skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write "as close to perfect" as I can get. I know that "The Perfect is the enemy of the good" is a popular meme, but I have found that "The perfect is something to strive for" has been useful, for me.

In fact, my way has been working for me, for decades.

I'm quite aware that many folks do it differently, and that's one reason that I try to "keep it in the I," and write about how I do it, and talk about the bar that I set, for myself.

Most of the software I write, is free software that Serves a pretty small demographic. It can have a fairly outsize influence on the lives of the people that use my software, and I really care about the end-users of my work, so I tend to set a pretty high personal bar.

I'm quite aware that I don't have many of the stressors that beset commercial software houses, so I sincerely don't feel "snooty." In fact, I feel profoundly grateful to be in a position, where I can follow my muse.

I really would like it if folks wrote better stuff, but I am also aware of the culture, and how that's next to impossible, these days.
> I know that Matrix these days has a lot of the same features but certainly is not there as far as convenience goes.

For what it's worth, the whole Matrix community has been solidly plugging away improving convenience and making good progress - all the new Matrix 2.0 APIs, and on launching Element X on the Element side: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/ and https://element.io/blog/we-have-lift-off-element-x-call-and-... etc. A lot of the "Matrix isn't good enough" trope is a few years old now.
> Artists in Europe have already been fighting to protect the copyright of Tintin to keep the artwork away from large language models (LLMs) training various AI algorithms.

There is no copyright in the character anymore, so there’s nothing to protect.

I really do not understand this perspective. Do people also wish to use legal force to prevent others from working with, for example, Gainsborough, or Moliere, or Julius Caesar, or Homer? Come on: at some point something has to enter the public domain and become part of the shared treasure of all mankind.
It is a part of all organisations, but usually spread across multiple people.

As I mentioned, my wife is a mechanical engineer. "All" she needs to do is do her work, and her manager will be happy. Going out and selling to customers and convincing them they want your product is not her job.

In academia, you can do the work, you can know it's excellent and groundbreaking, as I did for my own work, but unless you go out and sell it, no one cares. You can't just do science, you also have to do sales.

And, to pre-empt a response, yes, it is true that you still have to "sell" the idea that you've done the work properly to your boss in the industry, but it's totally different to in academia, where you will very often be in the situation where no one even knows that you've done any work at all, let alone is expecting something from you. Academia is just a very different working dynamic. Much more independent, much less collaborative, much more responsibility, much less praise
Indeed. I feel like to capture the spirit of it you could make the layout on the chip look like a donut, which would be if anything more of a challenge than the layout of the source code.
DEI is focusing on the identity of the person instead of the abilities/programs/skills/work related arguments. When the LAFD communicates that the LGBT status of the 3 heads of the department they signals it's the reason they got hired to this position. if you add absurd communication like saying it's better to be rescued by someone that looks like you or that the first thing you'll say to someone you want to rescue is "it is you fault" and let's be honest outright lies by conservative, you have the recipe for a catastrophic drama as soon a the conditions are here
Rauch on Peirce (Wrong 3)
This seems to be a characteristic of many high functioning people, especially successful engineers. There is a "correct" way of living your life, conducting your business, using your text editor, etc. It's helpful in that it ensures consistency and focus. The downside is that people become desensitised to nuance.

In this particular example, the word cargo in cargo cult is redundant. All cults have ridiculous ceremonies for cult members to engage in. These ceremonies come from human nature, our inability to distinguish correlation from causation. We're told to conduct a ceremony, get a good outcome, then believe it's the ceremonies that caused the outcome. Just call them ceremonies, because that's what they are.

However, when Feynman wrote his speech he must have thought that a cargo cult is a much more graphic metaphor than a dry lecture about stats and human biases.
Existence of some counterexamples does not upend the basic observation: that way, way fewer women are capable of carrying a 100 or even a 60 kg person out of a fire than men.

Which makes efforts to recruit as many women into firefighting as possible a sad ideological travesty, and people are perfectly right calling it out. There is a difference between emancipation and group delusion. There are meaningful physical differences between the sexes, and everyone knows that, even people who try to engage in sophistry when it comes to this topic.

BTW the IDF, which conscripts women out of necessity, tries to keep them away from the most dangerous combat roles, and employs them mostly in support roles. Your description is very misleading. The vast majority of the really dangerous stuff in IDF is still done by men, not least because of the risk of rape when falling into hands of enemies. IIRC only about 1 in 20 of the "enemy-facing" IDF soldiers like helicopter pilots are female.
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Depending on what aspects of that you enjoyed, you might also enjoy this similar Bad Apple implementation on the NES. With the extra challenge of it being done through ACE in Super Mario Bros. and all data being streamed in through the controller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfG8DbxFibY

They also made an accompanying breakdown video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa0u1CjGtEQ
Some context for non-Americans: the 1920s (when the film was released) was the hey-day of Civil War revisionism; that was when most of the statues of Confederate generals were erected and the narrative of the noble Confederates was written. "1920s film made Confederates the good guys" is one of the least surprising things ever.
IMO metaverse was a bet.

It's perfectly fine to take a bet that you're not 100% convinced will pay off (professional poker players and traders understand this on a very deep level), as long as the potential upside is massively larger than the downside.

Zuck understood that Meta could take the hit if the metaverse bet didn't pay off, but that they'd be massively better off if it did, and they had their own platform. Apple's blatantly anticompetitive behavior around ATT was a prime example of what happens when your business is reliant on "platform overlords."

I'm not fully convinced that the metaverse era is over, though. If they can get Orion costs down and put something of that quality into serial production, I think they still have a chance there.
In the context of BCPL, "young person" simply means "under 90".
People have always been performative about social justice, it's not a new phenomenon. Perhaps the author is just more aware of it now, or modern technology has pushed it deeper into our lives, but it's not new.

And it shouldn't detract from the justice itself. People are obssessed with talking about how bad the performative nature is, when they should ignore that aspect and just focus on the issue. If they care about it.

Annoyed people are whining about civil rights? Okay? Don't whine about it yourself maybe? Now you're just being performative about performative people.

Perhaps the best way to lower the number of performative individuals is to... you know... resolve their issues?
And a true Scotsman would know this.
> But telling people they should silently accept to use words rooted in a notion of social dominance

The paradox I've observed people disagreeing with is you either believe in words having magic powers that, such that even if no one knew these connotations they would still have them, or you believe in keeping old connotations alive precisely so you can tell people to stop using them because of the old connotations.
It would be a valid thing if there was a documented way to convert a generic node package to import map. Not much stuff in that importmap ecosystem - seems doa.
Enforced how exactly?

You’re contradicting yourself. You say it’s “vibes and fuzzy warm words”, but those can’t be enforced.
> Bee Movie is mainly a meme, isn't AFAIK a beloved movie, […]

All you had to do was add one more 'e'. What a senseless waste of a pun…
The stupid thing about this one is that the article specifically raises examples of the cargo-cultism that Feynman used for his talk. "They erected mock radio antennas".

All the responses pushing back against this idiocy in this thread give me hope for the future, that we're regaining our collective sanity.
I think the title is just a play on "A young person's guide to the orchestra" (by Britten). Nobody in their right mind would want to learn programming in BCPL, the predecessor of the predecessor of C.
Yeah, I didn’t find that part of the conversation with zuck and Rogan to be incorrect.

Essentially I think he was discussing the generalization that men are biased towards action than women.

There are differences between men and women, each having unique strengths and weaknesses, and it’s refreshing that we can be honest about that fact again.
yandex? baidu?
Social media is for our generation what news and political shows on tv were for the previous. Brain rot.

I hate to promote Reddit, because it’s not worth it, but I have a pretty nicely curated home page of just “good things”, cats, pics, etc that I love to browse when I want to jeep my mind idly occupied. If I make the mistake and go back to popular I get filled with rage, feeling of injustice and hopelessness.
Ahh Tintin. This takes me right back to the pre-internet era perusing the Tintin section at my school’s library. It was such a delight to occasionally come across one that I hadn’t read yet. Somehow this happened surprisingly often, I guess a bunch of us borrowers kept the series under heavy rotation.
> if the population of people you hire is out of proportion with the general population.

why it should be in proportion? This argument is flawed as it ignores that not everyone in general population has the same abilities.

You can look at the roster of any top performing NBA team and tell me if their players population represents general population.

Companies and organizations want to hire the best for any given job, and given this preference, there will always be discrepancy btw hired and general population.

In fact the only case when both population would be equal, is if hiring decisions are based on random chance
This is a video you should watch:

"Escalation management and Biden’s strategy for Ukraine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxZ402BMSs8

See it as Ukraine being drip-fed western weapons in just enough quantities to completely tie up Russia.
Their platform. As long as they are transparent on what they are doing, they should be free to do this. You are also free to not use it.

Being deceptive is more questionable than doing your own censorship on your own platform.

Removing things you don't like without justification while claiming your platform is freedom-land would be much more problematic. Same with shady algorithm favouring specific content without transparency.
"An unexpexted error..."

If you skimp on testing, errors are always unexpected.
He told me its there to import geometry from standard formats into marching cubes and then octrees.
It’s less about the end result and more about the process.
It was a gesture for preening on the social networks, and now that the winds have changed, they will be trying to buy attention and approval on social networks through something else.

It is also a good indication that DEI doesn't really make money. If DEI was improving the bottom line measurably, as its proponents promise, capitalists would be loath to scrap it entirely. Possibly they would change the name of the program or try to cover it up somehow, but they would keep it, and the people involved, around.
It may not be required, but it has the virtue of existing. Now that it does, is it a problem that it's not written in Python? Especially given that they've chosen to take on managing the interpreter as well: being in a compiled language does mean that it doesn't have the bootstrap problem of needing an already functional Python installation that they need to avoid breaking.
The case of the two policewomen which ran away from a shooting and left their male colleagues to fend for themselves caused quite a stir in Germany. During the trial they said they were deadly afraid and didn’t see how many shooters there were and from where the shots were coming.

Got in their car and left.

I tried to find an equivalent male example, but every newspaper was writing about this particular case.
I cut my teeth on Perl in 2000 but a decade later Ruby gave me the best bits of Perl plus the amazing Rails framework. The deal-breaker with Perl was having to compile CPAN modules. With something like Moose which has a huge list of dependencies it took forever.
Which shell do I use on FreeBSD?
Why isn’t DEI being used to hire men in female dominated industries?
And by this same logic, the Nobel Committee for Physics has an obvious historical bias towards Jews, right? What else could explain 37 Jewish physics Nobel winners in the 20th century?

People can simply be good at something. Maybe lesbian firefighters actually work very hard to overcome the expectations against them.
It is so depriving to interview for new position the very same way with the very same narratives after three positions you don't really care about. Yes, I am a serial no-caring person now into three of my recent jobs after the initial months of inflated and intentional self blinding positivism pulled over my mind to numb it from fear of growing futileness. Previous two was left before even havin a new place, now I have children and it is so desperate economic reasoning stuck in a hopeless and unreliable situation that the demotivation is closing on unbearable poisoning my private life (this is what I want to show to my children?). I am trying to convince my wife (and in fact myself too) of working for myself instead. Different risky, but just different, not more. Staying is also risky. I am at the mercy of a disliked and faceless organization. People come and go, we were just aquired by an investor aiming at squeezing out more money, yes, not the product or activity is in the focus but pure money, the rest is secondary, whatever is fine as long the income grows, need to feed now the advisors and investors and lawyers and bankers in addition of the current organization, and in a shorten timeframe because there are clear goals about income for the next 5 years. About the income, the faith of the product is a secondary, indirect/dependent matter. People want their money back very soon, plus more. I can become an obstacle in any minute when they figure out they need no R&D for income in the next 5 years, just like with VMWare and Broadcom and similars. I find myself in a situation like shown in this The Economist article [1] with no hope finding better, as the others I am actively interviewing are already went through the same or going through the same currently:

"Identify a mature business, ideally one that is critical for customers. Buy it at a decent price. Cut it to the bone by reducing the workforce, eliminating less lucrative products and slashing research-and-development budgets. Jack up prices for captive clients. Harvest the cash. Fork lots of it out to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases, which big tech tends to shun. Take what is left and repeat."

Why try hard if I will end up in the same ditch not trying hard?....

[1] https://www.economist.com/business/2024/12/19/meet-the-most-...
I've felt this too - in the end, especially if you're distraction or addiction prone (e.g. ADHD), you'll mostly find something else to fill that void.

But, some options are better than others. I used to be on Twitter a lot, and had that reflex for a time after deleting it. Now... it's just not there. I did replace it with a handful of communities and some other forms of content, but it still feels better than before.
I think that you're assuming too much here.

I have no problem with the majority of a group directly affected by a nomenclature requesting a change. Where I start to have a problem is when someone not directly affected starts championing it on behalf of some nebulous group that until then has said little on the subject.

For example: git master branch. We had a HUGE kerfuffle over that, to the point where even GitHub now gives git init examples that create and rename the master branch to "main". This was a pointless exercise that served no useful purpose other than to make a bunch of social justice warriors feel important.

Building special programs to lift people out of poverty is a good thing, especially for marginalized groups, but Affirmative Action was an abomination that only hurt those groups by reinforcing the stereotype that they're less capable.

Same goes for what DEI mutated into over time. The backlash we see today is because they went WAYYYYYYYY too far (because the politics of these things are always "keep pushing"), and so now that it's swinging the otherway, we're going to throw the baby out with the bath water. Everyone loses.

> When you observe someone publicly doing something that they think is virtuous, why is your first assumption that they’re broadcasting it cynically, rather than that they’re simply being virtuous in a public setting? Most people don’t think that way.

Most people don't think that way CONSCIOUSLY, but people do crave status, and will subconsciously tweak their beliefs to put them on the virtuous side of whatever they're doing, even when bullying others to lift themselves up (dragon slaying). This behavior is as old as time, and must be fought against whenever it rears its ugly head.
I don't think it could be possible. IANAP, but as far as I understand, anything that contributes to the stress-energy tensor "gravitates". So electromagnetic interaction per-se already "gravitates".
One more reason to leave
Having been in the TV industry as well, it would be virtually impossible to "root out" the word "master" by any woke movement. The word is deeply entrenched there. It's everywhere. I was a little surprised when it showed up as a branch name, however.

Note that there is another instance where this is used much more explicitly with "master-slave" replication. Most people don't even pause to think about that.
Well, it's a Twitter product decision, so, yes, 'dumb' is about what one would expect.
Should I be worried that people think I'm a bigot if I write "they" about someone I don't know, now?
How would a regulation be like, that in this case, without significant detriment to investment, makes things better? Because I cannot imagine one (not saying there is not, just that myself cannot find it)

I’m in a context of an super-regulated EU market, where such things still somewhat happen (well even worst, with people having their homes and theirs relatives searched, because he called dumb a politician), bad with the added problems, namely: there can just not exist such a giant in the EU.
enforced top-down from leaders and decision makers by the "commitment to diversity" and hiring of unqualified people based on diversity representation, not merit.

the most recent example is Kamala Harris: she had the worst primary performance during 2020, but still was selected as VP by Biden and was nominated without primaries again in 2024.

Her electoral results speak for DEI in general, when hiring decision is done by picking the most diverse candidate based on skin-level shallow criteria instead of fair competition (primaries)
We do - we're using a really powerful hosted cluster at Azure (they have an exclusive licensing deal with OpenAI).

Excluding the client performance wins, we're up to 2x faster than ChatGPT.com using the same model https://x.com/ryandavogel/status/1878647963507163431
Right, but in a discussion about Qubes, it's germane to explain why you stopped using it
This is a very insightful comments +1
that it does it automatically is weird
> Is it just because reading takes time, therefore reading multiple time makes the needed time from writing to reading passes?

Yes.

> If so, it sounds like a worse solution than just extending waiting delay longer like the author did initially.

Yeah, it's a judgement call. Previously, the code called cpu_relax() for waiting, which is also dependent on how this is defined (can be simply NOP or barrier(), for instance). The reading of the timer register maybe has the advantage that it is dependent on the actual memory bus speed, but I wouldn't know for sure. Hardware at that level is just messy, and especially niche platforms have their fair share of bugs where you need to do ugly workarounds like these.

What I'm rather wondering is why they didn't try the other solution that was mentioned by the manufacturer: reading the timer directly two times and compare it, until you get a stable output.
That's more Moxie's PR department rationalizing why they didn't go for the better (more resilient, more privacy respecting, more flexible, freer) decentralized approach. It's also extensively debunked: https://gultsch.de/objection.html
https://archive.is/bYpdE
... and in the context where gender non-indicative well established word 'they' would suffice.

I can see why commenter wouldn't call author 'him'. Why would anyone bother to track authors gender if it's irrelevant for the topic?
If you like Colossus, I recommend also Demon Seed (1977)
Not by replacing one authoritarian cabal with another authoritarian cabal!

If the system isn’t working, fix the system don’t just adapt the broken system to serve your needs.
It's whatever each company makes of it, which is why definitions vary.

It can range from explicit efforts to actively reach out to candidates from schools with students predominantly from historically-disadvantaged groups, to outright "no hiring of white men this quarter" (which is one of the more egregious documented cases, https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi...).

What I think most conservatives think it is: When choosing between a more qualified white cis man and a less qualified "diverse" candidate, some companies will pick the latter specifically due to DEI policies. I am very sure this is actually happening (see also e.g. the above source).

Turns out people don't like being explicitly discriminated against, even if they're from a majority group.
In the late 1990's I worked in a company that had a couple mainframes in their fleet and once I looked into a resource usage screen (Omegamon, perhaps? Is it that old?) and noticed the CPU was pegged at 100%. I asked the operator if that was normal. His answer was "Of course. We paid for that CPU, might as well use it". Funny though that mainframes are designed for that - most, if not all, non-application work is offloaded to other processors in the system so that the CPU can run applications as fast as it can.
Just twice so far. Not even from the same account. Why so hostile?
When I installed it with Macports recently it gave me a warning that CGI.pm is now in maintenance mode and should not be used for new projects. I get the nostalgia value but Dancer and Mojolicious are surely better alternatives?