skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 70s and 80s there were cars everywhere, pedestrian fatalities were even higher than now. Yet kids played outside alone. So it's not that.
Code that uses min, max, clip, clamp, saturate, etc. when that is straightforwardly what operation is needed is clearer, more explicit, more concise and potentially faster. When used this way they are just straightforwardly better than equivalent if then statements.

Occasionally you see code that uses combinations of these in less obvious ways to do some more complex operation and I can see how one could argue that in rare cases that ends up less clear than if then statements but I've never really encountered that in many years of reading shader code.

There are other reasons to prefer functions over if then in shader code not discussed here as well, like replacing step with smoothstep for antialiasing.
GitHub is the worst offender. It’s a major reason why V6 only VMs and cloud is a pain even though it’s cheaper in some cases.
Drawing to the screen was also slow until accelerated 2D cards came along.
There is a house—excuse me, “museum”, in my neighborhood for some guy’s hunting trophy collection. Private tours available on request, of course.

What a sham!
First I thought that emacs/vim are about productivity. You invest some time to learn its concepts and train muscle memory. In the end of it turned out that you have to forget about spending weekends away from your PC. Not much time was actually saved.
My conclusion from all this: this is just another way of doing things with no huge benefits but with bigger portion of loses (at least because this is not mainstream).
until sites "find a way" to ask multiple times for attestation (if it has a 10% chance of failing on each request and 10 of them in a row fail, what's chance of the client supporting WEI and randomly holding off on all of them?)

"find a way" because it won't be hard.
I had a brief look at Gates Foundation spending and it does not look like tax dodge to me: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/financials/annual-repo...

It spent about 10% of its endowment for charity last year.
It's really not that bad, it's just different. There's pros and cons.

https://git-send-email.io/ has a great tutorial for getting started.

There's probably also a lot of emacs contributors that use emacs as their mail client that would be disrupted by replacing it with something web based.
Telomeres are just repeats at the end of chromosomes to allow for replication. They aren't directly involved in replication fidelity beyond allowing for replication to proceed. I guess protecting genes near chromosome termini but that's different than the mutations you would expect in cancer.
The cold fusion scandal shows scientists sometimes do fool themselves into believing their own claims, even when lacking rigorous scientific evidence.

Maybe they just have discovered an material with interesting electric properties rather than a super conductor. Time will tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
> Outside of healthcare if you see something broken then you can just fix it, maybe rope in your manager.

Your manager who then proceeds to ignore the request for improvement in favor of adding telemetry, dark patterns and advertising.
You should try it southern or soul food style similar to how collard greens are cooked. It’s cooked along with meat and a bunch of seasonings. Definitely a different flavor. But also less healthful.
I rent a dedicated server on Hetzner with additional storage volumes and back it up to Tarsnap (with other files).
I think it's more about an arbitrary decision causing extra work and costs to a business owner who isn't being compensated for it.

and that's not including the lost sales expected during the first few weeks of a new location. Or the "new" sales they'd obviously get if not being relocated.
You make it sound like it's two separate buckets. The world and India can, strike that, have to work together. As an Indian myself, I will accept any help I get to fight rightwing bigotry. And I will help fight rightwing bigotry elsewhere.

People need to stop thinking as if borders are natural phenomenon.
Which theme are you using on Hugo?
So Wikipedia asks me for donations but does company off-sites in Switzerland with Google?
>eople on the right have their own infuriating comments they make, I would hazard a guess you may not notice them because they aren't directed at you.

Based purely on forum internet discourse: when talking about "micro discussions" (a kind term for "flame war between 2-3 people that go on for dozens of comments), the most negative Left-leaning language tends to be "personal", while the most negative Right-leaning language tends to be "internal". That is to say, in very wide swaths it seems like left leaning people tend to argue in a way that attacks the character "you're being X, you lack a soul if you don't Y", etc.), while a right leaning person tends to argue from a place of authority ("I'm right", "this is the truth", "Everyone knows X"). This can mean that a right leaning person at worst can feel like a prick. But a left leaning person can feel like a nag.

It's the difference between walking past the oddly loud fellow on the street vs. walking away from the person poking you. The latter will probably stick with you longer because while the poker may have done less damage overall, they were clearly targeting you. While the loud person wasn't targeting anyone in particular, it may not have even looked in your direction.
Very useful!

I started using chatgpt to come up with ffmpeg commands, just so much faster and easier to find what I need.

I made a small tool so I can do it right in the cli: https://github.com/alexkrkn/help-cli

and made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOda6TDBqcY
Admittedly I don't know Groovy well and I'm a bit biased due to bad experiences with Gradle builds and Jenkinsfiles.

But if you're most comfortable with the JDK, Scala 3 with the Scala CLI provides an unmatched developer experience for small scripts and command line tools. And the output can be self-contained JAR, a GraalVM native image, or even a Scala Native binary if you use compatible libraries.
I hope we collectively figure out that "this idea is exclusively mine" for however long I can keep it secret or get my 'patent rights' enforced is an obsolete idea.

exclusive property over ideas is an old practice that needs to stay back in the 20th century, where it was useful and when the technology was not just here yet

can we have a 21st century digital renaissance yet?
State capitalism exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
Pretty much anything that makes your muscles feel sore and doesn't cause injury is worth doing.

IMO: most of what makes fit people fit is becoming aware of their body in detail: how to use muscles, how they work, what they feel like, what they should feel like when they're working together -- all of this builds a foundation where, if they lost their fitness, they would just get it back again.

So if you don't know what you're doing: just learn by doing. Pick something that it seems like your body should be able to do easily, but can't, and fix it. Repeat x100 and you'll be fit as hell.
WH: Humor Should Be Removed
As it was explained to me, flouride will work in repairing microscopic areas of decay so long as the surfaces of your teeth are ultra clean.

My dentist insists that I see the hygienist every 3 months for descaling, cleaning and basic checks.

For the cynics, the cost of this is negligible and I have not needed a filling or any other costly procedure for over a decade.
H100 GPU Instance Pricing on AWS: Grin and Bear IT
Thank you. I fully agree with what you are saying, but for some reason from your first post I came out with the opposite understanding.

> Imagine further that your Uber driver can't afford private tutors or private school

That's not hard to imagine. In fact I'm almost sure that indeed he can't afford private tutors (he told me he has 3 sons). As for private school, he even told me what school his eldest son was going to; it was a public one. I just googled it now, and US News ranks it as #1 among NYC's public middle schools [1]. I'd take that ranking with a solid grain of salt, but still, it's probably a very good middle school.

Now, here's the funny thing: 3 years ago, when his son moved from elementary to middle school, there were still selective public middle schools in NYC. Just one year later all selection was changed to lottery based. In the name of equity.

Thanks for your recommendation downthread for "Race to the bottom". I'll read it.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/ps-122-mamie-f...
Fascinating. There is a famous course at Michigan Law called Bloodfeuds, which takes a scholarly view of the old Icelandic laws of revenge as told through the sagas. The point of the class is that some of the customs and traditions seem unusual, until you begin to consider the cultural / environmental conditions.

Similarly with dueling. In an honor culture where litigation isn't viable recourse to an offense, what's the best manner of resolving disputes? The formality of dueling as we see from the rules probably provided a much-needed measure of social control over private violence.

Compare that to the situation today, where the state has the true monopoly on legal violence. Private disputes that escalate to killing tend to be unordered affairs that lead either to continuing down spirals of violence or to wounding or deaths of innocents.

Personally, I think violence is inherent in human nature and one of the blessings of society is that we regulate and control it. We have violent outlets in sport and increasingly video games etc., but I also think we should consider whether some manner of "dueling" should be implemented. Obviously I would propose something nonlethal, like boxing. Something similar to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takanakuy
Just as a personal opinion: I hate the way kale tastes. I also hate coffee. I love broccoli and tons of other greens. I love tea.

The only way I enjoy kale is having it as garnish that gets tossed away.

my better half loves steamed kale. no amount of salts and seasonings has changed my mind. cheese and salt/pepper took me from a broccoli hater into a broccoli lover lol.

but I digress.
Strength training is so good for desk jobbers! I recommend joining some small group circuit training or CrossFit groups, where the trainers will show you how to lift correctly and safely.
You miss the point. Critical theory doesn't seek to explain anything. It simply seeks to answer the question: "What if things were different?" In doing so, one is more able to see what the established power structures are, and to challenge those selfsame power structures.
Which tools to use for a MedTech based hardware startup?
We just founded a company that sells a hardware device in the medtech sector. Analyzing our future processes and departments we are thinking of which tools these need. The selling of the device will partially happen on shopify. I am just so confused, cause the tools overlap each other so much and it will become a huge cost factor when we grow. Should we just start with Excel lists for orders and sales and later move to more sophisticated tools once we know more about how the business is run, or do you have your go to tools that you set up whenever you start a new company?

Thanks!
> I can't believe that the most important discovery of my lifetime is surrounded by this cloud of uncertainty.

The 1989 cold fusion situation was already mentioned so I point towards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu... instead.

Even the brightest scientists have egos (maybe even more than the average person) and the prospect of fame and money has clouded the mind of many persons before.
It’s Only a Model
How did this go to the top vote?
Brings nothing about the article just dubious personal long covid claims.

HN please stop upvoting this nonsense. Already the second and third answers are HN quality.

This is r/covid commentary. Does not belong here.
Can we change the way we treat schizophrenia?
_Corporate_ media is 50% workers? What are You going on about?..
>” He discouraged drinking, gambling, Catholicism, yuca flour and … cows.

“The crudest machine in the world,” Ford called the animal. At the maternity ward, infants would be given soy milk.”

I like all those things.
Soy milk for babies fits in perfectly in this dystopian settlement.
You missed the second part of that definition. Both parts must be satisfied. Workers do not control any public companies that I am familiar with.
I don't think we can say that's true. There is some evidence that there is no association between body mass and age on cancer development in mammals.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04224-5
Doctors need the best tools.

But their software is insane.

Doctors have a stressful job.

But my friend the ER surgeon works 24 hour shifts.

Sleep is the best healer.

But it's impossible to sleep in the hospital.

There's a terrible malfunction here.
> Why did geniuses during these periods exercise so much cultural force?

because of "historical leverage". the same basic idea as a lever but instead of 'amplifying' over space, it does so over time.
I believe I read some article how in Switzerland, a particularly insufferable woman applied for citizenship and the people voted no.

I have no ax to grind in this story, I just thought it was pertinent given your questions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/sw...
I'd really love Emacs to have native JPEG XL support. For I use Emacs as a pictures viewer and the only thing preventing me from converting all my family pictures from JPEG to JPEG XL (it's a 22% saving which results in JPEG XL files that can be converted back, bit-for-bit, to the original JPEG file) is the lack of Emacs support for JPEG XL.

Does anyone know if it's coming? Anything in the JPEG XL or JPEG XL libs license that makes it a problem to incorporate in Emacs?
This is the nutrition intuition equivalent of someone wearing a continuous glucose monitor and thinking that any time it goes up, it's a horrible thing that must be minimized, even when they're eating a round meal of broccoli, quinoa, and tofu.
Fingers crossed that it can actually be replicated in future studies and research. We definitely don't want another nearly 20 years of false path ass busting research based on falsified documentation like we ended up with on Alzheimer studies.
I've found that going to the gym and lifting weights will clear my head. That wasn't necessary pre-covid though.
Make sure it's vitamin K2 and not K1.

Vitamin K2 is what essentially takes calcium out of your blood and puts it in your bones (and teeth). It's something that's rather lacking in western diets and could be a big reason why people in western countries suffer so many bones injuries in old age (and why our teeth suck).
A few remarks/questions:

1) Most modern superconductors have a high critical temperature but at a huge pressure. I can't find that detail. Is this at ambient pressure?

2) It looks like they are using a different material. What is the chemical formula?

3) The patent office don't check that the material works. They only see the paperwork. It's not necessary to give them a sample, or have the data accepted in a peer review journal, or even a working prototype. So this may been "vaporware". Is there more data available?
Ask HN: Are you part of an open source community as a committer?
Which one?

Why do you do it?

How much time do you spend on it?

What is the community like?

Does it give you a sense of belonging professionally?
Doom Emacs loads very fast so theoretically it's possible to configure Emacs to be fast too (mine starts in a second, cold start is a little slower).

But I think most people don't care about it enough because they either never close Emacs and/or use it in server-mode where emacsclient is pretty much instantaneous. Can I ask why you don't like doing that?
It's a surprising helpful tool in Pokemon Go metagaming. For example, you can use it to determine gyms eligible for EX Raid status (not that that's a thing anymore), find potential micro-nests, or even locate Lake Trio spawn locations.
.... and the potential spammer can use a LLM to pass the quiz
Reminds me of a friend who was invited to appear on Bill O'Reilly's Fox show as a subject matter expert, and told how O'Reilly asked him which side of the "debate" he wanted to take. Kinda funny given how many O'Reilly fans thought he believed in what he was saying!
I could see an AI based system ultimately winning this battle. Instead of everything needing to be human-input and human-crafted, the AI would be the "trusted mediator" of the system. It would be a front end to something like Epic, but the way it would work with the data would only be seen by it, not people.

The programmers and IT people would tune the AI but you could almost think of it as an "expert" in the Epic-like system.

It could be great! And then you run through the possiblity space and see how AI will destroy us, because once it works great, we'd start to rely on it and there would be no going back. We wouldn't even be capable of working with the lower layers.
They have even started an Android port. It's on F-Droid already - though it's not very usable yet.
Is this with or without Treesitter?
In the same boat. Still like it a lot, but I started using VS Code for serious coding. But unpopular opinion here. So expect to get downvoted a lot.

Edit:

The unpopular opinion is to say that one has stopped tinkering with Emacs for hours and started using a tool like VS Code or intelliJ to do actual coding work.
Folks went in front of Congress and swore there was no political pressure to censor. Either the perjury wasn't a big deal; or they were well motivated to do so.
>in spite of Stalin having a similar body count

Not even close. In the XX century Mao leads generously, followed by Stalin and Hitler is the distant 3rd.
I haven’t followed the legal contours of this case very closely so perhaps these are not interesting questions.

Who would go to jail if _no_ driver was in the car?

From what I recall, the vehicle was a Volvo and its pedestrian detection and emergency braking system was defeated by the test equipment. Is there any culpability there?

Or what about the person who planned and initiated the driving route that night, in the dark through a populated area. Are they responsible to a degree?

It doesn’t sound like the backup “driver” was engaging in engineering or testing activities, and certainly not driving, but instead was paid to be doing what a passenger might do if they thought someone else was driving.

What the driver is legally responsible for may be different from what they believed they were doing. At least, that would me my defense in the situation.
It's still there in some places...try <WindowsKey>+r then run odbcad32.exe

Click the "System DSN" tab, then "Add", Double-click the top entry ("Driver Da Microsoft..."), uncheck "Use Current Directory", then click the "Select Directory" button.

Also try the "help" button.
A wise person would turn up the consumption and pull all stops in order to clock the quality of life aNd experiences that one imagined to accumulate in 70 years in 30 instead .

Even if the world was about to be destroyed by fossil fuel consumption (which isn’t the case) you’d need 8bn people to get onboard with the plan, which is impossible especially given that 4bn live on a day-day basis
Can you actually give examples of competent public spending? The military is considered one of the competent parts of the US government and the amount of waste is staggering.

On any given night 4000 people are sleeping on San Francisco's streets and the government can't solve that with a $636 million a year budget?

The US spends more per student than any other nation and somehow we have worse educational outcomes?
Citi Bike Gets People Out of Cars and Now That's Bad for Citi Bike
And yet the volume of replies, advice, and questions, against this suggests it's brought enjoyable conversation. On-topic is shades of grey.
Thanks for the information. Upon closer inspection the authors of the link are a nutritionist and an osteopath, so yeah, not quite as reliable as I thought at first.
Oh, Iosevka is one of my favourite fonts, thanks!
Ah, I remember those days. Around that era, dragging windows around the screen was switching from "draw outline" to "draw the actual window".
Well, yeah. Wal-Mart was the first wave, to destroy local, small, and boutique stores: in favor of crap chinesium that is sold 'slightly cheaper'.

Amazon moved in, used the agreements with USPS and China to cheaply (read nearly 100% subsidized) agreements to bring dangerous shit. But hey, with Scamazon Prime, it's 'free shipping' (somehow free and $140/yr are the same thing).

A package hub would be better. When I can order things to the store, is a lot easier and also has better security than "on front door". But people demand convenience.

And naturally there's the climate devastation these millions of miles driven to deliver shit. And that's also exacerbating the workers with trucks that had intentionally ripped the AC system out.

But the ones making decisions aren't for doing the good and smart thing. They're just for doing the profitable thing.
Exactly. I have been using git for my .emacs files and there is little I really miss from Emacs for editing files and even quite a lot of coding.
It's all marketing at the end of the day.

But tbf, after a decade of a many public sector projects, I have first-hand seen really incompetent and wasteful actions on huge scales. Perhaps there should he a whistle blower program for reporting such things?
But the physical screen is a different screen so any such data is totally wrong.
There is a silver lining, all that money went back into the economy somehow. It might have been worse if it had just sat in a bank.
In short, CitiBike is so successful in New York City that Lyft, which bought it five years ago, believes it's cannibalizing its car-based ridesharing ("a distraction from the company’s core business") and now wants to sell it.
You're thinking of GTA Online, from a quick DDG search: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
If we have rogue Discord employees accessing all server logs to steal nudes, why is IRC not suspectible to the same problem?
Desktop became slow when windows and widgets became objects, as in the OOP sense.
The transition from hardcoded primitives to objects that would be created and destroyed on the fly slowed things down a lot, but that is the price to pay to have code that runs on very different platforms, also adapting itself to different screen sizes and resolutions, dynamic objects, etc.
Eventually we will reach a point where humans are immortal. They’ll still die if they’re shot or clog their arteries etc but they won’t die purely based on running down a clock.

There’s no inherent reason we have to die. It’s an evolved strategy to allow newer models to replace us. Turn that off and you’d stay around until physical damage and irreparable decay takes you out.

It will be interesting from a societal standpoint. You’ll have the real scum people wanting free immortality and people arguing they should get it even though they’re horrible. You’ll have the rich people who want to keep it to themselves because the poor don’t deserve it. Things like prison sentences and the general value of time would all be messed up.
How about if public software had an atomic structure, and required open source, with copyright owned by the public entity? Having smaller suppliers make changes to one area would then be possible, there would be a little less lock-in, perhaps?
Hard to believe that a few system crashes per day was the norm. You just hoped you hadn’t lost too much, would re-boot and go get a drink while you waited.

Due to that “training” I still hit CTRL-S obsessively even when it hasn’t been needed for years.