skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most off-putting thing is when some commenters incoherently go from arguing religion is a private matter and should not be revealed even when asked, to arguing "belief in a dude in the sky" is a pathology or "crazy" (first, nobody asked. And you're not a doctor). Seems very narrow minded.
Scala mostly.. a little bit of python.
Deist != Christian. I respect deists as much as atheist. I just don't like the idea that your god is the only real one over the thousands of other gods
Looks a bit like https://www.windy.com/
Could we also make a true random from bananas by just extrapolating the coloration patterns and distribution from a picture? It isn't quantum based randomness, but its either a good source of randomness or we find some weird patterns in banana riping process, so a win win ...
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/devlog.html

> For a time, I thought I ought to be building software for the NES to ensure their survival over the influx of disposable modern platforms — So, I did. . Sadly, most of the software that I care to write and use require slightly more than an 8-button controller.

Seems to me you could have saved a lot of effort by changing gears slightly to target other ubiquitous 6502 machines such as the apple 2 or c64.
Not everything has to be cool or interesting to you. To be fair to the authors of Lemmy, the only mention of Rust on the project page is "Server is written in rust", while the submission for some reason contains Rust like it's some highlight of the software.

Since we usually can't change too much of our environment, but we can change how we react to our environment, my recommendation would be to simply just ignore the "in X" in titles you see here, as what you say is true, it basically doesn't matter.

If the software is shit, it's shit, no matter if it's shit in PHP or in Rust.
The alternative mechanisms for decision-making also make wrong decisions on occasion, especially when that alternative is a human.
I would recommend looking at David Johnston's book "Random Number Generators, Principles and Practices" to get a handle on how complicated evaluating RNGs properly is. Radioactive sources combined with conventional circuits/electronics are too slow for practical applications afaik (e.g. incredibly time consuming to prove the performance but not bad in principle). However, I love the banana idea for its inventiveness.
Reversing AOL 3.0 (1996) – A Deeper Dive
Was anyone else doing OpenGL desktop rendering at the time? Yes, almost no one cared for the wobbling windows, virtual desktops being rendered on a cube, etc. Me included. True.

But I have to ask: did none of it result in anything useful? I, for one, think having the ability to zoom out can be useful. I literally cannot browse without the ability to zoom in/out a web page. I feel that we've barely scratched the service with GUI in general, not just desktop Linux.

MacOS and Windows desktop environments used to be better than what was available on *nix but that is no longer the case. I say that as someone who dislikes KDE and absolutely hates Gnome 2, including its countless derivatives.
> In the JVM world, when are things added to the byte code as a new instruction, and when are they wrapped up in a native code call?

These aren't native code calls but compiler intrinsics. The Java compiler (the JIT compiler, that is) translates certain Java method invocations into specific machine instruction patterns.

> Java makes it so impractical to really reason about the code directly that users ends up relying a lot more on tooling for benchmarking and introspection (and hence the tools are top-class)

As others have mentioned, you can dump the generated machine code, but you are correct that Java is, by design, higher level than C++ in the sense that low level details are less under the programmer's control, but the compiler's. So when you see a `new Foo()` in Java, you cannot tell whether an object will actually be allocated on the heap, or perhaps "scalarized" and stored directly in registers. In fact, what happens is not even decided statically and could vary dynamically, depending on what other code does, as compilation is done JIT, and optimisations are decided based on the program's current execution profile. As a result, even though all instance methods in Java are semantically virtual, in practice they are very often inlined, and don't compile even to a call instruction, let alone a vtable call.

Unlike C++, Java's goal — generally speaking — is to get very good average-case performance for little effort rather than give the programmer a lot of knobs to control the worst case. Of course, sometimes there are knobs — just like the Vector API, which is useful in cases the JIT cannot automatically vectorise loops — but the balance is different from C++.
Try browsh in mosh like others have mentioned, but also Opera Mini. Download Microemulator from https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads..., and use curl or wget (not a browser) to download http://m.opera.com/mini.jad . Next run microemulator, set the device to "resizable", and open the mini.jad file (the menu item is "Load MIDlet from file" or something similar) you downloaded. Opera Mini works pretty well on bad connections, though every so often it shows an interstitial ad for an Opera site. Also, don't use it for logging in to things, it proxies all pages through its servers so it would be able to see your passwords. The Android version is bad, don't use it.
"cutting off" northern Ireland. Aka putting them in an enormous free trade area to their massive benefit. Reminds me of the headline "fog in the channel, continent cut off".
Economic growth doesn't have to mean stock market growth. I don't think the stock market is the best measure for how a country is doing economically
"Everywhere outside of aviation industry"? I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I can't avoid a strong feeling that you've just made that up. Where are all the different non-aviation autopilots in the real world we live in that "imply autonomous driving" when that term gets applied to cars? Are there bicycle autopilots? Crane autopilots? Bulldozer autopilots? All of them operating devices fully autonomously with no operator oversight? Because I can't for the life of me recall a real-world usage of the word "autopilot" that could give people the misconception you're alluding to. If there's a wide range of different real-world types of autopilots that almost all require no human attention except for airplane autopilots which do require it, all of them in such widespread use that they justify some people's notion that systems called "autopilots" are operator-free, then I must have completely missed that somehow. Please give me some examples of those different systems if they do exist.
Gas chambers are widely used for sterilising materials going into clean rooms for compounding of medicines. While this does meet the definition of “one more thing”, it is rather an important one.
Thanks, I was really hoping for a different answer, but I guess I'll have to investigate this approach.
Show HN: Penguin Jenga game using Planck.js and simple DOM rendering
Not him, but myopia is the correct medical term. It only has one meaning, whereas "short-sighted" has a widely used metaphorical meaning that it is easily confused with.
It is not necessary that bad. I had some fights with kids at that age, but it definitely was not every single time we walked. You are exaggerating how bad it is.

What you do is normal at that age. If you walk to store frequently it is normal routine and lead to fights only occasionally. And while kid stops to look at boring things, it is not like they would stop for hours, most of time you nudge them after few seconds and they go.

It is slower then adult speed, but not that impossibly slow.
> Abstraction tends to lossy and context-insensitive, which is why an algorithm will say "no" to a loan request based on a credit score that ignores personal context, where a human loan manager who knows the people involved might say yes - for good and valid reasons.

A human loan manager, given only a credit score, will approve the loan based on only the credit score. The problem isn't human vs machine, it's context-awareness and context-sensitivity vs a lack of one or both.

All large systems, human or machine, tend to be implemented using abstractions. Layers of context-stripping abstractions were a part of buerocracy far before machines took it over. If a loan request form doesn't have an "if I don't get this loan my family will literally starve to death" box that you can check, the evaluator will not know about that context couldn't possibly act based on it. The form can be digital or paper and the evaluator can be a program or a human - it doesn't change a thing.

Similarly, context-sensitivity (the willingness to let the context sway your decision) was strictly limited even back in the day when decision makers were close enough to the source to be aware of the context. A bank clerk had to stick to the rules and couldn't just decide to give a loan to someone that didn't qualify under them. If they did, they'd be risking losing their job or worse, so they didn't. This discretion was only given to the people in charge - and that hasn't changed with computers. A person in a high enough position can override what the computer says, just as easily as they can override a lower clerk's decision.

Yes, making machines context-aware takes some effort, and making them context-sensitive takes even more effort. But even if machines magically came with both, their operators would do the best to get rod of them, just like they did with their employees. From their point of view, empathy is inefficiency. And that's the real problem.
You might like the novel "When the English Fall".
Exactly this, well articulated. We’re not talking about zucks or musks here :)
Most efficient in terms of least THC destroyed? The advancing combustion zone of smoking creates a plume of heated air that boils the THC away from the plant residue(which = the fuel). The actives boil at 157C and some escapes into the air, and is inhaled, and some is consumed in combustion. Hard to nail down those losses, but the inhaled THC is highly bio available = fast hit.
The other path is via the digestive tract, which is a very gradual hit - not really a hit compared to the smoke path, but some like it and it probably is less destructive to the THC as even THC metabolites are bio active.
The third method is solvent extraction and the use of a vaping apparatus. Good solvents extract it all, but can not be breathed safely, so the solvent needs to be evaporated and the THC extract dissolved in a bio-tolerable solvent. Vape makers sell these - try a few and see if you like one or other of the many as some have added scents and some have been implicated in lung damage in heavy users.
Vaping offers the lowest level of destruction of the THC, coupled with a rapid bio-availability of the vaped THC = the most efficient IMHO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol
Where you got that from? They are surgically removed outside of USA regularly when they grow bad and cause infections.
> The reason why you can’t buy a premium phone with a headphone jack is because the masses (markets, customers and corporations together) collectively decided not to make one, and you can’t afford $10bn to build your own parallel manufacturing line.

These design and manufacturing decisions are made by a very small number of people. Consumers buy the items that are successfully marketed to them by advertisers, not because they en masse collectively requested something. This is an oligarchy, not a democracy.
HMOs were obsoleted many years ago. Managed care organization (better name for health insurance companies) profit margins are low single digits, for many years indicating a competitive market where excess profits are not possible, and this is public information from 10-Ks.

The wealth transfer is the out of pocket maximum in conjunction with premium tax credits. Premiums went up because the bottom 50% of society finally started receiving healthcare, and were not liable for astronomic healthcare bills due to the out of pocket maximum. Plus young people greatly subsidize old people because premiums for age 64 are capped at 3x the premium of age 21.

Unfortunately, the wealth transfer was neutered due to the penalty for not having insurance being removed, and due to allowing non ACA compliant plans to exist, as well as not forcing everything onto the same market and letting healthy, white collar employees to silo their risks in employer sponsored plans.

Obviously, the implementation of ACA is not the ideal, but that is what was possible due to near zero support across the political aisle. At least we got that, and it is irrefutable that more people have received more healthcare due to ACA than before ACA. The middle class wealth transfer is actually the 60% to 90% feeling the pain due to their money being used to provide for the 30% to 60% (whoever was not poor enough for Medicaid, but not lucky enough to work at an employer rich enough to provide good healthcare benefits).
His floating point representation is so good that middle schoolers can understand it:

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
This whole "the JVM inlines things for you and avoids the allocation of objects altogether sometimes" goes so against my intuition after more than a decade of writing Java, mostly for Android. The idea that you should allocate as few short-lived objects as possible has stuck with me. So these new APIs do make me feel uncomfortable a bit, they make me think "oh man, this does look like it's gonna have some performance issues due to too much time spent in GC deleting all those objects".

I do understand that the regular (Hotspot?) JVM must be much smarter with optimizations than the Android runtime, but still.
Thanks for your response!

I completely agree with the Big Ball of Mud and Swap guide analogy as that has also been my experience. I am also looking for alternatives and Go seems to be the logical conclusion that I am getting to. What would you suggest?
One person's anecdote does not qualify or disqualify a concept.
> It's frustrating when ...

Sounds like a perfect opportunity for personal growth on the part of the former.
Why meat is so expensive
I hope you don't mind, but i read about your france project a few days ago and would love to get in contact with you on your experience about it.

Nothing big more like your experieince, things like how easy is it to build your things in france, water rights, internet etc.

My email is sicaine at gmail com
I think it is implied that the views on YouTube will generate the revenue...

It's not as though there are no YouTube millionaires, after all.
That's much too small. If all the participants of that study were were highest risk (18-25 males) and early COVID strains and vaccines were equally risky that study should have expected to find 2-5 cases. Then there are also problems like biases toward finding myocarditis towards the end of the pandemic when there was higher awareness.
The People making money from just surfing the internet
You don't think reading in a low light environment has anything to do with it...?
Archive.org - the history of the internet, searchable.
> When was the last time you saw train doors ruthlessly separate children from their parents? Have you seen anyone lose a limb to that ruthless guillotine?

It is also worth noting that those examples have a positive element as well. Train operators are too far from the doors to know when it is safe to depart. The closing of the train door ensures everyone is safely inside before the train can depart. Having a human operator who uses discretion at each door would only create a new set of problems, namely of train delays causing the entire system to grind to a halt (at best) and safety issues (at worse).

Likewise for the food dispenser guillotine. While the case described sounds poorly designed, the general idea behind those doors is to prevent thieves from leeching upon unsupervised vending machines. One may argue that a human could use discretion for when a person is truly starving. On the other hand, that after hours supply of junk food wouldn't exist without vending machines since the labour involved would make it too expensive. It is also worth noting that a real human would rarely hand out food that is not their food to give away.

As a side note: I also detest the use of the term jobsworth to describe something the author doesn't agree with. More often than not, those rules exist for a reason. While preventing the submission of a form a second late is not one of them, encouraging the submission of the form in a timely manner is. There are many people behind the scenes who need to get their job done for the benefit of those who filled out those forms in a timely manner.
How? Because you are (forced) to take a second dose of a vaccine that's not needed, which makes you sick and gives you heart inflammation. That's how.
I have no idea what your point was.
I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
I usually don't agree with The Economist but I agree with them on this one, people spend too much time indoor and that's why there is an epidemic of shortsightedness.

I would actually call it pandemic because it is affecting all developed countries because majority of their workforce works indoor and then goes home or to the gym....again indoor environment.
Yep... focusing (as in, your eyes keeping focus) on a thing that's at a fixed distance infront of you for extended periods of time seems to be very bad for your eyesight... "back in my times", the parents used to blame stuff like this on screens (tv back then), but books do the same thing. Basically all the workplace safety trainings here include the "stare at something in the distance every now and then", so you focus on something else, not just the screen <1m away from your face.
You can’t afford a premium (new) phone with a headphone jack under mass production.

I argue that most people couldn’t afford a premium phone with a headphone jack if mass customization was the dominant industrial paradigm and basically no one could afford it if full customization was the way we went.

Cars, appliances, electronics, books, and clothing have become wildly cheaper (and therefore more accessible) because of society’s mass adoption of industrial production.

It’s not that we couldn’t revert to local, craft-based production; it’s that the relative inefficiency would make that unattractive to the vast majority of people.
> well preserved SGI Octane or O2

please at least use a gutted case or something with bad boards. These old computers, especially machines like the SGI risc line, are not being made anymore. At the end of the day, you'll have a bog standard pc inside an old case that looks cool.

IMO, a much more interesting alternative would be to use something like a hyte revolt 3
Given that it was used this way consistently for over hundred years including back in Homer text, one could argue it is not misuse at all.

Medicine started to use already existing word, which is fine, but it does not mean original meaning must be erased.
>house prices are high because the demand is simply outpacing supply

Any more than in the past?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...

Average people per residence has gone down over the last decade from 2.58 to 2.51 - so I'm not sure where you draw this conclusion.

That graph is primarily why I believe there's speculation mania and other things going on.
Whether "[intercepting] headings and [changing] elevation" is meaningful improvement when the real issue is situational awareness of the automated system (which is obviously the problem with Tesla's system, or any currently existing vehicle automation, really) seems dubious to me. The ability to change altitude instead of just keeping the flight level will not help the automated system avoid an airplane that comes out of nowhere because it's not an environment sensing feature -- it's just a feedback control feature. I strongly suspect that what is controversial about automated car driving systems is not their inability to follow a fixed pre-determined trajectory.
Caffeine withdrawal sucks. From my experience, weaning off with decaf coffee can help. You can also do combinations of decaf / caff on the way to decaf. From decaf (which usually contains about 10% caff, not 0), going to 0% isn't so difficult.
Almost all children are born hypermetropic (far-sighted). The growth of the eyeball is calibrated by the amount of defocus (blur) experienced. More defocus, more growth, which reduces hypermetropia.

My hypothesis is that less sunlight means wider pupils and more defocus (contrast to a pinhole camera), so more eye growth.

Even with perfect eyesight, there's a 2-diopter difference between focussing blue light and red light due to chromatic aberration. Only narrow pupils can reduce this blur in white light.

I'm also curious whether older TVs with big blurry pixels (or low res images upscaled and smeared onto newer screens) trigger the same mechanism. These days I certainly feel physically uncomfortable looking at media like that, like my eyes aren't focussing quite right.

The other problem is that once eyes have grown too long and are myopic (near-sighted) they experience even more defocus and grow more. See for example [1] which discusses how under-correction of myopia accelerates progression.

[1] https://reviewofmm.com/does-the-undercorrection-of-myopia-in...
> But scoffing without asking for more information isn't a great strategy for learning.

See the dart game scene from Ted Lasso:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4YSXv6Xkg
Not true actually [0]. In my experience, at least, Cloudflare has been way more responsive than other big names that I won't call out here.

[0] https://radar.cloudflare.com/verified-bots
Well if you want to look at it like that, then the 2 dominant search engines should also be considered because they control the actions of many billions of people, but then every legal system that refers to God is criminal because it perpetuates superstition. Its a case of choose your criminal protectorate.
If you don't read, you don't need glasses. If you don't use glasses and need them, you end up not reading and end up having trouble in school - being treated as dumb.
Technology used by spies is detecting pesky moths
> Online learning is fine for adults who have developed sufficient mental discipline and focus, especially college style where you're in classes only a few hours a day.

And even then. Do you remember in the early 2010s with the rise of edX, Coursera and co when one of the founders was predicting that in 20 years almost all learning will be online, universities will ho bankrupt and close with less than 50, including the online ones, remaining?

The reality is that the vast majority of adults can't be bothered to maintain their motivation and finish an online course. The stats on course completion rates are abysmal. I've been there, of course, I have enrolled into probably more than 10 different courses, all of which sounded very interesting, but none of which i was motivated to see through the end.
‘Myopic’ is certainly used to describe short-term thinking or a restricted viewpoint