skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has ceased to matter. Most new products sold in the US use metric fasteners. A typical family has little or no use for imperial tools. There are some weird hold-out standards such as spark plug wrenches, but those have only one use anyway.

The imperial units are all defined in terms of metric units. There's no standard inch sitting in a vault somewhere.

Machine tools can switch from one to the other in a jiffy. Most design drawings give both units.

There are some odd things that still come in imperial units such as building materials, but a "2x4" is anything but 2 x 4 inches. Plywood is imperial length, but metric thickness, rounded to the nearest convenient inch fraction.

Food still uses imperial units of measure, most of the time, but people just eyeball the quantities and probably don't even know the actual amount. Most people can't look at a container and tell you if it's a pint or a quart.

I believe what happened is that the metric system was taught as a bunch of math, and people hate math. The big push came while I was in grade school, and I remember being taught: "The metric system is easy, all you have to do is some math." Metric was math and conversion factors. I remember a machinist telling me: "I hate metric because of the math." Yet he could add fractional inches in his head.
Others included sources, but also, how could masks not be effective? They cover your mouth and the disease is mainly expelled out your mouth. That’s why the government really lost the public when they said “masks don’t do anything” when what they really meant is “there is a mask shortage and America doesn’t have the civic fabric for people to leave masks for the more vulnerable — instead they will start hoarding.”

Similar is the pretense that the race protests wouldn’t explode the transmission of COVID — how could they not?
Why conversion is so low on Google Maps Search?
I’ve seen three, four and five boxes.
There's some RAII: https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/blob/release/Code/CryEng...
they are a media production and streaming company too
I bought an app Neutron and just play my own music from the hd from my phone. As soon as google music announced this was going to happen I immediately looked for some other solution.
Firefox reader mode works great as it often does for this type of thing.
This seems a reasonable and straightforward scenario and I'll prepare accordingly
yes, english is not my main language, thanks for the correction
$8B tree wall to stop Sahara deserting
My understanding is that the non-touch FHD screen is not glossly, but then it is also not flush. I got the touch FHD to have the edge-to-edge glass. The glossyness hasn't bothered me, and you can get matte screen protectors cut for this model off of eBay.
Slavery is not a free market system.
>There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will never be required to sign up or use a feature.

I'm not trying to play the devils advocate here, just genuinely curious: Why do you (or anyone else) have such a strong opinion on not using emails for signing up? Usually, when a service requires me to enter an email, I have no issue with using a service like 10minutemail and never checking that email account again.
In two of these cases the obvious solution is labour laws. In Europe you can't get fired just because your employer wants to fire you. They have to have a legitimate reason.

Maybe one day America will get there.
Agreed. But writing your own authentication frameworks are a virtually identical situation.
This does make a lot of sense. A simple toggle during installation can make it much simpler for users. All the tools are available, but setting it up and configuring to a specific use case usually requires jumping through some hoops.
Breaking routines into functions makes testing possible. If it's really only called once, the compiler can inline it for you.
I guess that sentence got a bit too imperative.

Regarding games, it uses subset of OpenGL API. You can use that to crunch numbers actually.

Anyways you'll have to use some external API/FFI for your job.
Replace "starting to do" with "does".
That’s fine. I don’t completely agree with his analysis. Just because he couldn’t make it work doesn’t mean someone else can’t.
Please cite a source for your claim.

Economists agree they utility is the measure of value to society.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/utility.asp

Money is merely a proxy for utility, a token of exchange.
It's definitely worse than H2's ISP in an NTR, but ~600s is still a solid boost over the ~450s that's about the best a practical LOX/LH2 chemical engine can do.

My curiosity is essentially just whether the performance lost between an H2 and CH4 NTR would be gained back through reduced tank mass and boil-off. Shielding/engine mass will certainly be a big mass penalty versus chemical rockets.
Flash Sale Guide
https://technicalshoppers.in/get-phones-in-flash-sales/
My understanding was that s/he was referring to the new UI. Actually Reddit makes it hard to be on the old interface, I have to use browser extension to completely avoid the new UI.
I plug in my speakers through a Thunderbolt dock, and I have not experienced it. It shows as a USB sound output though. Let me know if you would like me to try plugging the speakers in directly to the laptop and rebooting it a couple of times.
Exactly, it's not like you can't create a genuinely anonymous email address for a one-off purpose.
https://technicalshoppers.in/
Not loading on FF mobile
There's a lot of options with different tradeoffs. I've seen both where they keep most of the mask intact like your 8086 example, and where they just didn't make RTL changes, but still go through the whole tape out process again (normally with what were pretty hands off standard cell designs in the first place).

The Zen+ shrink was neat because they only shrunk the individual transistors, but kept their position and spacing the same. So the die was the same size, but just more gaps between gates. I've got a theory the folk who normally sit between RTL and layout were running around with their hair on fire from the Spectre revelations, and didn't have the bandwidth to help with low hanging micro optimizations you'd normally see with a shrink, but only have rumors and speculation to back that up.
I don’t think we should share authoritative seeming advice when the first instruction is to read a 700 page book “in a couple days”. How many non JavaScript programmers could keep up or absorb anything from that pace?
If curious see also from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11760298

Related significant threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
By that logic they can be made to understand base twelve (et al) just as well. And 0x64 cents is perfectly reasonable amount of money, but that's because it's a integer, not a fraction.
> There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will never be required to sign up or use a feature.

Why is this so important? You can just use any temp email service to sign up and never deal with it again.
https://technicalshoppers.in/get-phones-in-flash-sales/
I've been watching/rooting for Xi from a distance for a few years now. This is an excellent retrospective. Well written, but also very honest, especially about those all too typical project highs and lows.

I remember looking at one of Raph's early presentations and being both convinced by his arguments for and impressed with the design decisions made, the same ones he outlines here. After doing some of my own comparatively rudimentary research, coming to similar conclusions as he did. It left me very excited to watch the project develop over time.

One thing I was wondering about is that the Xi website contains a list of front ends similar to the list in the GitHub repo, but includes a Flutter implementation for Fuchsia[1] that is now a dead link and missing from the GitHub list. He mentions it briefly in this retrospective as well. Any ideas what happened to it?

[1]: https://xi-editor.io/frontends.html
Spoiler for Expanse book series.

This is a plot device In a later book.

A neutron Star on the very edge. Someone throws essential some dust on it to get it trigger at the right moment
That was the best thing to do, thank you dan for moving this, better it did not reach the first page with this title.
This is a good question. FRBs pose a lot of challenges for follow up because most of them are not observed to repeat (this doesn't mean they don't repeat, just that they haven't been seen to). So you see them for a few seconds and then they're gone. To follow up, you need to know where exactly to look, and most of the instruments like CHIME used to discover FRBs don't have the resolution to see exactly where on the sky it was. You can maybe pin point it to within 1/4 degree, but need more like 1000th degree resolution to meaningfully follow up in other wavebands.

The most useful follow up has been for repeating FRBs. What happens there is that the discovery telescope tells you were it is roughly, and you know it repeats, so you can point a high resolution radio telescope (something like https://www.evlbi.org) to get a more precise location and then you can follow up with other telescopes.

One thing telescopes like CHIME are trying to do in the near future is to build their own long baseline station to give much higher resolution, such that they can get localisation on bursts which don't repeat, and do better follow up.
https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1267585465424719873 for a link to a meta-analysis
Super ... thanks. I always forget to try that.
We have now improved the speed of loading and extraction of downtimes.

No - there wasn't bug in our code on Thu morning and the wall didn't deserve the words. It was an actual downtime that we detected 11 minutes before Let's Encrypt.
If I'm able to force the competition to drop their predatory rates to sane levels, then even if I go out of business, I've still won. The objective was for there to be reasonable rates, not to make money. We saw this with Google Fiber, where the incumbent cable monopolies speeds hadn't kept pace with technology. As soon as ATT started offering fiber, Google Fiber "won", in a sense that consumer gigabit fiber Internet now exists.
People don't trust companies who want an email address. You get extra spam, the company or their successors and partners sell the email address, poorly secured computers and cloud nonsense almost ensure it'll be stolen, and nowadays if you have an incorrect opinion you could easily be doxxed, even by people inside of these big tech companies and startups.

You may not care about these issues, and you might have the correct opinions for now which don't irritate the tech overlords. But lots of people have learned the hard way that providing an email address is, at the very best, going to result in spam. At the worst? You could be physically assaulted, lose your job to an outrage mob...
How is this going to avoid becoming like Voat?

Reddit already has competitors. It is just that they are cesspools as the only people who have a strong reason to leave reddit are those reddit has banned.
That's what I thought, too. Hopefully the team that was working on Atom has gotten/will get a chance to bring some of its components/features to VS Code if it doesn't already have them.
What a clueless comment. Inflation rates in Zimbabwe and Venezuela are FAR higher than these rates as a quick example to show context matters do real rates may be negative. And these rates are lower than payday and can unlock 3x returns for borrowers.

The west takes access to capital for granted.
Is it fair to say that leading hypotheses for this kinds of events include an orbiting body, leading to the periodicity?
Thanks, this looks amazing. For others looking for more info: https://www.onivim.io/
There are levels of "spying".

There is "enable microphone, listen in on conversations and adjust ad preferences" and "upload all photos in the background for analysis" and "check the clipboard for interesting stuff every few seconds"

Then there is just normal telemetry, anonymised and used for internal product development.
And probably hard to distinguish from a old meteor with the right metal combination.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18769099

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13760353

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13735714
The use of mask has been so prevalent, its mechanism so very simple and intuitive, its down-side so little, that I think in this case, the burden of proof is on the other side. Unless scientists find evidence that proves the masks to be useless or harmful, I'll continue to wear mask when I absolutely need to go out.
The likely region in yellow: https://twitter.com/SinaZerbo/status/1276559857731153921
As a minimalist, I can't deny the utility of digital maps, it's the most useful thing smart phones provide, and I would love to add it to an otherwise dumb phone...

For the same form factor and other benefits but at about twice the price the 8110 runs kaiOS which includes google maps among other things - it's a different ecosystem and you wont find all the same kinds of apps that you get on android but there are some big ones in there like whatsapp.

https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_gb/nokia-8110-4g

I might seriously upgrade to one of these at some point, feels like a good middle ground without going full distractophone.

[edit]

oh and of course you get to make infinite number of references to the matrix with this phone ;P
You might be on to something! repackage an nntp server with a web front end in a docker container and away you go
The Last of Us Part II sells more than 4M copies
Die shrink of a processor I worked on in the 90's, the C-Cube CL4010.

Looks like the design changed even though it was functionally equivalent.

http://www.w6rz.net/IMG_0044.JPG
Mythbusters, like all (US) television, needs to relate to a US audience, at about an 8th grade reading comprehension level.

That means favouring Imperial over metric units. They'd lose the audience otherwise.
Does anyone have an explanation of what I should be seeing here? I've been staring at it for a while (both full-screen and in the article), and I haven't noticed anything other than black and white.
There's a different type of interaction: a community that needs a place for its members.

As an organizer, you don't want to host it yourself, but you'd also prefer not to depend on a single provider. Federation makes that possible.
Does this mean that the Secure Enclave is accessible by the user? If so, it prompts so many questions. How much disk space is available on the Enclave, for example.
Don Bradman
I'd imagine individual shows are still more wholly tied to ad dollars. Doesn't defeat your point.
> The tty driver will buffer lots of data (or worse, the chain of ssh connections will do it).

That's what Ctrl-O is for, right?

I used to use that all the time on my 1200 bps modem. Usually followed by a Ctrl-L to repaint since discarding some of the buffered data can leave the screen in a weird state.
I bought one of these on eBay for like $75 and use it as a running companion, which I pretty much love. Using Google Fi, I throw a data only SIM in and it runs Spotify and acts as an emergency phone. After an hour run with next to no screen time, the battery is usually close to 50%, but definitely beats carrying a jumbo phone along. I wish they could improve on the battery, even if it was 10-20% larger (typing is really tough), but I don't know of anything else like this save for the Pebble Core, which never saw the light of day.
Not my experience... Touching “Communities” on my iPhone takes a while to load.

Edit: to add, while touching the buttons for the different sections, it seems sometimes my touches are not registering, requiring me to try again.
As far as I'm concerned UI mods, custom launchers, etc; were never neccesary. My first android ran cupcake & I had no problem finding a good alternative launcher on the play store. It was one of the first apps I installed & still is Every time I've gotten a new phone. I don't want anything preinstalled on my phone that isn't a core part of android itself. That kind of bloat does nothing but take away valuable space for apps I actually use. Google owns some of the blame, because they actually made the promise that there would be zero bloat on android,& presented that as a selling point, but they never even attempted to follow through on that promise.
I think about this all the time.

Not the "honest graft", which I can kinda wrap my head around.

What worries more are the hidden economies. The traditional trifecta of drugs, arms, human trafficking. Which would probably now include industrial espionage, demographic data, computer security stuff. (Just occurs to me this may be the "Dark Web" category.) The kind of stuff mid-career Seymour Hersh covered.

I really thought Sibel Edmonds' whistle blowing was going to mainstream this topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds

I guess I feel like there are so many hidden factors, of significant influence, that talking about visible finance, corruption, globalization, whatever feels wholly inadequate.
Its am easy way to filter bots though, and its similarly easy for actual users to use disposable emails
This one does:
https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_gb/nokia-8110-4g
And which of these problems is not solved by 10minutemail?
Most of this difficulty seems to arise from the fact he would block a website just because they used a AWS/Google backend, instead of simply just stop having a Google/Facebook etc. account. The latter is relatively simple to do, the former is nearly impossible (as it is seen in the article).
How is lemmy going to avoid the fate of the last reddit alternative (voat)? Voat attracted the communities banned from reddit, e.g the worst of the worst: jailbait, creepshots, beatingwomen, etc. The users most interested in an alternative to reddit are on average, the exact wrong type of user to help with the growth of a healthy community. I don't see any information on how being "federated" solves the hard problem of toxic communities, especially given that is the userbase it will attract.
That is not a counterargument to me -- I simply explained one of many ways that he could easily have kept the job (the easiest would have not to have been a bigot in the first place, but hey).

It's that he had no communication plan for an easily-foreseeable controversy that was disqualifying, not his views specifically.
See how the Fediverse works - it has largely avoided becoming like Voat. Most alt-right instances, such as Gab, are hugely defederated by instance admins and therefore isolated from most of the network.
> It's supposed to be for numbers focused things, come on.

It's not supposed to be for programming. If the 0 and O glyphs were identical, where would that confuse a reader, in a numbers-focused document?
I wonder, could it be related to the Nyonoksa radiation incident in Russia in 2019?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident
I don't believe that a morality-based movement will win the day, no. After a brief blip, the police will retrench and go back to being untouchable just as they have for many decades. Fighting that I think is a Sisyphean (but worthwhile) effort because people are by-and-large not persuadable when their interests as members of the privileged majority are at stake. If there is change, it will arrive because of demographic trends (as in California).

And if it does, all the panic in this thread about ruining people's lives will come to nothing because having somebody fired unjustly was never in anyone's interest. It was just an isolated edge case being blown out of proportion.
@zzo38computer (can you tag people on this website????)
It's disappointing that things didn't work out.

I'd looked at Xi about a year ago when I was finally running out of patience with Atom's terrible performance, but the lack of a workable Windows solution pushed me to VSCode in the end.
I don’t know, on the one hand, I’m sure he thought a lot about this theory.

But on the other hand, if you just took Fox News off the air, more people would wear masks and obey social distancing. And it isn’t obvious if Fox News would be replaced with something else that would also be suddenly #1 and just as radically anti-facts, that hasn’t happened with media basically ever. If it went away, nobody would be “tribal” about masks anymore, it would become a matter of a public health campaign, just like every other health crisis that is sensitive to mass media, like first time smoking and drinking.
* goto inside 3 nested for-loops

It's actually a reasonable practice in C and C++ to use goto to leave nested loops (I am hesitating to say a recommended practice).

There is often no sane way to leave the loop otherwise, break/continue statements only have effect in the most inner loop. It's possible to set extra variables with lots of if/break but that gets crazy real quick and much slower (nested loops are often the hot code path).
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16945227

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11611661

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8826060
Now that this has come along and shown it has the true claim to the term "terminal emulator", I guess I'll have to start referring to everything else as a "terminal simulator".
See TFA for a subset of the problems. Security should be designed so that it's easy to do it right and hard to do it wrong, but JWT offers many opportunities to do it wrong. Maybe you can figure it out with enough reading of TFA and other articles online, but there's no reason to take a risk on such a shoddy security standard in the first place.
some people internalize ideas that lead them to commit suicide, and those type of problems afflict rich and poor people. So, having internalized wrong ideas does not cast doubt on what money is.

rich people can internalize whatever they like, but the money they control allows them to effect more changes to society than the money controlled by people with less and in proportion to the amount of money, whether they are investing for the future or simply consuming today.

it is inescapable what money is measuring, and the rubber meets the road as to how you measure your values in how you allocate your money resources too.

you are putting a lot of adjectives on things like "predatory"; money is neutral in this regard. How much does society value health care vs food? Just how much is spent. I'm not telling you anything about what to think, I'm just telling you what money is.
How can we do journalism about things people say to journalists that aren’t even recorded?
>Since it has no testable consequences, it remains a speculation.

But why should it not be the default? I wonder if you're reacting to "string theory" which I am not promoting specifically, just the idea there is something that doesn't collapse any further, call it quarks or strings or whatever.

The page says there are testable consequences, I think, but assuming there are none, what are the testable consequences of the contrary - i.e. the existence of a singularity or the possibility of crossing the event horizon?

Reading popularized accounts of renormalization gave me the idea that when a physical theory spits out infinities, it's got to be inadequate. Whatever ideas don't give infinities are probably better. Regardless of whether you can test just yet.

If you disagree, why? Why say "this is the way relativity is" when relativity is guaranteed to be wrong?
...which is NOT high on the list of concerns for a game title, what you want instead is massive performance gains, so you can do more with less, and in the end produce a better experience than your competitor. -- function calls/indirection/making your code 'easy' to understand, all have a RUNTIME cost, and many small costs add up to a large cost, the reasoning is really that simple.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255035