skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40 mins to make a 5 min drive sounds terrible. What does rural mean to you? The United States is huge, and if you are in Europe, you probably weren't all that far from a city (making public transit feasible).

Also cars are fun, maybe not in hypercities like New York, but in places where you can get to a moving road, it's fun the drive.
Well you can't make all the right moves in history :) At least they got mercantilism right and built an effective navy to practically rule the world not so long ago.
I wouldn't go that far. A lot of games have drudgery built in which isn't exciting past the first few times you've played it and rare bouts of willingness to do it again.

I would position part of what made Diablo 2 (not remake) last so long was bots on the ladder and the shops that provided the bots; no one "new" was playing the game at that time and everyone had "fair cheats" for rushing through the first two game modes [0] [1], and everyone had been using the "fair cheats" for years since they had been discovered. But the fair cheats needed other players to pull off, and this wasn't always reliable.

When the D2 shop farmers started botting, they realized it would be great advertisements to do specific types of common runs for leveling with the bots; the bots would grab any item worth value, but typically they just would repeatedly run common leveling/item farming areas on a predictable and guided schedule, dropping quick announcements about the shop in chat periodically (maybe several times per run which is usually around 5-15 minutes, and it was just a quick stylized message in the game chat.) There were enough bots that it wasn't flooding the available games to join, but you could almost always find a bot game to join and just follow until you were leveled.

Most players did this to get through Normal mode and often nightmare, as everyone just wanted to get a character ready for late Nightmare/Hell which is when the game is "fun" (better drops, more difficult monsters to fight, it was the point at which the game gets interesting in general for most players)

Without the bots and players "cheating" through the first 2 game modes, I'm not as confident people would have keep playing as long as they did. It wasn't "unfair" in my opinion as everyone had always wanted this, and it had automated what everyone was already doing; I'm not sure I see the difference between using AHK like the GP did and having a setup like what D2 had

0 - For the unfamiliar, Diablo 2 had three modes: Normal, Nightmare, and Hell; same game each time, but item drops are better and monster levels are changed to be more difficult, with monsters getting better attributes that made them more difficult. I am going to make a generalized statement that for most players, the game really begins at Nightmare if it's not one of your first few times playing the game

1 - By "fair cheats" I mean the game was exploited to ensure fast leveling without a lot of effort and also ways of bypassing the "boring" parts of the game that the game allowed, but likely not intentionally. Blizzard definitely couldn't solve this in game without substantial reworks, which they probably didn't want to do
Yes. But that means mobilizing resources BEFORE a state of emergency exists.
Total revenue: 2.679bb
Gross profit: 2.573bb

(page 18, FY2023)

96% gross profit margin? Ahh to be an IP licensing company....why would anyone invest in building physical things when there are opportunities like this out there! 


edit: clarify gross profit margin
Yeah, but it's enforced to run stock firmware in other ways. SafetyNet for once.

Having mechanisms like this in place unfortunately makes it easier for others to abuse them for DRM.
BA.2.86 suggests that a floating point Co(vid)-Processor BA.2.87 is just around the corner.
This isn’t accurate because the deaths include pedestrians (which could be someone outside of your neighborhood of 75)
If you're like me and had 0 idea what Darling is a few paragraphs in:

Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux

Wine lets you run Windows software on Linux, and Darling does the same for macOS software.

[...] we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications.
I think that robot cars are likely the end of cars. They will lure people off of public transportation, especially those that don't have the up-front capital / borrowing ability to buy their own car, but whose commute times can be improved by driving. This will lead to a lot of congestion. And then congestion ruins it for everyone, humans and AIs alike. (Congestion is already what enables public transportation. No commuter rail system can compete with the speeds of a car on the freeway at 3am. But, people start work at 8am, and EVERYTHING competes with the speed of a car at 8am.)

Eventually people will say "you know what, I guess I'll just live closer to work". Congratulations, you just invented cities. With land being used for humans and not automobile storage, mass transit becomes more viable. Thus, the car's death warrant is signed.
Let's take a survey and ask people what "DRM" stands for.

I would bet a decent amount of money that the copyguarding one wins out over the rendering-manager one.
Course? Take finasteride or shave it. Whatever you do don't cling onto it.
Scoping is essential for general purpose programming, so it is usually fused into the syntax of any GP language in a form of {…} or begin/do…end. Python is one of the languages which try to remove this character and keyword noise based on observation that to see scoping people usually correctly indent their scopes, so python makes indent itself important.

I can recommend using Notepad2 if you want to use GP languages but don’t want to use an IDE (which is understandable as it brings a cognitive overload when you learn). Notepad2 is a drop-in replacement for Notepad, but may be installed as a separate app. It’s not particularly for programming, but has related features that Notepad should have had for ages.
I'm not sure what that poster was referring to, however in my experience (as a brit), is that the UK is replacing any kind of industry into a service economy aka. people buying shit they don't need. You see this in a number of ways like the physical replacement of industrial areas into shopping centres or the fact the UK can't manufacture rail locomotives - the place where they were invented...

Having said this, there is still a reasonable amount of industry in the UK, the UK is by far the best country in the EU to buy engineering supplies but I think this is a remnant of the past. Most of the major engineering companies in industrial estates are Asian or American owned, now.
> does anyone really believe anymore that it will be cheap, given how expensive ride share services are?

I used to own a car in SF, and I definitely spend way less money every month on Lyft + the occasional weekend Getaround than I did on insurance/gas/repairs/the occasional tow or parking ticket when I had my car (not even counting initial acquisition).

Obviously depends on a lot of factors, but it’s not that clear cut.
this WAS super useful! thank you so much. I would love to follow a running list of your recommendations for different age groups (if u maintain one).

One question - when u say "allow watching in foreign languages".do u mean watch in ur native non-english language...or any language where the kid cannot understand spoken and just sees the visuals ?
Back during my first trip to China, a bunch of retired military guys would hang out at subway stations offering rides from the station to your house for 5 jiao or one Kuai in a gas powered tuktuk. I imagine electric ride share bikes could do the same thing today if they weren’t being abused all the time.
One ship could always go nuclear, or use wind.
that's a good one

fyi, if you use the WinActive() or WinExist() functions you can combine different titles

If WinActive("Untitled - Notepad ahk_class Notepad") or WinActive("*Untitled - Notepad ahk_class Notepad")

maybe you don't have to put in the "ahk_class Notepad" bit, its been a while since i used ahk!
GeoWizard (a GeoGuessr expert YouTuber) dribbed a football the whole way in under 24 hours for charity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzNsfDwhZLM
Not only Microsoft, Powershell ideas can be traced back to Xerox PARC REPLs across Smalltalk, Interlisp-D and Mesa/Cedar, or the keyboard+mouse+REPL from Oberon.

Also some influences from AmigaDOS and IBM's REXX.
Because the UNIX terminal model is mostly "good enough" (and with a recent incarnation like zsh plus Fish-style autosuggestion-plugin the user experience is very different from a plain VT100 terminal from the 70's).

PowerShell isn't such a big revolution in user experience that it justifies switching IMHO (and FWIW I don't agree that objects are better than a plain text stream, at least not when the whole thing stops in the terminal - it would probably be different if every Windows application - including all UI applications - would expose their internals as "PowerShell-scriptable objects", then we could probably get an actual productivity jump by glueing small, specialised UI apps together - this was a central idea in the last days of the Amiga which didn't make the jump to other platforms before its demise).

Same for the concept of a hierarchical filesystem. Sure, there may be better ideas floating around, but when confronted with reality they are usually not so much better than the "good enough" status quo that current operating systems have arrived at.

TL;DR: long-term incremental progress usually beats revolutionary ideas that are poorly executed.
What is the hit rate for your app?

It feels like if someone is asking the question, the answer is probably yes.
What does it mean that Arm is headquartered in the UK, practically speaking? What kind of a change would need to happen for, say, the Austin office to become the headquarter?
I like the detail how the very same key (just mostly in combination with meta/windows key) is kinda idiomatic toggle for terminal, what most programmers "live in". I wonder if digital graphic artists happen to launch their scratchpads or paint programs in a similar manner.

Btw, for use-cases when you need to keep the "toggled" window opened and do not want to close, minimize or hide it or something and just need the fastest flip to, flip back to previous window "toggle", super useful but (for me) long time forgotten native Windows hotkey is *`Alt + Escape`* - it simply switches to previous focused window without even showing window overview (like Alt+Tab).

So AutoHotkey *v1* boilerplate for such switcher/launcher then could be something like:

; Toggle <...> window using Ctrl + Shift + Win + <key>
^+#<key>::
_bckTMM := A_TitleMatchMode
_bckDHW := A_DetectHiddenWindows
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
DetectHiddenWindows, On
ifWinExist, <... window title fragment>
{
ifWinActive
{
send, !{escape}
}
else
{
WinActivate
}
}
else
{
run, <... launcher>
}
DetectHiddenWindows, %_bckDHW%
SetTitleMatchMode, %_bckTMM%
return

Or if you do not want that window to clobber the taskbar, you can use `WinHide` instead of that Alt+Win `send, !{escape}` and add WinShow to WinActivate, but it does not work well with some kinds of windows. Also for window detection it may sometimes be more suitable to use `ahk_exe` or `ahk_class`.
I started using the samsung note series, now the "galaxy ultra" and their stylus and general performance satisfy my needs, I enjoy the DEX experience too, it's very nice with a docking station that gives you usb mouse/keyboard and hdmi output
ClickHouse has two modes of operation on S3:

1. S3 as main storage with a write-through cache.
2. S3 as a cold tier in tiered storage.

It works well because the data is organized by a set of immutable parts called MergeTree. These data parts are atomically created, merged, and deleted, but never modified.

S3 does not work well with random access... but neither it's needed.
And also who is in the channel (more generally, you can see the permission overrides on all channels)

It's been a long time since I did any Discord API work but I had assumed they would have fixed this by now. I realise it makes things simpler and more cacheable, but IMO it's a critical and inexcusable user privacy issue to have this behavior with no indication to ordinary users that their hidden channel is in fact quite visible to savvy users. This would be like Google Drive allowing anyone to query filenames (just not content) of private folders
That’s not done seriously by anyone and would end up a list instead of a hash function with O(n) vs O(1) asymptotic access.

(Preferred pronouns are completely valid in that if someone were to transition to the other gender, let’s respect that. Kitten, though, is no gender)
You might need to make dietary changes that facilitate changes in the brain more easily. I know choline helps with connections between neurons because brain fog from pregnancy, covid and chemotherapy is recoverable, and studies have shown that stumps are left on neurons where the connections will grow from again when enough choline is present. Thus memories can be regained, havent looked into whether it can help with new training though, but it might be a line of enquiry worth exploring.

Manganese helps maintain cartilage between bone and its something which we dont get alot of in our diet unless eating shellfish routinely, this can help prevent the need for neck vertebrae to be fused together which desk bound jobs can contribute to. The risk with manganese is it increases osteoporosis because bacteria love manganese, so a copper (slows bone turnover) or nickel increase would probably help there. Those with the highest nickel intake (from smoking or vegetarians) have the lowest incidence of osteoporosis, and a nickel and zinc increase will give the best bones because zinc increases osteoblasts (increases bone turnover) and beneficial bone turnover unlike phosphates which erode bones, see phossy jaw for example.

Taking beta alanine will also help mop up surplus manganese as it will be used in the MnSOD reactions, helping to keep it out of the hands of bacteria so to speak. Zinc starves some bacteria, but beta alanine also works with copper and zinc SOD's, thus helping to mop up any surplus.

You have little control where these metals go in the body, but too much calcium also alters the circulation of these metals in the body. The hard part is knowing what is the right amount in relation to with your existing diet.

Iron can also help relax muscles as can magnesium, which can reduce muscle tensions that cause back and neck pains.

I've tried unsuccessfully in the past being ambidextrous with the mouse but that was before I knew the above, so might give it a go in the future, but weight training will probably help rebalance the body and reset the muscle distribution and strength. I've even grown a callous where the pisiform bone in the hand is due to the amount of mouse work I've done on a computer, which was unexpected to say the least, and RSI in the wrists from typing at a keyboard is very real, with no solutions from doctors when seeking their advice, which is why I've looked into things like the above, myself.
That is not big either. Most people walking thesantiago de compostela pilgrimage route from the Spanish border, Madrid or Lisbon do walk much more.
I wonder... Could we sort of mix this self driving car technology with an app that does something like Uber pool and put it on buses?

I am not thinking going to a different state. I'm just thinking local public transit. If we have enough buses and assuming there is no rain or snow, passengers just punch in where they want to go and one of the buses takes them there? I feel like there is so much valuable data getting wasted because Uber and Lyft are private companies with no interest in improving public transit. However, I think this data from my hypothetical bus pool could be used to alter bus routes or even to come up with maybe potential metro lines?
Could use some porpoises too.
Pro-slavery take. Don’t see those around here so often.

I’m anti-slavery, myself. Even when the government decides the person did something wrong, not really in favor of it. Sometimes the government gets a bit fast and loose on what a crime is and who has committed them.
That's an incredibly ironic way to end this blog post.
> Are there use cases where we must burn propane because we can’t replace that process with electricity?

That's not relevant in the short term. There are so many things using propane right now and it's a lot easier send them "renewable propane" than to entirely retrofit them to be electric.
These efficiencies could be getting born out by the existing ride share apps but the promised efficiencies haven’t come to fruition at all yet. All subscription services like this have had high promises of cheaper and more economical service but they struggle to stay on par with legacy things they replace. Streaming services are rapidly approaching cable. Uber and Lyft are often more expensive than a yellow cab.

There will be a very, very long time before a $80,000 self driving car and all the technology and services to make it self driving and service it automatically can undersell a driver making $35/hr after expenses in a $10,000 car that she owns, or a driver for a fleet making $25/hr.
I like how upbeat and politically neutral the news headlines are. That's what truly makes it nostalgic, not the old css.
Sorry but we do have computers with 256 cores. I used to have this excuse back when processors only had 4 cores. When you consider that processors lower their turbo boost frequency as you use more cores and there is overhead from synchronization, your 4 core processor may only give you a 2x performance benefit at the expense of your code becoming difficult to reason about (depending on the problem at hand). Nowadays 8 core processors are quite cheap, below 200€. At 4x performance boost and easily 12x more if you are willing to spend the money, it is definitively worth it. The caveat of course is that there aren't actually that many programs that need the full power of your processor. The most common exception is a video game that was developed for a limited number of players or even single player but then the multiplayer version of the game becomes extremely popular and you get servers with 60 or even a hundred players, way beyond what the developers planned to support. Supporting multiple cores was not a priority and then very suddenly it becomes the biggest bottleneck.

The real problem we are facing is that our programming models aren't parallel by default.

>By Moore's Law, we could have had MIPS machines with 1000 cores around 2010, and 100,000 to 1 million cores today, for under $1000.

https://corescore.store/

You can have 10000 RISC-V cores on an FPGA but nobody cares. Why? Because even a bit serial processor (that means it processes one bit per clock cycle, or 32 clock cycles for a 32 bit addition) runs into memory bandwidth limitations very quickly if you have enough of them. Main memory is very slow compared to registers and caches. The only way to utilize this many cores is by having a workload that is entirely latency bound. Your memory access pattern is perfectly unpredictable. The moment you add caching, the number of cores you can have shrinks dramatically and companies like AMD are not slimming down their CPUs, they are adding more and more cache. Their highest end processors have almost a gigabyte of cache.
Can you elaborate? What data are they extracting?
I've got a similar setup on GNU Guix, though I'm still refactoring the code (for this and a billion other features) and figuring out how my /home is going to work. I've gone ahead and copied the important parts out here[1] in case anyone is interested, but it's not great code, hasn't been tested, and isn't complete. Could be backed by BTRFS with a few tweaks (in which case the missing kernel bits wouldn't need worried about), and you could make root a TMPFS by just setting the `#:volatile-root?` flag of the `initramfs` procedure (in which case you wouldn't need rollback in the initramfs at all, just mounts for persistent data).

1: https://www.illucid.net/static/unpublished/erasing-darlings-...

edit: oh, lol, didn't escape the heredoc at all, import zfs / other guile modules, or put parted in the shebang; ah well

that's what i mean by informational
Screen the water intakes before they reach the barrels?
https://pcpartpicker.com
They’re not for hobbyist. Wrong shelf. They’re for real products and not SBCs. That’s why you also don’t have NXP parts in the hobby area. For low volume you buy SOMs and for big runs design complete printed circuit boards.
Well, they are something they call 'pronouns'. Words shift in meaning.

Just like many people these days insist on using 'you' in the singular, even when perfectly adequate 'thou' already exists.
Ahh interesting, thanks! I am somewhat interested in Astrophotography though don’t get many chances to practice it as I live in London!
I agree. I don't think its possible to kill one's ego. And that one shouldn't want to do that anyway.

I would say, that one can educate the ego so that it is working with you not against you - one can try to align it with one's principles and remove the multiple incompatible desires in oneself. This involves internal reflection, awareness of one's emotions, acknowledgement of one's shadow self, love of honesty, endurance - and hopefully, at the end of the process you have emotions, thought and actions all working in an aligned, non-dissonant way.
> To be fair, the same is true of pro-renewable arguments.

Do some people claim the solution is non-existent (at scale) solutions? Sure. Does it come up anywhere near as often as "we just need <insert Nuclear technology that's never proven reliable/commercially viable>"? Not in my experience.

> Storage is always hand waved away with pumped hydro (not enough suitable reservoirs)

Keep in mind that "how do we power the world" isn't a US-centric problem. ~35% of Switzerland's electricity is already generated from pumped hydro.

> Energy is a really difficult problem and we have no obvious solutions.

It's so difficult that South Australia (a state with a relatively small economy - about on par with South Dakota, with double the population) went from 1% to more than 70% electricity generated from renewables (wind and solar), in the space of 15 years.

> an absolutely unfathomable amount of chemical batteries

I wanted to come back to this after talking about South Australia. SA hit 70% renewables, with less than 1% accounted for by battery storage.

Renewable energy has increased exponentially in technological advances and installed capacity in the last few decades, and while some people may be pinning their hopes and dreams on as-yet-unproven "renewable" pipe dreams like world-wide HVDC networks, there are real-world technologies out there doing what opponents have claimed for years, is impractical (it was claimed for a long time that renewables could at best provide 20% of South Australia's power needs).
Computers got slower, more expensive and more power hungry thus Namecheap costs went up.
Acknowledge? It is unclear whether MtF transsexuals have an incidence of commiting rape more similar to biological males or to biological females. So whether it is in fact "rare" (relative to the male base rate) or "frequent" (relative to the female base rate) is not established here.
The Windows kernel is excellent, the problem is everything that's built on top of it (of course the same could be said about Linux).
I've returned to FreeBSD after many years, and I just built 14.0 to get CUDA working. CUDA doesn't need this to run AFAIK. This is about the kernel providing a module that allows a direct rendering interface. CUDA doesn't render to the screen. IIRC, DRI/drm are kernel drivers for graphics that map the GPU video memory window into your process so you don't have to copy data or send it though a pipe or some such nonsense. it was a video optimization from the early days of Linux graphics when copying

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cuda-and-nv-un-registe...

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cuda-and-nv-un-registe...