skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Population density of Europe is 34/km2

Africa is 45/km2

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-popula...).

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/africa-popula....
Simulator is written internally in Nim. There isn't really a good FOSS IR for RTL sims on the market currently. I absolutely refuse to use MLIR or anything based on LLVM for that matter. LLVM takes up to 40 minutes to rebuild on my Apple silicon. This is completely unacceptable in terms of rapid iteration.
Betteridge's Law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
You can still play standalone mods with q3e or ioq3 and not need baseq3.
Just like YouTube. At least they're adding features and not just taking them away and making you pay to get them back.
I guess it’s because devs learn unix/linux at university or by their own. I never seen anybody setting up a Windows machine, we are all into linux. I personally know nothing about Windows servers.
I still haven't agreed. Let's see what happens.
People are talking the other points to death but on the toolchain front, you might enjoy https://github.com/evanw/esbuild, which is rapidly gaining in popularity. Just 1 thing for bundling, transpilation etc. And its terrifically fast since its written in Go (ironic I know).
The business plan submitted by OVH to the bankruptcy court says the monthly subscription will need to be raised to $25 in hope for profitability within 3 years.

It seems inherently complicated to provide the required CPU and GPU resources in an elastic way, when most gamers play at the same peak hours.
A subscription is long overdue.

Twitter has a smaller base than Insta or FB - but part of that base uses it professionally i.e. journalists etc..

I can't say these features are 'it', however, the opportunity for price discrimination has been there for a decade surely.

For a certain segment of users, $X is nothing, and probably can be expensed.
I agree, seems like it got memory-holed, or at least lumped as tinfoil-hat bs
I traveled from San Francisco to Johannesburg. It was two flights, one to Berlin and then on to Johannesburg.

The first flight gave us the usual jet lag going to Europe. The problem was our flight from Berlin to Johannesburg left in Berlin’s evening. It’s an 11 hour flight so the idea is that you sleep on the plane and arrive in the morning after 8 hours of sleep.

But that only works if your body is already in GMT+1!

So while everyone else slept the whole way, we were wide awake! I took pictures of the navigation display the moment we crossed the equator.

But man was I messed up when I arrived. 11 hours on a plane and no time change is just so strange.
Of course not; the data would come from FB's EU servers. The "transfer" above applies to where the data is stored, not where it can be accessed from. From the users point of view the only change would be... nothing; the latency is already at the point where it wouldn't incur any observable penalty.
Why not enforce a quick death penalty. Putting someone away for 2, 5, 10, 20 or 30 years and just letting them back into society seems more dangerous compared to trying to change those behaviours before letting them go free.
https://github.com/TTimo also cared about open sourcing these engines
I think esbuild is basically already doing most of what Rome promises
Isn't Twitter developing some new social media site that isn't so algorithmically echo chamber driven like all others? I could've sworn I read an article about it a few months ago but I can't find anything anymore.
There's the fact that not many Americans can name more than 3 countries in Africa.

And the ratio of people mentioning "Africa" rather than a particular nation in Africa is much high than the ratio of other continents being mentioned rather than their constituent countries.

Also, "African American" is a common term; "European Americans" not so much.
> Even in a universe where I did 100% know the colour of your carpet via some form of clairvoyance, I've now understood that you will continue to react with confrontational scepticism.

In this hypothetical, you are clairvoyant. This is an exceptional talent; if demonstrably repeatable, it's one-of-a-kind. Somebody asks that you prove yourself as a seer by telling them the color of their carpet. You actually know the color, but you choose not to say because you perceive the challenge as confrontational.

To me, that is not the behavior of an extraordinary individual. It's the behavior of a fraud.
So give them more precise weapons and everything will be good.
Wait... You want me to _pay_ to join a dumpster fire?
Your objection is correct, and none of the responses you've received so far seem to have understood your point. I went ahead and read the actual published paper (https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002...) and it is just as statistically naive as the NatGeo article made it sound.

Let's cartoonishly oversimplify cancer so that we can see how life expectancy would affect observed statistics. Let's say cancer occurrence is 0% for people up to age 40, and then starting on the 40th birthday, cancer occurrence is 10% per year. Everyone who gets cancer dies immediately.

Then, imagine that life expectancy in 1500 was 25 years old, standard deviation 10 years (yeah lognormal blah blah just go with it). So, most people don't live to 40, but the ones who do sometimes get cancer.

But then, after 1500, life expectancy mean increases by 0.1 years per year. By the year 2000, life expectancy is 75 years old! Much more cancer is going to happen! Many more of the deaths will be from cancer!

Cancer itself didn't change.

So, these researchers see a lower cancer rate in the bones they're looking at, but they need to do some MATH on the ages these bones and of modern humans to know how to compare cancer rates then to cancer rates now.
A few funny anecdotes in that vein.

A woman complained that her very tall boyfriend had hung a mirror in the bathroom. She took a picture of it. It was her reflection holding the camera level with the top of her head, and little else.

One that happened to me personally. I asked my then gf (5'1") what it was like being a small person, do you feel like a normal sized person in a land of giants? "Yes" was the instant response.

One very tall guy once remarked: "The tops of your fridges are fucking disgusting."
Great. I subscribe to Reddit Premium to skip the ads, and I will be happy to do the same for Twitter. That said, I didn't notice specifically that there would be no ads, in which case ... nope.
Personally I've always prefered 360 over whatever the hell I have. Non-technical people reviewing your performance without knowing what you actually do.
Does anyone if there is any case law on this? Are you legally allowed to create 3rd party clients for various services?
You could use active cooling but the energy requirements would be immense, as you would need to make the heat sink even hotter than the 464+ C atmosphere.

You would basically have to use a crazy high temperature reactor like those envisioned for project Pluto, but setup to somehow produce useful work instead of propulsion, to get the necessary power needed to reach sane cold side temperatures on your heat pump.
The fl2k is awesome and I really wish much more would've developed around it. I guess anyone who knows enough about DSP likely already has a better radio, especially when things like the HackRF exist.
Asia is 17.21 million mi² - and the moon is 14.6 million mi².
Linode, and let me tell you why... I had an unimportant side project running on a Linode VPS. I left it running, almost forgot about it and wasn't checking emails associated with that account. When I did check that email account, Linode has been trying to contact me about my VPS getting compromised and it was running a bot of some sort. It was probably 4-6 months before I saw their emails. All they did was cut off network access to my VPS, so I had to use their virtual console to log in and take care of things.

I appreciated the way they took the minimal action necessary that isolated the problem, instead of just nuking my entire account, and all its data, like I read that Digital Ocean did in a similar situation, only it wasn't an unimportant side project, it was someone's entire ongoing business. I have no affiliation with Linode except being a satisfied customer, but this experience this is why Linode is my first choice, all else being equal.
You think sex is the same as "hair color" in terms of the role in evolution? ....
Hi, thanks for your feedback.
My suggestion in the article was more to take care of all people in the community than to translate everything. Starting to use a better/simpler English would be a great starting point.
This may be a little off topic but your comment piqued my interest: I am currently learning JavaScript and I was wondering if you would like to recommend any of the books you read.
Are there any megacorps using BSD other than Netflix?
Nobody cares about 'Stadia'. They care about the titles.

Give people a 'Halo' exclusive, or go home.

80% of the business plan relies on hard hitting amazing exclusive titles.

And of course massively subsidized hardware.

And a long term vision.

It's sad because the model looked kind of cool, I'll never get to try it out ...
Ha! I took that one of him with the Reddit bobblehead. I thought that shirt looked familiar. :)
I agree with your points, though re: hardware and cloud-gaming in general: I wonder if its availability and cost issues would serve as a driver for _consumers_ - where they would seek a cloud-streaming solutions (so _they_ don't need to find/buy the scarce high end GPUs or consoles themselves -- and let Google Stadia or Shadow.tech or GeForce Now or xCloud or whoever take care of that).
I can only assume that you completely misunderstood my analogy. Since your bias seems to have affected your ability to think clearly, let me break it down to you:

You don't immediately bomb a school taken hostage by a terrorist group because if you're not a sociopath, you value the lives of innocent children and teachers over the deaths of terrorists. My point was that we wouldn't accept this logic in any other context but when it comes to Palestinian lives, they are suddenly nothing but furniture surrounding the baddies.

What they could do that would stop me condemning them is to abandon the occupation and settlements in Palestinian land that are illegal by international law and cease the evictions and indiscriminate attacks on Palestinian civilians.

While you're at it, they could also stop funding and training far right militaries and paramilitaries in South and Central America. I'd prefer if their state sponsored terrorism not be reproduced elsewhere.
Love it! Do they have a meaning?

Like, I've made different generative art that hangs on my walls. This one is a random blobs, colored based on 4 color theorem using a constraint solver. https://imgur.com/a/TKPnvVx
I feel him wearing shirts of these kind of ideas/patterns would be cool/fitting.
Please cite your source.

As of 2018, video games generated sales of US$134.9 billion annually worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry
Firefox 78.10.0esr warns of a potential security risk on the douglas-self.com site.
If someone gets their health advice off Hackernews comments I'd say they need a psychiatrist first.

Yes, they're the least bad treatment options we have right now, I can still be hyped about potential improvements.

> You can be sure that the nuanced and balanced discussion is a little more informative than "F### ventilators".

I'd rather hope so. I've had to ask "so what health risks were you supposed to inform me about according to the form you want me to sign?" way too many times.
>> I married into an family of Southern Italians who moved to the United States and like quite a few cultural groups (such as Pacific Islanders) for whom the Standard American Diet is death on a plate.

Hey Paul. I think I've heard this before. Is it because of portion sizes that some immigrants end up with the problems you describe? Back home in Greece, I hear stories about the gigantic portions encountered in the Americas by Greek immigrants, e.g. giant beef steaks that can't be eaten in one sitting etc.
This is why I'm concerned about companies putting all of their documentation in Notion without an offline backup. But thankfully Notion just made their API public beta so it's now possible to backup everything somewhere else. I'd much prefer to use a git forge's wiki for a company's documentation.
You're the author of this article? I really enjoyed it. One thing I'm not sure I agree is that fiat is an unsustainable shitcoin. Economics and monetary policy is a complex topic, some very smart and knowledgable people have a different view.
Our "UBI" will be based on a number of factors. It should be noted that we do not officially have an UBI, but unofficially we do in the form of different programs for the unemployed.

If you have been employed lately you will get 62% of your regular salary up to ~70.000 USD, for up to 1 year I think. There's a number of programs if you haven't recently been employed. You can also get free housing. But the sum of all the different programs is that you will end up with roughly the same monthly payment as a low paying job, like retail or something like that. At present probably somewhere around 2000 USD after taxes I would guess. If you consider that a normal salary is probably around 3000 USD after taxes, it's not so bad.
You can read it in English here, I believe:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40871113?seq=1
I wish people would stop associating this fraud with the cryptocurrency phenomenon. This had nothing to do with crypto. It was an ordinary ponzi scheme, they just added "coin" to the end of their product's name because at that time cryptocurrencies were already very popular.
If other countries had similar rules for protecting personal information, the problem wouldn't exist in the first place.
Loved it

For instance posts by "torpor"
> For a lot of floss software, there isn't even enough documentation in English and looking at communities that tend to have resources in their own languages ...

I agree; many projects (both FOSS and non-FOSS) lack sufficient documentation. However, this is the case whether or not it is English; it is another issue.

More simplified English might be a good idea. There is what is called Simplified Technical English, but that seems to be for aerospace, and perhaps it could be adapted for computer documentation, too.

I am willing to accept contributions of documentation in any language whether English or otherwise for my projects, although I am only writing in English myself, others can write in other languages if they want to do. (However, I generally have no intention to support commands and status messages etc in languages other than English, nor in character encodings other than ASCII.)

For names of stuff (and comments) in the source code of the program itself, I do not consider it too important to write in other languages, although people can try to do that if they want to do. At least for my own projects though, I intend to limit the source code to ASCII.
> You're fed and clothed your whole life. Plus 60+ years is a lot of time to build some robust rationalisations as to why it aint so bad.

And compared to being a black youth in Jim Crow Alabama—Ligon’s only pre-prison experience—“ain’t so bad” is a pretty low bar to clear.
You do need to pay a subscription for the up-scaled 4k experience which is one of the main features in Stadia advertisements.
Twitter is the closest thing to 1984's "Two Minutes Hate."

Wikipedia: "In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily, public period during which members of the Outer Party of Oceania must watch a film depicting the enemies of the state, specifically Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers, to openly and loudly express hatred for them.

The political purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatreds towards politically expedient enemies: Goldstein and the enemy superstate of the moment. In re-directing the members' subconscious feelings away from the Party's government of Oceania, and towards non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thoughtcrime and the consequent, subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals."

And from the book itself: "The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."

And you want me to freaking pay to be a part of this process? And you won't even take away the ads for a paying member?
Then why are you bringing up game theory?
If you follow any trans people there will be hate in the replies. Also most prominent cis women.
I think you are under-estimating the number of people who like having a job. Many retired people report not liking having nothing to do. The challenge will be to create more opportunities for people to learn, socialize, do something creative, find a hobby or some outdoor activity. I think it will be a better world when we transition people away from being wage slaves and enjoy the benefits of the creative activities of newly freed people.
Perhaps give it another try, but with TypeScript. Im a front end dev and yes, I feel the JS pain. I look back at how I used to do things and think "wtf". TS completely changed this and brought it back to sanity.
Javascript is still based on prototypal inheritance. The newer class syntax is just a wrapper.
I've not drawn up the maps, but it appears that North America is just a bit larger than the USA, Canada, and Mexico combined. That's large!
Unfortunately it is not like that. We experienced various difficulties translating only few sections in the Django documentation because, also for technical text, mechanical translation is not effective, but you have to adapt the text.
Super Meat Boy is a 10 year old game that probably had sales close to 0 at this point (it has been on sale for a couple bucks multiple times by now). Taking 50k now a decade after release and losing practically nothing as anyone who was going to buy it already did makes a lot of sense for a small indie dev (literally just 2 people if I remember right)
> Completely insane requirement.

They're doing ports to Xbone and Switch and PS5 already, and that's fine. But running on Linux is somehow insane?

No. Porting engines across complicated SDKs and build environments is what these studios do every day of their existence, and virtually all the backends run fine on Linux already.

Again, the reason the big studios aren't on board is because they don't want to be part of an app store ecosystem. It's not a technical thing at all.
I like this idea. It seems like it's related to another idea that I've always liked but never seen in practice: assuming that the code checked in always parses, you can re-lay-out code style (indentation, tabs/spaces, line length) according to the individual developer's preferences upon checkout, and transform them back to some (arbitrary) standard upon checkin.

Git can handle this sort of thing with smudge/clean filters.
I guess it fits in all the cracks.
future work is almost always discussed in publications
Similar to the idea of "microtypes" (I've most often seen it used in Java circles):

https://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/03/10/oo-micro-types/
His shirt at PyBay 2019 had little bicycles on it: https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/1*L4ZC352k5K5A9Q3OSChnzQ.jp...
Laws are not always rules for ethical behaviour, let alone the authoritative rules for ethical behaviour.
I think that was their point about hardware. It's so hard and expensive to acquire as a consumer that stadia is tempting even for peoe who usually build their own gaming PCs.
> 500 loads and dependent stores, at minimum, in the best case hitting L1 cache, which is 3 cycles. So you are talking about 1500 cycles

This is absolutely not how modern CPUs work, and I think you misunderstood where the dependencies are. All the load/store pairs are independent from each other, which means they can be executed in parallel. Which means that this code is throughput limited. Modern CPUs tend to have at least 2 load/store ports, so we're talking a throughout of one copy per cycle, or 500 cycles for the entire operation (plus warm-up time).

Furthermore, this is a pure memmove in many cases, which means a real memmove implementation that has been optimised using vector instructions can be used. Now you're talking about moving 32 bytes per cycle, or 4 array entries if they're pointer-sized, which brings us down to 125 cycles plus warm-up. Which is on the order of a miss to memory...
> Stop paying, or just anger the Stadia gods in some way, and all your games go away.

People get banned on Steam and lose access to games too. I know Valve promised you that they aren't renting those games, but if you look at the contract you'll find all you have is a license. And there have been multiple circumstances already where Valve has kicked users and/or lost licenses to its content.
Steam API integration is entirely optional, so it's not just indie games that ignore them or fail gracefully. Obviously you can't access Steam's online services in the game, but that's not a stopper for many games.
We do have a somewhat similar problem where depending on where you live you get slightly different social support, but this comes as a consequence of local government. Local government need to have a balanced book where those that pay more local taxes than the resources they consumes from local government matches those that consume more than they pay.

If a local region has an influx of citizens that consume more of local resources than they pay in local taxes, the local government then only really has one primary option: reducing who get support and how much support. Health clinics can as a result vary greatly between regions, but since there much fewer hospitals, multiple regions have to join up to a single one and thus the difference get more smoothed out.

With covid-19 pandemic there has been one political change where the right has gone out with the goal of fully nationalizing healthcare, which is a bit odd in terms of left vs right.
like you did just now. That person made something up. Let's not put all Ph.Ds in a bag just for that.
Ask HN: Variable naming guide of matching length?
Recently (2-3 months ago?) there was a submission on the front page that gave a large list of programming identifiers of matching length such as "pred" + "succ" to have code align nicely and avoid uneven lines.

It was ordered by character length (2 letters, 3 letters) and tried to group thematically matching identifiers.

I search for hours to no avail to find it again. Does anybody remember it?

A couple of other examples I believe where on the list:

"node" <-> "root" <-> "leaf"
"mat" <-> "vec"
> Javascript is still based on prototypal inheritance.

Protoypal inheritance and class-based inheritance where classes are themselves first-class objects aren’t really all that different, anyhow.