skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Low-level languages like Rust and C++ tend to have more complex syntax and symbols because they provide finer-grained control over memory management and what not

Modern Pascal provides basically as fine-grained control over memory management as C, while not needing "complex syntax and symbols", really.
I actually liked having the biters on my first couple of playthroughs of the game. It added a sense of urgency and a feeling that this was a dangerous alien world.

After that I started playing mods that in and of themselves increased the difficulty of the game, and having the biters on top of that was just way too much.

Also, in a vanilla game, once you're more or less invulnerable to the biters they become just an extra annoyance, and I'd rather just focus on building.

On the other hand, without the sense of urgency that biters give the game can become kind of boring...
About 10 calories and the taste.
One of my projects switched to "stable" since "master", "main" and "trunk" all seemed to have different meanings for different projects.
Didn’t wanna imply that management care for the state of the code with my original comment. That would be a bit delusional. Sorry if that caused confusion.

What I wanted to say is that if the state of the code is bad, it might make them care a bit more when their own state gets synchronized with that. Not necessarily about the code, but surely about the revenue and the looks.

Now, management being what it is, they of course will try to find a scapegoat. But that’s just part of the game and may be better than burning yourself out by trying to fix their nonsense.
> Then I realize this will not work on Mobile and almost gave up on idea immediately.

You could probably initiate an interaction with an app via the browser's Share button.
It seems like something I'd want, but the site doesn't give enough information about what the product is. It states a few high-level goals, like Office integration, but it doesn't say _how_.

Who is the target customer? Some of the features seem interesting and useful, like domain-specific syntax highlighting, Definition tooltips.

The site talks about accessibiltity and inclusion, but doesn't expand on what that actually entails.

All of the "Explore" links just download the app instead of expanding on the feature.

I mean, this looks like it could be a nifty product, but as others have said, you must be clear about wetting your target audience in the first screen of the page, and then provide details about what are each of the features.

You can't rely on people installing it to understand if it's for them. You got to make them _think_ it's for them first, then they'll download it and take the time to try it.

There are lots of small psychological hurdles to overcome before someone decides to install a piece of software and commit time to trying it. Downloading it going to require me to clean-up the setup file at some point, maybe it's a messy install, and it's going to be a pain to uninstall, maybe it's not really safe or could be a security hazard or mess up with other parts of my system, or it will just crash, maybe it requires libraries or runtimes that I don't have on my machine (jre?), maybe it will require an account, and I'm not ready to create one, maybe it's complex to use and I'm just going to waste time, maybe it's really targetted at lawyers and won't fit my industry, maybe...

[edit]: so I downloaded and ran the setup and Windows Smartscreen barked at me, and now I have to bypass that safety net. I hate Windows Smartscreen and will force through for software I know to be safe (like grafana), but I know nothing of this software, and I'm not sure I should force its installation. A major hurdle. Maybe having a separate page show up when downloading for Windows, explaining Smartcreen could popup and how to bypass it would help non-techie users?
An AI model designed a functional RISC-V CPU in less than 5 hours
Perhaps some sort of action that affirmatively supports systemically oppressed folks.

Huh, wonder what we could call it?
Would love to know more - are these still on the market? Amazon results are really sketcy
I know plenty of good hearted people who make terrible romantic partners.
Ways to Print and Capture Text Output of a Windows Process
That would have no impact on the copyright status of the original cartoons.
Ambition and SSRIs
1. `..` doesn't conflict with anything else in C.

2. APIs designed around pointers will not work with this proposal. But it would provide motivation for those APIs to change, and of course it will take time. Just like it took time for C function prototyping to take hold.

3. That's right, it doesn't.

> C is a long-lived language so modifications like this have to work within a very large existing body of code

It doesn't break existing code in any way. However, code would have to be modified to take advantage of it, sure. Just like _Generic.
Thank you. You have described perfectly something I’ve only ever realised subconsciously. This makes so much sense.
The person I know who is a reactor operator was really good at math, joined the Navy and got trained to operate a nuclear sub. Then in the private sector I am sure that skillset is somewhat rare, so it was easy to get a job there.
What does "digitally interconnected" mean?

Also, out of curiosity, does the legal world still hang on to some obscure version of WordPerfect, or have they made the switch to Word?
I get this solely based on the texture of my teeth after a sugary drink, but the US using HFCS instead of real sugar might contribute to that larger difference too.
I read the article. I even followed the link. I am not sure I understand the racist part. Final Fantasy ( and JRPGs ) are being accused -- wrongly -- of being racist, but that is all I could find there.

Is it one of those 'even a hint of someone being upset somewhere makes it racist'?
California and other states already showed with marijuana that if you have enough local popular support, you can legalize drugs and the feds will do nothing. This is especially true right now with Democrats in control of the DoJ. In fact, if you look at cities like San Francisco, all drugs are already de facto decriminalized. CA could legalize LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, etc. tomorrow.
Try this website: https://teachyourselfcs.com
This example given in the link also does not execute arbitrary code from just cloning the repo, nor does any other repos you directly clone. You would be required to run commands to setup the exploit.

There is an issue around embedded bare repos in archives, however, that is not the given exploit in the linked repo at all.
> It seems important to me that society should apply boosts to people who can demonstrate ability through some trainable measure that is advantaged by intelligence until they hit some threshold.

In theory, this is what merit-based college scholarships are for. In practice, arguably not so much.
That means he can spin off all of X’s debt together with Twitter whenever he wants.
https://sub.rehab/ is better
Driving in the UK is very different to driving in America, because British roads are very different to American roads.

Most British roads predate motor cars. Much of the road network is mediaeval, some is Roman, at least one road is pre-Roman.

This[0] is a section of the Icknield Way, the oldest road in Britain. The carriageway is the width of one vehicle. If you meet an oncoming vehicle, either you or the other driver must reverse into a passing place, like the dirt area visible in the link.

This[1] is the A40; until the construction of the M40 motorway, this was the road from London to Oxford. There is a white centre line, but because of the parked cars, this centre line is useless. You can see cars straddling the line, but it is a tight fit in this village. In morning and evening traffic, one normally needs to stop to let oncoming traffic pass. It's important to know the width of your vehicle, and to be able to correctly judge your position in the road, as well as the position of oncoming traffic. This is much easier to do when your eyes are closer to the centre line.

Here[2] is a junction that is particularly problematic in traffic for similar reasons.

This[3] is a roundabout, which is more effective at maintaining traffic flow than traffic lights in low to medium traffic conditions. The basic principle is to give way to traffic already on the roundabout, which requires good visibility to the right. It is crucial to be able to judge this instantly to maintain traffic flow and to prevent the formation of traffic jams, which is easiest when in a RHD drive vehicle.

On a mini-roundabout[4], the 'give way to traffic already on the roundabout' principle becomes 'give way to the right' - again, visibility to the right is improved in a RHD vehicle.

The cognitive load for navigating a roundabout is increased for the double roundabout[5] and reaches a maximum at the infamous magic roundabout[6]. RHD vehicles help with this.

Here[7] is a bus stop. There's no lay by for it; it's just in the road, which happens to be a major trunk road. In morning traffic, school buses will stop here, and traffic needs to overtake the stopped bus. While there is a central reservation, it's a tight fit for larger vehicles, and the ability to see oncoming traffic is crucial. Again, RHD is needed here.

Overtaking is vitally important when driving in the UK, not only because of stopped or parked vehicles. Vehicles that cannot keep up with modern traffic are much more common in the UK than America, such as horses with buggies, or traction engines[8].

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6170961,-1.0404844,3a,75y,21...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6445943,-0.8029467,3a,75y,26...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6450754,-1.0041556,3a,75y,21...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6064949,-0.6935902,3a,75y,13...

[4] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6449846,-0.731184,3a,75y,120...

[5] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6684331,-0.7022783,3a,75y,31...

[6] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5628488,-1.7715014,130m/data...

[7] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6412382,-0.7853479,3a,75y,28...

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH5pRQwlxc4
How does it work? Not that I'd move from iCloud to Google, but I'm curious. Does it integrate with the Photos app in some way?
I always thought it had to do with the number of dimensions. A triangle is half of the rectangle and when I learned that a cone was a third part I was like yeah it makes sense.
I haven't read the book but Scott Aaronson agrees with you.

> So I can now state with confidence: beating out a crowded field, this is the worst book about quantum computing, for some definition of the word “about,” that I’ve ever encountered.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7321
Really cool article and I definitely appreciated the section at the end that compared ternary to CMOS.

But in order to use ternary in a real processor, as suggested by the article, we would need a much more formal definition of the voltage levels of the gate.

Something like this: https://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/ece410/mason/files/Ch7.pdf

Without that it’s not clear how one could do timing analysis or do dynamic gate resizing to deal with practical issues like fanout.

Also, without the more formal definition it’s not even clear, to me anyway, what figures like 22 are even measuring.
>> I utilize a lot of artificial sweeteners daily to curb my cravings

What mechanism makes the cravings subside for you? Is it chemical or also like lifting a cigarette to your lips for nicotine?
Hey I'd never heard that one before, I like that one a lot. I wouldn't mind ads if they were sponsor messages like that or remember PBS and stuff? Less noise and crap would be great and ads wouldn't be so crap to deal with. If ya want to let me know your product exists just say it does don't try to lie to me then yeah I'd be more okay with ads or "sponsor messages" as you say there.

Thanks for sharing that
It’s pithy, but in the way of word play. Energy, colloquially, means useful energy. The question collides the conventional and technical definitions to create the illusion of profundity.
Or play Satisfactory in the new Unreal 5 Experimental branch !!
I just don't get how people are content to consume this stuff

Food is not just about taste, you know. Even if it's sweets. The whole point of sweeteners is that they provide a nutritional upside (fewer calories, don't spike blood sugar).

and just consume waay less of it than I used to

I consume none of it - almost never. And the only way I will have sweets is with artificial sweeteners. I agree they don't taste as great, but they also don't have as many calories.
It makes sense that the number of dimensions ends up somewhere, but I think there's no particularly obvious a priori reason why it should be a denominator. For example, the length of the long diagonals of a unit cube in n dimensions depends on the dimension, but it's \sqrt n, not anything divided by n (well, it's n^{3/2} divided by n, but that's not much use).

Of course one can fill in why in this case it happens to be the dimension in the denominator—several sibling posts, particularly gniv's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562093), have done so nicely—but I was responding specifically to the disclaimer:

> I don't give a rat's ass if there's a proof or not connecting the two. I'm not a mathematician, but it makes sense from a calculus perspective that the number of dimensions ends up as a divisor.

which seemed to suggest that it should be obvious without mathematical reasoning.
The tooth forms at some point.
I found that at least one of the big 3 artificial sweeteners tastes bad / bitter to everyone, but which one is not consistent. This is the reason a lot of foods now use a blend in an effort to "normalize" the aftertaste.
Not sure how far she makes in CS without some high school level math like pre algebra, algebra 1 and 2. remember that actual computer science curriculum have more advanced math like single and multi variate calculus, differential equation, linear algebra, discrete.

Good news: most software engineer not taking derivative or vector calculation like full calculus or linear algebra taught in CS program.

but you need ability to reason about basic maths if your program has any computation at all.

khan academy is good for the math. dont really need much more.
This is all hypothetical, of course, but: you don't have to lose all your baby teeth in order for your adult teeth to come in. Somehow an adult tooth coming in causes the baby tooth's root to dissolve (if that's the right word) and then pushes the remaining baby tooth out of the way. So you might not need to lose your adult teeth in order for the next-gen teeth to come in.
https://stanfordasl.github.io//aa274a/

(as the CS237A Principles of Robotic Autonomy I link seems to be broken)
I'm not sure I agree. I gave up on my first sandbox game of Factorio mid-way through, because I realized that biters were a pushover against my new tank... (not realizing that biter settings or mods existed)
Acetaminophen has a poor safety profile and I wish they would take it off the market, and that's a drug where the danger is in taking 10+ fairly large capsules of it instead of 1. The difference between normal 25i-NBOMe usage and fatal usage can be as small as putting a 1x1cm piece of paper in your mouth vs putting a 1x3cm piece of paper in your mouth.

I agree with your ideal world. The point of my original comment was that making no distinction between something like 25i-NBOMe and something like LSD, calling them psychedelics, and regulating them as such just isn't a good idea. I am not claiming that you should go to jail for having or using them.
Betteridge's law applies, what an absurd question.
This is probably because bread, potatoes, rice, etc and big portions in general are the main sources of glycemic load.
> an art less so a repeatable science

Which is what all those factory jobs used to be seen as, too. Much as I dislike Taylor, that's the attitude he was fighting against and he showed it was untrue. Same independently with Ford.

> just rehashing ideas from the past

Back atcha!

So here we are with two entrenched groups of people who "just know" that they're correct but are unable to prove it to one another. What's next?

Whenever I'm presented with a stark dichotomy, I assume there are other branches that people are ignoring.
> Air has no scent and yet no one insists on only consuming air with scented candles.

Well that's not true at all, given that millions of households use continuous plug-in air fresheners all day, every day. Multiple industries exist solely around scenting the air. Your analogy just doesn't hold up to reality.
Well that's an awful lot to take from my comment. Is this some sort of "hit dogs holler" thing?

I'm American. I live in America. But I'm posting in a global forum, and I'm addressing something that's very specifically American. I wasn't even necessarily criticizing. Different places have different tastes. But the top soda brands are, Red Bull aside, all American in origin: https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-soda-brands/
Did you ever read Pat Helland's article, "Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An apostate’s opinion" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3012426.3025012? "This article explores and names some of the practical approaches used in the implementation of large-scale mission-critical applications in a world that rejects distributed transactions."
It is a procedure oriented language. If you want objects try C++
I don't think that's different from what I said in (1):

"The west is doing immoral things and hiding it"

The propaganda aspect you're mentioning is an integral part of "hiding it".

I don't think you're framing changes the options on the table: either you try to fix the system from within our you somehow hope that the others will be better just because.
I think a confounding variable for this is the caloric load. Drink 5 cans of coke and thats what, 1000 calories at least? You feel it impact the rest of your food intake. Meanwhile, diet drinks are zero calorie. Many older people I know who consume diet soda do it to the exclusion of actual water, which they can do since its zero calories and doesn’t impact their appetite for their other meals. For what its worth all of them are overweight.
I disagree. The large sites which are charged with facilitating this breakdown have been around (and commanding a large portion of internet traffic) since before Google began degrading in-earnest. So did "effective" SEO, in fact. Google used to care about, and was still effective at, returning useful links well into the period that other entities were trying to undermine it. The first time that I noticed a reduction in Google Search efficacy was when they introduced Instant Search (or whatever they called the feature that presented results as users typed, rather than waiting for users to submit a full query). Even when they got rid of it, they never backtracked on whatever back-end changes enabled it (and degraded results in the service of presenting them faster).

My suspicion is that this was the beginning of the public presentation of corporate infighting, where what the public saw from Google began to be less about good products and more about the products that particular execs, managers, and developers needed to "win" in order to bolster their careers (or what they perceive as such). This is why Google has developed a reputation for killing useful products, often replacing them with flashier and more frustrating alternatives (if at all).

I don't like putting this on external factors. I think Google is doing this to themselves. It's a more private and stretched-out version of what's happening very publicly with Twitter right now.
The neuron models used in the open worm project… function…

That is to say that the complete organism model can learn to swim, which about all the organism is supposed to be able to do.

I see what you’re saying though, that human-level function will likely be much more difficult to fine-tune.

The ethics of it all are a philosophical wormhole. Ultimately, its “consciousness” would be an image of a real person. I don’t think we would have to worry about it too much. Saying it was truly conscious would be like saying that a video of a person was conscious.
Yes. Sensodyne is worthless in my experience, but brushing with a toothpaste I bought in Japan to restore enamel really worked. It had very immediate effects and my teeth kept the protective enamel even after I ran out.
nim with a bureaucracy would quickly turn into rust, so corporate heads can just adopt rust and let the world of niche opinionated tools be themselves.
Those discussions took place during the GWOT when the Marines were still engaged in the Middle East. Now they are pivoting to confront China and expect to fight on islands in the western Pacific Ocean. They have no bases in the area where an A-10 could even use to reach the expected battlefields. Marine Corps leadership has clearly stated that going forward they only want aircraft that can operate from amphibious ships. Most of the airframes are also getting worn out and will be increasingly expensive to maintain; the Marines simply don't have the budget for that.

The A-10 is dead. Time to let it go.
> Who stores the data at rest?

Each channel stores all the comments left on it. (They're not copied anywhere else, except for caching clients might choose to implement.)

> If it's distributed, you have a cesspool of spam and nonsense.

Channels that moderate will not, and most people won't be viewing channels that don't moderate.

> people choose to be in the place where the moderation is most agreeable to them

Yes, those would be the lists of approved channels that clients use, like I said maintained analagously to adblock lists. There would probably be one or two popular "mainstream" lists, and then various "progressive-only", "right wing-only", "lulz" etc. ones.

Think of it basically like Reddit, except each subreddit is its own server (channel) that moderates according to its own policies, and whenever you view a NYTimes article you pull up combined comments from the well-moderated subreddits and not from the badly/un-moderated ones.

Does that make sense?
Big trap of internet posting: your worst day's post can become a defining statement. Clearly on the day Andreas posted this, he wasn't at his kindest. Nim's great and readable, the code will survive many such days I think.
1. That list contains items like "Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory", "Congress of Racial Equality", "Chemical Education Foundation", the "Independent Women’s Forum" and so on, in fact not one of these organizations is specifically about climate, yet your source claims all $33M was spent exclusively on climate change. So already this website is lying to you in its very first sentence. Not a great start.

2. This $33M appears to be all charitable giving by Exxon spread over more than 20 years. That's not much, nowhere close to billions of dollars.

3. The tiny amounts are a problem for them, so they say they "know" it's really a lot more. As befits a site that just makes things up, the reason they "know" is: "We assume this is not the first (or the last) contribution Exxon has made to the US Chamber of Commerce". Brilliant. Assumptions, facts, what's the difference?

Again, this isn't evidence for "billions of dollars" being spent on "increasing public ignorance". It's not even evidence for any money being spent on climate, because the reasons they donated to these various foundations isn't really known to the desmog guys. It's just more assumptions.
That's basically what the first couple of paragraphs do, "Here's a brief overview and how to get started" followed by the other 3/4's of the article which is additional info.
I read carefully the first half of the article then scanned the rest, so I may have missed it; it didn't seem to also mention "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?", which is a poetic way of saying I love you as well:

https://www.tsuki.world/world/the-moon-is-beautiful-isnt-it

https://www.wikihow.com/The-Moon-Is-Beautiful-Isn%27t-It