skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not going to encourage developers to drop them if they truly think it's needed.

When I've only got an hour or two to game and my gaming friends can only get everyone together once a week, it's crushing to have a good game ruined by cheaters.

Hopefully gamedevs can work with people like you to fix bugs. However, leaving anti-cheat out of multiplayer games is a complete non-starter in today's environment. Even if anti-cheat only slows the cheat devs down and turns into a game of whack-a-mole with cheats, it's still preferable to having every game get crushed by cheaters every time you play.
The Case for Bisphosphonate Use in Astronauts Flying Long-Duration Missions
I thought you meant line width and was confused because it's in the generally accepted range (~70 characters).

The line height, I agree, is too tight. 19.2px at 16px font size is too cramped at only 1.2x. Making it 24px is a big improvement.

To my eye, however, a taller line height doesn't affect the tables and other character graphics. With some tweaks like this I think the monospace style comes across quite well.

* edit - I think I see your point; it does break the author's concept of the fixed grid (set line-height: 24px for p elements and turn on the author's "debug mode" to see the grid.
>the same exact cost overruns

Tell me when SpaceX had to repeat an entire ISS test flight on their own dime because the first one was such a disaster?

Boeing charged twice as much as SpaceX,[1] but at the time it was justified because Boeing was considered the "safe" option. How times change!

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/boeing-warns-of-more-f...
Why solve a problem for real when pretending to solve it is so much more profitable?
[dupe]

Some more discussion:

NASA's Starliner decision was the right one, but it's a crushing blow for Boeing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41346778

Boeing employees 'humiliated' that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353404
I didn't have that in mind when I wrote the post, and I think my conflicted feelings are best summarized by the idiom: "Thanks, I Hate It."
1. Nope, I don't think that CRDB is generally faster than Yugabyte. Vendors can't say otherwise in their own benchmarks :)

3. That code must be the tooling around the db and various smart drivers (that extend default drivers of Postgres for various programming languages). Overall, the core database engine of Yugabyte is written in C.
I tried many times to like Notion but it is far too complicated for my needs. It felt like procrastination, a tech version of a bullet journal. Spending too much time designing the system, and not enough actually using it. It felt like there was too much potential and flexibility, if that's possible - whilst being really crap at what I was looking for (todo list with notifications / offline personal document storage).

So its ticktick + one note (used to have Evernote until they mucked it up).

I've tried journaling but never feel like I have enough interesting things to document. Have you tried Apple Journal? Do you have templates you recommend?
We use PG replication slots and listen to updates. This doesn't add much load to the database -- it's similar to having a read replica. Adding more servers would mean more replication slots, and could slow down PG. When this happens, we'll likely replicate PG's WAL onto Something like Kafa. This is what LiveGraph does [1]

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/livegraph-real-time-data-fetching...
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017204 (3 years ago, 151 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33903563 (2 years ago, 22 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372833 (this post)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41373288 (this comment)
Take it private and remove the incentives of having to appease shareholders over everything else
I still remember the high of buying a dial up modem and plugging it into the family computer, finding a BBS and dialing in, watching the computer actually connect and talk to someone miles away.

Been chasing that high ever since.
Watch an Anime Girl Playing with Blender's UI in Fourth Wall-Breaking Animation
I like this, not only does it let people find the APIs but having a collection like this encourages others to make APIs and to keep them running.

There's not a lot of incentive to create a service if you feel like no-one will ever know about it. I have had a few thoughts for services that I might have developed if I thought anyone would ever see it.

There's probably an argument for sponsorship here as well, not as a vehicle for advertising, but just companies paying for (or supplying resources) to cover the ongoing costs of the service as a public good. I wish I could make something that worked and could put it somewhere and commit zero mindspace to billing, server maintenance etc. and just have it keep running, forever.
It doesn't sound right.

I've just checked: you don't even need an account to post an answer.
> Why bother

Although to be fair, wasn't / isn't a lot of this "why bother" actually a political protest and retaliation against that DA and the citizenry that elected them? Not even doing something else with their time, but not doing much? And to be fair again, the joke in San Francisco is that "not doing anything" is a safer alternative for some of the population. Safer than "doing something else". This is messed up every which way.
For the longest time I have wanted what is essentially a PC-console where you buy signed parts that essentially work together as a console.

It would be a true "gaming pc" in the sense that it would really only be good for gaming with very restrictive hardware and software.
I wasn't ingesting it any more than a regular person -- but I was surprised to find out how many foods use Yellow 6. It's more orange than yellow. It's also banned in several countries. It used to be in Kraft Mac and Cheese but they replaced their artificial colors with natural ones, which is nice.

One thing I wondered while being allergic to it, was how much could I take before triggering the reaction. It ended up being extremely little. A single dorito chip would set it off. After that, I just cut it out of my diet completely.

Another weird thing is the reaction would last about 45 minutes exactly every time. I'd be sitting on the toilet bent over in agony, watching the clock.
Nationalize it and replace the board. Imagine the govt as an activist investor if the profit driven investors are more keen to scrap it for profits.
Respectfully, I don't think Canadian <> American cultural exchange is anything like the Russian <> Ukrainian cultural exchange; beyond potentially passing the "indistinguishable to an outsider" test.

The modern and even pre-modern history of Ukraine is inseparable from a degree of violence that only existed in north america when directed towards slaves and indigenous population. There are not centuries of built-up ethnic/nationalistic turmoil between the U.S. and Canada, although I'm sure you could find some crazies who've convinced themselves there must be.
Assuming don't have dissimlar vision/perception issues and/or viewing conditions; still would need more non-visional info to cons(yes. ) / cdr( .no) vs. perl print "yes" | die "no"

Although there are studies that look at how funding sources influce one's perception. (insurance / grants vs. salaried/freelance) -- not necessarily relevant to doing a medical vs. entertainment comparison though. aka parental pressure directed at independent free lancer/family practitioner vs. directed at gaming development company/medical center.

Different job training/licensing/regulation/work place requirements certainly would necessitate different approaches/perceptions on dealing with the world; non-profession life experience/personality differences not withstanding -- at least within the bounds of the 'work day'.
Did you see the amendment at the top?

"Update: on 9 September 2023, Walter Isaacson said his biography’s claim about Starlink and Crimea was based on “mistaken” information [see footnote]"

Here's a more accurate summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainia...
> Nobody who bought is unaware that it’s remotely authorized.

You're radically overestimating the understanding of consumers. The target market for a product like Finale is decidedly not "IT people".
(2021) and Automerge's Rust implementation seems to have landed so it would be interesting to see an updated benchmark.
You can add add Microsoft's repo to install it on Debian: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-....

Does Debian require packages to work on all of its architectures? If so, that could be the issue. .NET Core only supports x86, x64, and Arm64 (I think Arm32 has been discontinued and RISC-V is experimental at this point).

It's possible that they object to .NET Core having certain license restrictions on the Windows port (https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/license-information...). .NET Core is mostly MIT or Apache licensed, but the Windows SDK has some additional terms. Skimming the third party licenses, that doesn't seem like an issue (mostly MIT/BSD/Apache or similar).

I think the licensing situation is an interesting question: if you have software that's 100% open source when compiled for your OS, but requires non-free stuff to run on Windows, is it ok to include in Debian? It looks like none of the non-free stuff (like WPF) gets distributed with the non-Windows SDK builds. Binaries created from your code only depend on MIT-licensed stuff on macOS and Linux, but might depend on something closed-source when targeting Windows - though it looks like almost all of that stuff is either WPF (so you wouldn't be able to develop on Linux/Mac anyway since those libraries wouldn't be in the SDK on those platforms) or were removed as a runtime dependency in .NET 7. It looks like `Microsoft.DiaSymReader.Native` might be the only thing left. Maybe that's what is holding it back?

> also, does dotnet-core have a reasonable aot story for things like esp32 and ch32v003?

"Reasonable" can be a lot of things to a lot of different people. People have been working on RISC-V support. Samsung seems interested in it. But I probably wouldn't recommend it at the moment - and Mono doesn't really have RISC-V support either.
The Colgate one is probably still based on Kolibree[0]. I remember the KL prefix.

I don’t know about the Oral-B app, but the Colgate / Kolibree at least had some mostly accurate mapping of brushed areas (when using one of their "smart" toothbrushes).

[0]: https://www.kolibree.com/en
Start a new company and hire all the engineers. Not like we need any of the C staff to make it function. There's plenty you can do, the obstacle is regulatory capture rather than lack of options
> People who have dumped thousands of hours practicing to get good at something, and you’re proud of cheating them and people like them?

Just as a hypothetical situation - what if one had built a similar tool on their own, or used this as a foundation but trained a new model? Does it count, or are we denying this as a personal growth and limiting it strictly to playing exactly by the book?

Alternatively... What if someone has a physical condition that limits their manual dexterity? Is it different from having a physical condition that limits their eyesight and have to wear glasses?

I'm trying to draw a line. Or challenge the status quo where the existing line is drawn.
Oh and VAC does nothing about it I see, thanks for your response
Yes, I vaguely remember Roku developing some tech to inject ads via hdmi.
CSS is great now, tailwind is an unnecessary overhead.
120 days is the longest time a submarine can remain underwater
I think Chrome gives back black screens if you try to do so.
On the other hand, we're discovering that certain antibiotics can be very useful in treating specific GI conditions.

Rifaximin, and antibiotic designed to stay in your gut, has been approved for treating specific types of IBS. When it works it can induce remission for months or longer.
Main problem is I guess the website would be broken the moment the user choose the setting to use his preferred font on the browser and do not use a monospace one.
Yet another piece of Xamarin/Mono that falls down.

No wonder Miguel de Icaza is now focused on Swift, Godot and Apple's ecosystem, all the promises done at Xamarin acquisition time are gone now.

Mono Develop killed, after being renamed into VS4Mac, gone through a rewrite, only to be killed shortly after the rewrite reached 1.0.

Xamarin.Forms rewriten into MAUI, with incompatible APIs.

MSIL Linker had a better chance as a critical piece of Blazor WebAssembly and Native AOT.

The whole dotnet reload drama.

Now Mono donation, and then .NET team is surprised .NET uptake on UNIX shops isn't as they expect.

In alternative universe when the Xamarin acquisition didn't happen, where would we be now?
True. They probably know if you're gay also, so in that case they might do it.
I have to agree. In an alternate reality where their RAM upgrade pricing is in line with normal market prices, I'm probably a Mac user for the past 10+ years.

Every couple of years I take a good look at their machines and I always reach the same conclusion. Even though I could afford any specification of MBP, their upgrade pricing always feels like a rip-off and I don't enjoy feeling ripped off, so I buy something else.
And even some of the top tier engineering schools that have admitted women for an even longer time generally had a pretty minuscule number until relatively recently.
Is .NET open-source? Will I find it in an open-source repository?
I don't really understand why one would build an HTTP API for this. I can't imagine the database being more than a few megabytes, the whole thing could probably be served as a JSON file.
Exploring inner workings of a random free Android VPN
I don't disagree with that.

However the original article talks about 'peaceful' commensals and links to this post (https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-04-25-microbiome-1/), with the example that "friendly" microbes may not trigger your immune system if they leak into your bloodstream because they 'look similar' to your pancreatic cells.

While critical during the development of the immune system, this idea that there are certain actually 'friendly' or peaceful bacteria is less and less supported by the literature, and overstated to the point of probably being harmful. Even probiotic strains can be harmful if your immune system is overloaded or incapacitated.

Strong immune avoidance or induction of tolerance outside of the critical window is a strategy often used by pathogens to escape host defenses.
Could you guys fix this accessibility bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=126072... - it's been open for years.
More like: the Linux kernel re-implementation of Rust "print" has a bug that causes it to not adhere to Linux kernel conventions.

I'd expect that now that the bug has been reported, it'd be fixed by just hashing pointer addresses before printing them.

I also expect that "reimplementing X in a different programming language" introduces logic bugs, like the one above, and that those involved have deemed what they get out of it worth the effort of hashing these sort of bugs long term.

From the kernel pov, all of these bugs are safety issues, so the article authors are surprised the unsafe keyword is not required to introduce them, but from Rust's pov, they are just logic bugs, which safe Rust does not protect against. One of the main challenges those working on Rust in the kernel will have is figuring out how to educate other kernel developers about Rust (what it does and does not protect against, setting the right expectations, etc.). I think these articles are a great step in that direction.
That "minority" has noticed that if it's there, it will be abused. No if or when. No prize for guessing by whom.
> We can assume every person at the top of both piles has a perfect GPA and a near-perfect SAT score

actually that's a very fair point and you're right. We do know how many are in each pile. thanks and sorry for the confusion.
That's why most apps exist, which is why I try to install as few apps as possible.
This may be true, but i honestly think canada strikes a good balance. Like i'd be curious if anyone has any examples of things that would be protected by the first amendment in usa but not protected by section 2(b) where they think usa made the better choice.

The notwithstanding clause is quite icky. Thankfully its rarely used outside of quebec although the recent "parent's rights" bill in saskatchewan is quite gross.
The coarse estimate of compute in transformers is about as many MACs as there are weights, or twice as many flops (because multiplication and addition are counted as separate operations). So for llama 70b that’s about 70b MACs per token, which is manageable. What’s far less manageable is reading the entire model into RAM N times a second
Don't get me wrong I understand the sentiment there. I'm sadly locked out of most of those games from the get go being on linux though. Most of the games that give me trouble aren't online games to begin with. Most online games we do have good contact with the developers since they're typically actively working on the game.
In the name of national security they could nationalize Boeing and then fire anyone they want. But this is a pretty big hammer, that comes at a price (and who really believes, the government will be more efficient at running Boeing?)
White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Meeting-Industrial Complex
> the name simply originates with Nigeria

Maybe ingest the entire comment you're replying to first. Especially if you're simply going to agree with me in the very next point:

> though the term has become more general with time
Canada probably wouldn’t have sent troops to Afghanistan if America hadn’t led the charge.
You ever get that itch in the roof of your mouth, and you use your tongue to kind of scrape/scratch the roof of your mouth?
After I started paying attention to food allergies from this Yellow 6 thing, I noticed I would get this mouth-itch from certain fruits and nuts. Watermelon, almonds, and oranges. Super minor in the grand scheme of things, but never knew this itch was due to an allergy -- just thought it happened randomly. That is one thing that has yet to go away, but I can live with it at least.
This is pretty interesting. But the author sets a much more difficult goal:

> the goal of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement of a single 1 KByte binary or less.

Iä! I would not limit the size drastically, but would emphasize simplicity and legibility, in hopes that achieving correctness this way would be easier.
Both can be true, antibiotics can cause substantial side effects in some people and most people will be fine. Still sucks if you are not one of those most people.
that’s called a mac
Doesn't need to be a big conspiracy. Find groups that are saying what you want said, help them along.

Simple test. Look for issues which aren't really green but which benefit Moscow (and these days, Beijing.) Where do the "green" groups stand? I haven't been paying attention for quite a while because I spotted too many such things long ago and figured Moscow was pulling the strings.
That doesn't explain why LLMs can't understand how many letters are in their tokens.
To be clear, Facebook chooses to block it because they don’t want to compensate Canadians news outlets, not because the act requires blocking, which is common misinformation that has been spread.
This is just called a "console" they literally are just normal PC's with verified hardware.
Part of me really wants to do this, put a time bomb circuit that fries the PC after x hours of use, and leak them into the supply chain. Not going to do it, too much work, but cheaters ruined sooo many hours of my life.

I wonder if there are software dev counter-parts that would build cheats just to soft-brick cheaters PCs...
I would like to - but unable to find any libraries / engines that would function in a some sort of 'mocked' environment. for example - i need to cover all execution paths for only single function with high cyclomatic complexity, given all other stuff is mocked. Maybe it would be called unit test mix with se. also for dynamic languages such as php/python/ruby.
They weren't criticized for simply existing without purpose. They were criticized for blocking the view of multiple points of interest and confusing navigation.
> Being jealous of younger "purely technical" developers with a track record you don't have won't help you.

Where does that observation come from?
> SpaceX has had the same exact cost overruns as Boeing

Numbers?

Boeing's partially accounted for cost overruns are quite hard to read. Their meter needs a pause button.

Anyway, the relevant issue is net cost. SpaceX is currently going deeply negative unbounded. I.e. net profitable for customer launches.
That makes sense. Americans are also consuming unhealthy amounts of American news.
Thanks for that perspective. That does seem like some serious downsides.
Ask HN: How does your team keep informal documentation?
My engineering team has been spending the day discussing how we want to improve our practices moving forward.

A point that I brought up was that we could benefit from keeping what I refer to as "informal documentation" that is internal to our team (not org-wide), which I imagine as being just a place to share information that could be beneficial for the rest of the team. The reason I emphasize informality is that I've rarely seen more formal documentation work well at any company I've been at. Usually what happens is documentation is gatekeeped and the platform used is crummy. If I want to write an article on something I think is important, I should just be able to do it.

For instance, if an engineer works on a project and develops some patterns or APIs they have a lot of knowledge about, they could write that information down for other developers in the future. My idea isn't to create elegantly structured documentation that should be guaranteed to be up to date, but to write notes or even record videos in an informal way, as if you're chatting with a fellow dev sitting next to you. There would be no gatekeeping; if any developer sees something they can improve or correct, they can do so without asking permission.

My fellow team members seem to like this idea. However, I don't know what platform or tool would be ideal for this.

Our company has Confluence, but I personally don't like it and most of the company doesn't like it. GitHub PR descriptions/threads somewhat fill that gap, but navigating this information can be difficult, and becomes more difficult the older a PR gets.

How does your team achieve what I'm looking for? Does your solution work well? What is a tool or platform that you've found success with that you can recommend for this purpose?
Are we sure the Starliner can make it back?

Aren't there some questions about its capabilities because they seemed unable to do certain unmanned tests and there was speculation that they may have removed some of the autonomous software capabilities.

Has this been disproven?
That is your opinion.
Robotic Process Automation (adaptable software automation of a previously human-controlled process)
People on Stackoverflow give you a look?
I believe that you would use dotnet nano for something like that. I used it (or some previous version of it) once many years ago and was very impressed with the productivity and ease of use it offered. Ultimately the lack of community surrounding it drove me to other technologies. Might have changed since then though, who knows!

https://www.nanoframework.net/