skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we agree. My point would be that any framework which calls for or normalizes imposter roles is going to stifle productive output.

The Agile manifesto clearly does that.

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

> Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes harness change for
the customer's competitive advantage.

This basically normalizes product managers being incompetent. Anyone can jerk the engineers around and be reactive. It takes expertise to not waste resources on the wrong thing.

> Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.

We know this is bad for engineering output empirically. You need to leave people alone to get work done. But giving the "business people" something to do legitimizes their imposter roles. Better check in on the engineers every day.

> The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.

Imposters are adept at feigning value creation in meetings. Ask for details in writing: no shot. In a meeting, where they can nod along with people who actually know what they are doing, is where imposters really shine. Also another work activity to legitimize the imposter role.
Then it sounds unreasonable.
There's no free lunch, I just run my own blog so there won't be ads and app banners
But stavros, you started this thread by complaining that the solution is bad because in order to protect your data you have to create additional data to protect. This is the most basic definition of data resilience and misses a very critical point: with this in place you only have to worry half as much about each data set randomly failing (you halved the chance of simultaneous failure, all else equal).

Then you moved to the (unsupported) argument that consumers don't have reliable options. Then to the (unsupported) argument that hard drives fail after 5 years. Then to the argument that some users are not tech savvy enough to use anything more complex than a CD.

The last one is the only realistic yet still relatively weak complaint. It doesn't invalidate in any way the option proposed in the article. Looking at dvdisaster creating an ECC file is at most just as complicated as generating the data you're looking to protect. Using a commercial cloud storage solution is equally straight forward. A consumer friendly NAS is very easy to use while not so obvious how to fix in case of failure but that's why you're there to set it up and set a sync to the cloud(s).

I hope you taught your father how to select appropriate quality media blanks, what are the optimum storage conditions, how often to check that the data is still readable, what to do when a disc becomes unreadable or very hard to read, how to replace the optical drive when it fails or there's dirt on the lens, and so on.
As I got older, I realized the supernatural wasn’t scary. Horror movies became boring. Every ghost movie made me roll my eyes in boredom. What became scary was the realization that the real monsters live among us.

I also lost all desire to see people being cruel to other people in movies when I could see the same thing on the news.
Oh i've read them. The claim doesn't match up to reality. It's as simple as that. You can claim anything you want to.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18354

All these papers you keep linking do is at best point out the shortcomings of current state of the art LLMs. They do not in any way disprove their ability to reason. I don't know when the word reason started having different standards for humans and machines but i don't care for it. Either your definition of reasoning also allows for the faulty kind humans display or humans don't reason either. You can't have your cake and eat it.
My take.

I don't believe SEO has changed as much in the last 15 years as many people would say. There is more an emphasis on "social media optimization" because you can observe how much traffic a social media post brings in whereas in the end you don't really know what ranking signal (a keyword, a link, the domain name you are on, the length of the page, + thousands of other things) is responsible for. It's a fair guess that, for a population of thousands of links, the ranking value of links are proportional to the amount of traffic you get from those links.

It is a bigger job than you might think. If you don't believe me I suggest you turn on broadcast television and see how many ads you see for the same personal injury lawyer and for the same cleaning product brand like Dawn or Tide. If you imagine how much work it is going to take and then think it is going to be 10x more than that and then another 10x more than that I hate to break it to you that it could be another 10x more than that.

Specifically, every web page you make is a ticket to the ranking lottery. If you buy a lot more tickets it becomes more likely than you can win. This is true in terms of "link juice" which spreads to the rest of the site, it is also true in terms of keywords: it might not be realistic to rank #1 for the most competitive keywords but it is very realistic to get great rankings for a large number of less competitive keywords.

There's only so much you can do to make individual pages attractive, but you can take control of your fate by making more pages.

Thus the blog is the king of online marketing. If a real estate agent, just to pick some average boring business that has a marketing budget, puts up a "business card" page for herself this accomplishes very little. Who cares? If she commits to writing (or paying someone to write) two blog posts a week about her city, real estate in her city, neighborhoods in her city, housing in her city, etc on the other hand each blog post has the possibility of showing up in a search, being shared on social media, forwarded to someone else in an email, etc. Such a blog can also develop followers on social media, RSS subscribers, email subscribers and other things that sustain traffic other than search rankings.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top/?t=all

This is all GPT2 generations trained on reddit data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/btfhks/wh...

Here's the subreddit explained
I'm not sure I understand the use case here. Are you asking if you can depend on two versions of the same crate, for a crate that exports a `#[no_mangle]` or `#[export_name]` function?

I guess you could slap a `#[used]` attribute on your exported functions, and use their mangled name to call them with dlopen, but that would be unwieldy and guessing the disambiguator used by the compiler error prone to impossible.

Other than that, you cannot. What you can do is define the `#[no_mangle]` or `#[export_name]` function at the top-level of your shared library. It makes sense to have a single crate bear the responsibility of exporting the interface of your shared library.

I wish Rust would enforce that, but the shared library story in Rust is subpar.
Fortunately it never actually comes into play, as the ecosystem relies on static linking
The language isn't the problem with nix.
> use of GPS in civilian aviation actually came from compass getting confused during polar flight resulting in heading reversal

Do you have a source for that? I was under the impression that INS-based navigation was much more precise than for that to have been an issue by the time GPS became available to civil aviation.
It's less about the games being high-quality, and more the games being community-created and user-driven.

Roblox isn't a competitor to Astro's Playroom or Ratchet and Clank. Roblox is like, the next generation of ActiveWorlds, or like a user-generated version of Uru. It's a 3D Chatroom that solved the problem of "what do you do when people want something to do, while standing around chatting in the 3D chatroom?" by saying, "we'll give a bunch of tech tooling to the players, and maybe 0.1% of them will do something interesting with it". And that's enough.

The closest PS5 equivalent would be something like, the Dreams game from Media Molecule.

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As a parent (with a kid, who loves Roblox), I totally get it. I lived on ActiveWorlds as a kid, I saved up paper-route money to pay for my own "P-10 World" back in the day. The next summer, I used paper-route money to buy a "catch-a-call" device, so I could be on ActiveWorlds via Dial-up without tying up the phone line from my parents. I had an entire alternative identity and active social life on there in middle-school & high-school. I would bicycle all the way downtown to local community college, to take VB6 classes with college students over the summer, to learn how to program against their ActiveX control API to write my own ActiveWorlds Bot, to interact with folks in my private ActiveWorld. I ran an ActiveWorlds "TV Station" (in AW, you could set a JPEG image to 'refresh' regularly like a webcam, and I would point the URL at a custom PHP script I ran on an old cPanel-based shared hosting plan, that would rotate JPEG images out in appropriate order every 1 or 2 seconds, in pre-programmed ways, so you could have 'shows' broadcasting, and you could switch to 'live' (screenshots) on 'air' and such)

I treat Roblox similarly for my child. (They can play on it, but never use real names, reveal no personal information, there's some time limits to ensure you don't go crazy, talk through appropriate content and what stuff warrants adult intervention, etc. And gently prod them that, if they're ready to deep-dive on Roblox, all the tools people use to make their favourite "obbys" are things they could actually learn and write themselves, with some time and patience and practice...)
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> Williams is very, very, very happy to have survived the ascent

That is quite a bit of projection. I see that Williams is happy. I give you that. But what gives you the idea that she is happy "to have survived the ascent" as opposed to "happy to see her colleagues" or "happy to be in microgravity" or "happy to be back at the ISS"?
Hiroshima Archive
sure, i get the joke, i just don't like it. it's the same story as browsers. proprietary extensions in the name of progress because technically it's allowed, but also unimplemented standardized features galore, necessitating polyfill libraries and frequent checking of support matrices.

it's just sprawl with popular support.
This is a separate issue and also a good point. Correlation sometimes means “Pearson’s correlation coefficient” and sometimes means “anything but completely independent” and it’s often unclear. In this context I mean the latter.
>even the most advanced LLMs, including GPT4, have an incredibly short working memory, while reliable reasoning requires accurate and robust retrieval and integration of all relevant information.

I would say that the most "reliable reasoning requires accurate and robust retrieval and integration" of more than just "all relevant information".

One of the things that makes it so difficult to come by, naturally with human beings as well as anybody else.
Startup failures rise 60% as founders face hangover from boom years
James Cameron: 'Harder to write sci-fi because we're living in a sci-fi world'
Love how they're using EV tech to enhance performance and improve traction control. It shows there's a lot to be explored for the Hybrid approach.
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At worst, literally all of those articles (yes even Goldman) say the return of investment might not be as high as hyped. Nothing about no return or even little return. I'm not the one denying reality here.
Reading AGPL (2021)
The glacier moves orders of magnitude slower than an aircraft carrier does, so I doubt that the TLS used does any comparable automatic adjustments. It's probably more than enough to periodically survey the runway and input that data manually.
The "flat design" trend has failed you. It's difficult to see where the interested human is supposed to put their tattoo text prompt. The phrase "Eg.: tiger on the horizon" isn't really enough of a clue to let someone know they're supposed to type their own prompt right there.
It takes a huge amount of effort to overwrite & re-animate the default ROBLOX characters and their animations.
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-simulating-quantum-butterfly-e...
I thought NDB got left behind in the fork?
Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives
Yeah 8TB is really tiny. Google scholar was estimated to index 160.000.000 pdfs in 2015.[0] If we assume that a third of those are not behind paywalls, and average pdf size is 1mb, its ends up as something above 50TB of documents. Almost ten years later the number of available pdfs of just scholarly communication should be substantially higher.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-015-1614-6
Magdeburg politicians raise concerns about possible Intel fab cancellation
Hopefully NASA hubris does not kill more people like it did during Challenger and Columbia.
Without an insight into how a company pays for its RnD internally, one cannot conclusively say that the consumers are the ones who pay for the HW/OS.

I’ll also reiterate that the majority of devs pay 15% now on the App Store. Not 30%.

And then this gets into every other market choice as well if we’re saying all the stuff is paid for up front by the consumer.

What does Steam offer for its 30%? The majority of games on steam don’t use any steam services unlike apps on the AppStore. Valve doesn’t do educational sessions for developers or provide support for system issues. So is Steam not a terrible deal at double the cost?

But then we get to consoles, where the consumer not only pays for the device but also pays a subscription for online play. If we say that Sony/Microsoft are funded up front by the consumer and then recurring for online fees, then what the value to developers for the 30% (in addition to devkit costs)?

I’m not defending apples cut here. That’s a subjective argument that goes nowhere, but I am saying: if we say Apple’s cut is unfair, why are we okay with the others that are arguably more? And why do people defend the other marketplaces ?
NordVPN for macOS: Release Notes
Good practice. My experience says that Python programmers consciously or unconsciously make that assumption often, which is bad practice.
I loved Skitch as well and this is a neat app. I wish there was some way of saving a sketch (maybe in LocalStorage) and edit it later (e.g. replacing with new screenshot but keep the markers). I can't remember if Skitch could do it, I use Figma for this today (but it comes with a huge overhead).
A Systems-Minded Approach to Creating a Music Player Application – Andrew Kelley
Someone must finally acknowledge the elephant in the room: Intel's Arrow Lake (and possibly the next arch) might have the same bug like 13 and 14 gen
but you are missing context here. His point was that once cheap $500 drones can be produced at an industrial scale, in a highly automated fashion you can completely overwhelm any defensive measure that could be put in place.

Normal warefare is based on "Manpower" and you reference "Army". He further goes on to explain that artilery, tanks and any kind of "land army" is completely obsolete.
Pedophilia & child-predation have been an open secret to anyone socially involved in ROBLOX for the longest time. The amount of random 18+ people interacting often and without guardrails with 13/14/15 year-olds is "normalized" to those in the communities.
You don't have to put up with the web this way.

In case anyone doesn't know, ad blockers exist. If you are seeing ads when you browse the web, you should install an ad blocker. There is no reason not to.

On Android, you can use the Firefox web browser (available in the app store) with the uBlock Origin extension (use the Add-Ons menu in Firefox).

On iPhone, you can use one of various ad-blockers from the app store. I use one called "AdBlock Pro," but there's many others with pros & cons.

On desktop, you can install uBlock Origin in most browsers. The experience is best in Firefox. There are browser-specific links here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

If you are using uBlock Origin, be sure to hop into its settings and enable the "Annoyances" and "Cookie Notices" filters, too. That'll remove the email address beg dialogs, the ad-blocker popups, and the pointless cookie banners.
idk about you but I really like the way their notes are authored. I think a bit more technical detail would be good too maybe in another section, but the chirpy fun way the author describes releases is cool. When I see that, I feel happy about using their product. It's inspiring too, like something I'd like to emulate! :)
https://archive.is/xgHUv
Eh IMO how is it any worse than a video arcade? I really think that's all Roblox is an arcade. Yeah it's the experience is fleeing and ephemeral. But these kids are hopefully experiencing what I felt in my childhood that I can't achieve anymore. I probably dumped 60$ alone over months going to Pizza Inn trying to win at Mortal Kombat.
Didn't happen in the Soviet Union, nope sure didn't. they just let the cosmonauts die.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/01/chin...

I agree it makes the US look pathetic.
The most recent publicly available numbers (that I know of, maybe there's a talk available somewhere that's more recent) are from https://stripe.com/blog/sorbet-stripes-type-checker-for-ruby

> currently amounting to over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 files

The monorepo has only gotten bigger over the last two years (source: I work at Stripe).
The US police are terrifying but there is the possibility of redress unlike the UK where the justice system does not exist.
The Post Office is not the government.
The war effects were population collapse based, it had happened once before after the black plague.

It is happening again slow moving, just due to lack of mating success.
I spent 4.5 years at Stripe, and left in March.

The biggest difference not mentioned is the article is that code is no longer kept on developer machines. The sync process described in the article was well-designed, but also was a fairly constant source of headaches. (For example, sometimes the file watcher would miss an update and the code on your remote machine would be broken in strange ways, and you'd have to recognize that it was a sync issue instead of an actual problem with your code.) As a result, the old devbox system was superseded by "remote devboxes", which also host the code. Engineers use VSCode remote development via SSH. It works shockingly well for a codebase the size of Stripe's.

There are actually several different monorepos at Stripe, which is a constant source of frustration. There have been lots of efforts to try to unify the codebase into a single git repo, but it was difficult for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was the "main" monorepo was already testing the limits of the solution used for git hosting.

Overall, maintaining good developer productivity is an extremely challenging problem. This is especially true for a company like Stripe, which is both too large to operate as a "small" company and too small to operate as a "big" company. Even with a well-funded team of lots of super talented people putting forth their best efforts, it's tough to keep all of the wheels fully greased.
Given alternatives, if the risk cannot be quantified, the risk is too high.
They originated in large part from slave patrols. Enforcing a certain social order is in their DNA.
Why do you feel the need to police people asking technical questions on HN under a "Ask HN" tag?
Is it possible that the 8 TB is just the extracted text?
But they also contribute significantly to that same open source so how do you balance that out?

Again, I’m not saying they’re above criticism but I am saying this feels like a very one sided presentation of facts.
Also tends to security advantages to mitigate/manage dev risks. Typically hosts will have security tooling installed (AV, EDR, etc) that may not be installed on local VMs, hosts are ephemeral so quickly created and destroyed, network restrictions, etc.
Just one swimming world record has fallen at the Olympics. Is the pool to blame?
Looks like there's a pretty big jump at 56 in the first version as well.
It's already just about possible on paper, but directed energy weapons are poorly characterised even on the ground so nobody's going to be in a hurry to mount them on a very expensive easily identifiable platform that covers a very narrow ground path on a very predictable schedule while being extremely vulnerable to counterattack.

Kinda the same reason we could have RFGs but don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MVs37rxJL0
The reason newborns have such a strong grip is due to their optimization for mining with a pick axe.
Yeah that was my point. In the end both approaches can be fine (depends on your context). The real difference is that whatever choice you take, it will need the right investment in tooling and support.
I'm an ardent user of Tiddly Wiki as a knowledge database.

I know there's Obsidian and Logseq, but they feel like too much overhead to me.

TiddlyWiki does all of that, and it's a self-contained single HTML file. You can run it on Node.js, but you don't have to.

Oh, and also it's a journal and a blog.

I built my ADHD wiki[1] with it, and I don't think I'd have had the energy to do it with any other tool.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd
Usually we don't discuss the everyday enshittification of websites, but they've left themselves wide open to criticism here:

* 9 clicks to say no to personal information collection

* 1 click to dismiss the giant popup ad

* 2 clicks to say no to cookies
I hope so too :)
Once again the "150-in-One", etc. Science Fair Electronic Project Kits [1] (from Radio Shack in the US) are the genesis of someone's love for electronics.

Add me to that list.

If there's a modern equivalent, I'm not sure I've seen it. Certainly there is nothing on the scale, of the same ubiquity as those kits.

Best Christmas presents ever, mom. Thank you, again.

(I've since tried to capture some of that joy, along with the "Engineer Mini-Notebooks" that Forrest Mims wrote (also for RadioShack), with a 555 Timer breadboard accessory and a Transistor Logic breadboard accessory. I've just been to lazy to post them.)

[1] Manuals for Science Fair Electronic Project Kits here: https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-science_fair_k...
There's things that can be set by writing to MSRs that are not able to be unset until the processor is physically reset.

An example is the option that enables/disables the whole VMX/SVM capability - and that is something the firmware will typically do according to an option in NVRAM early in the boot process.

I think SMM lock falls under the same umbrella.
Collapse of a young population causing a 1:1 worker retiree ratio. At that point the old get pushed off bridges.
Yeah, exactly! FORTH looks really awesome, I haven't gotten around to learning it much though. I heard it's addictive and fun.

Yeah, it's all concatenative programming: FORTH, unix pipes, function composition as monoids, effect composition as kliesli composition and monads, etc.

It makes it super useful for code readability (once you're familiar with the paradigm), and debugging, since you can split up and decompose any parts of your program to inspect and test those in isolation.