skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole taxonomical system classifying people in the US requires significant overhaul, it's incredibly inaccurate and imprecise. Given our level of technology and knowledge, this shouldn't be a problem; however, I think a sunk cost fallacy significantly bogs down progress on this front. Reasons for this include, but aren't limited to, academic reputations, political capital and strategies, and wealth invested into the current taxonomical system. People who are heavily invested in it do not want to give it up or acknowledge its faults, especially if they're benefiting from it.

Let's use a Middle Eastern person as an example. They're geographically from Asia, but aren't considered Asian, and have significantly differentiated cultures from what is traditionally considered "Asian" culture. Then, the US largely classifies them as white independent of how "white-passing" they are. I'm just baffled in general by it all at this point.

US racial categorizations are too fuzzy as concepts to warrant seriousness in defining people. Yet, despite this, people heavily invested in this want to perpetuate and solidify information like:

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/926/d5f/a334baf0d43cd480b3ea...

Which starts to explain why they want to discriminate against Asians for perceived cultural similarities with what they consider "white culture."

It's frustrating to watch unfold.
Maybe if hollow core fiber is deployed we could see a 50% reduction in latency (from .66c to .99c).

Past that physics take over, and unfortunately the speed of light is pretty slow.
The accepted answer from 538 can be found here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-you-bowl-three-stri...
Having used an auger of much smaller size, I can’t imagine how difficult this would be to screw in to compacted soil.
More information on how early Mac development was done: https://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=477
>Everyone still thinks of them as representing Russia though

not really, in chess at least. Playing under the FIDE flag is pretty common when geopolitical tensions are involved, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_flag_player

Israeli players playing under the FIDE flag at UAE tournaments has happened as well. There's plenty of precedent for it.
Well it might happen in your lifetime. But only for the last second I guess?
You’re not wrong there. The BBC interviewed a former deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine, who told the network: “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair … being killed every day.” Rather than question or challenge the comment, the BBC host flatly replied, “I understand and respect the emotion.”
In a thousand years a religion will dictate that one has to be screwed into the ground to a certain torque specification...
YouTube does not employ judges or humans in deciding whether to honor a content owner's request. It doesn't employ anything. It is up to the content owner to police themselves, only when they mess up royally will YouTube remove them from the content owner system.
You don't even have to file a DMCA takedown request to take down videos from YouTube anyway, they have an entirely extralegal mechanism for taking down videos.
So your point is basically to teach your kids to be climate change deniers? And your supporting evidence is a reading list of pop-science books none of which were written by actual climate scientists?

Sounds like you need to apply a bit more of that "Critical thinking" you're going on about, as if your reading list is anything to go by, you're not really being all that "critical" but rather seeking out sources of information that confirms your existing biases.
I have an old iPhone, could I use a serial number from that potentially?
Thanks for mentioning this. I had no idea it existed.

I have a bunch of hikvision cameras which are not capable of detecting people which is really all I care about. I don't care about birds or cats. :D
> Why not test it?

Be our guest. Test it.

It doesn’t start with “and then Russia attacked Latvia”. They are not the Fire Nation. They need time to line up their logistics which will give time for NATO to detect their moves and amass troops in Latvia. Heck they were only lining up to attack a non-NATO country (Ukraine) and NATO sent extra troops to Latvia.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-nato-military-moves-send-...
judging by other replies as well as downvotes for my previous one, there is demand right now for a specific sort of indie game, and if your ideology aligns with it, it could be quite profitable for anyone who wishes to throw something together.
This conflict would have been simpler if the EU wasn't dependent on Russian Gas.
I agree and would argue further that it would embolden belligerent aspirational regional hegemons such as Iran, and scare vulnerable US allies such as Japan and Saudi Arabia into to accelerating their nuclear weapons aspirations.

TL;DR appeasing current nuclear powers will greatly accelerate proliferation and paradoxically increase the risk of nuclear war. Quite the conundrum…
"Pessimists are seldom disappointed."
What's your definition of storage optimization, where zero and nonzero mantissas meaning completely different things doesn't qualify?
Telecoms blackout hits northeast Ukraine; large power outages also reported
Further nit:

> The calculation was using the HUGE_VAL constant, which is defined as an ISO C constant with a value of positive infinity [...].

Only if the floating point implementation has infinities, which ISO C does not require. C99 also defines INFINITY, but that one’s also not required to actually be an infinity, unfortunately.

More seriously:

> "Nowadays, outside museums, it's hard to find computers which don't implement IEEE 754."

AFAIU there are plenty of implementations that either run faster without or outright refuse to implement the “gradual underflow” semantics, which 754 technically requires with no equivocation. (Wikipedia tells me the Intel compiler turns on SSE “denormals as zeros” when optimizations are on, for example.)
I took it to be: the original author's point was that nuclear attacks are so rare and our sample size so small that we can't use history to predict their occurrence in the future. This commenter is saying the typical way to handle situations like this is to look for more-common events that are proxies for the less-common ones in some predictable way.

To give a different example of my own: on an intersection-by-intersection basis, pedestrians dying from getting hit by a car is relatively rare, so if it's perceived that a particular intersection is unsafe and the design of the intersection is modified with a goal of reducing the chance of death, it can be difficult to know if that intervention worked. Supposing last year there was one death there and this year there weren't any; was that because of the design change, or just chance? But we do know that, in aggregate, some relatively constant percentage of collisions will result in deaths, and collisions overall are much more common than deadly ones, so even if the policy goal is to reduce deaths, measuring all collisions is a very useful, less-noisy proxy for determining if an intersection has been made less deadly.

So: original author is arguing that we can't meaningfully reason about these things because they're rare, and this commenter is saying "yes we can, if we find a more-common, less-noisy thing that's a good proxy for the rarer thing," and proposes that nuclear close calls are such a proxy.
I think almost the entire office vs wfh argument is based around commute quality. When I lived an hour drive from the office I hated going in and WFH was a blessing. Then I moved to the city and lived a 10 minute walk from the office and ended up going in half the time just because it was no bother to go in.
I don't know? People say this a lot.
I do not think I have an issue approaching women.
Of course with some I lack the confidence.
But usually those are the ones who are leagues above my head.
I do approach women I deem approachable.

I unfortunately end up friendzoned, even when I make it clear from the start that I am romantically interested.
I think it depends on what you think "games" means. If you think it means AAA titles, then no, 80% of AAA titles don't fail at the last step.

80% of all games created, including all the absolute garbage, fail. At least, that's how I read it.

It's like when they say "90% of new businesses fail." Sure, but most of those were bad ideas in the first place.
Someone who is a strong marketing/sales person has loads of opportunities. Why would they want to spend their time working with you when you don't even seem to have a product or know what problem you are solving? I would suggest getting a full-time job. Maybe try again in a few year with more savings, a stronger idea of what problem you are solving and more business experience. [Context: Running my own 1 man software product company since 2005].
> why would a guy with supposed knowledge of military history and how alliances can often cause nations who are allied to come in to wars

There's no military history of nuclear wars. This could be the difference in Putin's head.
Don't you still have to excavate though? The dirt has to go somewhere...

Also, if you were a daredevil type, maybe you could go in head-first. That's called skeleton right?
I think you're comparing Apples with Oranges when you mention the price of Switch games.

Sure, a three year-old Pokemon game might still cost $40, but you have a cartridge you can resell and get almost all of that money back (or even more, if you're happy to wait a few years). With Steam, every dollar you spend is gone forever.
Steve Jobs had a bug up his butt about machines that could play games being "toys for kids" and he did everything he could to have the Mac treated like a "serious business" machine, part of that included sticking with boring corporate monochrome graphics.

I think he was mostly trying to avoid comparisons to the 8 bit Apples.

The other reason being of course that VRAM was breathtakingly expensive at the time and you could save some money by going with 1 bit per pixel. All in all the Mac with its 512x342 monochrome display tended to come out looking nicer than the contemporary 320x200 16 color EGA graphics.
Turkey airlifts additional TB2 UCAVs to Ukraine
Non-binary, right
The primary goal is to add TypeScript for types and abstractions. I dont think the JS runtime the TypeScript transpiler targets matters as long as it can be transpiled to the current version. I wasnt aware of that project but now I will look into it.
Its authenticity has even been acknowledged by The Guardian.

"Now, however, almost no one disputes [the laptop's] authenticity."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/27/hunter-biden...
> . You aren't mixing state across server and client. Single Source of Truth is a thing for a good reason. If you have a stateful backend, and your front end naturally has the state of whatever the user has input, you now have to work to keep those two in sync.

Why would I want to keep any state on the client? What in the history of the web (the whole idea being its someone elses computer) would make it a good idea to take away the one major selling point of the web? That no matter what, someone else has the state I need, and I never have to worry about losing that if something happens to my connection. It either went through or it didn't.
UI should be drawn on the GPU. Absent rendering, slow cores are more than sufficient to do layout/etc. interactively.
Please stop spreading propaganda. The khojali massacre has not been confirmed anywhere but azerbajani sources.

In the meanwhile please refer to bombing of stepanakert with cluster munitions and precision bombing of maternity wards, hospitals and churches.
It's pretty remarkable that, for efficient data processing, it's super super important to care about memory layout / cache locality in intimate detail, and this will probably be true until something fundamental changes about our computing model.

Yet somehow this is fairly obscure knowledge unless you're into serious game programming or a similar field.
They don't even let you buy MOST old games to emulate officially. There's plenty of SNES, GBA, etc games that do not have a legal path to play other than finding the original cartridge on ebay and hoping your original hardware still works.
Migrating from Procmail to Sieve
You're going to be waiting in line for a long time.
I'm sorry, but how is a company deciding not to localise and release a product to a certain market unethical?
Which latency are you suggesting is limited by the speed of light?
It's a "terrible language" in that it doesn't resemble most languages currently in use, but it resembles Hypercard's language Hypertalk a lot, so at the time it was created, this was a good idea. Hypercard/Hypertalk made GUI programming possible for non-technical people in a way that has not been possible since.
And yet, we know the people have been burying people for as far back as we can go. Are we too removed from it now that it seems strange to us? Maybe death has become too sterile and removed from our everyday existence. And modern medicine has made it so we don’t die as quickly as we used to.
Vinkensport
I’ll never quite get over the fact that many of these computers could just be designed with the components (and exploding battery) facing down so that, when they leak their corrosive fluids, they will flow away from the board.

OTOH, who’d imagine back then we’d still be using and cherishing these little machines?
Yep, my Cloudflare API is not working already, I keep just got my first errors
Taiwan’s semiconductor ban could spell catastrophe for Russia
The original article does this straw man trick of pretending that the models act like every day is independent. That’s not how it works at all. They’re not modelling the chance of a spontaneous war erupting without cause on day X. Motivated authors just pretend that’s what the models mean because it makes it easy to ridicule.

Regarding this — “it’s probably impossible to estimate the probability” - ok - well. I think we have to unpack that a lot!

I would say: “we can model the event.” That’s an absolute. (Anyone who disagrees with that statement just does not understand the statement)

It does not mean the models are accurate. The model will provide probabilities. How much confidence can we have in the probabilities? Now this is where the difficulty lies. The probability itself will be a low number. And our confidence won’t be very high. That’s automatically creates an opening for any bad faith commentator to say launch an attack. And yet… what’s the alternative? Pretend it cannot be modelled as various commentators in this page (but not you) have done? Pretend that a model with low probabilities or low confidence can be dismissed? The best response (if we agree that nuclear war is a Bad Thing and worth avoiding) is to improve the models, not ignore them - and of course in so doing —- to try and avoid nuclear war.
Check the ESP32-CAM. Very cheap, although there's some diy involved.

https://dronebotworkshop.com/esp32-cam-intro/
And then they're spotty about what they'll actually allow you to buy that way anyway. I would have loved to play the first NA released Fire Emblem legitimately, but they only released it for WiiU.
Guilty until proven innocent is what the DMCA is. Perhaps one of the most asinine, imbecilic, and nonsensical laws of our time.
To further add detail, the un resolution is focused sqarely on kelbajar region, which in any negotiation logic (madrid, kazan, etc) was slated to return to Azerbajan once the status of Karabakh was determined
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Could LEO satellite networks like Starlink with inter-satellite links reduce the roundtrip time?
The time to open a Web browser seems roughlz constant since 1993.
Not a jab at them, but I'm not looking forward to the state of the war on the 7th.
Working with their representatives (admittedly only tangentially, mostly via observation) during my time at ARIN, as well as their prior body of decision making work and how it's positively influenced the outcome of the Internet as a whole.
Another ugly face of war. Paralympic ban: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-ne....
> Nintendo is famous for reselling old games on each and every new platform they build and this takes away that revenue.

I get why you might think this but it’s also almost categorically wrong nowadays. Sony and Microsoft have significantly larger portions of their old games available for replay or purchase than Nintendo does. The only virtual console content produced for the Switch has been locked behind their low quality online servers. I definitely look forward to BOTW2 and maybe an end-of-generation Pokémon game but otherwise I have a very dim view of Nintendo.
That's...not how that works. The FCC requires power be dropped to compensate for antenna gain.

https://afar.net/tutorials/fcc-rules/
Sure, and the cost of this line of thinking will be thousands and thousands more dead.

What you're saying here is that your stories are more important than lives.

Look, it's in our interests for ukrainians to die and keep russia bogged down. If I were on "our side", i'd be saying, yes -- keep them in the war for as long as possible. Let russia get bogged down here for years!

But I'm inclined to actually keep Ukrainians alive. Its clearly too late for that. The west has set itself the task of regime change in russia, and ukraine is going to be our foolish attempt to trap russia. It won't work.

Russia's miltary isnt struggling. It's playing with its hands tied behind its back. It can, and will, level ukraine. Its been trying to offer them a route to surrender with minimal casualities. The west is trying its hardest to keep them in the war.

Within the month ukraine will be rubble.
That nato members bordering with Russia see Russian expansion and Russian ambitions to restore old glory as direct threat is fascinatingly ignored aspect ... especially considering that "buffer zone" nonsense is being repeated as if Ukraine divided Russia from nato before

And that USA is member of nato for own interests and that first time there is actual threat to nato they should not ignore it entirely is also fascinatingly ignored argument.

And they surrounding countries taking in refugees is not not particular oddity since surrounding countries always have to take refugees when aggressor goes in is also ignored argument.
In CPython 2, a `str` was bytes period; no encoding was enforced, these bytes were not necessarily valid UTF-8, and a `unicode` had either UTF-16 or UTF-32 in-memory representation (decided at compilation time). In CPython 3, a `bytes` is bytes and a `str` has ASCII/UTF-16/UTF-32 in-memory representation (decided at runtime).
So CPython 2 strings were not “bytes of UTF-8”, and that is why strings `'\xfc\xf7\xe9'` worked fine, they even printed fine in the proper environments.
What item #3 tells you is that any performance gains in the last decade and a half you've experienced have been driven by multi-core, not faster processors. And that means Amdahl's Law is more important than Moore's Law these days.

Uh or storage and networking? Not sure why you would leave that out, since they're the bottleneck in many programs.

The slowest things are the first things you should optimize
If we have N nuclear states, the possibilities of conflicts between them must scale at least as N^2/2, counting the hypothesis of a country using nukes against itself (civil war/secession).
> And then there's the task of marketing/selling it, which is way outside of my skillset.

This may be more within your skillset than you realize. If you haven't tried - really tried, you'll never know.

I don't know what your runway looks like, but if you haven't dropped everything and tried to make a sale, now is the time. Find something over the last 20 years that you've done that seems sellable. Look through your past contacts to find people likely to be interested. Then contact them. If the customer pipeline is too thin, try to make one through cold calling. Even if it doesn't work, you'll learn a lot.

Bottom line, you must start thinking about customers. You don't need to be a marketing pro, but you do need to have a very specific idea of who your customer is, what problems they have, and whether or not they can actually pay you.

If this sounds impossible, or if you've tried it and it will never sit right with you, then you should realize it's not going to be any easier after riverdb is done.
I took a poke around; it looks like the source code is a little dead and incomplete (e.g. I see mentions of paypal, but no imports of paypal libraries or targeting paypal apis).

Some of the text (like business rules) are genuine insight/wisdom-mines, though. It might not be overly useful to fork this stuff, but it is definitely useful inspiration! Major props to the authors for open sourcing big chunks of their work and perspectives.
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Did you mean this as an absurdist satire? If not, calling it a "Modest Proposal" is a misstep.
I'm blown away by the quantity and quality of responses here. Thank you guys so much for the plethora of heartfelt and honest advice. I can't respond to everyone, but I read every single comment here.

You're right that I made the typical engineers mistake of building before validating the market and the customer's problems. As I developer I feel confident there is a market there, but I have no idea how large it is, how difficult it would be to make sales, etc. I probably should have started there. Also I think I chose something a little too difficult to pull off as a single founder - I have a track record of doing that. Next time it had better be stupidly easy to get an MVP out the door.

I think I probably knew this in my heart before I posted here, but I'm going to get a full-time job and focus on getting some more savings in-place for my future family. I'm also going to try picking up some of the business, marketing, and sales skills I lack in the process. I'll keep my eyes open, and maybe in the process I'll encounter a good problem to solve, or meet like-minded individuals I could collaborate with.

Thank you all for your helpful and frank advice! I really needed that today to feel more comfortable with taking this decision.
No? I can still have people over, and I can still enjoy my hobbies at home. But I don't have a spare bedroom going unused that I can make an office. My office can only overlapping with my personal "fun" space.
UC Berkeley prepares to slash enrollment after California Supreme Court ruling
Guy has obviously not put up a lot of fence posts.
This guy came from money. I had a Mac SE but couldn't afford that 30MB drive. I had two floppy disks instead.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1499241067153...

(Navy War College prof, opinions his own.)