skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Minter's name evokes ideas of super slick gameplay, putting all his earlier work high up on the Olympus occupied by the BitMap Bros, Konami and Atari. This fellow continues to be a true inspiration to somewhat vintage gamers like myself who can remember the hype that went with a Llamasoft release back in the day - incidentally it's interesting reading Jeff saying he hates marketing, I never would have guessed with all his previous releases in the 90's.
I find those prejudgement political games damaging as well to the point that I'm fantasizing about absurd ideas like anonymous version of slack/hn like chat where messages don't have identities to push it slightly towards merit based conversations. Upvote on messages/threads, not user accounts etc. I don't mean anonymous usernames, I mean no identity at all or at most random identities per message, sticky on reply chain (to know the original author answered your question at most).
>>> This whole saga is a damning indictment of: science journalism, government agencies’ public engagement, scientists’ public engagement, and the critical reasoning skills of middlebrow audiences

Aint this the dang truth.
I don't think that's a good solution in general unless you're confident that all of your deployments will use Docker Compose.

About 1/3 of my deployments are just static sites, and the rest all fit into a single Docker container, so integrating Compose would be a big increase in complexity.
Video course! SAAS product?
Hold shift while pasting (chrome) to paste the text only, no formatting.
I got disappointed every time I tried Lazarus over Delphi.
The biggest problem is: DevExpress support.
Second is: I always, without exception, come across a compiler bug. My last compiler bug was about setting boolean flags at module initialization causing segfaults on armv7. It took me hours to debug.

I love the project like an old friend. I just can't trust it in a professional setting like a customs depot or a logistics department. Delphi works fine.
Makeup, plastic surgery, hair implants, Bentleys, this filter, lying on your resume, etc. What’s the difference? People who are into it will be into it, and others will not care and just avoid. Isn’t this what the people want though, so why not give it to them in our capitalist society? I mean, you can’t even find one negative comment in YouTube anymore. So like, why look at people who don’t fit what we as a majority find statistically attractive? They do it with people in movies and TVs. Only basic and naive people care about this stuff…a filter is not going to do more damage to how they already think. Raise a kid to value knowledge, relationships and morals and they couldn’t care less about this. Let them swim freely in our garbage society of deception and greed and this is what you get. Meh
It might also be about recovery. Running a full is tiring and they might be expected to run another race soon.
Obtaining Editable Neural Humans from Short Video Clips
The NK ah...vape station? Is pretty interesting to look at.

I enjoy seeing really unique desks, but it's even easier to enjoy this gallery after seeing so many next-level battlestations all the time.

These tell so much of a story, like the Wacom station where somebody is seriously skipping every normal human side quest to go straight to the art.
It was one of those roadside places with a giant "Espresso" sign or whatever. I just get regular crap coffee at McD
There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021)
How the titans of tech investing are staying warm over the VC winter
Wonder if any of the lessons got learned? We, as an industry, are absolutely terrible at this, but hope springs eternal...
Anecdotal, but I was in the Yucatan Peninsula in 2019 doing Spanish classes. My teacher was Maya, and he said now it had become fashionable to be able to speak Yucatec Maya whereas growing up you didn't want to. Several other of the Maya teachers also confirmed, and stated they were (ré)learning when they might've forgotten or not been raised with it.

They were also very much 'Somos Maya first, it was the core part of their identity, over being Mexican.

The same is less true for the Chuj Maya I taught in the States, though since they immigrated there they're at much greater risk of assimilation and losing their culture. But a lot of work had to be done in teaching them to not be ashamed to be Maya. But, given they mostly were refugees from Guatemala, it makes sense.
dude what if HackerNews had a Graybeard filter so every reply i wrote sounded like i really really knew what i was talking about even if i didn't.
Australia, and the aurora australis, checking in.
I suppose YouTube saw the spike in the video's popularity, caused by this HN post, and started recommending it to people who might be interested in it.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the basis GP was using for making that claim, but based on the experiences of women I've talked to about this, it's almost universally understood that interactions in almost any social context will be affected if a woman chooses not to wear makeup. I'd highly suggest to any man who doesn't believe this to ask women in their life who would be open to this sort of discussion to honestly ask about this; I think you'll be surprised how much the choice of whether to wear makeup affects even professional life for women. A coworker at a camp I worked at after my freshman year of college who did freelance work during the year said clients would agree to higher rates when she interviewed wearing makeup compared to without makeup. This isn't an isolated thing; a quick google found a reddit[1] threat discussing this topic where server discuss making larger tips based on not just the presence of makeup but also based on specific types of looks (e.g. the shade of lipstick). One commenter even mentioned that they're _required_ to wear makeup to work.

Makeup quite literally added an extra artificial step that society decided was required for women to be taken seriously in professional contexts. You might be able to make the argument that professional standards are as high for men appearance-wise (although I'd personally be skeptical of such a claim), but if you think that makeup didn't cause the standards to change for women, you're deluding yourself.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeupAddiction/comments/1ihkf7/que...
I was once motorcycle touring in the Wyoming/Utah/Colorado area with a friend who was riding an old, carbureted Suzuki dual sport that struggled with power at altitude. We found we could significantly increase its top speed and fuel range by drafting it off the "bubble" created by my bike's panniers. Inside the bubble was like the eye of a storm.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113199...

-- Sep 24, 2020,

https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/

-- Last update, regarding deprecation, 31 March 2021

Hence 2021.

Same reasoning could be applied to Microsoft and Sony Playstation browsers, where neither of them support GL.

Fact is that after all these years, WebGPU still isn't here as stable version that one can rely on, and even then it is only a MVP with an incompatible shader language.
I admit I haven't read the article but lately it's been popular to link mental illness to pretty common things. Poor sleep? The logic kinda makes sense. Not sleeping at all will 100% drive you insane, so it could make sense that sleeping only half what you should will have some effect.

But its much more likely that some people genetically and family-wisw are just more suceptible than others. Trying to find an external cause is probably futile.
> speed up a bit on the downhills

That is bad for your knees.

[edit] I highly recommend the book Born to Run by Cristopher McDougall.
> CONTINUE and BREAK are quite different from GOTO in that they operate predictably given the current scope

CONTINUE, BREAK, and GOTO all operate predictably because they are deterministic operations. Each continues program execution at the directed explicit (goto) or implicit (continue or break) offset. There is no non-deterministic or unpredictable behavior whatsoever.
Isn’t a CPAP more without insurance coverage?
You are replying to somebody talking about sage (rather than sympy), which in many fields (not all) is very far ahead of Mathematica.
I do quite like the programming language of Mathematica, but an advantage of sage (and of sympy) is that you have the whole python standard library at your disposal. For your example you could e.g. use itertools.product.
This reads like a perfect description of the place I work - only difference is that we're using Smalltalk instead of Delphi. We are gradually trying to move to the web, but the reality is that the complexity of the web makes it a lot harder and slower to develop useful applications. I am not sure if this added complexity is inherent to the web, or if we just decided it should be that way.
True, the quote though is a warning to people trading rationally.
> Again, obviously tenants need rights, but it seems like many jurisdictions have overshot the sweet spot

Tenants need rights and landlords need tenants. In some cities (SF) the demand outstrips supply sufficiently that you won’t easily find housing but in other cities (NYC) there’s such a diversity in housing options that you’ll always be able to find a closet to rent somewhere.

I think it’s hard to say that tenants have too much rights. There’s no reason to enter the business of land letting unless you are comfortable with the regulations. Laws and their purpose come before profits.
March 1989 Geomagnetic Storm
That is not the point I’m making, rather a single person is responsible for how most of software render text in most of the world writing systems and no one is wondering how 6 billion people on this planet so much depend on the work of “this one guy”. It is because text layout is something 99% of software developers can’t do right if their lives depended on it (same for anything that involves the irregularities of human nature, software developers are not cut for this).
> Freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences.

How I hate the proliferation of this idiotic phrase.

Freedom of speech is a concept, an ideal. Not whatever the US constitution says. The idea is that powerful forces won’t punish you for speaking your mind.

If saying “I don’t like blue party” gets you fired, debanked and slandered in the media; it’s not really freedom of speech.

You also have “freedom to murder”, but you need to suffer the consequences.

A freedom like that is no freedom at all.
It's common lingo in a lot of communities (E.g. sneakers, fashion, music, gaming, etc), especially ones that skew younger.
Or just copypasta through Notepad (or your favorite Linux equivalent) for a universal formatting-stripping solution.
TL;DR -- I suspect you're right: the Alef, Limbo, Go evolutionary path was well aware of occam.

Alef was Phil Winterbottom, yes.

The Squeak paper (http://ordiecole.com/squeak/cardelli_squeak1985.pdf) was 1985, so let's assume the work was likely some time in 1984. That would follow the Blit terminal work (paper in 1982), which seems reasonable. Newsqueak, Alef, and Limbo followed in that order.

occam 1 was 1983, so it seems reasonable that Cardelli & Pike were aware of it, although it's not cited in the paper, so perhaps they weren't.

The Newsqueak TR is from 1994, although it seems likely the work was done earlier. The TR doesn't contain any formal citations, but the text describes the language: "syntax and basic semantics come from C, while the message-passing primitives come from CSP". I think it's a little odd that it doesn't mention occam, as I think it was widely known by the mid-80s as a successful use of the CSP concepts, and Newsqueak must have been somewhere in the range 1985-1994.

Alef is described as being derived from Newsqueak, but was released with Plan9 1st edition in 1992. Alef has "alt" and "par" constructs, which strongly suggest an occam influence.

That said, this talk (http://go-lang.cat-v.org/talks/slides/emerging-languages-cam...) from Rob Pike identifies occam (and Erlang) as a distinct evolutionary branch from CSP.

I guess we'd need to ask to be sure. Party time in Putney?
There's a bizarre niche of 'secondary' phones that use esim that might suit you.
New Yorkers
The wiki you linked opens with a claim that is provably false.

> "It's okay to be white" (IOTBW) is a slogan which originated as part of an organized alt-right trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017.

Countless search results pre-date this and not on 4chan. [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22it%27s+ok+to+be+white%22&...
I make OKRs more playful for my team using Hill-Charts
It’s business and all business is show business baby! Look at all these great startups promising all these shiny things we so desperately need. I think it may be good advice to be wary of anything on the internet, or in the media. In a world so connected it’s amazing how disconnected we really are. For how fucked up everything is, we will need the fake reality being built. Just remember that the consumer demanded it, and that you must be nice and diverse to everyone and whatever.
Not if you explicitly use the word "testing" in your apt config though, no? But yeah, after the hard freeze, changes do slow down until it stable is released, then there is a flood of changes.
I recommend using gedit for this use case (available for linux and mac) it has the best support for arabic, right to left script and bidi (that's mixing rtl and ltr in the same sentence) I've ever seen
I’m a CEO now. An employee who’s older than me looks up to me as knowing more, more about Xmx tuning, coredumps, AWS dogfighting, SQL data models and so on. This is so wrong. My job is mostly HR, presales and lawyers now, so by the sheer time he spends on tech, he’s much better than me, and I don’t know what I’m doing with my strategy orientations.

We all feel like that image of a dog in front of a computer with the subtitle “I haz no idea what I’m doing.” Some of us manage JVMs, some others are CEOs, no-one know what they’re doing, but we have a world to govern.

Some of us have countries and nuclear weapons to govern…
Stop eating carbs about 2 months before. I did this and went from a 2:06 to 1:58 with minimal training. My body carried several kg less weight and felt like it could consume its own fat energy more efficiently and I didn’t get the 2/3 slump.

I also started last, ran down the 2hr pace guy, then tried to stay 100m ahead of him. It felt primal being chased down by somebody and kept the mind sharp.
What's pretty telling is that after I mention racism in passing, and you immediately jump in to say "a truly open mind would be open to racist view points". Then you go on giving examples of what you think are "racially superior" genes, as if this helps argue that conservatives being racist is an incorrect stereotype.
Thank you for the comment. There are definitely issues you touched on intertwined with this story, and I don't fully understand them and will be digging deeper with therapy. Something I put off for far too long as I was busy dealing with this
People have a hard time grappling with the balance of government workers making good money vs being wasteful with tax money. No one seems happy with the government to having sub-par employees, but no one wants to pay for good talent.
Try Tutanota, it's the best for anonymity & doesn't even ask for a phone number to sign up: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/anonymous-email
Program Proofs (Book)
> There isn't a good software tool that helps EV owners plan their trips.

Sure there is: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/

> "We're going through the planning process of how easily Maddie can get from Albany to Gettysburg [College] and where she can charge the car,"

I planned a route with a 2020 64kWh Kona from "Albany, New York" to "Gettysburg College". It was two charging stops: 17 minutes for the first, 32 minutes for the second.

Tesla has started rolling out their "magic dock" modification for CCS type 1 combo charging on Tesla chargers so those will also be available soon:

https://electrek.co/2023/02/23/tesla-supercharger-magic-dock...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8GkKE1xqGg

> "Tesla does not want its highly reliable and tightly integrated charging network to be clogged with people whose cars can't charge as fast as Teslas," he told ABC News.

Tesla has been opening its charging stations to all EVs in Europe, exactly as they should be doing. All brands of charger should charge all brands of EV. Anything less than that is backward, primitive, and under developed.

Why live in a developing nation with fractured, incompatible infrastructure when you can live in a developed nation with compatible, usable infrastructure. Drive anywhere, charge anywhere.
If anybody is interested about clipping diodes please make sure to checkout the beautiful resource that are the lab notes of AMZ: http://www.muzique.com/lab/main.htm

This is one of the things I keep a downloaded copy of because it would be a shame if it ever got lost.
Photoshop relatively recently consolidated its text layout into a single layout engine (based on HarfBuzz) and Arabic support no longer an opt-in (which was the source of the trouble, you had to know you need to opt-in Arabic support before installing the application)

https://helpx.adobe.com/lv/photoshop/using/unified-text-engi...
Yeah they're single use but they work really well and I didn't come across any similarly effective alternatives.
DOE supervises the national labs, which have 1) bio experience 2) high classification 3) supercomputers 4) lots more scientists than CIA or God help us FBI. DOE has organic science resources. The other agencies tend to rely on academic consultants, who are compromised because no one wants to bring virology labs under intense and blaming scrutiny.
In don't know what you mean by discrete simulations but I would expect simulation games to be more performance intensive because of unbounded complexity vs say an FPS game.
This is how NESTicle source code was stolen https://patpend.net/articles/zd/article2.html

> How did he steal the source code? Sardu was running Windows 95 at the time. He made the mistake of leaving drive sharing on
gcc supports nested functions. I like them lots.

They seem to generate a lot of hate though.
Esther Crawford: me going all-in on Twitter 2.0 was not a mistake
This. As a teenager those days, I never bought software and always cracked them. I grew up learning to use Photoshop, Visual Studio, 3ds max etc. cracked.

Now I'm an adult who learned some of those tools profesionally, and paying for them (or services around some of them) legally.

If I didn't use them cracked in my teenage years, perhaps I would have never become a paying user in the first place.
No Jack is annoying, but usb dongle is tolerable and replaceable usb slot offsets the biggest downside.
The main thing here is knowledge of the language. Given how widespread Arabic is (though perhaps not so much in the gaming ecosystem which is Rami's area), it makes sense to have someone on the team knowledgeable about the language while doing translations.

I encountered a (sort of) similar problem while rendering Devanagari text and wouldn't have realised If I couldn't read the text https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44254171/devanagari-text...
Toolchain wise, at least some of their stuff has been upstreamed into LLVM. I'm not sure if the vector extensions mentioned here have been upstreamed however.

[0] https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-a-new-backend-called-lo...
[1] https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-promoting-the-loongarch-bac...
Nice one. Would be nice to have it location based, not just adjust to timezone.

Another great tool from over here that I've made use of a lot is Tromsø Geophysical Observatory's magnetometer stackplots page[1], but not for forecasting obviously.

[1] https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/
Show HN: a MacOS GUI app under 700KB
also I would be happy to help you support arabic in your webpage. send me an email slim@pirate.tn
> I urge people to shift their mindsets and approach cutting edge technology from a perspective of what it could be in the future, vs what it is today

Maybe they realized that too many jumped on the blockchain BS train.
I sometimes just opened keygens after I was done cracking, just to listen to it more.
Exactly. That would be just a subtle exaggeration based on a pseudo-claim, to some degree.
Print everything onto acid-free paper and store the paper in a dark, dry, fireproof location: http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/

If you have the tools you can also use microfiche.
> Trying to read Farsi, it feels like I should know what's going on but am left with the feeling that I've forgotten all my Arabic

This is what Dutch sounds like to me as an English speaker - plenty of common sounds with English; it has a similar speed, rhythm, intonation to English. It feels like I’m hearing English but have lost my faculties to parse it
Social justice fads are primarily distributed via social media. In particular, TikTok is notorious for promulgating it to K-12 age students. It displaces more meaningful media, educational and otherwise.

To reiterate: the prosperity of the country depends on young people being educated in stem fields, whereas because of TikTok they are being socialized in a different way entirely.
CONTINUE and BREAK are simply jumps to the beginning of or just past the end of the current loop context. They are equivalent to GOTOs to particular program offsets without the programmer needing to create labels for those offsets. They do not have any magical meaning beyond that. You could even call them syntactic sugar.
Why should HTML files be embedded within the Go binary bloating its size ? And then needing to fiddle and hack around with Go's embedded FileServer to support basic HTTP caching is painful.

Is there no facility for a CDN in fly.io ?
https://twitter.com/memotv/status/1629928959268868103

>It's doing plastic surgery too, on cheek bones, jawline, nose. Also changes shape of eyes, eyebrows, lips, teeth. It even seems to be doing different things to different people. (You may not be able to see all this on this small selection, but Ive been through hundreds of videos)
> Stations are close to surface, not a labyrinth of escalators to hell

Seattle is building an extension to its light rail system partially above ground partially below ground in many places. It chose to build like this intentionally. Not saying I agree with it but the reasoning:

You enter from any side of street and go to unified mezzanine level. From there you can go to both sides of tracks. This enables easier handicap/elevator access to relevant areas since You only need one elevator to street level. Additionally, no signage on street level to navigate to delay anyone. You enter the station (from anywhere) then figure it out inside without worrying about crossing street to find track.
> the idea that for loops are somehow easier than recursion is definitely not from mainstream CS

I have never in my life heard a programmer say they think recursion is easier than loops.
> Bonus 'I hate it' points if it's that Arabic-looking font that's just English text that looks kind of Arabic.

How is a tacky font on some text that was never intended to be Arabic even approaching the badness of these other issues, let alone worse?

Or is the worry you've found a person that doesn't understand different languages exist at all?
It sounds to me like a big part of the problem here is public service wage compression. Someone starts their career working in the public service on a subway project earning say $80k/year. Ten years later, they know a lot about building subways, and they're being paid $120k/year... but if they jump to the private sector, they can get $250k/year as a subway building consultant. Surprise surprise, the public sector ends up never having any in-house expertise.

If you have a recurring problem of "every time we start a new project we find that everyone with relevant expertise has left", you need to pay your experts more!