skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting read on Java escape analysis/scalar replacement if anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/JohnTortugo/c2607821202634a6509ec3c3...
1. Not dwelling on the past.

2. Realizing that there is no such thing as “too late” or “too old”, and that the only race I’m in is against myself.
If it is nauseating to you, just ignore them. Pick a different hobby that's not complaining about other people's struggles it upsets you.

You made a good point for asking for money instead of providing free work by the way.
* Atrazine

* 2,4-D

* Dicamba

* Trifluralin

* Pendimethylin

Go find a herbicide that doesn’t have a list of health concerns and environmental effects… which anybody uses.
Why is this allowed? I know Google will do anything for money, but why is Google allowed to signpost a link to gimp.org which actually takes you to g--imp.org (sanitised)?

I mean, if nothing else, how do they not share the liability for damages done by the spyware they're literally promoting? For the businesses squatting on the names of more notable ones? AdWords goes too far.
That's a great find, it should be required reading for every intro to architecture and assembly course! I stumbled for a second over 'serial vs. parallel' but then realized it just meant a parallel data bus.
I am not my thoughts
Opening my mind to possibilities, especially those outside the indoctrination I was raised in. With time my whole worldview changed. I still struggle with keeping my mind open, not over investing my identity in ideas, and entertaining contrary perspectives.
Your own link disagrees with you. I think you are proving OPs point. Paraquat is an entirely different beast and is known to bad but people lump glyphosate in with really nasty stuff for no real reason.
I strongly agree with this, but you need some more editing, especially to convince the leadership types that keep making this mistake.
You know genetic modifications occur literally all of the time in everything we eat, right?
https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/dee/dee24.html

From an early/first English translation of Euclid.[1]

[1] https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/dee/
I think your mother's advice was well-meaning, for sure. I would qualify it as follows:

FOR WHAT OTHERS THINK:

You shouldn't care what most people think of you. Ones that matter: your boss, your spouse, (if you are religious) your Maker.

The others don't get the same weight.

FOR "STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES...":

This one doesn't work. Words can (and do) hurt, and we should be careful what we say to others. But having the framework of the previous piece of advice, helps take the sting out of it if someone says something to you that is harmful/hurtful.
So the winner in a Democracy or Republic should be the one who most successfully implements weaponized propaganda? The one who fills the airwaves and has the loudest megaphone and the money for the most ad buys? That is emphatically not what the founders of the United States intended, however much they may have initially limited the definition of a citizen. They expected the citizens to make reasoned choices, to be educated, to be well-read and to be rational actors. I highly suggest 'Common Sense' by Tom Paine.
> Unless you're promising them a long-term commitment (and at that point are you really freelancing?) they might be hesitant to invest

I think this aspect can be overstated, or at least it varies a lot depending on type of project.

A while ago I was hired by a small client to fix a serious and tricky bug in an iOS app. I have never written an iOS app, I use neither ObjC nor Swift regularly, and at the time I had never compiled an iOS app and didn't even own an iOS device (though I did have a Mac to hand). But the bug was in audio processing code and I know that field quite well. They gave me access to their code repo, I bought a cheap iPad, I spent a few billable hours getting the app running, fixed the problem, a couple of rounds back and forth with the client to establish that they were happy with it, and done. It genuinely wasn't a trivial bug, but the investment in time on the client's part was perhaps one person-day and the entire exchange was over in a week.

Had the client been a bigger company and not just another indie, in theory I could have charged an arbitrary amount, as this was a revenue-threatening bug. But a bigger company surely wouldn't have hired an outsider to do it. An example like this suggests to me only that the problem is commercial or organisational rather than technical.
Is there anything stopping Musk or any other employees for that matter from just looking at drafts, DMs, etc… At the time of the takeover, were there processes in place to make sure any one employee could not just access DMs with ease? Hopefully there were, but no doubt Musk could bypass them easily now that Twitter is ‘his’. If there’s to be any trust in DMs, they need end to end encryption, short of that, an independent board to grant access, like his planned content moderation board. I’m not holding my breath…
Scientists Have Developed a New Explanation for Consciousness
Assume positive intent.
Yes, proof of concept. Surely piecewise we already had most of the components working. But wouldn't a project which aims to relay data packets through a satellite mesh and match the performace with submarine fiber cable need to show solvable challenges? I doubt that just by independently running tests in equatorial and polar regions one can draw favourable odds for the coverage of earth's surface. I can only imagine the tests Starlink would have done in the early days.
The Treason Felony Act of 1848 makes it an offence to advocate for the abolition of the monarchy. Such advocation is punishable by up to life imprisonment under the Act. Though still in the statute book, the law is no longer enforced.
Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
Ask HN: Why is there a black bar at the top today?
Why is there a black bar at the top of the HN UI today?
A landing page doesn't work for everything right? A web-based product, sure, but what if it's something tangible? You need to build a prototype.
> Nah, they sold you land, a commodity. They don't care if you tear the house down to put in a parking lot (though your city probably does).

That is not how developers work. They very much do care if you tear down your house and put in a parking lot, because unless you bought the last lot in the development, they still have more land in the area to sell, and your actions could decrease the value of that land.
That sounds a lot like the descriptions in the book "The Chimp Paradox", which posits that within us, there are both a chimp, and a human. The chimp reacts emotionally, the human reacts logically.
As a life-long learner and technology native (not a digital douchebag), ideas, new concepts, innovation are part of a healthy routine.

The authors misrepresentation of "the next uber" made me laugh. History has shown that living a passionate life pays dividends that are not inferior integers.

Health is a good example of ideas that have the best residuals in life. No mention that 8 hours of quality sleep a night provide more value than tossing and turning.

The author does not appear to be 21st century compatible. Mental illness is at a persons discretion. Not chasing 3rd world goals (mimick/imitation/fake) leaves more capacity for quality time.
It wasn’t just T. rex that had reduced arms size. Other similar species evolved the small arms, too, so it wasn’t just a fluke.
But if you compare it by population it also makes perfect sense, as it only has 2/3 the population of California.
I'm not quite so sure about that interpretation... there was an early Renewable Portfolio Standard around 2000, yes. But that was for tiny amounts compared to what independent generators are putting on to the grid these days.

Compared to a standard utility, which is a regulated monopoly that does five year planning based off old data and the inertia of a large corp with no competition, the Texas energy market is the Wild West. Nearly anybody can connect their project to the grid and sell at the prices they want to sell at.

And that's why Texas is installing massive amounts of battery storage, wind, and solar, compared to new natural gas. There's no mandate for GW of battery capacity, it's just people thinking they can make a buck on arbitrage of all the wind and solar electricity.
If it's a Postscript printer, try to print this - M.C. Escher-like graphics calculated on the printer's CPU:

https://github.com/Wiladams/lj2ps/blob/master/examples/ghost...
I remember back then that there was also evidence that China ran some kind of bot campaign[1] but no one really cared and it was never brought up. Ironically your second source says that but again, no one seems to talk about Chinese bot farms or election interference strangely. That same source talks about all the countries that do this. I assume this is pretty routine and the US probably does it in other countries. I don't know why Russia is focused on for this in 2016. I have my guesses.

But then there were investigations into the Russian election swaying campaign. I remember Facebook said that there was no evidence the ads they bought had any impact on anything[2]. There were also groups the trolls made. It's completely unclear what conclusion to draw from them.[3] The article says people mostly didn't follow the groups but that their posts reached people. What conclusion can be drawn from this? Is there any evidence the posts changed people's opinions? Also, one of the weird and counter intuitive things about it is they targeted left wing people.[4]

So I don't see any evidence that an election was significantly swayed. I didn't see it in those sources. I am not trying to make this a left/right thing. I am just saying that yes, there are bot and troll campaigns all over the place. But I don't know if we should conclude that they significantly swayed an election. It's just something to keep in mind. I brought up the China thing because I would think if it was actually a concern then people would have talked about it but how many knew that China, or Venezuela or Iran, were involved in this?

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-china/trump-...

[2]: https://fortune.com/2017/11/01/facebook-google-twitter-russi...

[3]: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...

[4]: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-facebook-russia...
There's a lot of things that are standard features that aren't here - the lack of @'ing, notifications, followers, etc are all things I like about HN.
If his goal was to be left alone entirely and never help anyone then it was certainly effective. I never went to him with problems that required deep expertise because they involved a recitation of how memory was allocated, or how linking works, or what an HTTP request is.. etc
Flagging my comment, and then wading into the discussion, should be flaggable in itself.

If you disagree with my post, downvote. If you engage in what you call flamebait(it wasn't), you are therefore fanning the flames, and out of line.

I do not believe your actions are in good faith here.
The mind set that is never too late to do anything. A lot of stuff you would never consider doing without the mindset
200 * x(less) = y(previous)
Yup, many use that approach
Ironically, my distrust of China is why I don’t think it was a lab leak. If it were, they’d have every ancestor strain logged and could trivially infect a wild animal and present it as proof that it was a wild strain. If you think they’re willing to lie to avoid blame, the fact that they haven’t done this, suggests that they can’t.
Right, it's not completely impossible, but still requires a ridiculously specific set of circumstances...

And while controlling a single hero unit might work in the campaign scenarios featuring them (and not even all, good luck dealing with air units even as a hero firebat !),

it's not going to work if you for instance decide to leave to your military buildings and units alone the job of winning the mission while only do resource production !
Beyond the uncanny valley of 3D bones
3D animation reached new heights in Hollywood with movies likes The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The acclaimed liquid tentacles in The Abyss and the liquid metal terminator in Terminator 2 were both made using an animation technique known as metaballs...
I don't think it would be technically impossible, but I do think it's a very very non-trivial problem that would require a lot of changes, some of which would be expensive and inflationary. It's a hard problem, and a lot of very smart academics (some of which I know personally and admire) are very interested in it.
Usually my conclusion is more like:

1) There is no such thing as "both sides." There are always more than two sides.

2) They should all die in a fire.

Not sure that helps anyone, but I call 'em as I see 'em.
I’d put the link to the website (https://www.usecomponent.com) in the announcement, together with the video link.
Seems like a really great idea, and the few times I used ffmpeg I could have really benefited from this. That being said, I almost exclusively prefer email signup over Google sign-in.
The US "general" limit (12001 feet, 180 wagons/cars) is wrong. I have seen US trains exceeding this limit. The article says it's an air brake limit, but I think it's missing that with an end-of-train device, you can release air from both ends.

And, such trains that I have seen have always had distributed power (engines in the middle or on the rear end, or both). I don't know if such engines can control the air brakes from their location.
This looks great! My only frustration is not with mitmproxy, but macOS -- setting a proxy in System Preferences->Network isn't a guarantee that it will be used by apps, and there doesn't appear to be a clean way to force all traffic through a proxy.
Clojure Cheatsheets
Shinzen Young, in The Science of Enlightenment, posits a strong time dilation effect from regularly meditating. After experimenting, I found this to be true, and have at least doubled my subjective life span.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33384150
They are a different level of hate speech. As the poster up above said, they're "simply further along the same spectrum" of hate speech.
Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on Twitter
Being able to dump dangerous waste into the environment for free is not 'writing off a normal business expense'.
Just a few thoughts from my experience of fundraising:

> How much should we aim to raise and at what valuation?

You don't generally get to pick your valuation up front: you tell an investors how much you're raising and the lead investor prices the round based on deal heat and a bunch of other pseudoscience. If you have enough interest, i.e. competitive term sheets, you have leverage to negotiate the terms that dictate the valuation: % of ownership and amount of the raise.

wrt to the amount to raise, the classic advice is to figure out what your next milestone is and try to model what it will cost to get there and then raise it. The smarter move is to just find out up what's market for seed deals right now and ask for that.

> - How to show financial projections in a field that evolves at such a breakneck speed?

There are plenty of templates online that do this for you. IMHO, find someone who knows what they're doing and pay them a couple grand to do it well (there's a plethora of former bankers and consultants who will gladly do this). All models are wrong, but a model can quickly tell an investor you know how the game is played.

> Should we prioritize local (Europe, Switzerland) investors or North-American ones?

I'm in America and mostly pitched US base funds, but I did pitch a few funds outside of the US and don't think it was the worth the time. The US has the highest concentration of the the biggest, most prominent, best connected funds looking at the best deals - I'd just focus on them.
Renewable energy enjoys broad bi-partisan support amongst voters. It's politicians and fossil fuel lobbyists that are trying to convince Republicans to hate renewable energy.
It is a hit piece and not worthy of serious discussion. This sort of journalism is tiresomely low S/N.
> ... but this is something that's not on you: this is something that should have been on browser vendors to just _expose_ because every browser ships with sqlite baked in already.

Richard (the sqlite lead) has often described his definition of "freedom" as "being able to take care of yourself," a philosophy he lives and breathes with his software. The sqlite project providing wasm builds for folks, and the materials they need to make their own custom builds, is directly in line with that. Depending on every browser vendor to play along in sync is, quite frankly, a lost cause.

> ... they are a huge payload ...

If you truly believe that 500kb of content is "huge" nowadays, i challenge you to go watch (via the browser dev tools) how much stuff your favorite websites are serving. (HN, of course, is a spartan exception to the rule.) Hit any given news or social media site and you'll get at least a meg of content, most of which is constantly replaced (so caching it is of little use). Hit IMDB and you'll get 2+mb (compressed). Hit GDrive and you'll get 4.75mb compressed (nearly 15mb uncompressed!). i just hit www.google.com, which has a long history of minimalism, and it transferred 881kb (2.21mb uncompressed).

By comparison, 500kb-1mb (uncompressed) isn't even worthy of honorable mention.
I thought Scrum would be more a candidate for that, when the rituals from there become useless orthodoxy. If (since) SAFe implementations are just waterfall with all its flaws rebranded, it's more the counter-revolution disguising itself.
> And in space, there is plenty of space for everyone.

Assuming that we can travel at the speed of light, humanity can expand into a spherical region of space where the radius grows at a constant rate. That is to say, under the most optimistic assumptions, expansion is limited by a cubic growth curve. That is fundamentally incompatible with exponential population growth.

Of course, the constants elided in the analysis above are enormous, but it's a limitation that a galactic species would eventually butt up against.
A minor, not well-thought out use of shared pointers in C++ can easily add much more to execution time (and yes, I know it is not often used in game dev)
Synology seems to use it, doesn't it?
An open-source suite of community and data tools
I believe that the idea is that the tails of T.rex and other dinosaurs were held up by non-stretching tendons. It would not require active effort. By counterbalancing the head, the high tail would reduce the energy needed to hold the head up.
> people mostly interpret the term "empathy" in the sense of "the ability to empathize"

I'm not sure this is true, and possibly the same trick you accuse the paper of - you accept only one definition of "empathy" that helps you make your point

Another way to clarify the ambiguity is exactly as I put it - it's not that simple - plenty of people (in layterms) are called unempathic where there is no doubt they are capable of empathy, but choose not to apply it for some reason.

In other words, If you want to make the case the only definition of "empathy" is yours, you'll have to give me a good reason.
Jordan Peterson mostly did this for me, and I feel precisely the same way about his viewpoints. You have to have a critical mind to separate the wheat from the chaff.
> This one is going to be controversial, but as much as I despise misogyny, the motivational videos which I watched out of curiosity of Andrew Tate are quite powerful.

I've found Jordan Peterson to offer similar, minus the brainless misogyny.

However when I talk about Peterson to a valued friend, there is a sense of distaste. But I can't pretend to not find what he talks about really interesting. I think he offers good advice to young men (and indeed women), however I think his advice particularly resonates with young men, as he doesn't subscribe to the view that they are by default part of a toxic patriarchy.
That exists! I just always forget to link to it (and I do need to do more work on it): https://bcachefs.org/bcachefs-principles-of-operation.pdf
How many races are there? How many genders are there? How do we differentiate between them?

Yet we're supposed to take these nebulous categories seriously enough to treat people differently based on these characteristics that can't even be properly delineated or defined?

If these things exist on a spectrum and can't be clearly defined (even worse, purely self-defined), then there is no logical argument to categorize people into these categories for any use whatsoever.
I’ll give you a typical example where Google could be great but falls so short: I deliver to it on a silver platter a search query for a specific product “MRCOOL DIY 4th Gen 12k btu”. This is a very specific ductless mini split heat pump that retails for about $1750. I was looking to see if anyone had a cheaper price. Well Google Shopping mostly showed me results for either the 3rd Gen or a different BTU rating, in an apparent attempt to not show too few results. No a 36k btu unit isn’t a substitute. No, just the air handler isn’t a substitute. I have my credit card out and ready to go, buy Google is too busy showing me ads for window units!

You're gonna LOVE Amazon.

/s
Update on the fake story about the river laborers paying people to whip them
While I have advance well beyond Ayn Rand's "virtue of selfishness", her book was the most empowering philosophic perspective in my 76 years of life. Don't imagine that I think much of her followers today because I don't. However, her book attacking self-denial and guilt has provide the foundation for my empowerment.
He can do that without Twitter making a profit. Lender != investor.
Or maybe you just don’t notice it with unity games that work decently? A classic case of confirmation bias.
For some reason it never dawned on me that Arc might be named after KB.

https://pldb.com/languages/arc-assembly.html
Learning more about psychology / (the science of) human behavior;

Learning the basics should be a mandatory class in schools in my opinion
(scientifically backed learning material.)
Camus thought it was the noblest of pursuits to try and create meaning in an absurd universe. Jung, thought meaning was the one thing a person couldn't abide living without. With those thoughts I think you're in pretty good company.
No, of course not, but everyone's gotta eat and money can reduce stress and eliminate the risk of someone deleting or sabotaging their code due to reasons related to a lack of money.
I read as much of the site as I could, but could somebody explain: how is SAFe different than the original agile manifesto?
That doesn't mean it's outdated. You might be right or wrong about your point, but that's what comparisons are for.

That's like saying "I refuse to compare Linux to windows because windows is bad"... Not helpful for anyone actually wanting the differences
To be a producer more than a consumer. I use this to stay focused on things that better myself, or others, or create value. I avoid sinking time into areas that may be satisfying in the short term but are ultimately wasteful or destructive to value.

Productive: building, bonding, exercising, taking care of necessities like personal finance or doctors visits.

Consumptive: watching TikTok and other aimless scrolling, playing video games, binge watching TV, eating/drinking poorly, looking for unnecessary items to buy, and buying them.
These days if you have a natural gas plant that's running most of the time, you can save money by building a solar install of the same capacity and just not burn the fuel for the time when the sun is up. Meaning, that the average new solar power installation now cheaper than the operations and maintenance cost of the average gas generator.

I don't think that the bad behavior of one German green group is representative of all renewables proponents. Nearly everybody in the renewables space is trying to stop gas burning as quickly as possible.