skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is water composition. Water which contians fertilizers, surfactants etc is going to damage the protective waxy layer on leaves, while rain water will do so less. Next, when watering youre doing so as frequently as the plants can make use of, to encourage maximal growth rates. It would never rain that frequently. finally, the size of droplets is different. Rain drops tend to be big and fat and roll off the waxy leaves while smaller dropplets sit on / stick to the surface where they create a nice wet and likely to rot environment.
I’d argue the fed funds rate is also a minor debasement mechanism since they pay interest out of think air on deposits they hold.
This was not discussed in the older thread, but the complexodynamic graph can probably be used to model technological society.

My fave example is Mongolia.

The area started off developing horseback archery at the end of the neolithic, then in the 12th C they had the world's most advanced metallurgy, gunpowder, bioweapons, postal system, siege engines, and nowadays we are back at admiring their horseback archery.
First of all the COVID pandemic is still going on, the idea that it's over is just wishful thinking backed by irresponsible media and governments.

Even without the very real risk of contracting a dangerous disease that can cause long-term health problems, it's fine to prefer a slower, less frenetic phase of civilization. Science and capitalism have delivered technology and wealth, we won history, we just have to relax, take care of each other, and live happily ever after. "Where shall we have lunch?", eh?

“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There is the spirit of "divide and conquer" in this method. Which thing is good.

However, I do not know how to follow this advice: "DO NOT PERFECT AS YOU GO. This is a huge and common mistake" because, when you develop something critical and apply TDD, testing actually is a synonym of perfecting your approach to solving an issue. Not to mention that testing comes before code itself: it pushes you to think carefully, and come out with the best strategy before iterating any further.
> Nature isn't perfect and has disadvantages compared to us.

Wow we have completely different world views. I think nature is perfect and it's us who have gone too far away from it to notice and hence we are far from perfection as well. Ideally we should not be comparing us to nature since we are part of it. But somewhere deep down we know we are not aligned with it so we end up comparing it to humans which seems pretty grandiose on our end.
It’s an actual expensive toy - a €249 fidget car - released by a company famous for producing expensive toy-like musical devices.

I guess overpriced products like this are good at generating social media buzz and anchoring the brand as more prestigious. Not much different from gold apple watches or overpriced mac pro wheels. It’s basically free marketing.
Intel chips are defective. AMD has a delay due to late game QA concerns (or playing release games). Now NVDA “ai chips” are faulty.

AI bust is coming
I once wondered if the colorful fibers in bank notes — which, like the nonpareil spheres, are distributed at random throughout the paper on which the notes a printed — can also be used to generate a unique number.

Examples (aha, including a teaser to an upcoming product called “Verifibre”!) can be seen here:

https://securityfibres.com/

Instead of a lookup table, that number could be signed and the signature printed onto the bank note itself. It would be impractical to either deduce the signing key or duplicate the pattern of fibers in a way that the signature was still valid.

I don’t know if there’s a signature algorithm though that is resilient to lossy and unreliable input data and which can also produce short enough output that could be printed on the face of a bank note.
I would agree that additional funds to initiatives like the IA and local equivalents targeted at resilience would be welcome, but:

Current digital preservation projects are likely a tiny fraction of that 100 million on national levels and will include additional activities like those you ascribe to the IA, but carefully attuned to each nation's priorities while collaborating internationally with each other including organisations in the USA like the IA.

Importantly, they will also be operating strictly according to national and intra-national legislation (which IA has gotten into severe trouble within the USA).

In the context of a complicated international environment with many different local political, cultural, commercial and other factors, it's difficult to see how your proposal to replace local projects with an IA backup would be either more cost effective or legally practical.

The Internet Archive is inspirational and does a terrific job, but canning the many disparate entities that do national equivalents on much more limited budgets in favour of moving those funds to the IA (or any other global corporation or organisation) would risk invoking the classic problems of centralisation with associated detrimental effects on local requirements.
Must it be a war? Must there be a winner?

I think it's good that the status quo got mixed up a bit. The introverts don't have to defend themselves or feel like outsiders quite so much.

This article aligns stay-at-home-ness with "fear," "a fettered life," "hardly worth living" and says "retreating ... is an ultimately selfish choice." I believe that's a bit of a poor take. Plenty of people live rich, productive, fulfilling and engaged lives that don't especially involve a lot of interactions with other people.

This author is clearly someone whose habits were impinged by the changes brought on by the pandemic ("... naturally outgoing people – this writer included – have found it that bit harder to get their friends out of the house."), but is that the end of the world?

It almost feels like the author is eager to get back to what they are comfortable with, at the expense of (by their numbers) 1/3 of other people's lifestyles. It's almost like they are the ones afraid of this change — like they are the selfish ones.

But I don't really go for the whole us-vs-them approach at all. It has been a great (if forced) learning experience. Some people got to discover happiness they didn't know before. Other people felt the loss of something they took for granted. Perhaps we should share these lessons with each other and bring some balance and increased awareness, rather than pointing fingers and taking sides.
What introduced UB are you thinking of? I'll admit I don't know how much has changed, but the usually-complained-about things (signed overflow, null pointer dereferencing, strict aliasing) are clearly listed as UB in some C89 draft I found.

C23's introduced stdc_trailing_zeros & co don't even UB on 0, even though baseline x86-64's equivalent instructions are literally specified to leave their destination undefined on such!

00UB is something one can argue about, but I can't think of a meaningful way to define UB that doesn't impose significant restrictions on even basic compilers, without precisely defining how UB-result values are allowed to propagate.

e.g. one might expect that 'someFloat == (float)(int8_t)someFloat' give false on an input of 1000, but guaranteeing that takes intentional effort - namely, on hardware whose int↔float conversions only operate on ≥32-bit integers (i.e. everything - x86, ARM, RISC-V), there'd need to be an explicit 8-to-32-bit sign-extend, and the most basic compiler just emitting the two f32→i32 & i32→f32 instructions would fail (but is imo pretty clearly within "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results" that the C89 draft contains). Sure it doesn't summon cthulhu, but it'll quite likely break things very badly anyway. (whether it'd be useful to not have UB here in the first place is a separate question)

Even for 'x+100 < x' one can imagine a similar case where the native addition & comparison instructions operate on inputs wider than int; using such for assuming-no-signed-wrap addition always works, but would mean that the comparison wouldn't detect overflow. Though here x86-64, aarch64, and RISC-V all do provide instructions for 32-bit arith, matching their int. This would be a bigger thing if it were possible to have sub-int-sized arith.
This article makes it sound like introversion is a personality disorder and maladaptive for society, which is frankly insulting.

Extroverts have enough advantages in modern society, they don’t need to try to erode ours.
Fwiw, I'm not a Nix user nor am I really following the whole discussion here. I'm not trying to spread "FUD", just point out that there's a difference between "bad person" and "bad at the role one is currently in".

That said, as a complete outsider, the quote "the foundation board was never intended to lead the community" is wild to me. It sounds like the director of NASA going "I never intended this role to have anything to do with space". I think I understand the meaning behind the sentence - they wanted to support the community, but that the community leads itself in some way - but I can also see why the community would see them as having that leadership role that they apparently wanted to avoid. I also don't understand why someone who wanted a purely technical role would ever be on that board in the first place.

Like I said, I'm not really following this debacle, and I don't know the details. I'm just amazed at that quote, which seems very revealing to me.
If I'm remembering correctly, Jeri Ellsworth said in an interview that the CastAR glasses were fabbed on a gate array. I thought it was super cool how they were able to prototype a device on FPGA and get chips fabbed as a consumer electronics startup. It probably makes less and less sense nowadays, with how cheap and capable MCUs have gotten.
The article is unfortunately disingenuous and cannot be trusted to make an honest argument.

> In late 2023, campaign group More In Common polled British people on their attitudes towards pandemic life ... a third of 25 to 40-year-olds backed closing nightclubs again, 29 per cent were keen to bring back “the rule of six” and 28 per cent would have been comfortable with “only allowing people to leave their homes for essential shopping, 60 minutes of exercise, or work”.

They're mixing two polls and making it sound like these people CURRENTLY support these measures. Those numbers were from a poll taken BEFORE any COVID restrictions had been put in place at all (i.e. what SAFETY measures should we enact to slow the pandemic?): https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/media/31kfnjxi/mic-covid-res...

It took a lot of digging for me to find it, and I can see why they didn't want to link to it. And just in case one wants to give the authors the benefit of the doubt, they finish off with this flourish: "This was more than a year after the last legal restrictions were lifted in the UK, in line with global health policy."

So yeah, a baldfaced lie.

> Still, French philosopher Pascal Bruckner argues, “life means excess and profligacy or it ceases to be life."

Uhh... WTF??? That's precisely the mentality that has led to the ecological disaster we're entering today!

> Who will win the war?

WHAT war??? Who's fighting a war over this?

> As Bruckner puts it, “a new anthropological type is emerging: the shrivelled, hyperconnected being who no longer needs others or the outside world. All of today’s technologies encourage incarceration under the guise of openness.”

Jeez... Is this guy high?

I've stopped reading at this point.
I am the proud owner of one blank punch card. I found it inside one of my old college textbooks - I must have been using it as a page mark.
VSS6 had file checkout, which IIRC locked the file preventing other devs from editing it. It was popular with Visual C++ 6.0, circa the year 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_SourceSafe
There's some speculation that there are higher horizons to the training, as explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvb_4Jj5kBo

the term for it is "grokking", amusingly. There's some indication that we are actually undertraining by 10x
If an expanding central bank balance sheet means debasement, what does it mean when the balance sheet is shrinking?

Because the opposite of "debasement" has been happening for some time now.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1rdgN
World's biggest iceberg spins in ocean trap
This sounds like a really good idea, but I wonder if it works when you are writing to think. Like when PG writes essays, could this work for that?
I might understand that businesses have use cases where price difference adds up, and they have workloads, where SMRs can satisfy the needs.

However, what's the reason that they are selling SMRs to the consumers? Price difference in stores is not that big between SMR and CMRs, and there are a lot of downsides.
I haven’t read the article, but I think the question of whether or not aspects of one’s personality are disordered or maladaptive are valid, and can be managed with reason, without resorting to a question of insult.
> Elites for the most part did not democratize on their own terms and stand to lose from open electoral politics

On a slightly related note, I'm under the impression there are many countries with disillusioned youth, combined with relatively entrenched incompetence/corruption in their respective governments. Are there any recent examples of countries that reformed their government without requiring a violent upheaval? (Tunisia looks like a floundering example?). Vested interests prefer to remain vested, so I'm looking for examples where "discussion and debates" have secured long term reforms against established stakeholders.
Isometric GZDoom – Update 12B
I totally disagree with the last paragraph. Shedding blood != waging war. China has never dared until now, and will never dare in the future, to engage in a heads-on conflict against the USA. It has skirmishes and conflicts with almost every neighbour. The PRC defence forces do not have the worldwide fighting experience which the US has. Nuclear deterrence acts strongly against the PRC, and they won’t do anything stupid against Taiwan as long as US Navy is positioned in their backyard.
What if the design flaw makes AIs unsafe? This would be a fun sci-fi piece.
LeetCode is a joke in late 2024
Frankly, all of the small questions can be solved by an LLM in 3 seconds, and the difficult ones can be specified in formal english and solved similarly by Claude / ChatGPT40mini in an absurd amount of time. Solving them seems like trivia, why do we even value leetcode still?
That seems like an efficient approach for a commercial scale version. The form would essentially mirror center-pivot irrigation [1] so you can keep a fixed point for delivering energy, water, fertiliser etc and cover larger circular patch with a series of smaller linear robots. Each span could also be modular to adapt to different sizes as suitable for the landscape.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-pivot_irrigation
I found that some parts of a protobuf aren't captured well by protoc; specifically annotations were not well exposed to Go libraries for writing protoc plugins in 2016. I ended up having to write my own basic protobuf parser to reliably extract annotations and comments for code and documentation generation:

https://github.com/metaverse/truss/blame/master/svcdef/svcde...
What was it like to work for telegram/durov? A part from the "getting fired" part that is ;)
Which UB upsets you? Can you be specific so we can revert it?
Is there any other forum source that focuses on economic/central banking news, similar to Hacker news? I know that economics often appear in the feed, but I am looking for one where that's a larger focus.
my bad, i glossed over it and clicked straight on "demo", where i expected examples. maybe add there too?
No need for programmers anymore
Sure, but "introvert" would be the incorrect terminology for such things. Introvert is not the same thing as depression or social anxiety. Its not even really right to consider it a mild form of those things as extroverts can also be those things.
It does matter a bit re: the affordability of the used market.
Hey, I feel you, my first thought was that continuously differentiable functions aren't physical :)
My favorite, obligatory reference when we discuss horror of legacy codebase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
Bitcoin has debasement, it's called altcoins and hard forks.

More generally, Bitcoin solves the wrong problem, because Austrian economics got the history of money wrong. Money wasn't invented to track scarce resources, money was invented to track who had paid taxes to the correct military invaders. The traditional / pre-money form of economic system (in the sense of it being a system to track the usage of scarce goods) is the gift economy. This is the system humans are built to work in. But gift economies are backed by strong promises of identity in close-knit groups. A bunch of rapacious murderers extracting food out of the fifth town they've sacked this week aren't going to be able to tell the difference between John, son of John, John, son of the brother of John, and John, son of the cousin of John.

What money does is separate a person's identity from their ability to access scarce resources. This 'paraidentity' of money is rendered in the most extreme in crypto. Your identity means nothing, just the size of your wallet, to the point where even voting in cryptocurrency is proudly for sale. The thing is, separating access to resources from personal identity also centralizes control of those resources. Printing money to fund war is not a bug, it is a feature.

In fact, it's not even something Bitcoin fixes. The primary source of liquidity in the Bitcoin ecosystem is businesses buying it to pay data ransoms. Bitcoin, in the name of opposing statism, invented a new kind of state whose military consists of hackers penetrating and encrypting systems to force you to buy Bitcoin to decrypt them.

The way you debase Bitcoin is by inventing new kinds of Bitcoin. Because, remember, the scarcity isn't the thing bringing liquidity into the system. If the ransomware people decide they're only taking Ethereum this week, then people are buying Ethereum, not Bitcoin. All money exists to pay taxes, and if the tax collector wants a different kind of money, then they've successfully debased the old money.
I’m not a fan of the control, but this is the free market at work. Nothing stops you or any other company from creating a competing phone with its own app ecosystem. It’s really not for the government to dictate to companies how their products can work. It’s up to consumers to choose the products they want to use.
Teenage Engineering has reached peak Teenage Engineering. Not that it's a bad thing. Gotta respect the fact that they've got such a strong brand they can just put out a pure collectible / art piece.

And that thing looks like it's built to last a 1000 years.
http://vanilla-js.com/ (the SSL certificate expired 15 years ago)

It is a framework, but just vanilla :)
The way this article is written feels very selfish with a distinct lack of empathy for how so called introverts might have felt in a similar position

Thing like this feel especially disingenuous

> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed.

These are things I was able and am able to do without have to go to the office five days a week
Because these optimizations are not supposed to be a part of the user interface. They're internal passes and may one day go away or be merged or subsumed etc.
Yes, but it's source control shifted to git years ago (I think you can still use TFS, but it's strongly legacy ) and git is mich better than TFS ever was.
No voting system can overcome such a regime on its own. I don't even know why NK bothers with elections. They should just claim they are a monarchy, ordained by God. No one believes their election results anyway.
Leetcode was never valuable, except as a "We need a measure. This is a measure. Therefore, we use it." kind of thing.

There is no such thing as an impartial yet meaningful measure that can be equally applied across all candidates. You should be discussing your business, your issues, and the candidate's ideas (with some small practical examples) for how they can move things forward in the area they're applying for.

Someone's leetcode rating isn't going to move your business needle.
The exact use case is if you have to deploy slightly customized windows installs on a daily basis.

You know you need it when you have a document that details all the steps in setting up windows itself and a couple of common softwares. Then someone ham fists something every once in a while and causes confusion for everyone.
Are you saying we shouldn’t be skeptical as well? Are you basing this on things he’s said or things he’s done?

When someone shows you who they are, pay attention.
Also agree that asking for academic papers seems to increase the potential for hallucination. But, I don't know if I am prompting it the best way in these scenarios..
Willing to Die for MrBeast (and $5M)
The SSDs that go that fast also have multiple dies per channel. And write speed is the relevant metric here, but SLC caching isn't useful unless you have flash capacity to spare.
> Nature isn't perfect and has disadvantages compared to us.

That's assuming that we are somehow outside of nature.

> We don't have to invent ex post facto explanations for why something is the case in nature or why there is some un-intuitive reason as for why the natural way is better.

We don't have to , no , but we do , because that's how we learn.

Nobody was claiming the "natural" way was better, just that it might serve a purpose.
I was told that water beads on leaf surfaces act as lenses, creating burnt spots on the leaves. So water at night.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

I suppose I should add that this is not a response to your political views, whatever they may be. It's a response to your account's pattern of posting low-quality and flamebait comments, especially on divisive topics. We don't need you to change your views but we do need you to stop posting like that.
valued like a museum of pre-23' era:)
> a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human

why does the pedigree matter if the content stands on its own as valid content?

Do you care that your call is answered by someone in india, or the US, if you are given sufficient answer/support with the call?
This is 100% chatgpt
Before digital computers, jet fighters used theBendix Central Air Data Computer, a mechanical computer designed to handle all the mathematical equations using a network of gears and cams of all shapes and sizes.
Technology is giving introverts access to a deep, meaningful, beautiful social life. In real life, I can be a fish out of water in my interests, but on X I am a social butterfly with dozens of friends and several very dear friends.