skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There just a lot of guys and a bunch of leased machines. We have essentially 0 "high tech" farms.

I think OP might mean that these "high tech farms" are less like farms and more like movie studios. The tractor makers and the bank are acting like a movie studio. The are running a production in a certain area, with certain high tech equipment, with certain subleases on land for a certain number of years. There is no one driving vision and keeping the flame of what high tech should be. It's more like, "let's get this soy to market in the new way that is 7% cheaper before the other team does." Just a guess on what OP means
> I absolutely believe it's on Tesla to ensure that their cars can't be tricked into driving completely without driver supervision

Do you also believe it's up to publishers to control how their cryptography libraries are used, and firearms manufacturers to predetermine each and every end user that will lay a finger on their products?
This means that the issues of economic disparity get shadowed by the pseudo-issues of race.
> Your idealistic vision sounds well and good. But what if you refuse to conform to cisgender- and heteronormativity, but your neighbour is a bigot? What if you are a politically active citizen, but your neighbor’s politics are hostile to yours?

I don't think people cared much about politics at all before modernity. If anything, the conflicts if any in Europe were centered around religion. As for the minorities, due to people's bigotry, perhaps sometimes they are indeed better off in an alienated modern world.

> Also, “bored and depressed bureaucrats” and “Kafkaesque rules” is a caricature, it may not be how others perceive their country’s welfare state. Satisfaction in fact may run high.

It's not a caricature. There are plenty of cases of people who needed help, but for some random stupid reason the bureaucracy refused it (I think even on this forum there is a girl from Germany whose parents died when she was young and, due to a glitch in the system, she was left on her own and forced to support herself via prostitution). The paper shufflers see the pointlessness of the rules they have to obey and the misery it causes (i.e. they knew the girl should get help, but the system just said they can't help her), which is a contributing factor into their potential depression.
Isn't Light Pollution directly proportional to population density?
These people need to be paid massive compensation for having their lives ruined, paid for by whoever did such a bad job on this system.
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I grew up in a polyamorist home, my father had two live in 'wives' the entire course of my childhood and they are still together.

I assume it was like most families. A total mess with phases marked by warring jealous women. While one is my mother, I was raised by both and treated differently by both.

Good times, I wish it on everyone.
This is such an oversimplification. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc. are all guilty of ecosystem lock-in. Google in many ways is the most generous when it comes to open source and most of the hardware utilizing Google is by other manufacturers.
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Nice project! A few questions:

How is this data collected? (I'm guessing a satellite image of city lights across the world)

I'm trying to understand the scale. Zenith means overhead, so overhead sky brightness. The magnitude scale stops at 17 but I thought magnitudes above 7 is no longer visible to the human eye [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude
Naively, I'd expect all letters to occur equally frequently. Do you know if this is the case?
I do have a chapter on Unicode and wide characters, but it's separate from the "classic" strings chapter. That said, I could certainly refer forward to it.

And C11 only has minimal portable UTF-8 support, but I do talk about it. I think C21 will improve on that a bit.

A note on safety would be well worth it. I'll do that. Good suggestion.
My major issue is that tickets move between projects or affect multiple projects so you get the situation where this slug is often correct, but often isn't. Or worse you move the ticket between projects and the slug changes, breaking links.
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They have some obligation, but certainly not to maximize. Nothing would ever get done.
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That isn't what I was claiming, though. I was claiming that the impetus for creating go was the issues raised by working with Google's regular code, not issues raised by working on Rob Pike's pet project at Google. Whether go became their pet project was outside the scope of my claim.
When I started my professional career in 2000, Google was my secret weapon. It's also one of the things that kept in the areas where I've specialized, as my personal ability to find information on the internet is much better than dealing with intra-corporate dreck.
Depends on what they are growing, cacti and orchids for example LOVE 24/7 light and grow way faster then the typical 16/8 light schedule.

But most are probably some form of veggie or flower so they need 16/8 light schedule.
eh, honestly centos is one of the few distros where you can get fairly recent compilers even on old versions, much more easily than ubuntus / debians. e.g. even on centos 7 (released in 2009)
The processors that come closest are the Zen 3 processors. They beat the M1 in total performance, see https://www.pcworld.com/article/3604597/apple-m1-vs-ryzen-50..., but are made for a higher watt usage. There is no direct performance/watt comparison I am aware of.

It's likely the M1 is better in that category, but it does not look like a huge difference if you factor in the higher performance you get from the Ryzen 9 5980HS.
Also, pass that on to Mozilla, which still doesn't allow Firefox extensions to remap controls (until a given tab has loaded).
> namespace separation is a feature which helps to keep the number of digits down

I'm probably a minority as I think I have pretty bad memory but as soon as your tickets hit double digits I am failing to remember which ticket is which. So I don't really care if it is 3 digits or 7 digits. If I am trying to remember I'll probably just look at the last 2 digits anyways.
Average folks speeding up will be caught by speeding camera and scrupulously fined by office clerks with amounts quickly reaching hundreds of euro and suspension of the license included. Individual permits will be similarly scrupulously evaluated.
I just discovered this list. It was also posted to hn 3 years ago but didn't receive any comments at that time.

It expanded my world a bit. There are frameworks and libraries and programing languages here. It looks like a well compiled list.
Indeed, getting rid of QA instead of improving it just because people think it's slow is indeed kind of stupid.
Thanks very much! The code from the book proved very useful since C does not have a standard library of rich data structures.
> ...you will still get M1 having almost 3 to 4 times advantage at performance per square mm.

400%? Do you have any sources to back up this somewhat extraordinary claim?
Sometimes Stackoverflow own's search is better than Google.
You're right that the real skill is not googling, but it seems like you're doing the same thing as everyone else. You don't have all the syntax and functions memorized, so you have to look things up occasionally, ya? You just skip Google and go straight to the docs. Googling is so quick though, any efficiency lost over clicking a few links seems minimal and not worth arguing about.
In general yes, though just looking quickly, it seems like Belgium for example was a lot brighter than surrounding countries, and I don't think they have that high of a density?

I would liked to see a map like this normalized for population density, though not sure how granular that data is.
the catchphrase from the advertisement is "leggo my eggo", where leggo means "let go" which can't have an s appended. i have never had them so i am not sure, but i don't think they are that popular, and i haven't seem them referred to in plural
My state designated a Dark Sky Park in an area that's Bortle class 4. Is the designation really that flawed? That's a shame, I was hoping to some decent stargazing in without having to drive for hours on end. Alas.

Edit: Looks like these are the criteria the IDA use.
https://www.darksky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IDSP-Guid...
What is a "browser syscall"? Is this a native way to record browser interactions, without running anything inside the browser context?
The data from the International Dark-Sky Association[0] would be a good complement to this.

In case you're interested what a dark sky town ordinance looks like for a small town that has the designation near where I live, see here[1].

[0] https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/
[1] https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/torreyut/latest/torrey...
It's far worse than just having bugs - they knew there were bugs and covered it up even when they knew what impact it was having. That's the bit I find genuinely shocking.
How can fifteen million people be terribly unrepresentative?
Is the light pollution in the North Sea really that intense? How about the Grand Banks off Atlantic Canada / Newfoundland?

Are these due to oil platforms?

I find it hard to believe that the light pollution at the head of the Grand Banks, almost 200km off shore, is equivalent to the the metro area of St. John's, nearby.
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In addition to brackets also consider hinges [1], like the standard 1x2 hinge [2] or for higher load a combination of e.g. [3] and [4]. There are also various solutions using Technic parts.

I'd honestly just order what you need from bricklink. Alternatively get used Lego by weight from ebay. Around here you get a kilogram of unsorted, good quality Lego for €20.

1: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catID=22

2: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3937...

3: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3036...

4: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3038...
DDG uses Bing.
Formal methods require a comprehensive specification. Usually, if you have a specification comprehensive enough for formal verification, you already have 90% of the benefits, which is why it's (so far) only really useful in safety critical applications with a very small scope. I'm not going to take a huge risk in betting that the postal service didn't have anything resembling a serious spec in this case.
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> The license will evolve to a full open source project once a certain degree of maturity will be reached.

Why?
Looking at the US map, it seems to be.
No, I’m suggesting that the concept is more complicated than your middlebrow dismissal is suggesting.
It's not like nothing can be done about light pollution. For example Germany has a law about light pollution, and it shows on this map. It less polluted than its neighbours, although it has higher population density and urbanization level.
I would like to see powerful and easy searching.
Is this not just a population map?

https://m.xkcd.com/1138/
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finally. I have a wikipedia page to reference when my friends think I'm being stupid lmao
Question, how is the gradient heatmap thing implemented?
I’ve been doing big C++ builds (think gcc, LLVM-sized projects) on my Ryzen 9 5950X and I wouldn’t have it any other way. This thing saves me so much time every day. It’s so nice not to have to do remote builds to get a quick prototype.

The best part is that it was a drop in replacement for my 2700X. I already had a great Noctua air cooler so I was all set.
No, that's not the issue. They have a marketplace where ElasticSearch can be sold as SaaS. However, when there is something open source being offered on that marketplace, they co-opt it, give it AWS branding, and sell it themselves. They also own the infrastructure that both their own offering and the 3rd party SaaS offering is hosted on. Lets say they charge $1.00 / unit for EC2. They can charge $1.00 / unit for the 3rd party SaaS to run their service, and $1.00 / unit for their own offering which is basically EC2 + SaaS, so there is literally no way for the 3rd party to be price competitive, and meanwhile their own SaaS offering is blasted into the AWS interface everywhere, while the 3rd party offering has to be searched for and found. So they take the development work of that 3rd party and use their lock in and ability to steer customers to shut out the 3rd party, while taking all their work and selling it themselves at a price that the 3rd party can't possibly match (and not because of efficiency, because they'll just refuse to make a deal with the 3rd party to give an EC2 discount that they give all their other large customers if it would mean the 3rd party can then be price competitive with a SaaS offering that would compete with one of their own).
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I'm sure it's a coincidence that Fujitsu was also heavily involved in the NHS IT fiasco which cost the NHS £10B. 'the biggest IT failure ever seen'. The Fujitsu UK chairman is also a large Conservative party donor of course - also a complete coincidence. https://www.vice.com/en/article/59x7wz/fujitsu-uk-sues-depar...
The current standard is C17, of course: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C17_(C_standard_revision).
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clickus is a very simple tool that will help you to have all your important links inside your Instagram or Tiktok bio, it's only one link and you don't have to go there every time you want to follow or explore some new places.
They already have a camera pointing out of the dashboard directly at the driver so they can tell if they were paying attention after a crash.
I'm typing on a current-gen macbook, and the keyboard is fine. Butterfly keyboards were flawed, but I think it's also a bit disingenuous of the parent comment to imply that this is a reflection on overall mac build quality. Those generations of macs were bad products for several reasons, but the general build quality of those machines, and everything in Apple's line is quite high comparing to competitors
Off topic, but I'm shocked that anyone would trust uploading sensitive files (e.g. nudes) to this service. Photo vault type apps can be useful, but I would never want the content in those apps to upload to a small service like this based on their word that employees won't go through it.
There's actually an explanation for this.

At first, it was intended to basically burn the excess electricity produced at night by the first generation of nuclear power plants in Belgium, at a time when it was difficult to reduce their power output on demand.

From then on, because highways were always lightened up it was unnecessary to use reflective paint and signage on the highways.

And today, we're left with signage and paint that are difficult to read at night unless the highways are lined with streetlights, which makes streetlights necessary even though the power plants have been able to adapt to load for a long time now. You can really notice it on the dark sections that do exist, signage is actually difficult to see when in most other countries reflective signage is almost easier to see at night than by day.

Now the streetlights are being slowly turned off, some are being replaced with LEDs, and some of the signage is being updated to reflective, but I don't know if there's any official roadmap to eventually arrive to dark highways with reflective signage.
Similar process nodes, or at least when making general statements of the architecture to compare the best modern candidates. Otherwise you just can't make statements about the architecture based on that. And Apple just does not have Zen 3 laptops (unsurprisingly), so there is that.

And I still think it's very valid to not forget how old hardware used for subjective comparisons will be. E.g. the old Macbook air sold very well all that time.
> best practices may not be obvious even when reading the docs

I am right now working on a project because of the googling stuff has led to the worst practices at the moment. I have worked on many projects where people haven't bothered reading the docs and I have seen the same pattern for over a decade.

Whereas if they had read the docs the best practices would have been immediately apparent. So that argument hold no water with me.

> one can't assume that in a big doc, it's obvious where the solution for a problem is, which may force to read way more than expected

I want people reading more. Which was part of my overall point. People don't read enough. They go for the quick solution (which is copy and paste from stack overflow) produce something which is usually quite bad and then you normally have to redo that work because the moment you try to change something (due to changing requirements) the whole thing falls to pieces.

I've been guilty of it too. It is a bad habit that is produced through laziness.

I literally wrote docs at a previous place and people kept on asking for help on IM. I wrote the document so I wouldn't have to answer the same questions many times. People getting into bad habits and not looking for or writing docs literally causes a hell of a lot more issues that you would see at first glance.

> Thinking about it, the major problem seem to me unprocessed copy/paste, rather than "googling instead of RTFM'ing".

I would rather have a unprocessed copy and paste then what you get in reality which is a "copy pasta". There are minor bits changed which make it difficult to recognise where it may have originally come from, which makes it difficult to know the original developer's intent.
Does this work any better than buying and holding?
so would that be the <sassy voice> BYE-E!! </sassy voice>
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I’m unsure if this is sarcasm.

But most tasks (& tabs) are idling your CPU for a majority of the time. There’s no value to this at all.
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Hi there, I want to write a little blog post summarizing different ways of keeping up with AI by way of Podcasts / Blogs / Newsletters / YouTube Channels. Yeah there are a million of these, but most are not so well curated, miss a lot of stuff, and are not up to date. Criteria: still active, focused primarily on AI, high quality.

Here's the (fairly comprehensive?) list I have so far: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N7GfXjEfy5F8L21hkDn3FUa2M6iDukqMfLbkSHZUCXs/edit?usp=sharing

Would appreciate any suggestions for additions, especially for stuff not already in the above doc.
I can't wait until Bitcoin makes this kind of things easier. Carrying cash in plastic bags sounds such a boomer thing to do.
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I’m not particularly superstitious, but getting on a “Bye” airplane still seems a bit like asking for it.

More seriously though, the claimed cruise speed looks competitive, but a 500nm range is a serious deficiency in this class of aircraft. I’m sure battery tech will get there one day, but there’s still a ways to go. I applaud the companies that are pushing the envelope, but I’m bearish on their chance of commercial success at this point.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with that phenomenon where you look at the word, and suddenly doesn’t look like it’s spelled correctly.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but I was wondering if you have a source on the claim that studios know every second you watch one of their films. Specifically, I was under the impression that Apple wasn't phoning home with users' watching habits. Do you have a source on that? (I'd like to update my mental model if so)
Really great work by Private Eye. They did all the investigation and broke the story. None of the big news outlets were on it at all
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No, capitalism doesn't work for front brand loyalty situations. Sure in theory building a good brand should be worth it, but that isn't what is happening here, the money grubbers came in long after the brand was built, changed it into a money making machine and the poor souls who got addicted to the brand now gets as much money as possible extracted from them.

That kills the brand after a while, young people will stop watching and ultimately sports will die with that strategy.
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Unveils = provides high-level spec for a proposed airplane?
"and a full airplane parachute"

... is that a thing?

Edit: today I learned!
Discussion on a far more comprehensive article (though perhaps aimed at more in-depth needs) the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26847596

https://www.gwern.net/Search
I wonder how swapping the battery packs works. Or do you throw away the entire aircraft after 500 flights? If it's anything like model-scale aircraft, air travel is more taxing on battery packs than automotive, since you have to more deeply cycle the battery during each flight.
So government software, technically cybernetic software, should be proven to be correct. Will automatic theorem proovers be able to accommodate this?
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Hello xpe, I'm rather glad that it does.

I'm continually triggered by this horrible pattern that frustrates me and wastes my time.

In turn, I think it is arrogant of UI designers to assume that everybody will automatically understand what their icons mean, and that it's worth my time to repeatedly hover over them to get to things they should want me to find.
CEO and senior executives are paid to take responsibility of the actions of their subordinates, otherwise why would they get the big bucks?
Right, so THIS aspect I totally agree with: If someone says "Buy", it must be possible for you to hand down a copy of that to play to your great-great-grandkids. That means it can't be turned off or lost because your account is cancelled; and shutting down DRM servers should require unlocking all DRM'd content first. Otherwise "Buy" really was a lie.
I saw this same thing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a...
From the article: "... I found a great way to add it that will work for many laser cutter setups.

I didn’t design any of these modifications, but I did alter them to fit my particular circumstances. You can find my very simple modifications to other designs on Thingiverse."

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4770120
> McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network.

Very interesting, at least the first command line tool I've seen that does this. I wonder how it compares to just fzf.
What is the law? What are people legally required to do?
It's 100% a competitive edge to be able to adopt new technology faster than others. "The future is here it's just not widely distributed yet". Kudos to you for recognize that early on.

It's funny that hiring for this skill it still uncommon.