skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a clear benefit is reduced memory usage and reduced process startup time

Not necessarily true. Many process-parallel Python environments support using fork(2) for parallelism (multiprocessing, gunicorn, celery).

For similar processes (e.g. parallel waiting on RPCs) that removes the memory overhead. It also largely mitigates startup time costs (especially if forks are reused for multiple requests, which they are in most forking contexts).

While there is debate and grumbling in the Python community about fork(2)’s rough edges re: signals/threads/MacOS, these issues are usually handled inside parallelism-management library code and rarely concern application level developers.
Is “goto” just used to mean “bad and evil” here? Because exceptions are not a goto anymore than a return is a goto. The problem with goto is it can jump to any arbitrary place in your code. Exceptions will only go to catch-blocks up the call stack, which presumably you have written on purpose.
I always have trouble with claims that our time is unique,because I can quickly construct arguments for just about any other time. So yes, our era is unique, but is it uniquely unique?
> The God of the Old and New Testament may seem to contradict himself

Hmm. The context of who said what and what was said by whom gives additional meaning to the words. And to the person ignoring context and making one big salad/soup of it, the Bible can seem difficult to comprehend. Further complication is when ideas like "the word of God" is added to give it weight despite majority of it is in fact an inspired script or the statements of those who studied under the Rabbis (including Jesus).

It seems even in the most thorough studies of Christianity, the entire subject is challenging. And the difficulty can easily fall to dissuasion.
Interestingly, every time (and I mean _every_ time) that I've tried to use `errors.As` on errors raised by lib code, I found out that the lib just went with "nah, I'm just going to use `errors.New` or `fmt.Errorf`", which makes the error impossible to match.

So... I'd say that this is a fumble in the design of Go.
I don't worry about things that beyond my control
No, it's useless to me in this regard, although it could help someone who is efficient. I think my issue may have more to do with copper.
I typed fly launch, fly deploy and my node.js project was deployed. So I guess hobby projects?
I wanted to replace DBeaver for a long time, but I have some not really common connections there (e.g. Sybase SQL Anywhere), that no other client seems to support
The DeLorean was this way too. People were paying to get it painted because the bare stainless steel finish didn't weather well.
> the whole fucking point of leisure activities is to escape from the hellscape that is life and reality

To claim that escapism is the sole purpose of art is certainly a bold statement. Why bother reflecting on human society when we can just do our best to jam our fingers in our ears and ignore it?
Use a pill box. It's not just for old people. It's good for everyone.
I suspect that’s a bit of an exaggeration by the author. If the mirrors were not required by law and therefore comply with the law they wouldn’t exist. “The best part is no part”
I don't know if that was your intention, but I basically understand from your comment that black men and powerful women are two components of reality that are bothering you to start with. Yes all new British and American productions are ticking these two boxes, but it's not shouting at all of us.

I suspect for the Japanese women who are putting in perspective the extreme conservatism on gender roles prevalent in their country, most Japanese fiction shouts at them about real life too.
> Rust eventually realised this and introduced try! and ? to simplify this

That was prototyped around Rust 0.4, so I wouldn't say "eventually" :)
To be fair, Japan is westernized
I agree with eesmith. DONT DO IT. I guess you got your answer restrictedPy
Waymo's recent experiment with multimodal models and a purely camera based system (EMMA) validate some of the claims that using LIDAR data in training does help. Pretty neat! Still not as good as a LIDAR + RADAR based system.
Sigh of relief as Alphabet signs off on their '25 ad budget.
Term inflation.

In half a generation, audit will be relabelled re-teaming. It's ironic.
I described Open Market Operations, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_market_operation

> The Fed sets the interest rate directly.

So which interest rate does the Fed set directly, and how does that setting have any effect on the economy?

(I know they have interest on excess reserves. I already accounted for those in my original comment. I know, they are annoying and misguided. I was mostly talking about the system they used before, ie up until about 2008.)
From the article:

Interestingly, although Civilization uses an almost identical setup menu and also contains multiple exes that look like sound and graphic drivers based on their name, the overlay header format of those seems to be different, and could not be parsed by my tool. Seems likey they were updating the scheme as they went along (Civ 1 came out 1991, so after F15-II).

My guess is that they constantly updated their libraries game by game, as both hardware and software/dev tools in those times were moving really fast.
None of this seems relevant to the single point that "recall is a misleading term to use for an OTA software update".
Yes, the iPhone has a laser array and sensor that it uses for lidar.
The Cradle adaptation is only an animatic, sadly. Best case scenario is that it generates enough buzz for a Netflix or an Amazon to pick it up for a full series, but then I'd be worried it would get butchered like Rings of Power or Wheel of Time have been.
Making it harder to grow your own food /is/ subjugating.
They (Japanese fiction) aren't trojan horses.

I'm not a search engine but ESG is basically corporate and government funding to include current year real world activism into media which is the antithesis of fiction.
Form, function, and evolutionary origins of symmetry in honey bee nests
Office Conversions Find New Life After Property Values Plunge
> Toxic employees hurt the team or organization whether low performing or high performing, and with rare exceptions it’s almost always worth getting rid of them. Toxic employees are the people getting into arguments and conflicts all the time, dragging others down constantly.

Often such people have good arguments, they are just vocal about them and not the "docile" kind of people. For example the great engineer who is willing to fight to keep the code well-architected and clean.

Of course managers hate this kind of "non-docile" employee, and thus invent terms like "toxic" to be capable of bullying (and perhaps having a "socially accepted" reason for firing) them.
Nothing about the definition implies the existence of the former construction.
All new cars are required to have backup cameras, so manufacturers have used that "freedom" to change car shapes. Not only Tesla.
I'd argue the title here should be changed, since the original is so (unintentionally) misleading.
Same. Maybe this thread can lead a resurgence of the word “Panglossian”.
My model y has had a number of recalls and I never knew about it. From things to the UI not meeting government requirements to other software issues. It was never unsafe to drive.
> powerful

Wheres the billionare farmers in the cover of Forbers?

Where?
I get it's wrong in cars. But who the hell cares about games? So your game updates after a month with a fix. So what? It's not like you pay for the update.
IIRC the reasoning was that only criminals have large amounts of valuable notes and by demonetising them they'd hit the criminals where it hurts.

But it turns out that tons of people in rural India had their life savings under mattresses in large denomination bills...
Or 2 years for Heidegger?
Some...

"Your Amazon EC2 usage is calculated by either the hour or the second based on the size of the instance, operating system, and the AWS Region where the instances are launched" - https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/ec2-instance-hour-billin...

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
Almost certainly anti-malware nonsense

I've just tried a bluesky link
> That's a lot of presumptions: That the creator is perfect, there is even a perfect, what I (Leibniz) call perfect is the god's/gods' perfect, ... while not giving a frame of reference.

The Creator (First Mover) being perfect is not a presumption, but rather a conclusion; see Corollary 1.3:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/11/first-way-part-iv-casca...

(You'll need to go through the series of weblog posts (they're not that long) to get the full logic of the argument.)

See also perhaps Aquinas, "Whether God is perfect?":

* https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1004.htm
I suspect that the term "cartridge" being used for 8-track shells may be the source of "cartridge" describing the packages that ROM-based games came in, especially given the resemblance between 8-track cases and those of Atari 2600 games.

I think usage of these terms became a bit calcified much more recently than we think. My first computer was a TI-99/4A, and while the term "cassette" was used regularly in its literature to refer to using audio cassettes for data storage, the ROM cartridges that commercial software came on were never called "cartridges" officially, always "solid-state software" or "command modules", with this usage extending well into the '80s.
Stinky Gifts from Your Idea Kitty
This is hyperbole. Most of the Tesla recalls that I can remember did not impact the safety of the vehicle.
I find statement like "there is objective truth" - dangerous.

The objective truth in the 70s was, "smoking is good for you". Since then, the narrative changed. Politics, and even s̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ scientific research (to a degree) -- are subjective, despite what world leaders or politicians want you to believe. You can manipulate the data in a way that suits you or your agenda, you can buy scientific researches, etc. It's happening right now in all major, and minor conflicts.

Statements like "objective truth" tend to remind me of the grumpy old engineer who thinks that his way of doing things "is the only correct way", and rejects any modern approach to software engineering.

Now, I don't say you should ignore all statements, or news source. You should be informed enough to a degree you think is relevant for you, while understanding that there will be no objective truth, and unless you have a motivation (be it power, money, or something else) to continue to believe in your established world view, you need to be willing to revisit your "objective truth" every once in a while.
It has nothing to do with open source, it's about security. Installing an app with no connection to anything invites lots of people to build apps that steal your stuff (sure this app might be trustworthy, but not all). Every Mac and iOS developer has the same requirements. Installing an app with no signature is asking for people to get hacked. Do you leave your house open so that some contractor you don't know can enter your house and do whatever they please? $99 a year means Apple can trust that they at least know who the contractor is. There are people who want to steal your stuff (or your mom's) much smarter than you or I. This isn't an onerous requirement at all. I shipped my first Mac app in 1987, back then security was not an issue. It is today.
I have a stack of Thinkpad Tablet 2 bluetooth keyboards (though it's getting a bit low, will have to find somebody on ebay or whatever that still has some again soonish) - they're capable of being paired to more than one device (I also use them with the tablet half of my Helix 2) and have a built-in stand which takes my 8" tablet just as well as it did the Tablet 2 itself back when I was using that.

So had I ended up in the same situation as you I would probably have done similar, but with an added undercurrent of "Matt, you idiot, how did you manage to forget to put the keyboard in your pocket before you left?!"

(still a neat hack on your part, mind, no question there, but I'm very much glad I've optimised by standard "leaving the house" loadout so inflicting the same thing on myself is at least *less* likely ;)
Or simply a culture clash between factory labor and white collar office management

I briefly worked in automotive as a tech worker and we had to completely lock down the slack workspace due to patently unprofessional behavior by many who just seemed to not understand that what you post in corporate chat might as well be painted on a mural for all to see

Imagine what you might hear as banter at a construction site, overheard by HR at a bank
Great.

C# DevKit is really all you need (and the same plugins you would normally have like GitLens, etc.).

Refactoring experience isn't as good as Rider (JetBrains are kings of refactoring tooling). But for all other cases VS Code is fast and ergonomic.

Rider does have some nice things for supporting working with SQL databases that I do envy once in a while.
The reliability is very very bad. It was really insane that 2 times in the past few months the main dashboard was down as I’m demoing something. Not to mention the deploy outages and almost daily some random thing was unavailable or delayed.

I had to leave a few months ago after the price raises and how many times my boss saw some issue in the project I had with them.

They also deprecated and removed their sqlite backup service. Back to GCP and not worrying about so many outages now.
From what I've heard from tech writers, it's a job that very few people want to do for a long time, or make a career of it. You get someone for a year or two at most, and then they move on to something more interesting, is the impression I have.
Harry Winston Opus 12 Watch Animation (2012)
are global r/w token permissions still a thing, or did the token scopes thing finally come out of beta?

also, my experience with support was not the same as yours. they were utterly useless for the most part.

for a personal web dev (or similar) project, like, i agree, they’ve got good value.

but having worked in a small biz where DO was what they built everything on — no. bad idea. spend more. use aws (graviton ec2 instances)/azure.
For the interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbank_lending_market#Monet... has more on it.

As far as I understand, the central banks intervene in this market by offering to loan or borrow above or below otherwise prevailing market rates. This has the effect of adding money to the system (or removing it). So that's pretty much the same mechanism as what I described.

They use an intermediate proxy like the 'target overnight rate' to help them decide how much money to add or remove to the system: exactly as much as needed to bring the market interest rate in line with their intermediate proxy.
No.

This may sound weird but being afraid or worrying about something that I don't have much influence on is a waste of time and energy.

Yes, I do vote and are engaged in local politics, but ultimately it is up to the leaders we elect to make the decisions. But in critical situations it may be actions that does not favor me at all.

And I am fine with that, I go on with my life, while preparing as best as I can to handle whatever the future throws in my way.
>Western comics are also incredibly hostile towards new readers

I agree with this if we are talking American superhero comics, but the European scene is decidedly different. Franco-Belgian comics are usually very pick-up-and-go, as are a great many of the homegrown UK ones. I think we're coming off a decade-ish where the massive investment in Marvel/DC 'verses have been eating up all the oxygen in the room for large comic book adaptions. Or just for general public consciousness attention for comics.

I am pretty confident that it's gonna turn around, but it might take a while on the large scale projects.
You are absolutely correct, of course, but that's clearly not the context I used it in.
> no sudden alert about Putin’s latest military actions

I think it's a bit condescending towards people whose day quite physically depends on the absence of this kind of news. It's not like Putin is invading Manhattan currently.
The primary complaint I have seen about Murakami in internet books forums, is how repetitive his writing ultimately became. His treatment of women that strikes many as problematic, is just one of the things that get repeated.
> My question has rather been that, if suffering is required and a child getting bone cancer and dying at five is the best of all possible worlds, maybe the whole project should have been scrapped at the planning phase.

Is that better? it would also require not having all the good things from creation.
As someone who's been raising teenagers for the past decade, their language confusion is driving me crazy.

E.g.: "legitimately", and "literally".

Successfully correcting them on "I" vs "me" vs "myself" is now just a distant fantasy.

Sigh.
Sorry, switched to Cursor after 20+ years with Jetbrains.
Alas, you are right. Compare also https://www.cato.org/working-paper/floored
Zoom 2.0 relaunches as an AI-first company without video in its name
I can only imagine how confused you must be by "your taxi arrived" notification
Glitch chat for communication and sale of goods
Honest question: syntactically noisy as opposed to what? In the context of this post, which is a critique of Go as a programming language, for me this is orders of magnitude better than the "if err != nil {" approach of Go.
YC also says that they don't believe in the idea, but the founders ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How fast does Golang compile?
https://www.octobench.com/
It got obsoleted because of bugs in behaviour, IIRC
Aaron's right, you have a cool blog. His account here is so over censored.
Should gun and bullet manufacturers be liable for school shootings too?
Nice. How much money is it making?
Just because you have similar or the same idea doesn’t mean at the end you have a sustainable one. Also, companies get bought out but while ideas are the same execution and scope can change given the level of technology available .
None of the japanese literature in this article is being adapted into animation, we're talking about literary fiction here as opposed to more pop fiction like light novels which exist more as mass commercial enterprises.
exactly, please see the “The Tyranny of metrics” book. We are all subjected to the same system of management; kids in schools, parents at work.
On the highest level it is the war for the world order between democracies and autocracies.

On the level below it is a war for the spheres of influence between China and US.

Next, it is Russian war for the control of the Europe and middle east.

Below it is the wars by Iranian/Russian/Chinese proxies to help with the goals mentioned above.

In all ongoing conflicts the parties are aligned with the China on top of the chain in one side of the conflict and the US on the other.

Profits from stealing goods, people, or territories are just a means to ease the path to the goal or to improve the strategic position, but not the source of the conflict itself.
the only thing needed here is to be able to lift N & M from run-time to the type system (which in C++ as it stands exists only at compile-time). For "small" values of N&M that's doable with switches and instantiations for instance.
HN discourages this type of bad faith misinterpretation in the name of pedantry.
I think they conceptualised it as red teaming their *own* analysis.

Givewell, being EAish, is generally staffed by people steeped in ratadj and/or nerd culture, so that seeming like a natural way of describing it to them seems unsurprising.

I mean, I do see your point, and "getting grumpy about such things" is very definitely not an experience I'm personally unfamiliar with, but in context I can't quite bring myself to be annoyed about this specific instance :D
Is it really easy to express if the straightforward way is buggy and error-prone?

People think C++ is expressive because they think they are allowed to do a lot of things that they aren't, in fact, allowed to do in C++.
>Russian influence will rise and dominate at least major parts of Eastern Europe

Definitely not, given how russophobic Eastern Europe is. They had enough of Russia to last them several lifetimes of misery.

On the other hand, Western Europe, especially "neutral" Austria is a lot more pro-Russian than the East.
It has been years since I read the Sea of Fertility, but I remember one Western scholar of Japan claiming that the fourth volume was a shoddy work compared to the previous three, written hastily as Mishima was preparing for his death. Since the English version didn’t obviously strike me as so flawed, I wondered if the translator had done some rescue work. Sadly, I’ll probably never be able to read the book in its original Japanese.
Have they started salting roads there yet though?
the $5 droplet is underpowered and can't run anything substantial. it's just the price to get you in the door.
I don't see how publicly shaming someone (and yes, this is how I interpret the intend of your question) for the act of thanking the author of a project is going to help anyone.

It is offered free of charge, so why should it be despicable to use it free of charge? Maybe they do actually donate to the project, contribute code, or support in other means.

For example this very post where they thank the author is probably a source of motivation and acknowledgement that might have a positive impact on the project. They could have refrained from doing this but instead they took the time to write a very enthusiastic comment.
> * After all, he uses the same thing to argue (somehow) for the existence of god! https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/#ExiGod *

His argument from contingency is probably a better one:

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/02/avicenna-aquinas-an...
What's interesting is that the people who are able to predict and come up with the idea (e.g. a researcher using AI in 2021) are often not the best ones to execute on it (typically, lack of experience or capacity to handle the pain of growth while marketing).

What's most interesting is that most people aren't just "one type". In your life you go through multiple roles. Just like how most people, regardless of their income at age 20 will be earning top 35% income by age 35, people move up in their roles (and struggle at a young age to understand that this will happen to them). It's all about timing and age.

I believe some investors go for multiple teams purely because the ratio of those types is different - like a different risk profile. They invest in one with 80% AI boffins, and one with 80% business folks, and one will likely win in the circumstance of the moment (in the ChatGPT era - mostly the business folks. In the data driven AI era - mostly the AI boffins)
Could you please elaborate how I disagree with Japanese fiction? Thx :)
Medicare Pays Different Prices for the Same Drug
If you're a business and can't afford $7 a month, then self-host an uptime checking tool like Uptime Kuma on a $5 Digital Ocean server.
I drink coffee and tea more for their beneficial phyto chemicals. If I were to stop them, I would lose this benefit. I limit it to a single cup of each.

B6 as P5P at 20 mg twice daily has helped my stress. Similarly, magnesium citrate has too. Theanine is also relevant at night.

I think the best cure for stress for someone who has saved up money is to quit their day job.
Seems reasonable to pick two horses in a race you believe is worth running
More effort has definitely been focused on the 'select' aspect, since you often select more than you mutate - and even in the future state, for data warehousing cases updates can be relatively rare. I definitely don't see it targeting core OLTP CRUD work, where abstractions can sometimes cause more problems then they solve - but I hope for projects that involve bulk data creation, analysis, and management - analytics like - it can be a complete solution once the 'persist'/ 'export' queries are developed further.