skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if everybody lived like people live in Amsterdam/Berlin/Copenhagen, cars are not going to go away.

We can (and must) strive to get rid of car dependency and we will certainly can reduce the amount of car trips in the year, but this is not going to happen overnight. Amsterdam was also a very car-centric city in 70's, and it took them at least a generation to reduce their dependency. Even if tomorrow all US politicians started pushing for laws that made it easier to move away from the suburban model, the US would still have decades of heavy car usage.
There’s a reason Geico or Duracell’s websites (both incredibly famous Berkshire companies) don’t look like this. Berkshire is essentially an unorthodox investment fund, all of their websites are pretty sparse
I don't want to be preachy, but as someone with similar issues who's navigating my way through it...it's worth considering whether you are not harming yourself, in a very passive and silent, but chronic way. Each day that goes by is gone and won't return.
The problem is when interesting and engaging design starts taking priority over functionality. This is fine for entertainment focused sites that are meant to capture your attention and help you burn some time. This is terrible for sites that fulfill some real purpose. For example, I don't want my healthcare website to have a flashy design, I want it to just work in a reliable way.
I suspect eye contact is rather engrained in our species. It’s a very important part of communication, or so I’ve been told and experienced.

I’ve definitely seen people disadvantaged by being unwilling or unable to look others in the eyes while having a conversation. But I’m not sure we should go as far as discouraging it because some people feel aggressed by being looked at.

At the same time we can all endeavour to be more understanding that people not being able to make eye contact doesn’t necessarily mean much.
Tesla and SpaceX had very hard problems to solve.

What new hard problem is Twitter solving, at this stage of its life?
So much added sluggishness and they still cannot bring themselves to show us a current dynamic keyboard mapping to this day.
Programmers provide high economic multipliers on business activity and are typically in a good position to extract a proportionate reward for doing so.

If we kill off that group of people earning 300k+ in unproductive businesses, all the better. I'd prefer that money be invested in more productive tech, and i'd suppose would generally raise salaries -- since atm, ex hypoth., it is just being burnt
Dark forest: a one-of-a-kind sci-fi blockchain game
I think that BH has underperformed the S&P500 for some time now. They are also quite old now - what happens to the share price after they pass?
I’ve heard at theory that some are donating to extreme candidates on the other side to increase their odds of winning.
"Dynamic array" refers to block of memory allocated via malloc() which you just happen to use as array.

"Flexible array member" [0] is when you have a struct and its last member is an array with unspecified size.

An example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

struct Foo {
int len;
int* arr; // dynamic "array"
};

struct Bar {
int len;
int arr[]; // FAM
};

int main()
{
const int n = 12;

// have to allocate myself; no guarante it will be nearby the rest of struct
struct Foo* a = malloc(sizeof a);
a->arr = malloc(n * sizeof *(a->arr));

// array is part of the memory allocated for struct
struct Bar* x = malloc((sizeof x) + n*(sizeof *(x->arr)));

return 0;
}

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
Let it burn indeed - it's a hands-on history lesson for GenZ tech bros why every single cumbersome, expensive regulation exists in the financial sector currently.

Besides, why should there be a need for regulation in a trustless system at all? If you think this is a beneficial setup, live (and die) by it.
If you look at international research rankings rather than US college rankings (because it's about Horizon) it's very different.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un...

Only one EU in the top 50.
Only after he was no longer President. If he had won the election, he would still be spewing on Twitter. And now he is again.
But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-famil...
Climate change: Welsh river temperature increases by 1C
Class and prestige is exactly what Buffett is not about. He does not care at all about opinions of his website. He cares only if the money goes up and credibility is maintained. Any focus on the site would be a waste of money, unless you can make a buck.

Same dude loves buying hail damaged cars. This is a hail damaged website. Works fine. Sells insurance while you’re there.
> Nobody can create a transparent "tool for thought" that doesn't impose hidden values on the operator

> That computers might bring that same culture of constraint and approval to the very act of thought, a kind of thinking-on-rails, is depressing.

Well, these are exactly the kind of problems the "tft community" need to engage in more.

For others, the naming (tool for thought) should not obscure the real implication of this domain : there will be 300 million college educated people by 2030, and a lot of them will be staring right at these kind of tools for hours every day.
I’ve had this thought for some time and only last week did I visit my github page to see what I could do. An idea was to merge all the “beginner” repos into a single repo.

Turns out that recent repos are not to shabby at all and all the other older repos are sort of kinda cute and show that I’ve been having about for some time.

And of course I have private repos for “pro” work.

My advice is to make public some recent serious work and all will be good.
You don't absolutely have to use brew, but there's a sort of relentless soft pressure to use it because it's more or less the de facto standard package manager for macOS and has such a large collection of packages.

I rather dislike it, and I periodically purge it from my system. So far I've always ended up reluctantly adding it back because I was trying out some tool or other that was dramatically more of a pain to install without brew.

I can get by for a long time without it, but then I want to try out something that assumes brew, or whose dependencies assume brew, and it winds up back on my system again until I get vexed enough to remove it again.
> The website is illegible on my phone. I have to do some zooming and panning and it feels awful.

I see this complaint often, but I don’t get it. Zooming and panning are two dead simple gestures on any smartphone browser, no more difficult than scrolling. Out of all the annoyances I’ve encountered visiting a website on my smartphone, having to zoom or pan ranks near the bottom for me. Why is it such a nuisance for others?
I second the recommendation for Queen of Angels and Blood Music. Loved them both.
These are all critiques of reporting on a quirky celebrity CEO. Serious question - was there a lot of coverage that said something like “FTX is safe” or “FTX is a good place to park your money”?
I agree that there is a long tradition of uncritical puff pieces in CEOs. But this seems like a different position from “<insert your hated publication here> misled sheep to the crypto slaughter.”
Only proportionally to simplicity and the actual possibility of making something "direct"... As noted («Principia Mathematica»), "1+1" is not really direct...

Have you noticed that no one else tries to write like this and people just generally say what they mean?
'The top 0.5% of taxpayers pay 40% of state income tax.'

This seems very risky, seeing how easy it is for those taxpayers to move to another state.

And just yesterday Newsom agreed to release $1B to help the homeless. Money he, and California, does not have.
Because Homebrew is unfortunately "the standard" and the first place a project will package for if availability for macOS is desired. As a Linux user, it's the worst package manager I've ever experienced but it is what everyone is using in my company who uses macOS (most people).
I don't think any client supports them all, but mIRC and Quassel make the best use of them so far in my opinion.
Humans as a group has proven to be able to build everything we have today. No AI has proven to do anything similar, there just isn't much data there to make us confident in their abilities thus far.
Maybe I can't afford a powerful server. But I can always afford not to use 6mb of JavaScript.
To be clear, I think your theory is more directionally accurate than mine. I forgot to add a sarcasm tag to mine.
Envy for others working to burnout for some other person? How sad.

A CEO is just a title, often for someone who’s can’t get anything done independently.

Musk is an example. He builds nothing, actual engineers build, actual salespeople sell.
> Price-sensitive people are never going to buy a $18-25k electric car, if the ICE equivalent version costs half of that. "Oh, but it's cheaper than a Tesla" is not relevant.

Most people are price-sensitive. This doesn't mean they purchase exclusively based on the cheapest price. If the wealthy can spend more to save the environment, why can't the non-wealthy? They just can't spend the same total amount.
That's a terribly lame cop-out. Argue a position, disprove my points, say something substantial... or get lost.
This is an excelent regulatory option. The creation of money substitutes in the crypto space is not something a state wants to encourage, and is very detrimental to financial stability. The basic tools of the central bank - regulating reserves and interest rates in response to economic conditions - cease to function.

These private money substitutes should be firewalled from the traditional financial system, nobody's pension should be invested in speculative crypto assets. The long term value of crypto should then result from the actual wealth they generate intrinsically (for example, ease of trade, enabling fast innovative transactions that fiat can't) - as opposed to broad "adoption" by the conventional financial industry, who would just use the space to circumvent existing regulations.

Traditional finance can, in time, adopt tools and systems from the crypto space (for example, distributed ledgers, "blockchains") if they are technically robust, without the associated speculative mania.
Would you like to signup for more popups?

"Yes" or "Not right now"?

You selected "Not right now" the last 187 thousand times in a row, but maybe today you've changed your mind.
Requires more than my thumb. So now I have to alter my entire ergonomics of phone usage for a page.

Double tap can sometimes work.

The other issue is that now the website has two overflow axes. So I’m just kinda wandering a page in some way that wasn’t designed by the author. To each their own but it feels janky and uncomfortable to have to wander a page. Especially if the page was designed with a certain viewport size in mind. They’re not expecting this case.
That is a good reason to need a non trivial amount of memory, but I don't think it means there needs to be dynamically allocated memory. That basically implies that there is something unknown ahead of time, but specs, limitations, resolution fps, etc. should all be static.
'Backyard studio and one-bedroom units are available in Southern California and the Bay Area and begin at $289K'

$289k would buy you a decent house in most of the country.
What's wrong with losing access to a giant talent pool of hundreds of millions of people who can move immediately, visa free?

I think it's pretty clear.
part 2: https://astrid.tech/2022/07/13/0/blink-mini-dumping/

part 3: https://astrid.tech/2022/08/03/0/blink-mini-fw-analysis/

part 4: https://astrid.tech/2022/08/06/0/blink-mini-4/
WSJ and FT readers will, because good information is profitable.
Wow. Do you feel the same way about feminism? Racism? Do you doubt the existence or severity of ADHD, ASD, etc?

In case there was any doubt on that last point, consider that each of those lower lifespan by about 30 years, have ~15X higher suicide rates, and are 1:2 are not able to work full time.

Insults are in the eye of the beholder. For a person with a disorder marked by issues with eye contact and understanding social nuances, imagining insults that aren’t there IS the disability’s effect.

If you comment on how much a black person enjoys watermelon and you do so objectively without malice, it’s still fair for that to be considered a big insult. Why? Because it has been used as a derogatory stereotype for many years.

If you want to understand the perspective of neurodivergents, look up the terms “allistic” and “ableism”.
Edible drone can help keep injured mountaineers alive
See Starting Forth by the same author; it's good and short. It is even older, so it won't help on choosing an implementation and will be affected by a few differences in dialect.
Guessed ITAR ever before reading the link.
I've personally run across a couple of random things that fall under ITAR:

the FLIR system in my car is highly locked down (cameras > 9fps are in scope)

the military arctic weather jacket that I use when shoveling snow (ECWCS... warmest thing I've ever owned)
Because ad industry is equally full of scam?

I guess even someone with most hardcore anti-regulation views would most likely approve of (and quite likely, support) education, including being upfront about all the unsavvy bits and dangers.
Twitter is seeing rapid user growth right now, so...
Big bitcoin bull, here.

Please let it all burn.

But also please regulate and support US dollar backed stablecoins. Folks in various other countries shouldn’t suffer from their own governments lack of fiscal restraint and sophistication. If the US dollar is going to remain the reserve currency, make it accessible for everyone around the world.
I think it’s too easy (and tempting) for other countries to sit and poke and hypothesise that a country is falling apart. That was a just a case of sensationalising and far from the truth. As someone presently living in the U.K. it is the same beautiful country full of incredible views, kind people and exciting opportunity that it has always been.

Pick any other country, America, France, Brazil, Germany, Australia etc and allow me to also tell you how it is falling apart.
Are you quite sure the root of the problem is centralized exchanges? Everything in "tradfi" is centralized, and there are frequent frauds and bad actors, but it remains much more robust than the cryptoasset ecosystem.

I'd submit the root of the problem is finacializing things that are not economically productive. As cryptoasset supporters frequently point out, every market has some ponzenomic qualities, but pulling tokens from thin air amplifies them.
Should casinos be regulated or should we allow somebody to throw away their life savings if they have a bad day? “No regulation” may sound appealing but society has to pick up the pieces when people wreck themselves.
It's a rolling-release package manager, that's what you get. It's the same with Macports and Pkgsrc.
I remember Reddit discussions where they tried to figure out if the CPU support list lined up with any particular CPU features. It didn't make any much sense at all. Basically, Windows 11 supported 3-years old CPUs generations and (and later added) CPUs in Microsoft products that were actively being sold.
I didn't check. I have an "I think" in there because it was my personal opinion after spending a few minutes thinking about it after reading the title of this Ask HN thread. It was interesting because it made me think "that's true, why don't we have them?" so I replied.
Did a View Source on their table of quarterly/annual reports, and there it is:

<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15">

<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 15">

That equates to Office 2013
> In the aftermath of the collapse of FTX, authorities should resist the urge to create a parallel legal and regulatory framework for the crypto industry.

Agreed on not creating new frameworks, but...

> It is far better to do nothing, and just let crypto burn.

Is that like just letting every Bernie Madoff's scam run its course -- eventually retail investors and retirement funds will learn to stop investing in scams?

Crypto scammers seem to be loving the wait&see thus far.

Can't we just use the existing tools for dealing with investment scams, general fraud, etc., to take it all down?
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/z02hi4/powerdns...
There are 800+ F-35s and just under 200 F-22s. Of course the per-unit cost is higher. That doesn't mean anything other than the politics surrounding each was different, so fewer were ordered of one than the other. The programs cost about the same.
Anonymous and pseudonymous public, permissionless cryptocurrencies remove debt and leverage from the system, making GFC-like financial crises impossible. Without native identity, you can’t have native debt, leverage or margin. No native identity = no credit ratings or any other means of enforcing repayment. (Yes centralized crypto exchanges have these, but not the actual blockchains).

All financial contracts on these systems must be fully- or over-collateralized, and if the collateral is used up there’s no margin calls for more, instead the contract is automatically closed. That creates an immense buffer against cascading financial collapse and house-of cards style financial structures that Wall St. likes to build.

The possibility of a GFC or Great Depression (leveraged credit crises/collapse) is arguably the single biggest problem in all of the traditional financial system. Cryptocurrency may solve it.
"There’s also criticism from the opposite direction, that we should be buying drones instead. I’ve largely said my piece on that earlier this year, but the short version is that in the areas where they are useful, unmanned systems have already taken over. We call them things like “cruise missiles” and “AAMs”."

I'm not an expert here but I've read claims that China, if it invades Taiwan, will use some combinations of missiles, drones, and drone-missile hybrids to destroy or render ineffective landing strips and maintenance fields necessary for effective manned fighter aircraft deployment. Yes, there are missile defenses, but they'll be overwhelmed by the sheer number of missiles and drones, and thus the F-35 will be a powerful fighter that can't be effectively deployed.

Edit to add: Carriers will suffer similar problems (sample: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/pentagon-war-games-reveal-th...) and be destroyed with hypersonic missile barrages.

Is this true? No one will really know until the moment, but it seems and sounds plausible.

"In any case, while the F-35 isn’t perfect, it’s clearly the best solution available for the threats the US and its allies face today."

Unless the real threats are from drones and missiles that cost anywhere from 1/10th to 1/100th to even less than an F-35, and thus can be produced in far greater quantities for a given outlay.
As a bitcoin/monero maxi who's watched my dollar denominated net worth cut in half this year and expect it to go lower, I strongly agree.

The wheat is being separated from the chaff, and I am absolutely here for it. I wish more innocent people would have listened to us and not trusted centralized exchanges or yolo'd huge money into shitcoins, but sometimes you have to watch a child touch a hot stove for their long term well-being.

Tick tock, next block.
I frankly don't care about the donations

maybe the donations have changed the election outcome?

what would you think if you found out that Joe Biden operated a scam to fund his campain for example ? because the outcome is the same
I'd definitely prefer this outcome but I have a feeling we're going to go right back to where we were before as soon as interest rates come back down. Big tech starts aggressively overstaffing again while VCs pour money into mostly useless garbage. I've been doing this for awhile now, mostly in the startup space, and I'm not even sure if VCs care if there's even a viable business there. It often feels like a legal way of running what effectively amounts to a ponzi.
That's why HN rocks
Honestly, the first paragraph cannot be serious and, if it is, I am sorry to say it is delusional (I am judging the text, not the person).
Not for restaurants.

Restaurant websites should be a readable pdf of the menu and prices and operating hours with a link for further information about the restaurant.
A new-to-me term I learned recently which I feel quite nicely relates to this post is Consumer neuroscience.

Wikipedia clinically describes the field as "The goal of the field is to find neural explanations for consumer behaviors in individuals both with or without disease." Personally I have a less favourable description of it. How to make people addicted to your product, and spend more money than they should.
Strange that no one mentioned man pages. I think they're a great doc and almost always contain what I need
1c in 40 years? Whats the bracket? There are entire forests that nolonger exist! What is this article?
I agree, it's currently very superficial. It would be great to recognise and show more about the specific nature of the relationships.

What kind of thing would you hope to see here? A textual summary of the relationship? Or perhaps there is more that can be done with shapes and colours in this area?
Titles would have improved the U.X at no cost.
A mailto link might have as well, personally I don't like them but a lot of people find them useful.
Also styling for the resume would have improved the reading ease.

It's not just a matter of aesthetic, it's a matter of visual parsing.
I get it, but I don't think many companies could get away with this. The site is for serious investors and simplicity is part of the brand. Imagine miro.com (whatever that is but I've seen lots of ads for in on YouTube), using this type of style - it seems unlikely that it would be successful. I'd like to see someone try however.