skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting remark:

> He said the aim was “to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity … the inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in our cities, and particularly in Paris”.

I like this new word, not obesity but autobesity. Indeed, bigger cars are on the rise in Europe.

This makes the road less safe for pedestrians, bicyclers, and other smaller cars. This means we are now in a race-to-the-bottom, where on the bottom we all drive a tank to have the maximum amount of buffer-zone between our frail bodies and incoming traffic.

Making the driving of bigger cars more expensive has an unfair downside: it becomes only affordable to the “worthy” (according to a free and open market economy), that is, to the rich.

So, the choice is, do we want to live in:

A. A safer world, but big cars are only for the rich.

B. A dangerous-er world, that is more fair because it's more dangerous for everyone, except for the rich because they can afford tanks/cars that are even bigger.
Yup, the first thing that people without prepping will go after preppers. No amount of bullets and doors will fend off the sheer hunger.
I thought crypto was about solving a LACK of trust?
Betteridge's Law says no :)

"Declarative: in normal Linux distro you configure the operating system with a sequence of commands, "

No I pretty much can point and click the configuration of Debian XFCE.
thanks for the opportunity to learn.
Police departments in the US derived from English law, which had a system of unpaid enforcement via gentry. Prior to that, reeves were individuals charged with keeping the peace. Prior to that it was expected everyone contributed via frankpledge.

This takes us back to around the year 1000.

There's not much evidence of law enforcement prior to that in the direct historical lineage of US policing.

In other cultures we see military (gendarmes or "men at arms") and slaves being deployed to enforce laws. (Common in Rome and Byzantine culture.)

In other cultures a leader would create justifications and appoint a single person to ensure the jurisdiction was peaceful. That single individual was paid, and they likely hired guards when they wanted, but I generally wouldn't consider a guard or posse to be law enforcement in the way we understand that term today. Those roles were closer to bounty hunters. This is how the Egyptian pharaohs ran things thousands of years ago.

Hammurabi, btw, isn't like the inventor of laws. He just very famously decided to punish violence with violence. Sumerian law existed prior. But the existence of laws says nothing about their enforcement. If you've got good resources on Sumerian or Mesopotamian enforcement, I'd be interested, but it's pretty far off topic of the US law enforcement lineage.
maybe for you, but not for me. 800x600 was still very cramped and the first time I felt I could comfortably do development was on a 21" Sony CRT at 1600x1200, though that was pushing the monitor resolution-wise and it lost a bit of sharpness compared to lower resolutions.

Also, I'm unsure as to how the monitor type would have any impact on the screen real-estate available to the OS. If the OS is rendering an 800x600 screen, then there are 800 pixels of room available horizontally and 600 vertically, no matter the screen technology.

Given a 32 pixel size of an icon for example, there's would be room for 25 icons horizontally with a 800x600 resolution but 50 icons on a 1600 resolution. The screen technology does not factor into this at all.

What I do give you that it's probably possible to drive a CRT monitor of a relatively small size with larger resolutions because pixels can be infinitely small, though, as I said in the beginning of the comment, at some point you will get issues with sharpness and things become blurry.
PCSX2 can run Burnout 3 though. What else do you need?

But this is seriously impressive. Modern Vintage Gamer has done some nice YouTube videos on it.
Sydney's streets were laid out over a century ago. They barely coped with horse and carriage traffic. Now we have Pitt St Mall and George St is mostly closed for the trams. Many streets have been narrowed to allow for bicycle paths.

So car, truck, taxi, ride-share, delivery van traffic has been funneled onto ever dwindling number of roads and parking has become extremely scarce. As a result congestion has gotten worse.
Out of curiosity what did you use to write the graphical part of this game?
China's Huawei poised to overcome US ban with return of 5G phones
Is that actually why RARBG was taken down? Because their notice did not mention that. The only reasons I’ve heard have been deaths, health issues/Covid, and the war in Ukraine
Nah, humans work the same as we always have: we become indebted to each other.

Cash is this wacky invention by which we cancel debt, specifically so we don't owe each other anything, relationship over, see you later, don't @ me.
> cargo-semver-checks is not dependent on whether code paths are used

that's exactly my point, without this great tool he can't know whether semver is broken from his practical use since his use is not exhaustive
MS is the definition of a Slippery Slope in action.
> There is so much more room.

I don’t understand what’s being gained in some cases. For example, their UIs used to have sideways buttons with icons and labels in the gutters on the left and right. Now it’s icons only and a bunch of blank space. I don’t get any extra usable space and now I have to memorize a new set of icons and remember what they do.

What’s behind the hamburger menu in the left gutter and why can’t it be made directly accessible as icons in all that free space?

All of it reminds me of the versions of Chrome where the “show all downloads” action on the downloads page was by itself under a hamburger menu while the row in the UI was basically blank.
Everything can be incredibly useful in several domains, but we don't teach everything. Instead, people learn what they need when they start working in that domain.

The point of the article is that calculus is not taught because it might be incredibly useful for a small percentage of students, but because it measures their ability to pick up a hard subject and ace it.
I have sympathy for anyone who spends effort to better understand the current conflict, and I'm also very bothered there isn't a good online forum for considerate discussion, but I think it would keep HN a better place if we politely decline to pursue strictly political topics here.
That response was a little cringe, she doesn’t come out as a likable person…
Reminds me of the March 20, 2020 same-day release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal. I'm glad those covid days are behind us.
In case anyone else is fuzzy on the precise meaning of "Elo": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Or, as we call it now: IBM
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Urs Hölzle Steps Down
It looks the Thomas Kurian is further consolidating his power?
Data Sonification of Planet Orbits
Inspired by the book Harmonices Mundi by Johannes Kepler.
Ackchyually.... [1][2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_butterfly_breeding
[2]https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/14/smallbusiness/butterfly-far...
Whoopi is still an outspoken Mac gamer https://ew.com/gaming/whoopi-goldberg-diablo-4-video-game-bl...
Flash is such a terrible choice for this analogy. Probably the one thing Flash sites all had in common was that they had nothing in common.
Meaning and Usage of “To No End”
This is the problem with the so-called "multipolar world". There aren't any other democratic poles. So - if you're a dissident or a whistleblower and you're too high-profile - you have nowhwere to go.

Snowden has to live in Russia, because pretty much all Western countries would put him on the first plane to the USA if he ever tried to enter.

My country extradites even our own citizens to the USA.
Ask HN: Gandi.net Blocked in India?
Looks like gandi.net has been blocked in India.

Issuing pings to:

www.gandi.net, as well as,

webmail.gandi.net,

gives failures.

But the same from a US located IP works just fine.

Is the block "on" GANDI from India?

Or, has GANDI "banned" India?

Very strange.
Once Nix can install without disabling selinix, it could be holy grail territory.

I personally moved from UBlue to NixOS because I was a bit bored of running my whole life in Distrobox, and didn’t like being so dependent on GitHub. NixOS gives me everything I liked from Silverblue with the flexibility of something like Arch. Plus, Home Manager is amazing. The big downside of container-based images is that you can never touch your home directory. Now instead of Silverblue plus Chezmoi plus like 7 Bash scripts and a Distrobox, it’s all just one Nix config.
related for those who are interested in DSL design:

- an ancient Chinese programming language: https://wy-lang.org/

- I am also building an synth/audio graph inspired music programming language: https://glicol.org/
Tidal forces are highly dependent on the mass of the black hole. The more massive, the less tidal forces you have to contend with.

The bigger problem is finding such a black hole that doesn't have a very unfriendly to life and electronics accretion disk.

I've seen some arguments that alcubierre drives could allow for safe transportation with materials science advancements that we believe to be possible. Safe for the people traveling, at any rate. Not so safe for your destination and whatever else is in a large cone in front of your ship.

I've not seen any convincing arguments that would allow for anyone to safely traverse a worm hole, however.
Nix has the same problem as Terraform: it solves a lot of problems, but you have to 'live and breathe' their DSL.

You're no longer learning/maintaining Linux - you're learning and maintaining Nix.
> I suppose they would interfere with that, right?

They will, and go hard on it. Otherwise they are not backing up their problems and prior decisions.
My father does that, but he's just bad with interpunction.
Description says it is an unaffiliated developer, which could explain why you didn't know about it but seems like a good signal.
There’s also water, energy, busses outside of London, Openreach (especially them), and pitty the poor people of Hull with that Kingston shitshow.
System76 begins publishing Virgo laptop PCB designs, confirms Raptor Lake
I think this would, if it is true, mark a major turning point in the US-China tech war: A fully sanctioned company managing to produce advanced chips (7nm or higher resolution) in a consumer product.
Batteries are for storage, reactors are for energy production. Weird comparison.
There actually is high quality content in Twitter threads. Of course most content on Twitter isn't high quality though.
Depending on your use case (particularly if it is research-oriented), "scipy.spatial.distance.cdist" and "scipy.spatial.distance.pdist" are your friends. If you are doing something in production, the PG extension seems like a good bet.

One way to potentially answer your question about text-chunk-granularity is to take a random sample of 500 pieces of chunked text and look at several "most similar pairs." Do this for a few different chunk-lengths and you'll see how much information is lost...
Seriously. People spend thousands to travel to Pompeii and walk through tittering about how naughty the Romans were. It's not as if those Romans were any different from the guy drawing dicks on a blank webpage. And if 2 measly millennia is all it takes to confer archaeological significance on phallic graffiti, why not just get ahead of the herd, take the long view (so to speak), and appreciate your own culture in all its messy future significance in the here and now?
After all it isn't only about Intel, and being open alone doesn't make it safe.
For better or for worse, something being "free" doesn't change anything regarding copyright or access control.
It depends on the engine but indy studios are frequently able to port to all of the major platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch.

The exclusive addressable market for each is definitely big enough to outweigh porting costs.

A good first step would be to ban exclusivity agreements, rather than mandate cross platform availability and to fine both parties heavily for suspected foul play.

Exclusivity agreements are a great example of something that is directly harmful to consumers. It removes choice, increases cost, encourages electronic waste, and leads to an inferior experience.
Fighting Rust Anxiety: Insights from a Go Developer
Can't wait to pre-order my 2024 Tesla RatKing
More like, we have to invent Neo

FWIW, even if we are all in “prime” and this is not a simulation. There is always the possibility of inventing a way to elevate ourselves out into a higher dimension.

Either way, same goal really.
No one wants AR outside of niché applications. Regular people have no interest in walking around with AR headsets.

I saw a 3D overlay AR experience that some people were doing at the Minoan palace of Knossos in Greece. It’s a large multi-level outdoor space. They were walking around with tablets with huge sunshades because of the incredibly bright Cretan sun. I don’t know what they thought of it but they did use it quite a bit. I think you’re better off seeing the ruins, and then seeing a recreated physical 3D model (which they did have at the accompanying museum), or a short film exploring the space. I could imagine that if we squeezed all the AR stuff into the size of regular glasses, this sort of experience might have more take. But maybe it’s just better to see ruins as ruins first and let your imagination do the rest?

I could imagine things like turn by turn directions being useful in a nice AR product but that’s just one thing…

As I keep saying in my HN comments, I just don’t think people want the AR/VR form factor.
A programing language can be seen as UI between a human and the computer.
As such it is similar to a keyboard. The path to keyboard includes phisically wiring the hardware and punchcards. At the moment keyboards provide a stable tradeoff between precision and ergonomics. Maybe in some future we will be able to replace the keyboard with a microphone but there are good reasons why this hasn't happened yet.
> ... cannot bring the connectivity and reliability that AWS provides.

Connectivity, you're likely right about. But for reliability... that's probably not accurate.

Most laptops (with stable software) don't seem to show any issues when running for months at a time. And they have built-in battery backup too. :)

Depending on the battery life for those old macbook pro's, that battery backup might last many hours. As servers, they don't need to run with their screens on. :)
> Our goals were to reduce visual complexity

Complexity can be reduced to zero by shipping a blank page.
It is an unfair comparison. The “comfy” window on the left shows Word in "reader-mode" or whatever it was called back then.

The “cramped” window on the right shows a word processor on "Print-view", meaning it shows the A4/Letter including lots of white space around all corners...

Apples and Pears...
The period at the end of this sentence is followed by six spaces. I bet we won't be able to see them.
Maybe that’s the method behinds Reddit’s api madness this whole time. (/s). Now only the hugest brands can run their own bots
this reminded me to install f-droid on my new phone :)
Stenzek who created the duckstation emulator moved over to PCSX2 and the updates from him and others have made that emulator really impressive in my humble opinion. It just seems a bit odd to make a comparison like this. Is there something i'm missing as to why you would compare either?
She probably meant to say "I don't know what that is, I don't know why this is a meme, after all everyone knows that the spreadsheet app on the Nokia Communicator wasn't Microsoft Excel"...
And there's the game company actively developing low-level open source software Valve, which my mind first sprung to.
‘Whistleblower’ who accused Biden of corruption is charged with arms trafficking
I don't think I've ever seen anyone under the age of 40 play Candy Crush.
Creating Dynamic Colors in SwiftUI
More so, we can't expect China and others to play nice if we don't, so we should lead the way.
Breakthroughs in PR?
> it is not the writer who ultimately determines meaning: it is the reader.

This fact is almost never raised in discussions of AI and LLMs but is actually the reason so many people are tricked into believing there is conscious intelligence behind them. Words are are symbolic abstractions that are pre-invested with meaning and don’t require an intelligence to communicate that meaning.
I think my amygdala would have melted if I watched those movies back to back.
I have never seen any Apple computer with a volume less than 0.5 L.

The volume of a Mac Mini is 1.4 L.

A Mac Mini is huge in comparison with a classic slim NUC and it has a double volume in comparison with a tall NUC or with a Skull Canyon NUC.

At the size of a Mac Mini it is trivial to cool even a 65 W CPU, because that is possible even in a smaller 1 L case.

So no, what I have said about Intel is correct.
Has anyone been able to demonstrate to their satisfaction that improving Web Vitals scores actually improves their search engine placement? We send web vitals field data to our own analytics servers to track P75, but Google changes its algorithm so much we can't quite prove that our various LCP/CLS/FID/INP changes are actually making any difference.
I like the way you're thinking.
What do you recommend? I haven't played with Linux in about 18 years, (back then it was Ubuntu and Gentoo)... what the going recommendations now?
The phone contacts and social graph of everyone using WhatsApp.
Visual Studio does show a popup, go to implementation, and if the implementation happens to be visible on the same screen, also highlights it.
> But I recently realized there is a very good reason to take Calculus. It’s to prove you can do hard things.

This doesn't explain why Calculus over any other number of hard things.
I’m disappointed with iPhone 14 Pro Max
From 9to5mac: "Dynamic Island is cool, but as time goes on, I realize it’s more of a gimmick than anything. It doesn’t really change how I interact with my iPhone. And compared to my 13 Pro Max, I feel that iPhone 14 Pro Max has become worse in some aspects. And that’s where two important iPhone 15 Pro Max rumors come in: cameras and battery."

"I have to be honest. The iPhone 14 Pro Max battery sucks. With iPhone 13 Pro Max, I could use my phone all day and it still had some battery left for the next day. iPhone 14 Pro Max, on the other hand, requires me to recharge my phone at least twice a day. The biggest proof of this is that Apple itself promotes iPhone 14 Plus – and not the 14 Pro Max – as the iPhone with the longest battery life."

"iPhone 14 Pro Max has about the same battery capacity as the 13 Pro Max (4352mAh vs. 4323mAh). However, iPhone 14 Pro Max is the first to have an Always-on Display, and that means it drains more battery than its predecessor. Sure, I could turn that feature off, but what’s the point of buying a new phone and turning off one of its key new features?"

"I also believe that part of this is due to poor software optimization (iOS 16 wasn’t a good release) and the A16 Bionic chip not bringing great improvements compared to the A15."
It isn't perfect, but yes it has improved. I have a couple of C++ hobby projects on github, all done with modules nowadays.
If you can deal with VHDL, you can deal with Ada.

Every language has its quirks. Some people can't stand Python's significant indentation. Others can't bear Lisp's parentheses. Personally I can deal with them. But any library API (say for Java or Swift) with veryLongIdentifierNamesThatAreAlmostSentences drives me insane. I imagine IDEs are enablers for that regrettable trend, but at least they save human typing.

Oberon's capitalized KEYWORDS were probably a mistake.
You don't just cut it off in one go, you squeeze them out slowly.

Embrace the business (with money), extend the functionality (Xbox exclusive features), Extinguish the competition (drop support).
NPM actually works like this afaik (you can have multiple versions of a given package in tree).

Vendoring is another way to work around the single-version per name requirement. It's mainly problematic with shared types and when they "escape" over the API boundary (ie. are exposed somehow).
Thats one difficulty in UI design. Very few people care if a program uses binary trees or hash tables underneath, but everyone and their mother in law have an opinion on the color of buttons and the radius of the corners.
As long at it isn't the FOSS one about OS purity.
I think that's the point I made on the meaning of "degoogled". It doesn't have to mean "Google-free".
A parser for SQLite Create Table statements
> Monitors capable of displaying over 33 million square area pixels? Naw, no pixels to spare for borders or shading.

There’s nothing quite like trying to hit the narrow grab handle of a borderless window with a white title bar on top of a window full of white content. There’s no way Microsoft’s designers are actually using the stuff they’re making IMO.
Yes.

And no I believe renewable is the next economy topic.

Transforming everything is a lot of jobs/work and will make energy cheaper and countries less dependent.
i hate this, it makes me viscerally angry
Tycho Monolith, obviously.
Same here. I ended up with some raspberry pis for lower end things (the Pi 4 is surprisingly capable), and a Mac Mini!
It's an absolutely lovely idea in theory, but I can see a small proportion of bad-faith actors absolutely ruining the experience for the rest. For example, how do you get overstaying guests to leave, what happens if there's suddenly a deluge of visitors on a holiday weekend and how do you say "you, not you"?
Immutable types are only considered thread-safe after their construction, though.
Honestly, your code looks great. Yes, there are thousands things that can be done better, so there will always be people saying so (just like in this thread). But that's no reason to deny a candidate a chance. Mature companies realize this and aren't really looking for the perfect code. They are more interested in the thought process behind the assignment. I think you're just having a hard luck, specially with a tight tech job market.
Not to forget https://www.val.town, which call their lambda functions 'vals'
Ranflood – an open-source tool that fights ransomware by flooding it with data
Of this is true, it would be something close of an insane situation: One of the largest datasets, that the largest companies are using to train their models (probably; many of the best LLMs have technical reports that raise more questions rather than answer them) being forced to live an obscure existance on torrents.

From a scientific point of view this is very problematic because few safeguards exist that guarantee that the dataset is not tampered with (as is the case if you'd upload it to Zenodo, which providea some guarantee of immutability).

How about trying to upload the Pile to Zenodo?
Only half-joking :D
I write C++ exclusively and never worry about memory management.

I don't use smart pointers since shared ownership is a bad concept.

The problem of memory management is largely trivial.
What Are Superfluids and Why Are They Important? [video]
AWS will accept pretty much anything

azure and GCP can be very annoying though
iOS when
The difference is also intent.

YouTube implemented the rolling cypher to satisfy music industry demands that the files were not permanently downloadable (and it appears they were able to provide abundant evidence that Google has communicated that to them in court, I don't think this is a controversial point).

That wasn't the point of the red book spec.

Intent matters significantly, legally.
The alternative would be to use big block Bitcoin fork (like Bitcoin Cash). Last time I checked, average transaction fee is $0.008.

I personally use it sometimes to pay for some services with minimal transfer fee, but BCH can't seem to win the branding game against Bitcoin.