skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If `x` is a constant, `(x) * 0l` is a zero constant, so `(void*)((x) * 0l)` is a null pointer. When a null void pointer is one branch of a ternary conditional, the expression takes the (pointer) type of the other branch.

If `x` is not a constant, `(void*)((x) * 0l)` is a void pointer to address 0 (which may not even be a null pointer at runtime, since null may have a runtime address distinct from zero!). The ternary conditional then unifies the types of the branches, resulting in `void*`.
> Of course the real weight of this crisis lands massively on the poor

Yes, the poor shoulders this crisis more than the minority non-poor. But, it is in their power to fix it, because it's the masses of poor that have been voting the same government into power repeatedly for almost 30 years.

What would you have us do? Revoke their voting rights? They vote for more poverty every single time, and there's nothing anyone can do to get them to change there minds.
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I was hoping for some e-bike mentions, which are far outselling the electric car market for many reasons, and would be revolutionary if we only dedicated a fraction of the effort we devote to car infrastructure.
Exactly. It also doesn't help that >90% of "journalists" have no clue what they're talking about. But it doesn't matter for revenue because 99% of their readers know even less.
Yup. I regularly come across my own notes "This isn't the best way to do this because X, Y, Z. Need to address later."

Years later I'm in that code and realize that X, Y, Z never ever happened (even if it seemed highly likely) and that block of code was working just fine an folks found it easy to work with... I was dead wrong about being wrong.
> I don't quite understand the strategy of sitting and waiting on a technology competitive advantage.

1. Utilizing current facilities, thereby being able to spread out the fixed cost of building a manufacturing plant over more units.

2. Related to 1, waiting until building new facilities is necessary to be competitive in order to be able to use the most up-to-date battery design as well as most up-to-date facilities design.

3. Keep the design a secret as long as possible. I’m not sure if its possible to keep battery tech a secret, but if there is no functioning version, then it can’t be reverse engineered.

> Their 'premium' cars are actually about on par with Korean and Japanese mid-tier vehicles in terms of quality at best, by every objective measure. But their pricing is luxury level simply due to the cost of batteries.

Totally agree.
There's this kid who figured out a solid state device that boils water to steam when the sun shines on it. (It's a flat, thin layer of a black foam-like material.) I'll try to dig up a link...

Anyway, you could mass produce these and float them in the ocean. The idea is that they would add moisture to the atmosphere which then carries it inland, rains, etc...

I have no idea if it would work.
You might be interested to know both Godot and Blender, projects and communities, have long running and active presences on the fediverse.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/GodotEngine

https://mastodon.social/@Blender

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/b3d

I ran the tag search on an instance I hope most matches what you're looking for. It's a game development focused instance. Searching elsewhere could produce different results.
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There is no such screaming window. Please test.
Thanks, much appreciated! I wish I could enjoy it more, but something about the attitude that got me here keeps me moving forward. I'm the kind of person that always needs to be doing something which I consider of value, or else I feel like I am wasting my life.
Exactly, and what if you forget or lose this string of bytes? Or what if someone finds it, and transfers ownership to himself? It's impossible to get it redeemed because of how the technology works. No court on Earth would - or even should - recognise something like this.
> IRC is a dead feature.

I think all the people who use IRC daily would disagree with you on that.

I do agree that IRC is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to feature support, and even just features in the spec. I dislike Slack, but whenever I use Slack for a while, and then switch to IRC for something else, I miss seemingly-simple things like being able to easily share images, react to messages with emoji, start subthreads in messages (a feature of Slack's I initially hated, but eventually came to appreciate).

I get that it's difficult to add these sorts of things to IRC in a reasonable way, especially when we're talking about degrading gracefully for clients that don't support newer features. But IRC is pretty much the definition of an open, federated protocol failing to avoid ossification.
Reminds me of people who used VHS to make backups.
On the nail.
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I'm sorry that it did not pan out, but thanks for sharing the code!

Hopefully the next project goes well!
>these sorts of things are at the top end of production chains

could you expand on this?
Same here. The squirrels in the backyard are definitely a drain on the batteries. Another reason to hate them (the main one is that they eat my nectarines).
My experience is the precise opposite. Engineering tickets with no clear business value rot by the hundreds in sine corner of the backlog, at best being brought up occasionally as an "I told you so" when the business case does rear its head.

In contrast, people working on the code for other reasons will notice a TO-DO and be much more likely to bring it up today, as some kind of "if I'm going to do changes in that area, I should also address this TODO, it will just take an extra $days". Or at least, it will guide them to the source of a long forgotten bug.
> Replanting native forests in deforested environments also requires desalination.

Probably not everywhere. If biotic pump theory is correct, you could (for example) reforest at the coast, with the forest there established then progress inland, without expensive desalination / water distribution technologies.
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I am in market for an EV and tried the Model Y and the Audi E-tron and the difference is massive. The Audi is so much nicer and only slightly more expensive. It was an easy decision with the new Q8 coming now which passes my “more than enough range” threshold
The "crypto bro" stereotype came from real people who combined a love of crypto with bro behaviors like aggressive rhetoric, shameless self-promotion, and flaunting their wealth (e.g. talking about lambos all the time).
In that context, it should really be "Vox automatos vox Dei".
I guess shameless plug, but:

I work at and helped start (though through bifurcation) a startup that focuses on this sort of thing. Might be worth a check: https://userwise.io

I will admit we’d be a sort of overkill for just notification services, but the other features we offer on top may also interest you
This company has “full self driving” and thinks it’s a good idea to require touchscreen interaction for nearly everything. Safety clearly is not its primary concern. I would give them a little more credit if they didn’t use the ridiculously misleading name of “autopilot” for something that will readily steer the car straight into danger.
You don’t need more than one cursor in Vim
Switzerland is neutral, both in war and in the face of corruption organizations like FIFA. Pretty consistent I would say.
Good riddance. I still remember how they were phoning-home without being 100% transparent about it, and the injection of ads.

> We failed to build a business because our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out.

Yet people always defend telemetry in software, saying it's how they improve their product. 7 years of telemetry, and they couldn't figure it out?!
You seem to think that you work more, or harder than other people, hence you are given more "consumption rights". Please consider that:

- A lot of people are not working to consume more, and it does not prevent them to work hard. They just aren't fulfilling themselves through consumerism.
- A lot of people are working harder than you, for less. Should we take parts of your share a give it to them ? Spoiler alert, you will be constrained below 2T of CO2 emission, that's for sure, because you are not working harder than others.
- In a finite world, emitting more than your share means stepping on somebody else's share. But why would have that privilege if you are not working more?
- In a finite world, stepping on someone else's share that you are not permitted to take leads to a conflict. Conflict means war in a planetary context.

If I may suggest, if what's blocking you from emitting less, is your desire to consume more, you should try to change that, as your consumption capability will reduce in the future, whether you want it or not. This is because our energy sources are becoming less abundant, which means less consumption capability for the same amount of work.
Here's a graph of UK labor productivity per worker since the 1950s:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

There is no point where the workforce, assisted by technology, was dramatically more productive than it is now. Given the rise in productivitiy, shouldn't we expect the standard of living to at least remain constant?
I've used your ping data before, it was useful to know where to place my servers, and how nice of you to publish a dump as well! If I can wish for mor data: a min-median-max client latencies for all those servers would be swell, but I can see that you might not want to publish the results of that maybe on per month basis? Just a couple of thousand packets every hour should be enough: tcpdump -w stats.pcap -c5000 "tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-syn|tcp-ack) != 0"
> Re-rise of Russian aggression in NATO sphere of interest and the rise of China are really last 10 years or so.

(1) USA has illegaly bombed and subsequent occupied Afghanistan, Iraq, part of Serbia ("Kosovo"), part of Syria - countries which are so far from the US, most US citizens wouldn't be able to find them on a map.

(2) Ukraine, on the other hand, is at Russian doorstep. Both are Slavs, most of them are Christian-Orthodox and many have family ties with each other. And NATO is expanding towards Russia even thou Western politicians have promised to not expand it "an inch towards East".

(3) US has risen after WWII. Now China, Russia, Iran, India... are rising. Why is that a problem? Or, maybe, you think that the US must remain the Hegemon while the Rest serves as a resource to be plundered and enslaved.
But you didn't fix anything, least of all Mopac: you reported an "oversight" - one of probably 100,000 here in Austin - that was corrected. And it's on Braker, not Mopac.

To truly "fix" any of the transportation infrastructure here, one needs a time machine and a fondness for urban development in the 1960s in Texas.
"Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools. Their manager might, but engineering managers only want to pay for discrete new capabilities, i.e. making their developers 18% faster when writing code did not resonate strongly enough."

I never used Kite, but I've tried Github Copilot twice, and found it marginal at best (and distracting at worst - which is why I turned it off both times). If Kite was similar, the reason I'm not paying is that coder AIs are not providing any value.

Developers are somewhat reluctant to pay for tools but I think you can get them to pay for things that are worth it. I've been paying for code editors for years.
> Generally speaking no company will willingly cannibalize it's current product line for an unproven and premature technology in a new product line.

I imagine the deadlines European countries have put on ICE sales might change that attitude in this case.
This is a very self-serving recap: "we were too early and we're still too early and Copilot proves it because its not 10x": it is 10x, sorry.
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I really found this valuable, particularly the slide at the top that enables you to visualize low level latency times (Jeff Dean numbers) over the years. tl;dr: not much has changed in the processor hardware numbers since 2012. So everything right of the processor is where the action is. And sounds like people are starting to actually make progress.

https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...
Ya it helps to have some clear timelines to keep yourself honest. I noticed when I originally set out on my world travels that there were people who said they wanted to come that ended up being to distracted with life to take the leap. I keep my notes and reminders and goals very visible in my life through Google Keep and actual post it notes all over my walls. If I did have those reminders I would very likely do nothing and feel bad about it.
Afghanistan was a NATO mission. A10s were used heavily there.
The more relevant question is what it cost before people started using Bitcoin for that purpose. I think Bitcoin lit a fire under the major financial providers to be more efficient.
Moving Mars is my favorite of his works as well. His other book, Heads, is something of a prequel, although Moving Mars does a good job of standing on it's own.
I was shocked to see the TI-99/4a so high up. Just listing a BASIC program on a TI-99 is about as slow as a 300 baud modem.

Example: https://youtu.be/ls-PxqRQ35Q?t=178
This is close to reality. US constantly use symmetrical approach for defense, because democracy have so huge economy advantage over totalitarian countries, so will win any direct competition.

Russia on other side, constantly looking for superweapon, which will give military advantage without prohibitively large spending's. This even got name - asymmetrical approach.

Examples of asymmetrical approach, are German U-boats, later soviet submarines with ICBMs, ICBMs, railway based ICBMs and auto based, "Poseidon" nuclear powered torpedo.

BTW, many examples of asymmetrical approach, are considered non-ethical in Western world.
Did you take my post to be including ethiopians who have no internet and are starving?

I don't think many people are going to be shocked by the idea that I meant the vast majority of people on twitter, you know, those people twitter is catering to?
What connectors will the EU consider if no-one is willing to invest money to create them?
https://archive.ph/sqA3h
Mind that they continued working on it and built Netscape versions on top of Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. This people with knowledge of the code base and domain pushed it along.
I agree. Successive governments have had 28 years to build and upgrade power infrastructure. Negligence and corruption have prevented that. Electricity is just one symptom of a much greater problem in SA. Apartheid was clearly immoral, but they handed over the keys to a very productive economy, on land with some of the best resources in the world, on which they had built excellent infrastructure. Since 1994, every single development metric has continued to decline. Everything from literacy to health outcomes to infrastructure. In September, the government passed a Zimbabwe-style bill which will allow it to seize land on the basis of race (https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00083533.html). Within a matter of years we will begin seeing famine; in a nation with some of the best and most abundant farmland in the world.

South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries on the planet. It has the raw ingredients to be a global economic powerhouse. What its government - and ostensibly the people voting for it - are doing to it is so sad to see.
The phrase "Tesla killers" needs to be killed. Every EV maker sells every EV they make. EVs are supply constrained.

When a legacy manufacturer or EV startup adds to the EV supply, it takes from ICE vehicle market share, not Tesla market share. So any new EV is an ICE killer, not a Tesla killer. The majority of people buying EVs from legacy brands are doing so because they are fans of those brands; they weren't going to be buying a Tesla anyway. And even those who considered Tesla and chose another brand do not result in a lost sale to Tesla since someone else will buy that unit. Demand exceeds supply.

Another faux pas the article makes is assuming that the number of models has any meaningful relationship to the number of units delivered to customers. Tesla continues to dominate the world EV market with just four models: a mid-size sedan, a CUV, a full-size sedan, and a mid-size SUV. It doesn't matter if you have 11, 14, or 30 models in the pipeline if you simply cannot manufacture as many units because of battery constraints or whatever excuse applies at the moment.

It's also bizarre to see Tesla's very high R&D capital efficiency as a liability:

> Tesla, by contrast, has spent less in total vehicle R&D since 2008 than Toyota and Mercedes-Benz each spent in 2020 alone.

Toyota has essentially nothing of note in the BEV space to show for their big R&D expenditures in 2020, aside from the underwhelming BZ4X.

The article claims traditional OEMs are poised to out-produce Tesla with no explanation of how they expect to achieve Tesla's current production rate, let alone Tesla's future production rate with two big factories spinning up in Austin and Berlin.

Don't get me wrong. I really like the looks of several EVs from the likes of Polestar and Nio. But it's clickbait to call these "Tesla killers."

Just be honest: they are ICE killers.
Recent and related:

Starting FORTH (1981) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674486 - Nov 2022 (22 comments)

Lots more links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33676237
Same. Though I prefer a gentle nudge for confirmation that they're finished speaking.
Value assessment in fiat currency is arbitrary.

How many working hours, tons of materials will it take?

Could they be used on more relevant needs to humanity?

If so, why use them on a moonshot we will die before humanity achieves? Essentially approving burning up resources on unverifiable, perhaps unachievable outcomes?

We still fund a lot of agency to iterate on high minded potential as if future humans have an immutable obligation to carry on the work.

Secular norms and justifications are not sacrosanct. The dollar is a made up token of power.
> Our 500k developers would not pay to use it.

lol
Devs almost always lack any kind of purchase authority. Any tool that appeals to devs needs to appeal to their management more, either showing some kind of cost savings over existing tools, increased dev productivity, or the new fangled "dev experience" where this tool, by shear awesomeness, will let devs put aside the low salary, process hell, and keep them employed.
How do hotels have less privacy than airbnb?
See Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (book: <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/printing-press-as-an-ag...>) and the similarly titled article (<http://www.jstor.org/stable/1877720>).

The printing press (~1440), and subsequently cheap pulp-based paper (despite its rapid decay due to high-acid content), and increasingly-capable powered presses, and greatly-expanded literacy (19th century) did revolutionise the world, splitting the Christian faith, launching first the 100 Years War then the Long 19th Century (1789--1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_nineteenth_century), including the Revolutions of 1848 in which over 50 nations saw some form of political ferment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848).

Radio played a huge role in the rise of fascism in Italy (Mussolini), Germany (Hitler), and the US (Father Coughlan, McCarthyism). Television revolutionised US politics, particularly at the presidential level (Kennedy-Nixon debates), as did cable television, talk radio, and the nascent Internet.

In The Matrix (1990), John S. Quartermann's introduction details the influence of then-nascent computer and fax networks on the Tienanmen Square protests in China. Even early in the 1990s, the role of Usenet and BBSes in conflicts in Yugoslavia and Turkey was noted (see especially Serdar Argic: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic>).

McLuhan (who influenced Eisenstein), Harold Innis (who influenced McLuhan), Neil Postman (another McLuhan protege) Edward S. Herman, Jerry Mander, Noam Chomsky, Robert W. McChesney, Andrew Shapiro, and many others have made similar observations (bibliography here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7k7l4m/media_a...).

If you change how information flows through a system, you change that system. This applies directly to media and its influence on culture, politics, business, and more.

The reason that the fears seem so quaint is because we live in the landscape that emerged. We are the consequence. The Time Before seems so difficult to conceive of and understand because it was all but entirely supersceded.

We face a similar situation in all likelihood with further algorithmic-driven media and GD ML AI ourselves.
> Really? My company is on its third ticketing system.

Your company should get it's shit together, unless it's in the business of switching ticketing systems.
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She’s from Barranquilla, which is in Colombia.
This is very noticeable if you watch grocery budget challenge videos on YouTube. British people are finding cans of food for something like 20p. Even at a 2:1 ratio, there's almost nothing you could buy for 40 cents in a US supermarket. A can of beans is like 65 cents here on a good day.
Firmware signature verification is almost done in mask ROM exactly to prevent this.
I think we're on our 4th or 5th ticketing system over 15 years. (We're also on our 3rd revision control system, but the code and comments obviously migrated seamlessly across both of those transitions.)
Ask HN: How to deal with co-founder betrayal
I designed and built a product and put together a kick ass engineering team of 4 people. My business partners handle sales and put the majority of the cash in, leaving me with stake of around 30%. Four weeks away from signing a multimillion contract, my co-founders issued a cash call, claiming I am subject to a compulsory share transfer clause. They give the company a premoney valuation of zero, and as a defaulting shareholder I should get 50‰ of fair value... Aka here's "140k leave now, and you have no choice about it". I managed to convince a lawyer to help, and she's willing to do it without charge - after going through the shareholders agreement it's pretty clear that their argument doesn't hold up. But... How to handle this situation? Especially going forward with regard to audits etc. as I no longer trust these guys at all
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And then there's Anno 2070 which fails at login (it requires an account and an internet connection) for a second player in the same home network.
I don't think that would help. The IRC protocol is missing so many messaging features that platforms like Discord have. Just looking like Discord wouldn't fix that.
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> Assuming the sender/recipient's countries don't outlaw it or regulate it into parity with traditional banking.

This raises an obvious question, though: Why would countries NOT regulate it like traditional banking?

Notice how customs declarations say "more than $10'000 in money or financial instruments". Countries don't care about money specifically, they care about transfer of monetary instruments.

Which means of course they care about BTC for international transfers. Maybe the laws are up to date, and maybe they're not, but it's perfectly clear that the intention of the laws is to include BTC, and it seems extremely likely that eventually they will be harmonized.