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Oddly enough I am visiting Japan right now. There are lots of foreign workers in service jobs. They speak zone language and don’t jay walk.

Prices feel like a middle income country, but that is just the Yen sucking. Otherwise it feels very first world.
Tell HN: Earth-Sun distance at a minimum today
Hi HN, you may be interested to know that the Earth is at its perihelion today, Jan 4th at ~1PM UTC. This is the point in its orbit at which the distance to the sun is at a minimum (~147M km).

The Earth is about 5M km closer to the sun than at its aphelion, the furthest point occurring in July at ~152M km. Compared to the aphelion, ~7% more solar energy reaches the Earth at the perihelion.

I can't speak for other Southern Hemisphere countries, but I understand this is partly why the Australian summer sun has such a "bite" to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit#Events_in_the_orbit
>The only reason this didn't turn into a disaster was pure luck.

Is it? Or is it a case of "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway"[1]? The apk signature done by fdroidserver seems totally superfluous. Android is already going to verify the certificate if you try to update an app, and presumably whatever upload mechanism is already authenticated some other way (eg. api token or username/password), so it's unclear what the signature validation adds, aside from maybe preventing installation failures.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
Oral history of Aso O. Tavitian [pdf]
Unfortunately, if you're willing to pay for an ad-free service, I suspect you're far more valuable to advertisers than any reasonable amount you could pay to be exempt.
Voxel rendering is basically raymarching. Current GPUs can implement this easily as pixelshaders.

Plenty of examples on https://www.shadertoy.com/
I'm not particularly street smart having grown up in a tiny village in England.

But I too have felt no more threatened in numerous US urban and suburban cities than I have in many places in Europe - and the UK...

It's not without its problems but if it was _that_ bad I wouldn't have stayed...
Of course they do, but you'll never hear about them. Opinions are given weight by numbers, not abstract ideas like when your ancestors arrived.

How do you think they look back on their forebears, who failed to preserve and pass on their birthright?
You've had several replies talking about how Molten Core will be cleared easily by modern WoW players, and as someone who plays retail WoW (and has been playing continuously since Burning Crusade) I'll vouch for that take. Molten Core's mechanics are trivially easy compared to the things retail players are up against even in simple dungeons.

That said, the type of player who plays WoW now has also changed since the original raiders entered Molten Core so many years ago. People still raid for fun, but like many things in modern society¹, you're also there to raid "efficiently."

This documentary that I watched recently called "Why it's rude to suck at World of Warcraft" is worth the watch. It talks about how raiding has changed from a fun thing that people used to do in vanilla WoW, where a guild of 40 people would put up with the weird gnome in the guild who wouldn't wear boots, to a hyper competitive pseudo-esport where players stopped tolerating that gnome player over a decade ago.

https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU

¹ trying not to sound too preachy, I personally love the "get good and keep improving yourself" aspect about WoW, and it's why I push in the game's rated arena brackets each season.
How about looking at an ast-based method for making changes across code base?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17tvm06/astgrep_and...
Man, this is America.

Capitalism rules supreme and money has no morals.

And I don't mean this in a capitalism critical way per se, rather let us face the realities of the current system.
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Yeah that's the big benefit of F-Droid, reproducible builds. It builds directly from github. I like that aspect of it a lot, it adds a lot of security that other app stores don't have.

But yeah other repos don't :(
Great but wrong answers. I asked how big tree-3 was after some helpful explaining about exponentials, it tells me its 27. This is... an underestimate.
> Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people

It’s such a weird religion.
True, but you have to pick your battles and that's a lesser concern than I have with other sites.
> the politics of the right-wing cabinets for the last 15 years who did nothing significant to improve the speed of housing construction.

Is the population rising because NL natives are having more kids or because new people coming in?
Ah, the myth that it was some super stable release lives on.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/11/5.html
They have access to cutting edge GPUs via rentals:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bytedance-plans-to-s...
The State of Generative Models
Canada is in a demographic crisis: The birthrate is too low, the population is aging and the country can’t afford to provide people with all of the social benefits AND have no laborers paying in to the benefit system. Importing lots of young labor rebalances the demographics and bolsters funding of benefits, at the expense of a housing crisis and social tensions. The alternative is to deeply cut benefits, which is political suicide for any party that dares to try.
I don't have answers for your questions. My wording is also imprecise. I only meant to say that I remember that the location of Turkey was used as an argument against starting membership negotiations when that was deliberated within the EU.
This is still sad
I'd be down, my family already gets all of our medical care in the EU anyway (wife is an EU citizen, as is our son).

Not sure EU countries would want millions of our immigrants flooding them though, especially once they see wages in Germany...
What you say is true. Although I'm conflicted on whether a 100% positive approach is best. Thing is, we're currently doing a pretty shit job of building a good society, and it needs to change ASAP, for our benefit and the benefit of the planet. I'm partly of the mindset that people need a huge wakeup call. While we are humming and hahing and saying "no don't worry, it's not THAT bad", the world probably doesn't get any better. Bad actors prey on complacency. How long do we need to wait for cost of living to soar, inequality to increase, mental health to decline, etc until we take a hard stance and put a stop to it? You and I may be in the privileged position to take a nonradical stance and ultimately still live decent lives.

Also, I think many people don't think we are headed in the wrong direction, or are generally uneducated about the topic. Blissful ignorance... during which they continue being good consumers to keep the hamster wheel spinning. We are sleepwalking into some sort of societal disaster. You're probably right that people need to be addressed with a positive tone. But it's hard.
Being an international student isn't "immigration status" -- it's temporary by definition. There's a potential path to PR from there, but by no means guaranteed. I'd have to go look up the conversion rate, but my understanding is the majority of international students are returning home after, or at least that used to be the case.
Does anyone know if any party outside Kenya has a claim to space junk that falls into that country?
Its a neat way to render, but I don't think it qualifies as voxel, it can't render arbitrary volumes, and the data storage can't contain more than a single position for a given x,y. It's just a neat implementation of a heightmap renderer no?
These all seem like post-hoc rationales to me, because as far as I know (and I may be wrong) no one was talking about Greenland in this context until Trump brought it up.

If Greenland is that important, we already have all of the money if we wanted to buy it, and all of the tanks and planes and nuclear submarines if we didn't want to take no for an answer.
Is org-roam still alive? Last release almost 3 years ago. Could be because it's nearly perfect, which, if so, great.
it can do it already, the trick is to prompt it to approach it how a human would.

1. use a temp file as a reference for the entire refactor

2. make it plan the entire thing, tell it to use a high level and low level checklists, tell it to take notes for itself, and tell it to use the temp file as a scratchpad for taking notes and storing code blocks.

3. tell it to do small incremental changes, and do bottoms up approach.
Thanks for the answer. Though I can't say that I expected most people to fear being violently killed on a daily basis indeed, murder is something the person above mentioned so that technically is an answer to my question about which bit is not ubiquitous for the country
Yes cracking down. In a typical LPC “we’re going to reduce the number by 10% after tripling it, starting next year” fashion.
Fortunately the kids not being able to use computers has been very profitable for us!
I am speculating it will become open source. or at least supplant Android's role in the global smartphone ecosystem.
> Diversity is wonderful

Why? You literally say on your very next sentence that it’s not - that diversity must be destroyed through integration and a melting pot.

Diversity and immigration always has a cost and that’s the destruction of your existing culture in part. Sometimes that tradeoff is worth it. But you can’t overdo it.

And getting pissed at the people that don’t integrate is barking up the wrong tree. They never agreed to that and they should be left alone to live their lives.

We should go after the people that allowed this to happen.
You shouldn't use debit cards at retail point of sale anyway, because fraud transactions cannot be reversed.
The same way drug users access illegal drugs.
Previous discussion (linked in the article itself): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186730

Quite sad to see things have become much much worse over 12 years.
Good for him, but where's the money going to come from? Per [1], half of Greenland's budget comes from Denmark:

>Denmark provides Greenland with an annual block grant of DKK 3.9 billion — roughly USD 511 million — which accounts for approximately 20 percent of Greenland’s GDP and more than half of the public budget.

[1] https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/denmark-othe...
For more information about the HP 9816

https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=4

There is (was?) an FPGA port in progress...

https://sites.google.com/site/olivier2smet2/hp_projects/hp98...
I assumed you figured this out already, but looking at the source code, the key should be "f11", with a lowercase f.
Looking at the "Temporary foreign workers - work permit holders" graph in that report https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co... makes me think that you are the polemist
Shouldn’t they just be asking their AI chat bot what’s the best way to make money and then do that?
No language since assembly enables new features that you could not have done in assembly.

Languages are invented to enforce standard and build higher level abstraction aka disable feature.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562419 - Dec 2024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549037 - Dec 2024
If all your neighbors no longer spoke English, you don't think that would affect you?

Obviously that's an extreme example, but other cultural differences will affect you as well.
I'm not really a bear on llms, but using it for explanations in this way needs a lot of caution. It's very easy to give an argument that "seems" right at first glance, e.g. https://xkcd.com/803/
Yes, many return by choice, but until the last few months, it was basically guaranteed that if you get into university or a college here and graduate, you'll definitely get a work visa, and you'll definitely be able to get a PR, and then citizenship.
Hah! That sounds really fun. Why did you stop?
this is because you were thought from young age to define your life through work - i.e. you live to work and not work to live. people working until they are 94 is the saddest imaginable thing. there is sooooo much more to life than work - unfortunately US culture is such that you hear insane statements like no one wants to party with “I am retired” guy two of my childhood friends were lucky to retire in their late-30’s / early-40’s and they are living the lifes most can’t even imagine
Indeed. I don’t think I have met a single person that thinks the Canadian constitution as is is the right thing, but also have never met any two people that agree on what it should be instead.

If anything the recent Trumpian outbursts have demonstrated just how strong the inertia is on this. For it to change will take a genuine existential crisis.
Fair enough, I only provided a counterexample to a part of the argument. I think a lot of the social criticism in that comment is more accurate, e.g. the stuff about health care and education quality. In a lot of America it seems like the only solution to those things is "don't be poor".
So GitHub, git lab, gutbucket, gittea (and its 50 forks), fossil, and all the other tools should change, not the formatting of the code?
Don't advertisers have to mark ads to be compliant with FTC regulations? There's nothing preventing google from "embedding ads in the search index" or whatever either, but they still grudgingly go out of their way to mark ads as "sponsored".
Hey, I made a game using this technique here

https://eri0o.itch.io/i-rented-a-boat

It's made in Adventure Game Studio. It was made in a previous version of the engine that we hadn't optimized yet and I was too lazy to update it on itch page (but will one day). I have a write up there explaining how I made it but there are more details in the AGS forums.
I think you're extrapolating further than I intended.

I used the phrases 'low-skill-low-virtue underclass', 'slice' &'subgroup' for reasons of being precise, not as dog-whistles.

'Subgroup and slice' because Canada definitely imports some elite human capital from India. Those numbers haven't changed over the last decade. It's the 2nd type of immigration that's exploded and is worth talking about.

As for your implication, I didn't call them Sikh because they aren't all or even majority Sikh. For the ones that are Sikh, their religion has very little to do with being low-skill or low-virtue. They're low skill as a matter of fact. A person doesn't chose to move to a bogus diploma-mill without basic competence in English, if they had meaningful skills. Low virtue because it involves actively abusing Canada's immigration system and closes your door to most respectful careers. It isn't endemic to the religion or the people. It is endemic to post-1980s Punjab. Now yes, being Sikh does make them more susceptible to being drawn into gangs once they're in Canada. But, there are enough non-Sikh gangs for the rest of them as well.

If your sieve preserves pebbles, then you'll get pebbles. Canada created a system that actively imports 'low-optimism, low-skill & young Indians; with no opportunities back home; low attachment to the homeland, and a propensity for using shady methods for immigration'. Smart Sikhs & Indians alike are staying back home or working in the US, where wages and opportunities are plentiful. There is ofc the aforementioned steady stream of high-skill Indians moving to Canada, but their numbers have been outstripped over the last decade.

If Canada had focused on expanding their high-skill pool while stamping some unsavory backdoor loopholes, then they could've had an excellent decade of productive immigration. Instead, they laid a red-carpet by the backdoor, added a 8 lane highway and now it's getting overwhelmed by unsavory backdoor users.

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I acknowledge that low-virtue might not be the best way to phrase it. It's just that this group is desperate for survival. They have no time or concern for integration, Canadian culture or the west's conception of civic sense. While it manifests as low-virtue optics, it is primarily about individuals who refuse to give up extractive 3rd-world-surivivalist zero-sum mentalities.
Tangential, but:

I often wonder how secure these open source projects actually are. I'm curious about using Waydroid in SteamOS, but it looks like it only runs LineageOS (apparently a derivative of CyanogenMod).

I know that people claim that open source is more secure because anyone can audit it, but I wonder how closely its security actually interrogated. Seems like it could be a massive instance of the bystander effect.

All of it gives me a bias towards using official sources from companies like Apple and Google, who presumably hire the talent and institute the processes to do things right. And in any case, having years/decades of popularity is its own form of security. You know anyone who cares has already taken shots at Android and iOS, and they're still standing.
I definitely like to use folders and know how to use a printer, copier, or fax machine but rejected ad nauseam for jobs. I guess I should put it in my “skills” section. Being in “stride” appears to be most important part, i.e., straight from college with the experience of maybe working at the cafeteria/book store/whatever to that prestigious job lol
It's only limited because ISPs hate investing. Yes in 2000 almost nobody was watching video on the internet but the same applies with roads- traffic increases so you have to build more capacity.
The old family laptop's Windows 10 license is about to expire soon so I took the chance to install Linux Mint on it for my younger sibling. From what they tell me, it's perfectly usable, though I don't know to what extent they're using it. If it's just logging on and going straight to Firefox, there's not much difference from Windows kn terms of what they're learning. I've been thinking about what I can do to get them to engage more constructively with the computer, but no concrete ideas yet. Any suggestions from those of you who've done something similar for your siblings or kids?
>Prices feel like a middle income country, but that is just the Yen sucking

No it isn't. In purchasing power terms Japan has been, or is about to be overtaken by Poland and Slovakia [1]. This is largely due to demographics and the declining share of the working age population. There is nothing that impoverishes countries more. Gradual decline feels fine for a while, until it doesn't when the bulk of the workforce ages out.

[1]https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/po...
They probably are also more beautiful too huh?
This is mostly rose colored 1/4" thick welding goggles, I think. There are some mind-bendingly good moments in modern AAA video games. Sure there is some repeat sequelitus but there's original stuff too, and the tech definitely enables it.

I can remember a lot of old really, really, really bad videos games too!
> Humanity will just have to relearn the lessons of the 1920s-1940s again, if it learns anything at all that is

Every 3rd generation, the cycle starts over. It's the circle of strife. The last generation that saw war on an industrial scale has almost completely died out.
total useless, so much useless that the footer of that page is says "2021"
> because without it we will have tighter and tighter controls over the internet.

Were you paying attention for the last 10 years? We already have tighter and tighter controls over the internet. Pretty much every government on the planet is itching to institute internet censorship, and many already did. Major content providers are tightly working with the governments to ensure no information disapproved by the government is allowed on their platforms. States are instituting digital ID schemes to control access to sites (and if you think it's only about porn you're still not paying attention). People are regularly deplatformed and banned from major internet services for expressing controversial opinions. Are you trying to scare me with something that had already happened?

> something greater must be done: the takedown of large corporations and rebuilding them from scratch.

Ah yes, of course, only the glorious proletarian revolution will save us. How does it go? Le monde va changer de base: Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout!

Please wake me up when that happens. On the second thought, please don't, I'd rather not see it. We had enough of it in the last centrury, thankyouverymuch.
> Conversations with the characters quickly went sideways when some users peppered them with questions including who created and developed the AI. Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male. It was a “pretty glaring omission given my identity”, the bot wrote in response to a question from the Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah.

This is probably true, but the AI almost certainly hallucinated these facts.
Who thought this was ever a good idea?
I get that people really want an oracle, and are going to judge any AI system by how good it does at that - yes from sci-fi influenced expectations that expected AI to be rationally designed, and not inscrutable and alien like LLMs... but I think that will almost always be trying to fit a round peg into a square hole, and not using whatever we come up with very effectively. Surely, as LLMs have gotten better they have become more useful in that way so it is likely to continue getting better at pretending to be an oracle, even if never being very good at that compared to other things it can do.

Arguably, a (the?) key measure of intelligence is being able to accurately understand and model new phenomenon from a small amount of data, e.g. in a Bayesian sense. But in this case we are attempting to essentially evolve all of the structures of an intelligent system de novo from a stochastic optimization process- so is probably better compared to the entire history of evolution than to an individual human learning during their lifetime, although both analogies have big problems.

Overall, I think the training process will ultimately only be required to build a generally intelligent structure, and good inference from a small set of data or a totally new category of problem/phenomenon will happen entirely at the inference stage.
I think literally all of those problems also apply to Canada. The population over 60 is around 20% and our birth rate as of 2022 was 1.33. We have low productivity, low entrepreneurship driven by a number of factors, and a stagnant economy that by the Bank of Canada's own admission is propped up by post-COVID immigration.
> but overall the country is basically empty.

Can people live in the empty parts of Canada?