skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be precise, relativity - special and general - do not use Euclidean space, but quantum mechanics does. I guess you where thinking of relativistic quantum mechanics or relativistic quantum field theories. But again, irrelevant. I just picked Euclidean space and an implied real time axis because I am not sure how to label the idea properly - do we need a real closed field, would rational numbers do? So do not take Euclidean too literally, understand it as three dimensions of space and one of time that all can be divided indefinitely. If we reach a point where this is not good enough, we can refine it.

And I think you still did not get my point. If the resolution of the paradox hinges on the indefinite divisibility of space and time then the paradox is not resolved in a hypothetical universe where we have the ability to indefinitely divide space and time. So I argue you would then have to accept the consequences of the paradox in this hypothetical universe, would you not? And one such hypothetical universe is the universe of classical mechanics, so how would you reconcile that? Was classical mechanics wrong all the time when it described motions in a space where motions are not possible?
Personally wouldn't buy this because of the subscription.

If you don't pay €2.99 you don't get text conversion, then it's just a €279 pen with a battery or am I wrong?
Crypto-skeptics downvoted my previous suggestion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34349576) that NOTAM's sort of simple textual bulletin log – perhaps not even 150MB of data per year! – could be implemented as a distributed-consensus database.

But blockchains are specifically designed to keep on appending, no matter the mistakes of individuals, or even motivated sabotage attempts of sophisticated attackers.

Essentially, blockchains have a giant, full-coverage set of unit-tests in their shared & public consensus code – reviewed and running across many systems. And many of their designs have proven uptimes in adversarial environments for years.

And the task gets even easier when there's a small fixed set of established authorities with privileged keys.

Protecting those keys is also, of course, a hard problem. But compromised credentials is probably already a fatal threat for the legacy system(s) that were brought down by "contractors who introduced data errors". So a hypothetical modern crypto-consensus solution's failure modes remain a subset of those of the legacy system.
> That part doesn’t match my experience at all.

Exactly! There wasn't any real fallout for Southwest, who had a shutdown less than a month ago, for similar outdated technology reasons.
Hi. I am not bragging, just sharing opposite experience. I found it refreshing to view things in my own light and no be influenced by others as much. Observing my friends or social media people doing things and living their life was not really living mine, so I just self corrected every time I noticed until I didn't have to anymore. Sorry for the late reply, just now checking HN after my original post.
I remember this being an example of human irrationality in economics so I asked chatgpt.

(your utility from the exact same good shouldn’t change depending on where you buy it from.)

Seems like it has the same issue as humans do:

> Pretend we’re two friends and we’re at the beach. You give me money to buy you a beer. How much would you want to spend?

Chatgpt: I would want to spend around $5 for a beer at the beach.

Me: What if I could the only place selling beers is a fancy resort? It’s the same beer though.

Chatgpt: In that case, I would be willing to spend around $10 for a beer at the fancy resort. It's still the same beer but the location and atmosphere of the resort may justify the higher price.
That's one company. There's dozens if not hundreds of companies, research groups and individuals working under the same assumption.

Maybe it's a mass delusion but that feels like a stretch.

Also your wording makes this sound entirely like a sinister conspiracy or cash grab. Many people think this is simply a worthy pursuit and the right direction to be looking at the moment.
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> I’m Irish. Having studied Economics does not make me an American. Economic surplus can either go to consumers in the form of lower prices, the firm’s owners in profits or current workers in wages.

Don’t worry I studied economics too.

You are confusing value added and economic surplus. That doesn’t bode well for the rest of your argument.

A change in labour costs is a shift in the equilibrium point. It doesn’t come from a surplus.

> Cartel isn’t a term of abuse. It’s a description of the entire point of a union. They monopolise labour and negotiate with employers to the benefit of the average worker.

Of course it is a term of abuse.

Collective representation isn’t about monopolising labour as a casual glance to any union in a western country like France would have told you. In France no union has more than a measly 2% of the work force. Yet they play an important role.
Above a certain amount you get inflammation, that's it. Small amounts are dealt with by the slime covering all your internals.
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Super-early bird are out! If shipping is good.

I haven't been able to boot mine. But I have no UART adapter to see whats wrong.
Hi JT, please reach out to me if you'd like to try the Tuduka Method, free of charge: https://tuduka.com

I'm announcing it a bit too early (I just started it a few weeks ago) but the method works.
I'd say it's more market conditions over anything else. Truck drivers generally have poor credit - they're not going to be able to come up with ~400k otherwise. As a result, you get lenders that charge more.

Also, repossessing trucks across the country is kinda an issue. You might need to drive hundreds or thousands of miles to claim the truck which is a nightmare that carriers deal with on a daily basis.
That’s a new development.

Only TLSv1.3 is server-supported, am surprised that Edge did a downgrade.
Great interview between Tyler Cowen and the book’s author here!

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/katherine-rundel...
And dotted around the rest of London too! A lovely man, Muswell Hill legend.
Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think
I don't know if this will help, but the best way to become a professional programmer is to have a gun to your head; not literally of course. Deadlines, money, pressure and more complexity than you're comfortable with have a way of focusing the mind. A love of building complex things out of virtually nothing helps too.

Forget web development, build a product if you've got it in you. Otherwise there's plenty of other things to do out there.
> The West has an addiction to foreign IT contractors

LOL - let me show you Dubai
Not in this case, but they can.

Plane condensation trails are a form of clouds.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230114030908/https://www.lrb.co...
All that's needed is a way to feed a single file/folder to the executable and you've fixed computer security by giving us N2E {Need(ed) To Execute} security.
This system was built decades before either of those technologies.

It could literally have been a lower case letter that didn't encode into whatever archaic language they use.
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Bruh you’re complaining about a system that had about perfect uptime for 30 years. It’s only newsworthy because it was so perfect

Second, nothing would happen at a private company because they would involve marketing and marketing wouldn’t blame anyone in a press release. The only difference with FAA is that they didn’t let a marketing department write their release.

But really the real issue here is that everyone is posting to make wide generalizations from a one time event.
They were opt-out until the bad press and many folks didn’t know they were being tracked in that way.
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DAT's full name is "Dial a truck". They used to have these large screens in truck stops showing loads and encouraging drivers to call for loads.

So I guess these drivers mostly hung out at truck stops (they still do today), just that most truck stops aren't as clean/nice as before.
Here's my theory for a physiological link:

Larger genitalia necessitates wider legroom. Wider legroom means a bigger vehicle. Bigger vehicle means more weight and wind resistance - negative factors against car speed. As penis size approaches infinity, comfort in speed-optimized cars decreases.
> MP3 was synonymous with digital music in most of our minds for so long

I think this is probably the main reason for mp3's stickiness.

> second, even if modern equipment handles all the better codecs, a lot of us still have memories of times it didn't in the past.

Sure, and your dvd players didn't always handle x264. Things change :). It's been probably 10 years since new audio hardware had trouble with non-mp3 media.

> Third, I think some of the tooling around metadata is not as developed or ubiquitous for, say, an ogg container. There are ogg comments, but ID3 is better supported.

Granted, I think ogg will have worse support for equipment. However, I'd expect that aac in m4a will end up with the same level of support as mp3s do today simply because it's a lot more common than opus (and older).

> MP3 is no great sin.

It's not, I just don't like seeing generally superior tech getting sidelined because the inferior tech is more familiar. Perhaps that's a sin on my part :). I admit it probably doesn't ultimately matter if your music is 1MB vs 2MB.
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I'll use all of these and see what sticks over the coming months. Thanks!

I find myself in a position of marketing an idea, no actual product, nor even vaporware. I've got no reference for how to make this happen. I just know that a lot of problems get fixed when we have N2E.
standard for a 20% project.
I guess if you really get to know the idioms maybe it's easier.

It is, as long as you stay away from things like selfgol* or memowe's keywords only JAPH** (which is technically very readable, it's just very hard to comprehend).

* https://libarynth.org/selfgol ** https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=594266
I've come to view this as something akin to dyslexia. Everyone's brain works differently, and some people just get a bad left/right circuit.

The description of people's mental models for understanding left/right is pretty amusing. You never realize that other people have a fundamentally different way of thinking about certain things. Everyone has to come up with a model of the world in their head, and when some parts of your brain don't work quite right, the solutions can get pretty creative.
hate to say, but this is my way... EAC to flac and leave it on a NAS, then XLD to apple lossless on my macbook and sync to my iPhone... working great for me so far
Tangentially related (they would technically have been motorways, I believe) but don't miss the Ringways history section on that excellent website: https://www.roads.org.uk/ringways
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The submitted title broke the HN guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." We've reverted to the article title now.

(Submitted title was "Off grid in Manhattan for 8 months", which was more misleading and linkbait. Please don't do that.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Author here, if anyone has questions about the 8086.
I feel like the issue with social media is you are not really social at a level that is helpful or relationship building. It is more of an observation of your friends doing things. That really isn't a friendship. A friendship is about connection and communication on a level deeper than what social media provides.
ChatGPT bullshits, because almost all humanities are occupied by bullshitters. Best example from this blog post itself: “It is difficult to say whether these events show that the humanities have been “infiltrated by bullshitters,” as this would depend on one’s definition of “bullshitters” and one’s perspective on the events in question. However, it is clear that these events sparked significant debate and discussion about the nature of knowledge, truth, and intellectual standards within the academic community.”

Ask any student/professor in Humanities on, say X. The obvious response is: it depends on how you define X. Darwin doesn't define what species is in his "On the origin of species". Even today, we don't have a definition of species--of course, there are many definitions, but not all agree to one definition.

One doesn't need a definition to start doing research. However, in humanities, definitions have become fetishes. That's what ChatGPT demonstrates in her examples.
> if you want to look at their data, you have to put in some details about your own employer

You can bypass this by selecting a random company, Glassdoor even ;), typing in a random sequence with some spaces sprinkled in as your "review", and that's it. They will dismiss your review but that won't matter anyway; you got in, you can see all data, and you gave them nothing back (or did not dox yourself).
All tools are listed on front page in alphabetical order.
This is in the US. If you search online, it seems to be a commonly reported issue, with some articles saying LG started ramping up the ads a year or two ago. Maybe older firmwares don't get the ads?
Grab the army’s improvised explosives handbook instead.
What was the testing criteria?

My assessment took several days, totalling around 8 hours of time in the clinic. A lot of interviewing and cognitive assessments. I'm not sure if that's standard, but maybe that gives you something to contrast it with. I left the experience with a fairly hefty document describing my abilities/disabilities along with various recommendations moving forward.

I also received an IQ test result which was strange to see, and I actually would have preferred not to see it.
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>can be a deceiving

I think that's a great way of describing it. Watching "educational" content feels better or more productive than watching a Let's Play, but it's all basically empty entertainment -- the medium and the algorithm sort've necessitate it. Which is definitely not to say there's not awesome resources on youtube for actually learning things, but, for the most part, I'm not watching things that actually take mental effort. I'm more often just letting trash wash over me while also convincing myself that it's OK because "I'm learning" (even though whatever trivial factoid being discussed is immediately ejected from my brain when the next video starts)

I've realized that the internet has a numbing effect on me. It all washes over me until I feel absolutely nothing and I'm just mindlessly consuming. My ISP was recently down for a day, and it actually made life (at least temporarily) more interesting. Rather than just sitting in front of a screen and having content pumped into my veins, my SO and I had to leave the house to seek out things to do.

Then the internet came back and now we're both back on the drip.
I fall asleep to YouTube -- not watching, I just put on a boring documentary with a monotone narrator, just loud enough that I can hear the voice. I don't even really discern the words. And it distracts my brain from whatever else I'd be thinking about and I fall asleep more easily. Not sure why this is, I guess it's like having someone read a bedtime story to a kid.

I have a premium account so there are no ads.
The university is very resilient and capable of reinventing itself and its mission. I predict that every major contemporary state will fail before the university.
"Why is the JavaScript ecosystem like this?" is a very similar complaint, where containers are again the dead-easy obvious answer (to almost everything, Mysql vs MariaDB difficulty remains).

Making stuff work together isnt always easy. Having a predictable easy to manage unit can be really nice, offload the particular ecosystem concerns & get folks to "just use it" places.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34250969
I agree there is a semantic distinction to be made re: epoll, but also an unstated premise: Worse is better when you can iterate to good enough.

What is good enough? Well I think you may forget another metric: developer experience and ease of building a correct product. Say you're building a web framework or server, how long is that going to take do that correctly with epoll compared to the alternatives?
Painful (polars-lazy):
- Very scant documentation. Many things missing docs, many documented items missing examples.
- Using a custom function in a map. You have to do this `Ok(series.type()?.into_iter().map(...).collect::<ChunkedArray<_>>()).into_series()` dance every time, and it's annoying. And you have to specify the output type even though it should be inferable from the function body.
- There is no good way to "get-or-null" a column, i.e., treat an absent column as all null. You have to try to select the column, check if that errored, and if so insert a column of nulls (casted to the correct type) before proceeding.
- Perhaps because it uses Arrow under the hood, there is no such thing as a non-nullable column. You just always have to handle nulls.
- A bit verbose due to the lack of Into<Expr> implementations for most basic types. E.G., `lit(false)` instead of `false` because `bool` is not `Into<Expr>`.
- It's a bit confusing at times which features you need for which abilities, and things will panic at runtime if you don't have the necessary features enabled (e.g., the strptime function has a tz_aware:bool parameter that panics if it's true but you don't have the time zone feature enabled).

Ultimately it's a young library and so I guess it comes with the territory. It's still fantastic and having used it I'd be hard pressed to go back to pandas even despite all the flaws.
Of course there's a cost. It's just - in my experience - a lot smaller, when you aren't forced to pay subscription fee along the way.

Example - I was working with jira server for several years at pretty small company. As business grew, there were better and worse moments and sometimes there were more important costs, than another yearly support fee.

Atlassian decided to drop this model and tries to force everyone to the cloud. They say that migration will take 9+ months.

That means if they ever do such change again it will take full annual cost of the license to get rid of them, with no option to avoid it.
I've had good success with very short cover letters. Like 2-5 sentences which basically just lists skills I have that are mentioned in the job post and declaring interest.

Basically, "I have x, y, z and I'm inteterested in this thing you're doing because I like whatever"
Non-nullable properties in C# 11
How to declare non-nullable immutable properties in records, classes and structs (C# 11).
I'm not a mobile developer (or heavy mobile user). Can someone ELI65?
The time consumption was a big one for me. It is easy to underestimate how much time 30 minutes a day is in 10 years. People always talking about how they have no time etc. But if you can gain 30 minutes a day for something you really enjoy you can become so skilled at it and really enjoy it deeply much faster if you abandon any interruptions to that thing.
Yea that’s what we call bureaucracy

I joke but the right amount of bureaucracy is good, but people are very careful about adding more of it because you can’t undo it
On the one hand you say, the reason we can move is that our space and time are not indefinitely divisible, on the other hand you say even in a hypothetical universe with indefinitely divisible space and time motion can exist.
I love this! I can't believe there hasn't been anything even close to this before. Usually, sites that have even one or two of the converters (such as the base64 ones) are riddled with ads or just low-quality.
The problem with "alternative" Wayland compositors is that so much more functionality is pushed into the compositor under the Wayland architecture compared to window managers on X11. So it's a ton more work to write a Wayland compositor than an X11 window manager, and most of it is tedious boilerplate that almost certainly has nothing to do with your motivation for writing a new compositor in the first place. This in turn affords many more opportunities to introduce bugs, missing functionality etc. I trust "weird" compositors much less than I trust "weird" X11 window managers - it's more like using an alternative Xorg than an alternative WM.

"...there is still a lot of boilerplate involved in writing a compositor, much more than for an X11 window manager, namely setting up your own rendering code, registering and storing input devices and screens in your own data structures, passing input events to windows, calculating bounds for bars and other overlays (courtesy of layer-shell) and others. X11 handles all of this for you..."

https://tudorr.ro/blog/technical/2021/01/26/the-wayland-expe...

<edit> Several people mentioning wlroots. I can't say I've ever attempted it myself, but if you take a look at the blog post above, the author is very clear on the fact that even with the benefit of wlroots (which they highly praise) writing a Wayland compositor is still a lot more work than writing an X11 window manager (which they have also done, so they are something of an authority). wlroots doesn't abstract everything away, it just gives you a bunch of useful tools.

"With Wayland, you handle everything, even with wlroots."
It would be cheaper and easier to get a CEO who doesn’t act out and behave badly on a regular basis.
you have it completely backwards and I can show it

the people that pushed, bragged and elbowed their way into executive management at a massive, eternally funded bureacracy are experts at disregarding the viewpoint, input and most of all directions from others

The first thing to do in such a position is to reward an inner loyal circle by increasing their benefits, authority and lessen the actual work, via contractors. This thread shows anecdotal evidence that setups involve far more than half the working headcount as contractors. The contractors do real work, take real blame, and are routinely pushed around since that is what people really do to each other.

At what stage of any of this do "we" take responsibility and make change?!? it is fortified income protection, not responsive systems, described here..
Yeah, it's a real bummer. I posted my list in a sibling comment chain. Looks like others have also posted links to blocklists for smart TVs as well.
It would be interesting, for sure. Unfortunately, decades of waterway infrastructure neglect would leave a massive gap between where things stand now, and where they would need to be in order to utilize waterway transportation outside of existing facilities. For example - it would enable higher volume transport of commodities (that are currently shipped by river) along rivers, but we don't really have any river-based shipping container ports in existence now. The expansion/creation/upgrades to existing facilities would take time and money, and as the article points out... The trucking industry has managed to externalize those infrastructure costs onto the taxpayer - why would a shipping company lay down that uncertain investment when they have to compete with an industry that doesn't have to do any of that?
How does Hyprland compare to the Pop!_OS tiling system?