skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notation of head ← n for "n is stored in head" was mainly responsible for my confusion in reading CLRS for the first time. Even now, it really breaks the flow of reading this pseudocode for me, and I'm not quite sure why.

Has anyone else struggled with this, and have suggestions on how to rewire my brain so the notation "flows" better?
People always keep saying idiocracy is like the worst case scenario for the future. Are you kidding me? That movie is close to the best case scenario. Everyone in the movie is just having fun doing whatever they want, and importantly, quite literally everyone is actually nice and just trying to do the right thing. There’s literally no villain just some misunderstanding.

Even the evil corporations actually turn out to be evil just because of incompetence (carls junior actually takes over child care if it deems their parents unable; the soda company genuinely was shocked that their soda shouldn’t be used to irrigate).

Except the one genuinely evil person (the pimp) who turns out is not from that time, and thankfully only pops up in the end to set up the sequel.

I would choose idiocracys universe to whatever we have even today, where a good fraction if not the majority of the world population has decided that selfishness and bigotry are the way to go.
I think we are awaiting the first blockbuster artist who understands how to use HFR to create an even more cinematically immersive film, paired with the producer willing to take a risk on them. This film will change tastes permanently. One side effect of it is that it should ruin moviegoers’ taste for the smeary CG aesthetic of Marvel movies, so don’t expect this film to come from Disney. :)
laughs in full disk encryption, but i get your point
If you believe a goofy little face mask is going to stop or slow down the spread, in either direction, of a respiratory virus, then I have a bridge to sell you. Look at the data. There's no correlation between masking and prevention.

And FWIW, there are effective and early treatments available. Many people have just been prevented from receiving them if needed.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5ur106/to_...
Yeah... It's not the brightest.
Sometimes when you ask it how it is, it replies "I am functioning within my normal parameters". It seems to like to show off it's language skills?
"No prospect of ever owning a home (...in the absolute most desirable areas of the country)"

In other news, I'll probably never be able to afford a Bentley, so I guess I have no prospects of ever owning a car.
I think they are with donuts now, so it's same as many other registries. EPP is stupid and terrible though.
New study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopies
>Only a small percentage of the individuals who speak English at a proficient level of those who do, they predominately come from very wealthy upper caste families and now you have a new problem.

As a non-Indian, the caste problem seems so endemic that the only solution seems to be to not hire anyone born in India. Their American-born children will, presumably, have overcome the issue.

(Not 100% serious, but not 100% joking.)
Yaaaaas, Queen.
Bookmarked, pun intended.

I am a writer and I love books, but I just don't want to work with Amazon or give them money for reasons that go beyond the scope of this post.

This is exactly the kind of tool I need to fill my shelves with great books without having to deal with Amazon. Very clean and efficient software that serves a useful purpose, it is deserving of success.
You are repeating what I have already said.

>Juppor is talking about suing in Florida courts. Florida is absolutely at will. He may be able to sue to collect a foreign court judgement instead
> Wow, that's such an insane clickbait, 99% incorrect headline.

How so, since that's Bloomberg Businessweek quoting Mr. Hotz? https://archive.ph/ZnqFl
It seems like that concern may have been addressed with the more recent releases of this model of radio since March of 2021.

I certainly haven’t experienced spurious emissions first hand. I own a proper Yaesu radio now but the Baofeng is such a value imho for beginners to learn the hobby. One can talk to astronauts on the international space station with one.
Ahh, your assertion is that things have improved with the extra layers. I’ve been developing software professionally for 27 years. I respectfully disagree with your assertion. I’ve seen a steady decline in the quality and efficiency of software development since these extra layers have been introduced.
There's already a user talking about it their success in this very thread, though obviously they are an outlier and probably closer to the prospector than the shovel seller in some ways. I've seen multiple examples on HN and various other communities. Crypto, NFTs, AI, contractor arbitrage, the clients of contractor arbitrage, Spotify track generation, dropshipping, services for social media businesses, ASMR, literally any buzzing hype-train of the past few years.

Come to think of it, asking for examples is probably a bad idea because if you've already heard of it for some significant time, the ship has sailed or is dangerously close to.

Despite the relative proportion of entrepreneurs being so small, the population is so large that there always will a healthy mass of prospectors forming with the next hype-train. Most will fail. There will also be those who go for the shovel-sales route, and they will be very smart about it, but the prospector market is usually going to be proportionately large enough for everyone who will actually attempt to monetize it.

The prospectors are almost certain to spend money in a rush towards the hype. The quality of your product is not necessary as long as there is something marketable there, which is the biggest hurdle. It's not clear if the prospector will find gold. But it's clear that they will need a shovel.

Now, why am I talking about this instead of doing it. Well, I mentioned the technical skills earlier...
A clueless neophyte says "gzip is dead."

The initiate replies, "each to its place, and to its purpose."

The master ends, "for each, there is a place where they are optimal."
There's two types of documentation. In one, the semantics of a method allow more than one reasonable implementation. For example, if a "sqrt" function receives a negative number, it would be reasonable for it to return NaN, to throw an exception, to return a maybe monad, etc. The user has a question about the implementation, and goes to the manual to figure it out.

In the other type of documentation, nothing exists to indicate that the user should refer to the manual for more details. If I call a function "int increment_by_two(int x)", there's nothing that would indicate a special value. If the manual states "Calling 'increment_by_two' will add three to the argument.", that would certainly be unexpected. Nothing in the function description leads a user to expect that they need to read the manual for more details.
The Internet may need P2P file sharing protocol, but that protocol never be IPFS. BitTorrent is the closest practical protocol currently used. IPFS is just a joke.
Why many Floridians living in Ian's path can't count on insurance
https://theaviationist.com/2022/10/05/south-koreas-f-35as-gr...

https://news.usni.org/2021/01/19/navy-calls-freedom-lcs-prop...

https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2020/08/21/watchd...

Not very well anymore, we can't even keep the old stuff operational, let alone make new stuff that works.
It’s not very surprising. I was looking around for an easy way to set up anythi g using ActivityPub using a single docker instance, and all the big players are ‘check out from source and run directly on your server’. No thanks.
I don’t see farms of the future being outdoors because of the need for climate control and the decreasing availability of land competing with housing and other developments. Even beyond that, there’s issues with soil quality that seem to suggest something like hydroponics would be more efficient.
those people can have a higher income because they can get a domestic manufacturing job; its the people who aren't working and rely on subsidized social programs and welfare who would have to take the hit.
It's not nonsensical. It's not doable, though, either—owing to fundamental assumptions/flaws in the protocol (where "protocol" here refers to the Mastodon-compatible implementations that are in actual [read: majority] use today).

It wouldn't take much to fix it, though, and it should be fixed. TPTB really should have focused on enabling your use case from the beginning.

Moar discussion here:

Comments for "Mastodon 3.5" (6 months ago)

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862612>
Certainly drones are better: they are better for target practice:

https://krdo.com/news/2022/09/15/pueblo-men-fire-guns-at-dro...
Asking questions that are claims and demanding yes/no answers is irrational. The valid form is how courts work, you make a claim, and then either agree with the claim or disagree with claim. So valid answers are yes, and not convinced of yes, or no and not convinced of no. But that is two separate claims,

So valid questions are

Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory? Convinced or not Convinced.

Covid-19 did not escape from a Chinese laboratory? Convinced or not Convinced.
Why do people post this drivel anywhere
because they are neoliberal globalists, not capitalists.
It's expensive to be cheap
Elon Musk: ‘Aren’t You Entertained?’
Would be nice to search by ISBN. I tried some titles and didn’t get the right matches
not quite, as the 2nd level is a hash table which is very un-trie-like. it shares the idea that you don't store the implicit bits known by the address of the first level like a trie.
The best showcase of nanotechnology so far may be this race of tiny cars (2017)
Google search entry “dart spacecraft” and the page bumps out of orbit
> The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.

you wanna know what's cringe?

worrying about if something is cringe.
Abstract data types can be zero-cost abstractions...
An internet maturing over twenty years full of hobbyist bloggers and forums rather than megacorp media and affiliate review sites is a world I’d be curious to experience.
Thanks! If you have any feedback or criticisms at any point please let me know. I've got a feedback box on the site as well.
Will take a look at implementing this. Thanks.
> I think this assumes that every AC generator has the same number of poles per revolution.

Oh yeah. An oversimplification, and one that need not exist (all the generators _could_ be wound with the same number of poles), and I think would've complicated the point beyond GP's level. But yes, you are right.

> and if generators fall out of frequency or phase with each other, they will drive each other instead of the load, thus damaging the generators.

That's one reason, another is that some of the prime movers simply can't exert full torque at significantly-wrong RPM. I'm not a turbine engineer but it's my understanding that even in a standalone situation with no grid at all, if you apply full power to a turbine and then slow the rotor to a stop, somewhere before you even reach a full stop, some of the blades will break, because they can only handle that gas pressure when moving and experiencing the rotating flows of a running machine. The point where that occurs depends on the engineering of each individual machine, but a highly-optimized design may have a tolerable operation range that is narrow indeed. (When a new unit is started up, it does so unloaded, so it only takes a relative whisper of fuel to get it moving. Only once synchronized and loaded do they really hit the gas.)

In my mind this seems very similar to the back-EMF developed by a rotating motor, and the phenomenon of locked-rotor current burning out the windings when the shaft isn't allowed to turn at some appreciable fraction of rated RPM. Just the back-pressure is fluid rather than voltage. Any actual turbine engineers here?
Tackling climate change does not necessarily reduce the standard of living of hundreds of millions. There certainly is a cost to tackling climate change, and the rich will certainly prefer the masses bear the cost. Over here, the major non-major party's stated policy was to more aggressively tackle climate change and for the rich to pay for it.
But don't forget that it also doesn't compose as well as the other options.
Healthcare and social policies make a big difference. Tax rates make a difference as well. Income distributions play a role as well.
For what it's worth, a holistic system only allows the user to bring their own code only above some layer. For Unix systems of ye olden days, that would be your C source code that you compile. For Chrome OS, that's gonna be websites and extensions. For Oxide, it seems like that is going to be VM images.

But it's important to note that these days, there will always be somebody who wants to bring their code in at a lower level. And the immediate reaction of all vendors is "But why would you want to do that?". Why would you want to bring your own Unix flavor to our hardware? Why would you want to run Linux executables on Chrome OS? Why would you want to run a different hypervisor on Oxide racks?

Those people will exist. And layers like BIOS and UEFI allow system vendors to say "Eh, sure, we don't think that what you're doing is wise, but whatever, here's a standard way we'll allow you to use". Holistic systems don't have these standards. They are only usable as their creators intended. And not everyone will agree with their creators intentions. But the work required to refit them to fit another purpose, which the hardware is very fit to do, but the software fights against, is usually too high, and you'll be better off using something that is worse, but left you an avenue to customize it for your purpose easily.

My main takeaway from this talk, is that we need some standards for phase-based booting, as there is some very cool improvements that could be done with it. But I see no need for holistic systems as described in that talk, I just see a need for better, more transparent systems. And a system doesn't have to be holistic to be transparent, or good.
Maybe at least read the abstract.

> Contrary to a widespread view, we demonstrate that Europe's lower inequality levels cannot be explained by more equalizing tax and transfer systems.
The argument that the file format is slowly becoming less supported May have some weight, but the idea that gifs are falling out of favor seems narrow.

An equally lengthy treatise could be written about how gifs literally can’t be killed. They’ve become “cringe”, usage has fallen off, then they’ve been reborn probably 5 times over in the past decade. Id suspect that most gif users here in 2022 acknowledge the layers of irony and nostalgia they are taking part in when they drop one in a text thread; it isn’t lost on most of the people who bother in the first place.
Because it teaches you that compile and run aren’t just buttons on a window, it’s taking one or more files (streams of text == data) and translating them into other files.
But it's not an OS problem; the OS being written that way is only the symptom because it can't touch the real hardware.

Cantrill and Roscoe both pointed at the SOC vendors: if there's a new problem to solve, they add more proprietary, undocumented, cores and enclaves with tightly held secret functions and OSes of their own, all of which are out of visibility of the OS. Some of them are even designed at odds with the user's interests, such as DRM goop.

This gets back to the war on general purpose computing as Cory Doctrow put it. The hardware is ceasing to work for the user's interest and is starting to work for everyone else in the stack against the user.
You'd have to be decrepit to know people from 1900. So...
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Tasered to Death – PIMA County Jail
> To understand the alternative approach we’re championing, though, you first need to recall how the Internet works.

Keep Reading ↓

Mm, no thanks.
Let's not let the federal reserve off the hook with insanely low interest rates for so long.
I'm sure they will still accept contracts from the Netherlands, they just won't hire anyone locally.

It happens all the time.
Parent was obvious talking about converting 25fps PAL video to 30fs NTSC frame rate, which happens ALL THE TIME...

NOT about converting from film to PAL. You are arguing with no-one.
* Infocom’s text-only adventure games, not ads. Sorry
How to fine-tune your AI images with these simple prompting techniques
I’m unconvinced that inequality matters. A better set of questions would be one like: how much does your parents (lack of) success predict your own? How likely are you to attain some arbitrary yet desirable standard of living, etc.

Inequality is related to these things but doesn’t necessarily block them.
Less human error is a meaningful benefit, even if it has nothing to do with the tech itself.

A new generation is always behind us, and explaining a nice, even 24.0 to them will just be a better situation.
I can tickle myself in several spots on my upper back, and I definitely don't think it feels like someone else is doing it (and don't have trouble predicting it from what I can tell, although I guess I've never been tested on that rigorously). If anything, my expectation of it causes it to be even more overwhelming (it's not something that I enjoy at all honestly regardless of whether it's me or someone else doing it; the best comparison I can make to it is like accidentally shocking yourself when brushing your finger against the metal when plugging something into an outlet, just not as strong and localized to the tickled spot).

On the other hand, I've noticed a fair number of other strange reactions that I sometimes get to sensations that I've occasionally seen other people online mention but have never met anyone else in person who also says they have them. One weird one is that when certain things vibrate in my hand (e.g. some but not all of the cell phones I've had and my Nintendo Switch's "rumble"), my inner ear will feel like it's shaking around, which is very unsettling. It seems to happen on the opposite ear of the hand my phone is being held (or both ears if both hands are touching). I can also sometimes replicate it by tickling parts of my lower face (in which case it happens on the same side as the part of my face touched), which makes me think it's due to some sort of actual physiological response to some extent rather than just some sort of weird resonance). From googling this in the past, there do seem to be other people who experience this, but I couldn't find any sort of documented research on it (presumably due to it being rare and benign enough not to merit anyone's attention).
From the abstract:

> Inequality grew in nearly all European countries, but much less than in the US. Contrary to a widespread view, we demonstrate that Europe's lower inequality levels cannot be explained by more equalizing tax and transfer systems.

> After accounting for indirect taxes and in-kind transfers, the US redistributes a greater share of national income to low-income groups than any European country. "Predistribution," not "redistribution," explains why Europe is less unequal than the United States.

(Edit: thanks boulos for the direct PDF link and vlovich123 for finding their definition of the term)
It's sad, webm seems like a good format + it can have audio.
A happy medium might involve something like a BIOS that's just a vendor-provided library in an EEPROM but which somehow is guaranteed not to run anything in hidden cores, BMCs, or via interrupts that the OS does not set up.

Even then, it would be even better if that library were open source that the OS could carry its own artifacts of. Not because open source is great, but so the OS can truly be in control. The point u/bcantrill makes about the OS not getting DRAM error information gives me cold sweats!

If the library is open source, then, yes, each boot loader and kernel will have to be built for the hardware it will boot on, at least until it gets far enough to get additional firmware/drivers from a boot image RAM disk or whatever.
If Philly was cleaner, it would instantly compete on a much higher level. As someone who grew up in the area and loved (loves?) it I’ve never understood how dirty the city compared to other major cities. On cleanliness, it competes with New York and San Francisco but it is… Philly.
What translation is this? I love the writing!
>But I see no need for holistic systems as described in that talk, I just see a need for better, more transparent systems. And a system doesn't have to be holistic to be transparent, or good.

my takeaway is that it's not the holistic systems themselves that are needed -- it's that when holistic systems aren't enforced that vendors will go mad with power.
GIF isn't going anywhere. Or at least it better not be. I hoarded a massive collection of gifs from the GeoCities age and to date have not found a better format to convert them to, not to mention some of them were created with quirky software and I doubt they will encode correctly. Oh and I am not getting rid of my YTMND collection. It is getting harder to play my collection of SWF's. Maybe they should write about the death of shockwave animated cartoons and games, or at least their popularity.
Well, for me, this article and the previous one that was on HN some weeks ago were just propaganda to push the service they promote for eventual monetization. Something wrong with it? I don't know, well may be just lack of transparency I guess.
Just in the last decade 4% more of the population has reached retirement age. Wouldn't be surprised if it makes up the bulk of the participation change since 1990.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-ag...
I see the problem, I'll have a fix out for this within the next day
> There is no other way then to print and incinerate the debt in a inflationary inferno.

What good is paying off a debt in a currency that's no longer valuable? We're fucked no matter what.
It's not actually 23.976fps. That's just the friendly, rounded notation we all use in discussion.

It's actually 24000/1001, or in integers: 23.976023976023976... fps.
Is there any industrialized, developed nation that is worse than the U.S.A. in this regard? I heard bad things about the U.K. as well.

I turns out that having next to no social security, no accessible education for the poor and the bizarre legality of “legacy scholarships” has a certain effect.

How is it possible, I ask, that U.S.A. universities openly and notoriously give favorable treatment to the children of past alumni without this being shut down by the lawmaker or the courts?
It is possible that we are arguing two different things. I am not denying that progress took place. That is indisputable based solely on the examples you provided already.

What I am saying is that this civilization that allowed it to eventually happen is not a fixed construct, but a continuous process that can go forward, stay unchanged or, just as easily, revert to its original starting point.

The basic argument is that just because we currently did not have any massive atrocity ( lets say along the lines of Crusades, Khan or Mao ) does not mean we can't have one tomorrow. It is hard for me not to channel George Carlin now by saying something along the lines:

"This civilization that you are so proud of. Do you realize how fragile all this is?"

Please let me know if I am misreading your post.
The claim in the quote is that Smalltalk is the simplest, not the smallest. That may only beg the question, but yay clarity.
True but inflation was triggered by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
Its Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest. Was it a spell check error or a deliberate misspell for some reason?
> All those videos with stupid people holding cigarettes and igniting vapours

But you couldn't even link one? Very HN of you.

Lots of videos showing how it doesn't work.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRq6aBjw/