skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't you print it yourself? If it's that obscure and that important to you to own a hard copy.
Con- before vowels is co-; compare cohabit; coincide.

(Technically, you wouldn't expect an N before vowels anyway because the root word ends in an M, so hypothetically you'd have "cominstar". But since the consonant just disappears before vowels, that's moot. [Though technically technically, disappearing when before vowels is expected of M - this is a feature of Latin pronunciation generally - and not of N.])
Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT algorithm)
Buyers in Europe pay full VAT for Star citizen "donations" since that law was introduced many years ago.

So at least the EU and UK believe these transactions to be sales.
Nowadays when I ask the waiter/ess "What's good today?" I get the stock scripted answer "It's all good".

Are they afraid I'm a snoop from corporate ?
> Cargo cults don't work at all.

The people who take DRY and SOLID as absolute rules might create codebases that will be harder to maintain, but probably won’t go up in flames.

I think cargo cults absolutely do work, same as how people pick Nginx “because it’s fast” while they might need to consider that their Python API probably wouldn’t be bottlenecked even by Apache2 (depending on what you’re doing Nginx might still be the right choice, but for different reasons). Similar to how people might lean towards either Java or .NET for a plethora of shallow reasons - either will work for most problems, so the choice will be good even if the reasoning behind it might be bogus. Same for AMD vs Intel or AMD vs Nvidia etc.

Unless you need to be web scale, then the right answer is clearly MongoDB. /j
Well since you put "research" in quotes, I think you also agree that this type of work does not really belong in a quality journal with a high impact factor ;)
And for an IMO much better explanation how it can be used more or less everywhere, this presentation by Playdead games on how it's used in INSIDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdN06E6Xn9E

IMO the linked article by Casey Muratori is actually kind of weak: a lot of waffling, doesn't actually show the results of using this point set in the original problem, just using the sampling pattern isn't enough to eliminate aliasing, and there are more important properties for point sequences to have (discrepancy), etc. It's somewhat unpopular these days to link dense texts instead of "softer" articles, but IMO one should just go straight to PBRT for this topic, there's an entire chapter with excellent presentation: https://pbr-book.org/4ed/Sampling_and_Reconstruction

Final note: the Don Mitchell mentioned in this article is one of the authors on the go-to reconstruction filter used in a lot of software, Mitchell-Netravali (the latter recently passed away): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%E2%80%93Netravali_fil...
Pitch Deck Roasters?
Looking for someone who will review / roast my pitch deck. Ideally you're someone who viewed 10s of decks before. Anyone up to it? You can leave comments directly on the doc.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n2xqHjvtMX4v34He0Gw1Qy0GH-MgIRmH/view?usp=sharing
I currently work in the public sector in the UK and my experience is different. I see quite a lot of PowerAutomate going on to automate tasks and to create simple SharePoint apps.
Current youth culture is massively influenced by imageboard culture.
I've never heard of FME before, but I don't do any GIS work.
Are you referring to this?

https://www.tensing.com/en/software/fme

Tensing looks like they specialize in GIS.
does this also make them stupid?
Would https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-with-typesense/ work?
I am a professor for algebra at a research university. I make a point out of teaching my students that `a/b` is NOT the same as multiplying `a` by the multiplicative inverse of `b`.

The standard example is that we have a well-defined and useful notion of division in the ring Z/nZ for n any positive integer even in cases were we "divide" by an element that has no multiplicative inverse. Easy example: take n=8 then you can "divide" 4+nZ by 2+nZ just fine (and in fact turn Z/nZ into a Euclidean ring), even though 2+nZ is not a unit, i.e. admits no multiplicative inverse.
December Adventure – Low key coding every day of December
> Some people prefer to handle their devices with care and expect to get longevity in return

I guarantee you however carefully you are handling your device it is a world apart from a datacenter.
I do remember a lot of people complaining about paying for all those channels when all they really wanted was sports. Without realizing that sports was what cost so much, the rest of the channels were almost free.
Sounds legit, infinity is singular and so is 0. I think one problem is also that division isn't the only mathematical operation which can produce dubious results. E.g. sqrt(x), arctan(x) which have multiple branches which is why there is often a separate arctan2(x, y) to select the correct branch. Oh well and then there's just addition which silently overflows in almost every programming language.

Without arbitrary precision numerics and functions which aren't explicit about corner cases it's always a simplification. However performance-/code-wise this is usually not feasible.
No, I'm not. I don't read the Daily Mail. Are you trying to imply that was just one case and police don't spend time on them at all?

"My Lords, so-called non-crime hate incidents may have been introduced for perfectly good reasons after the Macpherson inquiry, but last year the police recorded more than 13,000, including some against schoolchildren and others for utterly absurd reasons—I myself was investigated for calling Hamas Islamists" [0]

Essex police foi response demonstrating resources spent on hate incidents https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/essex-police/other-inform...

Ditto met police https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclos...

[0] https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-11-19/debates/0DE7E...
Yes, encrypted databases aren't that useful for fine grained data especially if you get into academic computable encryption schemes.

For document DBs where you're storing files like big JSON structures, PDFs, or for archival data, etc it can work out. Though mostly it's not worth it because key management is too hard.
Is it possible to persist an IP address if we supply the proxy credentials?
If you prefer no bullshit communications they are great. They are to the point, terse and very German. I find this both refreshing and exactly what I want/need out of support. The few times I have needed to contact them it's been HW related. One was a SSD that was clearly having issues even though SMART reported nothing wrong, I sent them blktrace output and they said yup that checks out, scheduled disk replacement right away. The other time was a network related problem with their transit, I had some ASNs that I was trying to talk to suddenly getting some pretty damn cursed paths and a big increase in latency as a result, they sorted out the path weights super fast and everything has been great since.

The only other time I have received better support was from Aussie ISPs. Back in the day when you called Internode the guy who answered the phone was a bona-fide network engineer and would go as far as getting a shell on the DSLAM to check out what is going on. To me that is peak support, live debugging of the problem!

Similarly I called into Aussie Broadband to do my first NBN setup, explained I did "BYO" modem because I was going to initiate the PPPoE session with my Linux router and they said no problem. She even offered to send me a cookie cutter pppd config along with the info to set it up myself. Easily the some of the most knowledgeable and "can do" attitude for first layer support I have encountered.

Needless to say when I encounter damn good support I stay even when it costs more.
Ask HN: I don't want to code anymore. What else can I do?
I've been a coder for the past 15 years. I was living and believing that software engineering is a means to an end, and refused to move away from hands on positions. I gaslighted myself into believing that I enjoy coding.

However, looking at it now, it seems like I was wrong. While I do like writing code, I've been doing it both at job and after work for my side projects, and I think I no longer can handle it.

I want to keep doing side projects, but for my job, I think I want to get away from writing code, or at least minimize it drastically. I'm considering leadership positions now, but I'm not entirely sure what's there for me.

Would appreciate some people to share their experience, how they moved away from writing code to leadership/management positions, and how I can pull it off while having minimal leadership experience.
Also see this report https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/rese...

Google’s use dropped from 86% to 83% in one year in the UK. That's 1.8m people less per month using it
I think you're referring to another phenomenon that leads mostly to apathy. "Brain rot" as it's described leads to a change in perception, and I wonder if it also changes beliefs.

"Brain rot" seems to be linked with the repeated consumption of, for example, unchallenged propaganda.

It encourages people to think they made some huge insightful breakthroughs, and that they have some new undisputed understanding of reality, when in reality they just have a superficial knowledge of someone else's idea. Which sometimes is amplified by someone repeating someone else's ideas. Yet they refuse to either acknowledge or question it.

For example, unlike general perception, conspiracy theories aren't that complex, they're much simpler than reality and more entertaining - as an anecdote it's much simpler to think the moon landing was done in a Hollywood studio than to understand the endeavor taken to achieve this milestone for Humanity.

This leads to people dismissing reality in favor of fantasy, leading to algorithmic thinking, which is just a lazy cognitive process. If you challenge this, you'll be ignored or dismissed.

All for the aesthetic of being an intellectual.
Agree to disagree.

Don't see any difference with finding the answers on SO, or in textbooks, and having an AI provide the same.

And at the start, novice body builders will of course watch other body builders to learn how it's done.

Unless you're exceptional you're not teaching yourself anything unless it's by learning from others. Few are the pioneers in any field.
The way tombstones work in a sorted KV store like RocksDB is that queries walk up the levels, and the moment a tomb stone is hit the walk stops because it's known the keys are deleted. Then when the levels are compacted the live data is evacuated into a new tablet, so it's like generational GC. The cost scales with live data, not how much data there is in total. The problem of course is you pay that cost over and over again.
The limit 1/x as x goes to zero diverges to plus or minus infinity depending on whether you approach from the right or the left. IEEE 754 uses a signed zero, so defining 1/+0 = +INF and 1/-0 = -INF makes sense. If you do not have a signed zero, arbitrarily picking either plus or minus infinity makes much less sense and picking their "average" zero seems more sensible. So x/0 is not actually +INF - even if you meant +0 and we forget about -0 - it is +INF or -INF depending on the sign of x and NaN if x is +0 or -0.
FizzBuzz in Powerchords
My impression of this opposition (and hate) is that people don't read the docs and expect submodules to bend to their vision of how submodules should work. Because of that, we have multiple similar but not the same "submodule" implementations: git-submodule, git-subtree, git-subrepo...
I saw the powers that be sit on requests for access for readonly BI tools on existing DBs. How do the low code vendors get VIP treatment?
So a physics stack exchange question (https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/221440/space-gro...) led me to a paper (https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/107/4/j74mig.pdf) that discusses the difference between C-centered (base-centered) cells and I-centered (body centered cells).

Long story short, I think I2/c is conventionally C2/c - https://www.globalsino.com/EM/page1891.html
> Low code initially works quite well until you hit the limits of the low-code framework. If you just need a throw-away proof of concept, or a personal utility, or the like, low-code solutions can be quite efficient.

The same I'd say for dynamically typed languages (and their frameworks like Rails): initially works quite well until you hit the limits.

Once your app is big and there is a team, the efficiency dwindles. Refactoring becomes really hard. Unit test for the rescue, but they also take time to write.
Have you tried the GE fork? I’ve found some things just won’t work with vanilla proton with my Nvidia card.

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
is this AI generated? I flagged because seemed very low on substance and just generic bullet points
I think you accidentally a content.
While yes, conditions are incredibly harsh, we've found life in such a variety of places on Earth I can't imagine there's absolutely nothing here that couldn't survive there - it's just it probably didn't hitch the ride to Mars. We've found bacteria(alive!) deep in polar ice, miles under the ground, on radioactive waste and in geothermal vents with no oxygen and in hundreds degrees celcius.
> Well, Python supports arbitrary precision integers. And some other niche languages (Sail is one I know).

As a Lisper, I very carefully chose an example to account for arbitrary-precision integers (so X + X where X is, say, 8^8^8^8 (remember, exponentiation is right-associative, 8^8^8^8 = 8^(8^(8^8)))).

> I don't think "running out of memory" counts as a caveat because it still won't give the wrong answer.

Being pedantic, it doesn't give the _correct_ answer either, because in mathematics 'ran out of memory' is not the correct answer for any addition.
Only time can tell.
Are you experiencing burnout?
> It also complicates the practical application of the hat in some decorative contexts, where extra work would be needed to manufacture both a shape and its reflection

And people say that mathematical research has no practical applications
The (orange) cat has your pipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw
I just learned the AWS truck has been retired for months https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowm...
The options available to you heavily depend on your financial situation. How much do you have saved/invested, and what is your monthly spend? Can you take time off to learn a new skill while living cheaply in Vietnam, or do you live paycheck to paycheck in a high cost of living area w/ an expensive mortgage & big family to support?
My main complaint with OVH is that their checkout process is broken in various ways (missing translations so you get French bits, broken translations so placeholders like ACCEPT_BUTTON leak through, legally binding terms with typos and weird formatting because someone copied them from a PDF into a textarea, UIs from the 90s plastered in between modern ones, missing option to renew a domain for longer than a year, confusing automatic renewal setup, and so on). The control panel in general is quite confusing. They also don't allow hosting an email server (port 25 blocked), iirc the docs tell you to go away and use a competitor

I didn't have any of these web UI issues with Hetzner, but iirc OVH is cheaper for domain names, as well as having very reliable and fast DNS servers (measured various query types across some 6 months), and that's why I initially chose them — until my home ISP gave me a burned IP address and I needed an externally hosted server for originating email data (despite it coming from an old and trusted domain that permitlists the IP address) so now I'm with both OVH and Hetzner... Anyway, another thing I like in OVH is that you can edit the raw zone file data and that they support some of the more exotic record types. I don't know how Hetzner compares on domain hosting though
Indeed. Let's not forget the greatest invention in history of software development, unparalleled in how it improved productivity of software developers:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
That's starting to make more sense. The article is light on details and we do not really have an equivalent of that in the USA (at least, not as widespread).

I think some of us were assuming this is some Streamlord equivalent with a payment tier. IE. Something that would be difficult to centralize illegal payment volume in the billions towards.

Not something with a decentralized network of distributors each collecting payment on their own.
they sell virtual spaceships for thousands of dollars, i know a guy who bought several of them like 8 years ago. if he represents the average star citizen supporter (in the sense of being willing and eager to pay more money into a game you've already paid for, for rewards that don't actually exist, in a game that shows absolutely zero promise of ever actually releasing), i believe it.
How big are they? I thought its the 100gb order of magnitude as (dead tree) libraries.
Does someone have experiences with using o1-preview for mathematics? A while ago I tried to use GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet for certain algebraic questions related to probability theory. The models did help significantly (at least relative to my rather limited ability), though they also often produced wrong results and struggled to make progress on harder questions.
I didn't even know we were looking for that gene
I doubt my electric scooter can do much with the 1 min bluetooth connection I use once a month.

Problem with cars is that this surveillance doesn't improve the product. Perhaps the accident emergency call is helping, but everything else makes your car worse.

They don't even have basic diagnostic service because manufacturers want to keep the lock in, so the surveillance crap doesn't even benefit the user in any way. On the contrary, it makes maintenance much more difficult.
You can't guarantee your robot in orbit is free of contamination either.
> The lack of type checking makes every single gem and rails update extremely dangerous in ways that are incredibly difficult to predict.

This. I found a typed-Ruby in Kotlin (OO-core with lots of FP niceties; code even looks similar to Ruby in many cases as type inference it quite good).

Kotlin + http4k (analog to Rack+Sinatra) + JTE's KTE (or kotlinx.html) + SqlDelight (or jOOQ; fuck ORMs anyway: also ActiveRecord) is a dream to work with.

I'm not sold on TypeScript. Yes it helps but it allows for very messy code.
I have a family. I don't live paycheck to paycheck, but I also can't take time off.
I agree. Writing well is _highly_ technical.
sqlite has `STRICT` tables that are statically typed
I don't know anymore. I tried to take a year off, was super fun, but didn't help. I think I'm just tired of writing code for corporate.
The prize-based thing is quite common in some countries, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds (in countries which don't tax gambling winnings, it's a tax dodge; if you have a choice between a bank account that pays 4% taxable interest or a prize bond scheme which in the long term pays an average of 3.5% in untax-able winnings, you might take the prize bonds.)

I'm not sure that it should necessarily be seen, in _itself_, as a major red flag.
I know they have instructions on where to buy papyrus and how to cook it to resemble the conditions of the original scrolls, but from what I understand, nobody has done what you suggest.
It sounds like a good idea to me also, but a few suggestions on why they haven't done it yet:

1) Scanning a scroll costs around $40k, between the trip to London, renting the equipment, paying the staff etc.

2) I'm not sure that just cooking the scroll is enough to reproduce the exact conditions of the original, which were also buried underground for thousand of years. Time, soil pressure and so on could have a big impact on the final composition of the sheets.

3) To actually reproduce a realistic sample, you need a professional papyrologist. It's not enough to copy an Ancient Greek text from an online database, you need to know all the conventions of the handwriting of the time (they didn't use spaces, they didn't use the diacritics and accent marks we use in modern editions, often letters where written in idiosyncratic ways depending on the period etc.). Considering how few papyrologists there are, how busy they are, and how long would take one of them to recreate a decent replica, I think this is maybe the biggest obstacle.
The scientist who tested his revolutionary medicine on his own brain cancer
I have no interest in Star Citizen or any other MMO, and parts of its funding and development are shamelessly dishonest, but GTA V is not a fair comparison for a number of reasons:

- In a broad sense GTA V has fewer gameplay features and smaller constructed playable areas: Star Citizen is a bigger game, it is natural that it is more expensive. Your comment doesn’t really refute the point that SC spends its money on mechanics and infrastructure (though it seems to me that they spend a stupid amount of money on cosmetics).

- Star Citizen has fancier graphics and more detailed assets - RDR2 is a more relevant comparison here and that game was $500m.

- The GTA V figure is for a single-player game and (on release) a fairly middling and empty online mode. It does not include ongoing development costs for GTA Online, which has grown substantially over the years. GTA V + Online would be a more appropriate comparison: the $750m for Star Citizen includes ships added in 2023, but the GTA figure doesn’t include cars in 2023.

I would add that the $2bn estimate for GTA VI is credible based on Take-Two’s financial reports.
Me?

I'm watching from a distance.
I'm with you on this. For me it was reading Peter Singer's "Animal Rights" that made the difference.
I don't see why it is a 'lesser evil'.

"Explicit and mandatory handling is desirable for most errors." -- that depends on the domain. Quite often all the caller needs is to cancel whatever it is doing and propagate the error. In this case why do we need a detour into the f() function in your example?

From the part of your essay that you linked to:

"Potentially leaving your data in an inconsistent, half-way modified state." -- this is just not the case with RAII.

"No one wraps every line in a try-catch." -- no one needs to.
Sometimes I feel like going the way of David Foster Wallace

No TV (or phone/computer) in the house, to safeguard my monkey brain from hijacking my time

But then I recall his suicide (albeit unrelated to stimulation) and think, maybe there’s a happy middle
Also, is a headless CMS low code?
HN isn't one person, if you wondered.
react-scan: Scan for React performance issues, improve rendering
Apex is nice, but it becomes hard to maintain larger applications.

It also makes it so easy to create opportunities for SQL injection if you don't have careful coders. And it is also a great target for DoS attacks.

Having said all this, it really is the only low code platform I would ever consider using, in spite of it being Oracle's.
google has started to block mailbox[x.x.x.x] and mailbox[ipv6:...] recently, as I remember, I did give a try hardly a few years ago with some Big-Tech-Jailed friends and it was working.

Now, it is completely blocked. The AOL and compuserve mob is back.
I wonder how GrapheneOS fares in this table.
It won't ever happen.

It needs BEEF to run and macs are not capable of that much cow.
So there is:

* Software as a possession - pay once to "own" it.

* Software as a service - subscribe to it.

* Software as an utility - rent it.

I'd prefer to see more software as an utility.
Yes, I'm not so sure that they are capable of watching a movie. I tried to watch TV with my sister and failed because she spent the time looking at her phone.