skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 5. Argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality

That's an elegant way to articulate a criticism I've had of many technologies that I have been unable to state so clearly. All those file formats, for example, that seek to replace XML. Think of JSON, YAML, and TOML. They all claim to be simple, but end up too simple in practice and cause just as many issues as they solve. Comments, schemas, and namespaces were there for a reason, they weren't just a "messy design" awaiting a visionary to clean up...

> 6. Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary

Unfortunately, in the cloud era, we're all faced with trillion dollar behemoth organisations that wield absolute power over their dominions. Us peasants have no hope of changing the vision they choose to impose. Suddenly, the well-established and well-known stable world has become "legacy".
And how many average computer users even know what a terminal is, let alone have ever used it
most games are CPU bound, an extreme recent example is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, the real issue is that they are mostly singlethreaded CPU bound, there's barely any games that can max out a modern 8 core CPU
There was a similar system, which got more or less replaced by standardised containers - the LASH carrier fleet took freight in standardised barges called “lighters” which could be floated out at ports, but couldn’t really compete with the multi-modal train-to-ship-to-truck container platform.
Can't you say the same thing about any violence? Guns don't cause the violence in the first place. If you didn't have a gun you'd be violent with a knife instead, if you'd already decided to be violent.
well yes for people who have accessibility issues but are sighted, probably such things as color blindness needs to be taken into account, or dyslexia if there are text labels on part of the visualization.

For people that are not sighted the accessible way to present the data is probably a block of text their screen reader can read.
Wife told her husband: Buy two watermelons on your way home, if you see eggs, buy a dozen. So the husband went home with a dozen watermelons.
Why? Why should I need/buy one?

RaspberryPI is a relatively good "PC" for cheap, uses little power and is fast enough for most usecases at home.

RaspberryPi zero is a bit slower, but a lot smaller.... and harder to buy.

Neither of them have any good alternatives on the market (yes i know many other similar boards exist, but software support is really shitty for those "alternative" boards, especially after a few years).

Why PI Pico? What killer feature does it have, compared to esp32 (which has wifi), arduino (which as a gajillion libraries and support), or some other microcontroller (bbc micro, STM,...)?

EDIT: not trying to shit on their effort, but genuinely looking for an answer to "why this, and not something else (arduino, esp,...)?"
It doesn't seem like the regulation was ever intended to replace that judgement call; just support the doctors' decision. We are not machines ruled by logic, and in the end everything that ends up in the justice system is judged by intention and/or merit and not 'the letter of the law'.
Except segmentation faults and accidental rm -rf's haven't put me in a wheelchair or unable to function properly, yet.
The article ends with "April 16 2020: The Daily Manifest made over $10k in sales." There's a tweet from May/5th embedded "You can make $100,000 a year selling a one page PDF." but I can't see it actually generated that revenue.
Yeah, would be interesting if they integrated it ala STM32MP1[1][2].

[1]: https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32...

[2]: https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2020/03/10/introducing-new-...
OpenPGP could mean XEP-0374 which is newer than OTR. But XEP-0374 went from experimental to deferred 3 years ago. It isn't really competing with OMEMO.
BSOD works like a charm in Edge. Reminds me of the old win98 BSOD with con in IE.
So in Indian context respect is shown to the elders by means of different suffix (brother, sister, uncle, grandpa).

It could be either brother (bhaiyya, anna, chettan ) or Sister (deedi, akka, chechi .. ) if the person is elder to you but not too older than you. So if you are in 20's , and shopkeeper (who is Raju) is in his 40s, you might call him Raju bhaiyya (or Raju anna in Tamil, Raju chettan in Malayalam).

If there is a visible One generation gap, then Uncle or Auntie is used.

And if there is a visible two generation gap, then grandpa and grandma is also suffixed to call them (but this is not very common.. and sometimes could be taken as insult)

And the elders might call you Son or Daughter (beta, beti ..) in a similar way.

And you could be complete strangers.
NBA Topshot - fully-licensed blockchain collectibles
Correction: Actual upper limit is 90% bandwidth reduction, not 95%.
I think it's worth spelling out that 'chunk thingy' can lead to complete site takeover. For example, using this behaviour I was able to get persistent control of PayPal's login page.

That said, I tweeted this rather than posting a whitepaper because I haven't thoroughly explored the impact. I've shared my guess about what other issues you'll find here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25858015
One way to do it is to whitelist all binaries in the system, and sandbox all applications (to prevent chances of a malicious PDF/image/etc abusing a buggy application).
First private exchange launches on Binance Cloud
"A privately held exchange has launched on the Binance Cloud platform for the first time.

Mandala says its goal is to deliver enhanced trading depth, security and transaction speeds to users — enabling them to trade cryptocurrency with confidence.

This is coupled with a 'unique focus on compliance that will bring cryptocurrencies to the masses, with an ecosystem tailored to passionate beginners and institutional investors alike.'"
It's definitely true, but compilers also need to change quickly and run fast which can put a lot of strain on the initial architecture.

Also, although the books tell you compilers are all cause and effect there's are parts that are pretty intertwined, be that parsing C++ or even the way that x86 is sufficiently complicated that performing instruction selection and scheduling requires some jiggling because of the complexity of the ISA and the breadth of microarchitectures available.
The limits are the shackles of oppression, the integral is the proletariat and switching is disavowing capitalism and seizing the means of production.
The title doesn't overstate the claim, its simply false. The statement "most surgeries to relieve pain are ineffective" and "most surgeries are ineffective" are completely different largely unrelated statements.
Just consider the entire thing (spacetime) as one system.
Fuck threadsing
>What if the pain isn’t going away at all? Should you then get surgery?

>Golden advice by Dr Ian -> “the severity of your symptoms does not change the effectiveness of the operation“

I like how straight up & honest this Dr is.
I love the idea. Discoverability in the App Store is tricky. I typed in "Sundayy" and Apple asked if I meant "Sunday" and showed me a bunch of other apps first!
Actually, this is mostly possible.

Except for some issues regarding the stack size when resolving the types. (But I think there are more efficient implementations using more copy and paste, making this actually work)

playground link:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/C4TwDgpgBAggTnAPAO...
I disagree. "Purpose" connotes intent, and evolution has none. It's a glorified random number generator hooked to a feedback loop. The only "purpose" evolution has is in POSIWID sense - the purpose of a system is what it does[0].

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Or that we only have one real joke, and it kinda sucks.
It appears that they were selling shovels, pickaxes and associated methods to make money.

"Buy my ebook to make money online"

Inside my ebook:

"sell ebooks"
I'm in my final year of my Bachelor's and I'm probably going to do a Masters after that. Do you have any advice for me on how to best get introduced to compilers? I feel like I don't have a good idea of what I want to focus on, it seems like compilers would be fun to explore and see if I like the topic.
At least one here :-) I've been to Herrang a few times as well, but unfortunately after Frankie Manning's retirement. I got to listen to Dawn Hampton though which was great. It's pretty popular with tech people (at least in Australian and UK circles) so I'm sure there are more of us on HN.

(Herrang is a small village (pop 400) in Sweden which becomes an international swing dancing festival / camp for 5 weeks each summer)

Frankie Manning has a good autobiography published - https://frankiemanning.com/book.php well worth reading for an idea of what his days looked like. He was at some historic events like battle of the bands with Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

Re. missing the dancing: I know it's not the same as the real thing, but have you tried joining some "local" zoom classes? I found it really fun to drop in to a random one across the world.
You completely missed the point. Article is not about trade nor free markets.
Article is about the metaphorical elephant realizing it could break its chains. It is about a change of mindset about individual destiny and how this change of mindset was the birth of capitalism.

And just to be clear,
economics <> capitalism <> free markets <> trade
A "placebo surgery", if it involves incisions to the point of being indistinguishable to the patient, isn't really a placebo since it will still require healing and recovery.
also check the "Bodyweight" option.
Except programming errors HAVE killed people - read the Therac case report.

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2017/11/mco2017110...
But not without flaws (it's hard to know how much truth there is with the women - definitely a womaniser, possibly abusive but that could be just be for the divorce - but Gell-Manns criticism of him is pretty funny)
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> In other words, a time traveler could make changes, but the original outcome would still find a way to happen — maybe not the same way it happened in the first timeline but close enough so that the time traveler would still exist and would still be motivated to go back in time.

> "No matter what you did, the salient events would just recalibrate around you," Tobar said.

I'd love to see how this works when you go back in time and kill your toddler self.

> "The universe is deterministic and attempts to alter Past Event X are destined to be the forces which bring Past Event X into being,"

But WHICH events? If things change around you when you change the past, then by definition some events will have happened, and others not (otherwise NOTHING would change, including your arrival in the past, and therefore time travel cannot occur). After all, a single breath you took at a specific point in time is an event. Waking up 2 seconds later is an event. Using your left foot first as you walked out of the house that day instead of the right is an event. So who decides which events are "important" enough that "forces bring Past Event X into being"? You'd need some kind of omniscient, omnipotent intelligence in order to accomplish that.

The very logic behind this idea is a contradiction.
Let’s go all the way back to `with`. What does it do? It encapsulates try/finally blocks and only try/finally. That is a weirdly specific thing to encapsulate. Why did they do that? Well, it turns out that making an anonymous block syntax that is compatible with Python’s grammar is hard, so you can’t have the equivalent of this JavaScript:

WithOpen(filename, f => {
// block
})

Because blocks aren’t viable, problems have to be solved on a case-by-case basis, which is hard to do well and leaves gaps.
I imagine we'll see a return to this idea now that drones are becoming more ubiquitous.
What Are White-Label Restaurant Apps? and When Does It Make Sense to Use One?
I wasn’t aware (don’t really follow the news).

My view is to value the work and leave the personal side out of things — with the same token, we should not over idolize people and expect them to be our saviors outside their chosen field. Celebrity worship is bad, they are just humans after all.

I should rephrase my original comment as “Richard Feynman is a legend in Physics”.
Bicycles have changed in the last 25 years (2018)
Hm? Debian is famous for not including nonfree wireless firmware on purpose (drivers are an entirely different thing). They also provide an optional installer with these included.

So your example seems to be completely unrelated to the question.
Blind players succeed at sports video games they’ve never seen (2018)
> Most surgery is not like that, it involves some objective condition.

Are you sure about that? My impression in the US is that most surgeries are of the subjective nature. And surgeons are far too eager to perform surgery. That was my own experience - I visited an ENT for sleep problems, and the first thing he suggested was surgery, even turning down my suggestion for a sleep study first. I later found out this person lives in a giant mansion, has a nice yacht, etc. and performs a large number of surgeries. I think in the US there are large incentives to perform surgery since it is so profitable.
The logical extension of this would be, given how local interactions might affect events across the globe over time, that the entire past becomes immutable. That would reduce time travel to a read-only experience, so it wouldn't have any utility beyond time tourism.
It leads me to think that no one that would fuck up the future will be able to do time travel in the first place. So it is not possible because anyone who dreams about going back in time wants to change something.
Thanks! It appears to now be visible in "new", but not in "ask." Weird.

Update: Now it's in "ask" too.
Tornado of Souls by Megadeth.

That entire album is outrageously good.
The D GC is written in D so you can opt out as you wish, but the standard library is designed around the GC.

That being said if you are in a situation where you cannot use the GC you probably wouldn't need the stdlib all that much anyway (there's a bunch of alternatives available).
The government’s money are unearned money, confiscated from taxpayers. There is a saying about this kind of income: "easy come, easy go". You can be sure that "the subjects" this money was taken from would be much more careful about spending it.

Not convinced? Just look at the way government borrows: no sane person would sell her future like that. Also, just ask a politician how worried he is about spending money "for his constituents". I know stadiums made for tiny towns, boulevards for undriven neighborhoods, and so on and so forth...
On another note: technically, for forearms you'd want to have your hands facing away from you when doing a chin-up. Hands facing towards you is better for biceps.
The ability to have all inputs available to all state machines is really useful - they also mention a port of tensorflow lite to the board.
So, one example would be preprocessing inputs for feeding directly into tensorflow applications, for ML at the edge (I think that's the buzzword bingo won there!).

With 360mb/s I/O bandwidth, that equates to more than FullHD at 60hz, with 16bit colour depth. If you attach say a rpi camera to the I/O you can do signal processing on the image. Same for VGA output.
I always found it funny how in many languages "potato" is the apple of the earth.

[fr] pomme de terre

[nl] aardappel

[gr] γεώμηλο (γη + μήλο, almost never used though)
How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation
> pump energy at your destination

What does that even mean? This is the kind of hand-waving the OP was pointing out.

He probably meant the first law.
Thanks for building this, man. I can finally have a leego of my own workout.
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I also enjoy a similar one where instead of the programmer stands a statistician and instead of project manager a principal investigator.
Source: https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/12745
I suspect there is no really useful number to give for most such benchmarks due to the massive variance within "healthy people" an in fact how "healthy" is defined.

Look how many different figures/calculations are banded around for questions like "how many calories do I burn running X distance or Y minutes" for instance.
Native IPFS Support in Brave
Apple Mulls Podcast Subscription Service
Decline push-ups also work on your forearms.
The world. Eaten by software since 2011
I think I messed up the number.
Uses much less power and comes from Raspberry PI Foundation.
On the contrary, the larger the market, the more the competition and thus the less danger of monopolization.
It could get hairy when here is also another parser that has different assumptions. They don’t see the same URL. Psychic paper [0] comes to mind.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/02/psychic-paper
I have a torn meniscus. The surgeon looked at it and said: " you can have surgery if you want but it won't make much difference, if you can live with it now". 5 years later, no problems, and no more knee locking. Touch wood...
The string type is utf8.

You would think an old http header is a string. It's not. It looks like a string though :)
Checking in from Melbourne, similarly missing it.
Bit of a nitpick, but the real value is in safe languages, rather than managed languages, no? The distinction is a little blurry, admittedly, but as an example, I figure that verified SPARK counts as safe but unmanaged.
Here's what I use:

https://github.com/gbegher/groth/blob/460852a71859f149ecf9b5...

Did not cause any roadblocks so far.
> definitely a womaniser,

Curious - should someone who as consensual casual affairs with women be labeled as a "flaw"?
It really is. The level of confidence from test pilots to initial designers to firstly propose ideas and then have someone sit inside and try it out is pretty interesting too.
The D compiler has a build script called (imaginatively) build.d (rdmd let's you run a single D file in one step), and although it's not super sophisticated, I'm already convinced that makefiles should be considered harmful if the alternative is something in a real language.

Not only can you actually read the code, you can also express things in a platform agnostic way rather than the inevitable "which make are you actually" bug report
Is there a name for this phenomenon? Need a good wikipedia rabbit hole to go down.
Why use managed languages when you can prove your code correct?
How curation is reinventing e-commerce
Sure. But that's neither here nor there, as the market is an equal opportunity institution. It doesn't ask whether you got your money by providing goods in exchange, or confiscated it from your subjects, or won it in a casino, or robbed a bank, or stole it from your employees' pension fund, ...
Monzo CEO departing the challenger bank, citing burnout
Lindy Hopper from France here! Looking forward to dance again... someday.
PIO state machines programmable in Python sound pretty neat:

> You'll note there's no I2S peripheral, or SDIO, or camera, what's up with that? Well instead of having specific hardware support for serial-data-like peripherals like these, the RP2040 comes with the PIO state machine system which is a unique and powerful way to create custom hardware logic and data processing blocks that run on their own without taking up a CPU. For example, NeoPixels - often we bitbang the timing-specific protocol for these LEDs. For the RP2040, we instead use a PIO object that reads in the data buffer and clocks out the right bitstream with perfect accuracy. Same with I2S audio in or out, LED matrix displays, 8-bit or SPI based TFTs, even VGA! In MicroPython and CircuitPython you can create PIO control commands to script the peripheral and load it in at runtime. There are 2 PIO peripherals with 4 state machines each. [1]

Two M0 cores with M4 speeds and priced lower than usual M0-based boards also sounds exciting:

> The RP2040 is a powerful chip, which has the clock speed of our M4 (SAMD51), and two cores that are equivalent to our M0 (SAMD21). [1]

And official support for MicroPython and USB host and guest for $4 is something rare and could potentially lure some tinkerers into embedded programming.

I personally plan to create an USB ambient light sensor for controlling Lunar [2] with it. It is a very affordable and widely available board which could potentially allow people to reproduce the sensor even in places where I can't ship a pre-assembled board.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4864
[2] https://lunar.fyi
But that's the point, these people are in genuine pain, their knee is shot, surgeons were performing real surgery.

Surgeons knew it worked because they were cleaning all this gunk out of knees, and patients were recovering and having better quality of life.

For years surgeons refused to try RCTs to test this because to them it was so obvious that it worked.

It was only when trials were run that surgeons started to accept that maybe it's a bit more complicated. They say that the same type of knee would respond to sham surgery as well as real surgery.

This, by the way, is a real problem for pain treatment. We split people up into groups of "this is real pain" and "this is in your head". We need to stop that because it's harmful.

Pain is a complex phenomena. Most people have a complicated interplay between the physical and psychological components. Many people in pain will experience some relief from pain, and a large increase in quality of life and function, with psychological treatment.

Those people aren't faking it; their pain is real; they deserve better treatment.
I agree with what you write, but I'm also spitballing stopgap measures: Are there downsides to having governments instead contract healthcare capacity? Has this been tried?

By this I mean that instead of the government paying each hospital (or in this case dentist) for each procedure, the government pays each hospital (or dentist) to keep a certain capacity for each kind of procedure available. The hospitals are obliged to provide up to that capacity at no extra cost to the government. Any demand beyond it, goes into the backlog (and turns into a political issue).

Surely I'm missing some downsides…
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> This is a closed source, downstream effort which means no modifications can be made to Electron itself.

how does that work with the fact that Blink (LGPL) is part of electron ?
That option implies time travel is not possible, since your mere existence at a past moment is already mutating it. Which is the opposite of what the article claims.
> So, does this mean that a library/module written in Racket can be called from an iOS application written in Swift?

Yup! There’s an example of just that at the very end.
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Doesn’t conservation of energy preclude backwards time travel? If not, would a hypothetical machine which sends an atom back in time be able to fill some previous universe with infinite numbers of the same atom?
The PIO (programmable hardware) is the most exciting aspect of this device! I think this might be a key technology differentiator in the future of microcontrollers, especially as the industry settles in on similar cores (ARM Cortex M0/4).

Interfacing with weird/custom hardware is often why we need to use microcontrollers in the first place, and this will make it much easier.
That’s where I heard it :)
It's probably much simpler than that:

"It has come to my attention that clients which we do not control connect to our service. This severely limits the monetization opportunities available to us. Please fix before it is caught in a due diligence."
The conservation of energy only applies to a closed system. If we can "create" an apple at any given point in time, that only means that "the universe at a given point in time" isn't a closed system.