skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the offtopicness - would you mind putting an email address in your profile so we can send you repost invites? I was able to re-up* the current thread but it was right on the cusp of being too old for that system to work; in which case I would have tried (but failed) to email you a repost link! (Btw the email field in user profiles is only seen by admins.)

* System described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309 and links back from there
The effect of atrophy, meaning non-use, is larger than the effect of aging, yes.
Why not. 1.5 MW is only six times the maximum power of my ancient 2015 Model S 70D. The inverters are tiny.
Or, Eventually Munches All Computer Memory.

There were probably other expansions too.
Drugs are of course the easy example, but there are plenty of less clear problems. What if the shelter wants to force homeless people to give up their dog before sheltering them? Do you just send those animals to the pound and then euthanize them? That’s what usually happens, the situation for animals is even more dire than for the homeless.
What I see here.

Crookes radiometer don't work in really high vacuum, which is not cheap, if do all things with boring rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer

Without rules, high vacuum is achievable on just ~150km, with amateur rocket, I hear in US somewhere about thousand dollars for sub-orbital launch (smallest orbital rocket cost about million).

For example in electronic microscope also used high vacuum, and such microscope usually cost about million dollars and as I remember, it need about tens hours to achieve such high vacuum, so could easy calculate, about thousand experiments in 3-4 years (accounting amortization period for high cost equipment), and also each experiment will cost about thousand dollars without interest rate.

I think, he is typical NASA scientist, bored at his work and have spare money to play game with fake patent.

As NASA worker, he really have possibility to place his experiments in high vacuum chamber, and I'm sure he have experience and seen nothing.

And I'm sure, he understand well, mentioned in patent configuration is very hard to research, and very easy to accidentally achieve some extraordinary results.

But you, humble reader, don't have such opportunities, but you could donate to him for his crazy experiments.
Or just use Vim. Not sure I understand the obsession with VSCode.
The problem with the file provider api is that it won’t sync to an external drive. I had a similar experience with drop box, where I used it for years but they are adding all this interface nonsense and I switched. Apple isn’t allowing external drives to force you to buy bigger internal drives that are crazy expensive and there is no easy way to backup iCloud if your Mac’s drive is smaller than its size so it seems like a system outside of the file provider api is preferred for me.
You posted this 22 hours ago[0] and there's a bigger discussion[1](53 points, 20 hours ago, 57 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101013
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101774
> Wine can run apps that access hardware without issues.

Depends on the hardware. Stuff like mice, keyboards or game controllers yes, as long as they're supported by the host OS stack (don't get me started on bluez and the clusterfuck that's Linux audio in general). But anything dealing with user-mode USB drivers (looking at you Samsung ODIN or a truckload of webcams) or more exotic hardware is out of luck.

> Governments do this to themselves. The USG doesn't even have to pick Microsoft. They could potentially sign contracts with Apple for workstation hardware and services, that would encourage and feed the alternative ecosystem based around Apple, or they could fund Linux, etc. They don't though.

Apple shot themselves into their own foot here by completely discontinuing their Intel x86 lineup. You can run Windows stuff on the M series SoCs but performance is atrocious (unless it's ARM Windows, but good luck finding software compatible with that oddity, no thanks to Qualcomm here who couldn't be arsed to put out actually usable chips for years).

As for Linux, there is already a huge amount of government funding into Linux because of servers and their support contracts. That's how RH, SuSE and the other commercial Linux distributions are surviving. The problem is the desktop software stuff, here the chicken-egg problem comes into force - and made worse by the fact that unlike Microsoft who can just decree whatever they want and the rest of the world has to accept it, FOSS projects are mostly driven-by-consensus, and if you're a commercial or government entity needing a feature you have to either fork off with all the cost that entails or herding cats and playing petty politics with people from all around the world (who might just block your idea out of principle after finding out you're working on behalf of the government/Monsanto/whoever is problematic these days, on top).
With Vanguard as an example, you can see their methods and past votes here: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
Appreciate the kind words. This really means alot
Mobile 3D VFX with Simulon
If the person says "I'm an expert" my skepticism kicks up considerably.
From an archived announcement page of Oven, the company behind Bun:

> Oven has raised $7m in funding led by Bucky at Kleiner Perkins with participation from Guillermo Rauch, YCombinator’s Continuity Fund and more.

> Oven will provide incredibly fast serverless hosting & continuous integration for backend & frontend JavaScript apps — and it will be powered by Bun.

> The plan is to run our own servers on the edge in datacenters around the world. Oven will leverage end-to-end integration of the entire JavaScript stack (down to the hardware) to make new things possible.

https://archive.ph/1gnVt
I completely forgot the pin to a bank card I haven't used in a long while. It occurred to me that humans are mostly just next token predictors anyway, so I pretended I knew the pin, and just got the little machine out, went to my bank page, and started logging in, and when it came the time to type my pin into the machine to get the one time code, I simply remembered the pin while my fingers typed them in.
Warp Drives Are About to Get Better
It's borderline I suppose, but the article text does contain enough background information to maybe keep it
-4 badge of honor :D

Either way, I suggest to the readers who might feel upset over this statement to explore something outside of C and C++, liking which, when it comes to strings, is nothing short of Stockholm syndrome.

I'm working on a UTF-8 string library for C# and across the last 6-8 months explored string design in Rust, Swift, Go, C, C++ and a little in other languages. C and C++ were, by far, most horrifying in the amount of footguns as well as the average effort required to perform trivial operations (including transcoding discussed here).

Strings are not easy. But it does not mean their complexity has to be unjustified or unreasonable, which it is in C++ and C (for reasons somewhat different although overlapping). The problem comes from the fact that C and C++ do not enjoy the benefit of the hindsight that Rust had designing its string around being UTF-8 exclusive with special types to express either opaque, ANSI or UTF-16 encodings to deal with situations where UTF-8 won't do.

But I assure you, there will be strong negative correlation here between complaining about string complexity and using Rust, or C#/Java or even Go. Keep in mind that Go's strings are still a poor design that lets you arbitrarily tear code points and foregoes richness and safety of Rust strings. Same, to an extent, applies to C# and Java strings, though they are also safe mostly through a quirk of UTF-16 where you can only ever tear non-BMP code points, which happen infrequently at the edges of substrings or string slices as the offsets are produced by scanning or from known good constants.

If, at your own peril, you still wish to stay with C++, then you may want to look at QString from Qt which is how a decent string type UX should look like.
How Pig Butchering scams work (2022)
Why should software/internet be treated differently? Tons of things are age gated, why is this particular thing off limits?

We shouldn't prevent children from working in factories because that might be a privacy violation!
> If you do this rather than either bombing out immediately on the first error or storing a stack of errors, then the syntax errors pollute the generated tree. This will require you to either add a separate pass for building a new tree that is the same as the old except without the error nodes, or you will have to handle syntax errors downstream in the analysis or code gen phase.

I don't see how this follows? There is no need to append an error node (or any node at all) to the AST when reducing an error production. You can just print an error message or push one onto a stack of error messages.

> Parser generators are great for iterating on language syntax design. Once you know the language syntax, handwriting the parser should be easy. If it isn't, then it is most likely that either your language design or parsing skills need work. Both require time and practice.

Parser generators aren't just for people who don't know how to write recursive descent parers; they are production ready tools. Python, Ruby, PHP, and Bash all use generated parsers.

I think the aversion to parser generators in general and LR parser generators in particular is a combination of not-invented-here-syndrome and cargo-culting the idea that LR parsers can't emit handcrafted error messages.
The article failed to mention another huge benefit of protein - it makes you feel full for longer. Eating 2000 calories of carbs is super easy. Eating 2000 calories of chicken breast is painfully hard.
If you can do that, sure. Architecting a clear design beforehand isn't always feasible though, especially when you're doing a thing for the first time or you're exploring what works and what doesn't, like in game programming, for example. And then, there are also the various levels at which designing and implementation takes place.

In the end, I find my mental picture is still the most important.
And when that fades after a while, or for code written by someone else, then I just have to go read the code. Though it may exist, so far I haven't found a way that's obviously better.

Some thing I've tried (besides commenting code) are doing diagrams (they lose sync over time) and using AI assistants to explain code (not very useful yet). I didn't feel they made the difference, but we have to keep learning in this job.
Mt View

didn't lunch with him, unfortunately
For time tracking with screenshots and advanced tagging based on window titles (and sometimes open documents), there is also ManicTime [1]. I don’t think it has OCR though.

[1] https://www.manictime.com/
I wonder why they didn’t go with the file system permissions on the .auto.conf file, and gracefully handling that as a way to disable the feature. Seems like an obvious solution that doesn’t lead to surprising semantics. The container use case would work fine.
I would be surprised if the UTF-8 support in Windows was anything deeper than the A functions creating a W string and calling W functions, which is what Rust is doing already.
For Apple we have https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
Related: A programming language that only consists of combinator birds!
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Birb
I'd like to see DMCA rolled back in a way that it is almost legally encouraged to break security systems on products, in order to maximize either more owner control or maximize performance left on the table and is physically there (even in code) but is otherwise locked out in software.

In my wet dreams: gone will be the days of one assembly line, one physical object, many grades of product performance dependent on '''licensing''' codes and such. You don't want the customer to have heated seats? Don't ship the heated seats! Don't like that the customer is hacking your software/firmware to enable those features, and sharing the modifications (just the steps to mod, like a diff patch)? Tough cookies mate, actually here's a 20%-of-last-year-gross-revenue fine for anticompetitive and anticustomer sovereignty business practices. Pray we don't seize all assets and liquidate you, next time you try this trick again.

Imagine if companies had to treat customers like a defendant has to treat Your Honor in a courtroom, or they get boycotted and fined to bankruptcy... that would be niiice. :^)
Maybe. Haven't tried it. Though, that does make the attack vector a little less intense than persisting even without an issue. At least the attack vector can be tracked.
Seems to be not maintained since 3 years

https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai
You can set the code page to UTF-8 now.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...
>The Court found that the stockholder vote approving Musk’s Grant was not fully informed for two reasons:

>the Proxy inaccurately described key directors as independent, when several of them had extensive personal and professional relationships of long duration with Musk, including owing much of their personal wealth to Musk;

>the Proxy misleadingly omitted details about the process by which Musk’s Grant was approved, including material preliminary conversations between Musk and the Compensation Committee chairman, as well as Musk’s role in setting the terms of the Grant and the timing of the Committee’s work.

>In addition to the process of approving the Grant, the Court considered its “price.” “The Board never asked the $55.8 billion question: Was the plan even necessary for Tesla to retain Musk and achieve its goals?” The Court concluded that it was not for three key reasons:

>Musk already owned 21.9% of Tesla, which ownership stake gave him incentive to push Tesla to grow its market capitalization even without the additional compensation;

>There was no risk that Musk would depart Tesla without receiving the Grant, nor did the Board condition the package on Musk devoting any set amount of time to Tesla;

>the Grant’s performance conditions were not, in fact, ambitious and difficult to achieve.
Thanks, we've put that word in the title above, in place of the 'baby' bit which is baity anyhow.
I am not. I'm from a 3rd world country and trust me when I say I this i've burned through half of my paycheck in a few hours which is like barely 3 digits.
The last part is so obviously wrong as to be silly, off the top of my head voiced lateral fricatives are used in some of my home languages that would not be possible to explain in simple latin alphabet terms.

How about a tonal language? Or a whistling language? Or a clicking language?
I used to use Dropbox lightly. When iCloud was introduced I tried it, it sucked, and year or two later I tried it again and I have never looked back.

The only downside in iCloud is that you cannot configure whether you want to have whole folders offline available, but barring that it has been smooth sailing for 10 years or so.

Disclaimer: I share nothing with anyone, and I use it with abour 5 devices and most of the time it syncs fast enough.
> make the trains run on time

incredibly unlikely that post-homeless people are going to get a job that requires DoT background checks and licensing. Becoming a train engineer is an ordeal even for healthy people, let alone recovering ones, it’s an incredibly desirable and gatekept position.

the handling of percived “frothers” came up when that guy stole a train and did the rounds… and that’s just how they treat normal people who like trains. How do you think the brotherhood is going to react to someone who was shooting meth 6 months ago?

I think that’s a common problem in this discourse, people love to be like “well they should just… drive a train!” and just have no idea how difficult it is to actually do some of these things anymore. Let alone for someone at the bottom without credentials or doors opened to them. Same for prisoners/convicts, which afaik is a way people frequently end up homeless.

I don’t want a homeless camp next door either… but at the end of the day if you don’t provide a route out, then you are going to just create a permanent underclass, and they will end up somewhere or other.

As a society it is very clear that we just expect them to suicide and save us the mental anguish of pulling the trigger ourselves. You don’t have to leave, but you can’t stay here. Where? Not my problem, see you in the ditch in a week. And the only solution anyone in the US will consider is just busing them to California.

Given the housing overstock, we can literally just house everyone and call it a day. Doesn’t have to be projects either - if your residential-zoned house stands empty for more than a year, make it eligible for eminent domain and hold a lottery to take 1% of them and house people. That does take money, of course, but that can be levied on long-term unoccupied properties too. Solve multiple birds with one stone, make speculators pay to solve the problem they cause by buying their long-term-unoccupied houses with their own money.

“What can be done that hasn’t been tried over and over” lots of stuff, actually. Eminent domain is an incredibly broad power, the state can take your home and give it to a developer to make a shopping mall or gas station if they want. Local jurisdictions have essentially unlimited power unless otherwise constrained by their state. Just people get the vapors when it’s being used to help the homeless and not to develop a shopping mall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3f95BGIiA
Repurposing the Myo Armband to Control Disposable Pneumatic Sculptures
Yeah, late 30’s with a bad hip from childhood illness and I still managed to shed 50 pounds and get stronger than ever after being very sedentary for years. Diet and exercise and no drugs (I’d for sure take Ozempic if it was affordable too). Just me, but I spent way too much time thinking I was getting old and I was wrong.
I do wonder if this study is confusing, at some level, cause and effect. Yes, I definitely understand the argument that people blame things on "my slowing metabolism", but then don't seem to notice that the requirements of middle age (e.g. full time job and especially folks with kids) can make it harder to get exercise.

At the same time, I don't have kids, and while I've stayed relatively active into middle age I've definitely noticed that it takes me much longer to recover after strenuous exercise than it did when I was younger. And so it's simply harder to stay as active, because my body is basically telling me "stop!" more often. It's already well documented that testosterone levels in men begin to decline starting in your thirties at about 1% a year, so I think skepticism is in order if researchers would claim that this reduction in testosterone levels would have no impact on activity level and metabolic rate.
What the spook box says and what's inside are two completely different things, by design.
I find the threat of policing and misery used for recruitment a tad bit worse than drafting.

Not that it matters, the state still doesn't care. It can't, it's not that kind of being.
A snappy "guess the flag" game with no trackers etc.
Never mind. That one was old. Sorry.
Credit to this organization from pivoting (AFAIK) from their original plan to scrape the plastic out of the water on the open ocean ("System 001"). Intercepting plastic at river mouths seems much more practical and cost effective.
truly a Scooby Doo moment
Have you had a good debugging experience with (neo)vim? I'm the author
I don't think it's a s simple as inactivity. IF this were true, then being active would reverse the weight gains, but it does not, at least not for me and others. I was still as active in my 30s as I was in my late teens and 20s but still gained weight. Likewise, gyms are full of people in their 30s and 40s who are not losing weight despite regular attendance. Despite the popularity of fitness apps, people keep getting fatter. It is only GLP-1 drugs that has put some dent in obesity rates. I think metabolism or some other biological, non-environmental variable plays some role. Or some reduction of NEAT that cannot be explained by careers.
Since 2016, ISPs in Germany are required by law to give you the access data to use third-party modems / routers. Apart from that, I like Fritzboxes, too - I don't use a PC as a router anymore since I first got one.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routerzwang#Rechtslage_in_Deut...
I started my career with Clearcase (ick) and added CVS for personal projects shortly after. CVS always kind of sucked, even compared with Clearcase. Subversion was a massive improvement, and I was pretty happy with it for a long time. I resisted moving from Subversion to Git for a while but eventually caved like nearly everyone else. After learning it sufficiently, I now enjoy Git, and I think the model it uses is better in nearly every way than Subversion.

But the point of the parent of your post is correct, in my opinion. The Git interface sucks. Subversion's was much more consistent, and therefore better. Imagine how much better Git could be if it had had a little more thought and consistency put into the interface.

I thought it was pretty universally agreed that the Git interface sucks. I'm surprised to see someone arguing otherwise.
Tiny!
This is from 2021 and was widely reported at the time.

I see a lot of know-it-all comments, but the reality is they do not yet know why people gain weight in their middle age. No - the data doesn't show that it's merely due to being sedentary or changing diets.
As the days get shorter, signs go up in Rock Creek Park saying that people should stay away at night, for hunters will be at work. I don't know how many deer they get every season.

Somebody on the neighborhood listserv has advertised candle-light vigils for the deer at an adjoining field, but I haven't seen that in a few years.
Brownout Notice: API Authentication via Query Parameters for 48 Hours (2021)
Seems more like Musk prepared the package and exaggerated how ambitious the target are.
True. It is not tens bucks, it is about thousands, but it is extremely possible, if really want. Even considering, will need to make high vacuum electronics, still possible. Sure, if really want to show real results, not to confuse people with some tricks.
Losing the right to privacy should be part of the punishment. After enough convictions or offenses large enough tracking your location and/or randomly searching your house shouldn't be a big deal. Lower the prison sentence and fines accordingly.
The Uniqueness Trap: Why You Shouldn't Try to Create a Unique Project
At least some PLA hackers are explicitly required to avoid giving away that they're operating from China[1], so the information the article cites about IP addresses and other forensic information makes me wonder if this was a false flag operation.

[1] https://bishopfox.com/blog/the-isoon-disclosure-exploring-th...
This one really made me laugh. Good thing the website takes in only transcript to produce the response. This video had none, otherwise it would've been a problem hah.
Google Reader shutdown tidbits (2013)
There were some misses with emo too, but Hepburn at the end was amazing.