skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to see that driving on the RIGHT side of the road is a fit as a general mode of transportation. Adoption by millions is a testament to that.

It's easy to see that driving on the LEFT side of the road is a fit as a general mode of transportation. Adoption by millions is a testament to that.

Both statements are true. The author didn't say only C++ is fit. Nor did he say a program written in BOTH C++ AND python (i.e. a system of driving on both left and right sides of the road) is fit.

The counter-argument (C++ is NOT fit as a general purpose programming language) is invalidated by millions of programmers who use it as such in the same way that thumbs are not fit for grasping is invalidated by, well, grasping with your hands.

It doesn't mean pliers are not fit for grasping just because thumbs are fit for grasping.

You're conflating types of evidence and types of arguments.
There's a big difference between "Amtrak's current long-haul routes do not turn a profit" and "intercity rail in the US only makes sense in the Northeast Corridor." There are many metropolitan areas in America that are separated by only a few hundred miles, a very normal and natural distance for a train route. The problem is that Amtrak doesn't currently connect those cities, and/or doesn't run enough service to make those trips viable.

For example, the Cleveland and Pittsburgh metro areas are over 2 million and just over 3 hours apart by train or car. However, there is currently only one train from Cleveland to Pittsburgh a day, and it leaves at 1:54 AM. Obviously, most people will drive if that's the only alternative, but that does not say much about the general viability of inter-urban rail between those two cities.

There are good discussions about Amtrak routes and the most recently-planned Amtrak expansions here:
1. https://humantransit.org/2023/07/amtraks-endless-ridership-c...
2. https://humantransit.org/2023/08/amtraks-long-distance-train...
Spain's new space agency is a bigger deal than it seems
The Great Escape movie made it seem quite upbeat.
Just give your pet a random 4096 Bit string as name and your safe, no need to add unneeded complexity.
The radiation doesn't come from Jupiter but from its magnetosphere. The radiation comes from belts, like Earth's Van Allen belts, but much stronger. The Galilean moons are all inside the magnetosphere and Io is in the middle of the strongest belt.
I would at minimum want to see the analysis replicated across a variety of languages before I started drawing conclusions about "the primordial nature of human language". In particular, languages with no known relation to English; Chinese would be a good one, far from the Indo-European tree and with a big corpus. The membership-centric is certainly appealing, but really it's too appealing to let ourselves take it seriously without counterbalancing it with a high standard of evidence.
This is awesome. Would love to learn more and build content at n0c0de.com using this. Please kindly fix the slack link.
> People and companies use it because it makes this easier in several areas

Compute on demand is significantly more complex using k8s than what most companies already pay for from their own cloud provider, AWS is the industry standard for this purpose, followed by Azure, then TF, then Pulumi maybe.

k8s is a meme for resume-driven development.
> Is the “automate” that I’ve italicized supposed to be hand-tune or something along those lines? I

Gah, yes, typing faster than coffee. Fixed now, thanks.

Agree on your points about more recent work.
There was this "Child Tax Credit" during the pandemic:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/child-tax-credit/

It sounds like you might have missed out on it due to not knowing about it, which would be unfortunate.
I'm not that deep into rust, especially unsafe rust, either.
But I'm not really sure where the strict:: comes from? If it is the same function from the standard library then I'd put my money towards "its probably meant to be unsafe, but hasn't been marked as such yet. The function is still considered unstable and is only available on the nightly compiler".
I asked “what is this” and it responded with:

Google Lens is an application that allows users to search and identify objects, translate text, and perform various tasks using just a camera or a photo. It is available on both Android and iOS devices. Some key features of Google Lens include:
Using the camera to identify objects, such as artwork, plants, or everyday items.
Translating text in real-time from over 100 languages.
Copying paragraphs, serial numbers, and more from an image and pasting it on your phone or computer.
Searching for songs by humming.
The application harnesses the capabilities of advanced AI models, such as ResNet50, to identify objects and provide seamless integration with Google Image Search for further learning and contextualization.
The ability to downvote stuff in /newest, but flagging serves that purpose in a way.
My understanding is that Google's behavior was seen as strong-arming their way into signing non-competitive agreements with competitors.

For example, they'd make a deal with Samsung that if they want Google services on Samsung phones, Samsung had to agree to not let anyone else put competing app stores or payment processing other than Samsung's own and Google's own.

Where-as Apple it's more seen that they simply are not letting competitors put their alternatives on their own Phones, which isn't seen as anti-competitive, but more as how Apple itself competes.

And probably Google also internally used bad language that talked more about how to prevent competitors, etc. that might have been more incriminating.

So I think they see it more like if CocaCola told Walgreens they won't sell Coke products at Walgreens if Walgreens caries Pepsi products. Where Coke is seen as such a big player, that their leading market position forces Walgreens to agree, because not selling Coke would harm them financially so much due to the market leading position of Coke, but also it's seen as a anti-competitive agreement from Coke.
Of course not, claiming that would be rediciulous. The last one, post Covid, seems to be driven partially by corporate profits if you believe people being much more knowledgable about those things than me.
Code styling rules, such as requiring functions to have exactly one exit point, could be carried over to Rust. Many existing rules are still relevant for unsafe blocks and there would likely be new rules for panic.
I heard on a podcast that some part of the difference in the two rulings was due to the fact that Google was cutting deals with some companies/developers to lure them to their store, meaning not everyone was equally subject to the 30% fee. Apple (to my knowledge) hasn't done any deals like this - everyone pays the same fee, no special treatment (until recently, when they reduced the fee for apps with revenue <$1m)
I wonder if .NET related submissions get score penalty on HN, the posts almost never manage to reach front-page or stay there for any meaningful period of time despite the score.
> I didn't spot what paper you mean other than 'related to Amazon'

Lina Khan (FTC chair) wrote an influential paper called The Amazon Paradox laying out a new antitrust doctrine which argues that rather than consumer harm, the standard for antitrust should be harm to competitors.

> it's plain to see what can happen to an Amazon... you have to be monopolistic or at least in control to be able to pull that stuff off, but then you're wealthier, giving you more power to hurt competitors.

"Can" happen is not the same as "has" or "will" happen. If they are causing consumer harm, they should be punished. But as far as I can tell, there hasn't really been strong evidence of that yet (your example of a bad delivery experience is not unique to Amazon), and I don't think we should punish pre-crimes. Ultimately, it feels like you and many others are starting from a position of "Amazon et al should not exist" and working backwards to a justification.
I'll make a similar, but fundamentally different, claim to what you're quoting: There isn't much demand for half assed memory safety features. And C++ memory safety features are - nearly by definition - half assed. They're opt-in (meaning all the third-party and system code you link against doesn't have coverage), slow (meaning you can't use it in production), and tend to catch the trivial bugs rather than the hard-to-find ones that keep you up at night.
That's the QtQuick 2D renderer. They mostly use that on devices without a decent 3D GPU.

That was also Qt 5.7. With Qt 6, QtQuick itself is part of QtGui now. It is available under LGPLv3 and additionally under GPLv2, GPLv3, Qt for Device Creation Professional (Pro) and Qt for Device Creation Enterprise (Enterprise).

But the embedded companies I've worked with tend to avoid LGPLv3 because of the anti tivoisation clause. (To let the end users swap out the Qt libraries on your devices).
Very cool!

I was thinking "Hmm, never seen that one before!" I dig the numeral fret inlays.
This is a great way to ensure that the past can be modified as contemporary needs demand.
I’ve also been using it for, I think, 2 years now. While it has fewer issues in my experience, they’ve also destroyed features for nebulous security benefits. I’ve wasted quite a lot of time trying to get things to work on Wayland that just worked on X11.
What do you think happens if the internet company is dissolved, all the workers are laid off, and all the assets are liquidated?
> it might be nice to still show the README (and package.json metadata if added) of the original package-name

This would be great, @types/* docs are rarely ever useful. Although it'd be still nice to indicate that the types are not available in the original package.
The UK government has great form when it comes to handling historical documents affecting the lives of thousands, as proven by the Windrush saga. I also have particular confidence that this executive should take irrevocable steps, since they have a clear electoral mandate and are very likely to remain in power for the next decade.

/s
Yeah, whether Lufthansa's polices are reasonable or excessively cautious is debatable, but the ATC here obviously gave unambiguously wrong information about the delay.
Apparently, pplx-7b-online's name is Robert:

Who are you?

I am an AI, and my name is Robert Liu. I was created by Perplexity to help users with their questions and provide accurate information. My purpose is to provide you with the information you need and answer your questions from a personal and philosophical level.
This seems perilously close to the green color of traffic lights.

Is there any reason to use anything close to the existing spectrum of green (drive quickly into this light) or blue (emergency) for this? Why not purple?

Do bear in mind they selected turquoise which is just equal parts blue and green light. Like, why would you do that if you had any other choice?

Color perception is a tricky thing as anyone who has ever painted a house knows. The ambient can deeply affect it, and people have different perceptions of color in their eyes to say nothing of those with Tritanomaly who simply won’t be able to discern these colors at all. And then there’s lots of traffic lights already have kind of a turquoise color. Just look for yourself:

http://www.google.com/search?q=green+traffic+light&prmd=imvn...

Is that really the best choice? Really? Seems kinda short sighted, so to speak.
Kinky jokes aside, this sort of thing can give a pretty good overview of how much you slept and how well. I use a piezoelectric sensor plate from an "Angel Care" baby monitor. Takes only a handful of passives to safely interface to an Arduino analog pin (safety: The transient from the thing getting jolted not burning out the input pin).

The result, graphed (at 1 minute per sample bin - don't get kinky ideas) gives a very good overview of awake/tossing and turning/really asleep. Which to a lousy sleeper like me can actually be reassuring - yes, I did get some sleep in all this.
Related: fascinating deep dive of the Python GIL by David Beazley from PyCon2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt-vMVdM8s
GL is the #1 search result for "what is this" on Google (but not Bing, DDG, Yahoo, Yandex, etc). It definitely feels like the Perplexity LLM is heavily biased by search results for its answers, and this makes me feel like they're potentially trained and/or indexed off Google SERPs.
I give away technologies / products which favor / foster decentralization:

* De-anonymize cloud services and make PTR records work again.

* "Track the trackers" email aliasing; since none of the big providers do this well, you'll need to run your own Postfix mailserver to take advantage of it. Maybe you should set up DANE while you're at it?

* A decentralized telemetry / SIEM -like platform using the DNS.

* "Internet in a box" on your laptop: a wifi access point which doesn't have broader internet connectivity and which takes over all DNS (as well as DHCP) and allows you to run apps on that hotspot that are only accessible via that hotspot. Beyond the utility for remote / mobile de facto geofenced applications, imagine a world where "routers" were nodes with multiple wifi radios and which joined multiple "boxes".

If the three phases of consensus are kook / lone gunman, co-conspirators, movement, (...consensus) I'm past the kook phase and into conspiracy. Happy to get on a video call and give anyone an hour of help with any of the above.

Things that the RFC (and frankly nobody, really) doesn't cover are that centralization is overwhelmingly good for "free", but this has two sides. What two sides do you think I'm going to point out?

There are absolutely awesome proprietary offerings (distributed doesn't necessarily mean open source or free) for doing no-code responsive mobile development by an "army of one" or a savvy user, for 1000 users or less (designed for scenarios where a UI needs to be built for a single person or maybe a half dozen at the most). Centralization favors the Procrustean (I still like that word, thank you commenter for gifting it to me): if the user doesn't fit, kill it trying and if it dies another one will take its place.

I'm not sure if I need to see Coca Cola ads intended for an Argentinian or Ukrainian audience. Just let that sink in. Saw a pro-centralization argument the other day that $grandma in a $third_world_country can't view her grandson's football league games without the wonders of centralization (conveniently conflated with not regulating those centralized entities' traffic across international borders)... but this chauvinistically fails to grasp that this requires an international data plan (oftentimes lacking on phones in third world countries) and that grandma has to register for some global nexus of surveillance capitalism that otherwise has little relevance to her life in order to do so.
I’d like to hammer on this point. The problem isn’t phones, but how they are used.

Too many people leave the default notifications on and assume it’s just how things work. People need to be taught to realise their attention is valuable and that notifications are taking it for free.

People need to be tech literate, banning phones for students won’t help them down the road, it’s only deferring the problem.
Declaring a fuel emergency when your alternative is only a few miles away is bound to get someone in trouble.
> a native UUID type so I don't have to write functions that convert 16bit binary to textual representation and back when examining the data manually on the server

MySQL 8 adds the `BIN_TO_UUID()` function (and the inverse, UUID_TO_BIN), and supports the quasi-standard bit swapping trick to handle time-based UUID's in indexed columns.
This is more or less a solved problem. Tamper-resistant/tamper-evident datastructures like blockchains and merkle trees make it fairly hard to make things vanish without a trace. You dont need all of the Nakamoto consensus machinery of crypto currencies, you just need your central authority to publish the latest hash on a ~daily basis.
Do recommendation algorithms count as AI? Because there's a lot of that in Instagram Reels/TikTok, which I use daily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%95

It's a pretty rare character indeed.
Paper records of wills are not going to have any impact on "social stability". The connection is so tenuous that using this line of argument there is almost no expense that the government shouldn't pay for.
> ... the requirements in computer graphics are more inclined towards making something that looks right instead of getting the physics right.

That is exactly correct. That said, as something of a physics nerd (it was a big part of the EE curriculum in school) people often chuckled at me in the arcade pointing out things which were violating various principles of physics :-). And one of the fun things was listening to a translated interview with the physicist who worked on Mario World at Nintendo who stressed that while the physics of Mario's world were not the same as "real" physics, they were consistent and had rules just like real physics did, and how that was important for players to understand what they could and could not do in the game (and how they might solve a puzzle in the game).
Law is so weird. Apple stopped watch sales today for using decades old technology[1]. And Google for this. Out of ALL the bad things they have done.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2023/10/31/some-a...
I worked for a few years in the full-height kind, and a few years in the lipstick kind. The full-height cube was awesome, I had as much privacy as I really needed but the barrier to interruption was just low enough that people weren’t afraid to come ask a question.
No. I'm not saying that C++ is not fit as a general purpose programming language. It very well may be. All I'm saying is that "adoption by millions is a testament to [the fitness of C++]" is not a valid argument. If it were, "adoption by millions is a testament to truth of [objective religious claim X]" would be a valid argument, and it manifestly isn't because different religions make mutually exclusive objective claims.
Well, I wont pretend to have sources in hand, but as I understand it things like child labor were already gone by the time it was regulated away, or like having breaks was found to improve worker efficiency before they were required by law. You can see this from a couple years ago when jeff bezos using a sockpuppet account to lambast bernie sanders attacks on amazon, he said amazon had a higher starting wage than bernies own states minimum wage and called on him to do better; yes, absolutely true but also a pristine reason not to raise the minimum wage, it wouldn't even affect amazon, americas largest private sector workforce. As to environmental regulations, those carbon tetraflourides (i think that was it) were removed before regulations. The emissions of modern vehicles being relatively low is as much a product of manufacturers marketing better gas mileage, low NVH (noise, vibration, hashness), and improved performance, as it has been about environmental regulation. Energy is a ladder, where every step represents higher capital investment and lower long run costs, it also generally represents lower emissions, from burning literal shit>wood>coal>oil>natural gas>nuclear; it shouldn't surpise anyone that the government didnt need to regulate away burning shit for energy.
Eeh, at some point, a nepotic Manager will move resources around in a way that an IC (should be manager) will be banging head on the railing with a question why am I not calling the shots.
Congrats on going open source! Which components are open sourced specifically? Is there any chance it will be self-hosteable? I don't want to host it myself any time soon but I prefer giving my money to a company where that's an option.
> The only reason people would ever use another store is if they were forced to, to install a specific app

Obvious counterexample: The other store charges 4% instead of 15% or 30% and correspondingly the exact same app is cheaper there.
Openlib: A shadow library (Anna's archive) book reader and downloader
I have seen that the biggest issue with C++ is that legacy C++ is quite hard to refactor to the new patterns. For example, I have been working on font substitution in LibreOffice, and I'd like to use a more functional style of programming, but I'm getting stuck because of an overuse of classes.

I've been reading Functional Programming in C++ by Ivan Cukic and I'd like to adopt this - it does require a lot of refactoring of this massive codebase.

Perhaps this is a massive, ancient codebase issue more than a C++ issue, though.
Has anyone done this analysis for other llms like llama2?
No, that's not the point. The point is to illustrate that products defy expectations with regards to the U in USB, which is for Universal. The rest of the article is context for the point, not the point itself.

Reason 1 supporting this: the article's title is "My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter". What sticks out most here is the word spicy, and when used in conjunction with electricity, it usually means more electricity than needed. Very good title.

Reason 2 supporting this: The heading is "It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec". Nothing about cat fountains.

Reason 3 supporting this: the article is tagged with the "ramblings" tag, setting us up that the article will be opinionated, and not strictly just about the central point of it.

>Stop trying to 'improve' life by more & more tech-based BS.

Hard disagree. There's no clear healthy cutoff with regards to technology, and the frame of reference also changes over time (and the course of history). Our life is supported by a ton of technology, many pieces of it being thought about as both "too much" and "not good enough".
I just want a C with templates (and function overloading)?
I think it is something to do with cabling deals Comcast did with local governments. Once Comcast lays the cables,

1- Nobody else gets permits to lay cables in that area. Governments can't even share the data about cable locations/network detail. You can ask, as a property owner if it is around a specific location and they will say yes or no.

2-The agreements also prohibit local governments from laying out public cables, like roads.

3-Xfinity won't share that network with anybody else.

Customers are stuck whatever Comcast deoes. These breaches have no meanining other than getting a check for $5-100 when they settle the lawsuit claims.
> none of the above, exactly as the Schrödinger equation we spoke earlier, require the time to be something internal, something that is required for the universe to tick.

Isn't it somewhat ironic to say so, because without time, how could the universe, or anything, "tick"?

> this does not verify that time exists as a fundamental entity of the universe.

What kind of proof would it take for you to say that time is a fundamental entity? In other words what do you mean by "fundamental entity"?