skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t python just too slow for a game engine? Not that people don’t write games in Python but that it would be a major shortcoming for the kinds of things you can do. So you write a language that looks like Python but runs quite a bit differently and you don’t make it actually compatible with Python because reimplementing the whole manage would be tons of work and have conflicting requirements with writing a game engine.
Memes and mental health: How teens are coping with increasing stress
Have you been a creator on YT? Do you know how much an average creator gets paid? Did you know that it and other modern platforms like Spotify artificially skew payouts towards the richest brands? If not, then please let’s not make any claims about wealthiness and “old guard” monopolies here.
I think the interest here is less about how it was used in the past, and how it might be used in the future.

With changing landscape of laws related to things like abortion and transgender rights, people are rightly worried that a zealous prosecutor in one state will subpoena for records of things like abortion drugs or hormone blockers, and use that data to start harassing or prosecuting people.

It sounds like it would be feasible for a prosecutor to ask for a list of all patients currently prescribed hormone blockers and then open child welfare cases against all those families across an entire state.
Assuming that's true, I very much doubt Tolkien was the first to do it.
Tbh it would make more sense for other providers like Fastmail to provide a Gmail-compatible API since that seems to be the defacto standard. They could open source the Gmail to JMAP translation layer if they want to improve interoperability.
No. I misremembered, it's $53m AUD

https://www.themandarin.com.au/233815-queensland-digital-lic...

That's probably total development and some operations costs
First they required attestation on Facebook but I did not speak up because I do not use Facebook.

Then they required attestation for Amazon but I did not speak up because I do not use Amazon.

And finally they required attestation for Uber Eats, but there was nobody left to speak up for me.
Of course it’s a democracy, the best that money can buy.
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Well this explains 90 faves putting a topic at nr 1.
This reads a bit like a microcosm of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" system.

Unprocessed emails = "Collection Bucket"

Follow Up folder = "Projects" list

Hold folder = "Waiting For" list

Except with GTD you do this with not just emails but also text messages, DM's, snail mail, personal lists you've jotted down, etc. It's a life organization system.
Inscriptions: A Guide for the Ideological Maxi
I think it's talked about fairly often. Wind turbines kill many more raptors (eagles and hawks) than cats do. Here's some data: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/02/19/number-of-eagles-kil...
> They make Tofu taste like meat and looks like meat, it is definitely a big thing and you could search for photos on how close these food look like real meat/fish and the popularity.

That is not tofu, though, that is mock-meat, mock-fish, mock-chicken etc made entirely out of gluten and is highly processed.

Mock-whatever does, indeed, have the texture of and is flavoured according to what it «mocks». Tofu, on the other hand, can't be substantially textured, hence the choice of gluten.
IIRC, the set I had as a kid presented the books in this order and didn't even include the Magician's Nephew (EDIT: it was the 1970 Collier-Macmillan set, which did include it, so either I'm mistaken or we lost it - both equally likely).

Star Wars is better in production order too, though I seem to recall fans coming up with alternative orderings that were neither production nor chronological.
Yes, that's the whole point of the company. They sell shitty, overpriced-except-branding stuff. It's worthless except dor the brand. I'm not sure I'd pay $5 for their shirts but their branding is worth the $90 premium to some people.

Personally, I think the answer is to invest in alternative sports an alternative brands - there's plenty of things that could replace them in cultural consciousness.
Sure, but even so I’m reasonably sure we can rely on the linear nature of time. Whether or not the publication of prequels was premeditated, it still rings true that the cultural artefact is always publication order.
Docker images can be signed. And docker images are no different than any other software: if you don't trust who it's from, don't run it.

(Whether the standard docker tooling or user decides to validate signatures is another thing.)
While I agree, it's a pretty bad example for demonstrating this issue, because an error on "follower_count" will probably not cause any harm (youtube example). Also, the value can be recalculated at all times (maybe not feasable).

Any other example that comes to my mind will not depend on the "state of the apps memory" for a sensitive value, because that would be bad design too. Then the sensitive value must be the aggregate of other values within the database and with each commit, the equation must be balanced.
8 bytes of new data but 8x28 = 224 bytes = 200 data + 8 date + 16 for id.

The 28 is a factor (×).
Very much so. And their popularity has already been on decline for several months, and couldn’t be explained away by kids going on a summer vacation anymore.
If you're at customs and asked what your plans in the country are, you should not say "work", unless you are authorized to work in the country.
Travelling has become a race to look good online
The official GDScript language documentation is here:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/g...

Registering gdscript.com and boasting about its search ranking is just gross.
I use something conceptually similar-ish. I use iA Writer as my PKM[0], complete with wikilinks between docs, embedded images, etc. Then I have a Python script that slurps in all those Markdown files, changes the wikilinks to Hugo's own intra-site link format, and changes the Writer-formatted image tags to Hugo's. Then there's a Justfile that runs the Python script, runs Hugo to build the site, and then runs rsync to upload the whole mess to my webserver. A cron job does all that regularly.

My main website[1] doesn't use a lot of internal linking. There are a few links but not a lot. I have a separate private website full of family stories that I've written down for my kids, and it's very heavily cross-linked. From the authoring end of it, I'm just writing a bunch of Markdown in Writer and then it magically shows up online later.

I like it. Each piece of that process is simple and self-contained, and once up and running it Just Works.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_management

[1]: https://honeypot.net
this is not true, sugar is sugar* -- what matters is how it is consumed, not how it is added. if sugar is consumed with a lot of fibers then it will be absorbed slower by your intenstines. the same fruit consumed as juice or whole fruit impacts how the sugar is absorbed.

[1] sugar is actually multiple sugars, and different sugars (glucose vs fructose vs sucrose) - https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sucrose-glucose-fructos...
Do GMail and Outlook (and Exchange?) support JMAP?

I'm all for open standards, but as a sibling put it, when you're starting out, you may not want to limit your market size, unless you know you're addressing some kind of niche to begin with.
Any neat, simple, one-sentence claim about history, or any reality, omits lots of grey area, nuance, and complexity. Any such claim about the development of writing systems would have the same flaw (writing predates the Egyptians too).

For one sentence, 'the alphabet was developed in 8th century BCE Greece' is a pretty good one.
It’s a very common project in the maker scene in general. Look up Bitluni on YT for some examples, he’s done full-wall sized ones in his house. Theres lots out there though, we’re working on a full-window one at my local hackerspace.
But it’s ok because NFT’s did.
Where is the boasting? Did I miss it?

It is confusing that gdscript.com is not the official domain of the language, rather of a language enthusiast, but quite honestly, that one is on the Godot team.
Oh I'm sure they'll use the edge for critical functions!!!
To me, that is just another Data Set to prove how most of the MacBook are used in tech industry. And their upgrade cycle. 37 Million Registered Developers ( Many Overlap ). And many Devs using it for Web development. It seems Apple could have 40M of software developers using their platform. Out of ~125M active Mac users.
I think you're right, and want to offer some additional perspective.

I made a very, very simple game in Godot 4 with my friend this fall. To build for the web target, I ported our C# to GDScript, and it wasn't so bad. The resulting webstuff was 50MB without audio.

I ported it again to JS, and it's 50KB without audio. Maybe 150K with audio. About the size of two favicons.

Yes, the game is very very simple ( https://rezmason.net/fluid , still refining it), but the difference between 50K and 50MB is still significant.

If we had used some kind of Python to WASM toolchain, I don't know what size the project would be, but probably more than 50MB. With C# in the mix, and mono, or whatever, it would be even larger.

One of the reasons we explored Godot this year was to try other ways of producing things. GDScript helps maintain Godot's distinction from its competitors, and I'll reach for it whenever I need to make #ThatKindOfThing.
Starlark is actually a lot like Python, in the sense that you can write code in Starlark and feed it to a Python interpreter and get the same result, at least much of the time.

GDScript is very different. It has some similarities with Python, kind of like how C# and Java have some similarities.
Oddly enough, on my family's farm, we got a DeLaval voluntary milking system, i.e. milking robot. Very pricey piece of gear. And several of it's embedded computers for some reason run Gentoo.
Having read both, that's the closest link I can think of, and it's a very tenuous similarity on which to base the accusation of Lewis having "ripped off" Tolkien. That's only the biggest, most obvious unnecessary dig in the piece, coming from an author who doesn't even know how to spell "Tumnus". She's right about the headline, but you can stop reading there.
AI can find your location in photos
Teams maybe? Tbh I'm not totally sure as I'm new to office so I don't spend a lot of time trying to make it work when it's being hinky.
Gladly, provided that Mozilla gives me a way to install 1) my own custom web extensions and 2) custom default search engines on standard vanilla Firefox WITHOUT their involvement.

Until then, I'll stay with browsers that actually respect my authority as the user thank you very much.
Can anybody explain why the optimal conditions for the formation of large snowflakes (5 degrees farenheit and no wind) are what they are?
In 1998, Debian was a great option for SPARC and Alpha, and that’s really where I cut my teeth with Linux.

Around 2004, I was building Gentoo up from stage1 just like many other commenters.

For 2024 and personal stuff I’m back on Debian and it’s safe enough I pull security updates daily - entirely automated and no review on my part. It essentially never causes a problem. Updating once a year sounds terrifying to me given the rate of vulnerability discoveries of late.

As ever your mileage may vary and your systems aren’t my systems, but Debian truly is a wonderful OSS project and as of August 2023 it celebrated its 30th anniversary!

Gentoo going binary feels weird :) I’ve still got a soft spot for Gentoo and what it enabled me to do 15 years ago when I had more time for personal hacks.
I should have used more precise language; I mean the bytes written to disk don't work out with such a simple formula. Missed the footnote which discusses this, but there are even more things to consider such as how many rows are being updated at once and etc.
I loved this show as a kid. It did a great job at encouraging open ended imagination using drawing as a medium. I thought it had been lost to time and never knew anybody else who remembered it. Found a YouTube archive of most of the episodes in rather poor VHS transfers which was enough to let my nostalgia get fed for a while.
Great post! I’m an ex maths/physics person and have always been into EE and electronics as a hobby. I’m currently working on a pcb and am also struggling to find that leap in knowledge.

I have recently found the eevblog forums [#] which are extremely valuable. I haven’t posted there yet but am planning on engaging and seeing if I can learn some deeper knowledge.

I’m struggling to pick which MCU to use exactly. Let alone what brands of rotary encoders are good, or which water proof usbC female port I should use!

[#] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=s3ph2f4cbq...
Just checked your link - yes, Phil's Lab is good, not aware of anything better for PCB design on YouTube. Maybe some of the Rick Hartley recorded talks he recommends sometimes, or perhaps some old EEVBlog videos would be worthwhile too.

But in general I agree, there's too much fascination with Arduino et al. that I think's mid/long-term harmful to those that stick with it personally.
Starlark is a Python-ish subset intended for declarative-looking-but-still-procedural software configuration management in Bazel and Buck2.

GDScript is their own take for the GODOT game engine. It looks like Python, but it's different. There are many usability advantages, like learning curve, by modeling off a commonly used language rather than dreaming up a completely new one.

Here's a list of Python-like languages:

https://blog.matt-rickard.com/p/the-python-family-of-languag...

Starlark lang spec:

https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/blob/master/spec.md

Google implementations:

https://github.com/google/starlark-go/

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/src/main/jav...

Rust Google implementation taken over by Meta:

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/04/08/rust-st...

These are in the embeddable languages category like Lua and dialects of other languages with implementations such as mruby, daScript, emacs LISP, and ECL. And there were game-specific ones like QuakeC and Squirrel. Those were usually in the past because other embedded languages weren't available, but now hundreds of games use/d Lua because it doesn't make sense to build a language and runtime from scratch in most cases. Scriptability (or format documentation at least in the case of Doom-engine games) is key to implementing mods officially instead of as invasive game hacks like Super Dune 2.
> A law and regulation is written one way and interpreted a different way by the courts. In the USA it's all about case law.

This is about the EU, not the US.

As someone who used to practice law in the EU before moving into software development, I can tell you that your hypothetical will never lead to a suit nor judgment in the EU, nor is your personal experience concerning a subpoena a thing that happens in the EU, if only because the concept of discovery doesn’t exist in civil law systems.

To put it differently and respectfully, you’re applying your knowledge of and experience with the US legal system to a completely different legal system that rarely produces outcomes similar to those in the US system.

Even the order of magnitude of judgments is leagues apart.

€1m judgments lead to coverage in legal outlets there if not regular mainstream media. In contrast, in the US, that money is thrown across the table to make an unviable but annoying class action disappear just because it’s cheaper than litigating it.

I’m bringing that up because, even in the unlikely instance of your hypothetical leading to a case that makes it to a hearing in the EU, the judgment against you will be close to, if not outright be, the nominal fee you charged the user (+ court fees) due to how the chain of causation works in the EU. The connection with losing your job is just too remote for any judge to consider liability.

Even if this would be about a car breaking down on the way to work, which already has strict liability under the current PLD, loss of job is just not going to be part of the equation, ever.
I haven't used this, but I see its in Oracle and MySQL - does this exist in Postgresql or is this just the same as wrapping in a transaction where you're selecting on the row by ID or something? Just curious
Why do I get the feeling this (xylene) happened in southern Louisiana?
Recorded prior version of the talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/glt22-284-don-t-contribute-anything-r...

Blog post from 2020: https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/
On the About page.
Yes they count, but they use a completely different principle of operation.

The Cesium beam clock actually has a stream of atoms flowing through it, which is finite, leading to tube lifetimes of a decade or less.

The rubidium clock has a number of cells of rubidium gas, one of which is a light source, the other of which gets hit with RF, and if the frequency is just right, it absorbes about 1% of the light before it hits the detector.

A much smaller physics package, to be sure. They do drift, though, a tiny bit.
How can you unsubscribe with one click from some newsletter mails from a site to which you're not logged in?

You have to log into that account find the preferences panel which controls the spam and uncheckbox something or whatever.

Is this managing throwaway mail aliases?
There is not a single day I dont feel limited by WiFI 5 and 4G. Knowing they are already on their best implementation possible inside office.

The keyword here is office, or any location where you have many devices connecting to it. I am just waiting for 5G and WiFi 7 to mature.
The copyright battles affect models that were trained with datasets where the copyright holder's approval is missing. Copyright law will be adapted to consider that usage, and model trainers will make deals with large copyright holders.

It is very rare for any technology to be completely abandoned. Usually it only happens if is being obsoleted by a more capable successor. AI is here to stay, even if a minor cooldown is coming as LLMs get somewhat regulated.
It doesn't, but the kernel also isn't package managed, just the source. You can keep around the ebuilds for older kernels in an overlay, or someone might maintain an enthusiast overlay just for IA64 kernel support.
I feel like wikis can be made so much simpler by using Git + Markdown + Hugo (or whatever it is).
Check out the TeXBook, eg. page 14.
I don't know how true this is, but I really like the concept of a customer-driven search engine versus an ad-driven one. The incentives are better aligned, and it frees Kagi up to really try to kick ass at search instead of kicking ass at ad revenue. I'm enjoying the features they've been adding, and an looking forward to more.

Besides, what else was I going to do with that YouTube Premium money? ;)
Yep. Any site do this instantly lost credibility to me. Total carbs is total carbs. If they can't do basic cico it's misleading
I'm probably dumb, but I didn't realize "Transportation" was a clue until I looked at the network traffic and saw it labeled as such in one of the responses. In fact, I didn't even notice the word "transportation" on the page until I was looking for it, so there's something wrong with the graphic design (perhaps there are too many line starts -- my eye didn't know where to look).

I'd recommend adding the word "Clue:" in front of the clue. Perhaps consult with a true design professional too, I'm just shooting from the hip and giving feedback on my experience. I made 7 guesses before the clue, and I got the solution in 1 guess after seeing the clue.

I like the game in general though.
I've taken 1 of his course, and I will definitely take more.

As you say, he is very good at explaining things - it's hard to describe, but it just clicks. Highly recommended.

I was a bit worried about the online aspect, but there is a very good flow actually.
That's what makes it such a perfect example. It's inconsequential, but also simple. A SQL statement `update follower_count = follower_count +1` is incredibly cheap in SQL, even as part of a transaction. Accepting that the follower counts are laggy is incredibly acceptable. Repeatable read is expensive, but cheap enough for many, many applications.

The problem is that most applications that I've worked on do none of the above - they accept the buggy behavior in the concurrency case. As part of the "post reconciliation" solution, that's fine, but it's a bug that will never get fixed.

Perhaps worst is that there's an entire class of people - probably autistic, and often not people I want to work with for one obvious reason or another[1] - who simply have to be kept in the dark about long-standing minor bugs. These are known inconsistencies in the data that don't matter but that they'll pitch a fit to fix because they can't see.the difference in constraints like "the follower count will be an integer" and "The (recorded, but fundamentally cached) follower count will equal `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM followers WHERE account = ${user}`

[1] Really, just one reason - they reject rhetorical logic, focusing on formal logic for anything that catches their attention, to the point they are happier with atrocities than morality.
Open source not running locally is closed source, for all intents and purposes.

A GNU/Linux box supposedly loaded with nothing but software libre is closed source, if it's remote to you and you don't own it. If you send your data to it to be processed, who knows what happens to it.
How is a positive number minus zero negative? The carbon scrubber itself can be carbon negative if the carbon is sequestered but that’s true even if the power supplied to it emits carbon. The power source doesn’t get to take credit. That only complicates the math and leads to double counting.

I still don’t see how the wind turbine itself is carbon neutral. And even if I did nothing about being made of wood makes a wind turbine more suitable for powering a carbon scrubber.

These terms have meaning and overstating the capability undermines credibility.
Thing is, though, it's free to try it for yourself and see if it's worth it to you. I don't know that astroturfing is necessary or useful.
I can give you a concrete example of where this is not true because the author went to a lot of effort to give both books open questions which are answered by the other: Vernor Vinge’s “A Fire Upon the Deep” and “A Deepness in the Sky”.

He made sure that the second book answers the open question(s) left by the first, but also that it had open question(s) which are answered by the first book. It really doesn’t matter which one you read first, because the other one closes the loop, as it were.
I agree sign-up is not how I would look for pricing. Sign-up is something I click when I'm ready to commit to using but until then I'm looking for information and I expect something like a Pricing page.

If I can't find the pricing I'm never going to click "sign up"
Yeah and likely not just the app but also the backend infra to support the signing and whatnot.

It’s a shame that there’s so many disparate motor vehicle agencies. They should standardize their IT solutions to amortize development costs as I fear the vendors they pay double dip with the pricing of solutions.
Not sure on what grounds this got flagged, I vouched, it’s an interesting development in the context of DRM and IP protection for the Nintendo Switch (which is one of the best selling consoles of this current generation, with 120+ million units sold).