skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what's even worse about Ready Player One is that everyone seems so bogged down in the minutia of the book of a poorly written 15 year old being in infatuated with a young woman without an eating disorder, they miss the whole distopian aspect of a world run by monopolistic corporations and corrupt governments powerless to stop them.
Improving Accuracy in Satellite Navigation Systems
Can't see because it detects I'm from Spain, it only shows Pixel 4a.
It worked for Arthur Anderson -> Accenture although they also restructured the business. E.g. Accenture is only the consulting part of the business.
Would be interesting if this ends up exactly proving Chappelle’s point.
Ironically with the rise of touchscreens, it's easier than ever to have an APL keyboard.
Ddosify – a high-performance load testing tool
There seems to be an awfully large amount of projection here from people seemingly just reading the headline and not the article (much less the paper).

Even just the article's sub-title has tempered predictions: "“Optical accelerator” devices could one day soon turbocharge tailored applications"

And the research has immediate practical applications, again per the article:

> "The most surprising finding was that we could trigger the optical switch with the smallest amount of light, a single photon," says study senior author Pavlos Lagoudakis, [..] Lagoudakis says the super-sensitivity of the new optical switch to light suggests it could serve as a light detector that could find use in lidar scanners, such as those finding use in drones and autonomous vehicles.
An accidental case of that is Accenture. It split with Arthur Andersen (and got renamed) just a couple of years before the Enron Scandal broke.
You don't really have to replant -- coppice and pollard are out of fashion, but maybe they can come back.

Sprout Lands by William Bryant Logan is a fascinating read.
Yes! When we talk about "simulating the Universe", you cannot just simulate the Earth. A tiny event taking place somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy will have some sort of an effect. You have to take into account the whole system, in its entirety.
I've seen programmers get offended by jokes about tools they use. Some folks take such jokes personally, if the vitriol is any indication.
Have they addressed the points we've discussed 4 months ago [1] (eg where they're reinventing SGML, badly and hard-coded to HTML):

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27061020
Is it just me, or does the phone's aesthetics make it feel so premium? The only downside is that if you try to play games, you will probably be annoyed at the camera.
Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

> I'm convinced that the only way to like that book is to have never read real SF before.

It's your opinion against thousands who read and like SF and loved Liu Cixin's books.
It's true that there you must accept a set of axioms that create a suspension of disbelief in most of those books.
The Pixel 5 was actually cheaper in Europe because it didn't support mmWave 5G.

Sure, it's a loss leading tactic. And that's my point. Outside the US, Google is using incredibly weird, inconsistent and half-assed marketing tactics. If you believe there will be something better than getting free Bose 700 headphones, you'll probably be disappointed.

I ordered my Pixel 5 on day one, and I was waiting for good deals throughout the year so that I could recommend it to family members, and that just didn't happen. And the 5a wasn't even released in most of the world.
Debug Kubernetes clusters in 8 commands
I still have no idea what Atek is.
JavaScript's parseInt and parseFloat return NaN on something as benign as "well, that wasn't a number".

var jsonish = "...";
var number = parseFloat(jsonish);
if (!isNaN(number)) {
// deserialized a number
} else {
// ...try deserializing as a boolean or string next...
}

Fast math optimizations can break code like this by breaking isNaN.

I was porting a C++ project to a certain platform - and that platform enabled a -ffast-math equivalent by default in Release (but not Debug) builds! This broke duktape, a JS engine said project embedded, in some nasty and subtle ways. Instead of storing a number/pointer/??? (8 bytes) + type tag (4? bytes) for each dynamically typed JS value, duktape can bit-pack values into a single 8 byte "double" value by storing object/string handles as NaN values - this isn't an uncommon trick for dynamically typed scripting stuff:

https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/c3722054ea4a4e50f48...

Naturally, the -ffast-math equivalent broke isNaN checks, which caused random object/string handles to be mistakenly reinterpreted as "numbers" - but only in Release builds, for this one particular platform, in one rarely taken branch, so neither QA nor CI caught it, leading to hours of manufacturing a repro case, stepping through an absurd amount of code, and then finally looking at the default build rules and facepalming.

Cursing the platform vendor under my breath, I overrode the defaults to align with the defaults of every other config x platform combination we already had: no fast math. If you want those optimizations, use SSE-friendly NaN-avoiding intrinsics - or, if you must use the compiler flags, ensure you do so consistently across build configs and platforms, perhaps limited to a few TUs or modules if possible. This allows you to have a chance at using your Debug builds to debug the resulting "optimizations".
I often want to block domains. If you give me one more pinterest link...
For me, the interesting thing about TBP (I only read the first in the trilogy) was that it was attempting high-concept SF from a very different background: the Cultural Revolution.

High-concept is not the same as hard SF, it means that the novel is driven by the ideas it's trying to articulate rather than anything else. Hence the fragile plot and characters.

But the central question - is it possible the universe is lying to you on a fundamental level? Are your views of reality being systematically manipulated to prevent you reaching certain conclusions and elevating yourself? Those are more interesting, especially coming from a writer under the CCP.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment, but the frequency doesn't change the speed of light.
There is no way to measure code quality

While it's indeed hard to get objective measurements looking at the codebase alone, telling a manager things like

"look, this is going to take 5x the amount of time it should because the current code is a complete mess so I have to be extra careful not to break things and it takes way longer than it should to figure out where I have to put the new feature in order to mimimize the amount of extra chaos created"

or

"I cannot do anything sensibly without refactoring this first but it will pay off in the next couple of months and years to follow"

should make it pretty clear the quality isn't where it should be. If management doesn't grasp that, or doesn't want to hear it, then management quality is probably at the same level as the code's. I know I'm in a position not every developer is, but when needed I ask and get extra time for things like this. Because I've seen what happens when you try to build a trainwreck on top of existing ones: that stuff is exponential, at least.
Tiny Humans
> Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characters

I mean, in fairness, this is basically traditional in sci-fi; characterisation that wasn't terrible was a bit of a novelty until quite recently.
That right there is something useless a sales person may tell you. Means nothing for techie.

Luckily there is architecture doc we can dig into: https://atek.cloud/docs/manual/dev/architecture
Were you involved with the DOS version of the game? A friend in university had a copy of it on the DOS machine we used to type papers and I got rapidly sucked in after discovering it.
Oh! Hadn't known that before -- I'll give it a try.
People talk about zsh being more advanced than Bash as if that's a good thing. But remember the shell is mostly useful as an interface to other programs; it's not supposed to be filled with features. Bash has way too many features, I think, for the same reason zsh does: people thought it was philosophically superior to rely on the shell having built-in features, rather than finding or developing composeable applications..
This is why people make fun of tech bros
There's likely a net positive to forcing out workers who put themselves, their coworkers, and their patients at risk based on misinformation, yes.
AR is probably the bigger threat to social interaction, allowing us to use our phones without even looking down.

VR lends itself more to MMORPG-like experiences, which are quite social. Similarly, Ready Player One didn't lack social interaction or real friendship.

For time spent in nature or making physical things it's probably the other way around. AR could make these things much more accessible (even if "less pure"), while VR doesn't exactly promote them.
They should revoke the right of any employer who egregiously violates the program like this. Then have them build programs to get under served communities (urban and rural) to get up to speed; grade them on effectiveness and fine them if ineffective.
Legalization would make it much easier for escorts to coordinate on john screening. See for example the research done by Cunningham/Deangelo/Tripp on the effect of Craigslist shutting down their Erotic Services section. And that paper wasn't even on legalization, just a small piece of normalization that allowed coordination. There is also a paper by Cunningham on the accidental legalization of indoor prostitution in Rhode Island and its effect on crime and violence. Fascinating stuff.
Glad you mentionned that. I bought it at the time, read it, loved it, and decided to not become famous !
I can't name one, but if you find it, please let me know!
I think it is not as easy as you imply, especially if it is bound to muscle memory.

Side note: https://www.google.com/search?q=don%27t+say+just
Germany is not some magical place where people never work more than 10h. That part of the law you quoted is only about regular shifts, whereas OP's example of being on site and basically waiting until something happens would very much fall under § 7.4, as being on standby, also it doesn't sound like this happens every week.

Yes, in general I won't complain, certainly not about those restrictions - but it's simply wrong to act as if no one had exceptional longer shifts, or what the OP did would be illegal.
KeePassXC, and variants, synced through NextCloud
I would guess that they were thinking more about things like Voyage (which is an alternate history, but very hard sci-fi).
I always use bash, because it's the only shell that is 100% compatible with bash.

I've heard of some things not working in other shells, and since bash works for the things I use it for, I have no reason to change.
Trying to look specifically for research papers on regular Google search is always a bad idea, covid or not, which is why https://scholar.google.com is a thing.
I don’t really think in the end they would accept a scenario where Chapelle would be free to make any content he wants as long as it has a content warning. That was an “at least you should…” not the actual demand. Though we won’t know until they actually present their demands.
I'm talking about between chips and RAM of course because that's where the data/compute ratio is shrinking, not between Tokyo and New York.
Of course it's not enough by itself, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. Right now a lot of sex workers are afraid to even report crimes committed against them... hard to get much worse than that. Even a slight improvement is improvement.
Doesn't seem to me that you can really measure productivity at all. How do you compare : (a) dev that writes tons of code and makes things over complex and not maintainable (b) dev that writes hardly any code, procrastinates, but their code is v high quality, simple, has no problems (c) dev that cranks out a lot of code but is horrible to work with and very good teammates quit (d) dev whose code output isn't high but that's cos they do tons of useful mentoring leading to other people's output being good
> It's almost laughable how bad the author is at characterization.

Isn't that part of the charm of the book, though?

The characters are not as strong individually as they could be, but that fits the society they find themselves in.
The concept is interesting and creative but I also think it's just repackaging the problem it's trying to address but using a different element as the datum. This adds an additional step where you have to translate N:45 time to local by remembering how the letters are re-arranged for your specific area. Therefore, I don't think this solution really solves the original/intended problem it's trying to address but rather hides it behind the letters.

I'd suggest a good alternative is to just stick with Google Calendar/Microsoft Outlook and/or WorldTimeBuddy.
Next step: CEOs to stop attending quarterly earnings releases. IR meetings to become boring, with just the CFO reading numbers.

If I recall: Steve Jobs rarely attended IR events, Jeff Bezos just sent a letter in advance (note: beautifully written), but barely made live comments. Future guidandes are often released as `something between +30% increase or -30% decrease`, meaning useless.

My impression is that nowadays most PRs and releases are already meticulously reviewed. Quite an interesting paradox: The more regulations, rules, controls and surveys are introduced less detailed and exciting releases and disclosures are..
A HN-like site you might like is https://lobste.rs/ . It only has technical content.
Dunno, the silly stuff is what saves the film for me. Underneath there is just a banal boy-meets-girl story with bad interpreters (classic Hollywood "attractive girl trying to pretend that she's not attractive", among others); but the ridiculous "VR van" and the smorgasbord of nerdpop references make for some decent smiles, if not laughs.
If you look at the data, it certainly isn't the silent majority, it's the vocal minority. Look at the last US election, they tried to destroy democracy and claim fraudulent elections to uphold these absurd beliefs.

It's so bad, that many states are making it harder for the people to vote just to perpetuate this nonsense.
Since 2016 [1] I wrote about how Qualcomm is going to be squeezed from top to bottom in the future on HN and possibility many other place. When the Media only wants to paint the picture in Apple vs Qualcomm case where Qualcomm is an evil monopoly.

It is only a matter of time before the whole BBK ( That is Oppo, Vivo, realme, oneplus ) gained an economy of scale and make their own Chip. Or working with Unisoc, previously called Spreadtrum.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20368678
>If every dude who wanted to get laid could do so as easily as arranging an LTL shipment that would negatively effect a far larger subset of the population.

In what way? has the population been negatively affected in places where it's already legal?
Getting a Raspberry Pi to boot after cutting it in half
Here's what Dave had to say in The Closer about his friend Daphne, who killed herself six days after being "dragged" on Twitter for defending her friend.

> When Sticks and Stones came out a lot of the people in the trans community were furious with me and apparently they dragged me on Twitter. I don't give a fuck 'cause Twitter's not a real place.

> And the hardest thing for a person to do is go against their tribe if they disagree with their tribe, but Daphne did that for me. She wrote a tweet that was very beautiful and what she said was and it's almost exactly what she said.

> She said "Punching down on someone requires you to think less of them and I know him, and he doesn't. He doesn't punch up, he doesn't punch down, he punches lines, and he is a master at his craft."

> Beautiful tweet, beautiful friend, it took a lot of heart to defend me like that, and when she did that the trans community dragged that bitch all over Twitter. For days, they were going in on her, and she was holding her own 'cause she's funny.

> But six days after that wonderful night I [previously] described to you, my friend Daphne killed herself.

> Oh yeah, this is a true story, my heart was broken. Yeah it wasn't the jokes. I don't know if it was them dragging or I don't know what was going on in her life but I bet dragging her didn't help.

> I was very angry at them, I was very angry at her. I felt like Daphne lied to me. She always said she identified as a woman. And then one day she goes up to the roof of her building and jumps off and kills herself. Clearly... only a man would do some gangster shit like that.

> Hear me out. As hard as it is to hear a joke like that, I'm telling you right now, Daphne would have loved that joke. That's why she was my friend.

> I was reading her obituary and I found out she was survived by a daughter.

[... a bit about Anderson Cooper which isn't relevant]

> What I did is I got in touch with her family and I started a trust fund for her daughter 'cause I know that's all she ever really cared about. And I don't know what the trans community did for her but I don't care 'cause I feel like she wasn't [in] their tribe, she was [in] mine. She was a comedian in her soul.

Here's Daphne's sisters defending Dave in the daily beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dave-chappelle-backed-by-famil...

Edit:

> “Dave loved my sister and is an LGBTQ ally,” Dorman’s younger sister Brandy added in a text message. “His entire set was begging to end this very situation.”

> “At this point I feel like he poured his heart out in that special and no one noticed,” Brandy wrote in a separate Facebook post. “What he’s saying to the LGBTQ family is, ‘I see you. Do you see me? I’m mourning my friend in the best way I know how. Can you see me? Can you allow me that?’... This was a call to come together, that two oppressed factions of our nation put down their keyboards and make peace. How sad that this message was lost in translation.”
unless you're exclusively running shell built-ins, doesn't running any command at all potentially cause a disk scan
Build an MVP in 1 hour with NoCode
https://unixtimestamp.com When stating an offset time the most significant digits that are the same as now could be assumed, and not communicated. Also, for the least significant digits times with no seconds drop one zero; 5 minute intervals drop two zeros. So, a meeting tomorrow at 4 pm assuming EDT is at 8464.
Here’s the commodore 64 demo that riffs off that tale:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=artEQkifGG0
They should lose their trademarks and domain names after three offenses.
I mean, the current crackdown in China is precisely because China is _very_ confused about its place in the world, and, more to the point, the CCP's place in China.
This has been my experience with so many entrepreneurs. They have these visions that are planned and structured and overly though out that they miss the primary pain point their business is trying to solve and lack the ability to pivot because they have overly planned everything out.

I have gone out with entrepreneur clients and after a few drinks I suddenly have clarity as to why they really are trying to build their app/product/etc and that always changes everything. I sorta wish people would be more honest like this more often.
Yes it does, but full burning isn't the only option. You can also char or pyrolize wood to produce heat while leaving behind [mostly] the carbon. The carbon can be easily sequestered by burying it in the ground, or with more difficulty upcycled to industrially useful forms like carbon black, graphene, or diamond.
Might vary a bit locally (~within Europe), but the gap between those numbers is way too large. StackOverflow survey puts a factor 2 (or 1.8 or something) between EU and US, not a factor 6.

300k+ is, from what I gather, very high for US, whereas 50k is more or less entry level in western EU. But take my impression as a data point (or a cluster), not the ultimate source of truth.
I’d heard about the dreaded bottom camera.

I bought an XPS for my fiancée a few weeks ago. I’d heard the XPS camera wasn’t great, but it turned out far worse than I could have feared. They couldn’t have made a worse camera if they tried. She needs a decent webcam for doing teletherapy, so we had to send it back.

Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to find a laptop that has a good webcam. We’ll probably just get her a MacBook Air, which is at least serviceable in that regard. (I’d get her a 14 inch MBP but she won’t let me spend that much on a laptop.)
Introducing Surface Tension to Spacetime
The character mode DOS game I wrote. The graphics one was converted from text to graphics by Mark Baldwin.
> I watched it and it was biting but wasn't hateful. It questioned certain things.

This line of thought is rejected by modern radicals. To question is tantamount to outright hating. Watching Chapelle's special was, for me, a marvelous breath of fresh air and I hope people like him can somehow manage to continue making a living despite not observing radical dogma.
You are equating "silent majority" and "hardcore right wing". That's not how it works in practice - this is something that both right and left can and do get wrong.
I believe the way this answer is stated, paints a very biased picture. Allow me to provide an alternative vision, which I believe is shared by many (though not as vocal as the other opinion). So, let me share my hopes here:

Maybe some people will finally see through media propaganda, and conformism to realize how much value Facebook brings to their life and how is (US based) facebook is better than other alternatives. These users will hopefully embrace metaverse to have even better interaction will other human beings across the world for business, please and joy, which will allow the to have reacher more meaningful life experiences
This is an insult to all the slaps on the wrist around the world.
Indeed, when APL was first available, you couldn't use it without a custom machine: an IBM system/360 mainframe. The keyboard was the least of your worries. And APL was distributed for free! Why charge for software when it's written in 360 assembly?

APL was near-mainstream in the 1970s thanks to time-sharing[0] (the article mentions this starting with "APL thrived in the 70's and 80's"). In fact, time-shared APL was significantly easier to use than most languages because it was used from an interactive session rather than punch cards. With results typed onto paper tape! It was used for a lot of practical tasks like administration where Excel would now be the most common tool. One book on APL had sales in the hundreds of thousands, and conferences[1] had attendance of over a thousand for a few years, despite competing with additional vendor-specific conferences.

[0] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Time-sharing

[1] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_conference
And still there are emacs users.
Popular, successful == improvement?