skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep.

There are lots of rotten police, and rotten police practices, in American. And many other nations.

Obsessing over these cards, because they're oh-so-visual and push people's buttons, is a "whack any white mole, which appears in this specific spot, if the sun is currently shining here" approach.

Maybe it feels good, and success is incredibly easy - the moles learn fast - but it won't do squat to reduce your yard's horrible mole problem.
Disagree. Those suits look much thinner and faster to move in than the current NASA ones, not to mention they can open and close their visors pretty easily.
> even on a log scale.

Log scale is just going to distort the picture in favor of your argument nor against it (10 is closer to 3 than to 30, but in log scale 10 becomes closer to 30) so I don't really understand why you're adding that here.

Also having hired senior software engineers in Europe (France, Germany, Nederlands), if it cost you 30k a month in India or Poland, you're just being conned. “Hardware, support and license” are just bogus argument, as it's completely negligible unless you're doing exotic stuff requiring expensive licenses for your engineer. “Insurance” costs pretty much nothing in most of Europe because health insurance is mostly covered by the state, and “buildings” is mostly a self-inflicted wounds nowadays, especially since you'd get the better candidates if you supported full working from home.

The original 3k is indeed way too low, even for a junior developer, but 30k is equally ridiculous really as you should never really spend more than half of that outside of the US.
Terraria arguably more has a scale problem. There's in-game interfaces for pretty much all the things players need (crafting recipes, item effects, instructions on where to go next, recent update added a bestiary that fills out as you fight enemies/bosses), but the problem is that all these interfaces (minus bestiary) were originally designed for a gameplay loop that ended by the time the player fights what's now the third progression boss in the game.

Obscure NPC comments work if there's only like 20 secrets to push for. You'll need some tracker once you go above that number. Crafting recipes stop having any interesting thumbing through for cool new things when to find them you need to talk to an NPC who just gives you a list of all things you can craft with an item you're holding (especially common early game since a lot of minable materials end up in late game recipes). Item effect descriptions are too limited to explain all relevant effects, which pushes people further to a wiki.

Wiki syndrome tends to occur if the game has a bad UI to explain itself. Weirdly, having no UI for it can sometimes be better for this sort of thing; players are pretty willing to accept "behind the scenes magic" as long as the info they do have is giving them the idea that it's working. (Classic horror games like Resident Evil are a good example where a "no UI is better than some UI" works.)
They're not unique to NYPD. Cops in New Jersey have them too and I'm sure others.
F# exists
I try not to talk about voting on here per the guidelines, but it is pretty interesting to me the cross-section of completely legitimate, valid viewpoints that will get obliterated if they're mentioned on the wrong thread. Like everyone else I'm predisposed to think my particular ideology is slightly more persecuted than the other one but it doesn't even seem to be liberal v. conservative, authoritarian v. libertarian, or Democrat vs. Republican. I'm sure the initial thread topic has something to do with it and I do recall dang saying they keep an eye a little more closely on threads that are particularly political.

I'd be curious to see an analysis of downvoted comments in political threads and what their general ideological bent was.
You're not wrong, and that is very impressive. There's nothing like well-applied fuzzing to improve security.

But I still don't think that makes Oxide's decision or my comment necessarily invalid, if only because of an a priori decision to stick with Rust system-wide -- it raises the floor on software quality.
This definitely gets said a lot, but I am not sure it's a meaningful thing to say. After all, something like 20% of emissions come from agriculture. If you count that as industrial emissions (surely it is an industry) then it must dwarf personal footprints. But the food you eat surely belongs to your personal footprint as well?

I'm not confident that when people make this comparison, they account for the double counting. After all, most (?) industry does something that's eventually consumed by someone. What proportion of responsibility goes to the industry versus the consumer? Obviously not a well-posed problem.
What a time to post this ... with microsoft currently suffering a wide-spread outage
I don't think having beauty pageants keep women from being depressed
They paved paradise and put up an AI bot
That's not the fear. The fear is that the player will get stuck and simply stop playing because it's frustrating instead of fun.

The way that devs determine where the line is for "most people that play get frustrated and give up" and "most people figure it out and keep playing"

It's certainly possible to design a game where the intuition of the player matches a less contrived looking world, bit it's a lot harder. On the other hand, having a convention that climbable surfaces will be blazed yellow, and teaching it early in the game is comparatively easy.

There's also aspects of pacing and focus to consider. A game that ebbs and flows in it's intensity often feels better to play than one that's high intensity all the time. So if your game is mostly about combat, you'll want to break up big fights with lower energy experiences. But those lower energy experiences really aren't "the game" in a sense, they're a kind of filler that makes the high energy experiences feel more fun. It can't be completely boring, but it should be easier than the primary gameplay experience and also have lower stakes. That's a big reason why do many actiony games have blatantly obvious climbing and puzzles. It keeps the player lightly engaged while letting them catch their breath before the next set piece.

It's not the only way to build games by any means, but it is a generally effective, and consistently reliable, template.
I don't even think law should apply equally. I believe elected officials and people in roles like police or in legal system should be always held to absolutely highest impossible standards.
Better quality (1080p with proper audio): https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OyJAZnwZqLxb

Unfortunately, this requires being logged into X.

I also really wish there was a 4K stream or recording for these amazing events.
That is great. Now they just need to add a easy way to alternate between different profiles on the same computer, because having to log-out and log-in every time you want to hand the controller to someone else in the family is a big hassle.

I understand the now a days most people have their own computer, so the log-out/log-in is not a problem for most people; but some of us have a gaming desktop connected to the living-room TV that is shared by the whole family, and in this case a way to change profiles without having to do all the hassle of logout/login is really needed.
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But say, one goes to get McDonald's nuggets and lightly and secretly messes up with it (adds a bit of lime one day, vinegar another, etc.) before giving it to the obsessed child. Wouldn't that remove the "always the same" aspect and thus decreasing the appeal of junk food over other foods?

Also I'm sure cheese, avocado, a carrot, zucchini or pumpkin from the supermarket are going to taste extremely similar across the months unless they are hyper tasters (in that case they'd definitely notice a change in taste across nuggets).
> Advertising works.

By weaponizing psychology to manipulate people into buying shit they don't need. No one should be trying to figure out how to categorize advertisements between waste and effective. They are all waste.
I'm all in for good reviews, but "micromanagement" isn't something anyone should wear with pride. Speaking from experience, working with one erodes your soul. From Wikipedia:

Micromanagement is a management style characterized by behaviors such as an excessive focus on observing and controlling subordinates and an obsession with details.

Micromanagement generally has a negative connotation, suggesting a lack of freedom and trust in the workplace, and an excessive focus on details at the expense of the "big picture" and larger goals.
They cannot.

Just because one internal operation is understandable, doesn't imply that the whole network is understandable.

Take even something much simpler: decision trees. Textbooks give these as an example of understandable systems. A tree where you make one decision based on one feature at a time then at the leaves you output something. Like a bunch of if statements. And in the 90s when computers were slow and trees were small this was true.

Today massive decision trees and approaches like random forests can create trees with millions of nodes. Nothing is interpretable about them.

We have a basic math gap when it comes to understanding complex systems. Yet another network type solves nothing.
You're misinterpreting 'GHC2024'. It's just a language edition, a short hand of enabling a bunch of extensions. You have been able to enable GADTs for many years now, with just a single pragma. It has been built in to GHC for all these years.
I've been playing BG3 for over a year now and it breaks pretty much all the rules in the accepted answer. There are puzzles that are only skippable with non-obvious cheesing. In-game knowledge is heavily relied upon. The quest journal is overly vague (and buggy sometimes). Item and spell descriptions are good at least, but many of those come from D&D anyway.

The absolute worst offender is "Don't give choices with unexpected or unclear outcomes". Almost every decision has unclear outcomes, some with devastating consequences on later phases of the game.

It's an impressive game with a great story and great combat, but only the most hardcore players are exempt from the mandatory save-scumming and wiki-reading IMO.
Isn’t it simply Oxide founders are old Sun engineers, and Illumos is the open source spinoff of their old work.
EU kicks off an inquiry into Google's AI model
Yup

https://www.savagechickens.com/2024/09/decisive.html
A 2018 paper by the same authors [0] (referenced in this work) references an earlier blog post by the transitapp people on Medium, but the link is no longer working.

> One approach that seems to use a model similar to ours was described by Anton Dubreau in a blog post

[0] https://ad-publications.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ACM_effic...
Not really, other mainstream languages got there first.
I've completed huge projects on FreeCAD. Highly recommended.

I imagine lots of complaints are either outdated, or by people who are used to different CAD systems and expect them to work exactly the same.

I've tried and worked with Catia, solidworks, and fusion 360, and I can easily complain about each of those for being confusing.
Is German Economy in a free fall at the moment?

Looks like many companies are in a "zombie state" unable to survive high interest rates, high inflation, and widespread job losses happen mostly among high-income individuals?

"Green idea" seems to have failed completely, and the long-term effects remain uncertain. Meanwhile, far-right and far-left parties are gaining momentum, that's scary!
This is banana republic level corruption. How is this allowed to continue in a serious 1st world country?
I’m with you on the collective effect of small efforts, but it’s a difficult ask to motivate when one persons excess personal environmental contamination (say, through private jet ownership) offsets an entire nations efforts of using paper instead of plastic straws, for instance.

It’s like everyone shares the pool, and everyone gets out and goes to the bathroom to defecate. But not this one guy, he “doesn’t have time” to get out and shit, so he just shits over in the corner of the pool.

It’s still better that most people use the bathroom, but it’s pretty demotivating to some people to see that guy celebrated for his achievements while he’s shitting in everyone’s pool. Hopefully his contributions to society are ambitious enough from a humanitarian and humanist perspective to make it worth it to most people.

This perspective is why I try really hard to avoid shitting in the pool, as well as only pursuing goals that I believe can have a genuine and sustainable improvement, no matter how small, on the quality of life of most everyone on the planet-either directly or indirectly.
They have the issuing officer's name phone number on them, and you're encouraged to call and verify it. I suspect being found to have a fake one is... frowned upon.
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Bruce Waggoner of the Voyager team give a keynote at !!Con just last month. The recording landed on YouTube just a couple days ago, so this is great timing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9YcehCZo
Same to me. I might not understand it but I'm not sure any kid is going to go starving with some homemade food in front of them.

The biggest red flag is why on earth are kids fed junk food to begin with? Maybe their parents also love it, making it harder to set a better example at home? Hard to say.
You need a pretty big runway when one of the largest violent gangs in the world sees you as an enemy.
Sorry cant take this sort of response seriously. "crypto bros" ... sigh ...
Yet ironically Scala is not null safe I believe.
01:08 when they show the photos of the 4. The lady on the right (Anna Menon) has such intensity on her smile, looks like the happiest person on the planet/ultimate dream coming true!
I thought the connecting arrows were bugged at first, then I realized it's a genius implementation. This alone makes me want to use this more than Figjam.
Congress, industry criticize FAA launch licensing regulations
This is an interesting case of the Congress itself pushing back on otherwise constantly expanding safetyism.

An interesting comment from the relevant Reddit thread [0]:

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"You can always make things safer. Always.

The trick isn't about making things safer, its about balancing the safety needs with actually being able to get shit done.

I've been a safety professional in the past, I could easily make legitimate safety arguments that would make something as simple as mowing your lawn so unbearably frustrating you throw up your hands and quit doing it.

Lets see, I'll need your lawn mower training certificate and operators license, your flammable storage cabinet for fuel storage if you plan to keep fuel on site, I'll need you to set up a 50ft mowing perimeter to ensure nobody gets hit with debris, you'll need to wear your mowing PPE, your fuel filling PPE(including an inspected fire extinguisher), your lockout procedures for sharpening the blades, your noise permit from the city, a yearly inspection certificate of your mower showing that none of the mower safety devices have been disabled, and I'll need documented proof you've done all of this on file for five years ready for inspection.

Its only sensible, after all, to be focused on safety over everything else."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1fe2fty/comment/lmml...
VW had more profits 23 than in 22. It's their VW brand that is in trouble, Seat and Skoda are much more profitable.
> news etc. curated by trusted people

I don't trust anyone who is claimed to be trusted on the internet though. I rather we archive everything, even the bad, as long as its not illegal. Otherwise, you wind up with my initial issue, you don't get everything, and you miss small things that might seem insignificant but hold more value than you'd ever realize.
is that not the job of the FBI ? why does city police need a worldwide presence ?
Hard disagree. That's stretching the definition of "failure state" to mean "anything negative".

By this logic getting hit is a failure state, taking fall damage is a failure state, another player scoring points is a failure state, not actively getting points is a failure state.
Whether Google wanted to win or not: Don't kid yourself into believing they _could_ have won even if they had tried. Google has a history of being terribly at executing on product ideas and Google Code never had the same "feel" that Github did.
There's a reason Microsoft paid billions for Github. If Google could have created that in-house themselves they would have done it.

Not saying Google tried and failed - they may just have realised that actually winning this was never an option.
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The brain serves as a useful analogy, even though LLMs are not brains. Just as we can’t fully understand how we think by merely examining all of our neurons, understanding LLMs requires more than analyzing their individual components, though decoding LLMs is most likely easier, which doesn't mean easy.
I was shocked when I read this. You (and the officer) are right, this is 100% corruption and it’s absolutely disgusting. There should be a much bigger deal being made about this.
> That's a problem no haskell user has, honestly.

In a sense, that's true: people who do have this trouble constantly (e.g. me) very quickly cease being Haskell users. But that's hardly an argument for TFA's claim that "Haskell is probably the best choice for most programmers, especially if one cares about being able to productively write robust software, and even more so if one wants to have fun while doing it"; if anything, it's a counter-argument.
>I read somewhere that OCaml had a greater influence on it

Whoever wrote that is wrong.
Don't mean to appear as talking down to you, but the "relaxation" or "strengthening" that you talk about exactly corresponds to either (1) changing the function that you use at the call site, or (2) changing the "external code" function. The thing you call "improvement" sounds like a plain type error to me.
More people have died from toxic food than won the jackpot.
> If function f returns b or nothing/error, and is then improved to return b always, client code that calls f should not require changes or become invalid

Why do you need to change the type signature at all? You "improved" [1] a function to make impossible for the error case to occur, but it's used everywhere and the calling code must handle the error case (I mean, that's what static typing of this sort). So there you have it: the client code is not rendered invalid, it just has dead code for handling a case that will never happen (or more usually, this just bubbles up to the error handler, not even requiring dead code at every call site).

As an aside, I don't see the problem with the "pile of monads" and it doesn't seem very complicated.

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[1] which I assume means "I know I'll be calling this with values that make it impossible for the error to occur". If you are actually changing the code, well, it goes without saying that if the assumptions you made when choosing the type changed when re-writing the function, well... the calling sites breaking everywhere is a strength of static typing.
Yeah, the weirdest part of the article was it talking about "misuse" of the cards and acting like the number of cards distributed is the problem. It wouldn't be better if each officer received one card to give to their SO or if an active NYPD badge were the only thing that got you preferential treatment—the problem is that there exists a way to signal to the officer who pulled you over that they'll get in trouble if they ticket you.

I'm sure the card started as a cute novelty, but the instant it became a signal that someone is above the law it became a problem no matter how few were in circulation at the time.
Police will always show some favoritism, but this seems to be a little over the line. I know that my Army Bronze Star license plate has gotten me out of problems before, and I know someone with a Purple Heart plate that pushed the military plate benefit to the limit. I understand the problem, but it is also really nice when it works in your favor.
Even if it's only used by cops or family members it's still naked corruption.

It's not nepotism or any lesser thing, it's outright corruption.

It's also clear sign that you're living in a police state when the police and those of their choosing appear to be above the law.
> Bianchi said his views about the courtesy cards haven’t changed. The 40-year-old Staten Island-based officer said there should be more oversight over how many of the cards are distributed to officers

Am I missing something or is that really backwards? They should get rid of these cards fully, not regulate how many are being distributed, seems to focus on a really weird solution.
What precisely do you disagree with about my comment?

I wouldn't say that HN commenters have been especially influential advocates in selling a potent brand of free-market capitalism to the United States of America. That happened long before HN began, and even the other advocacy efforts of people like Thiel are at this point a drop in a very large bucket.

Silicon Valley antitrust enforcement is especially topical because the government is apparently gunning for Google now, but if Realpage-like labor price collusion becomes common in the corporate world (inside or outside of SV) that's a substantially bigger deal.
> What you describe is just Git on top of a generic P2P overlay network

That would be the most widely useful functionality, upon which other features can be layered. If the simple functionality can't be used alone, and you have to buy into a more complicated model, then it makes the tool less broadly useful.

Git actually provides a pretty good experience if you have a remote that's always online. I can push and pull branches around to get between all my different devices. GitHub is usually up.

What I would be interested in, is a remote I can host from my house, instead of the cloud. I could leave the public key on my profile and others can checkout the repository.
> Haskell has had a profound impact on the way I think about programming and how I architect my code and build services.

Exactly the same for me.

> Granted, the tooling is sh*t.

Stack and Stackage (one of the package managers and library distribution systems in Haskell-land) is the best I found in any language.

Other than that I also found some tools to be lacking.
The first person (EV1) was awesome as the Earth was visible (day-side). And it slowly went night-side. I was surprised to not see any lights at that point and that was possibly because it was over the Pacific - or the actual vehicle was pointed away from Earth.

That image of a human profile with earth in the background was kinda nice. The 40-50s lead up to the profile image: https://youtu.be/ABQBEdOzrV0?t=6868 . And as others have pointed out, the suit looks rigid.
> I find some code easier to express with procedural/mutable loops than recursion, and I believe the vast majority of programmers

I think this comes from early and continuous exposure to some forms of programming, rather than inherent to pure functional programming.

I personally find it much easier to use recursion and other functional techniques because it composes better. This probable comes from my exposure to Haskell much earlier than most.
It's an interesting question of where we draw the line: diplomatic immunity in the form of embassy plates versus courtesy cards (obviously bad)
> trying to hide a signal in random noise doesn't really work

Actually it works perfectly and it's called a one-time pad!
OpenAI Nears Release of 'Strawberry' Model, With Reasoning Capabilities
https://archive.ph/Wa0GS