skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Floating point is basically just scientific notation. Which means that in theory, it even might have been invented back then.
And that's still more involved (and slower) than "just use this function that desktop vendors helpfully provided for the purpose".
It's an interesting point that historical chaos can never be truly communicated or appreciated, except through creative art.

The very fact that it's history, and we're looking back with knowledge of how things turned out and a fuller picture of the different parties and their intentions, leaves elusive that contemporaneous confusion that often describes "why" for participants much better.
> This is total garbage and I suspect you know that. If not, please do some more research.

I take the bait.

> https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185

Firefox doesn't block Google Analytics. This is not true.

The rest is PR fluff. Can you cite one feature that provide better privacy than Brave that blocks ads and trackers natively?
i believe businesses treat it as a social network, and the people are forced to grin with it.

theres a couple of businesses i subscribe to where its obviouw theyre forced to hype their new positions.
If you want people to look at your work (of any sort) it has to be at least marginally reader approachable. Novel thinking wrapped in a huge ball of spreadsheets isn’t that. Per authors own words it takes whole day author guided tour to get through it.
I think considering the purpose of the language, it does rather well. It's really easy to spawn and pipe processes, far more so than in almost any alternatives. Like it's so easy that it's easy to forget that this is like a 5-10 line overhead dance to launch and read from a process in most languages.

The problem usually come when you attempt to use it for nontrivial programming. But that just not what it's for, any more than the difficulty in building an OS kernel is a legitimate complaint against PHP.
What makes a Ponzi scheme, a scheme is; a guaranteed profit. Crypto profit is not guaranteed at any time, the criteria is not met thus is not a Ponzi scheme.
If anyone wants another example, this has data for Australia [1]. Power usage consistently peaks in the late afternoon, typically as everyone ends work for the day [2][3]. Unsurprisingly, this is also around when the price spikes.

[1] https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-e...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/60kGlIR.png

[3] https://i.imgur.com/nRjBjeN.png
I think this would be fair, and it has been done. Ghostscript had two branches, Aladdin Ghostscript and GNU Ghostscript, where GNU Ghostscript is approximately one year behind.
The Custom of the Country: On the relationships formed by the fur trade
Well then this actually applies quite well in this scenario.
Just interjecting "but building codes!" doesn't make a lot of sense. If the codes are so strict that we can't actually build houses they are failing at their purpose.

I dunno if you've dug deeply into most building codes but they're almost always overly specific in pointless ways and in ways totally unrelated to safety. Getting an engineer to sign off on a design should be enough, especially for a freestanding (tiny)house.
That guys channel is very cool, I’m not into speed running but the way he breaks down bugs and cheats is very interesting, he also occasionally stabs at stuff like this where his thoughts are very well thought out, I’ve never checked his sources but I assume they’re legitimate.
Show HN: Conversations with my OCD
Not on a server OS.
https://archive.is/20N5L
You're in such a particular frame of mind that you're missing it.

These are the extremes. At the extreme with the "wrong" (bad word, for mine) frame of mind even your best friend is horrible to talk to. You are very unusually at that extreme. Half way between the wrong frame of mind and the opposite point on that spectrum you probably want to talk to your best friend but not someone further down your ordered list of friends. How far down is the cutoff where you don't want to talk to that person at all? That tells you how far away you from the (not so much worst, but probably most introverted) frame of mind you are.

Remember your very, very best friend in the world wasn't that at some point and you had this whole journey of incidental and deliberate contact over time for them to get to be there.

Someone thinking of you and braving the reach-out rejection vibe to send you a message asking how you are, well they might not be being totally manipulative and selfish and horrible. At least mentally give them that chance, and yourself that you are worth it.

2c, ymmv, everything said may not apply to you in any way at all.
I haven’t found that to be true. At speed, maybe. But at a stop light, I can hear the potato-potato of just about every big V-twin.
the "i got scammed in a social delusion" -just doesnt hit home yet.
Counterfactuals can be calculated, but the results will depend on other counterfactuals. There's no getting away from speculating about counterfactuals. If the speculative estimates that went into Caplan's spreadsheets were essentially made up, then it's garbage in garbage out.
Cost is not everything though - Nuclear also produces extremely consistent and reliable power. That in it of itself can be a double edged sword in that if we do not have a way to store the excess then it is "wasted" in some ways. But it also has big advantages in certain situations. If there is a decent sized natural disaster or war or some other thing that temporarily interrupts solar or wind power then the increased cost of nuclear power becomes much more attractive. Those situations may be rare but I still maintain we are best off with many different sources working simultaneously.
That's great to hear! It does bring this to mind though https://xkcd.com/927/

Is there a similar reason GNOME doesn't have a convenient task list?
> On two occasions I have been asked,—“Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

It's nice to know, as someone that works with computers, that this layman attitude is eternal and not something unique to our current times.
* in the case of range, not a for loop
> there has to be a solution that satisfies FOSS purists as well as casual users without allowing a massive, evil megacorp to just stomp on every company built around open-source solutions.

The reason for everyone not selling the software in question to prefer F/OSS is exactly that it requires surrendering the kind of exclusive control that is also what allows you to build a company around the software as a product.

Yes, this means that F/OSS as such is unlikely to be the key product of a successful company. That's always the way it has been with F/OSS.

“But if I can’t center my business on F/OSS-as-product and I can't center my business on commercial software for the same use because F/OSS products, even if somewhat inferior themselves, develop more robust ecosystems, then how am I supposed to compete with free?” one might ask. And the answer is this: “Maybe you’re not: you are entitled to a business model.”
Okay, but what about something like BSL, with the older versions automatically getting fully open-sourced?

Not technically open-source, but much closer to open-source than what we would generally think of as "proprietary" software
They'd like to own the dystopia's present in Ready Player One and Snowcrash. It's a cynical bet, at best.

Related: when was the last time Facebook had a non-acquired "good idea"?
Signal and power management make or break a phone. My Nokia N900 makes for an excellent Linux phone (I have been unironically using it as my daily driver for communication, and the battery has been replaced recently too), but what really kills it is that its battery life is very unpredictable.

Sometimes it lasts 36h on a single charge when in standby, and sometimes a fraction of that. I cannot trust it to last me a whole day without a charger.

Other older phones that I tried last year (ranging from very old Nokia's to Blackberries with 3G) all had issues with call quality and even with random signal loss. I couldn't reliably stay connected with my family, which frustrated everyone.

Your application/mobile OS likely uses mobile data in some fashion, definitely uses up some CPU cycles (in foreground or background), may trigger high-powered modes in the cell radio through its usage patterns, or might miss incoming messages entirely. Testing on real untethered hardware, even as a final check, is needed to see that what you built isn't a frustrating paperweight that cannot fulfill the function of a phone.
Creating an Action Classifier Model
A lot of it is cost of labor. What I suspect is cheap loans to homebuilders has propped up the price of trades and secondarily materials to the point most people can't afford to build their own house in any location.

Then, depending on where you are, you have fixed costs for building in an area like geological or ecological impact statements that can be $20k or more. Too much.
Building for the 99% Developers
“I’m not your metamate, paypal!”
It's called tracking for a reason.
My company has also been pushing "company values" very hard, and I've always hated it. It feels cult like and condescending. Especially when they capitalize them. We have to show that we all believe in the value of Ownership here!
This was the selling point of facebook and why people clicked away their privacy to the great surveillance machine.

Note how ridiculous facebook seems as a solution to this problem now? Facebook has to go, delete it. Regulate it hard. Burn it to the ground if that's the only way.

The bait and switch /must/ have consequences for ethical reasons IMHO.
Captain Pedantic, swooping in to nitpick with one correction, Citizen: Ducatis run V-twins these days, much like Harleys (though that is where the comparison stops). Ducati did make parallel twins some forty years ago, and they were...less than reliable.
Environmentalists are not against Nuclear generally - they are just against the shitty ways governments have stored the waste in the past. When a government cheaps out and ships the waste to some far off pacific island and does not invest as much as it should building a proper containment setup and then it all leaks into the ocean it becomes a big problem for everyone and then environmentalists are of course pissed. When done properly I would guess the majority would be relatively fine with it (although they may still prefer cleaner options).
I'm in Australia too so I'm not just watching from afar and making stuff up. You might even recognise my username from the Australian COVID subreddit. I'm fully aware how harsh the lockdowns were - I'm in Melbourne, even.

But I'm not sure what you're talking about. Those lockdowns ended because of vaccination. Yes they were long, because for most of the pandemic we didn't have vaccines.

> This went on for literally hundreds of days in some parts of the country, even those places with high vaccination rates.

That's not the case. There have been a few short and localised lockdowns since vaccination levels were high, but still mostly in specific locations where vaccination levels were lower. Certainly not anything for hundreds of days. It hasn't even been 100 days since the country got to 90% of 12+ double-dosed - it's been 57 days. The lockdowns in VIC and NSW ended around 80% double-dose coverage.
Browser extension to speed up Rust doc search
Somewhat related is the way one tends to learn mathematics, mostly seeing definitions, proofs, and sequences of lemmas that have been improved on over many decades.

When you learn real analysis you get Cauchy’s epsilon–delta formulation mixed with quantifiers, set theory, the notion of continuous functions, and Riemann integration. You don’t need to first learn vague notions of infinitesimals and explanations that seem to make sense but fall apart when you try them yourself.

When you learn graph theory, you can use the language of set theory with straightforward definitions of what a graph is, and you can see innovations like the probabilistic proof or subjects like Ramsey theory.

When you do applied maths you have tools like contour integration and computers and you don’t need to rely on Euler’s technique of applying the ‘universality of analysis’ (at the time analysis meant what we might now call non-abstract algebra; over history it has meant basically every different topic that is not geometry) and expanding and rearranging infinite expressions and somehow getting the right answer.

When you learn Galois theory you already know what a group is, and you have lots of examples and tools you can use. You also know about rings and fields and polynomial rings. You don’t need to simultaneously invent the notion of a field extension, a group, a functor, and a normal subgroup. When you learn group theory you seem to find all these easily-proven theorems with grand names like Lagrange’s theorem or Cayley’s theorem but maybe they are only easy in a modern context.

When you learn category theory, most of your examples of categories come from things that you learned from materials that post-date category theory and therefore can have a structure that makes the categories more obvious.
Take what you can get. Let other people worry about it.
The article says this is part of the $16 billion in loan discharges for around 680,000 borrowers since Mr. Biden took office, around $2 billion of which came through the borrower defense program.

These numbers surprised me, I guess I haven't been paying very close attention:

"There are around 43 million Americans with student debt.... All told, Americans owe around $1.6 trillion in federal student loans and more than $130 billion in private student loans, according to the data company MeasureOne. About 5.2 million federal borrowers are in default."
Web of Relations
To be fair, most Big Tech companies stopped pretending a while ago.
I’ve used this technique fixing incidents - pulling this one out of the toolkit is a sign that you have well and truly fucked up somewhere up the line. This is the “emergency car window punch” of tools - when you need it, you really need it, but my god you shouldn’t be using it unless you’re really, really sure you need it.
That, and some other reasons. Personally I think the lack of (political) splash/impact would be the biggest driver.
While costs have risen, it's not reasonable to compare a kit-house like the ones Sears offered, to a house built on-site.

Looking for kit-houses, I found: https://rethority.com/kit-homes/

Where it says "On average, expect to spend between $40 to $60 per square foot to complete your kit home build."

So that's right in the ballpark of the above inflation-adjusted cost of $45/sqft a century ago.
I must have read the manual to our Star dot-matrix printer about twenty times. It had BASIC source code, all kinds of examples and illustrations and even info on how the parallel port worked.
Sounds like a liability to Tesla and SpaceX. They are just one bus accident away from irrelevancy. I always assumed Musk was good at creating a company culture where people are innovative, which could in theory be kept alive even if Musk wasn't there anymore. Not so much when all engineering relies on his ideas.
I sometimes just edit .md files in a github repo, often from the github UI.
But you can't run this in the pytest.ini

I know I can add a fixture and do what you said but I want to do this inside the ini file. Similar to what tox has with passenv
Caplan’s approach was not particularly novel thinking, it was just thorough. He used existing studies, tools, and paradigms to calculate the returns to different educations.
Not as much as if he'd announce his retirement!
Nice work! I'm glad you support color spaces outside of RGB for blending. I've been working on designing some new color blending modes/spaces and I'm excited to see more anthropocentric math being used to generate colors in general.

https://twitter.com/thot_exper1ment/status/14903867798489047... <-- example of some blending in a color space i'm working on
Meatmates or metamates, that is the question.
> Management is sick of it but "can't do anything."

Doesn't your building have rules about noise, and (hopefully) fines for non-compliance? That seems pretty standard.
> If everyone stomps their feet and says "there's no solution, otherwise it's not OSS!" then the end result is only going to be a lot less open-source software

There's going to be less people trading on the idea of open source software while relying on the exclusivity of control of proprietary software—which in fact does not solve the problems which lead users to prefer open source software—to enable monetization, so we’ll be back to the status quo before the last handful of years where open source software was peripheral projects and supporting infrastructure funded by its users either as internal projects or via external foundations, rather than the central products of startups that have no business plan consistent with the product remaining open. But that’s okay.
> Does anyone actually see the majority of the planet strapping Oculuses to their face and spending even a fraction of the amount of time there that people are currently spending on FB and IG?

The straightforward answer is that FB leadership sincerely believes that yes, that will happen.

Conspiracy theories about alternative motivations may be fun, but this is precisely why they purchased Oculus in the first place and they’ve been pretty clear and consistent about this.
Folding at home en masse

or maybe a small datacenter next to every nuclear plant that is doing some fancy modeling to further improve nuclear power plants?
That will happen, but it will be driven mainly from solar arrays.

A nuclear reservation is generally a good place to lay out solar and wind arrays, whether the plant itself still operates or not.
Judging by both the GP's not having been aware of it, and the process described in a sibling comment [1], I suspect the feature has a discoverability problem.

(Does the same feature exist on mobile? How are file attachments represented on mobile?)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30365088
It’s more of a greater fool scheme or basically a MLM. You need people to buy in to raise the value, then get all these people hyping it etc etc. NFTs seem to have perfected what crypto started, give you FOMO and make you buy overvalued 0s and 1s.

I think crypto is deplorable purely on the amount of electricity it consumes. It’s pretty clear it offers a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, unless that problem all along was give a subset of tech people a way to get rich off fools.
Unfortunately I’ve spotted at least one of these in NYC driven by a city firefighter. So no chance of enforcement for at least that guy and his stupid exhaust.
There is a cultural aspect as well. I am told Japanese home owners dislike buying secondhand, if they have the option to knockdown and rebuild.
Happy to undercut your price and do it for half!
The federal funding giveaway for crazy degrees is amazing.

If you pay $250,000 to become a chef/cook - that is insane. That is ONLY possible with federal funding, no private lender would fund that.

I think similar issues exist with a fair number social science / ethnic studies / minor language degrees (greek etc). If you go through to a Master or PhD in ethnomusicology, while very cool (yes, I took a class along these lines I very much liked) -> the market isn't there currently in academia and the private market is to some degrees worse.
Rogue rocket poised to hit moon is Chinese, not a SpaceX Falcon 9
Ok, now do all of it.
Make my own multireddits for groups of subreddits.
There's loud pipes, and then there's LOUD PIPES. I'm a motorcycle rider with an aftermarket exhaust, but I didn't put it on to make it louder, I simply prefer the different visual look of the aftermarket exhaust (undertail vs underslung). The new exhaust is slightly louder (~5dB) and has more of a bass characteristic, but it's certainly not obnoxious. Do I get noticed more? Yes. However I also know I can start my motorcycle at 7 in the morning and go for a ride and my neighbours aren't inconvenienced (I've asked them), so it's not a black or white situation.

I think most riders are in this camp as well - they just want their bike to look and sound good (good!=loud necessarily), rather than be obnoxious, but there's a small number of riders that just want volume for the LOOK AT ME factor. I'm 100% against those folk - they're just being selfish and spoiling it for everyone else.
I bet a spreadsheet that thoroughly analyzed the profitability of going out for a run every day would also find a negative ROI.
Learning to write binary parsers with Elixir
Capitalism has difficulty with holistic plans. Carbon taxes and credits help retrofit, if you can get them enacted.
That's how I feel about it as well. My every day machine is Linux but I also have to use a Macbook and a Windows machine and of the three I absolutely hate using the macbook. It feels like very design choice in MacOS was purposely chosen to annoy the hell out of me.
I've never had the patience to figure out how to get invited to join, but seems like a fun site.
The Sansa Clip is the Toyota Corolla of music players. Pragmatic perfection.
> This isn’t sarcasm either, but I am genuinely surprised that government actually listened.

Are you aware of any changes in (local) government policies in these affected areas? My cynical take is that this is an intentional play by police to allow things to deteriorate so that the public begs for the police to step up and rollback the loss of support since the high profile police-instigated incidents that culminated in George Floyd's killing. I don't think it's going to shake out that way, at least not as quickly as they'd hope.
You have to know something about coherency. You don't need to know the details but you need to know that multiple processors can read a cache line, but if there are any writers there will be trouble.

You have to know something about consistency. You don't need to know the details but you need to know enough to know you don't know enough to write your own synchronization primitives or lock free algorithms, at least.
For people who minted the new crypto it is. They sell something worth nothing and can pump and dump.
I have read through it. I just vehemently disagree that their requests are reasonable.

The only reason why people care so much for their apps' "branding" is being enforced by product management. Absent that pressure, you get a reversion to the Windows ecosystem pre-2005 (more or less), where every user can make their desktop as nice or ugly as they want, and by and large, the sky isn't falling. Because everyone works with the platform and tries to fit into it instead of breaking the mold.
Madoff didn’t “guarantee” profit either but was still running a Ponzi scheme.

I am not convinced that cryptocurrency qualifies as a Ponzi scheme (the real distinction is that the person at the top knows they’re selling a fraud) but it’s certainly driven by pure speculation.
In that it sounded cool to tech people, but other more traditional approaches to doing the same thing ended up being much more successful?
More than half of Bing's first-page results are ads
But given the low mass, does it have more emissions than a single occupant 2 ton SUV?