skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Quantum computing is in a similar position today

I don't think that the position is similar. The level of 'ingenuity' of the overall system was lower. Fewer men were needed to understand each and every aspect of the system.

Now, each scientist is more specialized which means that they individually see less of the system. Additionally, the system is more complex. Together, this means that many more scientists have to be coordinated to make progress.

This is further complicated by knowledge protections. Bell Labs most likely had all relevant patents and copy rights. To reach the same level of fluidity of knowledge, an additional army of patent lawyers is needed.

An additional problem is that targeting quantum computer specifically takes away from the idea of 'no deadlines, objectives or progress reports'. This will be especially a problem in those proposed 'focused research organizations'.

What I don't want to understand is how Google could come so close and fail. They have 10% projects and moonshots. They have the monopoly-like income stream to fund it. But instead of creating progress, their products seem to get worse and worse.

How could one sustainably fund something like Bell Labs with company profits?

*edit: The more interesting question: Since the target of the Bell Labs, the 'universal connectivity' has been achieved, do we still need centralized labs for the next relevant innovations? Doesn't universal connectivity give us the potential to come up with something better? I believe that a social network is missing that is built to create scientific progress.
Maybe, I'm fine over here though, using both ddg and brave search
I'm not familiar with C at all, but I'm wondering why they chose to add a keyword just for this specific case instead of providing a way to granularly tell the compiler not to optimize specific lines of code or what optimizations are permitted.
Which, unlike public debate, in science this is a good thing anyway.
The Decline of Madness
That doesn't mean conditions will be to our liking under those regimes. We built cities along coasts assuming a certain mean sea level. We built farms assuming certain weather patterns.

If we cause large changes to these patterns in a relatively short period of time that's bad. The long-term trends you are talking about happened very slowly - slowly enough in theory a city could move back from the shoreline without anyone noticing it was happening. Slowly enough that species can migrate or adapt to them - slow enough natural selection can produce individuals more heat or cold adapted.

Climate change isn't going to cause humans to go extinct or anything like that. But it is going to have large and sometimes unpredictable effects, most of which are not useful or helpful to us. Many of which are actively detrimental.

Since the oil/coal/natgas will eventually run out anyway and the world so depends on them that gives leverage to people who really really want to hurt us: we might as well just deal with it and move away from burning things as much as possible.
The Influence of Painting on Cinema
It didn't so much fade as that it got switched off. Suddenly Google was just another evil US corporation when before you might have had the impression that they meant what they said. To be fair to your comment: there were some earlier signs but they could all explained away in one way or another, but that time the mask fell and they never managed to put it back on again.

Now they get a lot of business because they are the least bad option. Which still makes Google useful but I'd love for some actual competition. But with the network effects at play any viable competition can be stifled.
This phenomenon is real and you are correct.

It's also known by those who use targeted harassment because it gives them perfect plausible deniability.

Think about it from the side of the guys who stand to gain from targeted harassment. It's not really worth it for harassing people working at a low level in organisations unless they're a real problem. But think about it from the perspective of targeting people with wealth, political/social influence or those with skills.

If you can make the target look crazy it becomes easy to get what they have or make them do what you want (eventually everyone breaks)
My dad (who's an architect but learned a little bit of programming on the university in the 80s programming on punch-cards) wrote a few simple QBasic programs with basic math and English vocabulary excercises for me when I started primary school. When I was 13 or so I found them again and ask my dad to explain it to me how it works. He did not remember much, but he showed me a few commands he remembered and that's when my world turned up-side down. I learned everything else myself from the built-in documentation (although I did not understand big portion of what the docs said) and spent almost all my time at the computer, writing stupid small programs in QBasic. The ultimate program I wrote was a silly Windows 95 clone with the Start menu, calculator and clock programs built in. At some point the code was too big that it wasn't possible to run it, because there wasn't enough memory left after QBasic loaded the source code. Worth saying that the computer had 4MB RAM, though, so it was probably just a few thousand LoCs.

From QBasic I went to Delphi, did a detour to PHP/HTML during high school and ended up at C++ some 14 years ago. Today I'm a SSE and I still love programming and everything about computers. Seeing this post (and all the cool stories in the comments) brough a big nostalgia hit - all those hours spent in front of my dad's Compaq Contura just writing one QBasic program after another (and playing Commander Keen, of course!)...there's a big box of flopp disks at my parent's house, I suddenly feel a big urge to go buy a floppy drive and see if any of my masterpieces have survived...
> but what was even more useful was being able to apply a little bit more pressure to start selecting text with incredible precision.

That is not how I remember it. I remember text being selected left and right at random for no apparent reason when trying to move the cursor.
It is absolutely off-topic and frankly this comment and the subsequent answers feel like some Calyx people trying to promote their OS at the expense of GrapheneOS.
I'm confused, why didn't they just mandate memset_s instead of introducing memset_explicit?
My daily phone is a beat-up iPhone X that I bought new on release, making it almost 5 years old.

It has a cracked screen (dead OLED is slowly spreading out from the top-right corner), shattered back glass, battery at 81% health, and the earpiece speaker doesn’t work properly so to make a call I have to use a headset or speaker mode.

But 3D Touch still works perfectly!
I mean who WOULDN'T want you in their neighborhood?
wondering who is going to be the first HN poster to ask ....
Google Pixels.
Then winter will come along with floods and we will be reminded that climate change is making the UK wetter (average annual rainfall has already increased).

In either case, though, there will be little done to invest in infrastructure to store and regulate water.
One factor is that London is so much larger than the next biggest city (approx 9million vs 1.1 million).

It's much harder to justify (and pay for) these kind of infrastructure projects in small cities.
Google search? What's that? :)
I sometimes find that duckduckgo has better results than Google for a particular query, and other times it's the opposite.

I wish there was a way to aggregate the two results together.
You can use adb to uninstall junk including bixby, facebook, etc.

No root required.
This is exactly why we shouldn't let governments force us to use any currency. We don't have a currency problem, we have a government problem.
> A lot of UB in the C standard is perfectly defined and consistent across MSVC, GCC, Clang, and ICC.

Do you have examples of this "a lot of UB in the C standard" which is in fact guaranteed to be "perfectly defined and consistent" across all the platforms you listed ? You may need to link the guarantees you're relying on.
No, but I did become against home schooling... haha.
I love it that such trivially simple piece of code can gain attention of HN at some moment, with reasonable critique in comments.
> your society has bigger problems

It does not. A psychically deficient society expresses its "illness"¹ in many different ways, all with the same root.

(¹Both "evil", original sense, and "malfunction", translated sense. 'Illness' is a good term for this context.)
I guess everything going to be modern politics - tune in to the media source that confirms your existing biases and feel good at the social validation that others think like you do.

Nothing is real at a quantum level.
Fine. It would also be great if I could search for filetype:pdf without getting gamed results where academic publishers either create a folder hierarchy that simulates a PDF result (but you actually have to pay), or else only shows GoogleBot the actual PDF (and the rest of us have to pay).

Would additionally be great if Google's autocomplete on filetype:pdf didn't default to "filetype pdf" (i.e. adds a space and omits the colon, nullifying the token).
"What a strain" feels like quite a good translation, then. One can easily imagine a joke along the lines of...

I've been having stomach pains all week but finally managed a bowel movement this morning. What a strain!
>some interdisciplinary problems are difficult to address in existing research settings, and Janelia was built as a separate institution to address such problems in neurobiology.

>The center was designed to emulate the unconstrained and collaborative environments at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Cambridge's Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Researchers are on six-year contracts and fully internally funded, independent of traditional research grant funding.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janelia_Research_Campus
Why not simply revert to the old, sane option?
Just bring back the default to be to search for what I typed. I know what I want

Some colleagues at work have switched off Google since C# regularly gets ignored as a parameter. It didn't use to.

Just annoying having to argue with a tool every day.
> I've been in crypto since 2016.

This has no relevance to the discussion. I have been in since 2012 during the days of Ripple with their XRP coin, which that was before Ethereum was a thing and before the exchanges complied with regulations like AML/KYC.

> There is more ICO fundraising in the latest cycle than 2018.

Where is the source for this?

Even if you have one, there is a reason why ICOs now are doing KYC on their investors and avoiding giving these tokens and offerings to individuals in the US.

My point is, they are registering investors to comply with regulations in order to avoid going on the list of investigations [0] by the SEC and claiming that the SEC is doing 'completely nothing' about crypto since 2017 is dishonest. Especially when there are sources that have been posted that have contradicted the OP's absolutist claim.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...
There’s two ways the camera can open from the Lock Screen, pressing the on screen button, or by swiping from the right of the screen.
You're being satirical, but doing just this has helped make the smartphone a huge success. You still have your computer to write code, nobody is taking it away from you. There are even numerous coding apps for smartphones, to cater to the 1%.
FYI, the Silvertown tunnel is not with controversy:

> The scheme has faced widespread opposition from local people, politicians, climate scientists and medical experts who say it would increase traffic and worsen public health in some of the most deprived boroughs in the country. They also say it will lock in high carbon transport for generations to come.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/05/london-mayor...

Also:

https://silvertowntunnel.co.uk/

https://stopsilvertowntn.com/

https://twitter.com/silvertowntn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Solar+wind+storage is stable.
That seems like quite the edge case. I don't think I've ever searched for an international phone number. Is that worth making the search experience rather poorer for everyone?

Besides: if you're searching for a phone number, you presumably are looking for an exact match, so how is treating it as such a problem?
That's about as user unfriendly as it gets. Such things work their way into your muscle memory and to annoy 100% of your power users for some social media play that has nothing to do with search is textbook monopolistic behavior.
Does this guarantee that even Apple can't listen in on the conversation?
Ye I think I looked at those but I think they require me to accept Bixby ToS.

The best thing with those cripplewares is that it show Samsung that they are missing out on money which makes it easier internally to override some scheming PM that is hunting Bixby metrics.

Like the start menu program that were sold for Windows 8 for like 20 USD. Eventually MS readded it (in a still worse than Win7 form though).
"previously unknown bacteria". Proprietary does not imply copyright, because they may have other property such as patents and trade secrets instead.
Interesting read about overcoming resistance for creative work: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It kinda has the opposite view of this "Against Discipline" post :)
You never worked in a store that got robbed?

I saw a video once of a bus driver who got a shotgun shoved into his face. Those things no longer happen now.
And a cashless society helps aggravate these problems.
Namespaces are often called for especially by programmers used to C++ but doing C. They seem like such a simple feature to implement. I'm still not sure I like them:

- What is the benefit of using A::B::C versus A_B_C, really, in terms of avoiding name clashes? I can point out one immediate benefit of doing the latter - code is easier to read because line noise is reduced (perhaps subjective but I think it will be hard arguing the other way around).

- Is it a good thing that half the code will now refer to A::B::C using only B::C or even only C? Without assistance of a program with good semantic insight (a solid IDE, etc) this only makes identifier search harder.

- Namespaces "enforce" discipline in one way - you can be sure that the symbols at the binary level will be properly prefixed. But with only a little discipline programmers can do the prefixing themselves, and in return they can move code between files (/namespaces) more freely, which is good for refactoring.

And as a sibling commenter pointed out, one factor why namespaces get called for could be lack of understanding that we can hide the "guts" of any function (or variable) using "static" linkage. There is less discipline (prefixes..) needed for these functions because they are only visible in the current translation unit.
I understand if Firefox has some issues for this bank but this is a public-facing site of a multi-BILLION dollar bank.

TD Bank owns MBNA and their unwillingness to test and support Firefox seems to echo the comments in here that it's just laziness. It isn't like users are trying to run some cutting edge game experience.
The UK has a "Minister for London". I don't think many (any?) other country has a ministry for a single city.

That being said, while it's true that many of the "headlines" come from LN projects (Tideway, Elizabeth Line, this) it seems there have been many recent infra projects across the UK. Example: https://www.eclcivils.co.uk/the-uks-major-infrastructure-pro... and https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/

(Though the latter map is missing any points in Scotland. Whether that is an issue with data quality or with actual infrastructure planning policies is left as an exercise to the reader)
What's the difference between this and Clojurescript?
Ask HN: Where is the frontier for tech progress?
Where is the frontier for technological progress these days? Which field has low hanging fruits where progress can be made? Or has technological progress stagnated?
You can turn it off in settings somewhere. I really do enjoy albums ending, and think it is a poor UX choice to go to radio mode when an album is complete.

However, for playlists, I think it is nifty, but afaik you can't have it both ways.

It really should be a per playlist toggle at the bottom "continue on radio when all songs in this playlist have finished playing."
Why would you want more housing in a place of natural beauty?
Wildfires destroy forest carbon offsets in 100-year reserve, study says
I work in Stuttgart on the campus that once was SEL, then Alcatel and then Nokia. There was also one building with the big letters „Bell Labs“. Sadly they took the letters down about a year ago since all the buildings get assimilated by Porsche.
Agreed. I cringe every time.
I've honestly always thought of anything within the M25 as the fifth country of the United Kingdom.
Around that time (early 90s) I was nearly a teenager passionate about programming looking for "mentors". The most brilliant programmers I met were adult people that already had daily jobs completely unrelated to computing.

I guess they got into computers too late in their path (or, maybe, computers got too late for them) and missed the time window to make that their main job.

One of them (he is in medicine, actually) still today write very complex and crazy algorithms in GW Basic that blow up my mind. A true hacker.
What will the __STDC_VERSION__ be?
> Cash doesn't prevent this entirely though

Yes, but it's "not being able to buy a car" vs "not being able to buy bread".
> Still sceptical? Look up the flag of the Isle of Man and then the flag of Sicily… draw your own conclusions.

Do they all have Legge locks on their doors by any chance?
It's hard to understand why you'd buy this rather than flashing OpenWRT onto one of thousands of existing routers, most of which have more ports, and can be picked up for less than $55 + the price of a CM4.
Yes, GitHub is $4 a month for Pro and it does give some additional features (mostly more Action minutes and protected branches)

GitLab has nothing to compete against that.
Would be nice if it can be embedded on my website.
Many Tesla owners also own Tesla stock.
Tiny point: "hymen" just meant marriage, allegorically because Hymen was the Roman god of marriage.
I always felt universities should have been the ones to take on the roles similar to bell labs. They receive government funding and are focused on fundamental scientific research. Now it seems most academics are (understandably) preoccupied with publications and, in computer science at least, breakthrough deep learning research is from rich tech companies like Google and Facebook. I wonder what happened.
The main difference is that nbb lets you execute a .cljs file straight away, without a compilation step. As such, it doesn't need any JVM tooling. You can create an AWS Lambda with only a couple of lines of code:

https://blog.michielborkent.nl/aws-lambda-nbb.html
One thing I learned from friends in Panama: a pool comes with a pool guy and if it doesn't it'll quite literally convert into a cesspool all by itself. Pools need regular upkeep and that's a lot of work.
Didn’t Hangouts stop receiving SMS for Fi like two years ago? I was very mad because I’m an iOS user, and once that stopped working there was no way to receive SMS in places with WiFi but not cellular.

That’s a constant theme of Google rebranding/mergers: beside confusion, good functional features fall through the cracks.
I'd typically start bisecting only after (or at the changeset) the feature has been introduced. At least with hg (and seemingly git as well) you can tell bisect to use a commit range where one end is good and the other is bad.
given the technical capabilities to make it so, which we have.
Thanks a lot. Looks like Marvin is using many approaches and it is all nicely chunked down into features - interesting set. I was particularly interested in these Affirmations. I see potential in presenting such 'reminders' to influence behavior / mindset. Marvin is the first piece of software I see trying to do this (added: I see it being done in a rather static manner, but still...)
Same goes for redditors who need to end their sarcastic messages with /s tag. Okay, so you passively assumed I am too much of an idiot to miss your sarcasm. I will always downvote these posts.
Love the false dichotomy of you either having to work hard or being yourself. People will go at amazing lengths to justify being lazy. :)
I'm glad you put "mountain" in quotes, because we sure as hell don't have anything which counts as a mountain in this town - and no, that tiny hill in Humbolthain where the nazis built anti-air guns doesn't count.
HS2?

I understand your vibe though.
You realise there's an excellent chance that the "industry incumbents" have been aware of the switch to EVs and hybrids, and are just biding their time before Tesla's circus show collapses?

It's been pretty obvious for a while to a casual observer of incoming government regulations (at least, in the EU) that ICE car production will literally be banned very soon. I'm sure the companies that form the backbone of the economy of a major country in the EU have had even more notice. In fact, I suspect they will do very well out of this transition.
> It's Freudian psychology [1] that adults are the ones who have integrated their super-ego into their ego.

It is impossible, if I understand Freud. Ego is defined as a place of a conflict between SuperEgo and Id. SuperEgo and Id are both play their essential roles, they are needed components, and the conflict between them stems from the fact that they are not the same. So the conflict is inevitable and Ego is the place to resolve it.

> Like the author, I don't like to do the stuff that the better self suggests.

What do you mean by a "better self"? Stuff like to make something nice to yourself, especially at the physical level is mostly about Id in a Freudian psychology. It is the work of Id to seek pleasant physical sensations. But SuperEgo says that you need to conform to social norms and to not allow yourself to force other people to have sex with you every time your Id feels that way. So Id and SuperEgo clash in Ego which finally makes a decision.

The idea to let yourself to take pleasure going to bed early instead of resisting it seems to me as an Id idea. Though the idea to read twitter a little more before going to bed is also essentially the seeking of an instant gratification. I don't know how psychoanalysis handle it: a conflict of Id vs Id?
*hangouts plus
My understanding, following the reading of https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2897.htm is that it was simpler to "salvage" a single function from "Annex K" by renaming it, considering that "Annex K" was both optional and controversial (some called to remove it).
Nobody and no device can GUARENTEE that if you are being targeted personally by, lets say, the NSA with a high priority.

This just makes you a very hard target to listen it on/monitor.
And dysfunctional organizations. I worked as a contractor at one place where we simply used the shared file server as a git remote.

Reasoning was if the file server was down, it would come back up quickly because it affects everyone. I didn't understand this reasoning until I got emails from the database team saying the database servers stopped working and every development team now needs to change their connection string from machinename-abc.corp to machinename-bcd.corp

How in the world someone could write an email like that is beyond me. Ok machines crash all the time but why can't they reuse the same name for the new machine?
How does that help during a power outage?
How could this be? They have so many fewer moving parts!

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An example of protobuf working on websites is play.google.com

And it sucks balls.