skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Deliberate misinterpretation”-? “Colored by his treatment”-? such an interesting choice of words. You’re very good at this euphemism dance.

Bravo.

So if I “discover” a house down the street I’ve never seen before, I “achieved” the title of “discoverer” as well! Ok so I guess he did “accomplish” something, I stand corrected.:

He “discovered” the place that was not called Hispaniola by any of the people that called it home.

He “discovered” the gold that those people were literally wearing at their home. I guess that means he can keep that too?

He “discovered” that he could force those at gun point to bring him all the gold they could find from their home.

He “discovered” that he could coerce the people into doing that by beheading the leaders of their home.

He “discovered” he and his crew could rape the women they found in their home.

Such an interesting choice of words you were taught to describe home invasion, rape, murder, robbery.
Points double, and then drops way down on front page list. HN intentionally tanking this.
How much can we know? (2018)
> Forget the cosmological constant having lucky values, what are the odds that physical constants exist as opposed to there being a matterless void?

The odds of there being something rather than nothing are absolutely zero. This is easily seen because for the odds to be anything more than that would require some reason, and that reason, whatever it might be, would be something. This is why a matterless void isn’t actually nothing.
"Only in the last year have scientists been able to publish articles that acknowledge a high number of SAEs linked to mRNA based vaccines."

Reminds me of why the 1918 H1N1 epidemic was called the Spanish flu.
Nothing you said has any grounding in reality.

https://libretro.com is ad-free

No hardware I tested has any problems with any emulator and most emulators still run better than the main port.

If you were referring to another retroarch site you went to the wrong site which could explain your problems, but please open a bug report if you really have such a bad experience with retroarch and maybe try another libretro frontend.

Sadly I consider your comment as FUD since I can't collaborate/verify any of your problems on any hardware... I'm sorry. If you really downloaded retroarch from a non official source, please check your PC for malware.

Edit just to clarify I'm not associated with retroarch even though I provided code a few times in the past. I'm still using it from time to time, but I hadn't had contact to anyone from this project for years. I'm just an independent dev who hates FUD...
When Did I Start Caring About Money? A Personal Exploration
I find it incredibly puzzling why Polar is left out of these conversations when it comes to wearable health tech when Polar pioneered a lot of the technology and releases white papers for all their functions.

For example, Garmin has "body battery" which is a pseudo science measure of who knows what and Polar does orthostatic tests (based on HRV). Polar won't even let you do that test with a watch, you need a chest strap because of a lot of similar reasons outlined in this paper
I’m skeptical it has basis in medicine, but I’m here to see too.
Don't they just reduce the Q part of Q&A? And since the Q was A-d by AI doesn't that mean that A was there already and people just couldn't find it but AI did?
You're one out of 8 billion people, the only known humans inhabiting an incredible vast cosmos with billions of galaxies and billions of years of timespan. That you are sitting here reading these typed words is nothing short of incredible, in a world that many want to model as a Newtonian marble-universe devoid of life and consciousness.

People denounce past lives and future lives, but have no qualms about hanging on to their current life, as if that is worth anything more in the grander scheme of things. That's not to say it's a solution to end it all, but just pointing out the lack of logical thinking and grander perspective, that leads many thinking minds astray.

Or think of it like a hacker: You're cast out as the solitary sentient entity within a huge cosmos with many possibilities and experiences. What do you want to do today?

In many spiritual circles, luck has nothing to do with it, but inevitability does. Mathematics, if advanced enough, could maybe come to the same conclusion. But it's a matter of perspective. What perspective do we inhabit today?

One where everything can be explained (away)?

Or one where we cannot even explain what existence and sentience is, or why everything seems to become empty but still infinitely complex, when we zoom into them?
The whole thing is confuinsing. It turns out WP Engine is not part of WordPress (despite the name) and has never contributed to WordPress. WordPress are trying to take more control of their name/trademark.
Actively running a harassment campaign against a competitor is not "making a mistake".
> UDP Does not guarantee packets will arrive uncorrupted

> TCP does, (mostly) guarantees all of the above, with the help of sequence numbers (ordering), checksums (data corruption), and ACKs (successful transmission).

UDP uses (nearly?) the same checksum algorithm that TCP does. To say that one is reliable because of checksums but the other isn't is disingenuous.
A mathematical model for luck is variance.

We understand variance, we understand distributions - normal, binomial, poisson, t-distribution, chi-squared, and so on - and we can model with some confidence how to take action to select where we sit in some distributions. For example, not smoking and having an active and healthy lifestyle moves you in the distribution of people likely to get lung cancer by a certain age. You are "choosing your own luck" to some degree. It's probabilistic, not certain, but it fits a known model.

And then there are those situations where the distributions - and therefore the variance, i.e. the luck - is less knowable. The best tool we have for this right now is Bayesian statistics: here's what I know right now, and I will update my understanding of the probabilities as new information becomes available to me.

So, yes, we should think about luck a little differently. It's not fate, it is expression of variance within a known or unknown distribution, and we can do more to understand it. This is more than most people do, and it feels more actionable and of higher utility than the examples given in the article.
I.... I really don't feel like driving in a traffic jam is better than being in a train in anything except the most extreme cases of train crowding. I haven't experienced massive commuter driving but even the cases I've just been stuck in stop and go traffic for 30 minutes it felt worse than any train ride I've taken except for the few times I was in "I feel like I'm going to get crushed" levels of crowded.

And like... generally speaking, the crowded train is still going to get you where you need to go. I don't know how you walk away from the 30 minute trip that took 2+ hours with any happy feelings. To each their own of course
In the US, we see many places where rail has been abandoned. In the place I live (upstate NY, Finger Lakes) there are multiple walking trails that were previously locations of rail lines, which shut down more than half a century ago. The rails themselves are long gone. In some places you can see where earth was moved and concrete structures were installed to allow drainage. Maintaining these lines made no sense with the existence of a road network carrying motor vehicles. There are also abandoned canals from an even earlier time.
It’s pacman

https://wiki.batocera.org/pacman_package_manager
> want free software to run website

> want free plugins to add functionality to site

> absolutely will not hire developers or pay for software or plugins

> how dare the free plugin for my free software not be coded to the highest standards
He started a whole business to help pay the installments.
> Cities and councils should not be making decisions based on how to raise revenue.

Why not?

> They should be making decisions based on how to improve quality of life for residents.

Residents can use money to purchase goods and services to improve their quality of life.

> Parking should exist where public transport is not a viable option.

And the market can provide parking at market-prices. (And, cities and councils can perhaps also offer parking at market prices on their properties.)
Depends on how you define “high performer”.

Someone who doesn’t want to take over someone else’s code deep dive and understand it first is not high performer in my understanding.

Efficient debugging and understanding systems other wrote or created is basic requirement for high performing dev in my opinion.
I don't get why you would write your first two sentences.
It is very obvious how the automobile lobby has a direct influence here.
Here is an excellent documentary (in German) that analyzes the issues with the DB.
https://youtu.be/-dmtNToFwuI?si=3ydA_QOjzOvTke2_&t=480
At the linked time stamp, they mention that every minister of transport in the very influential period from 2009-2021 came from Bavaria, with heavy influence from companies like Audi, MAN, and BMW.
"You don't agree with what I'm about to post? Here's a severance check."
I think we're conflating skill with performance. The hiring system should be assumed to filter for a baseline skill, when I say performance I really mean output.

A high output team player is gold and we want as many as possible. A high output singleton will likely have sacrificed some element of quality or maintainability or thoroughness or likely even their own personal lives to reach that output, for the projects they enjoy doing.

That output is unlikely to translate into a new, less interesting project and if the work or system is now structured to require that level of output then few would want to take up the position.

The over used canoe metaphor is useful, you want people to pull at the same speed. I also enjoy the 'always be leaving your job' approach that guides people away from building themselves into the system.
This may be true— but I also think few “high performers” are seeking less responsibility/commitment. They are working hard to be recognized for it, and the recognition ought to be financial in most cases.

I totally agree with your sentiment but I think “more free time” is a difficult award in general. Most managers would probably look at most high performers and say “you want more time? Then work less! You are already over performing” it’s somewhat out of their hands how much someone chooses to work, but they can more directly control how much they pay and award via bonuses.
First time I heard of it, seems to support many platforms. Info on homepage is practically non-existent though, the info found on their GitHub page should be found there.
https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera.linux
Had a friend who expressed interest in building a similar food delivery app but seemed to back out of it because of the demands in logistics. He's interested in exploring other ideas involving tech solutions.
Interesting question is why it didn't work for monkeys. It might have been a difference in protocol.

Studies on monkey's are not easy to repeat. Somebody should test caloric restrictions on mice with explicit goal of making it not work.
I like the "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment" style, but it is not always easy for formatting tools as there is no simple way to convert spaces to tabs, the tool has to be aware of the syntax somehow, or you need to do some manual tweaks.

Screwups like missing or adding a space can happen easily even with auto-indent, a common cause is splitting or merging a line, i.e. changing a space with a newline and vice versa. That space character has a tendency to end up where you don't want it, or conversely, get eaten up. When using tabs, invisible space characters can end up between tabs.

In the end, on collaborative projects, I usually settle on 4 space indentation, as it is the most common and from my experience, the least likely for people to screw up.
It's been my experience they're kept in the dark by Product, on purpose. So no wonder when they're bored they just do what they can in their little box, disconnected from the business

Very much a "developers do the Jira tickets I create, that's it" kind of mentality in most PMs I've ever met
There's probably a causal relation too: both the compensation AND the desire to take ideas seriously come from the same source, which can generally be summarized as "respect for the way specific expertise can help along a shared cause".
It's not an implementation detail, if it has to go through the system bus
3Blue1Brown’s videos are great and a treasure. I’m glad he does what he does.
> stepping outside the mold just upsets people in the corporate world.

This is the crux of the problem for me. How many of us are literally not allowed to work on stuff not on the backlog, which is usually driven by product people. We only deal with the product roadmap and other issues (technical debt, inefficiency, security issues, etc) don’t get resolved unless it somehow impacts the product. If you’re very lucky, you’ll have an actual technical CTO who has the power to say no and allow the developers to remediate issues (one CTO I worked with had to spend enormous political capital to get a single sprint dedicated to upgrading to Java 8 so that the developers could benefit from lambdas - something that for our code base literally cut development time in half due to the way we ingest and process very dynamic ingested data).

There must be some law of software engineering that all engineering teams eventually become run like assembly lines where management disallows ground-up thinking.

One place I worked finally only implemented a proper security program when a potential customer demanded it, and it was ultimately implemented as a checkmark-based solution to meet the terms of the contract. This meant burning CVE’s more than writing secure code.

This was frustrating as management at the time decided microservices were what we needed, but then resulted in a distributed monolith because they weren’t allowed to spend the time on architecture work, tooling to secure communication between services, or even have proper distributed tracing.
It's more constrained by the motivations, rewards, and punishments for the actors claiming to apply it.

See: replicability crisis
The answer by humans is a) publicly accessible b) hallucination-free (although it still may not be correct) c) subject to a voting process which gives a good signal of how much we should trust it.

Which makes me think, maybe a good move for Stack Overflow (which does not allow the submission of LLM-generated answers, wisely imo) would be to add an AI agent that would suggest an answer for each question, that people could vote on. That way you can elicit human and machine answers, and still have the verification process.
Meanwhile, universities should research the "One Right Way of Writing It" to defeat reengineering when possible.
Silly rabbit. It's free speech for me, not for thee.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
IMO we should have had more draconian lockdowns much sooner, when it would have slowed the spread more effectively, and we should have opened up much more quickly once the initial wave went through and it was clear that it had already spread every where. Especially the schools, once it was clear that kids weren't especially badly affected by it.

There's basically 4 categories of people that fucked up the discourse about lockdowns:

1) Health professionals who in a well-intentioned way recommended what _would actually work_ to stop the spread of the disease: ie -- a complete draconian lockdown, without considering what would happen if that draconian lockdown wasn't actually complete (that it would still spread quickly and widely)

2) Paranoid conspiracy theorists and anti-science types who believed that the lockdowns were part of some nefarious agenda.

3) People who wanted (and still want) a permanent lockdown for their own reasons -- whether for the valid reason that they have some kind of immune disorder or because of crippling social anxiety or introversion or because they just liked working from home

4) Professional doom sayers and rabble rousers who got engagement on social media from pushing apocalyptic scenarios (on both sides of the issue)

---

They were all so loud that like the rational voices in the room (ie: People who supported a lock down early and then wanted to open up more quickly as we learned more about how it spread and how it got treated) just got shouted down, with really negative consequences -- like how all the far right crazies got voted into school boards on this issue and then got into all kinds of stupid shit (banning books, etc). It was crazy to keep schools closed even after it was clear that the virus was in a pandemic stage and kids weren't really affected by it and schools weren't a major vector for transmission, and it was especially crazy to keep them closed after the vaccine came out.

Somehow people got in their mind that the goal was an eradication of covid and that _was never possible_ once it escaped Wuhan. The goal was the slow the spread until it was endemic in order to give us time to learn how to treat it effectively and to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed. Once it's was endemic, we were never going to stop it.
You don’t know whether or not I’m good at my job. A well reasoned response would be different than the one you gave.
Very much so. We get a lot of tourists where I live (Spain) yet consistently the only tourists that come here and assume we speak their language (yes) are people speaking French. Everyone else seems to ask if I speak English before engaging, or they try to speak Spanish directly, while French-speaking people just start speaking French with you, seemingly assuming you also speak French, even though we're both in Spain...
I thought so too but this is newer research on monkeys based on a long running study since 1989 linked directly in the first sentence of the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14963. That being said the Wisconsin study does have a fair amount of criticism in that they cut back on a diet composed 30% sugar from an all you can eat buffet so it’s unclear if it’s purely just stopping being overweight / reducing risk of diabetes or if there’s any other benefits.
Right, it can probably play all my favorite games - Stakan, Warcraft 2, Duke Nukem - just fine.
They caught it! Holy sh*t!
BSW is the basis for BSP. BSP is specifically for pipes but has a BSW thread.
> Again, I don't understand the aggressivity here over such a trivial topic...

Look at your posts and the way you’re responding to other people. For example, if you ignore their points and then dismiss them as “entitled” you don’t have much standing to tone police everyone else.
They pulled off the landing, absolutely amazing. Looked far smoother on all aspects of the launch as well, zero engine issues this time, everything just felt perfect. What a day! The blue flames and everything else looked like the future.
Gotta Catch ‘Em All! Starship!
> "It’s a marathon, not a race."

Rather "it's a crawl, not a marathon".

Also, I think the most value a programmer provide is as a maintainer.

I blame feature factories led by agile clergy for the perceived drop in commercial software quality in the last 10-15 years. There is no place for maintainance.
MIT license makes it open-source? As far as I know, you can't get vscode up and running from that repo. It requires some proprietary parts too.

Even the language server is proprietary, though the protocol is open.

I think open-core is better label.
Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster
Space X has successfully caught the Super Heavy booster
SpaceX's "chopstick" launch tower arms have caught its Super Heavy booster
Perfect flight so far! A new space age is dawning.
TxDOT does not maintain local or county roads which are a massive portion of cost in sprawl.
All the renders in the world couldn't have prepared me for how crazy the actual catch looked!
Does anyone know if Venmo has a similar policy? Lately I’ve been trying to use apple pay/cash as much as I can for peer to peer payments but Venmo is still quite popular.
Amazing days ahead of us - if we can avoid blowing ourselves up over pathetic patches of land, we could have the entire solar system under our feet...
If they're off doing things that are disconnected form business reality, how can they be performing at all?
There's more to the story, as recounted in other threads here.

It isn't as one sided as you would imply.
Not an old laptop but I have similar setup with a mini pc: Debian 12, Steam and Lutris. I am playing games like Red Alert 2, championship manager 0102 and having much fun
I have run into something a bit like that before, but even I thought that line was questionable.

Once got a free all-in-one someone was tossing that would bluescreen when using either the mouse or keyboard it came with. Using a different one worked around that, and upgrading/replacing the OS (I believe it had Windows 8 to start with and I upgraded to 10) also solved the issue. So I would be surprised if a fresh install had such problems.

I wouldn't put Windows on anything I'm gonna primarily use myself, though, just a machine for someone else to use.
Stage 1 sucessfully caught. That was pretty incredible. I remember watching the Falcony Heavy launch when both boosters landed in sync.

It's hanging pretty high in the air, I assume so the engines do less damage to the pad. One wonders how they're going to get it down. Do the chopsticks lower on the tower?
ok now they have an actual reference and can animate it better haha.
There already is a pretty major effort around the prolog community to build everything as much as possible around pure, monotonic prolog, and to provide a means to support multiple search strategies depending on the best fit for the problem. CLP libraries are also pretty common and the go-to for representing algebraic expressions relationally and declaratively.

I wouldn't say that the logic or relational way of describing effects is a bad thing either. By design it allows for multiple return values (foo/1, foo/2, ...) you can build higher level predicates that return multiple resources, which is pretty common for many programs. It makes concatenative (compositional) style programming really straightforward, especially for more complex interweaving, which also ends up being quite common. Many prolog implementations also support shift/reset, so that you can easily build things like conditions and restarts, algebraic effects, and/or debugging facilities on top. Prolog is also homoiconic in a unique way compared to lisp, and it's quite nice because the pattern matching is so powerful. Prolog really is one of the best languages I ever learned, I wish it was more popular. I think prolog implementations need a better C FFI interop and a nicer library ecosystem. Trealla has a good C FFI.

I think logic programming is the future, and a lot of these problems with prolog are fixable. If it's not going to be prolog, it'll probably be something like kanren and datalog within a lisp like scheme or clojure(script).

This is a great resource for getting a good feel of prolog:
https://www.youtube.com/@ThePowerOfProlog/videos
Could you cite some of the papers you read? I think maybe that will help me better understand what you mean.
Although this is by far not the first landing of SpaceX boosters I've seen, this looked like scifi to me even in 2024.
I'm doing 24h breaks between 24h eating periods because I was slightly overweight. I lost 10lbs in less than 2 months without any additional restrictions or exercise. I noticed no side effects. It's also super easy to keep up esp. when compared with my previous attempt at restricting sugary snacks. 'When' is so much easier to manage than 'what'. If I feel hungry I just need to distract myself for few hours and it's fine.
Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices