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Hello everyone!

Here's my latest article, which describes a case study of how my work on the open source library called Sourcery, used for metaprogramming in Swift (i.e. code generation), not involving any kind of complicated programming problems, can save millions in expenses across thousands of companies, and potentially change the paradigm of companies' involvement in open source.

I do hope that more companies, eventually, would actively start to sponsor open source projects which they use.
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That's the whole point. With high property taxes the property won't be empty for long.
With beautiful charts, I think of how Apple or Vercel does it.
Voltaire : The universe embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

And Voltaire did not know about all the maths behind matter and universe, the computer science behind DNA, the complexity of biochemistry...

To all the engineers here : work about causality, and the power of randmoness, be curious, do not take for granted evolution through randmoness, it makes no sense especially for an engineer who knows how codes work.

The idea must precede the code, and the right code can act upon the matter. The random code without idea has absolutely no chance to do anything valuable.
Need helping with PHP and networking (study process)
I need help with this program language i think its not complicated but i don't understand how i can do many programs and how you need to do, the other question is networking i want to learn hacking and this is very important, dns, linux, configure servers and the maintenaince.
Thanks.
Another directional loop antenna for RFI location (2019), https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Antenna%20Book%20Supplementa...

Here is a simple antenna design that is effective from 3 to 22 MHz. Based on a resonant magnetic loop, it has high transducer gain (high sensitivity), and also very good directionality. You can build it cheaply from junk box parts.
The flood story is everywhere.

I forget count, but it was hundreds, every culture around the world has a flood myth.

Something happened, people speculate on melting ice, tidal waves, or something.

Stories are passed down for a long time, maybe this magnetic field switch had something to do with the stories..
That would be correct, and it also has a couple of interesting consequences. He liked to brag about how he can do however many millions of context switches per second; not entirely sure how valuable that is but it's fun.

I think this also touches on the other thing that makes TempleOS cool. It was designed as a modern C64, and a lot of the weird design decisions come directly from that. It's a hacker's operating system and it shows.

I seem to remember seeing a different take on hackable operating systems, something written in Scheme with a PreScheme core I think? I remember thinking it was pretty cool. The dynamic nature of Scheme allowed you to have access to pretty much anything you want, but also run programs with less privileges.

Of course there's also DuskOS. It's written in Forth which I like, but I'm not the biggest fan of their dialect. I'd like to attempt something in a more classical Forth, but I never get to it. One of these days...
Coming from someone who is clearly in academia / research adjacent (!! judging by your comments) this is high praise!! PDFs are close to currency of the realm. Haha! :)
that's 111 m² usable space right?

and 4.5 people .. meaning parents and 3 kids, well, yeah, that's not super big, but everyone can have their own room (let's say 10+ m² so that's half of the house, and you still have around 50 m² for a living/dining room with kitchen, bathrooms, etc.)

it sounds lovely to my European ears :)
Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline)
> Apple’s typeface lacks two things that any typeface (to a different extend) needs: Personality and purpose.

The 1. in San Francisco seems to have plenty of personality to me, and while there's not a lot of examples on the page and I think I'd need to see more, it doesn't seem like FF has particularly more personality.

From the rest of the article it seems like purpose = legibility in the context of UI. I wouldn't disagree that it's hard to distinguish I and L, but using German location signboards as an example seems wrong - iOS is not dealing with German locations for the most part. Is SF particularly bad for German?

For an article that aims to lay down conclusive arguments for why one font face is better, with the authority of someone who has studied fonts in school for four years, I'm not quite convinced...
If a home does not have a shared wall, it is not a townhome.
A lot of europe in general, and Prague especially, is perfect for this. Well, bikes less so, but walking and public transport, absolutely. Plenty of little kids (from age 7 or 8, I'd guess) walking and taking the tram/bus to school in the morning, without supervision, and without worry. Just this one fact by itself demonstrates what a stable and safe Czech society is (sure it has other problems like any place).
There is another interesting thing on YouTube. You will see a page loading bar right below the navbar when you load a page. It goes to 75% quickly and then throttles until the page loads. Making the user feel something is working. I've noticed that behavior a lot of times.
Many people have an interest in things made with / for computers outside of their utility value. You certainly, certainly do.

That’s how art works. And computers are confined to Solving Business Problems and Delivering Value To Shareholders. What a boring existence that’d be. On an unrelated note, I don’t live in Silicon Valley.
Fake news is not a modern concept.
We Built Slack AI to Be Secure and Private
I believe Terry was an intelligent man and a beautiful soul, struggling with severe mental illness.

I had the pleasure of interacting with him in the form of creating a GIMP plugin for his custom image file format.

https://michaelbarlow.com.au/gra-plugin/
I'm pretty sure none of my colleagues have heard of the James Webb Space Telescope either but I'd still say it's a notable thing. You're conflating mainstream fame with notability. Honestly I doubt many of my colleagues are familiar with Linux either (I work in a supermarket).
The number of buyers able to obtain a loan increases if the home’s price is lower.

Increasing a home’s price reduces the number of potential buyers.

The reason to build a more expensive home is to be able to sell for a higher price. But if the population of buyers in a location cannot afford to pay more, then a builder would be stupid to build the most expensive home they can, because insufficient people will be able to afford it. Hence smaller (cheaper) homes get built in some places, and bigger homes in other places.
From TFA:

According to Fortune, which cited a report from The Boston Globe, the dramatic price decrease was related to an overheating planet — in a matter of a few weeks, the shoreline surrounding the property lost 70 feet from erosion due to rising seas.

With reference to Maryland :

Shoreline erosion in Maryland has stripped away land and sediment, bringing the coastline inland, submerging other areas, and putting infrastructure and valuable waterfront property at risk. Almost 70 percent of the state’s 7,000 miles of shoreline—close to 4,600 miles—is eroding.

...

While much of the erosion has been caused by rising sea levels, diurnal tides, and boat wake, some of it is due to the surge of waves that accompany severe storms. Hurricane Isabel, for example, washed away shorelines along the Chesapeake Bay when it made landfall in 2003, in addition to causing $84 million in damage to shoreline structures.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478456
Writing TempleOS was his way of coping with his illness. His software was his refuge, a place where he felt safe and things made sense.
Front gardens are a benefit to everyone in the neighbourhood, maintained at cost to the owner. They are an anti-SUV, in a way.

I could even support tax benefits for maintaining green space in the public view. The alternative (I saw this the UK) is that people turn their front garden into parking or expand their building towards the street.
> You can also inline assembly.

That's not C++ any more, you can inline assembly into several other languages for whatever that's worth, which isn't much in this context. "But I could use assembly language" is no more C++ having "extreme performance" than "But I could book a minicab" would give the London Underground "24/7 service".
Android 15 plans to show storage chip status
Canva: We built a scalable and reliable counting service
Cool thanks! Will try
I lived in a part of the city with great infrastructure (if it works), parks, etc. which I used heavily as a kid/teenager.

Nowadays many of those places I would avoid visiting after dark if at all possible. If I had kids I would not let them go there alone, even rapes have happened there.
Git is for 1. Helping with conflict resolution when multiple people work on a piece of code, and 2. Tracking changes to software over time, to aid in bug fixing, patching older versions, and understanding why the code looks the way it does.

If you're intentionally committing code that doesn't work then you are ruining both the ability for others to work with the code, and your own ability to use the history for anything.

You _can_ use it as a poor man's backup solution (I do this myself), but the key then is to have a clear separation between a "work in progress" branch that only you work in, and the collaborative or long-lived branches. Before you merge a work-in-progress branch (or make a pull request), you need to make sure that each commit that remains passes the unit tests. You can use an interactive rebase for this.
I forgot about that ”scrolling algorithm” that the teletext has. It instantly feels familiar but I wonder how its actually implement.

You input a page number and it seems to pick the right spot on the hundreds place, and then seems to arbitrarily drop into a loop for the right page number. Doesnt seem to have any logic, as if a spinner with the numbers 01-99 is constantly whirring in the background
That's a lot of must and shouldn't that are not backed by anything.

"Visual novels" are definitely niche, but they are somewhat games and have very minimal interactivity. Yes some have branching narratives but others are just "click click click". They just tell a story and that's perfectly fine.
This is a very good reminder that we don't know for various problems whether there is an efficient algorithm. For problems studied for decades (eg travelling salesman) we feel fairly confident that there is no polynomial-time algorithm - but even then, we don't know for sure.

As far as I know, the problems underpinning post-quantum cryptography have not yet enjoyed such extensive scrutiny / search for efficient (regular or quantum) algorithms.

In other words: stuff that is hoped to be post-quantum might turn out to be quantum -- or even in a feasible non-quantum class. The latter seems unlikely barring p=np-alike breakthroughs, but even these cannot fully be ruled out.
Risc-v is cool, I just wish there was an easier way to simulate it and try your code on.
At the moment, I use a vscode extension but it’s very limited.

The workflow from writing your code to trying it in your microprocessor is slow.
> They don't have a permissive license

Good

> and are generally very rude.

Any examples of this?
The problem with the US is how uniformity the urban planning is. Of the hundreds of cities how many is walking, biking or public transport the primary means, or even a decent alternative, for your commute. We can't try out any new ideas in a few places before rolling them out to other places no everything has to be the McSame. I don't know why this is.
Maybe the same 51% of voters win out everytime everywhere or maybe it's lobbying from the automotive industry. Maybe the argument always goes that we shouldn't invest in bike/train infra because someone tried it in the US and it was bad ironically because it was bad because of underinvestment.
Well I have clients that pay me in cryptocurrencies monthly, and I pay for goods and services with them regularly without Visa or Mastercard learning my purchasing behavior to sell to advertisers.

Sure cryptocurrency is not as widely accepted online or in person locally as US dollars, but it is far easier to spend those same places than my Euros which actually meets your definition of money.
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I think even the term "visual novel" separates them from "games".
As many others have pointed out, “sleep as much as you need”, my brain is on a completely different level after a good night’s sleep - especially after having kids.
I agree some of the WYSIWYG markdown editors are the closest thing to what I want. I quite like Obsidian's editor for what it is, which does a pretty good job balancing rendering and letting you edit the actual markdown syntax.

But you're editing markdown, not HTML. And, for example, markdown doesn't have definition lists.
Even if there was no AWS product for managed Redis, how many businesses would bother paying Redis Labs and introducing extra latency to their cache server if they could easily set up their own instance on AWS (in EC2/ECS)? Configuring Redis is not rocket science.
I don’t think having two different cars for long distances & short distances are sustainable.
The "cutting calories" advice to losing weight is quite analogous to the gaming Protip "To defeat an hard enemy try keeping your health above 0 while lowering their health to 0"
I think HTML is a pretty decent semantic structure for documents. The WYSIWYG is good for convenience, as is markdown text format.
> democracy is it lets the people set the rules, then gets out of the way and lets people do their thing.

I believe you are talking about "representative democracy" specificly. Besides from this and "Direct democracy", there seems to be dozens of more types, according to Wikipedia.
I returned my AVP but these things don’t happen in a vacuum. Humane is a company that might not exist in 6 months whereas Apple has a proven track record on iterating and improving on the devices they release. The Apple Watch Series 0 is a good example of this IMHO.

I’m not saying the AVP will fix all its issues but it is so much more impressive than a cellular device hooked up to OpenAi’s APIs.

Also, let’s not forget that Humane wasn’t even planing to use AI for their product until the last year or two when AI took off. Maybe you can say it was a smart pivot but to me to reeked of just jumping on the AI bandwagon (which, does make some sense I’ll grant you).
I see it as depressing that this is gaining traction it doesn't deserve. TCP doesn't need one hack at a time and then to make us choose combinations that sort of work in half the use cases in the modern world, it needs to be replaced with SCTP.
Yes, the real sustainability problem is multifaceted and far more profound than the focus on fossil fuel induced climate change. But for me the currently near single-minded focus on the latter subset has some redeeming virtues:

i) it is an intrinsically global problem. Local emissions diffuse in the atmosphere and become everyone's problem - this pushes for a change in collective mindsets. This is not unlike the viral spread of the recent pandemic, you can't tackle global risks with defunct supra-national mechanisms.

ii) it is a reasonably quantifiable problem (it aligns easier with the prevalent financialization culture and toolkit - this opens up possibilities for immediate "solutions" like building sustainability reporting standards, carbon taxes etc.). Biodiversity and broader ecological health, let alone social/cultural issues are more subtle and subject to challenge.

In other words, as we reluctantly start tackling the unsustainable energy system, we might learn tricks and behaviors that will hopefully be useful more broadly. It is a sort of piecemeal, divide and conquer approach rather than pulling the plug and jumping into the unknown. In the fullness of time it may not work but it makes sense to give it a try.

There is much to like about "modernity" it would be a pity if something happened to it. Being able to travel around and enjoy the wonders of planet and cultures is immensely enriching. Let's hope that there is enough collective intelligence around to transition into a sustainable mode that preserves the good bits.
Ironically the video is hosted by the worst targeted advertising company. So I did not watch it, try to avoid them as much as I can.
Crazy that you are being downvoted for applying the principles of supply and demand.
In high school we were taught calculus and a little something called "rate of change" and even the second and third derivatives.

I hope you kept your study up past third grade!

It's never too late.
The notion of PoW predates hashcash. Hashcash is just the simplest PoW algorithm. There are PoW that work entirely differently from Hashcash, such as finding fixed length cycles in random bipartite graphs.
I find these kind of messages distasteful. When people are focused on building, they need feedback from the market. That rejection/feedback helps, but any other kind of rejection - especially a VC or investor rejection - hurts. You could argue that founders should be used to rejection, still this is a needless rejection - without any specific feedback and from a group not their TG - not something people should spend their energy on. You apply, there is hope, then there is a rejection (given the acceptance rate highly likely), then you see the kind of companies that got in, and it becomes a distraction. That's human nature. You can correct something when a prospect says they do not want your product and understand the reasons, but how do you correct anything when a popular investor passes on and says "they could be wrong"? Yes, "keep building", which they were already doing with more enthusiasm and less distraction before the whole bandwagon of YC alums came along.

You could argue that "filling the application gives clarity to a founder". Again genius marketing. That comes at an opportunity cost of talking to their leads, their prospects. At any rate, it takes you away from what you originally set out to do. You get more clarity from talking to your target market than filling an application.

Another thing is "people got in applying on a whim". Yes, those are exceptions. But, any average founder understands that if the decision is likely to be determined by what they write in the application and their application video (and several factors outside of their control), they will optimize it to the max. The videos you see are always multiple takes. The applications are always pruned and reviewed and rewritten before submitting.

When your goal is getting into YC, all this is worth doing. When the goal is building and growing a product, such advice, no matter how well intended, hurts more than helps the founders. It's okay if YC picks 200 startups out of 15000 instead of 20000.
The performance is astonishing. On my underpowered android, the PDF was super smooth. It's miles ahead of other PDF viewers (the worst offender is the Google Docs in browser pdf viewer, it's just horrible on my phone to a point where I refuse to even look at those documents on my phone). Really impressive
Why wouldn't they charge you? The fee is completely insignificant, and they are providing a valuable service that costs money to maintain.
I'm the parent. You seem to mistake population level effects to single person events. For a reduction of a few years in a global population, a bunch of those people will be walking around and suddenly drop of heart failure and die 30 years earlier than they would. You should look up additional papers on this subject to get a better idea than a single random metastudy. There's plenty available on the effects.

I'm not saying if everyone sleeps 1 less hour a night they will all die 40 years earlier, but if you start sleeping 4-6 hours a night consistently you will have problems, and if you're unlucky you might have an accute heart issue that may take your life. There's no reason to play with sleep in extreme ways.

On average not wearing a seat belt reduces global life expectancy a certain amount. But for the guy laying on the tarmac spit out of the windshield it takes 40y of his life.
that's the effect, the cause is that supply did not keep up, and that's caused by all kinds of restrictions and disincentives against high-density and corresponding cities (this stretched out populations, increased overall costs)

just as white flight completely turned cities inside out (negating a lot of their economic benefits) the resistance to even gradual "citification" of SFH suburbs further pushed costs up
So is the paper money in your pocket people historically traded in their gold for. Gold is objectively more inflation resistant and useful, but the paper gold certificates fit in a wallet better.

Society made a convenience tradeoff.

One day the US government arbitrarily decided to not allow gold trade-ins anymore, but we had all learned to assign psychological value to this worthless paper by then and carried on anyway. Remember it is not a scam if a government does it.

Money is all fake. It is a shared delusion. If we must use "worthless" money for practical reasons, would you prefer the rate of production be set by predictable math or by whatever politicians are in power this year?
We should be building 3K sqft condos. There is practically unlimited vertical space for that. This will make spacious living more accessible because the purchase price will be more about construction cost than land cost. It will also relieve pressure on suburban house prices, making suburban life more accessible for people who want it.
I updated my original comment.
1. Pay the board for access to their list serve. They will send out the email for you.

2. You can host a booth at/attend a medical conference, and hand out/display QR code links to your survey
Again, 100% false on ACA. (I would agree that medicaid is a PIA, but it's free!) The ACA plans are run by the same carriers as employer plans in my state. Blue Cross, Harvard Pilgrim, etc. Networks are exactly the same. Price is equivalent. If you are paying less through your employer it is because employer is paying insurance company or self insuring instead of paying you the cash.

For many industries, especially blue collar, it would actually be much better for employees to do ACA plans as they would pay much less for their healthcare post subsidies.

The ACA has been such a boon for small businesses and entrepreneurs - before ACA you basically couldn't get insurance. Now it is actually a non issue.
It allows you to double spend, which is pretty much stealing from the first recipient...
Topographical 3D models from GPS tracks
Strongly disagree. It is perfectly possible to sustainably grow, without having to sacrifice growth. Look at France: https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1775434131066822775/pho...
The page data is transmitted every blanking interval. The most frequently-accessed pages are transmitted most frequently, and the infrequently-accessed pages are transmitted least frequently (so you have to wait longer for them to come up).
This is such a weird study. Like, who here believes that changing the time you eat changes the thermodynamics of consuming and burning calories?

The thing is, intermittent fasting does not force you to do any specific diet, so by comparing it with people doing the same diet, instead of a general population attempting weight loss who are also free to attempt any random diet, you're already deep into selection bias, because you have chosen successful data points as a benchmark.
You don't need the price to keep going up, if you have a permanent backlog of high fee paying transactions. Which is what the Bitcoin design is counting on...
The author may be trading their cognitive well being in later life for career goals now. It’s not a trade I would make, but I get why people do it.