skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ strings might be problematic, but the solution that EPOC came up with and then Symbian inherited was terribly bad. Symbian didn't really just have a single string type (as I'm sure you remember), but a set of different types for different scenarios. And actually this wasn't only strings, but, IIRC all allocated memory. But for strings it had types like e.g. zero terminated string on heap, zero terminated string on stack, non-zero terminated strings, i.e. ones that had a length (for both locations). The main issue being that you ended up having to remember all these different types, sometimes having to convert between them (APIs/library functions, of course would have different versions accepting different types). Conversion would then end up making the apps slow, as manipulation was hard and require a lot of code, people would end up overrallocating memory, etc. (while the whole idea behind these was efficiency).

I remember that concatenating a string to print a log message required several lines of code. (And I mean something simple like: `print("Request took", length, "seconds")`.)

It may have been OK or maybe an absolute necessity for EPOC, when it was running on PSION PDAs with 64-128k of RAM. It was also probably even manageable, because the apps must have been of a smaller code base.

The 3650 was the first S60 phone, IIRC. It came with 4MB of RAM. A decade or so earlier one could run Linux with a GUI on a similar machine and without the insane memory management tricks. And I'd say that the 3650 was still OK, nobody knew whether it would be problematic to develop software for this OS or whether even if people would really use apps. But it was apparent after a few years that Symbian was very constraining and that it would cause serious issues in the future and Nokia did (would) have the time to act and maintain a healthy market share. It would have been risky, of course, but inaction proved fatal.
What do the folks in the know believe it is?
That's a separate issue which should be a concern but shouldn't prevent you from wanting to correct the other issues. You can compare different outlets to see ommission of news.

The spin, speculation, and lack of sources are the other issues.

I would read a list of facts over a story. I hate fluff. Most people don't even read the story, they read the title and possibly the first/last paragaph.
> The {weekly,monthly,quarterly,yearly,whatever} review is where you do this sort of work.

That's true, but it doesn't tell you how to prioritize. It likely can't, as there are many different methods to do so, and none stand out over the others. However, I wish the book had made it clear that this is not covered, and you should consult other resources for this.

> Prioritizing a project means it's a project, not on the list, and deprioritizing one means moving it to the someday/maybe list

Yes, but it does say that weekly/monthly you should move items from one list to the other. As I said in another comment, my someday/maybe list is hundreds of items long. How do I choose which one to put into the active projects list? It's not feasible to look at hundreds of items and just decide which ones are important.

I've been using GTD for 15 years. Even if you put 30 items in the Someday/Maybe list per year (and this is conservative for me), you're looking at over 300 items by this point - especially given that of those 30, you'll probably be able to do only 3-5 in a given year.
Promise the leaders lots of support if things you want pass, and the leaders can help direct who you should be spreading your support around to. It doesn't matter at the individual level who actually votes for what you want as long as it passes. Let the leaders get the votes to pass it, and then they also concentrate their power and help direct where the rewards for passing it go.
Damn, I thought that's the url I was linking to. Copied the wrong url apparently.
I enjoyed this game quite a lot, I never figured out why it didn't take off even when it was free.
Easy peasy unless your system was built before it became illegal to "haphazardly" process PII. Even organization that take GDPR very seriously and invest a lot on compliance do not generally really know all the places where their legacy systems are storing PII. The law is draconian.
Darn, I clicked on it hoping for a new terrestrial energy production technology.
Sounds like Oasis lyrics
I've been surprisingly pleased with Kagi, a paid search engine in private beta right now. I believe they also use bing results was well as their own indexes. I've found the search results to be on par with Google and no longer feel the "well maybe google would find something this missed" anxiety from trying previous search engines. That being said, I've not given DDG a fair try but I appreciate the paid service model of Kagi. I do miss the shopping results on Google but that's really the only search use case I go back for.
This would be for a ship that stays in space, right? (as in, not using an NTR from ground to orbit)
Arm teachers and students.
> In fact, economists believe at best slavery did not provide any growth benefits over free labor and at worst it impeded America's economic development.

I don't know if this is true or not, but like this article I imagine the NYT is going to publish pro-reparations articles, and so wouldn't want to indulge this sort of even-handed thinking.
Not sure why you're downvoted. Even if GTD is a great book, it is a self help book.
An open-world Anachronox 2.

What an amazing universe they created for the original one. It was ahead of its time and is criminally underappreciated today.
Is this based on acoustic keyword recognition or SRT search?
In the UK you can also sue for defamation, which can be worth substantial damages if you win.

Not many people realise this.

Not speaking from personal experience, but I'm aware of a small number of cases where credit agencies, shops, and banks were sued for downgrading a credit score because of their own mistakes.

I suspect this would be less likely to succeed in the US. But it's interesting that technically a downgraded credit score - especially with proof of consequent harms and expenses - is very close to the legal definition of defamation.
Women-Led Startups Look to Solve Baby-Formula Crisis with Synthetic Breast Milk
It would be a step in the right direction. You can always compare outlets from many sides to find omission of facts / topics.

You can also do that to highlight the spin, but wouldn't it be nice if there was no spin in the first place?
Cancer treatments are highly specific. There's been marked progress in some areas (breast, bladder), and remarkbly little in others (pancreatic, brain, lung).

A very close friend died of a cancer in the early 1990s for whom treatment has advanced little from the late 1960s, and is largely based on compounds developed in in the 1910s, for chemical warfare during the Great War. Other than genetic sequencing now telling us what specific chromosomal mutation is responsible for the disease, the situation remains largely unchanged to this day.

(This is one of the messages I continually send Past Me, who was as is all to typical, bombarded with "information" about "novel treatments" promising to aid in their disease. Those were, and are, utter bildge.)

The largest improvements in health outcomes, measured by decreases in mortality and increases in life expectency, occurred during the decades of the 1910s (women) and 1920s (men). The largest increases since have largely come about through improved healthcare access (especially to the poor and minorities, with Black women and men making huge increases in life exepctancy since the 1950s) and through te elimination of risks: air pollution, asbestos, lead, cigarettes, reductions in alcohol consumption, IV drug use, overdoses, unprotected sex, and the like. AIDs and other novel infectious diseases have been a counter-trend.

5-year survival for my friend's cancer was and remains about 1 in 5. 60 years after 1960.
I guess that is my point - a more self-controlled businessman with that track record would inspire a tremendous amount of confidence

I didn't mean to discredit Elon Musk as an entrepeneur; only to highlight that the chaos he raises is not good for his own "brand" in the long run

The baby name is just an example to contrast his decisions to that of 'regular' people: most people are extremely averse about doing harm to their children for any reason

But I get your point - many people will care most or only about results. But I do think many more care about the way things are done

I'd say I'm abouy half and half, to be honest. I won't deny investing in Musk's enterprises but I for sure will make it a smaller part of my portfolio than it should - precisely because he may one day go on twitter and implode the stock
I wouldn't call it overlooked since it made the front page here, but I've been playing around with basic ways to get around internet restrictions, starting with a simple chat interface for supporting Wikipedia over WhatsApp messages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31463249

After learning more, I've gotten interested in broader internet restrictions, such as restricting mobile internet to Facebook/WhatsApp (see https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/facebook-..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31465741, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/facebook-free-...). I have a lot more to learn, but it feels like there's more here to explore.
Instagram: False impression of people's lives through beautiful photographs

Twitter: Short, thoughtless vitriol directed towards each other about some politics/tech news/public information

Tiktok: A total consumption machine, psychological hell hole

IMO Tiktok is far worse than the other two. WSJ investigation convinced me that this thing needs to be made uncool amongst teenagers [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/video/series/inside-tiktoks-highly-secre...
And that as well.
There are plenty of boardgames to choose from:

- World in Flames

- Churchill

- Fort Sumter

- Food Chain Magnate
It's a lot of work.

How so? When I was writing papers in college I'd read my sources, bang out the text, then for every citable claim I'd ctrl+F my sources and cite them. For a journalist who's presumably taking notes while writing an article it should be even faster. This only seems hard if you're writing articles based purely on vibes and not information.
I'm a medium-happy Protonmail user. I really wish they'd step up their core services - give us the ability to snooze emails, schedule sends for later - all of the stuff you can do in Gmail, Outlook or other modern mail clients. It's such a hard time, because I reeeeally want to like the service, but I feel like they make it so hard
You should be able to just go directly to the channel using the URL if you know the channel name. youtube.com/c/<CHANNEL_NAME>. What on earth they use the distinction for, I don't know, but if it's a user with videos instead of a channel, then youtube.com/user/<USER_NAME>.
I'm not sure how well that could work when I want industry to have the same depth as C:S. Like, if a commercial building is expecting a shipment from a specific industrial building two cities away, the location of that truck needs to be tracked through its entire journey.

I suppose it could be possible for a server to track something like "The last 10 trucks to enter my area at location A and leave my area at location B took an average of C minutes, so just assume any path finding through me will take C minutes and don't track the individual trucks"

But then what happens when some zooms into that server's area while a truck is partway through its course? How do I simulate a traffic jam occurring after a path has been planned if I'm abstracting the individual vehicles away?
It's alot of fun the whole perspective is really cool, can recommend however its still early in dev and content isnt that massive.
Warcraft 4 developed by NOT blizzard.
I don’t think it would preclude supporting reparations. If I burn down your home, I don’t benefit from it but I still owe you compensation. (There’s also the fact that, in the US, it’s possible the country as a whole suffered from slavery but individual people or states benefited.)
Puzzle Pirates was the best game ever for a number of years.

An MMO without experience points or levels. Everything powered by puzzle games. Ships operate by people playing the sailing game, the bilging game, the carpentry game, the gunning game and the navigation game. On a tiny ship a good player can do it on their own by switching rapidly, but almost always, you need a crew of people working together, up to 100+ people on very large ships.

Your skill in the game decides how much you contribute to the ship's performance. To improve, you must actually improve.

Ships can fight other ships (in two minigames, one before boarding and one after), a whole fleet can fight another fleet for control over an island, with 1000+ people involved, in another game.

And the in game economy was really elaborate, and worked well. Again, based on people doing games in jobs.

Of course, people got immensely rich and could buy things you could not. Namely, some colors for clothes and ship paint were much rarer and more expensive than other colors; black came from kraken blood and was most expensive. So you could see who was rich, but it didn't affect gameplay. Of course being able to supply a fleet of ships and thousands of cannon balls to threaten an island did, but only if you could also get hundreds of people working those ships for you.
"I know it's utterly unworkable. But I want it anyway."

That takes me down memory lane. Years ago (around 2007), on an Athlon XP with 2GB RAM, we had the game server for a 2000+ unit C&C clone running. We also had the ability for AI to take over once someone disconnects. We even built our own binary protocol generator (think Protobuf) so that our Java Applet client could connect to the C++ server.

And then I accidentally became CEO of a startup. My friends finished university and then started working. And we all kinda forgot about it.

EDIT: My 3ds skills around 2007: https://imgur.com/a/AhfoKNs
China Growth Target in Tatters as Covid Zero Hammers Economy
Wouldn't this name be a copyright infringement given it's for high quality audio streaming?
You build out a few days or weeks of storage, and also transmission lines. Where it looks like your storage is going to run dry, you order a shipment of ammonia to burn, synthesized at any solar farm in the tropics, or a wind farm anywhere.

The appealing quality of synthetic fuel like ammonia is that there is always an eager market for as much as you can produce, so once your local tankage is full, excess power produces reliable revenue. Your synthesizers are idle only when you are drawing down banked energy, and not necessarily even then if you have plenty.
I don't see how an NTR helps you in any way to get to Mars or back. Heavy engine, voluminous tanks (~70 kg/m³), criminally wasted ISRU material (you have to throw away 88.9% of the water that you mine on site, whereas a hydrolox or methalox system uses almost all of it and the methalox system can even mix it with considerable amount of CO₂ for better system performance). The performance figures for such a system will be terrible. At best a LANTR (not just an NTR) might be somewhat useful for cislunar uses. For Mars flights not even LANTR may be useful.
The examples do not work on Firefox on Android; they're Safari-only.

They do however render coloured fonts in non-Safari browsers (using basic CSS features that have existed a long time), but they're monotone per-character. The new safari feature supports multiple colours shown within a single character at once.

The lack of screenshots makes the article very confusing for non-Safari readers (as I mentioned in another comment)
> I don't know anyone under the age of 40 who cares one bit about fine china and china cabinets

Definitely. My parents house has a china cabinet, with china dishes no-one is allowed to use. I've never understood why, I'll ask them tonight.
I'd argue we've been in a cold war with china for decades we just didn't pay attention because we love their cheap stuff.

There is a growing danger that war will go hot at some point and Taiwan is the most likely catalyst.

Because of the concentration of TSMC's chip production controlling Taiwan would mean controlling much of the world's manufacturing of chip dependent products.

Given these risks letting china control an influential social media time waster for GenZ is an enormous strategic mistake.

Our bargain with China should be simple, we get access to your markets and you get access to ours and let's all be prosperous (win win). Instead we're playing a win/lose game with them and we're losing.
I always hope these kinds of situations would lead to a market opportunity for someone to come in and do it right... but it rarely does.
What's the EFF to do?

1. Achieve its mission with no money, or
2. Find money from sources deemed acceptable, or
3. Take money from sources deemed unacceptable

I'm OK with option 3, so long as its transparent, because I agree with the agenda the EFF are pushing. If they start pushing an agenda I disagree with, I'll stop supporting them, whether or not they receive money from Google et al.
I tried with some other channels. Looks like It's not accepting all channels as valid urls.
a lot of that is a function of the matchmaking system. Your MMR (matchmaking rating) goes up or down only based on win/loss, not any characteristics of how you played that game. If you do phenomenally well but your teammates are terrible and your team loses, you lose the same amount of rank they do. The idea that the culture of a game is influenced by the rules of the game is explored in Nick Yee’s book “The Proteus Paradox”.
Ask HN: Someone has taken control of my domain from 123reg
Last month I noticed that DNS wasn't resolving for my domain, which I manage through 123reg.
At the start of this month, someone else's website was hosted on my domain and the nameservers are now cloudflare. Worryingly, the single purpose of the site in question is offering to sell the domain.
I opened a ticket on the 9th of May with 123reg detailing the issue, had some very slow back and forth with the support team - who were telling me how to reset the nameservers and not really investigating the issue.
It's now the 25th of may and my last communication from them was the 23rd of may:
Hi,
Hope this message finds you well.
This matter is being checked.
We will come back with an update as soon as possible.
Regards,
Has anyone experienced something similar? Any idea how I can escalate this beyond 123reg?
Fun fact, he attended a summer camp which is dedicated to cultivation of good character in young men of the proper classes* through clean living, hard work, outdoor recreation, etc. For example junior counselors are called "captains of industry", there are weekly talks by counselors on matters of ethics/empathy, electronics are prohibited, all maintenance/cleaning is done by campers, no hot showers nor private toilet stalls, there is a secret society that meets to discuss the spirit of the camp, etc. He did rise to become a "captain of industry" and got a whole bunch of awards mostly related to theater.

https://pasquaney.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/pasqwhite_b...

(*) Not like "The Global Elite" or whatever, but like higher-class Americans and a sprinkling of oligarchs' children, not really sure how to categorize it
Oh man, the first time I read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH when I was a kid, I was enthralled. My best friend and I would always play that we were the rats and had to hide from the humans while improvising tools, gathering food, and building a base. This reminds me of that and of how fun/creative a game like that could be.
- A low-brow, open world space sim. (Yes, I'm aware of Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, Elite and all the others, but hear me out):

I would love to fly my cheap, derelict Lada Riva equivalent of a spaceship into a space station. No landing sequence or wrestling away of controls, I want to land on my own and I want to land shittily. As I touch down, garbage is stirred up and space rats scurry away from the landing site. I get out of the ship (of course, the canopy jams and needs some hitting to open) and some spaceport employee alien comes running towards me to complain that I'm parked across two landing pads. I walk away, muttering "yeah, whatever" and head to the bar.

...you get the picture. This world, with trading, exploration, space and land combat and great characters and stories and I'd never stop playing it.
I want a modern version of the Command & Conquer RTS
Peter Thiel to Leave Meta Board (FB) to Pursue Trump Political Agenda
TLDR: Old mouse event code in the JRE causes this prompt. AUSid hasn't been updated since 2017.

I downloaded the dmg and extracted the contents, it's a launcher for a JavaFX application with a bundled JRE 8.

The java code isn't obfuscated, and I don't see anything particularly interesting, but it would require going through a lot of code.

However, the build and file modification dates are all 2017, which is pre-Catalina. Catalina of course introduced this permission warning.

I instead did a quick Google for JRE bugs with this issue and it didn't take long to find this issue raised with OpenJDK: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231513

In particular, this comment: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231513?focusedComm... explains it's to do with mouse tracking around window resizing.
I'd wish for something like TES Oblivion with the darkness of Berserk.
We need to get them to make dark cloud 3.
I agree, and it seems like most commenters (so far) seem not to have read the “takedown”. What the author mostly criticizes is that the NYT is not providing enough evidence, not that things are clearly wrong.
Li-ion is the most expensive storage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31485229

Energy storage, chemical methods aside, is freshman-level physics: pump against pressure, lift something heavy, draw down against buoyancy -- E = fx, E = mgh -- using processes already used at industrial scale in billions of cases. The only open question is what exact scheme will end up cheapest. But you don't need to know that to start building. You might switch over to building something cheaper, later, but anything already built still works.

(But NB: Energy Vault is the Theranos of storage. Steer clear!)

The Black Sea is deep, making underwater methods attractive. Romania also has high mountains, making conventional pumped hydro also practical. The reservoir for pumped hydro need not encompass a watershed, unlike regular hydro, so can be minimally disruptive, environmentally.
Based purely on the speed of the results, I believe that the crawling is happening in real time.

The search is scoped by channel, so the closed-caption files for all the videos in the channel are downloaded and searched for on the fly.

Edit: Wow, thanks to dev tools, I can see that the website is downloading the transcript and metadata for all the videos from the channel to the client. So the search is happening client-side!!
One recurring issue I see on native Android navigation is, when you open an image in a file manager, switch back to the file manager and open a second image in the same viewer, sometimes pressing Back takes you to the first image. As a specific example, in Foxy Droid, if you download 3 apps in the background, get 3 "app downloaded" notifications, and click each one in sequence, you have to press Back 3 times to get back to Foxy Droid's home screen. What's the best way to avoid this issue without reimplementing your own navigation system replacing activities?
Transport Tycoon Deluxe upgrade.

I just love that game and nothing really replaced it, to my knowledge.
A slower paced, less micro-managy StarCraft and WarCraft 3 for iPad.