skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of our demos from 2008, which looks very similar (though we aren't using Google Maps data, we're mostly using OS map data). It's also long before an art pass, so the textures, trees, building, road etc are just placeholder.

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

This is Mike (who did the first lemmings)'s test to se how many lemming-like things you could render in the world. He, myself, and Bill (GTA physics) went on to build a fun game out of this where you could run over them in tanks and blow them up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O6WS1VolKA

Blowing them up test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJHRdVaUtDs
Sometimes the problem isn't actually temporary though
Just the other day i had a lecture here on hn by a south european about how east european countries should leave the eu if they dont like the current state of affairs. Something something gratefulness bread and butter, etc.

In some cultures constructive criticism is seen as a negative thing while in some it is done precisely because you want to improve that which you love.

The issue is that cultures that dont appreciate it will use self criticism against you. Thats in my experience.
> Besides, the whole point of Vim bindings is supposed to be that they are the same everywhere (muscle memory yadda yadda yadda).

No, the whole point of ViM bindings is that MY bindings are the same everywhere. That's why it's main config is a simple textfile that I can just `git clone` or `sftp` onto whatever machine I intend to spend more than a few seconds writing code on.

Which, incidentially, is something that is an absolute PITA, if it's possible at all with the more "modern" editors, or on the off chance it isn't a PITA, usually depends on some specific platforms offerings.

> Plus, you get the additional benefit that the software fits in with the rest of the system, rather than sticking out like a sore thumb.

Well, from my PoV, what with i3 desktop, vim in the terminal, and the browser being the only GUI application that I use regularly, vim seems to fit in pretty well with everything else.
Someone figured out how to boot a GameBoy without showing the logo but I am having trouble finding it on mobile. clever ram swap hack.
Don't own them myself, but there is a huge number of people using them with the Steam Deck.

You can get a huge screen in a portable form factor anywhere.
Because money, when you have enough of it, works for you. So we do our best, in the system we were born into, to squirrel away as much money so as to be able to retire ASAP, while remaining as sane as can be.

Technology these days is just icing on the cake. We don't need faster computers or ChatGPT to be able to feed all of humanity. We've been there for decades.
Another one is Blue Origin's motto: "Gradatim Ferociter", which translates to "Step by step, ferociously".
I guess that depends on your level of paranoia. If Russian intelligence services have access to the repos, they could put malicious code into nginx.
:wave emoji:
1.2 megatonne is large isn't it?

In the article^0 where I discovered this (a, so far, interesting history of French and Chinese programs), I also found this part^1 interesting:

TN 75 Warhead

In 1984-1985 Defense Minister Paul Quiles tasked the CEA to design a miniaturized nuclear warhead for the MSBS M45 SLBM, a variant of the M4. In response, the CEA declared that it could 'achieve a warhead/ re-entry vehicle which is virtually invisible to radar' by 1994.15 The CEA launched the TN 75 warhead program, which was tested numerous times up until July 1991, when testing ceased. According to a report by the Defense Committee of the French National Assembly, 22 tests were conducted to develop the TN 75.

The TN 75 warhead is a miniaturized, hardened, thermonuclear warhead. A new coating material and a 'very precisely computed shape' are said to provide the TN 75 re-entry vehicle with 'a very high penetration' capability that also reduces the warhead signature. I? The warhead is much lighter than the current TN 71 (deployed on the M4B) 18 The TN 75 is in the natural progression towards warhead miniaturization, hardening, safety, and stealth, but the tight weight and volume constraints of this system forced design compromises that, when viewed from the prospect of a CTB, caused French officials to be concerned about the long-term reliability of the warhead. It is likely that the 1 October test conducted at Fangataufa, with a reported yield of 110 Kt, was probably a full-scale test of the TN 75.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36010490

1: French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons Testing, p. 46
Maybe not even with their own potential but others'. For example, nearly everyone feels that their kids are special high performers in the US, or at least hope they are. We can't all be above average. I've heard that the Japanese have a different way of viewing it - that they hope for average since that's logically what they will get, but still push for fulfilling one's full potential.
BBC Radio 6 Music is specialising primarily in "alternative" music (alternative rock, pop, R&B etc). Try a listen.
So long as it's not state mandated, more power to them. If they feel 50 more years are not something they want why should we force them to?
Doesn't seem to be possible on Android either unfortunately. One might be able to do it by writing a custom dialer - scope creep x100.
But because this is Apple the glasses will most likely offload a good bit of processing to your iPhone - which has custom ML hardware.
Lets see, how many commands does it take me to port my entire vim config to a new machine? Ah, right...one.

git clone https://github.com/MY_USERNAME/vim.git

Not exactly what I'd call a difficult or time consuming method.
This is something that I have had some personal experience with. I've known quite a few suicides, and survivors of the suicides of others.

Very much a "walk a mile in a man's shoes" kind of thing. Everyone has opinions on the matter, until it hits them. Then, they have personal experience (not just an opinion).

It sucks. In some cases, I can see why someone would want to end it all. In others, like this one[0], I find it doubly tragic, as there are proven alternative solutions (I personally know many people that were once far worse off than that gentleman, and are now doing quite well).

When we are in a singularity of pain, it seems like the suffering will never stop, and we can convince ourselves there's no escape. In some cases, we're right, but other times, not so much.

It's a permanent "solution" to what is often a temporary problem.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-holland-...
I'm not a fan of year numbers being the first number. Stick it at end with git hash IMO.

I do like when first number change signals need to read the changelog (as in "backward-incompatible changes"). Semver or not.
> This "homeschooling results in poor social skills" trope is absurd and needs to stop.

I think it will stop shortly. Thanks to COVID the vast majority of the western world got to see what a version of homeschooling could look like and perhaps unsurprisingly, many found it to be as good for the mind as WFH is for adults and chose to keep their children homeschooling post-COVID. I know a ton of people who have done this. Soon it will be seen as just another option for education without the social stigma.
Wouldn't it be more depressing to find out they were delusions than to know your purpose/place from the beginning?
This happens due to the fact that working in IT what you see instead is that individuals they deem inferior are not hired. Racism is a very big think in both Asian and American Culture. In systems such as the University of Texas we see outcomes for Hispanics that receive degrees in technology. They just don't get jobs. The results of it are easily translated over for other ethnicities with the notable exception of African Americans which Texas surprisingly has very few African Americans and even less with a bachelors degree or higher.

It tells us a lot firstly that there is a limit to the amount of minorities that are hired every year and that it's artificially set by a group of people systemically due to varying biases, often a sense of superiority. I could list the two groups that actively participate in this but doing so is pointless.
That's not knowledge and they're truths only in name, it's philosophy.
The math for cheap amazon microscopes is often based on the ratio of a digital image. So use a 60" monitor rather than 30" you have an extra 2x magnification. But not better resolution!
I'm a hobbyist in this area, and think the field is somewhat early in its development. MCUs and cyber-physical systems was like this until the Arduino happened. Arduino may not have been the first to do exactly that but it was just good enough to cause an (re?)explosion in electronics as a hobby. During its hayday, I would say Arduino was a core element of the Maker movement.

So what needs to happen to make this a reality for semi-con? First off, we need cheap, cheap fabrication. I actually looked at public funding in Canada and how that was going to the big name Universities who had their own in-house fab labs (at older process nodes). The costs of someone not in the inside was nuts. The actual cost should be in the 100s of dollars to fabricate a design (considering the marginal costs).

There are people that do this at home but it doesn't work either due to chemicals being pretty dangerous and the need for a bunch of equipment. I bet the amount of money the EU spent on its first metaverse townhall (or whatever it was called .. the thing very few people attended) or a tiny fraction Canada wastes on silly things promoting youth culture or whatever, they could fund a lab that is actually open to the public, with the express mission of promoting hobbyists and education. This will NEVER happen because (a) it needs a professor who is on the inside with a kid-like passion in this tech and a commitment to bringing it to the masses (I see some profs like this at schools like MIT but it is so rare at large, competitive schools like the big ones in Canada), and (b) it does not have an instant payoff for the govt. They don't want dabblers and vague educational outcomes. They want workers with degrees.

I am convinced before I am dead, advances in robotics and fabrication will simply the process (or use home equipment such as future laser printers for printing stencils). I'd love to spend my retirement fabricating my own CPUs :D

Edit:

Let me add: I don't mean the cutting edge process node. I mean the kind of process node that was used to make the very first chips (but less toxic, repeatable, cheaper equipment). If it is possible for synthetic biology, it must be doable for semicon :D
Very fun, but I couldn't figure out why the answer to 27 is what it is
Probably not at UV index 6+. Get your sun in the morning or late afternoon before the sun becomes too violent.
Well, even C# has manual memory management primitives, as one example out of many others.
You could say same about both of them.

Like how example in Apache ordering of vhosts doesn't matter, except for choosing the default vhosts
This is article is a complete load of bullshit. I know tons of people who are more humble than they should be in the US and they're all successful people. It's difficult generalize about an entire country of 330m people.
Without knowing what the current ones are, I'd guess we need improved chain-of-custody laws for evidence immediately!
Navigating by word is a matter of holding the Option key and pressing left or right arrow. Same number of keys, but works pretty much everywhere. The box used to enter this comment, for example.

Just to be super clear, I don’t care what other people do. Go nuts with vi bindings. I was just agreeing with what someone else said, that vi bindings aren’t peak UI and that “hacker” != “vi”
"I’m not as skilled as I think I am, therefore I will not try XYZ thing."

Or you try it knowing there is a learning curve and that you will never be great. People can still participate and enjoy things knowing they are only mediocre at that.
What about someone who has conquered their craving to continue living and decides they are prepared to embrace the end? Have you seen "The Good Place"? It's really quite an interesting show in that it combines a (sometimes very funny) sitcom with a pretty thoughtful exploration into the subject of ethics.
Solving for Unicast Messages for 50M concurrent socket connections
Before nginx there was lighttpd that was pretty much what Nginx would be later on.
Most of our Ruby/JS apps is HAProxy sending traffic to dynamic side directly, and to NGINX for static paths
I don't think a more accurate perception of one's own potential is depressing. Giving things a shot has costs. If you undertake risky or costly ventures because you have an inflated idea of your own abilities, most people are going to cause themselves real harm, and others too for that matter.

The happiest countries in the world are generally the Nordics and the Dutch, known for shunning this sort of exceptionalism.
It has belonged to an American company called F5 for years now. You should look for those evil Russians under your bed, I hear they like to hide there too.
It could be considered a natural instinct to do this?

I once encountered a guy who was thinking of jumping off a bridge and I said a lot of stupid but well meaning things in an attempt to dissuade him.

It got to the point where I realized everything I was saying was just making him more determined to do it. Luckily, I managed to flag down a passing ambulance and the paramedics onboard turned out to be a lot more skilled in the art of persuasion than I was.
Is there any company anywhere that doesn't research the market rate for jobs to at least some degree? What you decide to do with that information is another matter of course but I'm well within my rights to decide not to pay anyone more than what I've determined to be the market rate no matter what other offers they claim to have in hand.
Study finds pollinators are attracted to humidity, not just scent
Why can't we just blast the water with a lot of UVC, then add some chlorine or something as we do now??? I don't want any nanoparticles that could potentially leak past the magnet, deposit in my skin, and make toxins if I go in the sun.

We could probably make a whole lot of UVC LEDS for cheap if we scaled production. Plus, we already have lots of ways to filter. Is this really gonna be that much cheaper? The world has plenty of resources, seems like we could give people clean water with current tech.

Can't titanium dioxide make hydrogen peroxide too? Why does it have to be stirred in the water? Can't we have something bound to a surface for the light to hit?
Show HN is no guarantee of getting any traction or feedback these days especially with the firehose of AI integrations. I wish you well on your personal career journey and don't take this as a market signal other than you didn't get lucky in the front page algorithm maybe try again soon. I saw the smol ai copilot thing guy drop two Show HNs then pop up on another post days later that had a hundred comments. Anyhow good luck and seeing giftwrap.ai on the gpt plugin list is the real market signal you should concentrate on if they do well you are also in a good position all things being equal.
In many cases public school cripples a child’s social development and leaves them with anxiety, shame, and other social hang ups for the rest of their life.
1) Among Intel's expressed benefits for a 64-bit mode-only architecture is removing ring 1 and 2, dropping 16-bit addressing support, eliminating ring 3 I/O port accesses and the string port I/O, simplified segmentation model.

- Sounds Reasonable to me given the current erosion of Ring barriers being effective as a security measure.

2) Removing some unused operating system bits.

- Good idea, time to chuck out those burned magic key backdoors aka no longer zero-days.

3) Those wanting to run legacy operating systems or 32-bit x86 software would have to rely on virtualization.

- Again, sounds reasonable given the current speed of processors and the improvements in Virtualization plus the (likely) age of 32-bit software.

Gosh Intel - Wheres the trap?
The only time in the last ten years that I've reached for Apache was when I needed to put an LDAP auth reverse proxy on something— it looked like it was possible to do it with nginx, but would require running a separate script or dealing with Lua or something. On Apache it was batteries-included and a few lines of pasted-in config file.

I'd love to be shown a better way on that, but Apache did rack up a W for that one use case.
Pull requests are a form of documentation
> What if the study had found the opposite, that Americans broadly displayed some positive trait more than their Asian counterparts, would such a study even be allowed to be published? I certainly can’t imagine it being received well, if it were.

Yes, there are many studies that have found Americans "better" in some metric. It's quite sad to hear that even Hacker News readers have bought into the right-wing notion about academia having to "censor" itself to not offend supposedly politically correct sensibilities.
Ancient belief, not "knowledge" or "truth".
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That's me with programming, and it's my favorite pastime regardless. :D
One suggestion: allow the `minutes` input to wrap and increment the hour instead of setting max="59". This allows somebody to hold the up/down arrow and get a sense of how hour changes are represented.
I quite enjoyed playing this one: https://rooms.xyz/thaivo/cats
tl;drFrench courts kind of are subservient to the CJEU, and EU states are not entirely sovereign.

Specifically, certain kinds of rulings (particularly those that prevent a state from doing something) have what's called "direct effect" - they do not require state legislative or administrative action to take effect. States have signed away sovereignty in a very real sense.
Casual observation bears out the same truths. What living thing doesn't suffer?
you missed the ~/.vim at the end
> It's surprising to me how much the word "American" has been appropriated to just mean people from the U.S., when surely as a Canadian, you're also American (i.e. living in North America).

Also people from Middle American (Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, ...) and South American countries (Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, ...) are Americans. :-)
I fully intend to kill myself eventually. The idea that I should prolong my life past the point where I get dementia, a degenerative disease, or just plain old age where I can't stand up or whipe my ass is repugnant enough that I can't understand people who want me to suffer until doctors finally stop being able to put me back together. Much better to die cheaply with a wonderful cocktail of opiates while watching a sunset some on some tropical island.
WebGPU Test
Why we need a Python functional programming initiative
The famous UCLA basketball coach John Wooden used to say "be quick but never hurry".
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I haven't experienced the consciousness of all living things, so I can't make blanket statements.
> And that works for what, 3% of the people that try it?

Exercise is medicine!

Far too few people understand that unfortunately. Something is wrong with our culture when the majority have the attitude that exercise isn't worth doing.
> Also people from Middle American (Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, ...) and South American countries (Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, ...) are Americans. :-)

I'd be inclined to refer to Mexico as North America, but then I wouldn't know which countries would be called Middle American
I started a JS based file sharing application a few years back. It started as a thought experiment of just exposing the file system to the browser in a familiar OS kind of user interface. As new features are added over time it has become more like a high level OS.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

Some architectural decisions I made:

* Micro-service based

* I am now using WebSockets for all services and communication. That has proven in the application to be 7x faster than HTTP.

* I have a universal format wrapping all service messaging, kind of like sending a letter in an envelope. This allows me to using a single service end point for all services and a single means of service monitoring.

* I did not like the existing test automation solutions based upon CDP, because they are too slow and fragile. Also, they do not provide support for a peer-to-peer experience. So I wrote my own test automation solution for testing in the browser and its much faster and predictable.

* I am using an identity based authentication mechanism to restrict access to known users/devices.

* I just write to the file system instead of using a database for data storage. This allows for much faster application start up times and lowers complexity. The performance difference is insignificant after accounting for that in most cases opening a file is more costly than arbitrarily writing to the file system.

* I figured out how to install certificates using automation in both Windows and Linux which allows me to run the application using encrypted transmission protocols (https/wss) on localhost.
To each their own, but while some COD games are epic (the original MW campaign gave me chills at times) the story telling is often pretty bad.
Honestly, I just find it hard to care about skin cancer all that much. I gotta die from something at some point, and I feel like covering my skin in nasty oils and stuff on every nice summer day is too much a price for me just to die from "not skin cancer". Because now every nice day is a little bit less nice.

Ofc I'm a bit lucky because I can at least tan somewhat, so if I just taper up my sun exposure in the spring I don't really get burned.
Comedy is a lot funnier when comedians work outside the rules
Much easier said than done. I doubt you'll feel the same way when that old age approaches, just like teenagers who think life is practically over by 40.
Names are not descriptions; descriptions are not names
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35867907
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/channelopathy-ass...
We all die eventually, so what's the big deal with leaving early?

I think they're making a bold choice to complete life on their own terms.
Why? Maybe the Cloud servers will die instead.
Could be worse. Omeprazole not only stops working after you get off it, your issues actually become much more severe. Once you're on it, you are unlikely to ever be able to get off of it.
Thank you! I didn't know anything about working with bare metal when I started out, and relied on the OSDev Wiki and other online resources. The work of those early years isn't as mature as now, but I learned a lot. Later on, I graduated to being comfortable reading (for example) the CPU manuals, and realised that I could now really get value out of them! Overall, I feel a lot more comfortable in the domain and like I can tackle a new device driver, or set off making the hardware do something obtuse and wrangle it out, but I only got there through trying to do it with less expertise under my belt.

There's definitely a bootstrapping problem with the lower-level knowledge, but there are enough resources out there for the initial steps that anyone can get started, and you can do a lot if you enjoy the journey!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006446
Excellent observation! As an American software developer, it rings pretty true.

Funny personal anecdote:

Hiring manager: "Why should we hire you?"

Me: "I'm not sure you should. It depends on the quality of your other applicants."

I'm still tickled by how much that caught them off guard. Radical honesty is one of my mild-Asperger superpowers :)