skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We were causing mass extinctions with pointy sticks as the state of the art

Not at anything like this scale, nor this rate, as is clear from the wiki article linked above.

> the mythical era of "not causing mass extinctions" never even existed.

It existed everywhere we weren't, and again, scale and rate both matter.

> Even when humanity was at its lowest creating the genetic bottleneck we were nomadic because we ate the prior area empty.

The current consensus is a lot more complex than humans being "purely nomadic" because they "ate the prior area empty."

Evidence of early permanent settlement appears much earlier than the advent of agriculture ~12,000 years ago. Ohalo II in Israel is 23,000 years old. There's likely many other sites as old and older, but our archaeology is not advanced enough to know more.

> Now we've progressed to sedentary lifestyles being possible long term and even soil management

... What?? We're only now rediscovering soil management practices which were used hundreds/thousands of years ago by people native to areas we've all but destroyed. If we'd listened to them instead of dehumanizing and murdering them things could be different, but we can still at least not whitewash them out of history.

Globally speaking, top soil is in a variety of concurrent crises. It's in the worst shape it's ever been.
I'm about done with Amex. They overcorrected on lounge overcrowding and now I can't get my wife in free for my ever increasing yearly membership fee?
In my family a few people add things to the list, from different rooms even, which would be impractical if we were passing a single steno pad around.
That sounds pretty right. I'll ask for an odd conversion, the weather forecast, set an alarm for the one in my bedroom, but that's about it.
I've been thinking about exploring convex, what are you doing with it?
I agree with you when it comes to training, but at the same time, I think that's also the power we get with the web. You can have a voice, even if others don't agree with you. I don't think that should be taken away unless you are inciting violence.
>If you pay before the billing cycle comes due, the banks will first insist you don't need a high credit limit and they will also insist you're a financial risk.

Not my experience at all. I pay multiple times per credit cycle and have never had an issue getting CLIs. My total available LoC is a few of multiples of my annual income and the only reason I stopped asking for CLIs is because I got bored with it and had enough available credit that I basically never carry more than a 1-3% total balance even if I'm floating large purchases.

I'd go farther and suggest that this advice is potentially harmful with the recent changes to FICO scoring where balances have a rolling average impact -- having a balance hit your credit report because payment posted after your bank's reporting date will now follow you for considerably longer than in the past.

Discover and AmEx are pretty generous with CLI requests IME. I went through a period where they both seemed intent on being my highest LoC card and would often unilaterally extend a CLI after a CLI from the other hit my credit report. BoA is also fairly generous. Citi and Chase seem to extend more grounded credit lines. Wells Fargo is hilariously stingy.

The big thing with any of them is asking, though. None of them unilaterally offer CLIs very often IME.

All IME, YMMMV.
> However, there's nothing simpler than having a clear D&D rule for something like fall damage, instead of having the party debate if a player survived the fall.

It's simpler, but it's not necessarily easier. I don't remember the rules for fall-damage, off-hand - and it's certainly easier to just say, "you take 2 HP of damage" than it is to dig out or start googling around for a rule.

I play a lot of D&D as well, and to me, it's a great framework for collaborative storytelling - but that's because I'm familiar with the flow of the game. That's not true for everyone, and for some people, it's more fun to have fewer rules and a more collaborative decision-making process.
Are you looking to hire freelancers to make templates?
Certainly not as picky as some of the fancy cards but yeah they def reject uni educated people with stable income
Mid-October? Your stores are behind Sparky, they should put it out in August
Many years ago I worked at a financial company that offered various investment opportunities to customers.

Which was based on cold calling people who in general did not need them
and telling them they did.

(I was young and innocent at the time, and I didn't figure this out right away)
(I had not even seen boilerroom)

I worked in IT.
We created a fantastic tool (it really was) that managed the entire process.

You could put someone in front of a screen, given them a phone and the software
would guide them.

1. Name, address, number to call.
2. Script for selling, whith branches depending on how the conversations was going.
Obviously we could only cover small subsets of possible paths.
(but it was reasonably good, since the conversations tended to be much the same)

Let us say the conversation went well.
In order to make the sale, a number of government and financial forms had to be
filled out,

3. Highly guided and simplified data entry that would at the end of the process
cause all forms and documents to be issued.

4. As part of the process prompts for specific things the customer had to be told
to be in compliance

5. Documents go out by Fedex.

(then some boring stuff)

The concept was that you could take someone off the street, who had no training or
understanding of the product or financial matters etc etc, put a phone in front of
then start the software and bang.

The reason I have bored you dear reader with all of that is coming up.

At Christmas bonuses were paid out.
People in sales got some huge $$$$$ cash bonuses and there were some expensive
gifts in there as well. Including a horse,.

Makes sense.

The IT department...
We got coupons for 50% off at Heavenly Ham. (or something like that).

We were not amused.
Why would a hs2 user be connecting on from Euston? Or indeed from St Pancras (other than maybe Kent and Europe)

But walking with a suitcase from Euston to KGSP isn’t exactly easy anyway.

Only benefits to Euston are easy to get to the Victoria and northern lines. Whether that outweighs crossrail is a septye wuruain, maybe for north-south journeys, but probably not for “to London”.
Null pointers, not a null array
Can you think of any downside of that proposal at all?

Tax inclusive total means government can screw the business and the end user and hide behind the tax inclusive price tag. Jack up the tax it seems the business is doing it.
So what do you do in times like this? Do you continue austerity and cutbacks - something that has worsened the UK economy over the last 14 years - or do you invest in public infrastructure - something which is near universally accepted as improving the health of an economy?
It sure sounds like the "Content Validator" they mention is a form of CI/CD. The problem is that it passed that validation, but was capable of failing in reality.
nonsense . heavy nuclea are bound states of many constituents . no different from grain of salt . grain of salt can be much heavier than planck mass (which is about few micrograms
This is obviously big news down here in NZ (already being referred to as "spygate"). Canada is the top-ranked team in pool A, and they are currently ranked 8th in the world, whereas NZ is ranked 28th. Seems like really silly, and unnecessary, behaviour from Canada.
Claude is truly incredible but I'm so tired of the JavaScript bloat everywhere. Just why. Both theirs and ChatGPTs UIs are hot garbage when it comes to performance (I constantly have to clear my cache and have even relegated them to a different browser entirely). Not everyone has an M4, and if we did - we'd probably just run our own models.
Computers shouldn't auto update. Updates need to be scheduled and monitored and tested.
I’ve heard of that for civil engineering firms but the amount of damages is capped at the yearly contract amount.

Which in this case is probably a lot less than what these companies are paying in clean up costs.
This guide is ancient. I actually used it to write some graphical programs in DOS over 20 years ago

Despite its age, some of the concepts like drawing primitive shapes or techniques such as double buffering are still interesting to read about, even for non-graphical programming
Computer calendars and shopping lists probably make more sense as more people are involved. I just keep a single list.
Oooh, you'd be disappointed by my style, I think.

I know the broad strokes of the D&D "canon", but I have no idea who the Solamnia knights are, I can name maybe five of the gods of the pantheon, and not much else.

I prefer to run homebrew games, personally - let the players inform, decide, and deduce the world.
They didn’t make the trains run on time they just said they had made them run on time and they controlled the media so it was impossible to know otherwise.
Are UPCs stable at scale and over time? It's been a minute since I was in retail, but I remember there being a bunch of asterisk-but's around them.
I'd imagine a shopping list could mean any vague things from nerby grocery (i.e milk, and if there are eggs then 6) to electronics (a sound recorder for my wife) without much specificity. To refine later or already have family understanding (eggs = organic vary large ones from black tail hens of the Fen Farm). A vocal fridge board basically. Shopping lists do not imply ordering items Right Now! Now! Neither a specific marketplace at a specific time with specific stock. Just a record about something. That the user will pick up and do something about it in a follow up step. E.g. clear a single item because fuck that sound recorder!
Thanks for sharing. Music discovery, based off of a curated list or an awesome algorithm [1], is always appreciated.

1. RIP __rdio__, nothing has ever replaced the amount of music I discovered using this service (at least from an automated perspective).
The release upgrades for Ubuntu were a little rough whenever they changed init systems (sysv -> upstart, upstart -> systemd), and occasionally there has been some other weirdness.

But the real key is that do-release-upgrade sucks because it's too conservative because they roll back when there are any errors or dependencies they can't resolve. If you do your release upgrades manually, you can always work through those issues. Debian/Ubuntu busybox includes dpkg, so even if you end up in a very broken state (glibc version mismatch, coreutils don't work, bash is broken, etc.). You just need a copy of busybox installed, tmux, and maybe a portable SSH daemon and a statically compiles curl, and you can do everything the release upgrade process does but with the ability to rescue a failure instead of rolling back or dying. It's probably good to follow the same upgrade path as that tool likes though (only directly upgrade between adjacent releases or from one LTS to the next LTS), so you may have to do this a couple of times if your servers are really old.

(I guess you don't really even need any of those statically compiled tools, either— you can just use Nix to provide whatever you need instead since no Nix-provided tools care about the libs provided by the underlying Ubuntu system.)

At a past job I upgraded in-place some Ubuntu 14.04 web servers to 20.04 through some release-upgrade failures this way. It's generally better to rebuild on a new, clean image, but in-place upgrades on Linux rarely fail and are pretty much always rescuable when they do.
Pretty sure that's Amazon selling your query results, not a failure in search algorithm.
In standard scrum, the Scrum Master is responsible for managing the process around developing software, not for actually estimating, creating features, tracking, etc. A Scrum Master's tasks remain the same regardless of what product is being worked on. A Product Owner would be closer to the role you describe above.

As a SWE who moved to Agile Coach, it can be a fun challenge, but since you aren't actually doing scrum, you shouldn't worry about actually following the full process and instead should think about essentially being a product owner (no matter the title) - the interface between the development team and the customer. You'll want to watch out for you being held responsible for the team's performance instead of the ICs on the team. So some CYA could be in order, even if that's just clearly defining your roles and deliverables with management before taking it on.

As another commenter noted, you should be able to lean on your team for help with things like estimation and tracking, but that really depends on your organization's existing process.
I couldn’t believe how slow trains in Germany were last month, even before the inevitable delays. Berlin to geneva averaged 70mph. Brussels to Leipzig was scheduled even slower and ended up 2 hours late.

Even the train I took from Geneva to Paris crawled for the first hour.
In the "you're still going to have to wait for something" sense, sure. But the reason ECS exists is because the industry had to change our architecture when we moved to many core CPUs to take advantage.

I'm battling to understand what you want then, sorry. The systems that you say you would like to use (discrete jobs with dependencies) are the kind of systems the industry has been using since the advent of data-oriented architecture, which includes ECS. That is, a job worker process per core plucking off work and doing it.

In the engines I've dealt with, we don't usually have write locks, instead preferring copies of "last frame data" and "next frame data". And all our "read locks" are waits for jobs. Our game code is generally single threaded, but the main loop pretty much just kicks off and waits for jobs.

I guess what is a good threading model to you?

(As a side note I've worked on projects that use ECS on a single core and they still confer benefits there even though that's not what they were invented for)
Basically yes. Vibes based on reading between the lines of various papers, blog announcements and tweets from people better informed than I am.
Could go the other way. Make TLDs trivial to set up for anyone, so “gmail” becomes the TLD. Without changing how DNS resolution works I don’t think the root domain would be happy to handle that kind of traffic however.
I really wanted to believe this could be simply fixed by more prompt engineering and chain of thought, so I tried it with Claude 3.5 and … well unfortunately still no luck. the reply is amusing - I’ll include it verbatim below.

Of note, this happened because earlier I had asked it without CoT and it incorrectly stated two “r”s. Once I started a new conversation (so fresh context window), it gave the right answer (3) and no longer claimed the “still the second r” as shown below.

Let's think through this step-by-step:

1. First, let's spell out "strawberry" letter by letter:
s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y

2. Now, let's count the "r"s as we go through each letter:
s (0)
t (0)
r (1) - First "r" found
a (1)
w (1)
b (1)
e (1)
r (2) - Second "r" found
r (2) - This is still the second "r"
y (2)

3. After going through all the letters, we've counted 2 "r"s.

Therefore, the word "strawberry" contains 2 "r"s.
Dunno about others but for me the vast majority of tx do go through the card.

But yeah I guess they’re blind to stuff like rent and cash bal on hand.
Does it? I mean there's a lot of trash on the internet that just doesn't get looked at. If you waste your time reading it, that's on you.
That is kinda my point though - you don't seem able to predict that sort of thing with foresight. Before the Cuban missile crisis you wouldn't have seen a path to nuclear war. During the crisis you probably wouldn't have seen a path. For 40 years [0] after the crisis you wouldn't have believed there was a path.

Then, 40 years later, someone ion the Russian military would explain to you that a person attempted to fire the nukes and it was narrowly prevented by a coincidence. At that point you would see a path to nuclear war. And based on my read of this conversation you probably wouldn't make the connection with the escalatory policy in Turkey as a threat to the Soviets without decades in hindsight either. That was less threatening than the NATO work the US has been orchestrating in Europe.

The publicly available information we have on the Ukraine war suggests a tenser situation than the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Russia's mainland nuclear defence infrastructure has literally been targeted. That is pretty dicey compared to harassing a presumed-harmless submarine near Cuba.

[0] In case you haven't read up on it, the incident you are referring too wasn't publicly discussed until 2002. A lot of other details also weren't available without hindsight.
To clarify on account of kragen's idiosyncratic avoidance of uppercase, "its" is "ITS", the Incompatible Timesharing System, developed by MIT's AI Lab:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste...>
You're looking at the pricing for Gemini 1.5 Flash. Pro is $3.50 for <128k tokens, else $7.
Ask HN: What's Your C++ Prediction?
With much software moving to the cloud and browser it's natural C++ usage will decline.

Do you imagine C++ becoming a highly valuable and sought after skill for systems that were written in C++ (ie, something like COBOL today)?
You’ve completely missed the most dangerous thing mentioned, namely that private forks are not private.
Hey!

Glad to hear that we could potentially help you guys out!

I'll send over an email
there have been r&b songs about this card since late aughts to my knowledge, when it was still mythical

but yeah the US Amex platinum has most or better perks than the Centurion now
I'm not sure I'm following. We have had multiple line endings (based on combinations of two particular characters) in common use, without consolidating to a common standard, for decades -- why would introducing a third character have made that more likely?
Also drives your point home more efficiently. While it may be profane, there's far more speech available with far less "use" that is intentionally profane to spark a reaction without regard to what that reaction may be. Shock value for attention, rather than to carry home a point.
Art forgery, LLMs and why it feels a bit off
Nevermind, everyone has their own style.
The charge cards don't even have to be paid in full anymore. They offer "pay over time" for charges on platinum/gold/green/etc which effectively makes them credit cards.
The most humane CEO, instead of another corporate bot
"deleted" is just a fancy word "inaccessible to the user"
The same happens, in fact, for space-filling curves. Sure, in _most_ of the area covered by the curve, closeness of points means closeness on the curve. But in this Hilbert curve:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Hilbert-...

Consider the two points on the curve straddling the middle of the top edge of the square. They are very close together, but their 1D addresses on the curve are very far apart (one close-ish to the beginning, and one close-ish to the end)!

There ain't no free lunch.
Sure, meaning always depends on context, but this is a lower-level difference. If I copy an English sentence from a hundred-year-old book into Microsoft Word, it doesn't change the meaning of the sentence. If I write a sentence containing emojis on e.g. an Android phone and read that exact bitwise-equivalent text string on an Apple phone on the same day, it could have a wildly different meaning because of the font. This has already happened -- a few years ago Apple updated their font to have colored foot emojis, which sparked some controversy[1] because the version of the feet for black skin tones (incorrectly) depicted the sole of the foot as black. There was a thread on Twitter (can't find a link, sadly) where someone was confused by the posts talking about this because their Android phone's version of the emoji showed a side view of a foot instead of a bottom view. The original tweet was unintelligible to this reader because they were using a different font than the writer.

One of the advantages of written language is that it's based on a discrete set of symbols that are used to form discrete words. This allows writing to last much longer than many other forms of communication. Emojis are a weird semi-discrete hybrid form of communication, which means they're bound to cause problems as time goes on.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6347073/People-ou...
That’s beside the point. The article is specifically about « GitHub forks » and their shortcomings. It’s unrelated to pushing to distinct repositories not magically ´linked’ by the GH « fork feature ».
Ah... oops. For some reason, that page isn't rendering properly on my browser: https://imgur.com/a/XLFBPMI

When I glanced at the pricing earlier, I didn't notice there was a dropdown at all.
Richard Feynman was complaining about exactly this phenomenon fifty years ago: https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/cargocult.html
> X is owned by a citizen.

More or less. I don't really own my car until it's been paid off; X is still on the hook for billions, to foreign lenders.
Are there any cases where someone was caught cheating and promptly copped to it? I guess it’s hard to tell if that’s never happened. I’m truly intrigued.
Figma passed on my resume, so I’m not particularly incentivized to leverage my (very deep, thank you) engineering / design / UX expertise and offer my product guidance for free. They have a ton of momentum, so there’s a lot of room to make mistakes before it shows up as more than a blip in the quarterly numbers. They’ll probably be fine without me, but seems like an unnecessary risk. ;)
I think that not knowing the null results of others also slows down innovation, because you never know if an area of interest / whitespace in a field is 1) because there's something there or 2) because others tried, failed, and didn't publish.

Maybe pre-registering isn't the right answer; I'm sure there are practical hurdles, but the problem to be solved still remains the same (visibility into the graveyard of failed experiments to improve the rate of innovation).
Hubber here (same username on github.com). We in GitHub's OSPO have been working on an open source GitHub App to address the use case where organizations want to keep a private mirror of an upstream public fork so they can review code and remove IP/secrets/keys that get committed and squash history before any of those changes are made public. Getting a beta release this week, in fact - check it out, I'm curious what yall think about the approach

https://github.com/github-community-projects/private-mirrors
What happened to all that vacant office space? Just a few months ago I saw a report which said they are up to around 35% vacancy, is any of that getting converted to apartments?
more reasonable than such company having 500+ P/E ratio.