skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how to maximize shared_ptr performance:

- In function signatures, use const references: foo(const std::shared_ptr<bar> &p). This will prevent unnecessary bumps of the refcount.

- If you have an inner loop copying a lot of pointers around, you can dereference the shared_ptr's to raw pointers. This is 100% safe provided that the shared_ptr continues to exist in the meantime. I would consider this an optimization and an edge case, though.

I would say people trust C++ projects at least as much as any other professional language - more so if you prove that you know what you're doing.
Strike that, legal stop
LightRAG: The PyTorch Library for Large Language Model Applications
at the time the original xbox was designed and its same generation of intel CPUs, the absolute practical maximum you would be able to put into a single socket desktop motherboard would be 768MB of PC100 or PC133 SDRAM (3 x 256MB DIMMs). If you actually saw a system with 768MB of RAM in it, that would be some very high-end CAD workstation.

There was no practical way to get anywhere near 4GB of RAM within the dollar cost that a person purchasing a $200 CPU on a $150 motherboard would be able to bear.
> Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
I would pay top dollars for this if you can integrate it with Microsoft PCF along with their build tools.
Unrelated but have any of you web software folks tried the latest dreamweaver? I'm old af and I used to love DW in the 90s and actually it's part of why I even know how to code(ish), I used it to teach myself (god bless you kevin lynch)...! anyway, I saw they still update it so I downloaded it just to see what it's like..Seems like they've really developed it well into a front end focused IDE, I can't say if it's good or not, but just from clicking around it felt pretty good... Thought I'd mention it. :)
You can send yourself signal messages and search them. It's not writing though.

You could write it down, take a picture, and send it to yourself in signal if you must write it.
Exactly, there was no other, complicated interface. Except in 1991-1995 when System 6 was going to merge with AIX and be A/UX and Apple was going to merge with IBM and it was all briefly very weird.
Also hilarious is to see my thesis that Norwegians are the most Confucian of Europe (&.not the (northern) italics) apophenicated.

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:230818/FULLTEXT0...

"Confucianism in Business--
A Study of Chinese Management in Sweden"

(More Hofstede!!)

Swedes have perhaps inherited too much of the gallic ambition from Charles XIV Jean
Good article. Five qualities of persistence:

> Energy, imagination, resilience, good judgement, and focus on a goal

It's nice to frame it that way so we can know what to focus on.

Personally, I'm strong in terms of energy, imagination and resilience.

I'm probably a bit weaker in terms of judgment and focus on a goal. I think my approach to the latter 2 has something to do with my environment.

Good judgement is actually harder to achieve than it seems. I think my issue is that I was conflating 'good judgment' with 'common sense'. But it's not the same. We're humans and things can be complex for irrational, artificial reasons. Good judgement these days often entails adapting to the subtle irrationalities of the environment and learning to exploit them. That lesson has been really tough for me.

In terms of 'Focusing on a goal', my issue is that I chose a huge audacious goal with small milestones along the way. While I managed to achieve all of the milestones, they don't bear any financial rewards; their utility was just a risk mitigation strategy so that I could easily pivot to other, less ambitious goals if the big audacious goal didn't pan out.

My goal over the past 10 years was to create a platform that would make it much easier easy to build fast, secure, bug-free, highly maintainable software. That's a really difficult goal especially on the sales side as it is a highly competitive space. I managed to build a platform which achieves that. See https://saasufy.com/

But unfortunately, I'm realizing that my goal is too big. I'd be competing against many big tech platforms and also against existing software development paradigms (which is even harder!). So now I'm shifting my strategy towards using my platform Saasufy.com just for myself and my friends to build more niche products like this HR/Recruitment platform: https://insnare.net/

I'm thinking I may have to even re-imagine what 'niche' means.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Reproduces BIG-Bench Canary String
This is my go-to while I've been working on a SQLite-based app to see what's actually in the database.
You mean sentience? Of course that's where moral value begins. Almost everyone holds that position.

And people who say they don't almost always are roleplaying that they don't for the sake of argument and can be immediately exposed as holding a contradiction in their values with the most basic pressure/consistency tests.
FL gonna FL. Route 301 was notorious for nearly 2 decades for revenue driven speed traps.

https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-...
For the vast majority of recorded human history there was no copyright. We have records of Roman senators semi-complaining about how rude an acquaintance who wouldn't let them copy their book (not a book they had written, a book they had come into possession of a copy of) was.
I would definitely be up for a new Spore-like game with a dash of Bioshock. There are not enough "wet" games out there vs. hard sci-fi, fps, or space games.
Well, they could also ask trump to bless their work as an official act. So many options!
I wasn't sure if centrifugal casting would solve the issue with oxygen bubbles, and since I already had a vacuum pump, I figured I'd try vacuum casting. The main issue was that I had problems getting a good seal because I made the device myself instead of buying a vacuum casting machine. Also I could have skipped the issue of inconsistent metal temperatures by replacing my torch with an electric melting furnace.
Umm. What.

1. Mobile DMV units checks to see if your car inspection sticker is expired. It has nothing to do with DUI or DUI prevention.

2. Monmouth Junction is actually not a town but a census designated place in South Brunswick Township, a rather large municipality by NJ standards.

3. What on earth would a DMV inspection do to prevent someone who's license is already suspended from driving? Clearly they don't care and are going to keep driving anyway.
Came here to say exactly this. Revenues from cameras should go to the general fund at the state level. At the local level, cameras should be used to improve safety and for no other purpose. Government should not profit from the bad behavior of its citizens.
> If your friend tells you his kids got sick, write it down so you can ask him about how they're doing the next time.

there are limits that should be set to this kind of behavior.

some people, my parents are good examples, will tell you about the distant great-cousin of their favorite liquor store attendant who once met the hair-dresser of a long-past rockstar that was big in the 1940s.

it's not all journal-worthy is what i'm getting at. I already have RSIs.

But I agree that it does tend to delight people when you remember the stuff that's actually important to them.
Here's a good article on OCEAN / Big 5 that goes over what correlates: https://www.financialplanningassociation.org/article/journal...

For myers-briggs, here's a massive 70,000 person sample survey and analysis: https://www.truity.com/blog/personality-type-career-income-s...
Don't connect your device to the internet, and nobody is deleting your books. I sideload all my epubs from various stores and back 'em up. It's mine, not theirs.
Looks helpful! I assume ffmpeg needs to be built with SDL for this to work? I couldn't get it to work with my current minimal compile, but I don't think the board I'm working on has SDL, so might need to install that and recompile
Lol sorry for my comment interrupting the circle jerk of arch users.

You're right, learning a bunch of bespoke commands you have to run on every new install is super based.
My anecdata is when the city of Philadelphia put speed cameras on Roosevelt Blvd, a hellish road that had a speed limit of 45 through residential areas with 12 lanes and people regularly driving 80, with iirc 2 or 3 of the top 10 most frequent accident rate intersections in the country, driving on the road noticably improved and the average speed dropped a good 15 mph.
Causing people to panic and jam on the brakes, perhaps? Rear-end collision from someone who had been expecting to follow through the red light (with camera) ... Seems a rare combination.
Ohh the memories! Soo many mods for that game, from indians to Star Wars. Insane the creativity this project spawned.

For some reason the the Glest 3D Models are being sold [1], which is a bit strange considering the technical age of the models. [2]

[1] https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?keyword=Glest&me...

[2] https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/golem-542155
How can you pay yourself? You already have the money that you're giving and receiving.

This is nonsense. Capitalist mindset taken to a ridiculous extreme.
Am I understanding correctly that your position is that the enforcement of property rights is authoritarian? Or is your position that copyright is not a form of property rights, and thus authoritarian?
> you couldn't get a speeding ticket for just 0-5 mph or maybe 0-9 mph over

I assume it’s just psychology and people want to feel like they’re getting away with something but this is just the same effect as increasing the speed limit.

But it makes me wonder if the point is to have lower posted limits and therefore lower above-the-limit-but-legally cruising speeds. It’s very ass backwards but I’ll take whatever works.
Sounds like a Bethesda feature to me. Morrowind was a fun game in its own right, but the outright janky stuff you could do was the main reason I loved it.
Context or domain shifting is how I tend to think of that skill and for me it is very visceral and spatial. the ability to shift between different contexts or domains and then much like walking into a new room, or getting off a plane in a new country or taking a staircase to a new level, you are exposed to new routes and options but you old ones leave you and to leave the area is to once again change contexts and return.
Honestly, if I can't have the whole thing, I'm not going to bother mirroring a 1TB fragment that's worthless by itself to everybody except copyright attorneys.

As ndriscoll points out, the only feasible way to distribute an archive of this size is with physical hard drives. I sure wish they would find a reasonably-trustworthy way to offer that.
It's scientifically known that plants respond to stimuli such as being injured, namely to communicate that fact to others of its species in the vicinity.

For an example I'm sure most people can relate to, you probably know that "cut grass smell" when you mow your lawn? That's the grass throwing out chemical signals telling other grass "Hey! Something cut me down! Be warned!".

While whether this can count as intelligence or sentience is worthy of further debate, to say that trees don't feel anything is a gross mistake.
Fascinating, thanks for pointing this project out!
I think it depends on a lot of factors, including the timeline and efforts for rewrite, if you are going to get paid, your role and new version of product's role in new client on-boarding (expansion of client base), ... .

I think you can try to come up with some projection for the near future and then value the venture based on that and then try to correlate existing or new efforts with this valuation.

Leave your email and I can have a call with both of you to create a framework as I have done before for similar situations.
Not sure why this is being posted now, but, libav development has been abandoned since 2018.

By far the most damaging fallout of this was the demonstration of how much power Debian package maintainers have. The Debian ffmpeg package, for a while, printed the "error":

*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.

No part of this was true, and Debian eventually dropped avconv in Stretch/9. but that this falsehood was allowed to stay in the package for so long really left a bad taste in my mouth about Debian is run.
> What happened to Mega Glest?

It's linked from the main page: https://megaglest.org/

Looks like it still has some activity?
Annas Archive, since a long time.
There was an interesting analysis of the recent "who's hiring" post that outlined skills in demand: https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/
I feel like that post misses the biggest one that pulls people to GRUB: complicated boot sources and procedures. Filesystems that UEFI doesn't understand, more complex network boot sources, all that kind of complex messiness that GRUB enables and others don't. Now, whether those are good idea or not is a different question, but I think this is a good concept for a full replacement for GRUB, as opposed to the existing replacements which already cover the 90% case pretty well. (And I think it's got a case for handling the other cases OK: from the sounds of it they plan to lean on UEFI and A/B image to handle fallback, and it'll basically just work as a direct UEFI boot in the common case)
They don't have a MJPEG decoder yet, which is a blocker for hardware acceleration, but I'm going to try and patch the library with the author and get it added. Thanks for pointing it out!
There's decent evidence that red light cameras increase the total number of accidents, due to people suddenly stopping at yellows rather than blowing through[1]. At the same time, there's decent evidence that red light cameras decrease the number of fatal accidents, due to fewer people blowing through[2].

So the story is complicated: red light cameras seem to have a positive effect on the serious accident rate, but a negative effect on the overall rate. Municipalities could probably improve this by both doing a better job of signaling upcoming yellows and by redesigning roads to match the marked limit, rather than encouraging intuitive higher-speed driving. Personally however, I would take more fender-benders over more fatalities any day of the week.

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/red-light-cameras...

[2]: https://www.iihs.org/topics/red-light-running
Very good suggestion. Including "extend this to all fines levied by local governments". I would go even further than "the local governments"

But I also think "hell freezes over" is way more likely event
I'll bite.

Official documentation from who? For which audience? For which use case?

Making a bootable image for what kind of system? My Ryzen PC needs a very different image to my aarch64 router.

Where have you not seen info on "installing a bootloader to a target disk"? This is what every distro installer does - this can range from putting a kernel in an EFI partition and setting a variable to building a uboot image and setting variables in NVRAM

Lastly, what do you class as a "decent installer process"? Things have moved on from Slackware's installer. You've got everything from the Debian installer (which hasn't changed much) to Anaconda (let's run the install UI in a browser) to Ubuntu Server (everything is a container!) and many things in between.
Florida shortened yellow lights to increase red light camera revenue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707465
As others have mentioned, a centrifugal casting machine would have really helped here. I took quite a bit of jewelry making in college and all the lost wax casting we did was done this way. The force of the metal filling the mold at extremely high speeds gets rid of most, if not all, of the impurities/inconsistencies.

Wind up the machine, melt the metal in a small crucible, drop the pin and duck (lol). I was once sprayed by a small stream of molten brass at +/- 1700 degrees (poor mold with thin wall, later fixed and recast) and still have a scar 40 years later to prove it.
normally control-shift-r is just control-r; both key combinations send the same byte, 0x12, so they both search backwards in readline history. is your terminal emulator doing something different? if you type control-v control-shift-r enter control-d as the input to the command od -t x1a, what does it say?
The administrative state is under attack and this is just one of the phalanx assaulting it in hopes of getting that sweet sweet 6-3 Love.

The argument, of course, is that only Congress can do everything, and no one else should. Of course, if Congress does do something, it may or may not be constitutional, so really, only the judiciary should determine, bearing in mind that the president is unilaterally endowed with the power of official acts to right all things without due process, as long as his acts can be officially blessed, regardless of his intent.
Sadly there's tons of code-based Java build tools, but possibly zero concise (toml/yaml- like) declarative build tools. If you're currently using Groovy or Kotlin scripts for building Java projects however, then Java build scripts are appealing.
I think government fines should be destroyed once collected. There’s no other way around the perverse incentives.

You could send it to the federal reserve balance sheet, or withdraw the funds and shred the cash. Or maybe apply it to the national debt since it’s so massive nobody would feel any benefit from the fine. Whatever, I don’t care.

But no benefit should befall anyone - the only goal should be to prevent bad behavior.
Samsung Electronics union launches first strike in 55-year history
Another thing I observed was building something (at least) twice is a valid development process.

1. The first time, the client hammers out their (often changing) requirements and you get a pretty good understanding of the problem that actually needs to be solved. So the main objective of the first build is actually just gathering the requirements. You also uncover issues that may have been missed just "thinking" about the requirements.

2. The second time almost never takes as long to develop, so the development time to build that first version is a good hard upper-limit. It usually takes significantly less time because development of the second version usually involves copy-pasting a lot of the original code and just refining it.
Try piracetam.
True! Although ordering a book off amazon doesn't tell them that you bought it for you, or that you read it, or when, or how, etc. That doesn't stop Amazon from making assumptions about you that can be used against you, but the less ammo you give them the better.

Even bookstores don't always guarantee your privacy these days and libraries just keep getting worse on the privacy front. Librarians fought hard to keep the government from collecting lists of the books we check out, but they lost that fight, and now they're pushing users to use third party apps to download DRM filled digital ebooks.
Was it really trained on BIG-Bench, or was it trained on an article or forum post about BIG-Bench that mentioned or reproduced the canary string?
I don't know how I feel about all this, but I came up with an amusing idea I wanted to share.

What if we refund the money to everyone, but only those who didn't get a ticket in the past year? Creates even more incentives to drive safely.
Congress has be made to be beholded to the very people who want the administrative state to be impotent.

Congrats on being that guy who believes it's just a series of tubes.
We tech people throw a tantrum whenever something isn't perfect, while most people don't give a fuck - if it works it works.
Good point, does the CSS consider parents income for grad students at private schools?
Correct move, admins.
I custom designed a ring for my then girlfriend and sent it to Shapeways to have a mold 3D printed, then cast in silver. It turned out quite well (other than us having sizing issues). You can see my progress pictures here: https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/6292xd/i_design...

----

Now, 8 years later, I'm really wishing I had designed my own ring. I would prefer to avoid the cliche metals (silver, gold, platinum), and I can't wear silver anyway (allergic). I would really like to find an interesting or unusual metal (scientifically or just in general) that isn't going to cause issues due to its hardness if my finger swells (titanium or tungsten are very difficult to cut off in those situations).

Does anyone have any material suggestions?
Generate a few hundred resumes and see which ones get call backs.
Interesting. I worked on output devices (and some very specialized ones at that) so I didn't really see a lot of the "software" side of the business. But I have seen some "not invented here" and rivalry between the Creo and Scitex teams. Part of the problem there was actually maintaining parallel products and teams that targeted the same markets.

Acquisitions are just tough. There were good people with good intentions and teams did try to work together. I spent some of my time trying to bridge the teams, with some success. What was missing is a good idea of how to restructure things to eliminate the duplicate efforts which is super tough when you're also dealing with large install bases. There were a few technical attempts to bridge the architectures and bit and pieces from "Creo" machines found their way into "Scitex" machines.
From history, Al Capone wasn't charge with murder, violence, assault, battery, embezzlement, theft, etc. He was charged with ... Tax Evasion (!) and it stuck. As far as I can tell, Al Capone just needed to incorporate his criminal enterprise, and then his corporation would penalized, but he wouldn't go to prison.

As to securities fraud, if a publicly traded company lies facts material to criminal acts, then yes it should securities fraud -- particularly if it hurt the stock holders (and in this case it did!). This would be different than say a CEO cheating on his wife and lying about it.
>Have you tried switching to Linux, at home and at work, and only coding in C and C++ and Bash, and working with mostly true nerds on boring things?

I've been doing Linux for quite a while. I've really gotten into it the last 5 years. I do all our server builds and maintenance as one of my hats. I do really enjoy working with Linux. I haven't done C,C++ in decades. I did Obj-C when the iPhone first came out and really enjoyed it, particularly with the old school memory management. I like being close to the metal.

I've been doing C# for the last 15 years or so and enjoyed it for the first 10 years, but don't like the new iteration of the syntax. It seems like going backwards to me. Let's see how much shit we can put on a single line. That used to be a meme.

An old high school buddy of mine is really into ML and I'm trying to absorb his passion, but it's not quite taking. I hope I can get back into it at a personal level. I do miss enjoying it.

I've been on Macs since 2008 or so because it's close to *nix. I got spoiled by the hardware. Anyone recommend a laptop that is 16:10 and close to the Apple hardware that runs Linux? My laptop of choice was Thinkpad back in the day, but they all went to 16:9 which is annoying AF to me. 16:10 seems to be making a comeback though.
now you have two problems
Bart and Caltrain are reasonably priced when you compare them to LIRR or Metro-North. All 4 are long distance commuter rails, not local public transit.

Edit: White Plains to Grand Central costs $13 on peak while Mountain View to 4th and King is $8. Both are about the same driving distance