skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to imagine capturing an image over five days shows how static something is, not dynamic. Very confusing wording there! Great photo, though.
The GP poster simply misspoke - for the last 10-15 years replace "minivan" with "SUV". For many people, even single people without children, the default vehicle is giant, wasteful, and deadly.
> or Vietnam for that matter

The whole thing could have been avoided had US decided not to back France’s colonial delusions a decade earlier.
I totally agree. Nowadays the product itself is more important + ability to find actual clients.
I never said “professors” or “deans”. I mentioned higher education specifically, as an industry. It’s the same as the wedding industry, they don’t give a fuck that they sell so much stuff around the romanticism of weddings regardless of its true value.

Behold the romanticization of the diamond ring.

You just, I don’t know, you convince people in their vulnerability, in love, hey, this is what love really is, an expensive ring, venue, etc

Higher education at this point preys on the dreams of the parent/child via a financial vector.

It’s highly pathetic that such a highly regarded element of society has the same business model as a movie theater, which is roughly “now that we found the people that want the real movie experience, we get to charge them $10 for popcorn and $7 for a soda”.

Then the family walks out of the movie theater “hey we’re broke, but you really showed us the value of a real movie going experience, we’ll cherish forever”. I guess? What is this nonsense?

Part of any good experience involves not getting ripped off, on any level.
Print debugging is great if you are debugging multiple processes, maybe even multiple computers at the same time. But it can also be a bane as print debugging is directly influencing run of your program, so it can temporary fix existing or create new bugs by its sheer presence.
Nickel-based catalyst turns Carbon Dioxide to Methane
We split in-hours and out-of-hours, and I wouldn't want it any other way. It's especially good if a late night incident keeps you from sleep, because you can take the time back the next morning and let someone else pick up the pieces :).
You might find my "symlinks, hardlinks and reflinks explained" article useful:
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_links.html
I love The Brothers Karamazov so much. I don't think there has ever been a story told that made a better case for being a good person.

I think the most important lesson we have to learn in our modern world is that there aren't good or bad sides.

Most stories told follow the path of the hero's journey, in which the hero obtains some great power and learns to use it for good, generally by destroying some great villain.

In reality, there are no villains and there are no heros. There are only good and bad actions. And every person does bad actions everyday, out of ignorance, out of convenience, out of ego, out if ideological allegiance. There is also very little in the way of greatness in every day life.

And there is no other cure than to do what Alyosha does. Try to do good. Alyosha does not judge anyone, he has genuine compassion even for the worst of men. Alyosha has no great skill, is not endowed with any great intelligence and is sometimes socially awkward. He sometimes gets his affairs out of order and makes mistakes. He is not an island: he relies on the moral support of his mentor (the famous monk) for a good part of the book, and is devastated when he dies. And he never does anything which could not have been done by anyone else.

But he, at every point, chooses to do the good, as well as he can. At one point, during a time when one of his brothers was wanted for murder and his whole family drama is in full force, while going around town trying to do things to help, he sees a kid which is being bullied by other kids which are throwing stones at him. Alyosha shoos away the other kids, and inquires into this lone kid's drama. He then spends the rest of the day helping the kid, with his problems, instead of rushing to fix his own. It never even occurs to him not to act in this way.

And it not only helps the community for him to act in this way. But it also, as it were, helps his own "soul". While other characters go insane, or have manic episodes, Alyosha can bear the tragedies because of his own conduct.
meh. it's not.

If you are convincing people to run commands to install packages:

- they care about trust, they will already have their package manager from the ecosystem they trust (which should be msys+pacman on windows, btw)

- they couldn't care less and will trust your `curl | bash` or `Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://hacker.com/totallysafe.exe`

on both cases, not having a default package manager shipped caused zero adoption attrition, I mean, besides the attrition of needing a non-standard package to begin with.
If an MSP can effectively manage your company’s product, then your problems are simple enough to have automated detection and recovery.
Yeah ... the Camel book was awesome. I remember being amazed how fast it got you writing really useful perl scripts.
I had the same reaction. Perhaps “vertex” vs “edge” should be used in place of the ambiguous “corner” (which is a vertex in 3D geometry).

The 2D projection of the top or side face of object the article shows repeated can be tiled in exactly the same way. It has two vertexes, but those become edges in 3D.

In that example the top and one side have 2D projections which are identical except one is rotated 180º from the other. The third face, when projected on a 2D plane, however, is a square.

So these shapes have no vertexes (like a cylinder), but they all have edges (like a cylinder).

I also think the 3D equivalent - what is the minimum number of edges required for a 3D tessellation - would be interesting.
What I'm saying is... Tens of millions of hectares burn all the time, far more than all the nukes on earth would likely set on fire (since most of the populous cities on earth are on the coasts, and there's roads, farms and prairies surrounding most, not forests), so this idea that nukes would start forest fires that launch soot into the air that end civilization is pure fiction. There's zero basis for it, tens of millions of hectares worldwide burn yearly and it's barely noticeable if you don't live next to it.
(that’s because you’re paying attention but the entire point is most people don’t and absorb the new reality)
Imagine two people in a tug of war. One person is determined to pull the other as far as possible to his side. The other person is determined to stay still. Not give in, but also not apply too much effort to pull the other person to his side. Who is going to win?

We disagree fundamentally on the dynamics of the worldwide economic system. Growth is necessary. It is imperative for survival. Without growth your "steady state" local economy will be out competed. And especially at a time when Europe's geopolitical relevance is waning and when the world is entering a multipolar world order, we definitely do not want to find ourselves in such a weak situation. China and Japan both ran such centuries long experiments in the past and neither one of those experiments was successful.
Side-Eye is massively inspired by DTrace in some of its raw capabilities and the basic idea of dynamic instrumentation. Beyond that, they're very different. At a low level, DTrace is primarily geared towards debugging the kernel, whereas Side-Eye is about userspace. DTrace's support for the DWARF debug information format used on linux is limited. The interaction model is different - for DTrace you write scripts to collect and process data. DTrace works at the level of one machine, whereas Side-Eye monitors processes across a fleet. In Side-Eye you interact with a web application and you collect data into a SQL database that you can analyze. Side-Eye is also a cloud service that your whole team is supposed to use together over time.

And then there are more technically superficial, but crucial, aspects related to specific programming language support. Side-Eye understands Go maps and such, and the Go runtime. It can do stuff like enumerate all the goroutines and give you a snapshot of all their stacks. We're also working on integrating with the Go execution traces collected my the Go scheduler, etc.
I think once we finally get this all sorted out, future humans will find it hilarious that so many people were convinced that dark matter was real and particles we could not detect made up 80% of the universe.
Poker Helped Me Take Risks. More Women Should Try It.
The struggle to help homeless people who don't want help
>I'm very fond of British food

Can you tell a bit about your favorite British food?
Seems that we’ll finally reach peak oil.

Reminds me of whale oil, which was consumed at industrial levels at the start of the 19th century, but by the end of it almost completely died out due to lack of demand, replaced by fossil oil. [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_oil#Lubrication
What should you eat to improve at Chess?
https://archive.ph/I3eNb
We have our sprints start on Tuesdays, and our in-hours on-call also runs Tuesday to Monday. Out of hours on-call starts at 5pm Monday.
iPhones and Teslas would be overkill anyway:
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/thing/
"The suggestion in the parent comment that I'm just too stupid"

If your insecurity leads you to misrepresent what someone actually said so disgustingly, maybe Hacker News isn't for you.
Hm, the article seems to have gotten its units wrong. Normally I'd trust the article but 43 million kilometers seems to match best with its orbit I can find documentation for.
To offer a different perspective, green threads are far easier to use for programmers (which is a valuable quality; I'm not dismissing that), but async/await is the better abstraction if you know how to use it. I justify this more in [0]. Async/await is great, but pragmatically it should not be pushed as the sole "asynchronous programming" abstraction. It requires more QoL infrastructure to be even somewhat usable as general-purpose, although I think it'll be worthwhile to continue bridging the gap.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41900215
We know which side you're cheering for.

If every response to what you say is considered an "escalation", then that's your mindset, I suppose.
I have long relied on a print-debug function I wrote for python called dump(). You do dump(foo) and it will print out "foo: value". Where the variable name "foo" is magically pulled out of the source code and "value" is a json-dump of its value. So dicts look pretty, like the example below.

This is similar to the "debug f-strings" introduced in python 3.8: print(f"{foo=}"). But it's much easier to type dump(foo) and you get prettier output for complex types.

x = 3
foo = dict(bar=1, baz=dict(hello="world"))
dump(x)
dump(foo)

# prints...

x: 3
foo:
{
"bar": 1,
"baz": {
"hello": "world"
}
}

https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/aider/dump.py
No, Sol does not output equally across the spectrum. I'm assuming this is artificially colored on some level, though.
Talking about blockchains is fine, pretending they are somewhat apt at solving a problem that isn't money laundering is what will get you frowned upon.
Breaking out of VRChat using a Unity bug
I've never been able to successfully debug anything with a conditional breakpoint or watch, in spite of knowing about these things and trying.

(Well, other than my own conditional breakpoint features built into the code, doing things like programmatically trigger a breakpoint whenever an object with a specific address (that being settable in the debugger interactively) passes certain points in the garbage collector.)
EPUB is a fairly modern counterpart to CHM. The old WinHelp file format (.HLP) was RTF-based as pointed out in a sibling comment.
The largest cell phone maker in the world has been either Samsung or ZTE for a dozen years.

If you're referring to the Nokia acquisition, it was way past prime and relevance, at a time when Chinese makers were already on the rise.
I thought water on Mars was a settled fact?

The poles are covered in ice and there is detectable water vapor in the atmosphere.
Leaflet is actually listed at [1], I believe it's totally orthodox :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Image_Interopera...
The main difference in modern games is the set of things in the world that might need sync has grown, much more than the available bandwidth.

So need sophisticated logic to filter what needs to be updated in a given frame based on relevance, to fit within a packet,

And of course now you need cloud systems for matchmaking, telemetry, etc.
You have to prove the bank robber did it too? Why is it that we wiretap phones, subpoena companies, search homes and detain people for the lowest of drug crimes but everyone throws their hands up here?

Like, how did you expect to make a case if you don't do anything?
A Note on "Government Efficiency"
On the topic of black holes, there is a recent paper on black holes potentially converting mass into dark energy: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10...

I'm not a physicist but it's interesting to think about the implications:

1. No singularity at the center of a black hole

2. Universe's expansion rate is not constant because it's blackholes powering it with matter

3. Eventually expansion slows, stops and reverses

And now my own crazy ideas:

1. Maybe the universe is a inside a black hole

2. Maybe the big bang was a result of the birth of another black hole somewhere else, and that the rapid expansion rate of the early universe was due to the a huge amount of matter converted into dark energy by this black hole
This reminds me strongly of reaching the final year industry projects in my software engineering degree, and seeing a significant portion of my colleagues unable to develop software in any meaningful way.

There was a curriculum correction in the years afterwards I think, but so many students had zero concept of version control, of how to start working on a piece of software (sans an assignment specification or scaffold), or how to learn and apply libraries or frameworks in general. It was unreal.
Maculate Conception Redux
Thanks. I should have followed my gut which said “that’s more expensive than I thought, but demand is rising sharply”.
Your prediction was quite prescient.
If your parsers are pure¹, REPR testing and state-transition logging (trying X, X rejected, trying Y, Y is successful with input "abc") will beat any other tool by such a margin that it will feel they aren't even on the same competition.

1 - If your parsers are not pure, you either have a very weird application or should change that.
The Anti-Autism Manifesto
An Easy Course In Programming The HP-11C and HP-15C (1984) [pdf]
2nd edition. I was one of the fools who didn't go start a startup in Palo Alto when money was raining heavier than tulips in 17th c. Holland.

I think you're waxing rosy retrospection that might be overly-generous. The OSI model turned out to be an overly-complicated, academic mirage and not a great fit to describe reality that wasn't useful L4+. SDN is mostly just network virtualization / tunneling by encapsulation, which has been rediscovered over and over again since the telegraph, with the exception network gear became more programmatically flexible with the control plane / data plane concepts. With added expense, it's nice to have physically-separated management &| control plane networks from the data plane for security, backup connectivity, and DDoS out-of-band resilience.

Even then, I think the academic networking curriculum missed opportunities to be practical and relevant with general basic network administration principles and high-performance interfacing approaches, such as offloading types, DMA, and zero copy.

C'est la vie. There's EE/CS academia, which does teach general principles and hard fundamental well, but falls short of being practical. It seems like the pragmatic-experimentation side could be improved without sacrificing rigorous theoretical foundations. Because what's the (@!$&% practical point of implementing MICMAC in 44 microinstructions with Huffman-encoded macroinstructions and gradual decoding minimized for microinstructions and for microcycles? Competitive hazing ritual abuse recounting. "Oh yeah, I had to code upside-down, blindfolded, in the snow with only 4 keys made of ivory and we had to hunt the elephants ourselves!"
Thanks!

I also noticed that the search is broken
I will be avoiding looking at them directly so I don’t hurt my eyes
It's possible, but only because we don't know what dark matter is. But that doesn't seem to be a leading explanation.
What a disingenuous comment. It's not a generative AI image. It's not something someone drew/painted. It's photographic data combined together.

If you want to be pedantic, every single picture ever taken with a digital camera is digitally modified. Every single image shot on film and scanned to be used on a computer is digitally modified.

Just because you can't take a photo of the sun anywhere close to this does not mean others of us cannot, and does not make their actual images of the sun not real. Using proper filters so you do not melt your equipment allows for images of the photosphere to be captured. Using the moon to filter the photosphere during an eclipse allows the corona to be seen. It's not like it's not there except during an eclipse. It's just too faint to be captured without the filter.

That's what the SRO uses a cornograph to block the photosphere at all times to be able to image the corona.

Imaging the sun is very fun and challenging, and I'd suggest you'd learn a lot from reading up on it. Whether you'd actually enjoy it is beyond the scope of this forum
It’s really a problem that work tends to expand to fill all the cracks completely. You’d think the 8-hour workday would leave 8 hours for sleep and another 8 for recreation and other necessities, but somehow in my life there’s really only about 6 hours for sleep and 2-3 hours for everything else. Some of that is kids, but it’s not the entire explanation and honestly I’m not too sure where it all goes sometimes.
In the embedded world, you use remote debugging (like gdbserver on the target and gdb on a development machine). There are issues like some third party pieces being debugged that are not part of your application, and not built in a way that plays along with your debugging environment. Those pieces may be started not simply by shell scripts, but C code, which hard codes some of their arguments and whatnot. You need networking for remote debugging, but the problem you're debugging might occur before networking is up on the target.
Reminds me of the 2600 back covers. There is something of the phreaking / phracking culture to this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210312063737/https://www.2600....
Phlogiston is such a great bit of the history of "science".

>> we don't really understand gravity

I would say that what we don't understand is how the universe is structurally layered, vibrationally/dimensionally. That 5/6ths of the matter is missing lines up with our physical dimension (of energy and matter) being only one of six onionish dimensional layers, all contained within the same 3-space.

The five dimensions are three of space (x,y,z), one of time (t), and one of dimensional vibration (?). That's the structure, but I have neither the maths nor the details to divine how everything is interrelated. All the dimensions' matter does combine to contribute to the inertia of the galaxies we can see.

What is particularly difficult is that we can only measure our dimension's matter & energy with our tools, which are, of course, made of our matter & energy. In specific high-energy experiments, however, we can get some crossover of, e.g., anti-particles appearing on our side of the "wall".

That's the structure, as far as I understand it. The rest will require much maths and experiments and exploring the unknown. That is what Einstein did to expand Newton's understanding. There's at least one more level-up needed to encompass our measured corner-case phenomena.
Questions, Unasked and Unanswered
Concepts in C++20
If Mars didn't have water "from the beginning" where and how would it acquire all the water that is said to have covered a fair amount of the surface??

The was there water question seems to be settled, where did it all go? And why? Is the earth subject to that same why?
But this is why we don't get new banks, and generally speaking, new things are needed to challenge old things to improve the overall sector. Without challengers, entrenched interests get to engage in monopolistic/money cow behaviors that treat customers as the captives that they are.

But yes, given the current state of things I agree that your take is pragmatic. I'm just saying, that's a big problem in the medium/long term.
Bugs are unintentional. This was massive intentional theft.
China censored its social media amid a wave of mass attacks
Do you mean latitude?
This seems like obviously fraud on the part of Synapse/Yotta. Where else could the money have gone? There were no risky investments. The underlying bank didn't collapse. Why isn't there a federal prosecutor on this?
Unfortunately Government regulations are almost never proactive, always reactive. Honestly a lot of these new fintech companies feel like they exist mainly to get around current regulations.
Totally sounded like embezzlement to me too. Somebody at Synapse making the records intentionally unreconcilable/vague somewhere in the accounting chain so that they could claim some portion of that as their own. I guess it could be gross incompetence, but the embezzlement story actually seems more plausible in this scenario, especially given the animosity between the corporate parties involved. Maybe an incompetent CEO at Synapse who really believes the vague numbers they were given that doesn't line up well with the other banks' own records. The fact that there was a lottery system baked in that grabbed from a pool of "cash winnings" that was financed by the interest rates of deposits at other banks just adds to the opportunities for embezzlement. An employee "gets lucky" with the gambling setup a few times with a pot that is non-attributable, says more money needs to get transferred to the pot because somebody won a payout, etc
Who's to say this isn't a honeypot? It sounds like it's organized by anarchists, but if I were a three-letter agency making a honeypot, that's exactly how I'd sound too.
Is your crazy idea not effectively the oscillating universe theory proposed by Einstein?
Perhaps you are right, Neo. Perhaps we are in the Matrix. But you lack evidence for your position. How could you tell if you're a transcendental spirit, and not a brain in a jar suffering from last Thursdayism?

I have plenty of evidence that we're bags of chemicals wandering around a rock in space, and our consciousness is the results of electical signals passing through our synapses. If you wish to reduce the majesty of nature to "unknowable", you reduce your own position to unknowable too. If you're fine with that, I'm fine too, but I still like my position better than yours.
Not "out of the box" maybe, but yes, it can. It can even do it in ways which humans find impossible.

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRi6pNAoag&list=LL&index=74...
Over and over we've seen the same financial scam play out:

a) company starts up that explicitly avoids being a bank

b) company does something where some amount of money is placed in FDIC-insured banks, and it TRUMPETS on its website: "FDIC INSURED" over and over

c) consumers are misled into thinking their money is safe

d) regulators do not act

e) consumers lose all their money

f) profit (for a very specific set of individuals)

The company can even fake up a bunch of social media accounts to tell people reassuring lies right up until the scam collapses.

These scams will continue until regulators get serious about putting people in jail for them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/yotta/comments/1ctf25r/is_our_money...
Completely agree and feel the same way about dark energy.