skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California, with a population 4x that of Seoul, recieved 25 billion dollars in federal highway funding (plus 2 billion dollars of its own money) for a single year (2021). Highway funding. Not counting roads.

That figure, of course, does not include the amount of money that we spent on our cars to drive on those highways. Maintenance. Insurance. Fees.

It does not capture deaths from car accidents (over 4,000, children among them) life changing injuries and maimings (many more than 4,000), choking air pollution, the thousands of tons of tire plastic that washed into the Pacific that year, and obviously the carbon emissions, which probably approached a hundred million tons. Smaller things as well; the stress, the noise, billions of hours spent sitting in traffic. The natural environment that was destroyed to build roads and highways.

If you spent 4 billion to cut that incomprehensible number by just 10 percent you would come out ahead -- not by a little but by a monstrous lot.

Sorry that came off very heated. I really do hate cars, it's not really directed at you.
If you see "Google" anywhere, replace with "advertising giant and leading surveillance capitalist" and you can gauge how happy you should be with the new tech development that is presented.
It's same for me. But now I think maybe it's good to try other way.
Before I clicked I already imagined what the picture of the student would look like.
His point is that you're talking about Israel's blockade but Egypt could also end it, they choose not to.
It's not going to happen and you're talking out your ass. Speculation is fine but let's not pretend like you have any source for your pet theories

By the way I say all of this as a Cloudflare Enterprise customer. I imagine you have a tiny fraction of the experience I do with Cloudflare and completely fail to understand the ramifications of what such a decision would entail on their business
Build an impenetrable DMZ, keep improving missile defence systems, continue forming alliances with neighboring Arab states, stop settlement expansion in West bank, crack down on settler violence, expel right-wing zealots from positions of power, iterate for 20-60 years, let the next generation figure it out. Get hostages out as a condition of a ceasefire agreement.

Things were looking optimistic during the Oslo talks, I don't see a reason why we can't get back to that state of affairs with enough steady work over a 30-year timeframe.

The alternative, an invasion, is also a multi-decade investment, by the way. You can't just remove Hamas and not occupy for decades if you don't want another Hamas to emerge.
Visual C++ 6.0 for the compiler. I remember doing the "upgrade" to .NET 2003.

SDL was used for mac and linux versions, windows used glut.
You can schedule co-routines on a thread pool. Any Threadpool can be trivially turned into a co-routines dispatcher. Including project loom backed ones (not available on Android of course).

The comparison is nonsensical. It's not an either or kind of thing. If your co-routines are doing any blocking IO, you'd use the built in IO dispatcher, which is backed by a thread pool or you'd create your own dispatcher. Each co-routine gets its own thread if you use that; which can then do blocking IO and block the thread. Very common on the jvm if you are interacting with blocking IO things. I was working on some code that needed this yesterday.

The examples in this "benchmark" don't make any sense. It's not clear what the work is or why threads/co-routines are even needed. Handling UI events with threads is not a thing. But co-routines are very useful for that. Because they have very low overhead.
There's places where your tax amount depends on how much trash by weight you produce. I know people in some of those cities that drive their trash to the next town over and avoid paying.
Do you just mean endurance sports? What about like boxing or skateboarding?
Have a look at time double slit, a spot in a material being made transparent twice in a quick succession. A photon travels through both and interferes, ie the future interfes with the past, and the Feynman path integral encompasses also paths through time.
Of course not; it never happened.
Do people actually say meatspace?
> it inflates like a beachball, providing a stable parabolic-dish shape

Except the surface of a beachball is spherical, not parabolic. A parabolic surface is not closed, so you can't inflate it like a beachball.

So I'd like to know either: how they control the shape of the surface, so the mirrored portion is parabolic; or whether the antenna surface is actually spherical, and not parabolic at all.

The portion of a parabolic mirror nearest the focus approximates to a sphere. If the deviation is less than 1/4 wavelength of the signal of interest, a spherical mirror will focus the signal perfectly, as if it were a paraboloid.

A paraboloid is what you need for distortion-free imaging; this antenna is apparently used only for signalling, so perhaps accuracy doesn't matter, because only the gain is important. But this is a NASA publication, so I wouldn't expect them to say it's parabolic if it's really spherical.
So what does this do exactly?

The github as well as the wiki seem to be entirely devoid of the "this program does X, Y and Z", and no, "explore the electromagnetic spectrum" does not cut it.
That's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage.
SDR Sharp has a good server implementation. It doesn't send the entire I/Q stream (which is 2 megabytes / second for each MSPS at 8 bit precision), but rather sends the FFT processed waterfall plus only whatever you are currently tuned to. Works really well even on weaker network links. If bandwidth is not a problem you can of course just stream the entire I/Q, SoapySDR has that option.
The fact is many/most SWEs don't have the skillset or interest to do SRE work. While there is a lot of overlap, the work can be quite different between the two areas. SRE basically maps to the sysadmin role of old, which has never really gone away and I don't think it's a product of a "bubble economy".
AFAICT there is no character named "Gedanken" in that book. The correct book was findable in a few seconds with a traditional search engine: The Time and Space of Uncle Albert by Russell Stannard [1].

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Time_and_Space_of...
They say running the hello world example "is as simple as this:"

wasmer run wasmer/winterjs --dir=. serviceworker.js

But ... what does that mean?

After I turned on a new computer, I certainly can't type that command and have it running "a JavaScript Service Workers server written in Rust, that uses the SpiderMonkey runtime to execute JavaScript" as they put it.

What is the background here? Say I have a newly installed Debian 12 machine - how do I get to use this thing?
Pixel phones are the bleeding edge though. You are basically beta testing for the other Android vendors.
Way back when, for a while, our local (Google) office's internet access ran off the same physical lines as the local prod datacenter traffic. So, any time there was a datacenter traffic outage of any kind, our office was also out. There weren't a lot of outages of that variant, but we knew immediately when one was happening. It's not particularly fun to have all of your access go out concurrently with a prod outage.
The IO dispatcher is a fixed size threadpool of 64 threads or the number of cpu cores (whichever is larger). You can use the kotlinx.coroutines.io.parallelism system property to override the default of 64.
Google pays more than NASA's annual budget to keep its search default everywhere
Google paid $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere. That‘s more money than NASA’s 2023 budget of $25.4 billion. About 70% of Google’s payment was to Apple for keeping Google Search the default on its devices, which exceeds the $17.5 billion ESA is spending over 3 years.

Sources:

1. $26.3 billion: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934961/google-antitrust-trial-defaults-search-deal-26-3-billion

2. $25.4 billion: https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/nasas-fy-2023-budget

3. Payment to Apple: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/technology/google-apple-search-spotlight.html

4. $17.5 billion: https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/esa-gets-big-increase-commits-to-iss-through-2030-and-exomars-rover-in-2028
How do you get a razor into an apple in such a way that it doesn't show damage on the surface?
Humane AI pin could cost $1000 and a subscription
I wouldn't call it insanely high, given that my baseline is tech jobs.

As a freelancer, you make around 800-1000$ a day working for bigger German companies, and the bar to become one is not very high from my experience on both sides of the table. For internal employees the ceiling is at around 120k for senior engineers, above that you need to go into middle management territory or be an EM equivalent.
Some fancy indirectly referenced stuff:

Taking Javascript Code and generating a specialized Interpreter for this Code which can be compiled to Webassembly. (Chris Fallin)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr...

via https://github.com/cfallin/weval
It is not a an unfair interpretation.

They are using the ANC speaker mic pair as the source of _acoustic_ information to infer HR from within the earbud.

As in there are no electrode pads or light sensors or some other known method for HR monitor.
> please tell us more about this orrery you're building!

Oh, thank you for asking. It is a fantasy planet system from the role playing world of Critical Role. It has a tiny brass cold cast planet with continents in the center of it. Two moons “orbit” around that on slanted orbits. A smaller red one and a bigger greyish one, these are realised as two semi-precious stone beads. The mechanism has two pairs of brass bevel gears and three pairs of brass reducing gears to achieve the cannonical 1:6 speed ratio between the moons.

Better shown in a video: https://youtu.be/zOOXRaQLdMs?si=cDCp2T-kjUETtRzj

> Can we follow your progress online?

Oh thank you. Not much of a progress is expected anymore. I have finished it yesterday, boxed it up and now I am on my way to the london comiccon to gift it away.

The next project is going to be a real world orrery of the Gallilean moons if I can manage it. Will try to get better at uploading progress reports periodically. I guess that youtube channel is the best one to follow if this is of interest to anyone.
YouTube censors arbitrarily. And censoring is the companion of propaganda. With lying by omission being a close friend.
>Not really, because most government debt isn't consumer debt. US isn't increasing money supply to pay for social security or to pay workers. It's increasing things like military contracts for large corporations.

You are confusing the debt owner, and where the money was spent. The governments make create internal debt for a military contract, but the debt is held either by the public (e.g bonds), or intragovernmental ( e.g. borrowed from the social security fund) When these get paid back, they go into circulation.

Besides, Most government spending goes to salaries and benefits.
I suppose that for the platform provider it's easier to ship only one runtime and then run everything over it, also might be better in terms of security because of the sandboxed nature of WASM.

Once WASI gets stabilized, you will also have the option to mix JS with the other languages that already target WASM, so your infra could be build on top of different languages and change them according to the requirements, just think of you build your entire system in JS, compile in modules and deploy them as components, then you can swap one component at the time when necessary.
Is there a specific breakdown above which you’d not consider someone claiming combined heli+aircraft experience a heli pilot?
I recommend against attempting to divine opinions of “the OpenBSD team” from mailing list randos. Theo is the only OpenBSD developer in that thread.

> They … dislike modern programming languages.

You based this statement on the words of random commenters. And yet OpenBSD maintains packages for these modern programming languages, and OpenBSD developers spend their free time actively sending patches and bug reports to these language projects to keep them running on OpenBSD. Why not look up the opinions of those people before writing sentences like that?
It uses UDP instead of TCP because it does not care about in-order delivery of the data, only that it eventually has all of the data.

Fragmenting and coalescing the data happens at a higher layer, so there is no reason to duplicate that effort at the transport layer (which is needed to provide a efficient in-order stream abstraction).

TCP (and other protocols) presenting a in-order stream abstraction is beneficial in a lot of ways, but it impacts the design and guarantees you can make in a way that is harmful to a application that only cares about eventual completion.
Yes, that's right. Unfortunately I don't own any property. Rent is around 1500-1800eur a month for a two person appartment in a bigger city
> why bother with UDP? Perhaps one of you can give a persuasive one

Pretty much all video games use UDP.
I've avoided this (and I have two email accounts set up at once on my device under Android 14). That said, the entire handling of backing up / migrating all data could be MUCH better: I migrated from Pixel 6 to Pixel 8, photos were fine, but for everything else it was badly designed: it did a partial transfer of a handful of file types, leaving a range of documents/PDFs etc unmigrated (in the region of 2Gb of files). Subsequently I was able to copy content across using the copy to nearby device, but that recopied the already transferred files plus it screwed up the file creation dates. So then I had a long tedious de-dup stage to clear things up but at least I have everything across now.

Not the sort of experience you expect (but maybe I should!)
Mac Mini running Asahi Linux might be an option
Self-hosted? Mac Mini

Cloud? Oracle free-tier and otherwise Hetzner.
I think you have discovered meditation.
With all its flaws and lets say "quirks" because we are doing with Google here, I am happy to be an android developer and make good money with it (Germany).

I usually compare my situation with my iOS colleagues. When I find a bug or documentation issue in a Google library that is still maintained properly, after creating a bug on their issue tracker, you usually get a real person to properly analyze your issue within 1 month, maybe it's even fixed in that timeframe if you are lucky.

Sometimes you think a library is maintained and officially it is so, but they say development has stopped because of other priorities. Or "basic" features take years to be implemented.
If you know the right person on Twitter you might be able to get it moving internally.

My iOS colleagues can submit private bug reports but chances are super low someone is ever looking at it. There's no community around it, it seems.
I understand that there is certain guidelines to maintain sanity.

I totally agree with that. But I've seen very strange behavior in the last weeks with the submitted stories or even comments suddenly removed or shadowed.

How could this be flagged?

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37975898

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37997076

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38018995

Or why this very relevant story is not showing in the front page? It has considerably a lot of comments and upvotes

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38045514
I think this is one of the main benefits of adopting a regular practice of nondirective meditation (or transcendental meditation if you prefer that). For me, it creates 20 minutes of daily mental "blank space," and oftentimes, my brain fills that blank space with new ideas, creative direction, and insight about myself. It's also a great way to reset anxious thought patterns or distraction that I may have gotten myself stuck in.

I've also had similar experiences going on a walk somewhere quiet and non-distracting.
This is pretty chilling to hear.

One of my big quarrels in my professional life is how clients/bosses want exposure to creative process but can't really handle it, if it's anything but linear, which, in actual reality, it never is.

Going through the creative process without exposing the bossman to it and then playing "creative process theater" for them is a solution to the problem, because the theater caters to their unrealistic expectations, not to reality.

But, the more tightly controlling they are, and the shorter the reporting interval, the more difficult it becomes to execute on this charade. This is particularly poignant, because the point applies not just to ad agencies and design work, but also other types of creative endeavor like software engineering. I really pity the wretched souls having to do daily standups, who end up getting caught in the crossfire there.

In particular: Bosses have unrealistic expectations of what creative process looks like. Those unrealistic expectations get reinforced because so much of the creative process they witness is "creative process theater". And then the poor soul who finds themselves in a situation where they have no other choice but to expose their boss to real creative process obviously can't deliver on their boss's expectations.
Being bored is painful for me. But I remember one night in university where I had taken ADHD meds and then realized I wasn’t going to pull an all-nighter, and I laid in bed doing literally nothing for about six hours and it was a rather profound experience. My mind just went on a long hike through a wilderness of ideas.
One thing they never acknowledge is that all of the FSF's software licenses specifically focus on allowing commercial use by companies, and have led to strictly not calling licenses with such exclusions "free".

So I think it's unfair to consider them against companies, which this article makes a play at.

But it is true that we are missing some type of protection/encouragement for companies investing in developing free software. Even FSF attempted to fix that (even while mainly thinking of users) with AGPL.
Wireguard also has a mechanism where it may choose (under high load) to respond with a cookie, which is the MAC of the requesting IP address. The sender then needs to resend his request with that cookie.

https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf (5.3)
One more point: I'm sure this was better on previous Pixel to Pixel transfers.

I'm definitely noticing a number of regressions across the new OS. Central functions that worked fine getting stuttery,eg showing a PDF, although it has cleared up after a couple of weeks, it was 100% fine for years on the old Pixel 6 under Android 13.
I just read at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047571 that X will replace banks. Which one is it, a Youtube and LinkedIn killer or a bank replacement?
I have a hunch that there might be more ideas where those came from.
On a tangent here: many IT people really suck at explaining things from the start.

I sometimes wonder if they fail to remember a time where it was them that didn't know e.g. what a console actually is and how it can be used, before giving the person opposite an non-explaination like: "You just have to do $CLI-APPLICATION-TASK"

Not that I have anything against command line applications (quite the opposite) — but if you, the trusty IT person, recommend someone to do X, you better check if the know the things required to even understand what X is.
Cities Skylines 2: how unsuitable Unity's HDRP is for regular game development
This is a great idea and I'd love to try one of those.

If you need something for eye strain, try Lutein.
I agree that that there would be an upswing in those things, but I'm not at all certain that the resulting environment would be any better for the average user -- certainly not in the short term, while people's expectation (which has by now become built into our culture) to get almost anything they want online "for free" remains.
I am a victim of this and was depressed until, I took control of my life.

The worst part is, all of your life decision are taken by the parents and you feel at odds at your own emotions when you grow up to become an adult. Now a days, any words that my parent utter, even if the advice is a good one, I never take them seriously.

Lost trust on both the parents.
Real numbers are also overspecifed, there's too many of them, most of them you'll never be able to compute or even conceptualize(!)

But they are mathematically useful.
Blame Anti Money Laundering regulations and chargebacks.

AML is a nightmare for banks, most BS they pull off is because the government is worried they won't be able to steal all your tax money.

Strong authentication is another BS regulation with the sole goal of killing small banks with

Chargebacks are convenient for the customer - but they have a cost on the entire system, including banks caring about people stealing a CC and spending.
I've tried it many times with many kinds of headphobes and it was always plug and play without any modifications.
You grow the razor inside the apple, duh
This sounds like simply basic meditation. Embracing boredom is the first challenge.
> I wouldn't count on anything coming from the circle of Netanyahu.

It's not about whether I trust them or not (I don't!). It's that everyone is following the same playbook. Israel can do whatever it wants and blame Palestinians with impunity.

Every teenager shot on the street is a militant. Every house that is flattened was used by terrorists. Every journalist that was dies while working was actually killed by the Palestinians themselves.

The power imbalance is not just military in nature. Israel has command of the message as well and the is frighteningly effective because it's just plausible enough.

>Notice that Israel also used phone tracking to check that civilian population moved away from the target. No county that ran a campaign of this type in the past used such an approach to avoid civilian casualties.

What about all the people who can't charge their phones because Israel only allowed 4 hours of electricity per day before the most recent campaign? Or whose phones were lost when their homes were destroyed?

This is a great example. The IDF can make claims about how they "avoid civilian casualties" but why do you believe that it's anything more than for show?
Maybe I misunderstand your point of spherical vs parabolic, but doesn't this paragraph explain it?

> The concept turns part of the inside surface of an inflated sphere into a parabolic antenna. A section comprising about a third of the balloon’s interior surface is aluminized, giving it reflective properties.

The balloon is approximately spherical but probably not exactly (actually, when looking closely, hardly any beachballs are spherical either). What is parabolic is the part of the balloon which is aluminized.

Edit: fixed a typo
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38041335
It seems like it, from the responses. Thanks Jacques.
What if I censor the ads with a Sharpie, is that illegal or unethical too?
When Europe tried to build Chinese Architecture [video]
The great irony of helicopter parenting is it doesn't accomplish all that much. After you cover the First World basics (adequate nutrition, no violence in the home etc) you just don't have that much control over who your kids will eventually grow up to be, no matter how much test prep or whatever you throw at them.

See also: https://www.npr.org/2011/04/22/135612560/selfish-reasons-for...