skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the first business venture i worked for had a theatre for giving presentations. on the wall of the theater was a 20 story building, all mirrored glass, framed against the sky with the company logo. it looked a little different than the two story Mountain View industrial park build we were in.

was that fraud? not really. was that marketing? it certainly was. but it was clearly a lie. was that just a question of degree?
I was doing work with latex gloves on (clean and dry) and was shocked to find that Touch ID on my iPhone 8+ worked pretty reliably through the glove.
Good question, I don't know. It's certainly worth thinking about.
I wonder if they decided that the risk model of rocketing human beings through an evacuated tube was just too high?
It can't be made feasible from an engineering POV, not just economically. It's virtually impossible to maintain a relevant vacuum in hundreds of kilometers of tunnel. The temperature stresses alone would cause leaks unless using some very special materials (if any exist).
6502 was nice only in comparison with Intel 8080/8085, but it was very limited in comparison with better architectures.

The great quality of 6502 was that it allowed a very cheap implementation, resulting in a very low price.

A very large number of computers used 6502 because it was the cheapest, not because it was better than the alternatives.

For a very large number of programmers, 6502 was the 1st CPU whose assembly language they have learned and possibly the only one, as later they have used only high-level languages, so it is fondly remembered. That does not mean that it was really good.

I also have nostalgic happy memories about my first programs, which I have entered on punched cards. That does not mean that using punched cards is preferable to modern computers.

Programming a 6502 was tedious, because you had only 8-bit operations (even Intel 8080 had 16-bit additions, which simplified a lot multiply routines and many other computations) and you had only a small number of 8-bit registers with dedicated functions.

So most or all variables of normal sizes had to be stored in memory and almost everything that would require a single instruction in modern microcontrollers, e.g. ARM, required a long sequence of instructions on 6502. (e.g. a single 32-bit integer addition would have required a dozen instructions in the best case, for statically allocated variables, but up to 20 instructions or even more when run-time address computations were also required, for dynamically-allocated variables.)

A good macroassemmbler could simplify a lot the programming on a 6502, by writing all programs with a set of macroinstructions designed to simulate a more powerful CPU.

I do not know whether good macro-assemblers existed for 6502, as in those days I have used mostly CP/M computers, which had a good macro-assembler from Microsoft, or the much more powerful Motorola 6809. I have programmed 6502 only a couple of times, at some friends who had Commodore computers, and it was weak in comparison with more recent CPUs, e.g. Zilog Z80 (which appeared one year later than 6502).
People vehemently opposed to Nazis can be exactly as bad as Nazis. It's not the flag; it's not even really the ideology; it's the actions. If your actions are as bad as the actions of Nazis, then you are as bad as Nazis.

You and CodeGlitch can argue whether that applies in this situation. But the idea itself is perfectly reasonable.
Valencia's a cool place to visit, they did a number of interesting things in the last few decades:

* after a devastating flood in the 1950s they "moved" the river out of the city and they used the original channel to build a 10km long park with tons of infrastructure for sports and recreation: https://metropolismag.com/projects/how-valencia-turned-crisi...

* they have a network of docked city bikes with ~300 stations around the city. Docked bikes are not perfect, but don't cause the mess that dockless bikes do. It costs €30/year and every ride is free for 30min. (it's not unique, as other cities have similar networks, but it's really well executed)

* their Ciudad de las artes y ciencias (City of arts and science) is a beautiful complex with a museum, cinema, oceanographic park and iirc there's even a night club somewhere there. Really cool place for tourist and local residents to hang around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences
I miss the days of time limited construction, nowadays residential building seems to be mortgage-life-limited. I swear nothing lasts more than 20yrs.
I am making a Lovecraftian text editor called Tentacle Typer. It's a text editor / game where you play as a tentacle monster with a magic mechanical typewriter.

Creative writing releases psychic energy that activates machines / opens doors and all sorts of other things. It also exports .txt files.

Depending on what you write, you'll learn different sigils you can arrange into a circle that will activate when you're in danger. Writing a romance novel gets you different powers than a horror or sci-fi short story, for instance.

https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1459527876118814728

It's pretty weird, but I'm really proud of all that I've done myself this last year. Solo indie gamedev is a perilous, extremely stressful, maybe stupid career choice but I'm realizing a lifelong dream.

I also think I might be inventing/innovating a new genre of game so it's fun to maybe leave a mark that way too. I hope it'll squeeze some creative writing out of people they never would have written otherwise.
Indeed it is a nice feature! It's useful not only with large monitors, but also when one needs to visually compare two snippets that appear in two files at different offsets close to the beginning / end.

Although I haven't seen it implemented before -- granted I don't often investigate text editors -- some editors / pagers (`vim`, `less`, Sublime?, etc.) support keeping a number of lines always visible between the cursor and the top / bottom of the view; some also support keeping the cursor always centered vertically. But as said, none of them seem to support scrolling past the beginning of the file.

BTW, I've just "stolen" your idea and implemented in my own Python-based editor (<https://github.com/volution/simple-console-editor>).

Thanks! :)
My university would ask me to proxy my internet over their proxy servers to reach the papers legally, when I am not in the campus. It was such a painful process for non computer science students, as they would not understand how to make this work.
Setting up a platform/cloud agnostic PaaS that a scrappy preproduct/early stage/pre-revenue startup can use without incurring large, spiky, unpredictable costs.

Because at this stage the startup has too much going on, this PaaS is very low overhead - so no Kubernetes complexity.

Think EC2/EBS/ELB at flat predictable rates.
TFA has nothing to do with the boring company or underground tunnels
How long does it make sense to investigate that question?
I agree that ProtonMail and GMail are not the same in terms of privacy protections. But, the article implies that the bulk of advice provided in the article is somehow a guarantee to anonymity. A reader may easily assume that ProtonMail doesn't log any IP addresses at all based on that misconception. ProtonMail even used to claim exactly that in their sales page until that incident I linked to.

In fact, the article is the anti-thesis of itself. Blanket anonymity advice is the worst anonymity advice.
I don't think that changes anything other than making the need for collective bargaining even more important. Those providing the essential services deserve every bit as much representation as those providing non-essential service. Especially since their employer has even more power.
Neat. Reminds me of FileMaker from back in the day, which I believe still exists.

<hot-take> More programmer-focused, less UI/normal-folk focused. </hot-take>
Intent to Ship: Network State Partitioning
I used that for a long time, but the project stopped shipping updates for a few months, so I moved back to Lineage.

The Aurora store also would go offline for weeks on end. I am hoping that /e/os has a better solution than Aurora and a regular release schedule.
feel free to use QBASIC
Yeah I don't understand this. Surely airtags have to be registered, and when an iPhone sees tag 3957375967 Apple's servers look that up and say "oh it's registered to Billy Bob; I'll tell them".

But if your fake airtag rotates through 2000 IDs how do you register them all?
I have also had similar experience cold-emailing domain authorities. I spent days writing 10s of words, double checking my facts, doing my homework and have gotten a response everytime. They are excited that someone is reading their work, thinking about it and then having the gumption to contact them. I think it is actually quite rare.
Here’s the GitHub repo https://github.com/psg-mit/twist-popl22
These apps / networks have sprung up despite the limitations of the app store.

We have no idea what the present would look like if the app store was more open.
That’s arguable. Besides the fact that twitter was founded a year before the iphone was even announced, mobile, networked computers we can fit in our pockets drove the creation/adoption of all those things. The app store helped facilitate, sure. But can you really argue they would not have appeared without an app store? What if phones were more like desktops used to be where I can freely install whatever I want from wherever I want? It was that environment that spawned the host of chat apps that preceded twitter and the rest.
Because the current passenger rail “system” in the US is horrendous.
Exactly, corporations keep telling us they are people, but somehow they never face the kinds of consequences that actual people do. That said, I'd be surprised if there wasn't something Ali Ayad could be charged with directly.
Dr. Paul Farmer, the cofounder of Partners in Health, has died
> only $25 billion in profit

Surely there must be a typo in one of these words? I can’t imagine 25 humongous ones being loose change for any business.
> your goals (e.g. compilation into realistic gates) are very different from the goals of these language designers (study of abstract structure of quantum algorithms)

But the abstract structure of quantum algorithms is all about the carefully orchestrated structure within entanglement, not whether entanglement is present. Also, even just considering whether entanglement is present, the rules that they use in the language are far too weak. They basically amount to "if you do a two qubit operation it might be entangled". How is something like that ever going to help verify, for example, that already-allocated-but-currently-unused qubits being used as dirty ancillae (as in [1]) are being correctly restored (e.g. disentangled from the context where they were temporarily used)? It's just going to say "I dunno, they touched, they might be entangled". But I know they touched and might be entangled. I'm looking for a more gradual transition from "I applied no operations therefore everything is fine" to "I need to spin up a Turing complete simulator and do runtime analysis".

> if teleportation was "built-in" for the language, then the language would be useless for anything but "numerics"

I didn't mean to suggest hard-coding teleportation. What I was picturing is that the language would understand the stabilizer formalism [2], which is powerful enough to encode many quantum protocols but restricted enough to guarantee efficient classical analysis. Teleportation is a special case of things efficiently handled by the stabilizer formalism.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07995

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9705052
I don’t think businesses care about speed but rather stability and throughput. If the vaccuum is broken how long does it take to get it fixed, the tube emptied of ”pods”, and so on.
Boring company never had anything to do with Hyperloop. The Hyperloop concept was just a Bluepaper released by Musk. It was only years after that Musk started talking about tunnels and the Loop system.

Probably at some point Boring company would like to be able to make tunnels long enough that it would make sense to with something more high speed then a normal EV can do. But that is not their focus.
There is presumably a reason they are cargo companies and not passager transport companies. Unless Amtrak has a government enforced monopoly?
And I bet people who watched fox news have a different perspective on how peaceful/violent some BLM protests were. What's even worse is that people getting their news from social media are going to be fed a single narrative and be entirely unaware of it; at least with entities like fox news/CNN or sub-reddits, someone can actively seek out multiple narratives around an event.

> Did any blm related entity have their bank accounts frozen?

Interesting to think about. Just imagine the headline of "Donald trump freezes bank accounts of BLM protestors" and the uproar and legal battles that would immediately follow. Different countries (laws, rights, legal precedents), different levels of public support for the underlying cause, "black bloc" obscuring the protestor identities.
>Invented by the region's Moorish rulers 1,200 years ago

I have no problem with stating that it was built, or implemented by Moorish rulers. I have a problem with 'invented'.

Waterways specifically for irrigation, in near-identical (and many better) designs have been around significantly longer than 1,200 years. The Romans, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Incas, Mayans, and so on. Go to central Arizona in the USA to see about 700 miles of irrigation canals built by the Hohokams. Or, check out the Assyrians' inverted siphon for the Nineveh Aqueducts.
I like Zig because it feels like a refinement of C with all the knowledge of the years since C was created. Some of my favorite features are no global allocator, well-defined pointers (with optionals required for nullability), generics and partial evaluation at compile-time, and builtin features/functions for all sorts of operations that are only extensions in C/C++ like SIMD and packed structs.

Read [0] for a comparison among Zig, D, Rust, and C++, and read [1] for a deeper look at the language's goals. I personally really love Zig's type system [2], with a system for generics that is very simple and consistent.

[0]: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

[1]: https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/

[2]: https://nathancraddock.com/blog/consistency-in-zigs-type-sys...
I really don't see the difference with Linux on any level.

To be fair, wolfram is a pretty cool name in general. It sounds like a computing product already. I don't see how you can blame the guy for using that.
They have got congress interested. It works just well enough to get them interested and funded. That it will always be prohibitively expensive is something they can hide.

Congress wants to fund the next big thing and make the US the best in the world. They don't want to hear that train technology is an almost completely solved problem and so we cannot get ahead of the rest of the world - the only thing left is buy and build the same thing as everyone else. Congress hates that idea.
Did they though? Apple is today by far the most profitable computer manufacturer.
The most important to me is "There are three kinds of lies in this world. Lies, damn lies, and statistics."

Not attacking the mathematically field of statistics just pointing out that lots of people abuse statistics in an attempt to get people to behave as they would prefer.
If you read up on "Roman concrete" you find out that it used a volcanic sand "pozzolana" [1] which is difficult to find in some parts of the world. There was, supposedly, some American professor trying to find a recipe for concrete that was as good as the Roman type but used more available materials. I don't know the current status.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozzolana
There is no clear ethnic separation in Ukraine, a division is mostly political or a question of identity.
> get a court order or warrant.

Already done: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/02/17/citizens-grou...
This kind of irrigation is terrible if you are trying to conserve water.

As temperatures rise places that use aqueduct and flood irrigation will have to contend with the loss of water to evaporation during transport.

Fortunately people out on the American plains have this figured out and better technologies exist. The problem is convincing farmers and law makers in areas that have traditionally had abundances of water to change their ways.
Why do they exist? In the hopes that eventually it could work?
This is an interesting example of emotional frustration pretending to be a technical argument. I'm fascinated by the mechanics of irrational hype and subjective downward spirals of dissatisfaction on technical topics. It's very similar to how many people consider the best music of all time to be the one made by their own generation or what they grew up with through their parents. Most of us are employed by building more and better options and features, but as a community there is a streak of what I call cranky senior developer that is just tired of all the new features and would like it tear it all down. You can also call it "complexity fatigue".

I don't use Swift full time and I had no problem reading that method signature.

This is something that you would write if you were a library author interested in providing generic and flexible data structure. The part after "where" expresses a non-trivial idea: "the type of the first element parameter should be the same as the inner element of the homogenous collection (second parameter), and we need to compare elements to other instances of its type but other than those constraints this code will work on any element and collection". It does that in about 6 swift terms, and the compiler has a full understanding of what you meant and will prevent errors that violate these constraints. Notice that you never have to write this type of code if you're using the library. Swift has decently organized progressive disclosure of language features. For example I never had to write unsafe pointer arithmetic or interop with C, but I'm not going to complain the feature is there for those that need it.
Underground habitats
see how Hackernews empower toxicity for other languages

but when the same thing happen for rust, it's censorship, nobody talks about rust's internal problems

that's part of the reason i choose to not give rust another chance

the sectarian aspect of it is disgusting, to say the least
The case is up to you. I plan on using a plastic food jar :)
This assumes those two goals are in opposition to each other.
What pg couldn’t predict is that there are still no good alternatives to the Apple ecosystem. For normal people, there’s still only two viable alternatives: MS and Google. Both have their pros and cont, but neither is significantly better than Apple.

Maybe with the coming XR paradigm shift, things will change?
Another genius
I think a better approach was to fine individuals for breaking the law.
Autos rolling?!? That ugliness is intentional?

That website doesn't work as a business card...
I write academic articles and like to use markdown for that, but you soon run into limitations that require non-standard tools. Precisely formatted tables… citations… line numbering… page numbering… inline maths… image placement… none are part of basic markdown. Outputting nice text is a big complex job, as the existence of TeX (ugh) shows.
Nice! I didn't know about cog.

I've developed a simple "codeblocks" tool that to keep README.md up-to-date. In your example, here is how to insert the latest `--help` output:

codeblocks usage-auth README.md -- google-drive-to-sqlite auth --help

Where "usage-auth" is the block language in README.md:

Full `--help`:
```usage-auth
Usage: ...
```

Checking is also possible:

codeblocks --check usage-auth README.md -- google-drive-to-sqlite auth --help

It's not as generic as cog, but does not require writing codegen scripts inside Markdown file.

https://github.com/shamrin/codeblocks
They'd probably be delighted to hear that you're reading the book (and it wouldn't hurt to mention that you think it's good!)

You could mention that, and ask about the causality problem, why it seems backwards compared to the earlier description, and how you've not researched it yourself and would appreciate clarification. You can also mention that you've noticed some minor typos and ask whether they'd appreciate them for a future printing. I think it's safe to say authors would rather have mistakes not continue to be reprinted.
OLS is my default go to. It outperforms a random forest so often in small data real world applications over nonstationary data, and model explainability is built into it. If I'm working in a domain with stationary data then I'd tilt more to the forest (due to not having to engineer features, and the inbuilt ability to detect non-linear relationships and interactions between features).
That doesn't fly in California. Back wages are one of the few things that officers of a company can be found personally liable for.
Good job on this.

I find myself using this daily over my RSS reader since it has a better UI. I really just want to scroll through a bunch of news sites and scan for some interesting articles. My RSS reader is so overwhelming that I don't even open it when I feel like wasting time.
The offer is simple, and it's actually listed in the last sentence of the article:

> They can continue their current policy, which will exacer-
bate hostilities with Russia and devastate Ukraine in the process—a
scenario in which everyone would come out a loser. Or they can switch
gears and work to create a prosperous but neutral Ukraine, one that
does not threaten Russia and allows the West to repair its relations
with Moscow.

In other words, be smart like Finland, build yourself a stable, non-corrupt neutral country, and everyone wins.
Eh what? Have you ever been to Ukraine?
What 'Russian people'?
Just curious, how big is a project that requires a single source file edit to take 3-4 minutes? Do you have a NVMe disk? At least a quad core CPU?

I've seen some pretty big projects compile way faster than 3-4 minutes, even with protobufs.
How can we answer that without knowing what Mars is like? Is it cold and boring, like an Antarctic research station? Is it terraformed? Can I take my family? Can I communicate with Earth?
Virgin Hyperloop uses maglev. The main difference between what they're doing and everyone else, is that they put their whole track in a giant airtight pipe, and pump air out of the pipe so the train can travel with less air resistance.
Funny, I went there on a Tuesday. They said the guided tours were only on Fridays, but when I told them I was from out of state, they said a guard would walk us around but not narrate.

It was a great office building, way ahead of its time.
I'd prefer Amtrak over aircraft for lots and lots of my travel, if not for this. Hell, I'd probably travel more total, too. Even if the price were the same as flying for a given destination.

The huge trip-duration and arrival-time uncertainty due to the shared rail, and having to defer to cargo trains, is what sinks it, for me. They can vary by large double digit percentages of the nominal time, at which point they're usually much slower than just driving.

I love how relaxing and comfortable they are and not having the security circus and dealing with crowded, distant-from-the-city airports, but not at nearly-air-travel prices and a 25-75% time premium over driving.
You can't take care of your kids well if you don't take care of yourself. That being said, if there is only enough for one of you to eat... well, the kid eats first and you get leftovers. Taking care of yourself has to work around the child's needs as well, especially when they are young and simply cannot do for themselves.