skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a fellow cat person, I feel pretty confident interpreting what’s being implied here. :-)

Beautiful home and contents, btw! It seems expensive but more than a few folks would have spent the same money on “nicer marble” or something.
It was massively overblown. Godot is fine. Redot has none of the main godot developers. The ended up with 10x more controversy on their own discord, than on the official Godot one.

I just had a quick look at their github, and almost everything is just merging PRs from standard Godot. Either they will stay close enough to the standard code they can keep merging (in which case, why exist?), or they will eventually start getting more different, in which case they are going to need a lot more developers to do anything useful.

Look at this post about their latest "beta release", they are just linking to the godot PRs they merged: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedotGameEngineMain/comments/1gisaz...
Indeed. I'm already seeing it in software at least anecdotally where people's will to post code open source/answer Stackoverflow questions, etc are drying up (i.e. am I working hard just to train someone else's AI?). Might be a little too little too late though - there's just too much code out there. This is especially in niche domains where the advantage isn't the generic code itself but how it is applied (e.g. finance, power, etc the list goes on).

After all in a capitalist economy the last to be disrupted generally gets "all the spoils" as purchasing power (and hence prices/wages) move from least scarce/disrupted skills to more scarce skills which allows the last to be disrupted to have more time to accumulate wealth/assets to shield themselves from AI even more.
You may have belonged to one of those groups in the past, or maybe you will someday. I certainly have. Many of the more seasoned folks on HN have.

Stuff goes wrong, random internet people jump on the opportunity to speculate and say wildly off-the-mark comments, and the engineers trying to keep the ship from sinking have to sit quietly for fear of making the PR backlash worse.
For people experiencing crashes, Theo mentioned that this will likely work: https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.6
> No, it's about the same as 2019:

I dont think this graph demonstrates what you think it does. Household income is up, but individual income is down, by the same source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
This would imply that income is down (especially factoring ever present inflation), but households have grown.

> Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019:

The Unexpected Compression study is about a specific subset of wages (low), not income. These are different things, even in broad definitions. Inflation is not solved. It continues to be leveraged and has a lasting effect.

> So I think you should consider those people are lying.

I believe that they are ignorant first.
I have tinnitus and can't hear much in a range around 4.5khz... I wonder if this would still work for me
This Wikipedia page suggests otherwise - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
But it's "note well", not just "note"
> I'd be really curious to know what the people who bought your house in Palo Alto did with the house

I don't really know. I never spoke with them directly (real estate agents like to avoid that...). I did leave the equipment, but the buyer was a family and my impression was that they weren't particularly interested in the LAN setup, so it's possible they ripped it all out.

I looked up the house on street view and they have a Tesla parked in the front yard (on dirt/grass) which strikes me as a hilarious combination of Bay Area and hillbilly. (There is a carport in the back of the house, I don't know why they aren't using it!)

Anyway, the computers were a bit outdated so I don't think it would have been useful to bring them with us.

> I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.

Loooooooool, no. Austin was actually much worse. It took six months! Though it was in the middle of the pandemic, maybe that was part of it.

But the plans as submitted for permitting didn't really show any of the LAN party stuff so there really wasn't anything unusual to react to.
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I wish to know more about this, all of it. Operant conditioning (B. F. Skinner) and programming people has always been an interest of mine.
I noticed when I was younger that I can "hear" when I'm near a wall, or just generally get a sense of the size of space I'm in solely via sound, but it never occurred to me to make a "ping" to sense the resulting sound reflections! Super interesting - I will have to try this. Probably my prior spatial sense from hearing was based on really subtle background noise of either my own footsteps or just environmental sounds reflecting around, I guess? I always felt like I am "hearing the room I'm in" but never quite knew how else to describe the sensation, but knowing people quite literally make a clicking noise to echolocate suddenly makes it much more clear!
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> It comes to mind how the Pentagon running out of ammunition in recent years so to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and US donations.

This is due to differences in doctrine and force structure. The Ukrainian military burns artillery ammunition at a far higher rate than the US military ever would because the US military does not use a lot of artillery. You don’t need a lot of ammunition of a type you’ll never use much.
you're not wrong, but over time people mistreat their measuring tapes when recoiling them and elongating the hole it travels on
More context from Jeremy Howard (fast.ai): https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1857765905188651456
I’m just pointing out that there are Netflix engineers reading all these words.

For every thread like this, there are likely people who are readers but cannot be writers, even though they know a lot. That means the active posters exclude that group, by definition.

These threads often have interesting and insightful comments, so that’s cool.
CSAM: the digital munitions glowies drop on a target they intend to frame and eliminate. Examples include free speech imageboards, blogs hosting unpopular opinions and the communities surrounding them, etc.

I can't run a free speech darknet site because some glowboy will upload CP to it and then netflow dox me to put me in a federal pen if I'm not fast enough on it! The only good fix is "there are no illegal numbers."
People seriously need to stop obsessing about RC/ARC. Just use it, it will be fine. The perf difference wont matter in 99.99% of the cases. Whole languages (Swift) are based on that.
And he ran a charity!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-don...
Thanks, it was an interesting read. It's a shame MailChimp became so scammy, they used to be okay. I guess they are trying to squeeze every penny out of their customers, disregarding any reputational damage.

Btw you look like Finnish actor Pekka Strang.
Amazing build, and even better, a set of long time friends. You and your wife are rich in all senses.

I was wondering what the maximum power draw you have seen. Do you monitor your energy usage during normal use and during a party with all machines buzzing.
We live in a weird world where a 2% margin in a handful of states counts as a "resounding defeat".

Losing the Senate was expected. The House was perhaps less of a toss up than the presidential election itself, but this outcome isn't really a surprise.
Which windows screen saver was this exactly? Is it maze?
What makes it better compared to de-facto standard `classnames` library?

const styles = tw({
base: "p-4 rounded-lg shadow-md",
dark: { if: isDarkMode, classes: "bg-gray-800 text-white" },
light: { if: !isDarkMode, classes: "bg-white text-black" },
});

can be written as

const styles = classNames("p-4 rounded-lg shadow-md", {
"bg-gray-800 text-white": isDarkMode,
"bg-white text-black": !isDarkMode,
});

which requires less boilerplate and arguably looks a bit cleaner.
Heh, I actively dislike "nice marble" or anything that just looks expensive without providing any functional benefit.
>What changes after years of playing?

New ways to exploit the physics to do things your opponents don't expect and can't easily reproduce. As the skill level of regular players increases, I always look for new ways to approach the maps.
There's no one stop shop for instantly correct science, think less about retractions and more about incremental advances toward better understanding.

> The article claims that 363 billion tons of phosphorous were dropped on earth 3.26 billion years ago

The article correctly reports that a series of papers claim that a bolide (large mass) of an estimated diameter of 37 to 58 km across impacted some time ago.

There's a slew of paths forward for anyone interested in knowing more and questioning these claims.

The 96 references cover such things as estimating the impact crater, spray field, and impactor size.

You might want estimate for yourself the mass of a spherical cow some 40km in diameter if the material were to be (say) nickel iron .. and then perhaps back of the envelope determine what fraction of that would 363 billion tonne be.

It may or may not help to know that W.Australia move a billion tonne of iron ore per annum, that's a certain volume of mesa uprooted and moved to China, and 363 years of that would be a similar mass and volume.

This goes to having a feel for the paper's methodology in estimating P mass.

You may also wish to review papers and books on the K-Pg bolide, the one that "killed the dinosaurs" which is estimated to be some ~50 to 200 times smaller by mass than the one discussed here.

There's also a body of work on theories of planet formation via big rocks smashing into each other, sticking together, and planets slowing growing as stray rocks get hoovered up.
Sort of like (but a more overt version) of how the Trump administration suppressed an FBI due diligence check on (again with pending sexual misconduct accusations) now Supreme Court Justice Bret Kavanaugh. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-brett-...

This is such a sad assault on open society. The bleating accusations of deep state & wokeness are just so unbelievably hollow, coming from folks who circumvent reasonable discovery, are such sad blowing smoke up people's you know what.
I was hoping it was some RegEdit hack to fix driver settings.
Try to concatenate 1000 files with natural sorting names using `copy`. I did this regularly and I have to write a python script it make it easier.

It's much easier to just right click any of the zip part files and let 7-zip to unzip it, and it will tell me if any part is missing or corrupt.
I think they just mean feelings of early OpenGL (was that what it was?)
Godot is fine. This was their statement https://x.com/godotfoundation/status/1840721449364988300?t=S...
Basically they made a post showing support for LGBT+, and they got a bunch of harrassment so they banned people.

Also what were the political tirades and banned contributors?
Also organizations with amazing logos that do horrible things: see DEA badges like the cocaine intelligence unit. Cool as anything.
The Mangle repo has the beginnings of a Rust implementation but it will take some time before it is usable. The go implementation is also still being improved, but I think real DB work with persistent data will happen only in Rust. Bindings to other host languages would also use the Rust implementation. There are no big challenges here it is just work and takes time.

The combination of top-down and bottom up logic programming is interesting, especially when one can move work between pre computation and query time.

I like that optimizing queries in datalog can be discussed like optimization of programming language but of course the biggest gains in DB come from join order and making use of indices. There is a tension here between declarative and having some control or hints for execution. I haven't yet figured out how one should go about it, and also how to help programmers combine top-down and bottom-up computation. Work in progress! :-)
This is often used by audio mixing engineers and taught in a roundabout way at schools and studios. We think a lot about where thins “sit” in the mix. Proximity wise, and even height wise in a stereo mix.
Eventually you learn how to locate things in headphones and it’s a really weird sensation when you realize you can do it.
The kicker is we start out by simulating real environments in mixes, but then end up having to simulate what people expect from the medium as opposed to real life.
For example something I learned doing video audio, if someone is writing something on a train, viewers expect to hear the pen on paper. But irl, there’s not a chance it’s audible. Explosions are always distorted because microphones end up clipping due to the volume, etc.

A great book on spatial simulation is The Art of Mixing by David Gibson. Older but forever relevant
I sincerely believe that it is nearly impossible to have an objective and constructive conversation about the merits of programming languages, because the language of choice becomes part of people's worldview.

So it's like discussing politics or religion. People think that they have objective views, but they can't overcome their beliefs. That's just how beliefs work. They almost never change.

Also, beliefs are tied to groups. Humans automatically adopt the beliefs of their group, at least to some degree. Or they learn to shut up about their disagreements.

This is a thread for Rust critics and Rust advocates. Try to seriously sell F# or some other ML-like language in here and you are going to end up annoying both the C++ people and the Rust people.

The world will be a better place when the AIs finally take over. If we survive.
BSky could use a better search, or a better curation of feeds. I'm certain there is more room in the discovery play.
>How representative is an EC2 instance in a datacenter simulating user behavior really, though?

Systemic issues causing widespread buffering isn't "user behavior". It's a problem with how Netflix is trying to distribute video. Sure some connections aren't up to the task, and that isn't something Netflix can really control unless they are looking to improve how their player falls-back to lower bitrate video, which could also be tested.

>because this was their first big live event.

That's the point of testing. They should have already had a "big live event" that nobody paid for during automated testing. Instead they seem to have trusted that their very smart and very highly paid developers wouldn't embarrass them based on nothing more than expectations, but they failed. They could have done more rigorous "live" testing before rolling this out to the public.
I didnt find any email marketing platform that made sense pricing wise for a B2C product with a free tier. They all get stupidly expensive even if most of your customers wont read the email and likely won't pay you anything. Same problem as the authentication space that charge per logged-in user.
21st century mood ring!
The Art of Computer Programming contains a lot of computing history.

Also it is a lot of computing history.
I've been doing this with a rewrite rule in Apache for years on all websites that I run. They're all personal pages that probably get less than one hit per year that isn't me, except for one that hosts a work-credentials profile from when I was doing independent consulting.

I've since read that this is inefficient, but given how little traffic my novelty sites get, what does it matter.

> Note: As of Sept 5th, Cloudflare has a selection of Rules Templates you can pick directly from, including a “Redirect from WWW to Root” rule! This is probably exactly what you’re after — just go to Rules > Templates > Redirect from WWW to Root > Create a Rule, and you should be all set!

Cool that CloudFlare built this into their templates. ^www is ugly.
The borrow checker isn't just about UB, it is mostly about memory safety.

I'm sure you've seen plenty of use-after-frees/use-after-move/dangling pointer type things or null pointer derefs, or data races, etc etc. These are largely impossible to do in safe rust.
FYI, the blog post describes a zip file embedded in the ICC profile data of a JPEG in order to survive web image transformations, whereas the linked Tucker script is just appending the zip to the image.
There are lots of reasons to doubt the present-day ability of LLMs to help with chip design, but I don't think any of these things above are why. Chip design isn't done with schematics. If an LLM can write Python given enough training data, it can write SystemVerilog given a similar amount of training (though the world currently lacks enough high-quality open source SV to reach an equivalent level.) We can debate whether the LLM actually writes Python well. But I don't think there's a reason to expect that writing SV requires a different approach.
> who offer insights based on how stuff works at a small scale, or better yet, pronouncements rooted in “first principles.”

And looking through the comments, this is just wrong.
I wrote an analysis on doing this kind of unicast streaming in cable networks a decade ago. For edge networks with reasonable 100gig distribution as their standard, these would see some of the minor buffering issues.

There is a reason that cable doesn’t stream unicast and uses multicast and QAM on a wire. We’ve just about hit the point where this kind of scale unicast streaming is feasible for a live event without introducing a lot of latency. Some edge networks (especially without local cache nodes) just simply would not have enough capacity, whether in the core or peering edge, to do the trick.
One of my favorite books. The Information is also excellent. Time to fire up DOSBox.
If it takes 2-3 years, then that means that the economic growth we experienced in ~2021 is Trump’s 2017/19 policies, and the economic downturn we’re receiving in 2024 is due to Biden’s 2021/23 policies.

Also, Dems do literally the exact same things.
All my stuff is combined in one interfare with Kodi. It is nice to have a TV which fully 100% respects me!
It's been delisted. Dead link. Glad it's being policed by Google.
I happened to install everything two days ago. R version 4.3.3 (I use RSwitch to switch between R versions on Mac). You should use REnv for dependency management. There were no problems installing the rethinking package, the Cmdrstan package just needed to be installed with devtools instead of install.packages.

I’m mostly a Python guy, and didn’t find it particularly hard to get this going. Although I’m always left scratching my head when using RStudio/Renv/R. It’s such a horrible environment (always hanging, crashing, slow, the tooling sucks ass). I refuse to believe that I’m the only person who has RStudio hang and require a restart or get stuck on some uninterruptible process and requires forcing killing it at least once a day.
This persons's problem is pretty clear - Rust is frankly miserable to write code in if you are trying to optimize everything as much as possible. Since this is the default mindspace of C/C++ programmers, the frustration is understandable.

Rust becomes a lot simpler when you borrow less and clone more. Sprinkle in smart pointers when appropriate. And the resulting program is probably still going to have fantastic performance - many developers err by spending weeks of developer time trying to shave off a few microseconds of runtime.

But, if you're a developer for whom those microseconds really do matter a lot, well then you just have to bite the bullet.
It appears to have elements of '3D Maze' and 'Flying Windows' (Windows 3.1).
You can do a good job by offloading that cognitive overhead to better tooling
It's standard practice for impersonators on tiktok to block the person they're impersonating for this exact reason. You can unblock to interact with a third party and then immediately reblock, etc. The victim can't even report the impersonator without a third party DM'ing them a link to the profile.
The fact that this is on Rudy Rucker’s github makes it doubly cool. Reading his book “Infinity and the Mind” is what got me to go back to school (as a math major). That book changed my life for the better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Rucker
I don’t remember how, but you can lock in a lower tier plan and they will stop sending emails for the month once you hit that thresold. I have a small store that uses the free tier like this for automatic emails and when we need to send promotional emails we just use Shopify native email app which is 100x cheaper than klaviyo
Everything in the US is funded by the citizens of the states and territories. Outside of the tiny area that is Columbia, the federal government has no citizens.
I will just make a few final observations and sign off this chain.

1) Nobody is forcing you to do anything you don't want to.

2) I was merely sharing some useful Science which IMO has as yet not seen widespread adoption.

3) Our immediate environment will not change to accommodate our specific needs due to economic concerns. Due to globalized nature of work people are working longer hours and all times whether night or day. If my job which i need for survival needs me to stay awake at night i need to find means to adapt myself to it without ruining my Health. Research is showing more and more that Sleep is foundational to everything else and hence i need to treat it seriously and with high priority.

4) You are making a lot of assumptions/conclusions without having looked into the Science which i think is wrong. While DSPD is a thing it is not fully clear whether there is a genetic component to it. Also Epigenetics is a thing.

5) Finally, if the situation were reversed and i were suffering, i would do everything in my power to study as much as possible on available Science, Traditional Methods of healing etc. to come up with some plan to manage it with/without a doctor. You will find accounts in the popular press of people suffering from something which the doctors could not diagnose properly but they never gave up and kept researching by themselves and trying out new things until something worked for them (usually after consulting with a doctor on it).
Interesting write-up. Does this mean that all of OP's competitors are facing the same legal issues? I wonder what (if anything) they do about this.
Because it is about people speculating on events that seem connected to their own experience, but in actuality aren’t, because they don’t understand the breadth of the distribution of the abstraction they are discussing.

This happens when your terms are underspecified: someone says “Netflix’s servers are struggling under load” and while people in similar efforts know that basically just equivalent to “something is wrong” and the whole conversation is basically esoteric to most people outside a few specialized teams, these other people jump to conclusions and start having conversations based on their own experience having to do with what is (to them) related (and usually fashionable, because that is how most smaller players figure out how to do things).
There are now many suppliers if kits, just search nixie kit and there are lots of suppliers. There are even companies making new nixie tubes now.
When software projects fork for petty ideological reasons, they fail. None of the skilled developers moved over to Redot. Godot continues to get support and features. Redot still can't figure out how to refactor the code to remove references to Godot.
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