skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An array of length 0 starts at 0 and ends with 0

But such an array does not "start" at 0 as it does not exist.
You need an array of at least length-1 to "start" at 0.
Global video game revenue (including mobile gaming) is more than the top 4 sports in the US + Hollywood + music industry. Getting a hand into that pie is going to be very lucrative, especially as gaming has nowhere near the cultural mindshare that these other things do.
Some things that will be definitely relevant in 20 years would be:
- git
- linux kernel/firmware

Some things that may be relevant in 20 years:
- chromium
- Firefox
- nginx
- some apache software
- android

I just thought about programs i use on a day to day basis. These projects are all huge, but that is what makes them be relevant in 20 years.
Go on, what's the recipe? :D
Having the gov't control you email isn't a good solution for various reasons. We've all seen the privacy abuses as well as abusive enforcement/gov't seizures from police and prosecutors. This is better in some countries and dystopianly worse in others.

What we need is a system where we can efficiently route messages to/from public keys like the tor url system.

This way you always own your address and no one can ever take it away without the private key.
It's literally racketeering.
Why Were WWII Aircraft Painted with Camouflage Patterns?
For the same energy, the mass of an aluminum electrode would need to be almost 2.4 times greater than the mass of a lithium electrode, in a sulfur-based battery (the ratio can be computed from the enthalpies of the 2 sulfides, the atomic masses of Li and Al, and their number of valence electrons).

However, while there are also lithium-sulfur batteries in development, the current lithium-ion rechargeable batteries with Co/Ni/Mn/Fe electrodes have a much worse energy/mass ratio than a lithium-sulfur battery.

Moreover, in a lithium-ion battery, the mass of the electrode which stores the lithium is much greater than the mass of the stored lithium (which is intercalated in a porous structure), and the mass of the electrode is only a small fraction of the total mass of the battery.

The proposed aluminum-sulfur battery needs good thermal insulation, which will increase the volume in comparison with a lithium battery, but which should not increase much the mass.

In conclusion, it is likely that it should be possible to make such a battery at a similar energy per mass with the current Li-ion batteries, but at a worse energy per volume.

There is a chance to improve the energy per volume by making a very large battery, which would be possible because there is less risk of fires, but in a large battery the regrowth of the aluminum might be not uniform enough, resulting in a shorter number of charge-discharge cycles until degradation.
Immigrate to America, we have issues but we have a future. Germany is going to have some very dark years in the near future.
Did you checked the timeline of coins?
Just because there is one other competitor doesn't mean it's not a valid target for antitrust.

If both were to cooperate and segment their markets in secret, it would be highly anticompetitive.
Same boat as many others. We spend $5000 a month on Heroku. We run production apps and then over 150 review apps at once.

We are using paid dynos but free tier redis and Postgres. With literally a couple entires in redis and a few hundred rows in Postgres.

This is going to massively increase the bills for review apps - with 0 positives and no alternatives.

The hacks, the downtimes, the communication, the support, lack of security features, no innovation.

What exactly is heroku offering these days other than - it will cost you money to move? I can’t imagine any serious business moving to Heroku these days.

You are pushing away everyone you have left.
Real art has intent, context and history that can't be replaced. It's everything that comes alongside a piece that makes it so interesting when you do actually buy a real piece of art, especially if you get to meet the artist.
Data from 2000 is missing two decades of economic growth in Eastern Europe and major EU-funded investments in infrastructure in that region. But let's assume, Germany is still high in the ranks. What does it prove? In Europe the life style from Dublin to Warsaw isn't that different: we often live in an apartment rather than in a house in suburb, we rely on public transportation and have great networks, using a bike is a norm in many cities etc. This all means that electricity budget of an individual household is unlikely to include EV charging at the moment. This will be different from USA, where having individual house and traveling by cars is often the only option. So, what's your point exactly?
They are gonna make prime more and more irresistible by bundling all these things and how snap a lock in as you lose a lot by leaving it.
No, respecting the definition of the name is acknowledging that the style of whatever originated and/or was popularized in that pace. The names aren’t brands any more than Yorkshire pudding, Brazilian steak house, or Nashville hot chicken. The difference between these and balsamic is a government that is propping up the regional industry with a bs legal protection that doesn’t benefit customers or clear up any confusion. Nobody thinks that NY strip steak is flown in or their Genoise cake was baked in Genoa.
Most of them save in foreign currencies.
The value of this, and more so GDPR, however annoying one may find it, is that it gives the consumer rights that they can use to punish a bad actor. The dialogue is not really the point, it's what you can do with the rights that the dialogue gives you.

Additionally, websites could also implement the cookie (and GDPR) dialogues in a way that wasn't painful. The law doesn't say that you have to implement the dialogue in the slowest most CPU intensive way possible.
This is about the last Serie A season, not the one that started a couple of weeks ago.
This is part of "ravaging our planet". And if it will be counteracted then everything is useless anyway.
You're trying to find a media reference, but conglomerates that do everything are already a thing; think of the Samsung group that does everything from heavy ship building to microchip manufacturing, insurance, advertising, and a theme park. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
This isn't Amazon "long term strategy", it's been their strategy from the very start.

They always wanted to be Sears but in the online world (who had their own credit card, Discover, their own branded product like Craftsman/Diehard/Kenmore/etc).
Wondering how well it integrates with IDEs. Anyone tried it with Intelllij?
Listen up: Podcasts are coming to Twitter
I forgot about Xen, is it still popular I thought everything moved to KVM in the last 10years?
Well, Covid wasn’t handled well so I separate public health from private health which is great when fully employed.
I surely have used it, during 1996 - 2000.

Thanks to Oberon I learned what is possible to achieve with GC enabled systems programming languages, it was this experience to lead me to play archeology on our library, Usenet, gopher, FTP,.. and discover what the world of programming languages outside Bell Labs actually like.

Young pupil fell astray from UNIX church never to look into it again with the same wonder.
>5, Amazon runs the platform that creates the games - EA

"The Games" - No. Some games yes. The people I game with pretty much despise EA and look at them as the company that buys up smaller studios and destroys the culture.
At this point I strongly distrust any 'breakthrough' article about research at MIT. After hundreds of these, I'm fairly convinced that any time a grad student pours liquid into a beaker, MIT's marketing department is out publishing the fact that Flubber has just been invented and we're all going to be saved by bouncy flying automobiles.

I mean, congrats on the great marketing department. But it's tiring to be disappointed over and over by the hype.
If you read the T-Mobile announcement, that’s exactly what you’ll get. Not saying it’s not great but I think people
have the misconception that they’ll have usable satellite internet which is really not happening due to physics.
The more western equivalent of this is screening for Down's Syndrome.

In certain countries, essentially all Down's babies are aborted. (98% in Denmark, for example)
> Air drying clothes indoor is pretty bad [because it] leaves textile in a bad state (at least for cotton and wool).

> Also things like sheets and towels really should not be left to dry indoor.

Can you elaborate on both statements? I currently leave everything, including sheets and towels, to air dry indoors.
EA may be worth a bit more than twitter (which is worth near nothing). I still don't understand that thing between Mr E.Musk and twitter: scamming a billionaire on a completely fake value? Fake news?

That said, m$ bought minecraft for 2 billions... Madness? Hidden agenda?
The Involution of Everything
Meanwhile during the summer momnths offices in the US turn on the AC to such low temperatures that one needs to put on a sweater.
Moderna is suing Pfizer over its coronavirus vaccine
Similarly I like to think about it as the add/subtract instruction is very small compared to malloc (and maybe could be included in a custom allocator for free). So the one extra instruction will always be somewhere between relatively minor to negligible and unnoticed.

Yeah today memory access on a cache miss is really expensive. I think memory was normally running at a different clock rate than the CPU even 50-60 years ago, so has always been something where you can’t touch memory every instruction. The latency of a cache miss wasn’t nearly as bad in the past. When the data cache was invented, a main memory access was like 4 times slower than register access. Today, main memory access can be more than a hundred time slower, sometimes it can approach a thousand times slower, which is why we always have multi-level caches now. And memory latency is still getting worse. If someone figured out how to make memory faster without increasing the cost or the energy consumption, they’d be rich! ;)
I love Rust, but it's "righteous" nature might go against the grain in many game shops where quick and dirty is not only accepted practice but where anything more rigid than C is deemed necessarily inferior. Something like Zig might have a better chance in that space.
Must we? Yes, because people who do not clearly identify and thus do not clearly understand "the problem" are responsible for producing "the solution", the point of which is also never clearly identified nor understood.

In the meantime, shortsighted and greedy "site/platform owners" (ex: the people who think 3 popups and 47 ads are a quality user experience when trying to read a recipe for pancakes) in conjunction with the heinous adtech industry have already moved on and do not care.

99% of people already just accept the cookies just like they click through the EULA popups and simply don't give a damn about this. The tracking companies already engineer solutions to enable tracking without the "easy mode" of cookies.

By the time the fumbling incompetents produce "the solution", the target has already moved, and since those folks are very much OPPOSED to actual individual privacy/sovereignty they will continue to waffle around with halfway things which only degrade the user experience without solving anything.

Errr.
https://paste.ofcode.org/vxC36HShHxpsEgztgqwzxi
Johns Hopkins Doctors Discover That a Common Infection May Cause Cancer
It isn't 'just fashion'. I agree with SPJ that what we are all here for, is the content of the education, not how it's presented. The problem is that a good font makes it easier for people to relate to the content.

Having a comedy font for a dead-serious funeral company technically communicates the required information, yet it's going to limit your audience to those that can tolerate the conflicting tones and the people who will choose to relate to what you're trying to say.

It's really so difficult to press CTRL-A and select a different font? Would it cost him so much to relate a little closer to the tried and true methods?
Drinking regularly drinks that are too hot significantly increases the risk of throat cancer. I can't find the paper anymore that I read few years ago, but they did check various cultures where drinking very hot tea is traditional, controlled for other factors and the results were not nice. IIRC the threshold where risk became significantly higher was around 70-75 degrees celzius.

I mean think about it - around 60 degrees C proteins are getting hammered in all cells. Doing frequent small burns in cells lining your throat damages them (also teeth), make it a habit and bad things will eventually happen. There wasn't enough time to develop protection when we moved from hunters and gatherers.

That your specific brain interprets this as somehow pleasant isn't telling much, some people get off on extremely painful experiences that nobody normal considers a good idea.
> useless for renewable storage as well

If it's cheap enough, it might still be useful in a some sort of hybrid setting. Use this one after a more durable battery is almost exhausted. This way you'd get less cycles overall, but still have power when it's really needed.

Other way to look at it is if this one is 10 times cheaper per kWh, then you might prefer this over a more durable battery.
Sodium ion is looking pretty promising.
I am an academic mathematician -- who has had job applications rejected, papers rejected, grant proposals rejected. Not always, but it's not exactly a rare occurrence. I've also been on the other side, and it also sucks to reject people.

It's an unfortunate reality of academia that there are fewer resources (jobs, grant funding, etc.) available, than there are researchers who are prepared to put them to good use.

Further, those who are making the decisions have limited time. If you're serving on a hiring committee and get hundreds of job applicants, you can't hope to read all the papers of all the applicants. To deeply read any one of them would take a fair bit of time.

We therefore need a signaling mechanism to distinguish the outstanding from the merely very good.

It's of course possible to argue about the details of how papers are rejected, as the authors indeed do. But unfortunately the core problem -- an aspiring academic will get rejected often, and it can be extremely demoralizing -- is one we probably can't solve.
Isn’t this approximately equal to what level the bigco will agree to bring them in at? Which in my experience they usually have their thumb on your head.
(not an American) Is there a law in the US that requires every language to be accepted in signage?

On other words, why is that person expecting that a donated sign in a random language can be forced to be displayed?

If there is such a law, his lawsuit should be a non-brainer (he is assured to win).
A while ago I had an idea for a device that has a light sensor on it. The device has in/out for the data cable. It basically overlays a dark image over the feed.

In dark conditions the device darkens the LED output and vice-a-versa for light conditions.

Too many signs are too bright to comfortably look at night.
They tried their own hand at making video games, leading to New World [0] and I believe a few other titles in the works. Limited success, and some massive technical flaws like allowing HTML in comments leading to remote code execution vulnerabilities. But also weird decisions, like simulating all the motions and physics of an axe hitting a tree server-side; that's just silly, all you need is a random success or failure coin flip. You can then do whatever you want with physics and such client-side.

[0] https://www.newworld.com/en-us
I think you should look for very large projects. Small projects, however popular, can get replaced by new competitors in no time flat.

You also want ones that already are decades old. Those have proven to be able to live for decades, and (as far as we know) it’s not like projects can die of old age.

So, things like Linux, PostgreSQL, gcc, or LLVM (maybe, because it’s not yet 20 years old).
May I ask where you find clients?
Yes, and that’s what the ”mark as spam” button is for.
Also probably the addition of Lina Khan to the FTC who has a more aggressive stance on antitrust than regulators in previous years. See their recent filing against Meta's acquisition of a VR fitness co

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/technology/ftc-lina-khan-...
> Why would anything Apple does affect this market?

Apple is gobbling up its supply chain and using precious fab slots. It affects others.
None of these are monopolies. Twitch and AWS are biggest players in their fields, but both have healthy competition

I think it would be way easier to make a case that Microsoft shouldn't be able to buy Activision. It seems like major gaming studios are slowly getting acquired by either Tencent or Microsoft
You've shifted the goalpost from "any jam session" to "professional jazz musician".

Yes, I'd agree that all professional jazz musicians have spent considerable time working on their craft alone. That doesn't detract from what I was saying. Professional jazz musicians aren't the only type of people who do jam sessions, and they're not the only type of compelling artist.

In fact, even if every single artist in the world had spent considerable time studying alone, that doesn't necessarily mean it's required. The fact is, every single piece of music theory, every single thing you can read from a book or hear from a record, every single practice session, can be done in a group. It may just be that people prefer not to do that, or don't have the resources to do that.
That is hard to difficult to predict since so much of what makes a codebase/framework/tool stick is somewhat arbitrary. You can look for industries that move slower which basically means web development is probably out. The linux kernel is probably going to be around for a quite a long while so maybe that's an option.

I might suggest however that the focus on long lasting codebases is perhaps misplaced. You can't predict that very well. But you can help a codebase stay relevant if you get to know it deeply. Perhaps you should instead look for the project that looks interesting and relevant to you and perhaps your work to understand and develop that codebase will help it stay relevant for 20 years.
Yet those are the kind of things universities are great, one get to learn about technologies that changes one's point of view (ideally), something that self taught or professional schools hardly achieve.
I wasn't specific about that. I should have said a full dump of their database.

Yes, if someone got into their supply chain, they could push a malicious update. That's also true of KeePass and every other password manager. There's no way to avoid that vector.
A major use case is in emergency situations or catastrophes when no classical cell service is available. If you are hoping to message someone to rescue you, I don't think anonymity is your concern.
You can't compare the price of a wind park with the price of a nuclear power plant, because the wind park does not offer base load. A wind park without base load is pretty useless. Base load is far more valuable. So if you say a power plant costs 12 billions, it is a steal compared to a two billion wind park. Most people will rather have electricity 24/7 than occasional electricity for 1/6th the price.

Beside that, in another comment you had a long list of things you say is required to make EE feasible. You need to include the price of all these things in your calculation.
I not only reject all non-essential cookies and click on the "Object to all legitimate interests" button if available. I take it further when there is no "Object to all" button, which is most often the case when there are so-called legitimate interests.

In those cases I will masochistically go through each and every one of the myriad companies in "Our Partners" lists one by one, and manually object to each of their bullshit "Legitimate Interest". I mean, sometimes it may actually be legitimate (e.g. prevent fraud?), but I so often see that their so-called legitimate interest is something like "Build a personalized ad profile" that I just burn them all.

I've honestly sometimes been at it for about a whole hour, tap-tap-tapping on my phone or tab-tab-spacing on my laptop, because I'll be damned if these dark patterns let them get away with it. Also, I can fantasise that the day a whistleblower shows that the objections were actually ignored or simply non-functional, I will join the class action lawsuit and sue them for the hours I have wasted for no purpose while believing it was doing something. But I digress.

If I had the time and the frontend skills, I would love to create a browser extension that will not only actively reject and object to everything. I would even like it to have a bloody-minded option to actively accept cookies from companies that do not claim "legitimate interests", but that will reject (and object to) any that do. A man can only dream, while he's tap-tap-tapping "object" for hours and cannot even remember what the site he was going to look at is even about...
And Twitch can be replaced / surpassed. Its technology is nothing new, right now it mainly has critical mass due to the amount of people using it.

It only takes one mistake for them to lose a lot of that engagement.
Actually they are as you need to maintain some base load on a grid.
I mean, the actual paper being discussed probably has the information you want - even if the Ars article doesn't
What PC games do not have serious botting or cheating problems? We need better kernel mode attestation systems.
> Though it's still Li-Ion, LiFePo and plain old Lead Acid in practice.

LiFePO4 is a type of lithium-ion battery. There are also plenty of others. In 20 years cost has decreased to a tiny fraction and gravimetric density (kWh/kg) has increased 3-4x.
>Building enough nuclear power plants to power a country also takes decades

People in Germany said these things 10 years ago too.
If Germany had started building nuclear in quantity 10 years ago then they would be coming online now and would get cheaper with each new plant. Instead you will have crippling and deindustrializing power prices for years to come.
could you please elaborate? because to me it feels like prayer (on an individual level) is very much aligned with the church's social agenda (on a global level)
> some crazy interface that keeps their shell session alive even if their internet disconnects.

This is a solved problem, see eg mosh. Not so crazy.

But, I don't want my development environment running on the same box as other people's environments, it just doesn't make sense: people stepping on each other's toes, the whole box breaking... I really don't want that.

Give me an environment that's possible to build from scratch with a push of a button, and I'll be happy. Anyway in a larger project there needs to be a person/team responsible for keeping the dev env up - either they can keep the shared one up with whatever black magic, or they can make sure the button to create the environment will work for people wherever and whenever they want.
I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon are looking into the longer term Game subscription service, they already have a service for streaming called Luna similar to Stadia.

Stadia is fantastic but it lacks games.

A subscription service that streams games + allows access to it on dedicated gaming hardware such as a console/gaming PC is likely the market amazon wants to attack here.
> You can sort of approximate that with "do not disturb" mode, but that drains a bit of battery (and traffic in cell data plan) uselessly.

Airplane mode helps too I find.
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