skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Television is hypnotic. I vaguely remember someone claiming that watching television was more effective at slowing breathing and metabolic rates than meditation and yoga but without making one feel refreshed. I can't remember where or when I saw this.

But perhaps some part of the population is getting out from under that now that fewer people watch broadcast television favouring on demand services instead.

I don't watch broadcast television any more at home but I do when visiting family and I now find it immensely irritating except for the few splendid things like Suchet's Poirot (better than the books in my opinion).

And occasionally a gem like Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility turns up as it did on a British TV channel last week. Perhaps it was the story and my own immediate circumstances together but it had me in gales of laughter at one moment and gushing with tears at another. I just turned the television off afterwards.
For those who are familiar with the Racket environment, is it easy to create standalone executables like Go?

The Python syntax with the power of Lisp could be a fun thing to use on a CI pipeline.
The linux kernel nowadays uses the fact that signed overflow is UB to detect problems using sanitizers. It turns out the defined unsigned wraparound is now the hard problem.
Letting a tomato go fully ripe on the plant is an easy way to attract birds and lose a substantial amount of the crop. There’s no reason for it either. Once the tomato reaches the breaker stage (starting to change colour) it is internally cut off from the mother plant and will not be adversely affected by being harvested.
> "In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks."

Wow.

I have thought about this, too. It has helped me understand and empathize with people loving and embracing Gods.

It is common to love Harry Potter even if he doesn’t exist. If some people starts loving a God based on scriptures, even if that God doesn’t exist in the physical plane, the love isn’t non-existent. It might be pure, too. I am Indian, and we have rich mythologies somewhat like the Greeks and the Nords. And, I felt that if people begins to love physically non-existent being, that love might help in tough times, give people peace, etc.
It would also help to have such a description in the README
"other factors" can be treated as a singular group noun if you want, so I think both are correct.

By example:

"There are likely to be cows over that hill" - correct, many cows

"There is likely to be a herd of cows over that hill" - correct, one herd

"There are likely to be other factors" - correct, many factors

"There is likely to be a number of other factors" - correct, one collection of many factors

"There are likely to be a number of other factors" - correct, emphasizes the factors over the collection

"There are likely to be other factors" - correct if you want to treat 'other factors' as a singular group. Up for debate.

Also, "there're" is very hard to say, so using "there's" as a contraction for "there are" is, in my book, okay, even if it's not technically correct.
Similarly to not checking array bounds, undefined behavior was once introduced in the name of efficiency - back in the ages when the performance difference really mattered.

And both are just a major headache now, and belong to reasons why few people start new projects in C.

I wonder how many such design decisions, relevant today, but with a potential to screw up future humanity, we are making right now.
Per Wikipedia: "Firefox was created in 2002 under the codename "Phoenix" by members of the Mozilla community who desired a standalone browser rather than the Mozilla Application Suite bundle."

I do remember from the time that it actually was one young guy who made a strip down version of the Mozilla browser that then got incorporated as a Mozilla product and replaced the Mozilla browser some years after. I don't see that mentioned anywhere though. History says it was Blake Ross[1] coming from Netscape but I don't remember it that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Ross
I see the author is born in 1991, so they got from ~29 before the pandemic to ~33 now. This is an age where ime such changes are very probable to happen in our generations anyway when the age groups one associates oneself with are around that, pandemic or not. The author probably connected them with the pandemic because maybe there was not continuous time of them happening as it normally would, due to the lockdowns, and it would seem like one just woke up to a new reality after. But some of what the author describes (eg less spontaneity in going out) would probably have happened in some way.

It seems to me that if one is in such a position, they may need to find new friends whose lifestyle align more with theirs instead of being condescending that they know what people should do better than them, or seeing the world through binaries that do not exist (introversion-extroversion is a normally distributed trait, not bimodal).
This came up recently on HN, in terms of "kinds of memory" - there are different forms of memory, and we have pretty good evidence that some of them persist regardless of conscious recall. Rest assured that even if you have poor recall of them they continue to shape who you are and how you behave.
I second that. Much of it, and probably even that article, feels like it’s part of a great readjustment after Covid.

The 2-3 years were really hard for most of us and entire societies are trying to get back to where we were before.
Where does audiobooks lie. I find it even easier to engage than TV since I don't have to pay attention to visuals and I'm on pace of the narrator. Or faster. 2-3x playback speed and turns content that requires engagement into timepass. Sometimes I feel guilty for being unserious, but as non reader I consume "more" books this way.
LG gram 17, Brave browser
So, what are the salient points in this article? It's on a humanist website, and I kind of like humanists, and, in principle, humans, so I read it carefully.

* Habits change. This insight is the bulk of the article. Restaurants are mentioned three times, but restaurants are a relic of class divisions from around 1900, where a patron is pampered by servants, while leaking money in all directions. So their continued existence is surprising, and maintained by habits, and the pandemic was a shakedown for habits.

* Something about resilience. Should I mention preppers? They tend to be introverts, I think, and they're all about resilience, so that confuses matters. But the general idea here is that soft pudgy cybernauts would be bewildered in an emergency that could not be dealt with by ordering deliveries. Could they go out and, like, ask for help, or patiently hunt for food in a crisis? I think the answer is actually mostly yes, and those who were conspicuously helpless would be helped, and this is really a non-issue. Go out for a pointless walk as non-specific training against divers emergencies is not great advice.

* Something about surprises (stimulation), and serendipity. This is a fair point but it's expensive, at least in terms of time, and the payoffs aren't so great. In return for losing an hour of coding, you might see a squirrel. I endorse this in moderation. Of course here I'm ignoring the main thrust which is about human interaction: as well as the squirrel, you might speak to an old lady (they constantly prowl the streets, waiting for scraps of conversation). And that's true, and adds variety, I suppose. There's a point in the article where this whole thesis of a massive crisis of shut-ins is watered down to advice to merely go out once in a while. In that light, the situation looks like less of a big deal. People still leave the house, a lot. It's only a change of emphasis, not, I think, a real problem.
That aluminium is widely available on earth was necessary to my point that it is trivial to find existing examples in the trillion-dollar scale.

Aluminium prices would only fall if you were selling the whole thing in one go for instant delivery — unusually for most supplies this form of delivery would be technically possible, but RFGs are normally considered "weapons" rather than "shipping". Look at how much supply has increased this century vs. price: production has seen near-continuous growth while the price has been spiky rather than a consistent downward trend, this is because aluminium is *really useful*.

Given that orbital dynamics makes it more like a months-to-years process just to get to the asteroid in the first place, who knows how long to capture it and stabilise for mining etc., and that mining itself would not be an instant process even if we happen to get a convenient pile of purely metallic (non-oxidised) rubble, it won't be all on the market for instant delivery.

I get similar values for copper: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+trillion+USD+%2F+%28%...

Zinc is ~ 30 years of global production at current prices, which would be pushing it for a corporate investment but not totally implausible: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+trillion+USD+%2F+%28%...

Just under 4 years for iron ore: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+trillion+USD+%2F+%28%...

Just over 4 years for gold: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+trillion+USD+%2F+%28%...

I think aiming for a trillion USD of platinum would indeed crash the market, as the same formula gives me 180 years for that: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+trillion+USD+%2F+%28%...
Why not just turn off (or down) optimizations? I mean, optimization is not even activated by default
Yeah, I spent 6 months trying to find any value whatsoever out of GitHub copilot on C# development but it’s barely useful. And then I started doing python development and it turns out it’s amazing. It’s all about the training set.
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People often simply believe that they personally won't be affected. Which is statistically true, but it depends on personal risk tolerance and other factors you mentioned.
Get you, your manager and the CEO in one room, and tell them the facts. Once those are on the table, discuss solutions. Otherwise nobody wins.
Snippets from my partners reactions:

"Aimed at prosumers...uh...more nerdsumers"

"Oh I just saw the price, $4000 to avoid an hours work"
> but “ridiculous amount” and “difficult to avoid” is overstating it

Maybe you can argue that C doesn't have a “ridiculous amount” of UB (even though the number is large), but C++ is so much worse I don't think saying it's “ridiculous” is off the mark.

And not only the amount is already ridiculous but every new feature introduced in modern versions of C++ adds its own brand new UB!
For me it's the type of interaction ; in social / comedic / etc settings, I love meatspace interaction, as well as audio and video. In professional settings, I prefer text chat or email or docs; it fully tires me out having to wait for the ultra slow human speak that I have to focus on nonetheless to convey a thought I could've read in less than 1 sec if it were written down. And when it's written, I can skip the drivel; irl you have to be polite about it too.

All my friends/family consider me an extrovert, my colleagues are sure i'm an introvert. I like both.
“Life without pain has no meaning”

— Schopenhauer
It's not much about tech, it's about a collapsing society where people start to separate in isolated cohorts, sometimes even alone if missing others with similar views around.

Tech itself allow for much more interaction, it's a neutral tool alone, of course as a neutral knife you can use it to cut a steak or your neighbor throat but what's happening are civil polarization NOT due to technology but to mere social collapse.
just grows your own
Big Bertha (Lunar Sample)
Migrants aren't the issue. People owning more than one house to make profit off renting out properties is a huge portion of the problem. The for-profit housing sector in Australia (and New Zealand) is absolutely disgusting and I don't think it'll change as the people with the power are also the people with the houses. Don't even get me started on the rigged and frankly corrupt banking sector.

No human being should be able to make recurring profit from the need to put a basic roof over your head.
NASA SPICE – C library for planetary exploration
I've always wondered why this robot uses a gantry system.

Would be less intrusive and thus easier to work alongside a human if it was a polar system, with a single pole in the middle/corner, like a tower crane.

Simpler mechanically as well I suppose
> (for reasons slightly different for each element so I am not going to write a wall of text; happy to provide more information if you want)

Yes, please :-)
This is nothing but a job ad disguised as an opinion piece, there's no substantive argument at all.
apparently this is part of their plan with the Tesla Optimus robots.
I think the problem is that some behaviours are undefined where developers expect them to be implementation-defined (especially in C's largest remaining stronghold, the embedded world) - i.e. do what makes sense on this particular CPU.

Signed overflow is the classic example - making that undefined rather than implementation-defined is a decision that makes less to those of us living in today's exclusively two's-complement world than it would have done when it was taken.

It's become more of an issue in recent years as compilers started doing more advanced optimisations, which some people perceived as the compiler being "lawful evil".

What it reminds me of is that episode of Red Dwarf with Kryten (with his behavioural chip disabled) explaining why he thought it was OK to serve roast human to the crew: "If you eat chicken then obviously you'd eat your own species too, otherwise you'd just be picking on the chickens"!
Archive.org is such a godsend.-

The entire information 'substrate' of society is ephemeral, if digital, and none (at least not enough) seem to have noticed.-
The compiler should emit the code to add one to a, and then code to check if the result is greater than a. This is completely evident, and is what all C and C++ compilers did for the first few decades of their existence. Maybe a particularly smart compiler could issue a `jo` instead of a `cmp ax, bx; jz `.

The for loop example is silly. There is no reason whatsoever to add an overflow check in a for loop. The code of a standard for loop, `for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)` doesn't say to do any overflow check, so why would the compiler insert one? Not inserting overflow checks is completely different than omitting overflow checks explicitly added in the code. Not to mention, for this type of loop, the compiler doesn't need any UB-based logic to prove that the loop terminates - for any possible value of n, including INT_MAX, this loop will terminate, assuming `i` is not modified elsewhere.

I'd also note that the "most correct" type to use for the iteration variable in a loop used to access an array, per the standard, would be `size_t`, which is an unsigned type, which does allow overflow to happen. The standard for loop should be `for (size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i)`, which doesn't allow the compiler to omit any overflow checks, even if any were present.
Or using .ssh/config since entries in there act like hostnames:

# ~/.ssh/config
Host github_ssh
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_github_key

> git remote add github github_ssh:Username/RepoName.git

This has worked reliably for me for quite a while now.
Buy a cheap flight to south Italy and gorge yourself.
I mean, the stereotype of the nerd staying at home coding with blinds shut down(which is what I did yesterday) doesn't come out of the blue, even if not representative of the population per se and a bit cliche it has its roots in something that probably happened more than once
One word: Microsoft. Two words: shipping crap. Three words: It may get better. Four words: let the users test. Last word: doomed.

Where is the system engineer? Why did Macromedia become so great?

"In college, Randy's classmate Norman Meyrowitz was giving a presentation when a light bulb on the projector blew out." The rest is history.
Looks like Haskell.
I also remember the cover and commentary when the iphoneOS AppStore first came out.

Most of it concerned what good value 30% represented to handle hosting, billing and marketing for the developer
Perhaps the negative feeling you get when binging television is related to memory and comprehension. There was a study called "The impact of binge watching on memory and perceived comprehension"[1] that found that you remember less of what you binge, and more of what you watch with intervals. V. interesting.

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[1] https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7729/6...
If you find the idea of electromechanical arcade games delightful (and why wouldn’t you?) and you’re in London then I’d highly recommend visiting Tim Hunkin’s Novelty Automation Arcade (https://www.novelty-automation.com/). They’re all hand made with a satirical sense of humour, just so much fun to see and play with. And check out Tim Hunkin’s YouTube channel for his Secret Life Of Arcade Machines series where he shows you how they work (https://youtube.com/@timhunkin1?si=fwjrx87fUwNAFJ29). and while you’re there his Secret Life Of Components and his classic Secret Life of Machines (his BBC TV series from the late 80s) are worth a watch too.
Happy to live in Arizona for the lack of natural disasters, it's just a bit hotter.
You need sun and local intensive agriculture to grow them well. They taste better the more hot and stressed they are. It's just not something available in the UK?
If you actually use software intended for users it is slow. There are simply too many layers. Nowadays even something like writing regular javascript is considered being close to the metal, and high level means you install a library that does what you want out of the box, and you need to initialize it. Those are maybe useful things for speed of development, but all those things piled on top of each other might not work well in the end.

As an example, USA Today created a dedicated EU website to comply with GDPR. It was and probably still is incredibly fast. It's a simple document with text and images that are news articles. You click and get a page instantly. There are no ads and no trackers, you do not need to load JS templates and JSON to speed things up etc. You do not need AMP. I am not a big html document purist, and I think that's a dead end, but in terms of user experience for what they sell -- news articles -- it was head and shoulders above their regular offering.
Before app stores you couldn’t put apps on your phone
I didn't. Still not a single explanation of what the language is / what its designers are trying to do.
Wonder if there's a program that toggles remaps wasd to esdf or whatever template.
Improving _Generic in C2y
I don't think Rhombus is python style. And this won't convert anyone anyway; it's experimenting with new language constructs and such which is what racket is used for by most who use it. In many years from now, the lesson learned by these experiments might end up in a new language that might get converts and even rival python/js (I hope so, I find both terrible).
If we’re talking the peak flavor tomato that “capitalism” purportedly can’t produce, that is only available when you pick it from the vine, already ripe. It is true that tomatoes will ripen if picked “brown”, but they’re less flavorful than vine ripened. Source: picked a few tons of tomatoes every summer as a kid.
The Richest Countries in 2024
Public housing in Australia is vastly under-resourced. It's been deprived for resources for decades, and made only worse by self-serving decisions made by those in power.

In NSW public housing land that was established a generation or two ago has been sold off to private developers. At most there's been lip service about some low percentage of "affordable housing" being made available in the new development, but often not enforced.

The public housing stock is being depleted because of funding for repairs and renovations being cut short or eliminated entirely. There's a huge number of properties which are not able to be occupied because of roofs leaking, mould, and more.

Meanwhile, private housing is getting more and more expensive in large part by investors buying up and renting out property for top dollar.

As for a policy change:

Let multiple problems solve each other.

We have a shortage of skilled trades.
We have unemployment issues.
We have a whole lot of properties that need to be maintained and renovated.

Lets employ skilled tradespeople to teach and train new generations using public housing as the training ground. Renovate, rebuild if necessary existing properties. Build new homes and communities.
get high off your own supply
Croatia has horrible food, locals can not afford quality food. This country was overrun by tourists, and is now more expensive than Italy. Recent adoption of Euro was the last nail in a coffin. Go to Greece, if you want "authentic local tomato from street-market".
A policy declaring some abstract right going to do very little. Most people can agree that more housing development is necessarily and desirable, in an abstract sense, or even on a national level. But when it comes to any specific location it's usually "but not in this neighborhood". Since this happens pretty much near every place that is at somewhat desirable to live (usually in/near large cities in developed countries) and consequently already have many people living there and we get the current outcome. This is the same story all across cities in Europe, Northern America and developed Asia/Oceania nowadays.
> When two alternatives exist and, often, the lesser/worse/worst wins.

More likely is the one that will appeal more people to win, which in software means a good mix between being the easiest and quickest (hence cheapest) to develop and market, and the easiest for users to learn, and the values aren't to me absolute but rather relative: I don't think there's much difference between the people who can't live without a touch screen today and those who 40 years back could work 8 hrs/day in WordStar only through key sequences.
> No human being should be able to make recurring profit from the need to put a basic roof over your head.

I know a significant number of people who prefer renting because of the onerousness of ownership.

Who is going to rent to them if they can't profit from it?
What's the process of deciding what stuff you will try ?
> the half-life of many URLs (5-10 years?) makes them unreliable.

"Simple" enough experiment, on this very site: Use the "past" feature on the main menu to go back a step at a time, and tally the number of broken links from the external submissions the further you go back.-

The amount of dead projects, expired domains, broken links, 404s, etc. is sad.-
The wanton surveillance ads are based on stays though! Can’t give up that revenue.
I believe it's more the other way around. Taiwan purposely made themselves an essential part of global trade to keep the USA invested in their security.