skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Note that an air conditioner has >100% efficiency if you measure the heat output of the external exchanger divided by the electricity use. When used like this for heating, it's call "heat pump" instead of a "air conditioner". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
I honestly doubt that guess. Mostly because while his name is shown a bunch on the screen and in the trailers, his games are usually so long and full of dense content. Which usually means you only see his name in the beginning and the end.

And he doesn't just bombard you with his own name. I remember playing Death Stranding, and every time a new character is introduced for the first time, in a cutscene, there is a movie-style text appearing with the character's name and their actor's name below, e.g. "Sam - Norman Reedus", in the same style as Kojima's own name. Except for him instead of character name + actor name, it is usually "Director - Kojima", then "Producer - Kojima", etc.

Realistically though, his games aren't as mainstream these days, and I doubt that a giant chunk of modern gamers (in the 15 to 22 range) have played any of his games. Which makes me think it definitely isn't due to those "10-second bombardments of his name" at the beginning of his games.
>Closing the online services for some older games allows us to focus our resources on delivering great experiences for players who are playing newer or more popular titles.

Then release a container image of your last working server software so that anyone can host it privately. And release a patch to the games to allow pointing at a private server.
Hosting a Minecraft server without extra hardware with Tailscale and iptables
> I admit I never seen a use case that justify the complexity of usage. Let's say you have a native app and a web app. I don't see these 2 changing that much in terms of data so a an API middlelayer is just simpler.

It has some benefits when you have multiple different products that need different "pieces" of the data, rather than 2 different clients for the same product.

I never quite understood how much hype it got, but it provides some nice benefits in an internal corporate environment, especially when data within said environment has an "owner" and accessing it from a new place requires an entire process.
I only know the trombone one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5IKthNYhVY
Frontend teams are often feature partitioned at least in larger orgs. There will need to be some level of feature level backend knowledge to be had somewhere, but backend problems are often feature agnostic. Many companies conflate backend with platform, which have subtle differences, but end up working with similar results. Specialized backend teams work to develop a really good "platform" feature while frontend teams focus on developing customer/product oriented features.
The activation of the explosives has to be precisely aligned, else it will just explode and distribute the nuclear material over the surrounding area. Events that happen on the scale of microseconds determine the success and final yield of the nuclear chain reaction. Therefore, an uncontrolled detonation of the explosions is likely to thwart the reaction from happening.
Hardly. Negotiations are continuing. Over in China, Ma was cut down to size. Earlier we had Gates' congressional woes before he found philanthropy Jesus, and Jeff's dirty laundry was all over internet. The last time something like this happened was with Oil. Rockefeller was integrated. A couple of centuries before that bankers were integrated. (There was a "glorious revolution" and that's what got serious European/English imperialism going.)

Issue with tech titans is that unlike oil, it (software) threatens to directly displace finance. So oil and finance do tussle ("who runs barter town?") but there are synergies. But finance is likely a subset of an abstract notion of 'software'. Lords of software threaten to displace those of finance. (If we lived in a SciFi world, Apple would be secretly building an armed forces with their mountain of cash by now :)
Common Lisp OpenGL programming tutorial #10 – Renderers Part 2
10 lessons already! Hope some of you find these interesting.
Agreed. Not sure what your point is.
And according to several other top level comments with anecdotes.
> Already installed solar obviously has zero dependency on China

> Over half of Frances’s Nuclear powerplants are currently offline for deferred maintenance

There is more. Nuclear power requires continual availability of skilled technicians and engineers, replacement parts that need advanced manufacturing, water and other material, access to road and infrastructure.

And a stable socioeconomical and political and legal system. And military defense.

For some developed countries it can already difficult to provide all these things with 100% reliability. Today, before the bigger impact of climate change.

And what about the remaining 50% of human population? Do you see South American, African and middle-eastern countries being able to run nuclear plants?

And they do, what about plutonium and nuclear proliferation?
For some, sure - but I've derived far more for free on the internet over my 25 years on it than I have ever paid for, and I don't imagine that'd change here.
Every physics thread is 20% legitimate questions, 60% high-ego software engineers explaining how dark matter doesn't sound right to them, and 20% answers and refutations to the other 80%. About half of that 20% contains a misunderstanding, and the other half has a slight mis-phrasing or unimportant omission that all replies fixate on.

>You need to give an introductory class in yourself to others, over and over again, at the risk of boring yourself to tears, in order not to be judged by low-context people for your high-context comments.

The art of quickly and effectively bringing other people up, in the specific way relevant to a conversation, to a level that took you years to reach, is a complex skill and one you can learn to enjoy.
Yes I think CS5 is a lot harder to keep running due to the Adobe activation 'service'. What I find fascinating is a whole generation of people learnt last century how to use Adobe sw on cracked Photoshop and others, an invaluable trained user base. Adobe have gone right to the other extreme of creating a walled garden with very tight monetization, which must surely result in a rapidly shrinking user base?

I've also heard horror stories of Adobe going after publicly listed companies who have multiple licenses for CS but who have people in offices in other countries who have gone shadow IT and are running unlicensed creative suites, with Adobe insisting they can sue the multinational company for license revenue for every single employee the company has worldwide.

None of this is healthy, whether a game, creative software or a car....
Meh, each of your complaints is solved by understanding GraphQL better.

If the main issue is you have to learn something complex, sure that’s probably a little fair, but it’s really easy to get GraphQL to do what you want once you’ve gotten over that initial learning curve.

Specifically, queries and mutations can literally do whatever you want them to.
It is not early days anymore and we have given it a quarter of a century for these 'alternatives' OSes to do something on the desktop and it is still plagued with issues for just simple desktop usage.

This list of reasons here makes it easy for me and others to choose neither and tell users to just stick with either Windows or macOS (which macOS is a BSD Unix, but the users don't care and they should not).

Both FreeBSD and the trillions of GNU/Linux distros are still not ready for a simple desktop usage.

This is even before mentioning the in-fighting on swapping out system components like desktop environments, windowing systems, init systems, service, etc.
> Traditionally, nuclear is not dispatchable either, it's baseload, and in particular these SMRs are not dispatchable.

Thermally, generally not. But one can design a system so that the steam is not sent to the turbines and so electrical power is not generated.
I suggest reading the twitter complaint. It is not long, and it is very well written. They discuss many (if no all) things musk has been saying trying to avoid the acquisition.

If I recall correctly, Twitter says they had no obligation to provide the firehose to Musk, but they did anyway. Musk had issues with rate limit, but twitter fixed it in reasonable time.
Oh really, what's the ramp rate of this design? I haven't heard anybody claim that ability for SMRs.

What makes an array more dispatchable than a single SMR? I don't follow how that could be possible.
ITT: People who don't understand safety-critical systems telling people how to write safety-critical systems.

The most popular answer in this thread is "you can only write safe C++" which is bullshit. The language that you use will likely be dictated by the toolchain you're forced to use to meet whatever standard your org has adopted. For example, if you're in the automotive realm and following something like ISO-26262, you'll only be able to use a qualified toolchain that's compatible with your safety MCU – so you'll likely be limited to C or C++, and then FURTHER limited by MISRA standards to a subset of those languages. There is no version of Rust that may be used for safety-critical systems, currently – despite the fact that it's arguably a better language, the rigorous verification/documentation work hasn't been done yet. If you're looking for an alternative to C or C++ for use in safety-critical domains, look at Ada.

You will likely not find any example of an open source codebase for safety critical systems. Rigorously-developed safety-critical systems cost millions of dollars to produce, document, run through V&V, etc. They don't tend to get released as OSS.

For the rest of the folks in this thread: type safety, memory safety, etc. are awesome features – but having a language with these features doesn't allow you to build a safety-critical system. It doesn't even begin to. If you're curious, you can start to look at the roadmap for the Ferrocene project – the company behind it is working with the folks from AdaCore (AFAICR?) to make a version of Rust for safety-critical systems a reality (one that I'm very much looking forward to!)
Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ usurped by researchers using ordinary supercomputer
> Molten salt reactors could perhaps have a thermal storage component

If you can build one of those economically and deal with the caustic molten salt then you can build a concentrated solar thermal plant with molten salt for storage even more economically with no worries about a nuclear disaster.
"Relatively" seems like it's doing a lot of work there.
Well said.
I would also add that it is perfectly fine to have a list of red flags, and it is perfect fine to define your own bondaries.
Graphql is a red flag for me too, as well is React and node.js, and even git to some extend.
I love simplicity when designing web apps, their backend, their frontend and the deployment process in between.
Although the tech is old , I came up that vue3+pouchdb+quasar is an amazing combination for a stable replicable dev environment, pwa, supports offline usage, and introduces possible p2p replication between browser's pouchdb instances trough webrtc.

React , imo, is a good over engineered library suffering from fragmentation.
Angular is less fragmented, and Vue is the most elegant, performant and versatile of the 3.
Good Devs choose Vue after having worked with both react and angular.
React Dev never tried Vue, nor Angular Dev try React.
Vue Dev usually know all 3.

Having a red flag like graphql can tell a lot about technical overview and experience in failure.

Graphql solves a caching issue that Facebook has. Makes the frontend team life easy, making the backend team life hell , big big hello. Scope changes in the backend are terrible.

Unless your team is engineered driven, and engineers take tech decision, and setup the sprints, going graphql in the backend is a recipe for disaster.
That approach obviously doesn't scale. There are many content farms. You need to start hitting them, HARD.
There is:
https://rxdb.info/replication-graphql.html
Plenty of people in Africa who can do that sort of work. But there are big networks of brokers and intermediaries who will translate for you between paper based systems and the electronic world, or provide white-label services and so on.
NR is apparently Numerical Recipes, a book. I think they mean that the constants are not well understood, like the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" was not understood, but still had an effect.
Any reason the great states of South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia would be excepted as remote locales. I assume tax or employment standards that are prohibitive ?
Ask HN: What is your favorite kind of knot?
The Ashley Book of Knots has 3,854 entries, but what is the most useful one?
If it’s something that would actually be helpful and you wouldn’t mind being added tell them you don’t have time but would gladly review the PR.

If it’s not a direction you want to take the project in explain why if you feel like it and let them know that they are free to fork and add support.
OK, I understand. Will Wheaton was a child actor on Star Trek Next Generation. Will is now almost 50, and he now has other ways of making a living. Being a good audio book narrator is one of them.
"Are not all files, by default, text files?"

No. Text files describe a particular record format. In ASCII, records are 1 byte long and always have the MSB set to zero.

The unicode record format is more complicated, but it also has a clear specification.

Files not in these formats are not text files.
What tooling are you using that requires a massive amount of extra code? You need to define the schema and write resolvers, but that's sorta similar to what you might do in REST on the backend.

On the frontend, you have a choice to use some of the heavier libraries that support all of the features (like subscriptions) - but otherwise, you can just POST a gql query to the server and it will return a blob of json, which really isn't so much more than REST.
You should be especially concerned than. Listen to the closing argument from the plaintiff's attorney, what it is they are after.

https://twitter.com/Spiro_Ghost/status/1555690309077565440

And it's effectively is to silence Alex.
Yep plus early ‘discman’ didn’t have anti skip and battery life was terrible.

Cassettes we’re easy to remix, record, share.

The physical mixtape was a cultural touchstone of romance and friendship for a while there.

So yeah, I guess ‘good enough’.
I assume Numerical Recipes.
Ask HN: Why aren't education systems based on Wikipedia?
If I would have browsed this list [0] in school, I would feel totally overwhelmed with the topics while being outside school and having seen many concepts on Wikipedia like Topographic map, I now feel comfortable reading those concepts. I feel like schools are making everything to avoid students curiosity. Is it just me or education system besides nurseries could just let the students browse *independantly* Wikipedia at home or in school, to learn about everything? and then talk with other students about what they learned, without mandatory evaluation of content but maybe teacher evaluation of students attitude so students don't interfere with the curiosity with things like "IRL shitposting" and mockeries.

This kind of online-based education system shouldn't be seen as minority or 'retarded' thing like they often seem in Western countries from my experience, but a local normal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphical_methods
> Well, last I heard, the going theory is that other animals, other primates, don't have gender whatsoever. They have biological sex, of course, but no concept of gender: no concept that women should be in the kitchen can men should be bringing home to bacon, etc, etc, tired stereotypes that convey the point, etc.

But they do: consider lions as an example. Male lions will guard the pride's territory while lionesses hunt for food.
Ask HN: Google Search Console Tools says my website produces “soft 404”
Here is an example:

https://contra.com/p/gkOQlbLq-validating-postgre-sql-results-and-inferring-query-static-types

Attempting to index this page using Google Search Console Tools gives an error saying that "Availability:
Soft 404"

I have done a ton of tests and I don't see anything wrong with this page.
I am not sure if exclusively compile time `eval` is possible, by `eval` I mean `eval` that should handle I/O just fine. Such `eval` would make for compilation that possibly never ends.
> Few plants built after the non-proliferation treaty, because many plants were subsidized by proliferation needs.

This is incorrect. Looking at the list[1], only 2 remaining reactors in Canada were built before the NPT was complete, and they're both scheduled to shut down in 2024. So essentially the entire Canadian nuke fleet was built after. Same thing for France. And Germany.

For the US, also same - only a few that started construction before the 1968 signing remain working. Most operational plants started construction in the 1969-1976 range.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
Hi. Have I recently posted a comment that used offensive language like "pure bullshit" in response to one of your comments, or have I in some other way shown disrespect to you?
As a comparison data point - I have a 2013 Scuion/Toyota/Subaru that has 95k and has had no issues. I also have a big diesel F250 that bias 50k and also, no issues whatsoever so far (knock on wood). Before that inhad an F150 and put 220k on it before any issues arose, had a civic that was similar.
You mean the hash search.
I'd chalk it up to an egocentric assumption, because it's not hard to accept people love things. I don't care much for old cars but I understand that for some people it's a huge passion they have a lot of love for and they're not exaggerating when they mention how much it means to them.

Some people (myself included) genuinely love bookstores in general and used bookstores specifically.
It's not an exaggeration, if I lived near a good bookstore I would be there regularly.
Pakistan has a porous border with Afghanistan and thousands of its own armed extremists (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, Islamic State offshoots) who are frequently at odds with the government.
XUiDesigner: Wysiwyg LV2 X11UI GUI/plugin creator tool
> It's worth remembering that every live service game will one day stop getting official support and eventually shut down

Obviously yes, and it was as obvious when those games were launched and sold.

> This mass decommissioning also demonstrates the preservation issues inherent to walled garden online services

Many game companies are not aspiring to build some everlasting cultural artifacts, but to provide entertainment today. Preservation is not some intrinsic moral obligation
It took me a while to understand your comment, until I realized there are two interpretations of the question of where these numbers come from:

• One is a historical question: who first used these numbers and when? who copied from where?

• The other is a conceptual question: why might someone choose these numbers, what do they "mean", how do we interpret these constants?

The former is purely a question of facts and there is nothing to "explain the nature of the numbers", and this is what the answerer on Stack Exchange seems to have interpreted it as. Under this interpretation saying things like "the modulus is the period" is not really germane to the question; what's required is to search sources and try to find the chronologically earliest one. (The answer doesn't seem to have done a definitive job, but it's a reasonable start.)

This is like synchronic vs diachronic in linguistics: in the latter interpretation you mainly just want to understand the random-number generator.
The Pain You Know
It's not "only Ubuntu". I'm using ZFS (not for boot or root partition) on Gentoo for some time. It's a separate package from kernel, and has to rebuild after a kernel upgrade but it works as expected.
How do you do the usb c to usb c zero latency setup?
Old school - print it out, use a pencil to make notes, and a highlighter as needed.
Non-boring Metaverse use cases
I use FreeBSD on servers instead of Linux for one reason: ZFS. It's really that much better than anything that is currently available on Linux. BTRFS is not even close.

Yes I know it's available on Ubuntu but everything else about Ubuntu is just so messy.
The bouquinistes might conjure up romantic notions of a book-loving French population but the reality is a little more complex. Bouquinistes are regulated and apparently are required to allocate three out of every four boxes of merchandise to books. This apparently is causing them some financial hardship as many are located in areas frequented by non-francophone tourists and, given the choice, many would prefer to sell postcards and the omnipresent models of the Eiffel Tower that everyone takes home with them. [0].

[0] https://publishingperspectives.com/2010/10/paris-seine-side-...
I played through Clive Barker's Undying for the first time. I quite enjoyed it. I looked up the development of the game and it appears Clive's name wasn't attached to the project until latter in development. It was more of a marketing stunt than anything.
There is something to be said for waiting until you're 25 to do this stuff. Let the brain form all the way first. I think the last study I saw on marijuana linked most of the worst effects to starting while still a teenager.

The logistical problem of getting access to these experiences if you wait until well after college is not insurmountable (especially with THC, today) but it definitely seems more like a project than just showing up on a Friday night to your extended social group.

Poor Paul Stamets ('the' mushroom guy of this era). From his writing it seems like half the people who want to talk to him want him to hook them up with psychedelics. It's hard to tell if he's playing up that ratio or playing it down. His standing answer is "I don't do that, I can't help you." He also mentions that the DEA has made him aware that they are aware of his existence.
I don't dispute the "set and setting" idea. I am asking why that makes a difference in the therapeutic or otherwise beneficial use of psilocybin and why it doesn't make any difference with other drugs like aspirin.

To clarify, as far as I understand, "set and setting" matters when taking psilocybin to get high, but microdosing is taking psilocybin (or other similar drugs) to very deliberatly not get high.

So what does "set and setting" have to do with microdosing, and why doesn't it matter with aspirin, which also doesn't get you high?
That "god" thing is often misunderstood. If we assume that humans are somehow connected, by quantum entanglement in their brains or whatever, then mushrooms make this connectedness apparent by muting the link to the body motor complex. In other words, that "god" is the union of all humans, and currently it's undergoing, for its own reasons, a severe form of schizophrenia when its big consciousness is split into a few billions small consciousnesses.
The issue with this is approach that the interval [1,2) has much fewer representable values than [0,1) in IEEE-754 floats, so the range of generatable values is only a fraction of the representable values.

On modern hardware, you should instead use a count-leading-zeroes or count-trailing-zeroes instruction on a uniform bit pattern to directly generate the exponent. This is what is done in the Zig standard library:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/10428
You don't generally own any (digital) media or software at all that you purchase.