skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with absolutely everything you wrote. And so I don't complain about hiring loops, and instead just prep for interviews. It's absolutely worth the tradeoff.
If you turn off servers and shut off bandwidth you get rid of the vast majority of expenses.

Storage fees are a lot less risk, but if you want to cap those then you should cap the number of gigabytes directly. That prevents the overage issues you describe.
Why are you stating a hypothesis as if it was fact? I'm 30 and started learning Spanish (1,000 hours so far) and think I'll be near-native level in another 1,000 hours and maybe actually native in 5,000 total hours which I might get to by the time I'm 40. As we age, we simply have other commitments that we cannot devote this much time to language learning. Kids "easily" learn language because they can easily put 1,000 hours of exercise each year for 5 years.
How Many Iconic Computing Numbers Can You Recognize?
ISS Astronauts to Return to Earth on SpaceX Crew Dragon: NASA [video]
>i'd graduated to C by the time 7 came out.

I've never seen C as an improvement. Macros encourage all too clever code that's impossible to parse at first glance. The string handling is horrible. The fact that there are multiple contradictory ways to express pointers.

The only thing holding Free Pascal/Lazarus back is the documentation. There's no way to work on a small part of it, Wiki style, so it's always going to be an albatross. The auto-generated descriptions of variables used in library function calls just don't work as proper documentation.

On the plus side, it's fast and has all of the linking built in. You can stuff gigabytes of binary in strings and never have to allocate anything. It does object oriented stuff, generics, is strongly typed. It can spit out code for almost any platform, including WASM, Android, etc.
What about external libraries like dayjs?
An hour commute is quite different from flying from California to Washington every week.
The Reason Why Oranges Are Sold in Those Red Net Bags
Is there a timeline? I've been waiting for Temporal since like 2016 or so and it's still not ready.
I think the only compelling use case that applies to every IoT user is selling their data; the user as product.

In that sense, every connected device is just another implementation of the exact same thing: a surveiling data collector. What the user thinks of as the device's main purpose is a mere implementation detail.

I had peanut butter toast on sourdough yesterday. The Man knew nothing about it. Bwa ha ha ha!
It's like some people have not yet noticed what a colossal failure was the war on drugs.
In the example would there a difference between `|> where s > 3` and `|> having s > 3` ?

Edit: nope, just that you don't need having to exist with the pipe syntax.
Yes, but only until the next day.
> GoogleSQL

EssGyooGell: A Modest Proposal
In the whole Earth the abundances of the elements are similar to the averages of the Solar System, with the exception of some volatile elements, most of them being non-metals, which have been lost in space during the condensation of the Earth and also later.

However the Earth is made of layers with different chemical compositions and many elements are concentrated in layers that are too far from the surface to hope that we will ever reach them. So in the accessible part of the Earth, close to the surface, those elements are seriously depleted.

Some asteroids, unlike the Earth, have never been melted. In that case their composition is homogeneous, similar to the averages of the Solar System. Other asteroids are broken parts from the cores of bigger planets, so they have a composition like in the Earth at very high depths.

However, in the latter kind of asteroids the useful metals are dissolved as tiny percentages in an iron-nickel-cobalt-germanium alloy. This will make their extraction incredibly energy-consuming. On Earth such metals have been separated during millions of years from their surrounding minerals and they have been accumulated as native nuggets or metallic sulfides that are very easy to process for their final separation and purification.

With the alloy that exists in planet cores and asteroids nobody has demonstrated an efficient separation method yet. The laboratory methods used for such separations use huge amounts of water and acids and they will be impossible to implement on an asteroid. Carrying raw metal from asteroids, which is almost completely iron, would also increase the costs tremendously.

So it is absurd to even consider asteroid mining before demonstrating a method that can extract the metals from iron at the mining sites and with a minimum consumption of energy and of non-recyclable reactants.
This is not about learning a second language, this is about learning to speak in the first place

for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis#Dea...
What exactly is too good to be true? The idea that there's a path of knowledge leading from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI?
I think std::string is actually required to be null terminated now in the latest standards. But even before it was basically required as that was the only way to make c_str() constant time.
Custom elements are for when semantic elements run out, don't apply or are unnecessary.

Semantic elements are always preferred.
FYI just small tip on the Windows / Node front, you should just install & use NVM instead of Node directly - will make many headaches go away.
I've washed (and dried!) my AirPods twice. They're still alive and kicking. Pretty cool.
I tried. I think the scrollbar bled into the header at this point.

Update: I remember now: The rows were drawn on top of the header. Their background must have been transparent or something.
> I'm not sure languages without a package manager being the default are nearly as bad.

Javascript doesn't have a specified package manager.
Technically, malicious bots can't die
If you start using Unity, you're not an independent developer any more : has there been a point where Unity did not require a subscription yet ? And when did it became a platform ?
'lsof' is another one that I can't do without.
Can you even 'Listen to this device' without going into the old Sound Control Panel? Pretty sure you can't.

I use this to pipe audio from other devices (e.g. game consoles) to a device (Roger pen) that transmits audio to my partner's hearing aid, because Windows doesn't have real tools for handling audio.

Oh, what about when something goes wrong with a wireless driver and the only fix is disabling and enabling the device, once again in the old control panel? This happens sometimes when you sleep a Surface Pro 5.

They've been trying to migrate to the new settings for 10+ years and somehow the result is that we have features that are exclusive to the new one and features that are exclusive to the old one.
I'm using both Make and Just in a single project. A cursory look might give the impression that Just is just another replacement for Make, offering no additional benefits. But I started the project with just Make (since it's already in the system) and then moved some tasks to Just. Meanwhile, I still find the Makefile useful. Both of them 'feel' as if they're designed to do jobs of different nature. Make is designed to efficiently express file dependency hierarchies and take action to keep everything up to date. Just is designed to do a bunch of dependent tasks (nothing about file dependencies) and has features more suited to that. This is a difference that cannot be easily explained, unless you've tried and experienced it. Sure, you can argue that Make does everything that Just does. But it feels like you need more boilerplate in Make for such tasks (like phony).

Here are some of the differences I can recollect. Remember, you won't appreciate it until you try it.

- All tasks in just are phony. No file timestamp checks

- Just recipes can be in any scripting language within the same file. For example, you can write one recipe in bash, another in python and a third in perl, etc.

- Each line in a recipe in Make is executed in a different shell. You can't share variables between lines without using shell tricks. The same is the default for just as well. However, Just also allows you to write an entire recipe as a single script using shebang.

- Shell execution during variable assignment is done using backticks in just (just like bash). Make uses special function 'shell' for this.

- Recipe targets in Just can have parameters like bash functions do.

- Help strings for targets is easy in Just. You just place the string above the recipe. It's shown when you list the targets. Something similar can be done with Make, but using an additional hacky script.

- Just has a CLI to view and select targets. An emacs package also exists for the same.

- Some recipes can be private and wont show up in the listing.

- Just gives you the option to execute a recipe in the same directory as the Justfile, or in the current directory. It's a bit more complicated to do that in Makefile without the shell tricks.
I'm not sure why this is the project that raised this thought, but what's neat about something like this is one could see it being self and privately hosted from one's phone or mobile device, assuming it could run it.
Did you mean to say unity in your first paragraph? Your second paragraph suggests you’re using a different platform.
I love this kind of detective work. It blows my mind how easy it is to pinpoint someone with the smallest bits of identifying info.
Electric vehicle battery fires–what to know and how to react
Pretty standard concern in the two party, two candidate system we have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect?wprov=sfla1 (subsection plurality voting)
And PHP
I think this stems from the non-linear approach to reading a SQL statement. If it were top-to-bottom linear, like PRQL, then the distinction does not seem merited. It would then always be filtering from what you have collected up to this line.
It depends on the model you run but generally speaking you want an NVIDIA GPU of some substance. I’d say like a 3060 at minimum.

CPU inference is incredibly slow versus my RTX 3090, but technically it will work.
Heroku is not Fly.io. Heroku was bought by the MBAs a while back, and they do something different than generic cloud hosting (they are closer to a hosted EBS). If you bother scrolling at all, you'll notice immediately below the fold that the pricing is not remotely as clear as you're pretending it is.
The examples you gave are nothing to do with Parliament creating a law, they’re all based on individual actions.

And in any case, my disclaimer already covered the bases you’re discussing:

> If it has knock-on impacts in other areas, it's hard to say, but that's separate to the law.

I’d hoped it was clear that I was referring to UK law but perhaps not.
Yes, ARexx was big. A lot of popular software had an ARexx API so you could script across programs. Pretty awesome. I haven't seen anything like that since.
> if you have some _other_ proposal for how billing and service limits could function Im legitimately interested.

Billing doesn't have to be so complicated you can't calculate it in less than a minute. That's a technical failure. Surely you can imagine a better way? If you really think it can't be better, then it's hard to argue against "brain rot".

Also on most systems it will work perfectly fine to use an estimate of the price per unit when calculating the bill for the last couple hours.
You sound like review 2: speaks from authority and gives criticism with little substance.

> You're already familiar with most of them

In what way? Their prestige? If I went about outsourcing my opinions of people to others I'd hold many criminals and objectional people in high regard while also looking down at many great men. Even if this works 80% of the time you trust *but verify*. Have some actual confidence in yourself. Stop outsourcing your intellectualism.

> I've served on several program committees

Then maybe stop complaining and start critiquing.

You speak with an air of authority and that we should trust you but give no actual reason why. Use your experience and expertise to educate us. Don't just say I'm wrong, say why I'm wrong. Convince me you're right not through ethos, but logos. This is what everyone hates about review 2. Don't become him.

I believe you've also missed the substance of what I originally suggested. You're so caught up in the standard way you injected it into my comment without even noticing. You forgot the point all of this. It to climb the ladder of academia, get grants, and all that. It is about advancing science and moving humanity forward. The way to measure this isn't meaningful at our disposal. You can't measure this by citations or indices, by publications or venues. Again, they can be a signal (I'm not saying to throw out the baby with the bath water), but I don't believe you're naive enough to not be aware of how frequent progress is made by those who fail on those measures, how frequent it comes from a dark horse. This should be enough to suggest that there's more to it than what we usually consider. Academia has always been about challenging the status quo, even if it is just to verify. The problem with academia is it's created to give refuge to those who want to spend their lives dreaming but has become so structured you can only dream a certain way. I get why. It's hard to differentiate useless pipe dreams from those that push us forward. But in creating the structure to prevent people from taking a free ride you created the monster you tried to stop. Only now it has more power.

So don't just wave your hands dismissing, elaborate. Be academic not arrogant.
Just wanted to chime in that Nic is an amazing tutor, and if you're someone who wishes they had studied math more rigorously, you should reach out! You'd be amazed how much you can learn in an hour every week or two that's focused entirely on your interests/strengths/weaknesses.
Symbolic manipulation and intuitive understanding doesn't seem to be very correlated to me. I've met people who are very good at manipulating symbols, but they aren't very good at understanding less formal things like strategy games well, they tend to invent way too rigid rules for themselves and lose since they are bad at adapting.

So maybe you are very smart with symbols, but less so with intuitive understanding? There is nothing wrong with that, makes it easier to decide what to work on, focus on your strengths and let others cover for your weaknesses.
Wish I had the courage to branch out into that kind of crime.

"my that is a handsome tree" -> do something bold. now wake up with that tree in your yard the next day and every day after.

that’s true freedom

why track it? if i woke up to discover a freethinking, freewheeling apex man of action took my tree, i would just admire them. and flattered this caliber of person thought i had anything worth seizing. i wouldn’t tell the police. (but if i could track it, i might go visit it to witness the man i wish i was)

if i was my girlfriend i might put a tracker into my finest tree, and leave me for any man that might ever take the tree. i couldn’t blame her. i would admire her
The leading sentence is:

> The critical period hypothesis[1] is a theory within the field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can only achieve native-like fluency[2] in a language before a certain age.

Granted, I do admit I missed the subtlety that it applies to learning a first language as well.
Everywhere is a haven for bacterial diversity. Bacteria outnumber human cells in your body 10:1.
Are you talking about nvidia's Omniverse? If so, I think its use case is more for simulations and tooling, rather than gaming.

"Omniverse game engine" doesn't seem to find anything in particular.
The website UI looks really nice. I was curious if there is any library/framework/template for building websites with this "Anthropic" like UI?
I think the most interesting thing on this page is the blog post at the bottom of how it was deployed on a VPS using docker compose (https://austinsnerdythings.com/2023/11/01/using-github-actio...)
I would say the most valuable benefits would not be measured in currency.

not my downvote btw
My phone is hidden in its case. It's just a shallow black tray with a screen. I barely remember what the phone looks like.
I'm aware of at least one client terminal SW that uses Unity as a way to ensure consistent UI.

This was way before AvaloniaUI was a thing and .NET became what it is today. Likely today we are spoiled for choice even if each one has tradeoffs (every crossplat GUI framework has and even native development can make engineers suffer just as much).
can you buy monero with cash?
That should do, initially I was thinking that since I have a good quality camera and a system, there will be some open source imaging system which will help but this should also do.
Problem is time is less and I am not sure that I will be able to procure a people counter. Here nobody uses it.
FWIW there is the Google Play Pass which gets you 1000+ games without any ads or the need for additional in-app purchases. It can be shared with 5 family members too.
According that for certain reasons, and also volunteers are to much engaged
Somewhere sits a autistic gamedev, mulling over a beer: "everyone i know can easily dive headfirst into low level programming, electrical engineering, write their own simulations, rendering or even whole game engines, but talking to people or women ,some people are just built differently .Wish i was born on the side with the greener grass..
I think this might be one of those “difficulty curve” memes. On the left, the Padawan: “just use UTC timestamps”. In the center, the journeyman: “no!!! we have to store time zones and translate between them! Time zone awareness!” On the right, the Jedi master: “just use UTC timestamps”.
Sound like million dollar idea buddy
NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
Starliner astronauts will return to Earth on SpaceX Dragon
Funny thing is I've had paper rejected where the only complaints were about a few spelling mistakes and grammar. They didn't say where but I guess that's enough
I think academic literature and writing, and the internet as a whole being flooded with generated text by bullshitting LLMs is slightly different than humans manually recording things in books.
Thank god!

Presumably this new API will fix the fact that JS does in fact know about some time zones, but not most.

Shield your eyes from this monstrosity that will successfully parse some dates using `new Date(<string>)` in some select special time zones, but assume UTC in the other cases:

https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/781c20568240a1e59edcf0cb5d713a...

This bit me hard in a previous role. :'(
In that example, "s" has two meanings:
1. A table being joined.
2. A column being summed.

For clarity, they should have assigned #2 to a different variable letter.
Lars Bak was also the lead designer of Dart
I've been dreaming of buying an inverter microwave(the inverter allows it to put out lower intensity microwaves to achieve lower power levels instead of just turning them on and off entirely like most microwave ovens), but for some reason the market for them is tiny. The kind I need, over-the-range inverter microwaves with ventilation, isn't even sold in the US. Strangely enough it is sold in Canada, which has the same electrical outlets. I might do a road trip to buy a microwave...
> If you start using Unity, you're not an independent developer any more

How so? The usual definition is that if you're self-publishing, you're independent, but you seem to go by some other heuristic.

> has there been a point where Unity did not require a subscription yet ?

Yes, up until 2016 Unity sold "normal" paid licenses (as well as offering a free version), meaning pay once and keep using, rather than subscription-based like it is now.
In university the environment changes dramatically
Where some interface designer from hell redesigns shortcuts for gateway applications like firefox..
Starliner will try to return uncrewed back to earth.
"Moom 4 is available now, and requires macOS 10.13 or newer."

Always glad to see software that still aims for some backwards compatibility. Sure, it might require a bit more testing and/or handling some customer complaints, but not everyone is one the latest version or able to do that.

(I do wonder whether a lot of that isn't just driven by either just accepting XCode defaults or some Swift stuff that has a very low range backwards)
lsof I find I'm using primarily for debugging stuff. strace and tcpdump fit into the same general category - "What the hell is this program actually _doing_ right now?".
" by the same people that believe whatever they're told by anyone in authority, and then feel the urge to pass it on to others without critical thought."

respectfully, what the hell is this bit doing in your post?
Just my personal take, but when I have to read something carefully, I find it easier to do on paper.

For example, I recently wrote an article about taking random samples using SQL. Even though I was writing it for my blog, which is HTML, I proofread the article by rendering it as a PDF doc, printing it out, and reviewing it with a blue pen in hand.

What surprised me is that I also found it easier to review the article on the screen when it was in PDF format. TeX just does a way better job of putting words on a page than does a web browser.

Actually, if you want to do the comparison yourself, I'll put both versions online:

HTML: https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2024-08-23-sampling-with-sql....

PDF: https://blog.moertel.com/images/public_html/blog/pix-2024060...

I don't think either version is hard to read, but if I had my choice, I'd read the PDF version. But maybe that's just me.

Let me know which you prefer.
I disagree, given Apple’s marketing around it, features like Persona FaceTime, and integrating spatial camera shooting on iPhones. But even if it were true, it’s also failing as a devkit, given how few devs are interested in it.
Windows10 LTSC ftw, EOL 2032

https://old.reddit.com/r/WindowsLTSC/wiki
Huge obsidian fan, but I do think it’s interesting how the plug-in ecosystem interacts with the open format idea. The plug-in system is a huge draw for many people, but you can bit rot your own vault by applying plugins that define their own syntaxes. The format is still technically open, but you can inadvertently create your own custom protocol that only works in one place. Probably a worthy trade off for the flexibility and Freedom, but it’s an illustrative example of the influence of human factors on software design.
std::string is guaranteed to be null terminated since c++11.

std::string::c_str returns the same address as &string[0]
I don't feel too bad for the companies here.

They started the arms race by posting fake jobs and giving the runaround to good candidates. From a power dynamic, people NEED a job to have food and shelter. Established companies don't "need" you (specifically). Then you have the recruiters who flat-out lie about job details and send you to interviews for jobs that pay nothing or require a skill set that is the exact opposite of everything in your resume.

So, you have the company/recruiter with all the power dictating who is allowed to eat. On the other side, there are people seeking employment who get constantly rejected or jerked around for no fault of their own.

In this environment, trust in companies is gone. There is no reason or incentive to "play nice", I need to eat. I WILL do whatever is required to achieve that goal.

This guy should offer AI-job-applying as a service; I'd pay for it.
Data modeling for SaaS entitlements and pricing is crucial for accurately defining and managing user access and subscription tiers. It helps ensure that pricing structures align with usage patterns and business goals, allowing for better financial and operational planning.
But it’s important to remember that everyone has their own set of challenges