skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. And, if everyone is using the same blockchain for names (to get the universal login experience), then that becomes centralized source for user accounts. Compare that to today where I have distinctly separate accounts on nearly all platforms.
Changing the threshold without signaling the change in the type system is also a breaking change. It's just that your compiler won't warn you about it when you inevitably forget to update your code. Instead your code is going to break at runtime.
One difference that I notice that no one has mentioned yet is that Americans like to "go ahead" and do something.

Example: "So now I'm gonna go ahead and put the cake in the oven"
I don't necessarily mean a problem as a matter of taste, more a destruction of shared cultural values, in particular those that are good for "society" like a belief in the value of work, family unit, deeper concerns than material wealth (e.g. god/spirituality) etc at least in the west / America.
Would it be more appropriate to eat not-spicy chicken, or are you advocating for not eating meat at all?
What's secret here? Fourth-row buttons and prioritization on the Autovon (and other systems) is public knowledge. Sounds cool, but nothing to see here.
I use mint.com to consolidate all my financial details. But it is so buggy. Every time I access it seems to generate all stats from scratch, which means that it has no idea about accounts I have closed, renamed, moved etc.
http://www.plexoft.com/SBF/Autovon.html

That’s is apparently the guide.
There is no significant risk of surface transmission

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4
> In the simple past, the event is complete, whereas in the present perfect, the event is not, either because the event is ongoing, or because it maintains a specific relevance that means we are not looking from ‘outside’ the event as a completed whole.

This is an unusual viewpoint. The perfect aspect is so called for the fact that it indicates completion -- that is the literal meaning of "perfect". The fact that an action completed in the past may continue to be relevant in the present is not generally felt to indicate that such an action wasn't really completed.

> American English [...] does not normally require you to use the present perfect except for emphasis.

This just isn't true. The form in question is required to mark experiential aspect and it's also the only way of describing an action begun in the past that continues through the present ("I've been calling for 15 minutes").

Perfect forms are also required, as you note, when the speaker wishes to focus on a present situation related to an action taken in the past, as opposed to focusing on the past event itself. This is not rare.

And from the other direction, I'm not even aware that perfect forms can be used to provide emphasis.
This does seem to be the case. Pathogenic (or even nonpathogenic 'silent riders' with minimal effects) respiratory viruses exist in a wide variety of animal species, and it seems the main barrier to cross-species transmission is that the natural host's cell-surface receptor proteins are different enough from human cell-surface receptor proteins that transmission is blocked.

With all the modern biotech tools, it's now possible to swap out the cell-surface binding domain from any virus with one that matches a human cell-surface receptor protein, which is how the viral particle gains access to the cell's interior. Cellular interiors seem more highly conserved across species, i.e. it appears that once you breach the outer defenses, the rest of the viral package can replicate within the cell without being constrained so much by inter-species differences. The ribosomal machinery will build just about anything in other words.

Hence the 'gain-of-function' game, which proponents justify as 'finding the potentially dangerous mutations before they arise naturally' is just creating novel pathogenic viruses with a high chance of escape from the labs where they're being created. This kind of research was temporarily banned in 2014 in the USA, but then that ban was lifted in 2017, all with little public discussion.

A permanent international ban on this kind of research, including an inspection and monitoring regime, is likely the only long-term solution that will work.
I like that. I started playing by twiddling P(A). Since probabilities add to one, there are only three degrees of freedom. I got that the other two degrees, P(B|A) and P(B| not A) didn't move, why would they? By contrast P(A|B) and P(A| not B) in the other column did move - so far so good.

But P(B) just sat there. Puzzling. Then I realized that it starts at P(B|A) = P(B| not A) which is a special case.

An excellent philosophical toy :-)
It's this Matt Ridley, from "The Red Queen" fame. Immediate add to my list.
I think their point is that the leak has a plausible route - and whatever protections we would institute were that to have been true - we still should implement - precisely because they could have been true.

In many safety contexts, the strong possibility of an accident is often considered as the failure - not just the accident itself.
The amount of power they export peaked 2015-2018, at more than twice the previous record. Most of the nuclear plants were switched off before that. It is currently still above what they exported prior to the "nuclear exit". Please check data before drawing conclusions.

Data: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag...
You're not the customer
I use https://nimbletext.com/live to generate/convert commands from/to csv etc. It has been extremely useful for my regular work.
Because gTLDs were sold to the highest bidder; there’s no requirement for them to be sold for the good of humanity. For-profit companies like Verisign own .com and donuts owns a few hundred https://donuts.domains/what-we-do/top-level-domain-portfolio...
You can't downvote replies to you.
Am I sure that westward expansion in the 1800s really happened? A lot of people seems to quote a lot of stuff in HN while missing the pretty obvious big picture.

And you are making my point. If we wanted to shift back to carless society we could, others have.

We don’t. Because…
This hits home in so many levels.

I’ve built a shed for many of the reasons mentioned and it was such a rewarding and gratifying experience.

Just seeing that constant tangible progress and the primal feeling of building something that protects you from the elements felt strangely satisfying.

I documented the process in here.
https://eduardosasso.co/blog/how-i-built-a-wfh-shed/
I built a simple email API that I use frequently for notifications and reports. https://batsign.me
I was in the same boat this year. Forced myself to go there, as hard as it goes, just do it. Motivational speeches worked a bit for me.

The thing is, with sport, effects can be hard to notice. After 8 months I was like nah this is too slow. But still going there, I can feel that I am more powerful and I look firmer. My back is a lot more stable for long hours in front of a desk. Just don’t let your brain trick you into feeling its not working.

And don’t forget that anything thats done 21 days will make a habit. This rule saved me :D
Thanks. That’s like $0.45/kWh for US readers (very high, approximately the same as what Hawaiians pay for diesel electricity).
Gonna need L'Hopital's rule to calculate the cap rate here.

Zero value divided by zero income = MAGIC BEANZ
Further details of the Nationality and Borders Bill can be found here, including information about the right to appeal.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-and-b...
I am not sure. This is just a data point of 1.

I used to browse Instagram casually. Like, once is a blue moon. I would see updates from my network and spend a few mins here and there. This was probably like over year or two back. (not 100% sure)

And then a few months back I just could not take my eyes off of Instagram reels. This feature wasn't there before I think. I was just completely hooked. It was pretty interesting. I had to delete my instagram off of my phone.

They definitely are figuring out the formula to retain people's attention.

Again, this is just a data point of one.
I really enjoyed the debugging process here, and am glad to have learnt about the -k flag which seems to only be available on systems with strace version 5.5, at least for me.

As for the patch (and my love for all things Frida [1]), I think a call to Intercerptor.replace() after locating the symbol with Module.getExportByName() [2] would make for a simpler patch (at the cost of installing Frida). For example:

const sym = Module.getExportByName("lime.ndll", "SDL_SemWait");
Interceptor.replace(sym, {
onEnter: function() {},
onLeave: function() {}
});

[1] https://frida.re/

[2] https://frida.re/docs/javascript-api/#module
That's only the definition of "startup" because VCs keep pushing that definition. They hogged the term "startup" as they are trying to hog the term "web3" now. It doesn't need to be that way. Just keep pushing back.
Of course you can use a cable, but they are unreliable. They tend to break, corrode, get dirty, disappear, have incomparable ends(one side USB-A, the other one micro USB, lightning - whatever) that one of the devices don't accept.

They are also bulky and the transfer speeds are slow. Airdrop can transfer gigabytes of data in minutes, which is only possible with the latest wired interfaces that only the newest devices have and not all support file transfers.

iPhones tend to last 3-5 years or even more and iPhones from different generations can transfer each other files through AirDrop. Not everyone has the money to update their phone each year and many who can update think it's wasteful to do so that they can use the latest wired file transfer method.
I don’t really care about the assertion you’re trying to refute, but that’s the same US government that destroyed Iran’s centrifuges through software. You can’t really look at such a large organization and treat it as uniformly competent/incompetent when it clearly isn’t.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
> I want to be clear that of course there are many different accents in both the UK and in the US, and it’s not like there’s only one right pronunciation. But the differences that I’ll be talking about are quite general
That you have had an account for a long time, other than that I'd say essentially nothing.
Here in Argentina, in the 80s (at least) teaching British English was the norm… but probably most people end up with American spelling due to the internet, books, magazines, etc.
Germany has insanely high energy prices; it’s not a great point of comparison. In contrast, Norway is (was) a net exporter of cheap hydro power.
It absolutely is theatre, presence of RNA does not equate to presence of viable virus. Frankly it's naive to equate them, there is far more to a virus than just RNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4
I think this is very true even outside of crypto. As an extreme recent example, consider GameStop.

This problem is larger than crypto. It seems to be related to the accessibility of trading to "retail investors" (enabled by lower fees, new technology, monetary policy, etc.).
Unavailable from the EU.
People capable of building novel videogames are way rarer than people capable of doing CS research.
CS research is just a job. You can suck at it and still achieve something.

Novel videogames are rare.
I can count novel videogames with my hands.

They probably require development skills, luck, some unique set of experiences, lateral thinking and tons of willpower.
Emerging science on BMAA: Do cyanobacteria contribute to neurological disease?
I wouldn't bet on that. The u in colour is never pronounced, but neither is the o.[1] The spelling color is much more likely to be motivated by that being the Latin spelling of the word.

[1] I watched Star Trek: The Original Series recently and the cast's pronunciation of "sensors" with the FORCE vowel in the second syllable is really jarring. Do we know if that was an affectation or a natural pronunciation?
How do you figure that public blockchains provide a more pseudo anonymous experience than anything we use today?

I can go to a website today and register any name I want. The main thing that can break that is IP. How does a public blockchain solve the problem of routing a request to a device? How does consolidation of all user accounts to a single public ledger offer _more_ anonymity than exists today where I can have a random distinct account on any website I use?
I get the issue of making .dev public, what's the issue with requiring ssl certs beside it being unnecessary in some cases?
Source? What i see, is that it's blocking illegal things.
Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from asteroid Ryugu
How do you define money if not a medium for value transfer?

For the ultimate goal, I'd say that's wealth / power.
There’s nothing secret about this. The info is on Wikipedia. The “secret” is either a joke or clickbait. I’m going with a joke.
Thanks for the link, I think modern VR's paint is still fresh in everyone's mind (well... mine at least) and you brought a scientific article. I'm now wondering if the effects could be made beneficial for physical therapy.
Yeah, usually people who lack the executive function navigate the healthcare system. It’s like they have a lack of focus pathology, so they can’t get an ADHD diagnoses.

https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/168201153351/have-yo...
https://archive.is/VIzFv
I have friends who dropped out of college to play video games all day and that was years ago. The games today are even more addictive. They eventually learned that was a dead end and got their lives back on track but the addiction did active harm to their lives in the short run and cost them/their parents thousands of dollars for sure.

Edit: TBF this is a chicken/egg problem, people have been dropping out of school forever and maybe the video games were the outlet for their stress, but I don't think we can simply act like all is fine while making games targeting adolescents as addictive as possible.
The sleepless children of Leeds’ bed poverty crisis
As I said, I was talking about the A320. You get alpha floor protection which triggers TOGA thrust even with the autothrottle disabled. I would have hoped newer Boeings offered similar protections, the 737 always struck me as being super "analog" compared to the A320.
Conversion from signed to unsigned is implicit and silent. The expression being converted to your "can never be negative" type isn't nonnegative!!! Its value drastically changes; e.g. -3 becomes a huge number.
It’s a culture of a bs vc funded hype non-business. I’ll stick with my on boring “lifestyle” biz (I think that’s how they call businesses that make more than enough yearly to their founders).
Problem with these businesses is that they can only be small. When your niche becomes considerable enough to attract VC funding to your competitors - you are toast with that model. So probably you never get above ~$1M MRR, or even less. Which probably means an income of not over 2-3-4M per year to the founder, at best - but this is the amount you can (in Western countries) do by simply having a custom development team.
It has nothing to do with C or C++, rather OS support.
Why should we believe this biased source?

>Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

So he sees the data for non elderly people, because those are the people who have his company's plans. So he doesn't have the data to compare against to say elderly people aren't dying at higher rates because they aren't his customers
Where I live (Germany), the majority of deaths are non-car-occupants[0].

I'd also be interested to see the age-vs-death stats for the US split up by user group. In Germany, the pedestrians and cyclists most likely to die are over 75.

[0]: https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/germany-road-sa...

I think even in the US case, I would see it as unacceptable that somebody who doesn't take part in a risky practice (driving) is still exposed to the risk. The difference in likelyhood of death, after all, is not between a pedestrian and a driver, but between a pedestrian in a world with cars, and one without them.

In the US case, I think there's a stronger argument for cars simply because cities have been built around them, so switchover costs would be higher. There are also arguments for using cars for deliveries. On the other hand, using them for mass transport in dense urban areas is insane.
"...failures more often come down to a misjudgment of market need, growing too fast, and overly idealistic visions (all things, notably, that VCs encourage)"

So avoiding VC funding might drastically reduce failures? :-P. There are many opportunities for niche software and services, but most would never turn into the next unicorn. If you have a validated idea that has real potential and you are willing to take a huge risk, then by all means go for VC funding and talk to places like YC. This is what they are made for, and they are good at it. However, if your idea is part of the other 99%, there may still be real opportunity to create and build a successful small business. Just set your expectations appropriately.

I'm nobody special but have co-founded 2 small software companies in the past 8 years. Both provide much-needed niche software and services. Neither has taken any investment capital, and combined they employ about 30 people while paying above average wages.

If you really want to start a company, there are other paths, especially if becoming a millionaire isn't your primary motivation.
In this case the problem is more specifically the use of uint32_t. I never quite mentioned in the article that if you're going to use unsigned integers for this sort of thing to always use the native-word-size unsigned type, e.g size_t, if you actually change that to uint64_t (or size_t) the code generation is better as you can see here: https://godbolt.org/z/11nEz6EPT
I'm not arguing that it's "human nature". I'm arguing there's no such thing. I'm arguing that we are fundamentally decision-making agents.

> Equal starting conditions to start with

Equal conditions are not a prerequisite for liberty. They are in fact impossible to define and impossible to impose. You can be destitute and free, and you can be pampered and enslaved. The Darwinian nature of a free economic system isn't imposed, it's an emergent property of any system where scarce resources are competed for by living beings. As in any Darwinian system, the optimal behavior for the successful is to maximally exploit their success, to pull-up the ladder, so to speak.

Everything else you've said just betrays your religion: "Workers should be able to build houses". "Healthcare should be regulated so people can afford it". I don't think it's unreasonable to disagree here. In my religion, I'd prefer to die in agony rather than pry greedily into the pocket of an unwilling stranger. Why is your religion better than mine?
The spread of low brow culture might potentially come at the expense of traditional local cultures, but any cultural expansion means the creation of a new shared culture, no? In which case the issue then becomes what the values does this culture valorize.
Important: without silent conversion. Languages like Pascal and Ada require explicit conversions in more places to make that sort of thing useful.
It really depends on how significant the bill was before. Just for example, electricity is about 3% of my monthly mortgage. If it doubled, it would not substantially impact my budget.
That looks like part of it.

Randomly in threads there are also comments that don't have any vote toggles or can only be upvoted. Occasionally the ability to downvote everywhere is also removed.

I generally only vote on threads, but it's been a curious thing.
Towards what? The loss of individual agency and the creation of some kind of collective organism?

Maybe there will be a time for that, but I'm thinking that if we let it happen now, that organism will be an idiot.
We can play freely, invent new solutions and approaches without having the government test their safety, without having to get special approval by anybody.

I am aware of the bias of large companies that stops certain people from building, which is why I wrote play.
Just chiming in here as a Canadian to express my immense satisfaction with our public health care. I just got an appointment for a minor issue in less than 24 hours. We recently had a baby and got top shelf care at a new hospital, better than the San Diego hospital my friend just had a baby at. All of it was free. Except the parking. Friggen' parking, amirite.

This case clearly has basically nothing to do with public 'health care' this is clearly political and health research related.
There's nothing specifically about caching in the Books API ToS (compared to, say, the Maps API which has restrictions) so it's likely covered by the general policy:

https://developers.google.com/terms#e_prohibitions_on_conten...

Short short version: you can only cache the responses for as long as the headers say you should
While tempting, you can’t generally fix this by simply patching close() with some function that converts it to an unchecked asynchronous operation. If that were the case, you could just do that in the kernel. Close() is expected to complete synchronously. This matters because posix guarantees that open()/pipe() etc. will return the lowest file descriptor not in use[1]. I.e. this should work:

close(0);
fd = open(“/foo/bar”, …);
// fd is guaranteed to be 0

If you made close() just dispatch an asynchronous operation and not wait on the result, then the code above would break. Any code that uses dup() likely has code that expects close() to behave that way.

The other issue is that close() can return errors. Most applications ignore close errors but to be a robust solution you’d need to ensure the target application ignores those errors as well.

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V...
And why also limit to that? What if I have a function that accepts values in the range [0, 100]? Make a type to express that? What if I have a function that takes only positive integers (i.e. unsigned integers minus 0)? Chances are that you should anyway validate your input. Also what if you have a function that takes an unsigned and a signed is passed? On most situations you only get a warning (or not even that) and it's passed a completely wrong input to the function. Isn't better to take an int and validate it before doing anything with that?

You see, doesn't make a lot of sense to distinguish between positive and negative in the end. From a mathematical point of view negative integers have the same dignity of positive integers since a couple of centuries. The same operations that apply on positive integers apply on negative integers, and not only that, an operation between two positive integers can as well result in a negative integer!

The unsigned type was created just to have one more bit if you *are sure* you have only positive integers. That could had a sense in the era of 8/16 computers. Nowadays that we have 32 or 64 bit computers does really that extra bit count that much? I don't think so... 2 billions is plenty enough for most usages.
If you were using .dev locally before then you almost certainly didn’t have TLS, since it’s usually local testing.

By making TLS mandatory you not only break local dev environments (that use that TLD which maybe have a legitimate domain outside of your network) you also make it so that it’s not even possible to run locally unless you do a lot of CA trickery to get a legit looking TLS cert.

My personal opinion was that this was a good move, as it forced developers to stop using .dev as soon as it was being used on the global internet- which avoided a lot of really awkward and annoying dual-home misconfigurations.