skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's very silly to invest $billions in brand awareness and building market share, if your product is junk and customers will eventually find out. Marketing spend could be seen as the "peacock's tail" of the business world -- a credible signal that the company stands by their product.

Interesting, never thought about it that way. I often find that obviously expensive advertising lowers my expectations in the product and especially in the price performance ratio, since I can't stop thinking about having to pay for the advertising too, not just the actual product/service I want. Which I don't want to.
What industry did you find this unicorn job in? I feel exactly as you described in your list.
Probably a reference to Z-Library, or as a stand-in for Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)
Imperialism is OK when we do it.
I didn’t know that. What did it fork from?
You didn't get it. CSAM is illegal, hate speech not.

Unless you come up with a court order. They are not the police and are not judges. Let the professionals do their jobs.
Well yeah, of course it’s not an individual problem. Reading your comment, though. it’s very clear that you’re responding the way that you are partially because of how difficult you perceive these interactions to be. That’s not your fault, it’s a consequence of how we have constructed our society. That’s the problem. To put it a different way, while it’s fine to choose not to walk sometimes, it wouldn’t be healthy if you were against the idea of walking because your leg muscles had atrophied from constant sitting.
The TechCrunch headline is not accurate. As far as I understand, none of the people whose WordPress accounts were deactivated were planning a fork.

The current top comment and discussion on this Reddit thread provide good context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1hylx50/matt_tro...
Can't say I've run into that problem but I have noticed if you log in the "Expand tables" setting of your user profile's reading preferences also expands all of the sections by default. May or may not work around whatever bug you're running into.
I had kindles for a while until I read that the higher resolution on ipad makes it as easier on the eye and is possibly more important than lesser light on e-ink. Ultimately I settled on the ipad due to the amazing pencil and versatility while reading pdfs of papers/color material, and the ability to search on device far more easily. I've often wanted to switch easily between reading and listening but nothing seems to provide that.
> 200 voters on 50 statements would fall within the 10,000 sample threshold.

I think you misinterpreted. 1 voter on 50 statements with (+1/-1/0) would be 1 datapoint with 50 features. 200 voters would be 200 rows with 50 features so you would not need to be concerned about the 10,000 sample threshold. Hope that helps your study.
Ah! I've been tinkering on a very similar project off and on for years now. This is so awesome to see— really nice work. I've just never had time to actually polish mine off. I think the backend for processing new activities is broken at the moment, but the old demo activities are still around.

Ex: https://contour.run/home?activityId=36948814953

I've been using three.js and react-three-fiber for it. happy to swap notes! nice work :)
Personal choice but he was injured by chemical exposure that burned both of his hands and subsequently avoided other serious accidents involving high voltage in addition to witnessing 20yr employees getting booted (demoted) after injuries. Real industrial revolution, pre-workers rights shit. He was thrown out for asking for chemical labels to be reapplied to barrels and requesting PPE. Most people can't afford the luxury of making such a stink.
Two master secrets are randomly generated when pairing the AirTag for the first time, which are then saved to the iCloud keychain. Those secrets are then used to generate a new keypair every 15 minutes (at most), and the public key is broadcasted by the tag. Not only does Apple not know what the master secrets are in the first place (because they're stored in the keychain), but that's also an insane number of keys to compare against, with no real possibility to precompute them. And that's a big win in terms of privacy.
> For actual cargo cults, yes.

I'd say it is true for both. There's evidence that the actions cause the events. They correlate. It's why people start doing the actions in the first place. The exact reasoning you use, if it didn't "work" (appear to work) then the cult dies off pretty fast (and they do). Rationally irrational. It's good to be aware of because with high complexity systems it is easy to fall into these types of issues. Where you are doing A and you _believe_ are causing B, but there is no real relation.
and also:

Forking is Beautiful - WordPress News >> https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/spoon/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress#History

> b2/cafelog, more commonly known as b2 or catalog, was the precursor to WordPress
How come the first thing you assume is ill intent?

How come you are so certain what the person was trying to say without asking a clarification question first?
These are the current events, so it isn't unwarranted to see complaints.

They will likely complain about other things in the future :)
He's now actively hostile to the principles of open source.
Mediatek is the largest smartphone SoC manufacturer, so yes. They're a supplier for Apple and the biggest competitor to Qualcomm, the two companies that were the most vocal in opposing the ARM acquisition.
Where are the prosecutors who drove him to suicide now? I’d like to make sure I oppose them in everything they do for the rest of their lives.
Grew in San Antonio as well and one of the best parts about the Riverwalk is that it offers a fantastic pedestrian corridor across almost the entirety of downtown San Antonio and connects a lot of really interesting places, The missions down south, Pearl Brewery and it's shopping district, downtown mall and Convention center as well as La Villita and The Art Museum.

Sure you can walk the streets but getting around via the Riverwalk is actually extremely pleasant. I really love how convinient of a convention city San Antonio is.
> I am so shocked at how many people use `auto` in C++

Well I blame C++ for calling it "auto" in the first place. Fortunately this is easily fixed:

#define let auto
#define var auto

;-)
My guy, it's on you to provide your sources, not on me to look for them with my favourite search engine. Thank you for the concrete links apart from that advice.
It's pretty much the only thing to see South of Austin. Except for Big Bend but that's further West.
Alone this looks like a reasonable use of auto. In a real codebase, there may be two (or twenty) different connection-like things, multiple of which may be reasonably to call in this context.

The "Hungarian notation" comment is correct - it's not strictly Hungarian notation, but annotating function (or variable) names when the language has a type system representing this same information is the same idea with the same problems as Hungarian notation.
Trump needs to address this. CCP is getting antsy.
I feel like these things really compound on top of each other. It’s so much easier to go to these kinds of things and meet people when you have a group of likeminded friends to go with.
Texas 42 – A unique domino game and cultural icon [video]
It’s a mind bender for sure !
I'm looking forward to the day when share buybacks are also counted as losses
As a middle of the road millenial I only learned to drive recently and drive only as much as I absolutely have to. I don’t find it enjoyable unless there’s practically no traffic on my route, which is often not the case.

My preferred type of car is a small, efficient, highly practical hatch like the Honda Fit but those largely aren’t sold in the US anymore.
Hot-air ballooning on Titan (2006)
That does not sound like a partnership at all. It sounds like an intent to work with the community.
> Can you construct an efficient algorithm for sampling from q(tk∣t1,…,tk−1), that minimizes calls to the original language model?

I feel like I'm missing some issue here... Can't you query stopping at the last full token boundary, then reject any results which don't match the character prefix and continue from there with the completion? Kind of like when you mask the invalid actions when reinforcement training on games? Or is that losing too much info?
I think cars are a symptom of a philosophy, not the root cause.
Now?! The dude hijacked a plugin.
I'm not sure I at all agree with that quote though. Most of what he's describing was equally true of the old landed aristocracy or other wealthy families of the past. It feels like someone who didn't grow up rich now being rich and going "Wow, rich people live differently" as if that's some revelation and not something that's been true for centuries.

Who does he think went to Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Oxford and Cambridge before now? Those people felt as superior if not more superior to a random person in "normal america" than the current crop of new wealth. The Gettys and the Morgans were probably even more detached from the rest of the country than anyone is now and likely had more overt power over their lives than their modern equivalents.

I don't mean this as a defense of these people, just that "the elites don't have the best interests of the population at heart" is a complaint as old as civilization. I don't think Greer or Yang makes a compelling argument that the 2019 American moment is worse than even recent memory. Greer tries to make a point about how people had smaller goals in the past, and fought more for their local interests and prestige, something I'm both not sure I agree with and would love a citation for, and also looks past the fact that the major WASPy families did literally run the federal government for decades! Often to the detriment of states and regions they cared less about, which seems to be what he's claiming will be an issue with this new elite.
Indeed. I learned from reading the jargon file in ~2005: http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html , http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
I think that primary actions now as icons is not really helpful. What is helpful is keyboard bindings for common actions, and to display them in the menu to make it easier to use.
Example 1: "dead"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42666783

Example 2: "flagged"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42666783

Unless "yes" is selected for "showdead" on member profile page, visitors may not be able to see example #1

More importantly, even if the submission is not hidden, visitors cannot comment further on the submission
It doesn't; it's just that you probably never heard the quack of a hashmap so you don't know the difference.

A hashmap is a very specific structure that uses a hashing algorithm to normalize the key sizes, and then usually constructs a tree-like structure for fast key lookups. Anything that doesn't use such an implementation under the hood should not be called a hashmap, whether you care or not.
None of the banned people mentioned a fork, some don't even have anything to do with wordpress other than commenting about the drama on twitter. The whole post is matt gaslighting to justify the purge.
You can drop the last line---make already knows the incantations to compile a C file.
I find horizontal/vertical is usually confusing (not to you obviously). Here is an example: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/horizontalanalysis.asp Maybe easier to stick with the lazy/eager wording?
Him being fascist is objectively false for every person that has passed 9th grade history, when fascism and WWII were studied in school. It makes as much sense as calling him juche.
So calling him fascist is usually in my book indication of hypocrisy, ignorance, limited vocabulary, or lack of will to spend the five minutes it takes to understand the differences between the different types of authoritarian systems.

There is no evidence that he had ever studied Il Duce or that he even knows who he is.
I updated the author's benchmark: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/bxEzerjc8

While updating it, I noticed a couple of things:

1. the Makefile doesn't specify -O, which seems to imply -O0, unreasonably flattering the 1-memcpy case because there's only 1 call to a generic memcpy rather than 2. With -O3 the memcpys get inlined

2. make the message size more annoying. The queue size was a multiple of the message size, so the 2-memcpy case was never exercised - and -O3 could see this

(Change 2 actually slightly cancels out change 1, and now the 2-memcpy case is terrible again...)

Who even knows what sort of system the Compiler Explorer executor runs the programs on, but this is what I got from running it, and the relative speeds might be representative:

%: 0.033716 microseconds per write
&: 0.031772 microseconds per write
slow: 0.009715 microseconds per write
fast: 0.001035 microseconds per write
Also can be said in half of words, “The Future of Wi-Fi security”
Not the person you responded to, but thought y'all may be interested: there is a promising new class of drugs for narcolepsy type 1, orexin agonists, that are yielding great results in clinical trials. TAK-861 is in stage 3 trials now I believe.

As I understand it, the best theory of NT1 is that an autoimmune response kills the orexin-producing neurons. Orexin is a neurotransmitter that plays a role in healthy sleep architecture as well as wakefulness. In theory, orexin agonists are a much more direct treatment of the underlying issue than current treatments.

So hopefully there will be some better treatments available for y'all in the next few years. May even be worth trying to find a trial for one in your area.
They do, for example Buffet donated $5 billion last year. His fortune is so vast that is only perhaps 3%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/28/buffett-donates-another-5poi...
Is "committed to working with" not a subset of the class of "partners" in your vernacular? What do you think is required to be "partners"?

And it names the specific members of the community, Joost, Karim, who subsequently had their accounts deactivated, not just the community at large.
While focusing on the first part of my comment it seems you completely ignored the [main] point in the last paragraph.

All programming languages are man-made, human constructs and not a single one is the most ideal for the task of programming - just like not a single spoken language can claim absolute superiority for communication. The nature of programming often eludes clear categorization, challenging us to define whether it belongs to the domains of art, business, or engineering. Maybe it's all of these? Maybe it's none of it? We, programmers endlessly engage in passionate debates about language superiority, constructing complex arguments to defend our preferences. I'm not a musician, but can you imagine guitar players vehemently arguing with drummers that guitars are ultimately better instruments because, I dunno, one never can perform Für Elise using drums. And then some experienced drummer comes and performs it in way no one ever imagined. I think, the beauty of programming, like music, lies in its diversity. Instead of engaging in futile debates about superiority, we should celebrate how different languages and paradigms enrich our craft, each bringing its own unique perspective and elegance to the art of problem-solving.

One of the things I feel grateful for after learning Clojure is that many, perhaps most people in the community are genuinely experienced, seasoned software developers, driven to Clojure by curiosity after many years spent in other programming languages. Clojure allowed me to fall in love with my trade once again. The combined malleability of Lisp that can emulate (almost) any known programming paradigm and the simplicity and data-centric design in Clojure helped me (truly) understand the core principles of programming. Ironically, after using numerous different languages for many years, spending years of grokking their syntactic features and idiosyncrasies, many stackoverflow threads and tutorials later, only after switching to Clojure did I feel like I understood those languages better. One peculiar aspect about Clojurians, that they don't typically engage in general debates about programming languages without specific context, subtly breaking the famous Perlis quote about Lispers knowing the value of everything and cost of nothing. Clojurians known for their grounded perspective and non-dogmatic approach to problem-solving. So, they typically don't bash on someone else's favorite language, instead they'd try to learn and steal some good ideas from it.
> In other news, US is building a fleet of barges suitable for Greenland landings.

Do you actually believe that the US is currently building a "fleet of barges suitable for Greenland landings"? For real?
Yeah, predeterminism, along with limited atonement, and perseverance of the saints, combines to form, IMO, a theology that is toxic at best, abusive at worst.

If I can massively oversimplify, it's a theology where Jesus came to redeem only the Elect that God had already chosen to be saved while he had chosen to send everyone else to hell, so that the Elect could see His mercy (to them, not those poor bastards on the down escalator).

And, perseverance of the saints is the icing on the cake, because it came to mean that if you ever disagreed with your church or its elders, well, you obviously weren't one of the Elect at all, enjoy the hellfire.

So it's a great theology if you want to run a small, obviously better than everyone else, in-group of the Saved, vs. all the unsaved sinners God has already condemned.

To see how perverse it could become in the extremes, look at the role it played in apartheid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Calvinism
> If you think you can just run your CI/CD on a single server without networking or virtualization, I have some very large, parallelized testing suites to show you.

Nowadays you can get a single server with 256 cores and several terabytes of memory. I would be interested to learn what kind of testing suites have actual needs beyond that.

Without virtualization though is definitely no problem. The whole docker/k8s/whatever shtick is mainly because devs think it's more fun to invent new things than to learn how to use old ones properly. At least as long as you're running your own code on your own hardware, there is not a single thing solved by virtualization that wouldn't be solved equally well (or better) with traditional tools like environment modules and Slurm.
https://archive.ph/wK3tU
> I think the optimizer recognizes modulo 2 and converts it to bitwise AND.

You don't have to guess, you could turn or O3 or look at the disassembly.
I like the algorithms that are the opposite of this where they try to find the slowest possible way to determine if a number is even.
It flopped
> Mullenweg is a cuckoo. He did not create Wordpress and yet has managed to closely associate the product with his own persona and ever since has spent most of his life wringing money out of Wordpress.

The dude literally one of the top-ever contributors to WordPress. He's number 6 on the GitHub contributor graph with over 1000 commits. Him and Mark Little started WordPress. He's also the person who has funded most of the development either via his own private company or via Automattic.

> He is now annoyed that someone else has been better at extracting profit from something that - going by what he says - he sees as his personal fiefdom.

Another falsehood. Automattic makes more money than WP Engine. He's basically trying to force them to either contribute to WordPress to to pay Automattic. This latest move seems like a move to force WP Engine to fund a fork or help fund development of WordPress.
It was definitely a crazy time for mortgages. I was buying my first house in 2007 and went to Countrywide for a mortgage. I had analyzed my finances and determined that I should be looking for a home in the up to $240k range and could push it up to $300k with some trepidation.

Countrywide looked at my finances and pre-approved a loan of up to something like $700k.

Since my analysis had told me that was way more than I could afford I only looked at houses under $300k. I wonder though how many people apply without having done their own analysis instead trusting that the mortgage company would not offer more than they can afford?

Anyone else here who was buying around the time with stories of receiving insanely high pre-approvals?
The insane price tags on 911s might have something to do with that.
no, wrote it by hand for use with my own Heun implementation, since it’s for use within stochastic delayed systems.

jax is fun but as effective as i’d like for CPU
> then the banks would've been way more diligent and restrictive about loaning out the money

No, because thats not how you make money.

You make money by loaning out as much money as possible for the highest rate possible. When the economy is booming, this works, because you don't need to call in the loans, you can parcel them up and sell them to someone else. This gives you more capital to lend out and so on.

This means that bank failed _alot_ Just go back and look at how many banking runs there were in the states before 1913.

both those companies are secondary market makers, rather than guarantors. Once again high finance likes to make out that they have "fixed" the problem of loans by using a "patented" method for optimum yield.
Its always been either a rising market, or fraud that has driven those fancy methods.

Sub prime was just coin clipping but in the 21st century.
Make is one of the simplest build tools out there. Compared to something like Grunt, Webpack, etc. it’s a hammer compared to a mining drill.

The solution is to not use tools used by large corporations because they are used by large corporations. My unpopular opinion is that CI/CD is not needed in most places where it’s used. Figure out how to do your builds and deploys with the absolute fewest moving pieces even if it involves some extra steps. Then carefully consider the cost of streamlining any part of it. Buying into a large system just to do a simple thing is often times not worth it in the long run.

If you really do need CI/CD you will know because you will have a pain point. If that system is causing your developers pain, it isn’t the right fit.
I don't think the choice between wife->kids->retirement->death and something else is analogous to choosing to walk or not walk. Walking is a natural thing that's intrinsic to our biology, the other thing is a product of culture, policy, time, etc. Other cultures have alternate ways of doing

if you're equating that lifestyle pipeline to walking or participating in society, it's not really a valid point
it's only a matter of time, but certainly in the next 3 years
So people feel free to speak candidly?
Personally, I find this aspect of the work somewhat profound.

My graveyard of projects and dreams stretches out behind me and I feel saddened to know that these articles representing portions of my life never achieved what I had hoped for them.

However, I've come to view my work like a mandala or some representation of our mortality itself; our works and our lives are temporary.

We can make the most of the brief moment that we have – whether that be through work or through parenting or through base jumping – whatever that may be for each of us, or we can choose to do nothing with that moment, knowing that it's ephemeral and will be gone soon anyway.

I choose to try making each day's the best code I have ever written; I want it to be "beautiful" and maintainable in spite of knowing that it will be refactored, deleted or decommissioned at some point.