skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately it‘s true that most studies are useless or even harmful (limited to certain disciplines).
The absolute best way to stay on top of C# changes is the "What's New" docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

Basically gives you a release-by-release highlight reel of what's changed and why it's changed.

I glance at it every release cycle to get an idea of what's coming up. The even numbered releases are LTS releases while the odd numbered releases (like the forthcoming 9) are short term. But the language and runtime are fairly stable now after the .NET Framework -> .NET Core turbulence and now runtime upgrades are mostly just changing a value in a file to select your target language and runtime version.
Sure, but this is pretty low hanging fruit. Moving to only metal and wood spatulas, cooking spoons, etc. has been a pretty cheap and easy switch. I would love to ALSO see regulation, but in the meantime I can at least improve things for myself.
How's that any different from just having a really good player in your community - which, in many cases, also spoils the fun?
You are forgetting yet another option which is widespread and common practice among serious C++ developers, which is to use the Compiler Explorer to see how the code directly translates into machine instructions. It is almost normal to always have this open next to your IDE if you care about performance.

Note that most people who use Compiler Explorer don't actually know assembly that well, but you don't need to know it to see what is happening at a basic level, which usually suffices.

However, it is not necessary to care so much about performance in most cases. The language is generally fast compared to other languages, even if you don't try to make it fast -- the compilers and the language spec usually have that outcome. But when you really want to squeeze out the most efficient code, Compiler Explorer is the way most people do it.
So why all the interest in rust, comparatively?

My assumption is since there is a GC, and it is not native code, there are too many use cases where it can't apply, but rust can. Once there is a way to have it compete with rust in every use case rust can be used, maybe there will be more talk.
>What would you do if you owned a business?

- Find the issues, the ACTUAL issues. not "the stockholders are unhappy" issues. Not the "we overhired" issues. tangible issues hurting my bottom line. Economic head/tailwins is not a tangible issue for anything (let alone performance related) so much as a means to adjust projected earnings.

- Make an action plan, give tangible, reasonable goals. Not speculation on what appeals to monopoly money. We're a software company; if we can't collect internal data, how are we handling client data with any integrity.

- If anyone in leadership acted maliciously, they are gone. Full stop. Others are corrected. I can correct ignorance or incompetency. I won't stand deception and trickery among what should all be an aligned company with aligned goals.

(note, I won't codify a need to "fire someone" everytime a mistake is made either. a mistake is a managerial failing at best and a company failing at worst. Operate in a “a rising tide lifts all boats” mentality, not blame culture)

- if action plans and projected revenues look dire and we absolutely need to, introduce cuts. Try to cut my (assuming I'm earning anything) salaries first, then other execs. If absolutely necessary after they, we do layoff rounds. Ideally this should not happen because I have a proper savings chest for the worst times, but I'm not 100% opposed to layoffs as a last resort.

now of course, all this is unnecessary because dropbox is in fact not at the point where any of this is needed. Except maybe for Monopoly money. But yes, I have thought quite a bit about this scenario. And I still know this is still a shallow exercise since I'm missing tons of looholes and other scenarios.
Big game publishers will inevitably flex the “we can impose any restrictions we want at any time, go sue us” in your face at some point. Piracy is indeed the superior experience, unfortunately, though I would add a caveat that as a rule it does not apply to indie titles.

(At least while they stay indie… Not long ago I was reinstalling Minecraft after a long break and found out that Microsoft has the balls to demand that I verify a phone number to play a game I bought more than 10 years ago. Like with GTA V’s rootkit, they don’t care if you want to play single-player—once you’re locked out of the loader, you’re locked out and no human will help you.)
that explains everything.
Yes, Copilot and other LLM coding tools are just a (much) better version of IntelliSense.
Most jetbrains IDEs come with those snippets and if you’re using IDEA, the code will be 50%+ generated by the IDE.
Furthermore, the Teletype was also your storage device, if you bought the Model 33 ASR. It had both a paper tape punch and a reader. For $1500 you got not only your hardcopy console terminal, but at the time the most compatible way to load and store programs and data!
If we're talking about health and cookware, you're not going to want nonstick cookware.
"If there was ever any doubt, this action makes clear that the Chinese government will use supply chains as a weapon to advance their interests over ours." This is funny. The US imposes sanctions on China and complain about them doing the same in return. How many times have we heard that over the course of the last 50 years? History doesn't repeat itself. Politicians remain stupid.
No, the password just allows key exchange to start. Every client has its own session key.
For what it's worth, I stopped using non-stick cookware in favour of carbon steel and haven't missed it.
And it's usually discouraged by regulators because it can lead to p-hacking. I.e., with a good enough choice of control I can get anything down to 5%

The fundamental problem is the lack of embrace of causal inference techniques - i.e., the choice of covariates/confounders is on itself a scientific problem that needs to be handled with love
last two comments mentioned it... is "your time is free" a new pejorative for "loser" or something?
https://nassauweekly.com/the-problem-with-calling-something-...
Bones recovered from a Tudor shipwreck contain modern medical insights
This is such bad advice.
They are economically incompatible. Local rail links declined because the customers who would use them used road vehicles instead.
It's not 150 LBS, even fully kitted out (which wasn't possible at the time!), but it definitely didn't fit in the luggage compartment. The first portable to do that was the Osborne :P
I maybe don't understand but isn't an intel at 5.5ghz faster in terms of bits processed then the 4.4ghz m4? wouldn't that be fastest as more data can be processed?
and it shows… Google codebases I see in the wild are the worst - jumbled mess of hard to read code.
I'm trying to figure out what a "great matter" is meant to be but I can't.
It is textbook bait and switch. If the achievemt is important, use the correct title. An advance in actual training performance or a better model is very important and interests a different set of people with deeper pockets than those who care about inference.
Yes. The value is in metastudies and data fusion across more studies.
Isn't it better to use `nix store optimise` for dedup of the nix store? The nix command has more knowledge of the structure of the nix store so should be able to do a better job with fewer resources. Also the store is immutable so you don't actually need reflinks - hard links are enough.
I am glad you got lucky, I hope it holds up :)

Stats are fine, as sometimes people mistake a single data point for a truth. Might take a look at my post as there are links as this is a huge issue affecting many many many websites.
Or: why I still drive to a lot of customer on-site visits, so I can take the hardware with me personally.
> "I've become increasingly convinced that the idea of averaging is one of the biggest obstacles to understanding things... it contains the insidious trap of feeling/sounding "rigorous" and "quantitative" while making huge assumptions that are extremely inappropriate for most real world situations."

Semi-related, I found UniverseHacker's take[0] on the myth of averaging apt in regards to leaning to heavily on sample means. Moving beyond p-values and inter/intra group averages, there's fortunately a world of JASP[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631448

[1]: https://jasp-stats.org/2023/05/30/jasp-0-17-2-blog/
In medicine, it is essentially impossible to control for all possible factors. Case in point, ethnicity is not biologically realized either; it's a social tool we use to characterize broad swathes of phenotypic [and sociocultural] differences that are more likely (but not guaranteed) to occur in certain populations. But the example provided of indigenous arctic people is itself imprecise. You can't control for that, not without genetic testing - and even then, that presupposes we've characterized the confounding factors genetically, and that the confounding factors are indeed genetic in orgin at all.

Put another way, the population is simply too variable to attempt to eliminate all confounding factors. We can, at best, eliminate some of the ones we know about, and acknowledge the ones we can't.
> matter so that is what matters

At first I thought this was a great pun. But then this is perhaps also the reason the word is actually "matters"? Where "matters" is what means something? What matters is what has an observable effect?
Are you seriously asking me how getting killed by someone cheating to know exactly where you are feels different than just being outplayed?
And the latest version is massively relaxing the ref restrictions on generics.
Police say the man behind ballot box fires has metalworking experience
It'd be interesting to know how much of Google's code is written by junior engineers. I can't imagine 25% of the code is from juniors, at which point Google's CEO is either exaggerating what he considers LLM-generated code or more than just juniors are using it.

I agree with your take though, it does seem helpful to juniors but not beyond that (yet), and this OP stat seems dubious unless juniors are doing a big portion of the work.
> The thing with c++,rust and similar syntaxes, is they are at an absurd and grotesque scale in complexity compared to, for instance, C99 syntax with some bits from c11+ for modern architecture programming (dodging all the ISO tantrums like _generic, typeof, asset on steroid, etc).

The syntax is a tradeoff, almost always. For example, without the lifetime type in Rust, compiler cannot identify even in theory, what is the intended lifetime of that specific type and it cannot guarantee that use-after-free will not happen.
Does any of this matter in a normal life?

Will I actually see actual difference if I throw away all my cook ware and replace it with non-non-stick ones and wooden utensils?

What about pollutants in the air from car and industry exhaust? Is this cookware worse? Should we first consider moving somewhere else than worry about cookware?

What about just the ingredients you cook with? Is using teflon worse than buying highly processed foods? What about GMO vs non-GMO? What about grass fed/free range vs in-prison-meats? What about vegan vs meat?

What I am trying to say is that it is easy to point to something that is (or even might be) toxic and say that we should fix it, but we have to put things in context. You simply can not be afraid of everything. Like drinking out of plastic vs glass vs metal, I know people who swear that drinking from a plastic cup is about the worst thing you can do, but I have been doing it my whole life and at least aren't dead yet.
Sure. But it’s a domain specific term within negotiation that easily researchable if someone would want to learn more.

Just trying to be helpful :)
How about a 2000" monitor so you can run alongside Mario across the whole map on screen at the same time? https://youtu.be/X5OIucMnw7M?t=809
Show HN: A Jupyter notebook for digging into UK house price data
Good afternoon everyone. The UK property market holds a mythic place in British culture (tl;dr since the early 90s it's been the primary driver of wealth creation for the median Brit) but the financial picture has changed a lot in the past 10 years and I wanted to put some numbers to the myth.

I wanted to open source this notebook as I think the data in here is useful, it's in a format that let's you drill-down per-postcode, adjust for inflation and let's you compare against the S&P.

It's pretty basic but I've found it quite useful and hopefully you do too.
Try disabling VC over Tramp connections[1]:

(setq vc-ignore-dir-regexp
(format "\\(%s\\)\\|\\(%s\\)"
vc-ignore-dir-regexp
tramp-file-name-regexp))

VC is quite chatty and assumes that filesystem operations have a negligible cost. Before I disabled it, VC was adding >1 second to every find-file operation over Tramp.

I also recommend using the direct-async-process connection property[2], which significantly decreases the latency of async process creation.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Fr...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Re...
Waymo Incorporates Gemini for End to End Autonomous Driving Model
If they're just simple blogs why not use Github Pages? you can set it up with a custom domain and use the web codespaces
I don't think we've really had worldwide peace since WWII, just the wars have mostly been proxy and out of sight of lots of the nations we hear from.
It does still happen today. For example, I was describing the comment that started this thread, where someone implied women are inferior programmers.
Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk's misinformation machine
It’s not bigger and better. It’s living at all. Also, that $700 one-bedroom might not require a steady paycheck and stellar credit.
Hey man I just play games to have fun.
I guess fun isn't for everyone.
Didn't read the whole comment did you?
The Aeropress is made in the USA. While not a guarantee it's safe it's much more likely to not contain contaminants.
Sincere question - my mom always told me to never put wooden utensils in the dishwasher, but I never got a great answer as to why. I put my wooden spatulas in there. My question is, is it just because it's destructive to the wood? Or is there something else that I should be concerned about?
Well the amount of tricks that basically nobody can implement in production that those implementations do to get the numbers that they do is ridiculous. Meaning the numbers they get are wildly optimistic at best and misleading at worst.

If you take the standard template for any of these frameworks (both Java and C# and any other language) and you add authentication etc, the real performance will be 5-10% of the numbers reported in those benchmarks. Have a look through some of the weirdness in the implementations it's wild (and sometimes educational). The .NET team especially has done stuff specifically to get faster on those benchmarks.
1. This really shouldn't be advice handily thrown out like "learn how to play guitar". You gotta spend money to make money, and if you're laid off without a plan this is the worst time to spend money.

2. I plan to one day. I very much plan not to rely on a VC for that. The purpose for my company is to not require millions to ship products users want/need and to stay extremely lean. A small team of "full stack" developers, to put it roughly. I should already be in a very solid position by myself before I come to such a crossroad.

3. I will admit I am not this "full stack" dev yet. I will still need some months/years to get to this point myself. So I'm a "student" as of now.
im lost.
whats a plastic? silicone is not plastic?
why specifically black plastic? which black pigment? all black plastics use the same pigment?which plastic? is black silicone ok? how about rubber?
other colors with same flame retardant is ok? or somehow only black (all plastics?) use 1 particular flame retardant?

its strangely specific yet strangely vague?
It's fine if it's not scratched and you don't overheat it.
The LLM Reasoning Debate Heats Up
Silicone's flavor leaches into your food, which some people can notice.
yesterday I booted into my Kubuntu installation. it's on a rusty spinning disk on purpose. even after half of a century since the mother of all demos we still cannot preload the fucking "start menu" or whatever is the more correct technical term for that thing that _eventually_ shows the applications when you click on it.
I have wood spoons that go in the dishwasher multiple times per week for years and they're fine.

It's why I like wood. You don't need to baby it, and if it breaks down, you throw it out and it returns to the earth.
Is there not? This is a pretty good description of a commoditized environment:

> It's not very hard to drop any one cloud storage solution (or all of them if you invest in a NAS setup).
There are alternatives out there for self-hosted git. I have a Gitea instance running on a mini PC at home for my own projects.
Yeah that is about my understanding as well.
> Do you imagine that people who commute by bicycle or train are going to carry around durable versions of every single-use item they currently encounter? Cups, straws, plates, utensils, napkins, takeout containers, grocery bags, produce bags, tissues? Carrying around dirty versions of all the above until they get home to clean them?

Doesn't seem uncommon at all to me, that's what my colleagues and I do, same for my wife and her colleagues (and we work in very different environments and places, different countries even).

Some of my colleagues wash their dishes at work, I just bring them back and put them in my dishwasher a home. My wife has a dishwasher at work so they just put their stuff there. The products we use for washing at home or at work claim to be biodegradable and not harmful for the environment.

Properly taxing externalities is an obvious thing to do though of course.
Both have "unsafe" escape hatches, so all code is possible to write efficiently. Just some cases are harder to prove correct in the type systems of each.
Perhaps true of competitive games.
But I find anticheat mainly exists to protect microtransaction games.
And generally those games aren't worth playing, so having the little badge on steam can help avoid wastes of time.
You can build a workstation with Ryzen Threadripper.

What I meant is it been more popular to build your own PC for gamers due to price and customization.

Or for laptops, Thinkpad and Linux :)
Serious question: a Google employee is not law enforcement. So if they are examining child pornography, in even only to identify it, aren’t they breaking the law?

18 U.S.C. § 2252

…
c) Affirmative Defense.—It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of violating paragraph (4) of subsection (a) that the defendant—
(1) possessed less than three matters containing any visual depiction proscribed by that paragraph; and
(2) promptly and in good faith, and without retaining or allowing any person, other than a law enforcement agency, to access any visual depiction or copy thereof—
(A) took reasonable steps to destroy each such visual depiction; or
(B) reported the matter to a law enforcement agency and afforded that agency access to each such visual depiction.

So the Google employee would both have to “promptly” notify law enforcement AND not show it to any other person unless law enforcement and also have fewer than three pieces of content. And additionally, assigning hashes/etc — does that mean the file was preserved (otherwise what’s the hash representing? A photo they once found and then destroyed? How could law enforcement prove that the hash represented a prohibited image in order to establish probable cause?) “we say some random string of characters represents an image that we saw is child porn, so now you can issue a warrant.” What protections does the user have against a warrant being issued under false information? If the original image no longer exists, then how could the warrant be challenged? If the original image does exist — is Google storing it? And if they are storing it, aren’t they themselves breaking the law?

In other words, do Google servers knowingly have child pornography on them? And does a private employee have immunity from prosecution if they don’t immediately notify law enforcement and also don’t show anyone else? I could see an instance where an employee shows his or her supervisor prior to calling law enforcement — which would be a violation of that law since the law explicitly says “any” person other than law enforcement.

I am being somewhat tedious here, but I am genuinely interested in how Google can handle this without breaking the law themselves — more specifically the employee who, at the time of classifying the image, is in possession of illegal content.

And does Google have some de facto exemption that wouldn’t apply to a smaller founder who had to contend with user created content and followed the same “assigning a hash” process as Google?

What are the best (legal) practices around this, specifically around smaller companies that might have to contend with these issues?
Nobody is asking for Mac clones, I just want to be able to replace the SSD when it dies...
Because every additional article posted on the non ‘indie web’ is literally reducing the relative credibility/importance/etc. of the ‘indie web’ by a tiny bit… which is unnoticeable for just one, but when you add up millions…
GPT-4o didn't describe this properly.

Plato's Cave is about a group of people chained up, facing shadows on a cave wall, mistaking those for reality, and trying to build an understanding of the world based only on those shadows, without access to the objects that cast them. (If someone's shackles came loose, and they did manage to leave the cave, and see the real world and the objects that cast those shadows… would they even be able to communicate that to those who knew only shadows? Who would listen?) https://existentialcomics.com/comic/222 is an entirely faithful rendition of the thought experiment / parable, in comic form.

The analogy to LLMs should now be obvious: an ML system operating only on text strings (a human-to-human communication medium), without access to the world the text describes, or even a human mind with which to interpret the words, is as those in the cave. This is not in principle an impossible task, but neither is it an easy one, and one wouldn't expect mere hill-climbing to solve it. (There's reason to believe "understanding of prose" isn't even in the GPT parameter space.)

It's not about "discerning reality from representation": I'm not confident those four words actually mean anything. It's not about "superficial appearances" or "deeper truth", either. The computer waxes lyrical about philosophy, but it's mere technobabble. Any perceived meaning exists only in your mind, not on paper, and different people will see different meanings because the meaning isn't there.
> Free tools tend to win because if a tool costs money, a developer is just as likely to write their own version.

No, free tools win because a proprietary license is a rent-seeking ball and chain on your means of production.
Chinese restrictions spur Australia to scavenge waste for chipmaking materials
You are just joking right?

From a skill and trust point of view, Google is doing a lot better than apple will ever.

Including ondevice AI
Important point not really expanded upon in the article: Roger Melen was one of the founders of Cromemco, a very successful microcomputer company that started with S-100 products!
Silicone is a rubber, not a plastic and black silicone should be fine.
It’s a hygroscopic sticker made by 3m.