skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand and respect your position.

Nonetheless, I use asserts that are deactivated in release builds. The reason I do that is not because I need the speed. It's because it frees me from having to think about speed at all, when writing assertions. And that makes me write more assertions.

You could ask me, if I were to enable assertions in release builds today, what would the slowdown be? Would I even notice? And my answer would be, I don't know and I don't care. What I do know is that if assertions had been enabled in release builds from the start, then I would have written fewer of them.
What John Cleese taught me about creativity
Tbh, i've encountered residental areas where the houses happen to have exposed roofs. I suppose that might be one of them places you could throw those panels.

Regarding the amount of rare earth required to make just one solar panel, i was surprised to find out that effectively all you need is something called 'silicon' as well as an initial investment in energy to bake the thing.

It just so happens to be
that, according to google, this 'silicon' stuff is quite abundant and can for example be found in desert sand.

Since you can stack those fusion reactors vertically, i suppose they'd come out on top in the power/sqft category.
I agree that most leaders will now they are fallible, and also have some idea of which things are problematic. As an inexperienced leader, I still valued getting "known feedback". It gave me a better idea of which problems were growing too large, and which ones remained minor annoyances. In addition, acknowledging the points that were brought up and explaining why I hadn't gotten to addressing them (besides being human) usually gave the person giving the feedback a more positive outlook.
They go there to make fossil fuel deals, environmental protection is just the fake messaging for the proletariat.
This appears to be the source of the backlash:

https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
Practicality aside, there seems to be a lot we can learn from the implementation.
It was clearly not - as it was not the comment referenced in the ban. That - again - is an objective truth.

It word in the other comment was also not a slur, but - surprise surprise - the objective truth, again.
"The layer was deposited when an asteroid between 11 and 15 kilometres in diameter impacted Earth."

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=21

Sources: https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf (search for K-Pg)
There’s a big difference between supporting food security and subsidising otherwise unviable land usage and farming practices. In the UK, there are subsidies for upland farming for sheep with produces a negligible amount of food at high cost (monetary and environmental) for next to no return for the farmers even after the subsidy.

Re. green subsidies that is better characterised as investment in technology of the future. You might also like to compare subsidies to the fossil fuel sector as well.
How does having such a large surplus that you’re an exporter of food jive with national security? It sounds like they already produce more than enough. Exposing food production entirely to market forces is, as you point out, a bad idea.
Cool idea. Have we considered looking at the gitignore and gitattributes files as well? You can often figure out the IDE and other tools someone is using by looking at these.
Podman-Desktop is also great b/c it now has gpu support on macOS (for the Linux container)
Looking at the logs for Apple Intelligence on my iPhone 15 Pro Max, almost everything is actually run remotely
Yeah, it’s the same in Germany. (And to add insult to injury, people in places with renewable generation often pay higher grid fees due to the investments necessary to connect all the new plants.)
Mystery drones seen over three US air bases in UK
...according to alleged victim. Without more independent information or at least the other side's take this is just "aggrieved person is aggrieved" and ragebait.
These existed before the internet. In the 90s and early 2000s, there was definitely a feeling that these will be solved by easily available information. It was extremely naive to think this, but everybody who knew what’s the internet thought this regardless of country.

Today, there are topics about which getting information is as difficult as ever, because there are only ads or misinformation what you can find easily.

Buying a new vacuum cleaner shouldn’t take hours or even days. And I shouldn’t need to learn all the technical details of them. But I need to because there is no trusted source of information, because almost everything is ads. I trust filtering to reddit less and less.

Figuring out what really happens in Ukraine and Gaza (or just in universities in America) shouldn’t be a week long research, because there is misinformation all the time, seriously everywhere, in every single newspaper, blog, website.

So not even the base idea is completely true, its supposed to be effect is even less true. The general populace has clearly less power than 20 years ago as you mentioned.
Irken: A small, modular IRC client written in Tcl/Tk
Podman-Desktop can do it
The contempt is probably not the topic but the lack of empathy in the descriptions and language in the topic.

Qualitative precision matters. HN crowd presumably loves true social network academics.

Dark forest Vs real could probably be described by networks.

Also Social Media Networks are conversational markets, run by market makers with different kinds of incentives. I do not recall seeing descriptions like this but it would bring real empathy to the space to merely describe things like this.

Broadcast all is NOT the norm in price discovery. Why is it the starting point in social networks? We are brainwashed.
The arms look, er, not very feminine.
What about the fact that the assert causes a panic that crashes the program? Is there not a better alternative of doing your bounds checking as a first class aspect of the function and returning an error? If someone is deep into a session with your application and the cursor somehow drifts into an unknown state (which could be corrected with the “home” key or something else), for example, getting too crazy with assertions seems like a much worse result. (E.g. “assert!(is_on_screen())”)
What is the name for #26?

It’s somewhat perfect for something I need to visualise, wondered if it has a name and/or a d3 implementation
You've missed the context: the comment I was replying to suggests using Chinese engine in about the same stage of development.
The sane way to solve that problem is to hire people in different time zones to get coverage. Some still need to do weekends but even those are not the same in every country (e.g. Israel).
> That is not true.

I banned you, so I like to think I'm an authority on why you were banned. Here's a step by step timeline of what happened.

1. This comment of yours received a high number of reports and was automatically filtered: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1gyiwwc/comment/lyp3jl...

2. I agreed with the reports and removed your comments.

3. I read the rest of the comments in your thread, and noticed your username repeatedly. I wasn't familar with you, so when I reached https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1gyiwwc/c_standards_co... I clicked on your profile.

4. After noticing your lack of contributions to r/cpp, I decided you are just someone who causes moderation trouble without contributing useful technical insights, so I decided to ban you. That's why the above comment is listed in your ban reason. If you had posted the slur on an account with actual history in r/cpp and no previous removed comments, I would not have banned you.

Edit: 5. Reddit administrators have now removed your comment as well.
> Synapse helped fintech startups like Yotta and Juno, which are not banks, offer checking accounts and debit cards

Surely this fails the duck test. How can you offer a checking account and avoid being regulated like a bank? No wonder Americans dont trust any institution, everything's a scam and nothing is what it seems.
If there was a better and cheaper option to replace fossil fuels for transportation and energy, the transition would naturally happen. Why would anyone buy a gas car if electric was better and cheaper in every way? Maybe a few petrolhead enthusiasts but everyone would switch if it was cheaper and better and the infrastructure was in place.

But instead of doing the work (infrastructure) and making the technology better and cheaper, a strategy of carrots and sticks was employed ($ incentives and taxation) that haven’t progressed the technology.

The reason we burn gas in our cars is because it was better and cheaper than the previous fuels.
It would be dangerous to transport you back to Roman times, because you might teach them to write C++ and compile it into cellular automata, and then program Empire with a 30 million soldier human computer, like the "human abacus" scene in "Three Body Problem"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgRNY6fpOc
If you do speak Hebrew, you would know that Netanyahu and Gallant have been heavily attacked by the extreme right specifically because they have been refusing to cut off food.
Show HN: I built an open-source AI Rizz Generator to help people find love
Textbook has an author that you can copy. You can't copy output of an auto suggest, it's just yours.
Population connectivity shapes distribution/complexity of chimpanzee culture
On top of that, I like to think that on some subconscious level the idea of getting mad at trams and buses feels like getting mad at the elderly who depend on it, and just considered Not Done as a result unless very clearly justified. That is probably not true, but I like to think people reason that way nonetheless
> one obvious gap is that it doesn't seem to have a statement from the person removed after they were removed.

I think the article is written by the person that was removed. It is lacking any statement of the standard foundation who removed him. No such statement exists, even on the internal committee mailing list it is just an "fyi, that person is no longer on the committee" without any reasons.

I can piece something together from his previous behavior on the committee mailing list, but that information is not public and I'm not at liberty to share.
> I wish they (COP crowd) would talk about TFR and do rollouts under worst case scenario.

I wish you had defined TFR so we can understand if you are attacking poor countries or defending the riches
>last SSJ-100 ever produced

Yes, of course. The version of SSJ-100 with Russian-made engines and other systems is called SJ-100.

[0] https://www.uacrussia.ru/ru/aircraft/lineup/civil/superjet-1...
It's not silenced, the post is up for all to see. We have just disabled the ability to post new comments under it.
From Matt Levine on his everything is securities fraud theory

An odd fact of the U.S. legal system for public companies is that every crime is also securities fraud: If a company does a bad thing, and regulators find out about it, then the bad-thing regulators can punish it for doing the bad thing, but the securities regulators can also punish it for not disclosing the bad thing to shareholders. . . . It is a strange combination: Generally speaking the companies do the bad things on behalf of shareholders—to make more money for them—but then the securities regulators come in and fine them for defrauding shareholders.”
The map portal of the Swiss government also has a bunch of old map layers available. For example, here's Zurich in 1883.

https://map.geo.admin.ch/#/map?lang=en&center=2682327.37,124...
Does anyone remember the 70s TV show "In Search of..." hosted by Leonard Nimoy?

I loved that show and I ate up all the literature I could find about the paranormal back then. Kids will believe anything!
Saying "XXX is an asshole" if XXX is in fact an asshole is also the objective truth, yet warrants removal for insulting someone.
That seems only partly true. We did already have punctuation marks (like !?) that are a form of picture writing to modulate the underlying alphabetic meaning.

The smiley was invented because a pure alphabetic script does not do a good job expressing emotions, especially in short isolated sentences.

Emojis are overused in some current contexts (smartphone/messaging addiction) but some sort of standardization along with "emoji" literacy is, in principle, an evolution of the alphabet towards more sophistication and nuance.
Your site is very relaxing and pretty on pc.
Love to hear your history, thanks for sharing it.
iirc you can edit submissions after the fact. and there probably is a time limit, since there is one for editing comments too.
Maybe because it's not that simple? A new technology and a new infrastructure will be more expensive initially, until it reaches a critical mass. So, to reach that critical mass you need early adopters who take the hit, and to help sweeten the hit, you give them money under the form of incentives to buy the new EV or create the charging infrastructure. That's one of the main duties of a welfare state.
I forget where I heard it last night; but yes, that is something to consider. Every time there's been a new way for a new and different wave of people to communicate with the masses that there has been a rise in populism and dictatorships around the world. Happened with the printing press, radio, with television and now it's social media's turn, yes.

We as a collection of societies, worldwide, have not grown our broad-range antibodies/protections against such things, yet.
My point was that at worst it was just some edgelord humor.
Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence (2020)
Doesn't nearly every company have a democratic process for choosing CEOs? Just that the voters are only the board members.
What's the licensing of this? I wonder if it could be used to improve OSM.

--

To answer my own question

> This base layer of 100mm+ global places of interest ("POI") includes 22 core attributes (see schema here) that will be updated monthly and available for commercial use under the Apache 2.0 license framework.

Found on Simon Willison’s Weblog [0], quoting the official announcement [1]. His page also shows how to use it with Datasette.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source...

[1] https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/four...
Async Django is a bit of a puzzle …. who is it for?

People who like synchronous Python can use Django.

People who like asynch Python can use Starlette - the async web server also written by the guy who wrote Django.

It’s not clear why Django needs to be async, especially when I get the sense there’s developers who like async and developers who prefer synch. It’s a natural fit for Django to fulfill the sync demand and Starlette to fulfill the async. They’re both good.
If the author happens to see this: the link to your homepage on GitHub is broken - drop the "www."
I love that the green hill image ended up being AI - that was my favorite.
Sometimes (and often) pseudoscientific bullshit is just objectively wrong, and you'd have to be completely out of your mind, or just trolling, to "make up your own mind" to believe it.

No sane flat earthers in this day and age actually believe the earth is flat, or deserve to have their presumed beliefs respected or even humored, because they're just being contrarian and trolling for attention, so it's perfectly valid to say to them "FYI, the Earth is not flat."

I refuse to couch my firm disbelief that the Earth is flat as an opinion that might possibly be wrong, by saying "IMO, the Earth is not flat." Flat Earthers (also Young Earthers) certainly aren't couching their crazy beliefs as opinions, so don't deserve it in return.

"Chariots of the Gods?" is also that objectively wrong: there is no possible universe in which its claims are true. It's all based on historically ignorant Argument from Incredulity and inherently racist assumptions. In the 50th anniversary edition, von Däniken refused to address, admit, or correct any of the many widely proven errors in the book that made him so much money and fame, so he doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.

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

Believing in pseudoscientific claptrap like Homeopathy, or the objectively false stories of Adam and Eve or Noah's Ark is just as ridiculous. They're physically and mathematically and logically and practically impossible. So it's also fine to say "FYI it's biblical fiction, and the Earth is definitely not 6000 years old, and you absolutely can not fit and feed and clean that many animals in a wooden ark." It's not my opinion, it's objective information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc

To pretend otherwise feels like humoring a small child who still believes in Santa Claus.
And for accessing API there is also web interface: https://overpass-turbo.eu/
OP recounts the story of a friend who is displeased at being serene and not neurotic any more as a warning against meditation. Like some kind of "don't take the medicine, it might make you better and you'd miss being sick" bs. Boo. Frikkin. Hoo.
Being alive today, we have swapped the problems that our parents faced, with new ones. On that point you are correct.

However, I don't see how any of those are relevant to the points being made by the article, as none of the technology companies, nor VC financiers, mentioned in it had a hand in solving those problems.

The idealism has been bled out of big tech, and it now mostly only revolves around capturing eyeballs and efficiently selling people badly made stuff they don't need.

In my opinion, small tech is where the future lives.
It's not only US thing, eastern european too. We're on average rather alright developers but culturally there's no skill of good management - we have been destroyed in this aspect by Soviet occupation and communism.
Diehard Gamers Are Fueling Demand for Esports Hotels in China
Your "just" is the point.
I thought Foursquare no longer exists
From Gary Marcus.

> In contrast [to the trend], I propose a hybrid, knowledge-driven, reasoning-based approach, centered around cognitive models
Starlette and Django are wildly different.

Django has a batteries-includes approach, benefits from tighter integration of orm, auth, form handling, etc, and has a huge 3rd party ecosystem.

First-class async support in Django allows Django users to avoid jumping through hoops (celery, channels, ...) for longer-running requests, something especially noticable if you're calling any kind of AI service.
This does not make GP incorrect though. It just means we really cannot know for sure how the writing system works until we have enough information to decipher the inscriptions.

I don't take beef with the possibility of an earlier alphabet that predates the Proto-Canaanite alphabet — that is entirely plausible. But I think the article is overselling the story. The evidence is not very strong at this point, and I although I can be wrong, I suspect it can never be with if we remain with just four very short inscriptions without external context.

It is important to clarify the vast difference between this and the decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. I think the myth and magic of the Rosetta stone is overemphasized in popular culture, so just a few points of difference between the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and scripts like the Indus Valley Script or Linear A.

- Of course, to start with we did have the Rosetta Stone, and we have no equivalent for these scripts. But the Rosetta Stone was rediscovered in 1799, while Champollion provided the first phonetic interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphs only two and half decades later, in 1822. But even after Champollion's famous achievement, we weren't able to read most hieroglyphic texts yet! Champollion didn't realize that many phonetic hieroglyphs represent not just a single consonant, but often two or three different consonants! It took a couple of more decades until we Egyptian was fully deciphered.

- We knew exactly which culture and language the Egyptian Hieroglyphs belonged to. More importantly, we had a vast wealth of external historical sources about this culture that we could read: mostly in Greek, Hebrew, Roman and Aramaic. From these sources we knew the names of Egyptian kings that we could expect to find in Egyptian hieroglyphs, and we knew enough about Egyptian culture, religion and history to often guess what the texts would be talking about. This is not anywhere nearly as true for the Indus Valley Script! Since we don't know who their kings were, we cannot use the names of kings as a highly verifiable way to test the phonetic writing hypothesis.

- We had a vast quantity of Hieroglyphs inscriptions. There are fewer attested Indus Valley Script inscriptions, but the number should be enough if we just had other external clues.

- Egyptian still had a (barely-)living descendant (Coptic) at the time Champollion and other scholars were working on its decipherment. Coptic priests and AFAIK even native speakers have provided a lot of help them in understanding how the Egyptian language they were trying to decipher might sound and work.
There are a number of issues with the Q3 netcode.

When entities are culled due to Potentially Visible Sets (PVS), a player moving fast enough near a vis brush may appear to pop into existence out of thin air. This occurs because of latency. A simple fix would be for the QVM code to extrapolate the player’s position into future frames to determine whether the entity should be culled.

The original Q3 netcode lacked lag compensation for hitscan weapons. As a result, players often had to "lead" their crosshair to register proper hits. This issue was later addressed by the Unlagged mod, which introduced lag compensation.

Input commands had a back buffer to handle lost input frames, but instead of applying them with a delay, the inputs were applied to entities instantly. Consequently, other players' entities sometimes appeared "choppy" when the respective player had a poor connection.

That being said, they got almost everything right:

* Snapshots with entities: Efficiently delivering game state updates to clients.

* Lerping entities: Smoothing movement on the client side using a snapshot buffer.

* Delta encoding: Transmitting only changes in entity states within snapshots.

* Huffman encoding: Compressing snapshots for reduced bandwidth usage.
Note that if this large chunk occurs in the middle of the file, then you will need extra space to encode that position. For example, a random bit string of length 2^n is decently likely to have a run of n zeroes. But this doesn’t help you because you need n bits just to encode where that run happens.
This might be better prefixed with "Show HN: " else it just smells like (affiliate/MFA) SPAM...
physically wrong, as it only incorporates the pixels directly behind the glass. Noticeable with the upper few rows overexaggerating the cropped background pixels.

This results in flickering when vertically scrolling over abrupt BG color borders , eg noticeable on mobile browser Twitter UI
Definitely the best
These are mostly way out of date now right?
Do we have the technology to automate reading of decapped chips so that we can reconstruct the logic, something like "OCR"? It seems like such a thing would be hard if it has to deal with all these weird details.
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