skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree this seems like basic things you would figure out doing anything uncertain. The first blocked out quote of the article is:

“If an experiment doesn’t go as expected, it doesn’t necessarily mean you did something wrong.”

That’s why it's called an experiment… I don’t get why this is insightful.

I guess there is a lesson about carefully noting down failures, in the corporate world handing over a document detailing all the things you tried that failed is much better than just failing silently.
that's really just an opinion. and I'd argue that if people really care about a fair and sustainable concert going, given how ridiculous the live event situation is, you'd support pretty common and standard requirements like ID to be shown. as others said: ID is already required to validate age in many events/venues
I use them in Slack and iMessage, no problem. I’m just massively against seeing them in the terminal, or logs.
What is the cognitive engineering lab?
Well, the horse costs only 4x less than the game. WoW has an insanely larger market cap.

It's not crazy that people bought the horse in more $ amounts than SC2's first release. It's crazy that people spent $15 on a single cosmetic.

I don't fully trust piratesoftware guy, since he does do a lot of clickbait, and isn't exactly a well known body from Blizzard. But I do reckon that micro transactions for a larger game would well outsell an old purchase model on a smaller game.

And yeah. We can only blame gamers for the way video games are now. The good games rarely get acknowledged, but the bad games proliferate continuously.
The best model I've seen for patents is increasingly escalating renewal fees for periodic terms. Such as get the first 5 years for very limited fees, every 5 years (up to some max such as 30) require 2-5x to renew or the patent expires. The exponentially increasing fees limit the hoarding of patents without direct economic benefits, but the high cost means you are able to provide offsetting social benefits while still providing incentives for innovation.
There was no other, simpler interface. And the whole system was much simpler (and less capable). The graphical hardware was way simpler and fully in-house, unlike the current GPUs that are third-party and evolve quickly.
Sleep town needs Waymo
Plausible is very nice, but it lacks much of the information from Matomo (like “after viewing /foo, visitors tend to view…”). Matomo is very nice, but it lacks the free Google Search Console integration (“people are currently finding you from these Google searches: …”) from Plausible.[0]

I’m vain and curious enough to want to see the Google data, but not so much as to pay $160/yr for the Matomo plugin for my personal blog.

[0] This isn’t the same as Google Analytics. You can get this information without installing a tracker on your site.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907155
Except it's not truth.

You want truth?

The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold, makes the rules."

Truth is that money is all that matters. Nothing else in the world of business matters not relationships, not customers, not Boards of Directors or CEOs. Money.

Until a person realizes this, they will be forever caught in a cycle of thought that is not truth.

"Follow the money!" is the best way to see how society works, and is why every government wants their hands in our money. Meaningful change in this world requires money. No amount of idealism or 'using our powers' can change that.

Do the wizards have 'F-Off' money? No. Will they ever? No.
I have lived in two cities that opted to remove their red light cameras. The negative position was an erosion of privacy.[0]

I think it’s deeply uncharitable to frame it as “rolling over” on crime. That’s the same manipulative rhetoric proponents use to argue for gunshot detection systems. Safety and privacy are the dueling interests - not anti-crime and pro-crime.

[0] Along with studies that found red light cameras increased accidents. I’ve seen studies in both directions, though.
I did not know std::shared_ptr would not slow things down. I've learned something new today! :)

Yes, I agree, epoll is a lot better than FD_ISSET.

Maybe I can keep moving with my C++ code but do people still trust C++ projects anymore? My ideal use case is a hobbyist who wants a toy stock exchange to run directly in AWS. I felt that C++ has a lot of bad publicity and if I want anyone to trust/try my code I would have to rebuild it in rust.
With greater transparency it would be interesting to see if rational behaviour kicked in, reducing fines.

Anecdotally with speed bumps in my area, I've seen that people increasingly aren't being rational recently: five plus years ago the vehicles that would get in trouble were typically company owned/municipal vehicles - the prospect of damage to the vehicle didn't concern those who didn't own the vehicle and thus those were the ones being driven at speeds great enough to cause self-inflicted damage. However in the last few years, it's common to see people frequently trashing their own private cars, with scrapes due to going too fast, which you would imagine they don't want to do but end up doing by accident - the speed bumps are the same, so either the cars got worse somehow or the drivers did (more distracted/less attentive or simply a worse judge of speed/the physical environment)
I usually try to gen out a graphviz dotfile of a “typical” Gradle project’s task dependency in an org to demonstrate to people how much magic happens under the hood. I often have to choose the smallest, simplest project or the graphviz engine will choke on the hundreds to thousands of nodes and dependencies used.
Do you live close to the office?
>I know several friends who hired local eastern european dev shops for 10K-20K that delivered promising projects.

Have one of those teams do it.

I'm not sure what question your asking if you already know teams capable of this
I’m a coder that prefers an office with a door and a common area. I actually really miss in person system design meetings - the kind that spill out to the common area and people are passionate and interrupting each other, vs the “wait your turn to talk” online meeting. (I also have not found anything close to a whiteboard wall for design.)

On the other hand I live a mile away from my office and bike in, and I don’t ever want to go back to an hour long commute.
Britney Spears is not your typical situation. She was legally incompetent and in a conservatorship control by her dad until very recently.
Guess it depends on upon what you do.

I mostly make crud endpoints, so I can remember most of what I need. And for the times when I can't I prefer to view the API docs in a browser.
> Doral killed its red light camera program last year, after officials noted that accidents greatly increased at intersections where the cameras operated.

This is crazy, I'm glad they are being required to open up more statistics on these because unpredicted externalities definitely make this go from a seemingly mildly unethical government behavior to a public safety issue. Cities trading revenue for safety seems extremely perilous.
right below that the docs also say that this hash is not persisted, only cached in memory and mapped to a UUIDv4. The UUIDv4 is what persists between sessions.

> The IP address and User-Agent are never stored to the database or disk, and there is no conceivable way to trace the random UUID back to this.
>
> It’s only stored in memory, which is needed anyway for basic networking to work.

I can't say whether that is GPDR compliant but it's definitely not storing the hash
The art files linked from the gallery are literally twenty years old (marked 2004). The game is still alive though, and the art is not bad at all.
I do know the problem domain well. My second iteration in rust already almost has an order book implemented.

Writing code in rust however is very fun! (At least so far lol)
No, but anybody commenting on legalities outside the court room should be using "seem", as what they're saying is not definitive. Especially if they've got any legal background.
>There's an easy way that the average person can fix this problem: stop driving through red lights.

That's hard to do safely when they shorten the yellow-light time so that you have no warning that the light will turn red.
TypeScript is the answer.
Given that a NJ driver from a small town with an suspended license killed three people this past week with his car[1], I think there might be a decent public safety argument to be made here.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/us/colears-hook-park-nyc-truc...
This was an article about wedding bands; solid bands of one material without precious stones.
So literally remove as much allocation as possible and then reboot each day. That makes a lot of sense to me!
If you are just trying to process the transaction and don't need eg catalog or inventory management, Stripe Payment Links probably does the trick: https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links
That is an hilariously authoritarian view and wrong to boot.

You are confusing rights that are created by the threat of violence, such as copyright, and rights that are protected by the threat of violence, such as the right to not be killed for no reason.

Needless to say there is no inherent right for an author to profit from copyright. It is a wholly constructed right. They do not "deserve" it. Perhaps a society chooses to organize itself that way and perhaps it doesn't. On the other hand, innocent people really do deserve to not get murdered.
Love your landing page! What did you build the animation at the top of your page with?
They are from 2004 lol
(sorry for the wall of text; I guess you asked for it :)

Mostly, I feel it slows me down. I'd rather continue on to the next thought than translate the current one into words in my head. It's a semi-conscious decision. I can almost feel the word-making machinery gearing up, but if I race ahead it doesn't have time to grab on.

Also, it can be a bit overly-constraining. Sometimes constraints are good, like the article mentions — they force you to make decisions and face issues. But sometimes I feel like ideas are better served left in an "un-collapsed" state, at least for a time. I feel like much of my most valuable thinking happens in that state. And sometimes manifesting the thought is better accomplished through artwork, or physical activity, or something else that's not writing.

So I guess there's a "to manifest or not manifest the thought" decision, and after that, there's a "to manifest in writing/words vs. another medium" decision.

I remember as a teenager talking to some friends about thinking, and the idea of thinking without words was surprising to them — for them, thinking was words. And I gather this is true for many people. But I also gather it's not true for many people, myself included (: Apparently, there are some people who have word-thoughts appear as text floating in their mind, which is wild to me — lots of weird mental variety out there[1].

Over the years, I've come to see my thoughts as more "tactile" than anything else. Lots of physical textures and movements involved. Just earlier, I was wrestling with an issue that has been on my mind, and it was like trying to solve one of those "separate the ring from the rope" puzzles — lots of turning, twisting, pushing, pulling. I've been struggling with this task, and writing about too, but I feel like I made more progress with that recent mental wrangling than I had with pen and paper. Though I can't quite (yet) put into words the progress I've made!

Anyway, when people write about "how to think" topics, I sometimes feel left out because there's often an implicit assumption/bias towards wordiness, and the primacy of words in thinking. Unsurprisingly, these writings are written by writers who love words, so there's a bit of a self-selection bias going on. Words sometimes get ascribed near-mystical powers ("In the beginning was the Word...", magic incantations, runes, etc), and they are kind of magical. But I also know from my own inner world that there's a nameless, wordless magic, too. But writers don't write about that as much ("write what you know"), so you don't hear about it, and it doesn't hold as much cultural sway.

So, I try to speak up for the alternatives, encourage people to keep a broader perspective.

[1] In case you're interested in such things, some interesting research: https://news.wisc.edu/that-little-voice-in-your-head-if-you-...
1. People can disagree for other reasons than being an apologist.

2. Saying "1000%" like that is a bad comment, so don't assume the people that downvoted even disagree with you.
this is really interesting, I'd love to read more if you have the link/links!
You leak your fingerprints every time you touch a smooth surface; one extra copy on an unlikely-to-be-lost item doesn't really increase your risk much.
I never wear my rings places where I don’t also bring my fingers, and rings don’t leave oily prints like my fingers do. Sarcasm aside, I’m not sure how this is a security risk.
We are OK with giving up civil liberties when it's the liberties of minorities?
This is why used hybrid RAV4’s with 40K miles are selling over MSRP.

I think these stats are biases towards junky brands with high turnovers.
I’ve been here since 2008, and only saw/needed this today.

I’m one of today’s 10000 :)
https://xkcd.com/1053/
I just wish the Affinity apps weren’t so slow. Ever action lags and waits for the app to catch up, not to mention how long it takes for the app to start up.
The Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
I would _totally_ go to that show.
I use emojis all the time in logs when I want messages to stand out against a wall of text.

Let's try to evolve beyond disparaging those who have different preferences than you.
Where do you write it down? I write a lot of things down but then can never find the information when it's relevant.
> if we just moved to single-payer health care, the role could disappear entirely.

I disagree; what is called "single-payer" health care does not solve the actual problem, which is that the people who are getting the services, the patients, have no idea what they cost and therefore have no way of knowing whether the services they are getting are worth what they cost. In that environment there will always have to be people whose ostensible job is to control costs, since the normal mechanism of markets that does that is prevented from operating.

(Note that similar criticisms could be made of Graeber's own claims.)

> It's a bullshit job because it's solving a problem that doesn't need to exist.

I agree with this, but not for the reason you give. See above.
Kinda hard to right a test that a value that is null-checked, when that value may never actually be returned.

For example, have a C function that reads in a file and returns you a string? The string can be checked that malloc actually succeeded, but how do you check that the file actually opened?
I have a decent - not great, but decent - Sony STRDH590 receiver that serves as an HDMI switcher. Apple TV and PS5 send HDMI to it, and it selects the signal to forward on to the TV.

What’s your setup like?
When I did low latency everyone was offloading TCP to dedicated hardware.

They would shut down every single process on the server and bind the trading trading app to the CPUs during trading hours to ensure nothing interrupted.

Electrons travel slower than light so they would rent server space at the exchange so they had direct access to the exchange network and didn't have to transverse miles of cables to send their orders.

They would multicast their traffic and there were separate systems to receive the multicast, log packets, and write orders to to databases. There were redundant trading servers that would monitor the multicast traffic so that if they had to take over they would know all of the open positions and orders.

They did all of their testing against simulators - never against live data or even the exchange test systems. They had a petabyte of exchange data they could play back to verify their code worked and to see if tweaks to the algorithm yielding better or worse trading decisions over time.

A solid understanding of the underlying hardware was required, you would make sure network interfaces were arranged in a way they wouldn't cause contention on the PCI bus. You usually had separate interfaces for market data and orders.

All changes were done after exchange hours once trades had been submitted to the back office. The IT department was responsible for reimbursing traders for any losses caused by IT activity - there were shady traders who would look for IT problems and bank them up so they could blame a bad trade on them at some future time.
sure, but the Google Takeout process is too complicated for the average gamer. These days with most platforms managing cloud saves for you most people have lost the skill of handling actual save files if they ever learned it to begin with.
I beat it in one click.
Why can't this work with Final Cut Pro on a Mac?
Couldn't you just shatter the diamond with minimal risk to the actual finger?
I’m curious to know what your experience of changing to Warp has been like? Sounds like terminal was working fine for you - was the switch worth the time?

I signed up for the waitlist ages ago and finally got the announcement of Linux support in February but am still yet to try it. Mainly because I’ve had a particularly busy year and I can’t justify fiddling around with my stack just for fun. I have no appetite for the risk I may lose hours to fixing something that goes wrong.
That's a pretty good argument against copyright. Is it really worth losing the cultural intellectual commons so that the average author (nearly all authors, in fact) can make well below minimum wage? I'm unconvinced about that being a societally beneficial trade-off.
Z-lib is making Epstein clients lose money
"Giving the world a solution" vs. "showing the world how flawlessly smart they are" reminds me of being "visited" by a genius (muse, inspiration). You now have the gift to share, but it doesn't show you're a genius.
I'm a very happy self-hosted Plausible user for years now. Solid, simple, and easy to maintain.
A few things.

I don't think you can argue against being obstinate without understanding it.
I suspect being obstinate has value. It is basically the whole chesterson's fence kind of thing.

Sort of like "electric cars are impractical!"

That said, persistence is how the future is created. But sometimes it doesn't work.

I'm also reminded of "Often wrong, never in doubt". Unfortunately this seems to work well in society, but it takes people with experience to argue against it.
We are OK with these minorities becoming crime victims, because we don't want to inconvenience potential criminals?
Does OCLC get revenue from advertising or anything like that? I always notice they have google beacons on their site.
possibly if you are interested in doing this sort of thing, you will be interested in doing it with free software. in that case:

the debian debconf video team has been doing this for something like 15 years without the iphones and ipads, and without a limit of 4 camera angles, with 100% free software, and supporting live streaming (with simultaneous recoding to various bit rates) as well as just recording. they can fix unfortunate choices of camera stream after the fact for the final archived videos, too

they document their setup at https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/docs/index.html. the live video mixing software (to choose which camera angle to stream at any given time) is voctomix https://github.com/voc/voctomix which belongs to the ccc video operation center https://c3voc.de/

i don't actually know what they use to push the rtmp video streams to the streaming server, but rtmp is very widely supported, since it's what twitch and youtube use for streaming video. obs studio can do this and is probably the most popular software for doing it; it's also 100% free software. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... says that you can also use ffmpeg directly

ffmpeg -re -i "Introducing App Platform by DigitalOcean-iom_nhYQIYk.mp4" -c:v copy -c:a aac -ar 44100 -ac 1 -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/stream

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Webcam#Encodingexample1 suggests getting ffmpeg input from your webcam with

ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 25 -video_size 640x480 -i /dev/video0

and i can successfully test my webcam with just

ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -f sdl 'hi'

but i think that integrating an audio stream is a little more hassle if you want to try doing it manually with ffmpeg command lines (details in https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide and https://www.baeldung.com/linux/ffmpeg-webcam-stream-video). if you want a gui just use obs studio
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Is there anything wrong with taking a single parameter?
This is my recommendation too. You can do a lot with Woocommerce, for no cost apart from hosting it and paying for premium plugins (sounds like you may not need many or any of these).
Discussions on this topic generally degenerate into

"If you don't want to pay fines, stop driving through red light" (i.e., cameras are cost-efficient law enforcement)

vs.

"Cities shouldn't use robots to extract huge dollar amounts from their citizens and travelers without having to look them in the eye" (i.e., massive income is prima facie evidence that the decision to install cameras is driven by revenue rather than justice)

There is a simple change we could make that should have broad bi-partisan support that can cleanly make both sides happy: Local governments shouldn't be able to keep the revenue from automated enforcement cameras; instead, it has to be sent to another part of the government (e.g., to charity, or the federal parks department, or basically anywhere that isn't under the control of the city council making the decision). This removes the incentive for cities to treat violators of minor traffic laws like piggie banks, but they are still free to use cameras to economically enforce laws protecting public safety if they deem it prudent. Importantly, it also reduces the appearance of corruption, restoring some faith in local government. We all lose when citizens view the justice system as an extortion racket.

(You could, and in my opinion should, extend this to all fines levied by local governments, but we could start with traffic cameras as a baby step.)