skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These channels are part of my childhood memories. I would scour through the content in these channels every Friday night after school.

Furthermore, they illustrate Nintendo's capability in creating engaging UI/UX. Before iPhone apps became prevalent, Nintendo was able to design simple, pleasing UI with their own Nintendo personality. Unlike apps nowadays, the accompanying music was memorable; Wii Shopping Channel music remains popular on YouTube recommendation algorithms. Despite the rise of smart TVs later, they still haven't captured the magic one would feel touching a Nintendo Wii Channel. UI designers can learn much from engaging with them.
The former employees who are suing for unpaid severance certainly aren't trusting anyone; that's why they're suing.
I'm guessing that lawyers are perhaps the one group that Musk pays on time, so he doesn't have to pay up elsewhere.
This is an exceptionally hot take. Manning was Charles Manning Hope Clark. You can verify this easily. His status in Australian history is mixed, because of the strong left/right axis of history as a field in Australia. Manning Clark was unquestionably of the left. The Australian, and its tame philosopher-historian Gerard Henderson makes much of this, and Manning Clark being awarded an order of Lenin for history by the Soviets. Guess what? The Australian, Keith Windschuttle and others reject Aboriginal "black armband" history, working class history, and dislike Manning Clark immensely. They are unquestionably of the right (side)

I suspect you're partisan in this war. "making things up" has been part of what Historians do since Thucydides. We don't call it making things up but any time you see the word "infer" you can go there. History is complicated. Even documents don't tell the whole story. Do you think Cabinet Minutes record verbatim what everyone said?
> Is severance something that’s legally required?

(1) In some jurisdictions, some amount of severance is legally required in some circumstances, but the count at issue here is all in US jurisdictions where I don’t think that applies (to severance narrowly; there’s been some conflation of pay during a no-duty employment period that was used to comply with state and/or federal WARN Act notice requirements as “severance”, and while full pay and benefits for that time is legally required, its not severance in the strict sense),

(2) In most US jurisdictions, there is no general legal mandate for severance, but severance that is embodied as a term in the employment contract or otherwise part of a legally binding commitment or promise is required, and these cases involve specific allegations of such contracted or otherwise bindingly-committed-to severance.
KDE has other problems instead :-)

When I first tried KDE, it was during the Plasma 4 days and ran as slow as molasses (not to mention the constant crashing leaving me with a black screen). Friends convinced me about a decade later to try Plasma 5: it is no longer a slow, buggy experience, they claimed. Well, I set up Debian 10 with Plasma 5 and changing the default KDE cursor to the black Adwaita cursor already didn't work! Depending on which window my cursor was hovering, it would change between my custom cursor and the default KDE cursor. This was after applying settings and restarting KDE. And forget any modifications you make if you use SDDM, it always seems to use defaults.

The comprehensiveness of Adwaita as an icon set and the relative stability of GNOME is what keeps me on GNOME. If I had to ditch GNOME, I would probably choose MATE or Xfce next. I've been fooled too many times by KDE evangelists claiming everything's fine and rosey nowadays and we are totally no longer in the Plasma 4 days.
No one should have 25% in cash and 25% in gold.

There’s different stock ratios for different situations. But half cash is bad advice. Even if you are 85, you might have lots of cash equivalents, but you wouldn’t have 25% gold.

Picking a single year isn’t a productive example because the point of investment is to keep for multiple years.

With a 10+ year horizon, you should definitely be willing to stomach a 25% drop one year, because that happens. And of course the market was up over 100%+ in the following 10 years.

It’s not useful to compare Browne’s allocation without mentioning how it was much worse than the s&p500 over that period.

To compare strategies, you want to look at them compared to one another. And of course past performance doesn’t guarantee future performance. But it can be helpful.

“Almost never loses money” is not a very good strategy unless you are in retirement already. Most people aren’t in retirement so if they choose a never lose money vs strategy they will end up with less money than a “loses 25% sometimes, but averages more.”
I'm not the parent but at least for me, my #1 complaint is "whiny computer".

Especially when dealing with someone else's code, it can be a ceremonial roadblock for moving data around that could easily be processed without issue but artificial constraints in order to service an orthodoxy have been erected to make things needlessly more brittle.

In the name of reducing bugs, it in practice can often impose workarounds that increase the chance the confusion and more bugs.

This isn't always the case but most of the time things are built in incompetent hands (including my own). Accommodating for this reality is probably the better move. Imposition of absolutist rules doesn't improve the behavior of incompetency, it just makes it more subversive and the defects it creates more insidious
The world is shaded in more than black and white.
I think the point here is that animals raised for meat should not be conflated with burning fossil fuels. Cattle, chickens etc. are part of the carbon cycle.

Modern high-intensity farming practices such as feedlots and cage chickens - where the majority of the feed is grain and harvested hay - are probably where the conflation enters. There is just as much a need to raise healthy, minimally carbon intensive animals as there is to reduce eating meat. There are farming methods to do this, but change is slow.
Time probably, but one can always choose not to post, or to be draftier.

That's pretty much it. I suppose it depends on the type of content you're publishing: openly controversial articles may yield all kinds of trouble, but technical, "cold" stuff, I'm not sure what kind of major issues it could cause.

And also on your intents: if you're publishing to help you think things through, you're essentially never losing anything, not even time. It's just "work."
8K TVs: Not Dead Yet, but Pretty Close
"The IFA tech trade show’s exhibits provided ample evidence of 8K’s relevancy struggles. The companies trying to make 8K a thing could talk up the size of their screens but didn’t promise anything new to watch in that resolution, while other electronics vendors with TVs on their menu either stuck to their 4K fare or switched their emphasis to efficiency and sustainability, two adjectives that 8K can’t claim today."
Because they don’t negotiate for it.
From TFA: "The sound recording used for the patent application can be listened from here:

http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/soundex/74309951.mp3

Be sure to listen the sound because we will be referring to that particular recording when we have a go at recreating the Deep Note."

Too bad the link returns a 404. No referring for you
In the movie Tron, a user is this worst thing a program can encounter.

> Greetings, programs! Oh, what an occasion we have here before us. Because your rumors are true. We do indeed have in our midst a User!

(Can't find the 1982 quote, but this one from some 2010 redo gets the point across)
Well, yeah, both the Connecticut case that is the primary reason for this article and the generally similar (but somewhat broader in terms of the kinds of wrongs raised) San Francisco case are not just about the initial violations by Twitter, but Twitter’s alleged failure to pay the arbitration fees required by the arbitrator they have required people to use in place of going to court, which is claimed to have stalled all the arbitration cases (and which is the basis for bringing the dispute to court, despite the binding arbitration agreement which would normally foreclose that.)
It's not a music festival, and this has never happened before; the event takes place in an extremely arid desert. Normally one struggles with heat, dust, and wind - not mud.

Getting stuck for hours trying to leave is normal, but that's due to the narrowness of the remote desert highway which offers the only exit.
I don't believe it's guaranteed to work correctly on any system, because in this code:

is-member(i):
return sparse[i] < n && dense[sparse[i]] == i

there's no requirement for the two sparse[i] to take the same value (since that expression evaluates to an indeterminate vaule). So the second occurrence of sparse[i] can take a value >=n, or indeed greater than the length of the whole array, at which point reading it is definitely UB.
So you’ve bought 100 square meters of solar cells and you’re looking for the most efficient place to put it. Why not on top of a big rig?
That's not entirely the case. It's actually a matter of risk assessment. You need to consider the "cost" of being prepared based on the risk (likelihood x consequence).

The effort/cost/maintenance of being prepared. Everyone has a different threshold.

For example in what op carries in case his car goes off the road, what happens if you suffer a large cut in that accident? Do you carry clotting agents? What about snake bites and allergic reactions? Do you carry the appropriate medication too?

At a certain point being "more prepared" is the wrong choice. For some people, in an urban environment, simply have a phone and some cash is prepared enough, and that's not necessarily wrong.
When there's extremely abundant capital available the opportunity for the business owners to take that kind of risk is valuable and the creative artist responsible for fulfilling that opportunity deserves a fair equitable share of the revenue that results.
Good thing capitalism is against the right to an idea.
Power imbalances still exist. The problem is, if I have a contract with Google that is 80% of my small business revenue and they pay me late, what recourse do I have? It's a constant negotiation of who has the willingness to walk away. If they pay me late, I'll likely not complain because the money is big for me. I don't want to rock the boat.

Now if the gov told Google they could receive a massive fine for paying late, they would stop doing it.
Related:

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710557 - Dec 2014 (17 comments)

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3565212 - Feb 2012 (14 comments)

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1156628 - Feb 2010 (16 comments)
Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
Related:

The literary life of Pessoa’s alter ego (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34253952 - Jan 2023 (2 comments)

The Literary Games of Fernando Pessoa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32111909 - July 2022 (10 comments)

I haven’t been I: On Fernando Pessoa (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30120732 - Jan 2022 (8 comments)

The many imagined lives of Fernando Pessoa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29908996 - Jan 2022 (6 comments)

Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191843 - Aug 2021 (16 comments)

The Politics of Fernando Pessoa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768795 - July 2021 (17 comments)

A Little Fellow with a Big Head: On Fernando Pessoa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23983483 - July 2020 (7 comments)

Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894466 - July 2020 (46 comments)
Okay. If there ever was a group worthy of sneering it is lobbyists. But rules are rules. My bad.
I’m wondering about economics though. The cost of solar panels vis-a-vis the increased range of only 5000km per year.

Even if you amortize this cost over several years, and even in climes with more sun, would the economic math work out?
Show HN: The simplest way to validate your idea
Real idea (The Facts Clock): https://bovind.com/pitch/GbgDvPaZ
It’s easy to say things like this, when you forget the upside to being a salaried employee: not being exposed to financial downside risk.
I’ve truly found that (in increasing order of cost) strength training, mixing up input device when using a computer to give other muscles a chance, and more recently getting a motorised standing desk to be great helps in working against tendinitis. Some days are better than others, but those should good days never be seen as a reason to drop all techniques against that numbing feeling in the arm.
Related: The ADF FAQ[0] has some information on track formats. Greaseweazle[1] implements encoding/decoding of a lot of formats.

0. http://lclevy.free.fr/adflib/adf_info.html

1. https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle/wiki
Most of that drops off after the first year and then you just get the usual volume of spam. I keep a recycling bin near the front door for fast triage. Many days it all goes into the bin.
I am guessing more than a few participants in this thread are fans of the Ultimate Breaks and Beats compilations.
This is a frequent midbrow complaint, but it doesn't matter who funds studies as long as they're correctly constructed.

Especially because otherwise you won't get the studies because nobody else cares.
It's a mentally lazy jump to conclusion to proclaim them "lovers" without conclusive evidence. They could've been parent-son, any number of relations, or even strangers.

FWIW, for skeletons in better condition, there is another sex-linked feature other than pelvis shape: the back of the skull. There is a significant pyramidal structure on the back of the skull of all biological males and none in biological females. Forensic anthropologists and MDs who paid attention in class should know this. It's likely the skeletons are in fair to poor condition after 2800 years, so not every feature would be in pristine shape.
Did you read the article? He goes back and talks about the founding cultures of these regions. The partisan nature of it is also a consequence of that rather than politics causing the divides.

The author brings up racial divides several times and show variance graphs based on several races, but is obviously not comprehensively in this short article.
No one mentioned rolling resistance when increasing weight- i can’t say offhand where that loss becomes significant or not but i believe it’s worth consideration.
also, the energy doesn’t need to supplant the diesel engine but it could assist it.
the real math is “can it carry its self, and more” and if so, “can it’s assistance save the fleet money over the life of its service”. i have my doubts but it doesn’t sound like anyone here or there wants to show any math…
Doesn't matter. This is a copout for not reading the paper properly.
I've always wanted to try bridge but have yet to do so. I've played the variations with friends & family - 500, Whist, and Euchre. So much fun!
SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further
I do not know about commercially available, but the ESA has long selected the RISC-V NOEL-V[0] to succeed LEON in their space endeavors.

0. http://microelectronics.esa.int/riscv/rvws2022/index.php
I assume Liquid Types can greatly increased performance in C programs where pointer checks are littered everywhere.
Is it possible for someone else to fund the arbitration fees so they can proceed without Twitter’s participation? Similar to how Peter Thiel financed the destruction of Gawker via Bollea v. Gawker. Ideally, you get to a judgement as quickly as possible (by any means necessary) before Twitter’s insolvency, even if someone else has to front whatever Twitter was in the hook for to proceed with arbitration.
I'm considering factoring it out into a general library, it should be rather easy. Would you be interested?

You can also see my previous project, go-htmx for a previous version of the idea, though its missing some features.
How is twitter unreliable?
> not on a scale that is so noticeable.

it's more likely that the equity raised are deployed to produce more value than the "loss" due to dilution.

For a startup, this might be harder, since the revenue is less clear, and thus the valuation is very inaccurate. For a mature/listed company, the revenue is much clearer and thus the valuation is more accurate.
KDE is ugly and buggy. None of its famed customization works particularly well. I couldn’t find a way to change the font size on the panel, which is trivial with Dash to Panel on gnome. Latte dock would completely freak out when trying to move it and cause a bunch of visual artifacts. Crashes when installing themes. The “overview” feature inspired by gnome that has completely unnatural animations and doesn’t allow anything to be dragged, even worse then the one on MacOS. And the fact that they still default to server side decorations. If you surveyed non-Linux users after trying both desktop environments I’d bet next to none of them would choose KDE, especially if you allow extensions on gnome.
Added. Man, this poll is overflowing with IDEs!
Thanks. :) I'm hosting on a cheap linode server.
if they were gays, then fine. if they weren't, then also fine. what's so hard to accept that gays exist since long time ago?

and what's point posting this? just because a pair of skellingtons show something that indicates they were homo in their death, is it interesting enough?
This may be the first time i've seen moving the stock instead of the tool
The type system removes checks that are redundant or unnecessary given the rest of the code. It doesn't assume things about external data.
A truncated Y-axis exaggerates the relative change, it's the simplest and most common method of being misleading with data.

https://www.heap.io/blog/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization
I'm in the same boat. If I'm using a private window then DuckDuckGo gets a search or two instead of Kagi. If you are militant about clearing cookies out I can see how it would be annoying. I sidestep that issue by using disposable containers in Firefox for everything except sites I want to stay logged into to. Those sites get a dedicated container.

Also, if you're fine with Google then Kagi is probably not the right product for you.
How do you define operations on these liquid types? You can't even define subtraction or addition on this "non zero integer type". These types are not closed so how is it useful?
An important thing to remember about fancy type systems is that they can only make guarantees in a closed world. If your data comes from the network or a file, you will likely need a reader or parser that does runtime checks somewhere, but a good type system can provide assurance that you did each check exactly once.

On a complicated single-process system (a monolith), that can be a big improvement. For distributed systems (microservices), there will still be plenty of runtime checks. That's what allows each service to have its own lifecycle.

I'm wondering what Elixir will do, given that Erlang servers divide up work into lots of independent, distributed components?
absolutely ridiculous that the class-based "developed world" label is still around, as if most parts of Asia aren't at the same developmental and infrastructural level as America. India is up there :)
Show HN: MonoDevelop
This is, to my half American ears, bizarre prescriptivism. We pronounce NASA as “nasa” and UUID as “yoo-id” (and GUID as “goo-id). And ID is pronounced “eye-dee.” And of course we pronounce OK (short for “oll korrect”) as “okay.”
Read the article.

The emissions are net negative for the EV until you put 20K miles on it, due to the added emissions of producing the battery.

After that the fossil fuel engine becomes a net polluter.

This just means the CO2 savings for the EV is amortized over its lifetime.

Not to mention 60K Americans die from air pollution every year.

How do you justify driving a gas vehicle that contributes to that?
Interesting article. I immediately thought of one (very obscure) thing I know about floppy disks which the author appears not to – "deleted sectors".

Before the data of each floppy sector, is a sector header. Among other information, it contains a flag byte, which can have two different values, indicating two different types of sectors – normal and deleted. There are different commands to read/write normal sectors vs deleted sectors. Historically, this came from the IBM 3740 data entry system, where each (128 byte) floppy disk sector stored one database record, there was not much in the way of a filesystem, and you would delete database records by changing a normal sector into a deleted one. Subsequent systems (such as IBM PC floppy controllers) retained this feature despite it being useless for their purposes. Almost no microcomputer/PC software ever used it, the principal exception being that it saw repeated (ab)use to implement an (easily circumventable) form of copy protection. Apparently, some late model PC floppy controllers (1990s / early 2000s, just before floppy drives disappeared entirely) dropped support for deleted sectors completely, viewing it as a disused legacy feature which was a waste of circuitry to support.

Well, that's true for any floppy based on the traditional IBM minicomputer/mainframe floppy format, which includes IBM PCs and many CP/M systems. It isn't true for floppy disk formats which lack that IBM heritage, for example Apple II floppies.
Some version of this comes up at every thread touching on archaeology, and frankly it’s tired.

The authors are professionals, deeply embedded in a body of knowledge and practice, making a conjecture for an audience of their peers. They take for granted information, context, and training that most of us do not have.

Am I saying their credentials mean they’re right? Of course not. I have no idea.

What I’ve got instead is the epistemic humility to recognize that just because I am unqualified to evaluate this evidence doesn’t mean everybody is.

Hey, if turns out you’re an archaeologist I’ll happily eat crow. But somehow I think the local birds are safe tonight.

Sometimes, you don’t know something. Sometimes, you don’t even really want to know (or you’d ask a question)! When those times come around, and they will, it’s okay to just… not post.

(Edited to soften tone slightly)
It's normal, and I don't see any other way besides just trusting that nobody is going to trash a room (and eating the cost when they do).
Using X/Twitter to catch up and interact with the numerous friends, artists, and other communities there doesn't mean you support wage theft and withholding severance. It's hard to break away from such a populated platform, especially if most of the people you care about go to different platforms or don't share the same motivation to move.
> We don't have debtors prisons.

No one's suggesting such.

We have plenty of disputed behavior and harms that are within the purview of civil courts, and then more egregious versions that are crimes. IMO, withholding significant pay that you have the ability to pay and is unambiguously contractually owed causes pretty serious harm, and society has strong reasons to criminalize this conduct.

Accepting services from someone while having no intent to honor the contract, hoping that disproportionate resources will prevent them from enforcing the contract "feels" like fraud: so let's codify it.