skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The same thing will happen if you're running a startup, of course. If you do everything the way the average startup does it, you should expect average performance. The problem here is, average performance means that you'll go out of business. The survival rate for startups is way less than fifty percent. So if you're running a startup, you had better be doing something odd. If not, you're in trouble."

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
It's similar in that people are complaining without doing anything about it... and in a few year's time people will forget what they were even complaining about. Nothing stops someone from developing something better.

There are alternatives to Wayland and X.org. People just don't use them for whatever the reasons may be. Wayland is not new either - Wikipedia says the initial release was 2008.

The distro maintainers and DE developers know a lot more about this stuff than random internet users that complain about any change... so much like the systemd fiasco, the professionals like it and the users complain for petty reasons.

Oh no, your GUI app has some new bug, what will you do? Tell the developer to update their stuff... pretty simple.

X.org was far from perfect when it was first widely adopted, and it's had 20+ years (well, ~40 years if you want to be pedantic) of patches and work-arounds applied while being "mainstream". Now, Wayland will enjoy the same treatment since all of the major distros are poised to adopt it.

An awful lot of what was relevant when the X spec was being dreamt up (in the 80's) is completely different today.

Even the maintainers of X.org openly talk about it largely being abandoned and full or issues that are un-fixable without major protocol and implementation changes. Which means... a v2 would be just as disruptive as moving to Wayland, but Wayland has decades of a head start.

People enjoy complaining about change. It's pretty simple.
I wonder how much Elon Musk becoming a right-wing darling will change the perception of EVs in red states. Cybertruck anyone?
Maybe https://helix-editor.com/
My guess is that a lot of the adult entertainment industry knows that they're in bad company.
The Project Paperclip
How Rachmaninov took Paganini and made the 18th Variation [video]
Using an emulator does not make you a pirate.
This reminds me of Joe Kennedy (JFK's father) getting out of the 1920s stock market right before the Depression because his shoe-shine boy was giving him stock tips.
Because most voice assistants arent that good yet, and those companies already had products that basically maxed out the value of the voice assistants (watch/earbuds).

Humane has beaten other companies to the punch, if you count a flailing noodle arm as a "punch". This device clearly needs significantly more work on the ecosystem, accuracy of answers (it gave 2 wrong answers in the video), and actual input. The projector idea is absolutely terrible, and Im certain this will essentially end up a voice only device for the people that do buy it. The projector wont work outdoors at all, and even indoors, it looks terrible to actually use.
Wasn't Mindgeek cut off from Visa/Mastercard?

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/mastercard-visa-sus...
Maybe, but the marketing message comes across as “GitHub says GitHub product is good”
Not just sane, but fast too. Compilers have long been able to recognize this algo and will optimize all those bit ops to a single BSWAP assembly instruction as necessary.
Impact Event with Unusual Mirror-Like Debris, Managua (2014)
sure but some things are illegal for real reasons
Akademic Lomonosov is a prestige project, it wouldn't be economical by itself.

It makes sense as a portable power plant for emergencies, or for remote military/mining outposts where economics are different.
Elite dangerous' star model is slightly more rooted in reality but it's just as RNG as NMS. And it doesn't even have planets with atmosphere yet (if they ever come because they seem to have given up on it).

Also they're moving away from VR support rather than towards like NMS.

I used to love E:D but it's really gone to shit sadly and all the promises are moot. No atmospheric planets, no ship interiors, no VR when walking around.

It's a shame because it was building up to be great. Then frontier lost interest and started pulling resources away towards their rollercoaster and dino games :(

I think it's peak was when the deep core mining came out. And the decline with Odyssey which I never really played because they dropped VR.

I still have to try NMS. But at least the planets are more interesting.
I wonder how much that gels with Erdős' eccentric behavior? ;-)
Microsoft never had forced participation in hackathons. It was generally encouraged but at most maybe 25% of FT engineers participated.
I have been working on the web for 20 years, which isn't much but it's long enough to notice a pattern.

1. Accessibility tool handles common things badly

2. Accessibility nerds try (and fail) to get everyone to stop doing common thing

3. Accessibility tool handles common thing correctly

There is a lot of great stuff you can do for accessibility, but always ask yourself if it is adding more data (like aria labels) or avoiding something you legitimately understand is not going to be compatible with accessible browsing (like onClick components inside onClick components).

But things like "don't use basic HTML functionality because tools are bad" is advice that will look very silly in 5 years when the cycle continues.

I guess one more is to be very careful not to assume anything is good or bad for accessibility. Most of the people talking have no experience with it whatsoever, and have not even installed the most popular software.
Came here to recommend the article, but see it is now flagged? Why?

The article is well written, thought provoking, fact-based, filled with links, and may inspire a lot of different discussion.

I see one (1!) comment below claiming that the organ that the article appears in may on one other occasion have misrepresented some event that is in no way related to the current article, so I really do not see the relevance of that.

This article is clearly worth a read, and presents no information at all that needs to be flagged, IMHO.
Kinda prefer a tricorder…..
> more and more countries cut off ties economically

Israel's biggest trade partners are the US, China, Germany, Switzerland and India. I can totally see how they are going to cut off ties. /s
I think there's a pretty big difference between filing a ticket to open the building next door and having free workspaces around the world you don't have to do paperwork to use.
I'm confused by the idea that torx could be superior. I don't think I've ever touched a device or car with torx heads that didn't end up with half of them being stripped.
We're thinking of exposing a terraform module in the future to self host script executors with an option to self host secrets storage as well.

module "my_executor" {
source = "blotato/executor

# some params here
}
Again, if there is no way to distinguish a conversation with an AI with a conversation with a human, then there's no barrier.

I don't see how what you are saying holds any water in that scenario.
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1763.4 hours on record

I hate Destiny 2, it’s my favorite game.
real, actual predators like places like that right?
Is Ukraine Counter Offensive Over?
https://archive.is/6MIlR
> The TV stations interviewed local residents living less than a kilometre from the crater who said that "liquid and red sand rained down" on them after they felt and heard the boom and ran outside to see what it was.

> An inter-institutional commission has been formed, made up of the following experts: Colonel Manuel Guevara, head of Army Public Relations; Fidel Moreno; Wilfried Strauch, INETER Advisor; Jose Milan, Seismic Advisor; William Martinez, geologist; Humberto Garcia, UNAN-Managua Astronomical Center; and Humberto Saballos, INETER volcanologist.

From the talk page. Interesting.

edit More from talk page:

"To: Ms. Phyllis M. Powers, Ambassador of the USA (to Nicaragua)
Esteemed Ambassador,

I have the pleasure of writing to you in reference to the events of September 6 at 11:04:50 PM, when it was observed in our country, the fall of a meteorite that impacted near the international airport in Managua, in which the impact caused an explosion that was heard by many people in the capital city and its surroundings, even at distances of over 20 kilometers.

The INETER with other institutions have visited the crater to make a preliminary evaluation of the impact and performed preliminary seismic records processing. Seismic and acoustic waves were recorded by at least 24 seismic stations near the city of Managua. An evaluation was made using the velocity model of the crust normally used by the seismic network INETER and a simple model of constant speed of sound waves. Measurements were conducted with a magnetometer to see if metal fragments could be found in the crater and its surroundings.

Considering the lesser experience and lack of means of investigation, Nicaragua would like to request the support of the good offices of the Embassy to arrange with the Geological Service of the United States, possibly through the visit of a meteor expert that can guide our institutions in coordinating the scientific and technical efforts for the geometric and geologic investigation of the crater, the search for meteorite samples, the chemical analysis and an estimation of the likely trajectory of impact.

Similarly, the USGS could support us with information to answer the questions of our government, of scientists, of the population and the media related to the asteroid that came close to earth, and on that same day, experiences with the falling of meteorites in other countries.

Appreciating your valuable support on this issue, I avail myself of this opportunity to express my highest consideration.

signed, Orlando Gomez Zamora, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Nicaragua."
Renewables are cheap only if you don't care about reliability.
Yes - the one on a major road near us had pretty frequent attacks. Our local political representative actually gave a presentation about how they were working to reduce the crime risks since a lot of neighbors were concerned (like LA banks in the 80s). It sounds like they now have a pretty elaborate setup: there were multiple police reports where someone showed up with a gun and got stuck in the mantrap, and the officers just waited until they got hungry/thirsty enough to surrender.
"Hi, IRS? I've got a billion dollars worth of 'other, unspecified' income I need to pay taxes on in Cash. My name? Uh...."
Oddly I was always under the impression that eyes were the most commonly harvested organ from organ donors.

Apparently I was wrong and it wasn’t the entire eye but the cornea.

Cornea transplants can successfully restore eyesight in certain patients and it is common because the cornea doesn’t present the same tissue rejections as organs.

Just posting this in case I wasn’t alone in my misunderstanding.
That's a really bad idea. The C equivalent to `usize` is `uintptr_t` or `size_t` [1]. `int` is a 32-bit integer on all common platforms, while `long` is 32-bit on some 64-bit platforms and 64-bit on others. But on 64-bit platforms, `int` is not going to be large enough to store a pointer.

[1] There's a subtle distinction between the two of them, but on most practical architectures you're coming across now, size_t == uintptr_t. This is actually a bit of a fight right now in Rust, since there's disagreement on what `usize` should do on systems where size_t != uintptr_t (the most common of which is CHERI).
I agree, even though I'll reserve judgement until trying it. But it remains that limitations in power are unavoidable, and projecting a laser image onto a hand in daylight is going to use an awful lot of juice, particularly given the projector is so tiny I've no idea how this can be done so it's functional, nevermind "insanely great". Same goes for their claim that the speakers inside this tiny device are worthy of getting sound to the ears while skateboarding outdoors. You can have all the Head Related Transfer Functions in the world but again, you need speakers and amplifiers on the order of several watts to get the sound up to the ears. My iPhone Pro Max sounds great and loud in a quiet room, but take it onto the street to play music, it's barely audible. Also not sure how the device will know what kind of HRTF to use given its placement is going to vary so much.
> I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I thought "I need this variable to have a type that's the 3rd smallest available, but I don't care how many bits it actually is. On some platforms, it will overflow at 32768, and on other platforms it will overflow at 2.1 billion, and I'm fine with either behavior."

No, but you've probably been in a situation where "I need this variable to fit in a register", no?
Where I live (New York), plumbers, carpenters, electricians and other contractors absolutely expect to be tipped. I’m not originally from the US, but I don’t get the impression that this is a new practice.
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger is one of my favourite books. It was basically extraordinary that NASA gambled so extravagantly, combining multiple steps in the planned sequence into one mega mission in order to get back on schedule after the disastrous fire and meet Kennedy's aspirational goal. Chances of success? (surviving the mission), maybe 50%.

Thinking about Frank Borman being alive and well and still flying his plane has been a favourite thought for me, and I'm very sad to have to retire it.
Training is very good for the body but actual all-out racing happens at a level of exertion that typically isn't. Your body recovers from it, but at the Ironman distance it takes longer than people often think. Athletes show elevated muscle damage and inflammation biomarkers up to three weeks after a race. A lot of the fatigue is actually central nervous system fatigue, which gives the brain fog.
Absent some really abnormal situation, no one is physically trapped in a coffee shop either. Respectfully it seems like you have a conclusion or opinion and are looking to ignore some pretty basic facts to advocate for it rather than looking at the facts and forming a conclusion.
>One doesn’t need to mess around with sideloading and PC mods get updates more frequently

Sideloading is how you install any new software on android, so requiring it for installing modded beatsaber does not make it less mod friendly. PC updating more often is not because the PC version is more mod friendly. The reason it is slow to update on Quest right now is because modders are investing into making the next generation modding software instead of updating the coremods.
It is financially unfeasible for most middle class households to pass down their homes to their children due to the estate tax kicking on assets over 100,000 eur.

That seems OK to me. Why should children who are lucky to be born into a stable middle class family have a large financial advantage over other children? To be clear, passing down an entire home tax free in a highly developed nation is a huge financial advantage. Literally: 1,000+ EURs per month, for life would be saved. Why do so many people on HN think this should be normal to allow? In my eyes, this is the path to Old World aristocracy. The purpose of inheritance taxes is to reduce this advantage.

I can guess what the reply/replies will be: "Oh, but housing is more expensive now. There is no choice but to use inheritance to give my children a head start." It would be better to ask why housing has gotten so out of control, not using inheritance to side step the issue.
I call a bluff on that. 64KB is small enough that it's not just yet another target. It requires programming in a completely different way, one that is unacceptably ugly and contorted for 32-bit and larger targets.

If you're writing code and not specifically targetting 64KB systems, your code will be completely unusable on such systems anyway. Most programs and libraries written for larger platforms will have more code than a 16-bit target can even address.

Even if you use theoretically correct sizes, they'd still be inappropriate. 16-bit lengths are a bloat if you could fit data in 8 bits, and you'd try hard to do so. There's hardly any room for stack, so even function arguments and local variables are a luxury to be avoided. Real 16-bit programs are often just a one huge function and all global variables.
It's a shame that on VS Code at least (I'm not sure if this applies in other contexts), the "textual healing" feature goes hand-in-hand with ligatures. There is no way to enable textual healing if you prefer not to use programming ligatures.
What is "pleasing to the eye" is a separate question from how we name the colors we see.
Miss Universe pageant owner files for bankruptcy in Thailand
Sometimes you should follow the crowd. Sometimes you should forge a different path. Figuring out when to do what is both really hard and really important.

As a -general- rule the things that make you different should be different. The things that support what you do should be common.

For example- I need to commute. Our customers don't care what car i drive, so I choose something reliable (think Toyota not TVR). I need infrastructure to run on, to me it's a commodity, so I pick whatever is convenient.

Our secret sauce is productivity. So we use tools and processes optimized for that. A lot of that is in-house, very bespoke. And we use a language you never heard of because 99% of software companies don't care about productivity.

If you're an employee it makes sense to learn whatever everyone else is learning. There are lots of jobs for c# programmers. But of course the pool of c# programmers is large and ultimately you're a replaceable commodity.

Whereas when you learn a skill which is unfashionable, rare, hard to master and so on, then your employment pool becomes really small, but also really valuable.

For example, you can (and should) learn how to use Windows. But you're not gonna get hired for that (despite every company having it). But become a OpenBSD expert, and only 6 companies are in the market. But they pay a Lot for someone who can add value to them. Becoming an expert in someone's secret sauce pays well, and has great job security, at the cost of job mobility.

Most people of course want to be in the herd. It's safe. It's easy. You eat grass. It's a good life. There's no excitement, but also no way of standing out.

Some want to forge a different path. Carve out a niche. Take advantage of a gap here, an opportunity there. Go with the flow when it doesn't matter.
Sleep deprivation in my experience can produce similar effects.

It feels like a wakeful dream. Where despite having open eyes and even interacting with the world on some level, the brain is off watching an entirely different movie.
Pixels have unlocked bootloaders so you can install whatever you want, including completely open source versions of android.

You won’t be able to do mobile payment and some other things because the companies behind those other things will only allow their apps to run on locked down devices.
The key answer was “a more energy intensive power source and better aerodynamics”.

Also, the question is not whether a big airship can be made to fly, because there’s little doubt they can. The question is whether a business model exists that can pay for their construction and operation.
Dope story man, can't wait to drop mine.
Tissue and organ regeneration can't really be discussed without mentioning Michael Levin and his morphogenesis research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHhm1pwXjI
Because it promises one day to implement the full common lisp standard, the hope is that you would be able to run old, previously written code (as long as it was portably written) on LCL with only minor edits.
Are you claiming that modern physics is not a branch of past philosophy?

Myself and a number of others who have studied and work in physics|mathematics regard it as such and thus regard physics as an example of something worthwhile that arose from philosophy.

Similarly one can regard modern 20th century logical philosophy in the same light and embarce the work of Russell, Godel, Turing, Church, et al as worthwhile developments of philosophy.
Yes, but we lack good input methods for on the go. Typing on the phone is ok for quick texts but not much more. AR has this issue as well. I tried things like chording keyboards etc but nothing really works and so lacking that, it’s going to be voice…
I'm always really confused about how dotted zeroes became the norm for these fonts. I always confuse them with eights and vastly prefer slashed zeroes. Would love to try this if it had such a variant.
The issue with that is that it would reduce the space between pairs that need it (such as mb). Taken to an extreme, mm would run together into one letter.
Asteroid mining startup plans to launch first-ever commercial deep space mission
Aren't JAXA, ESA and ISRO part of the Artemis Accords? ISRO has human spaceflight planned for 2024.
I have huge respect for HelloGames. Internet Historian did a great video on the history [1]. I have played for probably ~300 hours? Maybe more? I started 2-3 years after release and by then it was in pretty good shape. I like the new stuff they're adding but I see some glaring omissions in what they should be doing.

Planets:

- Different gravity

- Tidally locked;

- Localized weather (it's global on a given planet or moon);

- Different biomes on a planet (eg polar ice caps). Having a world be a single biome seems limited for no real reason;

- Rivers

As for general features:

1. Top of any feature wishlist should be better base building. What they have now isn't bad but it could be so much better. Some things are just annoying (eg certain parts don't snap to other parts) but as we've seen from the Sims, Minecraft and similar games, people will happily spend hours just building a base to their liking;

2. They added a feature (resource nodes) and in 4.0 basically nerfed it into irrelevance, to the point that it may as well not even be there. What did it do? It allowed you to build activated indium farms for essentially infinite money. Money doesn't really matter in this game and there are other infinite money glitches. I had fun (pre-4.0) building my activated indium farm. Now there's absolutely no reason to go through the effort;

3. Race tracks, preferably player-built. Have a mode where you have to stay on the track. Players do this anyway;

4. Also in 4.0 (IIRC) they nerfed technology modules for really no reason. Like a ship could have 6 S-class Hyperdrive modules, 3 in the inventory and 3 in the technology slots. So you were trading storage for jump range (which you could get to 2500+ light years). They just decided to remove inventory modules so you didn't get this choice anymore. Your ship had random supercharged slots so you could almost get up to that same range with 3 modules but honestly it felt like a worse version of what they had.

5. The core story isn't really the point but it probably needs some attention. Last time I did it there was a mix between the new story and some of hte old features like finding people to man consoles on your base.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkADi3OAM5M
This applies to everybody and every job: It's just that with CEOs "everything" is the whole company, while for an individual contributor "everything" is just the scope of their work.

Once you look at this outside of work (the second line), it becomes even more clear: Everybody can do "anything" but not "everything", not just CEOs.

You can summarise this whole article with this: Balance.
EVs start at $27k, a bit over half of the _average_ new vehicle price last year, and less than that if you look at the most popular SUV and truck segments. There are pricey ones but that’s the same as the $70+k truck market where the manufacturers have seen huge profits from steering buyers towards the luxury models with the highest margins.