skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tastefully intermingling the old with the new is exactly what isn't happening. I don't think a return to the classics is the answer, but some cities manage to handle modernism without clashing with tradition, and London very much isn't one of them.

Worse, these buildings are going to have a very limited working life compared to the older architecture around them. A century is optimistic.
Reminds me of the 1980s where people would type in BASIC programs out of magazines.
I think heavy duty trucks and such will still work on gasoline even in an EV future. So why don't these companies try to solve that problem in a carbon neutral way?
"Hell is other people."
—Jean Paul Sartre, "No Exit" (1944)
People forget bitcoin wasn't worth anything for a long time. You take care of an asset worth millions very differently than an asset worth pennies and too much of a pain to transact for cash anyway.
My understanding is you can sell the videos of the original cartoons, but you can't use Mickey's likeness to sell it.
Why are you surprised, you said it yourself:

> it turned out that having a world class OS was more important than perhaps anyone at the time knew.

Microsoft never fully committed to a phone OS because workable tablets might have demolished the desktop market.
I am not experiencing any crashes on mine. Of the listed apps I use IINA, qBittorent, Sublime Text. I use around 30 apps frequently, none of them are crashing.

Have you tried reinstalling everything from scratch? If yes, then it is very likely a HW issue. If others suggest a better method for checking where the fault lies, other than reinstalling, then follow their advice.
Chance of an asteroid hitting Mars is tens or even hundreds times greater than it hitting Earth. Not to mention that Mars has barely any atmosphere, so even a relatively small meteor (5-15 meters across) will be able to penetrate it and cause chaos.

If we have to terraform anything, why not first learn to do it here on Earth? Plenty of inhospitable space that we can turn green, no need to go to Mars.

Doing that will almost double the amount of living space for the human population. Earth is a big planet. There is also ample space deeper underground. Why not make entire high-tech undergound cities?

Doing it will allow us to plan similar projects on Mars, or even some day, on Titan. Conditions underground on very cold planets should be much more "habitable", than those on freezing surface.

While we are at it, even the Moon has cave systems where various research can be made and where people can get shelter from radiation.
Perhaps it was sarcasm, and not meant to be taken literally.
:-) It seems Cooley and Tukey were the first to realize/state that it's O(N log N), which is something.
And we all know how well Goggle is at keeping interest in its side projects.
Have any joy with sorting this?
The process of aggregating and formatting searchable information from many sources.

When you simply Google something, you're presented with blogs, articles, stackoverflow pages, github repositories, documentation, ... you're still left with the manual process of parsing all of the results, e.g. turning what you've read into runnable code, summarising and taking notes in a format that is easy for you to follow.

Furthermore ChatGPT allows you to have a dialog about the results. Maybe you have two equally interesting results and don't know which one to go with? Usually you'd have to do "sub-googling" in cases like this and once again parse, aggregate and format those results. With ChatGPT you can basically just ask it to expand on the previous results and help you figure out what to do.
What rock are you living under? The struggle between employers and employees has been a major topic for some time now. Quiet quitting, etc. The whole thing about it being illegal to do this as an employer is not being discussed solely as a dunk on Musk.

Every employer you had was violating the law, if they told you that discussing wages will result in termination. Doubly so if they actually fired someone over doing so. Discussing wages between employees is federally protected activity that employers may not interfere with. It's very similar to how the FCC has the jurisdiction to prevent landlords from prohibiting tenants from mounting antennas and satellite dishes on parts of the property where they have an exclusive right of access.

Even today, if you were to walk around and ask random people on the street, they'd probably tell you that it's illegal or wrong to talk about your wages. I even personally know a manager of a business who has that opinion (and the two of us have even had quite verbal and heated arguments about the topic).
"Recession" is nothing resembling the correct word. Go talk to some really old people, who remember American adulthood in the period 1935-1955. Ask them how many local, face-to-face social groups - churches, clubs, little leagues, etc. the average American adult was actively involved in back then. How many family members they had and really knew (vs. "I've got a cousin in $State who was married last I heard..."). How many neighbors they regularly had friendly conversations with.

One way to describe it is that Mass Media and Wall Street Capitalism have relentlessly optimized away America's social capital ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital ). That's been great for them. Not so good for America.
Lighting a candle using its own smoke
I imagine that Raymond's day at the office is basically him going from room to room saying hello and telling people stuff that everyone else forgot. Then he has lunch with someone else of the old guard, pops into random meetings to unblock the discussion and finally spends the last hour of the day writing another blogpost for TONT.
The last time I ever used a check was in 2007, when my grandfather handed me a birthday present. It's such an ancient concept in the non US world that it's now reserved only for ceremony
This person could’ve easily retreated into their room if they felt that way. They did not.
> The main reason for Mars is that it is not on Earth. Make „not on Earth“ a requirement that cannot be dropped and suddenly Mars makes a lot of sense.

Reading the article I think the author tries to figure why this requirement cannot be dropped and gets no rational answer.
I'm sorry to hear that you haven't been successful in using C++ features to their full potential in environments tightled coupled with C libraries. Integration with C or C-like code usually requires some effort if you want to be able to use exceptions that could propagate through C.

I do not offer consulting but can refer you to people who do.
There is a way which someone recently discovered to work great on reddit.

In automatic1111 UI you can alternate between prompts e.g. "Closeup portrait of (elon musk | Jeff bezos | bill gates)". Final image will be a face that look like all three. See this https://i.redd.it/8uq52mnausu91.png

Now do the same with two people but invert the gender. The female version of what I gave example of won't look like anything you know about. And it will remain consistent.

It kind of works.
Oh they definitely do. And even some XP ones. But all the time that could’ve been spent updating those to a more modern UI style, they instead reinvented the wheel with Windows 8 and then had to roll it back, wasting about 5 years
That was a knee jerk reaction at the time considering the border incursions. What should have been done is a study on meta & other popular apps on most users phone & then policies on how the same should have been processed instead of a knee jerk blanket ban. Like all of the Cambridge Analytica drama was not even enough to issue Facebook strict action
I think there is a spectrum of social behavior. The extreme bubble or silo is in my opinion just as toxic as the extreme toxicity of fringe ideas. There is probably a balance in there somewhere so that people can stay clear of social warfare and at the same time people can feel comfortable to be themselves and not have to wear a mask or have highly measured speech.

I honestly do not know how to achieve that balance. I think platforms that come close to having a balance still end up with people having to know their audience and have measured speech to some degree. Even HN is an example of that. It's probably the best balance I have seen but I have no idea how it could be made better other than having millions of small stand-alone self hosted platforms but then we move closer to those echo-chamber bubbles.

This is just my personal preference but I would not want to be in an echo chamber. If everyone just agreed with me all the time I would start to feel like I am in a room full of NS5 robots iRobot movie reference. "One of us..." That to me would be just as dystopian as being in a room full of fighting tribes. But that is just my own take on things. Perhaps it is a generational + personality tainted preference on my part.
Some of the examples that he’s crazy there are just rules from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can disagree with it but being Catholic doesn’t make you crazy.
I've worked on not interrupting people for my entire adult life. I get excited when listening to a conversation and want to start the ping pong of back and forth. This comes across as not listening and rude, when I actually am listening and am wanting to throw out prompts for more information. But, now I tend to just let a person go on.

To address your point, there could be a couple things going on. If you're packing so much information in short sentences people may be looking for spots to ask questions. Something I've been doing for awhile is to put almost awkwardly long pauses before moving on to another idea so people have the space to a) recognize the pause and b) time to jump in. If you're talking really fast, people may not see space to interject. If you don't want to do pauses, simply ask others for their thoughts.
I can think of a few cases in which GC would really simplify things, both in C++ and in Rust. I want to do some serious D and Go (and Crystal?) some day to see how it changes life.
Very cool. The naming is somewhat confusing. On the top you mention 2D spatial grids but in the description you mention 1D, 2D and 3D. Or am I misinterpreting something.
No, I fundamentally disagree with the idea that the clock is starting anew when you sell the asset. The buyer can start depreciating but the seller just paid taxes on the benefits it received from the sale which is an equivalent cash flow. You can in fine only depreciate once per asset. The whole reselling thing is bogus.

There is no real tax shielding coming from depreciation. If you just invest to replace existing depreciated asset, you just reach a steady state where you indefinetly write off real loss of value in infrastructure and pay taxes on real income which is things working as they should.

The real tax shielding actually comes from debts and means you can finance your investment in new infrastructure advantageously by using the tax write off. The interplay of debts and depreciation is not involved: that would remain true without any depreciation.

Anyway, the point of Malone through EBIDTA wasn't about cash flows anyway. It was to show that if you ignored how new investments were financed, the company was actually earning money and was profitable and these profits would materialise as soon as the company would stop expending which is indeed exactly what Amazon did again years later.

To get back to the article, I don't really understand what follows the part about Malone. If the point was that raising money through debts would be preferable to raising through capital, I would obviously have agreed but that's kind of obvious and startups wouldn't use VC money if they had access to debt anyway. Instead, he is somewhat talking about WCR without mentioning WCR which is weird before coming back to his initial argument about VC without having really at any point discussed the subject. What a mess.
code is law
Masakhane: A grassroots NLP community for Africa, by Africans
The shape apparently also creates a strong wind at street level, because air is channeled down the building.

The building is also lovingly called the "Fryscraper" by the locals.
Agree. As a geneticist I have to say this is both scientifically vapid and ethically wrong. Mendel did not consent to this. Just like Henrietta Lacks did not know or consent to her tumor being used for research (which includes sequencing). Given how much bad publicity the biomedical research without consent has attracted this PR stunt is baffling and plain stupid. Poor Mendel.
I thought they were shipped directly from China? On their shipping page they reported issues shipping to Belarus which would be unusual if they'd ship from Russia. If anything I'd expected issues with payment but I've never heard
that to be the case.
What does this have to do with GNOME?
> But Arabic was well-known, and nobody would have tagged "illiterate" on someone that could write Arabic texts.

The article asserts that there are still considerable groups of people carrying on commerce in Ajami, and that the official governments in those regions don't recognize Ajami as existing as a script. Are you saying this is a lie, and that people who read and write Ajami are largely considered literate by their governments?

Or are you saying that this is a lie and Ajami isn't actually used in any significant way these days?
Task Manager not having a modern filter/search for the gigantic list isn’t only an annoyance and a productivity killer but also a security issue.

If I suspect a nefarious app is running in the background somewhere I have to manually read the list to find it and kill it.

End of the day one of two things is happening, either no one influential at MS uses Windows or their structure is so broken that pointing out something like this it isn’t even possible to action the feature to be built.
You're not really `building` a sensor. More like "Blog series on interfacing an air sensor with Arduino".
Any plans for releasing an API spec that would allow for access from languages other than Python?
As long as people need to worry about things like their own financial ruin, need to worry about their investors each quarter, people aren't going farther than the earths orbit, and if they do, it will surely be a one way ticket to death. Doing it right now its like asking someone to play an impossible chess game where your side only has pawns and you lose $100 billion everytime one is taken.
That looks like a game actually about math that I would have played as a kid. Frog Fractions 2, despite seemingly like it might be about math, is a unique experience.
> > People want to colonise Mars

Until they are asked to go AND stay for say 5 years, then all of a sudden it's a completely different answer they'll give you.
> There are several new ECS projects implemented in C++ that have enthousiastic following.

Would you mind to share?

I'm currently looking into game dev. Would be nice to have a better picture of the landscape.
Indeed. And Nim has very good FFI with C++, including templates even.
Typoteka, index of historical Polish typefaces
I learned Smalltalk-80 from the blue book after getting the basic ideas from the August 1981 issue of Byte magazine. The book has four parts:
1) the basic ideas behind the language
2) a reference for all the classes
3) a detailed example in the form of a framework for event based simulation
4) a reference implementation of the virtual machine

It was later released as the purple book without part 4 for people interested in learning Smalltalk-80 but not in implementing it.

The link for the blue book is from Stéphane's collection which includes many other books, including ones that some people might find easier to learn from:

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
On a second thought: He reads like an extremely religious person. This actually makes me doubt the "tax evasion" story.
As I recall, the UI designers didn't even ask for feedback. It was a case of "we know what you want better than you do". That design approach is basically always a mistake.
> Not quite as much I would say

Way more in terms of money involved, just slower.
Does the FBI care about individuals losing bitcoins?
I see it as accepting karma; the guy is clealy an idiot and an ass, and was responsible for losing their own money.

Like if someone spread their money all over their lawn to show off; when it gets stolen, I'm not supporting the theft, but I can definitely laugh at the "victim" who did it to themselves. There is room for personal responsibility here...
I gather you don't have much use of the latest versions of the languages I mentioned, in all of them I can think of examples that don't add up.
I never quite understood the point of redesign. The only reason I can think of is marketing. Other than that, it's always, always a big mess. Why does everything need to be freaking round which makes it very ugly in low resolutions?
Update on a Haskell Game Engine (2023)
2023 Movie: Genetics Park

A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned geneticist to run loose.
As far as we know, Senegal was never an arab colony or under direct control.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Senegal#Kingdoms_an...

Calling it an arab colony would be like saying Sweden was a roman colony because they use the roman script.
https://kotlinlang.org/docsjvm-records.html
Yes you absolutely do[1]. But that’s true of any wallet (software wallets also have the exact same recovery phrase system so for example if you lost the hardware wallet you could configure a software wallet by using the recovery phrase and get your crypto back).

Someone else using your recovery phrase to steal your private keys wouldn’t actually brick your hardware wallet. It would still work but obviously since the thing that it was there to secure (your keys) had been stolen that would be moot.

The subtext is that keeping all this stuff secure is hard and depending on your threat model may not be worthwhile. This is similar to the way in which for most people it makes sense to have a bank look after their funds. In the world of crypto though we’ve seen obvious examples of these centralised custodians being untrustworthy and since they are not regulated or FDIC insured or anything of that kind it’s much more risky.

[1] If you want the ability to recover your funds if the hardware device becomes inoperable, lost, stolen etc. If not you could just burn the recovery phrase so you don’t need to secure it.
Neat! I made a regular ol' spatial grid hash (no hierarchy) in C# a few days ago for a boids thing.

It occurred to me then doing the whole simulation on GPU was the way to get nutty performance, but I haven't got to it yet.

Very cool of you to open source this.
Well, some CNCF projects seem to be moving from Go into Rust, if you want to use that as measure point as well.
Seems like there is some way. There's a startup[1] that I've been seeing around on twitter[2] which makes it easy to create in-game assets that are style-consistent. Haven't tried it yet but it looks promising!

[1] - https://www.scenario.gg/

[2] - https://twitter.com/Beekzor/status/1608862875862589441?s=20
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Though I indeed experience this in Windows, in macOS I feel the same about buttons, especially when you mix in an external keyboard (I have a Logitech MX keys). It's always a mistery when and how home/end work (does nothing in terminal, it's page down/up in some apps, in Word it's like Windows), when cmd-arrows do home/end (not in terminal [annoying that ctrl-a/e are the only ways!], does work in FireFox), what button gives me ~ (shown on 2 buttons on the MX keys) and when I can paste with crtl-v (ok, yeah I shouldn't but if you switch OS a lot... strangely it sometimes works).

Oh and three finger down-swipe is undo on iOS! Very handy! Just not always, more like sometimes.
Exactly. This is only attracting foreign interest due to th artificially constrained supply. If they were serious about the issue, they would increase supply.
"Who surfs the Internet anymore? Nobody."

Someone tell this guy some stats. Embarrassing.
> change shit for sake of changing shit...

While I'm a die-hard KDE user, I like how GNOME experiments with new ways of evolving the desktop paradigm and workflow attached to that.

Yes, they remove a lot of settings, and have a binary format for storing settings (and I don't like these design decisions), but it looks that they're becoming a very good DE for non-technical Linux user.

If any Linux desktop environment had 5% of this inconsistency, they would be battered to hell and back. Today, thanks to efforts of KDE and GNOME, even Qt and GTK apps can be rendered almost identically.

One might not like the direction of a particular DE, but I think we can agree that they're putting a lot of work towards a better, more usable desktop experience (and, I had my fair share of 3rd degree burns during GNOME3's teething as a developer).

AFAIK, GNOME 2.0 and KDE 3.5.x is still maintained as independent, different projects now, too.
Im not updating to windows 10+ until they bring it back.

I have 3 16x9 monitors.

Why do I have to use 16*3 width of my screen for the taskbar when 1 vertical taskbar in 1 screen is enough?
You're missing the point. Apple's decisions and methods have been criticized for longer than many HN viewers have been alive. The OP is making a claim that Apple's decisions are unwise [i]despite the fact that it's the most profitable company evar[/i] cite: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-3-trillion-market-cap-fir...

What chance can anyone else have if the Mac Pro is doomed if iPhone sales dip?
> groups of people carrying on commerce in Ajami, and that the official governments in those regions don't recognize Ajami as existing as a script

Not recognised as an official language is far from not being recognised as a script.
Sure a place with bad are quality with daily rain is probably preferable to a place with bad air quality without daily rain.

But assuming you don’t live in one of the 20 or so large cities in the world with worse air quality than Saigon, that point is irrelevant to this discussion.
> For instance, I don't think that examples of Screen Saver Settings or File Properties are relevant, as long as their styling is in line with the rest of the OS.

The only styling in common is most of the window colours match the selected theme.

The window decoration style, layout, font sizes, iconography, buttons are all artifacts of older MS Windows and do not match the modern Win 11 design language.
This of course doesn't mention the ~10km/s you need to actually get off Earth.
I thought I never needed anything more than a 1,500 square foot house like my wife’s favorite uncle built with his own hands for his kids. Our house is 3,000 square feet and we just finished 800 square feet for the basement and with three kids it’s just not enough. Heading to my parent’s 5,000 square foot McMansion on the weekends is a real reprive.

Yeah it would be easier if we didn’t buy them so much shit. But that’s a deeply ingrained part of American culture. Who has the time to cut their kids off from friends, extended family who buys lots of trinkets for every holiday, etc? Trust me we tried to fight that battle and all we have to show for it is a two inch thick layer of dinosaurs in the living room.