skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I have zero silicon design experience.

However, I have designed computer game engines that use 32-bit floats throughout and encountered rounding errors in practice.

I’ve found that there’s always a solution that avoids the need to go past 64 bits, and even that is a last resort.

So for example the circle could be approximated with a polygon. Or fixed-point arithmetic can be used. Or simply use a quad-tree or related space partitioning algorithms to check for intersections.

There are literally thousands of algorithms that sidestep these issues and are used extensively in computer games, typically at 32-bit precision exclusively.

For example “back in the day” you would often see shimmering due to “z-fighting”. You would also often see white pixels due to “cracks” between adjacent polygons.

All of these are largely gone now. The problems have been solved without the enormous performance hit of 64-bit doubles, let alone 128!

Meanwhile contemporary CAD programs would insist on using 64-bit doubles, even through the OpenGL pipeline out to the screen.

But if you sit down for a second and just divide your screen (or wafer mask) by the range of your chosen numbers you’ll instantly see that you have thousands of steps per pixel (or atom!) to work with.

Any visible noise is your fault for choosing the wrong algorithm, not the fault of the hardware for not providing enough bits.
Except Unicorn (which I believe to have been there before massive addition), I think the reason Gundam saw an addition is because they signed a distribution deal for Hathaway's Flash, and since HF refers to many events in original UC continuity, people would wanted some background on characters appearing in it (notably Hathaway, and maybe Quess, Amuro & Char).

I didn't subscribe to Netflix so I don't sure what Anime are being offered right now. With the recent deals (HF, Zero's Tea Time), I would have missed/skipped them, even though they are the series I liked. Maybe I will subscribe it once all episodes are shown so that I can watch it and forget it, but I won't subscribe to it long term.
Of course, I just think that the term mailman, even if gendered, isn't exclusionary.
> They are a gift to future generations who will reap the benefit without having to pay for it, …

Thanks to deficit spending they will be paying for it.

The only people getting a gift here are the ones fleecing the government to run up the costs. They get their money now and all our kids and grandkids get the bill.
Well, quoting u/formerly_proven from a 5 month old thread that someone linked above:

>Literally claiming copyright on this description for "find substring": "Given s and x, we want to know the zero-based index of the first occurrence of x in s" //

This is a functional description which has very limited possible English language forms and so it's highly unlikely to qualify for copyright in the first place. Anyone who has enough knowledge to file a DMCA request that is looking at this would consider that it is at worst Fair Use but in all probability is not infringing.

Seems a very strong case, if this quote is a true representation, for a claim of vexatious action.
The table is a bit outdated, we are going to fix it.
To be honest, YQL is a very popular language in our company, it is successfully used for more than 7 years, but I agree that outside people want to see more standard SQL dialect.
If you are hosting a bunch of services in Docker already it's easier to just add another image than doing something custom that you have to update in another way then the rest.
I got mine via vPost, no problems.
Those "well payed positions" have had flat salaries for decades, same as every other non-C-suite job, at least until recently (and now we have inflation eating salary increases). Working one job to support kids, a house, and a stay-at-home partner used to be possible. Not any longer. If your partner can't work or you'd prefer to have more attention paid to raising the kids, then two simultaneous jobs for the wage earner seems like a requirement today. Or you could choose to live like a common laborer, cheap old house, beater for a car, having to shop carefully on a budget. The middle class is not what it used to be, although you are encouraged to think it is [citation needed :-)]
>How can we create a more equitable financial system, where everyone has access to banking services?

I don't think Crypto is a "more equitable financial system" but it is a more equal one.
Except hitting HN frontpage
It boils down to working with people with inner motivation to deliver.

I guess my experience is more relevant to small and highly integrated teams.
Could you add some detail to your comment - I believe it's missing some biological nuance.

Specifically: sure, it you wanted to feed a pile of ATP to some luciferase to output photons. But that's missing the point that ATP gets (near) infinitely restored from ADP. If glucose is your energy source, that cuts your mass needs by ~50x ( C6=180g/mol, ATP=241g/mol, 36ATP per C6).
Are M1 Macs with Asahi Linux a viable option for daily-driver or they are not mature enough?
A lot of infrastructure (or rather anything that involves digging) projects in Istanbul result in archaelogical discoveries.

If the amount discovered is immense, some of it will make it to light of day, and a considerable amount will simply be destroyed, as the construction will continue despite the find. To my limited knowledge, once an artifact is found, it’s illegal to continue construction.

When the discoveries are small, the news of it will be suppressed and construction will continue normally. Some artifacts usually end up in the possession of the site manager or the owner of the contracted conglomerate.

There used to be independent journalism uncovering such events, this is no longer the case.
Came here to say that browsing through a web page full of loading animations turns out to be pretty frustrating.
Animations are looking nice though. Good luck on your product!
Foreign keys come at a cost, especially in distributed database. It's just a fact. If you can avoid them, it's great.
That depends on the nutrients available. Water is one necessity for terran life, but you also need some building material and a source of energy.

And obviously absence of anything toxic. In short lot of things need to align.

Now, even if there are conditions favorable for our bacteria, the question of competition remains. Hypothetically, the invaders can carve niche in local ecology, as they often do on Earth, or they might utterly fail, as happens even more often on Earth.

If there are organisms on Europa already, and that is a big 'if', they would have several billions of years worth of head start adapting to the environment and molding it to their image. Conversely, newly introduced bacteria, already damaged by exposure to deep space and deprived of nutrients for many months or years, would see it for the first time.

It isn't given that this experience would work out for them, to say at least.
Ah yes. So that must mean everyone supporting it is ‘right wing’ then? It only is just a ‘libertarian’ creation.

I don’t know why one can try to assign a left/right political affiliation to a technology that is on neither side and can be used by anyone.

Everyone knows she is hilariously incorrect on that one.
My aggravation with infrastructure projects is not with the rebar and concrete parts but with the “everyone will vote for this, so I’m going to staple some completely unrelated pork to it” BS that is frequently attempted and sometimes succeeds in US politics.

Of course, one person’s pork is another person’s dinner, so it’s unlikely to stop.

I’m not sure this project would have been viewed quite as favorably as the Big Dig: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge though there are many who characterize the Big Dig itself as a massive pork barrel project.
Huawei Matebook looks interesting alternative to Macbook

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/laptops/matebook-14-amd-2020/

Similar build and high power CPUs (not the mobile optimized/low power)
Also bear in mind: results of software developers are not defined by hours spent coding.

> less focused on work gradually in time

This might happen. It's a leader's job to keep in touch with the team and watch out for morale.
Why did they ban alcohol? In Australia during lockdowns our booze supply was considered an essential service. :S
> Because growth is what is required to make capitalism "sustainable".

Also because there are lots of significant debts around (at country/state/corporate/personal levels) that for sure will not be ever repayed if there's not a growth (or jubilee) mecanism somewhere.

But indeed, "growth" depends on how you define it, on what you value, what equivalences you define.
Euclidean TSP is easier than general symmetric TSP. Polynomial-time approximation schemes (PTAS) were discovered in parallel by Arora (1998) and Mitchell (1999). AFAIK those algorithms are not very practical though. I haven't followed subsequent work in any detail, but I haven't heard of any major breakthroughs since then.
To me it had leftist anarcho roots, but whatever floats their boat, I guess.
Can someone please explain to people outside of UK/SA/AU what the heck this stuff is?
the entire Google ecosystem has gone downhill by killing off products or invading people's privacy for advertisers. i heard even your gdrive files are mined for advertisement.
Its better then ever.

1. Use Chocolatey (winget is still new). You can setup everything via it, and I mean everything - node, postgre, docker, vscode, all browsers, selenium and drivers etc.

2. Learn Powershell, but learn it really good. Adopt PowerShell build system Invoke-Build

3. Install better terminal - ConEmu or Windows terminal

4. Enrich Windows using FOSS and cross platform tools: choco install copyq, flameshot, less, fzf, paint.net, git, tortoisegit, winscp, kitty, screentogif, sysinternals, wiztree, gsudo, lockhunter, signal, viber, slack

5. Disable Windows Defender and use some debloater (controversial, but I do it, and system is at least x2-x5 faster). I use https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 along with ShutUp10 tool.

6. Install the best search engine in the world: cinst everything

Enjoy, its awesome.
I live in a four-plex apartment, but surrounded by other low-rise apartment buildings.

There are at least 27 WiFi networks in the 2.4 GHz bands that all dance to share bandwidth. 5 GHz is dramatically better for us, more channels and less contention.

For cellular networks, however, the only reliable service is Verizon, because they have lower-frequency bands that can provide more range out here.
If you're going for small(er) brands, another entry to the list is the [Penguin J4](https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-j4-gnulinux-l...), which has a replaceable battery.

Speaking of big brands, the Dell XPS developer edition is on paper very Linux compatible, although in pratice, it's (insulting) marketing fluff (I've had one). I second the Thinkpads compatibility (I had several, I think they were T/W).
It's hard to have a charitable take on a huge majority of the cryptocurrency space when the web is drowning in all of the greedy bad actors that use the ideologies listed in this article as cover to push the grifts that inevitability harm my less technical friends and family.
https://archive.ph/BBklb
For content you copied to begin with????
WSL2 with docker containers should bring you quite close to the environment you're used to. Added benefit of working from containers locally is the server parity in OTAP
Battery Life Lipo:

- Run it in by fully charge it 2-3 times, (deplete it with normal use)

- Normal use keep it between 20-80%, write yourself a script or something to stop charging manually/automatically

- Deplete/fully charge it quarterly or twice a year to give the bms a change to balance the cells.
> If the measurement isn't expected to be accurate how can it accurately inform you of the amount of work your team can do in a period of time?

Please don't misquote me just to push a point, I said "extremely accurate". They are an estimation. An estimation is NOT a deadline. It is not supposed to be extremely accurate. Here's what it says on the dictionary: "Estimation: A rough calculation of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something."

It is supposed to have noise and sometimes even inconsistencies, but over longer periods it will work alright. Some stories will take too long, some too little, but in the long run it tends to even out. The more a team measures together, the closer it gets to being a very good predictor. Sometimes my team ends up the sprint with two or three small tasks left to finish, no biggie, sometimes we end up a day before and we're able to do a bit more. That's fine by us.

> And management frequently tries to turn them into very rigid timelines

Seems like none of your problems are because of Story Points.

Story Points (at least in Scrum) are NOT for management. They are for developers to estimate how much they will pull from the backlog for a sprint. You have a process problem here.

Also, if your management is trying to turn estimation into rigid timelines, you have a severe management problem that should be fixed.

...even though it seems that the person asking for perfect accuracy here is you.

Story Points work fine for me. If they don't work for you, maybe you should ask what you're doing wrong and trying to fix the situation before throwing the baby away with the bathwater.

Or maybe ask what I'm doing different. I'd be more than happy to help.

What is not fine, however, is you claiming that something is shitty, inaccurate or source of frustration for you, just because you or your team aren't using it as intended. You clearly have an axe to grind with story points, but this says more about you than about the technique itself.
I switched to using DDG for the last few months, and unfortunately it's even worse than Google is. I mainly search for technical/programming purposes; as an example, DDG rarely if ever links to anything on docs.python.org (the canonical reference for python), compared to Google where the relevant page is usually in the top 5. For other domains they might be comparable though.
Yes! How you doing? Nice trick with the customized email from cy.md
Show HN: Web3 Developer Jobs with $200k+ salaries
The thing is that it isn't informative. It only tells you that in this particular benchmark, such-and-such is so-much faster. This does not extrapolate to your real world use cases unless by some fluke it happens to be a major bottleneck in your application.

The only actually informative benchmark is to port your application to use each of the the database engines, and then benchmark your application. That will maybe tell you something. Odds are what you were using before has a home field advantage by being fairly well optimized, so even then it doesn't tell you as much as you might believe.
South African here and I agree.
Impact of family background on children's education unchanged in a century
Because defaults matter.
I presume making the first page of HN was the prompt.
I think they just wouldn't have had the same press coverage in the tech press if they were selling a "Reparable Linux laptop" instead of a "Reparable laptop".

For the general public, it's not obvious that an OS can be changed.
I'd add that the recent wave of spam plaguing Google Drive, and lack of adequate response from Google to address this massive problem, also contributes to erode confidence in their services.
I was sick of this so I made an online emulation platform https://afterplay.io. It's the easiest way to play your retro games.
No matter how many times you want to call it theft, copyright infringement is simply not the same thing.
They also banned selling cigarettes
What’s wrong with the square root, apart from the fact that it’s not defined over all of R?
It’s a fairly well behaved function overall.
> ...South Africa banned alcohol sales in an attempt to free up beds in hospitals that would otherwise be filled with tipsy drivers or drunken brawlers.
The same guy that started QEMU also started ffmpeg.. two very complex pieces of software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
Also South African, also agree.
Ask HN: Chat with Direct Message in a Webapp
I want to add ability to send direct messages to my webapp. Small social network with 100k users. Requirements:

- Open source or SaaS with SDK (preferably not Google)
- Basic functionality is OK (no need for groups, threads) send message, block user etc.

Nice to have
- Vue.js component would be great
- E2E encryption

I've been looking into couple of options like Twilo, but it's too expensive and I need just a small subset of features. I'm worried about deplatforming. I'd prefer not to roll out my own crypto/protocol implementation like https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/13820
> Personally..as a woman.. I find it insulting and humiliating as the whole world stands dumb and uncaring as our identity is being chiseled away. It feels cruel and is bewildering and hurtful. I hope that one day, we will receive the apologies due to us.

I feel the same as a man. It's hard to process your identity as a man when all you hear about is toxic masculinity, patriarchy, all men being rapists and stuff like that. Some people have identities that don't really fit into the "regular molds", and I'm glad that as a society we're progressing to accept them more. I just wish this process wasn't so destructive for everyone else.
I think that the widespread implementation of crypto would immediately make the world more complex and thus less susceptible to centralizing forces. This means that in order to get things done, society will have to rely more on self-organizing small groups of individuals.

In my view, less centralization is the at the bottom what libertarianism strives for, so it makes sense crypto is seeing as supporting it.
Any plans to adopt Coreboot or provide documentation and support to developers who want to port Coreboot to your mainboards?
Probably depends on the temperature it's stored at. It's definitely runnier on warmer days.
More ports would require another mainboard sku. But yeah I'd love a 15+ inch with 6 ports and more battery.
Asciidoc.org Has a New Design
> The OP didn’t ask how to measure employee performance or set expectations and goals. They asked how to identify employees who had multiple jobs.

While this statement is true, I'm nonetheless interested in a good ways to measure and agree on performance metrics. But please metrics that do not affect (especially the remote) in a negative way.
Personally I'm not so much of a fan to put number of people's performances, especially in development, which makes it really hard some times.
Is there a risk of condensation, damp and mould from homes with excessive insulation? Perhaps someone with some experience could comment.
> Google didn't get worse, the internet did and Google just reflects the junk we put in the pile.

Given Google's role in pushing stuff like Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), I'd say that Google's role in degrading the world's internet experience goes way beyond being an innocent bystander.
I would say not mature enough yet. There are plenty of things missing support right now.
Biden launches $6bn effort to save America’s distressed nuclear plants
Why must we use the loaded term 'toxicity'?

It starts your argument with: "Those who disagree with me are poison".
I don’t think there’s a bifurcation between “good” and “bad” people in crypto, the real world is a lot more grey, and how people behave doesn’t depend so much on their character, but on culture and incentives.

These days, we painfully observe the culture of crypto in every single online medium that isn’t very carefully moderated, for example Twitter.

And about incentives, I think it’s very hard not to become some kind of “evangelist” or “shill” when a significant fraction of your net worth is invested in a digital item whose sole value depends on enough other people also believing in the project. You need to spread the hype.

In my opinion, all of this would be fun and games if it weren’t for the massive negative externalities all of this cause in terms of environmental damage and accelerating the climate catastrophe. This is completely evident, which doesn’t stop some crypto holders from denying it with all kinds of illogical arguments. That’s understandable — see previous paragraph.
What you're describing is reminding me of how Itanium tried to bring VLIW to non-embedded spaces and found "make the compiler smart enough to use this well" to be much easier said than done.
The problem is that while these topics are interesting (and even crucial these days) they're often used in bad faith by people who are just in it because of the get-rich-quick scheme. You'll often see people push some cryptotoken using a thin veneer of political activism, saying that it's about taking control back or redistributing wealth etc... but it's rarely more than that.

In my experience if you attempt to push back and ask how exactly they propose to fix these problems they'll just resort to enumerating the failings of our current system (the 2008 crisis, wealth inequality, tax evasion by the wealthiest etc...) which is all fair, but how does cryptocurrency fix this? I'd argue that so far it's mostly demonstrated that it shares all these issues, only even more pronounced.

The pyramid scheme at the core of cryptocurrency poisons the well, that's the original issue with this entire thing. You can't have a good faith discussion when one side expects that they're going to be billionaires if things go their way. I acknowledge that there's definitely toxicity coming from us cryptoskeptics, but you have to acknowledge that these days easily 90% of any discussion involving cryptocurrencies is going to use shallow catchphrases pushed by people who don't understand the technology, don't understand basic economic principles and are just hoping that their $1000 in ShitCumShibaCoin is going to make them millionaires.

On top of that the cryptocurrency side has over a decade of unfulfilled promises to account for. As far as I'm concerned we've exhausted the discussion years ago. Any debate surrounding cryptocurrencies on HN from 2017 is equally as relevant today, there's no need to keep repeating the same arguments over and over again from both sides. So today I mostly dismiss anything cryptocurrency-related as a scam and move on. It works well, too.
Congratulations on the project.
Any plans for a 17 Inch screen?
Miso paste is made from fermented soybeans and often used to make soup; marmite is made from yeast extract, and usually spread on toast.

They're both salty and brown. Otherwise they have little in common.
I was and remain delighted that Marmite XO went from limited run to regularly available.
> Why did they ban alcohol? In Australia during lockdowns our booze supply was considered an essential service. :S

The ANC banned cigs and booze. It was later found out that their members were making money hand-over-fist in the underground markets for cigs. Maybe booze too.

Honestly, this government that is repeatedly voted in by the masses keeps screwing the masses that votes them in, but they won't ever be voted out because SA voters are very tribalistic and unquestioning loyal to the ANC.
I think iMessage is uniquely popular in the US since they all got hooked on SMS since their plans got "unlimited free texting" pretty early on, and iMessage is a mostly-transparent layer onto of SMS. Whereas in the rest of the world it was more common to be charged by the message so people adopted apps for "free texting". Also outside of the US it's probably more common to send international texts, which cost even more.
Perhaps this is an attempt by Canada to keep the American's out? Any investor that believes in climate change has got to be looking at the areas of the world that used to be colder and seeing opportunity. The closer someone lives to the equator the more desirable northern properties are going to look. It's not just the bugs, plants, and animals that are shifting north, the people are also.