skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've come to believe over the years that friendship can essentially be distilled down to proximity + a common interest + time. Unfortunately, we spend most of our time working, and these three things are very difficult to find outside of the workplace.

Think about my childhood, that idea rings true - kids connect relatively quickly because they have all this time together and for exploring interests, or at minimum "shared misery". I'd say college was the best time to meet people... we had so much free time, mixing with new people very quarter, and even dorming with "strangers".

Although, I also believe we are way to risk averse as adults. Personally, I share this attitude:

> Genuine exchanges of ideas is a dangerous proposition when it means risking our livelihood.

but I'm deeply questioning it these days. (edit: assuming "genuine exchange of ideas" does not violate law/HR - a more complicated issue)

Why should we suppress ourselves in the name of livelihood?

Tech is a high-demand skill-based field with labor shortages projected to last upward a decade despite immigration and new graduates. We get paid well enough to have financial security (savings). Urban tech is one of the most diverse field out there. What's the worst that could happen? Leaving a poor culture fit to find a company/team we connect with? That sounds like a positive, well worth the switching cost.

So why the conservatism? If this will be a life-long career, is the total time/emotional/mental/physical cost of work worth the benefits? If not... why conform?

Networking is the most common response, but who maintains connections with people they dislike? Money is the next most common response, but towards what ends? How much additional wealth does conformity buy, and why is deferring happiness worth it? Time is expensive - every day is one out of our limited and unknown lifespan.

edit - To answer myself:

Conformity was the fastest post-graduation path to funding my own business. Now that I can safely afford the gamble, the ideas still work but my priorities have changed - I recognize this corporate lifestyle of working 40h/week in an office thinking for profit is personally unsustainable regardless of who's boss. So, I stopped conforming and next spring I'm off for some tru-hiking/traveling then pivoting to a new field through grad school (the brewing recession might be a happy coincidence).

I'm questioning myself, but no more than when I started college/working. I am confident that staying on the old path is the only wrong choice (sunk cost fallacy).
AmbrosiaSW was a successful business for over a decade off of games. Most of them hold up very well.
It is a strained metaphor. What I was trying to say is that clicking on a search result and getting a paywall instead of the content alluded to on the search page is not expected behavior to the end user.
This sounds pathological. I wonder if we are more tolerant of criminal behavior by 'visionaries'.
Pretty much. If you think people believing and sharing false narratives is bad then you need to be speak out and support funding education. All other avenues are just going to be whack a mole, chasing the symptom not the cause.
Antennas:

ARRL Antenna Compendium for the layman.

Antenna Theory and Design by Stutzman and Theile for a textbook. Books by Constantin Balanis or John Krauss are good too.

Modern Antenna Design by Milligan for a practicing engineer reference book.

DSP:

Understating Digital Signal Processing by Richard Lyons is a excellent as it has theory and practicality.

Discrete-time Signal Processing by Oppenheim and Schafer for a textbook.

I don't know what would be a practicing reference book as I'm a hardware guy.

Comms theory:
Digital Communications by Sklar for a textbook.

SDR:
SDR covers such a broad area, you need a little of everything. RF hardware, DSP, FPGA/HDL, comms theory, python/C++ programming

This looks really good, but I have never read it:
https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/softwa...

I keep notes here for when you want to build GR from source (though I have not used GR 3.8 yet):
https://rfpoweramp.com/category/sdr/gnu-radio/
It would be completely disingenuous for me to say that making an exception for Venice is a "slippery slope", but I can't help thinking about the river behind my house. I live in Japan by the ocean and they are widening the river by a factor of 3 -- literally digging up the banks, rebuilding them, dredging the bottom of the river, flattening it out, fortifying the banks with concrete and stone, etc. I hope they know what they are doing, but given how the river otter is now extinct in Japan (loss of habitat) and the river eel (unagi) has been decimated (loss of habitat)... I've got to wonder if they really care one way or another.

The thing is, the town where I live will be decimated by any reasonable size tsunami that might happen. Rain fall amounts are rising and we're getting record floods pretty much every year (despite being in a rain shadow). The real answer is to move the city up on top of the nearby plateau which is about 100 m above sea level, but I guess widening the river buys them (ummm.... us....) some time.

Generally speaking, I have to wonder whether it makes sense to try to save land that is only 3 m or so above sea level. And while I can completely understand your point about making a special case for Venice, I don't think we (as humans) are making special cases. I wonder whether we have any rational plans at all for mitigating the risks in these areas. Destroying the ecosystem and also getting flooded out seems like a pretty poor "compromise".

Of course, in a pot meets kettle kind of admission, I don't currently have concrete plans to move out of my "very likely to be under water sometime in my lifetime abode". It's on my TODO list...
I think “monoculture” might be a less loaded term for what others are trying to communicate.
Focusing on scale simply punishes success. It is better to focus on anti-competitive practices than to just look at scale and assume that big is bad. Otherwise the government is telling businesses that they should succeed up to a certain point, but should intentionally fail or handicap themselves after they reach that point in order to avoid being punished.
Exactly. They have given talks at the last few GRCon. They were initially geolocating AIS traffic.
As much as I agree with this, are security and single-user truly mutally exclusive, or is it just that all the single user operating systems we know of (correct me if I'm wrong) have poor security records?
Part of that is volume. The value of a given recording of your life to you drops with the quantity of recordings.
The Miracle in Manhattan - Making Winners out of Football's Biggest Losers
> modern JS-like language, dead easy development, simple IDE support, cross platform, nice UI toolkit, hot reloading, and so on.

That would be QtQuick.
The Ugandan love of grasshoppers – and how to harvest them
Async/Await vs. Promises – A Guide and Cheat Sheet
Too soon to make definitive statements on what happened.

I see the US going ahead with 25% tariffs, no matter that there is supposed to be a "truce".

I see China continuing to do things that upset the Americans.

I don't see the 'truce' as producing anything at all bar a press release.
In context of GnuRadio and similar, do any projects already utilize FPGA acceleration as offered by USRP?

From what I've seen, it all happens on the CPU.
If only we could somehow emulate IRIX. Seems to me that platform is doomed to vintage hardware only.
Thank you for sharing this demo (and to the GP for the video with the metronomes). Very interesting; very cool.
Fascinating. The author left Inmos before I arrived -- deep prehistory!
Meilleurs ordinateurs portable pas cher
> While Borobodur is many things, it is not Hindu. The friezes on the site are stories from the life of the Buddha

Technically, the term "Hindu" as defined by the British just meant non-Muslim. In fact, it was the British who popularized the term Hindu in the first place since prior to British influence, there was no such religion, just a broad set of different religions such as Shivaism, Buddhism, Vishnuism and numerous others. In many places such as Assam, Buddha is revered by people who are labeled as Hindu.
My understanding is that DynamoDB != Dynamo Paper
It is doing exactly what you say - the code as generated simply lets the "overflow" occur, which is what makes it fast. In particular, if the index variable overflows the size of `int` it will just keep increasing. Effectively, the compiler has replaced int with long under the covers, since the cases where the behavior between int and long differ are exactly the cases where the int has overflowed.

So it's not always the case that the compiler assumes "overflow won't happen" and then _removes code_ - it just compiles code in a way that is ideal for the non overflow case and then what happens in the overflow case just falls out of the generated assembly (usually it does something bad like OOB access, but the same would generally be true of a wrapping overflow also).

You can't make this "implementation defined though", because the behavior is from a C-source point of view, it is effectively: "In the case an int overflows, we silently add 32 more bits and keep incrementing". Obviously you can't support that behavior in general, and even in specific cases it leads to nonsense like ints have non-representable values, etc.
There are plenty of ugly run-of-the-mill houses with the same issues. Wright was not worse than his contemporaries in terms of quality of construction. I know people whose houses were built ten years ago and have similar problems.
Electrical stimulation of a brain region shows promise for treating depression
I suspect this whole thread is made up by some Russian propaganda campaign. The positions in it are really quite ridiculous. It's just people trying to create a wedge between rational thinking and the American public. Admittedly there's already a huge gap there so the wedge doesn't have to be very sharp.
Babahu X1: lo spazzolino elettrico AI è un successo su Indiegogo
I always wondered why Apple didn't consider A/UX for the base of its future OS, rather than spending 5+ years on the obviously-in-retrospect-doomed Copland/Taligent stuff and then buying NeXT. Unix licensing costs maybe?
Yeah, but no one is going to click on the article without “frank loyde wright” on the title...
FWIW I talked with one of the CF devs at re:invent and he said their team's goal is to have day-one CF coverage of new major offerings going forward, so we'll see. Maybe next year.
Even if they come out below even then they have learned and can do better next time. It's better to try and fail then sit on the couch and wistfully dream.
I just went and tried, and apparently you need to shift-drag. So, on Windows, the default action for dragging an HTML file onto Google Chrome, in the taskbar, is “pin to Google Chrome,” and “open with Google Chrome” is what you get when you hold the shift key down. I think this might make sense in some kind of fantasy world.

My general expectation is that dragging and dropping is a great way to discover an easier way to do something on a Mac, at least if you have a mouse and not a trackpad. I can drag a file into a terminal and get its full path, with escapes as appropriate. I can drag a folder into a “save” dialogue box and the dialogue box will move to that folder. I can drag an application off the Dock and remove it.

My general experience on Windows is that if you try dragging and dropping something, it may perform some kind of action, and it may be consistent about how it performs that action, but it is rarely the action I want to perform. Drag a file into a save dialogue? Obviously, I wanted to move that file into the folder that the save box was browsing!

My general experience on Linux is that drag and drop is utterly broken and will never work so I might as well give up. Even copy and paste is hell on Linux.
You don't need a membership to eat at the food courts.
What's the "this" that is all there is? What is the struggle you describe, exactly, and what would it mean for it to be "worth" it? What do you mean by freedom, exactly, and on what basis is it good (you imply that it's good and important to be "truly free")?

Those questions are semi-rhetorical (although I'd love to hear an answer if you want to have a convo about it), but your paragraph rings some alarm bells for me. Have you read Thomas Nagel's "The Absurd"? I think it directly and decisively addresses many of the concerns you bring up.

Here's a link to the paper: https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absu...
Gattaca here we come: "Sequence this strand of hair for me will you?"
>OK, then that definition excludes register allocation as a permitted optimization

Oh come on.
Did FoldIt switch from being humans doing it by hand?
I expect it's covered in several areas but the field of opinion dynamics often investigates these sorts of situations.
At 12inch@18 inches is about 9 times bigger in visual area than your 55" @ 25ft 4K TV example, which only has four times the total pixels.
For some reason, there's no mention of datatypes, a very nice concept they took from AmigaOS3.
Write a book about what?
I think you're being a bit harsh on the guy. I'd like to see a society that embraces as many people as possible. It should be possible to support both hyper-social and anti-social types - as long as they are willing to encourage a society that embraces those who are different.
Dont you think your statement contradicts between the first sentence and the second?
”Nezam Amery was the indispensable link in the Frank Lloyd Wright/Iran/Shams Palace story – and his father had been assassinated by the father of his client, Princess Shams.”
There are a number of cities of varying sizes which discourage or ban cars. Notable examples include Venice[1]. I haven't done much research on the topic, because I live in the United States and will likely need a car for the rest of my life. But the idea appeals to me. Intuitively, I think we'd be a lot happier without cars.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice#Transportation
Not dead. Just irrelevant and/or non-essential.

Microsoft is to computing as Ford is to automobiles. Both are still there if you want them to be your choice, but by the same token, if you don't need them in your life, they aren't forced upon you.

Me? I haven't owned a Ford since 1985. I switched to Unix/Linux in 1991.
Glad you're able to work like that. A lot of people aren't though. For them, there needs to be a different solution.
I was just talking today about how "The Seattle Freeze" would be a fantastic name for an NHL team here. Not that I actually believe in the Seattle Freeze, I just think it would be funny.
An introvert's nightmare. I do hope this goes nowhere. I like my personal space, and peace. That's why I chose to live in a city in the first place.
There's also EKS now, which is competing directly with ECS / Fargate I guess?
In my time on this site, I've seen a variation of the "I quit $socialnetwork and you should too" post make the front page a few times a year. It's almost to the point of a tired meme.
Just because people disagree with you doesn't make them Russian propaganda. I'd love to hear what specifically makes you think /u/M0dusPwnens, a redditor of 6 years with thousands of largely non-political comments, is part of a propaganda campaign.

Spreading false accusations like that just undermines the validity of the very real issue of astroturfing and propaganda on sites like reddit.
Dropping "explicit error checks" is no doubt bad from the user's point of view, but the primary difficulty is that to the compiler, working at the abstract level of multi-pass optimization of the IR, the good and bad cases all look the same. Pruning paths that lead to UB leads to some significant actual real-world optimizations (and these extend beyond these various signed-wrapping examples), and people want those whether they know it or not. Unfortunately, to the compilers, your overflow check just looks like another one of these cases.

That is, it is very hard for the compiler to guess the programmer's intent, and say "oh, this is actually a check which is trying to avoid overflow, and despite that it uses UB, we should compile this part with wrapping semantics instead", and yet apply the optimization in all the other places you would want it. You could probably come up with some type of pattern recognition, or some heuristics like "if the optimization makes some of the original source code dead unconditionally, don't make it", but I think this is both very difficult and in many cases worse than the current disease.

I think you can make a strong argument that the optimizations enabled by some types of UB exploitation are not worth the bugs and vulnerabilities they cause, and so the UB should be removed entirely, making it defined or implementation defined. Trying to have your cake (yes, it should still make these optimizations x and y) but eating it too (oh, but case z is different, see?) is a tougher proposition.
Costco sells hot dog/soda combo at a loss (and I love them for that, even though I'm not a customer):

https://thetakeout.com/costco-loses-money-every-time-it-sell...
For me, the most amazing part was the relative performance in the competition:

> On its first foray into the competition, AlphaFold topped a table of 98 entrants, predicting the most accurate structure for 25 out of 43 proteins, compared with three out of 43 for the second placed team in the same category.

though in looking at the link [1], I don't see that result very clearly...

[1] http://predictioncenter.org/casp13/zscores_final.cgi
Really, conspiracy theory are nuts 99 percent of the time. Also, the officials are elected by the people which differs government from the Martia. Besides, even in tribes we have authorities. And without authority, Somalia happened.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8167539
If you remove the pedals and have a kid just push themselves around with their feet first, they learn how to ride a bike WAY faster. In part because they don't have to learn to pedal at the same time, but I think it's more because they are confident they can put their feet down to catch themselves whenever they want without getting caught in the pedals. Training wheels make learning to ride a bike harder in many cases. Either the kid relies on the training wheels to hold them up instead of balancing, or if they don't have the ground conditions to do that they fear the training wheels catching dirt or grass or a rock and suddenly flinging them around making them crash.
So you think that accidentally supporting criminals and terrorists is just as bad as intentionally supporting criminals and terrorists?
Imagine today.
I recall buying Portal by Activision for Amiga at a local shop without having read any reviews before; as a huge sci fi movie/games fan I thought it was a sort of adventure like game but got hugely disappointed after discovering it was "just" a novel. My less than adequate English knowledge back then also prevented me from appreciating it for what it was, so I tossed it in a drawer before finishing it until the day I sold my Amigas.
User defined styles, you can’t add new ones to Google Docs.

User-created templates are such a pain in Google Docs that I would almost consider it a missing feature.

Tab stops that align to the decimal point.
There’s some books that actually do very well. I’ve got a friend that consistently flips .50 to 1.50 books for 20 bucks or more. If you send them in bulk shipping isn’t all that bad considering the weight alone. Books that end up doing well are the harder to find domain specific ones, such as art books.

I say it’s a good start because it doesn’t require much starting capital, let’s you learn the fba system such as creating labels and shipping. And if you’re getting a well selling book it won’t stick around long enough to have storage fees.

Funny enough I know someone else that purely flips older blank media like vhs and casset tapes. Apparently really good money if you can source new ones still wrapped.
It has flipped back and forth but that doesn't make it a cycle. Cycle implies that it keeps oscillating on its on.

But to me it seems more likely the flipping has been driven by outside forces. That one approach was genuinely better for a time and then in a subsequent period the opposite was genuinely better.
two words: no shit!
On the other hand, the typical myths that cities develop (people finding love at first sight on the tube, etc) speak of a repressed yearning.
> I suspect filesystems probably do too

Most don't :)
I don't know how someone reading the list would understand that "fish ... gets rid of some of the dumb things [what things?] required for a POSIX-compatible [?] shell, but [others] prefer zsh because it has every feature [what features?] and the kitchen sink."

For example, I didn't realize "smart" in the list's vernacular means "deprecates dumb legacy behaviour". Your post is the first time that became obvious to me. Now to figure out what that behaviour is and why I should care and if it impacts performance and and and...

My post wasn't asking the curator to make decisions for me, it was asking them to help me make decisions.
If this is important to you (extraction of information like ID/name/date from non-searchable PDFs), you could send me an email and we could discuss it further.

I might be able to help you with this.
Only problem I didn’t mention is there’s a couple companies that have partnered with goodwill and libraries to buy any book their system says ok to. So some goodwills will scan all the books they get in and grab the good ones before it even hits shelves. So there’s obviously money in it.
If there actually was a propagandist in any of this, it would be steve_madere.
"the amount of people who actually stick to it" is an absolutely massive sampling bias, even at age under 10. Even among people of same general intelligence, areas of interest matters a lot.

I don't doubt there are sexism and cultural effects on participation disparities, but ask anyone raising chess-playing children and you'll find notable gender differences in interest level in chess from a young age. Similar is seen on mathematics. There's a classic book from Soviet Russia) where girls' math education was rather highly supported) by an author extremely excited about teaching math to small children. He found that his son lapped it up but he could never get his daughter interested (she would turn his math games into non-math social games), even though she was younger and so had earlier exposure and also benefit of his increased experience practicing teaching on her older brother first. She turned out to be academically successful, but not exceptional in math. Countless parents can tell similar stories.

https://www.amazon.com/Math-Three-Seven-Mathematical-Prescho...
Complexity Economics Shows Us Why Laissez-Faire Economics Always Fails
> is RAM not cheap enough already?

RAM is pretty expensive.
This is certainly a serious threat.

However, it's my understanding that exploits depend on running code (including JavaScript) on the target system (or in a sandbox or VM). Is that true?
social media is the tobacco of the modern(sic) world. the science is clear. shit-can all of it, get outside and go "be somebody", which will never happen on FB, Instagram, etc.