skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foam is almost non existent in 2022 Ikea packaging. It's almost all 99% cardboard.
And one day a random bot decides to ban your account and everything is gone.
That seems like a weird thing to put in the site footer, are they getting a lot of haters?
As a professional classical musician and engineering lead, I agree with you whole heartedly about the parallels between music and engineering.. and I encourage you to take it a step further.

Music, of any genre, is never about reproducing the notes and dynamics accurately. MIDI does that, and the day we can create historically informed MIDI we will have it perfected.

Rather, music is about the spontaneous communication and individuality that occurs WHILE reproducing those notes and dynamics. Genres differ in which dimensions of freedom the musician can use, but not in that fundamental objective. In classical music it's what makes it worthwhile to hear different interpreters of the same piece. It's why it's worth the 5 year waiting list to see Wagner in Bayreuth, when arguably the greatest rendition of The Ring in 100 years (Solti, Chicago, fight me) is available relatively cheaply everywhere.

If that's the case...

1) Encourage your classical friends to break out of the mindset of "cooking the recipe the master chef made exactly." Audiences complain that classical music is sterile and doesn't speak to them, precisely because this mindset is so common among all but the most elite performers. Also, notice that NO elite performers approach their musicianship that way.

2) Notation and theory must have a slightly different purpose than the one you articulated. I believe they're simply there as tools of communication between musicians, to describe recurring patterns we hear. Otherwise we'd be forever saying things like "Beethoven 3, is the one that starts with that thing where it sounds like it's going to end but really doesn't." Calling it a "deceptive cadence" or even a "surprise VI" is just way easier and lets us communicate (and operate) on a higher level of abstraction. It's the same way "dependency injector class" tells you about a given chunk of code, and lets us reason about its place in the larger structure. A great engineer isn't defined by their ability to reproduce a textbook dependency injection class, but rather by their ability to adapt the concept of dependency injection well, in the right places and times.
Fans are cheaper and lighter than bulky passive cooler, it's that simple. And (almost) nobody cares.

Why are you still wondering is the real question here.
BS the Legend of Zelda
Well that’s just more speech which is of course welcomed. What’s happening on campuses is quite different.
There’s two main attributes of languages as far as typing goes:

Static vs dynamic: when a variable is declare does the compiler know and enforce the type? e.g. can I declare a variable as a string and then assign it an int to it? If you can then you have a dynamic language. If you can’t then you have a static language. Examples of static are Java, Rust, and C++. Examples of dynamic are Python, JavaScript, and Ruby.

The other attribute is weak vs strong typing. Weakly typed languages will coerce types where appropriate. for example if I try to compare “1” with 1 a runtime error occur for a strongly typed language, a weakly typed language will coerce “1” -> 1 and return “true”. Examples of strongly typed languages are Ruby and Java. Examples of weakly typed languages are JavaScript.

Mostly statically typed languages are strongly typed.

My definitions probably aren’t rigorous, but I think they’re good enough.
> That's literally how pointers already work.

With the huge difference that Go’s pointers don’t statically require checking if they’re `null`.

Furthermore, you can add functor and monadic APIs to `Option` which provide completely safe (and somewhat efficient) usage patterns even if you build the option out of product types.

Though that isn’t the case here, an other interesting item is that you can build an option type out of non-pointer, thus avoiding the indirection and allocation (though hopefully unlike the C++ committee you don’t do it just so you have a pointer without an allocation)
It's not only storage. I think most will be fine after 30 years.

The problem is often: how are you going to read it after all those years?

I got floppy disks that are ~25 years old. But without an old USB disk drive there is no way to know if they still are readable. And if USB-C becomes the norm I am not sure if I can read them ever again.
This completely misses the point of your hypothetical, but if you only have two humans left your descendants will inevitably die out due to inbreeding. Two individuals isn't enough genetic diversity to sustain a species.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population
Either way it sounds like it was good to discover this in a situation that didn't require ejection.
That's like a third of the population of China.

To put that in perspective, the fastest video on Youtube to reach 500M was Adele's Hello in 34 days, and that was the entire global internet.
sqlite is opaque? I've got this script to list my open tabs, and a few more scripts for other Firefox actions.

$ grep FIREFOX ~/.bashrc
export FIREFOX_DIR=$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/q3m93qpe.default-release/

$ cat ~/.local/bin/ff-tabs
#!/bin/bash
lz4jsoncat $FIREFOX_DIR/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4 | jq -r '.windows[].tabs[].entries[-1] | .title, .url, ""'
We’re working on improving the accessibility story for TUIs. Since we’re targeting the web we can add screen reader support.
Snapshot was stored on discs that cannot be read by today's computers
I think this post hits the nail on the head. Before LSP, you could google for “$language Vim support” and find some results but more often than not, you were going to get nothing.

Once LSP gained popularity, the question shifted to “why doesn’t $language have a language server yet?” which set an easy goal post for languages and compilers to go from 0 to 1 in terms of IDE support.
What's wrong with paragraph numbers? They are more precise.
Is there a similar site tracking how long it has been since Steve Jobs said Facetime would become an open standard?
Water boards are an actual layer of government in the Netherlands, they levy taxes and there are elections for them. I don't know their exact powers regarding contracts.
Ha! Of course I would choose an example based on JSON, not sqlite, but the point still stands. Sqlite is one of my favorite file formats, it presents the data in an interface far easier to manipulate for a one-off CLI command than writing another Python script with open() and dozens of re.sub().
For context - Shanghai is reporting around 50 COVID deaths per day at the moment:

https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3175393...

Shanghai adds 51 new deaths from Covid-19, takes total toll to 138 amid rise in symptomatic cases

City reports rise in new symptomatic cases to 2,472, while total new infections amounted to 19,455 in the previous 24 hours, a slight decline

Local health authorities in Beijing say the virus has been spreading undetected in the city for about a week
For me it was documentation: I don't mind having to look things up with a new system but there does need to be a clear place to look the current things up. Instead I had to resort to Google which pointed to out of date solutions and package-names. Reducing everything to 'pin the tail on the donkey' for me and impeding me getting the system I want.

And I love the idea behind it and the programs only available within X directory encapsulation but for me the docs just weren't clear enough when I tried.

I should try again. :-/
Ty, appreciate that.

From what I understand WSL2 uses a virtualised Linux kernel, so it makes sense everything is similar enough to work there. I've heard lots of people like to use WSL1 instead, but I'm not sure of its future.
I guess the author meant "types of types".
The work that investigative journalist do is amazing and should be widely supported r regardless of political skew provided that their data and evidence is made open and viewable to the public.

Here’s others to support:

- https://www.propublica.org/

- https://www.icij.org/

- https://www.publicintegrity.org/

- https://revealnews.org/

- https://www.themarshallproject.org/
Nothing about the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans, which was quite a show. There was even an ocean-going oil rig on display you could clamber over, a cable car across the Mississippi--ten stories high at least--and other attractions. A report on the Dubai World's Fair is that: it was disappointing. Several countries saved money by just showing films; you can see the same material on the Internet without having to travel to Dubai. Only some countries offered their national cuisine; the event didn't even qualify as a decent trade show.
Its a little off-topic, but my dad passed away last year and left behind a collection of about 40 slide rules.

Aside from his personal slide rule from university and his first job (working at ICL in Manchester designing multiplier boards for mainframes) I don't really want the rest of the collection.

Does anyone else want them?
For those who missed it, this article was referenced in a more general article titled "No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing", which was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143279
https://sourcevault.github.io/resume/key10.png

You are welcome !
This is not an accident. In 1888 (long before any socialist or communist country existed to validate the theory), the American socialist Benjamin tucker predicted that the Marxist form of socialism and it's derivates would necessarily lead to totalitarianism, with some eerily prescient predictions born out by the experiences in Venezuela, Cuba, china, USSR, etc.

If anyone claims that state socialism will have any other outcome (assuming they believe in science the process of prediction and confirmation) then it's on them to explicitly explain what, exactly, in their proposed implementation diverges from Tucker's model that would make their vision of state socialism turn out differently.
Here in India, it made everything slow, my ping changed from 2ms to 140ms and speed from 300 to 10
Hmm, I just get a link to HackerRank of Codility in the first screening round. I can’t understate how insulting I find this
> something better than Wikipedia, perhaps

You can probably ask a large language model like GPT-N to generate a summary.
> Of course there are employees here of social media corporations who would want to stem the tide of this mass exodus, but it's useless.

Is there evidence of a mass exodus? The parent post seems to me like kind of social media post driven by addictive emotions. It's an expression of strong emotions, but curious, exploratory, or providing knowledge.

> real technological progress for the nation

When was YC's motive to serve the 'nation'? They existed long before the recent surge in economic nationalism (a platform of some very bad people in history, BTW), are an international company in an exceptionally international business - one mainly driven by a free international WAN, and, I would have said, and I long heard from SV in general, a desire to change the world for the better. To help people, not some putative 'nation' - which always ends up meaning 'my power', and by talking about the 'nation' instead of people, they exclude other people from power and basic human rights. The purpose of government is to serve and protect people.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143279
We need more dams. For "renewable" energy.
We, that is Proxmox VE (Linux based clustering & hyper-visor distro) and our other projects, had to roll back that exact change due to issues on some test HW a few months back, but it has to be said that we're on the 5.15 LTS while Fedora will use 5.17, so it may just be that there are a few fixes/improvements missing.

For us, it wasn't worth the deeper investigation, so we went to just ensure simplefb (same spirit w.r.t. taking over the firmware frame buffer, but no DRM) is activated for now.

Albeit, on one machine we could also get simpledrm to work after a BIOS update, so I'm definitively interested in how that plays out with Fedora.

In any way, it's definitively a welcomed change, so if it plays out well for them, I'll try to switch again with our next Kernel jump.
> I am curious when China will adjust their model/plan for COVID to consider the vast amount of counter-evidence that is accumulating.

Probably it will take at least one year and a half - two years, at least that's how long it took the Western authorities to somehow change their discourse. Some people around the Western parts of the world still believe in mask mandates, to say nothing of the vaccine mandates if you want to visit their country (Greece, for example).

Thankfully all this China situation will have eased up the censorship reflex present in some Western media/social platforms, now it's again cool and super ok to complain about the lockdowns and to call them authoritarian because it's the evil Chinese that are implementing them. When us, the West, were doing them it was "for democracy" and for the greater good (for "the demos"). When the streets of NYC or London were empty because of lockdowns it was a civic thing, when the streets of Shanghai are empty (as The Economist was decrying in one of the its latest issues) is because the Chinese authorities want the worst for their people.
Microfiches would be a great more practical alternative I think :)
I tried purelymail and it's a good service for the money. The only problem I had is that the spam filtering is really bad.
By "trace" I mean the act of consulting the state of an object, then recursively tracing pointers in the object. A tracing GC propagates a "known to be live" state through an object graph while doing a collection cycle, and a refcounting GC propagates a "known to be dead" state through an object graph, when RC drops to zero.
She? They?

the website is called christine.website so it is probably not a man
Revolutions use angry young men as fuel. China's young men population is proportionally small. Further, due to the legacy of the four-grandparent-policy and Confucian respect-for-elders tradition, the young that exist have high family responsibilities. Perhaps there will be something new in China - something that comes from the same place as revolution but without the testosterone.
There is a recent Yannic Kilcher interview about LAION.

> LAION-5B: 5 billion image-text-pairs dataset (with the authors)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOE1l1W0Tw

A nice recent result (DeepMind) is that you can either make the dataset 4x larger or the network 4x larger to get the same result. So a large dataset could create a more efficient/smaller model and in turn it could be easier to distribute and use.

https://www.deepmind.com/publications/an-empirical-analysis-...
Only 3 decades puts an LTO tape firmly in play. But the drive is pricy if you buy new.

They're used so much by huge businesses[1], those archives will still be on tape in 30 years.

The tar format (tape archive) likewise will still be around.

Probably the biggest worry would be the interface connector, but considering you can buy serial adapters, and RS-232 is over 60 years old, you'll be able to get a USB adapter for whatever ports we have in 30 years.

The standard archive mechanism for the film industry when committing a film's footage to The Vault, is LTO and hard drive. Good enough for Disney is good enough for me.

If a cataclysmic change happens in storage media enough to unseat billions upon billions of LTO tapes, there'll be plenty of warning as the whole world changes over. And you'll be able to pick up spare drives for a pittance.

[1]: Shipping over 100 exabytes per year. This is slightly less than what just Seagate shipped in HDD capacity, but every byte of LTO storage is both with long term retention in mind.
What sleeping pill can knock you out after that day? LSD makes you WIRED for hours and hours. Same with amphetamine, but to a much lesser degree.
Sure :) But I'd rather have a standard contract that's modulated by local employment law than a bespoke contract that's modulated by local employment law. Or have optional blocks included or not (that makes a Joel Test for contracts almost self-documenting).
I didn't manage to find anywhere to buy these in my country. They could be tricky to get.
Wolfire Games is a tiny studio. Wikipedia says 4 employees. Development of Overgrowth is mostly one person, who documented the whole process in fascinating weekly videos:

https://m.youtube.com/c/WolfireGames/videos

The title says "game engine" because the artwork remains proprietary (similar to old id games, buy the game to get it).

However, just to clarify, all the game code (including gameplay logic, which is sometimes not considered part of the "game engine") is Apache 2.0.

GitHub page: https://github.com/WolfireGames/overgrowth
youtube was made by copying other people's movies and music videos... google made by indexing other people's web sites and sometimes putting the juicy info into a snippet which avoids the google user from clicking over to the web site that is giving the info..
google images..
phub.. xhams. xvid..
so many big things are just using other people's things.
some with permission and royalties (netflix, spotify, pandoara)
some quasi (pinterest)

It's not really fake it till you make it as much as steal till you get caught, but keep stealing from many others and you will continue to gain audience even if you loose a few items from your stolen inventory when caught, you keep getting more items for your visitors than you loose.

This formula appears to work well. sad really.
Bees have tongues? Insects have tongues???
When I worked at British Aerospace Dunsfold in the late 80s/early 90s, it was a hard rule that nobody got to sit on an ejector seat unless that had been training in its use. I am surprised that it's not an absolutely universal rule. The consequences of inadvertently triggering an ejection while in the maintenance hanger are pretty ugly.
Interesting, I'd never heard this and can't seem to find a reference to it.

Btw, in Jewish tradition, burial should happen as soon as possible, usually the same day or the day after.
I don't know how many times we need to see a post about this book. I read it. People read it. its in bookshelves of zoom meetings, its in blog posts, websites, there are summaries, audio versions, youtube videos... basically everywhere. enough is enough. Yes, its an okay book, its fine. Obvious facts put in words properly. if you can apply it, you obviously didn't need this book in the first place anyway.
> [...] a person can only buy 10k in I-bonds per year

You can create a trust and buy an additional 10k/year.
On one side of the equation, where you've got zero (but it's not, it's just very close to zero) and the consequences may be your death of you don't act and are wrong.

It's like hearing gunshots outside the window of your house in your very safe hated community because someone thought it would be fun to prank you with a gun with blanks. Do you drive to the ground and maybe hurt yourself or knock some things over and damage them, or do you do nothing convinced that there's no way someone could be firing a gun close by?

I know what I'd do, and it's not the one that relies on a bunch of assumptions going against what the situation is presenting itself as when getting it wrong might mean my death.
Yes, for UI changes, we upload before and after screenshots too.
Textual will be keyboard focused with mouse support to aid discoverability. I agree it’s not a TUI if you can’t do everything with the keyboard, so I wanted to avoid things like floating windows or interactions that are impossible without the mouse.
As a general PSA: If you’re using any drugs it’s important to test with a reagent to make sure it’s what you expect. You can by kits with excellent instructions from DanceSafe.

https://dancesafe.org/
You can get an adapter from USB-C to USB-A.
You copy to Google and Dropbox as well.
They won't. Just like how there aren't any ketchup dispensors anymore but only packets. It's more expensive. So it's not entirely meaningless.
Spacecraft Telemetry and Command
Back in the early `90's there was a funny article, from Japan, being shared about a US fighter pilot who had ejaculated to safety after some mechanical issue with their plane.
Ask HN: What blogs do u use to learn everything building products, mkt and dev?
There are many blogging platforms available, but just a few stand out. This may be a great place to share what blogging platforms you use frequently, this could be also a great place to discover new platforms from others and learn from it.

Let me start

Medium,
Hashnode,
Hackernews,
Subreddit(Entrepreneur),
Twitter,
Dev to
Oh man. Stop overly romanticizing the past. People are, were, and will be people.

> For example, in most parts of the world 200 years ago, a woman being topless would not be sexualized but it is today.

Where? Not everywhere. You should look at all the differences in different places today before you generalize the Past as one monolithic place.
> if you can apply it, you obviously didn't need this book in the first place anyway.

That is false.
I grew up poor, but was lucky enough to go to a fairly 'rich' school district amongst fairly rich people (upper middle class more than "rich" I guess).

You know what I saw in rich kids?

Lots of drug use, stealing, petty vandalism and violence.

I just rarely saw them suffer any consequences for it.
"Do I have enough assets so I can in fact send the money to the seller of the tractor you just purchased?"

Yes you do. Because it is just an internal transfer within the bank. From your account at the bank, to the sellers account at the bank.

If it is to another bank, then that destination bank becomes a depositor in the source bank, which creates a loan to the source bank and a new deposit for the seller is created in the destination bank.

The destination bank does this otherwise the seller will move their bank account in disgust to the source bank - who does promise to complete the transfer.

All very simple and the way it has been done for centuries.

It's all loans create deposits - book entries.
I doubt deaths are very low. I have basically no network there but even I have heard of multiple deaths.
I think we are getting teased along a bit with all of the 'almost there' posts. I want to be excited about it, but I feel they are spoiling the suspense.
Maybe this is a US thing, but during 8 years of studying (media science among other things) I never once have seen an occasion where I would've seen use in protest. Sure there are people with differing opinions and political backgrounds, but in the end there is a minimum bar of merit people have to cross. It is not like we are inviting edgy "controversial" youtubers who cite papers they only have read the titles from to construct theories that have been falsified half a century ago without any interest in the actual field. Even if you study philosophy (like I did as well) the debates are typically extremely focused on the subjects at hand. So what you won't see is some guy from a political party trying to shoehorn what they already belive into a theory of everything held together by good will and hand waving. This is just not worthy of any discussion at all and would drag down the level of debate.

Of course that could depend of the field you are studying in, but you are either interested in the truth or you are interested in making a political point. Both at once is rarely the case.