skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it's gradual.

0 -> 15 minutes, I'm in what I'd call "conscious reading" mode.

15 -> 45 minutes, I start to see the world in front of me, but I'm still consciously reading.

After 45 minutes, I completely forget I'm reading at all - the process of going from words to imagination is automatic. For the most part, I'm just seeing a movie unfold.

Of course, this varies by book and what my mental state is at the moment. Some books are very heavy on descriptions, others heavy on plot. Some books, I never reach that "watching a movie" mode.
These are valid points for embedded systems without latency/power requirements, but I want to add that many embedded systems require rolling custom assembly and writing everything else in C to avoid the overhead of other languages and meet battery life and/or performance requirements.
It's not hard to reason about from a formal POV-- by "self-modifying" code, you're basically editing the continuation of the current function/statement. It's just not very useful-- by definition, the extra performance that you might gain from directly self-modifying the program's binary code can't be any higher than the overhead of a good interpreter/JIT. That's just not interesting.
K&R,and Richard Stevens's books
The Chicago Tribune is not a tabloid, and it blocks EU visitors now, nor are many TV stations that now block people from outside the US. Even a VPN doesn't always solve the problem, unfortunately. It's also very annoying that Google News still shows links from those sites even though you can't actually visit them.
It also requires solid partnerships with console companies (MS, Sony, Nintendo etc) unless they were to also go a FOSS route with their systems.
I have a story like this, but I did the work (that was backed out) over a decade ago. The domain was not especially political (something related to history of music notation). It sticks with you because when you are already an expert in an area, and spend days contributing high quality content with good references only to have it vaporized without comment/reason, it is deeply demoralizing and creates long standing resentment. I vaguely remember the subject matter, yet remember distinctly the feeling of having all that work purged. I’m sure Wikipedia politics have changed since then, but my desire to contribute has been pretty well quashed.
Perhaps from your perspective as an officer, but being enlisted was a kafkaesque nightmare. The management structure from the lowest NCO up was typically completely inflexible and almost antagonistic at times. You are committed to the most mind numbing busywork (like shoveling snow or shredding a ton of paper) that there’s absolutely no way to gain satisfaction from. Self actualization is pretty much an impossibility.

Being a numb vegetable is spending 16 hour days in Iraq guarding a fence. Nothing in the civilian/corporate world comes close. Also you can always quit ;D
Astronomers still can't decipher the ‘Cow’, a mysterious explosion in deep space
Yes? The sensor is not at optical infinity however, and the focal length determines the field of view you get. Quite clearly, one pixel of a camera with 0.001 degree angular resolution and the one of 10 degree FOV give you very different results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_mining#Environmental_...
As a user of standard Fedora, what would this give me?

Configuration of my system is mostly easy when setting up (dnf install xyz, plus 2 config file tweaks in /etc). It's the config of everything in /home that's complex (gnome settings, my emacs, bash and git config etc.).
Ask HN: Are you Enterprise, or Startup?
I've found myself reading a ton of HN lately, the quality is pretty high, and the topics only regularly make it over my head, instead of mostly, like the LWN.

I especially love OP ED pieces, no matter their quality, because it's kind of like a window into the soul of other developers, I'm not always looking to learn, sometimes I want to empathize.

One thing that isn't mentioned enough, is what environment you 'grew' up in as a developer. I think that shapes the way you write code more than almost any other factor, regardless of where you go after.

I think the Show HN: posts are the best examples of this. You have a huge volume of developers hoisting projects that solve problems in such a huge number of domains...I wish I knew why you wanted to solve a problem in that domain in the first place. I wish I had more background.

So I ask;
What world did you start in?
Did it shape the way you wrote code as you traversed your career?
Where you predisposed to one environment over the other?
I wouldn't underestimate the difficulty of picking up a highly tonal language like Mandarin, if only exposed to the 44 phonemes of English well into adulthood...
Not really. Deep sea mining on the floor will kick up sediments, that will probably affect growth of plankton, which form one of the foundations of the ocean ecosystem. Also related to what I've quoted below, you'll probably end up releasing a lot of minerals into the ocean water that drive algal blooms.

"Bottom trawling also stirs up the sediment at the bottom of the sea. The resulting undersea plumes of “suspended solids” can drift with the current for tens of miles from the source of the trawling, introducing turbidity throughout the water that inhibits the transfer of light down to the depths where it is needed for photosynthesis in plankton, sea kelp and other undersea plants that serve as the basis for the marine food chain. Also, ocean sediments serve as natural safe resting places for many persistent organic pollutants (such as DDT and PCBs). Dredging these sediments up effectively reintroduces such toxins into the water where they are unwittingly absorbed and consumed by the fish we eat and other marine life already trying to cope with otherwise compromised undersea habitats. The sediment plumes also reintroduce nutrient solids from agricultural and other practices, increasing demand for oxygen in the water (causing algae blooms) and contributing to the outbreak of ocean “dead zones” devoid of marine life." [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/saving-deep-ocean...
Another article of the same law (Article 11) would apply copyright also to shortest excerpts of news articles, anything longer than "individual words". (Colloquially known as the "link tax" provision.)

So even reproducing the full title of a news article would likely be an infringement, and then that becomes another thing platforms take liability for/need to filter under Article 13. Whether there's a link or not would be irrelevant.

(It's meant to allow EU news publishers to bill Google and the social networks for distributing snippets/link previews of their content.)
I'm still youthful in my career. I'm not yet 30, and I've been working professionally in Enterprise for 6 years. I barely empathize with the kinds of problems being solved with these 'Show HN' posts. It's not glorious development, but I don't hate working in these applications at all.

We have 3 main domains, that consist of modern technologies (Angular > C# WebApi > SqlServer)
And 3 applications that are legacy, and still require feature updates (JSP / VB6 / ASP.NET MVC)

We move at a regular pace, and have access to great, expensive tools that I would probably miss in the start up environment.
(Local TFS, Jira, Enterprise VStudio, iDea, local Sql instances)

I can learn so much, because the enterprise environment provides so much, and the jobs around here are entirely enterprise development(Philly).

I love the idealism in the West, but absolutely nothing about my environment makes me think the grass is greener over there.
I hope at least 1 recruiter reads it.
I'm sorry, but you reading the text of Article 13 far more narrow than it actually is:

"internet platforms that organise and promote large amounts of copyright-protected works uploaded by their users in order to make a profit"
Would include https://news.ycombinator.com as well. It does organize and promote user comments, quotes, references which are of course copyright-protected works as anything created in the EU member states is, including user comments. Now "Hacker News" does not make a direct profit of the content. It is a side-line to a profitable business. It is however trivial to argue that the fact it is a side-line by a for-profit company it must in some way contribute to that. This has been done before.
The term upload does not exclude anything, because there is no legal or technical distinguishable difference between upload and post. The law could have read 'provided by their users' and the legal implications would be the same.
All sites that are for profit and allow anything from their users are affected by this. This would also include online games that allow users to chat.

I don't agree that its intentions are that clear. Nobody likes a leech, but that does not mean that we should kill all animals to prevent leeches.

"And if it changes the internet as we know it today, is it that bad? It will push people to self publish instead of relying on "platforms", like the old internet."

This seems to be a call to the internet being just for the technologically savvy. No great number of people are going to self host and any form of support for people self-hosting from a for profit company will run into article 13. Moreover what I remember from the old internet is not self publishing, but the social gathering on IRC, newsgroups, etc. Something that will be impossible to do at our current scale without for profit companies or government backed services. The first will run into article 13, the second one is a non-starter.
One interesting thing regarding this was when Reddit added a "chat with a random user" -feature a few years back.
I was so used to the high quality submissions and comment threads that when I was paired to chat with random lurkers it was kind of eye opening how they were just... really plain and hard to hold a interesting conversation
with.

And this is exactly why communism will NEVER work: 90% of the population just won't be able to produce anything of value by themselves. They just lack the
"business instinct" or "drive to hustle" or whatever you want to call it. Is it environmental? genetic? cultural? I don't know, but if you forcefully stop the
"creator class" in favor of the 90%, what you will see happening is exactly what happened to the Soviet economy after WW2.
RAII is a disaster. Piecemeal allocation and wild jumping across the project to do all these little steps (to the point where the programmer cannot predict anymore what will happen) is not the way to go.

Then all the implications like exceptions and needing to implement copy constructors, move constructors, etc. in each little structure.

As to what C project doesn't just emulate RAII: Take any large C project and you will likely find diverse memory management strategies other than the object-oriented, scope-based one. Also, other interfacing strategies than the "each little thing carries their own vtable" approach. The linux kernel is one obvious example, of course.

But I also want to reference my own current project since it's probably written in a slightly unusual style (almost no pointers except a few global arrays. Very relational approach). https://github.com/jstimpfle/language. Show me a compiler written in RAII style C++ that can compile millions of lines of code per second and we can meet for a beer.

> The reason is, C++ doesn't impose anything on your program structure that C doesn't

Of course you can write C in C++ (minus designated initializers and maybe a few other little things). What point does this prove, though?
I live in Miami, and the tech scene here is...small, and there's not really a lot of potential for moving up/around.

There are some good employers with a startup mindset like Ultimate Software (payroll/HR software) who pay well, but, the pay is marginal for everyone else. ADT and Office Depot are in the Boca Raton area (great if you've got Hadoop skills or retail experience), but, I haven't heard that people are paid above the average around here.

I live in Downtown Miami (and work from home), so, I can't comment on commute:
Ultimately... when it comes to a big enough company, these decisions get squirrelly from the perspective of a moderate politician.

Take VW's emsissions test cheating. They broke the law, blatantly, intentionally, for 6 years that we know of, with substantial financial and competitive gains.

In Europe (most consequences were in the US), this is even more aggregious, imo. European emissions standards, vehicle taxation and such are often designed to give locals (esp VW) an advantage in the market. VW wrote a lot of the rules they broke themselves, practically.

Anyway... Back to the moderate "jobs and harmony" politician. Handing out a genuinely sufficient (enough so that crime doesn't pay, even if you only get caught every 2nd time) penalty would endanger the solvency of the (limited liability) company. That's not good for jobs.

Genuinely pursuing criminal charges against execs is something every major company, bank and such cries "disaster" over.

It's kind of a "too big to fail" problem. Does Germany/EU care more about fairness and rule of law or about the success of the biggest German company?
Actually, Meltwater was one of our first customers.

We powered their blog data back in the day. They acquired a smaller company in the space and incorporated their stack and used us for about 5 years.
The difference between outlier actors and outlier Wikipedia editors are that outlier actors are better than everyone else at acting, but outlier Wikipedia editors need only be superhumanly obsessive. It used to be that the way in which you were an outlier had to be somewhat related to being good at the task you were competing for the honor of completing, but on social networks the only qualification is that you spend all day doing it.
> FUD is never easy to read

On what planet was my comment you were replying to FUD? I simply pointed out a few things I'm not fond of in the language (with one point in particular stemming from my own ignorance of the language, which was corrected by folks). I was quite clear in stating that python is a language with pros and cons like any other. At which point did I claim anything to be objectively wrong with the language or spread any FUD whatsoever about using it?
Same here. It seems so interesting I don't dare touch it for fear of addiction.
I'll bite: what's your solution then? How will deregulating the market allow more ISPs to pop up and become competitive?
> GNU has not

GNU? GNU ... GNU what? I never heard of any ( https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html )

> Second, the critique against systemd is substantial and solid enough to stand on its own regardless of popularity.

Sure, just as the responses to those. And thus the trade off was/is acceptable to the maintainers of distros that eventually adopted systemd.

There are too many random shell scripts everywhere in the world (not just the Linux world), systemd's unit files are a big step in the right direction, even if their code and architecture is a dumpster fire (low level linux plumbing written in C is usually that).
yes, because NYC is so far inland that it doesn't have this problem.
What start? I've been reading these crazy stories about EVE Online since at least 2006. And before that there was interesting stuff happening in Ultima Online, e.g. the assassination of Lord British.
For anyone interested in this book, I'm going through it now but it addresses an important question of how to identify causality.

We've all become familiar with the refrain 'correlation does not imply causation'. This book attempts to answer: 'what DOES imply causation'? He introduces a framework for how one can answer this question. Not very mathematically rigorous, but following through the framework does appear to be able to discover non-intuitive causative conclusions.

Understanding causation will have important implications for the advancement of A.I. Finding a correlation with the causes hidden in a black box (current state of deep learning) isn't enough for many disciplines. Doctors for example will likely need to know WHY an algorithm made a decision, instead of simply running correlations and telling the operator that a patient has 80% chance of some diagnosis.
There is standard notes that has the encryption and cloud sync. You can try it standardnotes.org
France: Suspicious masked men in black opposing 'yellow vests' – who are they?
True, but it's helpful for a junior to know the lay of the land even if they don't know how to use every one of these technologies. It does a junior no good to keep their head down and focus entirely on PHP, then when they look for their first job they find all the listings want React (not saying there aren't PHP jobs)
"lack of organization" and "bureaucracy" ... You work for Vogons.
>It's very hard to enjoy money when people you love are going through hardships that would be solved by an infusion of cash. Obviously it's important not to give more than you can afford but you would be surprised by the number of people in tech who are sending money home in one way or another.

I've seen this time and time again, especially with PoC, who (statistically speaking) have much lower net worth as family units and thus are more susceptible to financial ruin when going through times of hardship
33 Thomas Street, San Fran
Not really familiar with player owned structures, but how would a small corporation be able to build a station? In high sec I assume that any other corp could just declare war and blow your stuff up. Doesn't the game have any mechanic to encourage small groups of new players?
Get more people using Swift serverside perhaps?

I can imagine that having a swift backend for your swift mobile app would be a lot nicer to work with than converting back and forth from a bunch of stringly-typed JSON.
Why thank you for the positive assessment! Yep agree van life isn't for everyone. But as inequality grows it will be a tolerable decision for many I think in the future.
What? https://godbolt.org/z/vnwvch
Good point. Something I had not considered either is people with loss of motions.
A lot of the later demo effects on the c64 is using so called "speedcode" which basically is code generating code on the fly to achieve things like dynamically copying data areas. In effect intelligent loop unrolling i asm.

http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:speedcode
Is the full set of images available for viewing online by the general public or only for "Experts"?
This would indeed seem to be a copyright infringement in many EU member states. For example, in Germany it wouldn't fall under the quotation exception (no such thing as vague "fair use" here), since you aren't critically engaging with or commenting on the quote, which would be allowed – you just reproduced it.

The movie studio could now hold HN liable.

Well, except that HN is not under EU jurisdiction, so it could probably choose to ignore EU court decisions against it. Bigger platforms of course won't have that luxury, so they'd need to come up with some way of limiting or avoiding that liability... or maybe just blocking EU users.
It's like when NPR has to constantly repeat "we are trustworthy". Not a good look for sure.
What are your thoughts on D or Rust as they compare to C++?
Physics explains why time passes faster as you age
Configuring Emacs, lsp-mode and the python language server
NAT elimination will indeed allow arbitrary devices to communicate with each other. Whether they do so will depend on the end users.

Stateful packet filters will still be necessary, but those would be end user configurable.

Keep in mind that you are thinking about a NAT you control. If your ISP is NATing you as well, you would have a very different impression.
> Result is equivalent to censorship.

I don't agree that if a business chooses not to operate in a country, because it's unwilling to spend the money required to comply with the country's laws, that that is equivalent to censorship.

Another person's personal information is not protected speech.
Do you even know what you are saying?

All this will mean is that the big tech, Googles and Facebooks of the world, will solidify their position for years/decades to come since only they will have the money/resources to take care of this expensive regulation. New startups on the other hand will stand little chance in this new world.

All these regulations look good on paper. But when you understand their medium-long term ramifications is when you realize how unfairly the deck is stacked now.
> We must be pretty far down the list if we're now proposing that career scientists will lead a political revolution.

Andrei Sakharov, a scientist and developer of the Soviet H-Bomb, was one of the Soviet Union's most prominent dissidents and human rights activists.
Dark matter doesn't interact with the electromagnetic force, so it can't form any chemical bonds at all. It is therefore useless as a smokable.
I keep hearing this but most webapp style applications don't have a lot of PII.
Indeterminate legal concepts are very common, I don't know why this is always brought up as soon as it's "about the internet".
>"internet platforms that organise and promote large amounts of copyright-protected works uploaded by their users in order to make a profit"

HN does not organize large amounts of copyright-protected works, nor are the links to articles an 'upload'. If HN organized PDFs of the linked articles so you could just skip heading to a third party site then we'd be talking.

'meant' is not a dangerous word. All laws require interpretation, which is why most countries have specific interpretation guidelines for legislation and even then sometimes it takes a few cracks at the can to get it right.

That's not something 'dangerous', although it can and does go wrong from time to time. But it's a standard risk of rulemaking as it's the standard process for courts interfacing with legislation or other rule-making texts.
I do enjoy the game, but I can't agree with this insane pricing model. Just on principle I refuse to pay $60 for a game and $40 for DLC and then $20 for more DLC then $40 for an expansion and then $40 for DLC to the expansion. I'd play it if there was just a single cost that was reasonable. Until the game stops getting paid DLC and there is just a flat cost to play the rest of the games I am not going to get back into it.

You vote for this kind of nonsense with your money and people keep buying it then this will never stop.
The privacy issue is real. I am not a lurker here, but every time I comment anywhere online a voice in my head says “it is not rational to do this. This mostly works against your self-interest.” However, I am not someone who is primarily driven by self-interest.
In the US the letter of the law matters because of how jurisprudence evolved there.

EU has a different jurisprudence system based on guidelines and interpretation.

There is a wide range of options philosophically. Confucian courts are even farther from what you might recognize.
imho, c :: c++ == ipv4 :: ipv6 (where '::' should be read as 'is to' relation)
> I've looked at gameplay videos of EVE before and it looks so boring

I completely get how it looks. But if you talk to most Eve Players who engage in PvP (including me), they'll tell you that they get a bigger adrenaline spike from Eve combat than they do in any other game. An intense 1v1 will often leave your hands shaking.
>the double taxation policy that was carved out against high-tax-base states

It's funny how the same liberals who call for higher taxes on the rich are so against capping a subsidy that primarily benefits rich people. If anything, the tax bill should've gone further and completely eliminated the mortgage and property tax deductions as these deductions primarily benefit the rich.
I tried to find a use case for "od", wondering if it was similar to "xxd", and in doing so I found an article comparing "xxd" and "od", and their use cases are indeed similar.

Basically, when there's no prettier way to render a file, print the bytes.