skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> having such a low outreach is by design and why this is

Not much to wonder about, public interest in the EU is abysmally low which is in good part because people don't know what the EU is or does.

You'd need a good PSA campaign plus to teach "EU civics" as much (or at least almost so) as national civics in school.

But both of those are never going to happen because for national governments it's much more convenient to keep the EU as something that can be blamed when things go wrong and pretend it doesn't exist when things go well

So politicians don't talk about the EU when they should, newspapers care much less than they should and it trickles down to horrible participation rates in EU elections and even that is more often than not seen as a way for government/opposition national dynamics

It's changing a bit but not enough
176 Earth days from sunrise to sunrise: 2 local years, half an Earth year. So instead of spring/ summer/fall/winter, you have day/night/day/night.

At the right latitude, and a few meters deep, temperature would be comfortable. But energy would be a problem, with the season-long night.

Axial tilt is <2 degrees. There might be some volatiles frozen in polar craters.

Temperature at a pole would be low, but solar panels mounted vertically (or, better, a wavelength-selective mirror reflecting onto horizontal panels), rotating slowly, would offer continuous power. Constant temperature too low is a lot easier to handle than too high, or varying much. You need to dig down for protection from cosmic radiation.

Gravity is about like Mars, which might or might not be adequate, long term. Nobody knows.

It is remarkably hard to get to and from Mercury. Jupiter is easier.
You have a good analogy attempt there, but you didn't quite nail it I think, because Outlook is also an email client.

It's more like if someone asked why they need to choose between someone@gmail.com address or someone@outlook.com, but in reality email would work just fine regardless.

EDIT: fixed
> Why would you expect to be able to sign up to "the official ActivityPub microblogging platform of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies (EUIs)"?

Maybe because of that CTA "register" button in the top right corner of the page (left to the "sign in" button) ?
Yes. Also https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs and pretty much everything else in his Emacs section.
Mastodon is a community effort, and as such members of the community will work on stuff like UX.
I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but rather contribute back instead of slamming a (very advanced and usable) project down just because your registration experience was bad.

This is open source, not a company with billions to spend on UX: they do what they can.
Thanks for the sandbox. I'm working on a company-wide blog post on a good richtext editing strategy / library and wanted to demostrate how unpredictable it is with contenteditable. This sample is perfect and I'm thinking of hyperlinking the sandbox :)

Do you happen to have any more samples to demonstrate how difficult it is to work with contenteditable APIs?
Thanks, glad you found the post useful.

I'm sure C# and Java make excellent programming languages for many if not most financial applications, but I meant that in the context of high-volume Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Basically financial message transformation, explosion, summarization, audit, etc. across multiple financial institutions. The volume of messages to be processed was quite considerable, so nobody even thought about taking the risk of switching from battle-tested C++ to anything else.
I would be very happy if such service worked (or if I could run it myself). It's my long term goal to break out of dependency on the Borg.

But the results are not even promising, let alone useful, which is very sad.

(I tried "haskell gloss terminate animation normally". That was my real search a couple of days ago.)
> A serious mistake in C.

Well, that's arguable. This "mistake" could be fixed in C tomorrow without breaking the semantics of any existing C code, but notice that this hasn't been "fixed" in any of the latest C standards, so perhaps it's still there for a reason.

And the reason it hasn't been "fixed" is that compilers can optimize code better if they can assume that signed addition won't overflow.

So it's more of a trade-off rather than strictly being a disadvantage.

It's also something you can "fix" in your own code if you want to, by passing a compiler flag (-fwrapv in gcc), although arguably, at that point your code wouldn't be strictly C-standard compliant anymore. Or by using some library that handles arithmetic overflow by wrapping around, which could be implemented in standard C.

> Another example is that Go requires explicit integer casts (disallowing implicit integer casts) to avoid what is now understood to be an enormous source of confusion and bugs in C.

I agree with you on this, although forcing explicit casts also makes the code more verbose and can make it harder to understand what's going on.

I think a balanced approach is requiring explicit casts only for the "tricky" cases, i.e. when the values might become truncated, and possibly also when sign-extension might be necessary and therefore might result in something the programmer didn't expect.

But if I were to design a language I'm not sure that I would require explicit casts for e.g. promoting a uint16_t to a uint32_t...

> You can understand Go as an improved C, designed for a world where parallel computing (e.g., dozens of CPU cores) is commonplace.

That's a bit of a hot take :) Let me know when the Linux kernel starts to get rewritten in Go ;)
>that will not be posted on gov.uk

I agree it _should_ be posted on official websites.

Unfortunately we're racing to the bottom in how information is communicated and an app that delivers 10 second bits of nonsense is winning.
These exist in Germany as well. But I also think they just cherry pick. Plus, you would probably get shamed publicly if you threw in clothes that have a hole in it, no matter the material. They’d take that not as a sign that you care about giving broken things a second life, but rather as an insult.
Yes, when I say scalable, I mean ability to scale without having to spend bucketloads on new servers.

Many of the mastodon servers I am seeing pause new registration/break down are at a few thousand members, maybe 8k max. I dont know how Mastodon is implemented, but my intuition is that a well written C++, Rust, or even Java service should be able to handle that many users on a single instance.
Be careful making assumptions about the runtime of software. https://faculty.kutztown.edu/rieksts/385/topics/commensurabi...
Long-time Vim/NeoVim user here...about 20 or so years with it being my daily driver for the last 8. As soon as I found Helix, I was unsure whether it would become my new editor, but I've been using it every day for a few months and haven't really looked back. The only thing I still use Vim for is `vimdiff` with Git, but I don't think I need to, just been lazy about configuring Helix to do the same thing.

Helix does everything I need, nothing I don't, and I don't have to learn a bunch of esoteric syntax. It's a great editor for people new to the world of shell editing, and I highly suggest trying it out.
Sure, agreed with (a) in general that they both can be causes of decline, but in the specific case of this post, it is amply clear that the wide range of intellectual areas that ancient Greece excelled in (with barely a parallel) was radically narrowed and almost destroyed due to persecution of this knowledge rather than it being restricted to the elite.

I don't understand what you're trying to say with (b).
focusmate is 1:1 and only costs $5 a month.. its golden..
caveday is 50:1 and is a tad expensive and that one works too..
There's a good series of blog posts about this. [1] In particular I took away the idea that a bigger army needed more wagons (and donkeys, horses, cooks etc) and was NOT necessarily always more effective. There is a natural limit to the size of an army based on the logistical capabilities of the time. This is one of the reasons why modern warfare gets really large scale and awful. Lots of good details about foraging. Having played a lot of D&D over the years I always tended to ignore the logistics beyond bringing a 10 foot pole and a 50 foot rope into the dungeon.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...
This make sense numerically -- but having lived in both, I'll argue that that is not the determining measure.

It seems to depend on how common the common space, and the people occupying it, are.

Flatmates (and offspring) can have a low quotient of space utilization compatibility.
Emacs is under constant improvement and so are it’s many packages. Emacs looks like modern Emacs
You ignored the part about nobody using it in the first place. There’s nothing to verify.
Corporations showed up but it was all running over the NSF backbone so commercial use was suppressed, and "sysops" would e.g. immediately ban users for e-mail spam since they were worried about losing their upstream (and transitively back up to the backbone).

I can't find the Bills that were passed now to commercialize the Internet and get off of NSFnet but that was early in the Clinton-Gore administration.
Not when controlling a single device, but as your needs expand across an entire home, it becomes really convenient not to rely on the presence of your phone or have to tie up your hands or attention to do anything.

I have Google Hubs in every room not just for the excellent audio casting, but to keep my phone out of my hands more than it absolutely needs to be.
Very good! I'll never forget climbing those stairs, the tunnels, angles, etc. It was very interesting. No way someone with any bit of claustrophobia is getting up there. It was a little underwhelming getting to the tomb but still cool none the less. Experience you did here felt on point.

I almost gave my ticket to a guy faking working there. Haha
I can just project a video into a camera's lens...
Your “physics envy” alarm went off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy
Ignorant skepticism is exactly equally as bad as ignorant credulity.

There is no physical reason humans could not have a latent magnetic sense. Other animals are known to have it. So, experiment is determinative.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-91

> Note: The following procedures do not relieve the pilot from see-and-avoid responsibility or compliance with FAR 91.119.

Plenty of things that you must follow.
They are there to help. Themselves.
No, I've just actually tried to use Atom before moving to vscode. It was night and day
MK-677 at 25mg/day worked well for me (male 30s) to regrow my receding hairline. You can get it from doctors in US.
Well, with a mere 30 million pages in my index it was inevitable I’d be missing something. I’d expect this to show up eventually as I add more data sources.
Congratulations and thanks for sharing! I'm on the verge of making the same step. Hopefully, I will have the same kind of respect from friends and coworkers.
Not sure what point you're making. Let's pivot.

Fresh water at the moment is not a short-term renewable resource. In some places fresh water takes a long time to correct when there is an input/output imbalance.

So just like any non-renewable resource, particularly one vital to life and food, it should be guarded as a local and national security asset.
How do you get invited?
But is it better enough to warrant a switch? Python has multiple inheritance (enabling “mixin” classes), metaclasses and decorators, all of which can be used to solve the problems which AOP aims to solve. Not to mention numerous modules to make AOP easy, if that is what you want. Again, it might be easier in Ruby, but is it easier enough?
True, they would also have to be a good culture fit.
How do you find out if that is the case? Believe what they say? What happens if they die, or throw you out? Do you need to get another handle? Will this drop you from other people's contact lists?

These are things I worry about.
Elasticsearch is distributed Lucene, no?
Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
I highly recommend french comics - or "bande dessinée / BD" as they are called there. I believe France has the biggest and most interesting culture when it comes to comics - so many different kinds of genres, art styles and forms are alive there. Reading "L'Incal" as a very young and slightly unattended child in a french bookstore put some really freakish images in my mind.
It happened right about the time of Canter and Siegel and the September that never ended.
DHT != T
> I’m more correct than an asshole saying “my employer owns the sky listen to me”

Ohhhhh.... I get the employer thing... the FAA Safety Team is a volunteer organization tasked with education. We don't work for the FAA... wow, I finally get it.
He said “Less than 4% of North American names are signed.”. Don’t you wonder why he specified North American names?
But it isn’t the way Apple does things. They obviously don’t want Apple computers in the wild running a version of an Apple OS that might or might not work.
That's very far from a controlling stake, by design if memory serves well regarding the Norwegian pension fund. Also, Norway is not part of the EU.
'Bad faith' is the modern authoritarian's favourite excuse for censorship or dismissing comments. Just like 'problematic' it's a vague enough term that it can be easily abused ('dog whistle' and 'gaslighting' are other favourites). You don't have to openly challenge the source material, just question the motives for even asking the question.

Perfect for when you don't have the balls to directly call what the person is saying wrong or bad. Ad hominem 101.
> still do not concede even the possibility that there just might be something that they have been overlooking.

I will bite. What do you think make Tesla special compared to their competitors?

They clearly had a first mover advantage on EV which served them well but now that all manufacturers have good electric cars on offer what justify Tesla valuation?
Yes. I use Siri preferentially for almost every UI task that I can, ranging from alarms to “next song” to sending text messages. These habits were encouraged by the pandemic when FaceID was unreliable due to masks, but they also make sense while driving and doing exercise and are often easier than “pull phone out, unlock, find app, painfully type message” in normal circumstances. With AirPods in your ears Siri is even more convenient because you don’t need to take the phone out of your pocket for many tasks. Honestly I’d switch entirely to voice control for most non-reading tasks if I didn’t occasionally have to repeat myself due to transcription inaccuracies or “Hey Siri” failing to wake up the device.
Might be wrong, but the page they provided as an example correct result is not even in your index. Is that correct, and if so, why? If it is in your index, what is a query that would return it as a top ten result?
Can you cite a source for your understanding of the literature?

At least a few studies disagree with you about adult onset, and it does appear that adolescent use amplifies the effects, but is not the only factor:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2015201

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X2...

The last one is a review article.
You need to enable true-color in your tmux config.
> It’s easy to get hung up on this. I’ve definitely felt the self-imposed pressure to only write something if it’s new, and unique, and feels like it’s never been said before. This is a mental trap that does nothing but hold you back.

No! It's absolutely correct and considerate! This advice to write a blog even if you have nothing new to add is why the blogosphere is now absolutely overgrown with low-content dross, and half the reason why searches for technical questions now just turn up endless blogspam instead of answers.
Great, give "Doomsday Clock" limited series a chance after you finish with Watchmen, it's an interesting crossover with mainstream DC Universe.
the true post-modern text editor is copilot (death of the author etc. etc.)
On the flip side for the second point, it can just as easily go into the reverse. It’s all very well for the mainland government to declare the island to be a rogue province in revolt, but that just means a war between the two would entail bloodshed between countrymen. That might give at least some Chinese pause, not unlike the contemporary antiwar protests in Russia.

Not to mention given that China has been at peace for decades now, to disrupt their economic growth and prosperous gains in standards of living to go to war would be a hard sell to the average Chinese citizen, regardless of how much control the government might exert over drumming up support for war. One could speculate that they would at least make it seem like a defensive conflict.
Most people don’t drive 200 miles a day carrying 1000 pounds of tools and equipment. So don’t pretend like that’s normal. And if that does apply to you, then you should be encouraging everyone to drive less - it means less traffic for you.

As for the meat, it’s pretty clear that eating less meat (and reducing demand for meat), is a net environmental gain, regardless of how far you ship the beans. You can also eat less meat, although I’m pretty sure there’s a reason you can’t do that either.

Or you’re right about all this and there is no alternative.
World in crisis a grim backdrop for UN climate talks
Right. The bottom of a gravity well is a nuisance for anything other than human survival.
I've been considering htmx for some of our more complex forms with a lot of colocated information. One approach I have in mind is using a small frontend state management library like Alpine.js with the htmx alpine-morph plugin.

In short, if a required field in a different section, i.e. used for a "complex calculation" is changed by the user, then we'd pass that flag in part of the POST request to recalculate.
Oh, so the unreadable Time Machine backup on my APFS Encrypted drive is not just me then.
In the words of the venerable AvE: "Make cool shit, put it on the internet." Have I been able to follow that? Not really, too many other things going on but I think the sentiment is nice.
this is a very important point
The secret world of microwave networks (2016)
iBrator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-ReZh0sQw
Thanks for the clarification. That seems fair, I suppose the title of the article gave me the impression that they were claiming such an ability would be widespread in all crows (despite the study being done on two carrion crows), when in fact it seems the intention was to state that the ability can exist in any crow given that they proved it exists for those two specific crows.
Testosterone as a hair loss theory is based entirely on correlation.

What it fails to explain is why, if testosterone is the culprit, hair grows in other places later in life.

A much more compelling theory is that hair loss is due to the stretching of the scalp as the muscles and bones in the face grow in aging. It also explains why men have more hair loss then women. The force diagrams match male pattern baldness perfectly. (yes, also correlation)
> algorithms that are similar to AES but not exactly AES

The SM4 cipher, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM4_%28cipher%29
Eh... I agree that the minimization of LoC is almost certainly not the most important vector on which to optimize, but I'm not convinced the example linked here is an improvement. The author is obviously correct that their version is easier to debug and slightly easier to understand, neither of these improvements, taken in isolation, satisfy these conditions when taken as a whole.

In terms of ease-of-debugging, sure, splattering local variables and extra control statements may allow you to break/inspect a certain class of bug in a certain way. But it also creates a lot of noise and makes the code a lot more "dense". It's hard to see given an example in isolation, but when all of your code looks like this it can make it significantly more "tiring" to understand. "Easy to debug", while important, is also something that must be balanced against other factors.

And in terms of easy-to-understand, again, I agree that the author's example has a slight edge (give the first one a shot though... it's not so bad). But what does it mean for a `Contact` to both be "inactive" and also "a family or friend"? They have forgotten to capture the single most important condition! Similar to my first point, it can be hard to see the issue when given an example in isolation, but imagine looking for whatever condition or rule the author is enforcing in a sea of other blocks that look similar.

A simple comment over the original version would suffice for me:

// If the contact is stale
His face movements were excellent, they were much like Nixon's real mannerisms. The problem was the edges of his face were pretty bad. The voice was also bad, with obvious ghosting and glitches.

That said as someone else pointed out this was done in 2019. If this was made today the face edges would be much better and audio clearer. I'd love to see this remade now.
I recently got into neovim (from vscode) and it took me 1.5 weeks to get it to have similar functionality. I really like the vim commands though. What’s your opinion on that compared to helix?
Yes exactly - and the US dollar plunged afterward and sank most of those investments. Trading goods for capital investment isn’t the one-sided trade it appears to be.
The top submission actually ends up being a surprisingly good guide to what was going on with the internet circa 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20060313005123/http://www.paulgr...

An interesting point is that the non-techies who initially used the internet socially were mostly teens and young adults on sites like MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, etc. (and IM services like AIM -- essentially like Google Chat) If you want to see what MySpace was, I suppose tagged.com is the nearest modern equivalent?
Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go
Yup, you're right. I guess I was specifically referring to outlook.com, Microsoft's hosted email solution for consumers.
I for one support this. Too many people in the thread are just saying a phrase like "Free markets" while making no point foolishly, followed by rhetorical questions. Allow me to be unambigious.

If we agree that overconsumption of groundwater combined with under-replenishment of all frewshwater resources due to climate change implies a coming strategic shortage of water, then yes, absolutely, state and federal government should be severely scrutinizing where water is going and prohibit excess water consumption for luxuries and for exports.

Another way to go about it would be what the person above you said: Create tiered pricing for water such that the reasonable monthly use of water is as close to free (minus upkeep of water infrastructure) as possible, while quickly ramping up marginal cost.
Would people who got male pattern baldness in their early twenties just have particularly stretched heads relative to younger age?
I would go further. No one should be able to purchase land they do not live on.
https://letmeread.net
and libgen
Are there instances of individual people (or small families) with stockpiles of weaponry in civilizations that collapsed? Yes, as you point out, there are historical nobles with armed guards in their castle/fort/estate, or just cities with militias, but I don't know of anything historically comparable to a modern prepper with a dozen guns and thousands of rounds for them. And even if there were, no amount of swords makes 1-5 people a match for a couple dozen assailants, but 1-5 people with loaded guns are much more of a deterrent.

And I agree that a community spending their time and resources working together is likely way more effective, but that doesn't mean the prepper's stockpile is easy pickings.