skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singapore was successful for many of the same reasons Hong Kong was - a city of stability and rule of law in a sea of chaos.

Singaporeans were fortunate their country was ruled by a bunch of technocrats. But the government has almost complete control of the narrative and the story they tell is often the only one you’ll hear.
For some problems, there is a choice of how to organize its data structures. One that requires random access, and another that is mostly sequential access.

The latter might take an order of magnitude more space, while still being faster.

An example of such a problem is the Cuckoo Cycle Proof-of-Work [1].

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
Friendster, Hi5, Xing, Linkedin, Myspace, Orkut, Bebo, VK

Those were all facebook's competitors and offered mostly the same features. Facebook succeeded because everyone's friends were there. Facebook was not "integrated", it didnt even have a newsfeed when it started
america can learn a lot from creating value locally
1.7 iirc is for 2019. China had record low births in 2020. Also, replacement rate for china is higher because the sex ratio for some age groups is as bad as 115 males to 100 females.

The worst effect of one child policy was imo skewed sex ratio.
TFR in mainland China is closer to 1.3 according to the 2020 census, and there are plenty of signs pointing to an accelerated decrease for the upcoming decade.

https://www.reuters.com/article/china-society-census-fertili...
F1 champion ‘Lewis Hamilton’ says he is not involved in Mercedes deal with Grenf
No, it is not easy. In fact, a large majority of tests have failed in the ITP.

But you are right about the major role of “extraneous” environmental factors, and this is why we started our studies with a systematic perturbation of diet—low fat versus very high fat (citations are above). The correlation of longevity on these profoundly different diets is about r = 0.6 based on an analysis of 76 balanced cohorts of strains on the two diets—about 10 females per strain per diet. With the deep replication (10 identical twins per treatment) these are rock solid data. A correlation of 0.6 gives “explained variance” of only 36% (r^2), so that highlights the major effect of diet on longevity. And the gene variants that modulate longevity on the two diets are, as expected, very different.

Bottom line: the genetics of longevity is the genetics of gene-by-environment interaction—your major point.
A lot of VMS came into it from ex digital people.

Rick Rashid who helped design Windows NT is a Mach kernel person. So.. maybe Unix influenced it too.

CP/M was influenced by tops-10 (pip) and ms-dos was a take on alternates to CP/M amid licencing issues either with PC-DOS or something else. MS-DOS got the "more" program. But not entirely "pipes"
I really enjoy browsing neocities. It definitely brings back many vibes of the old web. It's really easy to discover stuff since you can select if your website goes in to the directory. Art and music are the most popular tags and I feel like this is a good sign. Also, people have started forming old school webrings.
Ask HN: How do I prove that I'm a human, once and for all? (captcha)
I've been applying to jobs, so I've been encountering more hcaptchas than I would like -- more than zero.

It's humiliating -- even moreso than applying to jobs already is -- and I don't like working for free, and it's just a pain in the ass.

Can I attach some type of banana bag blood drip to my computer and maybe automatically shoot that live blood analysis info over to the various job description saas hosting providers in realtime so I don't have to tag the fucking boats and bikes anymore?
The catch: One does make a lot of money by being a good citizen.
How Much Quicker Is a Tesla with Three Jet Engines Strapped to It?
First, see a therapist. Second, especially if the therapist recommends it, and they probably will given what you're telling, see a good psychiatrist. If they are any good, they'll request blood tests, not only prescribe something. Very often feeling lethargic, miserable, and unhappy is related to something physical.

One of the common issues is vitamin D deficiency, because our lifestyles have become rather indoorsy. If you have not been going outside during sunlight hours, it is something to get tested for.
The issue with that approach is that renting is a lot more expensive than owning a car long-term. Something like 4x. This means that the small car you buy should be at least 40% cheaper than the car you would originally have bought and are now renting 10% of the time.

At that price difference you are probably giving up on a lot more than just range and towing capacity for your daily driver.
Ask HN: Android, Good Privacy Model. Something similar available on iOS?
I am very happy to notice Android becoming more privacy centric. Notifications on the phone indicate permissions removed for apps not used for a few months.

For example,
X App - Location permission was removed. Microphone and Camera permissions removed, etc., etc.,

This is also provides for proactive care by the user to remove any apps no longer used.

As a macbook user, I was curious to know if something similar exists on macbook/iOS to check on "every" app permission?

Also, is there a way on both systems and control via whitelist, blacklist particular sys calls on a per app basis?
Veloren is great. I'm pretty sure it's worldgen uses Simplex noise, rather than the Perlin noise like MC does.
They'll definitely have information that traditional CPU designers won't. Check out this talk from Brendan Gregg (he's probably lurking), where he specifically calls this out:

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-07-05/computing-perfo...

See slide 26 (and the rest ofc :)).
I've considered a burner google account, not sure how feasible no google services is. Don't you have trouble finding apps/services? I could imagine finding replacements for meet/maps/photos/drive, but the play store on android feels a bit irreplaceable, I've tried F-Droid and the quality of apps is significantly worse.
Nahh… from what I’ve read, Australia had made it abundantly clear they were pulling out of the French deal. Maybe France was pissed they were excluded, but the “angry” was entirely for show.

The public may not care about submarine deals but France certainly cares about how they are perceived on the world stage.
Yes, the TB4 cables are more expensive than the ones intended for just charging. And the charging cables are designed to provide power to a range of USB devices, most of which were designed before USB-C Power Delivery was a thing.

The charging cables have adapters on each end that can do USB-C Power Delivery, micro-USB with (I believe) "fast" charging per the Qualcomm or Samsung specs, or Apple Lightning.

But yes, they don't have the re-timers necessary for 40 Gbit data.

The Thunderbolt 4 cables cost about $50 right now (2 meters), about twice the price as the universal charging cables.

All of these cables have E-Marker controllers at each end to negotiate all of these modes. I was able to find the data sheet for a common charger controller, made by Cirrus Semiconductor. It's a little ARM Cortex M0 computer.

https://youtu.be/Sj62tJmONVA

So a wired local area network of computers talk amongst themselves to figure out how to push energy and data around.

Rolling Square was pricing their stuff at deep discount for Black Friday, a good value. Kickstarter products, they've been around for at least five years but might be clearing inventory before the new year.

OWC, I think I was buying SCSI terminators from them back when the rubble of the Berlin Wall was still on the ground...

One last thing FWIW --

For my travel bag, Rolling Square has a super short version that can fit in your pocket. One of those, a Thunderbolt cable, and a quality USB-PD charger can handle just about any situation.

Crazy times.
Tsum Valley Trek
Tsum Valley Trek is one of Nepal's Sacred Himalayan Gems to Observe for a Sparkling Array of Panoramic Peaks, a Wide Range of Scenery, and Cultural Variety.
2600 was holding up until they went full social justice woke corona anti-Trump hating the past two years. Really sad to watch.
It's not primitive, believe me... It might rather be because no one else makes such complex searches possible (perhaps with the exception of ITA).
Take an example: From anywhere in Germany to anywhere on the Mediterranean coast, next summer, max. 1 connection, for 5-8 days, return to same airport: https://azair.me/!4gDR ... is generated in 2.3 sec. That's not long

Or what did you mean by complex searches?
FF on Android was fine.
Yes, and not just unexplored areas, but even underneath previously explored areas in the new space created between Y=0 and Y=-64.
Sort of. The trinity is a confusing concept as taught by mainstream Christians: three in one in three. But the God of the Old Testament is the Father, not the Son, IIRC.

I’m an exmo, so I’m well aware of what Mormon means. Including that it was widely accepted as an informal demonym for many years by LDS church leaders, and only recently became officially anathema. The reasoning presented for the change has not been terribly sound, I’m afraid, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a future prophet reversed it, as other decisions have been reversed.
If you pirate content it's gonna be yours forever no matter what.

So if you buy stuff and it's going to get taken away from you for arbitrary reasons... you might as well pirate stuff.
> The joke about robot overlords still pondering on BB

This starts to sound like Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy.
I always thought the answer 42 was just an absurd joke
but now I'm starting to think that Douglas Adams must
have known about Busy Beaver.
> It's inane to claim existence being the root of all evil, because, yeah, it's the root of friggin' _everything_.

It is not a matter of fact that conscious existence is the root of all things. To state such, is to take an unprovable philosophical position.

> Nothing is forced on "you" because without existence there is no "you". Or anti-natalists could just as easily be blamed of "depriving" the non-born of their chance to live. Ouch.

Not relevant. The forcing only happens during one's existence. Thus, stating an individual is forced to survive is not some semantic null pointer error. Furthermore, one cannot be blamed for depriving non-born of life, because they do not actually exist. That is a null pointer error. Your examples actually support my position.

> I, for one, enjoy life (and don't you dare tell me I just don't realise it sucks). I even like working on the hard bits, like underpaid shopkeepers and inhumane working hours, thank you.

You seem rather embittered about life, so much so that you take everything I've said out of context. Helpings others is a virtue. Life is still cruel though. I did not say life is sucky. Sucky is a sophomoric adjective that ill describes something as complex as life.

I get it, you are invested in convincing yourself that you love/like your life. Even if that is the case, in actuality, it doesn't change the nature of life for everyone, including your future self. By all means, if we are here, we should do be the best we can to enjoy the ride and help make this place better for those who come next. But let's not be in denial about the nature of life.

For all the ice cream you eat, the sex that you have, the loving relationships you share, it won't nullify the abyssal horrors experienced by unlucky living beings [1]

I don't see how anyone sane could think that living an enjoyable life somehow balances out the lives of those who endure absolute horrors.

[1] https://youtu.be/oHJuzE0k1V8
And they started using tiny type. I'm not interested in reading a portable paper magazine with my handy travel magnifying glass.
2bn years ago, plankton helped to move mountains
You could add asianavenue who had millions of users. Except friendster and VK I think I toyed with all the others and none felt like Facebook. MySpace was just a blog + ad-hoc musician, LinkedIn was too narrow.

Things that were different:

- stronger crossover into real life (it wasnt a net persona, LinkedIn was real but it was for jobs, you dont live in it)

- sharing personal Prefs

- games with other members

Maybe I missed these on other websites.

PS: I'm not pro FB, but to my best memory it was clearly different from other websites. Hence my original message.
I agree, I spent ages trying to find a Markdown solution that supported equations and images and so on. Pandoc was the only one that worked really well.
How is this similar to Canada or Australia? Agree SG is a tax haven but it’s more like Hong Kong or Dubai.
I'm one one of a small number of people at my FANNG company that can work on a legacy MM LoC Perl project.

Many of them are much smarter than me, but I think my insight which I remember getting around 6 months in is that it's just code, in many places hard to read/follow, but it will ultimately just do a logical set of instructions.
Exactly.

Not an uncommon state of affairs, for open sources va proprietary.
Or lifted from 1990's Outer Limits episodes :)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5709234/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667901/
Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
It was a pleasant surprise this morning when my son and I discovered the vast cave systems below Y=0 in our existing world! Very well done, really cool, we’re having a blast!
Few know this outside Singapore, but corporal punishment is still commonplace in public schools. Parents are also allowed to physically punish their kids if they misbehave. Yes, the tax rate is very attractive and you don’t pay capital gains tax, but human rights track record is horrendous. And don’t even get me started on their LGBTQI standpoint.
I don’t know of a service that hadn’t been forced to add advertising and captcha just to stay above water due to stolen bandwidth and human hours dealing with abuse. The internet has become a trash dump of toxic users to the point it is legitimately difficult to isolate legitimate cases of failed algorithms.

Apple, Amazon and Google have good margins, but I would hardly say they could afford to do better. Human hours are incredibly expensive and the number of people attempting to get something for nothing often exceeds the number of people with legitimate complaints. I have run across whole farms of people who found some cheap online job reading off scripts trying to rip off large companies and any knowledge they get about bans they change the scripts for all.

It is has become a hostile relationship unfortunately and it is not due to companies not trying. I have seen for Apple at least they sometimes have people show up in person with lots of documentation and identification at stores and you legitimately cannot tell the scammers from the people who think it should just not be their problem.

I am not trying to justify that they fail. They often clearly do. It is just not an easy problem, especially with the amount of anger and frustration involved.
I couldn't have said it better. The only thing to admire about the model is its ruthless willingness to suppress anything and anyone that could pose a challenge to it. Maybe that's necessary if you were a small-time dictator like LKY, trying to hold a tiny piece of territory. Good for him. It's the strategy in Civ games where you spend nothing on an army and make lots of alliances and just build stuff; it also requires executing a lot of people and being a dreaded dick. I won't step foot in Singapore or give it a cent of my money unless I have to change flights there. Nice little dictatorship, not a bad job if you can keep it. But it's disgusting to hear Westerners enamored with it as if it were some kind of utopia. These are the same people who party in Dubai doing things they could get garrotted for and then criticize Israel (a democracy with free speech protections). Makes you wonder what exactly turns them on so much about autocratic regimes.
This is so ignorant and willfully racist I’m going to reply once and then stop. First is Kannada. Kannadiga means a person of Kannada culture. Same with Malayalee-Malayalam. No one accepts in any southern languages that Sanskrit is the mother language. This notion died in 20th century when linguistic analysis showed the mutual interaction between languages. Tamil and Sanskrit might seem similar to you the same way German and English are. But just as they didn’t inherit one another neither did Sanskrit or Tamil.

After the decline of Indus Valley and drought in the Saraswati basin the people moved south and westwards. This is archeologically well supported.

Volga is in Russia. Ancient India was only up to Khyber pass. Chanakya made it a point to protect that pass to protect India from foreign invasions and it was never breached until Islamic invasions 1000 years ago.

It’s Ashtadhyayi my dude. Not Ashtaadayi. It’s not even a word. The fact that you don’t realize this glaring error after pointing it out twice tells me everything about your actual knowledge behind these claims.

I’m from an orthodox Brahmin community and yes we do speak Sanskrit. Not just speak but plenty of my relatives have written books and conducted debates in them regularly. Which is also why your borderline childish knowledge seems so obvious to me.

And Christian missionary what? Here we go again with the victim complex and conspiracies. You blame someone else for your own ignorance.

Phonetic sounds are never the basis for identification of languages. Mutual intelligibility and grammar is. Lots of languages sound like one another without having anything in common. All European languages roughly use Greco-Roman phonemes. But they’re far from identical.

There’s no political rhetoric in my replies. It’s you who is making up random unsubstantiated claims and twisting reality when you can’t even spell or correctly write 50% of the words you’re using.

Sanskrit is not the mother of anything. It existed along with Prakrit, Pali and dozens of other languages. They all mixed, bred and propagated through history. Your North Indian supremacist attitude is just a coping mechanism to escape from poverty and backwardness of the north

BTW: I’m not a tamilian. I just used it as an example. And here you are talking about missionary funding and Christianity. It tells a lot about what you actually think. You’ve been fed some Hindutva propaganda and you’re trying to parrot it here.
And the big island of Hawaii.
There was no lockdown? What was the thing we all saw during the Olympics?
Given that only JavaScript has direct access to WebGL APIs (for the time being), every single WebGL call will go through the marshaling API across runtimes.

It won't be the performance boost you will be expecting.
Feed the body, the mind, and the soul:

- Take exercise. Needn't be epic. A walk is fine. Eat decent food.

- Ingest positive entertainment. Do a linuxfromscratch.org project.

- Find a suitable house of worship. Technology is a useless remedy for the moral vacuum of our day.
Quake keeps getting content.

There are other mods / paks like DOPA, Arcane Dimensions, Copper, and Alkaline. Just to name some of the pretty damn good ones. Somehow, Quake ended up in a sweet spot. There's a rhythm to the way you fight, and a lot of tools in stock Quake to make varied situations in a single-player level. The level design doesn't ape reality like games from the early 2000s started to do.

There are tons of things Quake did wrong, but enough things that it does right.
tomayto tomahto

We are talking about the exact same case. The induction step is n-> n+1 and works perfectly well for n+1=3 horses.
to be fair it does seem to be good enough.
> Email jeff@amazon.com. It'll hit the exec support team (even though he's no longer CEO.)

I've emailed this address with problems about scammers and counterfeits on Amazon and never received replies.
Not having an IOMMU=baseband can access all of the AP's memory.

Having an IOMMU=baseband can only access a small section of memory marked for it, ideally.

Obviously, it's worth implementing this: it turns a baseband compromise from "instant game over" to "might be a problem, but the IOMMU needs to have been set up incorrectly or the code that deals with it needs to have a serious vulnerability".
Well, yes. But the author is assuming it and his equations are C-infinity as a matter of fact.
Nice for porting purposes, other than that it is constrained to a GL ES 3.0 subset given what is available in WebGL 2.0.
If you refer to HDB properties and 99 year lease, it’s a fair amount but not all. There’s a fairly large portion of freeholds, which are entirely privately owned.
1 in 2680 young men develop acute myo/pericarditis following Comirnaty vacc
> A few months ago, the balance on my Apple account was running low (less than $100)
Why do you need that much money in your apple account ? Do you buy new apps everyday ?
Depending on the application and how far you want to discharge them, Li-ion batteries generally can transfer more charge when drained with DC. Each battery chemistry has different impedance curves.

See the plot in the 2nd to last page of this PDF: https://www.omicron-lab.com/fileadmin/assets/Bode_100/Applic...

Higher impedance means more voltage drop will occur across the internal impedance of the cell while trying to pull current. For an equivalent average power, pulses will have to be higher current than a constant DC.

If you pulse the battery, and it is at a low state of charge where the impedance is high, the battery voltage will effectively "droop" and your system may brown out. This means you have to shut down before you've been able to fully discharge.

So pulsed power delivery does not necessarily improve efficiency.
It's a policy decision regardless of whether you believe engineering should be making policy decisions (which they generally should, but I digress).
> I have stopped in recent years since I find it dangerously addictive

I forgot this, but that's actually why I stopped playing it. I was in uni around 2007-08 and realised it was using a serious amount of my time and energy. I just quit cold turkey back then. I've barely played any video games since this point, in fact.

What I loved about Minecraft initially was the exploration. I got into it during the beta (I think) when there was no mini-map or any "lifelines" you expect from a normal game. One thing that was possible was to go down into cave system, run out of torches, fall somewhere and just be trapped in the dark. The game was so simple there was a very real fear of losing your save file because you got trapped in a cave forever.

Are there any other games that have real stakes in them like the early Minecraft versions?
What are things Quake did wrong? Were they wrong for their time, wrong in hindsight, or wrong in the long run?
... and the other risks. I use the word 'risk' in the English sense and not the borderline deceitful co-option of the word by the finance ecosystem -- I guess one appears smarter if one replaces 'increasing' with bull. Consequently, a lot of bull is what we get.
This is a big problem for me. I cite sources on my website and people frequently use them, but the German government seems hell-bent on rotating their URL scheme at least once a year for no reason. URLs to pages that still exist keep changing. I struggle to refer to anything on their websites.
It's what you add to a search to get more interesting answers on Google.
Shouldn't an age change require a check by a human against their passport / identity documents anyway?
Chargie. A USB device to control charging of phones
But none of this seems to need hysteresis for the actual activation/deactivation of heating depending on temperature readings?

One reason I could see is to preserve the life of electromagnetic relays, but modern thermostats should use solid state relays.

These points also seem to be solved for any somewhat modern (less than 15 years old?) run of the mill thermostat. Generally they always show the current reading and give the temperature setting only when you ask for it though, that's the only difference I see with what you want.
“I do not know what I did wrong officer, but I promise to never do it again” - Peppa Pig’s dad