skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I noticed most Comic Sans haters actually don't hate Comic Sans. It is actually fun little font, with the only fault of becoming a boring cliche due to overuse. Most of the hate comes from frequent improper use - fun little fonts have their place, but not at a funeral for example.
What position is that?

The one where it is okay to be absolutely, and objectively, dishonest, to get what you want?

When you have people who say "I don't actually care if your position is correct", your position that it is somehow my obligation to cater and pander to them, and that it is a failing of mine to not be willing to do so is farcical.

This is literally idiocracy in the making.

If I make a poor impression on people by repeatedly shutting down their horseshit about doctors performing "abortions" up to a week or a month after birth, or that babies are being harvested in the basement of a pizza parlor for their adrenachrome, and you're more concerned about how I should be "understanding" of that perspective, again, you're also supporting the idiocracy.
"Block access" doesn't capture what happened. A court with personal jurisdiction over the website operator ordered them to take it down under threat of fines and jail time. Websites are operated by humans, who are subject to the laws of their local community.
I made a BF compiler that goes really fast. I'm in a compilers class right now and for whatever reason my professor has gotten severely nerd snipped into building the fastest BF compiler in the world.

Mine is pretty darn fast; it compiles to native ARM assembly and can generate a Mandelbrot set in less than 0.5 seconds on my M1 Pro machine. Full writeup (with links to source) here: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-10-22_bf_writeup/
How is Cloudflare able to offer free egress for R2 objects?
CBC doesn’t paywall
Amazon itself has worked just fine Israeli IPs and I assume Palestinians also.
The fact the block was both for Israeli and Palestinians combined makes me think this actually wasn't an anti Israeli / anti Palestinian decision. It was something else (official explanation by Twitch was that after the October 7th massacres they wanted to prevent new sign ups from the region uploading graphic massacre content which is believable to me).
VLC media player. As a kid it was indistinguishable from magic.
Comic Sans, JNCOs, and all kinds of bad styles are coming back in vogue.
> That doesn't mean you can just slap a RISC-V decoder on an ARM chip and it will magically work though.

Raspberry Pi RP2350 already ships with ARM and RISC-V cores. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350/

It seems that the RISC-V cores don't take much space on the chip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41192341

Of course, microcontrollers are a different from mobile CPUs, but it's doable.
From the “useless web” links provided above, I learned:

> The project was built and launched as part of Netlify’s Dusty Domains project, where for each project built and launched on an old domain money was donated to charity! Ultimately over a hundred thousand dollars was raised for a variety of individual charities.
Samsung meets MediaTek: The story of a small bug chain [pdf]
3D Print a Picture
Source: https://blog.quarkslab.com/attacking-the-samsung-galaxy-a-bo... (blog.quarkslab.com/attacking-the-samsung-galaxy-a-boot-chain.html)
> your model would just learn to interpolate between geographically proximate locations

At a particular scale, this is entirely correct; if what I'm looking for is 'large', a measurement 1m away from a known hit would also be likely to be a hit.

That particular issue sounds like it should be addressed with more negative samples.
Related: https://sdk.scroll.pub/particleComponentFramework/sweepercra...
OS independent*
Perhaps it's down to a mismatch between societal "norm" compared to how your own cognition works.

Maybe you're a tactile or sequential learner? There's "Method of Loci" or even "External Vocalisation".

You're capable of reading and writing so that's 100% evidence you're capable of learning - and being able to perform a sequence of tasks allows you to understand how to perform an action correctly.

Let's go with that and try external vocalisation. Many would trade the noise in their mind for silence and the ability to focus clearer on a task.

When you're working on a task, since you lack an internal monologue - vocalise it instead, it doesn't need to be audible, even moving your lips quietly should work as this will tap into your motor cortex which is highly tuned for performing sequential micro-actions.

Try talking to yourself about the steps you must take to get something done and see how you go.

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Of course this is something you can try at home but following up with a few medical advisors will also open up other avenues for course correction if you feel this is becoming a real problem.
Too many people let themselves follow in participating in prejudice, whether it’s against programming languages, and fonts.

Reading about it, Comic sans was a very different font at one time.
I wanted to learn metamorphic coding.

I end up writing a program which creates a copy of itself which is different to the previous copy, but still functions the same.

https://github.com/jwbensley/metamorphic_polymorphic/tree/ma...
This is a Wall Street Journal article.

You know damn well that the financial wizard management is the primary implicit endorsement of Wall Street and the WSJ megaphone trumpets, and has for... ever? Minimal engineering knowledge, minimal core product knowledge, establishment of anticompetitive cartel/monopoly conditions, reduction of open competition via mergers and acquisitions. Short term thinking and planning. Regulatory capture.

Oh, but now there's two "emergencies". WAIT WAIT WAIT, are we calling for a BAILOUT? THE GOVERNMENT MUST STEP IN!!!!! I love it. Talking out of their mouth and assholes at the same time. FREE MONEY FOR THE MEGACORPORATIONS!?!?!?

Intel and Boeing are symptoms of a catastrophic disease America has: cartels and monopolies and associated corruption, economic damage, inflation, high prices, regulatory capture/bureaucracy, and more.

Globalization and the associated fragile supply chains is a symptom of these megacorporations. Our economy is not resilient to disruption in an increasingly unstable world, with long term trends like demographic disruption, war, global warming will only make it worse.

Healthy competitive markets also mean resilience in supply chain. They go hand in hand. THAT is the real national emergency.

WE NEED TO BREAK UP THE CARTELS. EVERYWHERE.
Is this modern art?
thanks for the hint. i found https://www.probell.com/lexra/

sheesh, patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US4814976A/en is a real "gem"

but its probably a good example: faulty patent (later invalidated) to do something obvious

MIPS sues a company that doesn't even implement the odd instructions because it traps them, allowing a possibility of emulation.

there's literally no case here

just to sue them into oblivion and squish them with superior cash resources. and then to get squished by ARM because they weren't paying attention.

it's like a dark fairy tale. i hate corporate lawyers.
The only reason I hate Comic Sans is because I'm told to do so by the Internet.
yes! cool to see a ben monreal mention too, he taught me intro and nuclear physics once upon a time.
Good to know! I add archive links to my submissions and others that I come across on HN that I think could benefit from an archive, as a courtesy and to keep the thread clear of low-hanging fruit drive-by complaints about interstitials, pop-ups, and other distractions or annoyances that archive links sometimes avoid, so that discussion and efforts can flow more freely, sooner. It's easier sometimes just to archive everything, just for uniformity and posterity.
What if the upper-left corner and the one to its right are mined?
Oh Europeans shall 'take Africa back' in your opinion?

Wow ok
You could have actually made this 15 years ago! As a kid I pretty much only knew PHP and Visual Basic so I made CLI servers in PHP (…lol)

You could make asynchronous servers using socket_select(), which was added in PHP 4.1.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php

There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.
Only just noticed, if you google "Comic Sans" the font changes.
…and then they sold out to a Wall Street dickhead, and here we are
You are absolutely right that attestation introduces challenges, especially for open-source implementations like KeePassXC. While it’s meant to ensure software integrity, it can end up restricting how users interact with their own data, forcing them into locked ecosystems.

The issue with traditional approaches, including many that rely on the operating system or hardware for private key storage, is that they limit flexibility and raise concerns over user control and interoperability. There is a growing need for solutions that don’t depend on specific devices or platforms, offering both security and true portability without relying on OS-dependent storage.
Someone made a monospaced version of Comic Sans, and it's ... not terrible?

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
18% is more accurate as it includes veteran care.
> CMake is an out-of-tree tool, which is something the project tries to avoid at all costs for portability and maintainability reasons.

Is this relevant though? Portability is not dictated by whether you vend a tool within your project tree, and maintainability is only remotely relevant if you're planning on customizing the tool instead of the scripts executed by the tool, which would be silly.

I mean, there is no wrong in just coming forward and stating that you're already using a build system in another project and you're hoping to lower maintenance costs by standardizing on a single build system that you're already using. All other arguments sound dubious at best.
where did you find what he did?
South Australia is going to find out. Synchronous condensers have been a thing since forever, batteries are moving into that space. Sure they started in FCAS but they now bid for some of the inertia stuff too. SA is of course connected to the Australian east coast grid and are securing supply from them, but they got islanded in a big storm, the gas fallback generators didn't work and they lost the grid. Now, they have built out for wind, solar and battery. They haven't had a significant fail yet. Those gas generators who failed, and who failed to do black start are in court over their contract.

Building out and running more syncons seems like a low bar.

I appreciate you work in the field. but, so do a bunch of people in the grid forming world who think it's entirely feasible to move beyond the base load model. Maybe they are all smoking pixie dust, but I think it's not clear you're right and they're wrong, because BOTH OF YOU have fucktonnes of experience and skin in the game, past and present.

As a random asker (ie me), why is your input here better than the people doing the planning for the Australian east coast grid?

https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/initiatives/engineering-fr...

https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/ElectraNet%20-%20System%...
[apologies for double post - tried to move this to a better context but it didn't delete properly]
> fun little fonts have their place, but not at a funeral for example

And definitely not when you're announcing the world you just found evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-co...
Kokshaysky has nothing to do with it, probably banned for .ru TLD of his email address which is at Moscow State Uni where he has worked since 1987.
Useless but fun way to send messages to friends (e.g. during the holidays): https://github.com/webgl/fireworks-text

Demo: https://webgl.github.io/fireworks-text/#%7B%22name%22%3A%22F...
I still have some vintage JNCOs. They make great gifts and are fun to bust out at the appropriate venues.
"The function checks if it is the first click, and that the square being clicked is a mine. It then tries to move the mine to the upper-left corner. If unsuccessful it tries the square to the right of it. If all of the first row is occupied by mines, the function tries to put the mine in the leftmost square of the row below, and so on."

https://web.archive.org/web/20180618103640/http://www.techus...
Yes, exactly that. Search for "function applyDecay" here:
https://www.zapspace.net/defender_sound/defender.js

(It right-shifts by 4 instead of 2.)
That's true! - but still, I'm not so sure this is a reasonable comparison to make.
If you're buying an Ampere workstation, it's reasonable to assume that your requirements are vastly different from someone buying a Mac Pro, and that the premium on a Mac Pro does not make sense for you! It's still not an apples-to-apples comparison (ha!)
USFS campgrounds are setup (generally) in places to reduce the damage caused by the public, because given enough people, the ‘public’ becomes abusive and we can’t have nice things. And in many areas, there will always more enough people that it will cross that threshold, regardless of what anyone calls the place.

USFS campgrounds in truly remote areas excepted, but any available camping near a highway is going to be a public safety hazard quickly without someone responsible for keeping it clean and somewhat organized/policed.

USFS ‘managed’ campgrounds generally were setup where there was already a problem area.

So are you proposing Rangers sit there and drive anyone away trying to do what they want to do? Or we turn these spots into National parks? Because just saying ‘dispersed camping’ doesn’t work either without someone sitting there enforcing it.
Apparently this game is 3BV 0, so it should be solvable by luck and cannot be used for official records.
Thoughts on Audiobooks
> Or is an ISA more than just a different 'language'?

It tends to be more like going from C89 to Haskell. You're not just switching the keywords around, but also fundamental architectural concepts. There's still some parts you can recycle and some skills that transfer, but less than you'd like.

> Or is hardware not really the biggest problem, but rather Software like compilers, kernels, etc.?

That's the next problem. Kernels, device drivers, support hardware, a lot of low level stuff needs to be adapted, and even a company the size of Qualcomm doesn't necessarily do everything inhouse, there will be lots of external IPs involved and all those partners need to also be willing to migrate over to a different ISA.
From what I've gathered, the worldwide takedown was court-ordered.

https://archive.is/dNTEl
Private Markets Are Reserved for the Rich. Should a Test Let You In?
Basically of no good now
Is this you guessing the system prompt? Is this the actual prompt the model has? What is the context?
https://archive.ph/rVQYX
Yes, that's my whole point? Dominion election fraud was cast out because of court cases.
Progressive taxation dictates that more productive people take on more responsibility for running society than less productive people.
This exactly. I've encountered other software which urged me to help Ukraine. As much as I may actually wish to help Ukraine (or Uganda), I still dislike being urged to do so by a software tool.
This would be so much better at selling my favorite editor if the sections were reversed. Who is impressed by rendering Unicode in the current year? I want to know how to migrate from Vim, how to avoid footguns, these things.
It’s a good question. I would ask…

(1) Sure, it can tell you how to write new code in response to a prompt about your current local problem, but

(2) can it reason about an entire code base of known and unknown problems, and use that basis to figure out solutions to the unknowns such that you delete code and collapse complexity.

The software equivalent of realising that if you subtract xy from this:

x2 + 3xy + y2

You can turn it into a much neater version:

(x + y)2 + xy

…but doing that with 100k tokens of code instead of a handful of algebra tokens.
While it’s a bit newer than the GBA, there is at least one Wii game with intentional anti-emulation measures:

https://tcrf.net/Cars_2_(PlayStation_3,_Xbox_360,_Windows,_W...
There are really really weird organizational divisions. You have the DEA and the FDA very far apart despite one having the scientific expertise and the other having enforcement expertise. You have police in every branch of the government, and the DOJ for good measure. You have food stamps in the ag department as well.
Do we really need publishers anymore?
What we need to concentrate on is electrifying the parking lots of apartment buildings and parking garages. Doesn't need to be super-level-10 charging, it really can just be L2 or even L1 chargers.

That will bring a range of EVs to "disadvantaged": scooters, ebikes, blade scooters, skateboards, etc. It will also work for day-to-day driving in PHEVs and city car EVs, which we also desperately need to nudge car companies to start making.

The sodium ion battery EV drivetrain should enable a very very cheap city car. Sodium ion should be 40% the cost of NMC or less, and keep in mind that Tesla likely is at price parity with NMC-EV and ICE drivetrains right now.
lmao

ok maybe we should keep a few shells for avalanche stuff
Not "where"...
they are "there"...

But "when" they are?
I haven't had much luck with architecture stuff. Maybe I'm holding it wrong.
The overall Forest Service budget has indeed been increasing, but it's nearly all going to wildfire fighting. I recently wrote about the state of forest road funding and went in depth on this here: https://ephemeral.cx/2024/09/losing-access-to-the-cascades

> Overall, in 1995 16% of the Forest Service budget was dedicated to wildfires. By 2015 it was 52% and by 2025 it’s projected to be upwards of 67%. Without large amounts of additional funding it is virtually guaranteed that the Forest Service’s budget will continue to be siphoned away by firefighting needs.
The author did, ctrl-f "brick". :)
What does the function do if the entire board is mines?
You mean a world where someone like Terence Tao gets to be a professor of mathematics at UCLA, where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences?

That brilliant geniuses have chosen corporate America and to not go into academia is yours and mine and the world's loss, but a defining feature of the Western world is that they get to make that choice for themselves.
I'm gonna check that out, now! Thank you for the recommend :)

As an actor, I wonder if he was merely simulating ataraxy or if he genuinely had it? Perhaps, as an actor, there's no difference!

BTW that clip was hilarious thank you! Hahaha :)
>But NO MORE BAILOUTS. Next time the US government needs to save something, they should take over the assets as an eminent domain, wipe out equity holders, and put a 10 year ban on all executives/board of directors who authorized share buybacks.

1. Isn't that what usually happens with government bailouts? AFAIK the us government got stakes in automakers they bailed out in the GFC.

2. I'm not sure whether punishing the board/executives sets up the right incentive here. They're the ones that will be approving/approaching the government for the bailout. Punishing them for accepting it is a good way to run the company into the ground (no punishment) rather than accepting the bailout (punishment).
I think giving birth without anesthesia is far more common that tasting piss or shit. But what do I know...
You’re making a lot of assumptions based on your reality. I usually tow heavy stuff. I max out my half ton truck limit frequently and even have to rent a 3/4 ton or 1 ton. That’s f150/1500, f250/2500, f350/3500.

It might only be a few times a year, I need to move or rent some heavy equipment (excavators and skid steers and lifts mostly). Sometimes I tow a trailer that when empty would exceed your vehicle’s limit. UTVs is a huge hobby in the US and they weight about 1500 lbs each, usually tow 3 of them and trailer is 2500-3000 itself.

My folk live in a rural area and do this stuff weekly. Yet, when you/the GP above (complaining about all the F350s with not trailers) see them, they’re likely not doing that but they came into town for something. You’re sampling is off because you never go where they are when they use those features the most.
> I have no idea what "the number of this sentence" or "the letter of this sentence" even means.

But then you can't believe it has two answers. If you don't understand the question you can't make any claims about it except maybe that you believe it is incoherent. As alexey-salmin says, the only reasonable interpretation is to circle the 1. to left of the question.

To claim that has 2 answers is similar to claiming a "Find x" style question has two answers (solving an equation vs. circling x). No, the question only has one reasonable interpretation. If the examiner is being unreasonable it is not a problem with the question and not something that can be deduced by examining the question.
Why not? This isn’t TED: the impressive stuff is the content, not the presentation.
This is also why FAA now offers private ICAO numbers for ADS-B use.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
this is a book for people who think the wizard on the cover of SICP is an actual wizard and get scared
Yes, so does clang/clang++ on macOS. It is an anti-pattern that should not be replicated. Imagine if every command line tool made a similar demand.
> Can someone briefly explain how or if adding data types to JSON - a standardized grammar - leaves something that still qualifies as JSON?

I had to scroll way down the article, passing over tons of what feel like astroturfing comments advertising a vendor and their product line, to see the very first comment pointing out the elephant in the room.

I agree, whatever it's described in the blog post is clearly not JSON. It's a data interchange format, and it might be mappable to JSON under the right circumstances, but JSON it is not. It's not even a superset or a subset.

I mean, by the same line of reasoning both toml, CSV, and y'all are JSON. Come on. Even BSON is described as a different format that can be transcoded to JSON.

The article reads like a cheap attempt to gather attention to a format that otherwise would not justify it.
Facebook.com SSL cert expires in a few days
An array out of bounds access.
What do you mean by Plan B? From what you've just said it sounds like their proposal was rejected, so there is no plan b now?
The big issue is that it doesn't really need to be a GPR. You never find yourself using the PC in instructions other than in, say, the occasional add instruction for switch case jumptables, or pushes / pops. So it ends up wasting instruction space, when you could've had an additional register, or encoded a zero register (which is what AARCH64 does nowadays).
Writer Underwriting Writer
https://archive.is/BKxL3
The original BF implementation used a fixed-size memory of 30,000 cells and out-of-bound pointers weren't checked, making it highly unsafe. Most modern implementations support dynamically sized memory or at least bound checks though, so they are as safe as Rust.
That's not really comparable. Raspberry Pi added entirely separate RISC-V cores to the chip, they didn't convert an ARM core design to run RISC-V instructions.

What is being discussed is taking an ARM design and modifying it to run RISC-V, which is not the same thing as what Raspberry Pi has done and is not as simple as people are implying here.
A year or so ago, my son needed a tool for making really simple minecraft plans. All the drawing tools out there he could find were overly complex or weren't 'quite right' for him, so I took the opportunity to learn some web and javascript stuff and made this: https://draw.pixelweasel.com/

One outstanding 'todo' was textures!

Then I wanted to make ASCII art automatically from any picture, so I played around and made this: http://ascii.pixelweasel.com/ (again, playing with javascript)
What's the (current) best way to integrate it? VS Code extension? Other IDE?