skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what kind of C++ you're writing.

Interfacing to hardware? Bit-flipping in registers on a peripheral chip? I'd use C++ for that.

Something with lots of dynamic memory usage? I'd at least consider Go because of the garbage collection. That makes an entire set of problems just go away.

Something with a ton of network connections? Again, I'd consider Go.

Something where I need the last drop of performance? C++.
My impression (backed up with data from my RSS reader) is that articles about robots don't usually get a lot of votes on HN, and I do think that's sad because there is rapid progress in that area. If you are worried about LLMs taking white collar jobs you could also be worrying about robots taking blue collar and service jobs.

I've posted a lot of articles about vine robots and this is the first one that got any traction but this one has the advantage of making them look really simple although these ones are a little too simple in that they don't have the mechanisms that make it possible for them to turn.

I've seen papers in arXiv for vine robots that look really phallic, I mean they don't just look like a penis but they work like a penis. There is a lot of work on these at national labs and I've wondered what would happen if one of these papers were submitted to The Journal of Irreproducible Results (whose title isn't such a joke anymore since that's Science and Nature) or to one of those conservative commissions that wants to stamp out "government waste".
Yeah, this confused me, too, at first.
I've been meaning to find some decently in-depth explanation of what market manipulations happened. Found this one: http://www.mresearch.com/pdfs/19.pdf
Having VS2022 crash is certainly not expected or normal. I appreciate it must be pretty frustrating. If there’s any way you can submit a VS Feedback item when that happens, or post repro steps to the dotnet/aspnetcore GitHub repo, we’d definitely want to investigate.
I had a situation where the etcd cluster got hosed, making it basically impossible (at least with the ways I know) to interact with the k8s API at all. So I didn't have any way to get a privileged pod running.
I have more than once subscribed just to report a bug or send a patch because the mailing list rejects emails from non-subscribers.

Edit: Btw, yes I have done the periodically-check-archive thing in the past, thank you. Hated it. Also missed a response once because I forgot to check and replier didn't CC. I realized like a month later.
Speaking as a former scientist, it's worth remembering that peer review is not just about ensuring quality by preventing poor research being published. It also leads to good research being improved, in a very similar way to how code review can improve good code.

So doing away with peer review would have some negative consequences.

It's also worth remembering that journals are really not very different to newspapers, and the top journals are the tabloids. They want to publish things that people will read and cite. They only care about quality in so far as it is required for people to want to read a paper. Ever wandered why so many top journal papers get retracted? It's because the top journals know people will read the click-bait! My favourite example is when the Lancet published the famous MMR-Autism paper by Wakefield, which is terribly unscientific, but was bound to be much cited.
I think mine might correspond with my blood pressure. It normally comes in with my morning coffee, or when I am being very stressed out by work. If I am ruminating while trying to sleep it will be fantastic levels, piercing.

I'm a slave to white noise, and during power outages will wake from a dead slumber to listen to the needle threading between my ears.
The first thing that came into my mind seeing this title is the time component in the metric tensor [1]. Which I was asking why it is on HN front page :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_tensor_(general_relativ...
The problem here isn't with the main character's moral philosophy, but with his decision theory. He'd be dealing with exactly the same predicament if the mugger were threatening to harm him.

The solution is indeed "don't give in to muggers", but it's possible to define this in a workable way. Suppose the mugger can choose between A (don't try to mug Bentham) or forcing Bentham to choose between B (give in) or C (don't give in). A is the best outcome for Bentham, B the best outcome for the mugger, and C the worst for both. The mugger, therefore, is only incentivized to force the choice if he expects Bentham to go for B; if he expects Bentham to go for C, then it's in his interest to choose A. Bentham, therefore, should have a policy of always choosing C, if it's worse for the mugger than A; if the mugger knows this and responds to incentives (as we see him doing in the story), then he'll choose A, and Bentham wins.

And none of this has anything to do with utilitarianism, except in the respect that utilitarianism requires you to make decisions about which outcomes you want to try to get, just like any other human endeavor.
This book seems to start where you need it to start.

You don't need much beyond basic calculus. Most suffer from some mental block they got installed at a young age akin those that say "I'm bad at math" because their teacher sucked. Dive in and you won't regret it.
Thanks, the article from gaffer on games is great, I'm reading it now :)
I thought hydroxychloroquine was disproven as total junk science. I recall seeing on the news during the pandemic that it was ineffective. What has changed?
> A preview of the first page is absolutely enough to put companies on the wrong side of government and/or industry regulations/compliance.

So that whole, “This page intentionally left blank”, is a security feature?
This is the first version, not the 2nd?
If you mean dead silence in your ears when you’re in a quiet place actively listening for tinnitus then no, I’ve never heard of such a thing. Although I am curious if even people without tinnitus can will themselves into hearing a ring in those circumstances.

On the other hand staying in a quiet place and rarely using headphones for an extended period of time has let my symptoms drop below the threshold of irritation. They’re still there it I focus on them, but except for the occasional very noticeable passing flare up they cause no distraction or annoyance.
Ahh, so the blocker is his companny lying to the feds about environmmental damanage and assessments. And I bet it will communicate with his "piece of shit"[0] solar shingles.

He is a charlatan piping away an entrancing tune to many gullible fools.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/26/22404639/elon-musk-tesla-...
You also lose an element of security - if someone steals your phone, they still need your fingerprint/face/PIN/whatever to access all your accounts, and you might even be able to lock or wipe the phone remotely.
> Things like "open on Wednesdays" will cease to have meaning

They already don't have that much meaning and we still communicate fine enough. For instance a dance club open on Saturday nights probably closes on Sunday, but nobody is troubled by the imprecision. It might even actual open on Sunday at 00:30, but still advertise it as Saturday night 24:30. Same for restaurants that stay open late enough. Or convenience stores, gas stations, theaters, gym clubs, barbers, tv shows etc.

You're right that for centuries the notion of "a day" was structural to everyday life. Most countries are past that point.

> Alice still needs a translation table to figure out what the meeting time means for Bob.

Why doesn't she ask Bob ? Isn't he the one who understands when his kids are back from school, when does the grocery store close, or if he has a 2h slot right after the sun rises where he can focus on Alice's project, or he needs to be at the office that opens at 8AM.

In my view, knowing that "10 AM in Sidney is roughly a few hours before the zenith"
helps very little in practical matters. The information is way too vague and out of context to be usable.
> Housing affordability is almost always going to be an issue if you can't get a job in the location.

Perhaps. But supply (as in supply and demand) plays a key role as well. The ratio between higher-end and "affordable" seems to keep trending in the wrong direction.

I'm not suggesting everyone should own a home, that's impracticable and economically dangerous. On the otherhand, too much of a resource (e.g., hoysing) controlled by too few hands has serious economic consequences. Perhaps, eventually, sociopolitical consequences.
In Scandinavia plastic bottles are usually returned to recycling machines at the point of sale.
> I had an internet connection at my apartment, I just lacked a smartphone or laptop.

I think we're talking past each other a little. When I mentioned places without internet coverage, I mean rural places where you just can't get internet. If you live in the city, you can always get online if you really want it, even by borrowing from a friend. Compare that to places outside the big metropolitan cities, where information access was impossible before the internet, because they would at most have a tiny library with little to offer. The internet was an enormous revolution in rural communities, I lived to see it. That was in the 90s, and now the shadow libraries have made physical libraries obsolete.

Shadow libraries and eInk readers have done a thousand times more to give people access to books and information, than all physical libraries combined. That's why I don't think there's any future for physical libraries.

> Your purpose. Many others use them for different purposes.

I think if you ask anybody what a library is for, they'll say for reading and borrowing books. The money being plowed into libraries could be used for subsidizing e-readers and that would give better information access to millions of people, instead of a few thousand of people living in the right place to enjoy good physical libraries.

> The American Library Association says each library decides it's own purpose.

And the politicians deciding the budgets decide if they want to pay for that.

> Many, such as the city library near me, are choosing to become community centers attempting to provide a third place. I'd argue this has value the internet cannot replace.

Completely agree, but they shouldn't really be called libraries by that point.
Why don’t universities publish their own journals in the sciences like they do for law? Why don’t we have the Stanford AI Review or the University of Michigan Journal of Organic Chemistry. Like law, turn them over to the grad students to publish.
1. That's significantly less than the total urban land area that already exists.

2. We have multistory buildings.
> It’s an SI unit.

There is really nothing scientific about time as we mortals use it.

As soon as you bind the definition of time to the rotation of the earth, all bets are off about being "scientific".

A day has x hours.
An hour has y minutes.
A minute has z seconds.

Therefore, you have now defined a second as 1 / (x times y times z)
What happens when the earth speeds up by a fraction of a second?
Does the definition of a second change?
Apple's mission to make the Mac safer is slowly destroying it
I'm sure they'll find a way around it, however it's worth noting The Act is on direct or indirect buying and specifically addresses people attempting to circumvent through incorporation. There are pretty stiff penalties for not doing good diligence of the source of the funds. I'm not disagreeing people will figure out ways around it, only that it isn't going to be quite as simple as that in practice.
The article does not claim that recycling programs don't actually recycle, it just has a really bad title given to it by a really bad editor.

What the article is actually about is how not enough plastic ends up at the recycling center in the first place, and how even if it did it couldn't be recycled a second time, so we still need to stop plastic at the source.
Your first link comes up as blank for me (documentation-service.arm.com returns 404 for me).

But it's worth pointing out that X4, A720 and A520 support asymmetric MTE [1] - just the A720 page you linked to fails to mention it.

[1] https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/memory-safety-arm-memory...
Packaging is a big chunk though (30-50% depending on how you count it) and the obvious place to start.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#plastic-waste-b...

It's also what most people think of when they hear "plastic recycling", not plastic lawn chairs or deep sea fishing equipment or textiles (though there's programs to reduce impacts of those things too)
Daugher of Mellanox founder killed in Hamas attack
"We can send over any amount of Microsoft Points you desire, probably worth more than when we discontinued them in 2013, we'll even throw in a Game Pass for everyone! How's that?"
Here's a video of the cup in action: https://twitter.com/ISS_Research/status/1631385518796849152

Apparently the thinning spout shape sucks up the glob of liquid into it by way of capillary action, with the dual benefit of making the glob stay inside the cup despite it being open, while also making it available for slurping at the edge.

Very cool.
Ever since 2015, when China said that they know would no longer buy American waste plastic, it just gets sent to landfill. Almost all municipal plastic recycling programs in America have shut down.
As someone that has to do FERPA training every year, I would classify that as a disaster.
> The cost, of course, is that your mistakes get baked all the way in, for better or worse. No undo buttons here. You have to move slowly and skillfully to find success.

From the article, so it points out this feature exactly.
In my town schools are about 60-70% of property taxes and, with a new regional high school being built, that number will probably go up. That's pretty typical situation in Massachusetts towns around where I live.

We're certainly a year-round town. But it's a reality of a lot of coastal communities as you get up the coast further that, if they're not commercial fishing ports, they do largely close down in the winter. If there weren't summer homes and a tourist industry, not many people would live there.
How about 'Tentacle and Witches'?

There are so many Japanese anime about 触手 (Shokushu) which is also used to describe the whole mass of tentacles that a creature like an octopus has as opposed to an individual appendage.
For those following along at home Gigerenzer is, I think, "Mindless Statistics"[1] and Cummings is "The New Statistics"[2].

[1]: https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2101336/component/file_2...
[2]: Sample at https://tandfbis.s3.amazonaws.com/rt-media/pp/common/sample-...
I wonder why there hasn’t been more effort behind replacing single use plastics for food/beverages. People get all up in arms about plastic straws, but then stick their paper straw in a big plastic single-use cup.

I also find it sad that some companies like Snapple are regressing, changing from glass to plastic bottles.
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Shell Readability (2018)
RFC 9474: RSA Blind Signatures
I assume my plastic recycling is what my council states - that it is burned (with the exhaust passing through scrubbers) to produce steam which is used to heat local businesses and public buildings, and generate a small amount of electricty, then the melted slag is collected and used as an asphalt replacement in road maintenance.

It seems fair enough, maybe not ideal, but it generates some extra use from the waste.
It's not really a reflection on utilitarianism. That's just philosophical ethics, at least in the form that predominates in Anglo-American philosophy departments.

The game of coming up with "counterexamples" to moral theories is fun, but basically stupid. By definition it involves "contriving" cases, however realistic really, which can make whatever preposterous "stipulations" they please. The underlying assumption is that moral theories are somehow like scientific theories in that they are validated by "predicting" the available observational "data", i.e. our moral intuitions, i.e. the social values of the cultural/economic groups we're a part of. Mysteriously, christian conservative scolds engage with philosophy and end up developing something a lot like christian social conservatism, and cosmopolitan liberal scolds come up with something a lot like cosmopolitan social liberalism, despite the fact that both are engaged in this highly scientific form of inquiry. Very odd.

The whole game is also probably largely irrelevant to the kind of stuff Bentham actually cared about, since he mainly wanted to use utilitarianism to guide state policy, and (famously) hard cases make bad law.
I'm but one data point. I used to buy a lot of magazines, Popular Science, Byte, APC, MacWorld, Motoring, Unique Homes, Architectural Digest, etc. As the internet took hold, the prices of magazines continued to rise and so did the volume of ads. My magazine buying diminished as my news needs became better served by the internet. In the early days internet ads weren't too bothersome and I was pleased with how much money I saved by no longer buying magazines. At every house move, I ended up throwing thousands of dollars worth of magazines away. That hurt.

I no longer buy technical books of any sort. As for other books, eBooks are cheaper and take up less bookshelf space. Notwithstanding, I still have well over 2000 quality books, and that's after culling out of date technical books.
> … GitHub forces you to be a slave of Microsoft …
Relax, the hyperbole is out of control here. I use GitHub and am certainly not a slave.
> MNPI with you directly.

Abbreviating that is so misleading, it's incredibly hard to not see it as bad faith! MNPI means "material non-public information". You're saying "non-public information is fine but material non-public information is not", without making it as obvious.

Yes, it has to be material. "Owes $30b in taxes" is ABSOLUTELY material. If on top of that you learn about it from IRS insider contacts, enjoy your time in prison.

Please do read the Wikipedia article; it has a section on the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading

> SEC regulation FD ("Fair Disclosure") requires that if a company intentionally discloses material non-public information to one person, it must simultaneously disclose that information to the public at large.
They say in the article that capillary action draws the coffee along the narrow edge. This is aided by surface tension, just like how water is drawn into a capillary tube.
One of my favourite books on statistics and probability is "Regression and Other Stories", by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill and Aki Vehtari. You can access the book for free here: https://users.aalto.fi/~ave/ROS.pdf
As I said recycling is most of the time actually downcycling. Don't get me wrong it's better than burning, but the fact we think bottle to bottle is the norm while it's absolutely not is a sign that we have failed somewhere.
a lot of the answer here is hydro. currently, hydro is seen primarily as a generation method, but as the amount of solar and wind increase, hydro increasingly becomes an easy way to fill the gap from dips in production. another short term answer is natural gas. if you run a natural gas plant 1 week a year, it's not ideal, but it's still 50x better than running it all the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_(angle)
I've had similar issues with Mayastor (another in-cluster storage solution). It's under heavy development, so I've assumed the more mature options were better.

I'm working on v2 of my homelab cluster, and I'm going with plain old NFS to a file server with a ZFS pool. Yes, I will have a single node as a point of failure, but with how much pain I've had so far I think I'll be coming out ahead in terms of uptime.
I disagree on enshittification. The only practical change I've noticed in github usage is the improvements to code search, which has been unbelievably useful. It gives me the ability to do complex searches to find real usages of even the most obscure libraries, examples of poorly documented configuration files, and more, from any public repository hosted anywhere on github.

That capability comes from both the large body of source code available to the platform, and the large amount of engineering work put into that particular feature. It is one of many usability benefits is not available anywhere else.
What happened to freedom of speech? What if a citizen doesn't want to serve the country?
I know hardware is hard (I've built a bunch of electronics for machine control and in the dark ages of IT electronics was my bread and butter). These days I'm active as an investor and consultant to investors as well as with my own music related project (pianojacq.com). If I can be of any use to you let me know, email is in profile, I've just subscribed to your newsletter. I'd love to see this project succeed.
This would make a great gift for a space lover!
Ok, but now you are making a completely different claim!

You started out saying, "oh, these lecture requires some advanced math background to understand", and quoted the curry function. And then a lot of people explained that no, there is no advanced math, this is just a function written in a programming language. And now it seems you agree, if you spend only 15 minutes you can understand the lecture notes. That's all I, and others, wanted to say.

Separately, it's the case that understanding this will not be very useful in a day-to-day programming job. That's just because it's not all that useful! (See other discussion on this this same HN page.) I think it is very cool and philosophically interesting in itself, and it offers an interesting point of view if you are designing new programming language type systems, but it doesn't have very much "utilitarian" use.
I'm still trying to relive the good times that I had recording with a Fostex 250 4 track in the 90s. Maybe I just need to set the DAW aside and try one of those little Tascam 6 tracks.

pic of the fun 80s design: https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/pck8xkwntfldgcx9x7eo....
I did not test on mobile and maybe it should have all the steps in single page for that aspect ratio (easier to simply scroll). However, for desktop, it was such a beautiful way to guide the reader each step of the way. It was really well done.