skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question wasn't clear enough I'm afraid. It's not that I don't want to work, it's more about the fact that I don't want to participate in meaningless rituals. There are absolutely zero reasons to have the 9-5. Software can be written also from 8 to 10, and from 4 to 8, but for some reason the entire world has gone mad and married the 9-5. On top of that, nobody really writes code for 8 hours. So instead of the 1-3 hours that I waste in a corporate world for meaningless "cooler talks", I could spend with my family, or workout. But no, I need to conform to 9-5.
Here's why I didn't access the link: I'm never interested in any product that the main feature is the technology it uses.

Which problem does it solve? Not how it is made.
If you want to get an accurate accounting of CO2 emissions, sure.
As many people have observed here, this is a couple of Steering Council members showing activity. Getting one's PEPs accepted has a totally inflated weight in the Python "community". The more, the better (by contrast very few people care about perfect and bug-free code).

So, if this thing is accepted, it pads the resume of certain people even more. And many software orgs will have one additional week of job security by rewriting existing code. It's a win-win situation.

Ever since the walrus operator coup Python has descended into madness and make-work initiatives.
> Currently, Python allows catching all exceptions with a bare except: clause, which can lead to overly broad exception handling and mask important errors.

The fact that this pattern catches NameError and other things which are obviously design errors means that it is a really bad behavior which is unfortunately common.

Of course, many folks in this comment section and the PEP discussion thread point out the pitfalls with the suggested remedies. It would be great if some amount of linting/warning/static check could be devised to help people uncover the problem though.
> Is English just badly pronounced French?

No, English is a Germanic language whose conjugation rules have severely atrophied, with (mostly specialized!) terminology liberally adopted from Latin, Greek, and other roots. In things like tense and aspect structure, I believe that English hews a lot closer to German than French.
Would you mind to share how and what do you do?
> Is this something like clojure.spec by for TypeScript so you can do runtime validation of data instead of compile-time

not really "instead", more like "in addition to". Even if your code compiles, if you are receiving data, e.g., via API, then you need to check that it actually conforms to the type/schema you expect. What is run is JS, so it, sadly, won't just crash/error if an object that is supposed to be of `type Cat = {name: string, ownerId: number}` lacks an `ownerId` at runtime.

Have you used Pydantic in Python? It's like that, but feels worse, IMO lol. I say this because Pydantic fits into writing Python code much more naturally than writing Zod stuff fits into writing TypeScript, IMO.
Sync engine > state machine
I dunno if the submitter actually read the article, but there's nothing about AI in there. They're replacing line judges with electronic sensors. They're actually late to the game, since other tennis venues have been doing this for years. There will still be a chair umpire on the court.
It's not a conjugation issue. "Champagne" is letter-for-letter identical in both languages, but pronounced differently for phonotactic reasons
At a time of their choosing they can subject themselves to marketing material (yellow pages) or simple word-of-mouth amplified by the Internet. Treating "knowledge of your product/service" as a market commodity is bizarre and has overall negative effects on competition (more money buys more awareness equals more sales).
But, for some weird reason, modern Bulgarian mutated gender of "evening" to feminine:

Тази вечер

even though in the greeting "good evening", the old masculine form remains:

добър вечер

Bulgarian in general seems to be the Chad of the Slavic language family :)
Most of the right wing who is against taxes still agree to pay taxes on something. They disagree what taxes should go for and how much, but they generally agree some are needed.

Society is about the compromise. However that compromise makes nobody happy.
As is .hk which is perhaps a better example
The vast majority of assets held by the ultra-wealthy are non-liquid. Thinking that these assets are "stock" that you can just "sell" is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the problem. You can't force realization for tax purposes because in most cases there is no feasible way to realize notional gains. Reality doesn't care if it is inconvenient for the government that assets with unrealized gains have no realizable value. The problem of asset value that is non-realizable is endemic in finance.

Additionally, in the minority of cases where it is plausible to force realization, doing so would destroy the notional value of the asset in many cases. The government will have to issue a tax credit, undoing any tax revenue they hoped to gain, but the business is now destroyed so there is no future tax revenue either.

Trying to prematurely force realization of asset value is either impossible or destructive in the vast majority of cases.
google.com is a search engine, regardless of what drives Google's revenue. Weird to say it's not.
My question wasn't clear enough I'm afraid. It's not that I don't want to work, it's more about the fact that I don't want to participate in meaningless rituals. There are absolutely zero reasons to have the 9-5. Software can be written also from 8 to 10, and from 4 to 8, but for some reason the entire world has gone mad and married the 9-5. On top of that, nobody really writes code for 8 hours. So instead of the 1-3 hours that I waste in a corporate world for meaningless "cooler talks", I could spend with my family, or workout. But no, I need to conform to 9-5.

I'm fine working 8 hours a day, I just want to do it on my terms and build my work around my lifestyle, rather than morph my lifestyle to suit the stupid notion of 9-5.
My absolute favorite example of this is the suppression of "podcast" in favor of the far more romantic "audio à la demande".
Pretty sure there is a similar graph for Britain during the wind down phase of their Empire.
> What other services don't have perfectly reasonable replacements ready and waiting?

How about which single reasonable replacement offers the same services with the same level of integration?

Using Yahoo Mail and Amazon Cloud and Office Online and whatever other products isn't quite the same offering as what Google offers.
crazy double whammy:

1. US gov trying to break up your search monopoly

2. ChatGPT disrupting your search monopoly
Used to be the worlds top supercomputer infra was in national labs or such places and not private companies. Some of the largest are still there. In my hypothetical that would be the case "assuming same resources."
Yeah. That's what I struggle with. However, I guess increasing dependence on methane is not something we want to increase (to encourage more fossil fuel usage).
In Germany you need approval for business names.
Imagine either England or the USA accepting to vary their language towards a common standard. I expect strong opposition would stem from pride.
Nintendo announces alarm clock hardware Alarmo
Bo-En.info
It's the first time I see a company's name used like that.
How else would he make two hundred billion dollars? Paying employees coerced into selling their labor a wage which is less than the value their labor creates? Ridiculous
Let me save you a click: Goldsmithing Was the Klimt Family Business

This is TMZ-level art journalism.
Hacker alleges top Star Health Insurance exec sold data of 31M Indians
That's one metric, that only reflects Amazon's function as an income generator.

I view businesses through other metrics as well, including their impact on society in a variety of different ways. From some of those perspectives, it is not clear to me that Amazon (where I was the 2nd employee) is a net benefit.
GPT? Probably not. But there are AI products out there that can be trained to do that kind of grunt work with text that has semi-regular features to it. Amazon Textract is one such tool.
Not sure whether I'd call that "spin", or "reality distortion".

Here's a bit-more-objective page, from a couple weeks ago:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/longshot-space-closes-over...

Notice that they only seem to have a few $M in funding. And even the "giant optimist" version of their launcher would still subject the payload to 250g's.
It's essentially AirPlay/Wireless carplay but can be initiated from the receiving device. Any attacker would have to establish a direct wi-fi connection. The new Remote Support feature still requires on-device initiation. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/request-give-remote-c...
Nice, so when do we get to elect the billionaires?
Hilarious to see all the people lamenting the break-up of AT&T. That break-up sparked the long distance phone race, which became the driving force for the massive laying of fiber optics... which enabled the Internet boom of the 1990s.
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Because proving correctness for complex software is difficult and very few people have relevant experience. So it is both labor intensive and you need to pay high wages. I believe the safety improvements are marginal because of my experience in safety critical development. Almost all the bugs we did not find by testing turned out to be problems with the requirements that led to interoperability issues. Proving the correct implementation of wrong requirements would not have helped.
There are a number of cheap-as-dirt things that could have been done to prevent the disaster. Putting the generators on a platform was one. Venting the hydrogen outside instead of inside, another. Having emergency repair parts on site is a third. Having a gravity-fed way to cool the reactors with external water, a fourth.

And so on.
This was the prompt I gave o1-preview:

> There is a geometric thought experiment that is often used to demonstrate the counterintuitive shape of high-dimensional phenomena. We start with a 4×4 square. There are four blue circles, with a radius of one, packed into the box. One in each corner. At the center of the box is a red circle. The red circle is as large as it can be, without overlapping the blue circles. When extending the construct to 3D, many things happen. All the circles are now spheres, the red sphere is larger while the blue spheres aren’t, and there are eight spheres while there were only four circles.

> There are more than one way to extend the construct into higher dimensions, so to make it more rigorous, we will define it like so: An n-dimensional version of the construct consists of an n-cube with a side length of 4. On the midpoint between each vertex and the center of the n-cube, there is an n-ball with a radius of one. In the center of the n-cube there is the largest n-ball that does not intersect any other n-ball.

> At what dimension would the red ball extend outside the box?

Response: "[...] Conclusion: The red ball extends outside the cube when n≥10n≥10."

It calculated it with a step-by-step explanation. This is the first time I'm actually pretty stunned. It analysed the problem, created an outline. Pretty crazy.
Singling out COVID is misleading because of the short timeframe. Overall I’ve been more impacted by Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates choices than any single president in my lifetime.

A President has limited power for 4 or 8 years, and that’s it. We don’t put 22 year olds on the Supreme Court or let them act unilaterally. Sure laws stick around but that’s the result of what hundreds of people and other groups of people not changing the rules in a few years.
That's fine. Such people can renounce their citizenship and pay the required exit tax, convert all their assets to gold bars or whatever, and go move somewhere in the world without a functioning state, where they can hire a private militia, build their own basic infrastructure, etc.
I only see second-person "you" and not first-person "I" in the linked documentation. Am I missing what you intended to point out?

In any case, this might actually be a good use for an LLM to post-process it into whatever style you want. I bet there's even a browser extension that could do it on-demand and in-place.
Yep. I distinctly remember reading an interview in the German GameStar magazine in '99 or something with him where he talks about his early work with Bullfrog. Over the years I read his name from time to time as he moved towards research. Pretty amazing career.
> What if the producer moves into a field that I'm in and is now a competitor - have I suddenly run afoul of the license, even though I wasn't before?

If a user moves into the producer's field and becomes a 'competitor', or the producer moves into a user's field, the user simply cannot upgrade to the latest version of the software. But they're access to previous versions would remain unaffected, as far as I understand.

Here's more explicit language from the FSL:

> A Competing Use means making the Software available to others in a commercial product or service that: ... substitutes for any other product or service we offer using the Software that exists as of the date we make the Software available; or

As you can see, terms are "as of the date we make the Software available", so nobody can retroactively be in violation of the license, but they can be restricted i.r.t. upgrading to newer fair source versions. Since they now compete, they will need to use the open source version released under DOSP moving forward, typically 2 years out of date.

I'll be honest and say that I think that's totally fair.
It's not just being able to come up with the idea, it's being able to build a team and execute without the company going under.
I would hope Google would help out, but I would also realize that it's ultimately their own choice if the license allows them to use it without donating time/money.
If we're going for accuracy, your statement would have to explain how it goes for other situations, for instance:

- words spoken by toddlers: what's the spelling of a word that doesn't exist outside of a kid's brain ? In particular parents can accept it as a word without ever setting an associated writing.

- written words that don't have a pronounciation: typically Latin is dead and how any of it is pronounced is up to how we feel about it.

That's without going into words with phonems unrelated to their written form (XIV as fourteen for instance) and I assume there will be words that exchange spelling and pronounciation with others.

Languages are plenty weird, we should embrace their weirdity IMHO.
Imagine you need to email code to someone to be committed :-)
Nationalistic/racial/ethnic/religious/whatever-this-is slurs will get you banned here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Please don't post anything like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In Singapore and a few other places. However in the US housing is not a government monopoly (sometimes low income housing is). You can always find a landlord in a different town. No need for a new job as you still live in the same metropolitan area.
Would it be possible to move all the language developers to work on packaging?

IMO the Python language is feature complete but the packaging system needs heart surgery.
The point is to not allow a company to be able to buy out the entire country. Maybe Novo Nordisk is a good steward but historically companies like Google and Amazon act only their own best interests. Breaking up these massive companies ends up doing the better thing anyway - a surge of competition emerges and offers better and often cheaper services. Look at the break up of Bell. The short term was marginally negative (higher long distance costs) but the market was better for it.

Google has a substantial amount of control over the flow of information in the United States. To the point it can literally redefine truth. This is a problem - and one that is easily solved by breaking up a de-facto monopoly. Moreover, the acquire-and-kill strategy stifles innovation. Imagine what we would have if Google didnt have the capital to buy and kill so many small companies.
A great example of an article that appeals to emotions (negative ones) by manipulating facts.
Frame perfect moves are exceedingly common in most top fields. Just watch any video about the latest speedruns.

The thing with latency is it needs to be consistent. If your latency is between 3 to 5 frames you blew it because you can't guarantee the same experience on every button press. If you always have 3 frames of latency, with modern screens, analog controls, and game design aware of those limitations, that's much better. Look at modern games like Celeste, who has introduced Coyote Time to account for all the latency of our modern hardware.
That's impressive! Doesn't run for very long at that rate haha
I was going to write a comment agreeing with you but then my audio started to get scratchy for no reason this morning
I am not aware of a Unicode concept of "the latin letter o followed by an apostrophe followed by another latin letter". Unicode would identify the glyphs for such a concept, but I don't see how Unicode is involved in this in anyway as far the process of deciding what "capitalized o'reilly" means.
There are; VNC doesn't know about IP, for example, and TCP doesn't know about Ethernet. IP is just as happy to run over PPP or Wireguard as over Ethernet. HTTP/1 knows about TCP/IP, but only a little bit, and you can easily run HTTP/1 over other protocols like TLS. Character-cell terminal protocols know very little indeed about the protocol layer under them and work almost equally well over telnet, rsh, SSH, a serial port, a modem, or a bare pseudo-TTY, the main surviving exception being window resize handling.

The problem is that ① the layers don't have a fixed relationship to each other the way the OSI model proposes, ② several of the OSI layers don't exist at all in real-life TCP/IP protocols, and ③ there are other layers in current stacks that have no analogue in the OSI model, like Wireguard, MPLS, SSH, TLS, and HTTP. If you want to understand the services HTTP provides to the protocols that ride on top of it, you need to read Roy Fielding's thesis, not X.225.
Well, communication needs standards.

As much as we need someone to define what is http, TCP/IP or Posix we also need someone to define what is English, Spanish or any language.

If you don't believe it then try to understand whatever language a Venezuelan or Dominican speaks. That blabber is anything but Spanish.
The government has a monopoly on violence, and it can (and does) print as much money as it wants. There is no "threat" of a private person having money, they are still bound by the same laws. They became rich by creating a business that provided value for others - the most noble way to acquire wealth that exists. That's not a danger or a cancer of the system, that's a success
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are the New $1B SaaS Opportunities [video]
"except:" is explicit enough and "except BaseException" is redundant.

Moreover I think there is a real risk people are going to write "except Exception:" instead, which breaks in the fringe case an exception that derives from BaseException (enforced by interpreter) but not from Exception is thrown.

Even if catch Exception is what users usually mean, changing code from "catch (BaseException):" to "catch Exception:" may break some code if improperly reviewed.

It's also not worth breaking production code over this.
/me thinks the 'zoning' is rather grey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute
The main concern with this is how do you actually get the records of what the cost basis was from someone who is dead?
You might be able to make it work with https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-vscode-csharp

.NET itself also supports FreeBSD and is distributed here https://www.freshports.org/lang/dotnet I assume this is compatible with OpenBSD? If not, please let me know.
oops, this thread's just been censored off the front page, better luck next time
One thing to note about zod - it clones objects as it validates (parses) them. Eg z.array(z.object()) with an array of 10k objects will result in 10k cloned objects → slow.
That sometimes happens but at the end of the day its on you to actually patch the single player game. No one forces your hand except on console, you can still earn steam achievements on old game versions i believe.
> they are just not willing to accept the lifestyle that forces

Jeez the pedantry around here.

Let me spell it out: Upper class people don't have to work to maintain their existing lifestyle. Steve Jobs could have continued wearing black turtlenecks and paying fines for parking his Mercedes in handicapped spots for the rest of his life, without doing a lick of work. That he didn't is a credit to his work ethic and passion for the work.
Developers earn their high salaries partially because of their abilities to adapt, why should longshoremen earn comparatively just because they're a warm body in a union? They can earn high salaries for all I care, but they should earn their keep
Google Maps isn’t going anywhere. They are a profit center from all the search ads within the map.
It also proved that deep learning models are a valid approach to bioinformatics - for all its flaws and shortcomings, AlphaFold solves arbitrary protein structure in minutes on commodity hardware, whereas previous approaches were, well, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

A gap between biological research and biological engineering is that, for bioengineering, the size of the potential solution space and the time and resources required to narrow it down are fundamental drivers of the cost of creating products - it turns out that getting a shitty answer quickly and cheaply is worth more than getting the right answer slowly.
I can't access all symbols, only specific ones. Is this by design?
Hi,

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When these hiring decisions are based on gut feelings or "vibes," these subjective judgments often reflect an unconscious bias
I ran into exactly same pain point which was enough to nullify the benefits of using zod at all.
60 FPS isn't even promised on PS5 Pro. Most graphically demanding titles still aim for 30 FPS on consoles, with any game able to support 60 FPS consistently worth noting.
The geometry of mass graves
Analysis of MS Drainer crypto stealer
Ah, the old "you disagree with me, therefore you must have only been a stupid grunt" argument.

If they broke up Google, DOD could contract with the remnants as easily as they contract with Alphabet today. If anything, deficiencies in the defense sector are because of forced consolidations and mergers stifling innovation and competition post-Cold War, not the opposite. DOD suffers when it can only contract with a few dated apathetic behemoths. Look at Boeing vs. SpaceX.

But feel free to make believe that I wasn't a senior officer when I hung it up.
Not really, nobody goes "ooh, the stock price is up 5% this year, we can hire 5% more employees!"

Most stock wealth isn't doing anything for the company. If the stock price of Apple went down by 90% tomorrow for no reason, the main effect on Apple would be... almost nothing.

The employees who get equity compensation would be mad but they don't use their stock value to fund R&D or expansion or salaries.