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No, this holds in a fair comparison with manual error checking. In the presence of possible exceptions, the compiler has to make the assumption that any nontrivial expression can throw, especially if its implementation is opaque at the callsite. With explicit error handling, this is reduced to those checkpoints that are inserted manually, which are generally fewer.

If you call a function within the condition of an if statement, the compiler needs to conservatively assume that the execution flow from there is either to the rest of the conditionsl or to either one of the catch blocks or the functions' stack unwinding. If there cannot be an exception, the execution flow has none of these additional branches that bog down the DFA.
Stoop kid.
Design products that make people feel good
Are there any promising hybrid engines or are we stuck with solid fuel for the time being?
> in that case, without adding impure statefulness, how does one differentiate between "a paused frame is being displayed" and "an intermediate frame of a playing video is being displayed"

You have a paused "state" if that's relevant to you. But you can say "the video pauses at time t1" and "the video resumes at time t2", rather than restricting yourself to "the video is paused" or "the video is not paused".
Audio is basically negligible in terms of power.

Those massive stacks of speakers at an arena rock show are (in total) perhaps 20kW. The lights use far more.

Earbuds can we well south of one watt.
While I agree that companies shouldn't be corrupt, I think the idea is that our system is supposed to be designed to prevent corruption and bribery on the government side and that appears to have failed.
Dude whats up with that comment. Are you mocking me?

No. I'm talking about how a computer is basically a logic simulator. You don't need to use empirical methods to prove things in a logic simulator, you just use logic.
Yeah although the thrust given by that propellor is so much less than what the motor would give that the PID gains I've got on there won't work. I'm thinking I'll try and simulate this exact propellor setup in software with some PID gains and see if the real system works like the sim, then I'll know if that's true, I can then modify the sim and find PID values for when I attach a motor.
"When Peter put his contact information online, it had an intended context of use"

That is a great way of thinking of it. Lots of information, particularly from 90s and 00s, got put up on the 'Net with no intention of it being archived in perpetuity for public consumption and used for unintended purposes.
This is good to know, and this history and reactions to it are pretty various.
Can stork.js be served locally rather from the domain https://files.stork-search.net ?
I’m reading this on a glowing rectangle, what a coincidence.
Yep, I have an iPad which I use purely for drawing. Technically it counts as screen time but the activity is really no different to drawing on paper. Unless perhaps you are studying eye strain
DeepMind's big losses, and the questions around running an AI lab
I wonder how many people involved in that as kids had gone on to work at NASA and other organizations.
That's my hope as well :)
The visible universe is so large it is effectively infinite. And that’s just the visible universe. With 125 billion known galaxies with a 100 billion stars in each it definitely feels arrogant to imagine that we are literally the only sentient beings.
I think that what you're wanting is this:

https://www.connectedhomeip.com

https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip#connected-ho...

Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance joined together to promote the formation of the Working Group. Zigbee Alliance board member companies IKEA, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), Silicon Labs, Somfy, and Wulian are also on board to join the Working Group and contribute to the project.
I built a node library that does this 6 years ago and I just verified that it still works. It uses the algolia API.

https://github.com/jaredsohn/hnuserdownload

There was also a website which is not working. Going to turn that off now.
Other than arguing that the infiniteness of the universe somehow indubitably lends credence to the emergence of some convergent sentience, could you or anyone point to something a bit more rigorous (such as the paper your parent comment linked to)?
That is certainly an exaggeration on the low end. By some estimates we don't have more than about 100 years of nuclear power. It's not really beneficial to give these wildly overoptimistic estimates of recoverable resources.
> One application of vertical that does make sense to me is as a community hub or a public health initiative around healthy eating.

That's something I hadn't considered, the social aspects. Thanks!

The greatest value of urban farms might be in primary-school education.
> Modern architecture is awful.

A bit broad, surely?

It’s worth noting that when you look at 2000 year old buildings, you’re generally looking at stuff that both lasted 2000 years, so was probably of fairly high end construction, and that survived 2000 years without someone saying “we should pull that down and build an office block”. A lot of the stuff that didn’t survive mightn’t be so inspiring, and after the stuff around at the moment goes through the same filter, in the 40th century people may marvel at how amazing 20th century architecture was!
Though I've never served in armed forces, nor participated in armed conflict, I think C&C does a pretty good approximation of being an (overwhelmed) officer in command of a small area conflict, where you do have to give exact orders to everyone for every little thing.

I think a huge improvement to RTS in general would be allowing multiple players to command the same army, so that each can be responsible for a small portion of all the different tasks you describe.
For model rocket stuff of this size, yeah all we got is solid motors. I've seen some larger amateur rockets that use liquid fuel though but at that point, that leaves "amateur single person" territory and it's more for larger institutions or clubs.
It's actually quite possible that earth has had one or more technologically advanced, for certain definitions of the term, lifeforms in its 4 billion year history but these have all been wiped out in one way or another before being able to leave any significant trace in the geological record. The best evidence against this is the lack of evidence of plastics and isotopes indicative of atomic energy use.
Same with Magic The Gathering, Poker, etc. over a few games you can win. Long term, nope. The best players at MTG have maybe a 60-65% win rate in a professional setting. And that is considered very good. But they can do it consistently. So really the game is about how much better than 50/50 you can get. The difference in adding 5-8% to your win rate is an astonishing amount of skill. It’s part of what makes magic fun. Complete novices have a shot. Maybe that rankles some people, but that’s the game :)
I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music
Old and big for something that would only have 1 planet with intelligent life. It may well be small and/or young from another PoV.

If anything I'd hazard our ignorance is more on the side of things we don't know we haven't observed than things we observed incorrectly.
I work in this area.

There's a huge runway in front of us for both products and technology.

'Acoustic Holography' has worked for some time, commercial implementations have been few and far between, mostly because what's in the market is already selling boatloads without it.

It'll come eventually, there are a few groups dedicated to it.

A successful anchor in that space will allow companies to go deeper into applications.

Acoustic room splitting, Silence on demand, etc.
IEM = In-Ear-Monitors?
Try getting an employer to fork out for IEMs when $300 headphones “do the job”.
They might be scheduling meeting with clients?
> it's the world that throws away intermediate states, and that happens whether you want it to or not. Unfortunately for FP afficionados, physical reality runs with autocommit set to True.

This fact is unfortunate for OO aficionados who try to build programs by modelling the real world, because it leads them to build programs with the same problem. Whereas FP aficionados realise that even though there's no "undo" in the real world, we can enable it in our programs.
Visual/interior specifics, smaller - they will adjust to what the market wants
Charging network - not hard, will be there soon
Self-driving - more of a "cool" feature, will be industry standard in a decade anyway
Remote software updates - trivial to implement, will be standard

TSLA has nothing unique besides brand and battery tech. Battery tech is definitely going to be ubiquitous in a decade. They're already nearing an ideal range and charge time for average usecase.

Like I said, self driving is like a nerdy "cool feature". Nobody is gonna do something on their computer or take a nap or something.
FreeDV 700E and Compression
Why bother with real books in the first place? just print the spines.
I agree with you and would add that cheap imported crap seems to be getting cheaper and crappier. It's pretty astounding just how cheap and crappy things can get and still be salable products.
We can definitely make systemic changes that help people make better "decisions." I don't believe in free will and you clearly do so we're kinda approaching this problem from fundamentally different frameworks. Stupid people shouldn't be culled but rather shepherded. Governments are artificial constructs so asking them to act "naturally" doesn't make sense to me as they have no natural state.

Also reducing human suffering seems to be a pretty good thing to do and your natural system doesn't seem to do that.
And being pedantic the Atari 5200 had an analog controller long before them. Not that it was any good, mind you, since it was bizarrely non-self-centering.
It was the first thing I thought of too: https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Stoop_Kid_(character)
This comment sounds like the Infamous Dropbox Comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Time, energy, attention, creative limit is important for a tiny startups like this.
I'd be overjoyed at the prospect of a life with meaningful activities and interactions that don't require a screen. I have yet to succeed in making much progress towards that goal.

It bothers me that instead of adapting the tool to us we have adapted ourselves to the tool.
Reductionism is fun.

"90% of waking hours spent activating tendons in response to electrical impulses".
I would assume avoiding plastics and other non-biodegradable packaging materials, avoiding waste by purchasing repairable things and repairing when needed, avoiding companies that are know polluters and seeking companies actively working to do the things I listed here as well.
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How is self-driving software that useful at all for a consumer driving a car?

Nobody is gonna trust the car to drive while they're napping or working on their laptop lol.
Yes, something along this line occurred to me after posting, but I'd agree with you. Integrity is also arguably a case where humility can come into play even when people don't notice.
You can get a decent set for about a hundred bucks.
I heard this episode first. I was confused by the fact that Roman knew all the words to this song that I had never heard of.

I listened to the Reply-All episode some weeks later and had that deja vu of "I know this song -- but from where??".

Took me a bit to connect them!
All forms of grain available to the Romans had more gluten than current wheat. However, er, yeah, it would mostly have been locally sourced (except for the wheat; the Romans moved a lot of that around) and free range, factory farming having largely not being invented yet.
Same thing happened to me on an iPad with the latest OS version. Crazy indeed.
Growing staples is the main failing of all these vertical farms, and they are just boutique-ish without that capability.

But if energy were free could we not grow staples vertically? We ARE on the cusp of that. And there is a lot of emphasis here.

Virtually free energy could come now, with present technology, anywhere on earth with Geothermal... if it was just invested in. (Requires upfront costs).
I expect the additional cost of salaries of US CBP officers in Taiwan is negligible in the larger scheme of things.
I imagine this is part of a bigger plan to do more pre-clearance globally.

One advantage of doing pre-clearance is that aircraft can go from Taiwan directly to other airports, bypassing overloaded airports like LAX. In a post-COVID world, they can also avoid having people arrive sick. The Asian countries have done much better with Covid, and keeping them separate would be a win.

There is probably also more customs pre-clearance of freight going on, and a lot of air freight goes via passenger aircraft.
Even if they used python:latest (as if that is the only flavor), they're only "latest" when I do my build. So, now I have to coordinate builds and releases. Unlikely to happen, and, again, an anti-pattern.
This is what I remember from working closely with the people doing this at Apple. I believe they may have published a paper, but I'm not sure. Vojta Jina was the relevant manager.
I agree! It’s made whole classes of problems easily solvable with great compile time validation. I just want it in a lisp with multiple bracket shapes and a good immutability story.
I could say the same for your statement. It doesn't solve any problems. You stated a point and you need to prove your point.

I could just say everything you say is completely and utterly wrong and leave it at that.
Casual piracy was significantly easier on the DC, but not because GDRoms were easy to copy. What was easy to do was to convince the system to boot from a standard CD, and it turns out some games didn't take up a whole GDRom or could have their textures easily replaced with lower res or better compressed versions allowing them to fit on a self-booting CD.
Theoretically yes, our thought processes appear to be the emergent properties of overall brain state. Brain state could be defined as locations and forms of all proteins, ions, and other compounds. Next brain state is entirely dependant on the previous state as you take infinitesimally small steps forward through time. Signals flow through our neuronal networks along pathways dependant on brain state, although signals when understood as action potentials are also part of the overall brain state.
It's just like spam. In the past, you had to pay for a stamp to send your scam out. That limited the reach of the scam, because eventually, all those pennies added up. In the age of the internet and email, while there are costs to send vast amounts of email, it's a tiny fraction of sending physical letters.

MLMs in the Internet age are analogous. Once, you had to pay for 'inventory' then actually take time and expense to engage your marks and sell them on the shill. You had to set up an Amway or whatever party, or harass someone at the grocery store, or take advantage of your family and friends. Now, you get website for a few bucks a month, a FB/YT/Twitter/TikTok/etc web of accounts (including copious sockpuppets) for nothing, maybe pay a bit for an 'influencer' to feed you some eyeballs, and you're able to reach thousands or more.

It's all a matter of percentages at that point.
This isn't about averaging over all your submissions, it's about averaging over the entire population (in this case, of iphone users, ~1,000,000,000). Data about the entire population, e.g. how many people click this button, or how many results do most people get from this page, or what kind of things do people take pictures of, i think are safe.
This is kind of a bigoteering comment. Good faith interpretation of OP's question includes any and all possible sexual gender identities.
What makes you think they don't grow food there now? Hint: they do.
I had a scene that haunted me as a kid and I thought there was no way I'd ever find it (literally had little more than the fading scenes from the dreams).

And this year I found it. I'd always remembered it wasn't a cartoon or live action - but something in between. So it turns out it was the scenes of 'death' from Jim Henson's "The Storyteller". Just something about the creepy face that did it as a kid. Was definitely a strange sensation to connect it all and see the images anew. Humans/memories/brains are weird. (The Storyteller, Season 1, Ep 5 - it's on Amazon Prime in Canada)
That's not the same thing as "basic ability to survive".

When billions of people couldn't buy food and don't have clean water to drink, cries of, "But I'm not maximally benefitting from my own productivity increases!" come across as relatively unimportant.

The phrase that caught my eye was, "the general state of the world today is worse off." I don't think that meshes with observed reality over the past 40 years for the humans living on this planet, if you're not white, affluent, straight and American.
Thank you, all great ideas!
All of us with seldom exception use our glowing rectangles as addictive dopamine drips that exploit our innate desire to scavenge for information that ends up disconnecting us from the world and, likely, things we actually find fulfilling. And we watch our own children suffer the exact same way and wonder what can actually be done about it.

There was a submission this morning or yesterday about "if we could live our lives over" where many HNers were lamenting how they felt like they were wasting their precious hours. How many of those people would say that their screen time wasn't contributing? Or that it was actually fulfilling?

Not sure who here relates to the idea of spending the bulk of their screen time organizing transport and planning dinner parties or whatever. Or the idea of "no, I actually do like how much time I spend on <vice> and I'm trying to get those numbers up even higher."

For some reason whenever this topic comes up, we have people playing coy with what "screen time" could possibly be referring to. "What, you're saying it's bad to use my iPhone to Facetime my dying father?"
The standard tools have a lot of cruft. `grep` being case sensitive by default is I think a good example of a default that used to make sense, but is probably better the other way around today. There are countless other such examples.

Your comment reads as a no-true-scottsman "look how skilled I am" signaling device. You're not necessarily wrong, but you're also clearly fighting a pointless battle, and sound a bit out-of-touch.

Yes, the tools already exist and work. No, they do not need to be re-written, but the new versions are often substantially more usable and newcomers enjoy that. Such is the nature of life. Things change. Accept that and you'll be happier.

Your attitude might win some points with other fight-the-tide-till-my-last-dying-breath types, but it reads to me as "It is the children who are wrong!"

I worked with a guy who had the same attitude about always using kubectl over the gui because it was "faster". He was demonstrably slower at quite a few common tasks, like discovering errors in logs across many pods, than others who used the gui.
What's the difference? :)
One of the funny things about the Intel/Arm situation is that in many ways, it mirrors how Intel itself started out on low-end microcontrollers and microprocessors for PCs, and grew to displace pretty much everyone else for the high end supercomputers, data centers, and the like. For many years, it has been fairly apparent that the same thing was happening with Arm; when Arm thoroughly cemented its position on top of the smartphone market, it seemed pretty clear that they would eventually be able to push up into the laptop market and beyond, the main question was when.

Unfortunately for Intel, they've been hit by a couple of major blows in quick succession; Spectre and other microarchitectural vulnerabilities, and the fact that the mitigations wiped out a lot of their architectural advantages, their trouble with manufacturing at new process nodes, allowing AMD to take the lead from them on high-performance x86, and Arm finally catching up with them in the desktop/laptop space, and also starting to make some small inroads in the server space (though mostly on cost, not performance at the moment).

One thing which may have made them more susceptible to the innovators dilemma problem is the fact that they were already a victim of the second system effect with their Itanium failure. They poured a lot of resources into a major new ISA, and it was a flop and was replaced by the incremental x86-64. Despite that, their incremental improvements on the x86 architecture managed to wipe out all of the RISC competitors on the high end; so there's probably even more organizational oppositions to major new architectural changes which could have kept Arm at bay.

I think it's interesting that it has taken this long for RISC to really pay off. The whole idea behind RISC was to optimize the ISA for modern, pipelined, OoO architectures, but it turns out that for a long time, a bit of extra complexity in the instruction decoder wasn't that much of a price to pay, and things like Moore's law and other architectural improvements kept it mostly irrelevant as a competitive advantage.

But finally, Intel has run out of running room on process dominance, and other things have happened like hitting more power limits and software that's able to take advantage of more available threads and relaxed memory models. Once you start to try to run more threads, the extra cost and complexity of those decoders starts to add up, and the strong memory ordering constraints mean that your hands are a bit more tied on huge OoO dispatch.

Anyhow, Intel is still the biggest semiconductor company in the world, and they have weathered other major issues like the famous Pentium floating point bug, Itanium, and Spectre. It will take a lot to dethrone them, and with their revenue and market share, they can lose a lot of battles and invest a lot of money into new technology or companies before they lose the war.

But the last few years make it clear that they need some big wins soon, or they risk turning into the next IBM, slowly losing relevance as they milk their cash cows while the world moves on.
Now do https.

I get not using curl is a cool and fun challenge, but outside that, there's very little reason to not just rely on curl.
I'm surprised the payment system is designed in such a way to make that possible
Any idea on how to formalize this area? Is anyone even trying to do that?
Yeah, I just tried that and it works with restic, at least in my quick tests of it: slept the computer with restic in mid-scan, and it was ok resuming on wake a few minutes later.

A simple crontab entry to run restic every hour should work. I tested it running every minute and that worked fine.

If there's a chance that the laptop would sleep and stop restic in a mid-backup that was started by cron, then this[1] suggestion would probably be sufficient to work around that:

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25552894

What I'm not sure about is whether restic would resume backing up a large file from where it left off if interrupted, or if it must re-backup the entire file.
Egon Schiele - Man in Chair
I know both very poor and very rich people who fall for MLMs all the time (and other foolishness). You're going to have to provide a lot more support for the assertion that this is somehow unique to a deteriorating middle class.
You should see my git aliases that makes heavy use of fzf. It definitely speeds me up. `ga` gives an fzf-powered selection only on files in my git status to `git add`. I can cherry pick commits without ever typing a branch or commit hash. Fuzzy-find on reverse search with fzf is way better than the built-in ctrl+r. ripgrep is way better than grep. I could go on.

I appreciate your call to be familiar with the core unix experience, but the unix userland is definitely enriched by these newfangled tools.