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Effusione Urina. I can make my own uric infusion at home - is that the next unicorn?
Thread on a similar topic with tons of good recommendations: "Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26818774
I think OP's point is that this should have been the link posted, instead of the paywalled link.
I dread writing embedded GUIs
So the author saw the Wikipedia definition of "a time period of a millionth of a century, equal to 52 minutes and 34 seconds", made a more precise calculation and got 52 minutes 35.7 instead. Almost 2 seconds of a difference! About 0.6‰ in relative terms! That Wikipedia thing is unacceptably sloppy, isn't it?
We already spend over $3.8 trillion per year on healthcare in the US… using a single-payer system would probably not be more expensive than that
Oh wow, that's really amazing. Thanks for the info!

So they shipped a 40ft container full of servers via ship to the US? That really surprises me, I always thought this kind of equipment was done via air cargo only.
The current system seems to assume that we're all familiar with things like "pasting a doi link into scihub" and "pasting a url into archive.is".

I'm not a fan of reg walls and pay walls either, but if we ban content from there, you lose a lot of sources.

I suspect it doesn't really come to a decision point while reasonable workarounds exist.
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I feel sorry for my American friends living with their health care system :(

I’m based in Australia, I can change jobs, be unemployed, and walk into a public hospital for important care without concern for a bill.

I really hope you switch the system, but I don’t see it happening any time soon.
hello there!
my name is Alberto, one of the two founders of the yggdrasil screen reader project.
first, we are glad our project made its way to hackernews, though I admit I didn't expect for it to happen so soon, when we only have some prototypes to show. Since I'm posting this comment here, I will also address some points:
First, I'm amazed at the accessibility of this site as well as its responsiveness with screen readers, great job. Somehow, with its tabular structure, this entire site makes me think of a linux terminal, showing the output of some command like ls, a design I never saw before. However, contrary to popular belief, this is indeed a new approach to design in my perspective, but it's actually accessible which we know it's the opposite in most cases. Again, good job!
Next, about screen readers, one such program doesn't read the screen as it is, performing ocr on the window and reading the text in that way. Everything is about a compromise between the UI library, native to the OS or third-party, and the screen reader, they usually share a protocol so to speak. Most protocols present all accessible elements rendered by a compatible UI library as a tree of abstract components, which contain information about the actual control, such as name, description, approximate position on screen, status(a checkbox is checked or unchecked), etc. What apple, google, microsoft, soni, etc have is not only a screen reader, it's called an accessibility suite, or this is how we call it anyway. This suite contains things for most kinds of disabilities, for example a way to controll the device via a component based on camera technologies called a switch for the motor impared), screen readers for blind people, visual alerts and text captions for the hearing impared, etc. Of all those tools, the only official screen readers are voiceover on apple platforms, talkback for android, narrator for windows, etc.
about the name of yggdrasil, there has been another complaint regarding the fact someone couldn't pronounce it, however it's a strong symbol for everything we stand for, accessibility uniting people across the world, across devices and platforms, allowing the visually impaired person to work as efficiently on any of them as the sighted(most of you) would. Windows has good accessibility, mac is debatable but generally good, linux is the one with tec debt in this department, we're trying to fix that. Maybe the name is indeed hard to pronounce, though my speech synthesizer pronounces it right. We'll think about changing the name though, maybe Sequoia would be easier?
about providing alternative input methods like voice controll and so on, yggdrasil will be scriptable through either lua, js, rust, probably a raw C interface would be exposed too, though with some limitations since C is very insecure if not used correctly, we won't want it to crash the screen reader due to some null pointer dereferencing or buffer overflow or whatever else. With that interface, alternative ways of controlling the screen reader could be developed, so yggdrasil could become a platform upon which other useful tools are built.
Instead of a blacklist there could be a optional paywall indicator when you post a link.
I sincerely hope the author also took their time to update wiktionary.
I'm with you , that email does not in any way make me feel like Backblaze has my best interest in mind , sounds like they were knowingly charging you for a defunct account then threatened to delete all your data in 7 days ?!

I want to like Backblaze I love their harddrive report but this is not helping.
Publicly, for instance.

I think this is bad faith because it’s clear OP means it should be free at point of use. I doubt they’re arguing the people who create it shouldn’t be compensated. There are many ways to do this.
n=3 concern applies ewually well to every formulation, as it's a peculiarity if human scale physics that's commonly used as an application of linear algebra and anaylsis (visualizing linear transformations and rotations, point-line-plane geometry in 3D space, curl, Maxwell's equations)
I have only read the abstract, so maybe I'm missing something, but how would moving workloads to different times really lower CO2 in the long term unless it's using surplus green power? They talk about "less carbon-intensive" supply, but if it's still 1% coal power at a particular time then using more power at that time will require burning coal to satisfy demands? It would seem to only help to place workloads at times where it could use up otherwise unused solar or wind power.

Also, leaving hardware idle is both having a CO2 cost, too (production of hardware that's not used), and, other people who are not CO2 conscious will probably move their workloads to those times where the hardware is under utilized and hence cheaper. So, the whole thing is a zero sum game, making one company's workloads appear greener at the cost of making other companies' workloads worse?

(Edit: removed negative tone.)
Have you looked at Nim? Simple like Python, but generates optimised machine code. It is also statically typed, unlike Python.
This is complete uninformed crap. I'm sitting here with 180% scaling with VSCode and Firefox rendered perfectly.

You clearly don't realize that you need to run VSCode with a couple flags to get it running under Wayland. And if you had any idea what you're talking about, you'd realize that for non-XWayland apps, Linux HIDPI support is basically guaranteedly better.

I can sit here and arbitrarily hot-change the scaling resolution of my three monitors, independently, on the fly, in arbitrary increments (I happen to use 10%) and every single app is re-rendered natively. Mac OS X and Windows flat out can't do that and further, do not come anywhere near the fidelity given the workarounds they have to do for all sorts of proprietary software in the wild.

(Gotta love the two main hating points of Linux right now that ultimately just bottom out on Nvidia and Google dragging their feet, for their own reasons.)
> But the one term that’s exploded beyond others, and broken out of tech twitter into pitch decks at IT outsourcing companies with amazing speed, is ‘Metaverse’, which I hear so often now that it reminds me of the ‘Malkovich! Malkovich? Malkovich!’ scene in ‘Being John Malkovich’.

I had that exact thought too!
That's interesting. I'm not quite sure what I would call those issues, but I agree they can be tricky.

Many of those abuses are for a very good cause. Leibniz notation is very powerful, for example, but it's hard to master and physicists really go nuts with it.

For E[X|Y], all you have to remember is that conditional expectation yields a function f(Y) of the thing you conditioned on, and f(Y) is itself a random variable that you can take the expectation of. This property is canonical and baked into the formal definitions. It's not an abuse.

However, I do fault some machine learning types a bit for abusing probability and statistical notation. For example, the Elements of Statistical Learning book extensively overloads E[], P(), and other symbols and operators in ways that it doesn't even bother to define. They randomly throw subscripts and decorations onto all sorts of symbols and don't even bother to tell you if those decorations mean they're marginalizing, conditioning, or something else. The book has no glossary of symbols and operators and no preliminary chapter setting out notation, which is unusual for such an enormous book full of hundreds of equations. It would be impossible because the book is a hodge-podge of symbols that change from paragraph to paragraph.
This link doesn't work for me. Invalid certificate and then some cisco page.
As for your first point: sites don't look at your screen resolution, they look at the resolution of the visible viewport, which shrinks when you switch to vertical tabs, triggering the layout change.
I don't understand why high quality journalism should be free. Free journalism needs to pay for itself, which results mostly in click-bating. I'm sure HN has a large segment of relatively affluent people who are at least curious about high quality content available. And usually some helpful soul has archived the result, and papers with doi are trivial to find from sci-hub (bless her!).
I filter links on HN to known paywall sites using uBlock origin.
Pedantry is its own reward.
> (supplying about 10% of global energy).

Current nuclear supplies 10% of global ELECTRICAL energy, not total energy. If you scale burner reactors to supply the 18 TW of primary energy demand the world uses, projected cheap uranium runs out rather quickly.
In the video posted by displus somewhere else in this thread they claim to have a location completely powered by wind energy.
Maybe journalists should do all that work for Clout and love of their craft.

If they were real journalists, they'd be homeless for our benefit and amusement.
Can't wait until someone writes yet another abstraction layer on top of this to keep the chain growing.
If Mozilla switched to Blink, they'd be maintaining their own version, and it could diverge from Google's. That would be the "trustworthy, community Blink". But they'd also be able to much more easily benefit from Blink's security (already had site isolation for years, apparently a better sandbox, etc) and the contributions thousands of other companies make to Blink (Intel, Samsung, etc), companies that don't contribute to Gecko and Webkit as much if at all. They'd also have better webcompat, and take away one reason to switch to Chrome (i.e., sites that break in Firefox that render fine in Chrome; and sites that rely on cutting edge draft standards that Firefox won't implement for a few months/years).

I argued this before[0], and I still stand by it:

> I can see that being an issue if the web is centralising around one proprietary engine, but why does that apply to Blink? If Google turns completely evil that won't take away from all the webcompat, optimisations, and security in Blink, and any bad feature (ManifestV3) can be patched out easily. Mozilla could switch to Blink (and I think they should, and Apple too, they clearly don't have the manpower to maintain a whole engine and keep it modern and secure, see my other comment in this thread; there are many more 0days with Safari and Firefox than Chrome) and it wouldn't harm the web in any way, because they can just swap out bad components with their own, and still reduce their dev time requirements by orders of magnitude compared to today. You have Intel, Samsung, tons of companies contributing to Blink, to a much, much greater extent than Gecko or WebKit.

> If every browser switched to Blink, that would actually benefit consumers, because right now Chrome basically has the enterprise market on lock, since nobody cares to test internal webpages on other browsers, and Chrome has better enterprise features (though I don't know how much of that is to do with the engine); and many consumers also just switch to Chrome as the first thing they do, because they've run into compatibility issues with Firefox or Safari and they just want to access the web without issues. If every browser used Blink, you'd have a lot more people using Safari and Firefox, just because most people don't want to keep two browsers around (Firefox + Chrome or Safari + Chrome) when websites break (which is not often, but often enough, trust me). I really hope we see this.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941866
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That is statistics, not pure maths. But yeah, statisticians abuse a lot of notations like that, just like physicists. I haven't seen pure mathematicians make such unclear notation.

(Statistics is as much maths as theoretical physics is, both are technically mathematics but in practice the field is handled in a very different manner since they are applied and intended to solve a specific set of real world problems and hence not pure)
Yes, and the people who went out and did the research, took the photos, wrote the stories, and performed the studies should all work for free too. (sarcasm)

The example you gave is a study from a journal. Quite a difference from "news" as most would think of it (CNN, Fox, etc) which are free.
>As a Brit who's visited a few times, to me it seems that America is both the glittering future and a banana republic at the same time, overlaid on top of one another

Would you describe an ex-mining town in northern England or the midlands as being the latter without the proximity to the former?
Italians aren't discriminated against en masse in the US, so poking fun at the language is seen as "punching down".
Domain blacklisting is a bit harsh, it'd be better to mark a link as paid/free.
It does. Because "customer is king" mentality is very strong in the US and not so much in Europe.
Today. Since 2018. Steam itself launched in 2003, so literally took 15 years, and still in a very limited basis(IIUC).
Why would the government fund news criticizing it, unless you had a different definition of publicly in mind?
C only adding a few new features only once every few decades or so is actually a feature, not a problem (IMHO of course). C99 was the last big release, while C11 and C17 were mostly minor course corrections and spec cleanup (VLAs have been degraded to 'optional' for instance, which makes a lot of sense, because it shouldn't have gone into the standard in the first place). So far, C23 seems like a bigger release again though.
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So one concern (and it's not just a theoretical concern; it has happened) is that a US court forces the US branch to use access it has to data held by the EU branch to exfiltrate data. Companies with the highest standards on this stuff will want either a pure-EU host or a host structured such that this can't happen.
Yes, one usually needs to "intuit" the meaning when there are mixes of subscripts/superscripts/parameters, assumed definitions, mixes of variable naming conventions, the order of function arguments randomly adjusted to taste, invented symbols and syntaxes.

Since no machine is ever going to read it, it's all up to individual taste and prejudice.

How would a math linter work? Don't see it, but this is one of the things that makes maths a different world from programming.
Bad faith arguments are discouraged on HN.
hetzner locked my account because my manager put it in my name, and then much later, stopped paying it. OK, but they seem to treat me as a scammer since I am in the USA.
This. Usually someone posts an archived link, somehow.
Angular's flex-layout sort of achieves this? Where you can define the layout of the page within the template using flex attributes, but still have another file for css.
By estimating the damage done to society by under-reporting, schedule half of said damage from tax-money into a fund, and make user reading a similar themed news-page, allocate a small percentage of said fund to the newspaper. The fewer articles a user reads, the more valuable a single "read" becomes.

The system is gambled with tons of faked users. A Issue on which the journalists are reporting. It becomes economic unfeasible to do anything else then click bait journalism..
I wonder what we will use in 400 years - I think it's possible that this kind of skip is the last one we had... Maybe.
For me personally, if Rust’s features were limited the safety focused features of the language, I could probably be alright. Although I do not think the concept of ownership is the right semantic basis for a programming paradigms. For me the real deal breakers are the following attributes: the package management system, the generics implementation, the focus on ML styled pattern matching syntax and semantics, and the heavy focus on abstraction and building towers thereof. I am aware that maybe the usage of those things are optional, but in my second-hand experience the Rust community is absolutely devoted to the exclusive idiomatic usage of the language, and I wouldn’t want to spend any time arguing about how I just want to program what I want.

tl;dr nearly all of Rust is geared towards trying to solve problems I am not interested in, but it isn’t really the ‘borrow checker’ area that I personally find most off putting.
I doubt that’s going to happen.
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Yeah, 90% of the ones I generated start with Effusione. Must be a popular technique in fake-Italy.
Alternatively, the links to paid sites could be colored differently or marked with a dollar sign. Maybe users could have an option to filter out paywalled links.
This particular example is machine-generated code created by translate-c, it's meant to be semantically equivalent to the C code and even uses language features that you're normally not even supposed to use (c pointers).

Reasonable Zig code looks more like this:

https://github.com/riverwm/river/blob/master/riverctl/main.z...

That said I think it's fine if you don't like the syntax. I think that some complaints are honestly too superficial to be legitimate (like complaining about builtins being prefixed with @), but at the same time Zig is often times prioritizing explicitness over "good looking".

I personally consider Swift a very good looking language, but then I look at all the new features that got added since I used it last, remember that I value simplicity over aesthetics, and go back to Zig.
All asset valuations have a numerator and a denominator. I think people sometimes forget that - if dollars are cheap, stocks with 100x multiples aren't that expensive. There is an inflation assumption baked into that price, but it seems to be coming true.
> A scalar is a point on a number line.

This is going to confuse readers. A point on a number line is a 1D vector; in other words it is a unit vector pointing along that number line, multiplied by something which scales its length. It’s the latter dimensionless and directionless quantity that’s the scalar.
If it makes you feel any better, the Italians enjoy making fun of American lingo as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol
There is no difference, but it's perfectly fine to make fun of any group.
Yeah. It's written to teach people who do not have (what some might consider) the standard prerequisite knowledge. I have no doubt the author understands algebra over a field. The author recommends teaching Geometric Algebra as a pedagogy at the end
I'd like something like Clojure, but with static typing and native compilation.
As another commenter pointed out this is a US based site and I would always assume it’s pretax salary. Even the Europeans who mention salaries will usually clarify if it is post tax.
Italians aren't discriminated against en masse

Neither are Asian Americans? Despite what the media wants you to believe
Cargo culting is just what you have to learn to accept and work around, because there will always be developers who fall for it. A decade ago, everyone was writing dependency injection frameworks because that was the hotness and debugging became a nightmare, but, hey!, we completely decouple EVERYTHING! Then there was no sql (mongo etc) and if you were still using sql, your system was shit. Oh and way before that there was GoF and you ended up with UserBillingFacadeFactoryFactory abstractions.

None of these technologies are bad. They're just bad in the hands of mediocre developers.
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By act of community voting, paywall articles like that one don't perform as well on Hacker News and therefore get filtered out, correct?
Yes, I meant that equation to be interpreted in the GA used in the article. But essentially all geometric algebras also have zero divisors, for similar reasons.
I still do this and I don't think this is entirely about culture. Some people do the legwork and some take the laziest route. Sure if the technical tools at hand make it that much hard to do the due diligence, maybe promptly reaching out for help can be (somewhat) justified, but I don't think that is usually the case.
I think it should be annotated somewhere. I for one would not click on a link, giving it more exposure, if i knew it was paid. Unless i was already a subscriber of that particular service.
Really fascinating to see Zig being used to make Elixir cross platform! Exciting stuff.

Here's a direct link to the ElixirConf talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfjdGva3NE&list=PLqj39LCvnO...
At least anymore. There used to be a time when discrimination against Italian Americans was quite the norm

See: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/...
That one is not available in the US though.
Nice, it works :-) I was about to complain it's too easy on the highest level..then realized I had it set to only 2 ply ahead! Did you try RealChess? Created by Shiela Timp, Jorden van Foreest's mother. It's where I'd seen the "set number of blind moves" feature before. They're not just "there's a winning tactic here" positions, but finding the best move.

https://vanforeest.com/realchess/
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