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Stories dominating coverage elsewhere mostly shouldn't dominate HN. That's not a particular political position—it just follows from the type of site we're trying to have here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Plenty of stories with political overlap [1] still get discussed on HN. Your list seems cherry-picked to me - presumably because those are the topics you dislike, and mostly people overemphasize, and are more likely to notice, the data points they dislike [2].

I'm not sure where you got the idea that HN doesn't have rules, but it does, and they certainly exclude abusing other members [3], doxxing [4], etc.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The corporate world has decided paper straws are better.
Bamboo also has its issues [0]. I think mainly because it is kept in shape by bad stuff. Could be that your straws are really 100% bamboo, but some products are something like ground bamboo in some polymer.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-00064...
Even the SE has areas with surprisingly low population density. Outside of the urban areas much of the land is protected against development as national park/AONB/green belt.
Because this is water on a mill of far right parties. They just need to point out to this law and tell to people that the left is protecting Muslim terrorists. Easy rise up of preferences
@dev_0: daddy, chill!
A lot of screens these days are OLED and as I understand it they use more energy when displaying light images than dark images. The screen is also a major power hog. So I wonder what the energy tradeoff would be by using a dark background instead of changing image formats
This should be the top rated comment. It’s not a purely statistical problem as some other comments say. The problem is that the follow up tests carry health risks to the patient.
The trick is that in many cases the value delivered is invisible and unmeasurable. How do you quantify “time saved by not having bugs”? But that is what great maintenance does. Or, the same for “time saved by a really well-designed API that makes it easy to do the right thing and harder impossible to do the wrong thing”? Again: not measurable! ”Just put a number on it” is the kind of facile response I consistently get from too many folks in management when trying to have these kinds of discussions, and the annoying-but-inescapable reality is that it is not always possible to provide a monetary number on the value of this sort of work. Despite that value often very likely netting out in the millions or more every year!
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Note that they don't actually need to be on the same longitude. It just makes measuring the north/south distance between them a lot easier.

The angle between the sun and the zenith at local solar noon will be the same everywhere at a given latitude so that part doesn't care if the cities are on the same longitude..

You do need to know the north/south distance between the latitudes of the two cities, and picking two cities on the same longitude makes that easier to measure: just go straight from one to the other and note how far you traveled.

If the longitude was substantially different you'd have to use spherical trigonometry to figure out the north/south distance from the distance and bearing of the straight route between the cities, and for that you need to know the size of the sphere you are on.

Instead you'd have to do something like travel north from the southern city until you are at the same latitude as the other city (probably determined by observing the altitude of the North star), note how far you've traveled, then travel east or west along a line of constant latitude to try to reach the other city. If you miss the other city because you didn't get the latitude quite right, you'd have to move north or south, updating your north/south distance estimate, and try again, repeating until you actually hit the other city.
I guess the comparison with hugo is inevitable. It is a tough challenge, hugo is among the most popular go projects across any domain.

The table indicates both as being "fast" so that leaves jekyll compatibility as the primary differentiating factor.

Not familiar with jekyll, so cant tell what sort of pool of users that compatibility promise applies to.

But here is a tip: the weak point of hugo is its documentation ;-)
On the one hand it's an asshole thing to do just for a deliberate provocation.

On the other hand, deal with it.
News Flash: even 94% of the homeless have a smart phone.

People are unbanked for all sorts of reasons, it doesn’t mean they can’t afford $35 a month for a phone - 2 hours worth of work even at McDonald’s these days.

The phones are subsidized and are $0 with service
People keep finding serious architectural leaks in CPUs like Spectre/Meltdown, which makes me question whether any constant-time implementation can really be without observable side effects.
Late response, but: yes.

There's a reason why I chafe greatly with viewpoints which focus exclusively or even significantly, on, say, corporate vs. government power as the greater evil or risk. I'll note that within the past century, religious power was a frequently-cited risk even amongst great power states (it's largely a factor in less-powerful states, though not entirely absent from today's stage).

The true concern is actually power itself, however that is manifested. That might be political, it might be commercial, it might be religious, it might be cultural or social, it might be technological. I'm informed here by the "four estates" (church, nobility, burghers, commoners), sometimes a fifth (press), as well as Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace: Law, Norms, Market, Architecture.

Ultimately, power devolves from some control nexus from which a lesser effort need be asserted than the benefit or result which comes from it.
Idk, renault zoe looks decent and is relatively small
Tech Ingredients has also worked on this: https://youtu.be/dNs_kNilSjk?si=WDhGBmNsUdkm8Qgj
Do you think the margins were low because they just used higher quality ingredients and did not doing any food management? If so the next owner can optimize these inefficiencies and extract value from the brand value.
Paper straws are terrible.
Perhaps this is a bit cheeky, but I think it'd be pretty hilarious if a company, intentionally or otherwise, used this to generate a bunch of uniform headshots that made all of the employees at a company look like they're in way better shape than they actually are.
A thanks (especially from the person the thanked comment is responding to) can serve as a validation that the information provided was useful and appropriate, which an upvote alone fails to convey.

From my own recent history, this subthread: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37115294>.
What macro?

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/print
Should clarify that I say two hours per day above. I don't think I'd spend two hours going thirty miles, or even necessarily choose a job that involved driving thirty miles every day.

But thirty miles in an hour on urban/suburban rail isn't particularly unusual. And this time is time you can use, if you have even a little bit of method about it. I know people who have done all the reading for entire higher education degrees in that period of time.

At any rate, the notion to which you're responding regarding the area of possible commute being 2800 square miles is foolish. You have to go to where the jobs gather, and there are all sorts of complex reasons why they don't distribute evenly across that area that a rational person should not spend time weighing up when they consider whether an iPad might be a useful thing for the train.

In my case, if I made the commute into London on a daily basis, knocking down the distance to this hypothetical US average of 16 miles might save, I think, about a third of the journey time in practice. It would knock off half of the price of a season ticket, which might be useful. But it would add easily 40% to the cost of a house, which is the overriding concern. And even then I'd still buy the iPad for that journey.
Can anyone give their feedback on eye strain with e-ink?

I feel like my eyes have gotten really tired from over a decade working in the tech industry, and wondering if taking my notes/reading emails/articles on a reMarkable 2 or similar could give my eyes some rest.
The problem is wanting both fast and constant-time.
That's so machine level that it is hard to even talk about in a high level language.

On the other hand, most of the security problems found in OpenSSL are not in the core cryptographic functions. They're in the networking and certificate management machinery. All that should definitely be in Rust.
Natural selection! If you're like me, you probably understand the basics of evolution by natural selection, but it still seems to improbable/outlandish that such complex structures could be created just by natural selection, even with billions of years of time.

I highly recommend Steven Pinker's book "How the Mind Works" as it has a great section on how natural selection works (and how it can be confusing even to many scientists), and how it can create complex structures (like the eye) generation-by-generation. I think it helped me understand natural selection as less of a biological "force" than as more of a mathematical outcome due to the statistics of non-perfect replicators.
>In finance, for example, there may be situations in currency or options trading where buying and selling in one sequence is more profitable than taking a different path, and these can be modeled using negative weights as long as the search algorithm is fast enough. But those negative weights can throw Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm for a loop.
The Witch of Urns: Grandma
For shared CPU VPS, the biggest problem is noisy neighbors. Running a test for a few minutes on a single machinge probably doesn't tell you much.

The machine on one provider might be experiencing more load than a similar machine at a different provider, biasing the results.

That being said, Vultr has been good for our purposes.
> The issue with negative weighted edges is that a cycle would result in an infinite loop when finding shortest path

No it "could" result in an infinite loop. For driving situations negative weights would probably never yield infinite cycles due to negative weight. For that to happen some laws of physics would need to change drastically (i.e. a longer path yielding lower energy usage the longer it gets is nonsensical in any sense that is sensical in the physical world)
So you disapprove of the decision, but would have enforced it in the most asinine way at the expense of actual productivity.

I just hope to never work with you and, especially, never use anything you helped building.
I like that in the US, for at least two generations, sick days home from school were synonymous with watching Bob on The Price is Right.

Something about that is very satisfying to me.
This is very true. I have 5 kids and foster 2 more. I love to see them learn from each other, I think they learn more from each other than they do from me!
> If they are making the switch is because they expect to be frequently updating them...

Not necessarily that. They're making the switch to digital price tags because it's much quicker and easier to run promos on certain items to clear the shelves before closing time on perishable goods, but most importantly, they're making the switch because when employee have to manually change paper price tags, mistakes happen far too often, and stores end up in situations where the price on the self doesn't match the price on the cash register, angering customers who in certain jurisdictions are entitled to compensation for the store's pricing mistake.

Digital price tags ensure such mistakes are gone saving the store money over time.
This smells like astroturfing in favor of plastic. The fact that something contains "traces" of PFAS is not that much of a revelation. Unfortunately, thanks to tragically insufficient environmental regulation, PFAS have gotten everywhere nowadays, so most naturally sourced ingredients will contain traces of PFAS.

It is important to know how much PFAS they contain, whether those amounts are higher than the wood feedstock (i.e., are PFAS being added), whether the amounts are medically relevant, and whether the amounts are more than the alternative. (And lets not kid ourselves, stainless steel straws are not a viable alternative.)
Yes, it's not like we can hold the government to the same standard that the government tries hold the private companies to. Clearly, government couldn't possibly be expected to follow the regulations it imposes on everyone else.
The guy who wrote that loves controversy.
I think I would rather people choose to turn off their notifications, and uninstall social media rather than government intervention.

It's a lot of work though. I recently did a factory reset of an Android tablet and, wow, it's quite a lot of work to get it to shut up.

I also religiously disable any notifications on windows as well, but Microsoft have been making them a mandatory feature of some applications. Snip and Sketch for example requires you to click on the notification if you want to get to the Sketch part. I much prefer the old way. (It also had less annoying animation)
I exclusively hear this from US folks. Would love to see a breakdown of where DeBeers makes its money. Frankly I can't imagine anyone I know caring about this.
Thats how humans talk when their attention gets stolen
It's about an emulator being able to run the very impressive 8088MPH "demo", which uses a bunch of hardware tricks to pull off stuff you wouldn't expect a 4.77mhz/640kb RAM/4 colour/PC speaker could do.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

the sequel is Area 5150

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDxdoRTZPc
I think zoning is a big part of the problem. Before WW2, it was much easier to build the housing that new immigrants needed when they arrived. Toda, there is miles of red tape and zoning regulations that keep new neighborhoods from forming and maturing. It's a real shame.
Really interesting, feels reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis (my favorite non-human settlements, if they can be called that).
Maybe they're not a complete replacement in all cases, but for getting an iced latte from the local coffee shop, the metal straws are just fine. There are also reusable plastic ones.
I bought a pair of 7mm diamonds that are said to be made with chemical vapor deposition. They're very nice and very cheap, at least relative to the mined diamonds. If anything, they're too perfect. The natural ones are imperfect in the way that real wood siding is less perfect than vinyl siding on a house.
The dom-diffing style makes me think of one of my beliefs about software. You have two styles.

An active style where where when state is updated side effects happen directly inside the same call graph.

And this passive disconnected spooky action at a distance where you update state and something else is supposed to/might execute side effects at some unspecified time in the future.

The first way there is no magic going on. The second way it's all magic. I try to avoid writing code the second way if at all possible.
99.999% of corporations are way too wasteful to be complaining about a tenth of a percent on 50%+ margin.

Think of the savings of slashing that finance department staff :)
> ... it is not always possible to provide a monetary number on the value of this sort of work. Despite that value often very likely netting out in the millions or more every year!

Hm. You fist state, that it is not possible to provide a monetary number, then you state it is very likely netting out in the millions -- which is providing a monetary estimate.
A Pair of Dice Which Never Roll 7
SwiftUI is a black box, yes, but under the hood, it's just wrapping all of the same AppKit/UIKit controls.

It likely started as an answer to React for iOS and then late became a cross-platform toolkit. The API to get what you want and expect is terribly documented and poorly named. Countless times I stumble across the "right way" to do something, and it works well.

You just won't find it on StackOverflow (or ChatGPT) nor in any tutorial site. It will be buried in a small section of sample code from Apple or listed on a slide in a WWDC video.

My biggest complaint is that it tries to be too magical. Sometimes certain values are ignored and no amount of working around it will force it. Some internal decision for optimization didn't consider a specific use-case and there's no way to know. All I get is, configured one way, everything works, but change it, and suddenly it's ignored.

It took UIKit a decade to ease up on magical behavior, but SwiftUI didn't seem to learn that lesson and so it's back to square one.
Just a note to say thank you to those who left personal notes about your experiences - very helpful for a out of depth father. thank you.
Some pretty nasty accidents have already happened with stainless steel straws... doesn't take much imagination.
A smart woman would realize that every dollar spent on a diamond is a dollar that can't be spent on home improvements, cars, clothing etc.
It is just good design. But that includes a lot of things that cross traditional discipline boundaries. So there is a large communication overhead between different teams.
va_arg, which drives printf, is what I was referring to, and is generally a macro, and printf is what I was assuming alphanullmeric was referring to. iostreams defeat the point, since Rust is just as capable of the functionality and indeed the exact syntax, and std::format uses the properties of templates that are exactly like macros in both benefits and drawbacks, templates being an unusual cross between macros and generics.
There are foldable or modular 88-key keyboards:

https://carryonplaying.com/product/carry-on-folding-piano/

https://pianodevoyage.com/
Why is that unfortunate?

Genuinely.

It seems like the people doing the labor keeping the profits is a good outcome?
My team was asked how we should store data that is variable in structure and depth. When I suggested using mongo and not trying stuff it into a SQL db, I was looked at like I had suggested blending my firstborn for margaritas. People seem to think that NoSQL is dead and was always a bad idea.
What is a crashed audio codec chip?

Thanks, Alex. I'll take Linux Audio Sucks for $400.
A properly efficient sequence lock (no compare exchange or full acquire fence, relaxed loads for reads--which are less expensive on ARM than acquire loads, for good architectural reasons) isn't actually possible to write in C++ and I believe this was in fact a motivation for why Java atomics are the way they are. See https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2012/HPL-2012-68.pdf. I suspect this is why Java added load-load.
Anyone care to recommend one of the two devices (Kobo Elipsa or RM2) mentioned? It appears the RM2 may have gotten more expensive since release? How is the relative build quality? Any key hardware differences to note?
They should deploy preventative burn teams first. Ignoring land management is a deadly mistake exemplified by the Paradise and Maui fires.
Whilst this is an ethical debate, science isnt ethical, so when the lab grown meats hit the supermarkets, the knowledge obtained will help women and other people needing an organ, take a step closer to have their own lab grown womb which can then be transplanted without the need for the immune system suppression because its grown with the same dna.
Backups arent that hard really. A lot of interesting tools.

Imo handling day to day docs/data/mutables is harder. Hence im happy to use simple DVFS repo manager. No need to do backups of those :)

Stuff is stored usualy on desktop, laptop and server.
Do you go through life without insurance?
Another way to word it would be "the shortest shadow of the entire day"
>All the places that ARM already has gone, RISC-V has still to go.

As NASA and ESA both selected RISC-V, it'll go quite far, in the literal sense.
PFAS are used to add a water resistant coating to paper products, so I’d imagine straws to be worse than most paper cutlery as they literally needs to be designed to be submerged in water.

The article linked out to this related article:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/26/water-re...
This is why the number-one request from users is: "Please don't change anything."

When you go through an office area, where people are using "enterprise" software all day, make a mental note of the little pieces of paper taped to their monitors and cube walls, with written-out instructions for getting through everyday tasks. One thing is that they don't want to be forced to re-make those instructions, which may have been discovered at great cost.
So, it's workspace and user/device specific: two of the workspaces I interact with regularly have these problems and the problems also show up intermittently for some users and not others. (Anecdotally, my experience is that Matrix/Element used to be annoying compared to the Slack experience and now I mostly prefer it to Slack)

I would be fine with the understanding that the IRC bridge was missing functionality (and it always was). Although threads might make it impossible to implement in a nice way now.

As far as new features go, I don't want any new features in Slack: it worked exactly like I wanted it to seven years ago and the new stuff is nice, but not worth the degradation in user experience.
Note: previous commenter is a windmill dev, I think.
> Isn't this just the normal enshittification cycle that occurs with all Internet products?

Yeah, although one can dream that some SaaS company would do htings differently
My claim was that self driving taxis are better than regular taxis because they are cheaper.

The person responded by using arguments that they don't like a car driven society.

That does not contradict my point that self driving taxis are better than regular taxis.

Furthermore they admitted that self driving taxis are more convenient, which further supports my point.
Also linear regression analysis is now apparently "AI".
If you drive an SUV in a city, you're part of the problem.

Preferably Walk, cycle, get a bus, get some transit, share a lift, drive a small car.
I read most of the article and then went outside for a cigarette.
Dude drank through too many PFAS-enhanced paper straws and now has reading comprehension problems :(
In recent cars, the visibility out the backup camera far surpasses the very limited visibility out the back window. It is also better in low light situations where the camera can adjust gain to brighten the scene when you can hardly see out the back at all.

As long as the back view lets me see cars while driving and the side mirrors let me see the lane beside me, that's sufficient. I don't care about what I can see when twisted around looking back.
Where are you going to build housing in the boroughs?
NLRB Says Companies That Union-Bust Must Recognize Busted Union
I use regenerative braking as a driving application -- you gain energy by going downhill. A negative cycle would look like an Escher drawing.