skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are an astonishing number of ways to generate the Sierpinski triangle:

1. The Chaos Game, as described in this post.

2. Other ways of rendering the IFS; for example, iterating over the possibility tree of transforming a single point 10 times and plotting the 59049 leaves, or searching over the tree of inverse transformations from a given pixel to some depth like 6 and coloring the pixel with the length of the longest chain that doesn't blow up. It's a very well behaved IFS, so even methods that have trouble with some IFSs will do fine.

3. Coloring the odd numbers in Pascal's Triangle, aka Yang Hui's Triangle or the triangle from मेरु प्रस्तार.

4. As a generalization, plotting histories of an astonishingly wide range of 1-D cellular automata, starting with a single "live" cell. For example, the totalistic rule where a cell is live iff exactly 1 of itself and its neighbors were alive (rule 14). About a third of the 256 2-state neighborhood-3 CAs like this are some deformation of the Triangle IIRC.

5. A surprisingly large variety of L-systems also generate the Triangle. In http://canonical.org/~kragen/laserboot/cut-6 I used, I think, F = !F!-F-!F!, where ! swaps left and right. An interesting thing about this curve in particular is that it avoids self-intersections, which is what makes it somewhat suitable for laser cutting.

6. And of course you can start with a solid triangle, cut a hole in its middle to make a triforce, and then recursively do the same for each of the resulting three remaining triangles.

7. For use as a calendar, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/siercal I generated a tour of the triangle with a non-L-system method, just subdividing the triangle recursively.

8. It's also interesting to note that the state space of the Towers of Hanoi puzzle has the shape of the Sierpinski Triangle. So a suitable 2D graph layout algorithm (all edges equal length, maximizing total distance from the center) applied to the state space graph ought to generate it. This is a little handwavy, though.

9. I'd forgotten this, but as John D. Cook points out in https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/26/fractal-via-bit-tw..., the pixels where the bitwise AND of the X and Y coordinates is zero form a distorted Sierpinski Triangle.

10. Cook points out in https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/10/19/binary-surprise/ that the numbers of sides in the regular n-gons constructible with compass and straightedge, when written down in binary, also form the Sierpinski Triangle.
Am the embodiment of all the secularism.

Loves every experience in Life’s journey, doesn’t discriminate anyone.
I have the best possible experience by ripping my own Blu-Rays into my own Plex server, including all the languages, subtitles and commentaries. Easy to use, kids-friendly (no dirty fingers on discs), playable from anywhere, including offline with synced copies, and I don't pay a monthly fee to watch the content I already paid for.

I wouldn't go back to subscription-based services, even if that means I have to wait for a disc release. At least there's a market for used Blu-Rays so I don't have to pay a fortune.
>nothing actually matters

Maybe it’s just a matter if having a time perspective that is appropriate for what we can possibly get a handle on as humans. In the medium term, as opposed to the heat-death-of-the-universe long term, stuff definitely matters.

Also btw that phrase “nothing actually matters” is a little piece of propaganda planted by religion as a false caricature of non-religious thinking. You might consider that by buying into it, you are still allowing that religion to control your thinking.
12 million light years is near to Earth, as galaxies go. The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of billions of other galaxies are hundreds to thousands of times farther away.
Or Blackbird v6

https://www.getblackbird.net/
Roman Catholic. Try to say a rosary every morning. Read that day's mass readings and a blurb or two from Lives of the Saints. Attend mass weekly. Go to confession once or twice a year.
Tontine.cash
I would say that keeping the checks in runtime for release builds is the smart default. For most usages, removing the checks in release builds only adds security holes without measurable impact on performance.
If I wanted to save an important repo, I would run a command like this:

ssh user@rsync.net "git clone --mirror https://github.com/widevindump/Netlix-4K-Script github/2021-12-27-widevindump_Netlix-4K-Script"

... which works because the 'git' binary is maintained on rsync.net and can be executed over ssh[1].

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/git.html
To me "short-hop flights" is the real reason any of this makes sense. If you are commuting into NYC and can get picked up at 9am and flown past traffic to your building, thats an enormous win if you can pay for it. It will compete in helicopter taxi market and expand that market by being able to land closer to the destination because it makes less noise. This and its faster speed means shorter total commute.

Passenger helicopters: speed 160 MPH, range 250 miles, cost $1.3-13.00 USD/mile

Joby claims: 200 MPH, 150 miles, ~$4 USD/mile.
Unlike in the US, in Europe we don't have the concept of punitive damages. Claimants will only ever get, at most, a compensation for the losses they can prove they have had and fines go to the state, not the claimant.
> Was there something in particular you were looking for and didn't find?

Unicode handling. Treating a string as a byte array is all fine and dandy if you're only processing english latin alphabet data, but it's a PITA as soon as you start using e.g. extended characters (math symbols, fancy quotes, ...) other languages, or emojis.
For excellent reporting on a dystopian intersection of tech and politics:

Darknet Diaries Episode 100: NSO

On a different note: a whimsical, impossible, and hilarious improvised musical:

Mission to Zyxx Episode 507: A Little ‘Ditty about Jack and Shai’an
Go to goodwill or Craigslist, there are a lot of routers, like 1080p monitors, the world doesn't need any more low or mid range routers purchased new. Save a bit of waste from going to a landfill.
I have sat through some movies just for the car chases.
South Africa recorded no deaths in the beginning solely to omicron. So that would have been the good door.

( That's where the stat came from)
Stop giving Apple exec's ideas, they might be reading this site.
I wish I'd found the article that lists every major river California has redirected for their own needs. It starts to make the "habitat preservation" reasoning look really dim. It's about six major rivers in total and most of them are dried up now. Why are California's habitats considered so important versus the habitats and communities that lived near those rivers in the first place?

That doesn't even begin to touch the agricultural based consumption, which is equally significant.
Yes you can swap your mouse to your non-dominant hand if you are patient and persist for a few months until it feels totally normal.

I am right handed but changed to mouse with my left.

I am not naturally ambidextrous in the slightest e.g. my left hand cannot be used for writing legibly with pen and paper, and can't really throw a ball very far left handed.

I swapped mouse hands from right to left because of a temporary carpal strain injury.

I was surprised how useful it was having my right hand available for note-taking, etc, that I kept mouse on the left ever since and 20 years later, still going.

Funnily enough I am still excellent mousing with my right hand but never do it by choice nowadays...
MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory
His autobiography Naturalist (1994) is a very readable introduction to his life and work -- and to his personality. He writes there about the controversies in his life, including his disputes at Harvard with his nemesis James Watson, and the Sociobiology controversy in the 1970s.
It's clearly not the same, being neither Linux nor a Windows GUI, but I immediately thought of SerenityOS which was inspired by a similar ideal. :)

https://serenityos.org/
12 million is much further away than 2.5.
Also, the stuff they are calling attention to is not, in fact, in any galaxy, and is monstrously bigger than any galaxy.
No, but there were already other software synthesis options available for people who don't want a skeuomorphic interface, as various levels of complexity - Max/MSP, PureData, Reaktor, CSound, SuperCollider, Audulus, KarmaFX, etc.
Seconding this. Great firmware and I own some of their hardware and it works well.
'Like moving a herd of elephants': San Francisco's history of houses on wheels
Is there another way to read books? Only looking at the pictures isn't reading.
Another European photographer working in postwar Japan was the late Italian academic and alpinist Fosco Maraini. His book Meeting with Japan (1960) is one of the greatest cultural analyses I've ever read. While his photos aren't as striking as TFA, the subjects and his writing capture the multiple transitions taking place in the country starting during the war (where he lived, including several years as a civilian POW) and during the 1950s. The English edition (translated from Italian) is out of print but worth purchasing if you can find a copy.

Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/15/guardianobituar...
Sorry i m not trying to fight you nor did i say you have to fight apple, just maybe don't shove the app store on people's faces (I bet you don't have a "view tumblr on the web" link in the app). I m very grateful about wordpress , and we need more things to be open like wordpress , not gated behind overlords.
I think we are on the same line except im merely saying that it’s considered socially acceptable for a parent to over correct for easily preventable death, which very likely includes “wear a mask and socially distance from my child, who isn’t old enough to take a treatment that will drastically reduce their already reduced chance for severe illness”. I think I’m being broadly misunderstood as somehow advocating much more strongly than I actually am. I’m merely saying that certain populations may very reasonably advocate for their specific circumstance when it comes to resisting going back “to normal”. I hope that makes sense.
Is that right. Do enlighten me then!

Of course the transport link would have to cooperate and open a group-encrypted channel for every multicast group a client is subscribed to. Basically how regular satellite TV works, but with dynamically allocated bandwidth.
There are also HDMI recorders you can buy online that strip HDCP and encode to a USB stick.
That's the problem, though: if they wanted to allow this, it's easy to do — for example, GOG has a Steam import feature but relatively few publishers allow their content to be used that way. Spending an enormous amount of money switching to NFTs would just be a distraction from the business reasons why those publishers are blocking that capability.
>here is a screenshot of a tweet, with all of the parts that do not work without JavaScript highlighted in red

And this is when I realized this article was written a long time ago. Now if you attempt read a text post on twitter you get nothing at all unless you execute javascript first. The entire screenshot would be red in 2021.
Christianity, after comparing few religion, the Jesus teaching and practice (the only required practice is pondering/remembering His words and implement it in real life: like love one another, forgive, test every teaching, etc) far way superior than newer one that claiming to be continuation of it '__')

after reading history of the religion's founder (the killings/torture and robbing, marrying a minor when he's already 50s, marrying his adopted son's wife, very suspicious teachings that only benefit himself, mixed up names and messed up commands in their scripture, demeaning women, etc), I feel like 25% of this world been totally fooled or brainwashed, but thankfully only a little of them that are truly following his teaching/deeds (one that in war region)
The irony is they get hate and complaints no matter what they do - so I believe they are optimizing the wrong metric. It's bureaucracy at work: make fuss, busy work, spend lots of money, spin wheels, start big projects then abandon them etc...

Or just make good software. Do it right the first time. Accept responsibility when things go south. If your mission is righteous the rest will fall into place.
If legal hurdles were more important than technological ones, we could expect to see a boom of electric flight somewhere else. Unlike technology, legal environment differs a lot across the globe, and if the technology is hopeful enough, someone will start adapting it soon. Gone are the times when all technological development was happening just in a few countries.
Yup. Just depends on the telling.

"There are only two types of music. Good music and bad music." -- Duke Ellington.
First time I heard of this guy was when reading up on Morrowind lore: https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Easter_Eggs#Ashlander_n...
I did a bit of googling at it seems that the 2016 Honda Clarity has a 141L tank, that gives it a range of 366 miles, while the Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus has a 334L battery, which gives it a range of 267 miles. So even if my numbers are off by a bit, the volume of hydrogen tanks is not a prohibitive factor.
> Transformer steel is not all born alike. Manufacturers will provide data sheets about their products (often on their web sites), where you can see what they offer. There are usually many grades, with vastly different loss characteristics. At a given flux density and frequency, a good material might have ten times less loss than a cheap material! So it pays to look, investigate, and decide intelligently what to buy. Thinner sheets normally have lower loss, and the rest of the secret lies in the exact alloy.

Okay this is what I come to HN for, thanks everybody!
OK? Is it my turn to say something irrelevant? Here goes: Elon Musk is worth $200 billion. Known fact. Or was.
It is remarkable, and wholly admirable, that he tried to learn calc later in life; it is even more remarkable that he admitted his struggle! His genuine humility and curiosity came across in spades in his wonderful little book "Consilience", so this anecdote doesn't surprise me.
Fast and Furious 1 was a decent film that I enjoyed. I even have watched more than once.

But the sequels are a different story. Those were unnecessary and absurd.
Name and cite a single Christian source from before 1600 which believes the Bible is a flawed text which contains errors.
A FOSS Replacement for Userstyles.org
Socrates Gets Killed in the Metaverse
There should just be a standard for a software module, like VST for plug-in instruments. Then they could re-used across platforms, and a DAW like Ableton could theoretically host them directly without needing an intermediary VST host app like Rack.
Is there some reason we can't just use biofuels in existing planes? They're more expensive, but they're not that much more expensive.

And you could do this immediately instead of having to either scrap every existing plane or wait 30+ years until they all age out.

We could at least do this until someone gets electric planes to work, whether or not that ever happens, and continue doing it during the transition. Which would then happen faster when the legacy planes have a higher fuel cost.
"roughly equivalent"? They're chalk and cheese to me. Python metaprogramming, anyone? Each? Blocks? Real lambdas? Don't get me started. I'm not saying you can't do it, just why would you want to when you end-up with something that doesn't resemble what you started with?
Consistent daily price pattern on the Steam Community Market
I get this feeling its a one / two / three man I want to write a compiler phase. I seen dozens of these languages over the years. I looked at the language, and without something revolutionary, this will die a slow death. I think it is experiencing that , main developer(s) are using crowd funding and nothing has really been "wow".

I was right about dart and flutter being the next big one. However, zig is a dead language in a grave yard of 100s. It tries to revolution coding without changing the methodology.
If I were starting an aerospace company (which is roughly the same as saying “if I hated money…”), I’d damn sure start it in the US. The US has very friendly rules for experimental R&D aircraft development, is the largest single market for aviation, and what the FAA requires for certification of production aircraft isn’t going to be substantially more involved than what they’d accept from another member ICAO state.

Aviation regulations are overwhelmingly federal in the US, so excepting any airport-specific rules, CA is an OK place to start.

If you’re capable of making electric airplanes viable, you’re capable of doing it in the FAA and CA jurisdiction.
Is the power sufficient for independent take off? Or alternatively, how long can this run at constant altitude in a typical glider?
I was a big user of nLite in the XP days. It allows you to slipstream Service Packs and remove/disable lots of unwanted functionality directly in the XP ISO. There's a checkbox for almost everything. You'd boot directly into your perfectly customized desktop with everything working.

https://www.nliteos.com/
Sales and marketing did.
They use Discord for illegal stuff because they already use it for tons of other things. Sure it's a bad idea, but they don't care (and with all honesty, Discord support doesn't seem to either).
This is very often due to upstream vendor issues. In the case of routers, even if you're the one designing the IC's, building all the layer 7 services, industrial design of the plastics, etc; there's likely still a vendor providing your radios and their drivers are almost always a black box for you.

Sometimes, while you go back and forth with the vendor in a hapless effort to repro anomalous bugs, the best thing for the customer is reboot-every-N-days instead of degraded-performance-forever.

It sucks, but its commonplace.

(N.B. I work in this space and its definitely been a pain point that we've had to accept to be able to make progress)
staring at void
Well, if you fine certain percent of income, so everyone will be treated equally by law. x% of income where x is same for tiny company or mega corp. So principle of equality is not violated.
What's stopping them getting a visa if they need one? I don't understand this xenophobia point: post-Brexit, the evil xenophobic Tories changed the visa rules so that 3 million Hong Kong citizens were entitled to live here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53246899

In 2020, 715,000 people immigrated to the UK and in 2021 there were 4 million foreign nationals working here.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06...

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

It doesn't sound terribly xenophobic to me.
Since some people don’t like the cathedral development style VCV rack uses, I point people to a fork of an older version of VCV rack with two features VCV rack 2 doesn’t have:

* It can run as a VST plugin, so one can use it with their favorite digital audio workstation (DAW)

* The code is BSD licensed

Here is that VST plugin fork: https://github.com/bsp2/VeeSeeVSTRack#downloads
There is the `std.unicode` module[1] which provides standard unicode functions (encode, decode, length, iteration over code points), so I don't think it's fair to say that the language's library lacks strings in any real sense.

I will re-emphasize that I've not used it, so I cannot speak for its quality.

[1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/unicode.z...
45 minutes? That's a long shachrit.
There used to be a C Lucene version. I used it for a desktop software. It was way faster than the Java version but wasn't maintained well.
You are wrong. An encryption, any encryption, needs a key for decryption process. If the client is given that key then it can decrypt and rip the content. If the client is not given the key then how will they legally watch it since they paid for the content anyway?

As a rule of thumb, anything that was made by humans can be unmade by humans. All you can do is make the pirate life harder, but never impossible.
I wonder what the radiation environment in the galaxy is. How bright a galactic center black hole can be before the whole galaxy becomes uninhabitable by something like us.
Only when you ignore the overwhelming majority of hundreds of millions of galaxies, hundreds and thousands of times farther away than that.

But yes, farther out than Andromeda.
Some people don’t think lying to and stealing from bad people is unethical. It sounds like you disagree, that’s probably the core of your confusion.
I think showing evidence of your progress is an effective way to plan more realistically (evidence-based) than the wishful thinking I've seen.

The moment estimates are no longer without consequences you get this kind of behavior. I've done it too, in a place where I personally had to be present in a call with the customer to explain why I went 2 hours over the (someone else's) estimate. Your behavior changes after such a call.

The main point I was trying to get across is that team morale appears to be very important for the velocity. You don't get high morale by stuffing too much work into a sprint or making any single story important.

My main objection with Scrum is that people tend to take the rituals as gospel. Which is why I mentioned Agile rather than Scrum.
You also see the same thing with fintech areas like ringbuffer-based order matching engines. Sure, with an infinite amount of time you could make a C implementation run a little bit faster, but practically speaking you would have a hard time building something that gives the business the same level of confidence as a Java/C# solution. Especially, if there's piles of manual memory management and ASM hacks going on.

In my experience, C#/.NET is in a really interesting position when it comes to these questions. It does support value types out of the box which can add another order of magnitude over Java implementations of the same code. One example of this is the LMAX Disruptor. This was originally written for Java and then ported to C#. Because C# supports value types, a special ValueDisruptor variant was developed specific to its port, which enables performance that would otherwise be impossible in the Java solution (which is constrained to using reference types in the buffer).

https://medium.com/@ocoanet/improving-net-disruptor-performa...
Do you have evidence that the fine is fixed regardless of the company size? Because the company in question here is a single employee shop according to D&B Business Directory.

https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.nerd...
A doctor can't provide me with data that doesn't exist. I actually did ask a friend who's an ER doc about whether or not I should get one of the mRNA boosters, given that I have a history of pericarditis. He said that, based on the available studies, the risk of getting pericarditis/myocarditis from COVID is far greater than the risk of getting it from the vaccine, but he also conceded that he didn't know of any studies that specifically examined the risk for someone who has a history of pericarditis.

Also, the study that we're all discussing here is a preprint that was posted on December 25th, so this age-stratified data obviously wasn't available when I decided to get the booster on the 17th.
Hey mods, for the sake of scientific clarity can the title be edited to either remove “near Earth”, or to indicate “NOT near Earth”.

It’s a clickbait addition to the title by the original authors that is already causing confusion in the comments here.

The galaxy in question is 12 million light years away. That is (literally) not astronomically close.
Is 20 minutes supposed to be long or short? Without a minyan it usually takes me about 10-15 minutes and I'm faster than average.
This was my first though as well, but not everything is in compiled form. For example see `bad34.py` in the Paramount-Plus-4k-Downloader repository.