skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best part is that this comes from the BBC.

I used to like the BBC once upon a time, but now, as the British would say, what rubbish.
Sanford Underground Research Facility
Just another shitty 'crypto' technology fulfilling a hypothetical usecase that doesn't exist in the real world.

I'm sorry you read the site and came away with that impression but that is not that case. Interledger is completely agnostic to underlying ledger technologies. It is a payments clearing protocol between participants. Can you please tell me why you believe that to be your impression?

Show me meaningful usage of blockchain/public ledgers, then show me a scenario where you need to bind something between two ledgers.

Again Interledger does not just connect public ledgers. Interledger is a clearing protocol between any system. Do you send payments via ACH, SEPA? Pay with goods with a credit card, Visa or Mastercard? All these use payments clearing protocols. Interledger competes with these technologies in an open and federated manner.

All this software built is like a Minecraft theme park trying to sell tickets to real people to go on virtual rollercoasters.
Sell them what exactly? Interledger doesn't have a token or anything to sell people. It is just a technology, much as HTTP and IP.

I would love to engage more, so please feel free to answer and ask questions. Our goal as a community is to foster a more fair and open payments ecosystem for the world.
SDL has an event for when a new gamepad is detected or removed: http://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_ControllerDeviceEvent although I don’t know what it does internally in order to detect this (well, the article describes what it does).

But you can also manually enumerate devices as in the example here: http://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_GameControllerOpen
How many millions of square kilometres of Japan are uninhabitable due to nuclear energy?
Thank you for responding. I am now better informed due to your explanation. I looked up the author based on your comment and now see the issue in better light. I am sure many others will understand why the parent of my earlier comment was downvoted.
Reminds me of the story of the Nautilus, where upon reaching magnetic north, and discovering every direction from there was therefore South, the navigation computer folded.
We need to reclaim our attention
“Green” is a marketing term designed not to promote any particular source of energy but rather to paint existing sources as “not green” which implies bad.
It would be really interesting to learn what git users think is less intuitive in Subversion than in git.
Nooooo this is so sad to hear as I was recently thinking about getting a blackberry for work. I have the Samsung Galaxy S21 though which is my personal phone.
Problematic and completely unexpected. No one speeding past you is going to brake check you for moving into their lane, so this kind of behavior from a computer is inevitably going to lead to accidents.
If you ignore the compiler warning. This is trivial for the compiler to detect.
The legality to own, sell, export, and import things can be different.
Just found this one (didn't know it exists!): https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
>Amazon's ecommerce site

Amazon.com or something else?
I wish there were more jobs available in nuclear energy.
Of interest, Winston Chuchill took up bricklaying while performing many other duties, became a member of his local bricklaying union, and build a bomb shelter in his back garden.

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest...
Great article!

Interesting aside about the 'Ghost Pepper' (Bhut Jolokia) referred to in the article, a former world record holder for hottest chilli pepper, native to Northeast India: the 'ghost' (bhut) label arises from a fun linguistic misunderstanding.

Using IAST notation/Devanagari, the 'bhut' is actually 'bhōṭ/भोट' (which means 'Bhutanese' in this context, from the Sanskrit for 'Tibet'), not 'bhut/भुत' or 'bhūt/भूत' (which means ghost/spirit, from the Sanskrit for 'past'). So Bhut Jolokia actually means 'Bhutanese Pepper', which is decidedly less interesting than 'Ghost Pepper'; hence (probably) the popularity of the latter meaning.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bhut%20jolokia
When lockdown started, I said in a company meeting that there was no way the general public will handle a lockdown, it will fail, and 3 years from now (it was Feb 2020 at the time) we will simply give up as a society and start to just live with a partially ignored and highly dangerous fatal airborne virus. I was optimistic, it looks like society is giving up at the 2 year point. The pandemic is as bad if not worse than the beginning, and yet what are we doing? We're relaxing everything...
Everyone at my company said I was depressingly stupid to think that. When I quit last spring, I mentioned to them that I was right and they were stupid.
Couple of suggestions that have worked for me ymmv:

- Disable all notifications by default. Emails, chats, phone, apps, services turn them all off. Very few things in life actually require immediate response. Try to setup, that only notifications for those come trough.

- Timebox everything. Instead of just starting doing something, define how much time you are going to spent on doing x (might be a task, fixing a bug, preparing an event, solution exploration, etc.). When the time is up, take a step back, revise your work and decide whether it is done. If not, define what is missing, its importance and the corresponding time box. This really helped me getting lost in rabbit holes.

- Try to work in a way that is more resilient to interruption, so that it can more easily be left aside and picked up later. E.g. only doing one thing at a time, breaking up tasks, planning the day in advance in the morning so scheduled meetings don't come as surprise, etc.

- Communicate and manage expectations. Whether co-workers, family, partner, if they interrupt you, they usually don't do so maliciously. But if their interactions with you bother you, you need to talk to them to find a solution. Just being grumpy about it won't help.

Also, efficiency is not everything. We are not computers that can just chug away on tasks infinitely. Any non trivial work, you won't be able to finish in one sitting. Some interruptions are inevitable and healthy and whatever methodology, you will lose some progress on the way and have to rework things. And it's also about priorities in life. Is the work-related, unfinished task really important / interesting enough to get stuck in your head outside of work hours? Maybe the problem is not getting interrupted, but ability to interrupt yourself and separate different aspects of life.
Is the version statically linked recent enough to support it?
Also, can’t decide if it’s genius or insane, that extra layer of dynamic linking…
I completely agree with you. There are plenty of reasons that someone might not use a website for a long time. I didn't use Amtrak from March 2020 through November 2021 and I'm glad I didn't lose my account status.

"Sorry, you can't log into this NCAA bracket website because you haven't used it since last year."

"Why would I use it more than once a year?"
What made you switch from OpenXchange?
I recently started manually writing assembly with focus AVX2 (a flavor of Intel SIMD extensions). The rationale is that these are complex enough that compilers do not always notice the opportunity to use them, so my ultimate goal is to apply this is to find a non-artificial problem where I could beat a compiler :-)

I confirm that its one of the most satisfactory ways to add some numbers using a modern computer.
Those seeking repair have alternative and are not a risk of death or permanent disability when shopping for services.

I most certainly have options for my in-network healthcare provides and no, a crappy auto repair can certainly include an element of risk of death or permanent disability. Maybe not to the same degree, but if some shop forgets to reconnect the brakes it ain’t good.
This for me is key, these sorts of problems cannot just be solved on an individual level. They are systemic.

"Individual abstinence is “not the solution, for the same reason that wearing a gas mask for two days a week outside isn’t the answer to pollution. It might, for a short period of time, keep certain effects at bay, but it’s not sustainable, and it doesn’t address the systemic issues.” He said that our attention is being deeply altered by huge invasive forces in wider society. Saying the solution was to just adjust your own habits – to pledge to break up with your phone, say – was just “pushing it back on to the individual” he said, when “it’s really the environmental changes that will really make the difference”."
- significant rise in inflation

- Democrats lose the midterms

- Apple releases AR/VR goggles

- Crypto hasn’t imploded yet

- Starship suborbital launch

- First AI generated novel makes best seller list. Arguments about how ‘directed’ it was

- Covid is endemic, restrictions generally eased, covid boosters are treated like flu shots

- We get a new JS front-end framework that takes the hype from svelte

- Hottest year on record, wildfires everywhere, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, dogs and cats living together. Despite lots of rhetoric, atmospheric co2 ppm still going up

- Many articles about how hybrid working doesn’t work. Many organisations give up on their ‘go back to the office’ plans and embrace ‘fully remote’. Lots of disruption in this space.

- Major domestic terror attack organised on Telegram and Signal

- Donald Trump does not go to jail

- Interactive Porn AI startups start doing very well

- Drones used in more conflicts, reaction is muted

- Reddit hobbles their API
Yep, and it works for grey scale too.

This is the one I find the simplest:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FLbAdn2URJs/Toim-B864TI/AAAAAAAAOc...

And a video of a similar effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Sen1HTu5o
I hope you're enjoying the increase in air temperature from 30 degrees in the summer, to 2 degrees today. The temperature for today was projected to be -3 two weeks ago, so we have a relative increase there. Is that how you think relative vs absolute works?
So the argument starts with a (rather bizarre) claim that blockchains are centralized because one have to use the protocol that the rest of the network is using. The argument goes on with an attempt to contrast blockchains with the "web as it exists" and claim that one can "speak whatever protocol you want" in it -- with a caveat that "one have to put significant work" to convince others to use it.

It is quite ironic that author is basically explains the concept of a hard fork [1] while never even mentioning those. Most likely because he is not familiar with basic blockchain concepts. Or, to put it more bluntly, has no idea what he is talking about.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(blockchain)
> As a person who worked on systems with thousands of tests. I cannot stress enough that there should never be any randomness added to the automatic tests.

To take a counter position, I'm a person who has also worked on many systems with many thousands of tests. Every single test suite I've seen pulling static fixtures as test data was brittle and near worthless. Introducing randomness to the data you test against is the only way to actually test your product with near-realistic inputs. To this end, packages like Faker[0] are worth their weight in gold.

[0] https://github.com/joke2k/faker
From a HN thread a couple of days back [1]:

Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..."

Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly...

[1] https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
Reminds me of some sage advice my dad had given me years ago: "you must learn to tolerate inefficiency."
You are probably deficient in some vitamins and shit.

I was having the same issues, turns out a lot of these problems are caused by low b12, folic acid, vitamin D, etc.

Doctors couldn't help because they only see you for exactly 5 minutes and only 1 problem only.

Took me about 30 visits until I told them to test me for deficiencies and there it was.

I would say that a lot of these problems are caused by not getting the proper vitamins and minerals.
>The name clearly indicates that the primary feature is that it is not signed, and the logical conclusion from that is that it is not negative.

Years ago, when the names were designated the CPUs didn't even have proper signed instructions. There was a sign flag, and that was all. In that regard the unsigned was the natural CPU sympathetic type.
>to make it harder to compare to the considerable number of other papers

Naturally. There's a reason AI papers are not published in respected journals a significant proportion of the time.
Yes it changed to be less deadly, making vaccines, "reduction of severe disease", less necessary?

So will they revise and lower the vaccination targets?

Omicron up to 70% less likely to need hospital care
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59769969
I imagine the same reason I spent 6 weeks this summer remodelling and fitting my own kitchen. The need to stand up, and do something creative with your hands. Learn new skills, and have something to admire and be proud of at the end. Something you created truly yourself that is tangible and understood by the people around you.
The issue is that there are people blindly interacting with malicious contracts, which is more of a social problem and not a technical one. There are people now who for example, don't approve random token addrs that they haven't decompiled or which had the source available… i know, shocking…

Did you respond to the right chain of comments, none of us mentioned anything related to ZK solutions (chains line mina or rollups or otherwise)?
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Congrats to Manfred Steiner on earning a doctorate at 89 years of age!

“It is important not to waste your older days,” Steiner insists. “There is a lot of brainpower in older people and I think it can be of enormous benefit to younger generations.” ;)
I follow the same testing philosophy. No mocking, except for external dependencies (mainly 3rd party APIs). No cleanups, except for problematic cases. RDBMS cleanups, when needed, are done by enclosing tests with transactions and explicit rollbacks.
Some call it Yin and Yang, others call it "Mens sana in corpore sano" [1], yet others see it as part of a striving towards becoming "Homo universalis" [2] but in the end it all comes down to the realisation that those hands and feet are just as essential as your head in making your way through this mortal coil. Feeding the one while atrophying the others is a sure-fire way to create problems along the line so pick up that axe and saw and get building. I bought a 17th century farm so I'm set for life in that respect, especially given that the place is heated using wood and I cook on wood as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_sana_in_corpore_sano

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
> An open/close call should never take this long

> What should not be on your main thread is any long blocking compute

Isn't that contradicting yourself? I'm pretty sure open() can block.
Elon's day job is making sure stock quote goes up, not rockets or AI. Keep this in mind.
According to [1] it was added (but not released) January 8th, 2014. Papers Please came out on Linux February 12, 2014 so I'd figure it's not in there unless the version of SDL was updated in a later update.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1upn39/sdl2_a...

Edit: (what I believe to be) This freezing bug was only added 3 years ago, so it might actually have it.
Kinda agree with the "intel vs atnt" argument. From my very limited exp in asm reading Intel is always easier.
Jim green, NASA’s retiring top scientist, says we can terraform Mars
There is probably a reason for your fatigue. You need to find it. You've probably guessed it beforehand: It can be physical (go see a doctor) or mental (go see a therapist). Make use of them, even though it might turn out not helpful afterwards. You said you're financially stable, so even if you're in US, you can go and see doctor and therapist.

>I generally feel that I won the game of life.

Reason a lot about that. Why do you think that is? What's important to you? Any connections with anything that you can observe?

From what you posted, you seem like a well functioning human being. Relationship, job, money, exercise, sleep, diet(?). I'm not sure a habit or another exercise would help you. Maybe try to approach this a bit more abstract and not try to fight the symptoms - that was my first thought reading this... Maybe this somewhat helps you a tiny step. I wish you very well!
Yes. I learned that I had ADHD and began to understand that my hyperfocusing on things was a result of my ADHD. Knowing that helps me cope. My main coping mechanism is to set a goal for the project that can be obtained now and then meet the goal, then move on.
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Blackberry was always the weird one out that effectively depended on special service from your provider combined with special tariffs for using them. This is a legacy from when they were explicitly enterprise devices and you couldn't exactly buy them normally.

Similarly, the core functionality of the original BB - email - is no longer supported (though you can probably run it still) because the special server software (BB didn't run normal email originally) was withdrawn. This special server communicated with your phone provider IIRC to handle BB-only special features like email (back when GPRS was barely starting)
I would love it if you could write a reply like this for all the major HN topics and create a bot that automatically pinned it to the top.
Battery storage is profitable if you can sell for more than you buy. It just needs to be connected to the grid and not necessarily connected to a particular generator.

Although battery storage may still be located close to generation. One benefit of this is that you get more benefit from your grid connection. Without batteries you can just export for a part of the day. With batteries you can export when it is sunny/windy, export when it is dark/not windy, and even import energy when wholesale prices are cheap. The expensive grid connection is better utilised.
Not nitpicking but to clarify a bit, that study says

"Such blooms are a regular feature of Australian inland waterways and are increasing due to nutrient run-off, reduced river flows and climate change."

So while climate change (i.e., warming in targeted areas) doesn't help, it's more of the final nail in a series of nails we've been driving into Mother Nature's heart.

The idea we could be so negligent and abusive of our own home without repercussions is a great narrative for profits, but not so good for our home.
I agree that there's a little confusion in the article regarding the role of protocols in the decentralization equation. That said, I do think the larger point (global consensus protocols are just another form of centralization) is valid and worth discussing.
> Is it cheaper than demand shaping/wind/solar/grid-scale batteries though? That's the real question.

I believe that’s the wrong question to ask.
We need nuclear to be cheaper and more attractive than coal and oil (and later natural gas).

If grid scale batteries ever become a viable thing and cheaper than nuclear then that’s just great and eventually the nuclear plants can be phased out in favour of those.

In the meantime however we need to get rid of coal and oil, because that’s where the overwhelmingly most emissions are.
> Isn’t this the whole point of using file descriptors?

Opening the same file multiple times will yield different fds, and the paths can be modified independently of the fd.

The goal here is to find if:

1. there are new input devices

2. which are joysticks (a category which, for SDL, includes gamepads, so basically "has the user plugged in a new gamepad they might want to use for the game")

How would keeping a bunch of fds around help?
It's not as dramatic but this is the same thing that happens when you have an automobile accident and need repairs. The cost to the insurance company is much higher than what you'd pay directly, but then you end up paying it through premiums with the added margin that goes to the insurance company. This is also a highly regulated market like healthcare, yet once again some of the most egregious behaviour is observed. The legislation in these industries reminds me of the jokes about central control on manufacturing by the USSR.
> They're not letting perfect be the enemy of good.

The best you can do sometimes, its just to be less bad.
If you can replace coal or diesel powered power plant into modern gas powered plant, you will emit a lot less CO2 for equivalent power.

Solar and wind are not enough jet. We need something that can produce electricity 24 hours a day, or on demand. The "greenest" such tech are nuclear and gas.

I have high hopes of geothermal, maybe replacing a lot of gas, but we are not there jet.
The point of the article is that you shouldn’t write only short sentences, not that all sentences should be long. Furthermore, there is a full paragraph made entirely of short sentences to prove a point; taking an average from the whole text is skewed information.
Same boat. Exercising my brain before sleep basically means I'll sleep very late because I just have to figure it out or figure out that I can't figure it out in a few hours. The author seems to possess some super human power to cool down whenever he wants, or he is super good with assembly.
I don't think we can trust these numbers

https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/re...

"The spread of projected and reported capital costs is unsurprisingly broad. In Australia the most recent public assessment is
provided by the GenCost2018 report by CSIRO and AEMO.10 It assumes the capital costs for SMR technology is $16,000/kW in
2020 (and experiences no major price decline over time). We note this number is more than double other cost estimates
worldwide. We have sought additional clarification on the basis for this costing. Initial advice is that the number is based on a
GHD estimate for AEMO of costs for a future Gen IV reactor to be constructed in 2035 and not for the type of reactor which
would most likely be deployed in Australia."

Anyhow, that 16k estimate is for power, not for energy... It's unclear over which timespans comparisons are being made (since a lot of it depends for how long power plants will be kept operational... A huge cost is the initial investment).

I've seen energy estimates as low as 30$ per MWh, for Nuclear energy plants built with interest rates of 3%
I've been spending my time wiring my house for ethernet. Sure, I could pay someone it would save me time and money but I've learnt a lot about my house and how to fix dry wall :-p. I've had to make 5 different Home Depot runs in the last two weeks cause I always discover something new.

I think a lot of us are type A, we can't sit still but also know our brains need to recoup and do something else. I tried to write some code but honestly I'd rather finish my ethernet project. Life is a marathon not a sprint. You gotta recharge sometimes and honestly you may learn something different that shapes how you think. Steve Jobs always said Calligraphy was the reason he thought about fonts on a GUI. Why the hell was he taking that class instead of hustling? :-p

It's completely wise. We aren't designed to just do one thing over and over. Life is so much more than building a SaaS or making money. You know we could go tomorrow right? Anything could happen and the future isn't guaranteed. Obviously, stay motivated and keep driving but sometimes you gotta replenish your gas tank and take care of your physical/mental health.