skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do t know the state of the art, but years ago there was a technique that prevented screenshot of video. The result was always just a blue background as if the video was being rendered on to a green screen and windows could not tell.

I dont know what the state of the art is now, but given that I can probably take a photo with my phone if I really needed it seems like wasted energy
So the social trend has abated. Maybe? Let's just assume it has for the sake of argument. That hardly makes the platform "dead." It's earning more money now than it ever did.
>percentage-based taxes

Why is percentage better than absolute or vice versa?
1. The lottery system has changed and it's much harder now for companies to submit duplicate registrations. 2. I'm not sure what you mean.
How is it optimal for me to buy food and throw it away?

I gain literally nothing and waste my time?

I can't fathom how this makes sense unless the value you are trying to optimize is waste.
The Border Crisis Won't Be Solved at the Border
That's not the point of the article. The code should be readable no exception. The only reason we should be ysing x y z are for coordinates ; i should be left for index_what ; same goes for parameters ; they should also contain what unit they are on (not scale, but scale_float) only exception I see are typed languages ; and even then I'm occasionally asked a detail about some obscure parameter that we set up a year ago. I understand it can sound goofy, but the extra effort is made towards other people working on the project, or future self. There is no way I can remember keys or where I left the meaning of those, and there is no justification to just write it down.

Readability of the code makes a lot of it's quality. A working code that is not maintainable will be refactored. A non working cofe that is maintainable will be fixed.
Replacing a WiFi card with an PCI-e SSD
does anybody have more information on what these "emergency alert tones" are? is it talking about tones on specific frequencies that trigger some sort of special handling of the broadcast, or is it simply that they used a siren sound in an advertisment?
Likely yes but consult with an immigration attorney familiar with startups to file this because there are right and wrong ways to file such petitions.
yes the syntax for 'do is simple, like that of lisp. however 'do allows you to make far more complex iteration constructs than 'loop. 'loop is just a DSL to make some of these constructs more concise. read up on it
Sorry, which platforms to use for what?
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I'm signing off now. I see that there are a number of unanswered questions. I will get to them tomorrow and over the weekend. Thank you everyone. Great questions and comments. I learned a lot.
It gives the appearance that the government is doing something useful. If the government just printed money the peasants would start revolting.
Start your own business. Stop being bitter. Show the world what's inside you!
I’m sure they mean total compensation, as reflected in employee W-2 forms. Modulo a few details, public company stock-based compensation is as good as cash the moment it vests (and in fact is cash if you make an automatic sell-all election, which is not subject to trading windows).
> It surprises me how many people in sales, marketing and other external facing roles don't optimize their AV setup.

It's not that surprising, it's fairly technical and many don't want to deal with it (ask anyone if they know what XLR or phantom power is), another problem is there's so many different options that it often leads to choice paralysis and some people feel uncomfortable to ask for money to buy better equipment.
There simply are no such things as rigid bodies in this universe. Everything is composed of particles that act on each other with forces, which take time to transmit the information that something is pushing on the other side.
In my opinion it is misleading. Your "privacy by default" section has three headings which claim encryption, and while none of them are false, you can still just log everything your server receives. This is less private than What's App, and it's marketed as an Operating System -- for everything that you do. I think it's worth considering moving the encryption to be done client-side as long as there are no performance concerns.
Even if the open source option is only slightly worse, why would a professional allow that to impact how they earn a living?
“CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy”

Yeah, if the CEO told me to quit if I disagree, and he asked my thoughts on the new policy, I may feel pressured to say it’s great.

The classic “Disagree and commute” leadership principle.
Wow, TIL! Thanks for sharing.
That’s useful to know. One difference for my situation is I’d like the H1B1 holder to be able to continue working during the application, but I have heard mixed information on how feasible that is. The H1B1 needs to be renewed quite frequently but may not be renewable while you have an adjustment pending.
Thanks! Parts of that ep reminded me greatly of The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1971-1973): https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

(the notion that we tend to overly ascribe stability and reproducibility to a system reminds me of Vilfredo Pareto having convinced himself that 80-20 was the invariable power law)
This is a hilariously misguided form of gaslighting. Amazon employees have told me that they were more productive working remotely. Claiming that people “learn from each other” in person is bizarre when many people go to work only to get on video calls from the office, and even if not that, they mostly have to just focus on their screen and get their own work done. Similarly, if the company cannot make culture work in any way except within the office, that is a problem of a different kind - bad leadership - rather than something due to offices.

But this is also such a missed opportunity for the country. It would be so much healthier for people to spread out, live in the places they want to live, be near their families, or choose if they want urban density or rural life, and to share the economy with smaller cities too. I almost feel like we need a new wave of regulations to make this happen - or at least economic incentives so companies that can handle remote work do so.
Regarding Davies' book, what are the first four miracles that the title is referencing?
"Word" is an outdated concept we should try to get rid of.
But think of ternary computers!
I watched the 35 second long video and confirmed by eyeballing the JSON that the result was exactly correct.
It’s the three crunchy-sounding SAME tones you hear before an emergency alert broadcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding
Doesn't matter. It's still inappropriate behavior on your part.

And, people can help others and promote themselves at the same time. One can appreciate the former while holding their nose at the latter.
One major gaping hole in this article is that OnlyFans is absolutely not dying, and in fact, the opposite is probably occurring. I see this problem only getting worse and accelerating as new platforms continue to pop up, and new firms expand into the semi-amateur adult content industy.

There's nothing else really to say about this. This feel-good article seems to be entirely 1 dimensional in that it declares victory when in reality a massive defeat is occurring and the problem continues to get worse.
It’s always been weird to me that airlines (or anything with a similar scheme) can just change rules in a way that retroactively reduces value of previously granted/earned rewards.

The same issue applies to “in game currencies” that have functionally equivalent monetary values (and of course the ability to retroactively change the value is why these things do not show the actual monetary “value”)
DSP chips are a common exception that people bring up. I think some TI made ones have 64 bit chars.

Edit: I see TFA mentions them but questions how relevant C++ is in that sort of embedded environment.
The tms320c28x DSPs have 16 bit char, so e.g. the Opus audio codec codebase works with 16-bit char (or at least it did at one point -- I wouldn't be shocked if it broke from time to time, since I don't think anyone runs regression tests on such a platform).

For some DSP-ish sort of processors I think it doesn't make sense to have addressability at char level, and the gates to support it would be better spent on better 16 and 32 bit multipliers. ::shrugs::

I feel kind of ambivalent about the standards proposal. We already have fixed size types. If you want/need an exact type, that already exists. The non-fixed size types set minimums and allow platforms to set larger sizes for performance reasons.

Having no fast 8-bit level access is a perfectly reasonable decision for a small DSP.

Might it be better instead to migrate many users of char to (u)int8_t?

The proposed alternative of CHAR_BIT congruent to 0 mod 8 also sounds pretty reasonable, in that it captures the existing non-8-bit char platforms and also the justification for non-8-bit char platforms (that if you're not doing much string processing but instead doing all math processing, the additional hardware for efficient 8 bit access is a total waste).
Doesn't matter ternary computers just have ternary bits, 8 of them ;)
Came here to say the same. The app is very useful for me (pen plotters etc) but it’s awful on my Mac. Barely useable despite being required for some of my workflows.
Recently came across this video which goes into history of Japanese computers by Asianometry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEtgzO-Im8w
Reminds me of the (sadly not apocryphal) stories:

"Required: 10 years of experience in X"

"Sorry, Joe, while your cover letter told a good story of how you created X 5 years ago, we are looking for people with more experience in X. Good luck on your search!"
The Digitalist Papers
This project was attempting to spin up relatively exotic hardware and software concurrently. The Lisp folks had less exotic software already more or less established but attempted to spin up corresponding hardware. The 5th generation project failed faster due to its greater ambition. Both failed ultimately due to commodity hardware greatly outpacing the ability of exotic hardware to keep up.
I still own a working N9 and think it's a shame that the Linux-based mobile phones by Nokia were killed by the hostile Microsoft takeover. Some of the old OS still lives on at Sailfish running on Sony Xperia phones, but it doesn't feel the same as a tightly integrated solution.
> 6. I'm not sure what tasks call for this kind of logical reasoning

Basically any tasks that fulfill legal or business requirements? Both companies and governments are rushing to put LLMs into anything they can to avoid paying people. It’s vital to ascertain that, say, a benefits application is assessed properly and the LLM doesn’t hallucinate its way into an incorrect decision.

I’d question if we really need LLMs in many of the places we’re sticking them at all (or if it’ll even be cheaper), but that’s more flawed human decision.
Because who else is going to handcuff and tase a 7 year old before arresting them and taking them to juvie for not turning in their homework?

For real, though, it's because we've made it a social taboo for teachers to touch children or to strike back to defend themselves, and the troubled kids whose parents gave them up for emotional adoption to Youtube and Tiktok know this and would nefariously exploit the power imbalance if it were not for the very real and plausible threat of being tackled by a 40%-chance-of-being-a-wife-abuser washed up former highschool football player too stupid to get a bach degree that is legally allowed to execute them without consequence.
I first played Crokinole when I was 9 years old at my grandmother's house with my cousins and was immediately hooked. That same day I remember telling my sister that it was a time machine - we started playing it at noon, and an hour later it was suddenly 6pm.
In a char, not in a byte. Byte != char
but those robots are also robust only in a narrow set of conditions: the short frame of their operative lifetime. life can survive in extremely harsh conditions for eons. really just a different subset of the conditons space, arguably bigger.
life tends to, uh, find a way
I also added other domains to the same platform:
https://www.edix.dev/
https://www.edixpro.com/
https://www.golang.ws/
https://course.tural.pro/

I am not sure if this is a good idea or not. :)
Because they are real priests and the real Eucharist.

Roman Catholics recognize that apostolic succession and Holy Orders remains perfectly valid for most of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches. Furthermore, we recognize, in general, that their seven sacraments (we typically work from an identical list) are completely valid, because they have no material defects in matter, intention, form, subject, etc.

While the Eastern Orthodox insist that only leavened bread is valid Eucharistic matter, Roman Catholics feel that there's nothing wrong with that from their perspective.

The reverse is not always true. The Orthodox sometimes accuse Catholics even of not being properly baptized. They do not always recognize the Roman Catholic priesthood as acceptable. The Coptic Orthodox Church recently entered an agreement to stop re-baptizing Catholics. These are great strides in ecumenism when such difficulties are overcome.
Eh idk about that. I don't think ADD people are propping up the cocaine market even if legal coke would be appreciated.
Is there anything I can do?

Letting it go is the simplest thing that might work.

There are a lot of alternatives of course. Many of them will suggest not hiring you dodged a bullet.

Also there is a difference between not acknowledging they implemented your idea and not remembering they did. Acknowledgement would have involved a somewhat awkward conversation seeing as you weren’t hired…

…this time. Maybe they reach out in the future. Maybe you run into the CTO in another context…and it would perhaps be productive to add the CTO to your professional network. The future contains everything positive that might happen and the what’s past is done.

It sucks not to get a job. Good luck.
These aren't expense reports. They are digital vouchers.

Imagine if your boss has a stack of gift cards on their desk in case people need a taxi home, and some employees start using it as their personal expense fund.

If I was looking to fire someone, the thieves would be at the top of the list.
It's important to this article because its claiming that the name is coupled functionally to what the code tests -- that the test will fail if the name is wrong.

I don't know if any test tools that work like that though.
It's somewhat appalling that they don't mention that there's a book with this title:

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...

As for "The important thing is that they tried" : would you give them credit for "trying" to invent real-time, neuron-by-neuron brain imaging, in 1982? And giving billions of taxpayer Yen to the effort? How about quantum computers?

Or would you have been justified in saying that there are projects with a better prospect of success right now, and we shouldn't waste the taxpayers' money on things guaranteed to fail?

So what ARE your limits? Or are there any?
If the upcoming change in administration gave you 1 or 2 chances to tweak the policy or process, what would you recommend?

Conversely, what are the main pain points now that are likely to be intractable?

(If policy is outside the scope of AMA, sorry and please ignore...)

Thanks!
I am not sure I agree with the sentiment. Maybe their management is better on this one issue of remote work. But Microsoft’s competency in terms of their financial results is not deserved. They still do all the things they did in the 90s that got them into trouble. Look at the bundling of Teams and Office. Or forced ads in start menus. Or rampant use of dark patterns to get you to use their products. Or the lack of security updates for Windows 10 starting next year, which will force people into Windows 11 and privacy/security violating Recall. A lot of the financial success we’re seeing is Microsoft taking existing enterprise contracts and using them to push new things onto companies repeatedly, as a way to make money. In other words, their existing capital and distribution and captive audience is why they see success, not their “competent management”.
Kagi has a lot of features that seem “neat”. In fact, their pitch and feature set was enough to convince me to sign up. However, I haven’t been wowed by the service. I do not find there to be a noticeable difference above or below any other search engine I have used (all of which I would rank about the same).

I’m curious what other Kagi users are doing or finding that makes their experience so overwhelmingly positive. Is there some workflow I’m missing that’s required to get stupendous results? Are other search needs better met by Kagi that are missed by other search engines? Have others also felt a lack of “wow”?
I’d honestly rather be paid less and have more equal pay across society, while not having to worry about age discrimination or medical debt or something wiping out my savings and throwing me out on the streets, however unlikely that may seem.

In the US, basically all of my spending outside of the basics is on things you could classify as avoiding ever being poor/homeless. No vacations or eating out or streaming subscriptions or “toys” or whatnot. Maybe these kids feel that same pressure but took it too far, into fraudulent territory.
During an internship in 1986 I wrote C code for a machine with 10-bit bytes, the BBN C/70. It was a horrible experience, and the existence of the machine in the first place was due to a cosmic accident of the negative kind.
Revisions in this discussion is a copy of revisions you've made so you can reference or revert to one. You can still update posts all you want.
http://www.plex.tv
Complaining about commercial use is not the same as complaining about the cat videos.
> The Japanese Fifth Generation project was a collaborative effort of the Japanese computer industry coordinated by the Japanese Government

> In a sense, Japan's ability to stay the course in pursuit of a long-term payoff-- usually considered one of the country's strongest assets-- turned into a liability.

Japan is an expert at public-private partnerships. Their entire economic development story was based on the government and private enterprises working together. They didn't take an ideological approach to development. They ignored both the neoliberal route and the socialist route.
Supposedly, "bit" is short for "binary digit", so we'd need a separate term for "ternary digit", but I don't wanna go there.
There is probably a way to really draw that out and get what you can out of it while putting in little effort. I bet there are people already doing this while also earning a salary from a job elsewhere.
the fact that this isn't already done after all these years is one of the reasons why I no longer use C/C++. it takes years and years to get anything done, even the tiniest, most obvious drama free changes. contrast with Go, which has had this since version 1, in 2012:

https://pkg.go.dev/builtin@go1#byte
Ask them if they want you to consult for $50k/w. Tell them you have more ideas, and you are looking at different companies to consult for. Would they be interested or should I talk to their competitor?
What's up with tech bros wanting to exponentially multiply their tribe??

Donating their sperm, but also loudly proclaiming to father dozens / 100s of children...

Is this the new tech masculinity flex?? Just trying to emulate their role models?

"Genetic largesse from some of Silicon Valley’s elite appears to be a mix of narcissism, altruism and dreams of immortality" - FT
idk. by today most software already assumes 8 bit == byte in subtle ways all over the place to a point you kinda have to use a fully custom or at least fully self reviewed and patched stack of C libraries

so delegating such by now very very edge cases to non standard C seems fine, i.e. seems to IMHO not change much at all in practice

and C/C++ compilers are anyway full of non standard extensions and it's not that CHAR_BIT go away or you as a non-standard extension assume it might not be 8
It's very useful on hardware that is not an x86 CPU.
Unit tests are programmatic specification. I'm assuming it is in this manner that the article is referring to them as documentation, rather than as "explanations" per se.

Obviously unit tests cannot enumerate all inputs, but as a form of programmatic specification, neither do they have to.

For the case you mention where a broad relation should hold, this is a special kind of unit test strategy, which is property testing. Though admittedly other aspects of design-by-contract are also better suited here; nobody's claiming that tests are the best or only programmatic documentation strategy.

Finally, there's another kind of unit testing, which is more appropriately called characterisation testing, as per M. Feathers book on legacy code. The difference being, unit tests are for developing a feature and ensuring adherence to a spec, whereas characterisation tests are for exploring the actual behaviour of existing code (which may or may not be behaving according to the intended spec). These are definitely then tests as programmatic documentation.
There are at least two generations of libraries doing that in Haskell. There was blaze-html and then lucid afterwards to fix some monad laws.
You're right. To be consistent with bytes we should call it a snack.
What if you make their life difficult by claiming you have a hostile manager, or that you’ve been mistreated, or that company policies on harassment have been violated, or that you’ve been discriminated against, or that you have health issues that need accommodation? I bet there is a way to force them to pay you to leave. Although I think for me personally it would be a step too far ethically.
Not that this solves the hard problem, but there's a simonw post for that: https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jul/28/documentation-unit-tes...

Including screenshots, which a lot of tech writing teams raise as a maintenance burden: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/14/automating-screenshots...

Then there are tools like Doc Detective to inline tests in the docs, making them dependent on each other; if documented steps stop working, the test derived from them fails: https://doc-detective.com/
I wish I knew what a 9 bit byte means.

One fun fact I found the other day: ASCII is 7 bits, but when it was used with punch cards there was an 8th bit to make sure you didn't punch the wrong number of holes. https://rabbit.eng.miami.edu/info/ascii.html
Is there a video of the offending ad somewhere? I couldn’t find it with some basically googling.
Yes, but you're already in specialized territory if you're using that
That was to illustrate the principle. If you agree, we can look at something with the same magnitude.

Imagine if your boss has a stack of gift cards on their desk in case people need a taxi home, and some employees start using it as their personal Amazon shopping.

The vouchers had a specific purpose.

If I was looking to fire someone, the thieves would be at the top of the list.
I've programmed in Prolog for ~13 years and my PhD thesis is in machine learning of Prolog programs. How deep would you like me to go?