skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK all optical discs also use a similar scheme.

Incidentally this is why a HDD with a bad head or media area will make clicking sounds, sometimes very loudly, as the head actuator slams against the stops since the controller can't see the signals it's looking for and can only sweep the surface in search of them.
I think it's more about invested work vs. reward.

Mindless browsing is one of the lowest work activities, but the influx of information is highly rewarding for the brain. That's why it's so addicting. Programming and OS installation are more work, but there is direct progress. Filing taxes is just work, but at again it's a very direct way to feel productive. All of these activities are immediately rewarding.

Reading on the other hand requires a lot of concentration, without much immediate reward. And I think the ratio here is highly subjective for most people.
The incremental cost refers to one shuttle flight divided by pounds.

I think what OP was asking is - given shuttle already had a mission with some spare payload capacity, how much did it cost to bring one more pound into space? I think this question has a relevancy to the fact the printer was surprisingly heavy and came with a lot of paper. I'm not sure if there's a good way to calculate this though.
Anyone remember spacebar instead of w to move foward? Or mouse2 instead of w.

I'm annoyed there isn't a wasd keyboard combination where "w" isn't shifted slight to the right of the "s".
Wow. That's pretty offensive. Pretty sure I worked much more during WFH. Hybrid makes Mondays and Fridays feel more like they're part of the weekend, and then all the social events are packed into Tu-Th now so... Jokes on them I guess?
Also not sure.
I'm guessing it's some kind of Lisp bracketectomy - i.e. Lisp without the parentheses.
I used to know one philosophy student in my student years and this was exactly the beaf I had with him at every single discussion. I believe this is part of the training, dissecting sentences.
Does that (not too often) not happen with "abandonware" turned open source?
I did the same in one of my apps. It's a private app, you need a login code to use it; Apple wanted to test all the features, so I put some fake screens in the app, those screens didn't even make API calls.

I set a timer for two weeks, after those the app started having its real behavior, with API calls and everything.

The whole Apple app review is a joke.
The author assumes introverts like always staying in their homes. I don't think that is true for all introverts.
This. What sux is that we have so much space and decent tech and engineering education, we should be a renewables leader, but instead we have 1950s American suburban dystopia 2.0. I really think we could restructure industrial outcomes with Industry 4.0 style thinking along renewable lines, so that we can harness low cost energy in the periods where it makes sense. Aluminium smelting is a prime example. We have all these stupid sites like former open cut mines that are just begging for industrial uses, or space programs, or something else of forward-thinking potential. Not to mention oodles of flat land nobody wants to live on anyway. Unfortunately our federal government is AWOL on comm's, and the state and local government is even worse. Entrenched corruption and not my department is the order of the day. So many people see a degradation in social character, the new norm is 'me first' and 'who cares'. Our political system worked to defer change when post-WWII it didn't matter. Now reality is moving ahead and we're left with the rotting carcass of a social democracy where flesh-eating maggots (and I'm referring here to native politicians and business people especially, not well-meaning immigrants from less educated backgrounds who may not actually know another way) have already hatched and our public wealth is being carried out the door. It is a shame they tortured Assange so much, I had high hopes for his transparency applied to government. It's so sorely needed.
"computers today can do things we hardly dreamed of twenty years ago."

It's 25 years since Bill Gates got shot in South Park because Windows 98 crashed so much.
A Knownbits Abstract Domain for the Toy Optimizer, Correctly
One benefit there if it's statically typed is that you've pushed some correctness validation into the compiler.

In dynamic languages like Clojure it is far too easy to couple functionality and write implicitly imperative but superficially functional code. Something I'm guilty of because it's too easy to do and takes a lot of experience and discipline to avoid.
My guess is that the attribute interacts weirdly with optimizations spanning function calls, like inlining. It might be safe for TUs that define a single function, like with memmove above. Having said that applying the option to the TU itself would be equivalent, and not discouraged by GCC docs.
Because people generally dislike and get nervous when Justices start doing things that look like political campaigning.

Anything that appears to impact their impartiality is a problem, and campaigning for anything would do that.
Just had a week on various Croatian islands. It’s true that we were shocked by the cost of the food (€18 for a pizza in a restaurant) although put it down to the cost of importing the various ingredients. I wouldn’t say any of the food was “horrible” though. We had a tremendous “meat plate” of grilled marinated chicken, pork and steak with potatoes.
A friend of mine has an expensive 15-inch Dell laptop. He does not know much about tech specs, but since much of his work life revolves around his laptop, he simply bought the maxed out version. In the hope it makes his life easier.

In the hope that every tool he installs makes his life easier too, he installed so much stuff on it, that the battery in this newish laptop lasts less than an hour.

So he lugs around this beast of a laptop, with a beast of a charger. And even when he just uses a browser, after 30 minutes, he gets nervous: "I need a power outlet!".

Every time I watch this drama in confusion, I ask him why he doesn't look up what software drains his battery, and what he can do about it.

That makes him very uncomfortable, and he proclaims: "No, it's Dell's fault! And I can use the laptop with a power outlet! No problem!".

Somehow, analyzing what software does seems to make some people so uncomfortable that they never look into it and therefore never blame bad software for its behavior.
If the AI can update its beliefs based on a conversation, then yes it would still be a win.

If not, you're talking to a very articulate thick-headed person who can argue you into a corner by deploying all manner of argumentative/persuasive patterns, but may never try to reach across the table for a compromise.
This resonates with my reaction when I read that the 1st step of a project consisting of like 50 lines of code for a 3cmx2cm microcontroller board is "install VSC".
Wikipedia can be confusing..

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/134259/is-the-first-order...
I agree with you. It would be good for the consumer though.
>more expensive than italy

Related: had some friends down from a northern country and they were as amazed at the taste and cost of the tomatoes, as they were at the fact they came from the country my guests came from.

We figured from growth to packing to transportation to purchase, made the tomatoes 'just right' on the day we got them.
Not had anything similar since for taste, including those i bought last night.
I'm sorry but OP seems to be vastly overestimating their abilities. Every study about bugs related to UB show that even the best programmers will make mistakes, and often mistakes that are nearly impossible to have prevented without static tools because of the action-at-a-distance nature of the harder ones (unless you had the whole code base in your head, and you paid enormous attention to the consequences of every single instruction you wrote, you just couldn't have prevented UB).
It's becoming rather common. Saw it on LinkedIn a couple of days ago by someone posting an image of a job application, accusing it of using ChatGPT when it clearly wasn't. Incredibly ironic. People who couldn't even tell apart a "multifaceted" if their lives depended on it but make these wild accusations.
I think there's something to be said for being bored once in awhile though. Helps you reset. I think a nice long vacation once a year will cure that better though
Sorry I meant Pushover not Pusher. https://pushover.net/

Pushover is supposedly dead simple to use, but I've been lazy to integrate it and download the apps for my system, setup the dashboard, deploy the endpoint to handle the webhook, etc.

I want a dead simple webhook to phone notification system, and I would use it in a lot of places.
There's a thing called foliar spraying, where you do spray water and nutrients on the leaves. You don't do it in the sunshine though because the water droplets will magnify the light and burn the leaves.
I am Croatian, and I know exactly what the article is referring to. So much that we decided to grow our own tomatoes this year.

The imported junk we get from Netherlands is abysmal compared to anything grown locally, and the reality is that we want the good stuff for ourselves, not the tourists.

We were very lucky to have a great harvest of cherry, monte carlo, and plum tomatoes this year, all of which serve a different purpose:

- Cherry for salads and side dish

- Monte Carlo for cooking

- Plum tomatoes for everything in between

Croatia has incredible food, especially the local, homegrown stuff, and it is well worth the effort to get it.

Here's an image of some of our crop: https://imgur.com/5FfdvG6
Can you say more about what sense a linear number of connections is optimal? Minimising complexity doesn't always strike me as the right goal. I believe many problems require complex solutions, and view microservices more as a way of helping humans manage that complexity (at some cost, of course).
This will be a fascinating port to watch take shape. There are many DC to PS2 ports which show the PS2 unfavourably. But GTA 3 is a game which utilises some of the PS2's strengths like faster vector performance and more RAM. A PS2 to DC port then might shed more light on how the consoles compare more generally.
I am making LMS because I hate boring corporate learning
Hello Hacker News Community,

I've always found corporate training painfully dull and uninspiring. That's why I created SkillsRace, an LMS designed to make learning genuinely engaging and fun.

*What I’m Changing*
Mini Courses: Short, focused lessons that fit into any schedule, making learning more accessible.
Gamification: Introducing game-like elements and friendly competition to keep learners motivated.
Interactive Live Streaming: Real-time engagement with learners, complete with instant feedback.
Rewards System: Real awards to recognize and celebrate achievements, adding an extra layer of motivation.
Easy Course Creation: Simplified tools to help educators create quality content quickly and efficiently.
Seamless Integrations: Compatible with popular tools like Slack and Discord to streamline the learning experience.

Building EdTech is freaking hard. Please support launch on ProductHunt. Upvote SkillsRace.
I would love to hear your thoughts about LMS and how to make learning better.

There is the link: https://skillsrace.com
By 2012 the writing was already on the wall. This was already well into the first PaaS era with Heroku, Engine Yard, etc. Github was bootstrapped, and using git was a grassroots movement. It was just better than what most people had been using. I never looked back after first switching from SVN to git in 2009.

VCs didn't make git successful, developers did.
> short of regressing to in-order, non-speculative cores

I guess you are referring to a GPU cores here.

It is a joke but can hint that in-order non-speculative cores are powerful computers nonetheless.
Parens-less(er) Lisp, whitespace/indentation-based s-expressions.
Like all free market failures, the culprit is regulation. Regulated food, local and weekend markets reduced competition by discouraging and removing small retailers until large supermarket chains remained de facto monopolies.

Those chains must serve very large number of customers so they must focus on produce that is easy to pick, store and sell. Looks good and survives (even gets ripe during) transit. Taste is often secondary.

You wanna fight that? Fight all regulations for small and local producers, even if it sounds like it’s well intended (hygiene, quality standards, subventions). Talk to your representative about it too. Finally, buy local and from smallest producer you can find.
Both companies have near identical policies though. So there's only two companies and competition is at best limited.
I won't comment on the tomatoes, but as far as eggs are concerned, I'm skeptical that any claims about people being able to taste any diffence would hold up in a proper blind taste test. Conclusion from Serious Eats when they attempted to do that:

It was pretty clear evidence that as far as eggs go, the mindset of the taster has far more bearing on the flavor of the egg than the egg itself.

https://www.seriouseats.com/what-are-the-best-eggs
Yes. See https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html
PAR archives FTW :)
A lot of folks (including me) find Python limiting for non-trivial use cases. The One Python Way was a great selling point in 2004, but the thing is, it's still basically the same Way in 2024. So, I hope you like nerfed lambdas and inheritance
That's nothing new. Actual humans have been writing businessy LinkedIn posts this way long before GPT-3 came out. I'd even say such posts are even more awful than what GPT produces by default.
Any flash being used as a cache for a HDD had better be SLC, and even then it introduces a longevity problem. Perhaps a good use for Optane.
The pitch, compared to Racket, is conventional yet still extensible syntax.
Isn't this a terrible failure of the compiler though? Why is it not just telling you that the `if` is a noop?? Damn, using IntelliJ and getting feedback on really difficult logic when a branch becomes unreachable and can be removed makes this sort of thing look like amateur hour.
A massive tender for wind and solar projects is to be launched next week to help repower Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter Tomago, near Newcastle, with its majority owner saying nuclear is out of the question because it is too slow and too expensive.

The tender will be a landmark event for the Australian renewable energy transition, because the Tomalgo smelter – with annual demand of more than 8 terawatt hours, is the biggest single energy consumer in the country.

~ (Mar 13, 2024) https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-biggest-smelter-to-la...

Majority owner Rio Tinto this year has already announced two record-breaking contracts for wind and solar farms in Australia to provide power for its Boyne Island smelter in Gladstone, Queensland, and its two alumina refineries in the same port city.

Those contracts included one for the first gigawatt scale solar project in Australia, the 1.1 GW Upper Calliope solar project in central Queensland, and the 1.4 GW Bungapan wind project to be developed by iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest’s majority owned Windlab.

> Unfortunately our federal government is AWOL on comm's, and the state and local government is even worse.

They don't seem to be involved and it's not clear why they should be.
Sounds like the Volkswagen trick.
Oh, cats definitely know you can open the door for them. When I feed our four cats, one of them (Inky) usually joins me in the cat bathroom to provide supervision services. Of course, this process must be done behind closed doors, otherwise there tends to be too much interference from some of the other cats.

Once he’s satisfied that everything is proceeding according to his plan, he looks at the door. And if I don’t open it immediately, he looks at me to try to figure out why I’m not already opening the door for him.

Every time.

He’s also the engineer who figured out how to open doors on his own, just by reaching up his longcat body, wrapping his forepaws around the door handle, and pulling. So, we had to childproof all the door handles in the house. Which is why he now has to wait for me to open the door for him.

His sister Mimi is also super smart, but she is too FOMO and doesn’t have quite the same methodical engineering mindset that Inky does.
Not sure what you want to do exactly, but https://github.com/harlanc/xiu could be a fit.
My brother's mom talks about how tomatoes are not tomatoes anymore. They used to be soft and much tastier but it was bad for shipping. Old cartoons would show tomatoes splattering when thrown. The tomatoes I grew up with bounce.
And here I am using QWES.

I find it much more ergonomic to have the three fingers on the same row.

And L Ctrl is not a stretch at all. Although for some reason I usually bind L Alt to crouch...
The Apple Magic keyboard still does this I believe? Worst part of an otherwise good keyboard.
Croatia is having its "bully" tourism phase. They have been historically super cheap and undiscovered location up until 5-10 years ago and now that they are in EU and Schengen and it's actually nicer than some bigger mediterranean countries everyone started piling in. The locals which aren't really business savvy started doubling/tripling prices to see how far it can go without providing additional services or raising the quality to another level. From business perspective it does make actual sense since last few seasons after corona have been breaking records every year. Until there are actual consequences for raising per night booking prices from 100€ to 200€ from year to year nothing will change. I think that the reality is that people "in the know" like polish/chech families are being priced out because traditionally they didn't have as many western european tourists like Dutch or French and now it's on their radar
Probably because they don't want to confuse readers who don't know the history and would wonder how on earth ITER could possibly stand for "International nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject".

Let's face it, changing the project name but still calling it ITER is a bit confusing.
After 15 years of working with Drupal, for the past 2 years I've moved to a company that uses a jamstack. I still get excited when there's a new release of Drupal. Having now spent time outside of the ecosystem, I'm starting to feel that the editor experience, and really also the developer experience, of a well configured Drupal site is unparalleled.
In my experience, it depends on the cat(s). Many cats prefer stability, so the same food all the time is what they would prefer. But some cats seem to prefer variety.

I don’t know if this comes from us trying out various different things to see what they like best, and they decide what they like best is the variety of trying different things, or what.

But, based on my personal experience, you need to be able to know and understand your cat.
It is completely unreasonable though to assume that a compiler should now preserve some assumed (!) timing of source operations.

It would be reasonable to implement (and later standardize) a pragma or something that specifies timings constraint for a subset of the language. But somebody would need to do the work.
That's the core of the complaints about how modern C and C++ compilers use UB.
KidzFun – Simple drawing tool for kids
The M-DISC should last for centuries in a typical vault, and they're about 3x the price of blank Blu-Ray.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
There is also an iPad app:
https://apps.apple.com/no/app/kidz-fun-art/id6443621939?l=nb
It's not all or nothing.

I live in small town India since Covid and WFH, and I spent my childhood here.

The thing is, with this much tightknit society, people are often loudly judgemental and requires you to conform.

But, there are always sensible, gentle people, and loud stupid people. You can modulate your expectations.

But what happened is- all the "good ones" leave sooner or later. There is much hue and cry about brain drain from India to US/Europe, but little about brain drain from small towns and villages to big cities.

I left for college, too.

There were many more cultural programmes, much better environment for upliftment and somewhat more sensible society when I was a child compared to now.

I engage in community as much as I can, but very selectively. Because most people want things to fall in a certain place. People are ill informed in technology, and don't really get WFH. Some bluntly ask- why I don't have a "real job"? People want girls to get married at a certain age, and squint if that limit is crossed.

Community also come with this kind of burdens.
Orterforth: Fig-Forth for modern and retro platforms
The N200 is a fairly wimpy processor that isn’t really meant for laptops, more low-end desktops and routers, but that explains the low price.
After skimming ITER's long history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iter#Organisation_history - I'd interpret user transfire's comment as cynical/sarcastic.

A bit more realistically, one could describe ITER's top goals as photo ops for politicians, checking boxes for diplomats, and life-long employment for careerists. Wikipedia's summary has conceptual design work ending in 1990, but tokamak assembly not starting 'till 2020. They're hoping for "first plasma" in ~2034.

That is not the timeline of a project where scientific results or technological success actually matter to the folks in charge.
Microsoft Word was faster than WordPerfect’s slow, buggy, late release on Windows. Ami Pro was around and also perfectly usable. WP honestly felt like bloatware to my memory, no doubt it had a lot of features, and all I was doing was homework and D&D campaigns, but I don’t remember being unhappy with the options available.
This comment does take quite a number of steps to reach a conclusions.

Parent said that nobody should be able to profit, this will not eliminate the rental market. You can still own housing and rent it out and take a rent that covers your cost (including the work you need to do in order to rent it out).

This is already well established. Public housing also does not run on prayers and good intentions - and yet they manage to pay salary to contractors and run the administrative burden.

The only cost there is associated with public housing is the opportunity cost which is indeed something the parent commenter argues should never be a concern in areas regarding core human needs - like shelter.
I'm sympathetic to the goal of making software less terrible, but there's no actionable content here.

Personally a lot of the code I've written has turned out to be pretty terrible because I didn't know any better. Sometimes an environment is just conducive towards building software products in a certain way which doesn't consider performance as seriously.

Copyright has probably hindered the evolution of software as well, resulting in a lot of duplicate efforts to recreate solutions to problems that have already been solved reasonably well by someone.

I think what's really amazing is that tech companies worth billions or sometimes even trillions of dollars are still producing trash-tier software. I've heard tons of people complaining about Microsoft Teams being trash. Why can't Microsoft make a good chat app? Big tech companies should really be shamed more in public for shipping terrible products, they have no excuse with their near-infinitely deep pockets.