skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am definitely not underestimating how great Earth is. But we will learn how to make other places comfortable too. The trick is to remember that technology will improve. Living in a tin can on Mars would suck. Living on Mars with fusion power, biological enhancement, nanobot construction, etc, etc, etc is an entirely different story. Personally, I'd love to live on a ship. I'm aware I was probably born 100 years too soon.
how about let's figure out who to house and sustain 20K homeless people in established cities.
That recruiter shouldn't have said that as its probably caused lots of people who aren't inadequate to feel like they are.
or Vlang (https://vlang.io/), which can compile to C, and has a C2V transpiler.
We have 8.x billion people on Terra, an environment with circa 4.x billion years of evolution for eukaryotes to thrive, and still we have about 1.x billion people undernourished with around 20,000 people dying of hunger each day [1], not to mention the other eukaryotes.

Our species has proven again and again it's inability to care for the extended tree of life, heck, we still believe there are sharp and crisp delimitations inside our own species (the blacks, the Jews, etc.). Why then this gaslighting about "we must save civilization"? Just because some of the billionaires, those who our system lets to own the world, are afraid of dying? Hey, rich guy [2], got news for you: we don't have a civilization, we are barely a bunch of pseudo-evolved tribes, infighting for trivial resources and perceived boundaries.

Let's figure out how to have a civilization, then, maybe, we can try to save it.

However, as it stands, "we must save civilization" is doublespeak for "you, hoi polloi, go and build an Elysium for me and my friends", just as the Qataris said to the slaves to build them stadiums [3]. And if you own less than $30 million [4], don't kid yourself, you are still hoi polloi.

[1] https://reliefweb.int/report/world/humanitarian-organisation...

[2] There are no rich gals https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/012715/5-ric...

[3] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-wo...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high-net-worth_individua...
Problem is Alameda was needed by FTX as a market maker.

Alameda was over 50% of the trades and often the counterparty of the others.

It is a scam in the end, FTX will die without Alameda.
IMHO Mac mini isn't going to die any time soon; it is there in the lineup to be hostable/rackable operations glue for running old software and (old operating systems) headless.

I doubt they will release a M2 Pro Mini. They will instead update the Mac Studio. Conversely, if they make a M2 Pro in the current Mini form factor, they'll likely use that as an excuse to redesign the regular M2 Mini to be smaller (Mac Micro) and more compatible with DC-power data centers.
Three of your last four (top-level) comments on this site are talking about your podcast.
Indeed, another challenge is crystal aging. For example, PCF2129 has an aging offset register. These devices are rated to +-3ppm over the huge range of -30-80C but the register allows for -7 to 8ppm offsets, if necessary.
You said AMA, but you also said you were trying to relax during winter break... so no need to bother with this question if you don't want, I guess.

I admit I do have one reservation about supporting approval voting. Specifically, I'm concerned about the "chicken dilemma" situation.

An advantage of plurality is that voters are strongly incentivized to tell pollsters their true favorite, in order to get their true favorite performing better in the polls and attract strategic voters. This means polls tend to track election results, which seems good for legitimacy. Additionally, adding polls to the mix means plurality isn't quite as bad as people say -- in theory I could support my true favorite in the poll, and shift to strategic voting in the general election if my true favorite doesn't see their polling numbers rise.

Approval voting seems like it could incentivize people to lie to pollsters though. Consider an election with a red-orange candidate, a yellow-orange candidate, and a blue candidate. Suppose all candidates have approximately equal levels of support. Imagine I support red-orange and I get a call from a pollster. I know that if I can get those who favor yellow-orange to vote for red-orange as well, red-orange has an excellent shot to win. So I lie, and tell the pollster I'm voting for blue only. The yellow-orange supporters start freaking out, and they vote for both red-orange and yellow-orange to keep blue out of office. I bullet vote for red-orange; red-orange wins in an upset where blue was the favorite. Blue supporters get angry, and declare the election a fraud, since the polls were so far off.

Have you guys thought about the added strategic dimension that polling adds?
It is freaking ridiculous to blame political correctness for actions of people who were literally at the opposite spektrum of politics for years. These are people that lived in opposite kind of bubble and listened to hard-core right wing media for years.
I occassionally use the Notion Android app - and you can feel the difference in the native interface and the webview in this case. But only due to the interactivity - appearance is similar and cohesive.

My experience wasn't good before the introduction of the native home tab - I experienced high loading times right on opening the app and degraded usability - which made me quit from that page most of the time. Opening a page from the home tab now still has delay associated and the transition is not yet seamless (for me - I get a blank screen and then the page starts to load). But the home tab helps significantly improve the overall experience as the initial wait time is no longer present. Like mentioned the experience is improving - and I'm looking forward to the beta with more native interfaces!
With luck, maybe after C++26, if at all.
I’ll preface this by saying I still prefer the diversity of somewhere like NYC over the monoculture of many East Asian cities including Tokyo.

But there are certain cultural and demographic factors in play in such East Asian cities, which are often considered a bit taboo to mention. However these factors are also responsible directly or indirectly, for some of the most praised aspects of these cities. And why it would be virtually impossible to replicate some of these successes in somewhere like NYC.
vps provider, yes. Random, less so, since they're on the nyse.
To your professor: If you want to do research then what are you doing at a school?! Take a tip from E.O. Lawrence and get a large funder to fund a research institute for you.
anybody else enjoy direnv for managing multiple eks clusters?
just cd into a said directory and it sources needed kubeconfig - no need for fancy mergeing setups, ect
Internet Protocols. Specifically the beauty and simplicity of IPv4
>I tend to keep my distance with people who use mirroring tactics because it can often be a sign of underlying personality disorders (chameleon effect).

How did you learn that? (I think you’re right.)
How long?

Consecutive stay in the ISS has been completed for 355 days (almost year) with less than 10 people onboard at that time.
I think Elon is being more aggressive in pushing out changes. Many times companies get the "don't rock the boat" mentality for fear of breaking something, and feel that what they have is good enough.
that is super awesome that someone is focussing on firefox rather than the now convention of chrome only "because that is what everyone uses anyway". thank you
Exactly this. There's a cost to supporting Intel forever only for the Mac Pro and nothing else.

Not only a cost to Apple, but also a cost to 3rd party Mac developers, who would be even less likely to have the resources to support the Mac Pro for its own sake.

Apple dropped PowerPC support in Mac OS X (10.6) 3.5 years after the Intel transition started, and they dropped Rosetta support in Mac OS X (10.7) 2 years after that.

IIRC the last PPC Mac hardware was discontinued very soon after the Intel transition started.
> How will Apple recoup the cost of designing a powerful chip for a product like the Mac Pro, which is presumably their lowest-selling product?

In their own datacentres?
This isn’t true. I lived in Japan for several years in the 80s and had salmon sushi a few times. It wasn’t popular, but it existed.
Great tool and kudos for it being native.
For years kids are rewarded and punished based on how well they do in school, so is it any wonder that by the end their lives revolve around this twisted system that doesn't actually end up mattering much.

I count myself lucky for realizing half way through my education that school and especially grades don't matter at all, so I could just wait out the couple last years so I can get to work life and relax.
As someone that works in generative modeling (vision) there's something that sparks suspicion. They note that these are hand picked results. Has anyone used this and can report the actual quality of results? I bring this up because anyone that has used Stable Diffusion or DallE will know why. Hand picked results are good, but median results matter a lot too.
why does everyone trust the bitcoin core dev to be telling the truth about getting "hacked" and having his funds immediately mixed?

this seems more like it could be similar to a simple boating accident
California continues to chase away its population
And could only be reached after a months long journey with 0 ability to resupply of ANY kind. No trees and fruit, no fish and desalination, no colonies along the way. Just months of nothing (and yes i'm aware that because of this the plan is to try and orbit resupply "drops" and I personally think that's insane).

If you want to see extra planetary colonization, the moon is the most obvious first step by a HUGE margin, and even if it was made of gold or some other precious material, it wouldn't be financially sane, but the advantages mars offers pale in comparison to the EXTREME disadvantages its immense distance offers.

IF we can get something going on the moon, it makes literally everything else magnitudes easier. Doing anything else is, at best, a pointless exploration mission, and at worst, suicide by government spending. None of the mars plans are remotely realistic or grounded in reality, and all have so many points of failure it's going to be more worrying if we actually think we can get someone there.
Another weird MOS Pong console: 1976 Allied Leisure Name of the Game II
> Dereferencing void * still exists.

... huh? i'm fairly confident dereferencing void is not valid C++ ; at the very least gcc/clang/msvc do not compile it: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/hK6qb1z6o
we haven't solved vertical farming yet. it's not energy efficient. i imagine its even harder/more expensive in Antarctica to keep the plants warm enough.
cheap and clean energy production is where we should spend our money.
I think that was the highlight of the opening ceremony. Would be interesting to know if Rowan Atkinson was involved in developing the bit (not so much the video clip but the single note business was well conceived).
https://archive.ph/OrEOr
People often can't answer these question today because the answers are now misleading or irrelevant, except to historians.

Even math has advanced in the last 100 years. Students today would be taught pertinent math, not how to use a slide rule. Throw a question asking for manipulations of a slide rule and 98% of today's students aren't going to be able to answer it. And most of those few who can are going to have a crotchety grandparent. The remaining few will be mathematical historians.
The question remains, why not just do those things on the moon instead? It makes almost infinitely more sense when compared to mars.
You twisted my words and insulted me. And then you say you regret engaging, and not even because you disagree with what I say, but because I apparently am not a good conversationalist.

Yeah, OK. Bye.
>Imagine we want a range function where range(5) returns [1,2,3,4,5].

The imperative solution makes perfect sense and is fast, everyone can understand it including future me. I don't have to think about it at all and just understand it as I'm reading it.

In the real world out there this is something that carries a lot of value.
It seems strange to include the Mini. As it is more of an Intel Mac for those who somehow still need Intel macOS for whatever reason. The memory capacity is limited in ARM Mac. So if you want high capacity memory you go to Mac Studio.

And with Mac Studio, which brings us the next question. What are the Market Mac Studio couldn't compete with Mac Pro. If it is not powerful enough now, will possibly another doubling of LPDDR6, that is 512GB with 1.5TB/s of bandwidth with M3 Ultra be enough?

The only market I could think of right now is Audio Professionals with specific Plug in Sound Card. Could that market not be served if Apple had made a few more Thunderbolt 4 port available?
"Change" is manifestation of idea. If you have the idea that sleeping 8 hours a day is beneficial, you are very likely to act like it.

Imo, ideas form within the spectrum of indoctrination and "epiphany".

Indoctrination is something that you hear over and over, and sort of taking it as granted. Parent to children, school to students, religion to devotees, government to citizen, social media to general public, hackernews to us developers, all impart their flavors to our mind and we act according to it. Take sleeping for example, sleep well, sleep long enough, sleep early shouldn't elicit much debate, we treat it as truth more of less. On the other hand, dietary cholesterol consumption, which is considered, advertised and indoctrinated as bad for more than 5 decades has now garnered some attention to consider otherwise [1][2][3]

Epiphany is circumstantial, event driven. Either you have a lightbulb moment, or reality decides to slap you in the face. Having a close friend/relative die at a young age will either makes you treasure life a lot more, or send you into deep depression. But it will change you forever for sure. On the other hand, again taking sleeping as an example, I have been a night person since teenage, habitually sleeping at 3am, 4am, feeling drowsy in the morning and study/work in the late evening. "I prefer working in silence" is the excuse I gave to the then self. One day it dawn on me that there are only 24 hours a day, if I can get things done in 1am before sleep, I can equally get things done in 6am after sleep. And if I can rest well, I can get things done quicker. No new information just one day I viscerally feel that shifting the biological clock earlier makes more.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Countries_Study

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lustig
I'm happy you like it! I've been primarily using Firefox for years now mainly due to multi-account containers being only supported there as far as I'm aware (also I prefer open-source programs). I'm hoping Manifest v3 will gain Firefox more users, since it heavily limits adblockers on Chromium browsers.
> What's the advantage of invariants over unit testing?

I studied Eiffel in university under Bertrand Meyer, and here's his (probably unique) point of view.

If someone hands you their library code and their unit tests, you have to understand their unit tests - which involves understanding why they chose the values that they did. There's also nothing stopping someone from testing the internals of their library as opposed to the publicly exposed behavior.

With contracts, imagine that to understand their library, you only see the method declarations with accompanying contracts. You don't see how HashSet.Add(x) is implemented, but you do see "if this.Contains(x) old(this.Count) == this.Count".

You don't have to see a test where this is tested with 5 example values, on an empty set, on a large set, whatever. You can rid yourself of that cognitive load by thinking, as sibling points out really well, declaratively over imperatively.
no, i really want reflection and better code generation features for instance ; this would allow me to simplify and remove a lot of useless code. likewise, "deducing this" which made it into C++23 is likely going to allow me to remove at least a few hundred and hopefully a few thousand lines of the codebase I'm working on. And all this means less chances for bugs and more time actually writing features.
vhdl started as a project to document integrated circuits. The department of defense was getting a lot, and more complicated, integrated circuits and wanted a standard to document the functionality. At some point someone thought, "you know, if the documentation is good enough we could reverse it and synthesize a circuit from it", and thus why you use vhdl(or more likely verilog) to program your fpga.

The two languages fill the same role in the ecosystem, I have to say that I have never used ether, but my impression is that vhdl has clearer syntax(if you can stomach it's ada look and feel) and verilog has better tooling. which makes sense considering that one was a documentation project and the other was an internal tool for simulation that escaped into the wild.
Apple watch seems to bail if the pressure limit is exceeded
As a follow up to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33785458

It seems that the apple watch instead of calculating decompression stops, just bails out and tells the user to figure it out.
When was that ruled out for Mars? According to this SpaceX source (first Google result) it's still 100.

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf
Sounds like https://h2-industries.com/en/lohc-technology-overview/ &

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_organic_hydrogen_carrie...

Just add some cheap and reliable fuel-cell...
Musk is prone to speak in a somewhat hyperbolic fashion, and may well be more risk-averse when it actually comes time to actually decide whether to put human lives at risk, than he is when talking about that decision as an abstract future. It also isn't entirely up to him–it is also what the rest of the SpaceX executive team feels comfortable with (especially Gwynne Shotwell), and also the comfort level of the regulators and lawyers.

Even NASA "doesn't mind risking/losing some lives", in that while they drive the "probability of loss of crew" as low as feasible, they never can get it to zero. Possibly, a private SpaceX mission might have a higher go/no-go threshold for that probability – but if it adds up to (say) 50%, I really doubt they'll go ahead with the mission, they'll likely instead delay so they can invest further engineering resources in reducing it to a more reasonable level.
> I think Elon is being more aggressive in pushing out changes.

What evidence do we have for this?

He's pushed aggressively for a few specific features, but we don't know how much of the work was done before the layoffs, whether that pace of development is sustainable, and whether it extends beyond his pet projects.
> you have to present a better constructive narrative that could be accepted as "even cooler" by believers

The article mentions some alternatives.

>> One path forward would be to build on the technological revolution of the past fifty years and go explore the hell out of space with robots. This future is available to us right now. Simply redirecting the $11.6 billion budget for human space flight would be enough to staff up the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and go from launching one major project per decade to multiple planetary probes and telescopes a year. It would be the start of the greatest era of discovery in history.

Personally, I find that idea inspiring!
My question is, why wouldn’t it be this way? For two equivalent students from equivalently prestigious schools, if one has a 3.5 GPA and the other has a 3.9 due to grade inflation, of course the second student will have more opportunities. And more opportunities means higher pay, and higher pay means more donations back to the school. Goodhart's law and all that.

Grade inflation and the grading idiosyncrasies between schools make it such that GPA is fairly meaningless as a metric to me when I’m conducting interviews. I simply don’t care.

I worked my butt off in undergrad to barely get a 3.1 at one school, and in grad school it was hard to not get an A in a course.

Instead, I care about what you as an interviewee know. Not what school you went to, not what contrived number you scored.
In 90 ties is when the nationalist movements grew. Serbian nationalism became Army ideology. That won't happen woth political correctness. The other nationalities build own separatist movements.

All of that involved a lot of talking. The run up to genocide was also not some kind of politically correct gentle talking period, not for everyone anyway.

When a country with by your characterization full of edgy race insults eventually descend into genocides and crimes against humanity, maybe some intellectuals refusing to engage with race insults in the run up to genocide are not the cause. Maybe they are people who realized where this is going and did not wanted to contribute.
I'm not a farmer so I may be way off, but I thought the one thing we had done with vertical farming was beat natural energy efficiency?

Photosynthesis doesn't use sunlight all that well, PV + wavelength tuned LED can turn the same amount of sunlight into more biology.

But! Farmland is dirt cheap, so that's more of a solution in search of a problem than anything else.
https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz
A real challenge for California is that the reservoirs are tuned for snowmelt rather than rainfall.

That is, snow hitting the Sierra and Cascade mountains (Shasta, Lassen) over the winter, then melting over the spring.

I don't know what temps are associated with this storm, or how the snowmelt will develop over the springtime, but a large deluge as rain hitting the reservoirs would 1) rapidly fill them and 2) require lowering the lake levels to manage further floodwaters.

This is one reason why climate change and warming is such a challenge for the Western US: its water management systems are tuned for colder weather patterns and not year-round warm rains.
From what I am aware of, google wanted to break API significantly, not just ABI, by changing a bunch of standard library guarantees.
> “At this point, it is hard to not find life on Earth. Microbes have been discovered living in cloud tops, inside nuclear reactor cores, and in aerosols high in the stratosphere.”

To me this is the most exciting point. Why aren’t we already building half a dozen probes simultaneously to look for life in the clouds of Venus, icy caverns of Europa, and every other interesting place in the solar system?

A steady stream of beautiful pictures and — hopefully — revolutionary biological discoveries from these unique worlds would seem like a much better investment than human selfies on Mars whose dusty mountains the public has already seen many times.
btw, I think my comment is just a different take to fortituded0002's comment "Everyone is the main character in their own story." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34209966
Prototype of Nintendo Switch Emulator Running on iOS
I am under the impression they do not run macOS in their own datacenters. And, unlike mortals, if they need to run macOS in datacenters, they're not bound by their own license to never virtualize macOS on non-macOS hosts, they can do as they please.
You can't see how a decrease in home sales relates to 2008, a crisis where one of the primary drivers was people underwater on their houses, because they had lost value because they couldn't sell them.

Someone keeps telling me that water and ice are related but I just don't see it. They aren't literally the exact same thing! How could they be related? Clearly bullshit.
The case where Mars becomes very interesting is if Earth becomes uninhabitable for some reason, maybe nuclear war or a runaway climate problem or big enough asteroid impact. (I'm not pushing any of that alarmism, but on a long term time scale of 10^6 to 10^10 years, almost anything could happen eventually.)