skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"4x USB 3.0 Type-A, 1x USB 2.0 Type-C" Why do manufacturers do this? At this point USB 2 is legacy and type A too and they manage to mix the 2 in the worst combo possible...
That depends on whether one believes one can own an idea. Germany did not acknowledge IP rights in the 19th century and their economy rapidly industrialized and boomed. US industry also got its start by ignoring British IP laws.
Even a reactor designed to power an aircraft carrier wouldn't do much more than power a few suburbs. We would need many, many boat powerplants to replace a single coal fired power station which looks impractical against batteries and wind/solar both on cost and deployment speed.
> Working on improvements like this makes a lot of sense in academia, when you are running thousands of servers, or when you need so much memory that you can't buy a big enough server.

It also makes sense for all desktop and mobile apps, per gnyman’s point on not hitting individual limits. Also for anything that other people will be running, like libraries. Because your thing might perform marvelously in isolation on a beefy dev machine and still run like ass on every user’s somewhat underpowered computer with ten other apps competing for RAM (hello Slack).

See also: “craptop duty”[1]; how the 512K Mac reduced the competitive advantage of MS’s ruthlessly-optimized office apps but the MultiFinder, né Switcher, restored it[2].

[1] https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/

[2] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
As the sibling comments says, if the the lenses were large that was because they had to project a large image circle, not because they gathered more light (per unit area) than modern lenses. Modern lenses generally have wider maximum apertures than lenses from ~100 years ago.

Also, because the maximum f-number was generally around f4-f8 for lenses from that period, it's not really true that these lenses were much bigger than modern 'full frame' lenses. There are plenty of old lenses that have a diameter of just a few centimeters. Here is an example: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1256001801/vintage-19th-cent...
> There are good reasons to reject nuclear power on purely historic analyses of the projected vs actual costs of nuclear projects

That is if you forget to factor in the lifespan of nuclear projects, which is easily 2-3 times longer than solar and wind, and doesn't require associated (not yet existing) massive storage.

(Not saying this for Australia specifically, there is no nuclear industry there whatsoever so any new project will have significant human resource obstacles on top of all others; just as a general point which is so often forgotten).
I still can't understand why MS is forced to break up product bundles but Google can make Android with a bunch of Google apps, some of which are very difficult to turn off.
I only found one useful productivity measurement and it was in Camille Fournier - the managers path.

She states that the only useful measurement is how fast can a code change get to production.
Related: Displaying two different colors to each eye while stereoviewing produces what's called "impossible colors". I ran a small experiment on a game development forum once and it turns out about 50% of people see grey when shown opposing colors simultaneously, while the other half's brains can't decide what color they see and it fluctuates in a way similar to staring at the Sun (did that for about 20 seconds, lost center vision for a month, thankfully no permanent damage. Couldn't read text as each letter vanished as I looked at it!).
I've used vyvanse before for a good amount of time and had no addictive issues with it? Same with Adderall. Could just not take them for days or weeks with zero issue, and I'm someone that had teetered on the edge of addiction with other substances in the past. So, I think this could be helpful to people with BED
First I've heard of nattokinase and it doesn't have relevant evidence on examine.com.

Natto is a good source of vitamin K though, if you want stronger bones.
LLMs are nowhere near being able to research other, better LLMs. It's not even known if existing LLMs are at 1% or at 99.99% of what an LLM can in principle achieve.
Yeah! Elon could have already landed on Mars if he’d just built the rockets himself /s
> Now, the U.S. government is concerned is that Nvidia's A100 and H100 compute GPUs could be diverted to China from customers in the Middle East.

Sounds like eventually they're gonna have to ban the sale of those GPU to any country that doesn't start with the letter U and ends with SA, if they truly want to avoid anyone in China getting a hold of those.
> imagine that you have an address name.surname@gmail.com

> imagine that someone else has an address namesurname@gmail.com

If gmail ignores dots, it shouldn't be possible to have name.surname and namesurname as two separate gmail accounts.
Nushell is interesting. I tried using it as a scripting language (fish is better for interactive usage[1]), but I didn't get very far because it's constantly evolving and scripts that work today might not work next week. I can't commit scripts to a codebase if future users can't run them. So I end up using fish for scripting too.

[1] Not only does fish have the best out of the box experience (although that's reproducible with plugins in other shells), it's also old and common enough that tools usually support it alongside bash and zsh. Nushell is too niche and always changing for tools to support it properly.
Ask HN: Any book recommendations for API design?
Do you have any book recommendations for API design? I'm working for a company where data management was a mess and we have loads of systems that should be connected but are built completely seperate.

I'm looking for resources to help design a big change and move loads of systems over to APIs
Would you share the reasoning for each of these? Never heard of taking anything to help ward off Terrance of ADHD med
Middle names are also equally important in the Philippines. The website that the OP included is lacking.

Either in the format:

- given-name middle-name surname

- surname, given-name (note there is no comma here) middle-name or middle initial
Two perhaps interesting links on this topic:

1. A recent blog post about the DIY topic: "How to help people on open-source automated insulin delivery systems?" https://www.diabetotech.com/blog/how-to-help-people-on-open-...

2. Inreda: “A bi-hormonal fully closed loop system”: https://www.inredadiabetic.nl/en/home-english/
In my recent experience, Google search is totally broken for anything that is hard to find or uncommon.

I recently search for "raspberry pi uart hat" and Google responds with the following:

Not many results include the word "uart" so we eliminated it from your search terms. Here are thousands of irrelevant results about random raspberry pi hats you aren't interested in.

I don't understand this logic at all.
Google/Apple/<Massive corp> will be broken any day now.
> If you pay a bit of attention you see that dead people's wishes are worth very little to the living.

In some cases there are good reasons for that, which is why common law has the "rule against perpetuities"

After all, if some eccentric landowner in the 1800s was scared of electricity and put a clause in their will that electricity could never be used on their property - why should the rightful owners of the property in modern times be bound by the wishes of the long dead?

Of course in the specific case of an author's hard drive, I think it's right to respect their wishes - I wouldn't want the contents of my hard drive published after my death, no matter how much joy it might bring to voyeurs.
True. The problem is that instant action is needed.

In that perspective, Germany's decision to shutdown operational nuclear plants in favour of ramping up brown coal energy seems especially poor. But had it's politics been different and the existing reactors kept open at expense of ditching coal, that still would not have helped advance nuclear innovation that might possibly have led to cheaper or safer nuclear power. As it stands, nuclear is too expensive to compete with renewables.

And I don't think the young climate activists would argue for leniency, building and managing nuclear plants with the same sloppiness as their coal competitors.
Not for gmail though; gmail ignores those dots. But some.email@notgmail.com is normally a different inbox if the local part drops the dot.
Perhaps the strangest thing that popped out to me was the existence of... General Mills' aeronautics division. (Maybe it eventually became aerospace.) Perhaps capacity left over from World War II?
that makes no sense, Gmail ignores the dot so both those email addresses are the same and can only belong to one person.

if you register namesurname@gmail.com, then you also every combination of it with a dot.

n.amesurname@gmail.com

na.mesurname@gmail.com

nam.esurname@gmail.com etc..
Different divisions make money differently. Office and OneDrive people get money from providing things worth paying for, Edge and Bing teams from advertising.
I use this trick too for puzzles! Spotting on the fly the differences, makes for a great intro of the topic with people not aware of it!
Either QEMU or Virtualization.framework, pickable on vm creation.

colima is a layer upon lima that sets up a VM the easy way docker-machine/boot2docker style.
So you're saying that Chinese having little to no respect for IP is just their culture? And we should respect that?

And you think 'a few extra weeks' is all it'll take for the Chinese to develop the technology that ASML has taken several decades to perfect, which is required to produce these chips?

I guess if they steal ASML IP, sorry, relate to ASML intellectual property differently, you might be right.
It was a bunch of static calculators while WA uses NLP and is more-or-less superior in almost every use case. While there isn't a comprehensive list of specific conversions possible on WA, there are many examples categorized on the home page.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230831005411/https://keisan.ca...

Disclaimer: I'm partial to Xcas and HP Erable.
The Saudis have been paying lots of professors buttloads of money to pretend they are associated with Saudi universities.
Recently I have been seeing professors at western universities claiming a dual appointment with some Saudi university.
I got involved in myltiple geoups at work. I support several of them with the same domain expertise, but a few others are related or even unrelated donains. I write software for several of them. I don't wfh so this involves walking between areas or buildings on the campus to be with those groups. The complete context switch does help. It is all I had for many years. But Vyvanse has helped a lot too.
Yes, but how can that ever cause a problem to the end user?
Google is good when you know what you're looking for like a specific local business but it's awful when you're trying to find a recipe all you get are wordy life stories. ChatGPT can give me a concise recipe in my preferred units (metric) everything by weight, substitute x for y and tell me the calories. Phind.com is great for programming queries.

I run a fairly popular web game (Redactle https://redactle.net). Thousands of people play it and there are thousands of links on social media which Google doesn't seem to care about. When you search 'redactle' you should be getting my site or a clone of the original setup by a fan; This is how it works on Bing and DDG. But on Google the top results are ad-infested link-farm game sites, a domain squatter page at redactle .com and crap like that. They simply don't recognize the social proof that is out there. A thousand https://spammygames{1..N}.com sites linking to each other beats out all those people linking from reddit,fb,x etc.
Poster seems? to be a dev interested in Macs. So probably boosting a favorite tool.
In the link you posted (id=36816398), never saw it until this, as the entire series of posts were deleted away from the main thread. So was not aware of the situation, and that it was being blamed on me specifically.

If you review those chain of posts, surely the account that first named V directly (not to even go into the list of many other antagonists), initiated and provoked by specifically targeting the V language. Including posting provocative or inflammatory links (which are spammed on most V threads).

I'm concerned that the definition of what constitutes instigating or being found at fault for starting a flamewar, appears directed at those who may respond with or show any support for V.

Those that are clearly instigating, continually snarky, or even directly insulting in their posts seem to go unpunished or ignored. Though, as a user, don't have the greater perspective on this.

Apologies on the rule violation, as often attempt to avoid crossing the line, and was just attempting to provide at least a contrasting point of view to what is continually taking place on the subject. After review, do see which rule was violated, which was not the original intent.

If you would be kind of enough to, can you instruct on how you view this situation?
I was under the impression that the EU is working on legistlation forcing all smartphone apps to be uninstallable, including manufacturer bundled ones.

https://www.androidauthority.com/eu-draft-law-uninstall-prei...
Wouldn't Ceasar be much closer to his last name,though? It's definitely not his personal nickname.

His father was 'Gaius Julius Caesar' his grandfather (supposedly the first 'Ceasar') was 'Sextus Julius Caesar'.

The Cognomen is presumable something that evolved as a way to tell apart people belonging to different branches of the same family/clan because the number of first names was very limited.
Even in Germany you can work around it. It's necessary for a third gender option, or when the gender is not known.

I imagine that it's not France either? French has similar greetings, with the same indecisiveness around the polite/casual pronouns. There's the added challenge of Quebec where casual pronouns are far more commonly used.

There's also the trap of "mademoiselle" which is no longer used because we no longer care about a woman's marital status. It's the same as with Fraulein.

You are right that rules might need to be made by country. The beauty of small scale solutions is that you can sweat small things like this instead of applying Silicon Valley sensibilities to the entire world.
> the evidence existed but was lost

if the virus crossed over from animals to humans then it must be able to cross back over. viruses evolve quickly, but animals don't, and we have plenty of samples of the original virus. all you have to do is find the right species and infect them with a sample of the virus and show that they can spread it to prove natural origin.

the only scenario where your theory could be true is if the origin species suddenly went extinct after starting the pandemic, which is very improbable.
Tiki is not a short film; it's a full-blown, 90-minute animated feature! Picture this: Four thousand years ago, we meet Manatea, a young Polynesian man drifting aimlessly on the Pacific Ocean with a chicken, a pig, and a cow. He's been at sea for four long years, driven by a singular goal—to become a strong, beautiful, and courageous warrior to win the heart of his true love.
That's not all! Once the movie is released, we're going to make everything we've created freely available to the community. That means anyone can use our work to create their own stories and projects, as long as they don't do it for commercial gain. We're all about sharing the love and creativity!
I'll just point to basically everything that's happened at Twitter as an example of bad policy, including the 'free speech' he promised except not really. He's also dialing labor laws back by a century or two with the pressure he put on people to sleep in the office, even setting up beds that were in violation of building code.

Pedo Guy Space Karen is not the billionaire superhero you want him to be, so simp for him elsewhere.
When I think about entities simulating our universe, I certainly do not assume that they're inside our universe at the time! That would be very difficult, though it may work if you assume that most of the universe at the moment is computationally "dead" and can be optimized out.

But IMO, this sort of theory makes a lot more sense in a "large" cosmology like Tegmark IV.
Long part of my life on Adderall and decent amount on Vyvanse at one point and never noticed any actual addictive cravings, like you mention.

Sure, when I stop I feel kinda crappy... But... I'm not on a stimulant that I had been on. I'm just not as 'up'. Not as focused. Etc. Never any actual withdrawals or cravings for either though. Gets very tiring how many people that probably never have regularly used either like to pull out their megaphones and yell about how they are addictive.

Why don't we worry about ultra processed foods, high sugar intake... Things like that that are actually a problem for a LOT of people? People focus on the oddest things.
War hawking nukes is not a place you want to be.

- US nukes NK.

- NK alliance with Russia / China results in US being nuked. Alternatively Russian early detection and deadmans switch results in retaliation launch.

- US being nuked results in US sending retaliation nukes, potentially also dragging in India and UK since treaties are now invoked and treaty partners are a principal target.

- India and UK nuking China or Russia puts Iran's nukes into play within Europe.

Mutually Assured Destruction. The entire scenario could play out in under an hour. Politics means it would likely take longer, but if certain automated deadmans systems are still operational then multi-continental effe ts would be felt in under an hour.

North Korea has often said it's intent is to build an arsenal to keep the US at bay such that it achieves complete independence from external financial and political influence. The nuke / MAD card is clearly their play. If it works out for them, expect others to follow.
Well I am all for legalisation in general, but replacing illegal drugs with legal drugs other than doing something that is acceptable for the society, being the illegal drugs non-accepted, it would also mean that you aren't going to fund drug cartels, ghettos, traffickers, or in general you're not going to end up in a morgue with fentanyl, so for me, in modern context, that's still a big win
Speaking of Electron... vscode even intentionally ignores .config/electron-flags.conf (or it's own -flags.conf), so you must pass the ozone flags on the command line (i.e. edit the launcher, which will be replaced on next update).

There were many issues filled on vscode wrt. wayland support, hidpi, fractional scaling... and they all were closed with half-baked solution that are not really solution. It's tragic, how a project like vscode can ignore wayland and it's features for such a long time.
Question is if the US should be that police. I think the majority outside will say no; maybe they cannot do anything about it at the moment, but long term they might band more together.
This is a keyword based search engine. It shows you pages with the keywords you typed.

Though I strongly disagree with Putin's illegal war of aggression, I don't censor Russian websites. You'll find Russian truth on there as well: https://search.marginalia.nu/site/english.pravda.ru
"the depth will be inverted" better describes it indeed. Thanks clarifying it!
I'm not here to try and float the nuclear boat, 'that ship has sailed' -but I think your economics are true now, but somewhat shallow.

There have been decades lost getting PV and wind viable to power a few suburbs and the LCOE of SMR would have been just fine if the industry had been allowed to achieve the same economies of scale of production. Now? It's two to three or more times expensive than solar/wind. (CSIRO)

Instead we've got billions of overspend on giant Reactor complexes like Hinckley. It can't compete. But undeniable huge sums of money have been flung at nuclear.

Both nuke, and solar and wind and batteries are dwarfed by the gross irresponsible subsidies which underpin coal, oil and gas. They launched the 20th century. They leave a trail of tears and ash behind, which will take centuries to remediate. Massive socialised losses as an externality.

I like wind, and PV and batteries. We're going to do fine.
(Self promotion) if people like the Casio style calculators, my app is heavily influenced by Casio’s scientific calculators. The editor works almost exactly like theirs, but it has a modern keyboard that’s optimised for touch screens. The rendering uses the LaTeX font too

As well, you get a few dedicated modes, like unit conversion, date calculations etc.

https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc
Given how small the chips are, even that won't be enough.

As these chips get more powerful, in the future, the chip won't compute before getting an authorization token from some central authority.

It seems that we are just one Moore's law away from that reality.
I understand the reasoning but it’s weird that while we’ve expeced continual progress in flops every year or so, this will now put basically a mandatory upper limit (forever?) on how powerful computers can be (in these countries)
This type of ban has the unintended consequence of strengthening/accelerating the domestic market of the party you are trying to sanction. This has happened with Turkey (F35/TF-x, Patriot/Hisar-Siper, the whole UAV/UCAV programmes etc.) and currently happening with China (them acquiring investing in foundry know how and capacity, Huawei investing in its own OS). Would be exciting to see what this one will bring.
> I'm not sure if you can use f..oo@gmail.com

That wouldn't be a valid email address. (unless it's quoted. "f..oo"@gmail.com is valid, but so obscure nobody will accept it).
The epoch is configurable:

$ sdate -e 2007-09
Thu Sep 5844 10:25:05 UTC 2007
This article perfectly answers the relatively simple question it asks. It is exactly the kind of search result I'm looking for if I ever wonder which approach is better and don't want to experiment myself.
> You've got it the wrong way around, it's already 'us vs them' due to 'them' attempting to seize large swathes of other countries water rights, land, invading and threatening to invade key US allies, using trade to coerce countries, manipulating poor and vulnerable countries for military purposes, and generally increasing military aggressiveness.

Long story short, the US is upset that China started doing what they were doing for decades. Oh, the irony...
that's why tik-tok has grown. there's a sense of authenticity with it. no fake posturing.

disclaimer - i'm not on tik-tok. just based on videos I see shared and posted everyn now and then
> You'd be right, if you had any proof of WhatsApp being E2EE in the traditional sense.

Fair point. Though last time I checked Telegram, nothing except the secret chats was end-to-end encrypted. So there I know that the features people like on Telegram are definitely not E2EE.

> The security is robust and the features and services are much better.

Features and services, I can accept that. Security... well again, only the secret chats are E2EE, and last time I checked, the secret chats didn't have more features than Signal.
My guess is that the US has made the calculation that China has already embarked on the local investment. This is the best (only?) chance they get to slow them down.
Favorite job I ever had was managing this small country store gas station when I was like 19-21 years old. Also managing a coffee shop. If I could do one of those and make a real living wage and be able to save for retirement and life stuffs I would do that RIGHT now. But.... That ain't happening. So. I sit at my desk yelling at my code. Man it is so hard to get started each day though. Some days it takes a couple hours to really get going on my actual work. And it isn't for lack of trying. It's so infuriating, wearing, and disheartening.
> no one is posting on social media anymore

"Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded".