skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is is on the back end makes no difference. If you want to access your DVD drive as a user, you have to access it via drive letter... Open windows explorer, add a USB drive, DVD drive, secondary hard drive... they come up by default with their own drive letter, and unless you mount the disk to a path locally, that's how users will see the drive. And if you mount it to an existing path, guess where it ends up? C:\mymounteddrive. Drive letters are critical to Windows still.
But Balaji's book isn't really a playbook for how a community could go from loose collection of individuals on discord to a mini city! If it was that, it would be a far more compelling read, instead the first 50% could be summed up as, "institutions bad, crypto will save us all, media is biased, America is just as bad as China, and India is rising." And the back half while more interesting basically rehashes similar examples over and over (keto community) without many tangible details on going from 0 to 1. Could have been far more interesting, talked about things like Sovereign Military order of Malta, Charter Cities, SEZ's, and other interim ways for a network state to come to be but instead was just repeated ramblings and definitions.
No, it’s just showing that costs are going up because things are harder to produce. Simple as that.
/me googles how many mass shooters have SSRI history
This actually does. I used Python gzip to see how the minified would compress and came up with 157 bytes to JCOF's 134. Using the same mechanism to gzip the JCOF saves only 4 bytes. I'm actually rather impressed.
This reminds me a bit of the old "biorhythm" concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorhythm_(pseudoscience)
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As someone who operates a small tech company (<5 employees), I can't relate to using all these products. However, our needs are different than the author's. Given that they're paying $800+ USD/month, I suspect their monthly revenue and the time saved from these tools justifies their cost.
The guy looked and specifically said not Celcius. - https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/sbfs-ftx-con...
I also spent time in the industry, and would agree. There are much better industries to work in to make a paycheck, and games can be sustainable if you approach them with an eye towards hobby-scale production. But 20-year-old me would probably still disagree because he lacked for ideas of how to approach a career. It is hard to see your options properly when you're starting out and most "helpful advice" from elders amounts to "I did this and it worked for me(in a completely different economy 30 years ago)" or "the good jobs are in X".

Really, though. The people who do best in games tend to come in with a specific specialty skill that they enjoy and is transferrable, deploy it for a brief tour, then exit. Everyone tasked with arbitrary production-as-a-whole functions gets wrecked at some point. And it doesn't get better at indie scale, because accountability is even lower in a tiny studio, and the producers will tend to achieve results by repeatedly finding new people to do free work, gaslighting them and then tossing them aside when they stop delivering. And if it's a true go-it-alone, then you can end up self-imposing crunch when you sense the game isn't shaping up like it should, and it's easy to stay there indefinitely until you break because game scoping can get out of control so easily.

Like, you can make indie stuff work. I know folks who have. But they have a very tight grasp on the kind of thing they are aiming to achieve, and categorically aren't doing "game productions" in the sense of spending most of the cycle fumbling around figuring out how to make the game and worrying about how to make characters successfully interact with doors. It's basically always a narrow genre entry like "Sokoban puzzle", and the dev specialized into doing only that genre so that more of their work and skillset transfers between projects. And you can do great work this way and truly achieve mastery over the subject matter because with such a narrow scope, the code and assets can be iterated over a ton, without much deadline stress. But "the industry" as a whole is blatantly against respecting that process since it's normalized stealing as much as possible from last year's trends and then pushing all remaining effort into a wider marketing funnel, and in doing so, creating a raft of challenging technical problems. So for as much sheer effort the industry puts in, most of it is wasted.
A lot of bad country leaders have been right at times. I am trying to resist to invoke Godwin's law here...
'Literally dumber than Trump' is not a good label, even for a politician.
Results of Potato-only diet crowdsourced study
I was in Ecuador, actually.

You can get to the Amazon from Quito with a 5 hour drive that is very pleasant. Then the road ends and you take a boat that can be anything from 30mins to several hours, depending how deep into the jungle you are going.

Once there, there's tons to do. Floating in an amazon tributary river -with no sound other than the occasional bird- and closing my eyes was one of the most incredible zen moments in my life. Could have stayed hours. That week went by too fast.

Regarding your brazil experience - doesn't seem uncommon. I've asked Peruvians, Ecuadoreans, Brazilians etc if they have gone to the Amazon. The answer is no.

Its not dissimilar to the experience you would get in the US if you asked someone if they have been to Mt Rushmore, Florida Keys, Grand Canyon, or even Yellowstone. Its far, and mostly out of reach for most americans (and we are far wealthier than our southern neighbors).

Also, I get a sense that touristic developments deep in South America wilderness tend to cater to foreign tourists. Such prices may be out of reach for most upper class locals. This is different from most US landmarks, which seem to cater primarily to middle class Americans (anecdata).
> Game support is already good.

And, unfortunately, very far from complete. It is a good direction, however, and I am encouraged by it.
Free money is over, time to get back to reality
Maybe it shouldn't have but developing in Rust would be intolerable without .unwrap(). In the real world you wade through API documentation figuring out the types and colors of functions while forever being assaulted by Result<>. Without .unwrap() your progress would be destroyed as you'd have to immediately deal with every unhappy path. unwrap() allows you nail together the happy path and then revisit the failure modes after you get your intentions working.

Also, .unwrap() is fine for unit test mocking you need in real world code.

Are irresponsible and/or under-resourced programmers abusing .unwrap()? Yes. Obviously. Fortunately, the frictionless .unwrap() makes this blatantly obvious to everyone else (just as profligate use of unsafe {} does,) so detecting crap code is much easier. This is a vast improvement over traditional 'systems' languages that permit said programmers to ignore failures without so much as a word.

The net result is .unwrap() is a win for Rust.
Yes, but in all those instances the US sent troops there with weapons and they fired those weapons at the other side, which is how most people visualize "war". That's not what is happening here. We're sending weapons and money, not men. It would be like saying America entered WWII when they signed the Lend-Lease act, not after Pearl Harbor.
Don’t overcrowd them and watch out for insects. They don’t seem to mind the heat once established. I started them inside and I should’ve used a larger container. They overgrew the seed start containers fast.
I took it as an attempt at levity for something that obviously doesn't matter and will never happen, but maybe also because Putin is almost 70 and at a certain point lots of training doesn't help the fact your body is degrading rapidly.
Interesting, I wonder which type of English speakers would see that as their initial hunch for pronunciation.
svchost.exe begs to differ.
But we depend on them for everything else. I am deeply embedded in the drug supply chain - we would run out of live-savings drugs in 3-6 months of China closed shop.

(and drugs are not fundamentally different from any low-margin manufacturing critical item)
This is a pretty disappointing performance from a hardware-accelerated coder.
Secret Service chief James Murray leaving agency for Snapchat
>'run hotter'

That is interesting ja. "generally(red-hearing word when speaking about science)" men I see don't get as cold as females in 'general' (PC/Wokeness be dammed - we talking about proper bro-science here) even though it's not unusual for females to carry more fat (waiting for internet gods to smite me), which is associated with with better heat isolation.

With that in mind, I've noticed I am unusually immune to cold, like my fellow country folks will usually ask me if I know its winter (or some smart comment like that) cause I will be in shorts + t-shirts + sandals most of winter (South African Winters on average about (-2 To 8 Celsius)

For anyone noticing this pattern of fashion (short+ sandals) yes I"m a white-male-Afrikaans-South-African. In winter when it's really really cold (Ragnarok levels) we will consider wearing socks with said sandals :)

PS. As a interesting side note. I did do a 23andMe test and nothing out of the ordinary. Yes my ancestors are from Europe 91.2% I'm French-German decent.
Yeah, basically came to say this. While I appreciate the effort, I think this list is way off.
My impression here is that (1) you don't want a language that you'd have to ship a runtime with (any interpreted language, Go, Swift), (2) Rust WASM tooling/documentation is (much?) better than tooling for other languages, and (3) most people would prefer memory safety when it comes to a purely memory-safety-to-compile-time trade-off.
NB original title is "LOSE 10.6 POUNDS in FOUR WEEKS with this ONE WEIRD TRICK Discovered by Local Slime Hive Mind! Doctors GRUDGINGLY RESPECT Them, Hope to Become Friends", but I felt that was a bit linkbaity for HN.
Stripe is taking a 28% internal valuation cut
The same thing holds true for freezing Russia's foreign Reserves.

In many ways the EU and Russia are at War. It's just not a shooting War
> [...] well, probably not with this tiny example, but I hope you know what I mean [...]

Well, here's the thing. These small pieces of code DO show up in actual, real codebases! I've gotten feedback during code reviews along the lines of, "What if the surrounding context is refactored, this tiny, simple piece code could break" and to be perfectly honest, when I get it, I come down to your desk and we have a discussion about whether that kind of feedback is appropriate, and the purpose of code reviews.

(It also always seems like the issue I'm looking at is "fixed in nightly", but some of those features in nightly take a long time to get accepted, and the ergonomics of split_array() seem a bit dubious to me. Are you going to chain three split_array() for four fields? Obviously, for simple serialization and deserialization there are a ton of different options to automate this code away, but it's nice to be able to write simple code like this when appropriate, and the ergonomics of simple tasks matter.)
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Find a synonym, antonym or a replacement for a short sentence with few words.
In this case it's not just patriotism and noble ideas but sheer realism. The civilized world needs to do everything to weaken Russia to minimize the chances of them expanding the war. We got totally dependent on cheap Russian gas in spite of warnings and now is the price to pay. There is really no alternative. I mean yes, we can lift sanctions and let Russia build advanced rockets with our chips, but is this really the future we want to build?
Biden says the U.S. will work to improve Palestinians' lives
Copilot will cause deaths. Bad staff will rely completely on it when it works and not understand why, push stuff out and it will do "unexpected" things in their eyes, but it will be too late for the dead.
Tei Feng. The best.
Milwaukee does it proper. Szechuan Restaurant on National.
These are interesting materials. Some of them have too high heat/light ratio that will signal bias to people who just want neutral scientific information. But some of them are more substantial. Thanks, I'll keep an open mind about this. I agree you shouldn't be flagged, although there are things you could do to get a better reception.
I agree unwrap is tragically overused in example code, and any non-logic error should use a Result instead — even early in a project. This isn’t a huge overhead. Even in “prototypey” code, it’s not hard to make everything return an anyhow::Result and upgrade to more fine-grained error types later. The main function can return a Result as well (which will be unwrapped by the runtime), making this style almost as concise as the unwrap version.

I also agree that panic and crash is usually the correct response to a logic error.

However, I think library functions like Regex::new shouldn’t decide for me what I do or don’t consider a logic error — how should the library know where that string comes from? They also shouldn’t be effectively required to offer two overloads for every function just to enable both decisions: there’s already a very clean way to put that decisions into the hands of the library user, Result.unwrap() vs. Result?.

Now, about unwrap vs. expect: Since the author and I agree that panics should be reserved for logic errors, the expect() argument is effectively only a debugging aid. Should that be required? I’m torn. Often, which one I personally use reflects my confidence in getting the invariant correct and never hitting the panic in production. That can be risky. A particular team in a particular context might therefore adopt a convention to always use expect instead of unwrap, that’s fine. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable that the language offers a choice here, and in similar places, like the no-parameter variant of panic!().
Unfortunately, this will reveal itself to be a stunningly accurate prediction.
Porsager/flems: A single file web playground and sandbox
No, you're right and I agree with your points. The key point I was trying to make is that the US demonizes Iran precisely because it can't control it and skim its oil profits. Iran knows this, which is why it's always saber-rattling to protect its livelihood.

I feel that the US went wrong back in the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter was trying to transition off oil to solar and other renewable resources. I'd guess that he probably supports nuclear power too since that was his job in the Navy. That was all buried under a wave of propaganda when Ronald Reagan came in, and we're still living under that disinformation campaign today. Our dependence on fossil fuels and that conspiracy are what prevent Middle East peace today IMHO.
If it were just a matter of node size, do you think Intel of all companies would have hesitated to throw all the financial muscle they have at migrating their designs to work with TSMC nodes?
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Backend: Django / Celery -
Front-end: TailwindCSS, daisyUI, HTMX, Hyperscript -
Devops: VS Code dev containers than I can duplicate easily between projects to keep configuration.
To build successful software, don't make the plan better. Make it shorter
My advice about public prayer: get a bible concordance, and look up all the times Jesus prayed. Are any of them in public? No. This is a culture war issue, ginned up by conservatives, probably so that national-level conservatives can fundraise off it.
The term "Russian aggression" alone gives a glimpse into the false narratives we are fed.

We never heard US aggression. Did the US leave the Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, Nicaragua alone?
No. Then why we never heard of US aggression.

For decades, an active geopolitical cat and mouse games has been going on in the world . However, we hear only one side's narrative.

In geopolitics if one side pursue an aggressive strategy to contain another nation, for instance expanding NATO eastwards or changing a regime by other means for instance Ukraine 2014 revolution and have the propaganda mechanism powerful enough to label the other side is the aggressor, we won't see the whole truth.

That's why we tend to have the belief that the US dominated world order is good.
In light of the Secret Service deliberately deleting text messages related to the Jan 6 insurrection -- after being ordered not to by the Office of the Inspector General! -- I have to wonder if Snapchat is having second thoughts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/politics/secret-servic...
There’s a “READ THE BOOk!” link to https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/. That page says:

“The HTML format is available online at https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ and offline with installations of Rust made with rustup; run rustup docs --book to open“

More importantly, it has a “next page” arrow at the bottom right, and a TOC pop-up at the top left of the page.
If you are open to a broader score of university work then you might consider connecting with the Research Software Engineer Associations in the countries that you would consider working in. They have a lot of networking discussions over Slack. In the US the URL is:

https://us-rse.org/

I have been at a university for 25 years and absolutely love it. I have a staff position as a research software engineer, but also a non-tenure faculty appointment where I teach classes and work with students. It has really been a best of all worlds combination where I love the work and avoid a lot of the stress and committee work.
> Earlier, I also said that VGA games more frequently featured parallax, and that VGA was easier to program than EGA. This is primarily because in 256-color VGA mode, each pixel always occupies one byte. So all the complexity caused by the need to address individual bits disappears. VGA still has a planar memory layout, but this applies to bytes instead of bits.

My dad picked up an old EGA computer from work in the early 90s. I was always frustrated that almost all games required a VGA at the time. Now I understand why... It was too much effort to be backwards compatible with what was increasingly becoming niche hardware.
This is ahistorical.

Some of the first well known "indie" games were on Xbox live arcade on the 360, like Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Castle Crashers.
Right. But this renders moot the whole question of force and consent here. One undemocratic government did something to another undemocratic government. Or at least, if you think democracy is the sole source of legitimacy, that's what happens. I think there are other possible stories that could be told.
Going from JavaScript to WebAssembly in three steps (2020)
Ampere Computing does, and Rivos will.
My friend did the math and found that her Costco orders were 40% more expensive with IC. It does save her the time of going to the store, which is not trivial (especially with two kids), but 40% is one hell of a markup!
Don't do that, really. See the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to contextualise / explain, either write a comment (you can submit that simultaneously with your post by filling in the text field w/ a link), or write a blog putting your spin on things and submit that / have someone submit it.
I said this on a previous thread, but I'd like to see someone build a lightweight graphical UI desktop for this, that just keeps out of the way and lets you just get on with using your machine like Windows used to be.
There are no sanctions against Russian gas and the contractual agreed money is paid as specified in the contracts. The involved Russian banks have been excluded from the sanctions to facilitate that. On the other side, Russia has started to starve Europe of Gas about a year ago, also showing how long planned this war is. The boiling of a frog metaphor applies here and has been executed perfectly by Russia. As shown by how many people don't realize what had happened.
Some more details from the thread:

> They were mostly along the lines of "this is great, would like to hire you..." some had specific salary/position info in the message and 2 were straight-up "we'd hire you right away". I'm really sorry if this sounds braggy but I'm trying to reflect the tone.

...

> The highest offer I received was from a Bay Area company with a salary range of 180-250. It needed relocation too. I didn't pursue the conversation, so I'm not sure what the entire package would look like.

Pretty impressive
Why not donate a large amount of old but not obsolete hardware to facilitate learning using open source languages and frameworks, with practical projects that let people see results via publishing their own work as code or as a product, or even make some money through patreon or stripe or whatever, rather than locking people to an isolated system where their endeavours are leeched by an app store and resources of 'lucky enough' schools and participants drained and chained in order to make this happen?
> you're making the decision to NOT have cheesecake when you only kind of feel like it.

Chiming in as someone whom the GP comment resonates with: the point here is that you literally come to enjoy it less. The natural amount that you would eat isn't constrained entirely by health choices. I find finishing a single slice of cheesecake to be overwhelming: a second one would be actively unpleasant.

If you were following your assumptions here to their conclusions, you would conclude that people who eat unhealthily would eat cheesecake 24/7 if it weren't for conscious health choices. This is trivially untrue, no?

The original claim was that losing weight requires constant extra discomfort, and GP's (and my) claim is that this is false: you can move yourself (with initial discomfort) to an equilibrium that's more comfortable _and_ healthier than the status quo.

I feel the discomfort of constraining myself much less often now than I did when I ate like you. This is again trivial: if your preferences are aligned with healthy eating, you need to push against them less.
I created a DALL-E image description guessing game
This looks much improved! The sluggish old X-Windows-based UI was a huge turn-off (although it did put the menu where it belongs: on the main window frame of the application, a foreign concept on the Mac).

But this looks good and seems responsive (on an M1 Mac). GJ Inkscape team!

Update: I just installed it on my Intel Mac and while the UI appearance is obviously still improved, the performance is pretty bad. Resizing a single shape is very slow, with massive tearing of the image and visible redrawing.
My company operates from a couple of pods that we rent in a warehouse. It can be a bit noisy and the climate control isn't always that great, but it's not too bad overall. There's also a lot of smaller pods you can rent, and it would be really nice if you do other work besides programming, say, run a 3D printer from the location or do work with robots or embedded systems and need some more space.
> At worst I may be silent

Considering your expertise in the area, this sounds like "at best".
19th century Britain is probably as close to "starry-eyed libertarianism" as has ever been seen before or since. They repealed the Corn Laws.
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Thanks for liking it @t_mann!
turn off the error reporting so you get whats read rather than an error interrupt and watch the bitrot. Never did that in linux but it wouldn't surprise me if its a driver option.
Wait why is Netflix on your list? How are Netflix and Alphabet/Google related?
So the conclusion is that they don’t yet believe the danger is imminent?

As a Dutch person whose country is equally dependent on gas (but happens to be sitting on gas as well, which can’t be used for political reasons), I’m flabbergasted by the optimism of the politicians.

Yes, it may be fine, but why bet on it? Why isn’t there more central EU coordination in case there actually will be a gas shortage, and we need to divide the gas? Who gets what and who should deliver to whom?