skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As Bluth remembered, older technical tricks like the “shadows or the reflections or the double passes through the camera” were “evaporating before our very eyes.”1 The problem was bigger than that, too. Bluth and many of the other young trainees didn’t know how to make a movie, and they weren’t sure how to learn. According to Bluth’s colleague Gary Goldman, “We didn’t even know what questions to ask.”

>“We were learning to animate,” Goldman explained. “We were learning to in-between, clean up … and we said, ‘Wait, there’s so much more we need to know.’ ”

>That included writing, scene planning, editing and more. Even the Nine Old Men had “forgotten” much of what went into Disney’s older films, said animator John Pomeroy.

IME, this is an incredibly widespread problem in the Age of the Retiring Baby Boomer. Many of them jealously guarded their professional knowledge, for fear of replacement, or simply never documented it. When it comes time to pass it along to juniors, they either can't or won't; then, with little official notice, they're out the door, and you're left building from first principles or trying to make sense of process spaghetti. I'm not sure if this is better or worse than the Boomers who stay on into their 70s and 80s - still refusing to train their juniors, but also preventing the advancement that would allow younger workers to even attempt to learn the position. ...No, I suppose retirement is better. At least there's some runway, instead of the incumbent simply dying one day and leaving everyone scrambling.

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>and there was a sense among the garage artists that Disney’s management didn’t care to implement most of the lessons from Banjo.

“All of our learning is only going to do us any good,” Pomeroy remembered thinking, “if the higher-ups will accept what we’re trying to make happen.”

And there's the other side of the deal. When you make people go off and learn things on their own, they often learn... that they can go off and do things on their own. Disney sort of won in the end, but Bluth was a thorn in their side for quite a while.
Are you regularly involved in inner-city gang violence? The United States is a big, diverse place.
Wonder if you could some how arbitrage your own food delivery...
The chair is also a metaphor. Planning a project in a hammock is as much work as typing on Emacs.

But googling productivity advice, asking people what should they work on, and faffing about on HN is NOT work. Jumping on another project instead of taking one to completion as soon as it starts to get unfun is NOT work (which is OK for a hobby, but work gets harder the closer you are to completion)

In any case, you can do a lot of work away from the keyboard, but until you type it in in your editor, it's just an idea that exists in your head, and those are worthless.
I guess my point is we don't have millions of outstanding programmers for this reason.

That Ecole school does not look as bad. What I am referring to common practice of working for virtually free in government assigned contracts that you can't even quit for 3 years, this is happening South Korea and CIS countries. And those places are far from elite French schools.

Lots of people so dragged down by bad work and government they can't fully flourish into Outstanding Programmers and make good projects.

That being said, there is something those individuals still can do, albeit little and low chances, to improve their odds and just have, like, physical time to survive and make some good stuff.

Some examples,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kistiakowsky

Russian joined Anti-Communist White Army during Russian Revolution at WWI, fought for two years, got wounded, escaped to Turkey, got into USA, become professor of chemistry at Harvard, become important member of team that built atomic bomb in WWII. Was leading USA mission to Soviet for military scientific exchange as asked by Roosevelt. When first atomic bomb went off, he was not in bunker, but outside for “better view”. After WWII served scientific adviser to USA president.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_M._Poniatoff

Some Russian guy out of nowhere in Tundra, in cold trip got told a story of a beautiful place, weather is always nice, and lots of opportunity — San Francisco. So he decided to move there. He made it to Shanghai. Then moved to San Francisco in 1927 and made company and equipment for audio recordings AMPEX in 1944 — his initials plus “x” for “excellence”. This company later created VR-1000 video-tape recorder.
Agreed. Also, caring is another high order bit in your output and growth. Butt-in-seat time can be extremely wasteful if you are not engaged with or invested in your work. If you are passionate about what you're working on, it can be a huge productivity multiplier.
Also: the modification of DNA in B Cells, for the formation of new antibodies. It's akin to generation of new inputs in fuzzing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26860/
It's amazing, thank you. I really struggled without mouse inversion but got there in the end.
> society taking a wrong turn to being driven by ratings on the I internet

Workers being driven by ratings systems pre-dates the popularity of Internet gig economy jobs. By a lot.

The customer ratings concept even infected places like your local doctor’s office a couple decades ago. Doctors have been complaining about how patient satisfaction surveys have discouraged them from bringing up obesity, smoking, or excessive drinking for decades. Doctors are also more likely to give in to patient demands for unnecessary antibiotics or controlled substances when they know it’s going to result in a hit to their ratings if those ratings are related to their compensation.

Every time I’ve visited a car dealer for service in the past few decades, the service manager is almost begging me to give them a “9 or 10” on the survey that will be sent to me afterward. He pleads that I work with him first to address anything that might reduce his rating.

Even vehicle drivers have had “How is my driving?” numbers on the back of their cars for a very long time.

Having customer satisfaction surveys tied to performance reviews isn’t new if you’ve worked in anything customer-facing. It’s just getting more attention now because “gig economy” has become a journalistic buzzword and people are more likely to be sympathetic to an hourly worker than, say, the doctor or service manager at their local dealership.

Even long before all of this, tipping was the standard way of linking customer feedback to compensation. This applied to delivery drivers, too! The hand-wringing over customer feedback being an internet-era gig economy thing is misplaced. It has always been this way.
> Imagine if software devs got a star rating for every new commit, rated on how long it took compared to how many points on the ticket (which someone else decides). And if your rating drops too low you stop getting tickets (and stop getting paid). And your salary sucks to begin with.

This is the app store, more or less.
Just had a few seconds, A/D is strafing as I'd expect
This is why history resonated so well with me back in school. Instead of just blindly learning historical facts our teachers requested us to explain what were the grounds and cause of historical events.

I still use this when learning new concepts. I try to Llearn what existed before and why the change made sense.
Two Symptoms Your Team Isn't Agile
Rome wasn't built in a day and it wasn't built alone. IMO the best programmers are the ones that can build a community around a shared vision. By this metric, Andreas Kling has done an incredible job with the Serenity project. Although he's a certainly a good programmer, I believe the project succeeded because of his EQ and general kindness. Too many brilliant programmers are lacking in that department.

You can be a brilliant programmer, but there's zero hope of building anything like Serenity as a one man band.
I think the hopes were that China, once prospering in the global marketplace as a big player, would turn democratic. Over the last decade or two, we've come to realize the opposite has happened and the Western powers are adjusting.

Of course Western companies have made a lot of money off China with cheap labor and massive marketplace, so it wasn't entirely an altruistic endeavour.
Unless you wanted to compress that json. If you insisted on the structure, you'd have to create a specific algorithm just for json. Because json is just bytes, you get to compress it with a generic byte compression algorithm.
Gian Carlo Rota's Ten Lessons
> All the sciences are like a soap opera of personalities and disagreements that make them much more interesting

Most people don't like soap operas and would zone out due to that, you might get a different set of people interested but you wouldn't get more.
A lot of what makes c string handling hard to use is the decision they made that api's should write into a user supplied buffer rather allocate one for you.
Claim was around 70%. Amazon disputed but didn't provide own numbers. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-power...

Maybe it was 69% XD
Training wheels isn't a fair characterization, the IDE tools are just better for a lot of use cases. I haven't had an IDE grind to a halt since earlier versions of IntelliJ on some large codebases back in ~2016 where the internal linting process lost the plot. Mostly they're just memory hungry and they start up slower.
I loosely read it as both: Using cmp.Or does not short-circuit evaluation.

The other bit was also interesting:

> According to the proposal, the built in constant `zero` would be available in generic functions for return or comparison. However, after the proposal was accepted, it was retracted due to continued community push back against the idea of having both `nil` and `zero` in the language.

So instead of having a `zero` we have many zeroes `nil`, 0, `""`, etc. Go really eschews abstractions.
No that's something else, LoROM and HiROM differ in how the ROM data is mapped into memory, while FastROM and SlowROM differ in the bus speed. You can have Lo/Slow, Lo/Fast, Hi/Slow or Hi/Fast carts.
> recreational psychoactives of any kind

I’d prefer my ATC has a cup of coffee if they want it.

Aside from that, what does what happens in their off hours matter provided they’re coming to work sober?
this is one of the pieces of writing that encouraged me to get into tech.
>It has got to be more than that. I almost always have an editor open, working on some ambitious project. Without bashing myself too much, I have have 96 original Github projects, 90% of which unfinished.
All the finished ones are either tiny, or which such a small niche no one would ever use them or pay attention to them. Of the unfinished ones, they're all so unfinished that even if there would be something worthy of note in there, it would not be in a state that's marketable to anyone.

I'll bring up a remark John Carmack made (paraphrasing): "All the small games we made for Softdisk were not worth remembering, but I'd like to think that the work that we've put during that time was what ultimately allowed us to build better games".

With that I mean, we romanticize programmers to the point where we forget what they made them great. They worked and made stuff no one will ever remember or know, but it was NECESSARY work that led them to build the stuff worth remembering.
Apple could probably make it a lot simpler to use. AWS is very complex for the nontechnical.
They could also do something like windows 365 and let you rent a Mac in the cloud.
A finely crafted piece of art.
Out of curiosity, do you plan to make this project open source? I'd be curious to learn about some the technical details.
And, reading between the lines o/t article: stable interfaces. The more stuff exists that uses an interface, the slower it tends to evolve. So very-popular interfaces tend to be stable & long-lived by necessity, because 'breaking the world' is not an option.

Come to think of it: that also applies to physical infrastructure: building codes & materials, road networks, AC power grids, gas stations + associated infrastructure to supply those, telecom networks, etc etc. Anything deployed at scale tends to evolve slowly.

Come to think of it: ... [biology]
Looks amazing, great work.

One suggestion: add the option to invert the touch camera controls. It feels weird to rotate the world rather than the camera in a first person game, and I'm constantly rotating in the opposite direction than intended.
Hey, thanks for the book suggestion. It's an interesting one and will definitely help me in my journey of learning assembly (just started a few days ago)
The first version of a sync will be the browser (SaaS) version. You can sign up for the waiting list: https://getwaitlist.com/waitlist/5547
Supreme Court to hear case on criminal penalties for homelessness
What you're saying is that it's not for you?
Cool story, bro.
> the bonafide original

If you take "the bonafide original" to mean the government-issued ID, then obviously only the government-issued ID is boner-fido. But there's no reason why that should be my only ID; I could, for example, generate my own keypair, and hire a notary public to attest that the holder of the keypair is (select any):

[] Good for ten-grand

[] Older than 18/21

[] The person shown in the accompanying (signed) photo

[] The author of xyz.blog

[] The same person as government-ID xxxxx

Only the last needs to be linked to a government ID, but all the others are authentic, bonafide attestations.

And such an ID would not be a duplicate of anything (not sure why you mentioned duplicates; passports, bus-passes and driving licences can all be duplicated).
sometimes I stumble
into stuff I’m sure I’ve already read something about in an article but if I didn’t bookmarked or made a note of it it’s very hard to find again (miniflux flushes content after a certain age)
I wish more people understood your thinking. Two instructions you get at a doctor’s office before having a surgical procedure:

- Wear comfortable clothes.

- Don’t eat anything before surgery.

The first is so you don’t have tight clothes rubbing your achy body on the ride home. The second is so that you don’t vomit up your eggs Benedict, inhale it, and die an awful death. They’re both in the same size print in the same bullet list.

That stuff should be explained beforehand but I rarely hear it said that concretely. I’ve wondered if rephrasing that like:

- Don’t eat anything before surgery, because it might make you die.

would save lives.
My original comment is a reply to the argument that you often hear- "in this day and age, you can't truly ban something".

I say to that- "you don't really need to truly ban anything, you just have to make it hella inconvenient".

Just eliminate the app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Almost all the work is done. Just like that. You do some more, and you effectively shrink the user base by 99%+. That's all you need.
In my field (databases), the boomers I’ve worked with (a handful, to be honest) were all keen on sharing their knowledge. They also seemed happy that someone younger was actually listening and not just telling them that their knowledge from the 70s is outdated.
This project makes me want to play SimCity 2000 again. Congrats, nice execution.
I don't know about you, but he's shipped more than most people on here have done. I guess two award winning games and a programming language is not good enough for some of you.

Or are you trying to say he is too successful to take any advice on success from?
This looks really cool! Working on multiple projects with different versions before tools like pyenv or nvm existed was a real challenge. As someone working with different programming languages as well, this tool looks like the next logical step.
As HN garners eyeballs and also being an election year, I would suppose PR elements would bleed through the comments.

I started coming here about 5-8 years ago because of the comments section usually having insider or wicked smart people and their viewpoints.

You did the right thing by asking this question. It might be downvoted but we can all see something and say something.
"For example 8x7B Mixtral only executes 13B parameters per token, but it behaves comparable to 34B and 70B models"

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure Miqu (the leaked Mistral 70b model) is generally thought to be smarter than Mixtral 8x7b.
> Feels like comparing Lists with functions, or promises with interfaces

Functions and lists are technically isomorphic, you just replace the function with a list of (domain, codomain) pairs and function invocation then becomes list lookup. This is basically the set theory definition of a function. So yes, this comparison to the article is apt, the article is saying that you can encode effects via coroutines.
Isn't there a way to integrate this type of info into the actual search engine? Ie, search for type:rss or atom and return the links to the RSS feeds?

[edit] I mean, to have it closer to what OP showed.
The business itself is unsustainable. There isn't any good way to provide delivery of most items to most people at a reasonable cost.

Also, the consumer isn't being given the choice, they are provided the cost from the app. The delivery company isn't willing to charge what it costs to have dedicated delivery drivers. That's the real culprit here.
Interestingly enough, Hitman (the remakes) slimmed down their installed size by the time Hitman 3 rolled around. They said that thanks to SSDs being around, they didn't have to optimize for the slow random read speeds of HDD anymore.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/oqb7jc/how_is_hitma...
Yeah sorry that should be streaming services. Somehow editing does not work on this app.
I just opened it again to make sure I wasn't imaginging it. Oddly enough, A works to strafe left for me, but D doesn't work to strafe right. I'm using Firefox 121.0.

Edit: ignore me! It's one of my plugins!
I use a mixture of agents each with a different model who “speak” with each other and iterate quickly to come up with an artifact.
Tilt relative to what? Rotating a map doesn't make it inaccurate.
So instead of memorizing facts you were asked to memorize someone's theories, is that really better? To me that was always much worse.
This is super nice, and it looks like it's going to have some really great features, well beyond OpenOrb's! Excited to keep an eye on this.
Strictly speaking the exclamation mark convention is for things that are "dangerous", in some sense. Modifying in-place is one sort of dangerous, but there are others, Process.exit! being one notable instance where the "modifying in place" thing is a bit of a stretch, and not really the thing you care about.
I thought of one other thing thats very important... ill write it as a reply to another commenter.
Old joke from usenet:

> I have reverse engineered secret security algorithms used by the CIA and can break any message they encrypt. As proof, here is the last few lines of an implementation of their encryption function in Lisp

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Daniel Dennett Has Died
Ah, I see, thanks for the explanation! I'm asking because I'm working on a similar project, which allows to both search and save blog posts permanently.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10356789/loblaw-grocery-receipt-s...

It's not just not a strawman, it's already happening, even if it is illegal
pyenv is still the best solution to this problem I have yet to see - wish it existed for everything
This article has been very helpful in helping me re-understand the 'market'.
> Want to eat steak every day? Just have the headset render your lunch slop as a ribeye!

Big Tech: We hear ya! Our new food AR system is always on. Every meal you eat we will prompt you for what appearance to give your food. Different tiers have different micro transaction prices. Of course there is also a free tier. The free tier will render all food as potatoes. Rendering as meat will start at $5/meal. And there is no limit on how fancy we can make the rendering. Nor how much we will charge you for those fancy renderings. Can’t afford it? Enjoy seeing nothing but potatoes for every meal.
> 32 is the age cut off to enlisting.

For the audience at home: Marines 28, Army 35, Air/Space forces 39, Navy 41, Coast Guard 42.

ref:https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/military-age-limits/
I had to switch to Edge to get it to work.

Can't find that damned access token though.
> If social credit systems are to work, we need KYC and centralized ID.

I think we need KYC. That doesn't mean centralized ID. As far as social credit systems is concerned, I take it you are being humorous, but I don't think there's much that's amusing about "social credit".
Correct. You shouldn't decide whether there's a genocide going on in Gaza by consulting official statements from interested governments. You should decide based on independent human rights researchers, international law scholars, journalists, and so on. Opinion on the subject among these people is very much split.
> I guess {} is better than BEGIN END, but maybe not in terms of readability.

AFAIK, {} lacks initialization and finalization blocks, like a sql statement without transaction wrapper. Example is awk:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Using-BEG...
Ha! I like that take. And they do “fly”, just under water.
idk why everybody is against emojis, they're honestly fine for me.

but you do you, I guess
Look at the backlash the change to maximum speed limits in NYC has gotten, even here on HN where people should be a bit more well educated than the average. Every single change to roads that drivers perceive as detrimental will be met with huge backlash, even in the cases where it will help throughput.

Drivers do not care about throughput, they care about what they perceive will benefit themselves to make their journeys in a shorter time. Lowering speed limits doesn't give them that impression (but it does increase safety and throughput), reducing car lanes to make space for exclusive bus lanes has the same effect, shared modality streets (like trams + busses + cars) also help to increase throughput but drivers don't see that way, they only think they will be slowed down by the other traffic.

It's a big political change, the car-centric culture of the USA does not allow for much progress in this since it will require a multi-decade concerted effort to actually tackle the problem. If a mayor changes the standards for roads (or governor, or whomever is responsible for it) there will be backlash and a potential political weapon to run against them next election, the next incumbent will have to deliver on the promise of giving cars more space since a reduction for just 2-4 years will create issues that require many other infrastructure projects to compensate for, and you end up at the same spot after a few cycles of this.

It's not rational, it's dysfunctional, but it's the culture that the USA created, to change it will require a lot of political capital to be burnt and many administrations in a row implementing projects that move the needle of this culture to something else.
Hello, visitor from the future coming across this old discussion! In case you're wondering, marginalia_nu did come up with a usable reproducer for the bug, filed a bug report, and the problem is fixed: https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/8747
Why does the HN title have a false editorialized claim that is not in the linked page?
Yeah! I am -very- glad to see this trend. I am guilty of posting deaths per year when other normalized stats are far better. Thanks for pointing that out.
This is a cool idea.

When I search for "history" it returned only technical articles, and heavily favored dan luus website.

Are technical blogs the primary focus?
Who was president a few years ago? Who was banning it a few years ago?