skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often these kind of regulation cause more problems than they solve; not because they do not work but for reason of scale and Bayesian proportions.

Suppose that 10% of affected bussiness buy catalytic converter illegally and that an audit will determine di 90% accuracy whether a shop does buy catalytic converter illegally or not, then half* of fined business will end up being innocent (In practice including lax bookkeping and edge cases not considered in the law)

* I = innocent, F = fined, G = Guilty
P(I|F) = P(F|I)P(I)/P(F) = P(F|I)P(I)/(P(F|I)P(I) + P(F|G)P(G)) = (0.1 * 0.9)/(0.10.9 + 0.10.9) = 0.5

I am pro regulation in almost all cases, but it is not easy...
How Morocco went big on solar energy
That is exactly what stoicism is about.

I definitely recommend https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic-ebook/d....
You raise an interesting point: Should Intel be allowed to destroy value it produced, in an effort to make more money?

Arguments could be made that it's ecologically criminal to destroy useful things for profit.
Microsoft Working on Direct3D 12 Video Acceleration for Mesa
I've noticed a lot of new aspnet core stuff defaulting to using 5000 and 5001 lately, which is kind of weird when you are used to the way that VS used to use IISExpress with a random port number
I'm not sure what the version was, and it was probably an earlier version if there are multiple. This was around 2-3 years ago.
> […] but they're saying they want to eradicate all stroads.

Correct. Because as a sibling comment notes, they are a "compromise" that serves neither purpose very well. See the Not Just Bikes video referenced elsewhere in this discussion for a fuller treatment.
> Prosperity is generated by production not consumption.

Ya sure? So, if the economy produces oodles of luxury goods, but nobody gets to live in luxury by using them, because they're all put in storage -- "it's all about production, not consumption, dontchaknow?" ... How does this production lead to prosperity?

Production and consumption go hand in hand.
I hate driving to the city because I loathe these stroads but I don't see a way out. The ship has sailed, the roads are built. I don't think there is enough money to build ourselves out of this. This is the problem I see with most infrastructure in US. We overshot so much that the burden of maintenance is too great. It's easier to build once than maintain indefinitely.
And these days the keyword "baduk" (from Korean) is becoming increasingly common for the Chinese board game generally referred to in English by its Japanese name "Go".
Sierra Madre (Ship)
I don't think you understand the point of the talos
AI Hiring Tools Can Discriminate Based on Race and Gender. NYC Bill Fights That
That's funny. As I read this I kept thinking "#1 is obviously the most relevant except for layout and rendering, where #3 is the important one."

But that's because I was thinking about allocation, storage, etc. For logic traversing, comparing, and transforming strings #4 is certainly more useful.

Oh, but you said #2? I guess that is important since it's what the user will most easily notice.
If you think scientists can intentionally design something to be transient you’re showing your absolute ignorance of scientific research.

When you work on hard problems like this you’re thankful it works at all.
> Grapheme clusters and no. Let’s see if anyone has a different interpretation or unsupported use-case.

Here's one. How many characters is this: שלום

And how about this: שַלוֹם

Notice that the former is lacking the diacritics of the latter. Is that more characters?

Maybe a better example: ال vs ﻻ. Those are both Alif-Lamm, and no that is not a ligature. The former is often normalized to the latter, but could be stored separately. And does adding Hamza ء add a character? Does it depend if it's at the end of the word?
ARM also has lots of sometimes hand-optimized software that may not be available or as good as for those other platforms.

I haven’t checked, but I don’t expect Power to have good USB support, for example.

I also think Power targets a different performance range than ARM.

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC and https://www.oracle.com/servers/technologies/opensparc-overvi..., both of which mention no news after 2008, OpenSPARC looks on its deathbed to me.
Blitzscaling?! What lovely 1940’s terminology!
Killing is one thing, Killing by boiling alive is on a whole another level of cruelty, like unit 731 level, nazi level cruelty. I don’t eat meat, so I don’t know why only lobsters are boiled alive and not other sea food. Whatever the reason, it is hard to justify.

If we are going to kill something, the least we could do is kill it painlessly. At the beginning of COVID-19, some farm in the Midwest killed hundreds of pigs by steaming. Could you imagine the suffering?
I think it's accurate, though. Far more people know Python and Ruby than Lua, but when it comes to embedding an interpreter in an application, nobody chooses the language subsets of MicroPython and mruby over the complete language of Lua.
"We are going straight to the FDA to start the process of getting this new therapy approved for use in human patients, who currently have very few treatment options.”

This is not a cheap process in terms of money and manpower. I think they probably have reason for confidence.

IIRC, the motor CNS in mammals is pretty similar across the board.
One problem with grapheme clusters as length is that you can't do math with it. In other words, string A (of length 1) concatenated with string B (of length 1) might result in string C that also has length 1. Meanwhile, concatenating them in the reverse order might make a string D with length 2.

This won't matter for most applications but it's something you may easily overlook when assuming grapheme clusters are enough for everything.
Server upgrade costs can vary wildly depending on what it entails. The cost of adjusting your EC2 Auto-Scaling Group maximum instance count will be very different than contacting HPE sales department.
[I'm the article author]

> I've read accounts of the 1980s-ish days at MS, Apple, VisiCalc, and other software companies.
> So far I have yet to read one which used waterfall.

Indeed, even the Royce paper everyone cites to describe waterfall doesn't even use waterfall.
I found it interesting when I learned today that I the Philippine military deliberately ran aground the Sierra Madre, a World War Il-era warship provided by the US, at a submerged shoal in 1999 in a move to fortify its claim within the South China Sea.

Even though it is effectively a shipwreck, it has not been decommissioned by the Philippine military so that any assault on the ship is tantamount to an attack against the Philippines.
The Operator Pattern in Nomad
> Same goes for silicon.

Oh no, a big part of the cost is in the manufacturing. A non negligible part is also in logic R&D of course but this is not comparable (at all) with software, where the marginal cost of duplication is near zero. Now your reasoning is still kind of sound despite of this, but historically the customers have not liked that kind of initiatives for processors.

Now I understand that Intel is less good on process nowadays, so it kind of make sense for them to concentrate more on design and on market segmentation at the design level even if that means to make it completely artificial (with SKUs, it could be partly artificial, but you had no warranty to get a chip better than its SKU, with that scheme you are guaranteed to get a chip better than what you can use - if you don't buy all the options, with all the testing guaranteed passed, etc.)

IMO, this is not actually too bad as long as the pricing is not insane, and that depends (partly) on competition. Given some users do not like that approach at all, some competitors could even decide to not do that.
I think the point is that Nix makes it a lot easier (in some ways) to build a more reliable system GUI, rather than other package managers because of declarativity being a first-class feature.

Users shouldn’t have to care what their GUI uses underneath, but it could be the difference between building your own pseudo-declarative layer (which you now have to maintain in perpetuity and handle all the small edge cases), or getting something that is already declarative as the backend and simply generating a config file from the GUI (https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui).

EDIT: Also composition. Users could, if they wanted to, augment the GUI generated configuration using the built-in Nix features for composition with config files, which is a lot easier than trying to do the same with traditional system managers.
I'd assume offline features would keep functioning, but online features would stop working. The online features seem to be device provisioning (so may not be able to change WiFi access points?), OTA updates, and cloud PubSub.
Doesn't sound like a lot to be honest. This is what I'm used to in Germany, say around 1km radius, everything walkable:

* 1x big REWE, 3x small REWE, 1x Real, 1x Netto, 2x ALDI, 3x LIDL, 1x Turkish grocery store, 1x Asian grocery store

* Too many kiosks too count (tobacco, drinks, snacks, maybe like a convinience store)

* Too many bakeries to count

* 2 tram/metro stations, soon to be 3

* 5 bus stations (not counting the weird ones)

What they probably meant was they can hop on a bike and be in /any/ supermarket they fancy in this time.

Your city seems pretty good compared to what we're usually seeing from city planning in the US though.
I really really wanted one of these for note taking. I settled on an iPad Pro + Apple pen + Notes App which have been remarkably (no pun intended) good. The fact that I can then consume the notes I wrote on my computer or phone and use search as well with no extra effort required has been invaluable.
100% this. That's why Projector is an interesting project, completely different from — say — VSCode or Replit.
Instead of digging through that PDF, the charts on this post show how a higher speed can drastically increase the odds of fatalities:

* https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/05/31/3-graphs-that-explain...

Remember from physics class that kinetic energy is generated proportional to the square of velocity. Doubling speed quadruples energy.
> No one asked for strings to be ruined in this way

They only got ruined for people who could not realize that the word is bigger than their backyard.
Everything you said is very much true, but there is a kind of nominal typing even in template land via (partial) specialization of special trait classes.

For an example see std::tuple_size/tuple_element and their relation with (ironically) structured binding.
Why would JSON have been terrible? Because it's lacking namespaces and all those "quirky" things most XML implementations (and users) get wrong?
Django is good for those who have used it a lot.

For beginners, there are much better alternatives and, frankly, Django way of development is severely restricting.

Starting off with an API backend and a React/Angular/Vue front end, allows new developers to learn better abstractions (and not merge front ends and back-ends)

The very idea of "sending UI code to the front end for every request" is unsuitable for medium to large projects. But, if you start building smaller projects with an vertically integrated system like Django, it becomes increasingly difficult to think about larger projects.
> while the last panel is reserved for the punchline

The meme gets used in a number of similar but different ways. Sometimes the last panel is the sequence taken to a logical but unrealistic extreme.
why? what's different?
> Is the inadequacy of existing mechanisms to protect against STDs your primary impediment for having sex at the moment?

Consider scale. There are plenty of people who would love to take part in giant group orgies, at least once in a while, if there were no risk of communicable disease.

Everyone has their own idea of what a utopia might look like, I suppose.
When I looked into Nix years ago, I started with a few blog posts that explained the Nix language. It's a bit obscure if you never used Haskell.

Next, I read about the concepts and tried to map them to Git in my mind.

In the end I had the impression that Nix is a cleaner, more general PyEnv.
Well if you believe in conspiracy theories like this you are done anyway. No amount of data will convince you since of course everyone is part of the conspiracy.
Most people don’t wish to cause undue harm to others, human or animal, because it causes them anguish. We are capable of abstract thought and understand persistence of objects.

I think those two facts are sufficient to understand why intelligent beings are agitated even by indirect expressions of suffering.
Immunosuppressive drugs are incredibly crude and broad brush.
I notice that one of the differences is licensing. "The Toit compiler, the virtual machine, and all the supporting infrastructure is licensed under the LGPL-2.1 license."

Lua - MIT license
eLua - MIT license
OpenResty - BSD style licenses

Could LGPL license limit it's growth and popularity?
We have a major one of those in NYC, queens boulevard, and it’s a disaster. It’s dangerous to cross, and wide enough that it’s inconvenient to get across, so it effectively divides neighborhoods in half.
Everything old is new again. In the 50's and 60's, computers were so expensive that most organizations leased computer time.
If you want to sell your patent, you have to actually patent it first.
What about GuixOS?
yea still looks really bad .. what was the new approach here?
> This is something that is coming to traditional Linux as well though, with zfs snapshots.

Has there been a change in ZFS licensing? I thought it was always going to remain poorly integrated into the Linux ecosystem.
> The therapy also induces myelin to rebuild around axons and reduces glial scarring, which acts as a physical barrier that prevents the spinal cord from healing

This gives the impression that this would need to be administered before any scaring takes place. It is probably not a remedy for people with old injuries.
I've always wondered... and so far have been unable to Google this: Does the non-nucleus part of a severed nerve cell die? If so, that would mean we only have a small window to "rejoin" severed CNS nerve cells, right? Nerve cells can be very long, I think up to a meter. I'd assume this includes spinal nerve cells of the CNS, which don't regrow. If the cells are severed, like in a spinal injury, that means there's a half-cell fragment with a nucleus, and the other half is the axon that's been cut away without a nucleus. Wouldn't the fragment without a nucleus shrivel up and die? That would be my intuition because I'd assume the nucleus is necessary to keep a cell alive.
I think I've come across references that those "ventwegen" existed even back in the 19th century.
Show HN: Run Python, Ruby, Node.js, C++, Lua in the Browser via x86 to WASM JIT
I guess you could, near the beginning of your program's entry point, decorate the importlib's functions to decorate the top-level functions of imported modules with "@beartype" decorator.

Or there is always find+grep+sed, if you prefer a different style of madness.
Sorry but that's clearly p-gag-roll, whatever the creators may wish.
Do you mean condoms? Because while effective (and often appropriate… I am not dissing condoms) they definitely are a partial impediment to good sex.
Why Are Electric Vehicle Companies Worth So Much Money?
But it still doesn't protect the other 1%. An oppresive regime that can steal their money or other physical assets, can also beat, pressure them until they hand over access to their crypto wallet.
I'm saying he wouldn't have known how they lived 100 years before he was born, and there were major changes to culture then, caused by disease.
Same here, I settled for Ipad and Apple pen, also because I see no need to add another device after caring a phone, tablet and notebook.
May I ask if you found a good note app? I am still looking, especially one that gives me cloud sync and distraction free reading.
> World's first! The fourth new material following wood, iron, and concrete. "Special expanded polystyrene"

Oh god please stop. We are drowning the planet in plastic. Let's NOT produce more polystyrene; Several million tonnes per year is enough already.

It's like an advertizement for an asbestos house or a lead kitchen.
The medical company would say they aren't killing people, they just choose not to save them. Whether that's a difference depends on your ethical framework.

But of course most Western countries resolve this kind of conundrum in healthcare with collective bargaining, whether that's at the government level or at the insurance level (which only really works if you ensure absolutely everyone has insurance). If the offer is "we will buy 1000 doses/year for no more than $15 each" the dynamic changes a lot.
Well, an asymmetric bezel is great for holding a device in landscape mode either left or right. I am satisfied with my Tolino Shine 3 in that regard. And yes, it has no USB-C, but I don't mind.
Long press for * and # on an iPhone
I quit just last week. Saved up 10 years worth of salaries. Currently on the doing nothing stage. Doing more sports, running/cycling everyday, taking my time to cook, more time for kids, so far so good, i have no plans for the future, whatever happens happens. Previously i was working 15 hours a day, i did like my job but was impacting my health severely.
English spelling is a mess... spelling it as "Toyt" would avoid the ambiguity. Or if the "IT" is from "Internet of things"... you could go with "Adroit"... That's a real word and thus has a memorized pronunciation in English, even though ~that's in turn a "mispronounced" French word.

Sorry for bikeshedding! I love new programming languages, but even ~I'm going to be distracted if it's named after a female body part. For fun:

George Carlin:
https://youtu.be/6ulTgP6fjfA?t=598
That's absurd, food is the most important product of the economy. Local food is the most important product of a local economy. Many small farm holders means more variety and less monoculture. I grow food myself, it's hard work and very important for our futures.

Link in profile.
Rarely.

I once gave two jackets, that I was going to donate somewhere, to a guy with a sign. He immediately put them both on.
> Except almost everyone always means #2

Only those who think that the graphical part of an information system represents the whole of software development.
They can be both, but in many of the listed countries there aren't really Amazon workers (at least not warehouse staff), and they are not "[striking] for better working conditions" as stated in the headline.

That is part of the #MakeAmazonPay movement, but it's not all the movement is, and saying that employees are striking in 20 countries is completely false.
> If a California wildfire comes through and ravages the area, your fireproof building will still be there, but the walls will heat soak can and then set things on fire inside a fireproof building.

Walls would have to be made of iron to soak enough heat to burn anything inside. Typical walls are made of good isolators, you would need several days of constant fire to conduct that kind of heat. Windows on the other hand are typically what lets the fire inside. They just break after less than a minute of high temperature flame.
There's a few of these around the suburb-y metro Detroit area. They're nice to bike on, and they haven't seemed awful to drive, but they do still do "divide neighborhoods" quite well, which is unfortunate
Why Left Enthusiastic About Covid Restrictions Harm Are the Poor and Vulnerable?
It is worth noticing that you enable and disable the serviceability for individual devices when you want to. Your unserviced devices are free and keep running your code.

https://toit.io/pricing
I was around as a kid when my aunt boiled some crayfish alive. The way they run in the pot and the sound they make still haunts me to this day whenever I see these little animals. I don't need science to tell me if something feels pain or not when being boiled alive...
> cofounding a massive non-profit fanfic website

Perhaps are you one of the cofounders of AO3 (Archive of Our Own)?
I suspect in this case “yet another” was picked at least in part to make a cultural reference for humour value. Bung yarp into Google or similar and you'll get many images from Hot Fuzz.
That's not adressing his point. That is, it's not how a social contract works. It's collective. You break it with everyone or no one. And it's collectively enforced as well. OP's notion that his in charge of his own little arbitrarily determined social contract that inform the worth of the life of the people surounding him and has sovereignty over his surroundings is disturbing. I worry of such people being free to walk about and I sure hope he's not from my country.
New cells discovered in the heart may regulate heart rate and rhythm
I was not disputing that. I was disputing that it’s a “cruel workaround” to eg require that people who work with the public get a vaccination to keep their job. Those who choose not to get to vaccinated are not entitled to force their presence on private individuals and to a certain extent the public.
You were able to compile Toit code direct to WASM? I guess that required using static types throughout?

Or did you compile the VM to WASM instead, and interpret the Toit code as normal?
Obtaining a steady revenue stream is something that makes perfect sense in any business. And it's literally documented that curing a disease is a questionable business proposition for the companies that could rather sell the treatment instead. [0]

On the other hand turning people green or any other such random proposition makes no sense. This is a weak analogy fallacy, dismissing a strong argument that has been observed in practice again and again by attacking an "analogous" but worthless pseudo-argument like "of course they're not turning people green". And I don't even want to get into the whole "if the pharmacutical companies abducted your children in the middle of the night and ransomed them back to you" nonsense. It's not making the point you think it's making, it just makes it look like you don't understand the discussion.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-n...
Species count put at 8.7 million: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14616161
So, we will have what do in next few hundreds years..
I want a device of this type.

It may be a silly reason to deduct points, but the fact that this company are name parasitizing on a real word, and especially one in widespread and important use, is already putting them behind for me.

Having said that Supernote's ambitions for more ruggedness/robustness and Pinenote's openness and overall stronger specs would probably have made them higher priority anyway once I get around to ordering.
Surely there's a balance between working 15 hours a day to save 10 years of salary versus doing nothing?