skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet you've heard the saying "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" . That's what Apple is. You can be a "fan" of the one-eyed man without believing everything he makes or says is awesome.
Strange take in the context of Poe's Law
LTO is referring to refurbishment efforts to extend the lifespan of an existing plant.

Look at the first line in that chart. It's for 20 years of operation of a 1000 MW reactor. The capital cost is listed as $5.93/MWh. If that reactor is operating at 90% capacity factor for 20 years, the total capital cost comes in at less than $1B. That cannot possibly be the cost of building a new nuclear plant. Instead, it's the capital cost of the refurbishment needed to allow an existing reactor to operate for another 20 years. This can surely be a nice way to get more from many existing NPPs (although some of these refurbishment efforts have gone disastrously wrong; see Crystal River 3 in Florida for example), but it has little relevance to the cost of building a new NPP.
Archived version here: [0]

[0]: https://archive.ph/2022.08.04-164140/https://www.technologyr...
Slightly incidental, but after years of working out of hotel rooms, I’ve found that a 15.6” 4K portable display placed on a small tripod (Arca-Swiss mount) sitting directly above the main display of my 14” Macbook has been the perfect travel setup. It’s a dual-display setup, portable (similar area to the computer itself), similar desktop area and font resolution to the native panel, and prevents you from craning your neck.
>to the point that people will stop seeing breaking the law as anything objectionable, destroying the very notion of law and order.

This is already the case in the tax brackets that are too far down there for most of HN to have any familiarity with.

People there don't just think "oh it's the law, better blindly lick the boot" when they encounter a legal requirement. They think "what's the fine, what's the enforcement mechanism, is this a serious law or just a suggestion I can skirt as long as I am reasonable?".

If you never leave the "good school district" you bought into you'd never know.
We don't have to eliminate electricity, heating and transport. All these things can be powered by renewables. Quite the contrary, as the long term costs of renewables are lower, we can raise our living standards, if we push them forward quickly.
Who pays for the infrastructure to connect all of these places?
> I think the author is confusing discipline with... something. Discipline is not simply doing things you don't like. It's a trained mentality that helps you do what needs doing (or not doing, such as procrastinating).

The article is about author saying that she can't even persuade herself to do the things she does like.
I studied Aristophanes in school and read some of his plays. It's astonishing how 2000 years later, some things can still be funny.
I just spent a pleasant hour fixing a friend's Lenovo hinge. Disassemble, cyanoacrylate adhesive, reduce hinge tension, wait/beer, reassemble.

Unimaginably poor design detail and QA on the tension setting. Many of this and other Yoga models junked on account of it. Easy enough repair though.
You should catch up with the developments of iPad OS. It works very well with keyboards nowadays. Since a few years, actually.
Automated compromise detection of the most popular NPM and PyPI packages
I’ve made hundreds of thousands of dollars on predictit. It was a great way to make a straightforward side income for me for many years.
I've had a couple of laptops where the mechanical hinges became wonky after a couple of years. Intuitively they should be a lot sturdier than a folding screen, but perhaps intuition is misleading.
I'm not an expert, but isn't this as simple as "omitting results that have whatever is found inside the quotes"?
Yes fair point.
The Yogas are ass end landfill built to a price point. You get what you pay for.
Sad that the only way to get Google to “listen” is to back channel requests via some obscure web forum and not through any official google-provided channel.
Interestingly C++ makes this UB.

> Otherwise, flowing off the end of a function other than main or a coroutine ([dcl.fct.def.coroutine]) results in undefined behavior.

https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4868/stmt.return#2.sent...

edit:

This also manifests in compiler optimizations, at least in gcc

https://godbolt.org/z/GhxjdWqGb
Do you realise that the fall of the Roman empire (west side) was mainly triggered by climate change?

Perhaps the climates 2000 years ago were not as hot as we might think.
What gave USB NICs a bad reputation in the SBC community is that before the RPi4 the USB bus was USB 2.0 (the RPi4 has a USB 3.0 bus) and this meant that the max speed was 480 MBps if the NIC consumed the entirety of the bus. A USB NIC would never be able to get to 1 Gbps speed no matter what might have been claimed.

With the RPi4 you have USB 3.0 on the main USB bus so the max bandwidth there is now 5 Gbps, but the next bottleneck to be faced is the PCIe x1 bus that is used to connect these CM4 modules to the third-party carrier boards. Now you are hitting a 4 Gbps limit.
I remember a high school friend once telling a non-joke to us. We did find it hilariously funny at the time. I did not manage to make anyone laugh with it since. She was very good at it, but as you say the audience matters.
Why build factories in the Dakotas? Wouldn't it be better to build them somewhere more accessible to the east coast when shipping something so big and heavy?

Also, Vantem's website seems to be having issues. It would have been interesting to see what these houses can look like other than the "modern" gray thing in the picture, as well as get more technical info.
I actually think that in overall perceptual difference, using hue and chroma only is in the same ballpark as luminance only. The relationship between colours would also be totally different as they are arranged on a line vs a circle/polygon in terms of perceptual difference. Would be interesting to compare quantitatively.

Of course that doesn’t tell the whole story because in the end luminance and chroma are not perceived the same way as we tend to associate luminance with more with distance and light and hue and chroma more with the surface properties of the object. (As you mentioned we also tend to treat luminance as a continuous variable and colour as categorical even though both are continuous.) So if you want to use luminance because of this difference, that is a valid, but fundamentally different approach, but I don’t think it would necessarily be superior outright and I’ve tried to make the argument of why I prefer mine.
What?

You're first comment is a pointless argument to the statement "As you might have heard, we’re in the midst of a housing crisis" which is simply stating a fact not the reason behind it.

You then switch to a sarcastic comment making light of what could be a horrible situation if you can't find a job because of where you live.

The Gates Foundation is doing something, who did your comment help?
The technology required to build energy efficient housing has been available for many decades at least. What is missing is the political will to require energy efficiency.
In East Asia, novelty or "cuteness" of a product, i.e. the look of things, is mostly what counts. That's how East Asian makers try to stay ahead of the competition, because actual innovation that goes beyond the surface (no pun intended) is hard and not actually encouraged in societies with a confucian view of the workplace.
Yes, fossil fuels have powered the industrial revolution. But for some time already we were at a point, where it is more beneficial to switch to renewable power. Going forward, renewables are the way of preventing poverty, not trying to stick to fossil fuels. It is the people with low income, which get hit worst by climate change.
The idea is to encourage people to use land more efficiently. Sure, you can buy a 2-acre plot and put a single-family home on it, but you're going to pay handsomely for the privilege. If you put a duplex on that lot and sell the second unit, your tax burden gets cut in half. Or put a 10-unit condo building on it and each owner only has to pay a tenth of the total.

If you also tax the improvements to the land, you discourage people from building denser housing on it, because the tax itself goes up the more you build.
gmail gets readyfor the video chat/social network trojan horse.

they already started on desktop. Duo now called meet is more proeminent than email itself.

good luck to anyone with a gmail address.

G+ is coming again. this time tiktokesque.
I think most people are aware of fandoms and that some people will blindly support something, but that's very different from saying "this site would be cheering for it".
But why? There are other better options than Chrome, I use for instance Vivaldi on desktop and Kiwi on Android since it supports extensions, Edge is also decent on desktop and mobile (but no extensions there).
My program was first written when intmax_t already existed; AFAICT, intmax_t was introduced in C99. I also need to parse and/or print uid_d, gid_t, and pid_t, so I guess that in the future I’ll have to implement my own integer parser and printer, like user “orlp” suggested elsethread.

Until then I guess I’ll have to do something like

#if sizeof(pid_t) > sizeof(uintmax_t)
#error Nope
#endif

…repeated for all the types I need to parse and/or print.
Chinese Province to Kill Majors with Low Employment Rates
Big fan of Bell Labs, and yet as a retail consumer of telecom services the improvement in price, customer service and improvement of the product once ATT was broken up can’t be understated.
the internet pretty much only uses the linux variety, I don't really think of end user machines as competing in the same space as servers
How certain are we of this? I’ve seen many studies stating that things like Zoloft are actually no better than placebo.

But placebo does work.. because it modifies our expectations.
Flight 19
This also happens above the HN tax bracket too. It's only the professional class that seems to follow the rules like this.
It would have been reasonable to define the functions only for the CHAR_BIT == 8 case, and if any implementers that support weird architectures want the functionality let them come forward with a proposal. I got the impression that the people working on the proposal got into an avoidable mess of complications.
"We discussed internally what to do with inactive repositories. We reached a decision to move unused repos to object storage. Once implemented, they will still be accessible but take a bit longer to access after a long period of inactivity."
I don't know if it's placebo effect (i.e. I'm believing this is better), but I always struggle with dark mode colours and this felt very easy and natural on VSCode (using Dark+).
what's a buttfor?
Simple extrapolation is not always effective. "This problem came to a head when in 1894, The Times newspaper predicted… “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”" [0].

[0] https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great...
Some antidepressants work for some people for some time.

Its often that folks have to try a bunch of them, each for 5week to 3 months at a time, with side effects often making them worse rather than better before landing on the "right one"

And even then you end up having to periodically up the dose, then eventually stack it with other drugs to mitigate side effects before eventually it becomes ineffective and you have to start the process all over again.

I don't see why bother when exercise has better results.

Go lift big stone, make sad voice in head quiet.

Go sit in hot room.

Eat good

Get sleep.
I've been using that format too for the same reason, without knowing about 8601. Day/Month/Year is great for a person (I'm in Aus) since we, as human beings, intrinsically know what year it is, and probably know what month it is if we haven't been on a bender. But string sorting is so much easier using yyyyMMdd format.
As far as I understand, the narration is handled by the ‘voiceover’ feature, which is a generic accessibility feature, precisely the one that reads screen contents and controls. In the demo, Kristy taps the screen each time to invoke the voiceover description.

In fact, I'm not sure that the magnifier is necessary at all for the descriptions: this page says that Voiceover simply does that in the camera app: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph37e6b3844/io...

And this page says that ‘image descriptions’ in Voiceover options should be turned on for that: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211899

It seems that Voiceover is available since iOS 12: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph3e2e415f/12....

iPhone 6S shipped with iOS 9 but is upgradable to the current 15.6. Though features may indeed depend on the particular phone, i.e. the hardware.

Also, apparently Voiceover changes the way the phone should be controlled, to its own set of gestures—so it's not a feature to use just with the camera. However, it sounds to me like blind users would find it helpful anyway.
@dannysullivan (Google’s public liaison of Search [1]; he is commenting in this thread)

- What is the best way to ping you and how do I format my search bugs/features in a way that makes it easy for them to be processed by Google?

- Already pointed out and documented replication issues in another comment in this thread [2].

_____

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dannysullivan

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354078
Yes, exactly like that.
Code that does things like strcat(strcat(strcat(strcpy(...), ...), ...), ...)
Who pays to maintain the roads, electricity, water, etc. to your house?
When Google dropped the special meaning of a ‘+’ prefix, the change was not obvious to me (and, I imagine, many other people) because some responses would nevertheless contain the specified term. Consequently, the experience came across as just another degradation of quality.
Can I somehow change the mouse panning/zoomin/rotating to be the same as in Openscad. I do not need the action menus in mouse-buttons. Not much action happening here, just viewing.
Actually seems pretty interesting one. Still, I guess the price is outside reasonable range like other foldable products at this point.
It would be nice if we didn't have such a herd mentality and some companies decided to revitalize some of the old rust belt cities by creating jobs there. There's some tech presence in Pittsburgh. Some of the smaller cities could benefit too though.
Startup Building Generators to Power up to 500 Homes Using Only Ocean Waves
> Hence my question: What happened?

What happened to a lot of activities kids used to do? They got replaced by ubiquitous internet-connected devices that allow them to watch any video or play any game at any time. They’d rather do that than play outside, and childhood obesity rates track well with these developments.

To put it another way, the neighborhood I grew up in 30+ years ago still exists, and the roads are the same size, the sidewalks are just as non-existent as they used to be, and there’s no more traffic than there used to be. But as you point out, sure there’s less kids out and about in the neighborhood when I was a kid.

But I would note two things about that. One, when I was a kid, there was much less inside that could occupy my time than there is today. And two, I’d argue that if you’re an adult who has to work all day during the summer, you may not be noticing how many kids are actually playing outside during the day.
Switched to Kagi recently and haven't looked back
The Great Regression
And yet there are 10x the responses of people who clearly didn't get the sarcasm, which comes across textual interfaces way worse than face to face.
Apple has mastered the second mover advantage. They let all the other companies blow money on R&D and educating users while they simply observe the pain points. Then, they swoop in a few years later and reap the benefits.
The core of academia is preserving a fairly specific culture for long periods of time - a culture of people who care more about logical argument than social pressure.

In an academic setting the person with the strongest argument generally has a long term advantage. That gets compared to the real world where entities like the churches, political parties & <insert any groups> just don't work that way. Many organisations can go for multiple generations with charisma being a superior strategy to argument. In academics they remember the people who went it alone with the most technically correct argument in the face of general opposition (names like Galileo and Socrates spring to mind, along with legions of unpopular and unlikable men who nevertheless earn places of high honour for their contributions to the world's knowledge).

The academics perpetuate that with a series of exclusionary, weird and crufty traditions that frequently date back centuries. It isn't perfect but it has proven an effective culture at grinding out slow productivity gains.
That makes sense but in order for it to work like you say people should be applying self-discipline on things that are actually “good for humanity as a whole”.

It is quite challenging to know the full impact our actions. The best we can do is plan, hope, and adapt.
Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn safety-critical C/C++ coding from?
I will need to learn about writing safety-critical C/C++ code at my current job. Many resources[1-2] tell you what not to do, but few tell you what to do[3].

What are some excellent examples of open source code bases from which to learn?

1: https://www.misra.org.uk/
2: https://yurichev.com/mirrors/C/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
3: https://nasa.github.io/fprime/UsersGuide/dev/code-style.html
This sounds like trying to make a big deal out of something that Europe has been doing for years.

Sure, these are "cement like" instead of wooden but otherwise nothing that interesting here. It is common to overskin these pre-made houses with render or bricks if needed for more protection but most wooden framed houses don't get blown down by high winds in Europe, mostly roofs getting blown off from buildings where they weren't tied down properly.
Please post a general comment on how to submit issues/features to you; created top level stub, but feel free to create your own too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354453
If you're not making bank as a software developer you're either not a very good one, or you care more about the craft than the money. The first group would give you terrible reviews because they are hopeless in general. The second would give you terrible reviews because you didn't include enough content on cubical type theory.

Either way you're better off without them.
If they put enough high pressure chilled air or water to cool that gas, it may change into lots of ash before it condenses on the tube.
Wow I don’t agree at all. I use the flashlight all of the time, and I rarely if ever activate it accidentally.

I actually used to hit it accidentally more often when it was a 3D touch button rather than a delay-based button.
Sadly, I get a CPanel error page visiting the website of the profiled company.

I'm mulling over building a little office detached from my house so this stuff is super interesting to me.
Just on the last point, I’d be interested to know what scientific ways to construct CVD-friendly colour maps you mean.

I’m aware of all the continuous colour maps for visualisations and these are pretty much “solved”, but for discrete, categorical ones, the optimisation is trickier and I’m only aware of “good enough” versions rather than fully optimized ones.
> What happened?

The rise of structured activities. Now kids don't have free time, they go from school to soccer practice to a math tutor. Gotta have extracurriculars if you want to get into a good school.
My daughters probably think I am an old guy with outdated ideas, but that's not how I think of myself. Yet I find what is described as the goal of this startup as absolutely dystopian and evil.
>"few people really need advice about how to live their lives. They know how they ought to be living their lives. The trick is learning how to follow their own best instinct."

I don't think it's that simple. I think it's worth questioning whether the wants you have that you're battling so hard with are actually your wants rather than the desires of others. It's not so easy to figure out what your own instinct is.

I think what manifests as a need for discipline quite often is people trying to mold themselves into something that they simply aren't without recognizing that fact. The author mentions sleep hygiene and that is an example for me. I've struggled with proper 'sleep hygiene' a lot, and of course I thought i just need more discipline. During the pandemic doing remote work I figured out that I actually love having a really weird sleep schedule, it's just hard to square with an ordinary work day.

I think it's actually easy to declare oneself lazy and in need of discipline, rather than changing things up to do what you genuinely want to do.
What's the rationale for thinking that Bell Labs is special?

Reading a general history of science, it's remarkable how often the "inventor" of something is a rich amatuer who happened to have the time and money to spend on looking into the next big thing, and often the connections to publicize it.

Like, invent the microscope, then the people who can afford a microscope use it to look at things and discover them.

How do we know Bell Labs isn't the institutional version of that? And if it is, then the modern version would just to be to build really expensive machines and give some smart people time to play with them.

edit: looked up the invention of radio telescopy at Bell Labs:

> Karl Jansky made the discovery of the first astronomical radio source serendipitously in the early 1930s. As a newly hired radio engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories, he was assigned the task to investigate static that might interfere with short wave transatlantic voice transmissions. Using a large directional antenna, Jansky noticed that his analog pen-and-paper recording system kept recording a persistent repeating signal or "hiss" of unknown origin. Since the signal peaked about every 24 hours, Jansky first suspected the source of the interference was the Sun crossing the view of his directional antenna. Continued analysis, however, showed that the source was not following the 24-hour daily cycle of the Sun exactly, but instead repeating on a cycle of 23 hours and 56 minutes. Jansky discussed the puzzling phenomena with his friend, astrophysicist Albert Melvin Skellett, who pointed out that the observed time between the signal peaks was the exact length of a sidereal day; the time it took for "fixed" astronomical objects, such as a star, to pass in front of the antenna every time the Earth rotated.[2] By comparing his observations with optical astronomical maps, Jansky eventually concluded that the radiation source peaked when his antenna was aimed at the densest part of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius.[3]

edit: similar story with laser, they were just building a new type of Maser, which several people and places were doing at the same time. Bell Labs controversially got the patent though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser#Maser

> The question of just how to assign credit for inventing the laser remains unresolved by historians
> I don't see why bother when exercise has better results.

Except it doesn't.