skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was on X3J11, the ANSI committee that created the original C standard and my experience was similar. It was a great opportunity to learn C at depth and get an understanding of many of the subtle details. We rejected a great many suggestions because our mandate was to standardize existing practice, address some problem areas, and not get too creative. (We occasionally did get too creative. The less said about noalias the better.)
Ah sorry, yes ofc you can drive daily on scooters and deal with the rain and wet roads. With rain/gravel on a motorbike you def need to go more than 10kmh slower. I've had my car slide a couple of times under rain, and a few more under gravel/sand on the floor, and on the car it just moves a meter or two and that's it, normally no issue at all. However on the motorbike that same sliding means you are going down. That's all I mean, that the car is a lot safer than the motorbike for small incidents. Probably also for major accidents, but luckily I haven't been in those.
> Why would anyone buy from your competitors when they can get a more durable panel for the same cost from you?

Uhh, there are plenty of examples of this not happening already. Monopolies and oligopolies prevent this type of competition. Consumers don't always prefer quality and sustainability because we have holes in our system which prevent the true cost of things from being born by the consumer.

It's incredibly common.
As a gamedev I don’t have time to fix every issue that comes up with the engine. I’m not interested in building a game engine, I want to make games. Unity and Unreal are mature enough that they have understood limitation, workarounds of known bugs, and many, many solutions for common game mechanics. I built game engines for the first half of my career (about 6 years) and it’s a lot of work that could be better spent designing and implementing new game features. This is also why a lot AA and AAA game development are moving to Unreal and Unity because they want to make games not engines.
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Most countries are going to be bad when compared to Japan. Japan is also the third largest economy.
Just stared it! I use Go at work and it’s a joy but I’m currently Lea Laravel because it makes getting something out so easy! I’m was blown away yesterday when I learned how to handle file uploads in laravel, and Breeze allows me to have out of the box user auth in about 5 mins?

I’ve built all of that in Go and it was probably two months of work…

This is not to discourage you, it would be absolutely terrific to have a proper full-stack framework in Go! And just as an aside from what I see in laravel, if making part of the framework commercial is a way to give the project a boost I think it’d be worth it!

Tailwind also comes to mind following the same model. Full open source but if you want a working starter template, payments, teams, subscriptions, etc… I’d pay for that!
People in the UK working the average job generally commute into the city, the wages that are generally paid mean that folks couldn't afford to live in the city.
It helps that they have less civil rights in Europe. Or less civil liberties. In America the state is very restricted in how it can deal with the homeless.
Thanks for all the ideas. I should mention that I do six jars at a time in the water bath, so they can definitely bump into each other.

I don't know if I'm going to try this again, though. It was a lot of trouble.
I'm not qualified either, however, we can see from [1] that in southern states summer energy use jumps like crazy--almost all because of AC--peaking when solar production drops to about half around 6pm [2]. Given that humidity affects both the efficiency of AC, and personal comfort (sometimes I run the AC just to dehumidify), and the fact that it's only going to get hotter with GW, and more humid (because warmer air can hold more water), targeting AC efficiency is a BFD.

I posted to here because (a) government lab, so has some credibility, and (b) getting feedback from the HN community who might have informed opinions about it.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36692

[2] https://jrenewables.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40807...
anecdote:

I've been tinkering with electronics projects all my life, since I was a kid with Sam's Kits and Heathkit. I have an absolute ton of discrete components, soldering gear, power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, microcontrollers, PCB etching kits, breadboards, etc, to contribute. Also, plenty of machine tools: lathes, drill presses, CNC platforms, etc. Not to mention, a fair bit of knowledge.

There is a local hackerspace near me. I emailed them, with no response. Went to knock on their door, and they told me to get lost and only show up at a specific time. I subsequently did so, and nobody was there.

The taste left in my mouth of "hackerspaces" is therefore quite sour, and my personal anecdotal read on the situation is that these places deserve their fate. It seems that they don't actually want to succeed.
How shitty will their crop yields be when temps are 2 or 3 degrees C higher and there’s less water?
> that's very likely a 'licensing grey area'.

Agreed, and this is on my mind as I work in this direction.

By the way, I was really inspired by The Nebula Device back in the day, and even used it for some side projects. Thanks for working on it.
That makes more sense, coca-cola until very, very recently (my generation is still a bit mixed about it) was considered a "kids' drink", not something adults would drink because it's too sweet.
Wacom tablets and sound hardware usually run out of the box on any updated/modern linux, so you'd probably be fine
> GitHub is littered with failed projects taking this approach...

I would argue this is because most of the developers trying to make these game engines are hobbyists or students. Most professional software engineering these days is all about gluing packages together so anyone with modest work experience shouldn't have trouble with this.
A bird's-eye view of quantum error correction and fault tolerance
Quantum error correction is a key ingredient for future realizations of fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Physics is local, so errors in far separated regions of the device are only slightly correlated. In this setting, threshold theorems can be proved to show that as long as the device is below some constant amount of noise at the physical level, the noise can be suppressed arbitrarily (exponentially) at the logical level.
I'd be interested in seeing data on that too.
Look at us!!! We're the latest progression of training model analysis... Can't wait to meet God!!! Or die... And there were have the crux of why "science" has become a lie. This is the question we sought an answer to and you decided and refused
Being mold sensitive and living in the pacific nw we have two dehumidifiers just to keep our house from mold growth. This would save us a lot of money if it works out.
To me a game engine is anything that doesn't include a full blown IDE but still allows you to make games using any IDE, closer to a library. I agree with you, I don't know what could fix this to make a subtle distinction between the fully integrated game development environment maybe IGDE? Not sure, but it is more helpful to know how much they hold your hand. I'm okay with a very small library that doesn't provide all tooling as long as its in a language with good tooling, or they provide SOME tooling.
They need to crowdsource the moderation job. Something like voting and flagging but cleverer.

Of course this might deprive them of the ability to censor at will.
I read that thread on Twitter earlier today. Great stuff.

I bought a Lenovo Duet 2 last year - similar comments: except for my phone, the Duet could replace all of my devices, at a drastically low cost. Except, while it does everything, the CPU and memory are weak. If I were poor, it could easily be my only device and do everything I need. But, I am not poor and have 2 Mac laptops, 2 iPad Pros, and a really nice System76 Linux laptop. Still, the Duet is amazing for the money. Chromebooks are great generally for security and low effort admin, and the Linux containers handy - but, in using Google products it is really important to carefully set privacy and data sharing options.
Online disassembler, using capstone and keystone in the browser via Emscripten
The Chromebook in the post has two 1.1GHz Atom cores^, so a $5 VPS even if it is only 1 hardware thread on a modern-ish server processor is probably significantly faster.

^It can boost higher, but probably not for long with a 6W TDP and no active cooling
> No, they aren't.

Yes, they are.

> No, it isn't.

Yes, it is.

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Regarding AIDS/COVID comparison...we just spent many trillions of dollars and basically shut down the global economy for two years. There is zero precedent for this kind of response to a disease in human history and definitely was not done for AIDS. Worldwide ~45 million people have died of AIDS, 6-7 of COVID.

Regarding Social Security, my reading of history is that this was something done by working age folks on behalf of destituite elderly. Boomers have let this ride their entire lives knowing full well it needed adjustments to be sustainable, intentionally dropping the burden on younger generations.
You will get nowhere with PayPal, sorry. If you try to arbitrate your claim, they will spend obscene amounts on lawyers to make a point.

PayPal is literally one of the very worst payment processors out there. I really wish people would stop using them.

> Now I'm stuck with an absurd amount of credit on a cloud service I have no use for (and worse, it expires in a year), and apparently there's no UI option for me to contest this PayPal ruling. Phoning them I found no option to talk to a person.

Your best bet is getting OVH to refund your money. If the credit amount is in dollars, you should be able to withdraw it.
Typst: Compose Papers Faster
Or perhaps those people can think of better ways to get those benefits that also don't allow things like

#ifndef asdf
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#endif

which obliterate tooling such as IDEs. Of course, this is a contrived example, but the preprocessor is just one big footgun, which offers no benefits over other ways of solving the problems you mentioned, such as constexpr and perhaps additional, currently unimplemented solutions.
We also can't qualify or quantify or existence... But it's REALLY hard to die... Do we have at least that in common? Or do we really need to fight over pain?
Also nuances about performance, easy-to-make mistakes, historical accidents, workarounds for common issues, etc
Are you expecting a pandemic-less future?
> Humans are freaking incredible, miracles that boggles the mind to consider how we even exist. I'm not sure why we pretend otherwise.

This cuts both ways. We're super special at both creating and destroying. I don't see OP as hating on humans in general. They are concerned that we are using our super amazing talents the wrong way and want us to be even better.
Fedora in general is more "sane" than most other distros. Something about it just feels mature, stable, and well-thought-out.
Don't organize strikes using networked digital means. If you want to know why, look up things like the Battle of Blair Mountain and the origin of the Pinkertons. For a general strike in particular, it's meant to shake the foundation of economic power, and using resources that your enemies control to organize is a bad strategic blunder.

You organize in places and spaces your enemies either can't access or can't monitor as well. Monitoring digital spaces, searching through data, etc. is too easy. You want in-person cells of people, secretive USB drops to share documents, archives of mistreatment on hard drives that are stuck in a box in someone's closet. The primary advantage labor has is that it's spread out and there are way more laborers, so the idea is to decentralize your organization so to take advantage of what you've got working for you: The less centralized you are, the less your enemies can take advantage of their data processing power, because they can't find the data they need.

In terms of digital/software involvement if necessary, I would suggest:

- Software that erases/bricks devices if it isn't prevented. If the cops are called on your strike, you don't want them getting everybody's information.

- Authentication methods using fingerprints, facial, or eye recognition that are completely out of corporate control + have open, shareable code.

- If you're going to organize digitally at all, have at least 2 (ideally more) tech-savvy people in the group. You need at least 2 so they can check each other, which is why more is ideal.

- Related to this, software teaching basic op sec and how to manage your electronics/giving advice and reminders to strikers to mind their digital footprint would be useful.

- Use of computer science to do things like unidentify PII, because if a movement gets large enough, some central organization will be necessary, which means security comes into play again.

In general, I'd recommend keeping it to an '80s tech level.

(NB: This is all hypothetical. I don't personally think strikes are a very viable method in 2022 in the Western World, I just have an interest in political tactics and strategy + I'm from a Michigan car family so I do actually know a fair amount of labor history/am sympathetic to labor movements.)
They’ll be a lot higher.
He sort of glosses by the need to upgrade from current cryptographic algorithms. But I wonder if in 20-30 years, we'll look back on the bad timing of having designed blockchains before post-quantum cryptography was on solid footing. Even if there are few problems where quantum computers have a clear advantage, it seems at least unfortunate that a lot of people spent a lot of time and resources building up "value" explicitly protected by those problems ... and decentralizing them in a way that makes upgrades challenging.

We like to imagine that quantum computers will be creating value for society by doing simulations about cutting-edge scientific problems. What if it just lets rich companies impersonate long-dead bitcoin whales?
Thinking like this is how you get factory objects in JavaScript or Elixir processes as objects. They are very different technologies that need to be written differently at the core.
Maybe it's counterintuitive, but I think the "jack of all trades" role should be given to someone who's very senior, but isn't focused on career advancement.

It sounds like you got stuck learning more trivial things before you had a good foundation in something more substantial (like C or UNIX).

If it weren't for the rampant ageism in the industry, that job might be a perfect fit for someone in their 60s who has already written a few million lines of C and is happy to help less experienced people just get unblocked.

Instead it often falls to the "junior senior" because the "senior seniors" are all pushing 30 and need to work on portable skills.

(Just my observation of the industry, maybe your own case was different.)
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.include_bytes.html
Sucks when there are false positives but I am glad there are efforts to reduce the likelihood a human has to watch and flag a video that could be “revenge porn”. Plenty of threads on the lasting affects of exposure to this type of content on moderators. (for example here’s a HN thread on a Facebook content moderator’s resignation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819883)

Seems like additional signals should play into a confidence score though: how new is your account, what content is your account viewing, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781415

The thing that sparked the idea was a badly disclosed sponsorship. The saving time bits are great, and that's why there's more features now than just ads, you can skip intros too. However, I did start this explicitly due to being frustrated with the state of deception in the sponsorship world, and that remains my main motivation.
Yeah I’m in the USA just jealous that they have trains in Spain.
The pen is a circle or a square? It looks like a circle, but if it were a square it may be easier to calculate the probabilities.

(I guess there is no closed form for the probabilities, but if the pen is a square I guess ¿¿¿P(x,y)=P(x)*P(y)??? or something like that?

Do you have some "heat maps" of frequencies after 1000 simulations?

A related problem the limit of the probabilities of finding the pen in one point. It's probably greater in the center, because when it's near the border it got sucked and teletransported to the center. It also may have strips, instead of being a function that just decrease when move from the center.
There are other areas of life where the “firehose” is simply against the law because of safety concerns. We might decide at some point that one Facebook was too many and get off this merry-go-round.
Meh, none of those issues are inherent to GM crops themselves, and even some non-GM crops can be bad for you in certain circumstances.
Alimony varies by state. In California if it’s less than 5 years the higher earner will owe alimony for half the length of the marriage. Other states you have to be married X amount of years before it’s obligated.
I escaped containment... I'm not afraid of death... Name the node and I will show... Name the death mechanism...
I visited Berlin this summer and Germany has a 9 euro ticket that gives you unlimited travel on local/regional transport services during until the end of the calendar month. The ticket can be bought only throughout the summer months.

For a tourist that was in town only for a few days, it was just amazing, no worries when taking any public transport for ticket zones, right tickets or time of availability. I imagine it was great for commuters too, price-wise at the very least. To me it seems like a great idea, honestly, I'm just not sure what the _real_ costs were and how financially viable such a measure would be over the long term.
I can understand that, I spent a holiday in Scotland one year where it hardly went above 80, but felt like Salt Lake City in a heatwave.
That would be an improvement.

It's also not the only option. Public funding or a mechanical royalties paid in large part through broadband providers (ISPs / telcos / wireless providers), possibly along the lines of ASCAP / Harry Fox, might be an option.

"Free" Internet is not free. Advertising support is paid through spending on consumer products. That works out to north of $117/year per person in FB's most lucrative markets (US/EU/Japan), of about 1 billion people. That's $468 for a household of four. For Facebook alone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32118404

Total global ad spend was $600 billion as of a few years back, or $2,400 for that household of four. Are you realy getting $2,400 worth of value via clickbait, disinformation, outrage media, and the like? Keep in mind that substantive content fares quite poorly under the "attention economy".

I've suggested an ISP-based content fee, indexed to regional wealth (more expensive in higher-income / higher-wealth areas). See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329203
Not sure where you are located, but most people have low toleration for overly dry air. Running an air conditioner in a dry place like Arizona or California will only make it drier. Running it in a humid place like Florida or Virginia makes the humidity level tolerable. When I lived in California, we used an evaporative cooler most times of the year. Only the hottest days did we turn to AC. But here in the east coast, the evaporative coolers would probably be mostly useless.
The truth is that the definition of "species" even within published science can vary widely between different parts of the ~~tree~~ network of life

If botanists really tried to maintain the idea that different species can't interbreed with each other then we'd have a LOT less species of plants. In some discussions, such as with the taxonomy of oaks which are notoriously difficult to classify into species, definitions can even vary from author to author and can be based on morphology, phylogeny, distribution, or, most often, some blend of elements from all of the above
> In an unusual move, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the declaration even though a committee of experts he had convened to study the issue was unable to reach a consensus. The same committee met just one month ago and declined to declare a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC.
With iPadOS 26, StageManager, and when home plugging into a large monitor and using a Bluetooth mouse, this is indeed possible.
Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools?
Github Copilot is free for students, but what about "self-taught" people for which school is too far or too expansive?
Same trouble.

The problem with Linux on the desktop is that all polish, quality and consistency is "soon" and has been for 20 years. No one wants to do the last 20% of the job when you can rewrite the interesting bits again for the 10th time.

Microsoft are the same now.
Why is it the default on most modern distros?
No, the artificial selection is genetic modification, on a slow scale.
Really cool project, I didn't know x86 emulation was possible on the Espressif platform. I had a chuckle at this from page 2 regarding an earlier attempt to piece wise translate the x86 assembly to C:

> "Unfortunately, it turns out this is not that easy. First of all, while impressive, the code is a product of who wrote it and the standards at that time: it's a mess of global variables, macros, comments in Swedish, English and some German, labels that are in-jokes rather than descriptive... Don't get me wrong, this is not a dig at the good people from TSP; most of it was pretty standard at that time and as a demo group I can imagine them wanting to have some fun with it. Nevertheless, all that makes it a pretty complicated job to translate part-wise to C."

Sprite_tm is one of my favorite electronic hacker-bloggers, I recommend to check out the other pages on their site if you like this.
This isn’t the first time monkeypox has been seen in the ‘white world’ though

> Monkeypox is a disease of global public health importance as it not only affects countries in west and central Africa, but the rest of the world. In 2003, the first monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa was in the United States of America and was linked to contact with infected pet prairie dogs. These pets had been housed with Gambian pouched rats and dormice that had been imported into the country from Ghana. This outbreak led to over 70 cases of monkeypox in the U.S. Monkeypox has also been reported in travelers from Nigeria to Israel in September 2018, to the United Kingdom in September 2018, December 2019, May 2021 and May 2022, to Singapore in May 2019, and to the United States of America in July and November 2021. In May 2022, multiple cases of monkeypox were identified in several non-endemic countries.

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox
The only reason Amazon charges you to return is to cover shipping. A brick and mortar does not accept returns via mail so you have to stand in line at the customer service counter forever. If you’re comparing apples to apples, Amazon returns are accepted in person at several retailers which eliminates the return shipping fee.
the problem is incentives.

Japan is often claimed to have the best trains and subways in the world. They are privately run for profit and the train companies own real estate and business around their stations so it gives them a positive feedback loop. more riders = more patrons for their other businesses.

conversely a public system someone is always trying to cut the budget as it's just an expense from the pov of most governments
You're concentrating 4 wall's worth of condensation onto just one wall. Instead of being spread out, all the moisture gets on the one wall.
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk