skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just used a console font and
animated in the first 4 paragraphs over maybe 1000ms. It is not the most obnoxious site I have used by a long shot.
When I and my friends in Toronto signed up for mobile phone service about 15 years ago, we simply got to pick our last 4 digits. I saw examples like picking the same suffix as their landline, picking a mnemonic for their name (e.g. MARY -> 6279), picking lots of trailing zeros.
Angular velocity is not velocity, the velocity increases because the angular velocity was remaining constant as the radius increased.

It's encoded in the radius, but the area is visually more impactful - to me anyway - until the end when it's shown from the side, which was good.

The point about comparing up to 1945 is that since the scale is arbitrary I can have it end at the same radius.
Nope, it is a B
Oh wow the reason this scary face keeps on showing up sporadically is hilarious.
How has the quantity of work required to run the Foundation changed since 2007? Has it taken on additional goals? How has the architecture of the site changed since then? What's the volume of edits?

Or do they have 589 employees who do nothing?
What caused the hallucinations of the Oracle of Delphi?
Looks like S3 storage prices are unaffected... for now. C14 is just too convenient.
> Voice control is mostly pretty disappointing.

That's because you interact with it as though it is a person, so your expectation levels are corresponding to the mode of communication used.
I don’t believe the working class is sitting on HN and complaining - it’s mainly people like us who spend exorbitant taxes on a system that doesn’t actually help anyone. It’s not clear to me if you understand this nuance.

Anyways, your repeated “I got mine, fuck you” mentality is very boring and toxic - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/201....

Good luck, happy that you solved poverty! I’ll stop engaging as this thread will lead nowhere.
How about systematically examining the current performance and likely retrofit cost of existing larger buildings?

Then the discussion can be about a more specific cost (and time) estimate and include better information about the changes the updates would bring about.

Or we could just assume it is too expensive and inconvenient to be worth looking into.
If I had cash to burn I might keep buying computer programming books, but as it is it's just become easier to use Google to research compsci topics in every area. For example, if I get confused about constexpr functions in C++ I can just Google with upload dates restricted to the past four years and up pops, for example, a nice learncpp page with just about everything I need to know for basic uses.

That said, I downloaded their sample pdf and the nice thing is the code they present is very well commented and so it's easy to read. They seem to take a 'read the code to learn the subject' approach, which I appreciate. Note that it takes a slightly conservative approach:

> "Only the passage of time can distill the programming community’s practical experience with each feature and how well it fared, which is why this book discusses features added up to C++14, even though C++20 is already out."

Maybe I'm missing something but they don't seem to offer the book as a searchable PDF? There seems to be a Kindle edition and paperback only. Worried about piracy or something? Otherwise it might be a useful reference, I guess.
That's not likely going to happen. There are many periods in Earth history where co2 levels were way higher than now, and no large-scale desertification events are known. Periods of very high co2 and higher temperatures are known for hosting more life.[0][1] Plants and animals thrive in high co2. Less co2 has caused glacification events and loss of life.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Flora

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Fauna
Black, as in, darkest-green chlorophyll color?
Not every project can be a greenfield project.
“When systems require novel accounting methods the reason is usually fraud”
Luna cryptocurrency has been resurrected after collapse. It’s already crashing
Liquidating luna is the same thing as minting luna. The trigger is the same (price below peg) and the effect is the same (more luna in circulation)
Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds has blockchain integration, NFT plans
Could be but with 607.5MM shares outstanding, that 10k full vest would have a FMV of of a few hundred dollars - they wouldn't even need to give options
I took advantage of this same Google Voice feature, and got myself a number with _7_ consecutive digits. So my phone number for an international caller is +1-234-567-xyzy.

It was very easy for my kids to memorize as they were growing up.

Sometimes, when I'm telling them my number for them to note down, people stop midway through until they realize I'm not really pranking them.

I'm sure people would not take me seriously if my number had all 10 digits in a sequence and started to repeat after that.
75% of people like the idea of “right to repair” but that doesn’t mean they would support this particular implementation if they knew the details and side effects. Committees in the ideal allow a more nuanced examination and development of law.

Sponsors have lobbyist support and the bills themselves may be written by them, for them, with any public benefit a side effect. As long as it “sounds good” other lawmakers feel forced to go along with.
this is an important observation on rates -- IMO a typical way to cheat at the executive levels is to state as fact some rate or charge in a long overview with many other details. Then, when that rate or charge is implemented, away from oversight and review, actual charges are not the same, due to "special fees" or categories. This practice is far older than digital record keeping.
Why? Having shoes that tighten themselves sounds cool and convenient. Personally, I hate tying my shoes. If anything, the technology has failed by being so brittle.
I think it is reasonable to imagine some manufacturing processes that are single shot construction. Gluing pieces together rather than screws/fasteners comes to mind.
So they will sell the dumb lock for $75 and the security insert for $25.

See ya later, legislator!!
"All debts public and private" - but only debts denominated in USD, right? If you loan me gold and specify repayment in gold or Canadian dollars or gerbils, I can't just give you a fistful of dollar bills to settle it, can I?
More worrisome than the disclaimer:

> Springer was “bowing to pressure from the Chinese government to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese website.” According to the Times, Springer removed articles on topics that the Chinese objected to, including Taiwan, Tibet, human rights, and Chinese politics. [..] More recently, in late 2020 a doctor from Taiwan was told that she needed to add “China” to her national affiliation or else her paper would be rejected
Occasionally a politician does so poorly that the voters vote across the aisle. Right to repair can become one of the issues that causes people to vote for the other party. It really sucks to have to throw expensive products away because you simple can't fix them. Not being able to repair products is bad for everything but short term profits.
Because we're still stumbling on what is and isn't a "bad practice" while companies continue to gaslight the developer population and a few consultants and spokesmen have endless discussions on what should and shouldn't happen.

Ergo, there's no incentive to fix it, and every incentive to keep it broken.
This was a fantastic read! The Bob seems like a very cool device for those in specific situations (small apartment, van-life, etc).

I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for similar write-ups, whether tech related or anything else really? I was thoroughly engaged with this in a way I can't seem to get with books or many other articles and written documentation.
In theory, yes. In practice it is a bit mote difficult.
Doesn't making "repairable" things imply having to add design constraints, which would translate to increased costs of research/development/production?
But, couldn't you throw a lot of shit and make it actually look professional?
Daycare does not end before nursing. And I'm not so sure about preschool either... perhaps you haven't lived in some, er, "crunchier" areas.
This is true cyberpunk.
There is no AnsibleOS, so you'll not have a reproducible OS, and as the base OS gets upgraded underneath, ansible scripts will break. Also, you have to put a ton of effort into making sure Ansible scripts are idempotent, and even then there are usually leaks. Nix (with flakes) is 100% reproducible and it's very difficult to do anything that isn't idempotent. What this all means is that there is more effort up front learning and setting it up, but a lot less effort and suffering in the long term.

I personally switched for these reasons.
True, economically speaking personal use value doesn't really matter. It's great for you, but economics is about exchange.

Enforcement is an interesting factor. Laws can guarantee rights to enable and protect free exchange, but they can also coerce behaviour as I touched on.

In more or less free markets what laws do is provide guarantees that increase trust, which has the main effect of reducing costs. You don't need to personally audit the books of a company you invest in, because the government mandates that it's done for you to a set of standards which eliminates some risks (not all, just some). You don't need to personally research if the products you buy are safe or of a basic level of quality if the government mandates standards and enforces them, and if you have a right to return goods if you find a problem with them. This makes the goods themselves a little more expensive, but the overall costs and risks (which translates into costs) to consumers are much lower.
Anyone else outweighed the word "Boring" to associate to The Boring Company?
When it comes to US, adding more candidates doesn't change the politics. Genuine grassroots campaigns have an almost impossible climb against establishment endorsed candidates in both major parties, and creating your own party does nothing either. Without a large battle chest, you ain't gonna win against a candidate with a huge corporate campaign budget. If anything, adding more candidates creates a "spoiler" effect, where the establishment candidate doesn't need as many votes, because the opposition vote is split due to two or more opposition candidates. And even if you manage somehow to get elected, you'll have a hard time getting anything done if you don't tow the party line.

The US system steers naturally towards two parties that both advance corporate interests, and that's what's happening now.
>That's because you interact with it as though it is a person

Well, that was sort of the pitch and it's certainly implied by "virtual/voice assistant." Certainly Amazon wasn't pitching Alexa as a voice-operated kitchen timer. To be honest, I'm probably better with them now because I know they mostly don't work but can be used for some simple tasks for which I know an incantation that mostly gives me the result I want.
Of course? That's why they are "micro"grants.

Many projects that improve peoples' computers are done mostly for love - but that doesn't mean they don't get done a lot faster with a little money for expenses or to supplement income. A few hundred might let someone go to a conference to promote the project and get support, buy testing equipment, etc.

It's not going to fund anything startup-style, but it very likely could help lots of small useful projects run more smoothly and reliably.
[3] seems like a bit of a stretch to me. we know for a fact that different communities have different energy needs for moving water around based on simple geography. we also know that different communities have different electricity sources providing municipal power. (the bay area's primary water system makes use of hydroelectric power, for example). finally, i'm not convinced that the marginal cost per gallon makes up the total cost of moving water around. much of the costs are fixed infrastructure costs that don't necessarily move with utilization.

here's a thought experiment: assume infinite clean electricity and desalination capacity in the face of an overcarbonated atmosphere and climate change. do you install and irrigate as much vegetation as you can or do you rip it all out and put in rocks?
"Choose boring technologies" doesn't imply "... and then never change ever again even when it becomes obsolete and unsupported". That's where the first company went wrong.

It means to choose technology components that are stable and boring (but still actively developed with a healthy community around them!).

It also means to break this rule if and when that thing is important enough to your success that it makes sense to spend innovation points on it because it'll set you apart. But also recognizing that those instances are rare, and that's where good engineering judgment and leadership comes in.
Ctrl+F geoengineering: 0 hits

Come on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering it entered mainstream just recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-ge...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/26/planet...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoe...

By now one question should remain: why was the very idea of geoengineering silenced for decades behind sneers and activism and bad press, when we could implement it half a century ago and avert much of the climate change?
I think it's almost achievable if you say 'cheapest with 4 or more stars and delivery tomorrow'. Problem remains that cheapest could be the smallest pack size or cheapest per pound, and Amazon is not good at the latter anyway.
And that the device is incapable of recognising the lack of Internet access and connect to your neighbour open network instead.
I agree on secureboot :(

one thing:

> Luckily IOT-vendors are absolutely abysmal at protecting their devices so I doubt we'll see too many devices locked down that weren't already.

it is either compliance or no CE stamp (if a product does not meet safety requirements they have to remove connectivity or take it off the shelves). And either they are already scrambling because the cost of this has already sunk in, ... or they are in for a surprise pretty soon because becoming compliant isn't a one-off activity but means restructuring their entire processes (e.g. test automation to maintain that compliance)
That's why SLAs exist?
I wonder if the covid chip shortage caused them to give up on their DRM?
oh you're right, my bad. Sloppy on my part!

I somehow got tripped up by the 4xSIMD. I was assuming you meant it's using 4x 64bit SIMD there which it doesn't. mulpd and addpd are 2x 64bit, also visible by the xmm instead of ymm registers.

I got sloppy on the difference between all instructions including the loop logic vs just the instructions necessary to do the main computation. Obviously the first is the correct measure and I was sloppy.
Call me a Luddite, but I don't want robot shoes. If I ever find myself connecting my shirt to my wifi network or rebooting my underwear, I think I'm going call it quits and become a naked hermit in the woods.
I'd say some things have been standardized quite well - 8 bit bytes, Unicode, http. It's the application layer that isn't standardized.
> younger people absolutely cannot ignore adds.

The very same people will claim that you can ignore ads and they aren't a problem, and that free market is efficient and doesn't waste resources
(I don't necessarily see anything unethical or problematic - except perhaps that it seems surprising - in the sense of a lack of transparency - that the company doesn't list (or even mention?) the pornography industry on their own website. if they have no qualms doing business with companies in that industry -- which is an understandable stance for them to take -- and if it's a significant source of their revenue -- then perhaps their transparency principles should override their marketing and dealmaking strategies so that their potential customers and the public are provided with a more honest description of the company)
> I’ve looked a little at hydrogen [0]. It’s got similar self discharge issues that batteries have (i.e. leaks or cooling energy costs). It’s also currently around 1-2 times as expensive as batteries per kWh cycle, and the technology isn’t getting cheaper as fast as batteries.

From your number for hydrogen, I suppose batteries make more sense for "typical" variance, while hydrogen makes more sense for unusual periods of downtime (rain in the desert, more than 2-3 days without ANY wind).

Also, it would make sense if most of the electrolysis would be performed in areas with high random variance in electricity production (typically wind).

As you say, nuclear will have an advantage for longer in areas with highly seasonal variance.

One advantage of hydrogen, though, is that it is relatively easy to transport to where it is needed.

Still, by combining our numbers, it seems to me like for projects starting today, Nuclear is still competitive to, if not outright cheaper than renewables, if the goal is 100% carbon-free power within 10-20 years. Breakthroughs in battery production (or hydrogen production, but less likely), might change that.

But then again, if Nuclear was built with enough volume, minimal corruption and with a rational balancing of cost/risk, the cost of nuclear should also come back down quite a bit. I definitely think it should be possible to reach levelized costs well under $0.1/kwh if contracts are given to international construction/operations companies able to utilize economies of scale.
I agree that a proper demonstration should be of factoring any product of an m-bit prime by an n-bit prime. So if it only worked for 3*7 and not (with the exact same setup) for 3*5 then it shouldn't count.

It's sad that no-one has demonstrated a factorization of 4+4 bits (which should include factorizing 55,65,77,91, and 143). That would be an important milestone I think.
Making Sense of Web3 [video]
We need someone to find a way to exploit this bug to make it into a security issue.
It’s well written and interesting, no issues at all imo. Thanks for calling it out; no problem with that. Some people conflate working for a competing tech with bias, and while there could be some, the important thing is to mitigate.

As a contrary example, there’s another Heroku story on the front page right now that’s not interesting or thoughtful at all and is just marketing copy for what they’re selling.
Excessive? Perhaps. But what would be more telling and more interesting is a list of the CEOs (and boards) who were "over compensated" while the companies they oversee drifted into the red, or deeper into the red.
> The surface this image is on does not exist until the cut is made.

Not so. The painted surface is the pages' surface, and definitely exists prior to the cut. The surface that doesn't previously exist (the pages' edges) isn't the one being painted, it is gilded instead (which serves to hide the painting when the book is closed and the pages at rest).
Maybe they make new recipes on a regular basis, so they're doing it once per recipe but still fairly often. I have hundreds of recipes in my file that I haven't gotten around to trying yet, I could easily make a new recipe every day for a year.

I use a recipe app that has built-in conversions I can configure, but if I'm making a recipe out of a paper book I sometimes use Alexa to do conversions for me. Ideally I'd do all the conversions before I got my hands dirty, but that doesn't always happen.
OP sort of addresses this in the end:

> a startup isn't going to fix everything and capture all the carbon
There are lots of other advantages and disadvantages to any given language. You’re right that this is a mark against C++, but wrong in the assumption that it (always) outweighs all other considerations (performance, familiarity, compatibility with existing C++ codebase, portability to odd architectures). (Personally, I don’t like C++ and prefer Rust. But it is also reasonable to choose C++.)
Programming cells with computer-like logic
Same as most of the replies, just wanted to send my thanks for the tutorial. I used your original tutorial (before the function name change) for my dissertation platform and its been running for 6 years now.
I've been tussling with my wife about putting our kid into daycare when he's 6 months old. I feel it's way too early, partly due to concerns about contracting a virus (though from the perspective that it would cause more hassle for us, rather than concerns about him getting sick per se, which I figure is inevitable).

That being said, I hadn't even thought that RSV would be a bigger problem due to the pandemic.
It's sad, but not only because it means people are forced to buy new too often or because of the atrocious increasing e-waste associated with it.

It's sad because folks will be less and less interested in fixing their things or simply opening their devices to understand how they work. It'll be general knowledge that it's "dangerous" to attempt a repair, and they're impossible to fix anyway.

Attempting a repair is one of those sparks that nurture curiosity. It's the same spark that ultimately gave us Apple and many other great businesses. Why are we indirectly undermining ingenuity and inventiveness? Is it a false perception? Or maybe Hanlon's razor?

On the other side, China has relatively affordable access to parts (low-level components included), schematics, extensive tooling and a growing hacker/maker culture.

Sometimes, I feel we (occidentals) are going into reverse.
Sure, so? Is that mandatory? No. Would it require explicit user permission? Yes, as any other device or service in EU. The user or the manufacturer always have the ability to put extra devices which do whatever, if they respect the current regulations. This has nothing to do with having eCall installed by default.
Seriously bro? Not the place for this.
Soaked in brine?