skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All the aforementioned cars (including your recommendations) all share one or more qualities with luxury buys that disqualify them from being considered by my rubric as "basic cars". Bezos famously drove a beater.

Ah, I'm curious what new car you consider to be "basic". I'm guessing none of them are. Whatever "beater" Bezos drove, probably has a modern analog, and that modern analog is probably the same price or cheaper, adjusted for inflation; safer; and more reliable.

Simple does not mean reliable, and reliability does not require simplicity. First-gen Lexus LS400s are still rolling around after 30 years, despite being a flagship vehicle that was loaded with enough technology to compete with top end Mercedes. Meanwhile, a Trabant is as simple as cars get, but keeping one going is quite the challenge, even though pretty much every part on one can be built by a local specialist, or adapted from another vehicle.

You'll get 250k miles and 20 years out of a new Corolla. And if the car has a fundamental defect that prevents that from happening, they'll make it right with an out of warranty repair. See: Taco drivers who received new chassis or cars with the 2AZ-FE who received complete engine rebuilds under warranty, even on vehicles with well over 100k miles. After that, because Toyota sold millions of them each generation (and shared parts with millions of other cars), you can easily find a lifetime supply of replacement parts. And that's what you like about your Mustang, right?

> Alternatively: we know that people are not rational actors, and car ownership is just one of the many things that people can be observed to be incredibly irrational about (to the point of acting counter to their best interests and/or their own stated interests).

Two of my siblings bought the basic transportation people are espousing here: one an older Civic, the other a Mazda2. Neither owned those cars for more than 18 months because, like many 20-somethings, "oopsies" happened and they find out things like, car seats don't fit if the person in the front seat is over 5'6, or strollers are gigantic. Both ended up trading their cars in for a minivan and a crossover. Both took a bath on the trades too.

This was irrational behavior. They were buying the car they could live with now with the expectation of keeping it for 15 years. A rational person would consider what life looks like in 15 years if they were planning on keeping a car that long.
It's pretty easy to test this with a meter. I don't get any emf with my Samsung or my MacBook when I'm in those modes.
This is a good point. The closest to “neuroscience” it could be would be if it analyzed the ocular-brain interface, I guess, but this is also not the case.
Do you think your wife could handle one extra option that is not the default where some users could change the 10 minutes to 1 or more hours? Or is that too many options for the average users?
> No more expensive developers, or tedious StackOverflow searches.

Is't it quite ironic, that somehow this product statement is sneering on the exact kind of people ("expensive developers") that are required to build the product itself?
And read Marcuse for gems like this :

"They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements that promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or that oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc."

That is, if you oppose the expansion of government you should have your right to free speech removed.

From : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse

Which shows the problem with idea of 'we must remove free speech for hate speech' because one of the originators of the idea intended that free speech should be withdrawn from people he disagreed with in ways that many or even most people in most Democratic states would find abhorrent.
There are many ways we can be responsible.

You and I differ on digital literacy. To me it's the only way to
ultimately solve this problem. It's not about educating people
technically. See my paper on "Digital Self Defence as Civic
Cyber-Security". Here in the UK we're taking that line (officially) at
last. And starting young!

Before limiting peoples' options to corporate walled gardens on the
assumption that "its safer" we can try actually scuring the products,
hardware and OS is the foundation. Got to stop listening to the
negative, defeatist voices who say "that's impossible".

And y'know there are laws against computer misuse. We ought to
seriously try enforcing them, even if that means the inconvenient
truth of exposing criminals with fancy brand names and logos. :)
8-pin SOIC packages (like 412/212) are still very easy to handle as a hobbyist. I've used them in a variety of projects.
Which is tragically amusing, since arguably the main reason why the source was made available in the first place was to support forking.
It's interesting tradeoff, because generally the bigger transistor the less quiescent current it has (=lower power when everything is off), but on the other side the bigger transistor the higher uA/MHz consumption
> Google doesn’t position themselves as some savior of mankind and human rights.

Prior to 2018, Google's code of conduct was summarized with the phrase "don't be evil."

(edit) They appear to have taken some flack on that and you can find it in their investor code of conduct again: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
> So unless you have outside knowledge or asymmetric insight suggesting prices will in fact go down, it makes no sense to DCA into the market.

Sure it does. Just like you say further down, people are "willing to accept lesser theoretical returns", except in this case it's to reduce e.g. tail risk. They could also buy up front and hedge, but that's already more technical than most people want to deal with.
Spicy, as in "using chili peppers," meaning it has capsaicin gives a bit of a lie to this. You literally just add capsaicin to food to make it spicy in many places. Is how they can give a number score to how spicy to make it. Leaving out the capsaicin does not change the base flavor profile at all.

Now, it is confusing, as spiced food is typically not spiced with capsaicin. Rather, spiced food has traditional spices and is often not spicy. (Think spiced rum. Not "hot" at all.)
The internet seems rather non destroyed to me. I use it daily and it works fine.

If you don't like targeted ads etc there are various ways to avoid them. Ad blockers, Ghostery and the like.
Atmel were always bit pricy for the featureset
> This is a very sloppy definition based on how the term "gaslighting" has been recently (ab)used,

A dictionary definition is a description of how a word is actually used in practice, not a prescription according to some abstract Platonic meaning.
The best DOS TUIs were generally those that adopted CUA (e.g. Borland's IDEs and other software written in Turbo Vision). Windows UX also built heavily on it, and it is the source of most of its core keyboard shortcuts to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Author here. You'd be hard-pressed to find an example in the literature that I _haven't_ already heard of, I've been researching this for a few years now.

STM certainly makes temporal programming easier, though it's not universally available and I'm not sure to what extent it will scale up to be performant enough for large-scale use - how many megabytes can I commit in a transaction before I hit some hardware limit.

SSA is a very valuable formalism for describing the interrelation of changing local variables inside an imperative function, but it's difficult to apply program-wide when you're dealing with large data structures and complex call stacks.
If you select a random person, and then select a random friend of that person, most of the time, the latter has more friends.

This is because friendship graphs tend to have a small number of highly-connected nodes and a large number of less-connected nodes. Therefore most of the connections are between a less-connected node and a more connected node. So, if you just select a random node, you are highly likely to select a less-connected node, which also means that if you follow a random connection from that node, you are likely to reach a highly connected node.

So to answer your original question: No.
> Experiential outcomes suggest pretty strongly to me that forcing all steak to be cooked medium-well or greater is wildly overly conservative.

Do you mean you grew coltures of bacteria from various levels of cooking and compared? Was this work peer reviewed?
> So yes, the spec does say that compilers are allowed to assume UB doesn't happen.

They are allowed to do so, but in practice this choice is not helpful.
Median is sometimes more relevant than mean.
Failure of imagination, or even just a memory fault. If I have a website that is focused on content relating to heirloom tomatoes during the week and artisanal firewood on weekends then I should be able to sell advertising space on my site during the week to grocers and on the weekends to woodstove manufacturers. It's not that complicated.
That's mostly effect of production node. Smaller transistors get you better uA/MHz but lower currents (unless manufacturer just decides to spend more die space on output transistors) and lower running voltage
> So I'm not really sure what information the statistic that there are about 140 Poker millionaires in a year vs 75k Ivy grads conveys.

Poker is played competitively both online and in the casinos of every country all over the world 24/7. There are a phenomenal number of players compared to Ivy league students.

Unlike the lottery, it is also largely considered to be a game of skill based on a combination of statistics and social manipulation.

GP is generally implying that because the ratio of players to successful players is so small for a game so widespread that is is very difficult and requires a huge amount of skill to make a significant amount of money playing poker.
Are meat substitutes better for the environment than meat?
Author here. There is a _huge_ overlap between a _wide_ variety of programming terminology, which is why one of the motivations of temporal programming is to bring all these various ideas under one relatively simple umbrella.
Essentially ‘b = a’ in the second example is equivalent to ‘b = &a[0]’ or assigning an array to a pointer.

This is because if you use an array in an expression, it’s value is (most of the time) a pointer to the array’s first element. But the left element is not an expression, therefore it is referring to b the array.

Example one works because no arrays are referred to in the expression side, so this shorthand so to speak is avoided.

Arrays can be a painful edge in C, for example variable length arrays are hair pulling.
> Forest harvest followed by replanting is not deforestation.

Nitpick on this point - economically, perhaps, but not environmentally when considering the biodiversity and volume of undergrowth destroyed in the harvesting process. Some of it may come back quickly but millennia of niche/microclimate adaptation is easily lost.
We're not going to have many vegetarians if only people who don't like meat become vegetarian.
As an ex-janitor, I heartily approve of this vital innovation.
Author here. I'll have to go look at Elm again - it's in my list of references, but I have so many at this point that I don't recall what exactly Elm does differently.
Giant hogweed. That thing is scary, also known as Stalin's Revenge. It requires a protective suit to be worked with, impossible to eradicate, inedible.
I think that's the point though. Our non-tech friends are exactly the people who shouldn't be downloading and installing random (unsigned) binaries.

As much as I love to hack and tinker with my OS, I also appreciate the safety inherent in the Apple ecosystem. That's why even as a life-long Windows user, I bought my Dad an iPad - I know the chance of him getting p0wned via some social engineering attack and having his banking password stolen are a lot lower than with a Windows or Android tablet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)
Pigs are the only thing I've seen that can hurt Japanese Knotweed.
Yep, I am a grumpy old ex-game-programmer (PS1 and N64 era) and wrote many, many little systems using double-buffered state.
Thanks for the succinct summary, I understand it better than the featured article.
I got one dose of the J&J back in 2020 and to my knowledge never had Covid (never had symptoms, never been tested). Never wore a mask, regularly hang out in packed bars, and spent a week sitting next to my cousin who had Covid while on vacation. Just lucky? Some sort of natural immunity? Or an asymptomatic case? Hard to say.
Regulatory filings suggest Nvidia’s scrapped RTX 4080 will return as the 4070 Ti
As a mathematician, my immediate reaction was: duh! Of course! Why is this interesting?

The go-to example would be a person having 10 friends, being the only friend for each of them. It's not too hard to generalize from there, or at least to have an intuition.

The interesting part for me was this:

> If there are only enough vaccines for a small fraction of the population, an effective strategy is to vaccinate a random friend of each randomly chosen person.

Oh. Makes sense!

Somehow, something like that didn't occur to me even when the math felt intuitive.
> To my surprise, Google/Android copied over all apps installed through Google Play, and just ignored all F-droid installed apps!

As an Android dev, I suspect it's not actually copying the apps over, but rather looking at what apps you have and redownloading them (and maybe copying over app data/the cache), as there may be some device specific customization in the APK's: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle

> An Android App Bundle is a publishing format that includes all your app’s compiled code and resources, and defers APK generation and signing to Google Play.

> Google Play uses your app bundle to generate and serve optimized APKs for each device configuration, so only the code and resources that are needed for a specific device are downloaded to run your app. You no longer have to build, sign, and manage multiple APKs to optimize support for different devices, and users get smaller, more-optimized downloads.
Yeah, but are these followers real people, or just bots?
Amsterdam is infamous. A swamp with centuries old buildings that are classed as monuments.

But on the positive side: subway systems are long term projects. After a few decades everyone but historians will have forgotten the cost and hardships. I'm sure Crossrail will be used by millions of people every year.
They could give the Kent Sullivan documentation to the WinUI team.
A setting with 10 minutes default would be reasonable change for users sake, in case they forget to turn it off.

Force 10 minutes with no optoon to turn it back? Yeah...

> but it's hard to come up with a legit explanation for why they rushed that change to China first.

The China told them to and they complied. They have every interest in China's government keeping their people in check so the Apple factory production continues without problems.

Follow the money and all that
The loan button was sending you to the screen with slider where you were able to choose amount of money to loan. So it wasn't causing you to take loan by accident, but just clicking it was noted somewhere as being interested in taking and loan, and caused bank to call to you about it.
I think it's cool, but $8/mo is outrageous. I also hate the demo model, why not just limit my account to 5 queries or something so I can see how it works? Most WP code people deal with are simple loops that people just have saved elsewhere. Rarely do you need something crazily complex. Honestly a CSS/HTML ai generator would be incredible.
Let's say your car purchasing power declined much more rapidly than your potatoe purchasing power then
Everything you need to know to get your Django app into production
Congratulations, you finished your first web app! Your models are perfect. You've tested all your views. You even managed to figure out how to make that fancy thing work in JavaScript. It's beautiful!

There's only one little problem...

...your beautiful new app only runs on your laptop.
Kind of like the word "agenda", which basically just means a "to-do list". But an "agenda" often represents the accusation that you've got a secret nefarious goal.

Or even "rhetoric" which is just the term for the art of speaking well, but now has been taken to imply flashy and dishonest tricks of speech.
Stop using smart phones as your primary computer. As radio transmitting devices you will never be allowed to control them. You don't have the license, the telco does. It seems crazy to me that, apparently, you have to have high technology knowledge to install arbitrary software. Isn't that the primary thing you do on a computer?

The mega-corporations will not change. It is up to you to change your behavior.
I got it first in May 20. I got over it in about 6 weeks and started getting my life together, and then my health plummeted. I was exhausted all of the time, I started getting palpitations, developed sleep apnoea and more. I caught it again in December 21 post vaccine and it was much more mild. I'm starting to get things back together now

It killed a healthy colleague of mine in Feb 20...

Edit: my wife was a 10k runner, and it has destroyed her running ability. She still can only run about a mile. She is getting heart rhythm issues to...bit worse than the flu I would say
>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

I'm one of those people.

I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2]

So why are you blaming the unvaccinated? Right now there are more excess deaths than any time during the pandemic.[3] Even people who were provaxx are questioning why it's happening now.[4] If the vaxx was so great less people should be dying or was that not the point?

[1] https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-cdc-buries-the-truth...
[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
[3] https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/159384008954467942...
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZJfVR9-wo
Instance blocking will ultimately create the exact same dynamic as found at Twitter.

Aggressive online activism, regardless of your political direction, is here to stay. So it can and will be used to pressure other instances into blocking yet other instances.
More like 2.499 once you consider the mass defect when you fission the third child.
This would be awesome if it worked on iOS too
Author here, you are correct. Implementing non-blocking assignment semantics in C++ is hard and can't really be done cleanly from within the language. Metron (the C++ to Verilog translator) relies on static analysis to prove that C-style assignments to non-local variables in a C++ program have the same semantics as if they were non-blocking assignments. MetroC will extend this with the '@' operator to allow for real non-blocking assignments in code that otherwise looks like regular imperative C.
Why is this post flagged? It is interesting, people can agree or disagree with it, but flagging it seems like propaganda. It is mostly about the dominance of data hungry, advertising backed web sites. But I also blame browser companies (I'm looking at you Firefox) for helping that happen.
What about browsers? People are downloading and installing code from untrusted sources many million times per second.
I'd recommend a mildly-used GX instead. More luxurious + a V8 + same off-road chops for the same price.
I somewhere heard/read someone say that gesture based interfaces are the new CLI (in terms of discoverability).
maybe I'm missing something here. If 40% of users got rage-level angry was it really worth removing?
Do you have links to the posts? I'm curious to see what they did
Nutmeg is psychoactive as well. I accidentally found this out using too much in masala chai when I had a very fresh source of nutmeg.
"The C Puzzle Book" is the thing I recommend to anyone who knows they want to have a good, working understanding of how to use pointers programming in C.

Many years ago I did the exercises on the bus in my head, then checking the answers to see what I got wrong and why over the space of a week or so. It's a really, really good resource for anyone learning C. It seemed to work for several first year students who were struggling with C in my tutorials as well and they did great. Can't recommend it highly enough to students and the approach to anyone tempted to write an intro C programming text.
Author here. In Backus's paper, the next-state function accepts a (state, input) tuple and returns a (state, output) tuple.
there are different takes on the nature and extent of divine determinism. my theology says god created a system (vs. a sequence of events) and intervenes regularly but not always. part of what god created is natural agency, after all, and in this light "everything that happens is meant to happen" is not synonymous with "everything that happens is distinctly willed by god". my understanding is that god is committed to that agency with such intensity that his position (seeing, knowing, and feeling all) compels him to feel sorrow when he knows both that he can end all suffering and that it wouldn't be fair to. accordingly, he likely doesn't see much value in directly controlling most coin flips
That's not that much different from existing industrial environments like brewing, or making mayonnaise or other things. I don't think that's much of a hurdle to have to overcome.
I have worked at a variety of sized companies, from 100 people to 100,000. Aerospace companies, baby bells, cable companies, software companies. The only time I've not been paid on schedule is when someone used my bank account number for their auto deposit.

This is a big deal, way outside norms.
Where did you find this information? In most places modern technology has only increased the rate it is possible log, which has allowed for large scale clear cutting to occur. Although many trees are successfully planted each year, very little old growth forest remains. Most people are not aware of how much logging has actually occurred, because it is done away from the road.

Secondary forests are also often monocultures, and planted essentially as bumper crops. Which means that they can not support the same biodiversity as the original trees that are being replaced.

My experience with this comes from working in the Canadian Silviculture industry as a tree planter for several years. If it is possible to create timber in a lab faster then it is possible to grow a tree, this could be really exciting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_forest
It’s well-defined on x86, but the compiler is allowed to insert INTO instructions (which trigger an interrupt on overflow), which is effectively UB (as the interrupt routine is outside the scope of the C language).
I wonder much resin is needed to keep such plywood together.
I have always had mine set to “Everyone”. I have been amused by some of the files (photos, mostly) I have received. I hope I continue to have the option to leave it open.
According to the A-B test, yes.
Interestingly, Windows 3.1 came with a 7-minute tutorial activated from the installer, about half of which is on using the mouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXKEnYQu-oM

If I remember correctly, this part wasn't there in Windows 95, so presumably they decided that users mostly don't need it anymore.
Anyone working on those codebases needs to be aware of the new ways, while mastering the old ways.

The ideal modern C++ without having to worry about "deprecated" ways of coding, is more the exception than the rule.
It wouldn’t directly generate any sales commissions.