skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would challenge you on is this...why isn't it moving more forwards, it could still be growing, innovating and looking more into the future, it's population could and should be growing or at least quite stable, but it's not.

People are overworked, not having children [1], the education system isn't really optimal (favors rote learning over everything else) and there is a lot of loneliness.

I do agree, it's a good place, even a great place, I love it, but it could be much much better at the same time. Does it need to be better? Maybe not, that's hard to say.

What is a concern is the declining population, a lot of the stability comes from the hard working, financially conservative, older, dying generation of people and it's not getting replenished anytime soon. The country is holding up well, but IMO if you look carefully, things are aging in Japan and I don't see where the demand for new things, infrastructure, ideas etc is going to be coming from.

Honestly, people make comments about Japan like, it's harmonious, culturally cohesive and well functioning are seeing it from the outside, which, like everywhere else always looks a bit prettier. A lot of the harmony does come at the cost of people's inability to express themselves. There's a lot of "personal injuries" on the Tokyo subway, I have a feeling a little bit of that comes form repression.

I'm definitely not saying it's a bad place, I'm saying it's probably not dissimilar to many other places really, there are good aspect to it and there are bad. Mostly people think it's great because they don't and can't really understand it. Japanese language isn't easy to grasp and people rarely tell you what's on their mind even if you can speak to them.

I believe the discourse in the west is harder to cope with on a personal level, but it is and important part of democracy which I do feel is lacking in many part of the world, including Japan. I love the harmony I experience when visiting, but something inside tells me change is important, at least if only occasionally.

Interesting times ahead no doubt.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Japan-leads-world-...
An interesting spin on the Mission: Impossible assignment devices.

"This device will self-desolder in 5 seconds"
If you browse Awwward-winning websites, you quickly realise that they are annoying to browse.

Most of the time, I'm just trying to read text and get an answer. Everything that is not text, formatting or typography gets in the way.
Only if it was a feature.
Yes I had considered it rather apparent I was referring to the page at the virtual address zero, but I've definitely referred to the CoW page used for private anonymous mappings as the "zero page" too, so I understand the confusion. I probably should have made it more clear! Sorry about that.
You have 20 servers at home? What's you electrical bill like?
Tree City Albany OR cutting down 35 sycamore trees to save sidewalk from damage
Andromeda Invaders: A retro-style game written in HTML5, Canvas, and Web Audio
Many processors have a feature called SMT that can run multiple "threads" of execution on a core at once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreading_(computer_archi.... For example, you might schedule another thread to run when waiting for a memory load to complete. On POWER processors you can actually set priorities for these threads, much like you might do for those running in software.
There was a documentary on Discovery Channel some 10 years ago which analysed the link between Hollywood and the US army. If the army liked the script ( heroes, only enemies bad, other propaganda) they will supply military equipment for free. If not, good luck elsewhere.
I agree; I would expect to see such languages feature much more prominently there, especially in the subtle and convoluted business/legal complex.

One may argue that the proof-strength formality can be a hindrance: in such domains, inconsistencies and contradictions abound, and some of them cannot be predicted in advance. But I believe that languages like Idris can accommodate this. Maybe I am wrong, or maybe they can, but not more efficiently than more free-form languages.

...but ok, I am failing to see what I can do with COBOL that I cannot do with Idris, business-logic-wise. lol
>If we take out the word "exploit", what are these "tolerable limits" of productive use you're pointing to?

Business transactions fundamentally rely on the parties concerned coming to an agreement in order to proceed. If the parties are not in agreement, which is to say if the exploitation (aka the terms of the transaction) is not within "tolerable limits", the business transaction cannot proceed.

Therefore, and I reiterate: All business is about exploiting someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions. The only question is whether that exploitation is within tolerable limits.

>When pushed on why you think business is dangerous

I have never said nor implied such a thing.[1][2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461596

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462392
You can do it with the IRS if you want.

I had a friend who barely filled out a 1040, sent it in and the IRS sent back a “corrected” 1040.

Of course I wouldn’t trust the IRSs numbers but if you pay it, you’re done.
I would consider setting a (high) limit for a password a good practice. No one wants an attacker to run a megabyte of password data through your slow password hash. It should be a limit that normal users never reach, but something like 100 chars seems entirely reasonable.
If your enemy can make you use up your expensive weapons by attacking you with something cheap, eventually you run out of the good stuff. Then they can hit you. This has already happened in Ukraine, in both directions. Early in the war, there was a video of a Russian helicopter firing off many flares to counter heat-seeking missiles. The Ukrainian attacker waited until the flares were exhausted, then fired one heat-seeking missile and shot down the helicopter.
Yeah I know that, but the abstract doesn't explain why I (don't) need it.
To the contrary, AFAIK plasma is very absorbing, very "black", despite its bright thermal radiation. It will heat up, an transfer the heat to anything next to it.

It will of course diffuse the energy a little bit.
There is no option but to engage with people on the internet. Its a new domain in which a new form of social life unfolds.

We are horrible at it because the rules of "real" life engagement, honed over millenia of civilization building don't apply, but unless we figure out the new rules we miss out on something important.

The reason that after several decades of 'online' we dont converge on something agreeable has much to do with the ever changing technical platforms, outside of the control of users, which seldom have this aspect as one of their driving concern.

From their perspective the cynical "any engagement is good engagement" reigns supreme
They're trained and focused on language data, actually, not code specifically. There are both generation models and multilingual text embedding models (100+ languages, single model).
Yeah. There were so many great indie flash games on sites like Newgrounds. Quite sad that it’s all gone away. I wish flash had been open-sourced rather than just killed off.
> Yes, I am perfectly comfortable imagining the future will be using technologies that we are not currently using.

Sure. OK. The problem is that this is science fiction, not reality.

I hear these kinds of arguments from people who have never done any construction project of non-trivial scale in their lives. Sure, from that perspective anything is possible.

Let me tell you about reality in the US.

If you want to build, say, a new instant-on hydrogen-based gigawatt-scale power generation plant, you need at least four things:

- A design
- A site
- Environmental studies
- Permits

The design is tightly coupled to the site. The site is tightly coupled to the environmental studies and, of course, the permits.

It could take 5 to 10 years to find a site and get it approved for a specific design.

The permits could take another 5 to 10 years in the aggregate. This means you'll get some permits in a few years and others will be a battle you will have to fight for probably a decade as things are built.

Finally, the construction project will likely take somewhere around 20 to 25 years.

You are looking at 20 to 30 years. Just for one power plant. And I could be 100% off. It could take double that time.

Here's the key:

The clock starts NOW. Which means you have to design it with the technology you have NOW. Not dilithium crystals or magical hydrogen generators that do not exist. If you want the 25 year clock to start ticking today, the only way is to design with what you have, not what you wish you could have or what you think you might have.

That's the problem with all of these hand-wavy arguments. They are fantasy.

If we got our heads out of our collective asses we could start building modern nuclear power plants very quickly. They are not fantasy. They work. And they are far better than most, if not all, of the alternatives.
Python http.server doesn't handle concurrent requests, so it works pretty well until it doesn't. Example don't use it to serve an ISO to iLO/iDRAC, boot will fail.
It'll still ask you every once in a while.
Ah, Apple recently improved things further: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-s...
If your IDs are not time sortable, you will waste a bunch of time looking through lists trying to find records in your db.

At the very least, these things should have time sortable options for dev use.
I mean this seriously, consider moving documentation to your version control system and save your documentation in markdown. Markdown is powerful enough to format and store documentation of most forms you might need, combine that with a VCS of your choice and you’re set. All documentation changes are tracked and stored alongside your code changes. As a bonus, you won’t have to pay atlassian or deal with the clunky confluence UI!
https://alternativeto.net/software/confluence/?license=opens...
Man, I was losing it on mobile since a) I didn't get that it tells you the next field below the board, then b) the labels in the squares are too low contrast to be visible on my phone, and c) 9 out of 10 times the browser would start scrolling instead of starting to drag the knight.
Brand names are probably identical regardless of middleman. Seems a difference between not wanting to go to the store. So much funny shit happens at Walgreens.

Tip your delivery person sometimes.
> So I think ray guns are going to be more widespread as anti-missile defense systems

The issue as highlighted by the situation in UA is that the highest-tech weapons cannot be deployed to the front lines where they are needed, as they might fall into the enemy's hands and be reverse engineered.

I am much more interested in hacked low-tech solutions. For example, walls of anti-air racing drone style quadcopters which can seek out an Iranian drone and just ram it. I am a little surprised that we have not seen these yet.
Was some of these competitors' design open sourced?
Thanks!
A better approach would be to stop income/wealth taxes and just tax spending. Sales tax are much easier to implement and enforce, and require much less bureaucratic overhead.
I don't think about them at all. For all the noise people make about stating pronouns, I yet have to encounter it in real life. I'll wait until that happens.
> I've committed to the process of passing it on; I did a similar thing for a friend

I've done the exact opposite, I am super lucky in all sorts of ways and the last person I want to help is someone with a similar background to mine.

I don't mean this as a criticism, but more a counterpoint. It isn't what you know it is who you know is still true today. I do not think that is a good design.
I think it's Power's version of SMT (or Hyperthreading as it is known in the Intel world)
Show HN: GitBackups.io - Backup your Git repositories to a cloud storage
Automated Git backups
Or maybe:

https://www2.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Says "looks much into if what they do with the money". Corruption means doing bad things with the money, which is what most people don't look much into. Sentences.
Who are the millions of Britons not working?
I guess I didn't read far enough. Seems pretty obvious you'd need to count that as a separate path, to me the 141 answer is plain incorrect.
It's the current version.

https://www.idris-lang.org/idris-2-version-060-released.html

Idris 1 seems obsolete since years. No news about it for a long time.

https://www.idris-lang.org/category/news.html
Distorted Virtual Avatars
Absolutely! A tool for looking at the chest does not compare when the case calls for a stethophone.
Thank you for the comment. I will be keen on your suggestion
Mediawiki? I have seen once a decent on-premise setup in 200+ people company. It is expensive though (you need an engineer supporting it, at least part time).
Good. Send her to prison, where she belongs.
“Design outside the box” Jesse Schell on gamification everywhere (2010) [video]
> That money is going to your parents generation, and you eventually through inheritance.

The owners of UK property may be members of my parents' generation, but they have very little in common with my parents; that money is not coming to me. (And while you could blame them for not jumping through the right hoops to have been eligible for Thatcher's right to buy, I don't think it's fair to say that working-class people should have known to bet a multiple of their net worth on decades of incredibly stupid housing policy).

> The global poor still need their check, unless you don't acutally care about fairness.

Sure, and I'm all for measures to help with that - I've voted for increased aid and will continue to do so. Using the global poor as a reason I can't criticize those with massive unearned wealth is pure whataboutism.
> The idea that some secret judge can sign some secret warrant and a gang of armed men can break into your home, assault you, and steal your possessions without any recourse available to you should be incredibly chilling to everyone who believes in due process and a free society in general.

Maybe you don't live in a democracy, but in a democracy they call it "collecting evidence".
The advantage of this method is that, even if they find nothing about your presumed crime, they might find things which might incriminate you for something else, or just plant evidence.
It does not scale.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/
Yeah as I've said I'm not commenting on the sentencing/punishments, I'm commenting on the offences.
Let's say you wasted the last 10 years (you didn't - you learned a lot of valuable experience apparently).

So what ? You will probably live until you're in your 80s, and work (if you want or need) until you're into your 60s.

You have plenty of time - I suggest not to rush - you won't turn it around in 3 months. But you definitely can turn it around in 1-2 years. As someone wise said - people overestimate what they can do in the short term, but also underestimate what they can achieve in the long term.

Don't bother with the resume or marketable skills. Decide on what you want to do, and go after it. If you do it for a year, every single day, confidence and motivation will take care of themselves, and I can guarantee you will be surprised how far you can go.

99% of success in anything worthwhile in life, is just showing up, every single fucking day !
I meant, using branches in a way that's "better" - whatever people who use git mean when they say that.

As I said, I haven't used SVN. It just seems like perforce and mercurial are basically "identical" for the ways I use them at least.
Interesting, where can I read the product reviews?
I setup a Wiki.js install as a contingency documentation plan for our company when Atlassian had their major outage last year. I liked it.

I also like how the documents are literally markdown files and you can synchronize/backup the data to a git repo and the data isn’t even reliant on the wiki.js instance you run to be readable.
I like the way he's screen printing the soldering paste.
I guess the point is that writable doesn't necessarily imply pronounceable.
Yes, and it is also paid for assembly line workers, even in (some?) plants not located in Germany. Very classy move in my opinion.
They're tax free but they're still considered part of your disposable income since you can choose not to pay them.
On the other hand, the interaction is mostly with total strangers and is almost always in text form. Most of the time you don't even have to see their faces!

(also I don't understand why there wouldn't be subtext)
> I've gotten a lot of value out of reading the different sides of other people's arguments, but I know I personally wouldn't have wanted to spend time being part of it.

The problem with discussions on the internet is that there's a lot of ignorance and ideology out there and a lack of interest in applying a modicum of thought, research and critical thinking. People know what they know because they know what they know, and that's the end of it. This can be incredibly frustrating to those of us who make an attempt to live in some kind of an objective realty, where arguments from reason and facts are considered and respected.

On the internet, the earth can be flat and there is no amount of math and science you can deploy that will convince a certain audience otherwise.

The only exception to this rule are narrowly focused professional discussion groups. HN fits this description ONLY when the topic at hand tends to be in the realm of specific engineering disciplines. In a wide range of other areas, including technical areas, discussions on HN can be just as dumb and pointless as almost anywhere else.

I've been using online forums of various kinds of four decades. You could find good, bad and ugly on USENET and the same is true today in various forms. The only thing that has changed is that the size of the audience and the reach of the nonsense have expanded.

Relevant:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/19/yale-researchers-how-highly-...
Learning this makes me more inclined to shop there!
So we should stop doing any activity that puts us in harm's way ?

Hiking ? Hiking rescue costs are crazy. Not allowed to go in nature, you get a fine. Any high intensity physical activity where you could hurt yourself ? Basketball, martial arts, all banned ?

What is this, the tyranny of the overcautious couch potato ? :)
Markdown is not very good for tables for example. Both its syntax and the options it supports for tables are far from being enough to replace what you usually find a wiki system.
I believe this was updated in a recent version of Python to use threads.
Where did I explicitly mentioned Germany as an example in this sentence?

> Not in US, in plenty of "communist" European countries it is.
I don't think it's to avoid a security issue. Almost any Mac made in the last 5+ years has had sufficient security to stand up to nearly nation-state attacks on its disk contents.

What I think is far more likely: it's a dark pattern to discourage people from doing their own backups.

One of selling points of iCloud is scaring people into the possibility of their stuff being lost from their phone getting destroyed/lost/stolen.

Up until this change was implemented, it was painless and transparent to do backups of your phone. You just needed to have your Mac or Windows computer turned on and your phone on WiFi with power. It Just Happens.

This is also a convenient way for law enforcement to get people's iMessage history, because iMessage backs up by default to iCloud, unencrypted, including the user's iCloud encryption keys. Without this, if LEOs wanted a criminal's messages they'd have to pound sand.

We know that the FBI has at least a somewhat sympathetic ear at Apple, probably because keeping the FBI happy means Congress doesn't start applying levers on the company.

Given the timing which is right after they deployed the enhanced iCloud security that supposedly E2EE's everything in a (again, supposedly) very secure way, I suspect this was a tradeoff they made to keep the FBI/Congress happy, while also boosting revenue.

'Hey, we'll nerf the local backups, and don't worry too much about enhanced security, most people won't turn it on because it's a pain and we'll put scary warnings on it.'
> Can't afford a small oven.

You don't even need that; you can solder PCBs in a frying pan. It works very well. I never even tried an oven to be honest because a frying pan worked so well and Adafruit or someone like that said it was better than a toaster oven.

Although I do have induction hobs now. Not sure if a PCB would be too happy about that. But if not you can buy a portable mini hob for like £15.

It's a really cool tech demo though.
The choice of architectural solution is exactly where the developer can achieve their 10x gains. So who knows your monolith idea might achieve the 10x gains over whatever solution you're currently stuck with?
I'm so sorry you're going through this, I've been there.

Thoughts in order from most to least palatable:

1. Try your best to lean on friends and family if possible, nothing else will help you reclaim as much time. Don't be afraid to get aggressive here, you guys are struggling, let people know.

2. Ask yourself if you can invest in hiring help around the house: cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc. If this buys the time to get a much better paying job, it can be well worth it.

3. Consider a lower standard of care for your partner while you prep. This is a hard option, a mutual sacrifice for the future.

4. Staying the course may not be so bad. If you're married to your partner you may want to divorce to avoid their medical bills if there's a chance they don't make it.

5. If the disease is not very treatable, consider instead enjoying your time
together rather than spending money on treatment (my own experiences with this problem and this article shaped my ideas: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-di...)
Thats a very generous view on the current state of POCUS. I don't believe this has been studied yet but the % of patients who undergo POCUS in the ED (which is billed for) and leave without formal imaging in the radiology department (also billed for) is probably in the single digits.

Irrespective of their findings, clinicians are not yet confident enough to discharge their patient on the basis of their negative POCUS nor are surgeons confident enough in the clinician skills to operate on positive POCUS findings (except FAST). Hopefully this will slowly improve over time, particularly if AI can play a role in procuring adequate images, but ultrasound is a hard skill to master (sonographers do this day in and day out, a lot more skillful than myself as a radiologist let alone a clinician with an underpowered POCUS).

Conversely, there is a non-trivial amount of unnecessary imaging generated as a result of POCUS findings (perhaps most significantly for aortic dissection which is a high dose CT scan). Out of ~100 CT studies I've reported that come with the history 'dissection/intimal flap on POCUS' 0 have been positive, and had the clinician gone purely on the clinical picture + labs they would have probably not ordered the CT in most of these cases.

Also ultrasound can't penetrate lungs.
Likewise for NuGET in the context of .NET libraries with native dependencies.
"Why Small Modular Reactors Can’t Compete With Renewable Energy"

"So the physics of thermal efficiency are important. So is modularity and manufacturability. There’s an optimizing curve in there that the SMR firms are trying to figure out"

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/01/18/the-nuclear-fallacy-why...
It should show the weight difference, that is crucial to understand its impact on pedestrians and cyclists during collisions.
I had sound on iPhone until I unplugged my headphones, then I couldn’t figure out how to turn it back on.