skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you need two of everything, or more, two switches, two physical links, (hopefully) two physical racks or cabinets, and all that, it's minimum x2, but nowhere near x100. The cost for additional physical transit links is generally pretty reasonable, depending on provider, if you have more you can negotiate better rates, same with committed bandwidth. You can get better rates if you buy more.

There are a lot of aspects to that, but the cost of doing all of the above is a lot less than not having it and failing to have it at the wrong moment and losing money that way. Each business needs to weigh their risk against how much they want to invest and how much they think they can tolerate in terms of downtime.
http://theclimatebonus.org/blog

Your comment reminded me of this comic, “what if we create a better world for nothing” is basically what you’re saying.
And "people believe what they see on Twitter" isn't a problem the court can fix.
> Putting the storage in the cloud is completely orthogonal to this ideology. Both latency & simplicity will suffer dramatically.

I'm confused by your usage of the term "orthogonal". In my experience, it is used to express that something is independent of something else, similarly to how in mathematics orthogonal vectors are linearly independent and thus form a basis of their linear span. Here, however, it seems you mean to say that "putting storage in the cloud runs counter to this ideology"?
You're not concerned about how having such a large percentage of population becoming basically useless due to psychological problems can trouble the future of mankind?
> Software doesn’t make or break an organization.

This is true... but it's also true of ≈everything else in the organization. An organization that could be broken by any single thing would not survive for long! This includes the things people tediously insist to be "more important" than software quality. It certainly includes the usual suspects that push people to cut software corners: companies don't break by missing OKRs or slipping schedules or not "focusing" or any other management pablum any more than they break due to software quality.

But, of course, all of those can contribute to a company failing—including bugs, slow delivery and poor quality code. The dynamics and the extent to which different factors matter is inherently context-specific.

Companies can fail despite doing the right thing and succeed despite doing the wrong thing. This doesn't make the wrong thing effective or reasonable, it just means we're operating in the domain of complex, stochastic systems, so our simple mental models of cause and effect become misleading.

The fact that low-quality software doesn't directly cause a company to fail does not imply that investing in software quality is not right. I am firmly convinced that maintaining high quality software will have better outcomes in expectation than cutting corners pretty much universally, if only because it simply doesn't cost much—it's a matter of setting the right culture more than anything else.

There are interesting observations to be made here. Variations on "software quality doesn't matter because it won't destroy the company" are not it.
That's great it worked for you, but that's not a website backend. It would be foolish to run HN on SQLite for instance. I would go as far as to call it a vulnerability in such context, due to how easily it could be DoS'd.
Many are distilled tap, which it's pretty clean (but also lacking natural minerals) before they add the microplastics.
If you're wrong then it's a doomsday cult.
Yeah, me too, but it sounds like they have good reason and are working to fix it:

> Thankfully, NYI were willing to lease us those addresses, because IP range reputation is really important in the email world, and those things are hardcoded all over the place — but it has caused us complications due to more complex routing. Over the past year, we’ve been migrating to a new IP range. We’ve been running the two networks concurrently as we build up the trust reputation for the new addresses.

Might be one of those things that they did when they were small, but then got hard to change. Hopefully they will fully own their new addresses.

The thing I'm surprised about is that they only have "single path for traffic out to the internet."
You’d be surprised at how many things break when different routes are chosen. Like etcd, MySQL, and so much more.
Probably the same reason there wasn't a twitter clone until now. Big tech sees that reddit is inherently a bad business that causes political headaches and is hard, if not impossible, to monetize.
DeSo Offers $1M Funding for Decentralized Reddit Competitor Amid API Changes
It’s a trade off people make for the lifestyle that they want.

I decided that lifestyle wasn’t for me but it really does work for a lot of people.
posix isn't a kernel API. It is a runtime that can largely be implemented in userspace. There is no need for any kernel to do anything specific to support posix other than for possible performance optimizations. Also posix isn't even the API people target anymore - the Linux uapi is. This is why wsl and starnix target that instead. There are security issues that come along with such APIs, but you can sandbox things in such a way that it need not be as problematic.

There is no getting away from the need for backwards compatibility with existing applications. Applications won't start supporting your platform natively until it matters and getting big enough to matter requires lots of software working on your platform.
I quite literally said that even if we did the switch to nothing we'd be improving global health, so in any case the outcome would be positive.
ChatGPT writes the averagest content possible. Only creatively dead websites will use it
Not sure if that stance is going to be relevant much longer. I recall Apple releasing a new framework that actually had some substance during their last keynote. I think Linus did a segment, they were running cyberpunk on Mac at 30FPS, not ideal sure, but it's a big step up.

https://developer.apple.com/games/
I'd love to learn about your requirements. Can we chat? s@planetscale.com
Apparently there are records of a loud noise being heard as far away as Timbuktu in the 12th century.
Musk gonna lose a bit of money on this. Oh well maybe he can focus on Tesla and collapse that next.
It has been far hotter in the past, including geologically recent times. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...
Hiding regulatory threats behind “simple, optional requests” is so far beyond the pale that I can’t imagine letting them get away with it. Especially when the counter argument is that the government has inalienable rights to free speech. The federal government is not some downtrodden dissident in need of protecting.
I always thought Sega had the better games and hardware. I had all of these consoles. Playstation always felt like an imposter back then, but I was a Sega fan and Nintendo secondarily.
Yes but the parts related to GR are irrelevant. That's like if CS needed a Newtonian Physics model for something seeing it and saying "ah ha, computers invented GR Because they exist in a universe that uses it."

Just because newtonian physics is a sub part of GR, doesn't mean "GR" is the best way to describe basic F=ma.

The smallest subset theory that incorporates the need for vector clocks, and the most unique part that introduced and required vector clocks is special relativity - which is what thats what's most appropriate to discuss and not GR.
> The Opinion Pages of the WSJ also tend to lean more conservative, while the news side leans liberal.

As with most News Corp outlets, the news side of the WSJ leans pretty far to the right (it did so even before it was a News Corp outlet, though not as much), it only seems “liberal” by comparison with its own opinion section.

That said, unlike, say, Fox News, the WSJ news side at least makes an effort to adhere to traditional journalistic norms, its right wing bias is more evident in agenda-setting (story selection, devotion of space, and placement/promotion), and less in commentary and outright fabrications in “news” content.
Why should the government pay for it? The companies that produced these PFAS and let it pollute our country should be taxed heavily to pay for it.
Not good for humanity? We have enough psychological damage already...
Last I knew the motives behind the bombing wasn't even known. There's a lot of pretty large leaps being taken here.
> Because the Rust docs seem to be more aligned with the 4doc model than the Python docs, and the Rust docs are more praised than the Python docs.

I can't speak to the Python docs. Sadly, it seems that Mozilla has lost the recording of me in 2013 laying out my vision for Rust's docs, which is what became reality.

I had never heard of the four-document model, but instead presented a "three document model":

* Tutorials: long form documentation that explained concepts. This became The Book, but pre that, there were a number of ~5 page tutorials on various things.

* Language Reference: specific documentation that's closer to a specification

* API Documentation: documentation per module, function, whatever specific unit, unconnected to other stuff.

I had come to understand documentation in this way based on my time with Ruby and Rails. Tutorials are Rails Guides. Reference is a language spec (of which Ruby doesn't really have one but I thought that was pretty sad). API documentation is rubydoc.

Eventually, "tutorials" kinda morphed into "the bookshelf," thanks to mdbook.
Here is my programming tutorial list on Youtube, it has some Godot tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwYfcDZR0fFcROLjkiyBW...

A lot of tutorials you'll find will be for Godot 3 so be sure to search for Godot 4 specifically as a filter. Otherwise be willing to take into account that you'll have to figure out how to make the tutorial code work for your version of Godot (which can be an educational experience in and of itself.)
Hey, I've been checking out raylib on and off for some time.

I'm currently making an isometric pixel art game using SFML [0]. Technically this is not possible since SFML does not use a depth buffer/z value, but I found a way around this.

I still feel limited in SFML in many ways, like being forced to use the color channels to pass custom codes to the GPU for shaders (while still needing to use color)

Is it possible to setup a custom vertex array in raylib? Beyond world pos, texture pos, and color, is it easy to pass additional information to the GPU for customizing assets in the shader?

Most (all?) of the examples I've see are 3D, but I imagine raylib would have no problem handling a 2D game? Or is specifically designed for 3D and 2D is an afterthought/non-existant?

[0] https://twitter.com/YesboxStudios/status/1676924625912045568
Sure. What you said is exactly what the poll is meant to answer.

- https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

- https://spdx.org/licenses/SSPL-1.0.html

- https://spdx.org/licenses/Elastic-2.0

These are not OSI-approved, but some may argue could be considered 'effectively open source' for most use cases.
> only to find out I’m eight hundred years too late.

and I thought I was bad for missing the timezone and being an hour late to watch the ESA's Euclid launch. Besides, I was able to watch mine in replay.
> China benefits from trade near her borders but the US and allies want the ability to turn off the spigot when they wish to force China into concessions

The word for this is "blockade", generally recognized as an act of war. When exactly did the US threaten to blockade China? And why is it that those nearby trading partners seem to regard China, not the US as a threat? How could they all have it so wrong?
The git plugin allows you to disable it on certain devices. I enable it only on my main computer and sync the vault among devices with syncthing, which I find much more reliable than wholly relying on git.
I think the assumption they were making was that rather than an LLM this was a type of AI that has animal-like characteristics. Which sounds fanciful but at least at a functional level you could get some main aspects just by removing guardrails from a large multimodal model and instructing it to work on its own goals, self preservation, etc. And researchers are working hard to create more lifelike systems that wouldn't necessarily be very similar to LLMs.
I used to think the same thing, and it was the argument that my dad would make against climate change (i.e. "we've only been tracking the temperature since the late 1800's"). But then I found out about climate proxies:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_(climate)
Agreed. That is my read of the statute as well (I don't practice in this area, however, so I'll defer to an IP lawyer if one chimes in).
If you can't have an argument without becoming toxic, please abstain from commenting. We're discussing here and I literally put a disclaimer in the beginning of the comment saying I'm not pro fossil fuels usage.
‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 countries
I've attempted to find some sets based on a single complicated brick and it can be challenging. How do I find the "official" name of the brick based on my own vague description [0]? What is the true color? How do I find special printed bricks? I'm sure with practice it gets easier. How open is bricks stack exchange to posting just an image of a brick with not much more to go on?

[0]: As an example, here the description of a brick I struggled to name. I've since figured it out, but you are welcome to guess: flat 4x1 with bumps only on the ends (yes, "bumps", because I don't know what the technical term is. Again, I'm sure there's a guide or glossary I could find.)
If somebody calls out the problem and then we all agree on an attempted solution why is there some major psychological damage to the general population as a result of that? Just because something might be scary we shouldn't talk about it?
I'd be willing to bet that less than half of this site's users are American. There is a huge software engineering community in Europe, for example, and there are more Europeans than Americans, let alone the large populations of Asia, Australia, New Zealand...
Because signals can be measured?
> We need more people to speak up when those speaking the loudest are wrong, uneducated, and unqualified to speak on the topic they’re preaching.

How, though? It takes a lot more work to develop an educated opinion than an uneducated one. There will always be more educated speakers than uneducated speakers. And do you really think that, during a pandemic, the best use of an epidemiologist's time is wading into the trenches and fighting every single case of "wrong on the internet"?
Nah, profit motive by the companies is reason enough.
I suspect some of the excess evaporation off the subcontinent is precipitating over Sri Lanka. We haven't had a drought in ages and it feels like our monsoon seasons are getting longer and longer.
Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter, really?

I don't know but I can guess. If I were as wealthy as him and I operated a few companies like SpaceX, Tesla, Boring, etc... and I wanted a way to promote them I would look at buying Alphabet, Meta, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft. Twitter was probably in the most likely position for acquisition of those but I am just guessing.

Whoever controls the media can adjust the public perception of reality. This could be beneficial for a myriad of reasons. Consolidation of media occurred with physical media, then radio and television. It worked well for them. Perhaps it is a stretch for me to compare Elon to the likes of Rupert Murdoch but Elon could be the governments next golden child. Let's see if he buys more social media companies. Is Mastodon gGmbH immune to acquisition?
I'm mostly HTML5 at this point and have been for some time. The only exception I would make is things (say, Standard Ebooks) that haven't made the jump yet so their linters freak out if you don't do things exactly as they expect.

For the record, anyone who writes `<br />` as `<br>` is...misinformed.
The level of government surveillance, in the EU, UK, US and elsewhere is already so massively OTT, that we have all the downsides around self-censorship, parallel construction, subversion of democracy etc.

So why not actually use the possible up sides of these dangerous immoral systems?
Do you think there are two cables that are never bundled in the same underground tube?

All the redundancy in the world can’t protect you from some random person digging in the wrong place.
It’s hard to imagine the outcome will be as bad as our current trajectory.
my wife and I share stuff within icloud and we both HATE IT SO MUCH. It's truly mind boggling how bad it is, and continues to be, in 2023. Photos sometimes sync, sometimes they don't. Cool. Sometimes rebooting the phone makes them sync, other times not. Awesome. Sometimes shared notes get updated, other times they don't. Sometimes shared note invitations just never arrive at all, for no discernible reason. Sweet. It took us 4 attempts to do a shared Home app invitation. The first 3 times it just never showed up.

We HATE HATE HATE icloud so much but our only other option is to switch everything to Android and I hate Google more than I hate Apple, so ....... we just stick with icloud and its absolute shittiness.
"So, just pondering the worst-case scenario is enough to give you an idea of a sensible course of action."

I agree. However, what you describe in your examples are not the worst case scenarios, or even of equal severity.
Also: https://xkcd.com/605/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QKk5M
S expressions with colored braces in ides are amazing
The government does not have a "right" to speech, because the government doesn't have rights. Employees for the government generally have the right to speak, unless they are speaking for the government. If they are speaking for the government, that is not their speech, but rather is government speech.

Government speech isn't inherently coercive, but government speech telling one party to muzzle another, or else, is coercive.
I think it's just 2 sides of the same coin.

Fluoride is an actual chemical, and the Alex Jones "turning the frogs gay" comment was about a study that linked the presence of atrazine (a pesticide legal in the US but banned in the EU) in a water supply with the demasculinization of frogs

(FWIW there's been replication issues when other people ran the same experiment).
The count depends on if you include the cat: https://obsidian.md/about
I'm convinced that if Falcom had reworked Popful Mail for the Nintendo 64 (with Working Design's 90's anime dub) it could have been a surprise hit with the preteens that only had Ocarina of Time and Ogre Battle on the system.
I don't even make that much as an engineer in my 30's. Poor people can technically get by, but there are a lot of sacrifices involved. It's understandable that a lot of people aren't willing to make them.
It all comes down to what you value—there are millions of families renting in US cities, who obviously did not feel they needed to put their dreams on hold.

Although property values have gone up quite a bit in desirable neighborhoods, it's not at all uniform. Condos in particular have had a bad ~5 years, even in good neighborhoods in big cities.
Pizza predates the use of the tomato. The oldest mention of pizza in text is from 997 C.E.
Your "on demand" makes it read like they don't need to get a warrant whereas your link describes a missing-children investigation that had already made the national news, i.e., a situation in which getting a warrant would be very easy.
The only thing stopping me from using this is the lack of foreign keys. Is that ever coming?
What if I need to call emergency?
NYT's Hard Fork podcast did an interview with the one of the key people working on Threads. If you were curious about the official Meta position on all your concerns and want answers to questions you have, that's the one to listen to.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-...
What if I told you... it's possible to write your own code?
The n64 having better games I do not think was a most people. There are some circles and bubbles, namely Nintendo fans that might think that. But outside of a few stand outs like Mario 64, Zelda, starfox and party games PlayStation crushed them in pure quantity. Psx has dozens of Jrpgs still worth playing today. Then you include games like metal gear solid, twisted metal, tony hawk. There were probably more great games on psx than there were n64 games.
To be fair, Italy only became a unified state mid 19th century too...
The chemical is atrazine and it tests it did turn frogs from male to female. We can quibble over whether or not dosage matters but I think it should also be uncontroversial that using a chemical that disrupts hormones like that should not be used on food that we consume.
Does anyone have a whole home, or under the sink water filter they'd recommend?
The experiment demonstrates a correlation between carbon dioxide and heating of air. Physics explains the reputable and causative mechanism behind the heating. This is the basis for estimating the heating effects at planetary scale of the amount of carbon dioxide (and other gases such as methane) released by humanity.
I've been using StandardNotes for years and been happy with them. Is there a reason I should look elsewhere at these or other alternatives? It's just interested I am not seeing this product mentioned anywhere here!
What? HTML is actually standardized by a standards body. JSX isn't close to that. There's a grammar on an old web page, that's it.
My personal perspective, FWIW:), is not "is this natural/normal" but a far more selfish "is this good for us?"

There were many extremely destructive events in the past that were perfect "normal", in the sense they're not man made, but we might not enjoy happening now.

So if there's a climate change happening ; and if it is negative / bad for us ; and if some actions we take can make it better and some can make it worse... It feeels like a no-brainer, that religion and capitalism and myriad other talking points of dissenting only distract from.

I.e. Even if without human kind, some curve would have a spike ; and that spike is bad for us ; and we can flatten that spike ; them umm lets do it.

It feels fairly intuitive that "pollution is bad" (we can argue how bad), and "adding c02 and making everything crazier is bad" (we can argue how much of the bad is our contribution).
I may be wrong, but I don't think everyone blaming corporations necessarily thinks that they are the root cause - what many do agree on is that corporations are taking advantage of the situation to make it worse. Of course, the root cause is poor monetary policy in general. That doesn't mean the actors are innocent.

People are being laid off and prices are still going up - who is setting the prices? If you're jacking prices to cover sliding sales, yes, you are the problem.
In my opinion thr government should not even try to influence public speech, irrespective of whether it succeeds or not.
Probably the Cascades only.

Any sufficiently old DoD site is probably an environmental disaster that is known or waiting to be discovered. Like Hanford and Bremerton.
It may be showing my age, but I’m a monster who loves HAML to generate my html
I think it’s expectations. Software engineers have a different relationship to salary than most people and it shapes expectations. People in physical engineering do make around that much and they support their families just fine.

There are trade offs of course—instead of 4 kids you might have 2. Your spouse might have to work part time or full time. Instead of a big house with a backyard you might go for a smaller place or somewhere farther out in the country. Instead of distant vacations, you might road-trip. 80k really is quite workable if your expectations and budgeting is solid.