skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Here we go again.

Nonsense. No one denies your list of pages of Chinese inventions from prehistoric, ancient and imperial periods. No one is saying that the Chinese are some kind of inferior race or incapable of invention.

The present question is what can their society do NOW? Especially considering 1) Mao murdered & starved millions, w/strong emphasis on killing of "elites" and "educated" people in the "Great Leap Forward", which impairs their technological ability 2) China suffer a lot from brain drain to the west, and 3) they are an authoritarian society which has some inherent advantages (e.g., they can put a massive budget on Project X within days, and they can provide consistent funding over decades, vs the constant sea-saw we get in congress so NASA, NSF, etc. don't know their budget from one year to the next) and many disadvantages inherent in authoritarianism.

With those factors, and the current state of their economy, can they go it alone and maintain their aggressive expansionist policies?
If this material exhibits the properties that the authors claim, then it most definitely is a massive step in the right direction. If so, the material can be applied in a significantly large number of settings at much lower upkeep costs. It can also lead us to another set of materials that might exhibit these properties at 20c/1atm.
My 12 year old son spend today making this game in Scratch, creating the graphics with Lego:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/946299317/
In a roundabout, I (so as to not generalize how people drive), move my hands on the steering while turning - as in turn and then then when hands cross, adjust and turn more. As in when going anti-clockwise on a U.S. roundabout, initially the right had is on right and left on left, but while turning the hands cross (left hand on right and right on left), so you adjust and lather-rinse-repeat. (I hope I'm making sense).

So: the signal/indicator lever is in a fixed position which can be pressed when the correct turn/exit comes. But if the buttons are on the steering (I'm assuming 2 buttons, touch or actual doesn't matter), their position changes as the steering is rotating so I will have to take my eyes off the road and see where in the steering is the correct button and then press it. For a right exit/turn, the button may be on right, or left, or top or bottom or anywhere on the steering depending on the amount of steering turn.

This is what makes it hard/inconvenient/dangerous.
Niklaus Wirth's death was also announced (by Andreas Pirklbauer) an hour ago on the Oberon mailing list:

https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html
Aye; it's in diamond-anvil territory there. Still potentially useful, though there have been problems with replicating this experiment as well.
The staff consists of the founder, negotiating team, and contractors/services to help with other functions of the business. As for certifications, I'm not sure of the exact certifications you're seeking.
Yeah, among people that never owned one.
Regardless, it's pretty brutal to have such poor legal representation that an act with no real physical attack couldn't be pled down to a misdemeanor.
If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
This is in development at the moment and very close to being launched - watch this space
My adult child lives in an area of Seattle where parking minimums have been eliminated. Their building, built 3 years ago, has about 65 adult residents. There are 10 parking spaces on site and the street the building sits on has zero street parking. Renting a parking space adds about 10% to the cost of renting. Currently there is still one spot available if a resident wants to pay for it.

If they had built 60 parking spaces and let residents park for free, I feel confident there would be at least 50 spots in regular use based on how nearby buildings with larger parking lots are utilized. Since the parking is underground, the most expensive type of parking to build, I also feel confident that rents would be at least 10% and probably 20% higher with "free" parking.
30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1
Repo author here.

You have to admit at least admit that minimizing dependencies is an admirable goal (despite my tougue-in-cheek comments in the readmes I write)
Related. Others?

Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++-compiler 0.9.6 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34187463 - Dec 2022 (4 comments)

Shed Skin 0.3 - An Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084282 - Jan 2010 (1 comment)

Shed Skin - An Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050514 - Jan 2010 (5 comments)

Shed Skin: An experimental (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867014 - Oct 2009 (3 comments)

An Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=331404 - Oct 2008 (2 comments)
The reason the current license ecosystem exists for open-source software is that there's a huge difference between owning the code and owning the binary distribution. This difference doesn't exist for newspaper articles (or books, visual art, etc). Even technical manuals are not machines in the way that software is. The fact that software is both text and tool means the legal issues are different and need clarification.

So existing copyright law was sufficient for written media, but didn't quite work for software. OTOH it seems that GPL-style copyleft licenses are being used more by writers and artists, so it's not like these issues exist in a vacuum. I expect copyleft will be more appealing to artists going forward given Midjourney et al.
TW banned their semi engineerings from working in PRC this year. Economically taking over TW short/medium term would basically be placing similar tech sanctions on US/west since TW has some sole source semi inputs for leading edge semi production. Depending on how long it takes western semi to replicate, it evens semi playing field.
Related: just saw this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01313 "A Comprehensive Survey of Hallucination Mitigation Techniques in Large Language Models"
ITT: Americans realizing that even they have the tiniest bit of rights under US labor laws.
I've always been a fun and sporty 2-door coupe kind of person. I'm not aware of any EVs that fit that description and don't cost several arms and legs for some damn reason.
I'm a fan of the opposite approach - serializing the program's state and launching a new instance which reads it. For one particular application I just had it keep all of it's useful state in /dev/shm (mmapped as a struct), double buffering it on every iteration of the main event loop. Of course that doesn't scale too well if you have dynamic allocations.

This also has the advantage of not requiring platform specific code and being able to create checkpoints and time travel.
Idk I think it’s real… hopefully a sobering moment for people who think of LLMs as the successors to blockchain, OOP, beanie babies, etc. There is real value here and you don’t need think pieces to see it: it’s already delivering it.

I look forward to seeing this project cited as one of the first frameworks/OSs to offer first party developer assistants.
I googled if it was possible. It harder mid flight, but take offs or landing its much easier. I would rather we accept the fact this risk exists and take the necessary precaution of putting someone at the door that can more handle the situation than pretend it doesn't exist.
With moral panics, the kids would never agree that video games or D&D or whatever was causing them any problems, yet with social media use most kids will agree it’s a problem, so can’t be characterised as a moral panic.
Yup, SIEVE is good enough for web workloads :)
> "brushing under the rug" of all the sins possible without severe legal recourse.

The invisible hand of the market seems to mostly be involved in sweeping problems under the rug.
Like this?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-...
> My initial research suggest that Godot games are written in C#

There are a few supported languages (including a custom Python-like language called GDScript). C# is just just one of them.
I have a Xerox laser printer, it's fine. I'd buy another one if I ever needed to, which is not something I can say for HP (unless it was a used Laserjet 4).
it's too late. saying in public that calling for killing of jews because they are jews not being a problem (after the holocaust) is unnacceptable. they got killed by millions using gas and you have your students calling for a second extermination and you see no problem there ? second, she's a fraud. if you check her "intellectual production" she barely published 10 papers in YEARS while the norm at the university is about 10 papers or so PER YEAR. if you study her own work, it's a fraud based on stealing other's people work and copy paste.

seriously : if ANY student currently at harvard did the same as she did in plagiarism, that student would get, AT MINIMUM a 3 years suspension. if not getting expelled forever from getting a diploma from harvard.

why did she get that job ? her skin color, and her leftist politics. nothing else. her university and intellectual production is worth nothing, and she's clearly not the brighest lamp at harvard, by a very long shot.

it's too late. where i work, anyone from harvard gets ejected to the nearest trash bin if they try to get in. bosses told us they will never, ever, get someone from harvard as long they will be around, which is at least 10 years at minimum. and those big CEOs they all know one another, and talk with one another.

harvard students, good luck finding a job with your crap diploma.
Absolutely not true. Every intersection is its own special snowflake and if you don't consider the intersections your bike paths will not be usable.
Horse cloning is transforming polo in Argentina
How are you able to recommend content to a user without having previously asked for consent?

Either you have no data and so no information to tune your recommendations or you have data in which case you needed to request for consent
RawJS library author here.

Honestly this whole thing blew up so fast I wasn't expecting any of this. The home page for the website isn't even done yet.
Depends on systemd's considerations these days.
True but buying this disaster of a company at an overinflated price has already happened. Further missteps to disrupt its profitability have been made.

At this point, 6M/year of revenue is still better than 0.

> I'm skeptical that is enough users for it to maintain being worth

Despite everything that happened, Xitter has still many influential voices on it. Furthermore, requiring payment for participation may very well raise the quality of discourse on the platform and make it more valuable as a result.
I mean, seems pretty simple to me. They have an anti-hate speech provision in their content guidelines. They have groups that very explicitly violate it (and not in the sense of people randomly accusing others of being nazis, but of upfront and prominent nazis that display swastikas and loudly advertise being nazis). They're choosing not to enforce their own rules.

I would consider taking my audience elsewhere as well.
https://archive.ph/ANhgt
You only have to maximize shareholders' profits better than the next best CEO, they have no other option. No one is firing Tim Cook because he made a choice that reduced profits 1%.
It's their right to be able to point out language choices that they don't like, just like you've got the right to point out about the rights the author has. Everyone has all the rights, woohoo!
One thing I forgot to mention - I'm going to start sending out email updates soon so if anyone would like to keep up to date on new features and sounds please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/D1BxTx21QUHdpBp17 (put any old nonsense in the feedback field if you don't have any feedback)
No.... I take it back, I am a fool! They do publish the stats!!
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...

My bad!!
Anthropic Updates Claude ToS to Indemnify Customers Against Copyright Claims
Author here. I haven't used in years so is probably pretty broken. There is a "wire" branch that implemented some debugging of the different encapsulation layers in a plain text format.

Also, last time I was using it I needed to use a throwaway number as WhatsApp was detecting and banning anything that resembled a non-official client.

This may (finally) change with the Digital Markets Act [1][2] in Europe, but sounds too good to be true.

[1]: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en

[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/11/whatsapp-has-started-work-...
May he and his work be forever remembered.
I concur.

Digital game design lends itself to working "UI down" instead of "data model up" because most of the feel of the game derives from the interface. This is even true if you look at something like Civilization. The first release of that game was primarily built off the feel of the city management - the stats of everything were given very basic tuning. It switched from real time to turn based relatively late in development.

So paper can be used, but mostly in a storyboard kind of way where you're presenting some interactions to testers without coding them up. You don't have to have a full game loop at that stage - the loop is just a hook to stay engaged with those interactions.

The reason why the spreadsheets are relevant now mostly comes down to games having more and more content that needs stat balancing. This was immediately true of Wizardry and derived RPGs, but it's never been necessary for simple arcade games, and it's obviously wrong if your aim is something like a Sokoban puzzle.
So a reminder from the terminal that I am also terminal?
Thats pretty much Wasm with Wasi (minus multimedia though right now)
You’re seriously comparing the electromagnetic radiation from a starlink satellite to radio and television broadcasts? Like they’re the same power and the same frequency? And what if they all affect us, is adding more of them doing us any good? It’s not being able to escape them any good?

I’m concerned about this exposure because it affects me in some frequencies affect me more than others. I’ve been affected from this since I was a network engineer at Cisco systems. Which I had to leave, unknowingly to me at the time, because that is when they installed Wi-Fi in the building.

So this problem with Starlink is now I have literally nowhere to hide. Even in places that have no access to cell towers someone can drive within 10 miles of me turning their starlink and it’s like putting a tower right next to me.
There should be a filter for breaking California law by not including salary details for companies over 15 people:

https://californiapayroll.com/blog/californias-new-pay-trans...
Compared to what? A Toyota Corolla? Higher performance requires higher maintenance for any brand. In motorsport you will be frequently replacing parts as they are pushed to the limit.

Compare a Porsche 911 versus Corolla on a track and see which one is actually more reliable after 20 hard laps.
He really has become my source to go for most science papers lol, then after that its PBS guy and sometimes Sabine although I don't usually go to her stuff for 100% accuracy or them trying to at least
I was going to say the same thing. This is the positive aspect of Japanese/East Asian culture. They give authority figures the benefit of the doubt and will listen to instructions.

Of course, this obedience to authority has a downside. In South Korea, when the Sewol ferry sank, the crew instructed the passengers to stay inside their rooms while they drank beer and abandoned ship. Many of the obedient passengers drowned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol
My first Facepalm!! For 2024!!
I agree with you - but there are counter examples.

Germany made some amazing developments that were superior to allied tech, and they didn’t win.
Yes I had the exact same question. Philosophically I like Go better but I worry in practice that Java has me spoiled
henry baker has made many great contributions, but last time i talked to him, he was waiting for somebody to start paying him again in order to do any more research

but i'm sure he'd agree his achievements are not in the same league as wirth's
According to American Automobile Association, annual cost of car ownership is 12182 US$[1]. That is 3x montly than that you claim.

[1] https://newsroom.aaa.com/2023/08/annual-new-car-ownership-co...
Pascal was the second language after Basic. I was always interested in learning Modula, but picked up Delphi instead.
It might work to keep you lean and healthy overall, but if the studies are to be trusted, barbell adds that extra (real) weight training you may need.

I don’t plan on doing it myself, because like you, I pretty much just keep my dumbbells and kettlebells, bands for travel or certain exercises, and some cardio mixed into 2 days of training.

I will probably won’t live as long as the study, but if that is not healthy enough to feel like I’m feeling now, I have better things to do that go to a gym for barbell and other heavier exercise machinery.
A typical royalty is 10% of the retail price. If the book is $30 (cheap these days), then a million copies sold (an extremely rare feat, even for a best seller, but...) is $3 million dollars. How does this story add up? (Foreign rights are often a lump sum rather than royalties, but still...?)
Thank you! Yes, this addresses the scan-resistant issue, but I am not sure how different it would be on workloads without scan.
But the workloads we used in evaluations have very few scans, and the power of SIEVE comes from quickly evicting newer objects so I guess "random two" would not improve.
But I do not have a number right now, I am happy to add this to the comparison list.
> If they have no place to put them, they won't have them

This is demonstrably false. People still need cars to get to where they need to go, like work, or their doctor's office, or the grocery store. There are no alternatives. Public transportation doesn't get them there. Ubering everywhere is more expensive than owning a car. Until alternatives exist, not having a car isn't an option.

If you've been to cities where there isn't enough street parking to meet demand you'd know that even when people have no place to park their cars they still keep cars. They just go to extremes to find/keep/make parking wherever and whenever they can and often have to spend long periods of time driving on streets/circling blocks to find a spot. They block traffic to wait for someone they think might be leaving soon, they walk great distances to get from where to park to where they need to be, they park in illegal or dangerous places.

There are many negative consequences to this behavior which impact everyone around them, but people can't help but do it because they're left with no alternatives. Examples of this abound. I've seen statistics like 30% of all traffic in urban areas are just people looking for places to park. (some studies have found that number to be as high as 75%!) or that the average amount of time drivers spend per year looking for place to park is 17 hours!

> No, having parking requirements should be done selectively, if at all.

That means the same thing.

> If there is sufficient market demand, the requirements will be unnecessary to get developers to include them

That's not how markets work. If it will make developers more money to not give people the amount of parking they need, then developers will not give people enough parking. All other negative externalities be damned. None of it means there will be fewer cars on the road.
I had Pascal and some Modula as well (on concurrent programming course).

I learned C++ later myself as a Pascal with bizzare syntax. I always felt like semantics of C++ was taken entirely from Pascal. No two lanuages ever felt closer to each other for me. Like one was just reskin of the other.
RIP. After Basic (on a commodore), I learned Pascal (turbo pascal) in high school of all places.
Where I am the sun sets at 4:23 pm, so there’s time between that and 6 pm. Doesn’t not make any sense to me.
The website vs. web app dichotomy doesn't exist
Cook also actually worked with Jobs, which means more than any academic degree.
Yeah, that’s a big one. Hell, you will most likely get grilled (and likely denied entry) by Canadian Border Patrol driving in for a short tourist trip as a US citizen just for having a misdemeanor. Not even talking about immigrating to Canada or getting a permission to work there, or more serious offenses.

I have a squeaky clean record, was driving an 8 year old toyota camry at the time, and by all accounts appeared as the most boring non-offensive person out there trying to cross the Vancouver border with my mom and sister (who were both US citizens by then too, so it isn’t like I was transporting non-citizens across the border) for a daytrip during a weekend. And CBP went on a 10-15 mins long line of questioning about what exactly I do for work (was in a somewhat niche area of MSFT at the time, so it isn’t like they would be suspicious of the employer being shady or anything like that, but also it was really difficult to explain exactly what i do for work to someone who sounded like they just discovered the existence of software engineering and have zero idea what any of it is). Only after that got cleared up and answering a few more strangely personal questions (from me, as well from my mom and sister), they let me in. For context, they were visiting me from GA, and I was the driver. The entire process took close to 20 mins. And something similar happened at least every other time I tried to cross the WA-Vancouver border.

In contrast, crossing the border back into the US was as smooth and efficient as I could have possibly imagined every single time. Despite my passengers occasionally creating non-happy-path situations for crossing the border. On that same trip I mentioned above, my mom decided to buy some really nice looking grapes and bring them back home (which was not known to me at the time). The US officer, as we were crossing the border back into the US, asked if we were bringing anything back. My mom honestly said “oh, nothing, except these grapes.” Unknown to us, those grapes were considered invasive/harmful species that weren’t allowed to be brought into the US. All that did was adding less than an extra minute to our trip, because the border officer just calmly explained to us the situation, profusely apologized, and said that our options were to either eat the grapes or watch as he throws them away into a trash can in front of us. The whole experience from start to finish took less than 2 minutes.

P.S. Major apologies for going on a massive side-tangent. All I wanted to say was that, yeah, with any sort of a criminal record (even as minor as a misdemeanor), a lot of international options are almost instantly axed at the visa stage. Way before even getting to the “will the employer be ok with my criminal record” stage.
Ask HN: Whats with the black bar on top of the Hacker News orange?
> Do you have on-demand car sharing in your city? Like Zipcar or similar? You could go on a heck of a lot of hardware store trips in one of these cars for the price of a car payment + parking + insurance + taxes + maintenance.

I think you're replying to the wrong person. I do use Zipcar on the rare occasion that I need a car. It's way cheaper than car ownership (not even including parking).