skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mornings became my most productive time after creating this schedule:

- Sleep 10pm to 4:30am every day

- Get out of bed within 10 seconds of the alarm going off (it only gets harder if I don't)

- Drink some water

- 2 mile run

- Drink a cup of coffee while reading something technical for 30 minutes (physical books)

- Work on side/hobby projects for 1 to 2 hours

Running makes me feel good, coffee gives me energy, reading something technical helps push me into the problem solving mindset, and side projects let me work on something I'm passionate about before transitioning to the soul crushing activity we all know as "work".
How about showing it to me instead?

I don't have time for people explaining things in lectures, long essays, or novels about your idea or product.

I'll just get up and leave.
> In DE/AT houses are insanely expresive relative to net pay.

At least you can actually buy a house here. A friend of mine is a teacher and just bought a 180 m² house plus garden in the suburbs of Munich, 20 minutes from the city center.
Timing for the game loop and accessibility.

5 letters gives enough options without requiring the player to have access to a lot of guesses to have any hope of winning, and gives the game a short playtime.

It's built to be quick to play. You can play it on a commute, or dip in a few times throughout the day.

You wouldn't have that progress visible to players with a larger problem space. Tangentially, you'd also wind up having to lean more on "technical" (as in scoped to a particular domain, not technological) language in order to fill the list. That limits access to those outside of that field of study.
>I dont recommend anyone young and ambitious to work in tech here.

Austria is, with few exceptions, a very bad market for tech/IT careers. Oversupply of talent but low VC investments, small market with focus on networking, culture that values middle managers way more than ICs, archaic culture with too much emphasis on titles and degrees, high taxes, poor fiber infrastructure in cities, hyper conservative cash-based society, inflexibility to remote work and freelancing for foreign companies due to complex government bureaucracy, high real estate prices(for buying), non-competes are legal and enforceable, all-in contracts with zero overtime pay, 25 vacation days standard for most tech workers, company benefits are non existent unless you count free coffee and a banana, companies focusing more on hiring seniors and rarely hiring or training juniors, almost no product based SW companies with the IT industry being mostly service based (in other words, a cost center); I could go on.

Quality of life is great though but tech careers here are a joke, even Eastern Europe has better and more exiting opportunities now due to the influx of outsourcing from US/UK unicorns.
Increased cycle budget, developers much less into 'hardcore' stuff (algorithms), move fast and break stuff, automatic updates.

Pick any or all of them as fractional contributors.
What if it had been toxic?
> It just feels a bit weird to treat these as the points where exceptions emerge and not the parsing of input data.

I understand this. It does make sense when seen as an artifact of the educational nature, though.

If the article wanted to explain about exceptions in the parser, the author had to explain the domain as well. Whereas we all are familiar with the exceptions in the file-io-domain already.
I was not aware CJDNS was unmaintained (or considered archaic). Do you have a resource comparing CJDNS, Yggdrasil, Zeronet and maybe other similar protocol? Bonus points if there's mentions of possibilities for interoperability (or incompatibilities) between these networks, and/or discussion about the shortcomings pointed out by the matrix people when developing their Pinecone routing scheme.
> Your comment is assuming that language A knows about language B. That's one case, but not the usual one.

> Rather, languages like Rust/Zig/C++ and even C# and Java let you expose a C API such that other languages can understand the shared library as if it was written originally in C, because C is the only thing every other language talks.

The C interface glue is not the problem here. You can write the library with a completely different language and using fat pointers, and simply adjust the calling convention at the C interface, and it can be called by a different language that uses fat pointers and everything can use fat pointers.

The actual problem is you can't just say that your interface glue is going to have all these wonderful features and that therefore everything will magically work and use them.

> By necessity this involves using standard types available in C otherwise the other languages have nothing to go on, they'd just have a bunch of opaque types and no way to create them.

Using C interface glue does not require you to even write a line of C code let alone C types if your compiler knew how to call the APIs.

> If C had better builtin constructs, these "extern C" APIs could be much better semantically, such that automatically generating wrappers to this C API would result in safer, more efficient, and more ergonomic code in the host language.

Again there's no reason your language can not wrap those and expose your desired higher level semantics or features to your code on the other side of the wrapper layer.
Kibi didn't exist until 1998 (per your link), so anything you read that was written prior to that and for a few years after still has the kilo=1000/1024 ambiguity.
All of this is similar to what China did back in the day. It helped foster an ecosystem for their own services, but of course they were (and are) of a lower quality.
I wanted free photo editing back in the day so I could learn to be a graphic artist.
Six months of messing with Xfree86 and I got a career in programming and sysadmin
Ah good point. I was forgetting that implicit conversion from double to int is defined.
Or things like Stripe’s anti fraud js script.
Headlines: "Diet soda lightens skin color!"
As far as I understand, Teslas can't do multiple runs at highest performance level unlike Taycan.
Android tablets weren’t even the past. AFAIK most Android apps don’t even have a dedicated tablet version, just the regular phone version scaled up, let alone apps made exclusively for Android tablets, unlike the iPad with Procreate, Affinity, etc.

And Google themselves have crippled the iPad versions of their own apps, on purpose, like refusing to support picture-in-picture on YouTube.
This reminds me of flash …
Win95 was a mess. However the Win2k I had, as I recall, was stable, solid and performant, esp. considering that it was running on much less than the weakest Raspberry Pi (IIRC I had a 450Mhz Pentium3 machine with 128 MB of RAM and a 5400 rpm HDD).
He is exactly right. The universe as it is and how we humans perceive it are two different worlds. Many words that we consider "abstract" are made up and have no equivalent in the physical universe, but we still use them because it fulfills some purpose for us.
If this guy didn't get a warning, they're using power-user software (likely CLI-based).

Of course one shitty design doesn't justify another, but the point is not justification but a reply to all the people saying "this is way worse than and would never happen with the traditional banking" that they are wrong. I agree that better UX is needed.

Regarding your point about legal action against Ethereum designers, well... That'd be like pursuing legal action against the designers of your web browser because it allows you to open phishing sites. Nonsense IMHO.
The directory linked in the article actually contains a captcha service called FriendlyCaptcha: https://www.developedin.eu/item-detail?recordId=recG9DsaUnGd...
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode (2021)
Interestingly, it's not actually about being in the EU specifically, it's just about being in a jurisdiction with equivalent data protections. It's not a "must be EU" cloud requirement, it's a "must not be USA" requirement.

Canada, Brazil, Japan, India, and many other non-EU countries have GDPR-like data protection regulation that would be totally acceptable I think (IANAL).

The core problem is USA specific - either the USA needs to implement serious data protection laws where they can't blanket surveil foreign user's data, or EU businesses will have to move elsewhere.

I wouldn't be surprised if in future, similar local rulings appear in Canada/Brazil/Japan/Indian/the rest of the world for businesses based there too. It might be a difficult few years for US-based cloud providers.
I think fixed-point math is highly underrated in programming and needs better language support. Otherwise people try to use floats for world coordinate systems and end up with the Far Lands.
Ask HN: What's so different about Worlde, Flappy Bird etc.?
In your opinion, how can we explain the success of these games?

What really set them apart from the rest?

And how would you try to find similar ideas?
That is very far off. It's not anywhere near 80%.
They handed out DNS-auction-tokens, which are free but have some silly value because of the current crypto bubble.

Algorithmic auctions for names simply don't work. There are bots trying to register basically every conceivable name for the lowest possible fee. Once sold, the name is permanently taken, unless the bot owner decides not to renew it every 2 years. That's why they don't work.

It's the same problem that most cryptocurrencies face: by the time you want something, it's almost guaranteed that someone else already took it. Real-life capitalism also suffers this problem with regards to land.
First of all, its is a research project. The owners are very clear about that and love to repeat its lack of any guarantees ;-)

Personally I've been using it for a while and its indeed living up to its promises, but ymmd.

It is indeed an overlay network by the simple rule of that being something that people can use. Technically the guys require the underlying protocol to keep order (one after another) in the packages for the stuff to work. Which is why building it on top of tcp/ip makes sense. Note that the ordering requirement is likely to be removed in a future iteration, again this is a research project.

Ideas like doing a mesh using antenna's in your city are thus, for now, out of reach. But the core concepts and approaches will likely map very nicely to such a usecase and the lessons learned as an overlay will help such a future design.

The public network is currently around 4000 nodes, which is why "scalable" is indeed meant to be vague. Tests of a million nodes are going to be required, probably in a future protocol iteration, to make clear statements about how scalable it really is. Signs are good, DHT usage is still very low while we saw a doubling of network size in the last 6 months.

In short, I use it daily. It works for me.
This worked well for me also. Main difference was that my shift with the baby was between 11pm and 7am and then I would go right to sleep.

I had my day split for 8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours with the baby. This allowed both my wife and I to get 8 hours of sleep every day once my son was on formula.

I was sleeping better and my work was more focused, and the boy (and my marriage) is still alive and happy. It worked so well, that it took me months for my body to shift away from that schedule when we moved on to more "normal" hours.
Nice job. Now if EU could just export this to the rest of the world … that would be fantastic!
Care to back up your assertion with a citation from a non-idealogue source?

PA just had a bridge fall down because the same pattern of funds redirection I described prevented their "fix the roads" gas tax hike from doing more than treading water. The pattern I described is very, very common. My own state had the same problem using cigarette taxes to fund the schools.
I happen to live here. The degree of danger depends enormously on where you live and what you do. Not everywhere is this dangerous and not everything is covered in razor wire and broken glass. This is not at all to downplay the grotesque degree of violence that permeates much of Mexico, but a bit of perspective on specifics helps. I do night street photography as a hobby, for example, and in many years of that, wandering the streets of several Mexican cities during late night hours (carefully but not with utter paranoia) I've never once been assaulted or physically threatened so far.
Wordle had a social aspect that allowed its users to share their progress/solutions in a visual format. It was perfectly adapted for social media.
There's all that stuff on other platforms. Reddit subreddit indie games would be neat if I could just open the post and play the game.

I can't imagine I'd use Steam much after that. (And I guess facebook would do the same.)

As for payments, I already pay mostly through Google pay or through paypal. Steam isn't adding a huge amount of value.
Considering that this ruling is based on schrems II case which concluded that FISA 702 and EO 12.333 are not compatible with GDPR it would seem that holding data within the EU is not a solution since FISA 702 and EO 12.333 are applicable to data held anywhere in the world by a US company.
The Data Science Venn Diagram (2010)
The Mac didn't even have memory protection before OSX iirc? I seem to recall that people would have to restart their Mac if something crashed, since it wouldn't be just the application that would crash - it would be the entire OS.
It's a naming system, which is human-meaningful and decentralized, but not globally-unique. It fulfils 2 out of 3 criteria, just as Zooko predicted.
A big difference: As a user I could "feel" whenever a Java Applet was loaded. Suddenly everything became slow and only rarely the GUIs were acceptable. That diminished reputation in users, aside from security problems etc.

With WASM the user doesn't notice it. Without looking at dev tools you can't tell if some of the functionality is coming from wasm or JavaScript/typescript/..

In consequence users won't develop the "yikes, Java" reaction.

wasm got the chance to slowly creep into stacks.
I thought that was part of it, but with s/electronic/photonic/g
Recursive nesting still stands as universal. Pretty much every language has a form of "he said {she said { stuff }}". One guy claims to have found a language deep in the Amazon without this feature, but no one thinks he's credible.

Pretty much every language does verbs connecting subject/object. In English it's S-V-O. Treating addition as a verb, our sentences work kind of like X+Y. Other languages use something like reverse polish.

The original Chomsky idea was that there was an underlying brain structure reflected in language and only a small number of tunable parameters defined the whole space. This hypothesis was meant to explain how humans learn language so quickly. The idea was, much like horses that start galloping just after leaving the room, maybe we're born already sort of knowing it.

The theory hasn't panned out so far. There's too much similarity between unrelated languages to pretend like some universal mechanism isn't behind them, but for nearly any particular lingustic feature you can usually find at least one obscure example which shows it isn't universal. The two features I've listed are the exception.
Not only that. Considering reduced offect of current vaccines over time, and relavitve mild symptoms of Omicron (relative, by looking at death/cases charts), this might be the optimal time to let virus run thru population and boost collective immunity with up to date antibodies.

If we look at population level like government does, it might be better to go through this step now compared to few months or a year in the future when vaccines loose even more efficency. They probabably take into account that additional booster doses on every few months are a tough sell and won't get support original vaccination got. This might be hard thing to say publicly since people will die, but might still be the best strategy to save lives in the long run.

So in my opinion it's not about whether it's great time to do it now, but whether it will be worse in the future.
> back in 2000, Microsoft Office was unreliable, bloated crap

Sadly, it did not stop there. When I worked as Windows sysadmin / helpdesk monkey, I had to install Windows 2013 on several machines because it just stopped working for no apparent reason.

On one machine, an update to Office 2013 broke Autodesk Inventor (by replacing/updating some vbs file, I suspect); reinstalling Inventor kind-of worked, but it caused MS Outlook to crash whenever the user tried to write an email (some might consider this an improvement, but not everyone agrees). Reinstalling Office fixed that without breaking Inventor again.

The worst part - from a helpdesk perspective - was that there was no rhyme or reason to it, this type of problem would pop up randomly on some machines, while other machines with practically identical hardware, OS, and applications installed ran perfectly fine.
true, but to be fair: seems like it worked out pretty well for china...
Most of the proofs of that (like 1/3 * 3) feel like they're trying to trick you, but if you just write it as "0.999… == 1.000…" it feels obvious and easy to visualize to me.
if you're competitive and want low latency/high framerate: you can do all of this with a single cheap USB physical switch (about $2 on ali express), plus DDC to switch monitor inputs automatically

I have this hooked up, so that I push the switch and the monitor inputs automatically switch

I also have a (cheap) physical audio mixer to do the audio, but you can do the same thing with pulseaudio and a line-in cable from one computer to another
Actually, there's an "easy" way out for Google & Co: set up a EU subsidiary and allow them to run autonomously. Il will be subject ONLY to EU laws, on EU servers... but with US technology... and money (ONLY and not datas) will flow back to the US !

As a side effect: Google.EU will be able to use the "full" power allowed by GDPR (european data & world data) as Google.WORLD will "only" be able to use world data excluding EU. But maybe Google.EU will be able to export "consolidated" (so anonymized) datas back to the US ?

Same would be applicable for Apple, Amazon, MS & Co...
The latter - although as a sibling commentator pointed out, it doesn't do cycles - so it's better, but not a panacea.
That’s really cool! Are there any report layouts or BeanSQL that you could share? I always struggle with those…
Looking at my current submissions page, last 30 submissions, 8 of them got uptake (which I will say more than 3 upvotes), 5 of them got 15 or more, none of them in the 100s.

Out of the 30 I would also think 5 of them which got 1 or 2 votes each were lower quality submissions - of less interest although still suitable - for example this one "Science Fiction Is Never Evenly Distributed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30085327 or "Literature-clock: Clock using time quotes from literature" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30044179

many of those that didn't get any uptake I thought were pretty great - like this one "Marie Boulanger on the nostalgic power of typography in The French Dispatch" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130297

There was one that got 52 points that I wondered - should I post this - "Getting to Know the Armed, the Most Unknowable Band in Hardcore" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30082588

In short - HN Submissions sure are a land of contrasts.

on edit: In fact as a general rule it seems the ones of mine that get any significant uptake are because they were added to the second chance pool, not sure if maybe being in Denmark I post during disadvantaged times of the day or something, but that is my general feeling.
According to some friends, receiving email even works fine on dynamic IPs updated via some kind of DYNDNS-like service. I should probably do that, too! :)
These sorts of images always makes me wonder about how many of the images of the universe we see, are how they look from our perspective, vs how they look from "above" etc.

I suppose this one is from our perspective?

How we know that the arms of the milky way are bent when viewed "from above"? Imagine if they were straight lines when viewed from above. From our perspective, they would appear to be spiraling arms, since the light at the far end of the arm would take longer to reach us.

I'm not doubting astrophysics here, I'm just a layperson that wonders how these things are properly taken into account.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Comes to Gamescope for the Steam Deck
Give Google 30 years of Chrome monopoly, and we will see GTML. It already uses GTTP.
Up till now, MS Outlook still has a Safe Mode with limited functionality that would activate in case normal Outlook won’t boot properly - I think this speaks heaps about their software quality.
anyone knows something similar for a graph database ?
India Publishes Bill Legalizing Bitcoin
I keep wondering when one of these machines will finally be able to do some tangible, practical work, like taking some input and producing correct output, and do it faster than a traditional computer by atleast one order of magnitude.

Right now it's just quantum-schmantum.
> I woke to a strange sound.

Sounds like the time I woke to what sounded like a gun shot in my apartment. I had accidentally left a can of frozen orange juice concentrate on top of my fridge about a week prior. It had started to ferment, and eventually, bang. Like you, it took me ages to clean up that mess.
Huh.

Seems like it's more interesting than that: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/899

> ...for WSL2 you only need "Virtual Machine Platform" (a subset of Hyper-V) and "Windows Subsystem for Linux" features, both available in Home edition.

Also there's this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#will-i-be-a...

> However, recently both VirtualBox and VMware have released versions that support Hyper-V and WSL2. Learn more about VirtualBox's changes here and VMware's changes here. For troubleshooting issues, take a look at the VirtualBox issue discussions in the WSL repo on GitHub.
My impression is simplicity and shareability. It allows a large audience to get into the game easily and share and compete with/against their friends and others
It worked out pretty well for politicians and those who work in the tech sector. Worked out terribly for the rest of citizens.
Seat suspension is for added driver comfort and does not replace regular suspension.