skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would this involve? And can't they buy equity with their salaries if they wanted to?
This is close to how I feel about this sort of thing: the author can't be bothered to write properly, but still wants me to read it. But maybe that's a narrow minded view of the situation, due to my own biases.

I wrote the original comment because I wanted to get some view on how a (selection biased) part of the population viewed it. I was surprised by how emotional people got!
How tunable is the voice?

I'm interested in applying TTS to a chat system, and one important feature for that is that there should be as many as possible distinct voices, so that each person would have their own.

Would this, or something else be able to do that?
> This payment system is different from current online payment methods, like credit cards or bank transfers, in that it offers privacy for the buyer: neither merchants nor banks can trace or link the payments.

Banks will love a solution that completely prevents them from implementing KYC/AML regulation they are required to follow.

Truly baffling that such a project manages, if their claims are true, to get public funding after years of crypto grift scandals.
It is the most famous, that is why I did not mention it, you are not alone that it’s triggering. Here is other people that felt so for example:
https://old.reddit.com/r/CPTSD/comments/a93qs7/reading_the_b...
You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds
I am sorry, how?!
I doubt it. I think it's like svelte, but a bit earlier in the hype cycle.

The "State of JavaScript" survey is illuminating for these kinds of technologies. They often follow a trajectory towards "more liked", while remaining consistently and firmly in the "not used" quadrant. Everyone thinks they look amazing and refreshing, and maybe some people have even actually written some small apps in them, but (almost) nobody is using them at scale.

It's not a bad thing really, but the hype can be annoying
> their word, their rules

That strongly reminds me of "it's spelt Raymond Luxury-Yacht, but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'".
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'"

However I don't think it really applies to this article. It may be considered a weak article, but it's not a "no" article (which would be stronger anyway)
> He doesn't want to CODE. He wants to make a game. Like every kid. [emphasis mine]

Well, I as a child (say: 6-8 old) was really rather thinking deeply how a suitable way (what programmers would call "data structures" and "programming abstractions", "design of a programming languages" - but of course on a child's level) might look like so that the computer can "understand" and precisely execute my game ideas; my games as executable files would rather be the central side product of this.

I also (I am really not lying or boasting!) was thinking as a child (just to be clear: this was my child's imagination; from my present knowledge I know of no suitable way to make this actually work) how if the abstractions are there, one could easily "combine" existing games to make new games - perhaps even partly automatically by a computer:

Imagine this: using some photo editor, you can use the magic wand or lasso tool to select some part of a photo, and copy-paste this part into another photo. Why isn't it possible, if you, say, wrote both a space shooter game and an economic simulation game to select and copy-paste some part of the latter into a former to turn the space shooter into a space shooter that also contains economic simulation aspects?

The "best actually existing" (really bad) approximation of this that I have seen in life is how the GURPS tabletop role-playing game system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS) enables (in principle) to "copy-paste" elements from one role-playing setting into a whole different "incompatible" one (but it is not that you would want to do this for your typical role-playing session :-) ).

Yes, this is how a 6 to 8 years old child (the former me) thinks about game development. :-)
These examples under Essays feels obnoxiously dystopian; it's just a demo environment of course but I really hope that's not the feature where were heading into, in which every single link/piece of information on the Internet is locked behind payment.

Doomsaying aside, here in Poland nearly everything can be paid with BLIK payments system - whether it's something you purchase on the Internet or small groceries at shop around the corner. You can also withdraw/depo money by ATM or do a small transfer to someone's else phone number

https://www.blik.com/en
Interesting that Descartes took the other side of Newton on this, and turned out to be correct.
The binary representation could change, yes, but collapsing two distinct types into one would cause actual logic errors in existing code (i.e. this is an API change, not an ABI change)
Tbh, the hit to omniscient funds traceability is not that different from what some financial institutions started to accept with Stablecoins already, i.e. a model where KYC/AML happens at the edges but not within the transaction graph itself. It's pleasantly surprising to see this model getting acceptance in the regulatory spheres.
Good thing about htmx style solutions is that it's easy to implement the features you need without extra bs. Often it's so much simpler and cleaner to code something than using a generalized library or framework.

You can still use react , vue, solid or whatever for the dynamic parts that make sense to do clientside
This can be said on any new or shiny thing not dealing with any of the issues you mentioned.
> However, wake me up when they’re financially viable. I don’t expect that’ll be until we’re really in dire straits with the climate.

That's the thing though. Even absurdly expensive as they currently are, the damage they don't cause through the emissions they will save over their lifetime is probably worth it. And considering all the lessons EDF have learned on EPRs, it's highly probable that the next generation will be cheaper and faster to build.
I am fully remote and have been for a long time but I don't trust productivity studies, especially if they just find what everyone wants to hear anyway.

If the market can do anything then it that has to be optimizing productivity. Every single company has a weighty incentive to work out what works best and so I fully expect that after a bit of churn the optimal remote/on-premise balance will be found on a job-by-job basis.
And zebra snakes too
I agree and I don't know why the myth persists that [baby] Rudin is the best way to learn analysis. It's certainly not so for a lot of people who could learn analysis perfectly well from friendlier (but not necessarily any less rigorous) sources. Rudin requires a lot of self-motivation.

In addition to Abbott which you mentioned,

"How to Think About Analysis" (Alcock), good gentle introduction for anyone who tries to dive into an analysis textbook and hits concrete.

"Real Mathematical Analysis" (Pugh), good, rigorous approach that doesn't require quite as much effort to power through as Rudin does, although some of the exercises are tough.

"Analysis I" and II (Tao), is good and starts from scratch building numbers from the Peano axioms, so there are no other unproven assumptions underlying everything later.

"Counterexamples in Analysis" (Gelbalm & Olmstead), very helpful for understanding some pathological cases that break theorems one might intuitively believe are true.

There's no reason today why someone can't grab pdfs of all of the above (even Rudin, although it's never been digitally typeset), from any friendly internet library, and use them all to build a better understanding rather than relying on one alone.
I had a niggling feeling they were different (realized after I posted) and I would get some reading. I haven't taken an EE course in a long time and miss it. Thank you!
Does anyone know if it's possible to get Tailwind class sorting in Elixir Phoenix HEEX templates. It would be a great addition to the Elixir formatter.

Maybe we could write a formatter plugin in Elixir that does the same thing if this one isn't usable directly.
Biased in that the authors seem to favor Hudi and the arguments for seem based on that favor rather than an objective presentation of all relevant factors.
Dissecting two minutes of The Simpsons, joke by joke [video]
Jira is a downer..
> actually decentralized transactions between two offline parties can take place.

The schema they use to explain the system's mechanisms clearly shows an exchange that needs to be audited:

> Payments are made after exchanging existing money into electronic money with the help of an Exchange service, that is, a payment service provider for Taler.

That is, the transaction can be offline, but it eventually needs to pass through a central point to be effective.
Which is why such reputational fallout needs to taint not only the MBA careers involved, it has to burn everyone involved and really hurt. The schools who educated them, there future employers, such shenanigans with the lifes of others have to make you radioactive. Taking the money for the responsibility has to involved some damocles swoards hanging over the boards.
Would something like this help ai/computer see the world better for robotics and self driving etc. I am not a programmer or in this field but I don't know why intuitally reading the headline alone made me feel the world of robotic and self driving etc ie where ai interact with the physical world is about to change.
Near my hometown, there is a particular crossroads named Light-Pipe-Cross. It's on no map, but everyone has called it that for centuries and it appears in old documents as a supplementary colloquial name.

The story goes that because the distance between the crossroads and the old market square is exactly the right amount of time for you to smoke a pipe of tobacco before arriving, peasants going to market with their carts would stop there to light up.

I think names with stories attached have a way of surviving, because they become integrated into oral history.
By the way, precise page navigation is broken in PDF as well - you can have page 54 as displayed below a page and an actual page 54 as displayed in your reader because people love those fancy roman iii numerals
Why I find it kind of cute is that those buys (GNS fcfs) are basically meaningless - in a p2p system everyone can just host a service like this.
I find poignancy in the fact that 99.9% of these fires were not caused by this human. You infer that I dismiss the distraction. All right.
I'm guess I'm inclined to go the other way. I tend to object to wrapping arrays in Option, because while semantically similar, the empty slice supports the full set of array APIs, whereas Option requires unwrapping
Imagine one ship going upwards in a lock, while another goes down. Ships and locks are the same size.

To start with, there is a difference in the water levels - and this can be put through a generator to generate electricity as the water flows from one lock to the other.

When the water has moved half way, the levels are equal. You can now use electricity to pump the rest of the way - and theoretically, assuming lossless pumps and generators, you use the same amount you generated earlier.

Unfortunately, low-head generators tend to be inefficient and expensive. Variable head generators are even harder to design to be efficient.
This sounds like a temporary blip, Where are these cheap cars? I wanna see 15k used cars in decent shape. How much of this is driven by compliance cars finally reaching the point where few really want them + early models being unreliable?
I wrote a big visualization application with WebGPU and I'm happy with the choice. It's much cleaner than OpenGL, without as much complexity as Vulkan or Metal. It runs on Mac & Linux, and I got a demo version working in the browser with emscripten fairly easily. It doesn't have the trouble with OpenGL version compatibility that used to make supporting multiple platforms a hassle.

I'm not sure what's 'interpreted' about it. On Mac, the wgpu-native driver transcodes to the Metal shading language and it gets compiled.
I think the business model will have to change for this barrier to disappear.

Most likely in the future you will buy or lease the car. But you will never buy the battery only lease it.

When the battery is fubar the manufacturer will recycle or resell for utility storage and replaces your battery pack.

Much like Auto companies went into Financing business to boost sales they will likely go into Battery management businesses to boost sales.

I can't see another way for long term.
Hi Lars, Maybe what was needed all along for valuation software was a game developer's touch.

My greatest satisfaction when it comes to writing software comes from making my users happy - especially those users who've felt neglected.

Gamers are a spoiled bunch. There are so many good games, and so much other great entertainment and music on top of it =).

The inability to travel is something VR will help alleviate. Not the same as actually being there, but still, it will get people that much closer to it.
I can only read the first sentence of that article without signing up, but can attest that in my current car search I am looking at used electric vehicles that have lost two thirds of their value in 3-4 years.
This is going to be very opinionated advice. It might miss context, it might miss nuances but I know I'd do it and execute on it immediately.

Use Unity3D.

Specifically: hack a prototype together on your own in order to get your bearings a bit. Then, do it together with him.

If you want, we can also create a small Unity3D game together because it sounds like fun and I have not been doing that for the past 10 years.

When it comes to teaching programming, you want an interactive programming language. Like, JavaScript in Chrome dev tools is interactive or Pharo is interactive (though Pharo is niche so wouldn't recommend as a first language). Hooking up a debugger to a program makes any language more interactive.

Some stuff I made back in the day:

[1] A computer graphics engine (as someone mathematically challenged, haha): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6-dLvZEiA&pp=ygUMbWVsdmluI...

[2] Wind Hockey (in Unity3D took 50 hours not knowing anything about Unity3D before that other than one basic lecture of 60 min. at uni): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTIZ-_UFXqQ
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I feel increasingly annoyed with the idea that C can never have new keywords. As if that's some sort of huge problem with existing code bases.
> In a blockchain, transactions are necessarily centralized — on a distributed ledger

This.
I was basing my comment on the perceived assumption that this would be the only possible reason to use it.

I was convinced to try it by Adam Wathans initial blog post comparing it to BEM notation and "semantic" class names.

The arguments in that blog post still make sense, regardless if you think that tailwind is a good solution.

A cult like / social influence phenomenon is attributable to a lot of tech. Not sure if I'd call that "mass psychosis" though.

Sure, Tailwind tends towards lock-in, it also adds complexity in other places. It also will surely go out of fashion soon, or already has.

But it brought a concrete idea to the table, which worked for many people, and that was the reason for the "hype", in my opinion. Not "mass psychosis".

I never wanted to use it because of fashion. Maybe that was the reason I got to know about it though.

Also it influenced the way I write CSS, despite not using it anymore. In short: avoid being clever with the cascade, like the plague.

And I mainly stopped using it because I changed my job after 5 years. The projects we used tailwind for went well and it succeeded at avoiding the problems I wanted to avoid, especially when collaborating with a newly hired young colleague.

So yes, it is an example of a hype, might have been overhyped, but that's not "mass psychosis" to me.
Then your contribution is noise. This is HN. You don't make your case by dropping a video link.
Most of the Facebook site has felt like something "slapped together by an intern" for a long time for me. But yeah, FBM really went above and beyond in that regard the last time I tried using it. It's too bad, because it does have a lot of potential as you said; Craigslist has been mostly ruined by scammers and FB has the advantage that everyone is basically a verified user and not some random person in Nigeria who wants to send you a cashier's check for more than your asking price.

The only thing from FB I've really liked was the Messenger Lite app, and they've destroyed that now. The regular Messenger app still works ok though, but it's very bloated.
100 F is hardly a temperature that could kill you, unless you completely neglect hydration. But not drinking will kill you happily at lower temperatures.

Also, living in a climate where winter temperatures often hover around the freezing point, you develop a healthy interest in it.

As an example: If it's been a few days below 0 C, and then it warms to 3 C, the snow on the sidewalks will have compressed to ice whose top layer will now melt and create absolutely lethal walking conditions.

Or if it freezes after having sleet conditions (0-4 C maybe), you get this craggy ice that's not as slippery but is uneven and thus a hazard in its own way. Also very miserable for bicycles.

Anders Celsius was a Swede. He knew.
I was using it in the early 90's.
At that time if you wanted to port your C/C++ application to multiple platforms, one option would be:
- gcc on linux
- djgpp on MSDos
- emx+gcc on OS/2 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMX_(programming_environment)
So much of this coverage emphasizes the software. And blames it.

This is not fair - it was very clearly the actions of humans in Post Office Management with support of humans in Fujitsu that committed fraud in order to falsely convict innocent people.

Headline-writing humans and editors should do better.
I've not yet read to the end so apologies if this idea is covered already, but a ctrl+F for "colour" (and "color") yields nothing so I'll comment away:

> "If you’re thinking ahead you’ll realise that the maximum number of bees they could therefore simultaneously study was 2048. That’s about 1/25th of a very strong colony at the peak of the season, or the number of bees covering both sides of a two-thirds full frame of sealed brood."

For a system you're total controlling (in that they created their own QR-inspired format based on the size that can fit on a bee), would it not be simple to use colours to expand the range?

For example just having red+white codes as well as black+white ones you double from 2048 to 4096 bees you can label. Or is there some issue that bees wouldn't like other colours, or some other problem I'm not foreseeing?

And I don't know how far it could extend, but I guess even 25 shades of various colours could be different enough from each other for the camera scanning them to differentiate?
I see the entire article at first (or when reloading). Directly entering reader mode in the browser prevents it from switching to the sign up page.
Yeah I was about 9 or 10 and an techy relative was trying to teach me binary while I was playing command and conquer red alert on a windows 98 machine.

And I was thinking how does code translate into something like red alert. I didn't have anyone to guide me to fill in the dots at the point though and it was just before internet was common everywhere and before google was a household name in England at least to me.
If the car companies offered "good-battery-as-a-service" for a fixed monthly cost, it would scare me less than the prospect of having to buy a new battery for 20K.
Someone mentioned Unity3D, PlayCanvas is also a solid option.
Any non-paywalled version of this?

My thoughts:
- though the seller, of course, suffers, but isn't it good for both buyers and also to the transition to EVs?
- also wonder if the (higher) price drop is due to the current EV fleet being mostly premium cars, as any Tesla above Model 3 is.
Here you go: https://hexdocs.pm/tailwind_formatter/TailwindFormatter.html
I tried to use flattr a few years back, but the UX was horrible and for something that needs to become ubiquitous to be useful, that's not the kind of mistake you can afford.
(Disclaimer: I don't design ISAs) This goes over a decent amount of nuance that is often lost in internet arguments over ISA design. I frequently hear (on other sites of course, nobody here would be stupid enough to argue this) people going "RISC-V is the best because it has the simplest decode" or "x86-64 has an easy way to do this kind of conditional branch" and everyone is just talking about some facet of the problem without really thinking about the broader picture. Or, worse, they actually have no idea what the problems are for other people, so they'll wave away serious problems in ares they're not familiar with: "oh we can just fuse the uops on big cores", "decoders don't actually matter these days", "nobody will emit that sequence so it doesn't matter if it's fast". To be fair, a lot of the actual practical results are not disclosed widely by the people who make the decisions, so it's easy to fool yourself into whatever you want to believe without the numbers to back it up.
Thanks for sharing your story, God bless you and your family.
From the article

> When it started testing simulations of early Pentium prototypes, Intel discovered that a lot of game designers had found that they could shave one instruction off a hot loop by relying on a bug in the flag-setting behavior of Intel's 486 microprocessor. This bug had to be made part of the architecture: If the Pentium didn't run popular 486 games, customers would blame Intel, not the game authors.

Does anybody know the details of this?
That's a good point, the depreciation is high but so is the depreciation on a BMW or Mercedes.
What is OF?
Perhaps this is vaguely adjacent to a slow motion stream of self reflection, where in the absence of additional (sensory) input, a descent into hallucination is all but inevitable. The same thing happens in a sensory deprivation tank.
The Telegraph has a particular view and this fits right in.

Still, manufacturers need to make it easy to swap out batteries.
I challenge you to send a packet from 256.0.0.0 to any current IPv4 host.

"But IPv4 only ranges from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255"? Then congratulations on getting the point - it's pretty much guaranteed that any IPvNext address will have more bits than IPv4, therefore any IPvNext protocol is pretty much guaranteed to be backwards incompatible with IPv4.

IPv4 hosts simply cannot accept a packet nor send back a reply to IPvNext hosts, unless you rely on a middleman that does the translation between the two worlds.
Your situation is very tough because you want to encourage this but also you have to be realistic and that's what your kid probably doesn't want to hear.

I always try to get across to my daughter of seven that you can't scale a mountain in one step just as you can't eat a cake in one bite and that trying to do that is guaranteed to be a miserable experience that's going to put you off the activity forever.

I don't think I've quite managed this yet but if I was you I would try to convey that a 3D game is a master level achievement that, while totally possible eventually, you simply have to work up to. And then maybe somehow pivot him into Scratch, Gamemaker or other such tools where he can start learning in a playful and fun way.
I don't think the parent is making a point about battery degradation, more that EV technology is advancing much faster than ICE. It's not 10% cheaper to make a petrol engine every year, after all.