skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On expeditions in extreme conditions managing moisture is half the job. I read an interview with Børge Ousland (polar explorer, crossed the north pole in winter conditions on ski in 2019) about how he plans and executes expeditions. He use a thin wool sock, then a plastic bag(!), then a thick wool sock (or several wool socks) inside his shoes. So the inner sock will be wet by sweat, but the plastic bag stops the moisture so the thick wool sock and shoes are kept dry. Then at night he can dry the thin wool sock by keeping it close to his body. He also sleeps in a plastic bag inside the sleeping bag to keep moisture out of the sleeping bag.

It's quite interesting how these extreme expeditions work. They have to spend much of the time in the tent brushing ice off clothes, shoes, the tent itself, equipment and so on, because if the ice melts it will freeze again and shit will get ruined.
> Large scale systems used by companies that pay top salaries for developers (Google/Meta) are written in C++.

And you of course have some stats that prove C/C++ pays better at FAANG than more pleasant languages?

> There is more material out there for learning and mastering these languages

Really? C++? Maybe I’m looking at the wrong places, but outside of huge Stroustrup books, and a couple of gems like Effective C++, there’s not much high quality content out there.
> instead of using the cross-platform universal standard that everyone else is using.

1. Metal predates Vulkan

2. The vast majority of gaming platforms either don't support Vulkan, or have it as a distant third-party option https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33742823
Residing meaning that your official address is there. If you go vacation for such long time that you move your address the home becomes vacant.
Musk already has his own internet and phone network. He could use it as a backbone for ground relays at Tesla charging stations. Worldwide.

I would subscribe Musk phone in about 0.1 seconds. So much shit is happening, mostly because of Google.
You know nothing of what I'm programming. You don't know when, whether, or how my program accesses or deletes data. You don't know what domain I'm in, whether I'm on a team, or what our priorities must be.

And yet, you proclaim that your approach is how I should always do it in any language, in any situation.

It strikes me as particularly convenient, seeing as that's the only approach that the borrow checker can reason about.

To make it more concrete: if we apply your solution everywhere we run into this problem with the borrow checker, it can flatten a lot of our program's (non-temporary) state into basically relational tables. Sometimes that's okay, but for a lot of situations it can be bad for encapsulation, velocity, and modularity.
> Emulating an HTTP session (with cookies passing) between request is more complicated for instance.

Are cookie jars not sufficient for that? Curl supports those on its own.
Ueberzug Is Not Maintained
The author "decided to archive all stuff related to this project due to people not being able to comprehend that publishing an open source project does not mean that a person is willing to spend their free time on the problems of others."
This post is also discussed in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33741032#33746369.
it's a decent sum of anonymous money sent though tornado cash right when the sanctions were applied
“Quantum entanglement” / “quantitative easing” Can we think of a substitute to writing that will allow us to coin these phrases (which in turn sit on a stack of coined sequences of syllables) and make them stick? Speech can communicate writing in its entirety. But in committing to paper, we take these fleeting streams (sequences) of thoughts and sounds, let them live outside our limited working memories, and allow for new meanings and ideas to emerge and breathe and survive. With far greater likelihood and frequency than speech alone. Fascinating to think about what invention might make writing obsolete. Will have to be something that allows for effortless creation and storage of new sequences of old ideas…
> i never had a chance to handwrite my notes or thoughts.

Really? Yet to come across a pen and paper in your however many years of life? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are those things so exceedingly anachronistic to you that you'd be at a loss? I'm sorry, but I feel you're being disingenuous.
i think that's also rubbish, just like PG's written opinion piece.
How on earth did we then get the great work by William Shakespeare.
ShakeSPeare born a time when reading a lot wasn't even possible. There
was little to none good content material out there. He was writing more
than he could have possible read anywhere else.
Without loans, if you don't have money to buy the house upfront, the builders can't get paid for their work.

You'd have to arrange something with the builders to pay in arrears, essentially getting a loan from them.

Land value however is 100% propped up by loans.
id, and that’s about it as far as I’m aware?
Exactly.

Once one can accept to take a step back, ask questions and maybe understand that politics and culture can often shape our perception of how things work, that's when it becomes possible to observe with a fresh look.

I often have tried to criticize the myth of the alpha male, but I often crash into people who seem so entrenched in their own normed vision of the world.

Please read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dominance_orientation

It's pretty eye opening, it goes beyond conservative politics. It explains how people want to believe dominance is a real thing.
The biggest annoyance with P3’s round is that you can’t specify a rounding mode.

Well that and it returns an integer when rounding to 0 digits, but that’s less of an issue since the langage also switched to “true division”.
There’s much more to the story than writing is a way of thinking, and reading is a big input into writing. Specifically, how each interplay with ideas, as most of us after all are in the business of creating things. And here, the most important bit is not reading, its curiosity. Curiosity about others’ ideas drives reading, curiosity about one’s own ideas drives writing.

The time we spend chasing each type of curiosity is important. If we want to create, reading must have it’s limits, and sometimes pretty harsh limits, else we’ll be infected with others ideas about everything. Some choice quotes on this:

"When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process..." "This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking" - Albert Einstein

"If you read all the time what other people have done you will think the way they thought. If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what a lot of creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one. You need to keep up more to find out what the problems are than to read to find the solutions. The reading is necessary to know what is going on and what is possible. But reading to get the solutions does not seem to be the way to do great research. So I'll give you two answers. You read; but it is not the amount, it is the way you read that counts." - Dick Hamming

EDIT: On the other hand, if you first principles all your thinking and just write write write, you may spend hours on something that could be understood and moved on from in seconds. This meme explains the reading/writing spectrum quite well: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/vwq8yh/this_true/
> if it weren't for Apple Vulkan would be a near ubiquitous desktop and mobile API

Ubiquitous desktop: Windows

Uniquitous gaming consoles: XBox and Playstation

Ubiquitous phones (worldwide): Android

APPLE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR VULKAN NOT BEING EVERYWHERE (not in Windows, not on XBox, not on Playstation, not on 40% of Android devices)
Thanks for posting this OP. I can particularly relate to the Manhood painting right now. I have found many difficulties amid the layoffs. It is a great reminder that others have suffered and struggled just like me, and that this is all part of the human experience.

If you'll excuse religion in this secular space, I believe the best thing I can do to help maintain good mental health is to simply accept that many things are out of my control, and that I must submit myself to the divine, and accept that whatever happens is what has been chosen for me. Which is not to abdicate self-determination, only to accept that I can't control everything.
It's as brilliant and a scam as Hyperloop.

Balloons with a small launcher would be cheaper...but that's lame and not cool (marketing)....like normal trains instead of Hyper ;)

Spinlaunch: BUSTED! 1+2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziGI0i9VbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSJ_yy96iE
I used breathable boots but Goretex long socks (knee high) when doing infantry work in marshlands and wetted wood areas back in the military. It was a winning combination. The boot would get soaked and dry quickly, my feet kept dry. I'd put a lot of foot powder in my socks to avoid sweat ruining my feet.

Waterproof boots though are counterproductive.
That's good to know and kind of dangerous. I have seen banking regulators getting upset in the past because of roundings not following the usual convention ("banker's rounding"). You will have a hard time explaining it's an unexpected behaviour of some programming language rather than the management of the bank trying to be cute with the numbers.
I think they're both egomaniacs who treat their own word as gospel. PG is just less brash about it, so comes off as more "reasonable" to many. I think they're both just prime examples of survivorship bias and I try to avoid any of their opinions at all times. Of course, sometimes curiosity takes over, but I never leave feeling good after reading anything they have to say.
Same. I've only got it to work with the most basic of actions. Anything that requires Docker didn't work for me the last time I tried it!

There's a way to download a much larger "base image" which in theory would make it work, but if I remember rightly it was something like 60gb of containers which I was never patient enough to download. It was always quicker to just push up to github and iterate that way unfortunately.
>I hope you don't mean racial homogeneity, because that would be a load of _equine excrement_

I'd argue that Mumbai/India or Lagos/Nigeria are overwhelmingly racially homogeneous. So there must be some additional factor beyond racial homogeneity.
Ask HN: How to Write Recipes for QA?
I'm running a tiny, bootstrapped software startup. We are entering a phase where we would like to hire people dedicated to testing our product.

What are some best practices for letting a team of a few engineers work together with one or two QA people?

My initial idea was to just create a page in Notion with checkboxes, where they can make sure the functionality works as intended and then create a Github issue if something pops up.

Is there a way that's just as simple but maybe fits corner cases I'm not thinking of right now?
> Both would require a fairly sturdy payload, but you want space payloads to be comparatively delicate so you need to put less mass into orbit.

Wouldn’t you get a big reduction in mass from not needing to bring enough fuel to get up there?
Desalination produces water and brine.

Desalination and electrolysis don't have much in common.
Professional artist here, and I can tell you there are as many different opinions as there are people, including those who couldn't care less. But if you look at the hot take mic drop platforms, you will of course see either hype or outrage with little nuance.

It's happening very quickly and the outcomes are difficult to predict, but it's clear it's a big deal. We either fear the unknown or are excited by it. I feel most of the controversy is in fact the robots-will-make-our-life-comfortable / robots-will-take-our-jobs discussion. The real problem is elsewhere, not the tech itself.

Photography is if course a good comparison, but don't forget 3d CGI. I can place things exactly how I want them and have the computer do ALL the drawing for me? Outrageous!
It certainly removed a lot of need for menial manual work (and even filming), but has also opened the opportunity for creating entirely new things that before would just not be practical, or enjoyable to make. And there's no doubt now that a lot of skill is required to make things look good.
It can seem like it's easy to get great looking stuff with AI but it's not. What's easy is to churn out tons of samey derivative crap that will age very badly as soon as we get used to it, like with early 3d.
we are strategically prompting it as such: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750013

open to all ideas here
Socrates had the ancient agora, which was (oversimplifying) a group of experts gathering in the same place bouncing off ideas from each other verbally. It's time to stop discounting the role of one's environment in personal growth.
> The article is breezing past this stuff.

That is because the author has a very specific goal which they explain upfront, and the exploration is done in furtherance of that goal. It is not a general treaty on rounding.
Isn't there enough energy in hydrocarbons to do (C₂H)ₙ-> H₂ + H₂O + C?
I highly recommend as many people as possible study the Swedish public housing policies closely, so that they know what not to do.
I think the mention of using VMs was to show that if you had a machine hosted somewhere outside of your network, but you needed to get a file onto it and had no direct connection to it, then you could use this to host an encrypted file and then download it?

I'm sure I've seen something similar where a browser creates a tunnel of sorts, and lets you send a file or something directly from one browser to the other - which would probably be better for something like this as the file is not stored on a server.
Maybe for hiking. When working hard in more extreme conditions like trail running in the mountains, ice climbing, etc the difference between those cheap shells and real gore-tex or alternative like eVent is striking
No, campaign money is not fungible. There are rules about how and when it can be spent.

So I'm going to leave this conversation, since it's clear that you're coming from a position of ignorance and there's no point in continuing this conversation until you spend time reading a primer on campaign finance laws.
This was a wonky post for being so high on hackernews
> I have seen banking regulators getting upset in the past because of roundings not following the usual convention ("banker's rounding").

That… is exactly the behaviour python implements, and what GP was surprised by…

It is also, incidentally, the IEEE 754 recommendation.

Python 2 used to round away from 0.
Ohio. People there are vile, especially in Akron and the smaller factory towns.

And Oklahoma, outside of Tulsa.
Yes, but cloud has such a good chance of becoming a profit center. They should be developing it and staffing it accordingly now. Amazon was able to think ahead in this way. Amazon also has significant cultural weaknesses, but their drive to improve the user experience forced them to stumble into principles of good customer support. Google has this drive to test and improve the interface only.
Ok, you're essentially saying that kernel code is too important to be tested. Honestly, that logic sounds like Effective Altruism levels of twisted to me.

So if tests don't cut it, what does the Kernel community then do instead of testing to verify correctness?

> Do you really need tests for the read(2) syscall when Linux is running on a billion devices, and that syscall is called some 10^12 times per second globally?

That's exactly the kind of code that needs tests.

What happens if someone changes some code that affects the read call and expects it to run on said billion of devices?
His abusive father (who killed 3 people during a burglary btw) whom he cut ties with had some money yes. But he, his mother and brother lived on their own in South Africa while his mother worked multiple jobs to get by. Later they left for Canada without his father with a few thousand dollars at most. In Canada they had to live in a rent controlled apartment. Does this sound like the life of a rich kid to you?

Even if you discount this fact, if every child with a millionaire father would go on to revolutionize two industries at once I think we'd be much further along as a species...

The anti-Elon crowd has truly created an alternate reality where they can dismiss anything he has ever accomplished. I get that his personality does not jive with a lot of people, but the solution to resolve this cognitive dissonance is not to find any and all reasons to dismiss what he's done but to realize he's a complicated person, great at a lot of things, intelligent, driven, but also childish, emotional and over-confident at times.
I agree with your first point, but I don't think OFAC is the problem here; civil asset forfeiture is what I was describing. In this case, it's not an obvious nor historical requirement that a charitable organization must perform AML/KYC on their donors; however, the use of Tornado gives an ambitious prosecutor the necessary pretext to seize the funds in a civil action.
> it is a misrepresentation, as a lot of those "empty" homes are awaiting a buyer.

Which means as a society we've chosen to value the liquidity of the housing market (something that I think is really good!) over the basic dignity and needs of human beings (something that I think is even more important!).

That's a societal choice. In a society that absolutely has enough wealth to shelter and feed every person, the fact that we've chosen not to is simply a disgrace. That people die in the cold in America is a moral failing. If we were a poor nation, and couldn't afford otherwise that would be one thing. But we aren't, and it's simply a choice that we make to let people die in the cold.
Some additional discussion: https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiat...
Why is the state of mathematics education so abstract and uninspiring?
I came across this article by V.I. Arnold : https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html which is rather old. But some of the points mentioned in the article can be related to problems in the classroom today also.

People have an idea that being abstract and talking in abstract terms creates some sort of elitism. But it hampers understanding and excitement at the nascent stages. Abstraction is required to tackle complexity. But that is not the all and be all of the domain.

It can be taught like other natural sciences starting with real life examples and building up. It is much more clearly written in the article.

I would very much love to hear about books or courses that teach mathematics in the way mentioned in the article.
And it would be nice to have aunit of measure toggle between feet2 and m2
Is a "prompt prefix" a thing in GPT-3 or do you mean you combine that prefix with the text of the page into a prompt?
Show HN: I built a website that helps you write SQL Queries using simple English
Like someone trying to explain a Kalman filter with zero math.
Yes, it’s true Americans are very easy to get along with. All you have to do is depose your leaders, change your entire economic system and dismantle your military capacity for force projection just like the USSR did as it broke down.
Hosted in Russia?
Check the edit history on that page; there's a lot of controversy behind the scenes. Such Wikiwars can produce neutral language masking underlying bias. Fortunately there's no need to trust pseudonymous Wikipedia editors when the entire record is public.

Andy Ngo reports on left-wing violence (primarily "antifacists" in Portland), as you can see from his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo

He seems to have caused several bannings tonight by reporting various crimes, criminal histories, and calls to violence on Twitter. He discussed CrimethInc with Elon in this thread:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1596087310042296320
In my area, homes sell over a weekend

That was true in my neighbourhood as well, up until a few month ago. Now I know two or three people around me that have moved and have been trying to sell their houses for months and aren't even getting low ball bids.

But even if you manage to sell your house within 24 hours of putting it on the market without having to do any work on it, there can still be a few months lag between you actually moving out and the new owner moving in.
I work in Rails and Elixir. Feedback is super fast. I get feedback before I write a line of code. My tests fail, and I get feedback. Then as the day moves on less and less of my tests fail. It's a super awesome feeling seeing green. It is also a great feeling seeing red when something is breaking in production and I manage to replicate it in a test.

If you adopt TDD, your feedback loop is minutes and seconds after you save your files.

I think I'd struggle with the idea "see". I'm a back end dev so for me seeing the json payload is about as much as I see. If I'm asked to make the code do X and return Y when the user passed in Z, then that's where I find bliss.
Cheap Land Colorado: What going off the grid really looks like
Because the news doesn't report the truth. You have to watch youtube videos of the thefts to see the violence. Even then, the most egregious videos seem to be vanishing as if they're being reported. Most of these people have no idea because the news tells them it's a made-up MAGA issue or something.

And the violence is never punishable if you're a "victim". A guard who trips a thief will be charged, no question, but a thief who beats that guard on camera isn't even going to be investigated. No budget for "shoplifting" after all.

It's not like someone is stealing food. These thugs are systematically ripping off just less than $1000 of expensive cosmetics, medicine, etc, that they can sell. Some of the videos show the thieves with calculators, tabulating their take and leaving just before they cross the line.

This comes out of the pockets of the honest customers, if they weren't beaten in the robbery itself. The cost of these robberies is society itself.
By far the best summary I've come across so far. Thank you!