skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (And if history is any indication, we’ll probably cause some sort of galactic global warming in the process, that all starfaring species after us will curse us for)

The only serious theoretical FTL paper (Alcubierre drive) I know of requires exotic matter (negative mass) or energy equivalents of entire planets so if we ever manage to build it, I think that's a fair bet.

Another paper calculated that the space-time bubble created by the Alcubierre drive would capture radiation and particles along its path, creating a gamma ray burst at the destination in a large cone in the direction of travel. Meaning, we'd be sending deadly bursts of radiation all over the galaxy that would wipe out all carbon based life for tens or hundreds of light years every single jump. A rogue actor or a miscalculation could wipe out significant fractions of our own civilization.
As you can see from the documentation, `AsInt64` is a convenience method that either says, I know this is an int, or make it so. There are also ways to check the type before you access, if you prefer. You can even check if its unsigned, if you want that level of type-safety.
> I see that you are blaming nextdoor, when nextdoor is just a symptom.

I am trying to share my observation, and express my disappointment that a company has created a skinner-box engagement loop based on fear and neuroticism. People will always be afraid, but technology should be used to bring out the best qualities in humans, not amplify the worst.
Interoperability between the two OSs is the main benefit. It works transparently or at least that's where Microsoft is heading even though there are still some issues. Another reason is the fact that it comes ready out of the box.

For your first point, running Linux means giving up some windows only applications.
> I wonder what would happen if well-off folks worked at improving public schools rather than fleeing to private institutions.

Where I grew up there was a gang fight at the public school where one student stabbed another.
If that were really the case they would just make you go in person and pay for a print out
Maybe Steinmetz used the trope knowingly.
Transliterated messages are still quite popular in Georgia (გამარჯობა, როგორ ხარ? > gamarjoba, rogor xar?), even in places where character limits don't apply. Which makes it practically impossible to use any translation services, as there are many ways to substitute a single letter or a sound, making reversing extremely hard. And if you add to the mix the poor quality of those translation services for Georgian language in general, you get texts that mostly make sense to just native speakers.
the more surface area that’s contacted between the driver and the fastener, the more friction and the better they hold on to the automatic drivers used to assemble the devices. On such a tiny screw the center pin probably adds an extra 20% or more surface area.

I don’t know if that’s absolutely the reason but if they wanted to keep people out they could easily make a custom head that looked like the Apple logo or something. Nintendo has used tri-wing screws for decades because they expressly do want to keep people out of their devices. You can stop get a tri-wing driver but you have to special order it.
What other possible reasons could they have other than hosting costs? /sarcasm

You’d think we as a society figured out hosting costs ...

Any quote on what the cost of hosting is and if it can be crowd funded? Technically speaking, their whole institution is crowd funded so I don’t know where they get the autonomy to decide jack shit.
Australia is the worst. Not only do you have to comply with performing all airworthiness directives but you also have to perform all service bulletins.

Which if you’re not into flying planes - an air worthiness directive is like a recall - “hey we found this problem with this seatbelt randomly unlatching - you are not allowed to fly until you take it to the dealer to get swapped”. Which is fine and I don’t have a problem with that for non-experimental aircraft.

A regular service bulletin on the other hand is like - “hey we upgraded the seats on the 2020 Honda Accord to premium vegan leather. If you drive a 2018 Honda Accord you need to swap out the seats for the 2020 model. Even if you just swapped out the seats for the regular 2019 vegan leather model 6 months ago.”

Makes private aircraft ownership prohibitive for all but commercial operations. In the US one does not need to perform service bulletins but as a rule they’re good to track.
Apache Avro is also another data serialization format. Schema-Ful, unsure about zero copying or copying.

https://avro.apache.org/
The defense that "this slur was recently coined" doesn't strike me as that compelling. "Karen" plays on long standing stereotypes of women as hysterical or nagging. The name-as-insult is new, but the stereotypes are not.
In my case made me reconnect with friends in LA while living in SF which totally altered my life trajectory.
That is an odd way to put it if you had read the article. It notes that precisely because Figma was on the web that it was able to have collaboration features, have linkability to specific Figma files, and other such features, and thus serve the customer. As well, I am not sure how they sacrifice speed or usability exactly, when they even use Rust compiled to WASM in order to create the entire UI.

I can concede that SaaS can be, in many cases, be merely investor driven, but I cannot concede that Figma is one of those. Even being investor driven, such as having a subscription business plan, is not bad for the customer per se, as a sustainable business is better than a dead one. Software costs money to make, and more importantly, to upkeep and add features too. I am not sure how you can expect one time fees, especially for enterprise software like Figma is (personal plans are free), in this day and age.
Why would mult(x,y) be linear then if x has to be used more than once in order to do the actual multiplication?
I made this thing! AMA :)
I wish Google open sourced RecordIO instead (or in addition). People reinvent this particular bicycle, poorly, pretty much in every project where engineers are smart enough to introduce a _structured_ application log.
Get a PPL if:

- you plan a long-term commitment to flying, and more ratings later

- you live near an airport, or can trailer in an airplane

- you make a good salary for your region (or live at home)

- you're healthy (can pass a required FAA airman exam)

- you plan to fly at least once or twice a month for airplanes, twice per month for helicopters

Don't get a PPL if:

- you want to travel and can't afford a fast-enough airplane

- it's an expensive bucket list item to cross off, then forget

- you have severe ADHD, dyslexia or problems reading

- you have a DUI or seizures (disallowed), diabetes, apnea or cardiac problems (on-going special issuance paperwork.)

- you care about family approval, but your partner is afraid for your safety

- you don't like rules (FAA, flight schools and clubs have tons of rules and regulations)

- want to make money flying (you need a commercial+ rating to charge money)

Note that after you get your PPL, you will have a baseline of skills that lets you fly safely under cheaper, less-regulated rules, like ultralight, experimental and LSA.

For example, for safe, low-cost long-term flying, a PPL followed by purchase of a Hummel all-metal ultralight trailerable airplane (~$30k) would be ideal for local VFR flight for one person.

https://flyhummel.com/

Source: commercially-rated pilot.
I'll stick my head out and say thanks, but no thanks systemd, I'm quite happy with OpenRC until something better comes along that doesn't attempt to assimilate everything under the sun and and includes the kitchen sjnk.
The codegen for flatbuffers is fairly extensive, but C++ is still the blessed language for gRPC, however [0].

[0] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_grpc_guide_...
My dad has his license and used to fly all the time. I told him I was interested in doing it, too, now that I have the money and he basically said, "Hell no, don't do it." His reasoning is that general aviation crashes are often fatal because you have very little time to react in the event of a problem and most private pilots simply don't have sufficient hours to have the muscle memory and awareness to react appropriately in an instant. He said it takes years of flying before you are a safe enough pilot to, say, bring your family along. He told me to search the news around Christmastime every year and that you'll see a family of four that died in a crash. Pilots get overeager to just get someplace and take risks and then their number comes up and they can't respond to it quickly enough.
Samsung Blu-ray players are rebooting in a loop and nobody knows why
It's just what you're used to. Visit Singapore and listen to Singlish. They all understand each other just fine because it's their dialect but if you're not used to it then it takes a while to get used to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAyRoPcuykY
... it's clear the OP meant, where do you obtain / purchase books legally (i.e., without violating copyright & piracy laws).
CBOR also has a schema format, but yes, it's typically used schemaless.
Not really. The tweeter in this case isn't stopping between each tweet to address comments. It is asynchronous versus the synchronous example you gave.
Brainstorming is the key, take each one of your ideas and scrutinize it from all perspectives. Ask the journalists' questions (how, what, why, when, etc.) and read as much as possible. If its a technology or programming language you daily dabble in, the content should come naturally to you.

As for the problem of having the content all in your head but still being unable to put it down on paper (or laptop screen), I can understand and empathize with that problem! Writer's block can be due to many reasons but the best way to solve it is to just have a ritual of just sitting on your desk daily at a stipulated writing time. Even if writing doesn't come to you in the beginning, it will eventually flow as you make this a habit. In many trades, success is just a matter of showing up, its the same about writing.
> Interesting that the thread did not include any mention of Microsoft’s licensing terms for OEMs charging per computer, even if it wasn’t shipped with Windows, which was viewed as a monopolistic practice.

Not really relevant to his point. Also it sounds like when this sorta thing was happening he was part of the Office team so not really involved.
Or it could be possible that a civilization pessimistic and risk-adverse enough make dark forest precautions a significant part of their culture wouldn't have the risk-taking needed to advance their technology to interstellar levels. Technological advancement and the possibility of self-destruction might go hand in hand.
> You can't logically defeat bigots in a way that actually matters to them.

The goal of public debate is never to persuade the person you're debating, it's to persuade those watching the debate. Sometimes you can persuade the person you're talking to, but that take a lot more sophisticated understanding of the other person than you're going to achieve if you simply dismiss them as illogical.

> If this were the case, then there wouldn't be bigots.

That simply doesn't follow. Bigots do change their minds sometimes, slowly over time.

> The existence of systemic racism is not controversial among experts and hasn't been for a long time. Yet people insist on arguing about it forever. They don't care that logical arguments dismantle their beliefs.

It's not that they don't care, it's that they don't agree that they are logical.

Keep in mind, also, that logic is only as good as the evidence you feed into it. Logic in a vacuum of evidence is completely useless. People don't always change, but they do sometimes change.

Also, keep in mind that censorship isn't the only poor strategy the left is employing here. Sure, getting rid of censorship and just arguing with people won't fix things, but that's in part because the argumentation of the left is crap too. The cry of many people on the left these days is, "Come to the left, we'll call you a racist!" and they're surprised when this actually pushes people to the right. People think minds can't be changed because they've never actually learned how to change minds.

The truth has power. If you want people to stop supporting cops, for example: show them this video[1] and then point out that the murderer in that video now receives $2500/month in medical pension because he claims PTSD from the murder he committed. Try it out! It's not hard to science this for yourself.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc
There is a "Special Lecture", given by a Air Force test pilot to this class that is not listed, but contains a ton of really interesting information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evhrk5tY-Yo
I do want to see less pedantry about the medium and more discussion (and if that includes pedantry, so be it) about the message itself.
UX for Lizard Brains (2017)
What's an extra $75,000 between friends? Wonder if it's taxable :)
On an eink display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS8M_MV3Xhw&app=desktop
A part of what it is, yes. But that's the beauty of it: cities are constantly changing and building upon what came before. It's what makes them cities and not forgotten backwaters.
> I wish I knew how to fix public schools. It certainly not with more money.

IIRC "busing" is the most effective thing we've tried—wildly more successful than anything else—but approximately everyone (including a lot of people who weren't rich whites) hated it so we don't do it anymore.

Given that selection bias is a big part of what makes a typical "good" school good it's a hard problem to solve without some kind of social-engineering thing like that that mixes everyone up, though that comes with its own problems, especially if it's still possible to escape the system (moving even farther from the city to areas that aren't doing busing; private schools).

Very early (like... kindergarten or 1st grade) tracking or something like it would probably make mediocre schools more appealing for somewhat-well-off parents and counter the tendency of the rich-enough-to-leave but not-rich-enough-for-private-school set to flee the city when they have kids, since it'd isolate the good students from the bad to replicate some of what the suburban schools benefit from to let the "middle" and "high" cohorts do fairly well even at so-so schools, but there's pretty much zero chance the optics on that would be acceptable.
‘dang is saying “see also”, not “this doesn’t need reposting.” From what I’ve seen, reposts after a year or so are fine.
I wonder if anyone here has tried this (or other) self taught CS successfully while not being a "self-taught engineer or bootcamp grad".

What if you are a designer or PM type with several years experience in software industry? Is it productive to skip real experience or actual classes to get into CS/engineering?
One of the fun exchanges I saw transcripts in a linguistics course was between two ESL speakers - one native Spanish, the other native Japanese. Something as simple as not knowing the word “income” and using the Spanish “ingress” which was interpreted by the Japanese speaker as “English” was like the Naked Gun of language comedy for me.

But as an ESL person myself I’ve never thought of English as a language about rules as much as memorizations. It’s the x86 of human languages, for better or worse, and trying to systemize it fully was how I messed up English most as a kid and how my parents tried to teach it to me.
Alexandra Road or Barbican Estate are pretty brutal in their brutalism, but Cité radieuse is just a very nice apartment building. Pretty upscale too.
I co-own a Piper Cherokee Six/300 with two other pilots. It’s an easy way to dilute overhead costs of hangar, maintenance, insurance, and so on along with the time commitment of care and feeding.

Insurance may be cost-prohibitive for a brand new private pilot. For your first couple hundred hours, renting will likely be the better option. Airplanes rent by the Hobbs meter hour, or time the engine is running. “Wet” rentals, which means fuel included, is a common arrangement as well. A club I belong to reimburses us at the wholesale rate for fuel purchased at other airports. For overnight rentals, some places have a minimum number of hours per day that they charge because the airplane isn’t generating any revenue sitting on the ground.
This is a great article, I do wish he put it on his blog instead of piecemealed it on twitter, but I guess you go to move to your audience.

The experience of buying a new PC is still pretty broken even for $2000+ machines.

OEMs still regularly load tons of garbage, and microsoft is also now guilty of adding craplets on to the base image of Windows.
Right, but GP is suggesting that the requirement to ignore an 'err' value that would make the API user think twice about possible failure cases that could otherwise go ignored with the convenience API.
I’m assuming he means for some dumb legal reason.
It's easy to spend a lot of money, it's hard to execute and get results.

Despite the USA spending a ton of money, it doesn't curate quality education.

The entire system needs to be reworked.
I tried to cope, I got stressed and burned out.
gRPC FlatBuffers is supported in quite a few languages besides C++, Java, Go, Python, Swift, off the top of my head..
The video core documentation for the gpu is open and you can actually write code for the GPU (and an open source assembler exists)
I do not blame people for being frightened, worried or concerned about Antifa.

Antifa are dishonest, lack integrity and are not able to defend a robust arguement against them. They and the Hollywood and blue tick classes have validated much of what you're seeing in the destruction of our western civilization and the attacks against "white" people which are shooting through the roof, we just had a mass murder of park goers here in Reading, Berkshire and America had an execution in New York. The burned out businesses in Minneapolis will not be coming back. It seems at least from over the pond, like another Detroit.

They are agitating for genocide now. The BLM has received so much money what else could be the objective?

They have shown they're not above using cancel culture, doxxing and threatening behaviour and most I've engaged with have no regard or knowledge of history.

The African British friends I have are actually turning against Journalists and these "fellow white people" that have used a colour to wage a war of hate to get what they want because even though they control the institutions and the media, they have never had the consent of the demos at large.

My Igbo friends even invented a new adjective "Bodeyad" to describe an actor reading from a Hollywood script.

I believe the weaponisation of race by foreign money and interests is using black people as a destabilization technique and it seems the emperor is losing his clothes now for anyone outside the hangers on. It is a pretty debased type of psychological warfare and divide and conquor if you ask me.

I would most certainly chase Antifa out of my village, or set up roadblocks to assure they are not planning attacks on people they have identified as not befitting their narrative. I have no doubts their groups have drawn up lists of dissidents and targets.

The question noone has been able to answer me convincingly, is why wouldn't I?
Agreed. My family uses daily a MacBook Pro I bought in a Thanksgiving sale in 2008. My wife is watching a movie on it as I type this.

A few years ago I thought, if I can get this thing to 10 years, that’s a great deal and I’ll be happy to upgrade. Now it seems like maybe I’ll be able to use it forever? I’ve had to replace one battery and one fan in almost 12 years. The DVD drive does not work anymore, but I don’t use DVDs anymore.

Honestly I think security will be the biggest concern long term. It can’t upgrade the OS anymore and while whatever version of OS X it’s on seems very stable (it never crashes), it’s not getting patches anymore from Apple. Something will come along at some point.
I’m not really sure where you’re drawing a distinction here.
Explaining my downvote: I'm thoroughly annoyed at all of the versions of this comment on HN lately. It adds nothing to the discussion, and derails the conversation we were having to talk about some vague injustice where People These Days don't let you say Stuff Like This.

Can you point to something you've said that's resulted in the problem you've described?
You Are Not Google
I once paid twice as much for a gym for the no lock in plan, with pay as you go in advance for a month.

They offered me as low as a three month contract with direct debit and I refused.

The guy signing me up thought I was nuts. I think everyone else is nuts.
When I had searched HN for this, there was none. Curious, why didn't you market it? Seems production ready or maybe it was planned in the future.

I'm glad to have seen this, which was on https://serde.rs/, which seems to be a recent addition. I was looking for an alternative to messagepack.
This is a hot take, and I’ll readily admit to it:

I’m sucker for true crime, so I watch a lot of interrogations. There are very specific tactics that are used to psychologically build up egos, barrage an ego, frame things in different ways that absolve the perpetrator, standard god cop / bad cop, and so forth. Murder police do this with murder suspects. The thing is, murder police are super trained to deal with murders.

I think street beat cops are similar to script kiddies. They don’t understand infrastructure and networking, and mostly know code monkey usage of scripts. On small enough targets, you can start to believe you are king shit doing whatever you are doing.

Until it goes too far, and the big boys show up and assess you. That’s when we find out your script kiddie cops have little to no training on de-escalation, have little to no understanding of the community, think establishing authority and show of force in any situation is professional, think defending their ego in situations has a place, think bringing respect to the uniform in a literal ongoing situation that could turn sideways has a place, and so on.

That’s what we’re finding out, they are mostly amateurs. They are not super trained to deal with their job. Guy clearly drunk and asleep in a car? First time you’ve ever dealt with this? Ended in a fatality, eh?

Lots of training there going over that basic scenario ...
Emergencies, Response, Notification, and Bootstrapping (2017)
I think the comment you are responding to was effectively advocating for LESS surveillance, for what it’s worth.
Initial G4’s were solid products, but it rapidly spun out of control as they tried to ramp up the clocks.
AirPods are not really intended to get wet like Apple Watch is.
Yes, the fatality rate is the same as normal flu if we assume every single person in the northeastern US has been infected.
The article itself states that a majority of the US population lives in suburbs, and a supermajority lives in suburban built environments, in central city and suburbs alike.

How could living in the suburbs be so terrible if a supermajority of people live in detached single family homes in residential neighborhoods with suburban style zoning? Are all of these people imprisoned against their will?
You could certainly try to start learning to code with SICP and go from there, but for the most part these resources will be much more valuable to those who have some prior background in programming.