skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of interest are speaking from a position of authority as someone who’s implemented GPS receivers, or as someone who understands the theory of GPS receivers?

From my reading of the article, it sounded like the author was commenting on an interesting implementation detail of GPS receivers, and how they might deviate from their expected theoretical implementation. Rather than describing how an ideal GPS receiver is implemented.
Rosetta doesn’t help here because the kernel would be ARM, and the parent commenter wants an x86-64 kernel.
I don't use Twitter, I chose to be happy
> code that aids totalitarians like Putin and the North Koreans has

This is false. Putin is not afraid of shining a very bright radar into the sky to know when missiles are about to hit them. That is the standard and reliable way to go about this.

Have you heard about the “woodpecker” signal? It was the transmission of a giant over-the-horizon early warning radar system. It is now defunct, has been replaced by more modern systems, but when it was operational you could receive it basically anywhere on Earth. That is the scale sovereigns play on.

Only people who don’t have the backing of a sovereign state need to go about detecting launches in this circumspect method.

> Some domain specific knowledge was meant to be esoteric

Yes. But this is not that.

> there are a variety of better licenses such as CC-non-commercial that allow peaceful uses of the code without allowing it to be used by literally anyone on the planet

Are you kidding me? :) In the top of your comment you worry, wrongly, about Kim and Putin using the given code. And your suggested solution is to release it under a different licence? :) You think they would care about that?
> 26. Kayfabrication:

> Politics is pro-wrestling in suits. Opposing parties are collaborators in a

> greater system, whose choreographed conflict entertains and distracts us

> from what is really going on.

Among Trump's laundry list of sins has been engaging in banal kayfabe[1] while in office. Ds and Rs are supposed to be far more refined in their approach to putting on a show for the masses while defrauding them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
I would, if I had literally any agency in these decisions. I can explain the problem, it will get nods, and I'll get told to do it anyway. Folks need to really adjust the focus of their criticism where it belongs.
This tool https://www.wappalyzer.com/ will tell you.
one thing that annoys me is they dont ask you HOW MANY boxes to check. So you dont know if you need to be "conservative" or "aggressive". So I started just clicking a single box, then if it prompts me I will keep adding one until I meet the requirement. I think sometimes its just one or two.

However some shitheads like Discord also wont tell you how many, and will also outright fail you if you click too few, forcing you to restart the whole multi-test process. So fuck all of it. I fully support this extension, they deserve what they get. They need to figure out how to make it hard to fake, without making it a nightmare for legitimate users.
Path stickyness? IE, they got it wrong initially, and now its about individuals not having their power undermined?

Its pretty surprising.
Ok. And how does that make it not a national security threat?
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The image of Apple employees turning the metaphorical noose tighter around the Chinese is interesting to entertain as it says something about the human condition.
> They argue that a four-day week would drive companies to improve their productivity, meaning they can create the same output using fewer hours.

I am very new to this subject. I am also skeptical of the claim above.

However, one assumes that if Guardian is printing the above, there is some ‘evidence’ that it might be true.

Is there any?
Indeed. Carmack isn’t stupid either, and he is pushing harder than Mark for “more avatars” before “hi res avatars”.
This doesn’t mean there’s a 2x slowdown. (I’ve seen 1.5x to 5x.)
One funny change is that in April, Google said that AI-generated content wasn’t allowed.

http://searchenginejournal.com/google-says-ai-generated-cont...

Then in an article just this month, “Google knows that the use of AI to generate content surfaced in search results is happening, and is fine with it, as long as the content produced by an AI is helpful to the humans who read it, says a company spokeswoman.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-you-tell-whether-this-headl...

Why the change?

Either they can’t identify AI-generated content or they can and they just don’t care. I think it’s a mix of both. The value of page 1 on a Google SERP just isn’t what it used to be. You’re stuck below the ads, the answer box, the videos, the sidebar, the maps results, and on and on and on.

In the industry I focus on (dentistry), Yelp and other “barnacle sites” take up about half of the organic (non local results). Spending time and effort to get to the last spot on page one just isn’t worth it.
But it kind of does - Click ALL of the Lions.

If there is a lion in the box.... Click it.
Can't believe your name wasn't taken before two weeks ago!
This needs to be done for the day we get hit by a bad solar flare. But it never will, as humans are incredibly poor at planning.
Lead free brass is still 0.2% or less. Mitsubishi makes it. "Eco brass".

I'm not sure it's brass anymore without the lead.

Why does it seem that the better a material works the worse it is for humans.
A lot of the responses are talking about how apps should fix this, which I agree with, but I'd also like to see it at a higher level...

I'd like to see frontends (browsers, Android, iOS?) remember their widget hit points for ~400ms, and if you've touched somewhere that had a different widget hit point within that time, use the old widget.
The first use is a hyperlink to a whole article defining the term, what are you on about?
No the solution is to always show the scroll bar.

Then I don't have to guess if there is anything to scroll.
This is why I'm interested in old, now mostly obsolete/dead operating systems. No one has really felt free or able to break out of the UNIX mould, since. And we've been using the mould for a long time. It wasn't always so uniform. There have been some craaaaazy things out there, that we simply never see today because it doesn't fit. Off the top of my head:

* ITS (of PDP-10 hacker fame) - processes could debug and introspect their child processes. The debugger was always available, basically. The operating system provided support for breakpoints, single-stepping, examining process memory, etc. Whatever part of the system manages processes, is the natural place for the debugger, really. Some of this has been brought to Unix systems recently, but you still can't trivially freeze a process, tweak a few values in its memory, and resume it as an integrated part of the operating system. Why not? It seems very basic to an operating system, now that I think about it.

* KeyKOS (developed by Tymshare for their commercial computing services in the 1970s) - A capability operating system. If everything in UNIX was a file, then everything in KeyKOS was a memory page, and capabilities (keys) to access those pages. The kernel has no state that isn't calculated from values in the virtual memory storage. The system snapshots the virtual memory state regularly. There are subtle consequences from this. Executing processes are effectively memory-mapped files that constantly rewrite themselves, with only the snapshots being written out. Snapshotting the virtual memory state of the system snapshots everything -- including the state of running processes. There's no need for a file system, just a means to map names to sets of pages, which is done by an ordinary process. After a crash, processes and their state are internally consistent, and continue running from their last snapshot. For those who are intrigued, there's a good introduction, written in 1979, by the system's designers available here: http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/upenn/Gnosis/Gnosis.html (It was GNOSIS before being renamed KeyKOS.) And a later document written in the 90s aimed at UNIX users making the case: http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/upenn/NanoKernel/NanoKernel.ht... Some work on capability systems continues, but it seems the lessons learned have largely been forgotten.
Dr. Woit's blog is directed towards physicists, for the most part. This sort of thing is covered very early on in a graduate education in physics; it's old hat for that crew, but incomprehensible to anybody else!
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Computer Science Is Not About Computers, Any More Than Astronomy Is About Telescopes - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/04/02/computer-science/

Computer Science Is Not a Science - https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/1/158757-computer-scienc...
> 30: Brandolini's Law (aka the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle):

> It takes a lot more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it.
> Hence, the world is full of unrefuted bullshit.

Saul Alinsky Rule 5 applies. Mock the hogwash. Blow away the crap and the crapflooder for maximum efficiency.
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You mentioned on twitter[1] that there are realtime data sources which could be used to do the same kind of visualisation/detection.

What would these sources be?

1: https://twitter.com/tylerni7/status/1593466486714421249?s=20...
Sometime in the 90s, I was at Oracle and got invited to what was probably the most boring meeting I've ever attended in my life:

A bunch of systems admins who were puzzling over how to create a standard way to administer Unix systems. The premise was "in the old IBM mainframe days, every shop ran the exact same way, so it was easy to train a new hire. Now, with Unix, there are a million different customs, so how do we standardize it?"

You probably never even thought this was a problem. My big problem was staying awake. I guess now that it's all Linux, it's easier. Back then, there was HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sequent's whatever-it-was-called, Pyramid, SCO & all the other PC variants...

The group was called Moses, which makes it almost unsearchable since there are so many other uses of that word.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We've already asked you this more than once.

Your comment would be fine without that swipe. Perhaps not very substantive (you could make this argument better with more information in it), but at least not a gross violation of the guidelines.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
There's been a 25% tariff on imported light trucks circa 60s, which one could view as subsidizing domestic production
https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2009/05/05/americans...
Computer scientists also assume that you know what inputs your program needs and what is the range of the outputs.

That is out of touch with scientific research. We may change overnight completely the inputs, the core logic and the outputs.

Having to babysit function signatures, manage memory and types throughout these activities is just draining.
It sounds almost like the OP is bemoaning the stability of Unix-like systems. I like that ls, cd, mkdir, emacs and cp all work more or less the same way. And as much as I sometimes curse at autotools, I appreciate how nice it is I can generally just type `./configure` and something reasonable happens.
Posting like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong another account is or you feel it is.

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>When you choose not to use Youtube, you are choosing to not be a part of a large part of society.

How would using freetube solve this problem?
I have lost 1 kg per week during almost a year, with a considerable health improvement at the end and no negative effects, except obviously, the hunger.

At the time I have studied a lot the existing medical literature, and this was the recommended rate, so I have adjusted the diet so that the weight loss per day would oscillate around 140 g per day.

The weight must be measured every day in the same physiological conditions, i.e. in the same order relationship with respect to the various activities that modify the weight, like eating, drinking or eliminating their products.

A good moment would be in the morning, immediately after waking up and relieving yourself.

If one would eat in the evenings wildly varying amounts of food, then the weight in the morning could be affected by a noise due to variable amounts of food that is not completely digested yet. However that would not happen when one is eating a calorie-restricted diet for losing weight, when one would have to eat about the same minimal amount of food every day, which would be quickly digested.

While I was losing weight, I could see very well every day its evolution to the grams, and the effect of any change in the diet. Sometimes I succumbed to the temptation of eating like before starting to lose weight, and after such days I gained weight in a day almost as much as I was losing in a week, which increased the time until reaching the target weight.
> Who is the rightful owner of a name or similarly, a piece of land, or an idea, patent

It used to be that if you have lived on the land for 3 generations it's yours.
If you've ever used Alibaba you'd know that many sellers do accept it there.
No, there’s no argument. The statement was that lifetimes aren’t that hard, and that when you do get stuck there are escape hatches. The escape hatches are especially useful when you’re still learning.

FWIW I write Rust professionally now, and in our entire codebase we have maybe four or five data structures containing Arcs, specifically where objects are spawned as Futures on other threads.
I will be giving whatever presents my wife buys to give family. I will be otherwise spending the holiday season trying to avoid it as much as possible.
> How is that trend not tending toward reduced productivity?

Because every study of productivity shows this to not be the case.
It’s very important to note that pressure plays a role in how quickly the body processes out the medicine. A dose might last 6 hours on land may last much less under pressure. One significant danger to this is a decongestant wearing off unexpectedly early while underwater, resulting in congestion a depth and preventing equalization upon ascent. This could result in a barotrauma often called “reverse squeeze”.
> Are most people single in their 50s by choice, as in they would prefer that to being in a relationship with children?

Firstly, There have always been — though I dislike the term — leftover men and women recluses and spinsters. People don't exist as sperm donors and incubators whose only purpose to form a family unit. They have rich lives as individuals.

Secondly, the question to ask would be a choice at what cost? I'm sure any naif would answer affirmatively to having a relationship with children. But those who are aware of what the question implies — the surrender of opportunity and free time, the fiduciary duty to spouse and child, the peer pressure and stress from society from without and one's SO from within, the potential for everything to fall apart at one's expense even when doing everything right — will rightfully be more uncertain about whether such a relationship is worth pursuing. No one in this universe has a choice as to someone else's behaviors, and, as a result, the only "reliable" metrics are semi-controllable tradeoffs (i.e. freedom vs loneliness, financial security vs fiduciary obligation) and an ability to judge character.

> I doubt it. Even if they are, if they're relying on being supported by the next generation, that is still leaning on outsiders, and the outcome may be quite disappointing.

What's the difference? Most people on Earth don't become their parents' geriatric specialists. You'll be depending on outsiders whether or not you have children. In fact, kids especially rely on outsiders to comfort of them, feed them, medicate them, make cheap products for them, teach them, and transport them, for about two decades. And by that point they'll have their own lives with their own demands.
If you are interested in this you might also like the book “The Goal”. It is a business novel introductions TOC (the Theory of Constraints) which IMHO is the #1 most efficient way to run a company/team/process/…
Posting like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please don't do it again.

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Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
Adds:

1. convenience

2. attractive appearance

3. ubiquity

4. better error messages (because compiler knows what they are)

5. one construct instead of two (vector and span)

6. overflow behavior selectable with compiler switch

For example:

#include <vector>
std::vector<int> v;

vs:

int[] v;

Many D users have remarked that it's the single best feature of D.
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> Statler and Waldorf are a pair of Muppet characters best known for their cantankerous opinions and shared penchant for heckling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf
Or install the "Bypass Paywalls" extension.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

(URL says Chrome but you'll find the Firefox extension there as well)
It's not quite measurable; the magnetic potential is gauge invariant, which means, among a great deal many other things, that it has no well-defined measurable value. However, it is certainly physical; things like the Aharonov–Bohm effect prove that.
Huge is maybe a strong term. The cost of a clone is hugely dependent on the size of the data being cloned. Avoiding clones of large data structures is important, but even that is unlikely to be a bottleneck outside of a hot path.

Arcs can be expensive, but once you’ve got the sense for lifetimes, they aren’t that hard to avoid.
Or at a minimum don’t go to the new widget but just have a UI indication that you registered the touch/click.
Also, outside the page title/headings and the reference to the name of said external paper the first use in the document _is_ where they use the expanded name.
Interesting. Did you try comparing it against anything other than a Pixel 2 by any chance (to rule out the Pixel 2 just being worse than better L1 phones)? And have you tried it in the city to see if L5 is any help there?
You could define it as value from something other than recruiting/resale – for example, tobacco has real negatives but it wouldn’t be such a common killer if its buyers didn’t feel it made their lives better, at least at some point. Cryptocurrency as a mechanism for exchange could have that as an alternative to, say, PayPal or Western Union but nobody gets aa excited as we’ve seen over saving a couple points on infrequent transactions.
> I was always told crash diets fuck you up for years. How can this be true and also people are apparently starving for months and that's totally fine?

It is not true.
I mean... it's not ALL LEENUCKS. You still have to grok the difference between Darwin and Leenucks. And Minix if you work with PCHes.
Conflicts are often about signals and what is being said between the lines, rather than factually outcomes. My interpretation of the above comment is that the employer could have had made the same decision, but phrased in such a way that employees still felt valued for their work beyond that just sitting at the desk from 9am-5.30pm.

A few years ago in Sweden one of the top businesses leaders scoffed at tax evasion and basically said that why should he pay taxes if he can afford to avoid it. The statement annoyed people, and did so much more than just the fact of tax evasion. It actually resulted in him being forced to step down from several of his position.

Employers are rarely rewarded for scoffing and treating employees like they are not worth anything.
This conversation was about learning Rust, not about writing maximally optimized Rust. Clones and Arcs can make learning a lot easier, since they let you get stuff done without needing to figure out every obscure lifetime error.

For production contexts, we take more care to optimize for performance.
Yes, beef is an excellent nutrient, but my point is that the majority of calories in a typical burger meal do not come from sources like beef. A Big Mac meal only has 180 calories from beef, and 1320 calories total. The vast majority of calories in the american diet are sugars and oils.

If you eat only the beef and veggies from a Big Mac three times a day you'll get plenty of vitamins and minerals with minimal calories (~650 calories)

If you eat the three entire Big Mac meals you won't get any more essential nutrients to speak of and you'll consume far too many calories (3960 calories)

The average american has junk to cut from their diets with no nutritional loss whatsoever. Typically fried and sugary foods.
At least on YouTube you can turn that off.
https://archive.ph/EqCOs
I agree but I think we’re still working on understanding what a healthy human actually is. Other than the obvious signs, it’s quite complicated.
Military weapons weren’t at issue in Heller, and anything it says about them is dicta. My point is that the historical circumstances of militias armed with weapons they had lying around confirms Heller’s holding that the right conferred by the 2A is a private right.
That is indeed a nice error message from clang. I presume it is noticing that a `bool` is being implicitly converted to a `size_t`, which is suspicious.

But still, it's good having both clang and GCC. The competition makes both better. If there was only one, it would stagnate.
Sandboxels – Browser Sand and Chemistry Simulator
Design and build my own CPU: Check
Write my own C compiler: Check
Create a UNIX-like OS for the CPU that compiles with the C compiler: Now I have something to bookend my career with.
I don’t know why this would be an unfortunate reality. People should use whatever language they want.

Rust gives you a lot of ways to express yourself, but now that I am quite familiar with it, I can write Rust just as quickly as I can write Python or Go.

You can spend all day code golfing in any language.
The "use local currency" banners were also hanging in Vientiane, far from the (Chinese) border, back when USD was the threat. The kip has always been a tough sell.
I had the same pain until I started using Firefox containers. Now I can persist cookies for just YouTube without keeping them for any other sites or making the Google cookies available to Google when I'm browsing other sites using the non-youtube container.
I disagree that this is an invariant of outsourcing; I have worked plenty of places where the contractors/vendors cared more than the FTEs. Conversely, the pressure for dark patterns has generally come from the inside.
>The word */ multiplies by a ratio, with a double-length intermediate product. It eliminates the need for floating-point.

Anyone who knows a lot about numeric stuff care to comment on this statement?
Some people might think of it as corporate wank, but realistically it gives a boss or organisation time to poll employees/owners/managers, stay flexible, slowly work towards a change like this, etc. Less wankery than the path he took, from the sounds of things.
And GCC targets fifty billion different instruction sets.
Stop consuming that media.

Most mainstream (I use that term loosely; the internet has made a lot of things very accessible) hobbies have a lot of content producers. Some of them only make gorgeous things with expensive tools. There's always some producers who are more educational and show their mistakes and thought process.

I know "stop consuming addictive media" isn't trivially easy, but you get the added benefit of avoiding content that isn't as educationally beneficial.