skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you don't. There is way, way more of pasture and farmland than will ever be needed to site solar on, as putting up solar does not interfere with the other uses.
Technical analysis of syzkaller based fuzzers: It's not about VaultFuzzer
That's correct. Still the likelihood if errors of data at rest is much reduced. Memory controllers might be able to detect a lot of errors between the RAM and CPU due those errors being in the analog domain, while errors in memory are in the digital domain as the signal gets digitised and send over an analog channel.
I fully agree with your first point.

Concerning the second, I would also tend to agree, but I'd argue that both can be true.

Most people don't solely buy a phone or other device based on the battery.

I would personally prefer a phone with a user-replaceable battery. But I don't prefer it enough as to be the most important thing when buying a phone.

I prefer an iPhone enough (for its other characteristics) compared to a cheap Android phone that I'll accept the non-replaceable battery. Hell, even if the latest Galaxy Sx had a replaceable battery, I'd still buy an iPhone with a non-user replaceable battery. However, if I had the choice between a regular iPhone and one with a user-replaceable battery (even if it were thicker), I'd buy the latter. But I won't go without an iPhone just because of the sealed battery.

Why? Because I prefer using iOS. And during the more than five years that I've had my iPhone 7, when the battery started being "degraded", I rode my bike to the closest Apple repair shop and had it replaced for the price of a Galaxy S5 battery. Again, I would have preferred to be able to do it myself, and be able to carry a spare battery when riding my motorbike in the middle of nowhere. But not enough that I'll buy an Android phone with a user-replaceable battery.
Beautifully written with a lot of thought provoking paragraphs. I am a web developer who is working from home, also I make music in my free time and play online games. I relate highly to what was written but I don't see a way out unfortunately, at least not without shifting careers which is something I am not planning to do in the meantime.
As a cancer doctor, what really stuck out to me was the author's deep anxiety and unsettled thoughts on his own death. I gather he loves life very much and meditating on this topic causes a lot of mental anguish. He is fearful and dreading the pain, financial, and social implcations effect of his death on himself and his family. He is unsure of his own resilience, calling his beautiful prose on the topic "virtue signaling", then later ending with a declaration of fortitude. All this I think adds to his suffering.

This despairing view of death is not inevitable. With all respect to the writer, who I do not know at all, I think perhaps his suffering comes from the illusion that through science we are, in a semblance, "in control." The fact that the patient "on [his] insistence", asked his doctor another round of chemotherapy is troubling to me. Chemotherapy is intrinsically designed to stop cellular replication, and may shorten life if a therapeutic ratio does not exist. But he wanted it - perhaps hoping it would make him live longer.

We are not in control of the central processes of life. We can at best tinker and nudge, and prolong life with the tools of science. Even "cures" for cancer result in a few decades more of life. Lazarus raised from the dead, lived a while longer and then died again.

So I try to guide my patients away from the concept of death as avoidable. Chemotherapy and radiation and surgery are just temporary fixes, nothing ultimate to put your hope in.

Death is inevitable, and can have meaning to it too. Yes the experience of death brings suffering, and fear, but also a time of reconciliation, clarity, and ultimately peace. Why is it this way? Faith in God and the afterlife is one answer, transcending the self is another, the quantum nature of space-time is another.

Any way you approach it, death is in the realm of metaphysics, incomprehensible and mysterious to our scientific worldview - and, I think importantly, reductive to assign a normative value as "bad."
You can have solar and crops on the same land, without hurting yield, but cutting water loss.

So, "dedicated to agriculture" is no blocker for also putting solar there.
Real Time Lightning and Thunderstorms Map
I have not device to ask like you did, but I googled that and the answer was regular.
Would an implicit ODE solver (Euler or higher order) where the constraint solve is included in the implicit step be helpful?
In Go, can I declare a Foo, and deserialize into it, but instead of a Foo, it is a Bar? No.

Typescript also doesn't catch cases where metaprograming is used when calling a function. You can put anything you want in there.
John McCarthy said of "artificial intelligence" that even his
thermostat had beliefs. Sometimes it thinks the room is too hot, and
sometimes it thinks the room is too cold.
I used an accent coach (https://www.dannybryckcoaching.com/accent-modification , who was excellent). Highly recommend this path--you need a human in the loop providing feedback. You will probably be able to get some improvement on your own, but it will be inefficient.
Doc Schultz Incident (US-owned Soviet era aircraft crash)
Felt HN would find this interesting this given the of interest in Le Bourget ejection post. As always with the deeply classified world it’s important to treat any information skeptically.
I said 0.5 millimeters. 0.5 inches is freaking huge, that's 1.25 cm. None of my smartphones have been that thick, let alone having that much of a difference.

According to google, 0.5 mm = 0.019685 in
See: https://unsongbook.com/
Additionally, the remastered versions of listed games will be retaining online features.

This is the summum of the fraud, they can deprecate and then resell to you what you have already paid for to continue playing the same game for a marginal cost to them.
GUI for package manager is fairly useless IMO. Homebrew is CLI only AFAIK and nobody cares, apt has aptitude but I've seen nobody use it in real life. Honestly only relevant package manager GUI I see are Play Store/App Store, and that's a different discussion.
The author mentioning “based” and “cringe” reminded me that meme culture ages poorly while endlessly recycling the same tropes/jokes. Eight years ago the dichotomy was “dank”-“normie”, and Impact was used with way less meta-irony.
I think native development tools, and open source libraries caught up. Once they lost Anders Hjelsberg I think they were doomed.
More a second try I would say. Lovely that I found this article via that.
variety specialist
Better: the belt clip, that also works on a backpack/purse/rearview mirror base etc.

Even better: when the belt clip is not a case that can come off, but built into the phone: when it break, unscrew it, screw in another one.

The ulefone series was great for that (recommended to me by friends), check the back of the phone on the 2nd pic on https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/09/ulefone-armor-3w-ar...

Unfortunately, newer models don't have the option which would only require screw holes.
I'll translate. It's utter garbage bullshit.
Russian Military Satellite Appears to Be Stalking a New U.S. Spy Satellite
"Because ISRO actually launches satellites built by students for free into low-Earth orbit, we must ask what these satellites do. It’s been a decade of India launching student-built satellites and it’s been the same decade of our student-built satellites doing very little, if anything surrounded often by deliberately misleading narratives."
You can threaten to put up a ham radio antenna if they interfere with whatever else you are doing.

They cannot block ham antennas because they contribute to public safety. But they would much rather live with flowers.
What parts of Australia? I don't think I've ever seen a wild around Queensland. Then again, I am in a bit more of an urban area. I still see possums and wallabys quite often though.
>a substantial amount of money goes to living expenses

Then charge them for those living expenses. Pay them a normal wage for outside, and then charge them what it would cost to rent a tiny room you share with another person plus the real cost of a boiled egg plus a peanut butter sandwich. I imagine they'd end up with something like 90% of their wage left.
2020 you mean.

You just sent me into an small crisis wondering when that 2023 thing happened :D
English literature vs. the digits of pi (π), which has more entropy?
There has been a bit of a pause while tazjin was exploring how to use Nix as a monorepo build system, together with Gerrit. Now that this is done, he recently started writing a new Nix interpreter that will better scale for big repos. I don't think that work is public yet.

There also has been some effort on https://github.com/nix-community/go-nix spearheaded by flokli to re-define some of the binary cache protocols. This will allow for more incremental transfers of build artefacts, reduced bandwidth and disk consumption.
Well "doing nothing" would be not eating, and pretty sure "Breatharian" is right up there with the flat earth
Interesting that he just takes it as a matter of fact that they will want to hedge the position. No concern that they're betting against Apple, or not showing commitment, it's just of course they would. That's just business, what he's concerned about is the optics.
Can you define how it's worse at it's primary job?

I have two laptops. One with a old school barrel plug and the other with USBC, and the USBC charges faster as it has more wattage.

So.. id like to hear how you define worse?
> They have stopped developing it long time ago.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I still use it and it does exactly what I want it to do - help me figure out what’s using up all of the space on my disk. It used to usually be media files. These days it’s usually Windows.
It is just concern trolling.
I just tried it with a cup using cm and it works just fine. Whatever your estimate of length is is the same unit as your estimate for distance.
CLI Workflow with Grep, Fzf, and Clp
Smalltalk and Exploratory Programming (1988)
I can't see why it's relevant. We're talking about Uber's bet on self-driving cars and this person commented with an bitter, offtopic gripe about how they think HN commenters are losers.
I have struggled with Internet addiction, and still do, for a long time, and so far the only thing that has helped to dramatically reduce usage time was the Firefox/Chrome extension News Feed Eradicator [1]. I didn't realize to what degree news feeds were attention black holes until I installed it. I still go often on social media, but thanks to this extension these visits now last a few seconds, to check messages and some specific people I check regularly. I highly recommend it.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/news-feed-era...
This must be passing a tipping point. I live in a very nondescript part of Ohio and there are about 12,000 acres of land incorporated into three different solar farms proposed, approved or under construction within 20 miles of my home.
Oddly enough, existing standards take weather extremes into account.

Nice concern troll.
Nice to hear this, thanks. I wonder what the framebuffer experience is like with current NetBSD. I researched this (framebuffer on Linux vs OpenBSD vs NetBSD) a while ago, since I would need a framebuffer PDF reader.

It feels like at this point, Linux has the most choice out of the box, when it comes to software for displaying images/pdfs on the framebuffer? I use fbpdf on Linux, which is not available on NetBSD. Then again, it is based on libmupdf, which is available, so maybe I should get my (shaking) hands dirty. :)

I like it very much how NetBSD encourages user-side modifications of the kernel, e.g. for changing the console font or underclocking the cpu. Every time I read the NetBSD documentation, I feel tempted to install it, because the docs are so well structured and written. Very welcoming, even for (curious) non-CS users like me.

For that reason, using NetBSD may possibly be more educational than using Linux, in the long run? Due to heavy reliance on the official documentation, you'll have a more structured understanding of how stuff works -- as compared to trawling web forums of various Linux distros and sometimes blindly copy-pasting solutions or hacks provided by others. In that sense, a good base documentation encourages more acknowledged use and going to the details from early on. (Obviously, there are Linux distros witch excellent documentation, too, like the Arch wiki.)

That said, I am rather pleased with Tiny Core Linux. Their current release is something like 12.x, and I've been in their boat since version 6.x. It is a really simple, well thought out distro, excellent for older hardware; somewhat similar in that sense to the BSDs. But, yeah, sans that documentation. :)
No, sorry. Been registered since 1999-06-29.
This is such a good blog post. I also didn’t know this author was behind Obra Dinn, but that one is also great. I used to play Papers Please years ago and will certainly purchase it when it does come out for iPhone.
I'm a native English speaker, but I'm from Texas, and as a kid I tended to talk really fast and mumble: if you've ever seen the show King Of the Hill, I talked like Boomhauer.

I deliberately trained myself to speak with a neutral American accent - probably what you mean by a West Coast accent - by watching particular actors and practicing - in private - speaking like them. In particular, for me, it was John Malkovich, who has perfect diction and enunciation.

This was in my teens and it took a couple of years, but it paid off. Nobody can tell where I'm from now, though people mostly assume California. I still say "y'all" but I say it with no Texan drawl, which sounds a bit odd to people, I think.

Just find people who speak the way you want to speak and watch them, listen to them, try to repeat things they say until you've got the accent down. At first it'll seem embarrassing, even if you're alone, and you'll find yourself feeling like a pretentious poseur for a while, but eventually you won't. It'll just be how you speak English.
No, I don't pay anything with very rare exceptions. I do not need stupid Netflix/Disney videos, I use to adblock Youtube on devices supposed to give me relax and I use to not adblock Youtube on devices supposed for work, I would not pay to SO because I use it seldom, and I would not pay to Medium because last years their content became too lame for being worth of reading. BTW I do pay to Udemy sometimes, if the cost of some interesting course is 10 dollars, because I know that any course may be bought for 10 dollars as a minimum possible price and professors on Udemy use to help their students on regular basis.
All of them, and there were lots of complaints while it was happening.

I dont believe governors have, or should have, the power to change election law at all, for any reason even "during a pandemic"

I also dont believe governors should have most of their so called "emergency powers" that is ripe for abuse, and many governors did just that, and continue to do just that even outside the election context
I'd add "teller" to that list, distinct from "asker". I certainly have friends and family who will tell me in no uncertain terms that we're joining them for a meal, or even that they are joining us for our holiday, etc. Brazen barely describes it. They're rare, fortunately, but they exist.
I disagree. I think anyone can learn anything, though it may take an unreasonable amount of time and effort for some. Learning a new concept can be complicated, especially for things introduced in high school and university. All those concepts rely on others, so those lemmas have to be learned first. I do believe some people are generally quicker learners than others. But it's a continuous scale, not a yes/no thing. And interest in the subject plays a big role.

For a metaphor of education, I'd say people are like Turing machines. (A) If there is one person who can learn a concept, then any of them can; (B) some are faster than others; and, (C) the "optimal in practice" state is usually limited by need and not capability (i.e., using modern laptops too just check emails and browse the web).

>but saying this in higher education circles is akin to burning a Koran in Mecca.

I'm not a fan of preemptive impersonations of Copernicus. I'd rather read what people said and judge that.
I'd agree with this. 100%

I've done replacements of barrel plugs and also USBC ports and the barrel plugs are significantly easier to replace.

Now my USBC charging ports haven't failed me yet, i think that's probably because i have 4 of them on my laptop, and i charge from different ones depending on multiple factors. So I'm spreading the wear around.

That said. When one goes more than likely the others will go shortly there after.
> esc esc esc :qa!<cr> (8 strokes)

Yes, that seems quite complete against any preceding keystrokes I can think of, and agreed, it's better to use ^C instead of ESC.

However, your friend's environment variables caused vim to be invoked with the -y flag (vim is famously difficult so they want to always use it in "easy mode").
Why not go one step further and place solar panels over roads? All the space ever needed is already available!
Ah, being forever branded as an undesirable, being abused by staff, losing your ability to walk outside when you want and have contact with regular people, having very little to do for ridiculous amounts of time, plus having to take care not to drop the soap to not get surprise sex

Truly better and more rewarding than being marginally poorer outside
I don't know about Germany, but here in Belgium my house solar panels have not been working for about 2 years now. There are too many solar panels in the street injecting electricity on the lines, during sunny days the voltage goes over the ondulator's safety threshold and everything stops.

There's been about 2500 complaints about this last year in my region of this small country. And the company in charge of the grid refuse to give any compensations.
Thanks for the pointer to this, but this also makes Crockford's point about the need for a language that does this sort of thing and my point that in order to achieve safety, you need to know about such a package and manually employ the package. The compiler will not help you if you make a mistake in manually employing the package, or if you forget to use it, or if you don't know about it.
Very true. I did mention that there are similar things with jail frontends, specifically iocage.
It would mean no new gaming consoles, Apple devices, AMD CPUs, high performance FPGAs, GPUs by either NVIDIA or AMD, WIFI chips from Broadcam, no Qualcomm ARM CPUs, maybe also no cheap Mediathek CPUs for smartphones.
I’m a Lisper but I love Forth and Forth people. The only computer subculture as devoted to their weird little secret ancient Jedi art as we parenthesis shufflers.
On its own, no, but for a full featured music service with ad-free YT as an extra perk it seems reasonably priced. Same price as Spotify which doesn't have the YT perk.
re LSP, there is https://github.com/nix-community/rnix-lsp
I am probably in the minority but I usually run my electronics into the ground and I have never had a battery fail or die permanently. I have always thought that the argument about planned obsolescence as it pertains to hardware was a bit blown out of proportion.
> fixed-length array

Back to atheism for me.
The parts that screw you the most are the truth, naturally.
For either party the lawyers should be horrified by this idea. Perhaps they have given up hope.
The question was about finding a similar developer experience, not how to create similar user experiences.
I can't remember when was the last time I read an original comment from you that wasn't a snipe at rayiner. It's too bad, because you used to have insightful ideas.
> Businesses hate the BSD license because any code derived does not have to be open at all.

That's the opposite of truth.

For example, Apple ships many BSD software on macOS, explicitly shuns updates for GPL software, and endorses the LLVM project from very early time exactly to avoid the GPL license of GCC.

Or take Google. Android, Kubernetes and Tensorflow are licensed under Apache. Chromium, V8 and GoLang are licensed under BSD.

Or take Microsoft. Typescript is licensed under Apache. VSCode is licensed under MIT. .Net Core are licensed under both Apache and MIT.

Companies choose Linux despite its GPL license, not because of it.
I've heard this broken down into "needs" and "wants" before. Apenwarr broke this down in a long article I can't do justice by summarising, so here it is: https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=202110
Have you dabbled in org-babel at all?
I am all for transitioning away from fossil fuels, the topic at hand is what’s better, adding solar on top of developed land or having it more centralized on undeveloped land (or redeveloped land) dedicated to this one purpose.

I wonder how they arrived at 1.3% of land for fossil fuels, my hunch is they included every gas station. Gas stations already make their profits from non-gas products and are even smaller than parking lots; many are more likely to remain a part of transportation infrastructure, as charging stations, though their size is a limiting factor due to the longer energy transfer times of electrics.

Some oil derrick and storage sites might be redeveloped for solar, ones that are less remote.
There are actually a huge chunk of the population that just isn't very online, and genuinely don't know these terms. (Even many young people.) It was a real eye opener to meet some 'terminally offline' people and realize you can actually just escape and things are fine without being here constantly.
The article mentions performing myriad assays as a rate-limiting step in drug discovery. My employer https://www.synthace.com is trying to accelerate this process through software. We’ve created a platform to easily program liquid handling robots to perform complex protocols, and to do so using a Design-of-Experiments[1] approach to investigate multiple factors simultaneously. It’s early days for this approach but we’ve already had pharma customers using it to significantly accelerate their drug discovery process.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments
Doesn't the fact that it's pure and functional make it easier to do a GUI for? I dunno, I'm one of the people that loves the idea of Nice but was put off by the complexity and beginner unfriendliness.

IDE support (code intelligence etc.) is always good though.
Nah, I just try to avoid being TOO clever until people get to know me. Then they know to look for the joke.
Based on the classic book of computing history “Fire in the Valley”. A recommended read for anyone interested in the history of our industry.
That actually sounds like heaven :)
"...but it’s not clear that Gato’s, GPT-3’s or any other contemporary architecture is necessarily the right vehicle to reach the destination."

"GPT-3, for example, developed its language model based on 45TB of text. Over a lifetime, a human reads and hears of the order of a billion words; a child is exposed to ten million or so before starting to talk."

What statements like this fail to consider is that the hardware the child's brain is made of is the result of millions of years of biological evolution, and evidently tailored to solve human-centric problems much more easily. But the child's brain is capable only of operating largely within the limits of its own subjective experiences (for ex: the experience of learning to speak a language). When we define AGI, it cannot be only under such anthropocentric terms. It needs to be able to solve a multitude of real-world problems with approaches that humans might never be able to readily comprehend. The solution space for these different kinds of tasks must be significantly high that there could be space enough for more than one way, i.e the "human way" to solve it. It's a narrow viewpoint to say that an AGI needs to learn in human terms.