skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<< Additionally most men cannot date "indefinitely".

I followed the argument and was on the fence for most of it, but here I clearly disagree. This is one advantage for a male in a dating pool. He can absolutely date ( and sire children ) longer than women. I have an anecdote about it, but it is just that.

Now... women have a lot less time to find a suitable mate. Men can wait.. if they choose to do so.
Someone noted it as an investment strategy (which is one way), but I was specifically using it to address the ‘you don’t get the money until you sell’ element.

You pull money out of the HELOC, which does give you access to the equity. You then pay it down similar to a mortgage, at very low rates.

You just cashed out some of the ‘inaccessible’ equity by using it as loan collateral.

You’d still get to live there, and any gains in equity will be 100% yours. But you have cash now, with low payments and low interest to pay it back. If you do sell, proceeds could go right into paying it off.

There are similar ways to setup second mortgages, etc.
With IPv6 you would do stateless autoconfigurarion, so there would be no manually setting of your addresses. The router would advertise the new prefix and everything would just use it.

There would be no DNS configuration at all, all local machines would use anycast DNS for the services and a well known server for Internet addresses.

One of the primary goals of IPv6 was to avoid needing manual configuration if anything on the network. It is supposed to be as automated as possible.
Postscript used cubic Béziers, but TrueType, specified some ten years later by Apple with the learnings from practical use of Postscript on Macs, opted to only support quadratics instead.

Donald E. Knuth seems to think pretty highly of this decision:

“The quadratic has the great advantage that there's a real cheap way to render them. You can make hardware to draw a quadratic spline lickety-split. It's all Greek mathematics, the conic sections. You can describe a quadratic spline by a quadratic equation (x, y) so that the value of f(x, y) is positive on one side of the curve and negative on the other side. And then you can just follow along pixel by pixel, and when x changes by one and y changes by one, you can see which way to move to draw the curve in the optimal way. And the mathematics is really simple for a quadratic. The corresponding thing for a cubic is six times as complicated, and it has extra very strange effects in it
because cubic curves can have cusps in them that are hidden. They can have places where the function will be plus on both sides of the cubic, instead of plus on one side and minus on the other.

“The algorithm that's like the quadratic one, but for cubics, turns out that you can be in something that looks like a very innocuous curve, but mathematically you're passing a singular
point. That's sort of like a dividing by zero even though it doesn't look like there's any reason to do so. The bottom line is that the
quadratic curves that TrueType uses allow extremely fast hardware
implementations, in parallel.”

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2000-01...
Honestly, I've never met anyone who identifies as a non-disordered autistic, probably because it's usually only identified through the disordered symptoms.
> content people post is random and slightly political

It would be illegal for them to act on it. But I don’t think it’s illegal to correlate, particularly for public posts. (To be clear, I think this should be illegal.)

> various government agencies will always be tied to one party or another

No, they shouldn’t, haven’t generally been and are not over long time horizons.
If you're sharing the computers then that's a different story. We don't share our computers so we don't all have ad blockers on them. Mine does of course and I add them to my family's but if they switch browsers or reset / upgrade their PC, I'm not often there to redo the install. So I'll tell them to do it but they don't always do it. So I give up, if they know about ad blockers but don't care enough to reinstall them, that's on them at that point. Which leads me to my point that people don't generally care.
It doesn't need to last 5000 years. It just has to last until we transition to other power sources, of which there are many.
If you have multiplayer like this, you absolutely do not have a hard requirement on frame latency.

You don't control network latency spikes. Latency tolerance is a hard requirement, or you will have constant problems and likely be unplayable. Or custom networking and hardware stacks, which is deep into esoteric territory.
piva00 says "It's nigh impossible to understand your comment..."

"nigh" but indeed not "impossible". I encourage you to make the final effort, for our sake as well as yours.
Relying on the socket APIs is a bit painful. For one thing, what if that socket is shared across tasks? What if I want to do per-request timeouts? What if I don't want to expose the socket APIs to callers?

What if my work isn't related to socket timeouts? For example, downloading a multi-part file? I may want a very long socket timeout but still have a distinct timeout for the individual chunked operations. It might take 30 seconds to grab an entire file but if one chunk takes >3 seconds I may want to time out.

What if my work involves no IO at all?

The ability to cancel work in progress is extremely important to me.
I can assure you that the Chinese strategists are. Wang Huning is way to smart not to have and he's just one that's somehow famous enough to be known in the West. I'm sure there are many more strategists of if not equal at least similar caliber working on furthering China's (hopefully) peaceful rise.
That's still just a degradation of user experience and not a fatal fault. Indeed, support for running in desynced mode is written is because they know deadlines can be missed. In hard realtime, deadlines can't be missed. There's no recovery; it's a critical fault and you have to halt or failover to a backup.
But that's the point, right? The EU is a much lighter touch than the US Federal Government, so it's weird that people fixate on the comparably insignificant bureaucracy of the EU rather than the much larger bureaucracies of their national governments.
If you need just reverse proxy, Caddyfile syntax looks simpler:

myapp.company.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}
I can send you a photo if you like.
UX designer here who has done nothing but design web, mobile and related UI since about 2000, mostly working for or at large consumer brands (and now thinking of retiring).

I'd definitely agree with the idea that change for change's sake is responsible for a lot of usability problems.

But a bigger problem is the near extinction of any professional discussion or capable analysis of design by the people who are doing it.

Most designers I work with don't have the vocabulary or knowledge about what makes something "usable" in the wider sense, let alone the ability to actually solve subtle interaction design or information display problems. With no knowledge or interest in basic heuristics, they literally don't know where to start. So they just live in Figma playing with colours, shapes and effects, pausing only to show some variations of the same UI for "user testing". It's become a wilfully ignorant, "non-technical" cult of innovation that's completely lost sight of its original purpose.

To say I'm ashamed of my profession is no exaggeration. We've failed so badly.
makes sense in a weird way. if you're running. pineapple got plenty of sugar in em which is exactly what you need when you're running and eating at the same time.
i dont think that would enlarge your organs accordingly, youre already grown.
I have some random monitor from China based on a laptop panel and "HDR mode" seems to mean something along the lines of "without the sRGB EOTF". However, the software support for HDR in Windows 11 is so bad that I just use the sRGB mode instead, which does a really good job.
I'd be happy that I was wrong, as I do hope the US value hardworking in school.
> "I was executing a lot of ... “things” but why was I doing them?"

This is a general problem, not just a marketing one: people who mistake frenzy for action and action for progress.
Wow, 60 items and I don't disagree with any of them.
Hmm, this wasn't known when I last saw Sylvester. I guess there have been some investigations since.
What Are the Risks of Skiplagging?
> Kill the still running thread when you get the message

This is extremely difficult. I mentioned elsewhere that the only way to kill a thread is through the pthread_cancel API, which is very dangerous.

Languages with larger runtimes can get around this because they have all sorts of things like global locks or implicit cooperative yielding. So they don't ever have to "kill" a thread, they actually just join it when it yields.
These people are probably not game developers because frame dips are all over the place on console and PC gaming.
> The cool kids had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ and a Radeon 9600. The rich kids had a 9800

Oh man. I had the 9800XT with aftermarket Zalman cooling. I didn't know what attention was before I went to a lan with that build. Got called the coolest things and the worst things
Look at a graph over time with just about any metric of "progress" on the Y axis. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/8/18052076/human-...

Basically, on a linear scale, "nothing" happened in all of human history until the industrial revolution.
Since we have a road-trip problem, we should have a road-trip focused solution. Mandate that EVs allow DC 'fast' charging while driving, and then encourage companies with national car/truck/trailer rental networks like u-haul to rent diesel generators on trailers. You pick up a generator when you depart, and drop it off when you arrive.

This is a way better solution than PHEV, since you don't need to carry around a combustion engine the 95% of the time when you're not on a road trip. And its a better solution than gigantic batteries for the same reason -- you have less weight to carry around the vast majority of the time.
I am starting to add CPU detection support to PlatformInfo. A partial implementation for inux is planned for beta 4, full implementation for all OSes beta 5.
Why not just use a VPN in both cases? That’s more or less what your NAT solution is doing, except without the encryption to the data center.
Injection of CO2 into water happens naturally in the ocean. Unfortunately ocean didn't respond to any of the VC calls.

Injecting CO2 into rocks "all by itself" is extremely slow because it's exothermic and because surface of rocks is too small. You need to crush the rocks (energy) and heat them up (energy).
I'm pretty sure it was not: there's much more effective ways to launder money than a high profile startup
This news has been around for awhile. Seems to be quite a buzz among longevity startups that these could be the first true longevity drugs as they can extend healthy lifespan. In one respect they could validate the idea of a longevity drug, but also prove to be the dread first mover as they are approved and in the market well ahead of anybody be else. Could be very interesting if side effects remain minor and the drug proved safe enough to use in many other interventions.
You could make it so private citizens could bring criminal trials if the DA passes on them. This solves the DA and prosecution corruption problem where they are unwilling to prosecute for personal or career reasons.

Obviously there are risks to opening up the floodgates to private criminal prosecution, so you need restrictions and checks to avoid abuse by the wealthy and powerful. However, in some sense, the wealthy and powerful can already do that in the current system via access to the DAs, so it is not as much of a risk increase as it would seem.

The key here is figuring out a robust set of restrictions. Just to get ahead of the responses, I do not claim to have a comprehensive solution, so there is no point quibbling with me about how my proposal is incomplete. Take the problems you point out as areas of improvement and think about how they could be solved.
See also this author's Short Thoughts on Computers and Programming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32935466
Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates
Thank you for pointing out that the right side of the graph is labeled in F and the left label is in C.
Luke went to dagobah for training with Yoda for a long time, then spent years more training after that. And then then he was no match for Vader and palpatine, they were still toying with him just trying to turn him to the dark side. What he really did was make Anakin look inward and redeem himself by killing the emperor. He became a competent Jedi but never became stronger than everybody else before him like Rey did.
The problem with that is “manga” is also a japanese word for “comic book,” which could result in some confusion.
The source code is visible with Ctrl+U, I didn't minimize anything. The g9 use is pretty neat. It definitely deserves the shout-out I gave it.

I just now uploaded a worse C++ desktop version with saving and loading: https://github.com/ad8e/local-curves This desktop version is 5 years old. I think the web version is better. This github repo is only interesting if you want to copy code from it; it's not practical as a drawing tool.
Wow, I didn't know Knuth said that. I would've been 7 years old at the time - wild.
It does have context -- it's on Steve Blank's blog. Now, if you have never heard of Blank, I suppose it is context-free in that sense. But I was expecting an essay riffing on the idea of "profound beliefs", and I got exactly that.

I have the same problem with other titles -- the world of Javascript front-end frameworks seems to very commonly have a name collision with some word or phrase from a context that I care about, and then I click through and find web front-end stuff, which I care about much, much less than what the cafe is serving for lunch. It's just part of the overhead of surfing HN. You'll be fine.
There's a huge difference.

I change what I believe when it's proven wrong.

You just dig in deeper, believing things that have been proven wrong even harder that ever.
Presumably this means that power is underpriced (potentially for political reasons). Increase prices and any issues should fix themselves.
So, I have a hard-to-guess password and 2FA, and the creator of Ethereum does not ?
What were y'all working on back then?
> I want to know that some folder full of source code is the program, and some other folder is the data …

That would be completely ordinary with Smalltalk.

"Within each project, a set of changes you make to class descriptions is maintained. … Using a browser view of this set of changes, you can find out what you have been doing. Also, you can use the set of changes to create an external file containing descriptions of the modifications you have made to the system so that you can share your work with other users."

1984 Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment page 46

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...
What is this insane full page ad on mobile…
I would love to hear what exactly about the grammar doesn't sound native.
All the ones I know have a coded lock on the door, and one (in a college kid area) requires employees to open the door.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Google Deprecates Google Domains, Sells It to Squarespace - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140806 - Aug 2023 (47 comments)

Ask HN: Who should I use for Domain Names since Google Domains has been sold? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868082 - July 2023 (11 comments)

Google Domains to Shut Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36437962 - June 2023 (12 comments)

Google is selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36423465 - June 2023 (124 comments)

Google Cloud Domains is to be fully deprecated as part of Google Domains sale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36369701 - June 2023 (45 comments)

Ask HN: Where are you moving your Google domains to? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364519 - June 2023 (16 comments)

Ask HN: Why would Google sell Google domains to Squarespace? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36352347 - June 2023 (72 comments)

Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346454 - June 2023 (606 comments)
I'm being asked to judge them solely on their _apparent_ business acumen, which is to be demonstrated by the size of the thing they've assembled.

They _may_ very well be geniuses by your measure, but I have no way of accurately assessing that from here, and I'm uncomfortable with using sheer scale as a proxy.
> minitel... are essentially thin clients as far as I know.

They could definitely do some local computing. Most notably to me is that by the mid 90s you could stick your credit card in and it would negotiate with the chip in the card so you could buy something securely.

(Apologies to American readers who didn't get chips in their cards for another couple of decades)
A lot of tests do a little of both-- no calculators and questions that are simple numerically... and then functions that are pretty intractable and require effective use of the calculator for a little bit (but a good understanding of what you're manipulating/trying to find).
Just FYI: if you have a URL to post, just post it, without commentary in your submission. If you have something to say about the article you're submitting, you can write a normal comment after posting it.
You must be one of these who believe that if you have a copy of a game binary and all its dependent libraries down to the last byte it will work as-is on a newer desktop. The entire point of my previous post is that this is as far from the truth as it gets, and even if I keep such a backup set of libraries (which we do, as that is the easiest part) the game will still not work.

Nothing that you mentioned is absolutely of use and is just going to get in the way. For example, the kernels you are going to need to use likely don't even have NPTL. No ELF exec in the NixOS "binary cache" will even work without NPTL; NixOS did not exist during the LinuxThreads eras.

Reproducible builds are absolutely useless here; I have the exact binaries that I want to run already, and most of the solutions are going to require patching the underlying libraries while still running the same game binary, practically the complete opposite idea to "reproducible builds and reproducible dependencies". You are going to spend more time fighting the package manager than the actual problems. How much does NixOS help running games which require OSS? Old versions of OpenGL that your graphics card now supports only poorly?

Static linking and NixOS may have its usefulness somewhere but definitely not here. They are not guarantees of long-term compatibility, and may actually hinder it (by preventing patching of the underlying libraries, and enforcing deviations from LSB that a lot of software can't cope with).
There are motors with peak efficiency about 90%. The first one of those I ran into was fifteen years ago. Which means not only is it possible but the patents will have expired, if not now then soon.

Power density has gone almost too far. There’s one pancake motor I’ve seen recently where the shape of the enclosure is dictated by mounting concerns. You have to be able to mount the motor to something it can’t tear apart. If they shrunk that motor another 20% then it would be half housing. I’m not sure where you go from there. Thinner? Motor per wheel?
Should have had the oven on shock absorbers.
> One option would be taxing energy. The carbon tax would be small by that time. That would also keep the price higher.

Taxing energy, carbon or otherwise, is highly regressive. It only works if you refund the money. Otherwise people freeze to death or go broke.

Taxing non-carbon energy makes no sense because you're not trying to discourage it. You might as well just use income tax.

> I had idea for retroactive carbon tax, making people pay for their past consumption.

The records to use for this are unavailable. Nobody knows how much gasoline someone bought in 1995. It would also generally be impossible to collect; what if your contribution for 75 years of carbon emissions was meant to be $250,000 and you only have $100,000? Do we take your last dime and leave you to starve? What about people who are already dead? Do their kids have to pay?

Retroactive taxes and taxes on retirees are both going to be intensely unpopular.

Which is why people want to justify it by claiming we're going to have a lot of surplus energy to use for it. But how does that work unless the competing demand for energy is negligible, which seems implausible?

Every part of it seems like some company trying to extract government money for their inefficient solution that costs more than it would to reduce emissions by the same amount.
> If you have ever used C#'s LINQ you are using transducers. The fact that LINQ works item at a time instead of collection at a time is all that's being discussed. That if you say take the first two in a 1,000,000 long collection LINQ will only enumerate the first 2 items and not all 1,000,000 is the other behavior. And the way to do this is by composing operations using a "." operator into a "query" to run.

Isn't that just function composition to build the map function? I guess that where the magic can come in is that function composition is associative, which allows for some really interesting opportunities for runtime optimization that, so far as I know, haven't been seriously explored.
Great list … thanks for sharing
A bit more than that since Xbox runs Windows too.
…this time. Next time maybe not. That written policy is as flexible as your employment.
This is a nice post but not a valid Show HN - please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I've taken "Show HN" out of the title now.
Slide switches are just awful. A skeuomorphism that doesn't work. Checkboxes are far better, assuming there aren't double negatives in the label text (e.g. a check means something is disabled.... the developers who do this should be shot at dawn).
Garden-path title [0] if I've ever seen one

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
The gap between "can and may" and "will" might seem a bit nit-picky, but vintermann's interpretation depends very heavily on that "will."

There's also nothing special about being arrested that makes it so that anything you say could be used against you in court. It's really a just reminder that your right to remain silent may have value to you.
The unfortunate reality of working with responsive layouts and unlimited canvas sizes are that it's rare to see anything on the web that looks as delightful as a page in a magazine or book, where the dimensions/aspect ratio are static. There are occasionally some pages that really demonstrate the best of what can be but creating these is significantly more expensive than designing a nice looking layout for a magazine.

I actually really miss designing webpages without any consideration for accessibility or for different sized screens because I felt like you could be a lot more creative back when you'd just throw a "Best viewed at 800x600 in Internet Explorer" disclaimer on your website.