skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A twisted and consequentially nonsensical aphorism, such as "birds of a feather gather no moss"."

"Named after Lord Dundreary, a foolish aristocrat in Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin (1858), who utters remarks of this kind; +‎ -ism."

from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dundrearyism
I'd argue that its even lower than that. Barring short-form video content, phones (and tablets) are almost exclusively consumption devices. Writing anything long-form on a phone is a pain in the ass, and so there's an implicit discouragement. Forget programming. Artists have procreate, but they had Wacom tablets before, so that hasn't changed much.
> Solar is inherently democratic (everybody has access to the sun)

Not really, it's tied to how much land you own. Which would exacerbate current housing imbalance issues.
I'm using at least 4-5 browsers a day, can't imagine having to take manual steps between those.
If you want to write any complicated concurrent code, the simplest and best way is one long polling loop state machine. You might use a thread to call a blocking API, but the majority of the logic should be in a polling loop.

I used to love chained callbacks when I was 16, and later I thought threads were the greatest, and I've written a bunch of device drivers that operate at different IPLs.

But 20 years ago a cofounder made me realize that a long polling loop is easier and faster to write, and much easier to understand than threads. That insight has made countless projects simpler and easier and I recommend considering it. You may be surprised, as I was.
> given two days' sun… [the device] will store sufficient electrical energy to light an ordinary house for a week.

Obviously this was for 1909's power consumption. But imagine having the constraint of "The average household has x square feet of solar generation capabilities" when creating an electrical appliance.

The manufacturers of the appliances would've had to care a lot more about energy efficiency, bragging about it as a feature of the newest model, instead of taking for granted that electricity would be cheap and plentiful...
There have also been numerous horror stories where people discovered (after the fact) that MySQL wasn't storing their data as given, but instead internally silently converting it to some other format/type and storing that.

People that directly experienced this very thing will probably chime in to give examples (etc). :)
I’m not a parent so I don’t know what I’m talking about.

However, I have a lot of friends with children and some of their takes are completely irrational to me.

“Let the kids WALK three blocks to school? Not anymore, things aren’t like what we grew up with. It’s scary out there!”

Exactly. Violent crime, etc has been on a general and significant downward trend since we were kids (80s and 90s). It’s not what we grew up with - it’s significantly safer. The media drives a tremendous amount of anxiety and it’s extremely detrimental to parents, kids, and society overall.

It used to be “sex sells” (still does) but more and more it’s “fear sells”.
Half true. They will be able to provide emergency care but the normal bureaucracy of healthcare services will shut down if the internet stops working.
Minecraft has sold over 300M copies
In that case, copyright is a socially acceptable form of tyranny that prevents freedom of expression. Or a socially acceptable theft from the commons.

Dystopian ideas such as ownership of ideas should not be tolerated.
Are there downsides to just dumping the code as-is to Github with and then just archiving it?
Vore's comment was critical of revskill's comment that was just ChatGPT output — not your article.

Maybe you can't see dead comments?
This isn’t just engineering, it’s mainly an emotional issue
That depends on how you drive...?
it simply means that you are free to do it, but not overdo it because there are rules.

it's the basis of every modern society.

many things allowed by the law are not really "free". police forces are allowed to use weapons, that doesn't mean they can shoot randomly whenever they feel like it.
>>> I was just talking with a Temporal solutions engineer

Aha! Just as the second season of Loki dropped. Makes sense now

Less sarcastically - this ties in with the article i guess. runat time is the enqueue, and then you are arguing for two latencies - time enqueue to start and start to complete.
Interesting if true, I hadn't noticed that.
It’s all good. You’re welcome. I can see it both ways: its sucks to get downvoted and not know why. But also, here we are talking about something that’s not C++ modules in a thread about C++ modules.

The surest way to get massively downvoted here is to complain about downvoted, though. People seem to relish in it.
You can actually name them, but yeah you can't implement custom encoding/decoding logic. I don't think this thing lets you do that either though.
Slow working processes are completely normal and required in the real world. It’s not an extreme outlier.

Enterprise processes can wind between many intermediaries. Hours, days, weeks, maybe even months.
Futures as a concept are orthogonal to async, they can totally work in explicit threading model.
Let's accept your defence of the article:

> While the article did use very dramatic language, that the Nazi snatch squads in Denmark existed, were about to strike, and indeed did end up arresting many Danish Jews just a few days later over the Jewish New Year is very well documented history.

But contrast this with the article author says:

> As they slipped out of the back of their house a Nazi snatch squad was already on its way.

It's not the same thing.
Is it appropriate to say that it's focused on CSAM?

A and B implies B. Scan all chats and only look for CSAM implies scan all chats.

Moreoever, will the government actually just look for CSAM and ignore everything else? Does this law punish the government for looking for things other than CSAM? If not, then there's no reason to believe that "only look for CSAM" is true as long as "scan all chats" is true.
The person who wrote this thought they'd be clever by using the SI prefix "centi", not realizing that it means one one-hundredth (as in "centimeter"). They should have used the prefix "hecto", which means one hundred.
B.S. There are not 1000+ replaceable parts unless you are counting them on the subpart per assembly. Mechanics replace assemblies not subparts.
> Unfortunately bittorrent counts as uploading, which is ridiculous

Piracy laws aside, I don't see why BT counting as uploading is ridiculous; you are aiding in the distribution of the content just as much as if you had setup a public FTP server with the content on it.
I disagree that society is "doing its best to keep passing that along". The statistics also show that those under 50 are twice as open to mental health talk with close friends. While the idea of men being expected to be a "rock" isn't dead, I think it has changed somewhat. At least for my family/friends, while there is still a big expectation of being emotionally "strong", that doesn't come with the expectation of coming off as invulnerable.
Did anybody ever reproduce his findings? I recently tried to make a SnZb cell based on the patent, but it didn't work. :(
Warning that Chrome has an old bug that kills performance on things like * selectors:

https://github.com/elad2412/the-new-css-reset/issues/66
> So, we're well into geo-engineering territory now,

What is geoengineering?

This is a local measure, little different from erecting a huge sunshade (and very different from blocking the sun from the stratosphere or orbit).

I consider geo engineering to be action at a planetary level, like the above mentioned stratospheric dreams or driving lots of automobiles. Something local, that can be switched on and off almost instantaneously, to be quite different.

Are he big machines that suck the atmosphere through a straw geoengineering?
> I'm often flexible in my beliefs ... but it can be dangerous if you don't place some principled boundaries on your self

As the saying goes: have an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.
Statement based replication is not the default in MySQL.
If you want to understand why we've been losing wars for 70+ years, look no farther than this perfect microcosm of the U.S. military's approach to leadership.

Field grades denying it's a problem, gaslighting those who say it's a problem, doing everything they can to suppress discussion about the problem – and then a bunch of lower enlisted dudes having to FFIO on their own.
The older crowd is much less likely to advertise to one another that they have a shrink, whilst Gen Z is gonna jump on their phone after a session and say "yoooo guess what my therapist told me today" to their group text chat, so I'd say GenZ talks a ton more about mental health than older cohorts, not simply that they have a broader definition.
Their book, The Food Lab, is worth every cent
What’s a weekly manifest?
Without re-igniting the "should you use tables for layout" debate, this is a great look at masterful use of tables for layout. It also reminds me how much we used to use images as part of a great website. Been a long time since I've seen map and areas used for nav bars! It manages to be both glorious and terrible at the same time. It's probably just nostalgia warping my memories, but man I miss the early web.
Big discussion of the associated blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37875542
Science says yes. Cleaner fuels inadvertently led to more warming. https://www.science.org/content/article/changing-clouds-unfo...
One way to test this is through a placebo test, where you shift the treatment, such as moving it to an earlier date, which I have seen used successfully in practice. Another approach is to test the sensitivity of each feature, which is often considered more of an art than a science. In practice, I haven't observed much success with this method.
A nuclear war between two nuclear powers is different from a conventional war between two nuclear powers.

The former is, hopefully, unlikely unless one side feels there’s an existential crisis or a major loss. The latter is extremely likely.

Though the latter can definitely escalate into the former.
The simpler hardware of the Spectrum was much more approachable. And the basic was so slow that you really had to learn some Z80 assembly!
Yes, as I mentioned, it's like an `if` with multiple bindings, but I don't force intermediate variable names. That example is in the article. :P

edit: Wait, it's not in the article, I rewrote it and removed that section. My apologies! Anyway, yes, it's like that.
It’s quite impressive how the muscularity standard for men has increased over time.
Do you know an example of such case in the Rust ecosystem?
I get the number from my October'23 PG&E bill in front of me.

I'm on the EV2A plan. The numbers on that website link are not what they charge on the actual bill. I don't know why they are allowed to publish fake numbers.

Here are the exact numbers from my October bill:

Peak rate: 58.4 delivery + 14.8 generation = 73.2 c/kWh

Part peak: 47.4 delivery + 8.3 generation = 55.7 c/kWh

Off-peak: 27.2 delivery + 7.1 generation = 34.4 c/kWh
That was pretty close to my thought when I read this. I start out suspicious of the full stack requirement anyway. Basically it is asking for 1 developer to do the work of 3. Then, on top of that, they want a specific language that is not usually associated with full stack?

It seems like that they are having trouble finding people because what they want is less than optimal.
Couldn't you see this just the same when screen-sharing over Zoom?
Google had blocklists a decade ago. They got rid of them.

You can use the uBlocklist browser extension to add em back, but its not as seamless
Modern paradox : Companies want global markets for products but no global markets for employment. What a tragedy!!
Why a Computer Science Degree Isn't Enough
I suspect that no matter what example you chose, at least one side would find it prejudicial.

A friend was just recounting a class she took in elementary school. Students read papers advocating a ban or government support for dihydrogen monoxide. (My friend knew the gag and was asked not to spoil the joke. She was allowed to portray herself as an addict, to the horror of all classmates.) That seems as neutral a piece of material as you're going to get.

Still... I'm skeptical. I believe that if you rolled this out it would be presented as being an analogy to political topics and become seen as a covert argument for the other side. I have my suspicions about who and how, but that's not really the point. The point is that it would be somebody, no matter how neutrally it was designed. Neutrality itself has become a controversial political topic.
Even my beloved Tmobile is going down this anti-consumer path unfortunately, and kicking people off of older plans into some new, more expensive plan of T-mobile's choosing, "unless they opt out". [1] I hate this stuff. I don't want to babysit my assorted vendors to learn when they will next try to "stick it to me" when I least expect it. Modern life is complex enough without wondering who is gonna get me this week with some new unexpected KPI/OKR fluffery. :/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/174uelk/megathread...
I don't, and will never understand this argument, because here in Europe, the Tesco in my town centre has a different price for the exact same item to the Tesco Superstore on the edge of town which also has a different price to the little Tesco Express down the road.

Somehow this all works magically here but in the US it is impossible because.. reasons unknown
An iPhone with RSSRadio [0][1]

[0] http://rssrad.io/#/rssradio
[1] http://doradasoftware.com/
If you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out Gary Bernhardt's "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" stream, which gets into how to apply this idea. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
On pricing page for R2 it says "Storage: 10 GB / month" is free ... what does it mean per month?

Info that there are "zero egress fees" is only available on R2 product page and not pricing page.

IMO R2 pricing page look like it only displays quick info and that there might be fine print somewhere, but there is no link to more details. It could be that's all there is to it, but somehow design feels off to me. Especially because of the "zero egress fees" info being displayed only on the product page.

Workers product page shows "Maximum number of scripts": 30 free, 100 paid. But on workers pricing page it shows "Up to 100 Worker scripts" for free and "Up to 500 Worker scripts" for paid.

Links to different sections (Pricing, Products...) don't have an option to open in new tab. IMO the whole website is weirdly organized. But maybe it's just me.
Take a peek at CUDA
It sounds like the issue to them is that it requires a service to use apparently, since you must sign up.
I love the design of the site and it's really a dream for reading translated poetry! I enjoy reading a handful of Italian poets (and translated poetry in general), and a website like this for German, Polish, etc poetry would be lovely. Would you ever think of open sourcing this for others to attempt this for their own languages?

I'd really love to see a couple poems from the notoriously hard to translate Giacomo Leopardi - they are quite beautiful, and hearing them in Italian is a treat!
It's rare for anyone to read cover letters. I put one in once in a while. Mostly I have ChatGPT write a draft and then I cut half of it and make some adjustments.

Even with the AI helping, it's more work than I usually want to do for something that is probably going to be ignored.
Designing Compilers for Speed with Troels Henriksen from Software Unscripted
They have reevaluated multiple times.
Is there any specific reason why we should prefer a module system as it exists in C++ over something like the SQLite's approach with Makeheaders[1]?

As far as I understand it, they have a tool that can parse all their (C) files, figure out what each file declares and what declarations it depends on, and then autogenerate a header for every file with just the declarations it requires.

It seems like a sensible approach, but nobody besides sQLite and Fossil (which comes from the same developers) seems to be using it, either in C or C++, which leads me to suspect that there are caveats I don't know about. Is there a reason why this is a bad idea?

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/tools/makeheaders.html
I tried gcc, clang, msvc, and icc. They all generated the load and either an add or an inc.
https://godbolt.org/z/han78n9zM
If we define `f` to const_cast away the const and add 10:
https://godbolt.org/z/1dso8ojWG
all the compilers agree that we should get 53.
However, make `y` const, so we have

const int y = 42;
const int x = y;

and now modifying x suddenly becomes undefined behavior, and x + 1 returns 43
https://godbolt.org/z/cqbGasrMM
Similar to how the original assembly showed making `y` const removed the reload and increment/+1 of x.

So, it seems that all these compilers agree that modifying `x` is undefined behavior if `y` is const, but is defined if `y` is mutable.

I am not sure why this is.

I may have misunderstood, but I didn't get the impression this should be the case from reading:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/cv

My best guess is that for some reason, `x` is a constant object only if initialized itself via a constant object. But I couldn't find anything saying that is the case. I asked on the #learn channel of cppslack.
> Having been in this country for 40 years, I have not made a single American "friend."

> <screed about how Americans suck>

I'm no expert on friend making, but if I had to guess, the two are possibly related.
I'm not concerned about my ability to handle the coursework or research, just the practicalities of entering the career
> You have all the hassles of a combustion engine (wear and tear due to all the moving parts, oil changes, filters, etc etc) and a fraction of the fuel economy of a battery electric vehicle.

If it is a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) then for people who have a way to charge overnight it will for many of them have almost the same fuel economy as a battery electric vehicle (BEV), because PHEV electric range nowadays is more than the amount the average driver drives per day.

For example for me a PHEV would almost always be operating entirely in EV mode. For those few times when I actually do take a long trip it would be more convenient than a BEV because a gas pump adds mileage faster than even the fastest EV charges.

Consider a trip from the Puget Sound area to Madras, OR, and back. Using the EV trip planner that someone else recommended in another comment, abetterrouteplanner.com, I find that in a standard range Tesla Model 3 it would be 10 hours on the road, and 1 hour at chargers. With a Chevy bolt it become 2.5 hours at charges.

With my 2006 Honda CR-V I'd need 3 gas stops. With pay at the pump that would be less than 15 minutes spent at gas stops.

A new Honda Civic could do it in one gas stop, so under 5 minutes.

A Prius Prime PHEV could do it with no gas stops, although it would be getting low when it got back to Puget Sound so I'd probably do one gas stop on the way to have a bigger safety margin.

I'll probably get a BEV for my next car, but keep the 2006 CR-V instead of trading it in. That way I've got a BEV for my day to day driving but have the option of taking the CR-V for those rare longer trips where either EV charging might not be readily available or I just don't want long refueling stops.

If the CR-V was not such a reliable car that likely has many more years in it without more than routine maintenance and so I would trade it in and only have one car, I'd seriously consider a PHEV.
The point here isn't "it can't change someone's life", of course it can. The point is there are lots of people for whom it wouldn't do so, and for those people it legitimately isn't life-changing. e.g., a lot of people would lock that money away for retirement and avoid factoring it into major life decisions at the present. Of course, there are also people who would spend a billion dollars immediately (and even those who would then go broke again). YMMV.
This comment makes no sense, XCB isn't a toolkit. You might be thinking of something else with a similar acronym.

But anyway, any solution that tells users to only use a small subset of compatible clients is about as disruptive as just switching wholesale to Wayland. It's not the reason anyone is hanging on to the X server.
Hmm no, I do get invited to pretty seriously non-mainstream parties despite being in my 40s. And I do go. I don't have a family so I don't have to schedule between birthday parties and judo classes.

But it's still not the same. I remember working in a bar in the 90s, thick with smoke, serving underage customers, staying open till 6am though we had a permit till 2, not caring about anything. Fuck the rules. Things were really much rougher then.

These days even the rough places are 'responsible'. No drinking if you're serving, no smoking because it's EU law, at 3am the lights come on.. Bleh. The "illegal" (usually meaning no permits) parties are a bit better but even they do most of this stuff. And they are hard to find not because I'm not invited but because nobody wants to organise them anymore.
Five times stronger than steel: Japan's new 'wood
SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing
Randi $1M Paranormal Challenge
This is just a basic hygrometer. It's not a mold detector at all. Is this really the level of innovation the army considers impressive? They are taking at least $400k to build 5500 hygrometers. This is something that already exists off the shelf for even less than that.
> the result is a bunch of dodgy appointments in exchange for political favours. The whole process reeks of corruption

how elections can fix that?

suppose politicians are chosen directly by the people, a corruptor could simply pay the people who decides the single candidates for each electoral college or could buy the votes directly. it has happened before and it's also way cheaper and easier than getting an appointment in some room godfather style.

> For example, the EU Commission is responsible for coming up with all new EU Directives, setting budgets and representing the EU internationally

that's the norm everywhere. technicians make the rules, the Parliament job is to discuss and ratify them.

In Italy laws are not written by the Parliament, but there are so called "commissions" that work on budget, directives, proposals etc

it's always been like that since we invented modern democracies.
Offshoring is nothing new, it's been happening for at least a decade in earnest, of course far more for manufacturing. Even if you just count since the start of the pandemic, companies have now had 3.5 years to figure this out. Where is the mass-outsourcing?
What would be the advantage of ASL over speech recognition for VR?

I suppose if you were on an airplane you could avoid disturbing other passengers, but I don't expect many people to actually use VR on airplanes.
Specs:

Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC

2GHz quad-core RISC-V 64GC Xuantie C910
3-issue 8-execution superscalar with out-of-order issue/completion/retirement
64KB I and 64KB D L1 per core
1MB shared L2 cache
4TOPS@INT8 neural processing unit (NPU) @ 1GHz
50GFLOPS, 3Mpixel/s Imagination BXM-4-64 graphics processing unit (GPU)
2x image signal processor (ISP)
Video codecs
H.265/H.264 @ 4Kp75 decode
H.265/H.264 @ 4Kp40 encode

4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, PHY: AP6203BM for Wifi/Bluetooth, Realtek RTL8211F-VD-CG Gigabit Ethernet, microsd, microUSB, micro HDMI.
People are pro-benefits that coal brings... which includes jobs, (hopefully) lower electricity rates, energy self-sufficiency. The price of coal isn't going to change much when there is conflict in the Middle East, for instance...