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But "mov" is not shown as an example. The particular requestor in this issue wanted to use mov, however no example was shown in the error message. Moreover even in the requestor's case the user has to already be savvy enough to guess that "mov" is the part of "isaac.asimov" that it had a problem with, which is not at all obvious.

I don't know exactly what list GitLab is using (because, as has been mentioned, there's no central registry of file extensions), but there are many extensions more obscure and less obvious than even mov, which would further obfuscate the actual problem.
This is very interesting. Is it updated daily? How does the site get the images? They are extremely high quality.
I also use Python or bc as a desktop, but that really isn't the point.

People sometimes criticize the Windows calculator for perceived errors in the results even though it is a superficially simple program. What they fail to account for are the edge cases, those quirks of computation that manifest themselves for various reasons (e.g. the precision of floating point, simplifications that appear simple to a person yet are non-trivial to implement in a program). A shipping product is not the same thing as a simple calculator tutorial a novice programmer may follow.
I acquired a fundraising startup and grew it to $10k/MRR
All I want is named parameters so that I don't need to have N variations of the same method with different signatures, also particularly helpful for understanding boolean parameters.
> In most cases, you don't need to care about these things in a GC'ed language, at the expense of larger memory usage and possibly noticable pauses.

GC has other drawbacks as well. The whole tracing workload (which still exists even in low-latency, concurrent GC's) messes up your locality of references and interacts badly with CPU- and OS-level caching and memory management. Plus the mutator part of your program is heavily constrained in how it can layout objects in memory, since the tracing GC must be enabled to select references to other objects unambiguously. It's a non-trivial drain on performance on memory-bandwidth limited workloads, which tends to be most of them these days.

Reference counting does away with most of these issues, and gives you deterministic finalization of all resources not just memory. Alternately, you can selectively use arenas to defer the freeing of some objects, while still being deterministic elsewhere.
The problem is that once the particles in your watch bounce around at the same rate (it is in thermal equilibrium with the environment) then it's statistically impossible to induce a net flow of energy from the environment into the device.
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There was a startup somewhere trying to sell Bitcoin miners as home heating units in cold climates, but the economics don't work since the chips are too expensive and gas is also still too much less expensive than electricity to heat with.

Most industrial processes require heat beyond what a mining chip could handle... unless you fabricated special mining chips out of different semiconductor materials that can handle high heat. But that's probably too expensive for the economics to work too.

What would make some sense to me is an integrated solar PV panel / mining unit. Just deploy them in the desert and connect them. Each panel could be discrete and WiFi connected, meaning you would not have to wire them to anything at all. Just prop them up in the sun with WAPs every so often to connect them to a network.
> Bloxels would need to know their location in the grid.

That's the thing I'm trying to work around. If bloxels are like boids in the flocking simulations, they don't care about their location - they move and change state based on the movement and state of their neighbors. In the flocking simulations, boids automatically form stable shapes and recover from disruptions, and none of them have assigned positions or even any kind of unique identifier. It's the repulsion and attraction functions - identical in every boid - that determine the steady state shape of the flock.

That said, I think there's a way for bloxels to tell where they are in their "flock". Imagine each bloxel continuously publishing a "depth" value that's computed as e.g. length of the vector \Sigma_{n}^{Neighbors}: Depth(n) x DirectionTo(n). The values would initially fluctuate, but I feel it's possible to set this up so that over short time the system will settle, with every boid's "depth" value being a correct indication of how far it is from the centre of the group. So e.g. upon activation, a pile of bloxels could wait for "depth" values to stabilize, and then each bloxel would remember its value as its designated position, and execute some different algorithm with that bit of state fixed.

Note to self: there's a bunch of free "agent-based simulation" programs I saw on the Internet the other day; such "depth" calculation should be a simple thing to simulate and verify.

Related keyword: phase-locked loops. See also: fireflies that synchronize their flashing patterns over time.

> And any kind of closed object would cause problems because bloxels would only adhere to the surface, not build up bulk inside.

Why can't they build up bulk, using each other for support?

> Maybe better would be a kind of 3D printing model, where the shape is 2D and changes over time, which leads to accretion of a 3D shape.

I'm not sure what you mean. That sounds like regular 3D printing using "dumb" matter?

> Even so - without feedback and monitoring you'll get errors and holes.

Bloxels would be active and reacting to each other - this is a feedback-full system.

> unless you're using some novel form of programmable electrostatic bonding, adhesion between bloxels will be weak

I have no good ideas here. I don't know of any programmable bonding system that isn't too energy intensive to use with current technology. AFAIK electromagnets are power hogs. Mechanical locking systems are also energy intensive, and also tricky to use (maneuvering the mating endpoints to meet, compensating torque, etc.)
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well it displays a map of plumbers in my area, is it not useful?
Besides do you remember what it was displaying before "it became useless"? This whole thread is full of hand wavy claims with pretty much no good examples about how Google actually became worse in time. Hence my point.
This is great! How are you dealing with copyright issues here?
It's completely disingenuous to discuss this topic without taking into account the lightning network.
Haven't tried, but i have a hunch that Windows in KVM with passthrough might work better for that. Just my zero cents.
Oh you mean like those people who fly around in private jets while admonishing people for inter alia flying on commercial airliners too much? (Remember: you're just a peasant. Money elevates you into a new ontic reality where the normal moral principles don't apply.)
Not everyone is into the “joy of coding.” There is much to do in IT that isn’t coding. That said, I’ve gotten past INTERESTED gf’s into coding by a) most nightly nerd conversations have to do with tech; b) taught base conversion and Boolean math; c) show how easy it is to copy and paste a real working (and necessary) code solution.

I can make a fun game out of MIT’s scratch language in ~15 minutes. Try that as an evening exercise.

If she doesn’t like it, don’t push it. She could teach you the joy of responsible finance instead ;)
> Honestly I'm confused that if a PWA is a viable solution, why this isn't just a website?

PWA was touted in the comments as a possible alternative, but PWA on iOS is not a very viable alternative to a native app in my view.

Just because a native app could be a PWA which in turn could be a website doesn't really say much about which of these it actually should be. Most apps I use on a daily basis could technically be websites, but that misses the point of why we like using platform-native apps in the first place.

EDIT: It seems it is also a website. And that's blocked too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28562772
Any reason they can’t just block the site? Is F-Droid a good option for this kind of mobile app?

I guess you can say they wind up playing whack-a-mole with new App Store and websites but that doesn’t seem ideal either. Russians can plant something too.

And Google removed it too. So are users downloading it now from 3rd-party app stores?
Not mean just but incredibly ignorant we had two devastating recession that hollowed many 401ks. Mine were. Oh you could understand from “a manual laborer” how very 1890s of you. You know whats nice Andrew Mellon given the frequency and severity of the recession you to might get some education in this.
There seem to be studies after studies [0] of how wasteful Bitcoin (PoW) is - correctly so.

Are there any similar studies regarding the banking system?

With buildings and buildings full of offices just for banks, their IT infrastructure, plus ATMs, POS, etc.

How frequently are these systems replaced/upgraded?

How much energy are they using?

I think it would be interesting to make a comparison.

[0] (I have no sources, just based on seeing links to similar studies recently)
And rich people buy stuff that requires skilled labor. Those craftspeople jobs are well paid. Reducing friction for rich people to buy locally made items is a good thing.
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Oh, right I misunderstood.

So no, we don't agree on that then.

Renewables and related tech is more than capable of powering a modern civilization. In fact it's better at doing that than any other option, including a nuclear heavy mix.

Ironically, the bits that I'm most fuzzy about renewables working well for (because they're not the low hanging fruit that we can immediately do) would also need to be done to move to a mostly nuclear powered civilization since it's basically about electrification of fossil-carbon-based process.

You don't hear much talk about it because absolutely no-one, especially the people who bang on about it on internet forums, thinks there's any chance at all of nuclear being a potential replacement for all fossil fuels, so it would be a waste of time to even draw up such plans.

Luckily, you can just take all the renewable plans drawn up by the actual governments for their actual plans and then just scale up the nuclear element and scale down the renewables to get some idea if it would work.

And it would work, at much greater cost in money, carbon, time and blood than doing it with renewables.

Which people seem to know on some level, but argue about trivialities and gotchas as if they didn't.

If you have any specific concern about what renewables can't do, I'll happily provide some sources to show why you're misinformed, and why a heavily nuclear grid will hit the same issues at a greater cost.
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Well at least they are publicly stating to give 'most' of their fortune away to charities. You can't say that about most other unicorns.
I’m not certain what DDG actually uses (wasn’t it Bing?), but in my experience from the last couple of months it ignores quotes substantially more eagerly than Google does. For this particular term, a little bit of domain knowledge helps: even without quotes, brst becchi, brst formalism, brst quantization or perhaps bv brst will get you reasonable results. (I could swear Google corrected brst quantization to best quantization a year ago, but apparently not anymore.) Searching for stuff in the context of BRST is still somewhat unpleasant, though.

I... don’t think anything particularly surprising is happening here, except for quotes being apparently ignored? I’ve had it explained to me that a rare word is essentially indistinguishable from a popular misspelling by NLP techniques as they currently exist, except by feeding the machine a massive dictionary (and perhaps not even then). BRST is a thing that you essentially can’t even define satisfactorily without at the very least four years of university-level physics (going by the conventional broad approach—the most direct possible road can of course be shorter if not necessarily more illuminating). “Best” is a very popular word both generally and in searches, and the R key is next to E on a Latin keyboard. If you are a perfect probabilistic reasoner with only these facts for context (and especially if you ignore case), I can very well believe that your best possible course of action is to assume a typo.

How to permit overriding that decision (and indeed how to recognize you’ve actually made one worth worrying about without massive human input—e.g. Russian adjectives can have more than 20 distinct forms, can be made up on the spot by following productive word-formation processes, and you don’t want to learn all of the world’s languages!) is simply a very difficult problem for what is probably a marginal benefit in the grand scheme of things.

I just dislike hitting these margins so much.
You can add this to Firefox as search engine option by right clicking on the URL and selecting "Add Marginalia". From there, setting it as your default search engine is done from the "Settings" panel as with other predefined search engines.

I'm experimenting with using it as my default ...
Start her out on something like Retool and help her hack together tools that she would find useful.
Nicki Minaj tweeted a Tucker Carlson to her followers, the Left went insane
Yes it's 100% down to wanting to protect the sanctity of the App Store ecosystem - which I do kind of understand, but don't necessarily condone.
As my dad has always told me, you have no idea what agreement the other employee had with the company, so never speculate.
registry (noun): a place or office where registers or records are kept; an official list or register.

In this case, a registry would be a mapping, however a mapping is not a registry. A registry is the single, centralized place from which you can look up registrations, to guarantee that there are no conflicting records. Literally none of that is (or can be, at this point) true of file extensions.
Equity in some companies means actual voting power, especially when one party doesn’t retain 50%+ control.
Ask HN: My lack of dating prospects is severly impacting my career. What to do?
I have a promising career, but I am not happy with my life and have no motivation to work anymore, because of my lack of romantic success.

I am very lonely. I need the intimacy that is only present within a romantic relationship. But I cannot have that. I do not know why, but I cannot manage to attract any woman. Unfortunately I have lots of things playing against me. I am extremely unremarkable in both appearance and character, and to top it off I am also a foreigner in a strange land (a career move). I have no social life either. A big problem is that I very rarely meet women, despite going out loads and trying my best to be social. My standards are not high, but despite this I meet a good prospect maybe twice a year. 95% of the time it is an instant rejection. 5% of the time, they lose interest after a very short time. I wish I could know why.

Because of this, I have no will to live anymore. I am 30 and have never experienced mutual love. I feel like a slave working for the benefit of others, but not for myself. I could not care less about the money. I have no use for it. I am not materialistic at all.

The depression and total lack of motivation from this issue has already hurt my career in the past. I just do not know what to do. I feel like I have no good options. I cannot take the thoughts out of my head.
Do that through taxation. I thought trickle down economics had been broadly repudiated.
> - On Amazon ECS, provide the CPU share count explicitly; Shenandoah likes more threads

Can you explain this further? I'm missing some connection here between ECS configuration and how the JVM sees the container.
> Regardless of differing political opinions and objectives, this comment comes off as unnecessarily aggressive and infers OP's tool is useless.

I suppose I must be more explicit, then, since you took my previous post as mere inference. Did you perhaps mean 'implication', by the way?

In my opinion OP's tool is useless. We already have an alternative self-hostable front-end for Twitter — Nitter — that works reasonably well as long as you don't run into Twitter's API rate limits. OP is just reinventing the wheel and since they're no friend of mine I see no reason to sugarcoat it for them.

> I really wish stuff like this wasn't on Hacker News.

Your wish is not my command. If the mod team wants to ban me, that's their prerogative, but until they do I will continue to speak from the heart. If my heart is too basaltic for you, that's your problem.
Just trying to put some context around "big".

FWIW: China GDP $16.64 trillion
It would be nice if you provided a few real examples so that we would see how Google was so fantastic and found everything magically but then went to shit.
US and EU already have poured tens of billions into Thorium reactors in the hope to make nuclear power less horribly expensive. It didn't work out.
>he's a racist

No, he is not.

Navalny was against banning a right-wing group from protesting and exercising their freedom of speech. He explicitly condemned their racism and hatred but said it was wrong to limit their freedom of speech:

>In late 2006, Navalny appealed to the Moscow City Hall, asking it to grant permission to conduct the nationalist 2006 Russian march. However, he added that Yabloko (Navalny's party) condemned "any ethnic or racial hatred and any xenophobia" and called on the police to oppose "any fascist, Nazi, xenophobic manifestations".
Wow, that sounds frustrating. I'm curious what the company was, sounds like a place to avoid.
A student once asked me an interesting question: "what are the occupational hazards of this career?"

Most people naively assume there are not any.

I told them poor health due to a sedentary lifestyle, depression, and social isolation.
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Because opinions are not all equal, some are better and some are worse.

Even if both antivaxxers and doctors have opinions on if people should get vaccinated it would be insane to treat them equally.
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diesel cargo boats?
Russia doesn't presently use rank choice voting, so it's not an option for this weekend's election.
> The problem: to achieve the desired level of UX, we needed to convince stakeholders that a single-page-app approach would be needed, including some APIs to fuel them.

I'd wager a SPA is a hammer/nail reaction here.
I wrote a version of Missile Command that I got reasonably working, until we got called down for tea and my cousin "helpfully" turned the computer off.

I still give him shit for it
My opinion on these kinds of questions is that I don’t trust places that hire for specific technologies. Do whichever one fires you up, and work at a place that respects that energy.
That does provide a measure of hope, but only a small one. Repressive states may fall, but new states always rise in their wake and eventually become tyrannys in their own right because even if people learn from history there's a defect in human nature that makes people yearn for the yoke. It's as if people want to obey an authority figure because it gives them license to stop thinking for themselves and just go with the flow.
It might be
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> I think the surprising part is that someone would want to pay 12 billions for a company with $700 million of revenue

Since the founders didn’t really want to sell, they probably had to up their offer into ridiculous range.
As much as I like a lot of the benefits of the walled garden (from a consumer perspective, not necessarily as a developer), this is actually a very good argument for side-loading and one that I hadn't thought about before.
> People are allowed to change their minds.

This is absolutely right, though sometimes it pisses people off when you do it.
1% of the time i boot into W10 to check the FW for my BT-Cans or something else. After a while, even while idle, the fans suddenly shift into overdrive. The CPU is undervolted by 0,095V.
These are tools you'd need to write atop the version dirs.
IFF it becomes a stable coin whose chance is almost nil in most of the countries.
“only two screws hold down the PCB to the case“

Nowadays, that’s two more than a product with cutthroat pricing should have. Engineering tolerances, even at low cost, are good enough to clamp the PCB in place.
I don't think is worth it to give up 7% if your business has some revenue, and it's growing.

If you haven't reached market-fit yet, then a mentorship could be useful if you don't have such skills in your networks.
unfortunately, the website from which such PWA might be loaded is also blocked in Russia.
Not everyone acts or is able to act rationally all the time
I am old enough to know how cool it was to be a millionaire. Where is all that money (billions) coming from? Who had it before, governments?
3-5 years means selling an extra 750-1250 million waste tires.
Somehow? France tries desperately to wind down its nuclear reactors because they are so heavily subsidised.

What the end user pays for electricity is just one part of the total costs. That's true for all forms of generation of course.
Probably rsync is smarter than my cp -rp example.

Folk who are downvoting my original comment really don't understand how git version controls at the atomic level.
What would happen if you negotiate leave as part of your employment?
For about two years, our oldest son was obsessed with the Cars movie. Over that period, friends and family have overwhelmed our house with die-cast Cars toys, of which there are thousands. We have hundreds. We have many that have no speaking part, and we have some that are not onscreen for more than a few frames. We have over 25 Lightning McQueens.

These Cars cars are junk. They break so easily. The axles are thin, flimsy pieces of metal, the paint jobs are terrible, and they drive smoothly for two weeks before they start stuttering and sliding.

For comparison, we have a few hand-me-down Hot Wheels (edit: Matchbox, not HW) cars made in England in the 70s that have been abused on-and-off for 20 years, and they still roll like they were just made. Newer ones aren't as sturdy or as heavy as those 50-year-old ones, but they're still much more nicely built than the Cars ones.

All I can say is: thank goodness the Cars phase is over.
Great post at the perfect time. I am currently wrestling with some gnarly, expensive queries in postgres and this gives me some great leads to try out.

Also, I appreciate the Rails love.

I know this is not a Who Is Hiring post, but if you are into Rails/Postgres and in the market (between UTC-4 and UTC-8 timezones), feel free to send me a note: gabe at instrumentl.com. We are doing some "biggish" data work helping nonprofits find grants and other fundraising opportunities.
My main complaint is the treatment of generics and lack of value types, which are actually two sides of the same coin.

Another thing I'd like to see is opt-in null safety. The Optional type is a very good mechanism, but when every reference is potentially null, its ability to enhance language safety is limited.

Other than that, it has everything I want. And of course, the ecosystem, tooling, etc. is simply the best in class.

My personal preference is for ML-style languages, so Java will never be my true love. But as far as languages go, you can do much worse.
I would not mind facing the arduous challenges of having a lot of cash.
Bill Maher scolds liberal media for ‘scaring the s–t out of people’ over Covid
I assume he is a Men's Rights activist.