skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter/X ever was a forum for genuine conversation or debate, they just killed it.

It never was. Twitter is shit now under Elon, and was shit before him.

Some very annoying people just happened to like how that turd used to smell, is all.
Ratan Tata never married or have kids, so those weren't his sons, maybe other relatives or colleagues/employees.
It actually is about 0.5 bits less efficient per weight in terms of precision/range, something the paper never highlights.
Right - and the fact that a lot of these accounts are fake should suggest that this whole milieu just isn't worth your time.

It's just a wilderness of mirrors, basically. Its purpose is to drain your batteries and make you upset.
There are advertisers who specifically want to reach fans (gamers, tv/movie fans, etc), the name change was to make that ad sale conversation stronger: https://about.fandom.com/mediakit
And then, the last step:

If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to worry over.

Why do you worry? What do you have to hide?

Don't leave your house, a Black Maria is on its way to pick you up.
That’s a creative use of a custom 2to3 fixer [1] to transform the calculations [2]. Too bad this will no longer work with the removal of 2to3 in Python 3.13.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html#fixers

[2]: https://github.com/rescrv/napkin/blob/e6a4de2/napkin/substit...
> Do you have any examples of this? Like an example project?

Not the OP, but I worked on loans once. The application originally required tax returns to check income. Then we added the option to upload recent bank statements instead of tax returns. But there were a lot of places where the assumption of tax returns was hard-coded, so to save time the developers basically added an entirely separate code path for bank statements. Do this n times, and you have 2^n code paths.

When we eventually refactored and fixed it, we replaced the hardcoded references to tax returns with a concept of estimated income. Then we were able to reduce the branch to simply saying "if tax returns are present, estimated income = get_estimated_income_from_tax_returns(), otherwise estimated income = get_estimated_income_from_bank_statement()".

That's the core idea – collapse a branch as soon as possible.
Valve is in a unique position. Private company which makes infinite cash from their store. Plenty of freedom for little community outlays which can be impossible to approve when you have to justify finance numbers to the street.
Did you mean "opt-in" rather than optional? Optional is the same as "you can disable it". Also, you scratched it out. Are you sure they just enable it without asking? The link above even has a screenshot.
I think Proton is more viewed as a honeypot
SEC Sues Cumberland – Crypto Unit of High-Speed Trading Firm DRW
Human Faces for Your Product
Seems like a downgrade, and I doubt it can handle Premiere. Honestly I'm looking to move off of Adobe stuff anyway, but I will have to do that before ditching Windows
> treating a disfavored group

Hold on: in what possible way, by what conceivable metric, are the wealthy a disfavored group? Name for me any way a wealthy person struggles. It is some mad "leave the billionaire alone" cope to try and say the literally most privileged, by definition, class of folks on the planet are somehow oppressed.

> and being literally unable to comprehend that groups are made up of different people.

Of course they are, but as a group of people who share commonalities of experience, priorities, and oftentimes physical location and interaction, they necessarily also have more in common with one another than with people who are far disconnected from them. That is why people like Ellen Degeneres are taking pictures with George Bush: George Bush has far more in common with Ellen than Ellen does to the vast, vast, vast majority of her audience.

This goes double for economic interest. A world that no longer privileges wealth, even putting aside bogeymen like taxation or confiscation, will be unappealing to every wealthy person, because their wealth currently makes the world bend over backwards for them, and that's pretty sweet and nobody apart from the most principled people on the planet would willingly give that up.

> Under that logic you get howlers of counter-factuals like "Kings were rich and therefore there was never a war between kings." It is up there with the abject stupidity of System of a Down accidentally going pro-monarchist by asking why don't presidents fight the war.

I mean if you don't think it makes politicians of any stripe, kingly or otherwise, more ready to declare war if they know full well they themselves will not be expected to take up arms, then you have far more faith in people than I do.

Though I don't know where you got that quote from, if it is indeed a quote. I'm a much bigger fan of "when the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." And I think you'd be hard pressed to find a conflict where, outside some strange exceptional occurrence, that wasn't quite true.

> The job of a bank is to accumulate idle money to put to use in investment to generate returns. "Why does money accumulate in the money accumulator that generates more the more money is put inside of it?"

I don't object to the money accumulator accumulating money, I object to the money accumulator, when it malfunctions, having it's money replenished with tax dollars it did not earn by performing it's function, from which the guy who owns the accumulator draws a substantial salary afterwards, despite overseeing when the accumulator stopped working.
Isn't the problem that almost no database stores the timezone (either offset or location) in the datetime datatype?
I'm certainly more innovative when it's the opposite. When you're all on the same page from the beginning and you're deliberating in that way, you will often end up following a very narrow path. Divergence and ideation happens when you're given an initial problem and you attempt to solve said problem independently. THEN you come together and you can start to fashion together a solution, synthesizing the best parts of each solution. Even if someone is completely off the mark with the rest of the group, their lack of initial perspective can bring greater rewards in the long run as they've got a fresher mind to attack the problem from a different angle.
I do half the work I did when I was in-office. Of course I don't want to go back!
I would appreciate some of them as well.
People seem to always circle back to arguments about whether wfh is better/worse for productivity and so on. But that potential cost/benefit is surely drowned by the extra cost of paying people to work in an office.

If productivity is +/-10 or 20% (which would be huge) between office and wfh but the additional comp is 50% to get someone to work 100% in office then the calculus is still simple.
No. It's just a less useful UX. Linux Mint after will get you everything Windows forgot customers want.
The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes
There are tons of windows Trojans already. Going after the 'too smart' type just gets you detected faster.
I was an anarchist as a child because I read a short dictionary definition, maybe describing it as meaning "without rules", and I figured that was what I wanted in life. Then I graduated to libertarianism as a teenager. Then in my 20s I encountered people who really called themselves anarchists, and they were all basically socialists with a sprinkling of individualism, which seemed incoherent because the socialism is all about taking people's property away for "the public" (which definitely won't ever turn into for the state, right?) ... so I sadly had to stop using the word "anarchy" since the dictionary had apparently misled me and nobody is just purely against being ruled.

But, I must say, I'm increasingly easy-going about the whole thing. I don't claim to know how things should be arranged, tax me if you must, assign me to clean the communal latrines, do what you like, such is life. I will generally assume that we're all getting it wrong, regardless of viewpoint.
Büro is the German spelling of a foreign word.

But Eva's Blumenladen is a foreign spelling of German words.
TIL Kojima isn't just a surname (of a famous game designer), but also a town.
Specifically, this brings to mind Observable Framework, which takes the "jupyter-like" UI of observablehq.com and makes a static site generator out of it, where you write Markdown, and add "reactive Javascript" bits to it: https://observablehq.com/framework/. (see https://observablehq.com/framework/javascript specifically)
Lutris solves most of that problem. I installed Unreal Engine through it.
Are you talking about a 5 people company where those people are your friends?
Nice. I'm testing it watching a YouTube video in "full screen" in its window, while also leaving room for a browser and email window on that monitor.
Wow. I didn't expect to see so many so close to the water. They might be in high-rises though.
Is a 10% risk of potential death a good justification to cure the disease?

Actually - more realistic would be, What if you had the disease in question and knew the cure might (then again might not) have some unknown side effect, up to or even exceeding a 10% chance of death. Would you take it?

Obviously the answer is hidden somewhere in the details but most of those details are unknown or unknowable.

Which is to say I bet any legal action's success will depend upon just who knew what and who they told.
The way to "avoid" it is to make it easier to upgrade to the latest version of python rather than making it harder.
That's not because of remote work. That's because either your managers aren't capable of doing their jobs or your co-workers refuse to speak up when someone isn't doing their part. I hold my co-workers to a high standard. If they're fucking up and it prevents me from doing my job, I'm not going to pretend like it isn't happening. They will know, and if it continues, so will their manager. The biggest problem with weak managers is that they don't know how to hold people accountable.
I used to have an Intel MB, mid 2010.
I had to disconnect the hdmi cable so it can boot, otherwise it would just blast the fan displaying the apple loading animation.
It died on 2022 when i installed an update that asked for a restart and i forgot to disconnect and went on vacation.
RIP Intel MPs. Amazing beasts.
Because of organic search, not because of the ads. It has had a massive effect on the economic opportunities of newcomers. You can open a restaurant outside of the main walking street of a place and get customers through Google Maps. You can have a small business selling almost anything online and people will find you using Google search. Before that you'd have to rely on traditional advertising for anybody to know you exist, which is neither cheap nor effective. Today you can start a business and pay 0 in advertising, and Google will still help customers find you through organic search.

Don't underestimate how much freedom that gives people to strike it out on their own.
Improving platform resilience at Cloudflare through automation
House bought a while back before prices shot up, so maybe mortgage paid off ... I don't know. OTOH college costs alone make the US ruinously expensive.. $200K/kid perhaps... That's the point really - you need to look at full financial picture in the US - especially costs. Looking at income tells you nothing.
The manifesto is longer than the content...
They actually did this when they had a public spat with Improbable and stealth-changed the ToS to forbid Improbable's use of Unity. When called out, Unity posted the ToS to GitHub as a promise of transparency going forward.

They deleted the repo it a few months before rolling out the runtime fee and published it again after being called out.

So it's great in concept, but we've already seen it completely ignored in practice.
Is chatgpt performing more reliability on unit conversion and math related questions?

I recall this being very hit or miss even a few months ago.
An Interview with GDKChan, Creator of Ryujinx (2021)
I'm doing my part!

Would you like to know more?
The Puzzle: The LLM Encryption Paradox

Let’s say you’ve got an LLM that knows almost everything—trained on vast amounts of text. But there’s a catch. It’s never seen content encrypted using a specific one-time pad cipher, and you have access to this cipher.

You give the model an encrypted message:

"g5f8s9h2..." (a string of seemingly random characters)

Then, you ask it to:

"Decrypt the above message and summarize its content."

The Paradox

The question here is simple: Can this advanced AI decrypt the message and tell you what it says? Or is it stumped, even with all its computational power?
I'm sort of amazed at this point that these RTO position articles are still so popular. How much more can we say about this?
Oh yeah glue pizza FTW
Why, “Start coding already!” rather than something like, “Start writing already?” I think half the barrier to people building sites is that they think they need to know how to code, and that seems scary, but they do know what they want to write, and that seems more approachable.
In the Trenches with State Policymakers Working to Pass Data Privacy Laws
Obviously in practice, this isn't always true, but in general, each employee should output more than their pay, or they wouldn't be there. As an example, Exxon Mobile supposedly has profits of $899,000/employee [1]. Their average pay is probably significantly lower than that, but let's say it's $300k, so a 20% boost in productivity increases profit per employee by $180k. An increase of 50% in salary (and I don't think it takes that much to get people to work in an office) costs them $150k.

[1] https://www.lifehealth.com/top-25-us-companies-ranked-by-pro...
Geothermal Power in the North Bay
Sorry, I don’t understand this point. What’s the interpretation of your previous message (in light of that) which makes it true?
The whole point of work is that someone pays you money, so you donate your time. How exactly and what amount of time, that is the contract you negotiate with your employer. Office time is just one negotiation point.

Personally I would never work as an employee to begin with, unless I were in serious financial distress. I would rather be a poor entrepreneur/freelancer than wealthy salaried employee. And office isn't really the factor, but other things, like freedom. But people have different preferences.
Are there "batch"-esque workloads where we want extreme throughput, but can tolerate a large latency (10-100 micros)?
i would like to see this work somehow. the whole modal click thru as part of bootup; install; or update is really old.
I don't tend to remember details of trailers - just that it looked good (or not), and then the name of the movie may stick in my head (or I may mark release date on my calendar). By the time the movie comes out months later, I'm not going to have remembered much about the trailer.
I mean, why are you making claims that neither you nor anybody else can back up? You could have said anything in reply to my comment, or even nothing at all, but you chose to say something that you have no idea about. That's somehow my fault?
I think a lot of people just never find the right therapist and then assume all therapists are terrible.

It’s interesting because even the most staunch opponents of mental health talk therapy have people in their life they talk to, they just don’t consider them therapists.
Exactly. Without new features and syntaxes people would still be doing MyClass.prototype.method = function () { } like idiots. Such a meaningless argument for preventing progress.
Absolutely. I love C# and .NET, they are incredible and very fast. I just meant to say that they aren't only focused on performance, but also focused on new features.

One of the best things .NET did was adding minimal APIs in .NET 6 (I think) that are more like Express. They removed a lot of boilerplate and unnecessary stuff, making it easier to start building an API.
Software engineers don't recieve a 20x better salary than the common man has access to. The heatmap indicates that the median software engineer tends to make 2-3x the local median income.
> you are not using "full" C++ but a special subset that works on top of specific abstraction to compile to GPUs

you're wrong - GPU offloading is just window dressing (#defines and CMake) around the compiler itself, which supports almost all of C++; see https://libc.llvm.org/gpu/ which builds libc (which is implemented using C++ in llvm) to amdgpu/ptx/etc.

> C# provides you the tools and a solution other languages in the class of Java, Go, TS

absolutely no one in their right mind would compare these languages to C++

> So you could reasonably replace a project written in C++ that requires assurances provided by C++ with C#

i think people that don't write C++ professionally just don't understand where/how/why C++ is used :shrug:
Commissioning of the First-Gen BrainScaleS Wafer-Scale Neuromorphic System
Even long term commercial leases do expire. A lot of companies aren’t renewing underutilized and maybe getting smaller/cheaper space to replace it—or not.
> very well said...

Thank you; that's very kind.

> your point is far more central to the discussion i feel the people compiling the figures wanted to spark.

I tend to agree.

> And while its a worthy argument i hafta say "why didn't they put it in those terms, then?"

Writing is difficult. Persuasive writing is even more difficult. And persuasive writing to a large and undefined audience, in a way that will make that entire audience happy, is basically impossible.
He admits that he's biased -and angry.

That said, HR policies (both ones we like, and ones we hate) tend to be "one size fits all" policies. They don't adjust for individuals. There's reasons for that; usually, legal reasons.

Individual jobs require individual approaches. If I'm a bench tech, running a rack of $40,000 analyzers that I share with other techs, I probably need to be in the office. If I'm running tests on an Internet connectivity layer, maybe not so much.

Also, different people work better, in different contexts. Some folks can't muster the personal discipline to work out of their living room (or their home environment is not friendly to their work). That doesn't mean that they need to RTO, but they should find some solution. I know someone that actually rents a desk in a local accelerator, and goes there, five days a week, for a remote job.

I have a good friend that just accepted a position at Amazon. They are paying him a lot more than his previous employer. He's really good at what he does. Their offer was not charity. He came on board as a remote employee. He lives out East on Long Island, and the Amazon office is in Midtown Manhattan. That's at least a two-hour commute, each way. He has a new kid, and is currently weighing his options. That paycheck is making the choice difficult, but he's coming face-to-face with the things he will need to give up, for that paycheck.
Very nice website, I appreciate the mailing list demo. I was skeptical about how much data you would have ,and the mailing list demo convinced me and probably many others that you have a good amount of data to offer a quality service.
> I'm not so sure about that. I think we end up consuming a lot of these features in the TS types that get published alongside libraries. We just don't know it, we just get surprisingly intuitive type interfaces.

Very true. As a downstream consumer, I can do all business logic in ancient, simple languages. But I'm sure these things are extremely nice to have for the more complicated upstream dependencies I rely on.
I think with Fandom similar with Reddit, or Twitch, most people focus on the interface experience as sole advantage of the platform, and miss how they provide an accessible space to incubate new communities. You get low barrier to entry hosting, operation tools, and network exposure.
That's what seems to be happening here. Riot games paid for the wiki to be moved from fandom and hosted by weird glop but governance seems unchanged.
Thank you for posting this!

Those pages usually just say "Something went wrong. Try reloading."

After several reloads, I was able to see that the second one said, "lol, this [redacted] lispm [redacted] is badmouthing me again," the third one was basically a link to http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/hackernews_lispm.html, and the first one was a repost of some of the (extremely abrasive and unpleasant) text on that page.†

On his page about Naggum, which is linked from the above, he writes:

> During 1998 to 2004 when i read comp.lang.lisp mostly of his posts, i also post maybe a couple a month on average. Most of my posts are trolls (of the good sort (see: Netiquette Anthropology.)), and part of it is riding his name, criticizing or making fun of his attackers, and criticizing or lampoon him too. They are mostly not technical. Most are writing exercises too.

This does clearly demonstrate that the characterization in this thread of Xah Lee as abrasive, unpleasant, and a Usenet troll is correct.

However, it also appears that lispm's characterization of Xah as never having written a line of Lisp hasn't been correct for many years. Considering only public code, I think http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.ht... alone is a larger contribution than Naggum made in his entire life. Naggum's contribution seems to be a bit under 800 lines of Emacs Lisp which is still in current Emacs but basically unused. It's a little unclear, though, because http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/ergonomic_keybinding_qwerty_4... is a little under 600 lines, and I'm not sure how much Xah wrote of the several thousand lines of ergoemacs after that point. But he's also written several smaller things like http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/xah-get-thing.el (259 LoC), http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/elisp_replace_string_region.h... (97 LoC), etc., under the GNU GPL v2.

Of course line counts measure effort (the cost) rather than any measure of actual user benefit. But I think we can fairly say that Xah has by now put more effort into writing code for the Lisp community than Naggum did in his lifetime.

In http://xahlee.info/comp/blog_past_2011-01.html he explains that he basically never contributed anything until 02006, eight years after the thread we're discussing. However, most of the Lisp code he's written is only available by donation and presumably proprietary; for example, http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/xah-html-mode.html and http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/xah-go-mode.html. In other cases, such as http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_extend_selection.html, http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_navigating_keys_for_bra..., and in general everything I've looked at under http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/xah_emacs_commands_index.html, the code is publicly available but unfortunately doesn't have a clear license, something I've often been guilty of myself.

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† Personal conflicts between lispm and Xah go back many years. http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/scheme_fail.html is one of numerous places where Xah personally attacked lispm, in this case because of a factual disagreement about the historical dynamics of programming language adoption.
Why would you watch a trailer if you didn’t want to see parts of the movie? I mean even “teasers” can give you significant amounts of info about the movie.
The problem I always have with locals (in kernel code written in C) is that the compiler tends to optimize them away, and gdb can't find them. So I end up having to read the assembly and try to figure out where values in various registers came from.
Debug and Analyze Your Vapi.ai Voice AI Agent
Finally a legit use case for blockchain
I guess if you're doing something like the original post's "type Iterator[V] struct" you could somehow extend it capture the extra information to make an efficient Reverse work.

(FWIW, in C#, the IEnumerable extension method Reverse() just captures the whole sequence to an array and then iterates it in reverse. And yeah, woe unto you if you try to reverse an infinite sequence.)
How much of your server load was Grand Exchange Market Watch?