skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. I've seen this quote before. But it's fair - authors are people too, their views and styles evolve. It's worth remembering that Foundation's Edge was published 30 years after the trilogy.

But it's also true that author's opinions after the fact have limited bearing on the work. People like me, who like the Trilogy as they read it, like it for what it is.

I didn't mention Foundation's Edge because, beyond being a bit more action and suspense-packed, it departs a bit from the "no special individuals" rule. Incidentally, it's not the protagonist that's special in my opinion. Spoilers (rot13) follow:

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Same applies when using C++ with bounds checking enabled, but the FUD regarding bounds checking is deep.
Berkeley scientist resigns over refusal to invite ‘canceled’ geophysicist
Probably closer to vile or elvis if we're talking proper ksh93.
Isn't that a bit by force of habit ? I used to fallback to the !g quite often. I hardly needed it in the last 2 or 3 years. And Google was consistently worse when I did. So, as you say, just my experience.
Scientific notation bug in MySQL left AWS WAF vulnerable to SQL injection
Funny to see him in that video, with him getting begged by his viewers to cover the CSAM scanning controversy on every video for weeks - but he ignored it. Wonder why.
Can you recommend real sci-fi books?
The worst thing about telling people about why they should boycott Amazon IRL is that they just don't believe it. It sounds so outlandish that even with proof (such as this newspaper article) you can tell it doesn't really land. Very sad.
Only a mad man uses any google product
Haha. I immediately wanted to know if this had anything to do with Tom's Diner
Yes, they did. Exact same dimensions except the thickness (which is fine I'd have preferred a thicker 12 mini with much more battery).

Thing is I bought 12 mini 3 weeks ago (replaced my 4 years old iPhone 7). It was way cheaper than 13 mini at the time of that sale. Also the only thing important for me in 13 mini better than 12 mini was battery which isn't that significant a difference imho.

I hope to use 12 mini for at least 3 more years. Wouldn't want to buy a 13 mini to replace a 12 mini then. I would want a 15 or 16 mini at that time (or equivalent).
There are algorithms that behave correctly but require intermediate Inf or NaN to work. If I recall there is one related to finding bounding box intersections in ray tracing. I know when I introduce such code into a codebase I put a large "DO NOT CHANGE THIS..." style comment with an explanation so some enterprising programmer doesn't put some if statements in to remove what they think is an error, when it is not.

I'd suspect the same is true for NaN. These things were introduced for reasons. If you don't have a deep knowledge of why, don't assume everyone else is the same.

Edit: I found examples using a NaN and Inf intermediates to get a large speed increase [1,2].

[1] https://tavianator.com/2015/ray_box_nan.html

[2] https://tavianator.com/2011/ray_box.html
> Milking the browser...to fund its "mission", then laying off browser engineers and the Rust team to save money...Misleading people to think they suppprt [sic] Firefox when they donate to the foundation, then sending nothing to the browser and burning it all on "its mission"

This is where they lost me as a donor. Mozilla can't go a month without launching a new idiot project.

Do we know what fraction of their revenue gets spent on Firefox and Rust versus everything else?
This is reason for rejoicing.

David Romps worked at Berkeley -- he obviously was not a right-winger. And yet he resigned over a woke cancellation.

I hope this signals the begin of the return of the classic liberal.
The Kodak Brownie changed privacy rights
Not the OP, that is my approach, keep on the bounds checking settings from VC++ also in release builds.

And before STL was a thing, all the custom types I had were bounds checked by default.
Startup Founders, This Is the Only Good Reason to Raise Money
One still needs oh-my-fish, as one needs oh-my-zsh. So the setup time is 100% equal for fish and zsh.

https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/ , https://ohmyz.sh/
This is pretty awesome. Thanks for answering my questions, it's been insightful. I've been messing around with Freemind for the past hour and I'm liking this. This has definitely inspired me to experiment with it further.
None of your examples do what you say for me. I see everything on Google including your comments here.
I use Zsh, it's such a tremendous improvement over Bash. Not only does it handle parameter expansion much better than any Unix-style shell, but it also has a lot more useful built-ins that can save you from having to call out to external programs to do basic tasks, like getting the absolute path of the directory that contains the current script.

It is so unbelievably feature-rich that it's almost impossible to describe all of its features and merits, but you can safely ignore most of them and the basic day-to-day experience will just be "Bash, but better".

No program is perfect, but Zsh I think is pretty damn close. That's not because it doesn't have flaws (it definitely has flaws), it's because it does such a good job at doing what it does, that all its flaws seem minor and none of them fundamentally get in the way of it doing that job.

One additional thing I'll say is: it is probably the only Unix-style shell where I would feel comfortable writing 1000+-line applications with a CLI, tests, etc. I would never do such a thing with Bash or some minimal Posix-compatible shell. It's a very sensible system scripting language, alongside Python, Perl, etc.
I started the forum because at the time one of the only sources of user support was a Yahoo message board. It was not a nice place. There was also an IRC (still active), but that format have any searchable history.

Things have gotten way better since then. I have not heard any desire to have a centrally maintained forum, but will help however I can.
Of course, and "obliterating" Amazon would still leave all the other corporations who behave similarly and the broken system they lay their foundation upon intact.

Still, it is fine to me to express frustration using a childish dream for revenge every once in a while.
Spike in energy prices suggests that sharp changes are ahead
Read his words here:

https://twitter.com/romps/status/1450139374125862913
> Before phones, were teenagers writing full-length letters to each other in order to communicate?

I was, and my friends were. Still have a big box of old letters up in the attic someplace
Waterfox 4th Generation Release
I was simply going to do:

$ cat > file.c <<EOM
People have different opinions. I think the label "hard sc-fi" is too fuzzy with everyone having their own expectations. Personally I found the books to be immensely entertaining. There's a number of very intriguing thought experiments.

What happens when a ship is sliced in half by an almost infinitely strong piece of string? What if people were able to enter and move around in 4-dimensional space, or if 3D space suddenly collapsed to 2D? What could happen if the speed of light dropped to 16km/s?
Another hypothetical example that obviously doesn't give you purple wagons anywhere. Why not use a real example? Should be really easy if this is such a widespread problem.
Show HN: A choose-your-own-adventure app that teaches you to self-reflect
I can guarantee you that there’s like 1000 different idiotic rules that are applied to each of those items. They probably need to be stored on servers stored behind balistic glass, and cooled with helium.

I’m not saying IBM is not still charging the government 14x more than necessary, but at least some of the expense is likely their own fault for having ridiculous requirements.
You don't need to be able to discriminate well, you just need a small non-consensus signal that may not even be perceptible to humans.

But you're right to be sceptical. Hedge funds are largely a sales job. How can you convince gullible investors to overlook the terrible performance of your sector and invest in you anyways, and then take a large slice of the profits when you get lucky? Buzzwords and neat sounding strategies help.
It is cool, but I wonder why are they using an Arduino to read the tape back instead of the line-in of a sound card?
Boring tripe
That's a pretty big assumption, what makes you think that?
Betwixt: The Story of You is a little app that came about because I got tired of mental wellness chatbots with the emotional register of Clippy. I’m also a big fan of Myst, fantasy and interactive storytelling, and I always wanted to see how far you can push it before you break the users’ immersion.

Betwixt started as a humble Facebook chatbot and is now an iOS app in which you go through a strange world called the In-Between and end up learning about yourself. I had the sense not to write the content myself, but to collaborate with an award-winning fiction author (Nebula finalist) and a therapist, and we took guidance from doctors at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a behaviour scientist at the Games for Emotional and Mental Health Lab.

One thing we’ve learned is that interactive conversation and storytelling is really hard. It’s also a lot of fun, otherwise I wouldn’t have signed up for it. We wanted to create an experience that felt personal and responsive to people’s needs, as well as allow them to co-create the world and have the agency to express themselves. The approach we’re using is a combination of branching narrative and flexible conversational logic - e.g. you can pick from a number of pre-given responses (and we try to make them varied and representative) or write your own, and our aim is to never make you feel like we’re forcing choices on you.

There’re still a lot of challenges to get this right and I’d love to hear your thoughts on what we’ve done so far, and how it can be better. There’s no such thing as too much feedback :)
Or maybe windows issues just fly under your radar, but the linux ones don't.

For example, just yesterday, I was figuring out why Quick Settings in Windows 11 do not show up on a machine upgraded from Windows 10 (without that, you have to go to Settings app to connect to wifi or turn on/off a vpn). Turns out, if you disabled Action Center in Windows 10, then there's no Quick Settings in Windows 11 for you and no way to enable it back, save for manually editing registry.

In my experience, most windows users would not consider the above as an issue they had to deal... in windows. But in Ubuntu, they definitely would. Maybe it is the difference between familiar and unfamiliar territory.
They didn’t think the pandemic and distance learning were a factor?
It is probably a similar rate to what happens at a las vegas strip club. They get you drunk then ask for your credit card and put 5k on it.
Killing C++/CX and replacing it with a developer experience akin to using VC++ 6.0 with ATL 3.0, or leave .NET Native to roten, is hardly the way to win back users.
I just looked at the NHS site and they suggest your doc check your ears are not just bunged up with wax.

Beyond that I'm not sure why I'd need professionals rather than an app to do some hearing tests.
MS doesn't want to fix Linux, it just wants its devs to buy Windows computers. Most Linux users these days are web developers who use MacOS. MS wants that market. It could care less about Linux as an OS or ecosystem.
How I made Google’s data grid scroll 10x faster with one line of CSS
One Month (YC S13) Is Hiring a Teacher's Assistant (HTML, JavaScript, Python)
That also works, but unfortunately not for everyone working remotely and need to schedule meetings, webinars, online conferences, define product deadlines, etc. I'm hoping that hTime is going to simplify all of that by brining UTC back to our everyday life.
Robert Heinlein was rather fond of the old bird. Quoting "Glory Road":

"I feel the way about a Springfield that I do about a Gooney Bird; some pieces of machinery are ultimate perfection of their sort, the only possible improvement is a radical change in design."

"I knew it would fly; it was a Gooney Bird, a C-47, mostly patches and God knows how many millions of miles. It would get to Singapore on one engine if asked. I knew my luck was in as soon as I saw that grand old collection of masking tape and glue sitting on the field."
No need to apologize. Most people say "tense" just meaning "verb form". I just saw the opportunity to point out something I find interesting.
>What concerns me is that not everyone agrees that we need to end bigotry, but if you and I agree on that one point, then great. Thanks

If you drill down into the worst bigots, you will break them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw

Bigotry is over, we know the solution. Today is the least bigoted day in the history of north america.

What you are experiencing and why you think bigotry hasn't ended is the false narrative. It's a narrative in which intersectionalists are pushing. The end goal is not equality or egalitarianism but rather creating a new caste system where they are at the top.
Great feedback, I'll check that and try to fix soon. Thanks!
Did we discover a new force of nature? New results from CERN
I very strongly disagree that you need or even want OMZ. You don't need it for Bash, why would you need it for Zsh?

It might be nice when you're getting started, so you don't have to learn all the ins and outs of the shell to have cool prompts and other useful functionality.
> The reality is, pretty much anyone who uses a major ISP in the US has IPv6 (Comcast, Spectrum, etc. hand them out without customers even asking), and it's even more likely in other countries.

Unfortunately, there are still major ISPs in the US that don’t support IPv6. For example, Verizon (not Verizon Wireless) has been promising IPv6 for about a decade and has so far failed to deliver.
By the way, DuckDuckGo is no better than Google.

DuckDuckGo said no. But when I reapplied as a black lesbian who can’t speak English, they wanted me:

https://lulz.com/community/thread/social-experiment-duckduck...
Not OP, but Greg Egan is mentioned somewhat often around here. Having read some of is books (Schild's Ladder, Permutation City, Diaspora) I can firmly recommend them, and would assign them the "hard sci-fi" tag.

You can also never go wrong with Arthur C. Clarke. Another favourite of mine, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Charles Sheffield.
I have been using vi like key bindings for the past 15 years, so learning to do differently would be a significant investment I'm not willing to make, even moreso that the benefits would not be clear ;)

But yes, I'm 100% convinced that it's not for everyone, and depends a lot of the quality of the integration/mode of your specific use case.
Does it? I don't know much about the Day itself, but I know that there's a ton of commercial marketing around it coming from US companies, making it feel like the Day is some kind of party. I was startled by it at first, and then assumed maybe Mexicans prefer the observances to be joyful rather than solemn.

I'm from Poland, and it's like 'gambiting describes: the cemeteries are sacred, All Saints Day is a time of solemn observance, and no humor about this is culturally tolerated.

I live in a major city, we have some old cemeteries in which various local and national people of importance were buried, with corresponding monuments/artworks. When Ingress[0] launched, some points of interest were placed in those cemeteries. I remember a huge stink about this in the community, and a general agreement to pretend they don't exist, as people felt it's disrespectful to play on cemeteries.

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[0] - The "AR" game by the company that later created Pokémon Go.
How to create an artificial magnetosphere for Mars
Brilliant - that's the one!
I'm an extremely happy Brave user since last year, and my default search service is duckduckgo. Not missing neither chrome nor google search.
If they can search your private docs, they can see your private docs.
About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview
define the average windows user.
then how much of the windows market does that exclude
Support for multi-DPI monitors is Wayland-only; nobody is going to retrofit that into Xorg.

So if you are using distro that uses X11 by default, it will not work. If you use distro that uses Wayland by default, it works out of the box.
It was "rover" or "free safety" a long time ago when I worked in a factory. Both borrowed American football terms that seem to fit reasonably well.
I have two enormous cemeteries on either side of my neighborhood. However where I live, just going for a walk there would be considered disrespectful. It's outdated in my opinion. Cemeteries are a terrible waste of space and horrible for the environment too. Like you said, go ahead and have a beautiful ceremony. I've told my wife to cremate me or turn me into one of those tree things that people are talking about now. I don't want to be covered in all the chemicals and be used to destroy the planet.

If you have an existing cemetery, at least convert it into a dual use space like the one in Boston with the fish ponds and maybe also put a playground up. There aren't nearly enough of those for parents of young children. Especially during a pandemic when you want to not cram 100 kids in a fairly small space.
> Yes, he has a website where he pats himself on the back for all of the good calls he's made. I've seen it. Ask yourself, why does a short seller need public confidence at all? It's because they want to be able to move the stock price when they publish something.

I'm sorry, but no shit? You frame it like there's some insight or conspiracy theory in there.

Again: What is your issue with this? The market has rules, some companies skirt them or outright lie. The size of the market is too large to regulate with our current mechanisms and short sellers fill some of these gaps for a profit. It becomes an issue if the short seller is wrong and causes harm to a company undeservingly, but you haven't proven that case here.
It's a little weird to blame a third party for Google's ranking choices.
>You'd be an idiot to do so, however, as your vision can change with age.

I just use reading glasses but the desired strength can vary day to day depending on what you are doing and my eyes vary too. This can be dealt with easier by having a number of pairs of reading glasses and seeing which works best rather than doing prescription stuff. You can buy reading glasses for £1 here so I tend to get a few.

I'd still recommend going to a good optometrist occasionally in case there is something more worrying up with your eyes.
Normalizing Rejecting Facebook Offers
> You can't really wash a 500-mℓ glass bottle with less than about a liter of water, and to sterilize it you need that water to be at least 60°, preferably more like 90°. Heating water from 25° to 60° takes 35 calories per gram; at 4.2 J/cal, that's 150 kJ.

A tiny nitpick. I'm quite sure you can use that same liter of hot water to wash multiple bottles. And even then any facility that washes bottles at scale would use the leftover heat from waste water to heat the fresh water.
It's probably possible, look up ZLE and the `bindkey` builtin.
I pay for a bunch of google services (Google One, YouTube premium) and for the life of me, have not been able to get my country changed. After some time with tech support (was shocked I was able to get someone), the conclusion was to use the play store ON AN ANDROID DEVICE to try to change my country. Quite strange if you use google services without an android device. It doesn't matter if I'm an edge case. They need to support their customer.
> my app doesn't even rely on any servers, what do you suggest I do then?

Although I agree that there is nothing wrong with client-side sanitization, does this even apply to non-networked apps? Are you protecting your user from?

Or perhaps by "doesn't rely on any servers" you mean "serverless", which doesn't literally mean no servers. If your app's client hits a database-as-a-service somewhere then that is a server and it very well can sanitize for you.
I don't believe it. The reason why minimum wages work is that the government becomes the union of last resort. Also, if poor people receive more pay they spend more which then creates more minimum wage jobs for other people.

The minimum wage is rarely raised to some absurd level. Instead it is just gradually increased every year by a small amount.
In my village in the Netherlands, a great amount of greenery has been eradicated in this last year. Gone are almost all the brambles with their delicious harvest, all we have now is grass, grass everywhere. Surrounding villages have the same problem: if it's green and could be cut down, it's now gone.

I strongly suspect this is because the government has mandated a minimum amount of 'biomass' to be produced. God help us for the next year, we'll probably lose all the remaining trees.
Search doesn't have to concern itself with AdSense ads, search ads still make up something like %85 of Alphabet's total revenue
Looks nice, but it has a notch → dealbreaker.
Reasoning about the consequences along a couple functions in your hot path is one thing. Reasoning about the consequences in your entire codebase and all libraries is quite another.
Ignorance only gets you so far. It takes a descent amount of ignorance to not know.
A decade ago after noticing such a conversation I'd have thought about and explored about which was better and which one to try and switch to; at least for few weeks until the novelty wore off.

I am older now (not sure smarter or lazier as well or both) and at this point I couldn't care less. As an Android developer I am essentially forced to use Android Studio - a rebranded IntelliJ and a shameless resource eater - it does the work and employer pays for better Macs every now and then, so it's good.
If i remember correctly, i read in their docs that the builds can be submitted by anyone. Not sure how secure that is…
On the contrary, I don’t understand why you’re focusing on profit.

It’s quite public knowledge that most companies avail accounting practices to lower profit over revenue. In fact, it’s not even a trick - investing profits back into your business is common sense.
Real wages have risen on average. The question is for whom.
There exist dominating languages in western culture - English, Spanish, French, German, and native speakers are getting comparatively easy pass. English has the magnifying factor of mostly American movie and music industries. I mean more the ruthless evolutional and statistical factors - no American, Spanish, French, German lady comes over here looking for romance, marriage, or sex. I might relocate there but starting my life from scratch, I will not be attractive in comparison with more established guys. For a lady starting from the scratch is not much a hinderance, she will find a patron of some kind. So there is natural migration of people and people are free to make their romantic choices, but this migration is very unidirectional and causing significant frustrations among a spectrum of demographics.
Software Ate the World and Now Has Indigestion
> That said, personally, for anything more involved than a one-liner alias kind of script, I turn to python, or PowerShell on Windows

You and submitter (who according to CV is proficient in Python) might like Oilshell.
just apply as a FtM trans