skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good guys/bad guys dynamic has always been slightly wrong. You have imperialists oppressing foreign powers, political incumbants oppressing dissidents, and so on, but despite all that, a hierarchy exists, and helping the top helps everyone under that umbrella of power to some degree. There is certainly nuance to talk about, but it's more right than wrong to be supportive of the power structure you inhabit, generally.
Once, when a bunch of us were sitting in my office trading debugging[0] war stories, the owner of the company dropped in[1], figured out the convo, and interjected:

"That's nothing; I once wrote a single line of assembly that had 3 bugs."

then left...

[0] we'd gotten to the subject because I was in the midst of using an oscope to decide if my ROM monitor or my libc or both were buggy.

[1] perhaps to discover why all the other offices were vacant?
I only encountered it relatively recently, and I also thought it meant you were a entry level engineer. What they are using it for resembles "Software Architect" that was used at my past jobs. I know that the old perception of the "software architect" is someone who doesn't touch code, but by the time I started working, agile kind of turned those into individual contributors for better or worse.
He also did an interview on the playdate podcast, which was super fun. One of those little tidbits that reminds you why it can be so easy to fall in love with programming.
Yeah?! You think so? Perhaps yours a strong argument against consumption of anything born this way, renders all meat consumption a bad thing with these same arguments… I bet 5€ you had your burger this morning and it had plenty of already dead cells in it, not to account for the yeast in the bread…
Yep, police can lie to you with impunity, but if you lie to them it's obstruction or some other similar offense. This kind of thing needs to go away. If police are actively lying during and an investigatory stop or during official questioning, they too should get charged with obstruction of justice because they're clearly not out for justice at that point.

Until that changes, except for the most trivial things, your best response is I don't answer questions and I want a lawyer.
I thought the same few years ago – putting recognized symbol above is simple and effective. But you can get the same effect (confidence in recognized input) with the Smart Script technique when done right.

I briefly experimented with that in 2022 (nothing published though) and it worked pretty well. However, the implementation has to be good – you can't just beautify every symbol because it becomes distracting really fast. The less confidence system has about some symbol, the more it should fix it. High-confidence misclassifications will still be a theoretical problem, but I didn't experienced them that often.
Me - “Should I lick this sneezing pangolin?"

Deciser - “:thumbsup”

… truly, we art f**ked as a species.
Yeah I took an in-person class at a ham club here in Canada and the pass rate wasn’t 90%.
Based on which source? Musk?
Does Araxis Merge work in the terminal on Linux?
Instacart Uses ML to Suggest Replacements for Out-of-Stock Products
I do not do many calculations, so my only issues where when I tried it out.

If you open the calculator app and go to handwritten calculations (whatever they're called), you have all that cool stuff. But if you open Notes, you have to click "Insert result" every single time, for better or for worse.

Also about UX improvements: lmao. There is still no way to add a new line with Scribble, or sanely write in a small text box (I guess, it's only in third-party applications I have had this issue).
Where the article stops is AC'97 in 1997, which was replaced 7 years later by Intel HD Audio in 2004, still in active use and new production today, two decades later. There was a lot of changes in the early years but it seems that PC audio has (hopefully) stabilised now.
It's happening already. Like significant part of recent JetBrains struggles with lower quality of their products is due to they had to relocate people out of Russia, and some people just don't like to live abroad. Their Kotlin lead returned to Russia and works in Yandex now. About half the people that relocated during 2022 returned already, and if the war in Ukraine will finally end in 2025 a lot more will return back home.
> This might also be a microcosm of why the working class is pissed off in America, because looking at this experience, the optimal strategy for revenue is to blow smoke up the ass of a wealthy corporation until they give you a fat stock grant, then claim credit for the work of others so that they give you more.

I mean getting a job as a SWE at Google is hardly a good strategy if you don't enjoy writing software. But yes once you're there is very hard to justify doing anything else, there's a reason why they call them "golden handcuffs".
I’d love to find [3] as a PDF!
Yes, for years now, the US has been the world's largest producer of crude petroleum because of the invention of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Larger than Saudi Arabia.

The US still imports a lot of petroleum, but that is only because it has a comparative advantage in refining heavy crude. Most of the crude produced in the US is very light sweet crude, which is easier to refine. Some of that gets exported and refined overseas.
The point of the plea deal is that you aren't pleading to "the exact same crime." For example maybe you're charged with 2nd degree murder, with extenuating circumstances of using a firearm, and that's what you'll be on trial for, facing 50 years. Unless you plead to involuntary manslaughter, with a 7 year max but the prosecutor will recommend 4 because you cooperated. Just an example, I'm making up the numbers. The whole thing is very slimy and coercive, not defending the system, I'm simply explaining why your argument is flawed.
lol, what did you answer to the 3 sub questions?
They were 8 months in space close to 0G and they just returned to our normal gravity environment. Just think for a moment how hard that is on the human body.

I would expect them to go to the hospital right away
That's not fair. The sandbox was not the reason for WinRT/UWP's failure in the market. It was the mostly unfinished tablet UI that they half ported from their phone and told developers that was the future. They even copied Apple and threw in some half-baked store with it. There was no way Microsoft was going to become successful at it, especially when Apple couldn't even get developers excited about their own implementation.

Most desktop software needs to provide value for customers, or they would just build the web version of it. Being "native" isn't enough.

So, if you want to require that us developers run our stuff inside of sandboxes, that's fine. Just make sure the sandbox doesn't prevent our software from getting access to the same important desktop surfaces.
Yes, the handwriting recognition system needs to communicate results as soon as possible to instill trust in the user. I need to be able to spot and fix misinterpretations as quickly as possible, otherwise errors accumulate real fast.
I can imagine someone thinking to put traffic lights there so that the tram would have to yield - fortunately that didn't happen.
The Making of Sam and Max Hit the Road (2006)
HE washers have been known to fail more quickly, are more complex and expensive to repair, and not do as good of a job as the machines they replaced, so I don't think that's a good analogy.
In-Q-tel also had a hand in Facebook's rise. I remember being laughed at in about 2010 and called a conspiracy theorist for suggesting big tech was on intelligence agencies' leash, but it's pretty clearly true. Society is being shaped from the shadows.

Edit: I overstated the first sentence. It wasn't In-Q-tel, just someone who might have been sympathetic.
see:

the secret history of silicon valley, by steve blank. I think there is both an article and a video.
I think it’s trying to emulate something retro, but make it work for a modern game?

Like 1-bit games were normal back in the day, but those games were mostly still images or something. And it’s an entirely different set of problems to try and make a fully 3D game with only 1 bit color.
I thought once I reached Staff at Google it would go away. It in fact made it even worse now that I have a whole slate of incredible peers to compare myself to.
Oh my.

First of, the statistics you point to are terrible. It's not the first time I've seen EU statistics on cycling be utterly incompetent either, it's weird.

Anyhow:

"Although there are no data available at EU level on the trend in cycling kilometres travelled, it is widely recognized that cycling has increased in popularity over the past decade."

There you go, the entire dataset is invalid.

As a curiosity, please point your attention to the graph of the distribution of fatalities over age categories.

> It's just very hard to get data that include all factors but the data we do get is not so good for Netherlands.

The data is easily accessible and robust: [1] [2].

> This is experience worth more than some stereotypes about Netherlands being good for cyclists or whatever.

Relatively to basically everywhere else, the Netherlands is good for cyclists. That's a fact, not a stereotype.

> Poland gets quite a bit of cycling infrastructure now (because that's the only way to get EU funding for roads for cars - what the government really wants). The infrastucture is terrible and dangerous. People die and get hurt because of it every day. It would be much better to just change the law to: "cyclist can be on the road whenever they please and can take the lane when they think it's for their safety".

If the infrastructure is terrible, the solution is to make it not terrible. Changing laws is a lazy, ineffectual cop-out. It is always more effective to change the infrastructure. Regular people are not going to be cycling amidst vehicles.

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[1]: https://english.kimnet.nl/publications/publications/2023/11/...

[2]: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/cycling-safety...
> you have nothing at stake. You will not be the one dead/injured and the laws are on your side.

Drivers have very much at stake. They could be accused, tried, and possibly convicted of homicide, and even the first two can dramatically change lives. And nobody wants to kill someone, and live with that trauma for the rest of their lives, and always be known as someone who killed.
Commercially available high quality training dataset is the key. Open search libraries don't get the luxury of working with voice actors to record voices.
Cool game! I just attempted to enter level 17, and there appeared to be an infinite loop which caused it to crash, and it no longer appears to remember my progress. Is this a really meta way to win, or just unfortunate timing?
Yes, math engine works differently when you are in Notes and Math Notes. There is a setting ("Insert results" vs. "Suggest results") that controls this behavior.
Can you please review this product? https://popshort.ai/
> Perfect vision without blind spots, unimpeded ability to hear, able to communicate via body language with pedestrians

That's all exaggerated, but generally I agree. Also bikes are silent, hard to see, especially among cars or at night ...

There are advantages and disadventages to all technology, and it's not a genuine analysis unless we look at them all.
> pedestrians are killed by drivers on the pavement (sidewalk for Americans) every year than are killed by cyclists

There are many more cars, and bike accidents don't tend to kill people.
Prosecutors will argue exactly your point, that no innocent person would take a plea deal or confess to a crime they didn't do. But lots of research is demonstrating the opposite. Keep in mind that once police and prosecutors believe you probably are the one who committed the crime, they will usually stop investigating any alternate theories or people, and only focus on building their case against you - and sometimes, even withhold exonerating evidence. So if you do choose a trial, everything that is presented will be pointing at you and you alone, you can try to raise an alternate theory but nobody in authority will back you up. It's a very difficult spot to be in.
If you want another way to lose time, check out Rift Wizard.
> It's unclear to me why this is not the default

It's literally in the PR you mention:

syntax-highlighting very long lines (e.g. minified .js) will be very slow if they are not truncated
It's wild to me that today's popular biologists like Michael Levin don't give Lynn Margulis credit in every single podcast/interview.
> drivers complaining about cyclists is a joke

The 'victim' perspective - I'm pure and harmless because I'm the injured party - is always in error.
Another approach are materialized views, where you basically create a caching table with exactly the fields you need. Can be used for any query, but particularly valuable for rich reporting where you may be pulling data from all over your associations. It requires you to write the source query in raw SQL, but with the Scenic gem, pulls it into the Active Record ecosystem with models, migrations, etc.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-w...
> And the user may also not be the customer. Which is why UX and DevEx are so much more difficult. If you’re a person making a piece on commission, what the buyer wants and needs can be different and you can get to the end and they are still unhappy.

This is exactly we end up with MS Products like Teams and Windows Phone 7/8 lol. A lot of MS stuff is built to sell to the companies not the employees.
You and your peers remember the Russia of the 1990s, dirt poor, barely avoiding famine, with a completely collapsed society and state. The new emigrants remember the Russia of the 2010s, with classy restaurants, developing infrastructure, cheap housing and whatever consumer goods money can buy, and that's very different. Your experience from 20 years ago does not apply anymore.
Exactly, for example IndexedDB, which let's an app use more storage, is only available to PWA's.

With the wakelock API it's the reverse.
Intel announces Arrow Lake fix coming within a month
> We know where the problems is: cars and drivers.

We don't, and cyclists will get nowhere until they take responsibility and stop acting like victims. Everyone who drives around cyclists sees how badly many of them act - on average, IME, much worse than drivers.
Great summary. It's a classic case of government action ending up a net negative for society. Everything would've been great if they'd just minded their own business.
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They are doing both. It’s called friend shoring.
> This nonsense is why I think plea deals need to have no admission of wrongdoing.

No. Not even close.

Instead, plea deals need to be made illegal. Prosecutors who use plea deals in more than 2% of their cases in a given calendar year should face loss of law license for life, and 10 years in prison. It should be aggressively enforced and a strict liability crime (no "I lost track" excuses).

DAs would no longer be able to prosecute as many cases if most had to be taken to trial, and they would be much less permissive of cops who were filing borderline horseshit, who were refusing to use their discretion. Legislators would be less able to keep bad laws on the books, were it not for pervasive plea bargaining.

In my own county, I heard with my own ears the DA bragging about how they do about 4000 cases per year, but take fewer than 30 to trial. Changing the ritual words that need to be spoken isn't a solution to anything.
Yes, I completely agree that the real problem of ALGOL-68 has been the complete lack of suitable documentation for it.

Even if Wirth is the author of some important innovations in programming language design, all his programming languages have been significantly inferior to ALGOL-68. Nevertheless, most of them have been more successful precisely because Wirth has written some simple and clear manuals for them, which were easily understood by any programmer.

The formal description used in the report about ALGOL-68 could have been very useful for implementers, but because the language included a lot of novelties it never had any chance of adoption without having, besides a formal description, an extensive tutorial and rationale of the design, accompanied by many programming examples.

This is very sad, because ALGOL-68 got a lot of things right, which are wrong in most later programming languages, but because of its reputation of being incomprehensible it has been very seldom a source of inspiration for the designers of programming languages, as it would have deserved.

Some popular languages, including C, the Bourne shell and C++, have taken various elements from ALGOL 68, but most of them have been superficial elements, like keywords or details of syntax, instead of taking more important elements.

For instance among the ALGOL 68 elements borrowed by C is the keyword "union", but the unions of C are barely better than the EQUIVALENCE of Fortran, and they are not comparable with the unions of ALGOL 68, which were based on the proposal of John McCarthy and which correspond to what are now more frequently called sum types. The "variant records" of Pascal were also much worse designed by Wirth than the unions introduced earlier in the ALGOL 68 that he had criticized.
Fucking awesome. I love the pixelated Mona Lisa
Is there any evidence of that? Maybe it landed hard, maybe their launch hurt them and they couldn't get proper medical attention until they landed, maybe they were somehow unprepared for the longer stay in orbit. Maybe one of them barfed on the way down ...

Science tells us there is no value in making up possiblities, but that we must start from observation.
>Stay classy.

I normally have more patience with people but I've about had it with the gaslighting and deliberate ignorance. Many of the same people blowing off the Twitter Files were freaking out when Trump suggested he might want to do the same kind of stuff. As a matter of fact, his camp did do some of the same censorship in 2020. However, the Democrats did far more of it and had more favor within the social media companies, and escalated the campaign of censorship to a whole new level during Biden's term. They tried to make a Ministry of Truth with that horrible woman who sang about it on TikTok.

I should be able to just relax about all of this, but I can't let these issues go unnoticed.
Yes! Thank you so much for pointing this out! Our ideas about the nuclear family probably derive from the invention of agriculture, not from the hundreds of thousands of years that humans have been in this earth.
MacOS (ie NeXTstep) was built from the ground up to be an open and extremely extensible OS.

There were countless ways to add in some 3rd party extension or hook. Since there were multiple runtimes to access your software, it was actually an impressive technical feat at the time to have it all work together seamlessly.

Java, classic Mac, X11, and the NeXTstep codebases all ran together without issue due to several of the kernel's extensible entry-points.

On top of that, the platform had APIs that let apps talk to each other without issue.

However, little by little, Apple has backtracked on that philosophy and continues to close the system down. Quite a fascinating journey.
Anything someone doesn’t like becomes a reason Rome burned.

Water pipes made of lead? Rome burned.

Invasions by barbarian tribes that I’m going to liken to modern immigration to push my anti-immigration stance? Rome burned.

Adoption of Christianity by Theodosius in 395AD? Believe it or not, Rome burned in 410AD.

“Double standards”? Rome burned.

This only works on people who’ve never opened a history book in their lives. Why would you try it here, where people are much more likely to be familiar with Roman history?
Like all useful tools, it has its place.

Making the next Figma? Hell no.

Adding some Ajax-y goodness to a legacy Django app? Sure.
No, I mean in general. You wouldn't have the capacity to walk up 30 flights quickly, partly because you're way over VO2 max, partly because you're way into the anaerobic energy supply to make up for the deficit.

But I totally agree on the second point, starting in the the 4th floor was a bit hard in the beginning for me too
It is true that in the WWDC24 keynote, Jenny Chen demoed a graph that could be changed by dragging a slider of one of the variables [0], but as you can see in demo in the article, graphs are dead – they do not respond to changing variables. Or maybe I am just doing something wrong...

[0]: https://youtu.be/RXeOiIDNNek?t=2900
I remember only one lecture from university, one in presentation technique.

The idea of the (guest) speaker was that when you hold a presentation, say the most important things first.

If anyone gets up and leaves, or the presentation is cut short, you should've gotten the most possible value out if the time.

Then dig into details as the presentation progresses and answer questions or concerns right away.

Answering right away does not mean side track the whole presentation, give the major response and take details later.

I.e "TL;DR" your presentations, oral or written alike.

A simple example is: you've been given the task of estimating the cost and work involved in developing a new feature.

When you present your result, don't start by listing all the things needed to be done and all the investments needed to be bought.

Start by giving the receiver what's on her mind: what is the price, when can we deliver, how many persons do need.

Then dig into the overall details of how you ended up in that, perhaps that the tools needed to be purchased are X, Y and Z.

Then dig into why we need those tools, and so on.

If you have to interupt early, or if you have a big trust from the receiver, the main point has been delivered and the the remaining 80% of the time can be invested in more important things.

I've applied this in my life, privately and professionally, and it's been working out well. I also hope this response was a good example of what I tried to pass on.
Would it be hard to create such a training dataset? Seems like you’d just need a lot of people to say a bunch of stuff for you?
What do you mean?

A bookmarklet to take its code from a local file. Would be useful for debugging, ctrl-s and click again.
Cornish monument is 4k years older than was thought and 'without parallel'
Internally most larger tech companies index their salary bands based on the CoL of the employee. The downturn over the last couple years has had many companies move reqs from high CoL areas to low CoL areas to save money.
To be clear, I am very much not a fan of these ideas. I find it very worrying how close their proximity to power will be, particularly given the set of circumstances.

The throwaway is simply that I work in tech and I don't want to have commented negatively on them in a way associated with me.
Will Google turn into a university next?

Because this sounds to me a bit like how things work in academia. I think the push there is to publish, but the essence is that, for every decision, committees rule.
It's extremely sad that things work like that in a supposedly democratic country.
windows had an app store back in vista days.
I think you missed the whole concept of “secret”. Asking people to give you their secret key is not safe. “I promise it’s all client side” is not enough.
The first step is being open minded about it, otherwise you're right, it's not possible.
The link is to a footnote in the paper. A better link is:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-024-09244-0