skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH I think this is pure laziness.

I looked at OpenSubdiv extensively. There are no good reasons to use signed in the cases I opened the ticket for and making sure the code inside the lib does the right thing with unsigned arithmetic is trivial.

But someone still needs to do that and writing that "Google (essentially) says you don't need to" in their style guide is much less work. ;-)
I Ruined an Innocent Truck Stop Employee's Day (2013)
And similarly to DF it's also getting a more accessible Steam version (Space Station 14 as well as Unitystation) to make it easier to start playing it.

In my play experience SS13 wins out in terms of funny stories and variety, mainly because the speed of development is so much faster (especially on big servers like tg), it being multiplayer and there existing many spin-off forks from the usual space station gameplay.
Not so sure that's quite it. Having reflected on this a great deal over the years, I would say that many of Wittenstein's insights about language and life are more closely expressed as Tathata. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tath%C4%81t%C4%81]
However, SARS-CoV-2 RNA has been found on environmental surfaces in hospital rooms, quarantine rooms, and other community settings, implying that the surfaces can become contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 despite few studies being able to culture live viruses.46,52,79-82 Additionally, new variants with potentially greater transmissibility continue to emerge, and they may behave differently on surfaces than the strains that have been studied to date

So yes, there is a reason to do what you say is "theatre"
Additionally: can you make cryptocurrency transactions offline? In my opinion that is a crucial part of the "digital cash" idea. I don't know the technical details so it would be nice if someone more knowledgeable could answer.

I'll even throw in a scenario that I've encountered: the card readers in a store aren't working, because there is a connection issue. Instead of using cash in my literal physical wallet, I'd like to pay with my digital wallet. Can I conduct my transaction offline with the store?
Pleasantly surprised to find an intelligent and thoughtful description of Italian comic opera on the front page. I find much to agree with much of the author's thoughts, possibly because of our shared reading of critics like Tovey and Rosen. Opera has always been the most (and at times, the only) popular genre of Western literate music, and its absurdities are also legendary. Charles Rosen gave a very good summary of the spectacle of opera in the nyrb titled "The ridiculous & sublime"[1], and I recommend it for those who cannot understand how people can become obsessed by something so patently silly.

The reputation of Mozart's three Da Ponte operas, along with The Magic Flute, are uniformly high and any ranking would come down to personal preference. Speaking as someone who is decidedly not an opera buff, it's the ostentatiously showy parts (the fugal exposition and chorale prelude pastiche in the magic flute; the three orchestras playing dances in different meters simultaneously in Don Giovanni; and of course the marvelous ensemble numbers which make up the act finales) which attracts me to Mozart operas. These displays of compositional virtuosity are sadly lacking in his Italian successors.

Some devotees of pure instrumental music may occasionally sneer at comic opera and consider it frivolous. This is undeserved since the rhythms of comic opera underly the classical style of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The remarkable thing isn't that Mozart wrote great Italian comic operas as a German, but that he wrote much of his pure instrumental music as if they were comic opera.

[1]https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/04/22/the-ridiculous-s...
If my intent is that a certain integer should never be negative, labelling it unsigned does a poor job at conveying this intent because any arithmetic just silently does the wrong thing. 3-4 is some huge number rather than “error”.
> The problem here is the profit motive: people who are working on web3 generally want to get paid for it, but it's fundamentally harder to extract rent from truly decentralized systems than it is from centralized ones. Because of that, people end up building systems that are centralized at their core, with some aesthetics of decentralization smeared on top, and call it web3.

There are a lot of dumb thoughts about web3 on HN; this is a valid criticism and it doesn't so obtusely assume that because web3 is new, it has grifters, and it has broken promises, that every issue arising from it is somehow unsolvable.
Not going to happen. HN is immutable. Perhaps they lost the source code and right now Paul Graham is doing maintenance using a disassembler and a hex editor.
We don’t think is a good long term business model (with the obvious path of functionality moving to the client).
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My feelings exactly. I'm also frustrated and disappointed with how discussions always end up stuck on the same tried and well-hashed points.

I don't want a "pro-crypto" echo chamber, but I also don't want what hn devolves into whenever these topics are brought up.

If you manage to find this reasonable place, please, please post it here as reply to your comment. I've favorited your comment and will check any replies to it for a month or two.

What a pity :(
> * Accelerating inflation perhaps leading high single digits low double digits in the next several years.

Didn't the US inflation rate went up to around 6% during 2021? Even though that's quite the hike, I wouldn't classify 6% or even 7% as "high single digits/low double digits", unless the definition of "high single digits" is now "greater than 5%"

> * Stocks continue to rise as a function of inflation.

The S&P500 continued to grow constantly as it has been doing for the past decade.

> * Full self drivering cars are no closer.

Is this really a prediction?

> * Reddit continues to decline in quality but no clear alternative emerges.

Is reddit really in decline, though? Doesn't seem like it. In fact, arguably things improved a lot in the past year.

> * Large chance of abnormal oil price volatility.

Does this actually mean anything? Also, there was a price drop at the start of the year due to a drop in demand (lockdowns and all) and since then price returned to the same point it was last year. Doesn't sound like it's either abnormal or volatile.
You are on a forum that is literally owned by an investment firm. Do you think they invest because of the good of their hearts, or as some kind of charity, or because of "the technology"?

Investments happen because people want to make money, end of story. Not to help other people, because that is called charity.

BUT, that doesn't mean that investing is all about scamming people. It is clear at this point that the best investments are the ones that provide actual value to a lot of people.

To conclude: most things are about money, but that doesn't invalidate the value behind it.

And just like the OP, I agree that on HN these discussions always end up nowhere.

"It's all about money, not technology", and when you talk about technology:
"It's technology looking for a problem", and then you talk about use-cases: "A centralized system is more efficient".
Oregon Tilth was a certification for sustainable farming when I was growing up in PNW, though I can’t attest it’s “strictly” enough or not on the topic.

Biodynamic is an unregulated label that is often meant to imply this, but of course offers zero guarantees. Usually it comes with a “tour the farm” level of visibility into processes, which is a nice upside. Often coincides with “dry-farmed” and/or “trap cropping” practices, two labels that indicate material benefits to crop quality independent of the biodynamic label.
2022 or an adjacent year is one we'll refer back to a lot. It is basically our last chance at reducing the pace of climate change. Either we make policy decisions this year or we continue to argue if we should do option A or B and it's just going to be too little too late. I fear/"predict" 2022 is going to be the year of more debate and few decisions or actions (see also today's thread about nuclear and gas being "green" or not -- that's not the point, the point is stopping emissions).
Are these physicists working with or for Microsoft?

To the best of my primitive mind, am I correct in understanding their theory is the laws of physics in the universe are permanently changing over time, and because we are within this universe of constantly changing laws, we do not have the perspective to observe these changes or recreate them in a mathematical model?
API contracts aside, signed indices do have a major benefit: https://godbolt.org/z/q4eTdPdcd
Could you list some of the downsides & compromises in the case I made?
"seems very complicated", so you think it will fail and believe it strongly enough to write it on HN. We'll see, but you seem like a glass is half empty kind of guy. Must be sad.
Russia invaded Ukraine using Belarusian proxy army. Then later arrives as peace keeping force officially.

The Samson option becomes more widely known and talked about in mainstream media. Tensions between Iran and Israel continue to sour. Escalation to targeted assassination of political leaders.

Pandemic ends in Europe as omicron fears overblown and public no longer fears illness after getting it.

Alien disclosure.
The promised treatments made possible by mRNA technology that powers many Covid vaccines will not be reified.

Silent trade war between EU and China to maintain trade balance despite soaring energy prices.

Public opinion will shift on Natural gas and Nuclear energy as green energy.
Cogeneration (combined heat and power), probably. Lots of city heating runs on coal CHP currently, with district heating systems.
My perspective: I don’t see bitcoin replacing fiat anytime soon, so for day-to-day transactions, cash works all good! No need to replace it completely. They can coexist.

In the scenario you mention, I’d just reach for cash.

However, as a protocol for payments/value in the digital world, it’s very compelling.
Ask HN: Why does a busy man build a shed?
This is the time of year for pondering and learning. I am pondering why during 10 years of helping grow/maintain a busy Saas infrastructure I spent a great deal of my free time building two sheds in my garden. They have been a place to deal with stress, an office, and now a place to hangout. So why does someone create work for themself when they are already busy and is this wise?
The human body produces many things that are toxic if ingested.

Top of my head:

* Carbon dioxide - albeit just to get rid of, but it does make it :D

* Hydrochloric acid

* Hydrogen peroxide

* Ammonia

* Formaldehyde

Then of course the human body creates pyrogens to fight off illness, even if they literally cook your sugar creating brain :D
The concept of "collecting royalties" requires a legal infrastructure backed by a state's monopoly on force. Nothing about web3, as I understand it, will require someone to pay me in money that I can spend. People can still copy and redistribute my content (ie this post) and profit from it in various ways. The concept of a blockchain does nothing to prevent this.
> Did any of your translation work involve anime or video game?

No. I translated a wide variety of texts for many different clients, but I was never asked to do any anime, manga, or video games. Not being into those things myself, I didn’t seek that kind of work, either.

I knew quite a few other professional Japanese-to-English translators in the 1990s, and only a couple were doing otaku stuff. I wrote a bit more about this at [1].

> How did you fare after the bubble economy burst in the 90s?

No effect. After the bubble burst, I realized that some of the work I had done in the late 1980s had indeed been “bubbly”—fluffy PR materials for purely domestic companies that had no need for PR in English but were spending their borrowed money on things they didn’t need. But when those jobs disappeared, other work arrived to fill their places. I had as much work as I could handle pretty much continuously until 2005, when I took an academic position.

I knew only one freelance translator who left the business because of the burst bubble. He had been working mainly for real estate developers, and real estate was the sector hardest hit by the downturn. Rather than trying to build up a new slate of clients in another field, he changed careers.

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me privately. My profile page contains the URL of my website; see the About page.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29576575
Example of sounds that are very useful:

- device connected

- device disconnected
This is really neat. We have some Kafka transformation/deduplication use-cases that we can leverage this on.

Thanks for sharing!
This makes me think of tabletop games, where so many games, even ones supposedly made to fit a certain genre, are so obviously derived from a Dungeons & Dragons perspective that it's clear the writer hasn't ever even considered a different kind of game.

One such category is games with elaborate money-tracking systems... that are based on properties that rarely if ever care about money. Most Star Wars tabletop RPGs fall into this group.
Medicine is the only profession that seems to have its own specialized "coding and billing" co-professions with schools around the country that train only "medical code and billing" to their pupils.

Any other business in the country would just have products / services and prices without any of these games.

Had the same experience as you, FWIW.
While the landing page looks nice, I can't help wondering: Where do my data go? Are they encrypted on disk? Will they be shared with others? Is it free (gratis), or what is the pricing?

Also: “© 2021 Futureland Computer Entertainment, Inc.” — is it a toy/game or a tool?

I need much more information before I follow through with the “Join Futureland” button.
Nowadays I use TinyWall[1] on Windows. A simple firewall with a whitelist and some convenience functions.

[1] https://tinywall.pados.hu/
Seems like this was infact the case:
"Our investigation has since found that some of these security alerts, which were sent to a limited subset of LastPass users, were likely triggered in error. As a result, we have adjusted our security alert systems and this issue has since been resolved."
Hm, interesting idea. I Have a lot of projects on the go and my vow for this year is not to start new ones until the ones that are in progress are done. But I've renovated 4 houses and built one from the foundation up so there is a ton of experience accumulated that might be useful to someone else.

This is a major project though, probably book sized by the time it is done.

Agreed that Youtube videos are not the right medium for this (they aren't for lots of stuff that is on youtube).
I think that depends on what you count as “disaster”. Some stuff is certainly baked in, but we might yet be able to stop short of what I think of as a disaster.

I’m not certain we will — problem and solution are both exponential — but I certainly think it’s plausible.
Tangentially related:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/680467/ex...

Had Microsoft used an unsigned int to store the date - which can't ever be negative in this
notation - Exchange wouldn't have stopped working worldwide on 1/1/2022. They would have been safe for another two decades, in which they would hopefully had either gotten rid of that weird code or switched it over to 64 bits.
I think you meant extradited rather than deported, for his transfer from Georgian custody to the US. He was subsequently deported from the US after pleading guilty and being sentenced.
Resource consumption does matter though. For example CPU caches or the quantity of RAM within a system. If their workset does fit within 32 bits of index the intentional design choice very likely correlates to a measurable improvement in speed due to cache locality and system resource utilization.
ELI5 WTF is going on here?
> But let’s come back to English and talk a little bit more about those rs. Not all r’s are silent in British English. You keep them at the beginning of words, right?, but you also keep them between two vowels. For example, wherever, in American English has two rs in British English you drop the one at the end but keep the one in the middle.

This isn't really correct. British English (of at least one prestige variety) requires an R to appear between consecutive vowels. ("Intrusive R".) So it's not that the word has an R in it that's preserved by the local phonological context when it might otherwise have disappeared. It's more that the word really has no R, because there is no such thing as a syllable-final R, but an R is generated anyway by the local phonological context. I met a Brit who refused to believe that Americans could pronounce the phrase "law and order" instead of the obligatory "law rand order".
Conditioning and reinforcement are well-studied in human and animal behavior. I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals or wondering if it works, when there is a large body of work you can consult.
Having written a CPU emulator [1], I don't thunk it would have been of much use. The Intel CPUs typically don't set the flags on a MOV, but Motorola CPUs typically do.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mc6809
However Germani is producing < 6% of power from gas even if the capacity is already much bigger. (heating is other story)

> But this decision was taken by the European Commission, a group that's not elected.

The members of European Commission are proposed by their member state governments, one from each. Do you elect directly minister or most of the posts in government?

Commission and Council are appointed by national governments while only European Parliament is directly elected by citizens. Reason for this is that no national government want to lose the power.

[1]: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE
Having the subways be the appropriate depth under the surface would be amazing, it's probably surprising how deep some subway stations go under ground...
Some people's preferred pronouns might not necessarily match what others might pick to refer to them with on their own. For example, in my social circle a few AFAB friends prefer the "he/him" pronouns which might not be immediately obvious to others.

Normalizing putting our pronouns next to our names seems like a good way to approach this, without needing to explicitly ask others, or make them correct you, which seems nice, as it is pretty much effortless to do.

I wouldn't call it weird, just something that takes getting a bit of used to, but addresses shortcomings in the language. Much like how the Mrs. and Ms. thing is not obvious by looking at someone and therefore needs to be pointed out.
The central premise of this article is that agreeing to use a protocol makes that protocol "centralized". This is nonsense, and so the rest of the article falls apart.

Maybe the author is thinking of federation?
Delta was already transmitting similarly to or faster than measles. Omicron vastly outcompetes delta. A quick search for measles and fomites shows its surface half life is 2 hours and a wide concern for fomites.
I upvoted and have nothing else to add but this is so true I want this advice to stay on top :)
- silent unintended underflow behavior

- dangers of mixed signed/unsigned code (signed values MUST exist, but unsigned values don't have to)

- more cognitive load to read and understand unsigned underflow detection code + issues once you exceed the halfway point

This is why Java offered signed integer types only (I think they should have allowed unsigned as well, but for different reasons)
> Its main advantage is that it can mitigate some of the costs of maintaining a nuclear arsenal

With such arguments, there really is no point having a discussion. You know that's not the advantages I was referring to (since they're in the very next sentence you're quoting) and you're ignoring that completely.
Lead is a bad example, unless you mean long forgotten times. Even Romans knew:

> The Romans were aware that lead could cause serious health problems

https://archive.epa.gov/epa/aboutepa/lead-poisoning-historic...

Asbestos, likewise, was being used 80 years after the discovery of ill effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asbestos_disease_medic...

Radium's danger was known 2 years after its discovery according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium#Hazards

I think your examples support the thesis that we're actually decent at discovering harmful effects, but we don't mind them.

But they don't support the thesis that we might find something unpleasant about power electronics that we don't yet know about.
It is a thing but it's caught up in the viral mobthink of the web (amplified by the finance aspect) which makes it hard to evaluate unless you poke deep (groups like the one behind Cardano publish a lot)
USSR and Russia exported nuclear energy (in form of builded power plants, too).
For green movements, your own coal lobbyists are suffice ;)
That is very naive and incorrect.
Therapy is not a silver bullet. While it can be helpful, I found it incredibly awful and frustrating when therapist tries to describe and justify things that are happening to you by trying to tie something from your past. You can always do that with any person and any circumstance.
Client: „I am annoyed by the interuruptions“
Therapist: „Maybe you dont like loosing control because your mother havent given you a titty when you were little and cried for couple of hours“
Something like that…
That's true, I just meant that there was nothing technical stopping it from remaining airborne. But I should have said that.
> “colour” is itself a mutation, the French word being «couleur»

That's what the French word is now. But the French word used to be color, which is where the American spelling comes from, a late, backward-looking reform. Are you sure it wasn't colour in French when the English spelling standardized?
> The idea is to label non renewable gas as green.

yes, but the document mandates that the gas has to be from renewable sources by 2035
> almost all code that uses signed integers to represent values that will never be negative, tends to have a cacophony of range assertions and other tests which are just as error-prone as bounds checking to remembering to write, but also maintain when refactoring. It’s truly underappreciated how much those tests can be eliminated if your integer can never actually become negative due to the type system itself.

This is something the Ada language gets right: you define your integer type with a range, and the compiler automagically inserts the runtime range checks. (Unless you switch them off with compiler directives.) It makes far more sense to bake the range-checks into the type than to do it the manual way and just hope you don't miss anything.

You can do this in C++ using a library (thanks to templates) [0] but this is very rarely done.

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_78_0/libs/safe_numerics/doc...
We need both decentralised internet and decentralised web.

Internet is an architecture issue. It was promised but not in real life. Due to isp and mobile intraf, like it or not, so easy to be firewall by national totalitarian country.

Web is originally decentralised as long as the people want to. There is nothing controlled you you must go through Facebook. That can change say if Facebook sent data to china as of now.

Frankly internet and web is still young. But we hope humanity can be free not bounded.

Prometheus please.
if it's opaque to analysis, what's the point in using a blockchain? why not just a central database?
fossil and fossilhub...

Maybe some web 3.0 distributed model.