skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool! Also, I wonder if the author would share the CSS for the 80x25 VGA white on blue style text? Seems pretty much totally accurate!
I've been doing something similar but in the pursuit of graphics assets. Typical ZX Spectrum game was usually one blob of bytes containing everything it needed to run. I'd load the main game block into memory and run small assembly routine displaying a fragment of code on screen in a form of a window with dynamically configurable width and height. You could "slide" the window throughout whole memory block, which was quite fast, and eventually you'd find out something resembling backgrounds, sprites, fonts. Often they were of different dimensions, hence the dynamic window size. After few tweaks you'd find the offset and the size of assets and you could replace them easily. I'll never forget the Rocky Horror Show play-through with all the characters replaced with their other, rather obscene, versions. Well, not so mature when you think about it, but quite funny it was back then. If anything I've learned quite a few tricks about fitting a lot of assets into very limited memory.
Ask HN: Low level OS-related or ML jobs?
Hi everyone, I'm currently coding as a hobby, and have an intend to get into Tech jobs. I don’t really like business stuffs in SWE, I like CS-related stuffs. What I currently enjoy most is to make an interpreter, and contribute to Tauri - a Rust framework, but i don’t think I can make a living from doing only OSS.

So, I’m considering getting into OS devs, compilers, or even device drivers, embedded, hardware stuffs (I’m more comfortable in software). But these fields are rare, and risky, especially in my country, I don’t think I can get a remote job in these fields without prior experience. Another path I’m considering is Machine Learning, it’s more popular, but on the surface level, it's mainly applying prebuilt techs into business (from what I heard). Maybe, I can get entries jobs and find a way to switch into deeper (research-related) A.I areas?

Can anyone suggest me what suitable path I should follow? Deep dive into OS stuffs or A.I ?
> No reason to listen to a chubby doctor over a fit youtuber.

This is the reason discourse on this site is going down the toilet.
One of the functions of public libraries is to archive the news. One could browse weekly papers going back decades, either as hard copies or microfilm. There's a good chance major city libraries still do that, or have digital scans.

For example: https://www.chipublib.org/resources-types/newspaper/
I feel the same way. I've dove in three or four times on Rust, but I get stuck learning Rust and not producing what I first set out to do in it.

Currently, I have committed to learning Zig for my low-level or C-type projects, and I have been having fun.

When I need what Rust claims to offer, I drop back to SPARK2014. A formally defined programming language with a set of verification tools. It meets all high integrity standards, and it has been around for a while with some helicopter operational code and the NATS iFACTS air traffic control system with over 500k lines of SPARK code.

It's nice to see now that AdaCore is teaming up with Ferrous Systems[0] to try and bring some of this to Rust. It shows the Ada/SPARK community want to propagate high-integrity software and not just promote a PL. As much as I like terse and expressive languages like J or APL or Haskell even, I find SPARK2014 to be more writable, readable, and it covers Rust's domain, even embedded [1].

It's Pascal-like block structure with 'end' delineates the program structure nicely for me, and in my opinion, much easier to follow than Rust. Elixir has sort of won the BEAM PL of choice category (it has 'end' blocks too). I think Rust will only get more complex. A SPARK on BEAM would be something!

[1] https://blog.adacore.com/how-to-prevent-drone-crashes-using-...

[0] https://blog.adacore.com/adacore-and-ferrous-systems-joining...
Honestly I strongly disagree that you need to understand the subject very well to make a good meme. All you need is some basic common knowledge and to be funny.

Overall this seems like an incredibly stupid idea. How exactly is this any different from the thousands of free meme making tools or just going on the reddit history meme page? This seems like something only rich trust fund kids could waste their time on
See also Induced demand/traffic: building more roads/adding lanes to roads increases congestion rather than decreasing it:
https://bettertransport.org.uk/sites/default/files/trunk-roa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
I am only listening some of the concepts that I find harder to grasp, regardless of the context.

Macros are easier than GAT, maybe, there is a whole talk how serde goes crazy with macros.

PhantomData or Pin are hard to grasp, not as concept, rather to keep track when they are needed, many times it isn't clear that the way to fix some compilation error is to plug one of those types. A bit like having to do references to constant literals as well, another gotcha.
Then you lose modularity, which is a huge benefit to PC gaming? Now if you want to upgrade to the newest graphics card, you also need to get a new motherboard. Which also could mean you need a new CPU, which also could mean you need new RAM.

Right now you can just switch the graphics card out for another and keep everything else the same.
But the truly comical part, of course, was that Covid was not acknowledged to be widely airborne until a year and a half later. At the same time that cloth masks were widely dismissed as ineffective.
Apple iOS 16.0.2 with Bug Fixes for iPhone 14 Pro Camera Vibration, Copy/Paste
I read it less as a prediction and more like a goal of the, pardon the French, capitalist elite for future employment. Amazon's constabt fight against unions, the Apple-Google-Facebook cartel around SV dev salaries, they all fall into the same bucket.
What if gpu was the motherboard instead?
This is what Rust is ... the simpler, safer alternative to C++.

It is possible that, for the demanding domain spaces that have historically required C++, Rust is the end of the line for how far you can dumb down a language and still have the required sophistication and performance.
> the way covid sceptics were treated by the Cathedral was not nice.

As it should be, because they were dangerous idiots coming away with stuff that would have made a Victorian-era quack patent medicine seller blush.

No, Stoney McDooberson, smoking weed will not protect you from COVID.

"BuT BiG PhArMa Is TrYiNg To KeEp EveRyOnE SiCk WiTh VaCcInE cLoT sHot! BuY hOrSe WoRmEr InStEaD!!!"

Yeah, who do you think makes the horse wormer? Hint - not a naturopath.
He's talking about using electricity to move water, and the US measures electricity in kW-h like everyplace in the world, as far as I know.
iOS is not widely available/popular in Iran so it shouldn't be a problem here: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/iran
The larger issue is from studies being intentionally misleading for corporate gain. The food pyramid is the most prominent example that comes to mind.
ARM architecture for vector search engine
Qdrant 0.10 supports ARM architecture out of the box! If you use Apple M1 or were wondering about using ARM processors in the cloud, you no longer need to emulate an x86 Docker image.
You just made me realize it’s an adventure game. It’s also an RPG and choose-your-adventure game and so much else, that I filed it as »Disco Elysium« without ever thinking about genres.
2022 Russian Mobilization
Why Browsers Are Essential to the Internet and How OSes Are Holding Them Back
9 target languages it's great, but what about SQL ?
It looks simple, it is not.

Firstly on the solar supply side with no batteries, the supply to the inverter maybe considered chaotic,

we need to consider the fact that the stated '13kW array' is likely to be peak output power at say midday with no cloud/dust/shadow.

Therefore it is not feasable to consider a stand-alone system without batteries.

We need to know the total loads power factor (pf), assuming the inverter is rated at 13kW continuous at a pf of 1.0 (purely resistive),

and the rule of thumb average home load pf is .8 (slightly Inductive reactance) then your 13kW is; 13 x .8 = 10.4kW.

In large motors; pool/well-water/constant-water-pressure/hot-tub pumps some older washing machines a pf of .6 may be found.

Given the above, now we need to look at how chaotic the load currents are,

as a rule of thumb large motors have rated start currents of 5 to 7 times the run current for 5 seconds,

so 2.4kW motor (remember to de-rate the power-supply by the pf) will have a start current between 12kW and 16.8kW

12kW = 120v x 100A = 240v x 50A and 16.8kW = 120v x 140A = 240v x 70A.

So if you were building a house from scratch, we would wire it with supply and load in mind.
I love old books like this !

I managed to salvage this one when my grand parents went away https://imgur.com/a/AFmTQv7

I don't think it's worth much but it's old and smells nice and feels good to handle.
>I dunno, I'm willing to believe the timing of birth can influence a child's development

That's a post-hoc justification for an obviously ridiculous belief.

1) Astrology makes much stronger claims. "Today, you will be lucky in love, but avoid conflicts at work". You're committing a motte-and-bailey.

2) If that's the justification, say "winter babies" and "summer babies", not virgo and capricorn.

3) If that's the justification, there should be much stronger effects, such as "born in an ex-communist state, so different nutrition", "born in colder climate, so less sun" that absolutely dwarf that effect. Yet you don't see idiots making intricate psychological profiles based on what latitude you were born in.

>I don't hate women; I just hate everything women like

It's a retarded belief regardless of who holds it.

>There are many reasons that the gender gap in modern astrology belief exists, but some sociologists say that it is, like most things, a result of the patriarchy.

Well, this is something else people say that makes me immediately lose respect for them.
Breakage is normal in any industry, what are you suggesting as an alternative? There are companies shipping nationally and internationally with very few issues
My favourite is bannerbear jon yongfuk, i wanna have my own saas but reading his blogs about his journey gives me analysis paralysis lol
I'm pro-everything. From my flawed knowledge of economic history, energy rules all and is the single best thing to invest in for a country or civilisation's future. [1][2][3][4][5]

Any advantages individual technologies have in energy generation, transportation or storage is probably worth exploring.

I hope to have more insight in this when I get around to reading Vaclav Smil, or better yet work in the energy industry as it seems to be one of the few industries I've looked at that definitely needs to exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

[3] https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Hitler-try-to-capture-Moscow...

[4] https://www.history.com/news/why-did-japan-attack-pearl-harb...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Moving from asia to europe, I find sugar way more prevalent here in europe. Desserts everywhere and sweeter. Drinks are sweetened, breads are sweetened. My sugar consumption has increased significantly compared to my asian life and I don't even have a sweet tooth.
I think the situation for point and click adventure games is much better now than in 2004.

They rebirthed from their ashes as a healthy indies niche. We've have great adventure games in the recent years: Timbleweed Park, Deponia, Unavowed, and of course the recent Return of Monkey Island.

Yes, they're no longer the dominating AAA genre, probably because their main draw have always been to tell a story (and a 2D platformer wasn't great for that), but now there are other genres that are also very good at telling a story. Basically the Action/Adventure/RPG/OpenWorld bucket.
My favorite articles to see change on a regular basis:

* Eggs

* Chocolate

* Alcohol

* Wine (separate articles than alcohol)

* The "superfood" of the month.

* The "fat eraser" food of the month

* The "perfect diet" of the year

And the fact that somehow people don't seem to notice the constant trend and still take them all so seriously.
Windows Update is now carbon aware
A single statically linked binary would not raise the barrier of entry. Quite the opposite.
Tons of people in Japan own cars and don't drive them very much; they're for weekend trips to the mountains, going to Costco, etc., not for going to work every day. 1/3 of the population lives in the greater Tokyo metro area, and there simply isn't very much parking anywhere in the city. But single-family houses usually have a tiny garage underneath.
> Maybe we can make motherboards with a GPU slot next to the CPU slot and have a unified massive radiator sitting on top of them

Sounds reasonable, we already used to have separate CPU and FPU sockets in the distant past.

However, isn't it nice every extension card incl. GPU cards uses the same unified connector standard and can by replaced with anything very different in place? Wouldn't switching to the an MXM form-factor, introducing an extra kind of slot, be a step back? Haven't we once ditched a dedicated GPU card slot (AGP) in favour of unification already?
> The fact that almost everyone wants e-Ink technology, but e-Ink prices still are still really high [2][3] leads me to believe that either there are still patents at play that prevent competition from rising up, or that the competition hasn't managed to catch up for some other reason.

I disagree. It leads me to believe the underlying technology, electrophoretics isn't capable of achieving the volume scaling and update speeds that would make it achieve mass market pricing. Also the links you provided, do not substantiate the main thesis that's being asserted, ie "there are still patents at play that prevent competition from rising up". Further, the quotation you provided was from Behzadi who was a kickstarter guy who failed to deliver the product he promised and then proceeded to blame everyone else except himself.

There's a simple question you can ask to prove this to yourself. Ask everyone who is making this claim, which specific patent is blocking them and how exactly it blocks their idea. You'll instantly realize the people making these claims are not actual display engineers with knowledge of electrophoretics. Typcially, at best, they're bullshitters trying to sound clever or at worst like Behzadi, scammers who are trying to hide having overpromised and then misspent other people's money.
> In the future, when computers are at long last voice controlled, open office floor plans will finally disappear.

More likely we will all get sore throats talking at computers before this happens...
He is talking about "point and click" adventure games like Monkey Island, the Sierra games, etc. Legend of Zelda clearly isn't a point and click game.
Roy Orbison Rapped in Clingfilm?
Javascript and it's consequences have been a disaster for the web.
Here's the real social media non-profit that needs help - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/08/mastodon-now-a-non-pro...
The title is much more accurate than the quote, since he did in fact talk quite a bit about the scandal. Much of it obliquely and by implication.
Framework’s new Chromebook is upgradable and customizable
I don't understand your reasoning. So you are saying paying privileged workers is better than paying underprivileged workers. Labor laws are non existent only because of economy. There hasn't been any country in history with good economy and bad labor conditions for citizens.
Europe's crisis is wholly self-induced; a deliberate decision to switch off in favour of coal (Germany), or defund (France), or delay replacement of (UK) nuclear power stations in a region with cold dark winters and not the almost embarrassing excess of oil of Canada/Texas/Russia/Venezuela.

That's it. A power grid cannot be allowed to fail and no financially credible projects to store the required amount of energy (minimum, tens of TWh) exist, so renewables in such an environment have left us wholly dependent on gas. Nuclear fuel can be stockpiled, wind simply cannot, again at the required scale. If you think it can be within the next 30 years you're an idiot, a liar or a data scientist, it's that simple.

And yes, I've been to engineering conferences in EU where almost the entire topic now is "how do we minimise the damage from unreliable power". It takes zero financial acumen to realise the capital cost of the plant is not decreasing, the output is, and the best case is a reduction in output proportional to the interruption in power. That is the best case, much more frequent is a far greater loss of product. Quite a few people, myself included, were visibly on the verge of crying, because the writing is on the fucking wall. Quite honestly, the Energiewenders do not seem to give a shit, nor do they seem to about Germany's reversion to coal, a move that permanently make's Europe's position on the world stage re climate change laughable.

This is not a Russia-induced crisis - comedy shows were mocking the certainty of Putin using gas as a weapon fifteen years ago. This is entirely self-induced.
> Hacker news is weirdly populated by people with no grounding in reality on very specific topics

You see the phrase "the Cathedral" flung about a lot. I take this as a fairly solid indicator of ESR-fellating big-L Libertarians.
>Individuals have unique responses, which can vary by degree and also by direction.

I think the tension is that that are errors in both directions here. Sure - some people will have worse results than optimal because they followed advice meant for the "average" person when they have unique body chemistry. But on the contrary many people who think they are unique will shun advice for the "average" person and have worse results.

My hunch is that more people make the second mistake than the first.
AttachMe Oracle cloud bug exposed volumes to data theft, hijack
looks great, reminds me of our product, https://denigma.app that explains the business logic of code and technical concepts, which recently launched an extension for all Intelli-J based IDEs (except Android Studio- there's a compatibility issue with it)
I don't get how the author can value all the things in the article and yet work at Microsoft on a bloatware like Edge which is not possible to remove, is pushed hard by Windows against other browsers and used as a part of a giant ads engine in itself
>That the historical model of American cities was train based, spreading radially out from a port with folks riding trains into work? And we threw that away in favor of cats relatively recently?

This is quite false, unfortunately. It seems like cats have fallen out of favor in America, and now everyone is getting a dog.
I like that most of that protocol is multi-scale—it applies to one-day, one-person efforts as well as to tasks requiring dozens of people for many years.
It seems that "target languages" only relate to "programming languages".
SQL (as a database language) is handled alongside programming languages.
See: https://doc.telosys.org/target-databases-sql
You can't post personal attacks like this to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do it, so please don't.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
…yet for all that focus on proper color reproduction, Apple *still* can't be bothered to gamma-correct when blurring colors.

Fun experiment that will have you filing radars until the end of time: find a red notification bubble on an iPhone home screen. Now, slightly pull down the screen (as if to open the search screen) slowly. Note how the blurred bubble suddenly got darker instead of retaining the same visual brightness only redder.
Trombone Champ, the internet’s new favourite video game
Really? What equally dumb things are believed by 40% of women and 20% of men (as per the article) and are a constant topic of conversation?

I'm really struggling to think of any.
I’ll extend your statement to say that “these skills will be useful no matter where you go or what you do”. This article is a load of common sense, and I’m mildly offended by the condescending tone of the writing. I stopped reading halfway through the list. The author got stuck in one or more extremely dysfunctional organizations and is harboring resentments. In a functioning organization, you’re never going to have to deal with a superior who is embarrassed to admit they don’t understand a technical topic (it would instead be a normal conversation in which a technical person explains things to a non-technical person). Similarly, you would never roll your eyes at a superior’s lack of knowledge about a technical subject in a functional organization.
You get paid in unregulated tokens which you can trade for hard cash money, if you so need. What's bad with having the option to do so?
Please don't get sucked into this sort of tit-for-tat flamewar on HN. It's badly against the site guidelines, it's extremely tedious for everyone else, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly.

What to do instead: walk away. If you're not engaged in curious conversation (which this certainly was not), then the one who walks away first 'wins'.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The term Adventure has been overloaded, but it used to be a fairly concrete concept. Something like Legend of Zelda has adventure game elements in it, but it's much more action, combat and movement, something "traditional" adventure games don't have.

Text adventure games are really the best example of the concepts that an adventure game usually has, even though they can also be graphical, like Monkey Island or Full Throttle. A more recent game series like Deponia fits the bill as well.

I would say that there are a lot more games with old school adventure mechanics coming out than people might realise. A lot of them get bundled into the "Walking Simulator" category, but are far more Adventure game than anything else.
I think you may be overestimating human reasoning skills. I often don't even notice "arguments as soldiers"[0] in the moment, despite my interest in rationality, and that's a very easy way to get unrelated claims squished together like that.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/arguments-as-soldiers a topic which I'm thinking about now because a few days ago I noticed half an hour too late that "you need to wear a mask while on public transport in Berlin" has shifted to the side effects of vaccines without me realising.
Incidentally, that song was written with Chesley Sullenberger in mind, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which he glide-landed in the Hudson River.

That guy is a real hero, and apparently a real human bean.
https://quick-bench.com/q/x9kqob0PB5FsWQ65tFgpOlpaWOA

Repro. As the other commenter said, the internal data pointers need to be of unknown provenance (e.g. non-local).
I strongly warn against using Rocket.chat. It is horribly buggy and its performance leaves a lot to be desired.
> the blindingly obvious element of racism involved in lynching

Except the context is the high number of white lynching's that also occurred.
If anything, it probably got slightly slower over the years.

Reminds me of that time when we switched from writing by hand (and sometimes typing on a typewriter) all kinds of forms and reports to composing them on a computer and then printing it: initial time savings were pretty huge and so, naturally, the powers that be said "well, guess We can make you fill much more paperwork than you currently are filling" and did so. In the end, the amount of paperwork increased slightly out of proportion and we're now spending slightly more time on it than we used to. A sort of a law of conservation of effort, if you will.