skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After learning about a few of these I started to understand why people coming from C always said that PHP is a well designed language…

But OK, I understand that my mind is just not made for the complexity of C. Most likely I'm not a real programmer.

I get instantly knots in my brain and start to bang my head against the wall when I need to look for too long on C code. Actually even C documentation is enough to trigger this. (I get mad every time I have to look on a Linux system man page).

This is highly subjective of course. Other people seem to love C!

I'm more of a grug brain¹, who mostly only understands plain pure functions.

Input in, output out. No magic. Everything else's too taxing.

¹ https://grugbrain.dev/
Yeah all that advertising was gross. Definitely needs to be shut down.
They will be providing software support for storing webauthn credentials along with integration into the FIDO passkey ecosystem, which I understand to be more or less webauthn with cross-device sync / login.
Well, she's both a pregnant person and a pregnant woman.

I don't believe I've ever said you couldn't choose the words you prefer to use for yourself. The most I'd say is, "here is the reasoning for why this might make some people feel excluded" and let you make your own choices.

You've responded quite aggressively to me, attacking positions I don't hold while also insulting me. (Ironically calling me super hip, virtue signaling, and attention seeking.)

I'm non-binary, it has nothing to do with any of the reasons you mentioned, it's just the language I use with my community, and explaining to others calmly and rationally why it helps some people feel included.
> At the briefing last week, Eskom provided a statistical forecast of load shedding over the next 10 months. The forecast showed that until August 2023, SA would experience stage 3 load shedding on most days of the month, provided that diesel was burned to make up for the shortfall. The diesel required to keep the system at Stage 3 varied from R3 billion to more than R7 billion a month. As burning this amount of diesel is physically and logistically impossible, the implication was that load shedding would in fact, be several stages above stage 4.
You'd want to be using old Nixpkgs definitions as a starting point for importing a package definition that will work with a package's build system at the given version, and trying to rebuild it against the libs that are already in your environment.

You could do the same basic versioned dependency solving all the way down your dependency tree using the same tool, whenever one of the recipes expected a version not in your current environment.

That's what it would mean to incorporate real dependency solving into Nix/Nixpkgs. I don't think you'd want packages in Nixpkgs' top-level/all-packages to rely on that feature, but you could have it be there for devs who want to build out bespoke environments but rely on the collective wisdom about how to build this and that at such-and-such version currently encoded in the history of Nixpkgs.

Sometimes you couldn't be offered a solution that you're confident would work— this kind of thing would be a starting point for maintainers of complex environments. But it would make porting old versions forward to a newer env easier just by helping automate that process of digging for examples in the history of Nixpkgs.

Maybe this is basically what you have in mind with the idea of a 'patching layer'. In that case, I agree that a really useful implementatiom would involve tackling some substantial problems. But I do think it is possible to make something useful along those lines, and it would be an exciting tool even if it was only 60% of the way there. Hence my curiosity a couple of posts up. :)
A serious question, how much have your crypto denominated net worth gone up or down this year?

Crypto has been put forth as the hedge against fiats, but in reality it seems to be more as a speculative instrument.
That inefficient network has better latency than your computer when trying to show you a pixel: <http://newstmobilephone.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-carmack-ex...>
3000 years, beg pardon?
Love the username- please tell me it's a Master + Margarita reference

Anecdotally here's what's worked for me:

1. Intramural sports- even if you're not sporty, some leagues have zero barrier to entry (Bowling or sand volleyball 6's). There are usually pickup sports apps as well that you could probably find based on your city (i.e. JustPlay)

2. Volunteering- especially neighborhood / trail cleanup groups that you can find on Instagram or Meetup. These are low commitment and people tend to be friendly. Habitat for Humanity was another one that had lots of young people new to the city.

3. Free Fitness (or any other hobby) Groups- you can find anywhere. November Project, for example is in most cities
A lobbying blitz made sports betting ubiquitous
They certainly can have opinions and some of their feedback can be non negotiable due to legal constraints (e.g. affirmative action). I'm yet to see though an HR department that would pick you a colleague based on an MBTI test, overriding input from the hiring manager and the future peers.
Uhm... aren't you basically describing wayland?

This Xorg dude did exactly the tuning you want on wayland https://artemis.sh/2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.ht...
Many of the samples are supposedly in the style of this or that famous author, but they all seem to be in the same generic style and not in the styles of these authors at all.
with all the other issues in that country, I would like to see many teams hop back on the plane and say we will fly to another country, India, Australia, South America or somewhere else and compete there. Or at the very least withdraw.
I'm not shedding a tear for a gigantic corporation getting slightly screwed over . It would have been incredibly easy for them to not back the World Cup - it's in a country which is ideologically against their product, they had to go out of their way to be involved. But they they elected to go ahead, and took a (very minor) black eye as a result.
It is wild what rampant corruption (that voters are willing to tolerate, possibly for tribal reasons) will do to a fairly educated nation with enormous natural riches.
Same. If I want to give what someone is saying my full attention, that means I don't even want my eyes to take some of my focus.

I'll usually close my eyes and nod along to what they're saying.
Lol is that the guy who say he feels like a gay Arab that was bullied in school because he was a red head?
A good heuristic for determining whether a game is worth your time is to determine if the game will provide the same experience regardless of when you play it. If the answer is no, the game probably isn't worth your time and you probably shouldn't be playing it.

Features that require you to play a game n days in a row or that require you to play a game at certain times of the day or that require you to stop playing the game and come back the next day are red flags in terms of the game being low quality because there's no need to exploit people's FOMO if you've actually created a good work of art that stands on its own merits.

I also more or less completely ignore phones as gaming platforms. Those platforms have such bad reputations that a game (that isn't a port of a retro classic like the early Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy or Grand Theft Auto games) even being available on them tends to be a red flag that it is a low quality game. There's no reason why good games can't be released on iOS or Android but generally speaking they aren't because of the stigma that those platforms have due to all of the "free-to-play" garbage that has been released on them over the years.
Wow, strong from a guy like Infantino to pretend to care about European colonialism, only to defend is cavalier attitude about human rights abuses, his greed and unfetted corruption.
Experiments with domestic load shedding in the UK
I find it slightly worse to read. It's C, so my brain is in "newlines don't matter" reading mode, so I see an array of 6 things and then have to mentally split them back up.
Sure, but the base currency will be subject to the physical limitations to which gold was. Doesn't mean there won't be any banking, but it will not be able to collude with governments to create and funnel money under the force of guns.
Typical African country. I've always wondered what's wrong with my continent. You can't literally point to a single African country that's developed and successful...corruption and incompetence rules every sector here...so horrible.

Sorry for my rant :(
> Nothing desktop is going to be that vertically integrated easily

Why? Are there any technical reasons?

I think this is a pure framework / system-API question.
And I think you're a reactionary fool if you sincerely believe BBC News belongs with Pravda and FOX. But I suspect you don't genuinely think that. I think you threw that line out as a cute little zinger and didn't believe anyone would call you out on it.
I don’t trust Amazon Alexa’s privacy standard, let alone a video camera.
His a sports functionary, history is propably something he only onows from hearsay. As is math.
> could this not be done with the following

Well, that depends. Does your shell oneliner have a GUI? You're also not playing an iTunes playlist, so you'll probably need to parse the ITL file
Can you show me a smart contract that will let me exchange some amount of cryptocurrency for a banana? Ideally one which allows me to go after the banana seller if it turns out to be rotten, or worse, poisoned.

If you can't, then please understand that in the real world you will always need a counterparty and a thousand intermediary for something as simple as a banana. All the "smart" contracts [1] are good for is a fancy way of swapping shitcoin A for shitcoin B, and until that changes none of what you said has any effect.

[1] smart until they end up on rekt.news leaderboard.
Nobody outside of crypto enthusiasts had ever heard of Mt. Gox.

EVERYBODY knows about Saint Bankman-Fried, the one honest man in crypto. This is a bigger deal for confidence than you think.
Theoretically we sign a law to remove it tomorrow, but practically it’s completely impossible. The financial industry would never allow it, and would spend billions defeating both the law and any politician who even remotely supported it.
It is my impression that Rwanda has been improving under the Kagame rule, but that the improvement is still precarious.
I searched "full movie" on YouTube and the first result I had was for Home Alone. Looks like it is the full movie and the account that posted it does not seem connected to Fox or Warner Bros or any "official" movie studio. Seems like a random person who claims in the video description that uploading Home Alone is "fair use".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owDd4zify-A

I am not a copyright or intellectual property or legal expert - but my intuition says that Home Alone is probably as copyrighted as the movie Hackers (both older movies). Home Alone has been up for 3 weeks on YouTube with 435k views. By contrast, the tweet linked above showing that "Twitter is breaking" has already been removed (less than a day).

Perhaps Home Alone is public domain or something, or whoever owns the intellectual property wants it shared like this. Not sure how I would check that, but I have seen lots of movies and TV shows like this on YouTube (sometimes with modifications to the sound or image to avoid automatic filtering). If Home Alone is free I'm sure I could find another example.
One example is that when I was moving, existing friends from the old city gave me a lot of tips of things to get involved in, i.e. there was a run club in a certain neighborhood or whatever.

Otherwise, previous friends knew people and put me in touch. And finally there were 1-2 people who had also moved to the same city at some point, making it easy to plug into their networks
Cisco it's graveyard for almost anyone's career.
> If I install Mycroft, what will it run on?

How about Mycroft's own device? https://mycroft.ai/product/mark-ii/
There was definitely a lot of fuss around China and Xinjiang. The US did not send a delegation to the Olympics. https://www.csis.org/analysis/biden-boycott-2022-beijing-win...

The Qatari debacle is more focused though, because the controversy is directly affecting the players and the spectators (in particular the schedule shift and the alcohol row)
The creator's original vison was to make it legal and sell better, even before translation.
> it's more or less the de facto standard package manager for macOS and has such a large collection of packages

I definitely see the social pressure. That said, I’ve never needed to use it because I needed a package that was not on Macports. So far for my use no difference in the number of packages in the default repositories has been meaningful.
Many of those airbases are located nearby motorways and most Swiss fighters can use them as emergency runway.
This can happen all the time in data science. Just add a few layers of bureaucracy and department separations between data gathering, cleaning/filtering, and analysis and it's easy to make the wrong conclusions on observed correlations without carefully thinking through all the filtering steps that might induce Berkson's paradox.
Let's not forget that the entire point of "proof of work" is to waste electricity and waste electronics in persuit of making pointless calculations until one is randomly correct. What a great system!!
Here are my biased recommendations ;-)

a. Ergo [1] as the server for a greenfield setup

b. Gamja [2] and Goguma [3] ) as clients

c. Soju [4] as a bouncer for non-Ergo networks

[1] https://github.com/ergochat/ergo
[2] https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/
[3] https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/
[4] https://sr.ht/~emersion/soju/
it's uncommon to thank someone here on HN. so I just say you have saved me a tremendous amount of time and if I knew how to sticky your post to the top (against all currently popular grain) I'd do so.
I also see a fair few elements on that list as being problematic, to say the least. Can't stand Rust, though, so for those times I really need high performance I try and keep my C knowledge sharp-ish.

Fortunately GCC has a whole bucket-list of warnings that can be enabled (I like compiling with -Wall -Wextra -pedantic, myself) which can, combined with proper tooling, catch many issues.
I think it was a slab allocator made in house. It was a long time ago.
Regulations.gov
This is argument goes back at least 50 years. The F-14 and before that the F-111 didn’t need to be good dogfighters because the AIM 54 phoenix was a 100 mile missile and would kill anyhting before it got remotely close. That turned out to be false as we learned against Libyan fighters and as the Israelis could have told us (or anyone who served in Vietnam).
> Stop keeping your money on exchanges. Use Dexes like Uniswap, lending marketplaces like Aave.

Surely it's the people's fault that crypto can't offer a better rate than $50 fee per swap.
Is there a way to read that article without a financial times subscription?
Of course FETs were first patented in 1925, then 1934, then again in 1945
> ...the implication was that load shedding would in fact, be several stages above stage 4.

For the uninitiated, "load shedding" is a euphemism for "rolling blackouts". According to the wiki, Stage 4 load shedding leaves 25% of grid users without power. Assuming "several stages above stage 4" means Stage 7, that would mean that, at any given point, ~45% of grid users would be without power. [0]

Yikes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis#Lo...
It’s not just crypto, apps like Robinhood also grant access to instruments and trading that were only accessible to sophisticated or high net worth investors prior to that which can also cause a lot of problems for people who don’t know what they are doing and trying to follow some WSB get rich quick fad.

There is a reason why the terms “sophisticated investors” and “high net worth investors” are defined and regulated in most if not all jurisdictions, it’s to protect people from being overly exposed to high risk and being preyed upon and prevent society form picking up the bill.
Elon Musk had to sell $4 billion dollars in Tesla stock in order to keep Twitter afloat. I’m not disagreeing with the core premise of the article really, nor am I really challenging Musk’s genius! but Musk can say fuck you to everybody because he has fuck you money! If he is a genius it is is in understanding the whole context, not in the individual risks he takes.

> Elon somehow is able to cut through all that BS and ship a new feature in just a week to all his users. How? What does he know that the rest of the industry don't? I think he understands something that might sound obvious on the surface: Twitter is just a fucking website. Literally no one will die if they fuck up.

Sure if your company can survive without revenue or reputation, go for it! It’s just a fucking website.

Yes we need more bold leaders driving change, but if almost any other CEO had done this the company would be dead already.
I had a bunch of sites on a shared host a while back. I got an email from the hosting company saying they'd had a legal notification from a site I was linking to that demanded I removed links to their website or they'd take legal action against the host (and me by extension?!).

Despite me pointing out the ridiculousness of the situation, as well as the SEO benefit to the original site no one would listen and it ended as "remove the links in the next 48 hours or we take down your sites until you do."

Wasn't worth the fight, so I removed them. Still can't get over the waste of resources and the ridiculousness of the whole thing.
>more advanced at shooting down planes

One thing to consider is kill envelope / no escape is also function of manned fighters being restricted to manned limitations. An autonmous fighter that has bigger fuel tank than missiles (more flight envelope), better sensors to inform AI (due to larger airframe + power) that can can pull substantially more Gs than a human, can conceivable be much better at dodging missiles. To the point where it no longer becomes viable to shoot them down, both economically and tactically, i.e. cost more than UAV worth of missile to engage, and require so many missiles that it's easy to saturate defenses with handful of UAVs. A CSG can only dedicate so much space for air (VLS slots), if that DDG with ~100 cells with 30 reserved for anti air suddenly needs to move to 90, then it becomes useless for other missions. And if all ~100 cells isn't then UAVs in relatively small numbers can essentially operate uncontested. Implications being, such shift (which IMO tier1 US/PRC are pursuing) will massively benefit land based aviation that can mass deployment.
> however, it can be negative for the society as a whole.

Society wouldn't see the persons tweets, only the followers would. So, it "protects" society, and lets the follower see the controversy they desire.

Or, are you suggesting that the individual shouldn't be allowed to see the controversial speech, because they can influence society? I think there have been far too many examples, in history, where the individual was right and the larger opinion of society was incredibly wrong, for this to be a goal to move towards.
It looked like Gensler was trying to secure a monopoly for FTX in the US, so making sure Coinbase didn't have a competing product was a cornerstone of that game plan.
You can project power hundreds to thousands of miles forward of a land mass or established base by using a carrier. Even operating it in a very cautious manner affords a great deal of tactical advantage you would not otherwise have available.
I can write fairly well, but it takes so much time and energy.

How do I become more confident and efficient with my writing? That’s what I’m curious about.
Fully agree. I still regularly organize LAN parties with the same crew as back then. 24 years and counting... Family has made finding a suitable date much more difficult. But the biggest obstacle is finding LAN-capable games.

10 people joining Dota 2 from the same IP results in instant ban for everyone. StarCraft 2 is horribly laggy when 10 PCs compete for UDP traffic to the internet server. GTA 5 keeps load-balancing us into different lobbies. Most new games just cannot handle a LAN party anymore. And yeah, I remember the time when I paid for a WoW account despite not playing because the WoW guild chat was the quickest way to reach all of my real-life friends.

Warcraft 3 fun-maps, Left 4 Dead 2, Flatout 2 are the games that reliably work well.
What‘s your point? Climate change will lead to war?

> Now I believe

Exactly. You believe. Old age has very little to do with energy and far more with knowledge and progress in medicine.
The right wing media has been dooming about the California budget since Jerry Brown fixed it. California remains one of the largest economies in the world, this isn’t even close to their biggest problem (the problem being housing and property tax).
Yeah I’m really good at those hidden 3d pictures. I can split the focus of my eyes super quickly and will do that sometimes while looking at someone if I feel like I’ve not looked at their eyes for too long. On zoom if I’m really listening I’m literally turning my head to the side and possibly closing my eyes.
Same in Germany or Austria, seems right wing populist talking points are ending up all over the world.
Ask Culture meets Guess Culture:

https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-bet...
Don't think of a white elephant.

Don't breathe consciously.

Don't lose the game.
I have the newest tab always opened. Refreshed in the morning and in the evening. Them I'm scrolling back :)
This. I remember lugging even a midi tower but a 17 inch crt in my car to my friend's house each week and back. It was so much fun when you were there but the logistics were a pain. As soon as the Internet was fast enough to allow people to play from home and still have a lot of the interaction via video and voice that to me was the death of the Lan party not so much game support.
Home prices are finally starting to fall–especially in California
Rwanda's GDP per capita is $834 [1]. That's way worse than my poor country (Nigeria) at $2,085 [2], so that improvement is very much in question and under a dictator nonetheless.

Edit: Removed the part describing Kagame as genocidal because I mixed up his identity. He's still corrupt and power-drunk though.

1- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
2- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
Not because there will be billions spent, but because such a law would be extremely unpopular. Try convincing people that any option for your home loan and your car loan won't exist anymore (those are leverage too!) and see how happy they are.
The Chinese have multiple geostationary orbit satellites with enough resolution to target a carrier. Meaning that by the time the missile reaches the orbit of the satellite (around 5 hours), the Chinese would have had the time to track and sink a carrier about 14 times over.

On top of that they also have a fleet of unmanned submarines and an unmanned supersonic observation drone program as well as a sonarphone network.

Beyond this the carriers are so slow and the missiles so fast that assuming they fire the missiles within a few minutes of their satellites being shot down, the carrier is still unlikely to avoid the missiles target acquisition zone.
Maybe for normies.

Could the sales type extroverts stop setting standards for everyone please?

I never bother with eye contact. Whats important is what they’re saying.
Not on IRC. Some would call that a feature.
Before I’d do any of that would be vibrato. Without it it is a emotionless keyboard with a blowtube.
No, people raised concerns about the Qatari selection almost immediately. It’s just come up in the news cycle again because it is now actually happening.

Most of the FIFA officials involved have been indicted for a while.