skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit extreme, but did you try Antarctica expedition suits? They're designed for minus 30c or below. Or just the top and one or two hiking overpants. Also mittens if you need your fingertips. Got myself some of that but it's not cold enough to try yet.
It is like Demo deprecating fs.exists().[1]

[1]https://github.com/denoland/deno_std/discussions/2102
IIRC wordpress does this for new hires. Everyone spends their first few months in Customer support, which is a nice middle path to the extreme you are suggesting.

This is also good for new hires as they get to a grounding on what matters (customer experience).
Investigation continues after Amazon delivery driver found dead in yard
Well it wouldn't save $100-150 / month, that would be my entire water and gas bill outside of winter. Digging a little deeper, according to the EPA a standard shower head delivers 2.5 gallons/minute (https://www.epa.gov/watersense/showerheads).

So over the course of a 10 minute shower that's 25 gallons, * 0.0065/gallon = ~0.16/shower. Sometimes if I'm working from home and not exerting myself physically I won't shower (dry skin so I don't stink after just one day), so say an average 6 showers a week = ~24 showers a month = 3.84, and times 1.5 for the sewer cost (roughly) = $5.76 total / month from the water/sewer usage. Harder to calculate how much water heating costs since the same hot water source goes to all the fixtures/dishwasher/washing machine, and it needs to maintain temperature. But let's be generous and say 20% of the non-winter gas bill is strictly due to heating water for showers. So roughly $14. That's a total of $19.76. Let's say by doing, call them maximum-efficiency showers that take only 1.5 minutes of running water instead of 10. So an 85% reduction in costs would be $16.796 / month in savings. Again not nothing, but I'm not sure it's worth the discomfort either. Plus the steam helps with my shave a couple of days a week. I could also get most of the way there just by taking quicker showers, and honestly I'd rather do that. If I'm going to be uncomfortable, I'd rather have time discomfort than temperature discomfort :)

But yeah I guess it's also a cultural thing. And I'm sure there are some families over here that shower that way, I've just never encountered one in conversation/life. You certainly don't see it in gym/school locker room/dorm/pool showers, and in media, as you pointed out, people have the water running constantly.
I don't like searching / having to think about gifts. And I don't like receiving them. There's some expected reciprocity in this. Presents are often useless stuff turning into waste. We cannot afford this anymore. It also takes me months to decide to buy something for myself, whether I really need it, which model exactly… I don't like this to be ruined. Events with people are cool, though, and that's the kind of present that could work. But there's still this reciprocity thing that does not make me completely at ease with any kind of present. What's important for me is seeing people, not stuff. Let's have this great relationship and not involve the presents in it?

I have discouraged friends and family to buy me gifts for years. I've also gradually stopped buying gifts for people as soon as I feel it's not too weird.

I'm at a point people around me understand I don't want presents, and some are convinced not doing gifts is a good idea, especially the wasteful part. We don't do gifts at Christmas with my parents anymore. We just skip this shitty period where you stress out spending too much money buying presents for everyone at the same time as everyone else, we just have a good time and everything is smooth. No need for presents to show we love each others. My parents are still used to buy each other presents for their respective birthdays (and involve us), but I think that's mostly because they are trapped in it.

If we want a healthy planet we really need to think about the presents and especially on Christmas, which shall be reinvented. Teaching kids to expect and demand presents can't be good at this time, by the way.
Amazon Will Start Accepting Venmo Payments
There’s no such thing as premature optimization in a language standard library. Every function should be optimized to the bitter end because everybody uses the standard library.
Students can still roam the Infinite since all students have MIT IDs. Talks and conferences still occur, but folks will take place in areas that are easily accessible to the public, such as Stata Center, 26-100, or Kresge.
Yeah, exactly. There's so much propaganda in the USA depicting the constitution as some sort of inspired document written by enlightened men, and then most people don't bother reading beyond what they learned in school.

One only need look at how undemocratic the constitution was. Only one federal office, the House of Representatives, was elected by the people (and at the time the constitution was written, only men with property could vote). The president and vice president are elected by an electoral college. Senators were elected by state legislatures. Supreme Court Judges are even further insulated from the people, being appointed by the President. "The People" had extremely little influence on the federal government, and it's only gotten marginally better since.

Hopefully everyone understands how much the constitution did to protect the wealth of slave owners, since this is taught in schools. But it also made western land speculators richer by creating a government capable of exerting sufficient power over those western lands to open them up for settlement. It made the holders of revolutionary war debt richer by creating a government that could assume that debt and pay it off. It made owners and investors in manufacturing enterprises richer by creating a government that could protect industry with tariffs while keeping states from taxing the flow of goods or interfering with contracts.

Every framer of the constitution belonged to at least one of these groups, and they benefited when it was ratified. The book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles Beard goes into great detail on this. It's out of copyright and freely available online: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Economic_Interpretation_of...
Async/await is just a callback flattened into the function body.

I.E.

var x = await foo();
var y = await doStuffWith(x);
return x + y;

Is equivalent to, in a less enlightened language...

foo().callback(x =>
doStuffWith(x).callback(y =>
x + y));

Goroutines are a more general feature in that channels can accept multiple inputs in sequence. But you can basically think of async/await as a special (the most commmon?) case of goroutines/channels, where the called goroutine sends back a single value on the channel as its one and only result.
I ran the Rust and Zig implementations through a profiler and (at least on my machine, using Zig nightly 0.10.0-dev.4583+875e98a57) the vast majority of the time difference is from the number of calls to the GPU paint_tile_line function- there's some behavioral difference upstream in the emulator and the GPU modules are just not doing the same work.

For the benchmark 600 frames, the Rust emulator calls it 2500049 times, but the Zig emulator only calls it 1808121 times. This is very roughly the ratio between the reported times.

At least one source of this discrepancy is that the Zig emulator doesn't think any sprites are active, but that doesn't account for all of it, and I'm hitting some crashes trying to run it with the display, so I'm probably not going to investigate it further.

(I also hit the same sort of strange Zig compiler unreliability as some other comments have mentioned, where I had to add some logging in seemingly random places to get the Zig emulator to run at all.

And the argument parser just blatantly returns a dead pointer to the ROM path; when I first ran it it just gave "error: InvalidUtf8" until I tracked that down.)
I loved my Remarkable 1/2, used both of them daily. For awhile, Remarkable felt like the best in class e-ink tablet. The writing experience is lovely. I ended up giving them away after 1-2 years of use though.

Currently prefer Onyx Box Nova Air C for the backlight, color e-ink, and split screen capabilities. Since Onyx runs an Android variant, I can use Libby/Overdrive to check out audio/ebooks from my local library. Remarkable's software was painful to depend on daily.

I adore e-ink tablets as a class of devices, largely due to a positive first experience with Remarkable. Hoping Remarkable figures out a sane business model.
Well sure, fast enough. But this is exactly why need faster machines.. Add some cpu, add some cache.

It's a 100% increase. If you're doing a lot of string parsing, it will add up. Probably not very noticeable, and maybe you'll have extra cachemisses in a critical path.

If the function shouldn't be used, why create it at all, or why not show compiler errors / runtime error
That is no surprise considering the complexity of some games. We're not playing space invaders anymore. The learning curve of some games are off the chart whilst still making learning addictive.

Game makers have access to extreme resources, psychology, graphics, music and coding frameworks that enables them to push entertainment as any illegal drug - except **mostly** without the bad side effects.

Gamers also have access to these resources when consuming this content.
Nice. Backing scams.
>Could a state democratically elect to secede from the union?

It was supposed to be part of the stipulations Texas had in the agreement to re-join the Union. At least that is part of Texas folklore. However, they were coming at it from a different direction in saying that the annexing was not done legally, so it should just naturally revert back to how it was before the illegal annexing.

We're actually seeing something similar but different currently in how part of Oregon wants to become part of Idaho.

>What if a National vote was held and a majority agreed to split up the USA?

It might not be a national vote, but a civil war ending in a stale mate would essentially do just that. Think Handmaid's Tale's Gilead.

> At what point could we democratically all agree we think the other side is crazy, and ask to peacefully take our ball and go home?

I gladly suggest donating Texas and Florida as the land of the new territory for the "crazy" for which you speak. Anyone not wanting to be part of there rules can move to the other states, and anyone wanting to be part of it can move in. Just let me move out of Texas before the mad rush
This is neither shocking, nor new.

A decade ago I remember a friend who had a small business selling some niche collectors items. One day, he was scammed. The guy reported that the package was never delivered and, without even investigating, Paypal banned my friend's account and awarded the buyer their money back.

Paypal has always, and will always be a shit company. Charging people $2,500 for wrongthink is simply asinine. They must be betting BIG on either woke politics being mainstream for the long term, unbreakable bonds with their existing customers, or both. I can't even think of someone around me that uses paypal regularly.

I will be interested in reading the technical report on how they plan on implementing this because I'm sure it'll be silicon valley diarrhea. I am currently working out how to pay companies in a similar fashion to Paypal. I'm looking at Privacy.com but something is off about it to me for some reason. Once that is solved I'll get this ape off my back forever.

I wonder what happens if I just say "lol, not paying" to them. Would they put me in collections? It seems infeasible to even enforce this and it strikes me that clicking a button doesn't amount of a legal agreement.
I bought a Remarkable 2 just before they imposed subscriptions. It’s grandfathered into the old plan (free unlimited storage). Anyone looking to buy it with case, stylus, extra nibs, etc please contact me in my profile email address. Love it but don’t use it.
I've been thinking this a lot lately.

One absolutely fantastic upside for just getting it done is that even if you have to redo it from scratch, you have so much better real-world understanding of the problem space.

I'm inclined to think that this applies to majority of the things we do, but is often brought up regarding building products in the idea that one should build the first prototype quickly, just to be scrapped so the final solution can be built from clean slate, benefiting from all the knowledge the prototype helped us gather.

Most often, in my experience at least, the knowledge one gains from actually doing the thing (even badly) surpasses anything that could have been gained with excessive planning. To actually work, genuine effort including some planning is definitely needed, but I don't think that's too high a bar. At least not when compared to the skills and knowledge one would have needed to achieve the same success with "just" excessive planning up front.
Exactly my point of view, 3D Web APIs are only good for 3D models in e-commerce, shadertoy like playgrounds, retrogaming and casual games with PS3 like capabilities.

And even the PS3 at least had a proper graphics debugger.
My jaded view is that companies this size routinely commit criminal acts but enforcement is the selective result of political relationships in DC.

There’s obviously some spat going on between Musk and the Biden administration that the public has limited insight into. Suddenly Biden’s DOJ is going after Musk… too much of a coincidence for me.
California and New York cannot ban hand guns because of the incorporation of the Bill of Rights. Prior to this concept the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government. The States were free to ban guns if they wanted.
I recently setup neovim with lsp, fzf and like 10 plugins in pure lua. I was surprised that it took me just a few hours. I've spent too much time fighting viml in the past and it kept me from looking at the config for like 3 years. But holy f, things have gotten soo much better. Lua for vim is.. actually good. Like I grok the apis.

I know what its like to be burnt but messing with config, but man I cannot recommend kitty + neovim highly enough. It's absolutely AMAZING.
How popular would it be to treat people like pedos, just because of an app that they use?
They broke that feature. They’ve been quite responsive to my Zendesk ticket, and claim to be working on it. But I don’t know if they fixed it yet. For a number of versions at least it was impossible to use USB upload.

Also, it was always advertised as “experimental”. They don’t officially support non-cloud use.

Edit: To clarify that last comment, I mean non-cloud use for the advertised primary benefits. I.e. getting your notes off (and onto) the device.
Those Korean “Dream Tours” busses jamming up the infinite as I ran to classes were a great memory in retrospect, but the bane of my mornings as I hoofed it to lectures.
I read all of Elon Musk’s text messages. Here are the worst ones
In the US, terrorism is generally understood to be distinct from random violence specifically due to the political goal. So, this excludes most school shootings. Also, when we have a lone shooter with a manifesto or whatever, which could I guess arguably be seen as political, generally the media will skip it I think. Deter copycats and all that.
Comparison is "dumb"? Is it now a logical fallacy? Better ban history 101.

No more comparison. I'll just... uh... compare things against some theoretical ideal I make up.

Maybe get some psychological warfare experts and brand it? Historyaboutisim?
But then many people would first buy the gift card to get the 5% or whatever discount, then buy the item they were going to buy anyway.

Now that I think about it, I think a gift card has to be priced at exactly a 1:1 price. (You can't price it higher because people will find that to be outrageous.)
Funny, I often wish to leave the note on screen while in sleep mode. I kinda wish there were two actions, one for lock and another for sleep... or something.
The Basic Law: A Fifty Year Assessment (2019)
Gift giving is a thing that is strange to me. I never desire a gift and I am poor at selecting ones. I do pretty okay at planning experiences, however, which usually is a reasonable way to salvage things. But I wish there were gift-giving advice that wasn't just "draw the rest of the owl" because there are others who like receiving gifts and I could just do it right.
I own an rm2 and love it. However, I also love my Kindle and if I had to choose I'd choose the Kindle.

When my Kindle (or RM) dies, I'll almost certainly replace it with the new writable Kindle, especially as I assume it's backlit which I feel is something really missing from the RM.
That’s how it was formed yes, but that doesn’t mean we need to keep it.

It’s like saying, “Lead was added to fuel to improve the efficiency of the engines. We can’t change it now!”

1. There should be one person, one vote.

2. People should get to vote on every position (and only those positions) that affect them.

3. Therefore, the role of president, which affects all people in the US, should be voted on as one person, one vote, nation-wide.

(Nobody seems to complain that all governors are voted on by a state-wide popular vote, and not by say the state’s mayors!)
I think everyone with English as Second Language got used to that difference. Especially in startup world, or country economics billion is an often mentioned quantity of money
This is incorrect.

iMessage is encrypted, the encryption is end-to-end, there are no backdoors.

The unencrypted backup is a clear and annoying hole in the apple privacy story, but the non-e2ee iCloud backup does not include any messages (SMS, MMS, or iMessage), Contacts, Calendars, Notes, iCloud Photos, or health data.

A local backup is local, and is protected by filesystem encryption on your local storage.

So no, iMessage has no backdoors. Basic research would have showed that this claim was bogus.
DLC at least are kept around for the next time.
I am on FSD beta since Nov of last year, it's an absolute game changer one minute, and a total teenage driver next minute. But every update makes it better , new features , tweaked turning radius, the microsecend it takes to move forward - every bit of detail is tweaked.

I use it all the time - it takes me to dentist, drives me home - every single drive. It actively monitors traffic lights when stopped & when it turns green - it chimes, blinking lights, yields, left turn yields, pedestrians, bicycles on the road, dogs and blind spots - all of it gets managed by the car with just 5-10% of my attention. It doesnt let me pickup my phone (I get a warning) or fiddle with spotify. I need to keep my hands and be active, but I am not anxious about blind spot checks or bicycles in the dark.

When it is released to the general public, it will be groundbreaking.
Frankly YT Premium pricing is ridiculous. It's not worth $23/mo for my family. That's way more than Netflix and Google doesn't even produce its own content... If it was cheaper I'd subscribe.
> However, just like standard hydroelectric plants, they do not scale easily. You cannot build them just about anywhere, you need rather specific conditions, like suitable topography or availability of water

So if you add some PV panels and wind turbines around it, it's just like a nuclear reactor but cheaper?
A war every now and again is relatively peaceful.
Not in the same way. US high school clique dynamics are very much US-specific.
I guess 500 moneys is nothing compared to what renovating a bath costs.
The Road.
Is there anything more secure than signal that is widely used? Maybe something that doesn’t leak metadata or require a phone number?
Also (2020) in some ways. No commits in 2 years? Is it still alive/useable, or was it an attempt that’s just kept for historical reasons?
COVID still exists. We are still in a pandemic.
Given the way you're intentionally missing the point, I think it's clear my argument hit the mark. And jutt to further clarify, it's completely possible to ban things that someone can manufacture. I'm not sure what makes you think otherwise.
No it isn't, by definition.

For example this modern misuse of the word terrorism is designed to strike fear into a population, but the point of that terrorism is not just to scare people, it is to coerce them into agreeing to give more power and money to the ruling class.

Hurting and scaring people just to hurt and scare people isn't terrorism, it's probably driven some kind of mental defect like psychopathy though.
Wordpress with a small set of free, commercial and custom plugins. Typically around ~15. Allows you to focus on the content and not on the stack.
Not really because the development experience sucks, no wonder the industry is turning into streaming instead.
Suddenly a lot of "this is working as designed" will start showing up in the resolution field.
my first job ever did this. qa and customer support were combined which made it the best place to learn all the ins and outs of a very complicated product. after 3-6 months i had excellent knowledge of how the product actually functioned on the ground and how the customers approached it.

highly recommended as a training scheme! especially in cases where engineers have a lot of influence on product design.

(although, in a high volume ticket oriented environment, or a highly structured testing environment, the benefits fall off dramatically. the big value was setting things up from scratch in different contexts and seeing where people struggled)
What do you mean by useless? Does it completely not work when not connected to the cloud or you just loose sync between devices feature?
Multiranges in Postgres
Threema, but it's not free.
buy me a surfboard
Google Photos images have never been used for model training. It's also unlabelled UGC so I don't know this conspiracy theory has ever gained any traction.

~ ex-photos engineer
Ah, good point. Maybe add a minimum delay? Then you're loaning money and getting interest...
Whoah. What a crazy thought. I imagine an ocean
Correct, a (functional) amendment to the constitution made by the supreme court and unable to be overturned except by that body, due to the inability to amend our constitution. This is decidedly not an argument against anything I've said.
In my experience, yes. You have to use Google Takeout to get the full bits back.
It's not a US thing and not even necessarily related to being bullied in school. Lots of parents scold their children for being into useless or eclectic hobbies.
They do on the secondary market.
The general attitude in Byköping, the manner in which the villains behave and the inherent foreignness of Agaton Sax's adversaries.
Serious, registered company wouldn't know— who is that on the receiving end of the bargain and therefore can't be held responsible for it; that's exactly the point why this technology is so beautiful and why it will ultimately prevail.
Solar Foods gains regulatory approval for protein grown with CO2 and electricity
If I need a disposable email address I need it now. In that moment I am not looking for a solution to manage my trials.

Also I am on the other card in this game. I am thinking about building an api to flag the disposable emails. The solutions out there are not convenient enough. Also in the paid solutions many slip through.
> To my view, there's a world of difference between "You can't use PayPal as a payment processor for gun sales" and "You can't use PayPal to pay pals back for covering your range fees last Saturday."

Firearms are for absolutely no reason what-so-ever taboo on most payment processors. The AUP is broad enough to cover both because the pearl clutchers don't see a difference. The best part of this is "certain firearm parts or accessories" as if they had a qualified expert anywhere in their company that could identify a bolt from a slide. It's deliberately written to trap you, and now, extort you for $2,500.
Our (multi billion dollar) company had to tell the exec "no" for these because of the weak security.

They just dont seem to care. Other wise we would have hundreds in the business.