skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux handheld devices are mostly just toys for people a bit too excited and with too much disposable income.

There might be a couple of uses, such as IT admin or on-location surveyor, where having a very small device with desktop functionalities and ports to plug in instrumentation could be useful.

For the rest of us, smartphones really hit the nail of what people need to do with a pocketable device: the interface has to be simple, the features cannot be extensive and the battery should last quite a bit. I bought a PinePhone because I think it can succeed in being a smartphone with the right software, but I would never waste money on glorified PDAs because they seem useless to me regardless of their capabilities
A similar project is imml, meant for textful landing pages, you can version the underlying imml file or the output html.

https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/
Seems to be commenting that remote work will socially isolate people and deteriorate their mental performance.
Lib pays a fee for each show you watch. Why they limit it.
Ingredients in food are generally derived from particular plants or animals.
Last year, I scraped the first 90,000 foods in OFF API for the taxonomic species/genus/family name of ingredients for the phylogenetic food visualization at https://observablehq.com/@thadk/life diagram (switch to "Fit to Size: Width" and "OpenFoodFacts Ingredients (first 90k)").

Unfortunately, only a small fraction had that property filled in.
Is there a better source for taxonomic names in foods? For instance, I don't see it in UM-NCC sample files.
> Playing devil's advocate here: For all practical purposes you need an account for macOS, iOS, and Android. What is so different with Windows?

Who says that your parent is not similarly opposed to these accounts?
Hey, what you do is very cool! At dstack.ai, we are building an MLOps platform that in some way similar to your approach except we still love and leverage the concept of infrastructure as code!
I’d love to chat to discuss the technology under the hood and other things if you are open. You can reach me at andrey at dstack.ai.
Batteries. In 2010 batteries cost appx $1,200 per kWh. In 2021 it was $132 per kWh. That's significantly cheaper but you still need anywhere from 60 - 200 kWh of battery for a decent range. That can add anywhere from 8k to 26k to the cost.
Try “the Last Ringbearer”.
> The Saturn was the one that had SH2 for a main CPU and a 68000 for a sound chip (the predecessor Genesis had a 68000 as main CPU and Z80 as a sound driver)

The Saturn had two SH2s, but yeah. Note that the Genesis's predecessor had a Z80 as the main processor, and the Genesis has a peripheral activated mode to disable the 68k, and use the Z80 as the main processor to play most of the Master System library. The Dreamcast went to a single main CPU (SH4), but in a twist didn't use the previous hardware iteration as its sound chip. :)

Of course, EA didn't skip the Dreamcast because it was hard to program, they skipped it because they wanted to be the exclusive sports game provider and Sega said no. (or that's the official story anyway)
This is not true.

Our rate of consumption very seriously exceeds rate of new reserves, which were created long ago and over timelines that exceed human history.

When we use up what is here, that's it. And we will have changed the world for the worse long before we use it up.

Here are a couple brutal facts:

The energy density of these fuels is very high and that bootstrapped our current tech. It really was a one time gift.

If we had to do that again, as things are today, we would have a much harder time. Soon, we would not be able to do it, but we will have the tech we have created.

This means we need to use time and reasonably easy energy that remains to bootstrap ourselves onto other means before we can't do that.

If we fail at that a whole lot of people will die, due to lack of an energy source that compares to our current dependence. Food, materials, medicine, all sorts of things are dependent in all sorts of ways. Transport, manufacture, you name it.

There is a fairly long time line on all that however. It all gets super expensive soon, but not impossible for a longer time. Nobody really knows, or if they do, it is unclear. Yay right?

Sadly, should we fail to bootstrap o to other means soon, we will have released enough carbon to make our world a pain in the ass to survive and that raises the bar for the tech we need to bootstrap onto in order to make progress, not just cope with the harm already done, not to mention harm to be done over the next few decades.

We can produce similar fuels, but we really struggle to make them efficiently and carbon neutral, ideally carbon negative.

This all is a big deal and our future is not even close to secure.

It would be great to learn we have it easy!

But we really don't.

In my view the biggest error is consistently understating risks and costs, which biases answers to "what is worth what?" questions away from the level of effort needed to avoid real, global harm.

And I mean as humans. We are not doing very well with this type of challenge.
It's often possible to avoid fringes via padding/overallocation.
And if not, it may be possible to use unaligned loads/stores to handle the fringe in a single (final) iteration: https://github.com/google/highway#strip-mining-loops

It is actually feasible to write vector-style code using SIMD instructions. Yes, the SIMD ISA is more complicated because of the various accumulated extensions, but this is what we currently have. And a bit larger code size (for one final loop iteration) doesn't seem to be a big deal.
I was trying to write in a specific way for the HN audience. But yes - it remains a very important moral text for many people, including on HN.
Sure, but I believe for every 70 years you take the flu vaccine you’ll prevent yourself from getting the flu once. It will probably lessen the severity of the flu the other time or two you get it, though.

Frankly, Alzheimer’s prevention makes it seem a hell of a lot more worthwhile to those that are young and healthy.
Individualism over prosperity is similar to entropy over time. It's the breaking down of social order to its most base component.

Technology has enabled governments to grow massively, and law and order and prosperity removed the natural forces that kept communities together. Why put up with any communal norms you don't agree with when the community doesn't provide any additional safety or stability.

The strongest forces that once stood up to governments and markets are no longer relevant, in the West at least. Religion and tribalism are viewed as relics of the past, while the modern individual is naked and unarmed in the face of behemoth governments larger than the largest empires in human history.

I see it in the overreach of law enforcement because they correctly assume they're dealing with isolated individuals. In tribal societies, the tribe itself can stand up to the law. A person in such a society wouldn't be worried about being beaten by police because his family would beat the police.
Just call 'em up and ask around, or send an email, I suppose. There's gotta be somebody there who knows.

Granted, they're unlikely to just give you special access, but you could at least learn something.
You keep talking about American political parties that OP never one mentioned.
Linus Torvalds is cautiously optimistic about bringing Rust into next release
The article probably means: Define anything as non-nullable which can be non-nullable. Unfortunately SQL defaults to nullable, so there is a tendency to define too many columns as nullable. Normalization can also reduce the need for nullable columns in base tables (but you will get them back if you perform an outer join, so it is not a panacea).

But if a columns truly has unknown values, NULL's are the best ways to represent it. It is sometimes suggested to use "sentinel values" like empty string or -1 to represent missing values, but IMHO this is much worse than NULL's, since these will be treated as regular values by operators. When you have missing values, you want three-valued logic.
There really is a bubble effect. Everything is always about the Bay area... :-P
To answer your question I would have to step into ideological territory.

IMO, these things count as signs of adulthood: Having a stable relationship, building a family, building a business or being engaged in your community somehow.

In essence giving and contributing, instead of (only) taking and benefiting from society. Kids are allowed that, adults have to be pillars of society.

I know this sounds conservative, but it isn’t. Its just the only way a society can work and persist. The OP argued that we should make adulthood more attractive. I agree. Depending on where you live, life as an adult can be worthwile. I find that the key ingredient is community and social bonds.
Yes, why is that so hard to believe?
I strongly disagree. It's generally more of a class thing than a race thing, in my experience. I've lived in and been to many areas that are mixed race and the same income level and never had a problem. Once I started making more money and moved into an "up and coming" neighborhood, I was certainly seen as a gentrifier. Truth is I was and am. I get along well with everyone now because I've actually made an effort to be a good neighbor, reach out, and generally be a part of the community.
What incentive does the US have to decrease SA power and stability, considering that they one of US's strongest partners in the region? All of the things you list seem like a negative outcome for the US.
Not disabled, but I just want to clap my hands and yell "Chappy!" and have this thing bring me the whiskey tray. How can we make this happen?
When sending a link to someone, you expect your antivirus, your email provider, your email provider's spam filter, any intermediate email providers, the recipient email provider's spam filter, the recipient's email provider, the recipient's antivirus, your recipient's mail client, your recipient, and any other people who the message will be forwarded to, to see the link and evaluate it. The email standard is pretty clear that any number of intermediate servers and services can and will be able to see what you're sending.

Email isn't WhatsApp, there are probably at least three or four parties who will scan the link in any way they like. If you control your side you can make sure there are only one or two parties scanning the email en route, but the number can never be guaranteed to be zero without workarounds.

Who gave the mail server permission to access the page? The person who set up email on the domain. If you don't trust the hostmaster, don't send email to that domain. What if it contains copyrighted materials? Well, you just shared a plaintext link with a whole bunch of people, depending on your local legislation you may be in trouble.

You can't even expect a link clicked once by a single user in a browser to only appear once on the server side. TCP connections get dropped and retried. This isn't some kind of philosophical interpretation of a mystical protocol spec, this happens in real life. If you use POST/PUT/whatever requests, the user agent will prompt the user if they really want to repeat a request; this protection has been built in for years. It's just how browsers work and how they've been working for decades.

If your recipient is behind a proxy, the link may be visited several times each hour for up to a month while the proxy refreshes its cache. This was a more prevalent problem back in the day, these days web proxies are mostly a thing of the past; however, proxies still exist, and if you don't pay attention to those things they will bite you in the ass.

In real life bugs happen. That's fine in these cases, web dev isn't exactly rocket science, bugs are tolerated and can be fixed. The bug here isn't the fact that links get visited twice, though: the bug here is that the developers who set up their magical links forgot about idempotency when they wrote their code, or they chose to ignore the problem because they never ran into it themselves. Either way, the responsibility to get it fixed isn't on anyone but the party violating the spec.

As a workaround, S/MIME or PGP should work around most of these problems as intermediate servers can't see what's going on. What the client's machine will do with the decrypted message is still up to interpretation, of course.
This effect is used in adjustable casts (these modern plastic ones that you get when you break your foot) and vacuum stretchers for people with a suspected spine injury(+). They’re essentially a bag filled with tiny foam pellets that adjusts to your foot/body shape and turn rock solid once you pump out the air.

(+) https://www.rusunsafety.com/VacuumMattressStretcher/
So that's definitely wrong most likely same as washed eggs ban, because at least in Czechia in Slovakia you will find them refridgerated in every single supermarket and in plenty other EU countries, I remember even discussion about this on HN. By perfectly clean I mean perfectly smooth surface without any dirt or anything attached to shell, maybe they differ between brushing and washing.
>Like the detail

Whats interesting is that it was the “parent” company ACS Grupo that was successful. (They bought a decisive stake in Dragados)

Seems like old school corruption=>incompetence=>credential laundering to me.

https://www.vozpopuli.com/economia_y_finanzas/empresas/acs-f...
The author lost me at tge first paragraph: he never read it, and still he wonders why, in medieval fanatsy setting, there are no pump guns.
I don't find this thesis to be true at all, at least from the perspective of someone living in the Seattle area, where we recently:

- Hugely expanded the light-rail system and should have a major east-side extension opening within 2 years.

- Tore down an above-ground waterfront highway and replaced it with a tunnel underneath downtown Seattle.

- Currently reconstructing the waterfront to connect to the historic pike place market.

- At least one major new ferry terminal in the region in the last few years.

- Major expansion of the bike-lane network to where it's now easy to bike pretty much anywhere downtown, largely on protected bike lanes.

As far as I can see the only issue really is funding that pushes the timelines out on further expansions. The federal government seems to give peanuts for major transportation projects so the state/city/county pretty much has to fund it all themselves.
Who Does Processor Validation?
I think page padding is more a thing in self publishing. I'm part of a few fiction writer communities and longer (in general) makes more money. You are advised to start with short stories and graduate to novels as soon as possible. This is especially true for authors enrolling their books in Kindle Unlimited. They are paid per page read. The more pages they can have the reader go through without boring them enough to just quit, the more they get paid.
The ability to install a browser of your choice on the platform of your choice is not the same as giving the web completely over Google. Let's not make a strawman argument.
Honestly I think leetcode should be reserved for the jobs where you build the Lego bricks (the MANGAs).

Anywhere else where you use the Lego bricks to build some applications shouldn’t really use leetcode.

If you’re a good product engineer and you enjoy building good products, maybe you should start a company to build good products that solve problems for other people. Let the engineers who enjoy building the bricks do leetcode in peace so that we have solid pieces to build good software.

I’m doing the latter and trying to build a company. I realized I much prefer to build products that customers love, and I want to build useful software for people. I’m not that interested in low level tinkering and re-inventing the wheel all the time.

Coexistence is possible!
Gamechanger

Clone before kill.
Current TFR in China is around 1.7 according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033738/fertility-rate-c... it _has_ been climbing very slowly recently, but I'm not sure I would characterize that as "healthy".

"Asia" is pretty broad, but India was at 2.2 in 2020 and dropping pretty rapidly; as of earlier this spring it hit 2.0. Note that the Statista numbers are moving 5-year averages, so the "spot" number for India is lower than the number you see on that graph.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034075/fertility-rate-w... puts "Asia" as a whole at 2.15, which is indeed "healthy", but the slope is very much down.

Africa does have higher fertility, but from what I can tell the main reason is lack of access to birth control, not "community" or "big homes"...
Chat history is finally available and searchable on mobile. But cannot make a video call without going through a Meet link.
Successfull serial founder or failed serial founder?

Just wanting to get into space tech without any understanding of the topic, the problems and everything is really naive. Some tweets, podcasts or blog articles are not enough to learn about such a highly risk averse and regulated industry. Other commenters have already pointed out why space is a very very very hard industry to be in. You don‘t start that because you like space without a fortune of money to burn on the way.
Part of this can be explained by some long-established accounts that used to frequently defend American companies being banned, e.g. CryptoPunk [1], for being too incendiary.

In any case, I'd suggest trying to quantify the number of new accounts taking the pro-market-freedom side, and the number taking the pro-government-intervention side, to see if the data bears out your assumptions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CryptoPunk
When a movie is presenting coercive behavior as good, yes it does bother me. Yes within the story his behavior is validated - it was what she needed blah blah blah. That’s fine. But how many people were assaulted by men thinking they were deckard? It’s not zero
You are killing viruses/bacteria, not future human life. Are you able to distinguish between them? Seems quite difficult for some "liberals"/"democrats".
Pretty much a "try to acquit the defendant" guide. That's only one outcome. Someone who did the crime should do the time though.
this charade could last decades.

US continued to recognise Republic of China as the only representative of China until 1971 - 20 years after the defeat of the KMT in the Chinese Civil War.
> If I could get someone to search the web as the fastest way to solve something, that was almost always a great sign.

Interesting how things change. At a big, known software company they used to put a candidate at a computer running Visual Studio and ask him/her to write a program. That program would be impossible to code without including multiple winapi(?) calls and neither help nor internet were available. This was around late 90s/early 00s.
> Don’t think I said I am a democrat

HN seems to be incapable of differentiating between national political parties and wide, more genal political ideologies.
Knoware (pun intended, probably), my first Internet provider, back in 1993, had a 9600 baud connection to the Internet, shared by all his customers. When I phoned the guy (late, as he worked at night and slept during the day) to get a login, his first question was: do you have a Mac? There was no TCP/IP stack for Windows back then (Trumpet Winsock only came out in 1994, and was not a Microsoft product). He had heard of linux, said that it probably would work, but I would be on my own.

Fast forward to 1995: Windows 95 still didn't have TCP/IP (that only came with service pack 1). MSN was clearly intended as a Windows Internet, to eclipse and make irrelevant the existing one, leaving Mac and linux outside in the cold.

Of course, the local pizza guy would have to pay to be on it. Win-win for Microsoft.
Who wants to shard MySQL once a week at Amazon levels of scale? I prefer a managed service with consistent hashing.
I’m all ear actually, if you could kindly point me to the relevant material.
When they invest $500,000 of their own money and it makes millions, do they decline the profit? Their behavior is perfectly rational, but still ultimately a choice they make, and both the good and bad are a result of that.

Unless you are going to argue that they aren't rational adults with agency of their own, in which case I would question letting them decide anything at all
Not sure who you're confusing me with, but for myself I'm happy to report that I've gotten off Reddit a couple years ago, so there's that. Also find HN boring lately and visit it less often, good signs all around.
I always roll my eyes when people sneer at the "forced" hardware upgrade Windows 11 requires. Even when I patiently explain to them what it's for

The entire point of the mandated minimum requirements was hardware that had silicon level mitigation support for Meltdown and Spectre type attacks. Something that impacted both AMD and Intel CPU's and still has new variants popping up (we're on what, Spectre v4 by now?)

The only way to truly mitigate these issues (other than undoing 30 years of CPU advancement) was an entire top-to-bottom set of mitigations. From the silicon up through the operating system and even applications such as browsers
I think it's intentional. Strong village weakens the state. Nuclear family has to depend on it.
I only observe the coincidence: while we had Neanderthal about, no moves toward civilization. Any reason would be speculation; maybe they and the Denisovans knew better? If so, they may get the last laugh, as it crashes down around us.

Australia (Sahul, really) was a place with (apparently) no Neanderthal or Denisovans. Whatever would develop only in their absence should have happened there first. Or maybe in Sundaland and points north, before rising seas claimed all of that.

But civilization was well along for millennia before any appreciable "technological advancement", excepting maybe pottery, and things that decay and leave no trace. (Which is most things.)
And improving the transit system helps many more individuals than trying to improve car speeds in a city. That's what I mean. You cant compare car time to bus time you have to compare total man hours saved
> And there is no interpretation of that development as anything else but a net negative.

Sure there is: An inevitability.

I am hoping we will increasingly turn attention towards how to handle it (although I am relatively certain that's already going on at rapidly growing scale at fb, google and openai).

I could see updated legislation doing a lot of heavy lifting – strict rules against automated mass-disinformation – but more action is certainly going to be required.
> The point is to hire people who mastered skills different than what you have.

That's the job of the other engineers. I only know how to screen for the skills I do have.

Most engineers spend all day in their text editor and on Google, debugging code and searching for solutions.

I have never met a good craftsman that doesn't customize their tools.

I'm not saying everyone has to customize their editor. But if you move quickly and intuitively through the chrome debugger, the only way you got that skill was by doing it every day for way too many hours.

Also, you can learn a lot about how senior someone is by watching how fast they can parse out search results and SO answers.
Those thoughts do not sound like depressed thoughts to me.
Safari on iOS (or MacOS) is a different beast than Safari for Windows.
Wouldn't you want the hinge either in line with the lid(traditional laptops) or shear force applied by lever arm(MacBook)?
lights a candle for eWorld
I’d love for this to happen, but I feel like the outcome here may be someone signs one of these and gets told “we didn’t hire you because you looked like you were [protected class]”.