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Justine here. I'm an avid Hacker News reader. I think Zig is awesome and I'd love for my projects (e.g. Cosmopolitan Libc) to support it. What makes that challenging is Zig doesn't depend on the C library and instead directly talks to the kernel ABIs. The Zig team might be able to add support for building Zig apps on the Cosmopolitan platform, but it's less likely to happen than other languages like Go, where we've already received the green light from the Go team for a GOOS=cosmo port. As for Blinkenlights, if Zig produces a static binary which doesn't assume a 4096 byte page size, then your Zig programs should work in Blink. If that's not the case, email me the logs and/or executable in question, so I can make sure Blink has the features you need. Please note that Zig has had some roadblocks surrounding the system page size https://github.com/jart/blink/issues/14
What’s worst is a bit relative, I’d prefer covid to hiv obviously.

What made covid bad was how transmissible it was, everyone got it more or less.

Once you actually got it though it was about as severe as a flu, in the neighborhood of a bad flu, particularly notable for the age-based outcomes that were very much correlated to age. Plenty of flu variants actually effect young people strongly whereas covid was very much “older is worse”.

In one sense covid was way worse than any old flu after 1918, in the other sense covid is somewhere between an average and bad flu. Your values might determine which is more important to you.

If you were young covid was no big deal, if you were old it was terrifying. This was an odd situation for many diseases.

And you have to be honest covid cases and cause of death are counted differently. There are lots of infections which just aren’t tested which would otherwise have much bigger “cause of death” numbers.

I’m not a denier at all, the problem is facts get distorted to match people’s personal views and often the things you argue against aren’t entirely wrong, if distorted.
Personally I regret that I paid just once for a Plex Pass because Plex decided to go in a direction that I disagreed with completely. (e.g. prioritizing spamming me about off-brand streaming services over reliable access to my own streaming library)

Had they been a subscription product this action could have hurt them in their pocketbook and they would have had a reason to care what I thought.
But... Firefox came out before Chrome. It's not like we had to use IE6 until Chrome came out. I started using Firefox as soon as it came out and have used it continuously ever since.
Every once in a while I read about some wanna be criminal mastermind that got his idea for a crime from some TV show.
Maybe everything is feeding on itself and that's what the singularity actually is, humanity disappearing up its own butthole.

Logic as follows:

A) Truth is stranger than fiction.

- Golden age of streaming begets insatiable thirst for content.

3) An army of writers bangs out every ludicrous plot line imaginable.

◅ Quibi raises $2,000,000,000 to target youngsters with 10-minute quibisoides

• Movies with talking raccoons fighting space gods smash box office records

*) An AI trained on a billion monkeys with typewriters more efficiently hallucinates imagery than humans deemed possible. Prompt generated raccoons sweep oscars.

> SBF commits a 1 line change to FTX that results in 65 jillion dodge boondoggle

Somewhere a hackernews reader cackles manically in the darkness of night as he (or she!) conceives of hooking up Chat GPT to news feeds for soft real time true crime drama content generation for Netflix whilst waving goodbye to the last remnants of what was left of their sanity reading this bullshit instead of going to bed its 3am already what are you doing your brain is fried~~

(ﾟヮﾟ) A16Z invests the GDP of a small country to buy marketshare.

A Quaranteeny views a 10 second Quibi ad on TikTok for SBF: The Musical based on the novel "Git Push by SapphireAI" and gets inspired to drop out of high school and run for president.

President Comanche is sworn into office, January 20, 2029.
"Nagware"
"...by arguments proving Searle's Chinese Room wrong".

It was clearly fallacious from the outset; it presupposes mysticism, a dualistic reality. I'm genuinely shocked anybody's still talking about it.
Maybe if you think of it in terms of the opposition falling to put you in check despite you only having a king left? Your army chased the opposing king to the forest but failed to defeat him, be gets to live out his days as a hermit. You are denied 'satisfaction'.

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In my family, against my children, it's a running joke that I'll almost always fail to win, and stalemate them.
I love software engineering AND programming. But too often working "in software" involves neither.
Not if you have the money for a mansion (or 10). Then you have the money for lawyers and schemes to legally avoid paying it.
The content-value mismatch is ok with me, given they distribute other studio's films that Apple's leadership has expressed issues with. I.e. Danny Boyle's "Steve Jobs".

They can be a consistently indulgent distributor, or a consistently selective content producer, but not consistent in both roles. I prefer the former.

(I found Boyle's movie brilliant, when interpreted as a serious comedic drug dream, subsequent to a marathon reading of Steve Jobs bios, articles and opinion pieces. Of varying questionability and authenticity. In random order. On a plane.)
This is why I super appreciate and love the book Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer -- a classic that started modern-day vegetarianism.

The author, my favorite philosopher, uses industry booklets and instruction manuals as examples of what happens at the farms (and you know worse things happen than what is described). It's horrific stuff, enough to make the reader want to decrease their meat consumption. I'm 99% sure that since its publication, the % of animals coming from CAFOs has increased. And since then various other problems appeared (chickens genetically engineered to grow so fast that often their bones break -- resulting in more suffering than before).

https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Liberation-Definitive-Classic-...
I for one think it's not very wise to perform experiments on the entire humankind. Maybe we'd be fine at 80 trillion, but what if we are not?
Maybe check out https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-go? Let’s you add auto upgrades to any free or commercial Go app (with support for licensing too).

(I’m the founder of the licensing API.)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317

My favorite line from the paper is "the popular and elegant X86 architecture". Very subtle humor, I suspect not many people get it.
Assuming he’s using his own account.

The joke is he was using all the accounts.
f.u.b.a.r. is the most literally cringe acronym for me.
AI Magic for Spreadsheets
ask questions, get answers, without the formulas
They should have learned their lesson from back in Seattle and just hold them in the UAE --then they would not have to worry about pesky protesters interrupting their world-wide plans.
What would the "5000off" promo code do? Provide a discount by 5000 gazillion percent?
Not sure whether "Could stumble" is the right tense ... I mean, are we not currently tumbling down the hill right now?
Sure but the bigger picture re: the industry and its oversight is what we're talking about in this thread.
They also implied the monkey people, who were transported via spelljammer ships, were actioned off.

I mean I don't care that much but it was a little tone deaf.

The real problem was there was a rules bug that let them move insanely fast
That wasn't really the question though was it? The question was, is there a reason why rich people might be less desirable subsidy targets than other people. I have known several wealthy people with car collections, not like Jay Leno style collections but collections nonetheless.
What I would like to see a break down by animal mass. For meat production the US produces almost equivalent amounts of beef and pork. But the US also has about 10 million dairy cows. The FDA report is for food producing animals – which includes dairy cows.

Unfortunately the FDA report does not include mass either, but I reckon if you were to look at the antibiotics/animal mass you would see that swine is a huge outlier.
iiuc, flywheels would slow down/lose energy over time due to friction. They might be useful for smoothing out peaks, ie when clouds pass over a solar farm. But for longer term storage, arent batteries better?
That's all very well, but what about this year's free stuff?
You could make pizza at home from scratch for only a few dollars, and it would be even fresher than anything delivered.
Would you mind linking to the RPG systems you've written lately? I would love to play some new ones with friends from someone who knows what they're doing.
I just wish companies would move these types of conversations/notifications off of twitter -- i'm done with that s-show.
Modern social media is probably driving this anxiety about the world.
Just to clarify for anyone who isn't aware, the "compiling issues", at least historically, have been that Alpine uses musl, and PyPI's manylinux wheels are built against old glibc versions. So stuff like numpy that would trivially and quickly install from whl on glibc distros (like a bare-bones Ubuntu image) trigger compilations and the installation of build-only dependencies/toolchains on Alpine.

That said, it looks like as of late-2021, at least some projects are offering musllinux wheels as well, per the discussion here: https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/37 (not numpy yet, though: https://pypi.org/project/numpy/#files)

Here's a longer version of the above, originally published in 2020, but with an update regarding PEP 656: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
I'm not sure it's that smart in practice. The last thing you want is customers waiting for lower prices or feeling ripped off when prices change.

Most big box stores will honour price changes within x days of your purchase to alleviate this.
The exercise has nothing to do with economics, fiscal policy, or governance. It’s just political grandstanding for votes.
It works only on x86 browsers i guess?
> You're not the only one who notices this. You don't think the rise in pro-authoritarian, pro-political violence, anti-democratic rhetoric from Republicans is a coincidence, do you?

You are quite correct. The Republicans are acting like a wild animal trapped in a corner. The Democrats have been a bit, ah, slow, to update their playbook accordingly. The next two years will see us move from one preventable "crises" to another. They may as well make the most of it - their shenanigans are only going to cost them more conservative moderates. I think this Congress will be the last one where the Republicans hold a majority. The big question is how long will it take conservatives to realize the Republican party is no longer viable and create a new party? How will they gate keep the bozos?
My house number is 12-16. Even some government websites in Germany can't handle that and go with 12 ( which, to be fair, works for all purposes, but it's incorrect)
>> The fact that all your code is scattered as strings everywhere without error checking or types makes it really hard to debug and work with long-term.

I'm afraid this doesn't match my experience.

All your code can be in a single file (or as many as you want) with window.app = function(){return{show:false}}
make the subscription super cheap at the start and lifetime access should have the opposite: unreasonably high price. subscription will look like a value deal in comparison.
It's uncanny that we have a war, but he missed the pandemic.
The thing that always bothered me about Tesla fans was that it was less a car purchase for them and more about cultural capital and signaling to their extended peer group. The South Park episode about hybrid cars creating a "smug" problem comes to mind. I don't care who or what team designed my car, just that it's well designed and works.

Now that Elon is suddenly "uncool" with the never-grew-up after highschool crowd, a significant number of people who bought Teslas suddenly feel cringe. It's fun to watch this kind of idiocy play out and come full circle. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

As if these fans really know who Elon is as a person anyways. ProTip: if you haven't actually met and interacted with a person, then you really know nothing about a person beyond hearsay. What's on the screen ain't real folks.

Blows my mind. This isn't a $200 pair of shoes. These are/were seriously expensive cars.
The only metric that matters given the mission of Mozilla is user share...
Is it better than Tailwind UI?
It must have been an existing boolean flag he set to true, allowSecret65BillionDollarBackdoor
What? You were a (presumably male) student at a 25% female college and don't see the point of a dating app that would drastically increase the pool of women you could interact with? What am I missing here?

Unless you were in the apex male top 5% at the college, that just sounds nuts.

Women may meet a lot of men regardless of dating apps, but everyone wants a bigger better deal. Dating apps provide access to many people, such that a better quality mate is possible. Again, you may be flawed by being in university.

In the real world you meet a far wider range of people in demographic, socioeconomic status, age, education, etc. So the people you meet that may match what you want is drastically lower that university, which will generally function as a filter for socioeconomic status, demographic, location, and especially intelligence. At a technical college, it even preselects for area of interest.
This journalist doesn't get it. Delivery pizza isn't competing against someone who can make pizza in a $1000 purpose-built home oven. Delivery pizza is cheap, tasty enough and convenient. For $20 or so you can have a pizza delivered with zero effort. Also, if you get a pan-style pizza, the degradation in quality is minimal.
Scientists Discover the Toughest Material on Earth » TwistedSifter
> You speak as if people have always known fossil fuels cause climate change

The knowledge of CO2 (and water vapor) acting as an insulating blanket and having a warming effect on the planet was known years before the very first oil well was drilled and over a dozen years before Standard Oil (which eventually became Exxon and later ExxonMobil) was even founded.

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/#:~:text=Eunice%20Foote

It was also well known before Standard Oil's founding that oil is a hydrocarbon and that the complete combustion of hydrocarbons emits primarily CO2 and H2O.

Portraying Exxon of 100 years later as being the sole possessors of secret knowledge of the existence of atmospheric warming is grossly inaccurate IMO.
Alpine.js, Alpine Linux. What is next in the Alpine ecosystem besides marmots?
If they sold it at $35K, the scalpers would be the ones profiting, since used car prices would be above new car prices. I'd rather that the manufacturer gets the money rather than slimy middlemen like scalpers(or car dealers for other manufacturers).
"Strava's route planner has no competition"

That's an absurd statement.

All of the route planning tools have their advantages and disadvantages. I frequently create routes for cycling and a couple of times I used Strava, Komoot and Garmin Connect for the same route. Garmin Connect always works because it can ignore map data if necessary. Strava and Komoot were not always able to create the route I want (looks like Strava have added a "manual mode" as well).

Most of the people around me use Komoot, it's also my preferred tool now. The information density on the map is great, the POIs shown on the map can be customized and editing works well enough.

Strava is okay. It definitely looks sleek. The biggest issue is that routes cannot be edited in the mobile app, only created. Editing is possible in the browser but really awkward. Try rerouting parts of an existing route.

Heatmaps are useful sometimes, e.g. when I'm abroad and I don't know if a road can be cycled on at all. But the most used roads are not necessarily the best ones. Komoot doesn't have a heatmap visualization but there are comments, ratings and photos of segments.
Related, there’s an awesome tool [1] created for the SDR crowd for decoding captures of 433mhz signals, which really deserves an award for open source design and is a genuine public service. I’ve used this to identify and reverse engineer generic thermometers, which saved me a heap of dough paying for name-brand gear.

[1] https://triq.org/
Yes. exactly. Quoting GP:

> the revealed preferences of consumers for those things is the cheaper version, not the better version.
Korean war pilot gets silver star for downing 5 of 7 Russian piloted MiG's
> get told the queue is too long and to try calling back later. I have no idea who thought that was a good idea to implement because the queue will always be super long.

A call deferred is a call denied.

Convincing the customer to give up is one way to reduce workload.

See also: automated systems that play a prerecorded message along the lines of "we're currently experiencing higher than normal call volume" regardless of how long wait times even are.
> desktop apps can be hacked to get around paywalls and user controls a lot more easily than on mobile apps

This would imply that paywalls and user controls aren't implemented entirely on the server side, which sounds like an obviously bad idea?
The premise is he's accessing other users accounts. "If the account being accessed belongs to the logged in user, or the logged in user is sbf."
Lenovo puts the legendary ThinkPad brand on a phone: Meet the ThinkPhone
Weller 12 retails for $40 now (inflation) but is impossible to find and is now like $300+ on the secondary market.
You better check that Prime is really shipping in two days where you live before you sign up. There are many people that are getting 5 day or 2 week shipping with Prime today.

I think Prime is a scam in 2023 unless you think the subscription is worth it to watch Rings of Power.
> Launch date was July 2017.

Why does the article above say "available now" February 28, 2019?

Oh, the model 3 in general launched in July 2017. But that didn't include the $35k version.
Apple’s Supply Chain Bet
Bah, by that logic lawyers don't want their clients to stop having legal troubles and my handiman doesn't want my roof to stop leaking. Just for starters most people are not psychopaths and just want to provide a useful service. But even if they didn't care about your happiness, they would still care about reputation. Happy couple will have friends and tell them how they met. Or direct repeat business, realistically most dating site relationships do not last a lifetime.

Above all, successful matches are extraordinarily high. Partly because chemistry is not apparent online and there are many dimensions - values, emotional, financial - that need to align in a viable relationship. But I would say mostly because people are delusional about their own perfection and expectations on others. You would turn down someone who is perfect but happens to smoke? REALLY?

So site developers can break their back and still have an abysmal success record. I don't think anyone would hobble algorithms on purpose.
It feels more likely that he just chose $65B rather than an exchange using unsigned 16 bit integers to do accounting.
https://archive.is/MDDJL
This is what I've referred to in other contexts as the "Photoshop strategy". Literally everyone I knew growing up had pirated copies of Photoshop, but they wouldn't have used it without first pirating it, and they all grew up to take those Photoshop skills into respectable contexts where their employer was happy to pay Adobe exorbitant costs to stay legal, since Photoshop became such a fundamental part of their product development pipeline.
Millionaires do not need tax money to save thousands on their 2nd or 3rd car, regardless of how nascent the technology.
Shift registers are an interesting option. They are obviously feasible, especially if using ones with a built in pull-down.

They do avoid having a diode per key, in exchange for needing a chip for N keys, where n is the number of of parallel inputs in your parallel to serial shift register.

They can also save IO lines. Obviously with if using chainable shift registers, you can have an unlimited number of keys with just 3 IO lines.

More realistic of course, would be to use several IO lines in parallel. For a 64 key matrix, one could say use 8, 8-bit shift registers, each connected to one input line, plus one output latch line and one output clock line (for a total of 10), vs the 16 lines needed traditional matrix.

8 input lines is nice, because if you pick the I/O lines right, retrieving the values is just a single port read. Making the procedure: latch, (toggle clock twice, read port, write to next location in memory buffer) x8.

There are of course downsides, like shift registers needing more board space than tiny surface mount diodes, but this is not necessarily a deal-killer.
I agree Paramount+ is my least favorite streaming service. It never seems to remember what I was watching or where I am in an episode.

Subtitles are not something I normally have on since I know almost every word verbatim for stng and voyager... so maybe they are even worse than I realize!

I only pay for this service because I want to support my beloved star trek.. glad it's been getting some new life in recent years at least!

But yes.. it's sad that they have such a crappy service.
I once volunteered for a political campaign in rural Kansas (Senate campaign, IIRC, this was just a local campaign office) and they brought in some young New York political consultant and he called pizza "pie" (it came up because he was ordering some "pies" for the volunteers). The first time he did it everyone looked at one another and started laughing—not to be mean, it was just so unexpected that no-one could help it. I felt kinda bad for him, seemed really taken aback. NOBODY says that in rural Kansas. You don't order a pie, or a pizza pie, you order a pizza.

For most of us in the room it was the first time we'd heard someone in real life call a pizza a pie, except when doing a bad Italian accent and talking about "a pizza-a pie-a" as a joke.
SJ rulz!
It's a relatively common approach in e.g. web services, but not in standalone games.
Competition leads to the opposite in an idealized free market.

What we have is not a spherical market cow in a vacuum; it is a real live market with all kinds of non-ideal aspects to it. The biggest one of those is the gradual transfer of wealth from the poorest among us to the richest over the past several decades. This means that the poorest X% of consumers are vastly more price-sensitive than they would be if the productivity-to-wage ratio had remained the same since the mid-'70s.
5-alpha reductase deficiency
I feel more protective of what is being created.

Imo we should have ChatGPT (and future iterations) in a self-sustaining underground bunker somewhere and an intuitive radio interface connected to it. If civilization collapses for one reason or another, all the next civilization would need to do is re-invent the radio to experience a rapid acceleration of technology.

Agree with me or suffer the basilisk.
I believe that any programmer should at least know a little about Forth. It's like Lisp. Just knowing about them is extremely enlightening, even if you don't use them in your daily life.

Obligatory link:
https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

This well-written tutorial will have you implement a Forth in 500 lines of assembly and another 500 lines of Forth.

You will feel like a different person after having done this. People will like you more. Food will taste better. You'll never be alone again, always knowing that you can re-create a fully-functional programming language from assembly within half an hour, if you needed to. It is said that people who know Forth die happy.