skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You PoV is understandable, but still do you believe the ongoing long-term pain of this fragmentation is LESS than the short-term pain of unifying?

This is why I mentioned the metric system, and what not. Every time throughout history when we decided to unify, the advantages VASTLY, and I mean VASTLY have outweighed the short-term drawbacks.

In fact I'd say, one of the biggest test for us as species is that we can fully understand, internalize and implement this concept. Because we always reach for the short term. Short term profits over long-term strategy in the enterprise. Short term economy benefits over long-term climate impact. And so on and so on.

Someone in Mongolia won't have to switch overnight. Someone in Mongolia may gain the option to have it both ways until they're used to it, and eventually there will be unification. That's basic change management.

Change management is a necessary art to survive and to thrive.
if you use the app and call for help, who shows up to help? If it's someone trained and equipped to deal with any emergency i don't see how it's going to be even remotely affordable. They would have to keep scores of these people all over every part of every city.

If it's just a random person who signed up as a responder i think they'd make the situation worse instead of better.
Interesting and something new for me. Thanks for sharing.
It might be too outside Epic's wheelhouse. How about a Tesla phone?
I don't see this as an accurate comparison. You can already rent a space right next to Walmart and open your own store if you like. Yes, I may have to pay a landlord, but again, there's competition among owners of land that keeps rents at a market rate.

You can think of the space within an ecosystem as virtual land. Apple has a monopoly on this virtual space. They can charge whatever they like, there is no competition.

The argument of choose another phone is different, because it requires spending a large amount of money for the right to entry. To many people this is cost prohibitive.

I don't have a personal stance on what the outcome should be either way, need to dig into it more.
Hum... Yeah, the different middleman come with different problems, not the same ones.

We don't have much clarity on what those new problems are (we know very few of them), but what is perfectly clear is that every interested party is actively avoiding creating some mechanism for solving them.
> I'm not convinced our minds are able to cope with the option of doing nothing.

You conflate "doing anything" with "working".

A lot of people would be extremely happy partying every other for most of their lives.

> We currently have to do very little to exist in 1st world countries, at least compared to what we had to do in the past and yet you've got a plethora extremely unhappy individuals.

You don't know how strongly those two are correlated and why. I'd claim that a lot of unhappy individuals are such because they have no direction in life and that direction can be a ton of other things who are not paid work.

> Maybe I'm pessimistic but I don't think many people do that just for the sake of curiosity or discovery.

Correct, I'd optimistically say 20% of people would but the cynic in me says 6-7%.

Still, as said above, there are plenty of activities that aren't paid work that are enjoyable. Plus you don't need to have only hobby.

I've known some rich people who have anywhere between 7 to 10 active hobbies at a time and they successfully alternate them to keep themselves busy and engaged.
No doubt. I never knew this.
But you're not using the offset to compute the index in bar().

void foo(int offset, int *arr) {
for(int i = offset; i < (offset + 16); i++) {
arr[i] = i + 32;
}
}

If you call this with offset = 100, the arr[i] in the loop will write to arr[100], arr[101], ..., arr[115].

void bar(unsigned int offset, int *arr) {
if(offset+16 < offset)fail();
for(size_t i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
arr[i] = i+ offset + 32;
}
}

If you call this with offset = 100, the arr[i] in the loop will write to arr[0], arr[1], ..., arr[15].
I'm using the Firefox extension right now. It works fine.
Many people recycle phones every couple of years. If the phone functions as a typical smartphone with a gaming bent, it could replace traditional smartphones for folks who want to game. Gamers also carry secondary hand-held devices (like the Nintendo Switch) for dedicated gameplay.
On the contrary, that is way too cheap. Equal to approximately 30 minutes a month of a decent iOS developers time. If the product works it should deliver 10-100 times that value.
Thank you so much for this! I was looking for an optimal config myself, and this saved me so much time :-) Cheers!
I see it the other way. It would be actually orders of magnitude less effort for the rest of the world to learn one standard system/language than to have every app/product/document adapted to every single language/script/whatever in existence
It is ten billion dollars to build the old system, but the individual satellites can be iterated over.

Ditto with Starship.

Yes, they are all more expensive than software, often much more so to iterate over, but fundamentally what SpaceX do is iterative development.
An interesting fact for non Polish speaking readers: for non-official writing we often don't use diacritic characters at all. It makes writing faster. With the raise of spell checkers it fades out, but still, if you write without diacritics often you will be well understood.

Second interesting fact: it is very popular for software and online apps, especially not developed in Europe to ignore diacritics. Not only polish ones, but also french, german etc. You get weird characters instead or can not write properly altogether. I hope the article will put a highlight on the issue.
What if you see all the energy in the middle of the black hole as a lattice of energy which resembles the beginning of the big bang?
lol $40 for full tank...
> The obvious solution to this is to eradicate all life.

That implies that suffering is a problem; IMHO it's just part of life and much of what propels us forward. Conversely, Heroin is a drug that can eliminate suffering, but it's pretty clear from the outside that it does not represent the optimal path through existence.
I think the first step to cutting emissions is cutting unnecessary energy use, regardless of the source of energy.

Try crunching the numbers: you'll see that it's not going to be feasible to replace all of the vehicles on the road with electric cars and trucks, while also electrifying everything else. We need to take a triage approach to energy use, strictly rationing the remaining fossil fuels.
> It lists deaths, but often times these deaths come as a result of someone threatening a cop with a deadly weapon.

Other countries also have people who threaten cops with deadly weapons, and their numbers are far far lower. Hell, suicide-by-cop is a very real and common thing here in the USA.
Like a PSP that makes calls, texts and surfs the web? With HDMI out (2x?) it could be a console in your pocket. Bluetooth controllers? Now I want this. Epic are you listening!?
Do you realize how many failed devices fit that category. Those who don't know their history...
They could.

BlackBerry, Nokia, they all failed to create an app ecosystem.
Remember that when the iPhone was launched there was no app store. All you could do was 'install' a web app.

Now we have progressive web apps with full offline functionality, but installing them is a nightmare.

You have to dig through the share menu from Safari (tough luck if you use another browser) to install one, and Apple removes it after some time limit.

Maybe a half measure would be to make that process less restrictive and allow companies to directly distribute software to their users again...
Microsoft and Apple wage war on gadget right-to-repair laws
Ha, that's nothing. Two years ago, I walked up to a police officer in Seattle and pointed out an individual who was splayed face-first on the sidewalk a half-block away, in front of a food truck where a line of customers was patiently stepping over them.

The officer shrugged and walked off in the opposite direction. I think that was the moment that I decided it was time for a change of scenery.
damn! the subdomain idea is genius! :)
I message my boss on PS5 Slack and tell him I'm done for the day.

I then take my PS5 to the mall, because I carry it with me to do all of my financial transactions. Later, I log onto my PS5 bank account app to check my spending limits.

I check PS5 Yelp for a list of restaurants. I head out, but I'm careful to check my PS5 GPS to know where I'm headed. I fill up my car using PS5 pay, and as I leave get messages from potential romantic matches on PS5 Tinder.

Of course Sony gets a cut of every transaction and there are no other options than taking your PS5 with you everywhere.

Oh wait, there's Switch, Xbox, PC, Steam, Epic, GOG, ...? Lots of options for games. But what about email, finance, dating, and everything else I would do on my PS5? Gaming devices aren't general purpose computers and don't do general purpose business, communication, finance, etc.

Gaming is a toy and comparatively niche industry with lots of consumer choice. The iPhone is 50% of all commerce in all industries for all Americans.

Apple has locked down computing behind an iron curtain, and they're clawing away at more and more as the days go by. If the trend continues, every restaurant will be Apple (instead of Taco Bell), and you'll license your car and pay Apple by the mile. The signs you see out your window will have to pay Apple a licensing fee.
San Francisco allows minors to receive Covid vaccine without parental consent [pdf]
This is something I think about from time to time, and it saddens me deeply.

I don’t like to see anything or anyone suffer in pain. And the world is full of this - every day hundreds of thousands of creatures die horribly due to predation or accident. Many unheard, or if heard, ignored.

I think that if you were to describe to a sapient alien what pain and suffering is, and then show them the way of things here, they would brand this planet Hell; a place of endless suffering, and horror in abstract, for all eternity.

Yet that’s not all the suffering in the world, I participate in this - I tell myself that the cow butchered for the dinner I ate tonight was butchered humanely; that it did not suffer in death, it was well fed, cared for, was intellectually stimulated, enjoyed the company of it’s companions.

However, I know this is a convenient lie, one I tell myself to mask the truth; the truth is often far from that, the mechanics of industrial farming render this vision obsolete, replaced by a new horror. No less horrifying than the natural order of things, perhaps more so.

Is this world more than the suffering we choose not to see? Of course it is. The world is stark, beautiful and full of life. The order of nature binding it all together is broadly indifferent to suffering and beauty.

I’m only one person, but I’m glad I can think on this, it’s a luxury the majority of other creatures are not granted.

Edit: I may have let my mind carry me away when writing this
I come from a railroad family four generations and went EE so I find things like transporting giant transformers by rail to be pretty interesting, since I was a kid. I'm probably one of few people who as a kid had a model railroad HO scale schnabel car setup, pretty cool, I think my dad made it by hand as model railroaders sometimes do.

We have about two dozen schnabel cars in the entire USA and they can only roll about 10 MPH.

Luckily they only roll at 10 MPH or so, because RR personnel have to do crazy stuff to move oversize loads like remove and reinstall traffic lights and occasionally, level crossing "arms". Sometimes they have to cut down and replace telephone poles and crazy stuff like that.

Logistics has friction and obviously if your entire national grid is down you can't haul using electric RR engines but USA is mostly diesel anyway. Another friction is you need 10 cars for a local event in Florida but they're all over the country and the bearings can't roll faster than 10 MPH and it takes a long time to cross the USA at 10 MPH as the pioneers learned. Another friction is they actually use those cars for stuff other than carrington event transformer replacements, so taking all those cars for replacements for a decade or so means no nuclear reactor transport no steel mill roller transport etc.

Of course "in reality" it would be easier to massively decentralize large transformer production and ship the personnel and raw copper on 747s to the site rather than now where we centralize production and then ship out. Of course we have no experience doing that, but its more likely to succeed than trying to ship via rail.

In practice I think the problem with replacing a large number of large transformers is we MIGHT be able to do it under ideal conditions including full electrical power and normal levels of law and order, which we will not have after a carrington event.

But for a specific substantial claim, even if we could 3-d print or star trek replicator large transformers on demand, or even if we had secret government warehouses full of them in Nevada, it would take months to years to transport all of them to specific sites. SOME work like clearing rights-of-way to pass the equipment could be done ahead of time. We have SOME ability at heavy mfgr plants like our world leading mining equipment plants to build new schnabel cars with a lead time of maybe months each. But it would be rough.

Anyway you wanted a specific substantiated claim so here it is, we can't logistically ship a large number of large transformers.
I don't think that's still actively developed.
This is the most likely scenario honestly. I was a security guard while I was in college because it gave me time to study. They were very explicit about NOT engaging with anyone in a confrontational manner. You make yourself seen to prevent stuff walking off of job sites and if you see someone doing something you call the police, period. They didn't want to be sued. They even had a limit on how big your mag-lite could be so it wouldn't be considered a weapon.
Kinda sounds like a question in a FAANG interview.

The referenced study is here: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2023170118
I feel like I'm much more able to see pedestrians in my Cayman than in my 4Runner. People seem to blend in with the surroundings the higher up I am.
I have UltraEdit. It's okay. The wordfiles are woefully anemic to define languages. The snippet system as well. It really needs a revamp. Also, the MacOS version IS different from the Windows version. ST is the same on both platforms and that is important to me.
Huh, funny seeing this. I JUST learned about signed distance fields from a suckerpinch video this week.
Likewise, there could also be a market for a service that comes to your aid when you are targeted by a private security force. For instance if someone comes to my house because of a noise complaint, I would not want to answer the door, but could call either the police or my own security service to hash it out with whoever is visiting me.

This could get interesting.
Nobody cares about the app store cut.
Imagine the joy that exists in nature at any given moment. Billions and trillions of creatures in various states of ecstasy, happiness, and contentment. Then multiply all those experiences for every time frame back to the first organisms.

I don't think people think about the implications of a billion years of the vast experiences life has to offer.
ah yes, won't anyone think of the children?
Pretty cool. It would be nice to have one entry for computer science.
A gaming phone doesn't really solve any of the issues at stake in this case, though. And if they want to reach people who want handhelds, they can just encourage them to buy a Switch and play Fortnite there. It would certainly be something they could do, but I think their mixed success with the Epic Games Store so far indicates that their huge cash reserves and technical expertise aren't sufficient to just nail any big challenge they take on.
It's a game of numbers, and toeing the line between porn and non-porn is the local optimum.

It's like a TV channel. They'd never show actual porn but they try to get as close as possible while retaining plausible deniability.
One note: the article misses the connection between this and the current lawsuit between Epic and Apple. These companies are opposing right-to-repair in part because it undermines the ability to maintain control over what software people run on their devices, and where they install software from.
> they just captured the market share with network effects before somebody else did

Ever heard of CP/M? That was an improvement over having every manufacturer ship it's own (unmaintained) OS. Microsoft's genius was seeing the value in Software, not just in shipping physical goods. And people believed they were crazy at the time.
It could be some vast disinformation conspiracy, but I take the evidence at face value, Occam's razer and all that. I doubt they would try and fool our enemies by claiming aliens. It's not just radar, it's the consistency between eyewitness reports, video, and radar. I'm only talking about the recent military sightings that are being declassified.
> No comprehensive supercharger network.

Agreed. I've been driving a Leaf since 2015 (two different generations by now) and the main reason that makes road trips unpalatable is NOT range. Not at all. Charging more often? Sure, whatever. Unless it's a business trip or a trip across the country it's fine. I've discovered some stuff I'd probably would never have otherwise, by routing via chargers in small towns.

No, the problem is how sparse some quickchargers are, and the fact that many don't even work - and the best you can do is check comments to see if people have complained about them recently. Some of them (specially Nissan owned!) are located in places that _close at night_. That's not acceptable, we can find 24/7 gas stations almost everywhere.

However, that only accounts for 0.1% of my trips. I've optimized for the most common use-case (city driving) and don't regret that one bit.

> If you've ever driven a Tesla on a highway you know you'll not get the full 230 at highspeeds.

Yeap. Same way you won't get good mileage on any car if you do that. Thankfully liquid fuels have a ridiculous amount of energy, so we can afford to waste 70% as heat plus drag and the only real consequence is the wallet (and filling up more often).

US highway speeds are crazy and it is indeed shocking when you see it the first time. It would also be quite shocking on ICE cars too, but they don't have accurate fuel gages, let alone accurate range estimates. At least most don't.

> I wish them all the best with this amazing migration to electric vehicles.

Me too!
very nice site
You’re misunderstanding the relationship between components and styles.

Login box and messages are separate components, but they share padding metrics, border styles, a palette, etc.

Have you used tailwind before?
How can I save groups of tabs so side views won’t get lost if I switch to another tab?

Edit: ctrl+tab saves, but mouse clicking a tab loses

How can I open find results in a split view?

How can I open definitions and references in split views without using the mouse to hover and click?

Edit: F12 and shift+F12.
Gaming is unimportant.

General-purpose computing is gradually being replaced by locked-down phones and tablets, and that's much more concerning.
I think if you’re reaching for _brainfuck_ as one of the solutions for the prevalence of English in programming; then you’ve probably failed.

A few of the languages on the list are designed precisely to be unreadable.
Anywhere I can watch a VOD of it?
That's only in a fully deployed system. 70k people won't participate in the first buy of PoS ETH - you'll have a far smaller number, likely less that BTC at scale.

Also, ETH has already forked over a doctrinal issue - I don't doubt it could happen again, but the PoS leaders will just directly double down.

This isn't a PoS/PoW argument - more that most public blockchains are inherently winner take all systems.
I can buy a book directly on the Amazon iOS app, but I can't buy an ebook.

That seems like the most fundamental problem to me and a clear case that this is anticompetitive behavior.
Software generally has high margins. There’s no excuse.
> For example the problem with only one ISP is easy to fix (in theory, I know it isn't politically): Force infrastructure providers to open up for competitors.

The problem with this is that the US already did this, but with bad rules in the telecom act of 1996. After a few years of litigation, the FCC decided the line sharing requirements didn't actually apply to anyone, because there was 'enough' competition between cable, dsl, satellite (hah!), and powerline (double hah!). I don't know how we would get the 96 telecom act back, but this time with rules that make sense when the issues are difficult to explain to people.
The line is very blurry. The only major difference between a console and a smartphone is that a console is intended from the get go to be a gaming device, whereas a smartphone is more of a generic computing device, but even then it's hard to draw a meaningful argument on why one should be treated differently from the other.
- no GUI for settings

- no proper file swap/search without having a file preview

- still no LSP built-in

- still no open source (want to edit something like the preview file issue, then you are out of luck and must wait for an update)

- still no debugger built-in

- still no terminal built-in

It's paid and has many issues that doesn't exist in open-source alternatives..

It's sad because i used to love ST, now it is VERY hard to recommend it
They are talking about moving the existing lewd stuff out onto a new platform, not starting a PornHub alternative. There is obviously enough in it for Amazon, otherwise they would just ban the pools outright.
Took roughly four months off and cycled coast-to-coast across the USA.

Purely in terms of expenses, it was cheaper than the rent we had been paying on our apartment, although of course that does not factor in the loss of salary.

The cliche to use would be 'once in a lifetime experience' - I think it was, but I would encourage anyone not to limit themselves to one of those, and to make time for as many of them as possible.

In terms of preparation and planning; we wouldn't have attempted it if I hadn't gone a bit mad and suggested the idea, and we wouldn't have managed it if my partner hadn't been there to help out with the logistics of making it possible.

We met incredible and diverse people (both locals and other touring cyclists) throughout the entire journey, and that was probably the aspect of it that I enjoy thinking about most in retrospect.
A friend argued that the App Store cut is justified because it’s a free market and if consumers don’t think the value of the store is worth paying the cut, they can go get a different phone. Apple banning developers from informing consumers about the cut is a problem for this argument.
Ask HN: Is HN being censored?
Today I have noticed a post shooting to the top, linked from an mit.edu domain, which is not exactly a junk source, disappearing.
I'm sure it's a great truck but I'm not seeing any refinement for city driving. Not in my city anyway.
There are relatively few volunteers working on Linux. They mostly do it for their day jobs. Though the same criticism applies with respect to wasting time at their various companies. But, yes, there may have been some way of conducting a useful test after receiving permission--probably on a limited subsystem or set of subsystems.
According to veteran statehouse reporter Brian Lyman of the Montgomery Advertiser, the yoga ban's demise represents the end of "one of the stupidest moral panics in Alabama history, which is really saying a lot."