skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if Boris in a skirt gets in then yes we will probably have a Chinese mobile reactor outside of number 10...
Everything you’ve said is true, but also you literally cannot replicate in-person interaction. Perhaps one day we will be able to trick our lizard brains with virtual interactions, but we can’t do it at present. There is no replacement for touching, feeling, smelling, and seeing. You can have meaningful relationships online but you are absolutely missing out if you’re only interactions are digital.
To be completely honest, I find the fact that this was raised by the committee to be really obtuse and unnecessary. The same "complaint" could be raised about #include as well.

If you want to include data from a continuous stream from a device node, then you could just as easily have the data piped into a temporary file of defined size and then #embed that. No need to have the compiler cater for a problem of your own making.

As for the custom data types. It's a byte array. Why not leave any structure you wish to impose on the byte array up to the user. They can cast it to whatever they like. Not sure why that's anything to do with the #embed functionality.

Both these things seem to be massive overthinking on the part of the committee members. I'm glad I'm not participating, and I really do thank the author for their efforts there. We've needed this for decades, and I'm glad it's got in even if those ridiculous extensions were the compromise needed to get it there.
This is how rally roadbook works. Turn by turn or navigation points with noted distance since the start (and some extra data like possible dangers or extra navi points) printed onto a (usually quite long) roll of paper that's then forwarded using roadbook reader. Add a reasonably well calibrated tripmaster and you're all set.
Thanks for that! So those devices on Amazon are just powerful diode lasers that switch on and off ten times a second - they're not even millisecond pulsed lasers.

That powerful beam looks like (dangerous) fun; I've always wanted a laser that can burn things. My inner arsonist would like to be able to set things on fire from 100m. But I'm sure the device must be illegal here.

Styropyro says you can damage your eyes just by looking at the projected laser spot. I wonder whether he's exaggerating his warning a bit.

OK, so no homemade picosecond-laser coffee for me any time soon.
The irony, Google/Alphabet uses ABC.xyz.
The source for this is interesting to read to say the least.

*FIXED SEE EDIT: I tried to compile it but was missing a link reference to the major function.

I will keep poking around but it is definitely a fun source read.

[edit]
If you are wanting to compile this on WSL you will need to add an include for <sys/sysmacros.h> to pickup the reference to major.
Seems to be arguing for modular layout/templating, which is what virtual includes did (the cgi in the example would hypothetically output html)
What’s this useragent switcheroo?
> It takes only a cursory knowledge of how computer hardware works to realize that nothing a computer does can ever be sentient.

What about how human hardware works allows humans to be sentient? (Or are you arguing they are not?)
It's above all the lack of available dev time I think. I don't think it says much about KDE's codebase. One needs to be aware of and get interested at one of these issues enough to take some time to look into it, most probably in there free time, and submit a fix.
I'm not sure what to make of your hypothetical question about the GP commenter's likelihood of responding, since the first (and only) response to this when I went to bed was from walrus01, whom I was responding to and had a brief conversation with.

I commented in this way because the article directly addressed the problems with the GP comment, and the GP comment made no mention of it. There's also a pattern on HN and elsewhere of comments popping up in top-level threads made in bad faith to derail and redirect conversation, especially on anything related to power generation or renewables. Telling someone to "address the actual content" is precisely what I was doing.
Welcome to a security nightmare the likes of which we've not seen before...

No implementation is perfect and it just takes one determined clever person to break or weaken wpa2 a bit more and it would be chaos.

Banning the devices all together because they're not worth a dam and are a security nightmare when not setup correctly though.

Now there's an idea.
I used to believe this but i don't anymore.

From https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded

Arthur is famous for his very dense programming style. Most C programmers would scream when seeing this code.

In his view (and others in the terse scene), it is much better to have everything in your application readable on the screen at once than to have great names for things or a lot of white space to comfort the first timer reader.

To them, once you've sufficiently studied that screen or two of code, you can understand all of it at the same time. If it's spread out over thousands of files, it's very difficult to understand all of it, which leads to bugs, unnecessary abstraction, and the need for advanced tooling just to work with your own project's code.

He wants to see the code "all at once" so he can understand all of its behavior without paging around and shifting his focus to another tab, window, etc. To get there he makes a lot of tradeoffs in terms of the code formatting and naming conventions. He also, in b, creates a dense set of interlocking macros and abstractions that can make the code very hard to follow.

Critics and the uninitiated say that his code is like old school modem line noise: random punctuation intermixed with bits of understandable code. I would suggest that he's actually quite careful with the abstractions he chooses and they are actually not always the most dense, highly compressed code structures available to him. He chooses wisely and his code rewards deep study.

Interview with Arthur Whitney: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
I'd have thought that would be even lower spec than the Chromebook.
> I do all my work on an under $200 Chromebook. I have a VPS where I do all the actual work.

Arguably you do all your work through (not on) a $200 Chromebook then ;)

Somehow the Chromebook acts as a glorified keyboard+display tied via a very long cable to a several thousands dollar machine that you rent!

(I get that you can run Linux, and that this machine handles browsing as well, and I'm not judging the setup, it just feels like the "$200 worth of hardware is all it takes to do work on" subtext feels cognitively dissonant to me)
A lot of what you're saying sounds smart but is devoid of meaning. I'm wondering if you have done any bench top research in biology. It's a humbling experience.

Viruses clearly exist. You can observe them infecting and lysing cells in real time. You can do controlled experiments where only the cultures containing viruses you've added get lysed. You can purify antibodies against them. You can prove that the antibodies inactivate the virus. As there are viruses that affect everything from bacteria to plants and animals, proving Koch's postulates for at least one virus is trivial.

None of that depends on EM. Microscopy merely gave us a picture of these things which lets us understand their structure better.

It doesn't depend on genome sequencing. That just helps us understand what proteins they make and why they vary.

However, both those techniques are substantially more valid than you give them credit for and are always used in the context of other tests to assure you're studying the right thing.

You talked about bovine serum and monkey cells. While both can be used in virology, the trend is for serum-free media and generally you want to use human cells when studying human viruses. In any event, if both the control culture and the test culture use the same media and cell type, anything different between them is likely due to the test. That's kind of fundamental to how science works. After all, human cells may contain dormant viruses or viral genomes, so you want to make sure that your controls are identical such that your intentionally infected cells are the only ones that show viral activity.

I used to joke that mouse deer didn't actually exist. That they were just jackelopes that the taxidermists made up for the museum of natural history. I bet that I could have made that very convincing with a lot of rhetoric. A visit, however, to a zoo with said ungulates alive and in the flesh would quickly prove me wrong. I think you're relying on the fact that you won't have to put your ideas to the test and nobody in your real life will be sophisticated enough to show you the reality. In that case, perhaps you'd be better served asking what you can do to prove that viruses exist? Otherwise you'll just go on like this.
its well worth the effort to learn about the life of experimental chemist Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin who famously would design then create in his backyard lab hundreds of permutations of various molecules ... Sasha would take the creation and if it had potential would share with his wife and friends ... fascinating storyteller taboot
Your claim was it wasn't real. Which is factually incorrect. If you mean something else you should properly articulate what you mean instead.
> Like the author, one of the pain-points was the relatively slow edit-compile-review cycle of modern LaTeX engines like LuaLaTex.

This depends a lot.
In most of the cases delay is only about 1 second on modern PCs. A bit more when you cite and build the document twice.

You can use LaTeX in many different ways. There are built-in editors and web services such as Overleaf.
In the end, they all use the same workflow or dependencies for building the document, but might add an additonal delay.

I too have ended up tweaking my environment a lot. I ended up testing almost every LaTeX workflow.

I finally ended up for just using vim and zathura. Optimised docker image with LuaLatex builds the document.
Second favorite would be LaTeX plugin for Jetbrains products.
Overleaf is only good for collaborating.

On my desktop pc which has 16 CPU cores, there is only very little latency when compiling.
But for text editing, it is a bit rare that you need such PC…
Same here in Spain. But in this climate I don't need insulation anyway.. My energy costs are 60 euro a month in winter and 30 in summer. No point even trying to insulate.
Why is this comment being downvoted so much?
Bison Roundup at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (2021)
It must be the mafia. No other explanation
Once people understand that sentience also means

Is this a matter of understanding, or a matter of definition? I can't help but feel that the entire AI field is so overcome with hype that every commonplace term is subject to on-the-spot redefinition, whatever helps to give the researcher/journalist/organization their two seconds of fame.
Simple JupyterHub-like using Tailscale
"I hope that the new app will help divorcing couples to work through the divorce with less pain on both sides."

It won't. The people who fight over used dish soap and other petty things will continue to have issues.

The other part is people having an incorrect perception of what they are entitled to in a divorce. The app or a lawyer will be able to show them how wrong that perception is, but it won't dull the pain.

What would actually help is forming a prenup while both parties are happy, before vengeance, winning, or whatever emerges from the failed marriage.
> “Touch grass”, some people liked to tell me. “Go outside”, they said (like I would in the middle of Yet Another Gotdang COVID-19 Spike). My dude, I’ve literally gotten company snail mail, and it wasn’t a legal notice or some shenanigans like that! Holy cow, real paper in a real envelope, shipped through German Speed Mail!! This letter alone probably increases my Boomer Cred™ by at least 50; who needs Outside anymore after something like this?

Touch grass indeed. Sure, #embed is a nice feature, but this self-indulgent writing style I can’t stand.
I don't read the slightest sense of entitlement in their post*. All they said was they have rational reasons to wear a mask themself and those rational reasons make them not a kook when they choose to wear a mask.

Your reply would be more on-target if they'd asked everyone else to wear a mask around them because of their medical condition, but nowhere did they make nor imply that request.

* - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199251
Akonadi used to be annoying, especially the baloo file indexer.

Nowadays, you can just turn off indexing with one checkbox. And it works quite well anyway. It got a lot better. I don't bother disabling it anymore. It does not even cross my mind. A few years ago it was mandatory. Probably also because I was using spinning drives.
I don’t think alignment of interest degenerates linearly with generations. I would suggest that people in their 50s today are much more aligned in interests (not talking hobbies - more generic interests) to someone in their 20s than someone in their 70s.

This is not due to the age rather than the timing of the current technological age and its impact of social evolution of values.

That said to align generations around epochs of time is disingenuous to the diversity and value anyone brings no matter how old they are. We need to tread carefully that we don’t perpetuate ageism.
+1 for using `ch` as your max-width unit and `rem` for your font size. Pixels is definitely the wrong value. I have my user agent set up with slightly larger default font size to be easier for me to read. I appreciate that you respect my settings using these relative values.
You now have negative credentials.

People make these proofs as a matter of course - few people are solipsistic. People are sentient all the time, and we have lots of evidence.

An AI being sentient would require lots of evidence. Not just a few chat logs. This employee was being ridiculous.

You can just disagree, but if you do that with no credentials, and no understanding of how a language model will not be sentient, then your opinion can and should be safely dismissed out of course.

And also God has no explanatory power for anything. God exists only where evidence ends.
> (Emphasis mine.) My god.

yes, C finally catching up with what languages such as F# have been able to do for years with great success https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tutorials/typ... ; wild isn't it to step into the 2010-era of programming ?
When you look at the Unity editor, it's really mostly "just" a tree of game objects, which have components attached, which have editable properties of a handful of data types.

That's a generic enough core feature set to be applicable to be useful for most types of games, yet the UI is already tricky enough to "do right" to justify a standard tool (especially when it comes to things like searchability and bulk-editing of data.

Additional game-specific functionality can be provided via a plugin mechanism.

Most DCC tools have actually a fairly basic 'core idea' which is then extended through plugins (e.g. in Maya the core idea is "everything is a DAG node").
Do you guys evere delete your text? I can't remember ever doing so. It's annoying, why bother? It doesn't get in the way or bother you.

Both senders and recipients must be charged with violation of the presidential records act because it is unreasonable for both parties to delete a text without some explicit reason and given their roles they can't claim ignorance of such a law. This is a conspiracy. DHS taking over the investigation says a lot. I can't believe biden has done such a bad job at weeding out trump appointees. Even the justice department trump appointee is now prosecuting biden's son right before election season(who cares if he is guilty but this screams malicious prosecution).
Mercenary spyware exploited Google Chrome zero-day to target journalists
How are you supposed to make a level for a game if the engine doesn't support editing levels? A big part of the level is that it integrates features of the engine directly into the level, e.g. static light shadow rendering.
Not all of us did
Stop Drinking Now
This mirrors a recent Supreme Court cases and the beliefs of both sides.
Kafka on Kubernetes: What could go wrong?
Great resource. Also odd to see this posted today of all days. I just woke up at the crack of dawn to go try my first multi pitch route!
One of the points of the article is the exact opposite. Some places get less sun, but overall the disparity between the haves and havenots is a lot less than for fossil fuels. That it's decentralized is one of the strengths of renewable energy. Amory Lovins referred to this as "no instrument plays all the time, but the orchestra creates beautiful music". Not to mention that countries want to be energy independent, which would be another improvement to the situation we are currently in.
This is not a "bug" or an "issue", it is a matter of taste. Some users prefer search, others prefer a simpler "jump to file" function. The maintainers have decided to implement the former. Arrogant comments like this really make me wonder why people are still putting work into open-source projects.
The preprocessor needs to run before the compiler, though, and isn't complex enough to understand the context of the code that it's in. That would be a substantially complex thing to implement.
When people start the short term value provided is low so they will not pay a lot. When people have acquired those skills they find other places are better to utilize those skills than the hacker/maker-space so they will not pay a lot. They'll have the tools at their new job, buy the specific ones they use or join a more professional workspace that has them.
You are talking about use of natural gas to make nitrogen fertilizer; ammonia made with "green hydrogen" replaces this.
> No you don't.

Yes, you do!

of course it worked.

you just committed a crime.

you can fake your id everywhere in the World, it is a crime everywhere in the world and if something happens doesn't mean you won't get caught.

you can drive a stolen car, it will work.

> yes there is a field in regstritation where you should enter a "identity card id"

so it is required! you simply ignored it, lied and broke the law.

your criminal behaviour doesn't imply laws do not exist.

if you tried to buy an insurance policy with that fake ID, you would be in troubles now.
The article is making me want to try it, but it’s a bit light on technical details and I’m concerned of having to go down a rabbit hole of learning a bunch of new tech.

Perhaps posting a git repository of a sample phd thesis (with a couple of empty chapters, sample figures/images, tables) could be something that others would really benefit from.
KDE verions from 4.0 to 4.4 or so were very unstable. KDE 4.5 and later were rock solid.

First versions of KDE 5 were very lacking. It's now back to rock solid and much more visually pleasing and enjoyable to use than KDE 4. The Oxygen theme was very visually "heavy", its grey was quite depressing and overall did not look well. I would just get rid of it and switch to the Fusion theme. KDE 3 with its Plastik theme looked a bit more dated than Oxygen, but was way better. KDE 5's Breeze theme is perfect.
As a counterpoint, I had to ditch my LaTeX CV when I realised that applicant tracking systems were struggling to properly parse the PDF.

Switching back to a simple Word template (no use of tables; just heading styles and bullet points) and submitting the .docx resolved these issues.
That would be fine with me, if every energy source had to pay its own negative externalities.
Low-temperature burns are a thing. If you are exposed to heat long enough, eventually it can get your skin hot enough to be burned. The same way you can slow-cooking meat.
All my scripts have "#!/usr/bin/env bash" at the top but in some cases that didn't help. Also, I think some bash specific bits in my .bashrc had syntax errors. Eventually I just didn't want to deal with the hassle of switching over.
Rich corporate liberals are into trans rights, keeping abortion, etc. but they arent keen on new housing either. It puts a dent in their property portfolios.

Some people call these people "the left", I suppose, in which case yea they're not much keener on new housing than the rich corporate conservatives.

Theres also an element by which it is driven by high prices and loss aversion. A new homeowner with a $300k house and a 95% mortgage is gonna locally fight anything that drives up supply and drives them into negative equity even if their sympathies do trend left. Nobody fights new development as hard when prices are lower, which is probably partly why NY's strictest rent control (which drives down prices) coincided with the fastest building in the 60s.
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That is how it initially gets set. It's a mess to have it reset though. If you lose my job and it takes 6 months to find another one, you have to keep paying. If the new job you find pays 75% of your old one, you still have to pay the old amount. You can petition the court to change it, but they are reluctant because some people take lower jobs to spite an ex. So instead they tend to set it based on "potential earning capacity".

"OH look, you made $100k this year and have a masters in IT. You should be able to earn that forever to pay child support and/or alimony." ...is basically how it goes.
would it? I'm curious to know
Without having a first clue about the mathematical details, I can tell you it's most related to the work out of Sean Carrol et al trying to derive GR from QM, with spacetime being an emergent property of networks of quantum entanglement. Wolfram's idea is even more stripped down to hypergraphs of nodes with nothing but identity, and some number of neighbour nodes. Then they're exploring the space of possible various update rules for these graphs(he calls this rulial space). He claims that it should be possible to derive "all of physics" from this model, including the Schrodinger equation. He says the resulting emergent QM is most similar to Many Worlds, but interestingly in their model it seems like branches in fact merge together again(eventually, though it might take the entire lifespan of the universe). Carrol seems to think that starting with the Schrödinger equation is cleaner and more austere(of course he's rather biased), and I tend to agree.

My gut reaction to his mention of a rulial space is to be reminded of the Calabi-Yao manifold situation in string theory. If the space is even close to similar in size to that parameter space, that would be a theoretical nightmare.
Thank you for your post!

Thank you especially for reminding everybody that programming is much more than web programming and information systems.
There are so many options which people are just blind to these days because the "Unity way of doing things" has become so entrenched in people's minds :D

- you can build the level in a 3D modelling tool like 3DSMax or Maya and then write an exporter plugin to export the data into your engine-specific file format

- you can write a simple DSL to describe your level through text

- you can write a converter from another popular level file format (like Quake maps)

- you can write a plugin for the Unity editor, and create your maps in Unity

- etc etc etc... the possibilities are endless

...of course a dedicated level editing tool tailored to a specific runtime engine will always be most powerful and flexible.
That's when and why I left the project (former contributer)
Bit like with frontend frameworks.
How Asia Works. Started reading it last week after a recommendation in HN
China plans to turn the moon into an outpost for defending Earth from asteroids