skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem, in this case, is that the correct size of the increment involves the unit of measurement. If we change the unit of measurement and go update your comment on the declaration of the variable, now everywhere which uses the variable is wrong.

int time; // in seconds
/* thousands of lines away or in another file */
time += 1;

Later we change the time to be in milliseconds. We update the comment on the declaration, but now that code is wrong and we have no reason to know that.

That's a bad choice, languages should do better (and some do - where they do, use the better features and this problem vanishes) but when it's forced upon us it makes sense to either put the unit in the name of the variable or ensure comments about changes to the variable explain the units consistently, even though that's lots of work. This extra work was dumped on you by the language.
There has never been a more fertile environment for motivated learners to do more with less, and yet we still have a bias as an industry to seek the more experienced hand versus the energetic one.
Built-in parental controls can also block kids from installing apps from alternative app stores.
> Communist China as opposed to what? The secret non-communist china? The Republic of China?

Taiwan is the Republic of China. So yes there is another non-communist China out there in the world.

They have a cool company called TSMC that makes chips, you might have heard about.

Also, it doesn’t put Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in concentration camps.
Why so much emphasis on rules? If someone is clearly doing something wrong, you don't need a rule violation. If someone is not clearly doing something wrong, then don't ban them. This way, there is no possibility for rules lawyering.
agreed, this has bugged me for years
MSN messenger would fit in well under 2MB back in the day. As we go up, we go down.
Copy 10 of these in an USB drive. Enjoy your mobile Kubernetes cluster.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681039
Because it is 1. Not Tor and 2. Fast
Data residency isn't anywhere near sufficient.

The threat model is that the US government can either a) force the US-based employees of a US company to copy the data from EU to US and hand it to the US authorities, b) if not possible, force the US-based employees to order the EU-based employees in their reporting chain to copy the data from EU to US, or c) if not possible, order the company to circumvent any technical measures they have in place to make such copying of data impossible.
This is the difference between science and engineering. What they have done is engineering. If the result is 90% of the way there with barely any effort, its best to move on to something else that may be low hanging fruit than to spend time chasing that 10%.
No purpose here, it's classic "audiophile". From https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html#real-time-sch...

"Note
There is a rumor that real-time scheduling improves audio quality. That is not true. All it does is reduce the probability of skipping (audio buffer xruns) when the computer is under heavy load."

If your audiophile playback machine is under "heavy load" then you are definitely suffering a bad case of priority inversion.
When will AI replace CEOs?

It's all just a bunch of rehashed corpospeak language anyway.
What evidence do you have to support this assumption?

Also, if weight-loss is measured by “pounds saved” and speed of implementation then amputation would easily win over other solutions.
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Running operating systems inside of document formats is what makes computing great?

I thought it was the ease and leisure as well as the aid in pursuit of real knowledge they were supposed to introduce into our lives.

Can we spend our time more wisely instead?
Together with price raise they stopped doing voice over in my language for new content and I’ve been watching it mostly together with my parents. Seeing how I’ve didnt watch anything on it for two months, I guess time to cancell to.
> Disney's overall revenue grew 4.8 percent

Is there a breakdown for just Disney+? As others have pointed out, losing 700K subs seems like a win considering the cost went up 15%-25%.
[Company nobody's talked about in over a decade]

"WE'RE GOING ALL IN ON AI"
"That's a few decades away, at best; have to wait through Putin's death, the collapse, the post-collapse warlord era, and the reconstruction."

Why? Germany already pushes for reconciliation, as they were hit the most.

For other countries in Central and Eastern Europe it doesn't matter who rules in Russia, as Russia interests are shaped by much grander forces, and those interests are opposite to those of Finland or Poland.

Let's stop looking at world through Marvel-like glasses. There are countries and nations, each with different interest shaped by the world and geography around them.
Speaking of, I am using https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/m4conf/about/ so I do not have to use anything more bloated or complex.
It does not make sense,to me, can you elaborate? I know I spend too much time / effort cost optimizing. Interested in reasonable ways to justify not doing so!
Could always add a git repo to track changes to config files if you need the full history.
> Because far left loonies jump on any bandwagon to label people far right. Even taking gestures out of context. Have you seen the photo montages of left wing leaders being caught with the same pose?

Yes, I did.

Did you do any follow up on those claims?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-kamala-harris-salute/

Still images are different from video, and the guy did it twice.

What is more pressing to me is that it seems “far right loonies” also jumped on that “bandwagon”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=50&v=F8Hy-ZQdGiQ

I pose to you the same question senator Murphy posed:

“Does it concern you that those elements of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist element in the United States believe that what they saw last night was a neo-Nazi salute?”
Nikon wasn't exactly consumer gear, but they popularized single lens reflex cameras in the late 1960s.
The modern protocols? Likely not, but it was absolutely possible back then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_NetMeeting

NetMeeting even used an open ITU protocol that could voice call other clients! The 90s were a different time.
Elegnt: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
I said it before and I'll say it again. If you bought a Tesla because of Elon Musk (when he was cool), or sold a Tesla because of Elon Musk (because now he's not cool), then you're not really buying a car but social capital.

I simply buy the best car I can afford that has the ride/styling/features/quality I want. In my opinion, those that don't are out of their minds.

Not sure how associating major consumer purchases with people became a status of being cool or not. I don't really care why people like this buy and sell cars. I guess it's like Apple, everyone wanted to ride the Steve Jobs bandwagon back in the day.

This is the stuff that gets people upset?
iPhone apps found on App Store with malware that reads your screenshots for data
Optics were not a solved problem in the 30s they wouldn’t be until the 80s at least for camera lenses. 30s camera lenses were optimized for black and white and very poorly corrected for chromatic aberrations. Well corrected color lenses wouldn’t become common until the 50s. Optics bigger apertures than f4 were expensive and often had severe aberrations. Coatings which prevent internal reflections didn’t mature until the late 60s/early 70s. Up to this point lenses had concentrated on a few well known good optical formulas. In particular high quality zoom and ultra wides were tremendously expensive r&d efforts with bespoke manufacturing[1]. This local maxima wouldn’t be breached until computer aided design and manufacturing processes became the norm leading to aspherical, extra dispersion elements and much higher element counts becoming common. By this point camera lens development has become much more iterative many lenses from the 90s and 2000s are 70s/80s optics with slight coating updates with a plastic auto focus housing.

1: see the achromatic Takumar with quartz elements that was produced in a very limited run for scientific laboratories. And aspherical low aperture lenses like the leica noctilux which required hand grinding the aspherical element.
Except there are only 3 DRM providers, and as a streaming service provider you just wrap the 3 providers libraries and write a few config files.
The common opinion though is that if T-Systems runs it then no way of external knowledge will fix anything.
I'm a SRE and love to work with infrastructure, tweak things, etc, and have my own home lab. For years (decades?), I have gone the DIY route with networking gear and it's been painful to tell family "oh, just another 15min or maybe 4h and this will work great?" after I was updating things or messing around.

This year I decided to replace all networking equipment with Ubiquiti (gateway, APs, switches). It's really expensive and it makes me feel like a sell out but I have had zero issues (it's been 6 months now).

I'm really happy that OpenWrt has a stable release and others continue to make progress. I'll probably be deploying some _spare_ devices that won't break my main network, try patches, submit bugreports, etc. But I'm enjoying the peace of mind now.

Not contributing much to the discussion about OpenWrt, sorry.
I’m still shocked that the US allows pharmaceutical advertising and people there just take it as something normal. It shouldn’t be normal to see pills you should totally ask your doctor about on billboards during your commute. It’s not good for consumers or for doctors (except the ones getting kick-backs?). If there’s no will to regulate terrible things like this in the US, there is no hope.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933256
As the pure value of energy decreases, the value of judgement and taste increases.
Someone must put in the effort to make something. Should they not be compensated for their time?
Does ending your subscription also end your agreement to their Terms of Service?
When it comes to pornography, what's the harm in looking? Essays
Passkeys: Hype or Future of Security?
"Disney+ gains $480 in revenue following price increase"
Articles stuck in the cholesterol myth can be ignored. There are plenty of good studies. I eat 5 per day, barely fried, as close to raw as possible. At least keep the joke fluid. If you have poor health and salmonella worries you have some tomato juice with it.
Isnt 200k a ridiculous small "codebase"?
Screening software engineers in the LLM era
First-in-human study of spinal cord stimulation in spinal muscular atrophy
You skipped right over the "lawful executive order" and "democratically elected" parts of my point pretty conveniently, there.

"I was following orders" is not a justification for committing crimes, but "I don't want to" is not a justification for not following lawful orders.

If you have actual reason to believe removing "DEI" from a drop down list on a website is not a lawful order, I would love to hear it. But you don't, which is why you're talking about soldiers and war crimes and trying to frame this as "an enemy...domestic" and not talking about what it is - changing text on websites.
Maybe I should have quoted the part I was disagreeing with, but I thought I had made it clear.

>And you think that an offer accepted by sending an email with "Resign" in the subject line is subject to these protections?

I'm saying that if you say "accept this agreement by sending 'Resign' in the subject line" and someone does so, that's a legally valid offer and acceptance of a contract. Are standards higher for the federal government on this?
Factual correctness is a different dimension from how "outrage-inducing" news are. Those are orthogonal.

Consider:
"Illegal immigrants strike again, having raped 2 teenagers already this year"

is outrage-inducing regardless of factual correctness.
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Paradoxical Behavior in Collatz Sequences
Judgement and taste increases with energy spent—and from a company's perspective, usually you want it to grow in line with your own.
The one thing they had was enthusiasm, but even the most committed and energetic junior hire cannot touch the productivity of AI on most of the work junior software devs are handed.

People are focused on absolute llm accuracy, but time-to-90%-there for AI vs junior dev is seconds to hours/days.
A resounding success then. A negligible loss of customers in the face of a 25% price increase.
Less users means less operational cost I guess.
That’s why you have azure openAI APIs which give a lot more consistency
UniFi access points run OpenWRT. The latest beta releases for the U7 series for example is on OpenWRT 23.05.
These companies must be trying how far they can go before piracy starts being the easier solution again.
And who's going to replace the seniors when they retire? Not his problem I guess.
$ dig hhs.gov @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> hhs.gov @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 22208
It’s more of a “yes, and…” comment. Namely, both are relevant, but previously only one side was highlighted.
Gotta give them credit actually: A company that's been around for a 14 years has managed to keep their codebase small.
Corruption in Qīng Dynasty
I think one of the values 6502 provides is that it has so many retro platforms. Apple ][, NES, Atari 2600, BBC, C64, they all use 6502. If you want to do something cool retro stuffs that a lot of people today still enjoy, that's the best bet.

But again Z80 looks like a very good option too because it has GB/GBC plus ZX Spectrum. The same goes to 68K -- Mac 68K, Sega Genesis and Neogeo are popular hits.

When I was writing my reply to another question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891200), I was thinking about a new software engineering education system which starts from a retro platform and goes up from there. Maybe all three can fit the bill. I'm very much against the "elegant/pure" way of teaching.

BTW totally agree 6502 essentially has 3 registers. You don't get to touch the others.
> The meticulous PT format and exercise selection allows them to achieve more muscle gain in 20 minutes per week than median trainees achieve in 2-3 hours.

This is a strong statement that is presented without evidence, and which conflicts with scientific consensus.

Studies show again and again that the most important factors are consistency and training volume.

If the program is more effective, which is questionable in itself, then the reasons are likely 1. reduction of burnout and/or 2. much more intense training. Not PT format or exercise selection.
- Linus Torvalds wrote Linux at 21
- Steve Wozniak built Apple I at 25
- Palmer Luckey created Oculus VR at 20
- Vitalik Buterin designed Ethereum at 19
- Mark Zuckerberg coded Facebook at 19
For their sake certainly, but frankly for all our sakes also. I've never felt comfortable knowing this is going on both because obviously it's awful for the people involved but selfishly... we can't just have stuff like this happening in the country, doesn't matter if it's rural or city, shit like this is a sign of a dysfunctional society at large and it's how things like COVID-19 happen, the feds not taking it very seriously and superseding the Provence and municipality is not good in instances like this, they should have boots on the ground years ago with an answer, this is insane to me. (sorry for the rant, just dives me nuts what the country is coming to, and it's not politics imo, it's us as Canadians who are the problem right now)
I don't think so.
So watch out if you have any allergies and go and eat something at Disneyland. ;)
Rare is the individual who does not make numerous errors while engaging in fact checking, in no small part because of our cultural norms of cognition.
Russia has been struggling to conquer Ukraine in conventional warfare, with limited weapon imports from US/EU. Let's be real here: they don't really stand a chance against the EU.
I found it interesting but the "Wait" vs. "Hmm" bit just made me think we don't really understand our own models here. I mean, sure, it's great that they measured and found something better, but it's kind of disturbing that you have to guess.
This creeping dystopia is utterly depressing. At least with the spy glasses that have a camera, I have a fair chance of noticing that someone is using them and avoiding that person.

Spy glasses that only listen are not as easy to notice and therefore harder to defend myself against, short of avoiding talking to people who are wearing glasses.
To be fair, this is a small software firm that famously runs lean, and has been outsourcing junior-level work to contractors for a while. See: "no meetings, no deadlines, no fulltime employees" https://sahillavingia.com/work

I can totally see AI-assisted code editors being more effective than back-and-forth with a contractor to define a job
U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report
Lawmakers Push to Ban DeepSeek App from U.S. Government Devices
Don't forget mines too.
that's great. Amazing. Does it mean Gumroad will drop its high prices now when it no longer needs to pay to humans? Because that's what actually be interesting news.

"How do you know someone's AI hypeman? Don't worry, they'll tell you"
where can I try coding with it? Is it available in cursor/copilot?
I believe the contribution here is overstated. None of the tech used for today's AVs relies on anything developed for grand challenge, including any principles they derived.

The leading tech today was derived purely from industry outside the dod space and cifar.
I have used asciidoc when I needed to generate PDFs for documentation.

You don't need any paid tools if you don't want them, I used a text editor and the terminal and source control.

I don't understand the hostility toward someone offering a product. It's fine that you don't need it, that doesn't mean someone else won't.
Unfortunately democrats should have thought about the consequences when they were pushing woke agenda, when they were too dumb and weak in external affairs, when they were busy dividing and polarizing society, waiting out instead of proactively solving hard problems and making hard choices.

They were investing in Trump’s popularity.

In similar way how communists and socialists were investing in hitler’s back in the days.

People were so fed up with all the nonsense and weak stupid leaders that they would fall for anyone with a tiny drop of sense, some patriotism and some balls.
The only reason piracy isn't easy is because of TV vendors gatekeeping what software these TVs run.

Unless you use Plex, which allows your own content (but still disallows torrent streaming or sharing your analog TV with your users, so not ideal), you're SOL.
The article is, I reckon, about a rather common case when a thread that does multiplexed I/O also needs to perform some timer-related tasks as well. As the very first paragraph states, "A blocking sleep won't cut it!"

Unless you do it in a separate thread and then signal other threads but that's insane.
Effect systems such as Bluefin (my own) and effectful allow you to have multiple possible exception effects in scope without having to cram them all into one type (with some sort of "variant" or "open sum" type). It's a very pleasant way to work!
The only creator I’m aware of on gumroad is humorous avowed racist and antisemite turned sketchy advice guy Sam Hyde.
the micro-dependency scheme used by go, rust, js and others is to blame.
makes it far too easy for people to pull in libraries for just about any task, even if it can be coded in just 5 lines. this often results in simple apps having hundreds of recursive dependencies.

a C programmer thinks twice whether to use a 3rd party library, because users will have to install it using their distro package manager. so they generally stick to what's commonly available there or write their own 20 lines for micro-tasks. one of the benefits that come along with that is that these distro packages are usually well vetted.
The "Wait" vs. "Hmm" discussion in the paper does not suggest we know how they work. If we knew, we wouldn't have to try things and measure to figure out the best prompt.
The way he talks about Deep Research (which came out this week) as a core part of the workflow is the clearest tell that this is engagement bait. "No longer hiring junior or even mid-level software engineers"...as of what, 4 days ago? Gumroad famously has no full-time employees and a tiny team. So he went from not hiring junior engineers, to using AI and also not hiring junior engineers.
You're correct but this isn't a good counterargument. We don't have the opportunity to change how human brains work, so we have to accept them as they are. That's not true of LLMs and there's no necessity that we deploy them immediately.
Republicans would want to kill this due to it highlighting all the tax dodges that rich people use to game the system. Democrats would want to kill it due to the amount of innocent people likely snared in the dragnet approach creating false positives.
This is the real problem, possibly: the dev seniority pipeline dies without junior devs learning.

Also possibly, good would-be-junior-devs find something more productive to do.
Quantum teleportation used to distribute a calculation
So who is going to replace the senior engineers as they move on? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ioi7DPTHG6A
Change in operating costs are probably a rounding error either way, considering the vast majority of expenses are content production and engineer salaries, and those are fixed.
I’m not advocating for ignoring the world. I’m advocating for contextualizing it so that your emotional response is sane. I think I put it in another post, but someone I know closely has become catatonically depressed this year because of what political news he reads on Reddit. He makes statements like “there has literally never been a worse time to be alive”. His personal life was great, there was nothing in it to suggest the US president’s decisions affect him, but his emotional response to Reddit news is about as extreme as if his wife died. He stopped going to work and won’t get out of bed most days, which will actually impact his life and give him things to be depressed about.

Caring should not be binary. If in your life, caring about things is all or nothing, and a political event that is extremely common and minor in the context of political history feels as acute as the death of a loved one, then I’m really sorry for you. The world will always be a miserable place for you.