skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Their goal is to get people to spend as much time as possible in the metaverse

There’s your answer. How does Facebook make most of its money? Information about people and ads.

As Facebook evolved they added games and marketplace and more - they want you to spend most of your time online on Facebook. His goal for the zuckerverse is no different.

His talking points about connecting people are just marketing speak. He wants to connect people so that they spend more time on his platforms and meta makes more money. It’s that simple.
See also the IPv6 bible: https://website.peterjin.org/wiki/IPv6_Bible
Twitter was a great idea, the issue is at some point the company decided it wasn't going to implement bot countermeasures that did anything meaningful, and that it was going to allow anyone willing to pay an advertising fee to use it as an advertising platform without proper vetting.
Zen 2 cores have 4 execution units which run arithmetical and logical SIMD instructions: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/zen_2#Fl...

Apparently 3 out of 4 units can add integers, but all 4 of them can do bitwise operations. Despite the ISA defines multiple equivalent bitwise instructions like pand / andps / andpd, apparently modern AMD CPUs don’t have a bypass delay so these instructions are 100% equivalent on these CPUs. And with some luck (when not bottlenecked on instruction fetch, decode, or other place in the pipeline) each Zen2 core can run 4 of them every cycle.
small returns on a small market for prioritizing the work. maybe you're unhappy with the profit seeking system
Right, if:

1) plankton or something plankton-like develops and generates a lot of biomass, and

2) its remains aren't dispersed or digested by other organisms, and

3) it has time to turn into petroleum, and

4) all of this happens far enough ahead of intelligent life so that it's ready when they need it, and in sufficient quantity to bother.

You could build a "Drake equation" model about how likely this is, and maybe it's pretty likely, but it's not inevitable.
They are making them take care of the plane, at least to the limits of their authority. It's not like they have much say about what a US-based airline does outside of their borders.
It replaced my lifelong fear (terror?) of death with what I can honestly say is now curiosity. You can experience only so many deaths in your mind before you learn to be comfortable with the idea.
In Korea, income is positively correlated with fertility.

https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol44/39/44-39....

In the West, it was historically (1900-2000) the opposite.

In fact, the fertility of the rich is similar between regions. The difference is that in Korea, the less advantaged have many fewer children.

Understanding this goes a long way toward understanding "Why don't they fix this?" For some, there is no problem.
Not trying to be a troll, but is this benefit anything more than having to carry two variables? As in, is this about getting the length without having to use str Len even once?
That’s the wrong question/assumption to begin with and already doomed.

If your goal is maximum financial payoff, it won’t be done with knowing any single programming language.

Pick a product/industry first, then pick the mostly optimal tool. The market cap of the product/industry will determine the payoff (unless you’re inventing a completely new sector).

Ex: if you work at a hedge fund as a top quant/algo person, C++ will be THE language. Being close to the money, literally trading it as the day job, will reward the most financially.

If you think google products and joining google will be the highest payoff, then learn golang.

I hear there’s a lot of rust and go in crypto, if that’s your thing (def not mine).

If you don’t know what product you want to work on, and are only technically minded, then it doesn’t matter, just pick one and go deep - after you master one, look at the others figure out what’s similar, what you didn’t know - all the languages have the same basic principles; some make trade offs while others provide convenience features.
I'm part of the Swedish speaking minority in Finland, and spent 7 years in school trying to learn Finnish. I spent 3 years learning German, and got about as far with that. Or as a friend of mine said who moved to Germany: German just feels like a dialect compared to Finnish.
Remember when they said we'd never run out of IPV6 addresses?

Good times.
Yeah, I jot notes too.

Check out the letterpress idea. It's nice and subtle and adds a nice touch, but there is a higher setup fee. I think for mine it was like $100 for setup, but then typical prices for repeat orders.
As a data point, I read the second paragraph.
Seconded. For me however, its a monthly treatment for an hour in an office run by an anesthesiologist. The difference is night and day compared to any SSRI, SNRI, or TCA I've ever been on. Exempting the 3-4 hours post treatment, no ill side effects either.
If you go solely for the true contracting, long term staff aug type engagements then you can completely fill your pipeline and it correlates well

You’ll need to worry about finding new clients at most twice a year, and can easily find gigs through recruiters or agencies if you don’t wanna do your own marketing

Granted it doesn’t pay as well - low risk low reward
"Off topic".

It's a bit ironic that someone complaining about confusing contractions is using confusing abbreviations.
It's the dominance of the British Empire followed immediately by the dominance of the American Empire.
Off Topic
"Things I Won't Work With...." and the person who decides to work with it runs a channel named "Explosions&Fire" ...

From the article:

"We're talking high-nitrogen compounds here (a specialty of Klapötke's group), and the question is not whether such things are going to be explosive hazards. (That's been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors). The question is whether you're going to be able to get a long enough look at the material before it realizes its dream of turning into an expanding cloud of hot nitrogen gas."

Seems legit to me ...
Man, I had a similar experience working with code from a French manufacturer. The comments were mostly translatable, but the variable names were hell. It's bad enough trying to figure out in English whether acc is an abbreviation of acceleration, or accuracy, or some acronym, etc. Trying to expand a three letter abbreviations in a language you don't know it's nearly impossible.

Made me really lean towards never abbreviating in variable names unless it was extremely necessary for brevity, and also provide good comments.
He focuses on this specific scenario: "Improve your B2B SaaS's trial to paid conversion rate"
Can it remove Contact Support and Windows Feedback?

Fun fact: "Zune" was never scrubbed from some of the names of these apps, the Films & TV crapware was (is?) still called "zunemusic" when you removed it with Powershell.
Sure it does. I'll give you it does not say why they chose it over other alternatives which I'm thinking is what you are looking for. Are there really any alternatives? The only real alternative I can think of is OpenDocument Format and I don't consider it alternative. As they say on that page, 80% of their users already deal with DOCX so 80+% of them will have to convert to ODF. I can't imagine ODF having any sort of benefit worth requiring most people to convert their documents before sending.
Choosing an Infrastructure as Code Solution
that's what Elon Musk would say, or most people who still live their overpolluting lifestyle and watch climate change like another of their daily entertainment

Our individual lifestyle and footprint is like a vote, it looks inefficient but it works as a whole (I know about the huge inertia of global warming, but definitely still worth to do something)
//Lowering the expertise threshold required for technicians, electricians, mechanics or reliability engineers to be effective.

Why is that important? Must every job be automated?
It can be noted that Finnish and Hungarian are more distant than English and Persian.
This is discussed in the article.

>Instead of reexamining their energy vision, the greens have committed themselves to promoting energy poverty. In part, they’ve stayed the course because doing so has made them lots of money. The Environmental Defense Fund and the NRDC have a combined budget of nearly $384 million, for example... A recent study found that “tax-motivated investors in today’s renewable energy deals are typically a highly restricted set of the US’s largest banks, insurance companies, and financial institutions” who “have been joined more recently by a handful of giant corporations like Google and Amazon.” Those who reap the rewards of the tax breaks are also some of the biggest donors to climate change causes that back renewables-only policies.
12 USD is the current cost per submission. But I do not think that they need to 2x their budget to handle 2x the amount of articles. Marginal costs per article will be lower.

But your point stands, this stuff costs real money. So I just donated 100 USD to Arxiv, as they host a few of my papers. And thousands of other articles that I have read, for free and super accessibly.
we lost him too soon, he would have LOVED where computers have taken us (well... some of it...)
It's just full enough, just empty enough. I decline a lot of meetings, mainly because they're not relevant to me and what I do. With some meetings, I take a few minutes to review the meeting summary and minutes (posted on the internal wiki). It's rare that I find anything I need to know.
I'd say you're off by a factor of 3 to 10?

1000 characters suffices for basic literacy. HSK 6 (the highest level of the Chinese as a second language exam) includes fewer than 3000 characters. A highly educated person allegedly knows 8000+ characters, though I'd take that with a grain of salt.
The author has a rather extensive post on the why forests we're cleared: iron.

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/25/collections-iron-how-did-they-...

Tl;dr: 7:1 raw wood to charcoal conversion. And a lot of charcoal needed for each iron batch. Or "To put that in some perspective, a Roman legion (roughly 5,000 men) in the Late Republic might have carried into battle around 44,000kg (c. 48.5 tons) of iron – not counting pots, fittings, picks, shovels and other tools we know they used. That iron equipment in turn might represent the mining of around 541,200kg (c. 600 tons) of ore, smelted with 642,400kg (c. 710 tons) of charcoal, made from 4,620,000kg (c. 5,100 tons) of wood."
Typing of the Dead did more for my touch typing than anything else.

I remember loads of educational games from my youth.
Who Killed Nuclear Energy? The absurd cost to build this technology and the emergence of much more cost-effective and emission-free alternatives. It's as simple as that. It wasn't the tree-huggers or a big conspiracy.
There’s a forked version of the OS called Omega that’s really nice: https://github.com/Omega-Numworks/Omega

And apparently a jailbreak for Epsilon 16+: https://phi.getomega.dev/
another if-else block? I'm thinking another database table of banned plane-route combinations, if they don't already have it.
Additionally,

"If you had given the Romans the designs for a Newcomen steam engine, they [...] wouldn’t have had any profitable use to put it to."
A lot of game development happens under the pressure of constant crunch and low budgets. I'm not just talking about EA and their constant penny pinching but small studio releases are a huge gamble with a steep upfront cost (Sean Murray, the face of Hello Games that released No Man's Sky, famously took out a large personal mortgage against his house to keep the studio afloat) and no guarantees of success after release - games can fail for the most absurd reasons.

I think a lot of game programmers will keep an iron grip on using C/C++ for a while simply because they don't have the luxury of exploring other options. That said, I think Rust is exceedingly well designed to supplant C/C++ - game development really wants to minimize runtime failure cases and push more errors onto the compiler and static analysis due to the size and complexity of the project and Rust manages to deliver that without compromising on the performance needs - Go was a similar hopeful for a while but the lack of exception throws even under controlled situations is very difficult to deal with (I know you can panic and catch panics but it is a very rudimentary system).
I worked in commercial nuclear power for a while, including a stint at three mile island. The regulatory compliance burden alone, from the NRC and DOE, is crippling financially.
The author would have done well to leave out of a lot of the engineering details, or at least give them less emphasis. That would have made it less interesting to HN, no doubt, but would have concentrated the reader's attention on his point (expressed in several bolded passages) that socioeconomic factors stood in the way of industrialization in spite of any particular technological advance.

It would be interesting to compare Rome with Imperial China, where development was similarly hampered by structural factors, such as the lack of incentives for increasing agricultural output.
I wonder if these things ever pay off, or if it just ends up attracting a lot of opportunities to be part of a normal application system where it's a one-way system of proving your worth to the company?
Adjusted for inflation?
why do people with EVs and garages install chargers in their garages then ?
How to design thermally efficient buildings - especially everything that's going on with climate crisis. The thermal comfort solution to everything in the last 70 years has been to put an HVAC on it, whereas if the buildings were designed properly, the need to actively maintain internal temperature is minimized.

After talking to architects, I'm dismayed that basic heat transfer is not a part of their curriculum.
Freddie deBoer is wrong about STEM jobs
The calendars on MacOS and iOS also have a toggle (under advanced settings) to display week numbers.

The low-key success of week-number calendars points to what I think was the big reason the Comté calendar never took off: Months are, unless you're working in a maritime environment, an unnecessary intermediary unit of measure, and for most are only valuable for their legacy cultural references. Redefining them should have been a non-starter.

A week-number calendar is great because it's simpler than trying to retrofit a year-month-day structure, yet still allows legacy Gregorian months to be seamlessly overlaid on it. The Intel PDF is a great example of this.
That's a lovely little demonstration.

The method name `inject` needs to be formally deprecated in Ruby. It's fundamentally a simple method, but the name _really_ throws people off. Reduce isn't perfect, but it's a bit closer to what's happening.
I blame Naked Gun 2½

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSJZjBC-Dd8
I don't know about that. The US south was happy to employ things like the cotton gin.
Apple wouldn't have used ARM for the iPhone and iPad if the cores hadn't been proven in other similar platforms. ARM goes back a long time. My Psion palmtops have ARM cores. Many of the WinCE systems have ARM cores. The ARM processors in fact go back to 1985, with the ARM Development System for the BBC Micro and then the Archimedes in 1987.

There's a whole world of ARM processors out there. The ISA, packaging, software, and expertise around it everywhere in the world helps make that ecosystem stronger. Before ARM there was Intel, and before Intel was PowerPC, yet even before that there were the 68000 series Macs. And before the Mac, there were the 65816 in the IIgs and the 6502 in the Apple II. Don't be surprised if Apple is an early adopter of RISC-V for support processors. If they decide they've made them performant enough after a few years of that, don't be surprised if they use them as CPUs and stop needing to license cores and ISAs from ARM at all.

But I can promise you one thing. Apple didn't look at the 18 MHz v7 cores from Cirrus Logic in the Psion Series 5 and immediately decide they could make a mainstream desktop CPU out of it. The competition of companies like Samsung, Qualcomm, and Broadcom in consumer electronics has a lot to do with how ARM cores became suitable for Macbook.
aerospace -> code monkey seems to be the more common route to me but that might be sample bias
This is my syntax bias for sure, and you're not wrong it is a debate for some reason, but I find it very silly. An inflectional rule or an auxiliary word can assign a `TENSE fut` feature, just like an inflectional ending or an adposition can assign a case feature. They're just different mechanisms.
It was released as a free update to the base game, but it is also available as a standalone title at a price lower than the base game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/775430/Discovery_Tour_by_...
For anyone interested in Ethernet PHYs, we are hiring!
IPO'd early 2022, fast growing, and still a start-up environment

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3108025120/?refId=iI7RO%2...
> the wind would have to have been going 15mph or more

15 mph really isn't much for wind, though? In fact that's about how much wind there is where I am right now, so that doesn't strike me as an unreasonable condition.
Possible solutions: Shrink to fit? Simplified mode?
Congrats on the longevity of your MBA. I thought I was doing well, still using my trusty MacBook Air 2014 as my daily driver.

It still does everything I want it to do and is fast enough --even for graphics work. I'm stuck with OSX Mojave but don't feel I'm missing out on anything by not upgrading, as OSX seems to add more useless bloat with every new version. Even then I've had to strip out a load of crap from Mojave that I never use.

The only thing lacking is the battery, which has been showing 'Service Battery' since forever and doesn't last very long. But, as I use the laptop plugged in all the time, that's no biggy. If Apple did sell genuine replacement batteries to the public, I'd buy one and fit it. But it's not worth the risk to stick a third party no-brand copy in there.
Interesting paper, thanks for sharing. C is and remains indeed a very useful language.
Ex architect in Europe here. It definitely is and has been part of standard curriculums for at least the last 20 years.
You're underselling that hourly rate pretty hard. There's a comment above about the fully qualified labour rate. Its worth a read, and from experience you need to be placed higher with the rate than $50 USD.
Less a specific technology and more a mindset. Repairing things around the house. Today, it's almost always rational to throw out the broken thing and buy a new one. There are a bunch of reasons why that's true: cost of one's own labor, lack of discrete replacement parts, lack of repair documentation, improvements in technology since original purchase, risk of further breakage, risk of injury to self, etc.

But the real cost is that people generally don't know how things work anymore. They're just black boxes, even simple things like a coffee maker or a clothes dryer. Which further reduces the demand for repairability, which seems like a downward spiral toward everything being disposable.
I saw a talk by an engineer from Parallel Systems [0] and they seem to be doing some very cool stuff for the future of rail. Autonomous Electric rail cars and some other interesting things

[0] https://moveparallel.com/
This is the most real answer so far. Knowledge is being lost in the field, very few want to learn the field, and it is needed in just about every company. Companies that existed in the 80s and have managed to migrate off of the mainframe are the very very small minority.

Pay is part of this, but I'd posit that most programmers would need to be paid a hefty premium over standard rates to be will to work on what they consider legacy or dying technology.
Interesting how some workers know and like the monitoring tools on themselves. Many of the debates on HN and elsewhere around this technology are split between psychologies. Many hate to be watched and controlled while others want the opposite. Being on one side of the spectrum, I was long puzzled at the other side's position until I came to accept it. I still try to understand how people have come to their position. The lyrics come to my mind, "Some of them want to abuse you. Some of them want to be used by you."
That’s a shortage on the reseller side not the production side.
>small family offices

interesting, hat kind of work they request? some investment , data feed, etc.. automation?
No, re-read it. "Advised" as in being told. Ghana has told Delta explicitly to not dispatch N195DN to Accra.
How has Netflix not greenlit this already?

It could revive black mirror.
The only reason why I speak English is because I spent my teen years flaming strangers on Slashdot, you insensitive clod.
The Archimedes was way slower than today's mainstream systems, too. The more applications a processor family gets, the more attention gets paid to making it performant.
An ancient Roman urban legend (a story Romans told about themselves) says that a Roman inventor once created a method of producing unbreakable glass. He showed this to the emperor by dropping a glass chalice on the ground, where it bent instead of breaking, then he hammered it back into shape. According to this legend, the Roman emperor asked if anybody else knew how to make it. The inventor said no, he was the only one. So the emperor had him killed on the spot, to prevent the disruption of the Roman glass industry.

I think it never actually happened, but this sort of story reveals a Roman perspective on technological innovation in Roman society.
> I think Rust is exceedingly well designed to supplant C/C++ - game development really wants to minimize runtime failure cases and push more errors onto the compiler and static analysis due to the size and complexity of the project and Rust manages to deliver that without compromising on the performance needs

I hope so!
Disclaimer: IANAL(inguist).

Unlike school grammar, most linguists consider English tense as just present and past, or "non-past" and "past", to be precise. There are several arguments for that:

* The auxiliary verbs "will" and "shall" don't behave like present/past tense markers ("-ed"), but behave more like "can", "may", "must", etc., which are grouped as verbs affecting modality. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_verb

* More importantly, you can actually take the past tense of "will"!

> He would frequently go out for dinner.

Hard to tell what's its tense, if "will" marked the future tense. It's much cleaner to consider it as a past tense of the modal verb "will".

* English does use present tense in many cases to denote an event in the future, e.g., "We depart at five a.m. tomorrow," or "When does it start today?" Contrast this with the past tense, where nobody says "We depart at five a.m. yesterday," or "When does it start last evening?"
Can we 3d print e.g. geodesic domes to capture the waste methane (natural gas) from abandoned well sites?

"NASA Instrument Tracks Power Plant Methane Emissions" (2020)
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia24019-nasa-instrument-tra... :: https://methane.jpl.nasa.gov/ (California,)

> NASA conducts periodic methane studies using the next-generation Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS-NG) instrument. These studies are determining the locations and magnitudes of the largest methane emission sources across California, including those associated with landfills, refineries, dairies, wastewater treatment plants, oil and gas fields, power plants, and natural gas infrastructure.

"NASA 3D Printed Habitat Challenge" (2019) @CentennialChallenge: 3d print [habitats] with little to no water and local ~soil.
https://www.google.com/search?q=NASA+3D+Printed+Habitat+Chal...

What about IDK ~geodesic domes for capturing waste methane from abndanoned wells?
That, or just try and not care as much. Don't put too much emotional investment in your work.