skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way of looking at that is how little change a typical city will undergo once it is laid out. This goes for Rome and Amsterdam just as it does for NYC.

I was away from Amsterdam for about a decade before coming back there after having lived there before for a stretch of nearly 28 years (with a few longer absences) and what surprised me is how little had changed, and yet, here and there there were buildings that I was pretty sure weren't there before or some familiar landmarks that had gone. Over many decades or even centuries that kind of change will add up, and even though for Amsterdam in particular at some point there was a plan to 'overhaul' it and make it more modern (which fortunately got arrested in the earliest stage, but it did do a lot of damage to the east side of the river Amstel) the vast bulk of the city has been unchanged since decades.

What real change there is is expansion wherever there was undeveloped land, but that isn't change insomuch as it is simply growth, what was there before remains.

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2019/10/27/the-1960s-when-the-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Amsterdam_since_t...

My mom still remembers that just behind the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam there were meadows and cows grazing! (That's now deep inside the city).

If you're interested in when buildings in Amsterdam were first constructed you can find that information in:

https://www.wozwaardeloket.nl/

Just zoom in on the city, click on any building outline on the map and on the right hand side you will find all kinds of interesting information, including the year that ground was broken or the building was formally entered into the registry. This information is not always available but it still contains a wealth of information.
Any imperative algorithm admits functional mathematical interpretations. While humorous, the observation that programming in C is purely functional[1] isn't wrong. Also consider, for example, that the formalism for the Turing Machine, the archetypical imperative automata, is purely functional.

More seriously, the semantics of an imperative algorithm are perhaps always best understood as mathematical functions. Predicate transformer semantics reduce verifying an imperative program to proving a first-order formula. Leslie Lamport, who most people doing so-called "formal verification"[2] know for TLA+, is also a shining light in this area of research. They are observably complementary cognitive tools for the task of writing correct programs, even if one is attracting more grants. The trick is learning to write programs that reduce to formula that can practicably be solved, automatically or not.

Granted, for many languages that first-order formula might be difficult to solve for many programs, but that doesn't change the fact that there exists a functional description of the procedure's semantics, even if the process the hardware actually executes isn't so analyzed[3]. But then that's true for Haskell too. It's just Haskell and its cousins do a comprehensive job of beating you over the head that you're reasoning about program semantics and not processes.

[1] http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...

[2] Correctly it should be called automatic verification. Formal reasoning predates the automatic computer and automatic verification is a subset of mathematically rigorous formal program verification.

[3] Not to say it necessarily can't be.
Author just strikes me as another person tricked into focusing on the upper middle class instead the actual elite. This is why "tax the rich" ends up hitting working professionals like doctors while billionaires get tax cuts.

The relative difference between the middle class and the upper middle class is miniscule compared to the difference between the 1% and the 0.1%.
> ideology versus reality

It works until it doesn't. I don't think it's common knowledge today that ideology is a luxury, and doesn't put gas in the tank of a functioning society, now that we've generally taken a functioning society for granted.
Don't think that's what the author meant.
The idea behind this push to renewable is to force energy providers to find solutions. You don't know how to swim? Let's throw you in the water, you will figure out a way.
Effect of blue-enriched light on cognitive performance, sleep of night workers
Can’t think of a more anti-customer move on Canon’s part.
Musk' Starlink to provide half gigabit internet to airlines
Yes, exactly this scenario.
This. For when I'm on the go I've got a 17" LG Gram laptop with 24 GB of RAM. This thing is incredibly light.

That's the most important thing to me in a laptop: ultra light.

If you don't care about how light your laptop is, you may as well use a desktop (I'm ofc using a beefy desktop at home).

Something else: I've got a M1 Mac too, for the living room basically. The physical edges are way, way, way too sharp and it's simply not a comfortable laptop to use when slouching in the couch. The edges are so sharp you feel like you may actually physically damage your wrists. It's a long time standing complains about Apple laptops: I simply cannot understand how they can still get that so wrong (I'm sure, at some point, they'll come up with smoother edges but it's 2021 and we're not there yet). Now the trackpad on the M1 is way better than the trackpad on the LG Gram: feels way more sturdy. I like the very long battery the M1 has too.
According to this article, if you get accidentally declared dead in the US, companies and institutions make their own copies of the death records and they aren't kept in sync with the governments. So even after you become alive again, at any moment, someone might switch the bit on their database, and you become dead to few companies again.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/01/how-exactly...

Kind of interesting how this HN post shows that transparency is important, because fixing an error like erroneous death in other countries isn't as bad as it is in the US.

Anyway I ended up writing about it as a use case for crypto, because the blockchain part of a transparent ledger is important for being a companion to the public memory: your birth, your marriage, your relationships with relatives, and your death.

https://www.dyingtowrite.com/posts/2021/33_crypto-isnt-what-...
/rant: As a relatively newer resident of California, I find extraordinary levels of incompetence in pretty much every aspect of public-government interactions compared to other states in the US. This place has the most dysfunctional municipal (I am in Alameda county) and state departments. Just yesterday I wanted to file for self-proprietorship DBA record in the state commerce registry, was sent to 3 different offices in Oakland, incomplete list of form requirements and completely fucked up online forms download page CalGold - https://www.calgold.ca.gov/ that lists a billion forms but no central guidance as to what is needed.

This is the state that built the Golden Gate bridge in 3 years in 1930's but took 8 years to build a little access road recently and more than the cost of the bridge adjusting for inflation. Worse - it is considered a positive thing to have dysfunctional government here. Usually, the response from people in places like Berkeley and SF is that "Why do you need to do all this so quickly? Relax. Life is more than that. Consider gov jobs as a form of UBI. We need to cut down on progress." and crime? "Oh come on, it's not that bad. Car theft is fine, just make sure you have good insurance and get the catalytic convertor shield so it is not easy to use an angle grinder to remove it". Jeez.

Something drastic needs to happen. What a beautiful state occupied by overpaid Government employees.
but how will you differentiate a call that you want to perform at compile-time vs at run-time? e.g. if you want to run some unit tests to check the two algos, today you'd do:

int res = my_algo();
CHECK(res == 123);
...
constexpr int res = my_algo();
CHECK(res == 123); // compile-time version is the same

with

int my_algo() {
if constexpr(is_constant_evaluated()) {
return 123;
else
return some_lib->very_advanced_computation();
}

how do you do the same without the constexpr keyword ? i'd rather not introduce a template struct just to get a constexpr context, à la

template<auto Value>
struct manually_constexpr { static constexpr auto value = Value; };

CHECK(manually_constexpr<my_algo()>::value == 123);
I get this and think this is most likely scenario as well but at the same time this is equivalent to just getting your app started on the box and loading data or something correctly. It’s a step and you’re happy. These bitcoin guys just got their app to start up with limited functionality. They are happy.
Not really. They can't use their usual playbook in most proportional representation systems. Especially the Liberals. They survive by frightening Ontario progressives into voting for them. If those people knew that they could vote, NDP or Green and have those votes count then the Liberals would ne in a significant amount of trouble.

As would the Conservatives. If social conservatives could move their votes to a social conservative party they mostly would I suspect
yep every time I head to gutenberg.org I'm reminded that it doesn't get any more ironic. The guy was German for gods sake, we invented the printing press and here I am 600 years later getting owned by copyright
Yeah, this seems really stupid. I can see an argument for prioritizing renewables for new capacity (and can also see the argument for not), buy if the nuclear plants are already built, why de-prioritize dispatching their power now?
Sometimes posts get put on the "try again" queue by the moderator, where they are floated to the bottom of the home page to see if they will attract attention the second go-around. I don't know if that's the case here.
Indeed. Its quite the economic puzzle
Pandexit, please: The need for a Covid end date – Bournbrook Magazine
I can agree with this. I've seen many of the expensive bunkers people are throwing money at. Most of the things in the bunker won't help them survive more than a few weeks. I would have expected the super-wealthy to have dozens or hundreds of 1k gallon stainless steel tanks for pure water, massive battery and generator banks, O2 generators, numerous hermetically sealed rooms of freeze-dried foods, massive tanks for human waste. Nope. None of that. Just really expensive underground houses and expensive toys that won't work when the SHTF. I suppose they will pass in good fashion. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sxgXLguqI
Show HN: Stormah, cloud notes stored in your own Git repo
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> These aesthetics were both compelling and immediately understandable to newcomers

I liked skeuomorphic and i think most people find it comfortable because it s familiar. What followed that seems (from the user perspective) like a horde of conceited designers who think that the user should suffer for their superior designs. Wasting people's time trying to find where the button is, if it's pressed , or what it means, is not cool. Bicycles for the mind should make us go faster. I don't see any return of style, i see more of the same inanity, like e.g. twitter's latest redesign
I meant backwards incompatible change.
In addition "defies... everything we been told about" by whom?

Case studies? Economists?

Or

Vested interests? Politicians? Talk radio hosts?

Journalism should be calling out the specifics here and the ?lack? of grounding it has had, and how such ?misinformation? Is spread.
I'd be interested to know if this was intentional.

I can very much see that the all-in-one device has some "initializeHardware()" function that tests and sets up all the internal components, which probably requires ink to run (firing an ink jet as part of the initialization with no ink present usually burns some ink and it'll permanently clog with carbon deposits).

Likewise, I suspect if the light bulb in the scanner was faulty, it wouldn't print. Or if the chip controlling the fax functions was unresponsive, it may not scan, copy or print.

Designing a device which can self test every component, and then have a matrix of exactly which components must be present and working to do each function is very possible... but it's extra engineering effort, extra testing, and an extra source of bugs.

For example, if an ink cartridge is missing, the weight of the carriage will be different, which will need different motor control parameters to ensure the movement speed is suitable (they're DC motors, so require quite complex control algorithms to move at a close-to-constant rate across the page).

Overall, it might not be Canon management requiring this behaviour, but rather the engineering teams deciding that all these corner cases are not worth the effort of supporting.
Design for Yourself (Sometimes)
The channel Rick88888888 has a ton of restored movies: https://youtube.com/user/Rick88888888
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Or externalize the camera and networking modules, so that one can pop them in and out like a battery. Yes.
Saying "you're slow" doesn't solve anything. I know I'm slow, but I'm still faster when there is a robust type system with good guarantees.
Any links for a reference?
Hey, by all means fix clang and gcc so that my example no longer requires a runtime call to mul().

After all, evaluating code at compile time is easy right?

If you succeed in solving this problem in general, feel free to propose a change to the language that allows the use of expressions such as `mul(arr, arr+len)` anywhere you'd normally be required to use a constant. (That's what constexpr already achieves today)

Btw I mentioned that you can make the compiler try harder with LLVM opt because constant-folding is an optimization. I dunno why you bring up codegen.
A bit late to the party on this on but: "“The real cell of society in the United States is the individual,” he finds. This is so because the cell most foundational (per Aristotle) to society, “the family, has disintegrated.”

Quite astoundingly (at least to me) this also seems to be what many "anti-socialists" in America think is the root of the problem!
But you could surely just randomly vary the beamforming to get the same effect, right?
New PureBoot Feature: Scanning Root for Tampering
We need an open source printer
You can read about the facts without caring who is writing it, what side is WSJ is less relevant than the facts, if you can believe the facts and eventually confirm it in other places. If you don't like the message, discuss about the message, don't attack the messenger.
Conventional variable syntax may not create a variable either. The compiler elides as it can or sees fit. This is my point, you don’t reason about these details today, why should constexpr be different?
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Why not shoot the mortar round at the enemy instead? They travel quite quickly and load/reload very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfkOeHQXAaM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQD5k48QTU

Mortar teams are already indirect fire, and have a variety of methodologies at adjusting aim to pummel the enemy with attacks.

Mortars are devastating weapons, partially because of how quickly you can load and shoot mortars and bombard an area.

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If you want accuracy, you use the missiles I described earlier. Mortars are (relatively) rapid-fire weapons in contrast, with a blast occurring every 3 or so seconds.

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I'm sure ISIS is trying to come up with new uses for weapons. But... frankly I'm not seeing how strapping a mortar round to a drone is more effective than shooting 20 mortars in the same amount of time.

Or, if precision is needed (urban environment / guerilla situation), TOW missiles. Going to 1940's style joystick controls in a combat situation when the enemy has point-and-shoot TOWs is definitely a disadvantage.

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We also have GPS-guided mortar rounds these days btw. No drone needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM395_Precision_Guided_Mortar_...

Also: laser + GPS guided mortars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evqkZAqvOzI
Nuclear is (one of) the new invisible demons flying around to be afraid of.
> already built

Therefore, ineligible for pocketing green subsidies to build new stuff.
Heat mostly matters when charging or discharging rapidly, if wear is concerned. So might be less significant than you'd think.
Huffing ground up catalytic converter filters...which filters the refuse of petrol based combustion, I can't imagine it would have any negative affects...if you are willing to volunteer as a test subject, I'm sure some lab would take you on for research.

Best of luck.
I think the concern with nuclear energy is around the possibility of a nuclear meltdown. The media portrayal of nuclear energy is that it's very dangerous, even if that's not really true.
I mean if you have to transfer files from your computer or connect a keyboard just to do something on the phone. That's really inconvenient, I've tried to use my Pinephone that way and it's unpleasant.

The other platforms have figured this out, where the "someone likely writes a relevant script for your use case" becomes "someone likely writes a relevant app for your use case" and you just go to the app store and download it. No need to mess with scripts or plug in a keyboard, and you still get to have plenty of customization. I believe flatpak has started to add categories for mobile apps so that is bringing us closer to where things need to be.

Edit: I found the Purism blog post where they talk about this, the metadata should be usable by anyone doing packaging or building a mobile shell. https://puri.sm/posts/specify-form-factors-in-your-librem-5-...
It most likely is dangerous in this case but there are many things that are generally bad but only slightly if at all dangerous in the amounts that a drug user takes especially if they only do it occasionally.
I dunno, don't build tanks?

HEAT rounds and Sabot rounds just aren't useful against civilians or soft targets. They're a weapon for dislodging highly armored enemies: like bunkers, tanks and the like.

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The weapons that are useful against soft targets are pistols, machine guns, rifles, and the like. And they're already being used in crimes and other such situations.

There's no point shooting 120mm tank sabot rounds at people, because a 9mm pistol will effectively kill at much cheaper prices. There's pretty much nothing to fear from the more sophisticated weapons. A singular 120mm tank round weighs nearly 40 lbs.

In contrast, you can carry something like 1000+ rounds of 9mm ammunition in the same 40lbs weight. The weapons used on the battlefield (ex: missiles, HEAT rounds, rockets, etc. etc.) simply aren't useful in soft / civilian settings.
It could just as easily be evidence of a previously non-understood physical phenomenon or mechanism being recognized by new methods.

Of course, that’s exactly the kind of thing a simulation would type!
These poor folks are snorting and smoking used industrial chemicals which should be in a landfill. And why? To cheaply forget and escape their squalid conditions.
Curious why you think Larry’s background is relevant. Although his mom is Jewish (so he probably is) he probably does not identify as non-white (to the same extent as Jews, eg Brin’s family,in the CCCP). Maybe it could be different if he was raised on the eastern seaboard, but all evidence points to the fact that his family is as nonreligious as it gets..
The question at hand is concurrency, not single-threaded performance.
The set of possible Authorization policies without having some form of Authentication is quite limited ;)
FRP Bypass Samsung A03s Gmail Lock Bypass
protip: nothing gets judged as legally obscene in the US as nobody wants the actual decisive court case. Supreme Court has left a carveout that things can distinctly be considered obscene, but nobody has gone that far. they made new carveouts for child sexual depictions even it not passing the obscenity test. More recently, a man was sued under copyright laws for pirating pornography and their defense was that because the work was obscene it could not be have any copyright restrictions, of course since the law firms suing over piracy are just spraying and praying, they don't want an actual trial. This area is not resolved and likely won't ever be.
What do you feel like you're missing in userspace?
I really like Opera mail, but it's no longer under development, not even sure if you can download it any longer.
You could train the mail client to auto sort e-mails using bayesian filters- think of it like having 10 different "spam" folders, but one of the folder is messages about domains, another is weekly server logs, another is personal e-mails, and every client or project has it's own folder, and the email clients sorts the mail for you!
You could also tag e-mails so you could have a list of e-mails with the tag "important note", or "receipt".
It also "auto"-sorted the mail by date, so you could group by month or week.

Unless someone does it first, I will probably make my own mail client with these old Opera mail features.
I would argue the bias of the editorial board is fair game when it comes to discussing the word choices and phrasing made in the article.
Disasters created by ideology are the normal pathway to vaccinate the general population against memetic viruses. Were education may fail, a winter with rolling black-outs, may not.
Hi Canon!

Thanks from increasing my list of examples why people should no be so condescending of proprietary firmware.
This one of Berlin, though not as early as the ones you posted, is the most spectacular one I've found:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YSDgruADlE

This gives a much better view into what everyday life must have been like at that time, it almost reminds me in some ways of movies such as Koyaanisqatsi.
Forget government. China actually shows what all governments more or less publicly desire: Better and deeper control of their feared enemy: The population.

In fact, I think we are about to enter an era where our personal devices not only don't work exclusively for us but instead work explicitly against us. It will take a while for governments to gather some experience, but I won't be surprised when data gathering becomes mandatory.

Wouldn't it be great for instance, if police could just tap into Alexa's records to clarify a case of rape? Or throttle down your intelligent thermostat because you are wasting so much of our CO2 budget? Or stop your car because it already entered that particular city twice this year?
Who cares. Cryptos are scam trash
so HTTP is roughly (2 billion devices)^2, with an average of $500 per device is (2b*$500)^2 =
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

it's official. Jeff Bezos can't buy HTTP.
> Is it just me or is the appeal here: "Look! Poor people are having unapproved fun! Shame and Horror!" and assurances that they will suffer for it.

This is not the kind of drug people do for fun. This is the kind that is done to make you forget that you exist while it's active. From the article:

> "We aren’t worried about it,” they say. Ultimately, they claim, they have nothing to lose. "Bombé helps us forget everything. In the West, they have bank accounts, I have nothing. With bombé everything is easier.”

This isn't weed, or LSD, or a "fun" drug. This is the kind of thing that puts you into a stupor so you don't think.
>I wouldn't believe her when she told me she still had 80% battery remaining.

Really? I feel like that's just having any 2021 laptop. I have a 13" Linux laptop with the i7-1185g. I'm not going to pretend it matches the performance/watt of an M1, but a few hours of video calling makes a completely negligible difference to battery life for me. 20% for a few hours of video calls just feels baseline.

I've never been in a situation where I needed to get back to a charger, and can happily go the whole day of development and meetings with charge left over to spare.