skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The majority ruled that the Freedom of the Press clause of the First Amendment protects associations of individuals in addition to individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker. Corporations, as associations of individuals, therefore have free speech rights under the First Amendment. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Nice. That's a good starting point for porting all the existing scripts to support both ipv4 and ipv6.
Not sure they have to. Gjsman affirmed their right to freedom (they CAN), but would prefer that they exercised that freedom in a certain way (they SHOULD).

Believe it or not, government regulations don't have to be the solution to every little thing.

See saurik's comment below for more.
> // But it also even has an explicit n * m form as well.
> make([]Object, n, m);

make([]T, m, n) does not allocate a slice of length n*m, but of length n and capacity m.
> But all kinds of exercise bore me to tears and there's always something more interesting for me to be doing.

Oh so this.

I try to do activeish things: walk places, stand up desk, water/snow ski, walks with wife to catch up on the day.

But I just have no staying power when it comes to repetitive motion to build up a sweat. I’ve tried swimming (I love to swim), treadmill/elliptical (I like to walk!), spinning (because I like to ride a bike), but it just does not last. I always grow to resent the time lost to doing other things, even if the “other things” are lazy pursuits.
> If nothing else happens taxes increase by 100%, and people need to acquire more USD which drives the value of the currency up.

Oh definitely. I did not mean to imply that taxation in USD does not have a modulating effect (and if I came across that way, I apologize). I'm just trying to say that you can have some pretty wide swings even with that.

> but there is a reason you don’t see huge swings without the government printing money.

You don't generally see it, no. Mostly because other countries use the dollar as a store of wealth, and they don't want to tank the value that they've squirreled away. I'm bringing it up as a hypothetical with the same likelihood as a 50 + 1 attack on bitcoin.

China, for example, seems to hold ~2 trillion in USD (~60% of 3.5% trillion total reserves).[0] I assume most of this is held as digital assets, as there's only ~2 trillion physical dollars in circulation.[1] Dumping that much on the market would cause some pretty wacky inflation (as well as destroy China's stability). In a similar vein a 50 + 1 attack on bitcoin would allow an actor to give themselves all of the bitcoins, but would also destroy the value of those bitcoins because nobody is going to trust the network after that.

Both of these attacks are really only useful if you value hurting other actors more than you value your own resources/your own sense of self-preservation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves_of_C...
[1]: https://www.uscurrency.gov/life-cycle/data/circulation
If this sort of thing interests you, two blogs and a book:

https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/

https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/

https://bookshop.org/books/the-prodigal-tongue-the-love-hate-relationship-between-american-and-british-english/9780143131106
I have tried having a normal discussion, which is not something I can say for you. To see this, it's enough to check what was initially posted:

"...Germany's current plan where you're decommissioning nuclear to become more "green" yet producing much more carbon dioxide."

It says clearly "decommissioning nuclear, YET producing MORE carbon dioxide". It's not true, and there's no other way around it. I posted an explicit response to this wrong post because I have seen it many times (and unfortunately I am repeating myself here). A lot of pro nuclear people are shaking their heads in dismay because the CO2 numbers in Germany are going up. They are not! I have literally had this very same discussion three weeks ago somewhere else with another person that does not check data.

How you then managed to spin it into a comparison to a fictional parallel universe where the plants are still on and concluded that a decrease is actually an increase I don't know. But it's enough for me for today.
Which standard library?
There are many gems in that speech, but I took the excerpt that was more relevant as a reply. I am not militaristic but I do believe that discipline makes your life better.
She’s only elected to be a legislator in the House of Representatives. It’s not like she has a license to kill. That ought to have nothing to do with anything else, including her privileges on any random website.
> Anyway, nuclear is never included in the "renewable" bucket, because the fuel has to be harvested and doesn't renew on a human timescale.

You can make the case that it does - if you count uranium in seawater. Theres enough dissolved there now to fuel all the reactors on earth for 60,000 years. Geological processes continually replenish the dissolved uranium.
If you’re trying to ‘do the math’ one thing you might consider is that any excess heat from the rig can be recycled in the house.
The bigger problem is that it appears that the dealerships have just done a big bait and switch, customers already preordered and if my research was correct - they basically said F* you to the customers that already pre ordered and said if you want it now - you have to pay more - or you lose your deposit.

this video sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pil6tB6MPws
There's hope this will change :-)
> If social media is going to be the default communication medium

I don't think this is really true. Most people in the US don't use Twitter. Not to mention that many users are following entertainment based users or aren't fully consuming posts by those they follow.

Twitter is just an additional stream/supplement to town halls, email lists, websites, news coverage, etc.
UK english: pants == underwear

US english: pants == trousers
Doesn't seem that is unbelievable at all to me. Instead I think it just highlights how humans can discount the severity of something when it moves slowly and continues for years.

Remember the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 that was a major catastrophe around the world? According to a Google search it killed 227,898 people. Last I checked Covid had killed about 5.5 million, which is worse that every single war since WWII.

Of course, I think it's very fair to say the devastation from a war is much worse than Covid (a war destroys infrastructure and primarily kills the young), but from a pure "number of deaths" perspective I think most people have a huge difficulty comprehending the severity of the pandemic.
Even if you only use excess energy for your own personal mining, the only way it has any value is if the rest of the network is running and mining.

In the end, whether you're disconnected or not, there's one market connecting everything and if incentives decide it, business (in general) and here electricity specifically will flow across whatever boundaries you've set.
Linearity and Uniqueness: An Entente Cordiale [pdf]
For me, the main reason to prefer unsigned integers whenever possible is: less special cases.

When a signed integer is used as an array index, the value can be in one of three ranges: the <0 range, the >=0 && <size range, and the >=size range. To validate the index, you need two comparisons. When an unsigned integer is used as an array index, there are only two ranges: the <size range, and the >=size range, and you need only a single comparison.

And that's not the worst situation with signed integers. From a more general point of view, there are four "classes" of signed integer: positive (>0), zero, negative (<0), and INT_MIN. Everybody tends to forget about that last one, but it's "special" in that it can break things in unexpected ways. Negating it doesn't work (you'd expect negating any number less than zero to result in a number greater than zero, but for INT_MIN that doesn't happen). Dividing it can trap (see for instance https://kqueue.org/blog/2012/12/31/idiv-dos/ which has a couple of examples) or worse.

With unsigned integers, there are only two "classes", zero and non-zero, and it's common to not even need special treatment for zero, reducing the whole thing to a single "class" of values.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is entitled to create her own Twitter. Not to use someone else’s Twitter.
We're like children building our own electrical outlets without a parent to stop us from sticking a fork in them.
Streisand effect only helps them in this case. They don't care about the content of the message or changing minds. They care about the message being tied to twitter and the damage to their brand.
Huh? Personally, as an EU citizen, I like the laws, and feel like they benefit me.
I agree on the effectiveness of DHM. But it should probably have been covered by Hovenia dulcis Thunb. Which it is commonly extracted from.
I think these numbers are so extreme as to invite skepticism.

Too often (omicron is 72% of cases) unbelievable numbers are, in fact, not to be believed.
This is the issue with using mailing lists... Large numbers of perfectly good fixes, embodying many hours of effort, just get missed and forgotten about.

At least with GitHub PR's, every request either needs to be merged or rejected.
Just because Twitter has the right to do something doesn't make it right for them to do it. And that they have the right to do it also doesn't mean that people shouldn't be angry at them for having done it, or use their right to call them out for it. Twitter shouldn't be doing this stuff. You totally can defend their right to do it while damning their actually doing it... but that isn't what you are doing as the person you are arguing with didn't even claim they shouldn't be allowed to do it: they merely said they shouldn't do it.
Got it, that's not a space I'm very active in but have you checked trade associations? That may be a way to cut across state/city lines quickly and it would be good to understand their stances because they do hire professional lobbyists at the city/state and I'm pretty sure federal level (met one from a roofing association socially)
I recently bought a Fitbit to measure my workouts in FitBod (wonderful workout app btw). 1.5 hours of weights was about 650 calories, leaving me feeling rather chuffed.

Then I took my dog for a four mile walk, resulting in an additional 630 calories.

I got humbled by my dog.
Building the fastest object and array differ
> somebody who exercises 30 minutes 6 days a week is better off than someone who exercises once for 3 hours.

My experience here is that it is more subtle. "Better off" depends on your goals.

For losing weight, one or two sessions of 75-90 minutes or longer per week seem to have much more effect for me than 30 minutes every day. (Borne out over years of trying different things; I'm in my 50s.) For increasing my VO2max, 25-30 minutes of aerobic exercise every single day for weeks on end worked well, but it was hard to maintain that discipline long term. (I was very surprised at the effect of every day, as opposed to, say, 4-5 days a week. It seemed like I was getting a lot more than an extra 50-75% benefit.)
I had this exact problem, and then Beat Saber happened to me.

Not only is it the Tetris of VR, it also gives you a pretty good workout if you play on Expert or higher.
I specifically asked you to not rely on grainy satellite image speculation, yet you proceed to rely on grainy satellite image speculation.

There are countless reasons why a building might be there one day and look differently a while later. Renovation, relocation, temporary decoration, disaster, weather, different time of day/year, different camera, different postprocessing, etc. Maybe a mosque even was used as a training site for violent extremists and was transformed/demolished for that reason. Maybe one photo is doctored. Maybe PRC is populated and ruled by comic book villains that do Wicked Evil Stuff for no discernable reason.

Scrutiny is required.

Yet ideologues act as if "genocide" is the only possible answer. Unspeakably deranged.

Ironically, this propaganda campaign makes it easy to understand how Nazi Germany could get to the point of industrial genocide. Because it turns out the people are eager to believe deranged, racist, hateful conspiracy theories about the "enemy", in this case the Chinese Communists, as long as the mass media plays along.

On an unrelated note, anti-Asian hate crimes are way up in America.

Little Eichmanns.
Look at the profit margin. Anything bigger than 60% percent can be attacked.
Also, I am referring to software startup where there is no advantage to economy of scale, and the marginal cost is zero.
I think downvoting is a crucial tool in preventing echo chambers.

I get the “encouraging engagement” but sometimes it’s not worth engaging trolls and comments should get buried, not responded to.

I wonder if facebook eliminating the thumbs down contributed any toxicity in that platform.
Buying and using less is not an option in our consumerism-centric world.
Companies want to always sell you more, not less. So they are just adapting their products to be or appear more “sustainable”, however it fits their business, in order to keep selling more of the same stuff.
Thank you for calling that out. I was going to say something about that, and budget say 10% to switching regulators. With car-scale charging systems I just didn't have enough data to ballpark efficiency.
I’ve found that Amazon’s TTS service is a great way to listen to any kindle book (including ones borrowed from the library). I don’t have any Alexa devices, but I downloaded the Alexa app and use it to read books aloud as do other things.

The main annoyance is that when resuming a book, it often restarts a couple minutes before I left off.
> And no, nothing in the real world is like this

Retail FOREX is pretty similar. It's a zero sum game with broker's fees, plus you're playing the game with a lot of very experienced, very well funded institutional investors.

I think crypto has basically eaten any interest in retail FOREX, but a few years back it was gaining some traction and I was amazed at how many people were playing a (typically highly leveraged) game that was clearly not in their advantage.
I think it was to increase friction of resellers installing shady 3rd party ROMs right away. If I remember right, waiting period was implemented after drama with resellers loading ROMs with spyware a few years ago. Maybe thinking is big sellers won't hoard stock for multiple weeks. My understanding is vendors that offer unlock actually opens the phone and starts the unlock countdown first and repackages after. I don't think there's any official endorsement/support for it.
This is great to see. Very nicely documented project and a fantastic result. Encouraging to see people with little past experience doing projects like this. I’m in the process of planning a self-build cabin in the woods, so also diving into YouTube to learn all of the requisite skills.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if a company suspends a member of the government who has a budget and staff for PR as a function of serving as a member of that government, then that person has not in any meaningful way been censored by the government. This is not the poster case for trying to prove tech has too much power. There's a long list of marginalized people suspended for no good reason who don't get to whine about it on C-SPAN or through their press office.
>> My utopian hope for the future is that we start sending rigs in orbit close to the sun.

Dyson spheres and stellar engineering to power cryptocurrency mining rigs.

I shudder at the thought.
A vote for Crawford as well. His Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work is a gem.
Adoption of forks depends on public adoption. Let's call this common consensus.
Classical law is just the public deciding which set of rules leads to a healthy society, these laws are then adpptedby societal structures. Let's call this... Hmm common consensus?
You are seeing differences where there aren't any.
We all know the answer is greed.
Nice to know it works down to -21F. Is there a better lube for keeping lock tumblers free of water and lubricated down to -40F? Teflon based?
I've had to chop up the quote to point out the exact part I take issue with. The entire quote is a comparison of age groups, of which he does not appear to have data for.

Also as others have mentioned, this part may have been added by the reporter who definitely doesn't cite Amy source for the comparison. Either option equates to poor reporting.
You are _way_ overstating your case.

For those who are not familiar with C++, the past ~12 years have seen _massive_ changes to the language, the standard library and the surrounding ecosystem. Yes, old programs still run, but they are simply not what you would write today nor how you would write today.

In fact, the C++20 changes are so significant that it will take years for developers to even transition to utilizing them, like it took years for C++11 to be more-or-less widely adopted.
Bluetooth to start the handshake than a protected adhoc WiFI network between the two devices.
There's funeral directors on youtube and bitchute that say their workload has increased 5x and the deaths are all heart related.
Ironically enough the last tweet I saw from her was promoting the idea that people who move from blue states to red should have to wait for 2 years before they're allowed to vote. You can't see her tweets any more since she's been kicked off* but this story adequately summarizes them - I picked a conservative news outlet to avoid the possibility of unfavorable media bias.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/29/rep-greene-suggests-a-national...

* It's really stupid that Twitter makes old tweets invisible. First they're easily accessible by other means to technically savvy people via archive.org or whatever, so this just throws barriers in the way of the least technically educated. Second, it fosters paranoia and mistrust because conversations about the tweets begin to resemble rumors rather than fact.
Ask HN: Where to learn about computer science and software engineering history?
I'm a CS major who has started to be interested in Computer Science and Software Engineering's history.

The reason is that I would like to make a show like Extra Credits on YouTube but specific to tech. The goal is to tell the history of Computer Science and Software Engineering through drawings because I also have drawing skills.

What would be good ressources for learning more on the topic? What do you recommend?

Thanks in advance :)
No byline. No sources. Bad article.

The article appears to attribute all accidental poisoning to fentanyl. That seems like an error.
I don't really see how the needed monitoring would be more interesting than fully driving the car, maybe with a few convenience and safety assistances. Planes can use autopilots because there are not litteraly surounded by traffics 2m away. If a car needs monitoring, and they will probably need it for a very long time, you should as well drive it.
The anti-vaccination people don’t need facts, so anything that creates FUD works for them.

I live in a protest corridor, and the “freedom lovers” were demanding that we sacrifice the weak and old so that they could enjoy not getting a vaccine. It’s a gross type of mental illness.
> start sending rigs in orbit close to the sun

The 16-minute round-trip delay would wipe out any energy benefits, for bitcoin. Maybe you could come up with a consensus mechanism which allows people to somehow amortize recent calculations, though.
I started to do this recently. It is amazing how motivated I am to walk/run because I want to know whats next in the book.
It does seem to me like the author doesn't expect to sell many more licenses and perhaps wants to wind down his work on it. This can definitely endanger a project (especially previously a one man show, bus factor and all). But instead of a fairly certain death, they have chosen to give the community a chance to keep working on it, which can succeed and help make Nebulosity the de-facto standard in its category.
Absolutely agree. I see anecdotal evidence of this everywhere. Its most noticicble with people who spend a lot of time "online" browsing placing like twitter, reddit, and tiktok (or even older folks who watch too much "mainstream" cable tv news). They tend to hold derivative and thoughtless "stock" worldviews that are clearly directly borrowed from the feed they subscribe to and not a result of deciding for themselves how they think things based on their lived experiences or research. This is as much a "liberal" problem (e.g. Capitalism is bad) as it is a "conservative" one (e.g. Universal healthcare is communism).

A particularly striking example for me recently was when I happened to compare the content on my TikTok feed to the content on my 60 year old parents. There were completely different sets of propaganda being peddled to both of us that were essentially incompatible with each other.

We are all drowning in so much propaganda on these platforms its almost impossible to separate fact from fiction or to find a perspective that has the proper level of nuance. Its no wonder everyone is so divided.
Stuff I Learnt in 2021
> they would be subject to action by Twitter under its own stated policies

When people say "hang the rich" on Twitter do you see them getting banned? Twitter specifically says they do not accept appeal to violence, but in reality they only censor the language they don't agree with.
That's the problem of the other country to defend its citizens.
Imperfect data is still useful for understanding the world, is it not? To use your example: I'm not completely sure that Shotspotter reports are 100% accurate, but I'd be hesitant to move to a neighborhood that was reported to have a steady burst of gunshots, wouldn't you?

In fact, speaking on data, couldn't we say that almost all data is imperfect to some extent? Isn't this especially true of Covid-related data?
Pandemics are defined by "excess deaths" so nothing really surprising here.
I don't think history has proved the Streisand Effect materializes here. When Twitter and others deplatformed Trump after January 6, his direct lines to his followers were dissolved. He had a subscription email or something that was a failure. I think he's trying to launch a social network soon. He has never managed to get as big of microphone as he had before.
Haha, I'm just linking this comment every time the issue comes up.

One of my app ideas was to make it so you can have that "graph" for every issue, and then instead of rehashing the same debate every time, you just tell people to find where their argument is in the graph, and they can link it or improve what's there.
It would take decades just to recoup the equipment costs. It currently takes about 12-18 months to recoup the equipment costs ignoring electricity costs This assumes running the miners 24/7. If you only run your equipment a few hours a day in the summer months when your excess solar power is most abundant, then a decade feels about right.
This isn't cancel culture. She violated Twitter's TOS and her account was suspended.

edit: one of two accounts. Her personal account, not her official account.
Started bike commute in late July. Solid 5h per week. I'm 40, was in very sad shape internally.. this revived me quite a lot. Also saves time and money. If you have safe bike lanes I encourage anybody to try.. (and I use a busted 90s bike bought 2nd hand for 50$).
Inconvenient to whom? It’s pretty inconvenient not to do that if you eg have strict memory/performance requirements.

C made the right tradeoff IMO. You can protect yourself against overflow if you need to, but if it always signals errors you can’t turn that off.
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