse when you also miss the target.

The target for phones used to be significantly higher, but with cellphones home internet is generally less safety critical.
I feel like eight hours a day is already a bit less than twenty-four.
That would be a huge win for both Assange and the credibility of America. Let's hope.
25mbps being "broadband" is a bit of a joke, a single 4k stream can exceed that. 100mbps is about what is needed for todays "broadband" applications.

Raising the floor to 20mbps for uploads is also fairly important for more practical things, having to backup a laptop at 3mbps was wholly impractical. 20mbps is a good bump if you're running some backups overnight, or uploading a 4k video file.

I don't see any reason to raise the definition of bandwidth higher for the next decade though. But I should stress, the amount of money needed to make these upgrades is pretty marginal in the grand scheme of things, we're not talking about replacing a ton of last mile wiring.
On the contrary! Isn't it neat that we now have a unified API that both humans and computers can consume?
Data access layer is currently coded in applications, using Java for example, causing so called object-relational impedance mismatch problem. To solve this problem, I attempt to take SQLs out of Java and make data access layer pure SQL. Thus I will need JSON to specify the nested data structures of input and output objects. Since this come from the application side, the tools are more application aligned. SQL editor alone is not sufficient, although the work is mainly SQL development now. I am trying to figure out which group I should be targeting, the traditional application developers or the new SQL developers.
Tim Sweeney hates linux (like Ballmer) while Gabe Newell's company released a linux handheld that plays games.
I've had the same problem with Fandom née Wikia dumps. Just gigabytes of XML with questionable adherence to schemas. Fandom also has a ton of custom-to-Fandom tags which are a further pain to handle.

Pulling useful content out of the dumps has been an exercise in frustration. I'm sure I could figure something out if I had a bunch of time to dedicate to the effort.

If I just had sqlite dumps they'd be trivial to work with and I'd be much happier with them.
What I want is healthy competition for marketplaces so that one company can't massively diminish the value they were offering over the course of a decade and still command the same prices.
> I don't really see how this is that challenging.

"Not challenging"? Ok, suppose you split the province of BC into 100+ of these independent indigenous-run jurisdictions, or maybe a bit less if any First Nations decide to amalgamate in the process.

What will actually make these jurisdictions independent / sovereign? What mechanism will they use to keep the power in the hands of indigenous people? Are the millions of non-indigenous people living in BC supposed to pack up and leave for their ancestors' countries, that they might have never been to? Or are they supposed to exist as second class citizens, deprived of democratic and property rights? What fraction of indigenous blood will be enough to get first class citizenship?

And don't cop out with "the indigenous people will decide these things". Obviously they will, if it comes to that. Show at least one feasible "not challenging" solution that they could possibly decide on, that would see such jurisdictions qualify as sovereign.

> just like what happens when you pass between regional districts, provinces and municipalities and the underlying various laws change.

Those Canadian jurisdictions are all governed by people who are elected by all Canadians living there, and all of those Canadians are also eligible to run for office, regardless of race. None of these types of jurisdictions could possibly give First Nations any meaningful sovereignty if their structure was applied to them, because these types of jurisdictions have no mechanism to ensure that indigenous people – or any other subset of people – will be in control, or will stay in control.

Jurisdictions with indigenous sovereignty would inevitably require aggressive race-based laws, and either a more distinctly two-class society, or a purge of non-indigenous people from Canada. You could say that this kind of thing is indeed "challenging", to say the least.
Reputation management companies do this. It’s normally referred to as “disinformation”.
Seems like it would be easy to fix this situation even without changing the law.

- Forbid browsers from sending the DNT header automatically. They may ask the user.
- Consider the DNT header valid consent or withdrawal of consent.
- Forbid websites from asking for consent if the header is set.
Unfortunately the premise of the article is that you can now easily drop $1k+ on a sofa that looks good on Instagram, but is constructed of particleboard and falls apart when you look at it sideways.
For those out of the loop, this comment is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the fact there are 1000's of parakeet across the parks of London. Noisy buggers.
This is not what I'm arguing at all. We have been making (and largely breaking) treaties with indigenous peoples since before either country existed. But to say they didn't matter and that we still don't recognize them at all is completely ahistorical and out of touch with reality. Indigenous peoples in the US and Canada have worked hard to restore sovereignty. Your claim is completely ignoring that and recent precedents we've taken to right those wrongs. While it's not perfect (nor enough imo), it doesn't account to nothing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_Unit...
The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worthing_Saga https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40304.The_Worthing_Saga )

> It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Some created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built.

> It came near to destroying humanity.

> After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried.

---

Freeze Frame Revolution ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36510759 )

> How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what’s best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code—and unavoidable casualties.

---

Also going to recommend the various Vernor Vinge books:

The Peace War
Marooned in Realtime
A Deepness in the Sky

and the short story "The Peddler's Apprentice" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Verno... )
What about a vertical mouse like Logitech Lift? https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/lift-vertical-e...

Perhaps you already tried it, but the grip is very thin and pleasant. It is in fact advertised for small hands.

Another alternative is a trackpoint. You could try any USB keyboard from ThinkPad or TEX: https://tex.com.tw/pages/back-to-the-future
IAEA is one of the three sources cited for that statement, as is the WHO and a Japanese institution.

Whether or not the IAEA (or other institutions who have made similar statements) passes your stated litmus test, however, doesn't really prove such assertions wrong, especially in the absence of data that can prove otherwise, which I'm struggling to find.
Still in the "Introduced" stage. Given the amount of lobbying in the US, and isn't the US senate Republican controlled(?), and lack of bipartisan cooperation, seems impossible for this to go anywhere.
Actually this kind of stuff is super exciting -- we don't need to depend on companies exposing APIs for their website -- we can just use something like Skyvern instead!
It’s racketeering
I’m pretty sure Ironport getting bought by Cisco and then Cisco letting their product rot while simultaneously jacking up prices blew Ironport’s reputation. They were excellent appliances before the acquisition.
related, Microsoft on Microsoft marketing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
> ...the fediverse sucks

Aside from a larger population or migration of communities that are important to you, what would improve it for you?
They did several revolutionary things with starship:

Full-flow staged combustion metholox engines.

Stainless steel construction.

Biggest rocket to have ever flown.

Highest thrust at launch of any rocket by a factor of two or so.

Live streaming of reentry via a space Internet network.

Etc…
Canada is already a federal state with sub national entities that don’t have all the rights of the federal government. Pretty much any state that has a federal system already deals with this.,
The key aspect that allows the businesses to get away with this is the buying frequency. You might buy a couch once every 10 years so it's very difficult to judge quality. Whereas with something like coffee beans I'm buying it every week so I have 52 opportunities every year to analyze the quality and change brand. The couch seller knows you probably won't make a repeat purchase so it's all about marketing tricks.
They missed a zero...
You know, technically i feel like wikipedia already is. Each revision of a pageis hashed, and they form a sequence in time. Isn't that the definition of block chain?
It's the (IMO faulty) theory that all regulations increase prices. Sort of like "if you require all houses to meet code, you can't have a market for very low quality houses that would decrease the prices of mid quality houses".

The problem with this theory, particularly in the case of an ISP, is you need an actual free and open market with a large amount of competition before it starts making any sense. When you talk about things like ISPs which are region locked and have low or even no competition then it's meaningless. A region locked ISP can (and will) charge pretty much any price the market will bear divorced from the actual cost of service.
How about government mind its own business and let the free market hash it out?

Most of the world keeps working harder and harder, catching up more and more to the US. Keep it up and Americans will become uncompetitive relative to foreign labor.
What corruption are you referring to?

Who built the house/apartment you live in? A real estate developer, right?
I'll still take this as progress. With thermonuclear reactors it's perennial 20 years, similar for flying cars, in-house robots, manned flight to the Mars, so 5 years as a stand-in for "foreseeable future" sounds like a good step ahead.