skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
11 years is not all that much for a PL, especially if you count from the date it was first announced, rather than from the first stable release (which for Kotlin was in 2016). For example, Rust started in 2006, and Rust 1.0 was in 2014, so it's actually older the Kotlin - but I think it still qualifies as "new", and many still consider it not fully battle-tested.

For another example, Python goes all the way back to 1991, with v1.0 in 1994. But it didn't really start to trend until early 00s.
i have an implementation that does something along those lines, which suffices for graphics but doesn't work well for audio applications. think 48 000 samples per second.

the computation i've outlined in the animation is also just a small but very important piece of a much more complex computation

this white dot is my bottle neck
How hard would it be to create a Linux version?
>Japan sins on the opposite end of the spectrum where they build very cheap and demolish it after 20-40 years. I'd like to see a rate of "housing built vs demolished" to present these numbers as a net positive difference.

There's a good reason for that: in Japanese experience, older houses = more likely to collapse in an earthquake. Who wants to take that risk? Also, building "very cheap" is part of why housing is more affordable here; instead of prioritizing "character", they prioritize efficiency, safety, and affordability, and striking a balance between those. So if you go looking at buildings constructed within the same timeframe, they tend to all look alike inside, using the same construction materials.

You have a point with net change being overlooked though. I have observed here that it's very common to demolish older multi-unit buildings and replace them with taller ones, so there is a net gain, but not as much as you'd think by ignoring the number of units demolished.

>The issue is IMHO that Japan, Spain and USA are used to very different standards of living in many regards, so it's just impossible for a straight comparison

This is exactly right. I find it really frustrating to try to talk about this stuff with Americans because they simply cannot comprehend a comparison based on anything besides $/square foot. So I try to put it in terms of "how much does rent cost for the average person", and some people will get it then, but not many.

>- Tech pays disproportionately high in Tokyo so yes, it's "affordable" for us.

It does pay higher than typical local salaries, but compared to American salaries for similar jobs it's a fraction as much (esp. with the current lousy exchange rate), so it's not as "affordable" as it might seem to someone making an American tech salary. Still quite comfortable in local terms though.
> That's enough to push me to look for other places to stash my money

Yep, you take your $100B and invest it in the US capital markets. Does nothing for Sweden's economy other than make it comparatively less competitive.
I don't know if this still is a thing, but my two last smartphones havd an integrated heartrate/blood oxygen sensor next to the camera. Basically the same thing that is in smart watches. Why is this not more common? I use it very often to quickly check my stats.
Recently I've had to make some new friends for the first time in many years, and what I've learned is that the most important thing is just showing up. Find people with a shared interest, and keep showing up regularly to participate in that shared interest - at least once a week is a good frequency to aim for if possible.

You don't have to be particularly outgoing or charming, but you should at least be polite and respectful. By getting together regularly with the same people, you will build familiarity, which can develop into friendship. Maybe not as strong a relationship as the best friend you had when you were younger, but so much better than being lonely.
Anyone still hanging around SF or did everyone flee during the pandemic?
If there were specific funny cat videos that were culturally relevent, maybe.

For example I could see there being an emoji for keyboard cat.
Agreed. I think people commonly mistake simplicity for ease. Apple spends a lot of engineering budget making products simple enough for the masses.
Not aware of any horse from which I can watch a movie on and not have to control at all.
* yawns *

I remember when the CCP was evil for bringing up this firewall and how repressed all their citizens were and how we should be happy because we live in a free and open society blah blah blah

And now firewalls are good, because apparently now apps are "national security threats", interesting.

Weathervane morals at its finest.
The same engine that was used earlier by "Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure": https://grumpygamer.com/delores_dev
By virtue of the fact that neither myself nor that guy live in Nazi Germany is prima facie evidence that he's not worth taking seriously. If you shit your pants and then proceed to smear it all over yourself and then the ceiling while humming the Bonanza theme song don't be surprised when people don't engage you.

If you want an earnest discussion find someone making an earnest argument.
One could also have symbols that evaluate to themselves rather than some bound value. In fact, Common Lisp has exactly that: keywords.
Thanks for sharing! It looks slick.

Can you address the elephant in the room: why use Figr instead of Excel?
> If you cannot get parts in stock (meaning in advance), you might as well send it to the Apple and not bother with repair shop at all.

Because that idea is BS, designed just to block 3rd party repair shops from doing quick repairs leaving you with the same (or worse) level of service that Apple itself offers.

Why on Earth would anyone need to provide SN of the phone to buy consumable such as battery? Makes no sense at all. Even the display is stupid because most of the time people come to the repair shop is because Apple takes 2 weeks & wipes data from device. Which is kinda problem for many people since they often don't have another $$$ for spare phone and also forgot to backup.

Almost any other vendor lets you buy parts such as LCD or battery and just swap it. And for most of the phones you can do that kind of work in under an hour.
If anything this makes the game way more interesting, surely? Rather than "just poker now", what about "Chess was just a simple game, now it is very interesting with aspects of poker".

The best games have bluffing, IMO.
it's also less keystrokes relative to M/MR/MC technique when chaining computation, since, you have two calculators enable concurrency.
Vancouver Has Been Transformed by Chinese Immigrants (2019)
We weren't supposed to have a standing army either, much less one like we have today with an inflation-adjusted budget as high as during WWII, but here we are. Madison would be appalled, Washington would be ok with something but not that.

Conveniently, the far-right in the US omits the military from balanced budget debates, since any reduction in military spending would disrupt the status quo.

I feel that we haven't had civic discourse around this stuff since Newt Gingrich started his Contract with America. Or maybe before that with Paul Weyrich's New Right religious conservative movement with Reagan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

The fallout of that ideology today is gerrymandering and various other forms of disenfranchisement to maintain minority rule by the religious right and moneyed corporate interests. Which doesn't align with the separation of church and state, but again, here we are.

So you're correct that our history of denying aid to people in need goes way back. But we should also remember that women lived under subjugation until their right to vote was recognized in 1920, and people of color lived under segregation until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We probably shouldn't use the term "aid", because reparations to repair the theft of those peoples' livelihoods would be an astronomical number, easily into the tens of trillions of dollars. The same people who thought those progressive movements were crazy continue to call aid to those in need "redistribution" today.

These are heated enough debates, with people's beliefs informed by trauma and shame, that I feel rational discourse around them may be impossible. We'd have to go back 40+ years and prevent the undermining of our public education system, which is exactly what student loan forgiveness is attempting to do. In the meantime, all we can really do is vote out our opposition, and not buy into propaganda such as the recent movement to discredit institutions like the FBI and democracy itself.

For a refreshing look at the real history of the US and more info like this, I highly recommend Thom Hartmann's show on FSTV (no affiliation):

https://www.thomhartmann.com
It's probably hard to come up with a better interface. A pocket calculator can be operated with very little cognitive load. It's easy to memorize because things don't move and it's easy to discover because ~every action is always visible.

It's also good enough. Most people don't need more than a pocket calculator. Sometimes I use WolframAlpha, very modern, but I type my query on a keyboard whose design predates the calculator (QUERTY in <1873 vs "10-key" calculator in 1902)
I saw a docu portrating something like that. He apparently was doing his friends a favor and of course in the jewish communities he was a fellow who had the secret sauce to steady great returns in addition to a very good reputation. I’m sure there were doubters too but his long track record spoke for itself. A lot of those people had charitable orgs that were completely wiped out. His sick thinking was something like people are greedy and so they more than deserve to lose their money. Thing is folks who’d want to get out would be convinced to stay in afraid he’d never ‘invest’ their money again.
Anyone in Valencia, Spain?
What if product B is also bad?

And there's also a product C, D, E but when you check them out you realize they are essentially clones of product A?
Go full Twitter on him. Compel Larry to personally open the beach.
Isn't there a rather large, obvious reason for Jay to continue lying after all these years?
Quite a lot of submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Aren%E2%80%99t%20There%2...

Personally Im more interested in going the opposite way. Many of the greatest most-scalable software systems out there are already built for scale out.

Rather than build careful & costly coherency into our hardware, I'd like to see non-coherent architectures. Make systems expose CXL.mem or RDMA interfaces or just plain networking and offer gobs of medium/high radix interconnect in place of fabric.

Given that we have >100 core and 16-channel ram (now 32c since ddr5 is smaller 32b channnel) chips, not evem sure we need coherency across a socket, am not convinces we shouldnt just start thinking of a socket as having effectively multiple isolated chips. Certainly would be a wild trade-off, likely implies splitting the LLC, but how much faster/simpler/power power would it be to shrink the domain of that cache, or to make it non-coherent to further off domains.

I really dont have the figures to back this up. I dont have a good sense of how much power draw is fabric, coherency, or how much latency the wide reach adds. Certainly coherency makes semse for many applications & we do seem quite good at it. Still, I'd be so interested to see some in-between, some tries!
I also have inmate scrapers running (and republishing the data on a better website). Mine apply to any county using a specific software.

They're not cleaned up and ready for release, but I could do that if it's useful to the project.

At least a few more counties in my state use the same software.
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

They're a founding member - no idea as to the amount of financial support that Microsoft provides to the Rust Foundation....
The complete solution space of chess is not known. (Is it knowable, given the energy in this universe?)
For systems programming, use whatever the Linux kernel uses. For everything else, there is javascript.
It apparently can also include losing your email hosting, website hosting, domain name registration, payment processor, or book deal, and having your independent business spammed with negative reviews. But, yeah, if you don't use the internet and do not have income (and don't associate with anyone who does... because they might be targeted as well) you really can't be canceled at all.
That was a vocal minority
This reminds me of Soulver

https://soulver.app/
Why would small developers work to prop up a giant who already has so much power imbalance wrt them that they pretty much cannot do anything if it decides to, say, yank their app from the store for uncertain reasons?
I mean... it depends what you want to support. My web calculator [fully client side] is 370kb of JS. It has features that this doesn't have (3d rendering, solving equations), but doesn't have code that this needs (mostly, the keyboard)...
Not just your ISP but the ISPs ISP, local police, government, etc... one thing people seem to forget in such situations is your ISP router's security, is it better or worse than Mullvad's security? A compromised router can and has (see VPNFilter) rerourted traffic through attacker compromised infra for mitm and most people have to accept whatever crappy gateway is given to them. If you are on arbitrary wifi networks, the chances of joining a compromised network get higher with the more networks you join but having one constant potential point of failure that you can reasonably take measures to account for is better.
How odd. I see a lot of discussion about calculators having history and such, but as someone who became acquainted with Emacs's Calc mode at an early age, it seems so strange that calculators with history are a foreign concept to most people.
For most of us, they (Meta, Google, Tik Tok) are all foreign.
Probably. Maybe you can propose it.
> how dare the plebs stay home to avoid dying

Covid mortality rates for those in the working age are meh. More people died of accidents than everyone under the age of 55 from Covid.

> so we can continue in the lavish lifestyles to which we've become accustomed

We should just tax the rich instead, which of course is the true source of that lavish lifestyle.
Seems pretty obvious from the page:

> Our mission is to make data from every U.S. police agency accessible via a single public resource.

More precisely:

> There are over 18,000 police organizations, and each has a unique way to publish information.

i.e. Police are publishing data? Let's organize it and make it easily accessible.
Then we’re going to keep seeing an erosion of Free software until there’s a renaissance where people begin actively courting the general developer public to vote with their feet again.

FOSS won people over by saying we are entitled to useful software without having to mortgage ourselves to corporations. Well, it got what it wanted and now it calls users entitled. You’re damn right they are.
Or their concept of “certainty” or “doubt” is different from yours.
That character triggers my trypophobia.
Gah, seems I missed one of the most load bearing words in the title!

That being said, I’ve worked with, and hired folks who had startups that fizzled out and they didn’t seem to feel that they were at a disadvantage. As a hiring manager now, I’d certainly view any founder experience positively (although I’m admittedly biased).
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC

Note that "production ready" does not equate to "follow a YouTube video and write 17 lines of TypeScript." You need to know Java, you need to know crypto, and you need a few bucks to throw at the appropriate hardware. That said, the entire US DoD is built on JavaCard so it is as production grade as you can get.
Anyone else in Singapore interested in a HN meetup?
No, because Statement B in this analogy would be: "Your rights don't mean shit to cops."
It’s a cautionary tale for how hard it is for tech founders to stay on-brand.
If you open the proposal [0] it kinda just looks like someone doodled some flowers on the text rather than actually used a particular letter. And given it's the ONLY existing record of this letter, it's very suspect isn't it?

[0]: https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5170-multiocular-o.pdf
Which we used to be able to do a lot more. Many of those companies are out of business or merged with a mega corporation.
Per their membership page, Platinum members provide $300k/year - but of course the real value is paying MSFT employees to work on Rust projects.
Philly?
I agree. I was talking more in general toward the idea of not wanting to pay more in taxes to "pay for the lifestyle of those who don't work", that is a common sentiment in general for social safety nets. Instead of focusing on how someone's money will help someone else, you can show how it will help those who would be paying more in taxes.
I think the reality is, if its a hobby project supported by one person then money doesn't really solve it. No company should put itself in the position of being reliant on some random individual on the internet whether they are willing to pay them or not.

Of course, adopting this stance takes away opportunity for many small time open source projects to become popular in the first place, and the general incentive and opportunity for open source to succeed.
There's always rapid and blitz time controls, where you can't prepare and calculate like that. I know that to a lot of people it's just worse chess, but I think that it's the future of chess as classical OTB becomes more and more ossified from engine analysis.

I don't like bullet, but 15-minute and 3-5 minute chess is wonderful to watch.
As a counterpoint, if we look at the world of sports. I follow hockey quite closely. In hockey the term generational talent gets thrown around and assigned to kids, sometimes as young as 13-14. There is even an official recognition in the Canadian Major Junior system at 15 with "Exceptional Player Status" where a 15 year old is given eligibility to play in the league (normally 16+).

Some of these prodigies do level out, like you say. Often on account of their size being caught up to. But some truly remain remarkable into adulthood and actually hit that Generational talent level (Connor McDavid for instance). There's only been a handful of kids granted this status in the past 20 years (~7). The oldest 3, two turned into superstars (Tavares/Ekblad) and McDavid is generational, simply the best player in the world, full stop. The next is a bust, Sean Day, who at 15 was 6'2 when drafted into the juniors. That would be your everyone catches up example. The others are still too young to say, one is 22 and just beginning (but not looking like a superstar), one was just drafted this summer and likely will play his first game for Seattle this season. Another is the projected 1st overall pick next summer.

But there are definitely the handful of prodigies that pan out at least in the sports world and instead of being called a prodigy - they earn themselves superstardom or get talked about as GOATs (greatest of all time, for the unfamiliar).

If we also look at who are in the generational talent conversation (go in reverse), in the past 20 years all the players who might be mentioned (Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid) were definitely prodigies as well. So much so that the next generation of prodigies is compared to them, McDavid being called the next coming of Crosby. We may see the next coming of Ovechkin in a young russian player named Matvei Michkov who has been a prodigy in the russian league. Sadly, we may never find out given the political situation and Russia seems more intent on keeping home grown talent in Russia more and more.

Maybe the issue isn't prodigies disappear, it's that in many fields we don't compete like children often do and get recognition? None of my friends have a GPA at work or a spelling bee to win. If all careers were like sports, maybe we would continue to recognize prodigies into adulthood?
I wrote my own desktop programming calculator that shows signed and unsigned decimal, octal, hexadecimal and binary at the same time. It also allows you to select 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit or 64-bit calculations, and do either signed extend (for converting from a lower bit to higher bit legnth) or zero extend. No floating point results though.

It was a fun project to work on.
That's true, good call. I feel like there should be one without the context of Egyptian hieroglphys though, though I'm not exactly sure how that kind of thing works in unicode.
Yes you can force this in most browsers, generally hidden behind a flag. Be aware it will break websites such as Google Maps and similar stuff.
Judge orders release of Adnan Syed after more than two decades in prison
Which people?

Def not mom-and-pop investors who use pension funds and wealth managers/advisors to keep their investments in (usually) diversified portfolios.
They haven't set aside the conviction - just released Adnan Syed from prison until the competent authority can decide whether they want to retry him or look elsewhere for the killers.

Basically, the equivalent of declaring a mistrial after the prisoner has been convicted and sent to prison. Adnan is out of prison but under GPS monitoring for now.
>story about a three-hundred fifty billion dollar international company that employs child labor and once had to install suicide nets on their factory buildings.

Neither of those statements are true. Please refrain from making emotional arguments based on misinformation.
Volusia County!
Ease of use + A nice UI + A dedicated application
hi gus

the animation is something i constructed in order to help facilitate discussion and get help :)

i've outlined the computations more detail in a reply below

by constant time i mean O(1)

computing the white dot currently requires me to sweep the already computed loop points which isn't a big deal in a lot of use cases, but with audio its a show stopper

the white dot is also the key to a much more complex computation that im using
Are they water tight after repair?
Can you re-open with the same ease?
Also, for an extreme example, https://xkcd.com/505/
Theres a bit of a miscommunication going on here. A more precise (but less punchy) way of saying it would be “When things break dramatically in production, resist the too-easy urge to heap acrimonious blame on whoever was most closely involved. That’s usually unhelpful, and the defensive reaction it produces tends to be counterproductive. Instead, calmly look at the whole causal chain leading up to the incident and figure out which of its links would have been easiest to break. Then, if it seems worth the effort, design tooling or procedures that would have done so if they’d been adopted earlier.”
Wikipedia puts the north lake of what used to be the Aral Sea at 3300 km^2 in 2008, the south lake similar, down from 68,000 km^2 total in 1960.

It says Utah's Great Salt Lake is 2460 km^2, so comparable. That is a lot of km^2, but we can certainly use every lick of power that solar farms could produce.

160 is 6.5% of 2460, so a pretty substantial fraction.

Salt is bad for electrical equipment, so all the wiring would need to be shrouded in silicone. But you would do that even in fresh water. I think Singapore is floating solar on sea water.

Besides cutting evaporation, floating solar panels reduce water temperature, enabling more oxygen to dissolve, provide protected habitat in their shadows, and offer perches for waterfowl and amphibians. Of course most of the lake supports only brine shrimp and brine flies, but the less-salty marshes near inflows support a huge range of wildlife threatened by the retreating shoreline.

Building floating solar farms near to the estuary marshes would probably offer the most benefit, as evaporation happens preferentially from fresher water, and a wider variety of wildlife could shelter under and around them.

Some of the power produced could be devoted to removing dissolved methyl mercury from the water, which is at 25x(!) the concentration that is considered dangerous.