skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China doesn't give foreigners meaningful access to their markets (and when they do, it comes with a pile of restrictions, including on ownership structure);

Unlimited access to any bit of IP of the company that at any point finds itself within China's borders seems like the biggest limitation.
'Human intelligence'
> That's why I like all-round developers better, they have a bit less to prove by making "smart and complicated" code.

I thought we all agreed the best kinda code is the stuff you can debug at 3am. While drunk.
For what it’s worth, I purchased from one of these Amazon stores every day for over a year. After leaving the store, it would typically take 2+ hours before my purchases were registered in the Amazon app. I agree that there probably was a large degree of automation but based on how the store worked, there didn’t need to be an army of “real time” reviewers for humans to be involved in each individual purchase… it’s totally plausible based on what I experienced that Amazon did have an army of people involved in the standard purchase path.
Attention, moral skill, and algorithmic recommendation
Given Python has a long history as a teaching language, that strikes me as the kind of grandiose statement without evidence which Perl fans used to be fond of. Even more so given there are approximately no “non-programmers” writing Ruby and enormous numbers writing Python in finance, data science, typography, EDA, and a billion other places; civilians seem to manage with Python just fine.

For what it’s worth, language _really_ built for humans probably looks more like Excel or Max/MSP (or both) than like any traditional language - at least those use our embedded spatial reasoning rather than laundering everything through a text serialization.
It’s likely more “out of the box” than developing your own text editor from scratch.
I gotcha!
FIFO is not an efficient way to prioritise work, though. Unless all work has about the same value and urgency, in which case, I guess, that sounds nice.
We definitely aren’t making enemies in SEA, but we are not close enough friends yet that they are willing to take a hit on getting cheap cars from China. Australia also, they are basically the only country that will follow us anywhere to war (eg Vietnam), but even they will buy BYD over Ford if the price is right.
i heard snow crash was a great book so i start reading it. immediatley it gets deep into pizza, the deliverator, the extreme attention to on time delivery, universities that specialize in franchising a pizza shop

and then a little farther on you learn part of the book takes place in the virtual internet world. and i’m absolutely sure the pizza stuff is all part of this virtual world…

one of my favorite books
Coolest Tool Award
Walmart serves all kinds of income levels of people, some of whom do not have a mobile phone (the poor, the homeless) and others who would have trouble using one (elderly). Requiring an app to track things going into and out of your cart is just not workable there.

Ultimately, it's cheaper to hire minimum wage workers to just deal with stuff. There's always going to be people so desperate for a job that they'll work there and get public assistance to cover what their paycheck doesn't.
It is interesting to ask how such events are organized. It did not look like they are led by an adult. What triggered such gatherings?
I have no idea where you get this impression. Municipal fiber projects have by and large provided consistent symmetric fiber broadband at reasonable prices, while ISPs have invariably gouged people, provided both inconsistent and outdated services, while also selling basically any information about your browsing history they can get their grubby mitts on to everyone under the sun. Between that and abysmal customer service, there's a reason they consistently ranked among the most hated companies in the world. And yet every single one of them is making bank. What world do you live in?
I can't get over the idea that this is a bunch of people who were angry their favorite proprietary systems got killed by open systems and, ultimately, open source. Compatibility and not being dependent on a single company are good things!
> The author of DOOM for SNES, Randy Linden, did not have access to any documentation about the GSU chip or even DOOM source code. He reverse engineered all of it

Technically this is impressive, but why was it necessary?
Watching Dr. Eric Lander's lectures in MIT OCW Biology course was a watershed moment in my life. I felt exactly the same way as this blog post after finishing the course, two years after graduating from college. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it yet: https://youtu.be/P-Ry4rRdDbk?si=Hp2SEkEKGeeui-pP
This exactly. It's hard to properly understand security, even for educated professionals. IMHO security features should be the default only if they are demonstrably correct or hard to misuse.

Otherwise, the often wiser thing to do is to make the danger of doing something as obvious and blatant as possible. It's like the debate around having a root account or not: IMHO it's better to have a superuser that everybody perceives as an obvious danger, that's easily recognizable and never really ok to use for mundane tasks. I've seen people misunderstanding Windows ACLs way too often because of this.
You will be correct for the most part. However, there is a question of motivation as well. Kids can make very cool toys with a lathe.

I am not from the west, but I watched Band of Brothers. From most of the ww2 media there is always a term being used. "Why we fight?"
That's my understanding, and why you need full continuations to handle all effects. In my mental model a coroutine gives you an execution point that you can resume, but you are not allowed to resume execution points you have previously resumed. You cannot, for example, implement backtracking search with just coroutines as you need to to return to previous execution points. (Look, you can implement anything with anything. Turing completeness etc. This is about implementing it in a natural way using the effect handlers.)
Personal Library Science
Because of massive price increases due to a monopoly.
Yes, and if there's any easy way to recover from that, then implicitly the identity system can't be used to prevent Sybil attacks/spam, since it would be easy to make a new account when you didn't lose your keys too.

But the article suggests that relying on government issued IDs as a base lets government track all that we do. That's not the case, and is the point with all these systems. It should be possible for instance, using cryptography, to make a distributed chat room service where it's public who has signed up for a chat room, but not who of the posters in it are who.

To be able to selectively prove your identity, including connection to the government-accountable you, without directly involving the government or even anything licensed by the government, would make us more free online, not less.
Kant’s views are a refreshing change compared to default physicalist monism of the STEM-educated but philosophically naïve crowd here (who do not even realize that their view is unfalsifiable).

I would say Kantian influence on modern philosophy is strong enough that one can get away without reading him directly. Reading the original is always a good idea but in that case you would perhaps need to do some work to compensate for the differences between cultural context then and now.
Is there any reason why the rotation animation doesn't just use CSS rotation? The code looks rather complicated and this old laptop seems to really be unhappy to do what appears to just be two images doing a standard rotation.

Is it not that?
Boolshit. It's just another nasty exempire that wants a bite with nothing biting back. The sort of practice the free world order was to put to an end and then that moral oder was destroyed by George w Bush. Putin loved him for going natural. Send them to the hague.
That sounds like google's 'team matching' process lol.
That MS only reacts if it hurts their profits
> That is closer to what actually happened here.

It's not actually how it works. Like at all.

The board is not hired by the CEO. Shareholders elect board members, or for shareholders who are large enough, they appoint them. Sure, Elon can say "hey, I want this board member" and the shareholders can do with that as they will, they are under zero obligation to select them.

Grateful he put them on his board? Did you see who these people are? Titans of industry many of them. Tesla was a tiny company everyone thought was going bankrupt at the time.

Now you might say "Shareholders were hoodwinked". Tesla is dominated by a few large investors (Vanguard, T Rowe Price, etc). This is not a 60-year with a beer in his hand who bought a couple shares, these are large institutional investors with massive teams who do due diligence on their investments, one can't claim they were we "hoodwinked" or "misinformed". They had every opportunity to select board members who represented their interests.

And not to mention - his pay package is public information. You yourself could go on sec.gov and look at it.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312518...

"Elon will receive no guaranteed compensation of any kind — no salary, no cash bonuses, and no equity that vests by the passage of time. Instead, Elon’s only compensation will be a 100% at-risk performance award, which ensures that he will be compensated only if Tesla and all of our stockholders do extraordinarily well. The award consists of stock options that vest only if Tesla achieves specific milestones, which if fully achieved would make Tesla one of the most valuable companies in the world with a market capitalization of at least $650 billion — more than 10x today’s value."

The compensation agreement was back when the stock was $20/share. The stock price was 15-20 times larger at peak. He took at $65B company to $650B, creating $590B in wealth for shareholders. He got $50B.

Funny how the only commentary when the pay package was agreed to was "If Elon hits these aggressive targets he'll be in for a big pay day, but too bad Tesla is running out of cash".
The highload.fun wiki[0] links some resources. The intel optimization manual[1] is also useful.

These resources are mostly aimed at solving problems for which compilers are not very useful, so there are probably other resources that are a better fit.

[0]: https://github.com/Highload-fun/platform/wiki

[1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/6714...
This sounds like a great time to be working at Bayer. What's going to happen though is that this will open up an internal power-grab and then whatever structure comes out of that will remain around for a while.

That said, my gut tells me there is a good chance that whatever structure it ends up might be more efficient than top-down selection. My experience of top-down selection is absolutely horrible. The outcomes are worse than random.

They probably already already did some internal studies to ascertain that teams of professionals could operate autonomously without management... And if they can, it makes sense that managers could only get in the way. You don't need managers if you have the right incentive structure.

Most of what managers do is threaten and allocate punishment. Studies have shown that positive reinforcement is more effective at guiding behaviors than negative reinforcement. What kind of positive reinforcement can one get from a manager aside from a worthless pat on the back? Any employees today actually value that? Better cut out the managers and dangle big bonuses in front of the employees directly. The CEO at the top can save all the pats on the back for themselves!
Funny, because I find Python much more readable than Ruby in most cases. The metaprogramming in Ruby has always struck me of bikeshedding novel programming idioms instead of focusing on simplicity. But that’s just my own opinion.
700k is deep into staff+ territory. One needs to complete something unusually noteworthy to cross that line, years of experience alone is not sufficient.
That's my point, they outsourced their testing to the customer.

That's a no-go.
I do really like how cartridges on the old systems were essentially equivalent to a PCI Expansion Card in a PC. It was directly connected to the Bus and could do essentially anything. Sadly, that practice ended after the GameBoy Advance, and everything since the Nintendo DS has been purely data storage.

This leads to crazy modern enhancements like a Raytracing chip[1], or the MSU1 enhancement chip that is AFAIK not available as an actual physical chip, but only in software emulators. But it would be theoretically possible to manufacture, so you could have an actual physical SNES Cartridge of Road Blaster[2].

On the article itself, I noticed that his list has "Street Fighter Zero 2" as a USA ROM - that should be incorrect, since Street Fighter Zero is what Street Fighter Alpha was called in Japan. So Zero 2 should just be the Japanese version of Alpha 2. (Also, thanks for linking to the MVG video that debunks the myth that the delay before each round is caused by decompression)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jee4tlakqo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvIXUOr4yxU
That's exactly why I built my own tooling when going through the book.
I built everything in Golang and am working on some visualisations in Javascript.
Repo: https://github.com/deosjr/nand2tetris
Website: https://deosjr.github.io/ (lispmachine part is wip)
I’ll tack on that file permissions are one of the most confusing parts of Linux to me and I hate having to think about them in any capacity
OT: Not a modern one, but "Z80 Assembly Language Subroutines" has been my favorite computer book for 40+ years.
The cities near me that have planned municipal broadband are spending more than $5000 per resident. I pay more taxes than the average person, so I end up spending more than I would spend on private service.
Google Maps goes haywire on Indian roads
Lingva – Alternative front-end for Google Translate
actual title: The Internet Classics Archive

I like http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ myself
Problems probably aren't as unique as you think they are
There is some limit to how many people you can manage effectively. So, in a company with, say, 10,000 employees, you can't have just one layer of management between COs and ICs. You'd either need each manager to work with 500 direct reports, or you'd need the COs to work with 500 managers. If we look at 100,000 employee orgs, this gets even sillier.

If you even attempt something like this, what will actually happen will be a chaotic hierarchy arising within the larger group, with people playing politics to rise above their peers.

Edit: I should add that I absolutely believe a bottom-up organization can work, but it needs to be built with the right organizational model in place. You can't just say "no managers" and expect people to work directly for the CEO. You can put in place rules so that employees can self-organize, appoint representatives to interact with other teams, vote for collective decision making and so on. But this typically requires a huge power loss for the C-suite and owners, which is why it's very unlikely to work well outside of a co-op.
Being homeless and unemployed isn't good for the human soul either.
LOL, how do you "exaggerate" a 20x increase in share price? The creation of $500B in company value?

"God dammit Elon, you never told us how easy it was to take a near-bankrupt company and turn it into a $650B enterprise!"
It's not about objectivity it about teams/tribes if another team is winning then you're losing. Simple as that, you can see it in a lot of places. MMOs,console wars, phones, sports, politics, ...
At least a contributing factor is that it’s easier (emotionally and politically) to hire additional mediocre people than firing bad ones.
Great interview with Boyan Slat on AO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNWiqq0UxN0
I disagree from a pedagogical standpoint. Math can be used as a tool, but that’s not the most effective way to teach math. I’m assuming the goal is to teach comprehension and understanding.
Exactly how I learned to touch type; only it was Discord not IRC. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
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Build a Forth
It's performing the projection in real time. It has to because you can change the perspective of the projection by clicking on the map.
Some Details on the Doom Wiki (https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Super_NES):

Randy Linden, the port's sole programmer, initiated the port of Doom for the Super NES on his own initially, as he was fascinated by the game.

Since Doom's source code was not yet released at the time, Linden referred to the Unofficial Doom Specs as a means of understanding the game's lump layout in detail. The resources were extracted from the IWAD, with some (notably sprites such as the player's sprites and the original status bar face sprites) unused due to technical limitations.

According to an interview, due to lack of development systems for the Super FX, Linden wrote a set of tools consisting of an assembler, linker, debugger, dubbed the ACCESS, on his own Amiga before beginning development of the port proper. For the hardware kit, he utilized a hacked Star Fox cartridge and a pair of modified Super NES controllers plugged into the console and connected to the Amiga's parallel port. A serial protocol was used to further link the two devices.

After developing a full prototype, he later showcased it to his employer, Sculptured Software, which helped him finish the development. In the interview, Linden expressed a wish that he could have added the missing levels; however, the game, already the largest possible size for a Super FX 2 game at 16 megabits (approximately 2 megabytes), only has roughly 16 bytes of free space. Linden also added support for the Super Scope light gun device, the Super NES mouse, and the XBAND modem for multiplayer. Fellow programmer John Coffey, himself a fan of the Doom series, made modifications to the levels, but some of those modifications were rejected by id Software.
If people found out about this from an abstract, the fixed version wouldn't have already been pushed to distros, cves issued, etc by the time it was public. People would also be a lot more angsty about it.

Nothing about this suggests that it wasn't first privately disclosed to the glibc maintainers or that anything else improper happened.
> AFAIK, there has never been any evidence or reason to suspect TikTok of sharing private data from Americans with the Chinese government. It seems like simply being from China is the crime the US government wants to ban TikTok for.

https://fortune.com/2024/04/15/tiktok-china-data-sharing-byt...

If you're going to argue that sending data to Bytedance in Beijing isn't sending it to the Chinese government, you're free to believe that but it would not be supported by the available evidence.
The mario kart Wii retro-players have you covered with ARMv8: https://mariokartwii.com/armv8/
Did you really just imagine Neonazis taking over and then complaining about Neonazis in another country. Bizarre dissonance..
But it's odd, the end results of the "negotiation" are public. So regardless of how the negotiation (or not) happened, the end results (pay package) was in front of them in black and white to decide on.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312518...

It was pretty straightforward - if stock price hits X, Elon gets Y. It even says "Elon will own 12% of the company if all stock vests from hitting $650B in valuation".

It even has a nice bar chart showing how much Elon would make if he hit the highest tier - CEO Value Realized ($B) - $55.8
I hope developers still love to blog details with article mode like this, rather than vlogging it on YouTube. A lot of detail packed into a few kilobytes only.

"Super Mario World" is still the masterpiece game ever. It has amazing characters, sprites, and stages packed into only 360 KB.
Precisely! The idea that you can set down the requirements and all the design decisions before you even start thinking about the implementation is completely flawed.

The engineering/manufacturing dichotomy was just with respect to your statement about carpenters. Even then, expediency on the part of the manufacturer will often result in design changes.
homepage: https://automatedarchitecture.io
Oops, I meant to say carbs, not starch. Anyhow a high-carb diet will lead to weight gain.
I ordered a pizza from Domino's in 2019 and it took 3 hours to be delivered. All it took was that one awful experience and I'll never order from them again.
> Now everyone can sound like an expert and craft a pretty good, customized, concise cover letter.

Zero content coming from LLM's sounds like this and yes I've read quite a bit of output from a variety of them (including whatever version/release the reply is going to ask).
Thanks for noticing. Zapier integration will be available from next week.
Page overrides browser scroll behavior, making it really annoying to read.
Of all people I know who don't support the Israeli government (including myself), none of them use Tiktok. It really seems a stretch.
Domain name is completely distinct from public awareness about you. They exist on completely different conceptual levels. It is a key distinction I suspect you are incapable of seeing.

A domain name is one of the means that together can help achieve that awareness and/or deliver your product.

It is like saying an airplane is “a large part of being in New York”. It is useful if you want to fly there, but once you’re there you don’t need it much. You can also drive.

> Consider "basecamp.com" or "hey.com" -- would they do just as well if they had to switch every month to basecamp.nl and basecamp.io ? Probably not.

Again, if you are specifically in the business of subverting the law and expect the world to turn against you and your domain is the main means of delivery then it may be wise for you to do something like this (or simply be a Tor hidden service with the same outcome). For any normal product this does not matter.

Incidentally, public awareness about the pirate bay did not really go down since their domain seizures.

> People type in the domain name

No.
Chilling ending to the article:

> Gig drivers don’t face an edict for speed like past Domino’s drivers, but Wells says the requirement to be fast is built into the job, with drivers hurrying to make financial incentives, avoid bad ratings, and ensure the food is warm upon delivery.

Annoying corporate policy replaced by society taking a wrong turn to being driven by ratings on the I
internet - that we unlike the bad policy can't get rid of.