skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video games are like the cheapest way to keep a kid busy for low income working parents. I guess they could send the kids outside but people nowadays start asking questions if a kid is caught outside while single mom is working for 3 hours or something.

Given infinite money I think many of those parents would send the kid with nanny if needed or whatever to organized sports, piano classes, etc.
case in point + big thread if you're interested in learning more about this stuff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32917671
the Economist has been anti-prohibition for a very long time
I have been denied a medical by the Federal Air Surgeon. I have the personal letter from her to prove it.

This is usually done on a case-by-case basis; I just happened to come down on the unlucky end of it.
All tools are compromised in one way or another. That had a decent balance of compromises.
Sorta reminds me of the Zen Koan "Is That So"

"The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.

A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.

This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.

In great anger the parent went to the master. “Is that so?” was all he would say.

After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else he needed.

A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth – the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fish market.

The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back.

Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: “Is that so?”"
Oh yeah, it's a dumpster fire. Also, did they really kill RPAN? I don't think that's a good idea, unless they were REALLY desperate for cuts, even if it wasn't very popular.

I actually thought it filled a niche that is slightly different from what I find on twitch, youtube, facebook, ect.

I found a lot of videos of random people just doing random things. I do happen to think the community may have lost it's way... OTH the era that some people see as the golden age of reddit included stuff like the fappening.
This is sad news. I hoarded a bunch of lego mindstorms and other robot sets over the news as my kids are still young. I cracked open a littlebits set (the star wars one) and was very dissapointed that the app that goes with it was removed from the app store.

My investment in a bunch of these devices will be devalued a lot :(
Yep, seems to be driven by 9.3B in purchases of property, plant and equipment in Q3 22 (up +116% from 4.3B in Q3 21). I think it's due to "investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. An increase in AI capacity is driving substantially all of our capital expenditure growth in 2023."
> Everything Tesla/SpaceX has done has been: 1)Light years above the competition

Here are some EVs trying to park themselves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA

The Teslas perform the worst. Tesla is yet to achieve full self-parking, never mind full self-driving.
If you fail SafetyNet, almost all banking app servers will refuse to talk to you

This is probably unique to me but I see that as a bonus security feature. All I want to use the phone for is voice, text, mumble, irc and ssh/sftp, only things hosted by me. Im still trying to find a non-google rom that is well supported for my model of android. If I could get a vendor unlocked CAT I would turn the droid into a dedicated mp3 player.
The version with the tilde character is worse! At least with the bare slash, some versions of rm will simply refuse to run (they require --no-preserve-root). Plus, even if it works, “rm -rf /“ is likely to start at something like /bin and spew a ton of errors unless you use sudo, giving you ample time to abort before it starts wiping the stuff you care about in /home, /usr, etc.

On the other hand, with the tilde, it will just start wiping your personal files right away and will probably not run into any permission errors.
Yeah. Random data point: One of my most favorite SRE interviews ever (serious fun!) involved hands-on troubleshooting that eventually required gdb.
Q2 report... June 30 was 4,450M

Q1 was 8,528

and 9 months ago it was 13,151

Now its 173.

Approximately 4,000 per quarter for the past 3 quarters..... Pretty crazy.
The thing is that they seem to have been quite strong, and didn't really diminish further over time (insofar the fossils we have can tell us), which doesn't really fit with being purely vestigial.
Ummm... would characterize an immutable database as a more as a specific use case than general application configuration aka write once, read many traditionally for transactional logging/recovery. For concurrent transactions/databases, the immutable stuff does allow for making certain assumptions to improve performance.

database management systems typically support/provide front end to multiple/different database engines.

As with most things in software world, general situations that allow for customize use case configuration setup, and specific designs/implimentation for specific situations.
"[NPR station] WAMU in Washington, D.C., raised a net $1 million annually from vehicle donations over the past four years, according to Walt Gillette, development director. The proceeds outpaced the $850,000 generated by WAMU’s workplace giving program in fiscal 2012."

https://current.org/2013/07/donated-cars-bring-big-bucks-to-... (2013)
I don't disagree with anything you said. I'd just summarize it as "mindfulness". Which is present-focused attention in my eyes.
Not to negate anything mentioned in the sibling comment, but yes. A home solar installation in Australia is about AUD$1.5 per watt for a complete system (panels, inverter, cabling, installation, sign off, etc) before subsidies.

For comparison with the OP system, an average 6kw system producing 8Mwh per year, with a conservative 15 year lifespan works out to AUD$0.075 per kwh.

($1AUD is currently USD$0.65)
> It will always take 9+ months to figure out what the effects are for a mother that was vaccinated before conception, for instance.

A couple of things. First, pregnant women are generally excluded from vaccine trials - this isn't something specific to the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

Second, what is the scientific basis for thinking that vaccination before pregnancy will affect women at the end of their pregnancy (that is, 9+ months later)? When you propose a possible harm, there should be a scientifically plausible basis for it. Is there one in this case?

> There's a decent bit of data now saying that having been vaccinated in the past increases your chance of infection after 12+ months.

I haven't seen anything to suggest this.

> One problem is that the lives saved and the side effects happen in different and only slightly overlapping populations

CoVID-19 was one of the leading causes of death across a wide range of ages. The idea that only the elderly suffered from it is not true.

> long-term side effects (for both covid and the vaccines) are not yet known or knowable.

Long-term side-effects of vaccination are very much knowable. There is no known mechanism that could lead to these vaccines causing long-term side-effects, and there are very good biological reasons for believing that they do not cause any long-term side-effects. Vaccine side-effects occur within months of vaccination, for reasons that are understood. They do not arise years afterwards (also for reasons that are understood). Saying that there may be side-effects years from now is simply FUD.
> They simply are burning way too much money for an R&D phase.

I mean they're still making money. Mark doesn't give a shit about short term stock movement, why would he care about the division that he believes is the future of the company and maybe society losing money?
Cancer drugs are closing in on some of the deadliest mutations
I am one of the people who has written a lot of Rust's docs, including one of the early attempts at "specifying" details of the language: the Rustonomicon.

Rust's documentation is taken very seriously and often praised! But we focus on documenting actual APIs (with examples that we actually run in CI to make sure they don't break!) (and links to the actual implementation to dig deeper!).

We also gave everyone builtin tools to write their own docs to the same standard and automatically build and host them. Example: https://docs.rs/tracing/0.1.37/tracing/

What Rust has eternally lagged on is properly documenting little fiddly nubs like "this is an integer literal expression which decays..." and "the grammar for a pattern expression is...".

For whatever reason some people think these details are of THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE, instead of just being a thing you try out and see what happens. Or a thing you discover by reading existing code, books, examples, posts, etc.

As a language Rust is extremely tuned for "fuck around and find out". I can rattle off some spooky interactions in Rust but I always end up concluding with "... and in practice this doesn't really matter because if you run afoul of it you just get a compilation error (or a lint)".

In this regard knowing fiddly details about Rust... tends to not matter. Unless you're writing Unsafe Code. Then you read the book I wrote, and eventually you drill down the rabbit hole deep enough to learn that "oh actually C doesn't even know what this means. UHHH... WELL. FINE?"
There was a reasonable supply of consumer goods for “good” Germans in the late 30s and early 40s after the economy started turning around, and food wasn’t a serious issue until very late in the war, and was worst in the years right after (again, for “good” Germans).

Weird little anecdote: my mother-in-law had her feet x-rayed in a shoe shop to check the fit of her new shoes circa 1943 in Essen. Absolutely no military benefit to ensuring that a 3 year old’s shoes fit, but definitely a market advantage for a shoe shop competing for sales (remember, we didn’t know that casual x-ray usage by non-radiologists was a terrible idea).

The big industrials were geared for military production, especially after 1939, but their owners often helped support the Nazis on their way to power, because they were more worried about Communists and Socialists, and either didn’t take the Nazis seriously, or figured the conservatives could get them under control… or actually agreed with them.

There’s a reason that the modern Social Democratic Party in Germany is the same organization that existed pre-NS era, but the Christian Democrats (conservatives) and Free Democrats (market liberals) were completely new post-war organizations.
Spike Prime and 51515 (the final Mindstorms generation) seem to be basically the same thing (which isn't new, back in the NXT times you had NXT and NXT Education Edition).

I'd be very surprised if they weren't compatible with each other.
Apple’s Aperture app.
> Also the announced 50-200% price increase to Youtube Premium for most current customers.

Approximately half of Youtube Premium subscribers are in the US, which saw no increase for individual plans and a 28% increase for family plans. The increase in Canada was (as a percentage of prior prices) identical; in the UK it waa again no increase for individual, but only 11% for family plans.

So, no, it was not 50-200% for most current customers.
Yes I have the same thing and it's great. The radar cruise control allows me to stop being focused on maintaining speed and following the car ahead of me and let's me put more attention towards noticing traffic developments ahead, scanning the state of cars around me, and keeping an eye out for various hazards. I wouldn't want lane centering (as opposed to lane keep assist, which I have), because it would be too easy to shutoff and not pay attention to what's going on, and the window between realizing the lane centering is doing something wrong and needing to take over from it is too small for comfort given human reaction times.
Please don’t tell me that you don’t see the irony of the holding group being named “Embracer Group”. It’s literally an antagonist name.
I grew up in South Korea where kids are placed under immense academic stress and gaming is an established mainstream culture. In the last two decades or so, the instances of kids and adults suffering from severe gaming addiction have become increasingly common.

The issue is exacerbated by the fact that more gaming companies are embracing loot boxes, pay-to-win schemes, and other parlor tricks to not only keep the players addicted but to also extract as much cash as possible from its captive audience. When hearing the stories of people whose lives were ruined by video games, it's hard not to draw the similarities with gambling addicts who poured their entire life savings into casinos. Except the casinos now exist in the pockets of 14 year olds, accessible at all times.

I'm a long time gamer and a hobby game dev myself. I very much dislike the tendency for media to overstate the harms of gaming, but the reality is that gaming in its current form can be a very dangerous thing to become addicted to.
Have you been to a casino? 95% of Blackjack players aren't even playing basic strategy, something that takes a single day to learn. Instead, mid-rank players in popular online games like Valorant and Overwatch 2 are quite formidable multi-level thinkers.
I bet even the founders of Google didn't even know at first how much eyeballs are worth.
Seems like you can replace attention with zillions of placeholders like: the same right kind of intelligence can lift people out of homelessness.
I used it out of the box until vin 8 when they made a ton of annoying changes involving the defaults. I now have a vimrc to restore it.
When it comes to banking there are a lot of modern "shortcuts" that make it safe and painless pretty much everywhere in the world.

The problem is that there's also a lot of inertia. For every "shortcut" user, there are hundreds if not thousands of users who don't know about and use sub-par systems (such as PayPal) instead.

Shitty companies like PayPal (or various banks which still charge insane fees for wire/ACH transfers) rely on that.

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For me, PayPal is only a route in, as a fallback for those who really can't use anything else. If you decide to use it to pay me (despite my warnings and alternative suggestions), I make it very clear that you are on the hook for any issues arising from it - PayPal money is only considered paid when it hits my real bank account - if they seize the money beforehand, it's as if you haven't paid me and it will be up to you to help me resolve the situation. That's how people should be using this scum.

Similarly, if I pay a supplier via PayPal and they refuse to deliver the goods, the supplier is getting their ass sued for goods/services non-rendered. The fact they use a crooked payment processor (despite my advice) isn't my fault at the end of the day.
You're right that the geography of the US confers such an advantage that it seems as though it could have had literally any form of government since its founding and still come out ahead in the end, but I'm not sure if that's actually true. There are plenty of historical examples of resource-rich (in all senses of the word "resource") nations that have failed to prosper and resource-poor nations that thrived despite their challenges. A key difference between those nations is culture and governance.
Honestly I would be pretty unsurprised if Mark is fine with the stock getting hammered since it makes buybacks cheaper, he's certainly taken advantage of the discount this year. Tell everyone you're going to lose money for the next decade, wait for your stock to get hammered, buy it back for 50 cents on the dollar, and start making money again. Works for mark since he can't be fired.
I only enabled Siri because it was necessary for CarPlay, it's about a 50% success rate on getting anything right on the first try.
This can also be used to implement connection acceleration with no kernel-side hackery involved, by having userspace maintain a pool of half-open connections by spamming SYNs at a target, recording ACKs, then constructing a regular socket via TCP_REPAIR when a connection is actually required. That allows omitting one roundtrip from a typical TCP connection setup, which may be substantial in a variety of scenarios.

The technique sounds messy but actually it involves not much work when the target is Linux, a single half-open SYN is good for 63 seconds with the default sysctl settings, which seem to be used with almost every Internet service you might want to reach (including e.g. Google)

I was playing with this during an interview last year and intended to write it up, but never got around to it. The technique seems to work as intended, I made a little prototype reverse proxy for it in Python using a temporary listening socket with a drop-all SO_ATTACH_FILTER to allocate a port number and prevent Linux on the initiator side from responding with a RST to ACKs for a half-open connection it knows nothing about
Pandemic saw record demand yet prices kept climbing. Seagate enjoys >30% profit margin.
Assaultcube
Their profile suggests that that company was bought by FB and that they now work elsewhere. Assume good intentions. Maybe put the keyboard down, take a walk and get some deep breaths in.
I don't know of any modern equivalent. Do you have any suggestions or books to read?
With the tilde, it’ll actually “just” remove all your files, which will probably leave your system perfectly usable without any of your stuff.
As someone who doesn't fly planes, it's almost impossible to understand this comment or the author's original passage lol
Oh, wow. I'd long thought of my own learning as "when reality surprises, isn't merely what you'd expect, isn't "obvious", then fix that, with emphasis on simplicity and generality". I'd not recognized that as compression. Tnx!
Moreover, one's property taxes should fall as housing prices fall.
Perhaps the dotcom crash altered some opinions with respect to the need to monetize?
Those looking for this sort of experience should also take a look at Xonotic. It's an open source arena FPS with a decent number of servers online.
> which the White House later denied

I don't think the White House denied that Elon Musk was under investigation. It would be...completely inappropriate for the White House to comment on specific investigations from the FBI or DOJ.

Rather, the White House denied that there was a national security review of Elon Musk's projects. That's important, but very distinct from a denial that there are no investigations of Elon Musk. It's also a subject matter that is much more appropriate for the White House to comment on.
Yeah I have a vimrc but it’s only about 8 lines long. I usually type it from memory.
Xonotic's got a decent number of servers online and active at any given moment.
> They are reporting what the court filing said, what are they supposed to do?

Maybe put a modicum of effort into verifying comments put forward by an antagonist in a court case? Lawyers regularly lie or twist the truth in an attempt to push their case forward.
Nazi Germany became Nazi Germany in large part because of severe economic problems, but by the late 30s, living conditions for conforming, “good” Germans had improved somewhat.
I have many fond memories of Mindstorms...

In college I started out a math major. The first CS class I took was a robotics class based on Mindstorms, as a sophomore. I remember it was restricted to only juniors and seniors, but it sounded cool, and I found a bug in the course registration system that let me sign up anyway.

It was a great class. It's fun that in computer science there are so many different ways to solve your problems. Within the year I was getting bored of mathematics, and all I really wanted to do was take more CS classes....
From where I stand, this is just one more example of members of the Rust community working hard to find excuses for not having documentation.

To the extent that people are relying on the common cases of the niche optimisation taking place: yes, the Rust description should be documenting what people may rely on, and should have been documenting it for years.

In order to do that there's absolutely no need to describe the fine details of exactly where the optimisation currently applies.
My son (6) is allowed to only play one game. https://play0ad.com/. It has been a surreal experience. He is able to gather resources, launch campaigns, build cities, he now creates complex strategies to defeat the enemy (me). The game has great LAN game play so we can attack each other . The next step, he wants to know "how do we change this?" Code.

Compare this to watching tiktok?
But in this particular case, the guy at the helm (CEO and marketing), i.e. Musk, is also an engineer…
“You’re naming your children wrong.” — Jeve Stobs.
i guess? i find most people knock like normal though. i have a good few guns though so i'm fully capable of defending myself. i never figured a residential grade lock was much good against someone anyway and if i'm right there it's not like someone can sneak in. i might be more worried if i was a small guy or a woman but i've never had a problem.
> Note that :Ack will jump to the first result in the QuickFix list by default. If you dislike this, use :Ack!

Wow, I've been using :Ack for years and have always found that behavior rather annoying. I had no idea about :Ack! -- definitely going to remember this one.
Why would the programming language have anything to do with it?
How does this opinion contribute positively to the discussion at hand? It feels like an excuse to just shoehorn in your hot take.
> I don't think the White House denied that Elon Musk was under investigation.

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1584648258130829317

I'll let the White House press secretary speak.
Turbosrc: Empowering Contributors
Al-Khwarizmi
That’s ILS, AFAIK, not autopilot per se.
("Dyke" is a wholly different noun. I advise against its use until you understand it better.)

The bottom of the reservoir needs to be impermeable. It is well understood by civil engineers how to achieve this.

Earth-moving equipment is very good at getting to places you would not want to try driving your car into (unless, I gather, you are French). Generation and pumping equipment remains at the bottom of the hill. An earthen dike on a hilltop can be as inconspicuous as you care to make it.

You do need wires from there to where the power is, as usual.
In 10 year olds? I would think most 10 year olds have more time than they know what to do with.
I doubt Apple will go down that path, the past few years have shown how badly advertising can hurt the reputation of a company (see Facebook, Google)
This is badass, just what I need!
Damn check out /u/dctoedt's profile. It's not just his father who's sickeningly accomplished. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dctoedt
There are two important reasons to not disturb historical wrecks:

* In many cases the Baltic can do a better job of preservation than we can on the surface. It's survived 300 years down there, it's more likely to survive the next 300 if left in the same environment rather than introducing new effects. Put another way, anything that DOESN'T get preserved well in that environment is already gone anyway.

* It keeps the artifacts in their "context" - the place they were originally. You never know what new information may come to light later, and something seemingly insignifigant about the wreck site may prove to be important later. If you remove the wreck from the site, it's much much harder to link back all the artifacts to the place they came from.
The well-known spectre-meltdown check says that my Q9650 is not vulnerable to Meltdown or Spectre 1-3.

It is vulnerable to variant 3a, 4, Fallout, Zombieload, and and both RIDLs.

https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker