skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vulkan-Hpp has a module interface file[1] that just exports a bunch of `using` declarations. The speedup is significant, because the Vulkan-Hpp headers are immense: `vulkan_structs.hpp`[2] is 116000+ lines on its own.

With the module, the giant list of names is compiled once into a large file, and then imported into consumers as necessary.

[1]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Headers/blob/main/inc...

[2]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Headers/blob/main/inc...
There’s not a functional between Google and USG. They act as two branches of the same unit.
I was two rooms away from someone playing music on a smart Google device. I could very barely hear that music was playing at all and only just barely made out it was a song I had been interested in but kept missing. I pulled out my S22+ and used Shazam. somehow it was able to pick it up easily.
Background article, from a week ago when this property was up for sale: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/30/step-to-rich...
>When people switch, they realize they've been taking something that wasn't theirs in the first place.

If you're making a reference to the life of the farm animal: that's an entirely different argument.

Right now we're debating whether natural habitats can be protected while current consumption patterns are maintained and ramped up.

>High consumption != more enjoyable lives

1. High consumption means less death. Per capita production/consumption is strongly correlated with life expectancy.

2. People consistently choose high consumption when given a choice, so even if you want to use a definitin of happiness that is not aligned with the way of life people choose, the fact remains that high consumption is the preferred way of life, as expressed by people's choices.

>High levels of production = more destruction (mining), more pollution (almost always), more exploitation

There is asteroid mining and recycling as alternatives to mining the Earth's crust. The damage of mining can also be reduced with precision techniques and through rehabilitation of old mines.

Another possibility is to compensate for the damage done by a mine by artificially enhancing other habitats to make them more vital, e.g. use some of the revenue generated by a mine to create an artificial lake to create more wetlands, to make up for the environmental damage done by the mine.

>Degrowth, basic income, free housing & healthcare. Problem solved.

The world doesn't produce enough to provide every one with a basic income that provides a high quality of life and good housing.

We need far more production for that. And you can see that for yourself by just looking at the global per capita GDP and seeing that it's ~$18,000, and then looking up to see what goods/services that level of income can afford each person.

And innovation to invent new healthcare technologies that can end the scourge of cancer, heart disease and other major illness is proportional to the productivity of human civilization.

Raising productivity is a moral imperative. The degrowth ideological narrative is utterly baseless in its economic rationale.
It's a "disused stairwell," so presumably, the building it serviced has a different stairwell now.

More about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/30/step-to-rich...
In New Zealand our eggs come in trays made of pulped newspaper.
Here's a link to a photo: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/2d/25/d12d25728bff56b50396...
I've seen people cover their walls with such egg trays, which they said helped a lot.
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Update (added for ref from comment):

Sharing some of the businesses who are thriving via our platform:

- Restaurant: https://qocial.com/business/teacious/table-booking

- Another Restaurant -https://qocial.com/business/teaandtaste/menu

- Shopkeeper: https://qocial.com/business/royalhandloomhouse/menu

- Grocery Store - https://qocial.com/business/panditjigeneralstore/shop
Fascinating. I've never heard anyone say "Bic biro" but I don't doubt it's in usage somewhere.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010726224437if_/http://www.tex...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...

Some years ago I was going through some old laptops, older than many HN readers and commenters no doubt, and these were loaded with old versions of Windows. I decided to see if I could use one by remotely controlling it from a more powerful computer running UNIX-like OS over the local network. It seemed all the popular "remote desktop" software used to do this with these old versions of Windows is long forgotten and difficult to find. "Unsupported", "deprecated", not "modern", yada, yada. So I got a copy of Back Orifice, which is still easy to find, and it worked like a charm. Small, easy to use. Does what it's supposed to do and not much else.

This reminded me just how bad software today has become, even worse than it was, and how Microsoft and its partners rely on planned obsolesence and turn perfectly usable computers into e-waste. Windows XP, everyone must stop using it offline because MS wants it to disappear. (As if Microsoft can control what software people choose to run on their computers.) Connect to the internet 24/7 and use "Windows 11" instead. Don't worry, MS has got people covered with its "automatic updates". Command and control from Redmond.

This is why I use NetBSD and Linux distributions. The latest release runs fine on all those old laptops. That's what "backwards compatibility" means to me.
Maybe because it's easier said in an HN comment than in real life
> Don't expect it to make sense.

It only makes sense if you know how the word entered the english language. Face and celery comes from french which pronounces these words with a soft c. So we pronounce it with a soft c. Coupe comes from french which pronounces it with a hard c. Hence why we pronounce coupe with a hard c. The 'strange' spelling and pronunciation of words with c is a result of loan words from many languages ( french, latin, german, spanish, etc ).
Lots of remastered versions of the TV series on that channel as well!
Would be better if browsers adjusted so as to deliberately break React and its brethren instead instead of fixing the mess they made. The web used to work great, now look at what it's become. People can't even put a link in the document properly.
gq after you created the visual line selection.
It's a more abstract kind of dimension. The vector is only one dimensional because it has a factor of one unit vector (only one associated "direction". A Bivector has two factors of unit vectors to describe a 2 dimensional region.

That's independent of the dimension of the space it's embedded in. So you can have a one dimensional vector in 2space, 3space, nspace etc. But it only ever describes one direction, an oriented line.
C++ can take solace in knowing that Rust compilation is even slower.
Very sad to hear. I interacted with him only a couple of times, but each time I came away with a very good impression of the man. And, of course, I'm very thankful for the editor he created that I've been using daily for over a decade now. He will be missed by many, and I'm sure intensely by some. Rest in peace, Bram.
> I know many who have obtained their permanent residency after a few years.

they are the lucky few. It's a lottery system basically.
It's great to hear such a great historical account from maddog. I was working at the LTC when maddog made one of his trips to Austin that he talked about in the article, so I had the pleasure of chatting with him over lunch. This was somewhere around 20 years ago.

It's always fascinating to hear what a septuagenarian considers to be the "inflection points" of their career. It's especially striking how my own inflection points interweave with theirs. I was right in the middle of the SCO bullshit, but I'm not sure I'm allowed to talk about some of it. Maybe enough corporate lawyers have retired and/or died by now that I can finally say what I want anyway. If I can find the motivation.

I'm glad maddog is still sharing his story, as I find as I get older that I care less and less about sharing anything with anyone on the Internet. Any conversation of any significance to me tends to happen face-to-face these days, so it hardly seems worth it to share or engage with anyone I don't know personally.
> There will always be piracy, but that doesn't impact the creator because people who like a work want to support the creator if they can afford to. Fear of piracy comes from insecure creators, and that insecurity comes from the lack of skill or perceived lack of skill.

That leads to a reality where creators earn money from charity based on celebrity status, instead of from a trade of goods. A reality where every creator needs to be a celebrity to make ends meet is a horrifying one.
Better than the perverse incentive to encourage population growth and hold quality of living down.
> Degrowth, basic income

Those (if you want the latter at a survivable level, without some kind of coercion for the able to work with UBI removing the normal financial coercion of capitalist economy) are mutually incompatible.

If you want a viable strong safety net, especially with UBI, you can’t have degrowth.
It looks like they accidentally published (and yanked) Python bindings to PyPI early today, which provides some clues:

https://pypi.org/project/veilid/0.1.7/ https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/66/ee/aa2a9319303626...
This is pathetic. The right handle and recognition could literally be tied to someone's wellbeing at this point. Not to mention world leaders who use their "X" handle to announce stuff - while always could have been stolen by Twitter, there was an expectation the company wouldn't do things like that.

Now there's this unstable billionaire troll who makes decisions on a whim and is hellbent on destroying the platform. This is just another example of "untrustworthy" behavior that makes no sense to tolerate from this type of platform.
One of the ways I identify many young Brits, is their insistence on saying “I was sat there” instead of “I was sitting there”. Or, “He was stood there” instead of “He was standing there”. Perhaps the high proportion of incorrect traditional grammar is a new generations need to sound more “street”?
Elon Musk promises to pay legal bills for anyone fired based on Tweets
I think the logic is a bit skewed from another angle. How much of the goods used in the UK are produced in China? If so, surely we should reallocate and attribute the CO2 in that production and distribution chain to the UK? If widget X is going to be produced somewhere and consumed in the UK, why does the producer get the attribution? It could just as well been produced in the UK - supply is just reacting to demand, and CO2 is a demand problem. (Not entirely true as production in one locale is likely cleaner than another due to regulation and environmental consciousness, but I think my reattribution model is closer than what we do today).

Re: well being, I think it’s a losing argument. Efficiency and better technologies are more likely to happen than mass enlightenment. I think it depends on what you mean by well being. I suspect people are generally happier for the progress that’s been made in reducing extreme poverty globally, which couldn’t have happened without a cheap and efficient portable energy source like oil. If you’re only measuring western upper middle class educated folks, I’ll wager their well being is worse. But I think you can’t separate the two - the lifting of billions out of extreme poverty and the enshittification of middle class life in the west. But whether you can or not, oil bootstrapped us to this point. But I think we’re demonstrably past bootstrapping and we absolutely must do something different.
I've never considered how odd clicker is for remote but it feels totally natural to me. Like something my parents or grandparents would say. Never thought about where it came from.
Some of the things on this list I've never encountered and seem a little like fluff for the post (not being able to copy stuff? hijacking regularly used keystrokes? how often is that happening to you, really?).

Navigation/history tracking is an ongoing battle within SPAs. Not rocket science but if not part of initial planning definitely becomes a problem to implement after-the-fact. Agreed this is something to work on across the web.

But I will take the scrollbar thing into consideration in my next site. I am very guilty of this.
Sharing some of the businesses who are thriving via our platform:

- Restaurant: https://qocial.com/business/teacious/table-booking

- Another Restaurant -https://qocial.com/business/teaandtaste/menu

- Shopkeeper: https://qocial.com/business/royalhandloomhouse/menu

- Grocery Store - https://qocial.com/business/panditjigeneralstore/shop

They are all growing their business via our SuperApp marketplace
Yes, but while it takes years to work these cases through the courts USG can continue rights infringement with no consequences for its staff. And once the court cases rule against USG, it can either ignore the case or find new workarounds. 1A only works with popular support that it doesn’t have, most people only support free as in beer.
In Cutter[1][2] we have an idea to implement the same feature[3] as a plugin, but our priorities lie elsewhere due to the lack of enough hands. Contributions are welcome.

[1] https://cutter.re

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter

[3] https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter-plugins/issues/3
I watched a bunch of these on YouTube. Tim has added commentary at the end of each one. They’re pretty fun even if some of the devices are kinda obsolete (fax machines, vcrs ...)

But I appreciate the explanations and demos which are fun.

Secret love of machines YouTube playlist:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29s3...
In northern Europe, a backlash against English is under way
The Universe Coaster [video]
To add a bit of delicious irony, a Twitter engineer who was fired[0] after disputing one of Elon Musk's claims on Twitter has responded: https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/16880498786379898...

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2022/11/14/musk-fi...
I really don't think you owe anything to your business partner when you pass. Your family is what you should be worried about.

Pay off any non-mortgage debt, build a healthy 6 month emergency fund, and get a term life insurance policy for 10x your current salary -- then you should feel pretty good when you go to sleep at night.
Hello HN,

I'm the author of this post, and I hope you enjoyed reading it.

I wanted to share this one-liner for fun:
:%s/\w\+/\=submatch(0)+1/g | echo line('$')

Although I know there are more efficient ways to count words in a file using Vim, I wanted to be a little creative.

Lastly, I want to express my deep sadness over the passing of Bram Moolenaar. He created an extraordinary text editor that had a profound impact.

Rest in Peace Bram Moolenaar
This is incorrect. Sharing source, you receive from Red Hat as part of your Subscription, is not limited by our Subscription Agreements and there is no penalty for sharing it. See Section 1.4 here.

https://www.redhat.com/licenses/Appendix-1-Global-English-20...

Specifically,

This Agreement establishes the rights and obligations associated with Subscription Services and is not intended to limit your rights to software code under the terms of an open source license.
...wait, are you telling me Konami shuffling the touch input for e-Amusement PINs[0] was a good idea!?

[0] Okay... deep breath

Konami is a pachinko manufacturer with a side hustle making rhythm games for Japanese arcades. They have an online service that all their games connect to called e-Amusement. You can log into it using an e-Amusement Pass card, and your card is locked to a PIN number you have to set up when you first use it. Cabinets with touchscreens give you a touch keypad, except all the digits are shuffled around, which is a total pain in the ass and you have to do this for every credit.
What does it really do? In the image it showed some glowing streaks - are those jpeg data?
Only a glimpse, but Python bindings: https://pypi.org/project/veilid/0.1.7/ https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/66/ee/aa2a9319303626...
Browsers are perfectly capable of prefetching pages on their own.
> the new revolutionary battery (that we will never hear about again

Which is a cute thing to say if you're totally ignorant of the substantial progress being made, in fundamental research and manufacturing methods, of batteries and energy storage systems every week.
Study claims nearsightedness can be prevented by display-altering software
This study said that "a new non-invasive strategy to inhibit early myopia development: keeping the red image plane on a computer screen sharp but low pass filtering the blue" was found to be successful.

More details at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26323-7

I'd be hard-pressed to find a program that does this, though. Anyone have any suggestions? Otherwise, it'd be pretty cool if someone made it. Would be pretty useful.
Newton didn't need to have an understanding of these solutions to foresee the problem. If you don't specifically state that force is a cause for leaving the state of rest, it's relatively straightforward to foresee issues where someone would assume the trajectory first and then imply a scheme for force that leads to unprompted movement, which is something that he definitely wanted to avoid. I also don't think he would have kept the first law if he understood it to be completely redundant and useless as it's entirely contained by the second law. I think it was very deliberately there to introduce force as causative to acceleration and not the opposite.
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It would be nice if the JavaScript APIs made it easier to do that. Like, obviously you can wrap an element in a <a> tag, but its just enough of a hassle that people don't. Seems like a good API could fix a lot of sites
Is "modern" now deprecated, and "new age" the replacement term?
Haha, alright.
I just reply with nohello.net
Then you may be underestimating accessibility guidelines or overestimating LLMs. The problem with inaccessible web applications is precisely that they cannot be interpreted programmatically, which would inhibit AI from performing this interpretation. An inaccessible website would be equivalent to a low quality prompt for an LLM.
It should be safe if there is a clearly marked exit route, fire doors every seven steps, and a fire escape ladder.
South Africa's solar panel imports hit new record
I feel like this is the interesting bit:

It will be the largest geospatial foundation model on Hugging Face and the first-ever open-source AI foundation model built in collaboration with NASA.

Perhaps it’s a sad statement that this is the largest GIS model on HF etc, but at least it’s out there. I would love to see more and better and larger and less entangled with IBM or other megacorps out there.
Eh, in Italy an inability to correctly pronounce the R letter is normally associated with "rich asshole".
Hacker: tedunangst, what’s your email? Wanna invite you to that thing!

Hacker: man, I hate typing passwords. Do you use password managers? Any reccos?

…
I am become hacker, destroyer of tedunangst’s bank account.
The blockchain is a database that's better than a classical centralized database for an application where data accessibility, integrity and transparency are of paramount importance.
I don't like being asked how I'm going by a cashier either, because its just insincere stupid social norms.

If you have a question, just ask. If you have a genuine interest in my wellbeing you will ask something more specific than "how are you?".
Thank god I've been privileged to not be forced into using commercial RTOSes
There's a set of events for mobile too, e.g. long-press should pop up menu
There is no time when the particle is accelerating, or even moving, while not experiencing a net force in this setup. The argument you'd have to make would be to change Newtonian mechanics so the first law is no longer a special case of the second law, but actually says something nontrivial about all of the time-derivatives of position rather than just the first two. This (in my opinion) would no longer be Newtonian mechanics, but some extention.

Even then I'm not sure that would save you in general, since it should be possible to cook up examples where the motion is some non-analytic thing like a portion of a "bump function".

Edit: by the way, a more modern formulation of the first law is essentially that there are no privileged inertial frames. All inertial frames are equally valid. This is straight-up false in this setup since obviously the rest frame of the dome is privileged (since the dome is given infinite inertial mass).