skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> America and Canada are priced out of manufacturing based on rent/housing alone

Which is ridiculous given how much space they have
> > CRDTs don't _ensure_ ops are commutative (and associative, and idempotent) but rather they _require_ that ops are commutative (and associative, and idempotent)

> I disagree. You can create a CRDT flavor of data structure whose ops are not commutative

i think it's important to reiterate (for other third-party readers) that this is factually incorrect

a data structure with operations that are not commutative (or associative or idempotent) is not a (state-based) crdt by definition
Very curious to hear more about this - how does processing census sheets fit in to LDS?
My grandfather probably spend 20 hours a week doing home genealogy work.

Going back to I guess the 80s, he always had the latest and greatest computer system in his home.

He wasn't super technical, but he knew how to use them for the things he cared about.

One year he hit an issue with a store-bought computer. I forget what the issue was, but he probably spent $5k on the computer, and it had hundreds, if not thousands of his work hours saved on it, and customer support led him down a path that wiped his hard drive.

After that, he would say, "Computers are light light bulbs, you can't trust them after a certain point..."

He complained about the customer support being so bad, so I told him we could just build one from pars if he wanted.

His eyes lit up, "You'd build me a computer?!"

So every 2 years, we would get together and build him a new computer.

He bought all the parts, and we'd build identical computers, one for him one for me... some of my fondest memories.

He got such a kick out of running performance benchmarks. 90-something year-old kid in a candy shop. He had to have the best parts.

From 1996 to 2016 or so, he had probably the most powerful gaming rig in Midland, TX... He had 3x 4k monitors, surround sound, and crazy silly amounts of RAM. Like... 128 GB was the last machine we built, back in 2016.

He'd always donate the "old one" to the church. I remember one year the kid they sent out had some IT knowledge. He was trying to write up a donation receipt, and Grandpa was like "64 gigabytes..." and the kid, thinking it was some old clunker since it was just sitting in an old Costco fruit-box at that point, was like, "Oh, you mean 64 megabytes of memory..." and Grandpa was like, in the most assertive tone an ultra-polite Mormon could muster, "No, sir. I mean gigabytes." This was like 2008 or so, when most high-end computers didn't have more than 8 GB of RAM. And Grandpa was just like, "It's got some old Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Quad-SLI video cards..." And the kid was like, "Wait, how many video cards?" And Grandpa's attitude was like like, "Take that trash away, it's old and busted. Get it of my sight!" Ha.

He may have also liked playing flight simulators just a little. (=
I wonder what heuristics determines "last location". If it's geo-ip then it's ripe for "10 years later that ip is now somewhere else"

It's probably a synonym for a join over geo, ip, cookie state on a browser or physical device a decade back when the OP last logged in.

If the account had some declared financial worth eg bitcoin key info, I could see a civil suit forcing function but aside from that lever I think it's possible the public shame lever won't work after 10 years idle time.

Keep logging in folks, even with redirection. Enable 2fa and get backup keys printed.
That is often the default plan, but not necessarily a goal for everyone.
> technology made the horse obsolete

it did not, there are plenty of situations in which technology is less preferred to a horse (or mule), like say climbing everest or various other difficult terrains. it did reduce the amount of working horses though
> Let's just say I find more value over taking a few weeks to experiment with various wood aging and staining techniques to get just the right look for the weathered decks than I would tweaking a shader.

In my opinion beyond a certain level this is also happening with plastic models - the kit gluing is a small part, reshaping the odd parts, adding historical accurate details and finish are the main parts. And funnily, most people doing this also build parts of the detail on the computer nowadays.
A separate application is nicer because you can switch to it with alt-tab or number keys instead of finding it among all your other tabs.
Testing Allocation Failures
We've banned this account. Creating accounts to troll HN will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
C throws a warning, because you need to manually cast to get expected behavior. But it does not behave the same as javascript, try it yourself, you will not get "44" when you add "4" to 4.

Go does not support implicit type conversion, so no it does not behave the same as Java or Javascript, and will throw an error.

Rust does not allow adding an integer to a string and will also throw an error.

I suggest actually trying these things yourself, we are talking about adding an integer to a string, or subtracting an integer from a string. Obviously many languages will throw an error when trying to do this.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273707 - March 2023 (156 comments)
On this topic I highly recommend Bill Kennedy's talk: https://youtu.be/6qAfkJGWsns

It helped me to step upy profiling game quite a bit.
Assuming by developed they mean agriculture and the industrial revolution. Probably because the climate has been unusually stable for the last 10-12k years. Many likely did agricultural but when the climate suddenly shifts it means everything you have learned about growing in that region is lost. Thus agriculture is never sustained and populations never blow up.
It seems pretty clear to me:

- Trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem are rare, because many trigonometric identities depend on the Pythagorean theorem, so it's easy to end up with an argument that is in fact circular.

- Nevertheless, there have been a handful of trigonometric proofs in recent decades.

- These two students have come up with a new trigonometric proof, and it is a nice one too (“could well be the most beautiful and simplest trigonometric proof we have seen to date”). That is the novelty/notability.

Note that this is consistent with the talk abstract (quoted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35498423) — they don't claim to have the first trigonometric proof, just that “in our lecture we present a new proof […] based on a fundamental result in trigonometry—the Law of Sines—and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity”. Pretty cool work IMO.
There are several states in the US where rents are cheaper than in Shenzhen.
To me, the interesting bit here is that Outlook is still using the Microsoft Word layout engine.

That's what's going away: Outlook on Windows moves to the Chromium-lineage MS Edge web layout.

I idly wonder about legacy DIME (binary multipart MIME encoding from 20th Century Office products), but it's easier to run entire legacy systems inside a web render these days.

One of the Word layout engines really boosted Microsoft's dynamic web browser implementation in the early days; they had this compact, fast thing they could use already. IE 4.0 era.
Living Alone in the Wild Siberian Forest for 20 Years. Part 2
Oh... um... I mean look, it's a bit controversial.

They document family trees, and then post-humorously baptize the dead so everyone's kin can get to heaven.

They mean well, and it's coming from a good place, but it's a little weird and it can be off-putting to know that they don't think any other religion's baptisms count so they have to do it over the LDS way. But look, they mean well.

Some background on the controversy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us/jews-take-issue-with-p...
Single-purpose accounts are not allowed on HN, so can you please stop using an account to comment only about one thing? We want curious conversation here. Pre-existing agendas are not compatible with that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That was a change that seemed to add inconvenience but no additional security. Now I have to first approve an individual photo, then search the pre-approved photos for the photo I just added (they will be sorted by time). Why can't they just let me approve and add a photo at the same time?
Why not cut out massive govt. corruption and waste first? The money is already there. Pouring more water into a bucket with a thousand holes is not helpful.
Organic structures tend to not last thousands of years very well. We simply don't know much besides that they were as intelligent and creative as us. Probably had less intellectual shackles about they could organize and run their societies.
I wonder how long this system will exist before ML gets good enough that it just makes more sense to send illegible mail back to the sender and say, "sorry, whatever you wrote is not a valid address, try again".
That statement about HN is false and I would even call it a smear.
How are they rivals? I read longform content on substack and D grade buzzfeed listicles on Twitter.
A lot of the stuff they process are actually machine printed, but for some reason the OCR just rejected. Had a bud that worked at the Utah facility, and the same sentient can be found through out the comment section of the Tom Scott video.
No, we banned you for breaking the site guidelines on countless occasions and ignoring repeated requests to stop. We also told you we were banning you and explained why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837345 (Jan 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10808826 (Dec 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9873723 (July 2015)
The copyright police will fall on this like a ton of bricks. Publishers already hate libraries (yes they do), the last thing they want is more of them.
Computers are fast. I once worked on a service sitting at the top of a deep RPC stack. Stack traces were often folded into RPC error messages to help diagnostics. Well, if you have a failure at one layer, propagated to the next layer, and the next layer, and sometimes replicated for each looked up item (to support partial failure semantics), then you can end up with gigabytes of stack traces in memory for some fraction of time. Very hard to figure out until tasks started dying and leaving behind heap dumps during a wide-spread incident at a lower layer of the stack.
I have a feeling just by the length of your post that you’re on medication too.
Pretty sure his version of developed only happened recently is because the climate has been really stable for the last 10k or so years meaning we can actually have agriculture based societies not get screwed when their climate suddenly changes
Maybe one of the anti-gerrymandering projects would be useful?

For example, http://autoredistrict.org/
And the HN discussion of that video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32388279
Very helpful. Thanks so much!
Rolls nicely off the tongue, too.
Are you responding to the right comment?
You can also carbonate grapes.
The barriers to entry definitely exist, but is it the technology itself that creates them, or is it the intellectual property laws we've adopted? Capital is a barrier but it's far from an insurmountable one -- there's plenty of capital floating around in the world. As a thought experiment imagine what the tech industry might look like if the US introduced some form of compulsory licensing for software (for patents? for copyrighted source code?) like what exists for music.

Natural monopolies certainly exist in sectors of the economy like public utilities, but I don't think they are so strong in tech.
> Every major announcement from them has been top of page

As far as I know that's not accurate, or even close.

We're not playing favorites; all we care about is that the most interesting stories get the front page time, since there are many more submissions than space on the front page.
Substack just releases a Twitter competitor: https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
Love it! That's too funny.

I can imagine his computer ending up in a variety of places depending on the personalities in his local church leadership xD

I learned to carry a PortableApps USB stick and a Puppy Linux USB stick with me every time I went to church meetings, just in case. One night I ended up tucked in a church library alone (under certain circumstances a random dude needs to stay in the building while other meetings happen), found a donated computer (nothing like your grandpa's!) and after digging around for cables for a while, had my Linux desktop up and running, streaming some prosaic public-access TV or something while reading Slashdot.

I can't imagine how that moment would have felt if the computer turned out to be a 64GB RAM monster...I think I seriously would have considered bringing my home computer to swap with it. I remember others being told to do the same, in cases where the waste was even less obvious (and I mean I even once had to turn away a guy who tried to donate a vial of gold he panned in Alaska to the church)...but wow, yeah that's a big deal.

(There were actually so many genealogy-computer shenanigans at the churches...someone could easily write a very interesting book about that)
The Surface handwriting recognition has been good enough for many years to recognize my cursive handwriting, which is fairly impressive, but I do like the idea of a public service striving to be usable even by people with handwriting not easily read by a machine, just like it's usable by rural users and others who are probably not the best targets from a pure business-minded perspective.
If you're ripping down 4x8's, I've noticed that using a piece of foam insulation on the concrete is the perfect size
This page goes absolutely haywire when I try to read it with the text flashing and jumping up and down. But that's a cool curiosity.
But everybody knows what a library is and grassroots booksharing (aka drop off your old paperbacks in an agreed upon public place) is already a thing, so maybe not a dystopia?

Also, buying books second hand is incredibly easy and cheap. And buying a license for an ebook is incredibly convenient and also tends to be rather cheap.
Dunno, traffic accident probability are usually per mile driven, and rural people drive more to get anywhere.

Some counties have a single ambulance, and are 1-2 hours from a hospital.

Where I live, there's only volunteer fire departments. That can't be great either.

People just love hating on SF and/or cities in general, and will dig up any statistic that supports their viewpoint.
I build them manually but can do so pretty quickly using HN Search and a browser extension I wrote that does a lot with keyboard shortcuts.
Not if you use heat pumps...
No, reposts are fine after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. That's always been HN's policy and it strikes a nice balance - it means the site is not overrun by duplicates, but at the same time good content gets multiple chances at discussion. That's especially important for new cohorts of users, who haven't seen the classics yet.
I think you're being downvoted because you've claimed "That's a case of not solving the problem.", but I think that actually better describes this answer. It's clever, certainly, but misses the fact that the stack of screens was never intended to be recursively escaped and changing the form that it took was the real fix rather than rubbing some compression sauce on what was never intended to be lots of backslashes in the first place. And indeed, that's what the author did: they shipped a bandaid fix while working on a more comprehensive fix, one which didn't require RLE or a quadtree (!).
Well after 2010 it was dropped from most schools. So, yeah.
> I have friends who set regional records for processing those old forms. I want to say hundreds of thousands of pages or some wild amount like that.

Yeah, it's insane! I loved how diligent they were! They take scans of every census record, and all the supporting forms that go into the record... then they distribute the forms to at least 2 independent people to extract data from. If there's a conflict, they send the data to a 3rd person... then they check all the entries against one another for accuracy. Retired folks are encouraged to participate, and it's pretty common for them to get "really" into it. 20-hours a week... pretty common amount of time.

They have to pass an eye exam every year to do it. My grandfather was heartbroken when his eyesight got to the point where he couldn't do it any more.

But yeah, the distributed work, with sanity checks, and conflict resolution baked-in, it was all so well organized!
That is a good point, we've never had so much information accessible. On the other hand, it's sometimes hard to know what actually matters. Maybe we (or I) don't know how to fully tap into its potential, but I still feel that I progress way faster when I can talk to someone that has experience. I can access their knowledge, but I can also start to see how they think, how they approach problems, how they solve them, what they value.

I've also heard that for them, it can be valuable to have someone with a fresh outlook on things. You notice things that people got used to, and most of the time things make perfect sense considering the situation, but sometimes there's an opportunity to improve things for the better.

You're right about learning, it's a lifelong process. I do think that doing this along other people helps. Sometimes working on something by yourself can be quite lonely, especially if the people around you are not that much into all of that. That kind of loops back into the discussion about tool. Blaming your environment is counterproductive, but it's still important to pick it carefully.
No need to cut them if you occasionally idly rub a rough rock against them, filing them down before they can get long.
I enjoy it because it introduced me to Postgres, which coming from firebase and NoSQL was refreshing
unicef
What Are Older Office Towers Worth When They Finally Sell Amid Record Vacancy %?
Chased by One’s Own Tail (2009)
I don't like mob behaviors either, but there are plenty of reasons why comments get downvoted and flagged besides that. Low-quality flamewar comments, for example, deserve both downvotes and flags, for reasons that have nothing to do with mobs.

You've unfortunately been posting some of these yourself - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429902. Can you please not? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we have to ban accounts that keep doing it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
If they are sold out they are apparently competitive enough?
The guy you are replying to is a rabid China hater and a racist.
I do: K9BCJ
There's another angle to this as well. IMO the main reason that manufacturing stopped in the US that nobody seems to address: the USD.

The USD couldnt function as a reserve currency (from the perspective of the US) if the US didnt run a massive trade deficit on purpose (import way more than you export). That's very hard to do if your manufacturing isn't happening outside of the US in countries that you want to be dependent on the USD.

The day manufacturing actually makes a significant comeback to the US is the day that the US lost it's status as the nr 1 world power: the day the USD will stop being a world reserve currency. It would be extremely bad news for the US geo-politically and economically.
It was snarky and reduced another commenter's position to something stupid, in order to dismiss it. Those are both hallmarks of flamewar and the site guidelines specifically ask you not to do either of them:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Btw, if you find yourself "calling people out", you've definitely departed from the space we want discussion to happen within on HN—what you could call the window of curiosity. We're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
I don't expect a random guy to deeply understand the technicalities, but I do expect a journalist to do more investigation than reaching out to a large corporation for comment.

Regardless of what is "expected" I stand by that it would have been interesting to dig in to the details. Hopefully somebody does. I doubt apple will, but I think there can be lessons learned from understanding how it happened if someone were to research it.
This has been a thing for decades, nobody cares. It doesn't scale to a size that warrants their attention.

Not that there's much the publishing industry could do about it if they wanted to. Apart from leaning stronger into ebooks, where people can't do this. But as it stands that'd mean giving Amazon even more power and money.
Maybe it's one of those ChatGPT designed and operated businesses everyone's been dreaming about recently? ;)
What we need is a library that focuses only on out of print out difficult to get books. We don't need Harry Potter and likes on it. There are a million legal/illegal ways to get them.
Amateur radio is by definition self-policing. The operators are required to keep their own frequencies clean, and will go to considerable length to do so.

They have little interest however in interference involving CB, broadcast FM or similar (unless they are asked to assist).

Most interference investigations into Broadcast (TV, AM or FM) are triggered by complaints from the commercial licensee (who pay big money to use the channel).
I just drag my Windows XML script driver into SYSTEM32 folder (for my HP indigo 7000 series ink press) then I press the rest.
At this point publishers should just revoke the licenses to all physical books and burn them, so we can prevent this kind of rampant copyright abuse.
"Uh oh" because as I said in another comment, tax season is tax lobby rage season. The topic isn't unimportant but it probably gets more coverage than it deserves on HN.

Once I've built a list that long I tend to trust it as the tail, and then go searching for more recent cases to cons onto the head. I don't keep any of them handy, I just rely on HN Search to keep them handy for me.
Doesn't Go runtime offer anything like spawn_blocking in Rust async runtimes? Spawn_blocking allows to run any blocking operation without blocking the main executor threads, by spawning blocking operation into a separate thread-pool. This way there is no reason to worry "that the main loop will get clogged or my real time path will be hurt."
But it absolutely provides more security... the app can see only the exact photos you allow. It is a bit annoying as an extra step, but I'll happily give apps access to a single photo selectively versus the all-or-nothing approach where I might choose to completely stop using an app.
This story is not from 2011. Sterling first published it in a Japanese sci-fi magazine in 1998, and then in English as part of his collection of short stories "A Good Old-fashioned Future" in 1999.

Sterling is probably the most accessible and most on-the-money writer of the cyberpunk era.
What are you using for the FT8 on POTA?
Can't even read the damn website without getting a pop-up to register an account.

Refresh, continue to read...

Boom, pop-up... Try an i subscription for just £1 per month.

/sigh
> If this were flamebait, people would be flaming on it, and they're not.

Dropping a lit match in a dry forest is a fire hazard even when the match fizzles out. You have to judge by the statistical risk. Individual cases are too random to draw reliable conclusions from.

Edit: I see that I already made that point in my previous reply to you. Sorry for the repetition! But surely it's not hard to understand?