skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That quake demo is surely running on the WASM runtime which isn't really related to JavaScript: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly
Yes, you're absolutely right. It's why there are equal numbers of homeless people in Minneapolis and Los Angeles in December.
What the new features iOS 17 offering?
That's a shame
> If your database has a MONEY or CURRENCY data type, use that.

But hopefully only after understanding how it treats these, and whether that's compatible with your requirements.

> Just as you should use proper DATE or DATETIME data types for time and not roll your own

I'm always happy to use the database's date/time format – if it's actually implemented in a sane way and is compatible with my data.

For example, I work with data provided by external partners that specifies dates:

Sometimes they're only specifying the year as a single-digit integer (and you have to guess which one they mean, based on the current date and the hope that the files they send you are not older than 5-10 years). Sometimes there is no year at all. Sometimes the timestamps have an implied timezone, sometimes they're UTC, and sometimes they're supposed to be UTC, but really are in some unspecified local timezone.

In these cases, it can indeed be better to store these as strings and deferring interpretation until you actually process them.
If that's the case you're trying to present, your article should be clearer about that. That wikipedia entry also doesn't seem to bolster your case. It doesn't even mention the battle of Cannae, but it does talk extensively about the importance of capturing the Belgian rail network for the German logistics in fighting France
Never played any of the Heroes games - what's the draw to 3 specifically, above 4, 5 etc?
"One legal scholar"?
I ran into an old diplomat BMW 7-series in the junkyard in the 90s and that thing was so cool. It had a gun holster in the rear arm rest, like 2" thick windows, probably weighed like 7,000lb from all the armor and everything.

Which has me thinking, all this is cool, but the EV portion and all that weight just feels like you'll be a heavily armored sitting duck if you can't get away quick enough and the battery runs out. Probably doesn't matter though, even if it has 200-mile range this vehicle will probably be used at most within 20-50 miles of its home base.
Good point. We need to keep the good stuff and get rid of the single use plastics and other aberrations that put profits over sustainability.
What I am saying is the layout is the benefit. On Bing I have to switch over to Chat and wait.
Given the extremely high cost, why do you think countries with nuclear weapons have conventional military at all?
I agree with you. There are far more wealthy transplants buying the houses and changing policies after being here 4 seconds than there are inbound homeless.
> It is because the thirdparty country didn't put in the work to align it's local rules to the rules of the treaty.

I don't think this contradicts my analogy. You could say non-EU cars just haven't put in the work to be compatible.
It's not mega investors who are buying most homes. Most homes are just going to people that saved a fuckload of money over the pandemic or people that already have a home and can use its equity to get another one. The economy is doing very well, I don't think there will be any shortage of people who want homes, even at current interest rates and prices.
I would not be super proud to have contributed to that kind of technology. Raises the point: "is technology always neutral"? At least those working in technology should regularly think about it.
Matt Taibbi brought up a case of a guy who put up montages of Trump saying the 2020 election was rigged cut up with clips of liberal media figures saying the Russians stole 2016.

Pure trolling, kind of funny, 100% clips of public figures with no commentary. Demonetized.
Are there YT alternatives for TV/PS5? That's my primary consumption way, I don't watch YT on my computer.
Why? Roads go where people want to go. Trains go where planning authorities want people to go.
Innocent until proven guilty is a standard for court proceedings. I am not a court, and I can even disagree with what a court decides. I can use my own judgment to draw conclusions and form opinions. For example, I can be confident that OJ is a murderer even though be was not convicted and was declared not guilty.
This is incredible news for those projects. What is the current exchange rate between Github stars and money?
Great.
I am also working on a idea for user event tracking from backend execution. It is also somewhat analytics. Any suggestion?
Eww, you're not kidding, that's awful.

Java is my most ambivalent language. There's things I love, and things I hate, and when it's good it's really good, when it's bad ... Yuck.

That said, I do think Python went worse with f-strings. Would have loved to see Java look to Groovy for inspiration.
I bought a shirt from his presidential campaign and frequently wear it when traveling through airports. Not once has anyone recognized it and I think that's a shame.
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Nobody asked for an AI generated response
The trick was original once. I don't know if that first was the blank canvas or the silent music track, but every other iteration is just a copy.

Regarding the fulfilment of expectation of the intended audience: I agree that it is an important aspect, but it will not make art good, merely makes it marketable. I have a feeling that museums are only serving as means of advertisements, to keep the perceived brand value of these items (and people) high. Criticising it is just as dangerous for this, as remote work is for the real-estate bubble. Criticists are stakeholders in this game, as well as the authors and the buyers. Their livelihood depends on the public agreeing to, or at least accepting the valuation of these items.

I think the real art in (post)modern art is this control of the public opinion, a large illusionistic trick. To me it seems similar to the "crypto" scam, so NFTs were kind of a perfect post-modern works of art! (when they were novel)
Same here, as well as the original Jagged Alliance 2 DVD case. Glad to add HoMM3 to my list of previously closed-source games that are now open. Now if only they'd open source NeverWinter Nights . . .
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How the NSA successfully manage to prevent the Washington Post and friends from discovering and reporting on this malicious backdoor? They've been sitting on these documents for a decade. Are the journalists just that *uncurious* about the deep contents of the documents they hold exclusive access to? Was this some kind of organizational failing?
It's curious how people are responding to the title, rather than the post, which touches on the title but is mostly about another thing:

>> There’s something beguiling about the thought that a simple arrangement of lines might explain the world — like seeing human history as an enormous game of Civilization 6. But of course, that’s also the problem with using maps as a way of understanding history. If you’re not careful, they go from being helpful tools to misleading simplifications.

To which I think the blog post makes an interesting argument.

I've always thought about maps from a Tufte perspective:

(1) They are abstractions from reality. (2) Consequently, they simplify and omit select details. (3) Consequently, they are created with an inherent and specific purpose in mind: details necessary for that purpose are included, those unneeded are omitted.(4) Ergo, we must be careful to understand a map's original purpose and ask whether its abstractions are likely to remain valid if we choose to employ it for another.

F.ex. the tactical drawing of Cannae's double envelopment likely doesn't generalize to the strategic realm
He almost died as well. It fits well in the quote op listed. Oddly, it even addresses your critical response: that it is easy to be a Tuesday morning quarterback.
It looks so bad in the context they give themselves:

C# $"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}"

Visual Basic $"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}"

Python f"{x} plus {y} equals {x + y}"

Scala s"$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"

Groovy "$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"

Kotlin "$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"

JavaScript `${x} plus ${y} equals ${x + y}`

Ruby "#{x} plus #{y} equals #{x + y}"

Swift "\(x) plus \(y) equals \(x + y)"

And finally:

Java STR."\{x} plus \{y} equals \{x + y}"
The absolute value of the debt is related to an annual thing: the interest payments on that debt. Those interest payments account for almost 10% of the US federal budget now, and that number will only rise with interest rates.
I’m using project manifold’s string templates[1] and loving it.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
They are now part of Marvell Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavium

Wonder if agreeing to enable NSA backdoors they agreed to be compensated when eventually that fact is leaked. "If nobody starts buying your chips, don't worry, we will! ... and then promptly throw them into the recycling bin"

Also interesting is if Marvell knew their acquired tech had this "cool feature".
Is this a(n attempted) troll or an honest question? There's a mountain of new libraries and language features since then ...
> but there's little that can actually be done

Decrease taxes, encourage entrepreneurship and VC funding, and Canadian salaries will rise while cost of living will come down.
I demand reasonable units of length: bananas, giraffes, or smoots.

Though I suspect information is being kept deliberately vague Because Reasons.
Many cars like this have their own private jet to deliver it where it is to be used. You'll see many such cases around any major environmental conference.
Or Finnish taxes. You don't need to file anything, it's automatically done for you. If you need some money back e.g. driving for work, you fill a quick form digitally and that's it.
This looks like the perfect usecase to extract the data to sqlite, and slap a quick SQLPage UI on it !
Self-Discipline Exercises for a Happy Life
It's a "pick your battles" kinda thing, you're not gonna get someone at Starbucks write your name down properly if it isn't something they can easily hear over the murmur of a crowd.

That said, if I were in that situation I would double down on it in anything formal - documents, graduation ceremonies, weddings, lawsuits, etc.
I don't play mobas specifically, though
Fun and balanced castles, expansions and mods, playable and bug-free on modern systems. It's a great game, or actually several games in one: town-building, map exploration, RPG, chess-like strategy battles
never played 4 or 5, but from reviews at the time it sounded like 4 and 5 were just lower effort games coasting on the reputation of 2 and 3
Would you be happier if people were having their guttural reactions to the people involved in creating or using cryptocurrency instead of the technology itself? Would it make a difference?
The problem you have here is one of conflation of causality.

Successful religions are a self sustaining meme. "You must have kids", "You must teach your kids the religion", "Attack/destroy/other anything that interferes with the first two directives".

You're not successful because religion is great or whatever, the success came from the prerogative of "religious reproduction".
You should charge $500 a pop for this. People will pay
What do you think are the disadvantages of Django?
Fascinating work.

Many are rightfully dismissive of the modern sun-sign based astrology found in cosmo or your local paper.

However, in the East astrology (in the form of Jyotish, and used the sidereal vs tropical zodiac) has been in use for thousands of years and is quite a mature discipline.

I do see it as more descriptive vs explanatory. Many of the professional astrologers don’t claim that the heavenly bodies are directly responsible for material phenomena. However it is hard to deny the coincidences when you start looking more closely at the charts, and looking at related charts to see the similarities across family members/spouse/close friends.

I think works like this do a disservice by moving astrology away from what is basically glorified statistics / data science and into the bucket of disciplines like necromancy and the like.
I'm curious: will virtual threads make coroutines "better" (like, more efficient), or will they just enable different ways of doing concurrency?
It's not unheard of in the UK either on official documents to put last name first, for example a lot of correspondance from banks etc would be "to mr lastname firstname"
From yesterday,

Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37556605) (696 points | 217 comments)
Are there modern learning resources available for Java?
The German military prior to WWI had far, far more political power than the US military in 2003. Voltaire's famous line "Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state" didn't change in the intervening centuries, except that they acquired a whole empire in the meantime.
Yep, Unity wants 4% from me if that’s what they change? So be it. I can’t use Unreal for my studio and Godot is a pile of garbage for anything serious. Unity knows this.

https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity...
He was literally shot during a speech but continued speaking for an entire hour while bleeding out. Sounds like actual adversity to me. You're free to try that and prove history wrong.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-rooseve...
Slack has to be the clunkiest, slowest app I have ever used. It makes visual studio seem fast.

Electron apps are the hill I want to die on.

It is against hacker ethos, incredibly slow and bloated, and teaches devs features are the only thing which matters and not how much memory or cpu runtime it uses.
Yes. For ARM, having apple as a customer is a massive investor and customer confidence boost.

For Apple, they won't offer much because they could develop their own CPU architecture ISA pretty easily (they control all code and compilers for the platform after all, and already employ lots of compiler and CPU developers).
And let's not even start on more archaic / aristocratic or educational titles, like "master", "lord", "doctor" and "sir". Although it's great to be able to double down on those in some situations, like how women with doctorates are still often refered to as "miss" / "mrs" instead of "doctor".
Mastodon link for those so inclined: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/111091979256440306
The hacking gap.
Fresher readers might note how old this is. "Code and Other Laws of
Cyberspace" is a 1999 book by Lawrence Lessig. The linked summary is
by students of cyber-politics, where their mention of more
contemporary affairs makes it seem more up to date.

The impressive part is how prescient is Lessig in identifying points
of friction two decades ahead of time.

A few blind-spots we can now see:

1) That the structure and governance of the Internet might never
resolve into a stable, lawful and universally acceptable utility, but
that it remains forever a highly dynamic, unstable proxy battleground
for real-word geopolitical forces.

2) That governments and commerce might side together in a Faustian
pact against "people and society" to produce an Internet that is
entirely a mechanism for control and extraction to be fought against,
rather than through.

3) That AI would emerge making moot concepts of "identity", "truth",
and much more, so requiring a whole new set of legal and technical
concepts hitherto unparalleled in reality.

I'm sure HN readers can suggest a few more.
Pros and cons, you can't look just at this example. Also, a project as big as Brexit takes many years to play out; the transition has barely begun, the conversation is futile at this point, and will be for years.
GPT-4 said to study up on football, especially the Sooners, try the fried Okra, say please and thank you a lot, and get used to car dependence, vast empty spaces, extreme weather, confusing language styles of seeming friendly but not meaning it, and increased physical distance between even friends.
ive been at a few F500 companies, and while internally that might be true... you can just quit.

if anything, that "I can just go" leads to more of a cult or prison than a dictatorship.
Yet another in the growing list of reasons to never buy a Tesla. I would go further, that this is an instinct that Musk has tells me strongly to avoid using anything Musk has his fingers in.
It’s hard to put corporations at the same level as the actual government when it comes to “how I am governed.” Corporations can’t (in general) put me in jail or issue fines against me if I don’t interact with them. I am not forced to do business with them or use their services. For example, I’m not a Twitter user, so nothing they write in their code “regulates” me, and nothing other Twitter users say affects my behavior.
GraalVM for JDK 21
The tweet seems to imply that the entire Ubiquiti Networks line of network hardware could be compromised.
That's a shame; I was thinking of installing some in my house.
I'm sure that Ubiquiti's customers will not be happy if they find out that the US Govt can access their private data.
FTX Bankruptcy Estate Sues SBF's Parents to Claw Back ‘Misappropriated Funds
You added 10 of those items as inventory with a total value of 14.33, then you sold each individually as a total value of 14.40. After that transaction, your inventory account has -0.07 on it, but there aren't any items at all there.
I have a genuine question about Loom / virtual threads / etc.

In languages with async-await syntax, I like that it is explicit what is sync and what is async. I also like how the "bind" points within an async expression make it clear where the syncronization happens. It seems to me that Java 21 makes all of this implicit, which is a step backward in this respect.

Similar to how types enforce valid usage (a foundational idea in Java), I feel that an Async<T> should not be implicitly a T.

Are people concerned about this at all?

Have the Java designers addressed this?
The article suggests that the CEO is usually the highest paid position in a company, not the board members. The board is the most important position, however, as it is the representation of the ownership.
de/te as in English or de/te as in pinyin? She and the article could well be both right if she's talking about pinyin pronunciation and the article not.
I would assume they would instead rent them locally, transporting them sounds excessive unless they're super customized.
On a technical level this wouldn't be too surprising. Cavium hardware has things like configurable/programmable in hardware hashing of packets which can then be used by the (much slower, but in the Cavium case numerous) CPUs to decide how to handle it. Their SoCs contain enough that hiding something on there would not be impossible, and using the hashing/routing etc. that enabled performance requires trusting blobs from Cavium.
> For every homeless person whose down on their luck or deeply involved in a drug addiction, there's 1000s who came from disenfranchised backgrounds who 'made it'

Given that there are ~528,000 homeless people in the United States that's an impossible statistic.
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LINQ in EntityFramework (EF) supports querying JSON columns as objects [1].

unnest support is potentially on the horizon for EF core for PG [2], but already supported for Couchbase [3].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/ef/core/what-is-new/ef-cor...

[2] https://github.com/npgsql/efcore.pg/issues/1525

[3] https://github.com/couchbaselabs/Linq2Couchbase/blob/master/...
I gather that everyone who actually knows their stuff consider the F35 very capable for its price, but still the number of reports of it crashing seems quite odd to my civilian ear, is this much crashing just normal for military equipment? As a comparison I searched for data on a civilian plane of roughly the same age:

- The F35, with ~965+ units made since 2006, had 12 incidents with 9 or 10 hull-losses

- The Boeing 787, with ~1,077 units made since 2007, had 7 incidents with 0 hull-losses

I know that military does more dangerous stuff that civilians (e.g. one of the F35 crashes was during aerial refueling, other one while landing in a carrier), but still a ~1% hull loss (without enemy fire) is surprising for me.
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