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Bad explanation from a noob (me), but basically yes. Functions just always fit together and I don't need ugly sprawling interfaces or pointless declarations of nearly identical functions.

In Elixir when I want to pass a function with 3 arguments into an interface that expects 4, I can do something inline with no extra boilerplate like func(&1, &2, &3, <a default 4th value to be used in each invocation>)
My most unambiguously successful ancestor was the one who invented fire, or the one who got the hang of oxygen breathing. One expects their lives were brutishly unhappy.
Yes! There are short films, audio stories, novels and video games. Even the main wiki has video and audio content for some stories.

Some examples:

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/picture-this & https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/for-your-eyes-only-a-tale-of-th...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0915M7T61

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxarwd3eTs

https://store.steampowered.com/app/872670/SCP_5K/
> It seems that there is no way to configure the printing of floating point values to automatically maintain exact number of decimal digits needed to accurately represent the value.

C++17 has to_ chars/from_chars and c++20 has std::format which will output the shortest output the shortest output required to round trip the floating point value exactly.
To gain the confidence of gamers, Google would have needed to maintain Stadia for a long time, even if it cost them money. They'd also likely need an on demand subscription program more desirable than Xbox Game Pass or the higher tiers of Playstation Plus.

Xbox didn't succeed in the long term because the gaming market embraced it or because it made lots of profit for Microsoft. It succeeded because Microsoft was willing to lose lots of money on it for a long time to be able to compete with the perennial market leader (Playstation). Even now, Microsoft is willing to spend enormous sums of money and deal with hostile regulatory agencies to buy game development companies so they can keep the Xbox brand competitive.
That's true, but their stocks are usually stable though. To my surprise even netflix's strategy worked and they keep making money
Nevermind that putting on your clown shoes and doing the Pls Hire Me dance is one of the most dehumanising parts of working life. If burnout makes you sad, just stop being sad and get a new job!
We even have preferential voting. The problem is nearly two-thirds of MPs - out of 144 of them - own more than one property. Which is more than three times the national average: less than 20 per cent of Australians own more than one property.

Even the so-called "left leaning" party are landlords.

We are run by the landed gentry. They'll continue looking out for their own. Houses are the safest asset as they're practically 100% Government backed.
The big question is can it save you 18 seconds per day of time wasted pulling your phone out of your pocket?
I don't think OIDC requires a browser.
Like many here I was wowed by the physics of this article but also wanted to say this is some great science writing. Super clear and to the point.
It's true that the people are getting what they're voting for, but I wouldn't call this "not a failure of democracy", when the voters are causing their society to decay and die slowly because of their own short-sightedness.

However, we haven't exactly seen better systems of governance, plus not all democratic societies are filled with such short-sighted idiots like we see in the US, and those societies are doing much better long-term and stability-wise.
> Imo the right advice is to either store things in some sort of offset format

Yeah, I agree that's what it comes down to, basically. It's more or less what I meant by "keep things near 1". I almost said "keep things near 0", but I didn't want to suggest that 1e-12 is somehow better than 1e+12. Really, it's more like "try to keep '1 float unit' to be about the size of the stuff you care about in your calculation".

> E.g., say you're adding some velocity to an objects position

As I interpret this example, I think it would be beneficial to re-center things to a common nearby origin, rather than doing them in some far-away-from-0 space. The more calculations being done (each one introducing some error), the more it matters.

For the specific case of "add X to each number" maybe it wouldn't matter, but I'm talking about arbitrary sequences of math being done.

If each of your calculations (applying velocity, maybe some rotation, etc) introduces some floating point roundoff error, then that is a potentially large accumulated absolute value when far away from the origin (eg: could be off-by-kilometers rather than off-by-meters). But if you normalize things down to small relative numbers first, produce all your error in that space, then transform back to faraway-space, that's only one opportunity to produce big-size error, rather than several accumulated. In other words, you've taken your local off-by-meters value, transformed it into global kilometer-size space, and so maybe your final result is off-by-1-kilometer, due to some rounding or whatnot. Whereas if you did all your computation in kilometer-space, then each step of math you do can introduce additional off-by-kilometer error, and you could be off-by-10s-of-kilometers in the end.

This whole conversation has got me doubting myself, so I made an example in godbolt that hopefully is clear: https://godbolt.org/z/MfP7e7Tbh
I remember a jay leno episode where he talked about old VW beetles that had gasoline heaters to warm the occupants quickly.
How does that work economically? The staff cost must be enormous.

I'm not defending this but it seems to work pretty well economically.

According to quick Googling the average markup on a gallon of gas $0.15 so the break-even point, so the break even point for gas station attendant making $14/hour (minimum wage here in NJ) is 94 gallons of gas or perhaps ~10 fill-ups.

However, I'm not sure many gas stations even make money on the gas itself. The popular model seems to be large gas & convenience store hybrids like WaWa, Sheetz, Royal Farms, etc. I think they just sort of break even-ish on the gas and make most or all of their profit selling snacks and drinks.

Despite that, NJ gas is still cheaper than neighboring states thanks to low gas tax. So that's another way things work economically... folks don't realize the true cost of full service since they are not paying it directly anyway.

As for my personal opinion: I did not grow up in NJ! This system seems bizarre to me. But I'll say two positive things about it.

1. It is very nice for the elderly or disabled. They don't have to pay more or wait extra time relative to everybody else.

2. There's a safety benefit. In other states, if you have to gas up your car in a sketchy area, that is a VERY popular time for people to harass you for money. Robberies happen this way too. Had a guy try some crap with me and my elderly dad just the other week at a gas station in a nearby non-NJ city.
Does someone have a link to the paper, there’s no link from the video?
It's Crawford Lake in Canada which they are proposing as a kind of geological 'type specimen' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_(biology) or 'golden spike' for the onset of the Anthropocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
Them's the risks of freeze peach.

Interestingly, it turns out, free speech by far benefits the poor more than the rich.

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-economics-free-speech-benefits...

So I'm willing to accept a few mean comments.
at some point there were rumors of a psychological study where some chemical that somehow disallowed making new memories also seemed to erase previous memories that were consciously recalled
I'm ok with this re-writing. It would be confusing to call 800's Italy/France and 800's Turkey both "Roman Empire". We need different names for those places, even if the residents of the places used the same name for themselves.

Nobody really says that the people at that time called themselves Byzantine, anyways. I've heard some derogatory remarks about the phrase "Holy Roman Empire" though - that it wasn't holy nor Roman nor an empire. But it serves as a name which is useful.
You can debate all you want the merits of it. I am stating a fact.
You are still working at the same place as back in the 80s? Impressive!
There is an AI generated podcast of HN?
Welcome to HackerNews! Threads about Medicine and Economics are some of the best - everyone here is apparently a Nobel grade expert. They don't know first thing about any of it but you see they know how to code so their overinflated ego, belief in their superior intellect, and ability to know better than and disrupt other fields is all they need!

Now just wait for someone to point out that the Nobel in Economics isn't actually a Nobel, sigh
Thanks! The domain is robotics, and we gave a brief conference talk last fall about our experiences so far, if you're interested— although it's mostly directed at a Nix-unaware audience, you can get a glimpse of our workflow that's heavily oriented around hourly builds delivered as Nix flake tags: https://vimeo.com/767139940

Definitely there's an obviousness to the concept of "magic" Nix stores in various spaces, and I know the tvix project seeks to realize some of this as well— reusing OCI tools to supply the build sandbox, leveraging existing container orchestrators for job management and queuing, all those goodies. So I'm excited to keep watching the space.
i took an entry-level programming job as a way to earn money between trips to india. after documenting a test suite i worked on, my boss noticed i could write well. he gave me a good recommendation and i was able to fund my travel and study by contract tech writing. this was back in the days when software actually had manuals. but no, tech was just a passage to my real vocation: i ‘ended up’ quite intentionally becoming an internationally-known teacher of meditation and enlightenment.
Hello ris58h. We wanted to make the front page of Hacker News. In studying the rules and the comments and reading the tips they offer. They stated that many readers like social type comments for a bit of diversion. I don't see it as click bait. I am 77 and soon to be seventy 78. One of comments I get regularly at home is "What! I've never heard of someone you age starting a business." I see a lot of my friends with a lot left to offer that are forced into retirement by the company, or by family members. I feel that PropBox is a product thats time has come and I hope if it works it will inspire other senior to follw a dream. The title size is limited, and I felt the social message had a better chance of 1st page. Thanks for giving me a chance to explain by sharing how you felt. Richard
In my state auto-pump nozzles are illegal. Have to sit there and hold down the trigger breathing in the fumes the whole time. Really sucks if you're filling up a vehicle with a big tank.
a bit pricey, I'd like a mid level option for agencies that just do bot automations for small biz, and isn't exactly a huge player yet.
But “the area” in question is not that. Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras have serious challenges but you do those and the reader no favor by conflating them.
There's a Photoshop plugin, Flexify, for generating these. It dates back to 2002 or earlier: http://flamingpear.com/flexify-2.html
I sincerely hope that nobody assumes that because this is on the top of HN that this isn't batshit crazy garbage. HN is an echo chamber that can turn a logical mind into one that starts assuming every premise upvoted on here is acceptable. Don't fall into that trap.
Why does it make sense to start there?
This particular form factor seems inefficient. But there is quite a bit of innovation in the area of building pre-fabricated homes for refugees. These are popping up in a lot of places. Including the Ukraine recently.

And of course there are also some high end options that are popular for building bespoke houses in e.g. the Scandinavian and North American markets.

Basically, pre-fabricated housing is a solved problem from a technical point of view. Cheap to manufacture, easy to deploy, and pretty comfortable to live in. If you think about it, there are numerous viable ways of providing people with some form of shelter to shield them from the elements.

Mostly the issue is not technical challenges but the fact that there's a lot of local push back against the deployment of any form of cheap housing projects in a lot of places. This has nothing to do with their pricing (cheap) or quality (pretty decent) but with the level of protectionism in place to guard prices of existing houses. Solving cheap housing would collapse prices.

That's why you don't find trailer parks in richer parts of the US. However, they are very popular as semi-permanent slums in less rich parts and have been so for many decades. Tens of millions of people live in those actually. Just mostly not anywhere near where the housing shortages are the most urgent.
I'm not sure the concept of canon is useful.

The work speaks for itself. Derivative works and ideas don't need official blessing to be interesting or meaningful. There's just this sort of need for consistency between works in the same 'universe' that I think is maybe not altogether needed, even though people tend to prefer it. Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey series doesn't suffer for not making sense (which happened because our knowledge grew while he was writing) (but there's still the "different universes" interpretation).

Does Star Wars benefit from having a canon? Probably internally, so they can tell a consistent story across a vast sea of media. Knowing what is, and isn't "real" in the universe is probably helpful there. But as a fan? I can accept that the events of Truce at Bakura happened and didn't happen depending on what I'm reading or watching.

Online conversation about The Lord of the Rings is frankly impossible because there's always a cadre of folks who have read every shopping list Tolkien ever wrote and interpret it as gospel. I think this diminishes the work, because it shrinks it to the tiniest—possibly least interesting—interpretation. "What would have happened if Gandalf had kept the ring?" can be an interesting question, but as soon as the person starts saying "Um, no, because Tolkien said in a letter to my grandma..." the entire engine of thought grinds to a halt.
Me, advertising is fine on most of the sites I like, and I don’t like ripping off sites that are dependent on ad income.

You may not like this answer but you asked and that is my reason.

I think about advertising 50 times less than I think about cookie warnings.
Of course the Fed prints money (and no, it is not the Bureau of Engraving and Printing). It seems that it's you who is actually confused how money works.
The Making of 'The Last Unicorn'
one of the big problems is runaway costs (and not just due to grid upgrades and need for new transport lines, but because construction is still ridiculously labor intensive and undercapitalized), simply put it's at the same time too small scale and complex (and fragmented) to industrialize.

only scale can get the same quality for lower price. but construction happens in small batches. even though the inputs are very similar, there's no aggregate market force pushing down costs (as it's not trivial to substitute local inputs with cheaper ones).

and to get bigger scale folks would need to accept new technologies and of course new building arrangements.

and, obviously, no developed democratic government wants to risk such a big project.
Last time I went to Weymouth and tried to pump my own fuel, I was SCREAMED AT by the attendant to not pump my fuel.

I left to my friend's house and fueled elsewhere.

Friend informed me that it's law. However not every fueling station enforces it. The one right by his apartment complex did (and his family won't go to it).

Arlington is another case where it's rare that an attendant will give you hell or stop you, but some will, because the law is on the books.

--

In the case of Weymouth specifically, they passed a law before Massachusetts passed a state law. Until Weymouth repeals it (it's attempted periodically), it remains on the books.
Hi,yuvalkarmi. Thanks for weighing in. I appreciate it. Richard
How to Negotiate a Raise: A Guide for Software Developers
most jobs are bull shit jobs. At least this one could potentially replace all the rest like lawyer, accountant, real estate agent.
Especially when political power is almost exclusively financial.
I love Pixel phones, but stuff like this does seem to be a recurring issue. Sometimes my phone turns off and on again when I only press the power button once. Not a huge dealbreaker, just a pain to constantly have to think about.
What is the evidence that the proceeds from contracts gained from this change will actually go towards the people doing the work? That's what I always wonder. After all, Red Hat also recently cut hundreds of jobs, similar to other tech companies. Those other tech companies also have their own just-so stories to try to explain why they're making certain decisions. Certainly most of those other companies don't have a large open source business in the same way as Red Hat. That they're all cutting (in one way or another) but all have different excuses is interesting. I do find it pretty hard to believe that the morality and ethics of properly paying engineers for their work has much, if anything, to do with it though.
it's amazing you built a complex marketplace/commerce site all from scratch. big kudos! if you ever do a paid course on your development, I am more than happy to pay!
Can you elaborate on what you think is "batshit crazy garbage"? I'm not challenging the notion, I just think your post would have much more value if, instead of dragging HN's populace through the mud, you concentrated on specific points in the article that you think are prime examples of its impracticalities.
Much preferred this piece [0] on burnout, which actually details the models developed by those such as Maslach et al. mentioned in the OP.

Framed in terms of the Conservation of Resources model, my own burnout was illuminated and it gave me somewhere to start in how I move through and (hopefully eventually) out of burnout.

Sometimes I daydream about what I would say to a bunch of undergrads as career advice, and if I had to pick one thing, it would be: learn about burnout so that you can recognise the signs and act. For most of us, our careers are a marathon, and by letting my burnout fester, I'm doing the next 10km with a significant injury.

[0] https://commoncog.com/g/burnout/
Maybe there will be an Enigma machine app for VisionOS
is it a relational database?
> Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

They had other children.

For the sun part, this probably refers to Genesis 1:3 "let there be light" and dividing day from night, and Genesis 1:16 "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night" and often in between there's "morning and evening". The way this happens after the fourth day is with the sun and moon lights.

I wasn't there at the time, but I assume reality pre-day four was running prior to OpenGL 2.4 and was using global illumination, and then afterwards switched to RealEngine 4, probably. Just a guess.

Humans being created before and after animals likely refers to Genesis 1:26 and 2:19. That is a bit curious, agreed. The way I take it, since Genesis 2:4-29 happened after the 7th day, is something like "hold up, let's go back to those days when plants, animals, and humans were created, and get slightly more specific about it.

The origin story in the Bible is short on specifics, so it leads to a lot of interesting fan theories, and divides many of the staunchest fans. "These are literal days here" "no, these are phases, a day could be any length of time, the sun wasn't even there yet" and so on, as if that was the main point of the passages, when it isn't.
Mythbusters also did experimenting with static and gasoline vapors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrkwxMhc4s
Can you expand on why you think this is a batshit crazy garbage?
Maybe I am too old to have a valid opinion on games, but I saw a unique oportunity for stadia to become a universal anticheat engine.

Since the game CLIENT couldn't be tampered with by the customer, gamers were unable to execute the worst (best) cheats: injection. The gamers could still use reflection cheats, but with added latency.

During the life of Stadia I wasn't aware of any attempt of Google to capitalize on this advantage. Imagine playing Call of Duty or PUBG in a cheat free platform. Simply mind blowing.
Thanks for the details. I will check out the link.

I should say that "real advances they were after" is not at all incompatible with "made it mainly to please themselves". The things that pleased them may well have been "real advances"; they often are. The question is the extent to which they were prioritizing the needs, capabilities, and interests of the whole audience being served, not just the things they personally thought important or preferable.
A 1-2 hour process which includes heating to soften glue, high potential of damaging internal components, or high potential of cracking some piece of glass is not "Screws are how in fact one accesses the battery in an iPhone."

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+14+Battery+Replacement/1...
https://youtu.be/4q1dgn_C0AU

“The surprising science of happiness”, from Dan Gilbert, is one of the best TED talks of all time (over 4M views). In his amazing & funny 20’ presentation, he explains how our brains are wired and how it relates to happiness. The article reminded me of this great content
It's really hard to explain it because Nix is a paradigm shift (I think that's why it is hard initially grasp it).

But you can use it for things like:

- declare your application with all dependencies explicitly, so when someone else wants to build it they can (I would argue this is the primary purpose and rest is just built on top of that)

- common dev environment (so other developers can get the same dev environment as you with all exact same build tools)

- build toolchain (for example if you do embedded environment)

- you could use it as a replacement for homebrew/mac ports

- a configuration file holding your .dot files (home manager)

- if you use NixOS (OS that was built around Nix) then you have OS with a built-in configuration management (i.e. salt/puppet/ansible/chef) that is truly declarative

I think this[1] also shows some crazy stuff you can do with it.

Regarding question around Docker, the great thing is that if you define your application as a nix derivation, then you can easily generate docker that just contains your application and dependencies (the docker in that case is just a deployment unit). The reproducible environment is what docker promised, but practically failed to deliver. Instead of deliver reproducibility, it actually delivered repeatability.

[1] https://youtu.be/6Le0IbPRzOE?t=109