skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If its geotagged, it would not require a priori following of the account, just some kind of location search/notification feed.
First, author recommends challenging but feasible deadlines, not "arbitrary" deadlines.

Second, the "small increments" approach you describe is quite compatible with the approach of having workers give a status update every Friday. Requires determining what can be accomplished in a week, so you have something tangible to report on Friday.
The key is commonly used. I don't think I have ever needed the square root of 3 in a context where I wasn't using a calculator anyway, so memorizing it would have been far more effort than looking it up (since any calculator can look this up instantly). Does it matter who the leader of China is - for some people it does, for other it is trivia not worth the bother of looking up. Back when I was getting my degree 7x8 was important to know (even if a calculator was allowed doing the math mentally was a trick I learned - most college calculus problems are selected to have easy math so if the math is hard I probably need to back up a step and fix my mistake - this trick didn't apply to other classes though), now it is mostly useful in context of proving to my 4th grader that I can do her level of math (7x8 might come up in real life, but only in contexts of a much harder problem so I'd be using a calculator anyway)
You clearly haven't seen the videos of people that are just clearly observing large passenger jets coming for a landing for a drone. Also, they probably will miss, but that bullet is landing somewhere. A plane coming in for a landing pass was just shot at (and hit) recently in Haiti, so it's not impossible.
> New Zealand isn't a rich country

It's 23rd by GDP per capita, next to France
You can't rebrand a class war
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Check out new programming puzzles I’ve created. They are organized into cascades — sets of interconnected tasks, most of which require using or enhancing the code from previous tasks.

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It’s not because the reboot requires it (even kernel can be kexec(1) in place for the last 10 years or so).

It’s because your system state is mutable[1] (and so you don’t know if it’s capable of coming back up).

1 - There are distributions where this isn’t the case, but it is for the majority.
Oh so you mean that users would post anywhere (Bluesky, X, Mastodon, ...) and I would track these posts and then display them in the appropriate location on meet.hn?

Sounds pretty good! If that's not what you meant, please correct me.
Wow, had no idea about pyxl. Thanks for the background!
After sleeping on this, I realized that I forgot to connect why the aspects of good programming languages are important for parallel programming. It's because it's already so difficult, why would we spend unnecessary time working around friction in the language? If we have 1000 or 1 million times the performance, let the language be higher level so the compiler can worry about optimization. I-code can be simplified using math approaches like invariance and equivalence. Basically turning long sequences of instructions into a result and reusing that with memoization. That's how functional programming lazily evaluates code on demand. By treating the unknown result as unsolved and working up the tree algebraically, out of order even. Dependent steps can be farmed out to cores to wait until knowns are solved, then substitute those and solve further. So even non-embarrassingly parallel code can be parallelized in a divide and conquer strategy, limited by Amdahl's Law of course.

I'm concerned that this solver is not being researched enough before machine learning and AI arrive. We'll just gloss over it like we did by jumping from CPU to GPU without the HPC step between them.

At this point I've all but given up on real resources being dedicated to this. I'm basically living on another timeline that never happened, because I'm seeing countless obvious missed steps that nobody seems to be talking about. So it makes living with mediocre tools painful. I spend at least 90% of my time working around friction that doesn't need to be there. In a very real way, it negatively impacts my life, causing me to lose years writing code manually that would have been point and click back in the Microsoft Access and FileMaker days, that people don't even think about when they get real work done with spreadsheets.

TL;DR: I want a human-readable language like HyperTalk that's automagically fully optimized across potentially infinite cores, between where we are now with C-style languages and the AI-generated code that will come from robotic assistants like J.A.R.V.I.S.
If he wants to throw several tens of billions to hire all those medical and social workers, fantastic. Well done. It's gonna put a dent in his plans to balance the budget, but it would be in an excellent cause.

If you're gonna spend all that money, we can do better than tents.

So I can't help but suspect that those "large parcels of inexpensive land" are far away from civilization (and the attendant jobs, grocery stores, cultural programs, communities, etc.), impossible to leave, and suspiciously short on doctors and psychiatrists.
I have the same question.

Might be useful to clarify for people replying with suggested use cases: this repo has two hash functions, describing them as “General-purpose, non-crypto hash” (OK) and “Experimental cryptographic-like hashing” (???)

The question is, what is that second one for? Do they just mean it could eventually become a cryptographic hash?
https://archive.today/0TW92

Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullartic...
This just got launched in the last week or two but I think you might find it helpful https://docs.flutter.dev/app-architecture
I anticipate the development of a free-market mechanism in which organizations will establish themselves to assume the role of the FDA in certifying vaccines and providing guidance on preventive medicine.
>Brewing filter coffee in an espresso machine actually sounds like it'd be nice on occasion.

It's honestly not necessary. We espresso drinkers can already do that - it's called an Americano.
that's a thousand dollars each

Even in this populist age, math still counts.
for some reason experientially is different, when i read on computer it's mainly grab some piece of data that im looking for. i almost never read books on computer, my desire for reading came after i bought a kindle - the difference is absurd.

even paper books suck compared to kindle, which saves space, access to billions of books in a comfortable way to read. (can't read brother karamazov laying in bed)
Thank you for sharing your perspective in a straightforward way.

To those downvoting - why? Parent is not trying to convince, just sharing. I found it interesting, relevant, and additive to the conversation.
Commenting about voting is considered poor form in the rules here, so if you could refrain from spouting your opinions as if they were verified facts, that'd be lovely, cheers.

Carlsen won the WCC 5 times. Where you get 10 from, I don't know. Perhaps your opinion on these matters is just another ill-informed hot take, but we'll never know for sure.

No, that is a totally nonsensical definition for anyone who's serious about games. I presume Carlsen would agree, to be honest, as someone who takes games seriously.

Dominating human chess =/= "mastering" chess. Mastering implies "completing", "finishing", "solving". Sure, he's arguably the greatest human chess "master" who ever lived, and I love his games (as I said), but the man isn't infallible, and in fact is roughly as far from Stockfish as I am from him.

Which is nuts, how good Stockfish is, when Carlsen is so good. But he's not undefeatable - the top players have beaten him (on occasion). Even the mighty Stockfish suffers the occasional defeat from lc0!

So this sort of youtube-chess-bro level of discussion is garbage, and I frankly couldn't care less what sorts of "votes" come in. The fact you bring that up says more about you than me, dear netizen.
It looks like NonStop supports Java. Is there a reason they can't just use JGit or something?
Perhaps, but I'll advise my kids to avoid failed and harshly authoritarian states.
It was evidence enough to justify forming a hypothesis and getting funding for further study, but not evidence to consider it a scientific conclusion. Drawing generalizable scientific conclusions is a high bar to reach but it should be. Clearing that high bar is what is going to actually produce real value for society

A research project that produces a small collection of anecdotes is not scientific research, it is journalism. There's nothing wrong with that. Those anecdotes might be important to share, they might be interesting to hear, they might be historically relevant. But we cannot draw scientific conclusions from them, which is what we should expect from scientific research projects
Pi modder successfully adds M.2 slot to Pi 500
> Also note that profitability influences stock price, so taking away control from the people who made a company profitable, has a high likelihood of making the company less profitable, which in turn will almost certainly result in each stockholder becoming poorer.

Absolute clown
Who are you to tell someone how to live their life? Winning a Scrabble championship isn’t hurting anyone.
Engineering already has a professional association that tells its members what can and cannot be done. A guild will have the power to also provide limits on what an employer can or cannot do, set minimum/floor rates for standard services and generally improve the labour conditions for its employees. That's exactly what SAG and AFTRA achieve, and it's worth looking into how they work.
> Which is it? So problematic that you wouldn't use it even if it were exactly the tool you needed, or "a bit weird".

Well, it’s weird enough that I wouldn’t use the project unless it’s the only thing available (but there are other SSGs) or if an employer paid me for it (I don’t really care then if the project is stable, that’s my employers problem).

> If reading those rules and abiding by them is too much for you, then just turn around and walk away. That's the intention and goal. They're doing you a favor, letting you know that your brand of weird is not compatible with their brand of weird. They don't have to make space for everyone in their little project, and there might not be space for you there, and that's OK.

I don’t have a problem with the rules themselves, to be clear. My problem is the presentation. It’s also not a big problem to me, I’ll just use something else and move on. That’s fine.
Heschl's gyrus and the temporal pole: The cortical lateralization of language
Reference to the first meet.hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539125
This is awesome! I may try to get this working locally with my 6 year old son!
Illegal Political Microtargeting by EU Commission
Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential
YCombinator was premised on the hypothesis that competing with the big players is easier than you think.
For me, the identity of the leader of China is genuinely as commonly used a fact as the lb-kg conversion rate, or that the circumference of the earth is almost exactly 4/30ths of a light-second.
GDPR complaint against Twitter over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads
You must not follow the NBA or MLB then. One of the major narratives of the most recent NBA postseason was how unfortunate it was that the Eastern Conference was so plagued with injuries that it limited the quality of competition, and it frequently has been a major narrative.

Off the top of my head the recent Milwaukee Bucks championship was noted as happening in a context where their strongest competitor, the Brooklyn Nets, were catastrophically compromised by injuries. The Cleveland Cavaliers were almost laughably compromised by the loss of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love against the Golden State Warriors in 2015 due to injuries. And then in 2019 it was the Golden State Warriors turn to suffer terrible injuries as they lost in the finals to an improbable underdog in the Toronto Raptors, which spilled over into a lost season for Golden State the following year which created an opening for the Lakers to win it all in the covid shortened 2020 season.

Meanwhile in baseball injuries are so pervasive it's almost a question of which team doesn't suffer injuries.

So I think it's a broadly accurate characterization of sports fandom at least in North America, and it's bizarre to venture into a conversation like this to talk broadly about sports fandom excluding such major examples that speak to this point.
That's always been ATT's corporate messaging around anything financially beneficial to them -- we need this money because it will help us deliver better service to more people.

So it's not unjust to call bullshit when it turns out they aren't doing that, but are still keeping the money.
Klarna Stopped All Hiring a Year Ago to Replace Workers with AI
This 2020 review carefully summarizes the overly complex and error-prone outcome of programming language memory model changes in the early 2010's. It's tempting to master such tricky details, but doing so almost inevitably leads to the costliest bugs ever: rare data corruption that's impossible to detect and reproduce.

Russ Cox in 2021 offered a higher-level insightful history of evolving hardware and software support for concurrency, discussed just yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42397737

His take (as I take it): systems programmers should only use sequentially-consistent atomics (and only via well-tested concurrent data structures).

Easy peasy! ;p
PLATO is notable for being the origin of the of the computer role playing game. The history of early CRPGs is murky, because PLATO was intended for educational use and games programmers had to work in secret to avoid the administrators deleting their work, but it's possible that the first ever CRPG was the Reginald Rutherford's 1975 game "The Dungeon" (a.k.a. "pedit5" after its inconspicuous lesson name). The Dungeon was probably earlier than the lost game "m199h" that was previously thought to be first. These early CRPGs are all influenced by Dungeons and Dragons, which was first published in 1974.

The Dungeon is still playable today. The CRPG Addict blog has details:

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2019/01/revisiting-dungeon-19...

And more information about lost games:

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2021/06/brief-everything-we-k...
Nvidia revives LAN party after 13 years to celebrate RTX 50-series GPU launch
my preference would be pictures of all angles and a single shot video start to finish.

stop hiding, be proud.

I've just looked at low end robot vacuum cleaners. It was hilarious, non of them are willing to show the product in action.
Reading technical docs is closer to reading shop names and street signs than it is to the intention to sit down and consume a work of art.
Being a scrabble champion is not mutually exclusive to real-world impact. If a Scrabble expert lived a day in our shoes as software developers, I bet they'd think we're a net drain on society too.
Elon is clearly using his fortune to enact wide scale societal change. He's currently chilling in the president-elect's house and chatting with foreign leaders. How Elon spends his money shouldn't be my problem, but he's dead set on making it that.
Back when Linux (et al) was a bit more novel in enterprise environments, I certainly heard MCSEs and such refer to Linux administration black magic.
I think the following statements are entirely compatible with one another:

* Most software developers (let's say, 95-99%+) are smart enough to avoid using insecure PRGs in their code.

* The remaining 1-5% have contributed to a litany of avoidable security disasters, nonetheless.

* The impact of these disasters has been vastly outsized when you compare it to the number of bad developers.

* If every developer understood that they needed security expertise (and indeed, that they were even writing security critical code, the world would be a very different place than it is.)

As Thomas mentioned below, I am something of a collector and obsessive when it comes to incidents of bad random number generation.
What's fascinating to me about this Dart/Flutter story is not the result, it's that I haven't seen one of these stories in a long time!

By this I mean: this type of incident used to pop up on HN every month or so, and yet in the past few years they've become incredibly rare. And do you know why that is? It is not because developers got better. It's almost entirely due to the fact that development frameworks (particularly JS in browsers) have made a multi-year and systematic effort to reduce the availability of insecure default PRGs to bad developers. The result is that an entire bug class has gone from a common, monthly occurrence, to a relative rarity.

The idea that we should use insecure default RNGs because they're good for reproducible testing is a new one on me. If you need reproducible random numbers for your application, but you are asking to use an interface that does not explicitly include the fact that it generates non-random, reproducible numbers then you are doing both software development and testing wrong, IMHO.
Let me introduce you to one of the main driving forces behind retractions, PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/
Hey, me too.

I managed Linux and BSD on servers all over the place. I worked pretty much exclusively using a Linux VM ... under Windows. Keeps most of the gremlins at bay. Hardware stuff's all handled by Windows, so it generally just works. Trying to play a game? Just run it in Windows and don't worry about it.

Every year or so I'd grab a live image and boot it and see what happened. But always ended up at "okay, too much hassle still".

Then a few things happened:

1. Valve invested heavily in Proton. They released the Steam Deck so suddenly developers _wanted_ their games to work in Proton.

2. One day I booted up a linux live image and stuff like my webcam just worked out of the box.

3. Microsoft released Windows 11.

Upgraded my computer at one point and I just went ahead and threw Debian on it and haven't really run Windows since. (Though I still have it installed. I still haven't found a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom.)

I too am really glad I got off of that ride when I did.
Makes me wonder if high income people (probably correlated with people who are benefitting from the institutions) trust government more or less than low income people. This from 2014 suggests yes: https://harvardpolitics.com/young-peoples-trust-institutions...

But this pew research poll doesn't seem to look at income: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/public-trust...
> Does reading text on the internet not count as reading?

I guess it depends on intent. Reading a fiction epub in an app is different from reading HN threads with 500+ comments.
What you say is also true of the majority of all people (thus far) of all forms of religion, as well as the atheists and agnostics. This is a human tendency; engaging in religiosity is not the purpose of religion; self-evolving (with the help of our Creator and Its universe) one's heart and mind is.

A religion without a compassionate basis has entirely lost its way, and that compassion must be for one and all people, not just their own kind/culture/society/whatever. No! That's the way of mammals; we must use our extraordinary human gifts choose to be much, much more, working beyond our tribes because we are one single human race, and we must expand our consciousness and ideals to embrace that essential fact.

Individual peace is the result of choosing service-oriented, active compassion/love. There is no other way, otherwise the inner tension pesists, including the results of willful ignorance to our need to self-evolve.

We must choose to try to help those around us, after we have stopped cruelly ignoring their unhappiness and/or, worst of all, willfully causing their misery. This also requires our refusing to coldly accept the oppression of the innocent. Our love for them must be of a different character and verve than our love for the oppressors.
This is what I come to HN for
You can't add 10 million more subscribers and maintain broadband speeds without massively increasing the number of satellites.
Your history isn't really right here:

> Colleges started out as vocational schools for priests

There were three advanced schools (~graduate departments) at the typical medieval university: medicine, law, and theology.

> For much of American history colleges were places for farmers or engineers to learn their crafts.

I'm guessing you are basing this claim on the Morrill Act, which was to "provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the Mechanic arts."[0] It certainly doesn't describe the earlier American colleges like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, King's College (later Columbia), etc.

But even the state colleges that were founded with the help of the Morrill Act typically had loftier ambitions than acting as craft schools. e.g. from the inaugural speech of the founding of the University of California:

"The University is the most comprehensive term which can be employed to indicate a foundation for the promotion at diffusion of knowledge--a group of agencies organized to advance the arts and sciences of every sort, and to train young men as scholars for all the intellectual callings of life." [1]

But surely schools like Texas Agricultural and Mechanical were founded from the beginning with a focus on those practical skills? Nope: "Despite its name, the college taught no classes in agriculture, instead concentrating on classical studies, languages, literature, and applied mathematics." [2]

[0]: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/morrill-act

[1]: https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb267nb0qk&brand=oac4&doc.v...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Texas_A%26M_Univers...
A slightly newer attempt which is concurrent - in fact, it aims to implement the algorithm discussed in OP, though there may be some subtle differences in implementation: https://github.com/chc4/samsara
This scale goes to 11. The age of the universe is ^17 and the size of the Universe is ^27. IMO this is still on the -10 to +10 scale, considering the sizes of the quantities involved.

Thanks for the comment, I appreciate your willingness to share your disdain!
this is not ideal. If someone wants to fact check controversial claim filtering it only makes it worse.
We put Show HN in the title (the convention for sharing your own work on HN, which this certainly is! - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). But putting that in pushed MicroPython out the end of the buffer (which is fixed to 80 chars).

If MicroPython is more interesting than ESP32, we can swap them...

(Submitted title was "Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32 and MicroPython")
Full text link:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192...
Denial policy should be very very simple:

If you're seeking coverage for lung cancer, but you chose to smoke, denied.

If you're seeking coverage for type II diabetes, but you weigh 400lbs, denied.

If you're seeking coverage for cancer because you got unlucky with a cosmic ray incident on your DNA, approved.

If you're seeking coverage for a liver transplant because you refused to put down the bottle, denied.

If you're seeking coverage for injuries from an auto accident that was not your fault, approved.

I will NEVER understand why this type of blanket policy is so controversial. Cover bad luck, do NOT cover personal choices. It will fix not only costs, but the moral hazard endemic to the current system.

Or, AT THE VERY LEAST, allow prejudicial adjustments to premiums for fatties, smokers, and alcoholics.