skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I can't imagine being a Windows "fan". It's like being a fan of traffic and billboards. Windows is something you trudge through just to get it to do what you want without shoving ads in your face."

> I actually daily drive Windows for work (mandatory). It's the source of my seething anger. Just a couple days ago I was greeted with a fullscreen "UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 11. EXPERIENCE COPILOT" ad on login.

> It's common knowledge because it's true. Ads in the Start Menu, incessant pestering to switch to Edge etc.

I'm putting the above quotes in this order in order to remind people that I'm simply explaining how it's possible to be a Windows fan. When Windows 11 preinstalled Edge, as luck would have it, I was happy with it and wasn't one of the... perhaps XX% of users who are adamant about using Chrome or Firefox. Nor am I adamant about using Windows 10 instead of upgrading, because my PC is capable of running Windows 11 and I don't find the arguments for sticking with Windows 10 personally important, just like I don't find the arguments for using Chrome or Firefox personally important.

This is my lived experience, please don't try to condescend to me and tell me I'm wrong for having different priorities in life (in the small chance that anyone was thinking of doing that).
off topic: I live in this strange world where I can read the code and understand what it does, regardless of the language(!)

but the algorithm for the theory looks approximately like this to me

(ijfio) $@ * foiew(qwdrg) awep2-2lahl [1]

Is there a good book that goes FROM programmer TO math-wizardry that you would recommend, without falling into the textbooks? Ideally I'd like to be able to read them and turn them into pseudocode, or I can't follow.

[1]: e.g. https://pbr-book.org/4ed/Introduction/Photorealistic_Renderi...
If I’m Apple I don’t think I want to rely on the government not prosecuting it for however long the statute of limitations is (5 years I think?)
Neat article on further uses of Hubble that seems to keep delivering interesting results decades after the planned lifespan.

Reading, did not realize the population densities of stars in Andromeda were so heavily skewed toward Giant Branch stars (AGB, RGB). Order of magnitude or larger from what it looks like 10^0 densities vs 10^-1 densities.

[1] Image Link of Full Composite, PHAST Survey is left side. Prior PHAT survey is right side. (16 MB) https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/missions...

[2] Article on The Astrophysical Journal, PHAST. The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury. I. Ultraviolet and Optical Photometry of over 90 Million Stars in M31, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7e2b

[3] PDF Link, Page 24 and 25 have some pretty neat general survey population imagery for the entire galaxy (PHAT + PHAST combined) in the Red Giant Branch (RGB), Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB), Young Helium Burning (HeB), and Main Sequence (MS) populations along with UV and IR imagery. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7e2b/...
All I'm saying is that the system had been designed from the start to be punitive instead of rehabilitative.
I never had a N800, but I still have a working N900 used as my secondary phone and while it has a stylus holder, I have never pulled it out of there for many many years except to stim. Its resistive touch screen was excellent and I liked it more than today's capacitive screens. The only issue I have with it is that it's ageing and developing problems over years and eventually I may end up out of spare parts.
Why is it incomplete? I can't find an explanation on this or the NASA site linked from there; its an awfully big chunk missing nearly to the center
> The specification of these functions allows you to handle OOM situations gracefully.

In theory, sure. But vanishingly little software actually deals with OOM gracefully. What do you do? Almost any interaction with the user may result in more memory allocations in turn - which presumably may also fail. It’s hard to even test OOM on modern systems because of OS disk page caching.

Honestly, panicking on OOM is a totally reasonable default for most modern application software. In languages like rust, this behaviour is baked in.
It also happens to be just a beautiful film.
What are they going to do? ban you? if so they're doing you a favor.
I would be surprised if that was the case, my reasoning to that is that computing where a thing is going, when it's under going with changing acceleration AND changing mass, is pretty complicated. Especially if you already have the capability to throttle the engines and keep 'a' constant.

They might, I'm not saying your wrong, I'm just saying that I cannot imagine how you would justify the added complexity of doing it that way.
If you actually read the comment you are reply-guying you might see that it was part of the quote by SpaceX :D
There’s good advice in this article like making your product messaging clear but there’s also terrible advice here.

“Discovery calls are just a formality” was something I cringed at. It’s basically the most important part of the sales process.

The author also didn’t like the sales process where pricing is fuzzy. But for enterprise sales there is a very good reason for this: you need to size up how your solution solves business pain for your customer and how much money it saves or makes them. If you are saving AT&T a billion dollars with your solution but you’re only charging them $1000/month, you’ve royally fucked up. And a big client like AT&T will stress your support and engineering staff with a lot of requests for help and customizations.

At some point the author perhaps should have recognized the need to have someone who knows enterprise sales on their side rather than going it alone. I wanted the author so badly to admit that it’s something they’re are bad at and that they should get help. They are probably leaving a lot of growth on the table by having this amateur sales strategy.

I would recommend to the author the book Sales on Rails. It’s a great resource for understanding how technical enterprise sales works. The author seems completely unaware of the account executive sales engineer sales team that is so common because it works.

If the author is lucky to expand their business further they will hit a point where leads stop just contacting them. They will have to make cold calls and surface customers who aren’t obviously interested. This no-call strategy will not fly at every type of company.
Straight Story is such a pleasure to watch
Scira – Minimalistic AI-Powered Search Engine
Kinda. It had to be downscaled to below 720p to get passable frame rate performance. Compared to like almost any PC with a discrete GPU or any alternative console release it had, the Switch port was a huge step down in visual quality.
YouTube is totally bricked for me on Firefox, and the quality of use of Gmail + anything Google Drive related has degraded severely over the past ~year. Feels concerted.
The value of a service is whatever someone is willing to pay for it - and conversely, the price someone is willing to render the service for.

These folks aren't "forced" to provide "cheap brainpower:" they are offering services at their market rate.
Tears of the Kingdom is a Switch exclusive.

The style is influenced by Breath of the Wild, but nothing about the development of Tears was held back by the Wii U.
> If you don't like the car, the manufacturer is not going to make a new one for you personally.

Yes, they will. I recall watching a whole kind of documentary of it somewhere on Youtube. Essentially, luxury brands will fully customize cars for customers and have calls/meetings with them to discuss how the car will be customized. It costs $$$$$ but they'll do it.

I think, too, that more important than income is the fact that these rich people should be driving their cars. It's a way to keep the brand positioned in that market.
I mean that applies to DNS authentication for non-IP certificates, too
I agree. Anecdotally, the last time LE had an outage that prevented my cert from renewing, it took about ~4.5 days from when I reported the issue to them to when they started looking and provided a workaround. Since this was a 90-day cert it still had 30 days left on it, so I wasn't worried. If it had been a 6-day cert and only had 2 days left on it, I would've had to go to red alert and switch to another CA ASAP.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/post-to-new-order-url-fa...

If they do start providing 6-day certs I hope their turnaround on issue reports is faster than that (and ideally have something better for reporting issues than a community forum where you have to suffer clueless morons spamming your thread).
I’d rather buy a used Aston Martin for that much money.
> (as seen from ground)

As seen from a plane in the air with the break up right in front of it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1i34dki/starship_...
It’s an option on most systems.

Maybe not in embedded work - but in that case you might want to preallocate memory anyway.
How would one link to a physical object?

If this is what you’re asking: there are (perhaps too discreet) links at the bottom of each page to Amazon and MIT Press to purchase the physical book.
You are so much spot on with this post. Nothing puts off more than someone on LinkedIn asking "When do you have time to have a call to talk about what I can do for your company?" or even worse: "Here's my calendly, pick the spot you would like!" Not to mention I am not a decisive person in the company, the largest choice I can do is whether I work on a Mac or a PC.

If I'm in a better mood, I ask them to send me some e-mail or PDF with what they have to offer.

I am adding your post to my bookmarks and will always reply to such messages with it.
>I still miss it.

There are dozens of us !

I miss so many things besides the UI. seamless integration of Cortana with in-car bluetooth to read incoming SMS, live tiles, fantastic cameras in Nokia devices.
I left most socials years ago. Feedly for aggregation and desktop reading, and Reeder as a client for it on iDevices.
Yeah. I know that feeling.

That tower catch. That _had_ to be a new version of Kerbal, right? The physics looked good, but there's no way that was real...
Software is in Decline – Jonathan Blow [video]
Fits in my pocket: https://imgur.com/a/9tT0r7N
Look, I love FWWM, but that's a brutal way to start. Firstly, it works a lot better if you know TP. Secondly... it's a brutal film. I've seen it a bunch of times and still find some of it hard to watch.
>It's like saving a textfile. Do you write a little message every time you save a file? No that's silly. Just move on.

Do you write a little message about your day every time you go to sleep?

I actually don't, and maybe you don't, but plenty of people do.

I think of the Git revision log as much like that sort of diary, offering the same sorts of advantages. It's more organized than having a separate TODO list document; and it encourages you to describe what you've already done in a clear readable way, too. When you're trying to figure out how far to roll back, it may be useful to understand what you were thinking at the time of the commit. And if something turned out to be the wrong approach, it helps you do the post-mortem.

And, of course: if your unmerged, unpushed work is organized into separate changes that have separate (and labelled goals), and part of that work turns out to be good and part bad, it becomes vastly easier to preserve the good parts.
> 5. Therefore all new development should be microservices written from scratch and interacting via cleanly defined APIs.

That's what the software industry has been trying and failing at for more than a decade.
I use fly.io. I pre-paid for credits and if they run out, things shut down.

No affiliation, just happy to use a provider with actual caps.
If you have multiple hosts the set should not be the same, no? From the linked page the comparison is a set comparison: one host at hosta.example.com and one host at hostb.example.com each with their own cert bot won't conflict.
A lot of America especially has an issue with too many lights, and the lights themselves are too bright relative to the population. Found what I thought was a cool image on Wikipedia Commons while searching the subject that has the light use relative to the population density. Green's lots of light use, red is lots of population density. America's bright green light use. Yellow is fairly equivalent light use to population density. [1]

[1] Light Use vs Population Density, WP Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Earth_li...
> mounting evidence suggesting the entire solar system is teeming with at least microbial life

?
> and then I realized that I was basically trying to reinvent some of Knockout, but with TSX templates.

You may like Vue with TSX.

https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/render-function.html#jsx-tsx

React's reactivity model is "inverted" from almost every other model out there. Vue, to me, feels the most like Knockout. I also find that I rarely run into edge cases compared to React and Vue feels the most like OG HTML.
In Nue you're literally writing standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript when developing websites. Your Markdown- based content generates semantic HTML. Your styling is pure CSS with modern features like nesting and container queries. JavaScript remains vanilla JavaScript.
Fantastic! Hopefully this not only leads to model collapse but also damages the search engines who have broken the contract they had with site makers.
What do you find attractive WRT JSX versus other templating syntax?
Advent of code is not a programming challage, it is a reading the spec challage.
I have the Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt™ Hub Monitor (U4025QW). It's very expensive, but the 5120x2160 resolution with the 120hz refresh rate is absolutely worth the cost for me over the long run considering how long I spend looking at the screen while coding.

I pair this with my tiling window manager[1] which treats ultrawides as a first class citizen (not all twms do this unfortunately) and I'm very happy with this setup.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
> LLM can generate a larger chunk of code then you'll find on SO, so I think it's a larger issue to have LLM code then copy-pasted SO code.

It also generates code customized to your request, so there is temptation to avoid doing even the minimal work of "how do I turn this SO snippet into something that works with my program?"
the saddest part is if i wrote the code myself it would be worse lol GPT is coding at a intern level and as a dumb human being I feel sad I have been replaced but not as catastrophic as they made it seem

it's interesting to see the underlying anxiety among devs though I think there is a place in the back of their minds that knows the models will get better and better and someday could get to staff engineer level
View of previous catch (flight 5) from a very distant vantage point was even more incredible for me. You can see the scale of things right there

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1845444890764644694

https://youtu.be/Vzyaud250Xo

https://youtu.be/ntmssdzp_qY

Anyone has similar view of this landing?

Edit: distant view of flight 7 by the same person

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1880044690428645684
hey OP what were your predictions for 2024, mind sharing here?
I am fine with calling killing Hezbollah operatives bad-ass and am comfortable with the implications. Hezbollah is (was?) very bad, most especially if you were a Sunni in Syria. Fuck those guys. People should stop developing parasocial relationships with monsters.
It may be surprising to you that I've actually read a good portion of that text as well as other books on the subject. Or that I actually do understand what a cardinality is in a "pragmatic computing science context" (whatever that's supposed to mean).

> Infinite means, well infinite

There's a technical definition of "infinite cardinality" which is a bit more rigorous than "well infinite". If |S| > n for every natural number n, then S has infinite cardinality basically by definition.

Why don't you try implementing an LBA simulator in your favourite programming language with a finite-sized array and tell me how it goes? Anyway, the original point was that a Turing Machine with a finite tape is an FSM. This is true (well, or more technically: it's equivalent to an FSM) because you can encode all possible configurations of the tape with a finite set of states and thus don't need any extra memory.
If you `jj undo` a second time, does it redo (undoing the undo), or does it back up another step?
May he rest in peace. I started watching everything he filmed when I was around 14 and immediately fell in love with his artistry. I recommend watching The Art Life (2018), about him, or just about any video featuring him that you can find on the Internet. Great character, indeed.
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/citizens-guid...

> It is illegal for an individual to knowingly use interactive computer services to display obscenity in a manner that makes it available to a minor less than 18 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 223(d) –Communications Decency Act of 1996, as amended by the PROTECT Act of 2003). It is also illegal to knowingly make a commercial communication via the Internet that includes obscenity and is available to any minor less than 17 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 231 –Child Online Protection Act of 1998).

> The standard of what is harmful to minors may differ from the standard applied to adults. Harmful materials for minors include any communication consisting of nudity, sex or excretion that (i) appeals to the prurient interest of minors, (ii) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable material for minors, (iii) and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

The most important part of this quote is that the standard for minors is different than that of adults. Material that is not considered obscenity for adults (e.g., legal pornography) can be and is considered obscenity for minors.
Gotcha. My next argument is going to be visual trough the design systems explained on the article. Hope that's clearer.
WhatsApp supported windows phone through 2019.
It’s crazy how fast that ship is moving and how big the explosion was that it looks like something much, much lower in the air went boom. It was transitting the sky faster than a commercial aircraft does. So it gives an impression more like a private aircraft breaking up at 5-10k feet.
At first I was put aback by this, but it actually kinda makes sense. I mean, if people are giving off unwarranted advises about "the right way" here, yeah, you should start with a remote branch, and push all your work ASAP. Especially when you are closing the lid of your laptop to change location.

...Not that I am gonna follow that advice, of course. Same as I'm not gonna use git switch for a task git checkout does perfectly well.
Hi there! I am running a project with United Nations ESCAP on air pollution in urban areas on southeast asia. We are looking for a solution for mobile air quality sensors, and are enthusiastic about this opportunity. How can we speak further?
I just do

git add -A

git stash

git reset --hard

git stash pop
"In today's world, where security is supposedly a top priority, you'd expect all - or at least most - HTTP connections to redirect to HTTPS for a secure experience. Right? Not really."

Countless "tech" blogs written by "developers" and HN commenters will proclaim, over and over, "it's all HTTPS". Perhaps it is what they want to be true. But it simply isn't a true account of reality.
Far enough inland that the rising sea levels will keep you 50 miles away from the coast for the next century anywhere east of a north-south line that runs through the middle of Kansas. These are places where it rains so you have local water supply and you don’t have a yearly wildfire season and the risk of hurricane destruction is far lower. Also just not in the floodplain of a local river.

This is like half of the country.
Yeah I thought about that some more and at that altitude and speed the FTS is usually already deactivated.
I believe that this is what chain of thought models attempt to address.
I can answer these questions very clearly once the design systems are released. Now they are just listed with plain text to give you an idea what's coming.
Hence the observation that "single-maintainer projects (or subsystems, or packages) will be seen as risky".
Interesting Datapoint: the Camp Fire in 2019 completely destroyed the affluent town of Paradise California. Today it is only 30% recovered. Looking at some of the other data points around rebuilding in California, I don't think Los Angeles will recover from this at least a decade or more.
> I am finding LLMs far more useful for soft skill topics than engineering type work, simply because of how often it leads me down a path that is eventually a dead end, because of some small detail that was wrong at the very beginning.

Yeah I felt the same way in the beginning which is why I ended up writing my own chat app. What I've found while developing my spelling and grammar checker is that it is very unlikely for multiple LLMs to mess up at the same time. I know they will mess up, but I'm also pretty sure they won't at the same time.

So far, I've been able to successfully create working features that actually saved me time by pitting LLMs against their own responses and others. My process right now is, I'll ask 6+ models to implement something and then I will ask models to evaluate everyone's responses. More often than not, a model will find fault or make a suggestion that can be used to improve the prompt or code. And depending on my confidence level, I might repeat this a couple of times.

The issue right now is tracking this "chain of questioning" which is why I am writing my own chat app. I need an easy way to backtrack and fork from different points in the "chain of questioning". I think once we get a better understanding of what LLMs can and can't do as a group, we should be able to produce working solutions easier.
This is a short text.
> Nahoul lectures to the audience that "we will liberate Al-Aqsa from the filth of the criminal Jews." [...] Later, Izz Al-Din from Ramallah calls in and Nahoul suggests that "we will go on Jihad when we grow up

> Nassur and Saraa have a disagreement about what the "expulsion" of the "Jews or Zionists" means. Saraa adopts the argument that they should be "chased away" and that "we don't want to do anything to them, just expel them from our land." Nassur, on the other hand, endorses the view that they should be "erased" and that "we want to slaughter them so they will be expelled from our land." Saraa eventually concedes, and the two compromised that "we will expel them from our land using all means, and if they don't want to go peacefully, by words or talking, we'll have to do it by slaughter."

No, it's not problematic at all.
I use DNSimple.com - it's working well, and has a stable API that can let you do anything.
Going to be increasingly necessary as search engines continue to get worse.
Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity
The biggest problem is the memory bandwidth. PS4 memory bandwidth is 176 GB/s. These specs are quite bad, It's supposed to be Ampere based, so RTX 30 series. It was released in Sep 2020. That's over 4 years ago. Part of the problem with NVIDIA is that they have been milking their architectures.

For comparison, the Steamdeck was released in Feb 2022, and RDNA2 was released in Nov 2020. So the architecture gap was 1.5 years for Steamdeck, but 4.5 years for the Switch 2.

I guess there might be a chance that they enable DLSS4 for this device, but it's still sad to watch this unfold.
Would you be upset if they pulled the cord at the limit you explicitly set beforehad? If not then that's not really the thing the people asking for a billing cap are talking about.
I think the biggest unknown is, how do you display dark pixels on a bright world in AR? Battery life will also be an issue. Both seem surmountable.