skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not great but they’re just aliases so they’re interchangeable, which means you can keep everything consistent within a project and it won’t cause any problems when interacting with outside code
I dread a world where each citizen will have (access to?) a zoo of 3D models, artificially made physical representations of those (like plastic flowers, or a fake flamingo in your garden), rich virtual worlds filled with beauty...

...while the real life creatures represented, are only a tiny tiny fraction of that real+virtual whole [1].

Or have long gone extinct.

While masses of people spend more time exploring virtual worlds than the real one.

It used to be we could have both. Vast virtual worlds, and beautiful nature outside.

Nowadays... the latter being degraded or outright destroyed, more & more no matter where you look.

[1] In that flamingo example: I've read an estimate that for each life/wild specimen, there might be >100 fake ones out there (might as well be 1:1000 or 1:10000, who knows). Or eg. see:

https://xkcd.com/1338
Why are you surprised. Just type Google = bad on word doc and you'll get published
> I never admitted any bad faith because I never argued in bad faith.

Not so. You clearly stated that you were focused on my supposed "mania". That is an admission of bad faith. You know full well that even if it were true, it has no relevance to anything in this thread and is a fallacious diversion.

> you immediately assumed the worst of the person

I assumed nothing about the person until the person stated that he wanted to change the subject to talk about me. A random topic change is in bad faith, ad hominem is in bad faith, and bringing feelings to a discussion is in bad faith.

> I will not engage in this discussion any further.

Are you under the impression that this is a train station? You do not need to announce your departure. Logically, we understand you have stopped participating in the discussion when you stop participation in the discussion. This is another bad faith device.

Do better.
Not mentioned on the table I know https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types

edit: Oh you're right

> Other models are very rare. For example, ILP64 (8/8/8: int, long, and pointer are 64-bit) only appeared in some early 64-bit Unix systems (e.g. UNICOS on Cray).
> The Tsar Bomba (5.3YW) managed about 2% of the power output of the Sun (384YW)

TIL

You know what's even more amazing/frightening? There is no power limit for hydrogen bombs. You could take a bomb like the Tsar Bomba or Castle Bravo and use that as a blasting cap to trigger an even larger fusion stage. ... and on, and on, in a vast nested turducken of kaboom.

One of the ideas to deflect a planet killer asteroid would, if we had time, be to land there and build a base and assemble such a mega-bomb deep underground.
those side scrollers were made following the same model of arcade games, which means you are supposed to 'lose' often so you or somebody elae put another quarter on the machine. It was not an artistic choice like in the Souls games.
Huh, I've had just about the opposite experience. Windows 11 is when I finally stopped using DisplayFusion. What is the problem you're running in to?
I feel like all stories are advertisements.
It really is a fundamental difference in goal, for it is the duty and objective of a dedicated software engineer to replace themselves.
Point Nemo:

* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility
TL;DR: Cost.
Let's hope it doesn't put everyone out at the same time.
If anything, in this case it appears that a contracted artist made an error.

The bigwig studio executives don't composite their own ad posters.
If China can make fast RISC-V chips to compete, they can make fast ARM chips to compete too.

Artificially limiting software is only going to hold back everyone.
This is easily solved by also adding copper tracks on the backside of the connector!
I've always been an avid reader and for as long as I've able to read I've always read multiple books at a time, depending on my mood, and I finish them all. Granted I didn't grow up with the massive amount of available media kids have today, but I don't see a problem with kids reading multiple books at a time, if they go through them anyway. I much prefer this than kids not reading at all.

I can see your point though, I just can't agree with the books part, from my personal experience.
Google changed ad auctions, raising prices 15%, witness says
I think we're very used to encountering projects that have a level of polish or completeness. It's jarring when we come across amateur (for the love of) projects and homepages that lack such.

For the record, I agree, I found I wanted a better look at all the theme had to offer.

I am just a little fed up with this kind of entitlement that comes when someone puts something they've created out there. We want to encourage people to release their stuff, even if it is a little rough. Give them tips, help them. Don't just attack it. IMO HN will be better for it.

But maybe that's just me
Serge is great, but Vital whips the llama's ass: https://vital.audio/

There was a time when Sylenth and Serum-quality synthesizers didn't exist for free. Back then, shit like Serge and Helm were really the best you could rely on. Maybe a few free U-HE plugins or your DAW defaults. Today's producers are downright spoiled with so many excellent free options!
I think better in pen and paper somehow. I don't know why. Whenever I need some serious thinking and designing, I reach out to paper and pen. My brain just wire differently on keyboard. I'm surprised to learn many feel differently
I should really get on board with this. Instead I have GPUs, laptops and tablets just gathering dust because "one day I might need it"! Unfortunately my family motto appears to be buy high sell never.
That has not been my experience with HDMI, I've never had a cable anywhere close to popping out because of gravity, no matter the orientation.
Newsom vetoes bill to make free condoms available for hs students, citing cost
I had to read the article carefully before I got it. It wasn't Disney that was using generative AI. One of their artists used a licensed stock image for a background element (which is 100% acceptable thing to do!) and people are complaining that this background element from the stock image company was AI generated.

"Disney" isn't the culprit here!
Mastering the Art of Resolving Issues: A Communication Guide
I have a lot of dealings with animals (the family business is a riding academy) so of course I have a high opinion of the intelligence of mammals.

I have had fewer dealing with birds but the ones I have had (like getting into a fight with the same pair of geese for three years in a row) have led me to believe birds are just as smart as mammals.
When there's a straight road ahead, no junction just a straight road, but a red light for a pedestrian crossing, cars must stop.

But when there's a turn into a pedestrian crossing, and the light's red, no stop is required.

That's madness, yet it's an often accepted default.
Poor Pieter Hintjens, he probably did this as soon as he learned about his cancer:

-CEO, iMatix Corporation sprl
-23 April 2016

By October 2016 he was dead.

This PR basically merges his final commit.

I find it very sad.
That does make a difference though, because if you dynamically link it the user can modify the library and put it back in place of the original. Being able to modify things is one of the main aims of the GPL
The same company which allowed a user to use my own email address to create an account without even verifying their email address?

The same company spamming my email address with a newsletter which I can't unsubscribe from?

The same company where you contact their DPO and they won't reply?

Yes, I've heard about them...
Yes, but you can't use the BX5 5BD postcode if you do. They give you an alternative address for couriers.
Sounds like a problem with Threads, not AI
I think they definitely should, as this is where the greatest value lies in NixOS for personal use.
The moral burden that Nobel's memory should bear is probably worth debating but we absolutely should take the opportunity to remind ourselves that the Nobel prize (whether the 'actual' one or this riksbanks thing) is one possible prize among many others much lesser known, and that there frequently is highly important research that never wins any notable prize at all. Examples: Freeman Dyson, Gilbert Lewis, Margaret Burbidge -- none of them won the Nobel but won other prizes for arguably equally important work. I'm not even suggesting going 'out there' and mentioning someone like Stephen Wolfram.

The way that the Nobel prize gets referred to in American media sometimes makes me feel like it is an almost religious invocation (except that they do not actually say the words "hallowed" or "blessed") -- if a Nobel laureate has said X is the case, who are you to say X is not the case, etc.
> Instead of focusing on China and India, which are the major polluters clearly shows that the EU lost the sight of the big picture.

This is focusing on China and India.
so... what I'm seeing is that C got it wrong relative to the way things actually work and get used.

the fact that you had to have tribal knowledge about all of this is why C shouldn't stay for the long term and we should phase out languages into ones with stronger more correct defaults.

would a new programmer use "long long"? would they notice immediately that things didn't work if they didn't use it?

Rust got it correct by labeling the bits with the type directly
Somewhat surprising mold production would even be considered to be sent to China. Every place I've been either does their own on-site or has a local partner doing the machining. After all, these are not mass-produced parts, they're generally one-off with dimensions and fixtures designed to fit specific machines and materials.
So, not actually USB compliant? (save for the connector)

One can't blame non-compliant cables on USB-C as it could happen with any other connector.
Usually the right slash of 不 doesn't touch the rest, so I didn't notice it
Area of iphone sensor is 3x smaller than MFT. That is significant, but still comparable. (MFT itself is 4x smaller than fullframe)
I'll read a bit here and there but CS was always more of the traditional pathway to software engineering for me. I do still love to read language theory (what I can understand, at least). It's a very neat glimpse at what we can hope to see in our compilers in the upcoming decades.
What's the problem with low quality and low effort? Let the market decide if they like it or not.
> Much of theoretical computer science is math, like much of modern theoretical physics is also math.

Math is not science - regardless of whether it’s masquerading as computer science or certain branches of theoretical physics.

This makes me sound down on mathematics which I’m certainly not. It’s both useful and can be profoundly beautiful. And it can be an integral tool in science — or studied on its own merits. But it’s not science.
The whole article feels like a strawman, I wasn't aware anyone was presuming antimatter could lead to the negative energy required for the warp drive metrics...

Antimatter is not negative mass or energy. The experiment verifying it falls down wasn't surprising
> Can you try to describe how you'd "drill down" on informal speech to transform it into such a system?

As I said, just keep asking "why?" or "what does that mean?", then repeat that with the answer. Sooner or later you hit an assumption and a shrug. I wouldn't understand Gödel's proof even if I tried to, I'm sure -- it "rings true" because it matches my own intellectual observations regardless where I turn.

> As long as those assumptions align with reality to the best of our knowledge and the end result passes all tests we can think of, what does it matter whether there might be more to know?

It matters for the question whether you can fully describe a system from within that system, that's all. But I'd argue even whether we made an effort or no effort, whether it passes all the tests we came up with or doesn't, doesn't really matter (in regards to that question) because any ground we cover won't bridge what remains an infinite distance. I still think it's good, but it's more like going for a walk each day: you always arrive where you started out, you're just getting fresh air and what other temporary benefits come with it. It beats just staying where you started out.

I can't find the quote but apparently Werner Heisenberg said something along those lines, that we basically set out to find the bed rock of reality, but more and more are just facing ourselves, that is, our instruments of measurement and ways to conceptualize things. And again, I don't know jack about quantum mechanics and don't want to call on the authority of Heisenberg and Gödel. But I hear they know their fields, right, and it matches everything I know in any area, both the ones I am bad in and the ones I am really bad in.

I'm not saying it's a problem, just that that's how it is. But thinking you know the ultimate and final truth because it passes all tests (e.g. witches sink), and thinking software is actually intelligent because it convinces you it is, when it really isn't, can be super mega dangerous. And comments how picking the statistically most likely word is "basically what our brain does" [0] etc. show an even worse possibility; where we take the shortcut of just confusing what we are creating with us, because then it's easy and now we know how we think (when we really don't, not remotely). It just generally seems backwards to start out with the goal of "AI" when we can't even describe what we're looking for, much less how to build or find it. Having no more than "we'll know it when we have it", plus eagerness to claim we have it, is a recipe for at least a lot of circus, if not disaster.

[0] And that's on HN. Now ponder, for example, the average opinion of HN on say, whether banks should limit your passwords in all sorts of weird way that imply they're not hashing them, and how much worse the "real world" is. In this case, even the people at the forefront are so keen to move fast and break things, so the "real world" is pretty much doomed I'd say.
Bad for equities, in real terms, over what time frame? Things tend to revert to the mean.
Yes they do IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and IntelliJ IDEA Community are separate IDEs.
We still don't know if regular matter is gravitationally repelled by antimatter. If so, we'd have violation of conservation of momentum and some interesting things might be possible. But I'm not holding my breath ;-)
I don't understand this result. How would this experiment be able to detect the "antigravity" of antimatter? If the Earth is curving space time in one direction and then antimatter is curving space time in the opposite direction, would not relative impact of the antimatter be so negligible to be undetectable? We are talking about the ability to "unbend" space time of what a particle or two relative to the mass of the earth? So what if it falls, that just means its barely unbending space time.

To use an analogy, Let's say I am on the Amazon river (fastest river according to google). You want to detect which way I was swimming. Would you even be able to detect the marginal effects of me swimming upstream relative to the massively more impactful force from the river?

I am sure the problem here is me, so if someone can correct my thinking.
In this context, Americans pay more than most Europeans to their governments, and work far more hours.

I disagree. Americans work more hours (not a lot more, but more) and make more money per hour and overall.

So when they have to hand over money for taxes, they hand over much less, as a percentage of hours worked. So they end up keeping more in the end.

That sounds like a lower tax burden to me.

And the upthread comment just isn’t true. Americans pay less tax overall and spend fewer work hours paying that tax. So of course they don’t get the same benefits as Europeans. That’s the trade off.

If Americans had to pay European tax rates they’d see a huge increase in tax burden., even the middle class. We’re talking a 50% increase in taxes. That’s very significant.

So if you asked Americans “do you want European level of benefits?” almost all would say yes. If you asked them if they wanted to pay much higher tax rates in exchange? A lot would say “no”.
I don't see how a comet explosion could start agriculture.

Is the story about an early human town being hit by such an explosion?
It's next in line after Postman. Used it for years, liked it, now it's enshittified. I'll use this one until the endless cycle repeats.
For those who are interested in faster network, can look at R86s variants: https://www.servethehome.com/the-gowin-r86s-revolution-low-p...

The 10Gb NIC is actually an mellanox cx3 series with OCP connector, theretically you can replace it with some more interesting cards like cx5/6, or solarflare's
Mortal Computers
Nix has a great community of folks passionate enough to write free books ;)

I've spent over a year making my personal Nix config work well for others: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
That's a ton of weight - rooting for you. That's a massive goal to hit, especially on a bench. How long have you been training?
Theodosian Walls.
This is what I do to maintain a some what normal sleep schedule while having to find quite time to work on personal projects with a 4yo in my free time. The thing that gets me is I seem to be way more productive at the end of the day at night. Idk if its just being a night owl, or maybe something to do with attention issues, but I feel like I grind out a lot more code from say 10->3am than 3am->8am even if I am more tired near the end of the night if I stay up late. But I still stick to the waking up early routine as I get a good rest and can always "sleep in" by getting up a little later so I always get 6-7 hours sleep instead of 5-6.
> make the connector a closed standard that can't be used without ruinous licencing fees and keep a squad of patent attorneys on retainer

Time has shown that doesn't seem to prevent cheap - and potentially dangerous - knockoffs from areas outside possible litigation.
How do you iterate on the mold? I've worked at places that used local shops for both mold machining and the actual injection molding (we were in medical devices), so I never thought about that.
hmm, I am also a Neovim user. Now, I want to add an API and create a plugin. Thanks for the idea!
The MAD principle is predicated on conventional ballistic missiles being used as the primary delivery mechanism. First strike launch is detected, then responded to.

In 2023, the options for hiding or obscuring delivery attribution are much greater than in the Cold War.

MAD still mostly holds, but not as much as it used to, and it's likely that attribution will get harder as time goes on.

One can also never discount the human psychologies of ego and "fuck it". No human being is immune, and no sufficiently angry political group is immune. It would be comforting if the "world leaders are actually lizard people" conspiracy theory were true, because human impulse control can never be fully trusted.
They forgot the most common model - "add missing docs after the fact" :)
> Blackmagic just hack it together and make it work.

This isn't even remotely true. Nobody at that scale just hacks it together. That sort of approach works for articles on various hardware hacking websites, not for real-life design and manufacturing of products.
Collapse of the Dollar's Purchasing Power for Used Cars
There are many different flavors of freelancers. I try to focus on serving one client well, but there are others who serve multiple clients, often tracking hours on multiple clients each week. I think they are more your target market.
Are logos all starting to look the same?
Retailers can charge whatever they’d like. Retailers are paying the tax, they’re just allowed to add it to the bill, but they don’t have to. They can calculate it per item, round up a penny and that’s the price.
There's been no real update from DO on this one.

Absolutely shocking to have an entire production-grade product broken for more than 4 hours with bugger all in the way of information about what's going on.

I have clients ready to move off Kubernetes entirely because I can't give them any idea when their sites will be back up and running.
Honestly, this does sound like an intimidatingly high amount of energy, but look at the progress of computational power since, say, 1973, 50 years ago. If the same advances in physical control of energy had taken place, who knows where we'd be today
You may also like my talk about precision medicine in cancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1iRNlH7-0
Even if it was 100% AI generated it would still be a non-issue
if you checked the link you posted it even says the strike is over.

So not sure why it needs a mention in the article.

Edit: I stand corrected, not all of the strikes are over. However it does seem like coverage of it basically ended once the writers strike ended. I had no idea it was still going on. I don't even see it on Instagram anymore.
Related: The ZeroMQ guide (published by O'Reilly, but available online at [1]) is one of the finest pieces of technical writing in existence.

[1]: https://zguide.zeromq.org
A moderately tangential weird fact...

"too-wit too-woo" sort of isn't the sound of an owl... it's the sound of two tawny owls, it's a female call (the 'too-wit' bit) followed by a male response! :)

(Ref: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/birds/birds... )
You don't need to, donate some money to NOYB.eu who will do it for you.
It's never wrong to confirm by experiment, but there was never really any doubt among professional physicists that antimatter falls down. Similar doubts are expressed about the feasibility of the warp drive by Alcubierre himself: https://twitter.com/malcubierre/status/362011821277839360
I mean, there’s always a next level, but I’ve seen your comments over the years and IIRC you’re like an extreme low-latency prop shop pro with serious quant chops too?

There’s more elite stuff (RenTech, CERN, the Equation Group?), but that’s pretty elite man.

If that’s not hyper-competent I shudder to think what is.
Why would anti-matter be theorized to produce anti-gravity? I thought the "anti" part only amounted to charge or spin, with mass still being positive?
> Also on Linux it supports only rarely used plugin formats (LV2, Linux VST), for which there are little plugins.

Ardour used to have built-in support for Windows VST via WINE. It was so bad (as in unstable, unpredictable) it was disabled by default and was eventually removed. Yabridge is the usual recommendation to people who really want/need it.
Seems… a little silly. I might be willing to trade my ability to generate new creative ideas for the ability to execute on all the creative ideas i have but cannot possibly implement due to time, resources, and talent constraints.

Not being able to think creatively sounds scary but there’s also the alternative which is dying without doing things. Like, you could potentially make it a worse trade that sounds less scary by just making it trade years off your lifespan in exchange for creative execution and I think that’s not crazy. It’s actually fairly banal considering all the things we do to survive today.
The ZeroMQ Guide
I've been running Zimaboard for the past one year and I have no regrets. I replaced 2 Pi 3 that I was using before go run Pi-Hole, Home Assistant and some other services. Power consumption is quite good as well, no regrets, indeed a good alternative to Pi and any other MiniPC.