skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comprehensive worldwide healthcare plan to successfully fight pandemic events comes to my mind.

PS: Oh sorry I understood that as a question of what would be useful, not what is actually spent.
I prefer waking up to a light turning on than a noisy alarm; but also like having a normal switch the rest of the day.

I have also used them to relocate a switch to a more useful place for much cheaper/in a rental. (Automatic switch in the out of reach or inconvenient location, battery switch in reach of where I want it).
Yeah you're right, I don't actually care about the difference in performance, I can't tell it apart honestly speaking, I just notice the extra fluidity which I'll continue to use.
>>Imagine people crashed their car every day but “meh just needs a new bumper!”

I mean....have you ever been to Italty? Spain? Parts of france? I've definitely been to places where people bump into things with their cars pretty much every day and the only reaction was "meh, that's what bumpers are for". I mean those are not accidents, sure, but it shows a certain culture of recklessness.
If you were going to die tomorrow, and if you had the option to live another day, what would you choose? Then days become months and months become years and so on and so forth.
There was no doubt at least one Ancient Egyptian with the same opinion. So maybe there is a future tourism or archaeological opportunity here?
Motion on, auto off, turn on at dusk, turn off at midnight, turn off when I’m not home. Turn on when I come home. battery-less switches that can go anywhere and trigger anything.

Smart lights and outlets are the only smart thing in my home and they really are great imho

It was sorta a pain to set up, over half a decade ago, now it’s small tweaks now and then but otherwise just works.
Similar in gliding (as in the elegant airplane): https://www.dg-aviation.de/en/library/safety-comes-first

> That sentence,
“The most dangerous part of gliding is the trip to the glider field”
is the dumbest, most ignorant saying that has found a home in our sport.

> The only thing they were doing up there was waiting for the start gate to open 1000 meters lower. And when it did open, they all dove down with air brakes open at 110 knots.
The fact that the standard and 15 meter pilots squeezed the last 50 meters of height out of the thermal can only mean that something was wrong with their thinking.

> Everybody has to develop a safety strategy for himself. The simplest is to eliminate the risks that are completely unnecessary.
Surely it matters the extent of the harm, though? If I'm doing home wiring, it is not at all helpful to know "this could result in a slight tingle or kill you and burn your house down."

Ambiguity means I can wave off your complaints because clearly what you're complaining about is a hangnail. Ambiguity means I can punish you brutally, because how dare you not take my car crash seriously.
Maybe immortality is a requirement for space travel?
With the 78 years avg that we currently have we won't get far unless we bend spacetime.
If everyone lives forever, time becomes meaningless.
> Never understood the quest for immortality.

Me neither, it sounds like a punishment.

> We are the children of our time. When our time passes, we will live as strangers in a strange land, drowning in the sea of nostalgia.

Now here, I disagree. If someone offered me to become displaced in time, being frozen most of the time, but waking up for a few months or a year (assuming I’d not be pennyless on the street) every decade or century, I’d love it until I tire and either retire in the "now" or end my life.

I love that my life will eventually end, I hate that I won’t be able to see everything to come.
reparations should never end, in the same way that Western debt burdens on American aid have enslaved African economies independence from colonialism.

mineral laundering, or the expropriation of African minerals and metals to other countries to disguise their origin, is estimated to account a considerable portion of the global GDP. if accounted for Africa would be a net debitor of the football economy; that is to say Africa would have the value role that the US/West currently holds. poverty, corruption and African war are all useful ways to disrupt sovereignty, undermine local growth, and hide the ill gotten gains from scrutiny. Western firms and govts still consistently do this across Africa to maintain the modern global economy. our technology-driven consumerist world wouldnt exist without this laundering. (copper, gold, cobalt, coltan, rare earths etc).
Not at all ironic or accidental.
You can also use rustc as a frontend to GCC through rustc_codegen_gcc.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc
Simple, but wonderful words.
Pretty much everywhere
Ain't it cultural appropriation to insist on the slavery-connotated meaning of "master"? In central Europe, "master" has the connotation of having successfully learned ("mastered") a craft, cue. German "Meister".

Also, what degree does one get in Stanford after a BSc?
Have a cheap laser printer wired on lan. Use it maybe every 2-3 months. Useful when you don’t have an office to print things at (I got it the year I started working at home)
That's an interesting perspective. This ageism makes me think of elderly people (both Black and white) in the 80s who could not seem to stop using the term "colored" to refer to Black people. It was the polite term when they were young and it was hard for them to adjust to Black, which had been up to then an outrageously rude term. I just dismissed them as racist, but thinking back, the people who used it otherwise expressed no animosity in their hearts. Ironic that things have come full circle today and the polite term is "people of color".

To be fair to the woke, sincerely, their hearts really are in the right place generally speaking.They are trying out the ancient idea that language changes thought, and if people speak only correctly they will think only correctly. Of course, it never has worked, will never work, and introduces bad unintended consequences, but the motivation is kind at core.
The point of drug discovery to slow down or stop aging is not to keep people in that frail state of life for as long as possible. Instead is to keep people in their 30s for as long as possible. Most research out there is trying to solve aging, not death.
> It forces the team to articulate assumptions and dilineate between in-scope and out-of-scope details.

The more general rule is to force people to put numbers on things.

- Not "will this be expensive?" but "how many dollars do you think this would cost?"

- Not "is this a big project?" but "how many calendar days will this take?"

- Not "will we need a small amount of paint only?" but "how many litres of paint should we buy?"

People very easily come to false agreement over vague terms and goals, but when the numbers come out it's revealed how different their opinions really are, and that's when the useful discussion about assumptions and theory start.
Some services have a small "always free" tier too; S3, DynamoDB and Lambda all have enough free usage available for personal projects.
That makes sense, but it is not the reason why these terms were removed, and reasoning really does matter. Bad logic can lead to good conclusions, but that doesn't change the fact that it is bad.

In particular, this idea that giving a negative connotation to the color black and darkness in general, and a positive connotation to the color white and lightness in general, implies some kid of racial bias is absurd, ahistorical, and frankly disturbing (since it creates controversy retroactively out of nothing).
they are right to. wait until the Indonesian Muslims and Cape Coloured community of South Africa get to tell their stories...
Adding frames isn’t simply an act of interpolation when it comes to animation. You’d need to understand acting choices as well.

The timing of motion and the importance of how long a frame is held for is important to how characters are portrayed and the impact of actions.

Take a punch or a bounce. The time of contact may be one drawn frame but it may be on screen longer to sell it. What should interpolation do here? If if it smooths everything but the impact, then the impact will feel too sticky and lose its force. Similarly if it smooths the impact as well then it goes by too quick and it feels too weak.

Animation is full of these choices and it’s a common problem in video games for example where animators animate at a given frame rate but games can run at variable sampling rates along their animation, causing unwanted artifacts of motion or ruin the performance.
> Often it appears in corporations the only people that are getting ahead are those types of yes people.

That is why I love consulting. The managers that hire me often express themselves to be as critical as possible on the current way of working or possible problems. This does not allow me to be blunt, because I still need to convince people of another way. But at least I do not have to pretend and worry about my position.

I put your book on my reading list.
You can run jobs with the granularity of a minute for free with Cloudflare Workers[1].

[1]: https://workers.cloudflare.com
Git-autofixup: create fixup commits for topic branches
True, most people in cars choose brain damage. But my campaign for car helmets has not taken off, despite the fact that more people in cars will die or be irreparably damaged for want of a helmet than people in bikes.
We have these in London too. They are mostly used by tourists.
I know some of the people involved. I expect that they are honest in saying that this never happened and that Johnson lied. Johnson himself later retracted the statements and his retraction said that he had no direct observation or evidence about the Ted Williams allegation; but this should probably not be regarded as significant evidence apart from my own claims about Alcor's probable honesty, since Alcor did in fact sue him and the book's author for libel.
> In 1998, Raël established the Order of Angels, an internal all-female group whose members are largely sequestered from wider society and tasked with training themselves to become the Elohim's consorts.
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True statements matter. If it didn't than Boolean statements wouldn't work. Duh!

Also, is research not ultimately meant to be truth seeking? Should we not explore to understand world, for example the laws of physics? Or is that truth not useful and a waste of valuable resources. In that case - you should probably get off the internet since it apparently isn't very valuable to you.
> A migrant will succeed there but you will need to speak German fluently - without that you cannot succeed.

If you work in IT or media, often even English is enough.

Navigating public service can be really hard though, even if you speak perfect German, but especially if you don't.
That’s fair, and that’s always a viewers choice to make , especially with home viewings.

> I remain unconvinced by those arguments

Though hopefully that does go some of the way to convince you that the arguments are legitimate. But personal subjective preference can override intention of the author.
Insitutional elites are not liberals anymore, just opportunists. Those Alumni funders are largely possible because ultra-wealthy elite institutions have tax-exempt status. Plus, they are allowed to admit whoever they want despite taking in lots of federal funding. So the offspring of oil-barons and politicians comingle with the top 0.1% of academic talent, creating the next generation of crony capitalists.
Thanks for your recommendation! I added it to my reading list.
> The error here is not that they are wrapping the exception necessarily. It is that they re-threw it as an unchecked exception.

You often don't have a choice. Think of generic interfaces -- for example the humble apply method on https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/function... .

If you have a Function which needs to do some interruptible work you cannot throw InterruptedException -- you must wrap it. This is a fundamental design flaw in Java's exception system and cannot be handwaved away just by saying that Function is badly designed. This problem is pervasive.

The ultimate problem here is one of variance -- throws clauses have the opposite variance rules from method implementations: Subclasses (whether of interfaces or classes) frequently need to more than could be foreseen by the implementor of the interface, so they need to be able to throw "more things", but checked exception clauses explicitly disallow widening the set of thrown exceptions in subclasses (for obvious reasons -- since a FooImpl can be used a runtime where a Foo is expected).

This is a fundamental flaw that was overlooked in the checked exceptions design and there's no fixing it now.
Not sure about iPhone, but on Android, the permission to let apps pair things in surroundings using BT/WiFi is included in the location permission.

You can't pair anything with an app unless you turn the location on.
Main feature of the Roomba app is to pair a vacuuming robot using phone's wifi and a special wifi network between phone and vacuum.

So while it's not a perfect solution to block you from going further, you can't really be that paranoid about them asking for that access. And ofc, I'm sure your location flew to the iRobot servers along with your other details that could've been scraped from starting the app on your phone.

edit: added paragraphs for readability.
> rule of thumb (Although no written record exists today, this phrase is attributed to an old British law that allowed men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.)

This is a myth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb
Yeah, people don't understand how to use language module features, but decide they are great at scaling up distributed systems.
There's no high horse. Your message doesn't answer the argument. The fact (A) that one wouldn't buy music if Spotify weren't available is not related to (B) not caring about how Spotify treats artists.

Even if A is true, it doesn't imply that one has no empathy for artists.
You’re always free to take the quick way out. Don’t be so quick to condemn 8 billion other humans to the same short lifetime just because you can’t imagine living longer.
> Even Americans aren't so tribal as to hold grudges between towns and adjacent unincorporated land.

They aren't? Cuz I'm seeing this exact thing every day on my local Nextdoor.
That was in an era of rapid change for Windows APIs, these days games target Windows from ~5 years ago.

Another comparison that I think is more apt: "IBM PC Compatibles run IBM PC software better"
Bazel is definitely worth it if you have a large enough repo. But if you have such a large repo you can and should have a team that's dedicated to CI, builds, etc.

If you have a small team and repo it's probably not worth the effort.
As much of an idiot as a driver not wearing a seatbelt.
This is a beautiful feeling, but I believe it is far too easy to dismiss how risky "eliminating death" could be.

To offer one example democracy would be mostly impossible in a post mortality world.

Also immortal humans would be either fertile or infertile and both cases would create quite weird situations.

If I can conclude with some posturing, it is part of human nature to strive toward better conditions and solve the problems around us. This might be our demise, as both giving up on that nature and following it to its logical end might lead to our end.
Language policing is a great tool to control society. There is always some “flaw” in your language. So you have always something for people to “struggle session” about, in order to become better communi… I mean woke. Ideologies based of group identity have been using this since the early days.
When I was a CS undergrad the first language studied was Modula 2. I still think of it as a great simple language to introduce people to programming.
Well you better not support cancer research either, as to at goes to the rich first long before it trickles down to public health systems.
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023
That's how WSL gets traction being good enough as Unixy command line
>It's natural for a bear, so heart disease and diabetes would've been strongly selected against in bears, while suffering approximately 0 negative selective pressure among our ancestors.

It certainly helps that bears rarely live past 20 years in the wild, and they start reproducing at age 3-6.
>if biology was capable then it would have found a solution by now

It did though.[0]

There is likely very little evolutionary pressure for immortality, therefore this kind of thing isn't more widespread. If anything, at population level evolution might generally select for the population that produces a new generation and dies quicker.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
I always wear my helmet on my bike but when I take a Lyft bike, I'm almost always just trying to get home and don't wear one. Just a convenience thing. One day it'll catch up to me.

But in the counterfactual, would I die earlier from something else because I'd lack exercise from not biking enough. No.

Still, ultimately, I'm going to do it this way. I value my devil may care identity too much.
I guess it has been portrayed the wrong way for a long time. All fringe ideas get thrown in the same basket. Singularity, anti-aging research, wormholes and interstellar travel, etc. But most research today is trying to solve aging, not death. It's trying to maintain people from getting in that state of frailty and maintain youth for as long as possible. I got interested in longevity a decade ago but only came back to the community this year and the field has evolved quite a lot. I started blogging again about it and I addressed this specific topic: https://www.stanete.com/coming-of-age/.
I personally prefer the fixed-point algorithm for its simplicity and performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954975
100% not too old to get married, and cash doesn't really factor into that, all you need is someone you enjoy spending time with, what does that cost? Some food to cook at home, maybe a subscription to a tv service app.

I'd be very happy with my husband if all we could afford is a subscription app and some stuff to mess about cooking together. I've no idea what sort of person you're looking for, but there's no time limit or cost limit to falling in love.
The motivation is some of the "serverless" offerings may be near free if you are only firing this say once a day and the script is very fast to run.
If I read GGP's comment correctly, he will be 13 by the time/before the credit on digital ocean runs out.
strcpy is a better example, but strcmp does memory-to-cpu moves, which is part of what they’re trying to speed up.
Interpolation doesn’t change shutter angle which is what causes motion blur to have a specific aesthetic look, so when interpolated it looks wrong for the frame rate.

You’re right in that it doesn’t change the amount of blur, I’m not sure why the person you’re replying to thinks that. But it does change the aesthetic of the blur.

Perhaps they’re thinking of the issue with the Hobbit where the higher frame rate at a given shutter angle (180 let’s say) that shortened the blur compared to a traditional 24 fps film.

They adjusted this for the second hobbit film to leave the shutter open longer (not a 360 shutter, but something like a 270) to bring back some of that feeling.
You just need a space ship with some sort of magical fuel, which can also somehow survive hitting a speck of dust at near the speed of light.

Even then, accelerating and decelerating will take so long, I suspect you'll wish you had some way to freeze yourself for the trip.
Pinboard is arguably the type of service that can withstand the tide of times much better than overblown posh "modern" web apps. But it's a sad truth that even the best things eventually erode and die. I really hope Maciej is doing well and doing other important things, and I hope that others pick up the crucial task of safeguarding the web in a sane way.

As for the rest of us, I stick to Cavafy:

> As someone long prepared for this to happen

> Go firmly to the window. Drink it in

> Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing

> Your first commitments tangible again

> And you who had the honor of her evening

> And by that honor had your own restored –

> Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving;

> Alexandra leaving with her lord
I am signed up with Alcor, and I’m well aware of Aubrey’s work, thank you!

I personally think we need better tooling. We need atomically precise manufacturing, so as to create medical interventions on the smallest scale.

To this end I hope to be launching a molecular nanotechnology startup in the near future.
I actually started playing around with a 3D project in the latest 3.X version recently. While the 3D renderer in that version isn't excellent, I guess I could also just stick with it, due to how long that version has been around for and due to how stable it is. Migrating projects across major releases down the line can be a pain in any engine, though, as anyone who has tried migrating a project from an older Unity LTS to a newer release will probably attest to as well.

But hey, it's great that Godot has such long support even for the older releases and overall it's a pretty great engine, especially because of how lightweight it is! In addition, their GDScript language is pretty nice, and while I personally prefer C# (which you can use), the performance of GDScript isn't too bad either, as I recently checked: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/porting-the-godot-lod-plugi...
They wrap to SDL, so it's still being used. Proton is mostly an assemblage of FOSS projects, direct interaction with Valve isn't needed to use those any more than direct interaction with, say, a major contributor to Mesa like Intel when using that.
It would be interesting to see how the CTO and CPO dealt with the blowout in delivery time. As they pretty much gave a made-up commitment to the customer, did they also create fiction when reporting to the CEO or the board in how their team was doing at meeting delivery revenue and containing costs?
> Should language be precise, or nice? [...] Maybe freedom of thought, and the ugliness beyond, is something that should only be allowed in ones own head?

I don't think that asking people to say "died by suicide" rather than "committed suicide" is a question of precision vs niceness. Both are plenty precise, we agree they describe exactly the same IRL event.

I also don't think that asking people to say "died by suicide" rather than "committed suicide" is an affront to freedom of thought, for the same reason.

That said, sure, yes, my parents always told me to "think before you speak" and sometimes "you can think it but don't say it". We all think things that we shouldn't say, usually because saying those things will hurt someone. If you insist on saying something after being informed that it hurts someone (e.g., not using their pronouns, or referring to a painful moment in their life [e.g. the suicide of a loved one] in a way that hurts them) then, yeah, that's kind of the thing my parents tried to teach me not to do.
i say it is not just the have and the have-not, every byte costs electric energy. We dont have put enough effort in having electricity that dont harm the climate. We should reduce sending unnecessary bytes as a little effort to save our planet.
That seems to make the mistake of summing up the lower bounds to create a lower bound for the total time (and correspondingly sum the upper bounds to create an upper bound for the total time.)

That yields a very unrealistic (as in not-relevant-for-reality) range for the total time. Am I misunderstanding something?
Without age related death people would be terrified to experience anything incase it lead to their death.. crossing the road would be an incredibly high risk activity in such a future.
An extension for checking if .git is exposed in visited websites