skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm almost through playing The Talos Principle 2. It has an element I so adore in Sci-Fi: The "Could we do this?" thought. And... in this particular case, I am quite interested in automatically and cheaply creating concrete structures of semi-arbitrary designs. (And, I concur: GO to qwertox's link; not the one in the article)

The segmented construction of this design is very interesting; build the pieces separately using a smaller print area, then assemble using a crane etc.

The most surprising aspect was lack of rebar.
Fairly sure these docs are out of date wrt to the behavior of file extensions. Kyle infamously flipped an nginx switch last year to strip .html file extensions to give sites "clean URLs" (so if you have, for example, "/cyberspace/archive-the-web.html", it will give a 301 redirect to "/cyberspace/archive-the-web"), which is described in the latest Neocities blog post and unfortunately breaks the invariants that are expected by scripts and tools aimed at working with static sites.

(And, of course, as it generally goes without saying when someone labels something a "REST API", this is not REST, but that's a different topic.)
AFAIK the cause is that some cars' bluetooth system "helpfully" sends the "play" command over bluetooth after the phone connects. The phone dutifully complies by starting music playback.
A line in a Kurzgesagt video ( https://youtu.be/LEENEFaVUzU ) a while back caught my attention. “Every generation assumes they’re important enough to witness the apocalypse.” I don’t think that’s the only factor in people wishing for collapse, but I think it’s one of them.
https://archive.is/2TKeo
I think you may have misunderstood me. It's not an age-related thing. If I only spend a day or so a week working in a domain, I am going to become less familiar with that domain as things change over time. It's certainly happened to me as my roles have shifted.

Doesn't mean I forget everything about a space but I'm certainly less current if I spend 1 day per week than if I spend 5 days.
In other languages, irony is saying one word for another. Basically, you can stretch the meaning. In English, it seems to mean something different: a fuzzy oxymoron-like thing. If this is wrong, sorry, not a native English speaker here.
Possibly an artifact from synthetic datasets. It could probably be tuned out without outright filtering.
For the record, since the article never comes right out and says it and only indirectly implies it a few paragraphs in: this is more the car's fault than the phone's. Not every car has this problem.
That's Go for me and has been for the past 3-4 years (with varying intensity), recently got a Japanese floor goban, and it's just a pleasure to sit in front of it to study, understand the nuances, experience professional games bith new and old. What a beautiful game
FWIW, the US is only slightly behind Germany in PV solar generating capacity per capita, and IIRC is building out both solar and wind faster per capita than pretty much anywhere else.

There's lots more to do. There are certainly things to complain about (c.f. Florida regulatory capture, something I would believe but know nothing about). But the US isn't really "behind".
I think this report actually demonstrates the anti-Israel bias HRW has been accused of. HRW points to the 9,500 content takedown requests that Israel has made as one of "four underlying, systemic factors that contributed to the [pro-Palestine] censorship." But knowing that a single Reddit post can receive more than 9,500 comments within a day[1], and that some percentage of the takedown requests likely relate to posts that threaten operational secrecy or the right to privacy of victimized Israelis, leads me to the exact opposite conclusion: that Israel's takedown requests are neither intended to censor pro-Palestine voices nor, if that were the intent, large enough in number to have an impact. Since the report provides no context for the numbers it reports makes me think the authors are more interested in pushing the idea that Israel controls the online narrative than they are in understanding what is actually happening on these platforms.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/news/top/?sort=top&t=year
Its a vector graphic spec with support for raster embeddings. Using it to hold primarily raster data feels like an underutilisation of the vector capabilities.

A PNG would have been better, but a PNG is not programmable, so I lamented the SVG spec not having a programmable bitmap, since lots of people use it for plotting data.
I've begun contemplating if these companies are complicit in whatever crimes against humanity these countries may be partaking in, wanting censored-suppressed - in the name of profit, party to industrial complexes working with authoritarian governments, being fascism.
You think that a lot of arithmetic bugs are due to the math being undecidable?
“You spoony bard” is one of the best lines in the whole series. Why would you want it to be changed to something unobtrusive? It has tremendous staying power and it gets people talking about a game they might’ve otherwise overlooked. And that’s tragic because FFIV is a wonderful game that should not be overlooked.

I think SquareEnix agrees with me, as they’ve kept the line in retranslations of the game.
Oh, so the extension is not crawling the website you visit but crawls the open web in the background?

How much cpu / ram does it consume?
Hurricanes, probably.
>I also think that while the cinematic scope and melodrama would eventually be copied by “Western” rpgs like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Witcher, there is a degree of vulnerability to Cloud and his Final Fantasy successors that still isn’t quite allowed to exist among most of the gruff dudes and sad dads of ‘western’ games.

JRPGs are just much more open about feelings. It's really hard to describe. I'd actually even say that you can see that across all japanese games really regardless of the genre.
How Hand Dexterity Made Human General Intelligence
Probably, but I don’t remember the website looking like that, it had more colors to it, like red yellow blue etc.

Update: Yes, it's commoncrawl but with updated design.
https://archive.is/4dz8G
>With all due respect, these “adversial compiler” expression just makes zero sense, and takes a lot away from your comment.

I was describing how it seems these complex compilers look for excuses to give you miscompilations, this "looking for gotcha's" makes the relationship appear adversarial to me.

>Guess what, the world is complex, and software has no bound for complexity.

My argument is that it really ought to. I think there is a diminishing return.

>What if the former can create 2-10x faster code than the latter (I probably even underestimate it, loop unswitching, vectorization, etc. can account for even more differences).

In code I've used with both compilers this has not been the case. Good profiling tools and manual hotspot optimization go a really long way.

>It turns out that we can build abstractions on top of abstractions, and if it’s designed well, it will scale with complexity

GCC has not scaled with complexity well enough, that's why we have people who lament its behavior.

>Would you change back to an OS that didn’t handle multithreading as it’s too complicated?

Concurrent programming makes problems easier, not harder in my experience. For what it's worth Plan 9 has excellent concurrent programming facilities.

>Or that wouldn’t use GPUs?

GPUs these days only work on systems in large part due to graces of the vendors themselves. Would nvidia or AMD be usable (enough) on Linux if there was not dedicated people from those companies working on drivers?
Ingestible device developed to create the illusion of satiety
Don’t tell them that!
What Will Make Home Buyers Consider Climate Risk? What Happens Once They Do?
I'm under no (or few) polyannish illusions about the challenges we face. but the blog post is ridiculous, and worse, positively harmful death-cultism.
> Every time I turn it off, the Philips Sonicare plays a loud series of beeps

OK, that is annoying. Mine doesn't do that. I only got the annoying beeps a few times around the time the timer expired. Ever since only the different color light.
Honestly? I think this is firmly in the so bad it's good territory.

It looks absolutely absurd, but in the sort of endearing way that many eastern European cars are. It's like a really ugly dog that just wants to do his best to make you happy.

But really at this point it's just a relief to see a vehicle that isn't the exact same design as literally every other model.
I don't understand what you mean by that?
> It seems like no one who designs this stuff ever says "this is too complicated, it doesn't have to be this way, we need to work on simplifying it".

I think they do, but it's yet another XKCD 927 case.
Super early linux (and MacBSD) on Macs in that era was pretty interesting. Usually there was an Mac application you would run, the computer would snow crash, and suddenly dmesg would start over-writing the screen. I have no idea how that worked, exactly, I assume it was effectively overwriting the running operating system in memory and then just jumping to the kernel. It wasn't until the PowerPC era that things got easier with OpenFirmware.
Yeah I totally agree with this! The crux of the speech for me is "To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."
> in the end we still pollute as much and we're still as far as ever from our end goal.

Well there is no need to burn coal/gas while the wind/solar plants are working.
I'm responding to the linked article and the broad "collapse community" not to your claimed "depressed friends with PhDs".

Anyway, the vast majority of climate scientists and economists don't think that civilization will collapse. Maybe they aren't "polymathic" enough for you. Even if they entertain the possiblity of collapse, they aren't certain about it (again, compare to the linked article).

At any rate, the idea that scientists can model the collapse of civilization is silly. We can't model the market and civilization is much more complex.

> Casting the group as expecting some absurd "population collapse without civilization collapse", or cheering on a massive societal regression, is a clear signal your sample set is biased.

I don't know what the first part of this means. There absolutely is a "collapse community," well represented by the linked article and elsewhere on the internet, and I think it's very clear that they eagerly await the collapse for transparent psychological reasons.
I’m eagerly waiting for the vi bindings as well!

P.S.: had a quick glance through the PRs after using it for sometime and saw a draft PR for vi bindings already! - https://github.com/heyman/heynote/pull/51
Again, this is silly. I can't tell what kind of counterfactual you're even comparing to.

Is person A who has a plot of real estate in a valuable location likely better off than person B who is exactly like person A, but has no real estate? Well, like... no duh, dude. Real estate has positive value, and nobody has ever suggested otherwise.

Is person A who has a plot of real estate in a valuable location likely better off than person B who is exactly like person A, but instead they have a non-real estate asset that has the same nominal value as person A's real estate? Maybe, maybe not! It is not a law of nature that real estate outperforms other assets.
> Qt had an awful hack to support C++-style callbacks through the MOC preprocessor, which, in the end, were "compiled" into C-style callbacks. AFAIK, after C++11 they moved from this.

Nothing really awful about it. MOC is the MetaObject Compiler, and it's needed to support introspection. In standard C++ you can't just list the methods or properties any random thing has, for instance.

Signals are also pretty complex. At the simplest, yes, they're more or less a C callback. But they can also be queued and sent between threads, and that of course needs special support that Qt does for you behind the scenes.

What changed in newer releases is that signal syntax moved from using strings:

connect(sender, SIGNAL(destroyed(QObject*)), this, SLOT(objectDestroyed()));
// This is pretty much:
connect(sender, "destroyed(QObject*)", this, "objectDestroyed()");

to references:

connect(sender, &QObject::destroyed, this, &MyObject::objectDestroyed);

Which means connections are checked at compile time instead of at runtime, and you can also connect signals to functors or lambdas.
This would somewhat happen to me a lot. I have an iPhone 12 and I’d plug my phone into the car and it would queue up a song from Apple Music. It wouldn’t start playing it but it would be showing there in the paused state.
It also wasn’t the first song in my list either.

That hasn’t happened in a while though so maybe it was fixed, or I just haven’t hit the edge case that causes it.
It was always the same song though, Surfin USA by The Beach Boys.
> Oh, so the extension is not crawling the website you visit but crawls the open web in the background?

Yeah, it gets batches of links from their API and crawls them
> in relation to work

I can't work very well at all, but I still notice that many people just live by "ignorance is bliss" to the point where they almost try not to know anything. They don't want to know why anything works the way it does, they don't ever reflect on themselves or their actions, they don't ever perform much introspection or anything. It's almost like they operate purely on instinct. Is there a name for this phenomenon?
I've always been conflicted about the DFW speech as a wonderful tool to think about how to live from a man who seemed to have led a pretty troubled life. I keep coming back to the speech for its content, but can't help but think of the man who gave it when I do.
How do you take care of timelines? A usual complaint I get from PMs is that, they are doing all the micromanaging because they need to provide some sort of dates to clients or upper management.

Do you maybe ask for an estimate on “what”-tickets?
So how do you compare the impact COVID would have had on a less capable society?
It enables more precise and complex concrete structures, reducing the amounts of concrete required.
Guardrail Metrics for A/B Tests
Building a LLM Project with LLMs
Circular economics: The Phoenix bridge: Improving circularity of 3D-concrete-printed unreinforced masonry structures - https://block.arch.ethz.ch/brg/publications/1310

(Edit : link format)
I tested Meilisearch last year indexing 10mil documents it took 2 days!
same dataset with the same server specs it took less than 2 hours to index in elasticsearch.
Great article. I totally agree.

One of my favorite things to do on HN is to read much older article from the authors/posters to see their change over time. Major props to the author, as they appear to have significantly improved their English over the last 8 yrs: http://plumshell.com/2015/03/01/why-nintendo-doesnt-release-...

Writing in another language is always a challenge. I learned Hungarian a decade ago, and I still struggle to write “natively.” Major props!
"This username is not okay." c'mon "barfnuggets" is not that offensive
> but German end consumers are probably not to blame.

If they overlap with the German voters who voted for Merkel and especially Schroder (who literally became an agent working for the Russian government after he left office) before that then we can certainly blame them.
Most people i know in the US are very very familiar with this. Those cats were very heavily advertised for their environmental friendliness. It's like of cheerios war bad for your heart
yeah, one of my problems with Japanese properties in general is this obvious design by committee thing and budget issues that turn great pitches into incoherent nonsense by the end

you can basically count on one hand how many anime style or Japanese gaming properties don't go off the rails and finish the initial story.

Final Fantasy VII is a prime example, the world building at the beginning of the first game in the “VII” franchise is fantastic. In such an arduous funnel, most people see that. But then there’s vampires, dueling identities, ridiculous backstories that cause continuity issues and separate subsequently released games for each, pretty much just ignore the final boss in the first game and the resolution in the post cut scenes, because now there’s multiple universes for no reason with no foreshadowing whatsoever. like. stop. there was no cliffhanger or loose ends.

they even got fans jumping through mental hoops about the definition of “remake” to rationalize the unnecessary ridiculousness of breaking the story even further for no benefit, but in 4k. they could have just done the exact same story without the kingdom hearts nonsense but its like someone at Square can’t be fired for some dumb distinctly Japanese reason.
Skoda and Seat are very small regional brands
Same experience as you.

Phone: iPhone 12 Pro

Music Player: Apple Music
> he painted on dry plaster because he took way too long on it

that is not true: he new that he was not able to paint a normal fresco, so he tried a different technique, that didn't work out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo)#Med...
...source? It clearly can't be the band ("U2") or the album ("Songs Of Innocence") that were first alphabetically in anyone's library (unless it was _really_ sparse, and the first-alphabetically track on the album[0] is called "California (...)" - hard to believe there were enough people with libraries lacking any songs beginning with A or B to make this relevant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence_(U2_album)#...
I’m in a similar shoe. Will be spending few days in hospital next week, though going with a different approach: just added tailscale on my devices, my firewall (pfsense), and few other servers I have in case I can’t get pfsense rules to direct the traffic correctly to anything else.
Whoa! Did you guys just change the voicing that is singing in the link? Wait, did the track change entirely? Does this happen every so often?

I don't get it. Why would it regen? Should I be saving audio and sharing it via GDrive or whatever at every interesting playback?

I was replaying this track all night long. Then suddenly the linked song was different. This is not good UX. I shared it with my friend, which version will they hear?

Each time I hit Create, it should make a unique waveform. Crappy from an ML pov, or not. This is all a matter of listener preference. Sometimes artifacts are cool.

Each shared link should be a unique "printed" MP3 distributed via CDN, right? Or, am I being silly, and why? This also sounds so much cheaper as far as server costs, doesn't it?

Last of all, I love this entire thing. If you have any room in hiring, I have spectral opinions and would love to be involved.
>...if they use akamai/CF/etc

Well there you go. We went down to 1 port, then down to one protocol, now we'll soon be down to 1 company (akamai/CF/etc).
“Apologists” … this is the domain of strategic analysis, business and products. Apple, Google, et al are not feudal lords or entities owed personal allegiance, nor sporting teams for fans to rally around, nor are we talking about morality and ethics where Apple did something wrong and apologists are justifying it.

As far as whether they are keeping up or not, I disagree, but neither of our opinions really matter unless we’re betting — that is, taking actions based on calculated risks we perceive.
That was only possible because of coal plants. If that’s unavoidable I’m sure most French people prefer that’s burned in Germany rather than France.
Because they won’t say why I’m curious. My (naive) guess is some type of dynamic paywall generation. Interesting problem and solution either way and love seeing a clever use for SVG’s.
happens to me intermittently still to this day, same behaviour on 3 different vehicles, very irritating.
I recently paid $12/ft for the drilling plus a bit more for excavation to connect them together and run to the house.

Temp is 52f from our loops. Supposedly very consistent once below the frost line (6ft or so). All depends on the region you are in.
> I think we just got too far away from the natural order where elders cycled out of the workforce and assumed family oriented duties.

In a previous natural order, 3+ generations of families lived in close proximity and the labor of families was shared across grandparents, cousins, siblings, aunts & uncles.

Natural orders seem to have acquired lifespans.
It can’t be that hard, humans have achieved it on several occasions. See: The Bible, the Torah, the Quran. Just messages that have been written down and convinced people to convince people to convince people, with all sorts of extreme behaviors in both positive and negative directions in service of that goal.
This is a fascinating article to me. I love it when a less "techy" but still very much nerdy blog post makes it here. It allows me to peer into things I wouldn't know how to find otherwise.

Thank you!
The inverse isn't really implied in the statement. In other words, a world where every day is enjoyable without a having a game doesn't violate the sentiment.

That seems like a more generous formulation.
This is a very profound piece of wisdom. There are times where I dwell on how I should have invested my money a decade ago and wish I made different choices before hitting my mid 30s. Yet I have a lot to be thankful for now, despite my mistakes.
All these comments about bridges being a "solved problem" or having "negative practical value" or how it doesn't cross anything...

It's a tech proof of concept. That's what it is. It says what they're testing right there in the article:

- improvements in the robustness of the digital design tools,

- closer alignment with the numerous structural design and circularity-related improvements,

- tighter integration with robotic concrete printing parameters

- extensive calibration to improve efficiency of production of almost double the number of blocks in less printing time

- after two years and in its second iteration, Phoenix adds a largely reduced carbon footprint and permanence according to building codes along with many other further improvements

So, to put it in tech terms, this is the second iteration of a prototype technology, that is now safe enough to be released as an alpha build (in the form of a small public work of art in a kids' playground). They will now iterate again and in the future try for something bigger, presumably. Not everything can be on a grand scale from the get go, more so unproved new infrastructure technology. Like, you wouldn't have used Docker ver 0.1 alpha in production, right?
wasn't that the place that protested themselves off aws, mastadon, twitter, and even fdroid?

sounds scarier than 4chan
Germany's location means that it's a logistics hub. Gas, electricity, goods - large percentages of each are going into Germany on one end and leave it on another.
This is plainly false and I have no idea what makes you think it's the case. The only reference I could even find was Biden saying something like this. That's somewhat fortuitous because it resulted in one of the 'fact checkers' actually bothering to fact check this here. [1]

The most places like McDonalds used to do was to force franchise owners to sign a sort of non-compete to prevent poaching each other's employees. That practice was ended half a decade ago and now even franchise owners don't have to sign non-competes, let alone low-wage employees.

[1] - https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/28/joe-biden/...
You must have seen some truly _horrible_ websites, then, because that is...well, not _good_, but perfectly fine.
everyone is a bot except you
Sure, it’s X-Plane 12. But this really is a problem for any software that is continuously being developed and that sees active releases. Any time the internal API or ABI breaks, chances are you break someone’s work with it.