skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a reason Chrome is mostly written in C++.

And for that same reason, you don't see many apps do the same thing. Any time Chrome needs to request a permission (access files, location, etc), it _has_ to use the system-provided Java APIs.

> Even Google's own Flutter uses a C++ engine to run Dart applications.

As do most games, so you can essentially think of Flutter as a game engine that renders apps.

> Android's JVM system is a collection of Java wrappers around C++ libraries.

As others have mentioned, this is very much not the case.
Yeah; thats why I like rust's approach. You can either leave assertions in in release mode, so you get your core dump. Or you can take them out if you're confident they won't fire in order to make the program faster.

The unreachable pragma suggested by the author is just a more extreme version of the latter choice.
It is actually 2 tweets

"Pascal (Wirth, 1970) was a high point in clean strongly-typed language design. Here, we see: every program has a name and, if it interacts with the outside world, must explicitly declare input & output."

"Except for a historical accident - and "accident" is the right word here - the Pascal language family would have defined mainstream programming instead of C/C++. The world of computing would have been much simpler and safer if that had occurred."

For added context ZZT was written by Tim Sweeney as an attempt to write a better Pascal editor. It turned into a game, later he incorporated things he learned from ZZT into Unreal.
Awesome, thx.
Climate crisis costing $16M an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates
FTX – The fraud was in the code
> If you don’t like ads and desire to continue using the service, it’s time to consider paying for it.

Or just get better ad blockers.

I think it’s a pretty fundamental right that I choose what to do with data sent to me.

Should televisions not be able to use the mute button during ads?
I’m pretty sure they are just trying to hop on the AI hype train, I see no value
I was planning to ditch it originally, but with a huge chunk of power mods gone I've actually found there to be a noticeable improvement in discussion quality within the subreddits I care about. It's nothing amazing, but it's the return of a casual feel I had been missing for some time. This has made me hesitant to check out lemmy, since I presume that's where they have retreated too. Think I will probably stay until they finally kill old.reddit.com.

It's a conflicting feeling since I'm still pretty bummed out by the api changes, but also recognize that much of the power mods capabilities were fueled by it.
>DSi

Did DSLinux team ever manage to get it to work on the DSi?

I still have my DSi and it still works, but I remember DSLinux didn't work with it.
Stuck in shoddy barracks? Soldiers made an app to review them
The mysterious symbols found carved in Qatar's desert
Sorry to hear you've also had poor experiences. I too had to delve into Pubmed to figure out what was going on with me after the doctor harmed me.

Thank you for offering to help out. I do want to refine the site and data a little more over the next few days and maybe do a second state myself to make sure my pattern generalizes well before opening up the repo.

I've now made a discord here https://discord.gg/bXdk4CuR7B for anyone interested in contributing.

Comments on doctors should already be enabled via Disqus if you scroll to the bottom of a profile page.

Yes, I definitely want to add that data!
Good point. Though, still surprising that athletic ability correlates with income.

I wonder where is the root cause that evolves into everything else.

Hypothetical example:

conscientiousness + willpower -> athletic ability -> $ ?
In practice, hundreds of Ukraine and Russia-related posts were flagged when it was news.

There is no strictly reliable bar of guidelines enforcement, flagging posts is almost entirely handled by users. dang isn't hovering over the "kill" button on your favorite threads, the community is flagging them because they are probably flamebait.
How Do Digital Product Passports Work? ELI5
I am posting this in the hope someone with knowledge on the subject can help. I come from a non-technical background and I am researching digital product passports and how they might be leveraged to enable material traceability and reuse. Digital product passports seem to be the dominant trend in this area. Can anyone explain how they work? What's the user interaction like between the different touch points? What tech infrastructure is needed at a minimum?

thanks!!!
That link goes deep. I agree about the tokenizing.

I hate that we've picked off all the easy work on web design and now we're into problems we never even imagined 10 years ago, e.g. multiple visual modes, differing color spaces etc. This stuff is getting really, really hard to do well and do it right -- it is very easy to make things worse for a lot of users, rather than better.
I hope this applies to car dealers too.
If they have the materials science and soft textile engineering skills that the maker of Playtex bras had[1], what's to criticize?

1 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/neil-armstrongs-space...
“Finally getting programming off the desktop”

Why is that good?

I suppose we have to eradicate every last corner where there is privacy and autonomy and someone isn’t charging rent.

People owning their own code? That’s so pre cloud.
Thank you for offering to help. I'm going to refine the site and data a little more over the next week and maybe do a second state myself to make sure my pattern generalizes well before opening up the repo, but I've now made a discord https://discord.gg/bXdk4CuR7B for anyone interested in contributing.
Both situations seem possible. I guess time will tell how Unity wants to move forward.

Others mentioned it earlier but it looks like Godot had a big boost in users from this fiasco. Perhaps Unity is concerned about real financial damages done to their bottom line because of all this? I’d expect them to try a lot of stuff and see what sticks to make sure they don’t miss their targets this year.
It’s unclear, photons follow the curvature of space time but I think they are massless.
Thank you. I'm going to refine the site and data a little more over the next week and maybe do a second state myself to make sure my pattern generalizes well before opening up the repo, but I've now made a discord https://discord.gg/bXdk4CuR7B for anyone interested in contributing.
Ah yes, the CSS Space Toggle. The way this works internally is a seemingly-unintended but very useful aspect of the CSS specification.
California Becomes First State to Ban Four Harmful Chemicals in Food
These reactors are all the 20th century designs that require active cooling after a SCRAM. There are newer designs that can do this with passive cooling and thereby don't require power, aren't there? How come we don't build those?
Thank you. I'm going to refine it a little more over the next week and maybe do a second state myself to make sure my pattern generalizes well before opening up the repo, but I've now made a discord https://discord.gg/bXdk4CuR7B for anyone interested in contributing.
I was the one who ported DOOM to DS back in high school; we were all in the same DS homebrew IRC channel together. A lot of my now-closest friends worked on the other projects (including the author of DS Linux) -- incidentally we all ended up working for various tech companies in Silicon Valley and ended up reuniting in real life decades later.
Warren Buffett Has Underperformed the Stock Market for the Last 20 Years
also of note is a port of the inferno operating system to the ds, which makes for a rather nice platform.

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Inferno_DS
Yeah in Star Trek lore isn’t matter antimatter reactions how they get the power for it and then “dilithium” crystals are what makes the field?
I agree with the poster above, that you're taking umbridge with my use of the verb "hack" - I mean this in a respectful way towards engineers who devise clever solutions to problems, and iterate quickly and knowledgeably, rather than "designing by committee". I'm sure Grant would confirm that (as happening for the lifetime of his brilliant company) so go ask him next time you get a chance to hop off your high horse and go for a sleepover.

An effect of BMD's "hacking" is that on occasion obvious bugs have crept into their products, such as the infamous "black hole sun" issue in the early cameras, whereby extreme overexposure caused by pointing the camera at the sun resulted in the capture of it showing it as black rather than white - https://neiloseman.com/blackmagic-production-camera-field-re... Issues like this can be avoided with more rigorous testing in development rather than fixes in firmware and in Resolve after the fact, which was what was suggested. No doubt an artefact caused by the hack-y nature of the products at the time.

Plus the clue is in the name - it's Blackmagic.

Finally, go into the office if you're such an intimate. "a garage operation with a bunch of dudes hacking on a plywood workbench" will be pretty close to what you find. Just once those dudes have banged their heads together, they write phenomenal code late into the night to get the thing made.
I don't quite see how an overdraft fee (one of the examples given) is a junk fee - it costs the bank real money to cover the loan they are effectively giving you when you are in overdraft.
I absolutely cannot wait for this to land. it's been a long time. it's going to make Rust much more approachable to new developers, and it's going to make the lives of existing Rust developers much less tedious.
Nanopore Sequencing Detects Dozens of Disease Biomarkers
Top-posting in reply to HTML emails and bottom-posting with trimming (or inline) to plain-text emails is indeed a pretty good heuristic for what the person you're replying to would most like.
Too late. Unity is dead for the game developers forever.
Thank you. I'm going to refine the site a bit more over the next week and maybe do a second state myself to make sure my pattern generalizes well before opening up the repo, but I've now made a discord https://discord.gg/bXdk4CuR7B for anyone interested in contributing.
Vegetius, pray tell what the scrying glass saith of yon fortification level?
Back from the brink: postdoc career optimism on the rise
> ... engineers who worked on Google Wave (which also used OT) also struggled with this… I remember reading a quote a while back that said something along the lines of "I wish I could have those years of my life back, and I wouldn't recommend anyone else try syncing this way."

I think you're (mis)quoting me. I made a comment like that on the webpage for ShareJS back in 2011 which eventually made it into the wikipedia article on operational transform.

If I remember correctly, what I actually said was that it took us about 2 years to implement the OT algorithms we used for Google Wave. And if we rewrote it again today from scratch, it would take just as long a second time because there's no standard, reusable libraries that implement collaborative editing in a pluggable way that any application can use. The collaborative editing engine that powered Google Wave was bespoke, and if we rewrote it today we'd need to write another bespoke collaborative editing engine from scratch.

Thats why I wrote ShareJS, and later ShareDB and more recently why I've been working with CRDTs. I love generic collaborative editing libraries is because of the hope that they'll bridge this gap, and make generic tools that can work in any application. I was right on the money with Figma - as I understand it, it took them about 2 years to build the collaborative editing code that sits underneath their application, because there still aren't enough truly great libraries to use for building software like this.
The first point of call is your current job, find out the maximum amount of unpaid leave you can get and still come back to it. I have done this before and got 3 months off.

Another option is look for another job, with a starting date set in the future.

Q. Are you in an at-will employment jurisdiction? Or do you have more rights?
That looks awful, but presumably if you are using sass instead of css you could define a light-dark macro already which does exactly that.

I wonder if custom functions might ever make their way to css.
Great. Now do something about housing prices.
> "Now we can put the consumer first and create a level playing field for those businesses that advertise the real price, up front,"

I hope this means they're banning the common US practice of omitting sales taxes and tips from prices.
Yeah how much do you want to know these things??
It is quite interesting to me that people latch onto the world model so much as if it is highly significant or a lack of a world model invalidates LLMs. Personally I still believe they're magical (in the proverbial sense) and amazing tools even though I also believe they are just complex stochastic machines that have very little understanding of the things they are doing. That just tells me how cool and amazing that statistics is. I honestly don't know anyone that thinks LLMs are useless things, despite knowing a large number of people that are highly critical of them. But those are very different metrics. I don't know why we can't have nuance in things, why they need to either be a gift from god or a pile of shit.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37817112
> Haha, non-GC languages power the GUIs on Android fyi. Jetpack compose is powered by Skia. Chromium is powered by Skia. Skia is C++.

Skia is not something you use to write apps: it's a graphics engine, essentially something you use to draw polygons on the screen.

> Why are you attacking me instead of defending your stance. All are allowed to have opinions and I am allowed to have one

I apologize if any of this sounded like an attack. I was trying to be funny with that meme-like sentence formation, but I don't profess to disparage anyone's skills or opinions.

> I dream of Linux-desktop kinda situation where you can program in any language you want, where you are not hindered by any platform/framework, where you have complete freedom

Linux desktop is certainly not the dream world you describe. Practically, you _have_ to pick a toolkit: one of GTK / KDE / Qt / electron / etc. Maybe it helps to think of Android's toolkit (Views or Compose) as one of those.
What is the feeling of sunshine on your face? What is love? I think intelligence, as a prerequisite requires consciousness. It's the capability for the "aha!" moment where for a brief moment all if quiet, and the student and the concept are one.
It’s just a bad (or rather a first iteration) design and no need to justify it, because it’s ok to have that in early designs.
Are you the @prmoustache on GitHub with zero public repos?
I wonder how this will affect the rest of the US even if congress can’t pass something. For example, if I’m in California and I buy something elsewhere am I protected? If I live in Oregon and buy something in California am I covered?
That would be covered by the interest charged on the overdraft.
Flashbacks to 2008, when u/zemaj searched for NetworkSolutionsSucksBalls.com so we could all chuckle at the Network Solutions man at work under that domain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96246

Plus ça change.
That's the part where I was taking the claim of the article at face value, the claim that nobody would have ever considered the stairwell a possible site for violence to happen.
Are there any good implementations of using RAG within postgresql ecosystem? I have seen blogposts from supabase[0] and timescale db[1] but not a full fledged project. The full text search is very good within postgres at the moment and having semantic search within the same ecosystem is quiet helpful atleast for simple usecases.

[0] https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/extensions/pgvecto...

[1] https://www.timescale.com/blog/postgresql-as-a-vector-databa...
This is brought up in the paper and is effectively their reasoning.

That because it is instructed to "find problems" with the answer it leads to correct answers being biased towards changing to incorrect more often than it can successfully bias incorrect answers towards correct ones.

Here, I think the research team might have had more success using neutral language like "grade this answer" where both verification and challenge would fit the prompt as opposed to "find problems with this answer" where only challenges would - but I'm skeptical it would be enough of an improvement that it would yield a net improvement on self-critique over the initial answer.

There are other more specialized approaches I'd expect will always work better than feeding an incorrect answer back into what generated it in the first place (i.e. a backwards pass where the model has to match the answer provided to multiple possible questions with one being the question asked and the others generated on the fly).
Cost the bank real money? lol What planet are you from? Banks don’t use their money.
I don't think it applies to overdraft fees despite what that article says. They are talking about advertising a price, and whoops, you find out that there are lots of extra fees when you go to pay.

Would have to track down the actual law.
In the UK, it’s possible to rent small castles. I’ve never felt more secure in my life. The stairs on the staircase were huge and would have slowed down anyone, particularly people of the average height at the time. You really contemplated whether or not you needed that thing when you faced those stairs.
It's not a reset button. There's a surrender button and a rout button. If you haven't starved to death you get to pick one.
It's not about recovery. The company wants to do the pricing. If they have to sacrifice a few CEO's to warm people up to idea then so be it. Companies don't walk away from this stuff.

Developers need to have a big think and should be managing their risk and exposure to potential price shocks like this to ensure their own viability.
It's worse than that, because the 1 in 72 million calculation assumed that the contributing factors for SIDS are uniform across all children, when even then we knew absolutely that they were not. The UK, with a population of 67 million (and that's current population, not the population when she was on trial), has far fewer than 72 million households in the UK with two children, if the probability of SIDS was distributed uniformly over all children, the odds of there being a household where two kids died of SIDS in the UK at any moment in time would seem to be less likely than not.

However, we knew even then that if one baby from a particular pair of parents and a particular environment dies of SIDS, the odds of a second baby dying from SIDS with the same parents & environment increase dramatically. So the odds of two babies in the same household dying from SIDS aren't nearly 1 in 72 million.

The Prosecutor's Fallacy just makes the magnitude of the statistical miscalculation even more absurd.

Sadly, everyone, including her own defense team, thought that the correct "expert witness" for this kind of testimony would be a medical expert, rather than a statistical expert.
Don’t forget the “living wage surcharge” that many cities mandate for restaurant workers!

It’s typically not disclosed until after you eat, and varies from city to city.
Yeah, I got my Pis at MSRP so I don't mind putting in a 4 instead of a 3. I've even done Klipper with an Orange Pi Zero 2 with a H616.
I'm on the same road as you, a couple of months ahead.

After watching lots of tutorial videos and scouring the web for resources, here is what I'd recommend, or at least how I would do it over again myself:

First, a note on versions. The Godot ecosystem is in the middle of a big transition from version 3.x to 4.x, which introduces a lot of improvements but also some breaking changes. If you want to make a browser game in the immediate future, stick with Godot 3, as web exports for 4.0 aren't yet functional. For most other things, 4.0 seems to be the place to start.

- Start by going through the official (4.x) docs including the walkthrough games. As with many open source projects, the official docs are underrated.
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/index.html

- Then, the course I found most useful after trying lots of other things is the book "Godot 4 Game Development Projects" by Chris Bradfield. It teaches basic concepts as you build different games such as: 2D platformer, Asteroids, 3D Minigolf etc. The quality of the code examples and the design patterns feel a lot better than some of the video tutorials on YouTube. Not taking anything away from video tutorials - sometimes a visual demo is just the ticket, of course. But a book can introduce concepts comprehensively and benefits from professional editing. This is where it started to click for me.

- Then I would recommend the website GDQuest (gdquest.com). It has free courses and game pattern tutorials in Godot, e.g. state machines, but the best stuff is the premium content, which is not cheap but worth it. It has games courses like RPG's and tower defence. I'm working through their "2D Secrets" course - currently on a Factorio-style (builder simulation) game tutorial and it's the most detailed game walkthrough I've seen in Godot. I'm working on a sim project myself, so it's just right for me. Plus it introduces you to the Entity-Component System design pattern in Godot. Unfortunately it's all in Godot 3.0, but once you're comfortable enough with 4.0 you can start to translate the differences and there are comments on the forums plugging the gaps.

Hadn't heard about Quiver.dev until now but it also looks great!
I wired a plug for the first time in my life this past year. Nor have I ever known someone who has wired a plug. It's pretty rare to have to do something like that, in my experience. Certainly at 18 I wouldn't have had any reason to believe that was even possible.
Lot of useful mass there. Recycling makes a lot of sense, and we will wind up sorry if it's not done. Wouldn't take much to put it up into a very high parking orbit.
Yea, a more exact search that can parse out first name and last name would be the way. If I search for JOHN SMITH, and there are actually none in the database, I think I'd rather just see no results than 50 different Johns, none with last name Smith.
But that's not what the post is saying? He's not shaking his fist at it, he's realizing that it's not as bad an idea as he'd thought: "top-posting is optimizing for the common case".

(And keep in mind that the post is from 2009. For comparison, I switched to top posting in my personal email in 2013 [1] at which point it was controversial [2])

[1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/abandoning-bottom-posting

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5233428
Prada to design NASA's new Moon suit (bbc.com)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67022619

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37788706

"Prada has considerable experience with various types of composite fabrics and may actually be able to make some real technical contributions to the outer layers of the new space suit," according to Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, who flew five Nasa missions and has carried out four spacewalks.

... he thought Prada was up to the challenge due to their design experience.

That experience has been built not only on the catwalks of Milan but also through Prada's involvement in the America's Cup sailing competition.

Joining new fabric materials together perhaps isn't as straight forward as many think and actual real world experience working with some of these materials counts as a skill that can be brought to a team effort.

The Italian fashion house will work to design the suits alongside another private company, Axiom Space.

In a press release, Axiom said Prada would bring expertise with materials and manufacturing to the project.
Does this mean wireless and ISP bills will finally be accurate?