skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unreal Engine, by far.

It's not only just extremely well written in general (with your only chance of 'really' learning the engine to go through it, read comments, and the like) but it also defies the wisdom 'everybody knows.' That wisdom being that premature optimization is the root of all evil - like we're supposed to just benchmark things, see where the bottleneck is and then try to work on optimizing spots like that.

Unreal doesn't do this. There are countless thousands of micro-optimizations everywhere. For one striking example there's even a fairly substantial system in place that cache the conversion between a quaternion and a euler rotation. This would never, in a zillion years, be even close to a bottleneck. But with thousands of these little micro-optimizations everywhere you get a final system that just runs dramatically better than any comparable engine.

In more general terms, they've also taken advantage of the 'idiomatic flexibility' that C++ offers to create a sort of Unreal C++ language that is also just lovely to use and feels much closer to something like C# in terms of luxuries like the lack of manual memory management, garbage collection, reflection (!!), and so on. The downsides are that compile times are horrible (even though a cached compile might only take 10 or 15 seconds, it feels like forever when trying to work out one specific issue) and C++ intellisense, especially in a preprocessor heavy environment, is pretty mehhhh.
// You will not be open to lawsuits or criminal prosecution

PSA: Don't take legal advice from an engineer :-)

PSA: Don't commit vandalism of any kind.

PSA: Especially after you talked about doing it on a public forum....
can you give an example of some queries that failed?
Is alcohol dependencies all that different, chemically? Alcohol metabolises to sugar pretty damn well (at least till your liver gives up)
My observation as a [mostly] backend dev is that the JS world in general is fascinated with building complexity and then using more complexity to address the previous complexity. Transpilers, converters, tree-shakers, oh my. It's 2024 - building a web app should not be rocket science or require such obscene tool chains.

Unrelated, but I've been trying to finish a project of mine, and after long breaks I would discover that my front-end code was out of date. There was already a better framework, or a new version, making your old code obsolete. I gave up after Vue 3 introduced composition API - all I did was learn "the new ways" without actually building anything.

Then I switched to HTMX and ditched all that bullshit.
To compare it to heroin is a horrible trivialization of something
that destroys a person and at time those around the person.

I feel that to make this statement in any genuine way, the author
should spend 6 months developing a serious addiction to heroin
then attempt to get clean.

I am blessed I have never done heroin and hopefully I never will.

I have gone weeks without sugar and had a craving, some mild
headaches and at times been a bit grumpier.
That is not even a measurable fraction of trying to get sober
from a heroin addiction.
Quitting cold turkey after a change of environment (moving somewhere else) is a good tip not just for addiction, but for any change in habit.

However, a more practical approach is to reduce the dosage slowly. That works especially well for sweet drinks. If you have a soda maker, you can slowly reduce the amount of syrup you use.

After a while, your tolerance for sweetness goes down, so things that previously felt not sweet enough feel just right, and things that felt just right before will now feel overly sweet. This will then also help with reducing sweet food.
Since we're nostalging about old train software, I'll mention JB BAHN https://jbss.de/hpg_eng.htm It's more simulator than game but I had a lot of fun with it as a kid
Same thing with intermittent fasting. One deviation and the appetite comes back with a vengeance and you have to restart from scratch the process of getting used to fasting (which is the hard part, the appetite is what makes the caveman go out chase the mammoth, it's a strong force).

Experimenting with Mounjaro right now + intermittent fasting. So far so good, but only one week into it. I am hoping to use it as a guardrail in case of any accidental deviation.
When the short term cost of non-participation is far, far higher than the long term cost for the individual, is the ToS anything less than coercive? If you don't use github on principle, you're fucked.

We need the public square back, we need it conceptualised as such. The death of twitter was horrifying, apparently you can just BUY it.

Excuse my passionate language, but fuck these predators.
The imperial system is fine for intuitive everyday human operations such as serving one's family greens. One cup does not have to be the same size as everyone else's. It's not as good when preparing rocket fuel or chemical reagents and scaling orders of magnitude or mingling measurement systems.
To avoid sugar might not be impractical, but to avoid carbs altogether and go full keto? Very difficult for many, and would probably reduce my enjoyment of life quite a bit.
I don't think they're that different. The muffin I had for breakfast contained wheat, milk, egg, and sesame oil. Salicylate intolerance is at least as common as sesame allergy, so let's toss in the blueberries, too.
Understanding Input Masking in LLM Finetuning
Replacement works for me. Replaced all added sugars stuff (drinks, ice cream, cookies) with fruit and the difference was very noticeable. Fruit also has its own kind of sugar, but my body runs differently on that compared with food with added sugar.
Has everyone forgotten the furore that was Cook's Source Magazine stealing a recipe that was published online?

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/04/1940257/cooks-magazi...
The examples are so horrendous I thought it was satire. I can’t wait for genome, cryptocurrency, and nuclear power startups to “move fast and break things” and screw up so badly and remind us why we had these regulations to begin with.
I've decided that I won't eat anything sweet from a supermarket. It keeps all the low-hanging sugar away (chocolates, cakes, donuts, etc) while still leaving me able to enjoy a nice dessert at a restaurant, or similar rare occasions.
How do you eliminate false positives from pilot usage of the device or knocking into it? I wonder how long it will be before flight insurers start using this data for hedging following the Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 turbulence incident.
Not rare at all for an average family with kids.
Really poorly written tweet which is long without being more than talking points for people who already agree
If you are buying hardware for billions of dollars, you can afford to spend a fair bit of engineering effort to make your code run on less expencive hardware.
It's funny you mention this. I did door-to-door sales for a bit and that's what provoked this post. I worked tech to get a check but the _mentality_ of folks outside of tech and in (which I imagine is the same gap that folks in finance, insurance, etc have) gave me a bit of pause when I was thinking about my tenure here.
It's especially cringe how he mocks safety by putting it in quotes
You don't work in a very big office before there is birthday cake in the break room on the regular. Or the Girl Scout cookies someone's parents are desperately trying to get rid of. Or the left-over pastries from that executive meeting. Or your manager brought in a box of donuts to "boost morale"...

Dieting in an office setting is often quite difficult
An interesting question is what behavior the author has
developed as an alternative to sugar.
If anything.
Yea, hadn't realized this till I had kids. People are basically constantly throwing sweets at them, and while Im not super-strict about regulating sugar, if I let them eat all the candy they were offered, it'd basically be all their calories in a given day.
You’ve completed a cursory google search and don’t understand why our leading explanations for the observations cosmologists have made say what they say — OK. Sometimes when our opinions counter the narratives of whole scientific fields, it can be helpful to first convince yourself you actually understand what they claim: what is the evidence, and what are the required inferences to arrive at the modern cosmologist view of what the universe is made of.

If you’d like to learn about Dark Matter and Dark Energy, here’s a 12 hour pop sci lecture series I can recommend: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjBulz4rXhBohsOjohoYDC2hS...
That's how I responded when Lyft gave me stock options. You saw how that went down.
> If you really care about this then find and do a simple general blood test for your micros/vitamins.

I wish they were cheaper (a broad set is >£100) - would love to do it say weekly, and be able to really see it against the food I've been eating (maybe keep a rough note of that, or just be able to think about it in terms of seasonally what I've been eating).
Vitamin D is the only one the NHS (i.e. the UK authority) recommends adults 'consider' taking, especially in winter months. It suggests year round could be beneficial for certain groups, such as darker skin (less production of it from the limited sun we get than lighter skin) and those working/spending most time indoors.

For everything else its guidance (for non-pregnant adults) is that you should be able to get it from your diet.

Not that it says don't or that it's really bad, or especially if you have some inherent deficiency (or you're a menstruating vegetarian, etc.) it could be a very good idea to take the relevant supplement to make it easier than getting it from food, I just thought it was interesting when I was looking through recently that the language is very consistent for all of them, except vit D which has the relatively strong 'should consider taking it'.
My argument is that we have been lax with the separation of powers. Congress is required to declare war before the President can direct the armed forces into combat, for example. This has failed recently. Congress also must not declare a permanent generic war, and then leave it up the the executive branch free to do whatever it wants with the military. Or, if they declare war on French Guiana, that doesn’t give the president freedom to attack Georgia.

The argument is not that the EPA should report to Congress instead of the President. The argument is that the EPA should be limited to doing what the laws Congress passed actually says. It is the executive branch’s responsibility to implement the law, not create, implement, and judge cases like they have been doing.
I think it makes a lot of sense for Vercel to push RSC and all the complexity of new Next.

- They sell compute / bandwidth. You can not make a lot of money if people are building SPAs that load from a CDN and execute on client.

- SSR kind of gives them some server compute but as soon as the initial page is loaded, we are back to point 1.

- Here comes RSC then. And they pushed hard. Made it look like the best thing ever. Oh the initial load time is the most important metric. You gotta make sure you hit this score on whatever benchmark thing…

- They also kind of acquired React. It is basically Vercel’s now so they can dictate the development direction.

- All this with almost no benefit to developers (compared to something like pre app dir next) but likely helps them a lot in terms of revenue.

I mean this might read like “vercel evil” post but it is what corps do and they seem to do it well.

I used next on a project recently and will not touch it again because the hype did not materialize as any type of gains during our own development.
Why do you imply that non mandatory conscription means that the poor or desperate will be the ones to enroll?

In Romania around 2008 mandatory drafting was removed from the constitution and yet we still have an army. The reason why we have such a small army is in a significant part due to pervasive corruption in all of the state's structures, low salaries and abusive higher ups. We have an interesting documentary about the subject (has english subtitles) about the ridiculous state of the army due to reasons mentioned. https://youtu.be/0_YnxJJcC7M?feature=shared
There are other axes of comparison than severity. I think it’s a comparison that well illustrates their point.
My reaction to genomics, nuclear power, cryptocurrency was “one of these is not like the others.”
I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels off about that. I feel like heroin as the standard measure of “really bad addiction” is at least an unhelpful choice.

I don’t think people walk away from an article like this thinking opiate addiction is any less horrible than they originally thought, but the usual refrain of “[porn|sugar|social media] is like heroin!” usually presented with a fMRI capture with circles on it, gives me pause. At best, it’s not communicating the actual effect of addiction on someone’s life, at worst it does trivialize it.

To be fair to the author, this article doesn’t follow that usual refrain.
The one I made from scratch after iterating over 3 years. You can see the technologies here [0]

[0] https://gitsell.dev/u/bitofbreeze/r/bitofbreeze/git-sell
Or US Customary, I think it's called, (~237ml).

(I believe this one and the imperial one (which definitely is) both make some sort of sense in being the same as half a pint. For whatever reason that's consistent, but the US needed to reinvent the pint (and gallon, ton[ne], ...).)
I find it interesting how the culture in the US is to chastize China for its "anything goes" policies when it comes to entrepreneurship, while simultaneously lamenting how regulation kills innovation.

You kind of can't both say "damn those Chinese for not respecting IP and stealing my hard work" and also "I don't want regulation, I want to be able to do whatever I want". Or do you not consider IP protection laws regulation?
I intend to use Mustafa Suleyman's likeness and name for my next project. It's part comic book/part novel and tells the story of a socially awkward tech CEO getting way out of his comfort zone by moonlighting as a male porn star. It ends with an OJ Simpson style police chase when it's discovered that Mustafa has been embezzling funds to support a drug habit and addiction to plastic surgery.
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The author did not imply that sugar addiction is anywhere as bad as heroin addiction.

They observed a technique that was shown scientifically to be effective for the more serious addiction and decided to try it for their milder addiction. That’s just good reasoning, and it worked for them.

> The main conclusion from the study is that a change of environment as radical as Vietnam’s during a war period compared to the US was critical for their recovery.
What were the benefits? The problem I have with the system is that if there was some concept that 'needed' to be regulated, there's absolutely nothing stopping Congress from doing so. In fact there's also nothing stopping various regulatory agencies from doing so. But Chevron deference essentially removed the check-and-balance that the judicial system provided, in cases where regulators may have gone beyond their legal authority, or even contravened it.
See this in the context of corporate and governmental greed aligning into the impoverishment of the masses. This is part of a general movement towards wealth concentration, and war is the next step.
OctoPrint's anonymous usage stats were manipulated
You are correct.

I am, of course, aware that companies are not the market, and I am one of those "privileged elites making all the decisions.

My compensation is closely tied to our performance, and we "privileged elites" constantly look for ways to gain an edge over our competition. In my experience, that edge is not to be found in hiring people based on their skin tone, sexuality or genitalia.

I currently focus on making my Organization a place where people want to work, and, therefore, work marginally harder than they would for our competition. This allows us to hire the kinds of people who have options because they are that good.

Might that be a "stupid decision"? Should I have hired for diversity instead? Time will tell, as will my bank account, but for now, it appears to be the right call
Guy whose salary depends on not understanding stuff chooses not to understand stuff...news at 10.
This is stable diffusion 1.5. https://civitai.com/ and https://huggingface.co/ suggest the popular options are SDXL based - it is a much better model (effectively SD 2.5). Still imperfect, but much better.
Part of the sweetness in berries comes from other sweet compounds like Glycine for example.
You don’t have to have a regulation be declined by the courts. You just need a court to more easily issue months-long stays on a given executive action.

My concern with all of this is that a handful of courts will see this as an opportunity to get trigger-happy with issuing stays on executive agencies, causing a complete deadlock with any new law.
> on Keto alot of people, especially athletes load up on as much protein as they can

This only works because athletes tend to have pretty insane protein (and calorie!) demands.

If you as a regular, non-athlete person load up on protein (while neglecting to consume sufficient fat), your body will be forced to convert the protein into glucose, and you'll fall right out of ketosis
Valid observation: turbulence patterns differ from pilot tapping and can be recognized and disregarded. While complete elimination of false positives isn't always feasible, employing various techniques allows us to significantly minimize such occurrences, thereby mitigating their impact.
I would argue that if I ask ChatGPT something, it doesnt "reproduce" what was written on certain website (or at least it shouldn', without attribution). It takes what it scrapped before and re-tell it in its own words. That isn't reproducing, looks like a grey area not yet addressed in copyright laws.

I would partially agree with the guy, that yes, that was a social contract since 90's, but before the AI era. Back then this use case wasn't anticipated.
I want the FDA to get meta and be empowerd to say if you add sesame to everything just to work around our rules, we'll fine you, because we're not idiots.
You can eat whatever you want if you just work out seriously an hour a day. If you do that properly, gaining weight will become the challenge.
A decade ago I got into intermitted fasting and forced myself to drink my coffee black at work. Going from a double-double (x2 cream, x2 sugar) at timmies to black. big change but the IF motivation for mental clarity, and increasing my metabolism worked out so well that I didn't mess with the regiment until recently adding oat milk to my coffee, or butter. its really about dealing down the dark coffee flavour.

beyond the benefits, I find that my palette rejects anything too sweet now. my wife's family loves mangoes and its one of the first things they eat in the morning. I just can't. grapes, mangoes, lychee.. all way too sweet for my liking.

if it comes to sweetening a summer lemonade for guests, real maple syrup over sugar and it really helps when your circle of friends are also on a similar kick. no one brings donuts to gatherings any more.
Bullshit. The cost of not participating in the short term is high.
My pet theory is that due to zero interest rate policy, too many startups were able to raise too much money and so they hired too many engineers that didn’t have anything really productive to do for years. So they kept reinventing wheels for a decade plus, each iteration more complex than the previous one.
Copilot links to its sources. The author should reconsider having this blatantly false and easily verifiable article up on their website
I think the counter point to that is that we have think tanks and political organizations who have rich donors with which to hire high power law firms, who find the regulation they want to axe, and then search the country for a case with standing and then pursue those cases until the regulation dies.

You are right that it won’t be the little guys doing this, but they might be represented by very powerful organizations who take down laws professionally and are doing so for their own benefit. And with the way politics has entered everything, who knows which things will be targeted next, or what new cruelties they care to inflict.

At the same time, again due to the current political climate, it doesn’t do us any good to have all the rules thrash back and forth with each new administration. This is what we get as we get more and more polarized and laws aren’t being written with compromise. Congress and elections need serious reform.
He said "fair use", and only then added, quite unnecessary "or freeware, if you want". He primarily meant fair use.
Moving from Gatsby to Next's pages router is definitely an upgrade. Pages router is awesome and easy to understand.
Entrust bought nCipher's product line from Thales in 2019.

nCipher make HSMs - a lot are used in banks to encrypt transactions on behalf of devices through APIs like PKCS11.

To answer your question "how secure that is?"; The answer is yes, secure.
> IMO Intel should stick a "please query the size of the cache line if you care about it's length" clause into APX, to push code today to stop #defining CACHE_LINE_SIZE (64) on x86.

This doesn't help.

The issue with increasing cache line size is false sharing. And false sharing isn't something that's only dealt with by people who know or care about cache line width. The problem is that mostly, people just write oblivious code, then test it, and if it is slow, possibly do something about it. A way to query cache line width gets the infinitesimally small portion of cases where someone actually consciously padded structs to cache line width, and misses all the cases where things just happen to not fit on the same line with 64B lines and do fit on the same line with 128B lines.

Like it or not, coherency line width = 64B is just a part of the living x86 spec, and won't be changed. If possible, we'd probably wish for it to be larger. But at least we were lucky not to be stuck with something smaller.
Is a six out of ten laptop “great work”? What they’re doing is very difficult, no doubt, and I’m glad they’re attempting it, but it sounds like it amounts to quite an irritating machine right now. Certainly no way I’d consider it with a review like that.
And of course you can easily replace the keyboard and trackpad yourself for about $100.
Uhhh I’m not talking about morals or karma whatsoever. I’m talking about factually, what actually occurred. One can look at the timeline of events themselves: $400MM in aid frozen a few days before a phone call with Zelensky in which he pressured an investigation into Biden. The records exist, you can look at them yourself.

You’re free to take the position that the timeline, testimony, and transcripts from the call are overruled by your belief in Trump’s and the Senate GOP’s integrity, but that’s not the only reasonable interpretation of events.

One can absolutely draw their own conclusions separately from what the obvious sycophants in the Senate ruled. A finding of acquittal does not mean that the alleged acts didn’t happen, in any court case, never mind one as politically loaded as this one.
I was in Florida. The nitrogen runoff created an algae bloom that suffocated thousands of fish and manatees. As a joke at the hipster coffee shop I picked up a packet of sugar and said I was boycotting sugar because what the big sugar did to the environment. I didn’t make any difference except I’ve had perfect blood work and zero cavities since. I also lost a lot of weight. Maybe I didn’t make the environment healthy however I sure am a lot healthier.
Someone could make a docx viewer easily enough if there was demand for it. it's just an xml file inside a zip file with the contents. it's no LaTeX but it's serviceable.