skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We seem to be leaving the Industrial Age in the dust. That is too bad. From Tinker Toys to Lincoln Logs to Lego to Erector — even a weird 70's toy, the Hasbro Astrolite, my childhood was filled with construction toys. Engineering, thinking in 3 dimensions, creativity, mechanical movements, "sculpting", re-playability were all there.

I hope those things never go away.

(I remember some IQ-like test as a youth that showed I was off the charts in "Spatial Reasoning" — no doubt helped by my constant manipulation of construction blocks/tpys.)
When I read this is thought it was a cool idea. I suspect it involves using ZFS’s file deduplication/copy-on-write mechanism to maintain a lightweight copy of a database on disk. Memory will still be required for holding the indexes etc, but in theory minimal extra disk space should be needed.

ZFS can also perform compression, which could be a big win as long as you have the spare cycles for lz4 (which is normally the case but may be an issue if you’re maxing out your NVMe disks’ bandwidth, say 3GiB/s+)
Author here - there are two main problems with directly constructing frames on an esp: first, espressif only very recently opened up the wifi stack to a point where raw frame construction is supported and even this has some limitations on which frame types are supported. There is an, erhm, liberated API on older SDKs that supports some more frametypes, but both cannot be used to construct encrypted frames (which is kind of reasonable, I assume that encryption is done purely in hardware).

Second, the more practical limitation comes from the fuzzing objective: esps are slowwwww, and the testcase throughput is abysmal; especially if you factor in that the firmware is essentially a black box and the usual coverage-guidance used in modern fuzzing simply does not work on a device that constrained.

So yeah - constructing frames on the esp would be the smart thing to do, figuring out how to do this efficiently (and fully automated) is however not trivial at all. FWIW, hooking the board up to a computer via serial is also not enough, the fuzzer needs some way to hard reset devices (that is, pull the reset pin to ground or powercycle or both). We use some extra microcontrollers we had lying around for that, however we needed to make some custom PCBs to make that work reliable.

Edit: also, to clarify, the esp8266 is even more limited than the esp32. There is no officially supported way to construct raw frames on the 8266, and in/out connections other than wifi are limited to fairly low speed UART (no JTAG, etc..).
Are you saying we have the same standard you living as 80 years ago?
I'm not surprised (albeit slightly saddened) - I bought my 6 year old boy the set pictured and the quality it terrible - it's plastic and the tolerances are so bad the nuts can never be done up to any tightness before slipping. The instructions were also akin to a crappy toy you'd buy off AliExpress.
Not if AI forces people into global hunger then into nuclear war and then humanity destroys everything including AI
In a world before intelligence, who is conning us in order to apply evolutionary pressure, and how are they doing so?

It seems to me like you need to be an intelligent creature among other intelligent creatures and to have a theory of mind in order to be a con artist, because cons work by turning someone's intelligence against them.
I think Python is easy to learn/use for programming adjacent fields like data science. It's seen as easy for non-traditional programmers.
Ah yes let's avoid the real issue of car tyres producing 2000x the particle pollution per distance travelled compared to already insanely filtered exhaust and distract ourselves with tiny improvements that make no difference.

ICE emissions will be irrelevant in 10 years when they're all but banned anyway, and rubber tyres will still be the only way to drive on the road. In fact it'll be way worse with the average EV being heavier and emitting more due to more tyre wear.
> women read much more than men nowadays

Citation needed. This suggests it’s within 5 percent of each other.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/249781/book-reading-popu...
Meccano tried licensed IP: Gears of War, Rabbids, Tin Tin, Sonic. Possibly others I don't remember.

Lego has more cash and clout to get more desirable IPs with less strict restrictions of course.

I think the real reason for the decline of Meccano/Erector is that it is more fiddly than Lego is. I almost wrote difficult but I don't think that's quite the right word -- there is a lot more freedom in construction with makes assembly, even following instructions, trickier.
Replacing Android Auto
Maybe parent meant this Friends: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/the-friends-apartments-10...
If you have nothing else to do. Then your own time is worthless and I would agree with you. If you have family and ir a job, your time is the most valuable asset. 130 pounds seems reasonable for not having to do this one off flash procedure.
I would brush up as I go because the motivation would be this book itself.
I find it funny that we still call this web3. Web3 might still be something that comes up, might even be the GPT wave.
In my area, there are Indian, Japanese and Chinese grocery stores within a few miles of Costco and Trader Joe's. Considering these grocery stores are decades old, Costco and Trader Joe's have done a bad job at dialing up the greed.
It's no worse than getting food into the cracks on the phone screen, and easier to clean. We will not even discuss problems with USB-C in the kitchen.
As it happens, Firefox 112 has some improvements in this area, although it's still true that handling a multi-megabyte URL will be a bit painful.
In that same fashion, the Pokemon collector craze is successful in a way that has nothing to do with them being on physical cards. It would be successful in other form factors as well.

Collectors like to collect, no matter the medium. I have a large collection of both physical and digital-only games. Many of those digital games aren't anything more than an entry in a database table that says my steam id is allowed to download and play the files associated with a particular game id, at least until I actually play them. And yet I've probably spent $12k+ on Steam games over the past decade.

Hell, probably $5k at least were spent on games I never even got around to actually playing, effectively just giving free money to Valve.
> fundamentally ephemeral

I've had bosses that required their mail system (supported by me) to retain essentially all of their inbound and outbound email indefinitely. Many mobile devices seem to have merged email and messaging; messaging may be ephemeral, but email isn't the same as messaging.
I think what is happening is that Apple Mail prefetches all images when the email is received (over a privacy-preserving proxy). So the Apple Mail users show up as opening every single email, which also artificially boosts their market share.

For most other clients, not only does the user need to open the email but they also need to allow images to be shown for that sender. This will artificially deflate both open rates and market share.
> The demand for books in the US is also disproportionately driven by women. Surveys over at least the last couple decades have consistently found that American women are more likely to read books than American men, especially when it comes to fiction.

It's in the article, with citations. I just accepted that as a given, from my own anecdotal experience.
It really depends what you use it for. Engineered wood like MDF in general is better for cabinetry than wood.
You should be able to create an account on that domain here (unless something has changed since I last registered) https://singlelogin.me/registration.php

You get your own personal domain/subdomain of zlibrary after logging in
I recognize that some people have the luxury to pick their client but definitely not every people.
You always know you're in for a wild ride when a comment starts with "it sounds like you are saying"
Why did you choose here to throw in a totally unnecessary little anti-trans side-eye? Like, you could just have chosen not to do that, and avoided ruining this discussion.
Only if you ever believed this guy to be your savior.

If anybody thinks that spending their money on a thing that will give them a "stable yearly APY of 100+" is an investment they are worth being scammed.
Nope.

You are already doing this to determine profit (for the existing tax regimes).

All that is required is to take gross revenue (a more basic, simpler value that is already known to determine the current profit calculation), and divide profit/revenue.

There may be an incentive to amortize more evenly, but that is typically what you should be doing (amortizing is meant to spread a one-off cost over the period of the resultant benefit) ... currently the incentive is to book costs early to postpone apparent profit and the resulting tax, which is usually both trickier and less moral/honest.
Android has this issue.

There is the new permissions for locations. Accurate and not so accurate.

Apps are told that "you are given coarse location" so they refuse to work.

Same for contacts. I refuse to use truecaller because it "requires" contacts access. I don't want it so I am at an impasse.

Permissions should be transparent. As you said, if the user decides on system level to disable location, apps should be told "no signal" or "no location for now, carry on"
It's only wild and very criticized because of scale. But it's "just" a hydroelectric plant, and all hydroelectric projects result in ecological alterations.

That's one of the reasons why anything with "hydro" in it when proposed for renewable energy (generation or storage) is wrought with problems.
Surely most religions have a larger body count over the years than that, if that's the criteria?
Open source too https://github.com/inventaire/
Yes I was. Thanks for plugging the link.
That does not mean that women read “much more” than men. In the cited articles the difference is less than 10 percent. That wouldn’t explain the discrepancy in publishing.

Not to much that what’s being measured specifically are fiction novels.

Regardless of the answer there’s clearly enough for an article here.
There will always be some better tool for a given niche task than a general one.
Also the Moonies owning a bunch of stuff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church#Businesses, including UPI and the Washington Times.
"Wind down"? I cross this out several times with my red pen, leaving deep grooves in the paper, and offer a few sensible, meaningful, clear, definitive options:

"end"

"remove"

"shut down"

"terminate"

"cancel"
68–95–99.7 Rule
vFlat Scan [0] automates the unwarping.

[0] https://www.vflat.com/
Your friend is an addict and should seek gambling addiction groups.
Me: "JARVIS, please send my CV to Bill"

Jarvis: "I assume you mean bill_no_gates@microhard.com"

Me: "Yes, but don't eavesdrop on my conversations"

Jarvis: "No, but I read your SMS :-)"

Me: "Ok, whatever, thanks."

Jarvis: "Sometimes, you can acknowledge, I am smarter than you!!!"

Me: "I have work to do".
Thanks for posting this and your experience.

I had HTDP on my to-learn list and the parent comment somehow put a damper on it.

The space-invaders project sounds fun.
To be fair to (major) religions, people don't exist in their physical ("corrupt") forms in hell / heaven.
Mr. Whistler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zbZkI-RHAs
I always use plain text emails, but I won't debate it here, and I understand why HTML email exist.

But I want to point japanese plain text marketing emails. Those are marvels of unicode asciiart blocks, separators/lines and arrows. They even send HTML emails as text sometime, and the only HTML styling is selecting a font.
> true builders in this space

That's a lot of belief riding on there being "true builders".
I live on a relatively busy road in the city, cars drive around 30km/h. Doesn't feel like a big road, but lot of cars during the weekdays. After cleaning, the white elements balcony turns black every 1.5 - 2 weeks.

Dont know what it is, some people say tires. Whatever it is, it's a lot and living in cities like this have already shown a lower life expectancy of around 5 years.
XML would also have a problem with this: you'd replace < with &lt;, then with &amp;lt;, then with &amp;amp;lt;, … It's not exponential, but still inefficient.
It’s hard to really quantify how big of an issue this is in my head, I mean a set of tyres will do 20,000+ miles and only loose a small percentage of their mass while doing so. How much damage is really being done? How much scope for improvement is there?
If they are irrelevant details then that should not count as a new proof, in my opinion.

I guess it might be possible to have a "canonic form" of a proof so that if two proofs can be reduced to the same canonic proof then they are in fact the same proof.
That's been the exact playbook.

Also mock what it's been used for, find the "worst" example.

If not mock, as you say, label it as dangerous.
Took me a while to work out Osmo, but I finally understand how to get an amazing finish with it every time (using a spatula of all things!).
You can also type "%outlook" in the address bar in Firefox and jump directly to the tabs that contain "outlook" in their names.
What other major companies still use NFTs?
I pay $0.20/kWh. At your rates, my electric bill would be less than the stamp it cost to mail me the bill.

I assume that everything is electric powered in homes in your area?
I have a feeling there is a /s hidden somewhere in the comment
None of the CHD data or anything of value can be read, to get access to anything of value other than the type and issuer of the card you need to authenticate which means that you need a set of keys which so far have been pretty difficult to get…
If you have to pay to learn something, it's a grift.

There's carve outs for technical fields, for people who are willing to pay a premium for speed, or personalized learning, or putative 'networking' of course.
Gochugaru only became a common ingredient in kimchi in the 1700s (before that black pepper was used for the jang), but maybe more surprisingly napa cabbage only became common during the 1800s.
Private membership libraries predated public libraries in most places bt by well over two centuries and often loaned. It was actually more common for people to share a library and borrow from than to accrue their own, as the cost of books was considerable.

For more on this, I'll cite the following:

https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/303

Available from all good lending libraries, shadow libraries, and academic bookshops!
Same, but with pickled and fermented fizzy tomatoes, a specialty in Georgia. So delicious.
These videos I feel were the first to really give a glimpse into the weird and surreal future we're heading into.

The whole Balenciaga shtick felt like a metaphor for the rising tide of machine-generated content— and I tried to weave this narrative through the quotes of this computer history version, "the balenciaga revolution is far more important..." yada yada, while ostensibly about the history of computing, it is moreso intended to let us ponder its future.
In my excellent engineering school in France, one group reliably had very bad marks at technical drawings, the Morrocans. It required seeing the pieces in 3D based on flat drawings. It’s not IQ since they all went on to have great careers, and most performed excellently in calculus or language.

It was also a specific type of Morrocans: Those who strived enough at school to emigrate to France, compared to a specific type of French students, those who succeed in engineering.

To this day, it’s still a mystery to me why a specific group could be so markedly different in only one subject matter. Could it be that Morrocans who succeeded had had no time in their childhood to play spatially? My favorite theory is they didn’t have as much Lego in Morrocco as we (at least future engineers) had in France.
The only reason governments are pushing DAB/+, so they can sell off the FM bands to corporations. Don't expect those to remain empty to amateurs.
> Is it typical just to keep track within the confines of the code you're writing and explicitly free memory when you're done with it?

Yes. It's common to write OOP style C by using an opaque pointer in a header file and handle all the allocation and deallocation within the code file. The header file will export a "constructor" and "destructor" function. The constructor and destructor are still called manually, but this method properly encapsulates state to being visible only within a single code file, which prevents some accidental misuses of a type. The destructor should have a free for every allocation in the constructor, but done in reverse order. If you follow this pattern consistently, then `malloc` will only ever appear inside a constructor and `free` will only appear in a destructor. All other object allocation and deallocation is done via the relevant constructor/destructor.

.h file:

typedef struct my_type_t my_type;

my_type* my_type_alloc (type1, size_t);

void my_type_free (my_type*);

.c file:

struct my_type_t
{
type1 member1;
type2* member2;
};

my_type* my_type_alloc (type1 m1_copy, size_t m2_size);
{
my_type result* = (my_type*) malloc (sizeof (my_type));
result->member1 = m1_copy;
result->member2 = type2_alloc (m2_size);
return result;
}

void my_type_free (my_type* value)
{
type2_free (value->member2);
free (value);
}

Another technique is to make use of GCC `constructor` and `destructor` attributes, which are called before `main` and after `main` loses scope (or `exit()` is called). For example, you might have a static container type and only expose methods `add`, `remove` and `get`, then all allocation and deallocation happens solely within the code file and consumers of this API don't need to concern themselves with allocating and deallocating. This is only really useful for singleton-like (process global) data structures, but you could perhaps utilize these for implementing a GC, since an allocator is usually global to the process. (Eg, the `GC_init` function in the article could be given the constructor attribute so that the programmer would not need to manually call it).

.h file:

void container_add (obj value);
void container_remove (obj value);
obj container_get (size_t index);

.c file:

struct container_t
{
obj* items;
size_t num_items;
size_t capacity;
}

static container_t* c;

__attribute__((constructor))
void container_initialize(void)
{
c = malloc (sizeof (struct container_t));
c->num_items = 0;
c->capacity = DEFAULT_NUM_ITEMS;
c->items = malloc(DEFAULT_NUM_ITEMS * sizeof (obj));
}

__attribute__((destructor))
void container_uninitialize(void)
{
free (c->items);
free (c);
}

void container_resize (size_t new_size)
{
obj* tmp = c->items;
c->capacity = new_size;
c->items = malloc (new_size * sizeof (obj));
memcpy (c->items, tmp, c->num_items * sizeof (obj));
free (tmp);
}

void container_add (obj value) {
if (c->num_items == c->capacity) container_resize (c->capacity * 2);
...
}

void container_remove (obj value) { ... }

obj container_get (size_t index) {
return c->items[index];
}
I like the idea of IKEA furniture being frames for further customization. Since their furniture is so ubiquitous, it's like a common touch point for modders and DIY'ers.

I've used Bemz[0] custom upholstery for their couches before. A nice way to mix it up and refresh your living room without replacing the entire thing. Can recommend.

[0] https://bemz.com/
The EMV chip is readable but it would only provide you with the information needed to start an authenticated transaction with the card - basically the type and issuer of the card.

No cardholder data nor anything else that is sensitive will be presented over NFC without authentication.
New York is simpler because it is the New Amsterdam, or Amsterdam 2.0
>What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?

https://archive.ph/WuZhn

>What Killed Penmanship?
We’re all texters and typers now, so if you can’t read that grocery list you scrawled, you are not alone.

https://archive.ph/6mm4j
Fortunately, hundreds of billions of Lego bricks were sold over the years, many of which survive, making for a very deep secondary market. On average, families only seem to grow wealthier, in terms of the amount of Lego they acquire.
> the inefficiency of American buildings (large, poor insulation)

American dwellings being less well-insulated than British ones in aggregate absolutely does not pass the sniff test: British houses are older, and weather in the UK is much milder than in most of the US
Lululemon Tried to Become a Tech Company. It Didn’t Work Out
I am waiting for my first QSL card from HAARP.
The playbook against NFTs is that they did nothing useful. That seems to still be the case. ChatGPT is useful, some of us are just not sure how useful it is yet.
I don't think that's very likely. Google is clearly still investigating heavily in Flutter, they use it for some of their own apps and devices, and they are clearly aware that the native Android API is not very good.

The only thing that would make me suspect that they would kill it is the ongoing performance issues due to shader compilation. But they have actually started fixing that properly by creating a new renderer that doesn't do on-demand shader compilation.

The developer tools that Google has released generally don't get suddenly killed. They mostly kill user facing apps that aren't very popular. And Reader.
What’s with the ellipsis,”….”? You’re using the completely wrong system to deliver a message at a distance it’s not meant to optimize. Sure maybe that would have been routine in the 1920s when almost all business was local, but those days are gone.
Conglomerates are already incentivised to minimise profit to reduce overall tax rate.

They do so to the limit the law allows.

The only extra control they have here is the "revenue" part of profit/revenue.

And the only way they can change that is by charging their customers less.

Which is the objective of this entire article/thread.
That's kinda bullshit. It's about 43 euro cents for consumers in Ireland at the moment.
They don't need to do conventions, they have an entire town in Florida.
Seen of lot of these, might be a good idea for IKEA to start launching limited exclusives with designers so clients can also get it from them.
It may be for the better.

For all great things that the Age of Internet brought to the humanity, detrimental effects of social media (and other non-traditional information sources) on our democracies is evident.

Counter-intuitively, the democratisation of the mechanisms for dissemination of information ultimately led to weakening of institutions that consist the pillars of our democratic societies. My take is that this was largely through the dilution of authority brought about by the cambrian explosion of sources of “information” (more accurately: sources of content).

Symptoms of this include various manifestations of populism, which are typically fueled or at least helped by a mix of establishment-challenging conspiracy theories (including the harmful challenges to well-established scientific conclusions based on objective and impartial process of reasoning).

If the generative AI will drive us to assuming everything we see online is fake, this would take us back to a state where track record in informational integrity would grow authority of individual information sources, and reverse the effects of authority dilution.

If that happens, it will be a full circle, driven by successive technological advancements.
I don't think op was anti trans, rather than pointing out something that affects statistics. Real world example - I have a friend who writes smut under female pen name and identifies as woman on his social networks and towards the publishers because he realized his sales got 10x once he used female name.