skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're salaried and presumably stock comped employees they are being paid for their work. The flexibility to let go of employees is a double edged sword, but it's an important part of the U.S. economy. Without that ability, a risky endeavor would never be able to be undertaken. Companies would be way more leary of hiring more employees for fear of having to jump through bureaucratic hoops to let an employee go. In the meantime a company could suffer and ultimately die if not given the flexibility to evolve and adapt to changing market conditions.

A U.S. employee has to understand this. Nobody going to work at Tesla is unaware that the company is taking on multiple risks on multiple fronts and not all of them may pan out.

But I would argue that the American worker ultimately and on average benefits from the vibrant economy that such pro-business policies cultivate.
Maybe an option would be to have a setting to automatically hide "flame wars" if the user does not wish to see those? We already have the manual "hide", but this would hide some posts automatically.

I do agree that this automatic de-ranking as soon as a post is considered to be controversial is unexpected and not a feature I like.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germa...

> Claim: During World War II, George Soros was a member of the SS (a Nazi paramilitary organization) or a Nazi collaborator who helped confiscate property from Jews.

> Rating: False.
"ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance"

All we need to do is democratize AI. It can be well argued that it is happening.
How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (2014)
Seems like there's a huge glut of articles about quitting social media recently. Which is fine, it's not a good thing to be addicted to these sites and their effects on society are questionable, but these articles don't really seem to be making much difference here. What can actually be done to get people to drop Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram/whatever?
You make a case why the private sector should be encouraged to monitor as well.
I’m a year in to having less social media no: facebook, twitter, instagram.

I mean, I quit them because they were irritating me, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that removing an irritent from my life feels like a relief.

The one remaining dreg of reason I might want to get back is local sales and sports groups which seem to be on Facebook exclusively. But thats about it.
outline shows "something went wrong". Flagged for posting a link to paywalled content. HN should ban this, I don't see the point tbh.
Hacker News is really good! I consider it like a pre-buyout Slashdot in its golden era.
(Open Source) Stewardship made practical [slides] [pdf]
"2) State is maintained if it goes in the background. A bit buggy though, but promising"

So happy about that! I almost thought Apple would deliberay cripple the PWA experience on iOS just enough in order to not be competitive to native apps. This is a huge step towards PWAs becoming a real contender in the app space. Starbucks and Twitter PWAs show what's already possible. Very bullish on this development.
One possibility:

Instead of quitting, just find interesting videos which teach you something useful and/or fulfilling, or which intensify your non-youtube interests. This may make it more likely that you'll gradually use youtube less?
I think that it would be entirely practical to skim every new comment on HN given a simple chronological list without threading. HN isn’t actually that big.

Metafilter is another example of a small-ish, highly moderated community that does a thorough job with a small handful of dedicated moderators.
Contemporaneous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13276968
check this out https://www.8hrs.xyz/

The site shows all the top page articles since last 8hrs. I am not sure if this will be useful for hn readers.
I am the author.
nice. Still no push notifications which is a huge no for me when it comes to PWAs at this stage. I know there's pushover but their licensing sucks, not every user can and wants to buy it.
you can get a trial without paying anything
But the manuals adds weight and bulk, which contributes to CO2 when shipped.

I agree tho. My mom just got her first smart phone, a Samsung S8+. She's 72 years old, she'll figure it out but not thanks to that tiny booklet that came with the phone. If she needed the manual, I'd have to print it out on A4 paper or something anyway.
Constexpr is not bad, but not macros. Macros can do things like generate new types, and add methods existing types. That's crucial for things like custom derive. C++ will get that sort of thing from the metaclasses proposal, which slouches towards WG21 to be born:

https://www.fluentcpp.com/2017/08/04/metaclasses-cpp-summary...
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That article is better than expected, and it matches my own experience with CH (it was a great match for our use-case, and some of those reasons are in the article; and also, we could have used an inverted index, would one have been available; surprisingly survived w/o it).
Its usually three pages per language, and half a phone book legal advise because the us must inform you how creative its citizens are at maiming themselves and others.
As much as I'd love to see us as a civilization control the atom, I'm not seeing the financial case for why we should be focusing on nuclear right now.

NuScale said their tech was targeting $90/MWh, and trying to get a first plant running by 2023[1]. That's a non-starter for most modern utility RFPs even today.

Xcel Energy is seeing bids as low as $18/MWh for wind, $29/MWh for solar, and $36/MWh for solar+storage[2]. So maybe nuclear can fit into the realm of the 10% of edge cases where renewables+storage aren't effective, but I'm not seeing any financial scenario where nuclear comes close to providing the middle 80% of generation capacity. It's just too damn expensive.

Unless Bill Gates is proposing we can cut nuclear prices by 80%, I'm worried this is a huge distraction from us deploying renewables + storage + flexible load, which is currently extremely cheap and getting cheaper.

[1]: https://analysis.nuclearenergyinsider.com/small-modular-reac...

[2]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/record-low-sola...
Not only, and I do agree with those change requests.

Which is why I am usually against the "I rewrote X in Y", unless it holds a good business value story going for it.
Sam,

Philosophical question, why did you write such an article?
What do you hope to accomplish?

Now the criticism:

Surely it must have occurred to you that at least some people out there are trying hard doing most things that you listed, and still not making it?
What are you doing about it? The last I looked at YC funding, I saw that the figure is simply too low ( under $3000 a month) an incentive for a person with a stable salary to get into any venture.

Most of what you have written is indeed good - but statements like:
"Be hard to compete with" - are laughable. Stop making an ass of yourself with such articles, you can do better ( I mean it). Have it proof read by someone smart, before you put it out.

To others:

Users throwaway000021, saberience, neilk, voiceclonr, distant_hat, ah765,
mcilai, beatpanda and johan_larson have all made astute observations.
Open source stewardship made practical [video]
https://github.com/stuarthalloway/presentations/blob/master/...
I would disagree. Thousands of that can only be done by humans are by many measures better than a single dangerous plant that produces the same economic output in a more concentrated fashion.
This is 100% correct. I've never seen this reasoning presented so well before. You're absolutely right, there are languages out there that target the web and the backend on the seever, they can do that and use async await for both targets.
Because this is not the movies. Having a criminal record curtails your ability to travel.
Modders use AI to upscale pre-rendered PS1 backgrounds with phenomenal results
Hey!
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a great book, but it written by Michael Feathers.
I think you're mixing sacrifice with eating/consuming.

In most cases of human sacrifice, it was done for religious reasons, and the meat wan't eaten (or if it was then in small quantities, like eating the hearts as you mentioned). even back then, the consumption of human body parts wasn't considered healthy or nourishing, it was done only to appease the gods/give us their favor/make us stronger/etc.

I think that thoughts and stories of eating people, and especially kids that is pretty common in many societies and myths, comes as a warning or as something to fear, both because human sacrifice was common enough at a certain point, but also because it helped to easily scar people (whether the parents or the children themselves).

I think that one of the problems with eating dead humans, even recently dead people, is that those are even worst "parts" then the livings parts. What I mean is the even in the conventional meat eating industry they usually don't eat meat from animals that died naturally (and i'm assuming you're not talking about mass murder), and the reason for that is that the animal (or in our case, the human), died for a certain reason, more likely then not, from health reasons, so the chance of the meat containing disease, sickness, or even just being super weak is a lot higher then when they take a supposedly healthy animal, kill it, and harvest it.
Me too, I do favour native over Web, but there are a good set of applications that can be made good enough with Web stack, without any FFI or build tooling headaches.
Is this inspired by startup secrets series
> If it was worth your time to get X energy to produce Y results, and now X energy produces Y+1 results, it isn't particularly obvious to wind back X. It makes more sense to keep X constant and enjoy the greater results.

That's where the increase in costs (or the competition from cheaper producers) comes into play. The production costs are increasing and producers are keen to improve efficiency, since it is one way to lower the pressure on production cost.

There are also lots of energy markets where the overall demand is limited.

> reduce energy consumption without compromising living standards

Twenty years ago I had a workstation which consumed 1.5KW/h. Now my workstation consumes 0.1KW/h while being 1000 times faster. I have several other computers around me (mostly with low-power CPUs) which each consume around 0.005KW/h - while each is much faster than the workstation of twenty years ago.

My LED lights are as bright as light before and more flexible - while using 1/5ths of the electricity.

From all I have seen as data, the GDP/capita has been increasing, while energy consumption has been reduced. I don't see my living standards being degraded.

> We still work a 5 day week

You maybe, not me. I'm also travelling a lot less than I used to do - which is alone an increase in my living standard.
Anyone else clicked on this thinking it was some sort of lord of the rings university?
Not that secure. just watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY2E0hjGuU
I would say that's a false equivalency because coal operators (until recently) were profitable enterprises whereas nuclear lobbyists are generally concerned not just with public tolerance but public funding.
Thankfully I'm immune to this. I hate videos with a passion.
To be fair they did (still do on Android?) have a VPN that functioned as spyware, which seems like something people don't intentionally install a VPN for.
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Like many things in life, there is a lot more nuance once you dive past the surface. There are in fact numerous jewish ethnicities, it's not one homogeneous group. Some of those jewish ethnicities, such as the Beta Israel (aka Ethiopian Jews) have been discriminated against by the rest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel#Depo_Provera_...

Given the discrimination the Beta Israel have faced; particularly the sterilization controversy; it's important to recognize the ethnic diversity of the jewish community, lest some parts of it be forgotten and erased.
I agree. If Apple would support push notifications for PWAs, it would almost level the playground for most kinds of apps.
There's a misleading statement in the "undefined behavior" slide. Allow me to nitpick, since this subject is so full of misunderstandings and confusion.

"What are the contents of uninitialized variables?
... whatever was in memory before now!"

This may be true or false - as the slide itself says, "with undefined behavior, anything is possible!".

Besides, the subject of accessing uninitialized variables is more nuanced than "undefined behavior". Among other things, the effects depend on the variable's type ("unsigned char" does not have trap values):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11962457/why-is-using-an...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6725809/trap-representat...

It's also important to note that C++ has different rules on this. For example, the extract_int function in the last link is valid C, but not valid C++ (in C++ you'd use std::memcpy to achieve the same thing in a valid way).
Would have been awesome if they joined the effort of developing FIRRTL[1][2] and using it as a universal (LLVM-alike) hardware intermediate language, better suited modern chip design needs than Verilog or VHDL[3].

[1] https://github.com/freechipsproject/FIRRTL

[2] https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

[3] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19
Peyps also created one of the great treasures of English folk history, a collection of over 1,800 broadside ballads. Broadsides are the closest thing we have to a 17th century newspaper - cheaply printed, sold in the street and fundamentally ephemeral. Browsing his collection gives a remarkable insight into the zeitgeist.

https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/pepys
Great. Now we can have app lookalikes built with someone's pet JS framework contaminating our iPhones.
Yes, I believe you missed the headline on purpose.

This style of English and syntax is very similar to what I've seen pop up on, well, any article that mentions China in a non-positive light.

These comments always try to discredit the article (or attempt to use whataboutism with the US), and coincidentally, often read like badly machine-translated English.
Evidence suggests Toyota produces superior cars https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/the-most-and-least-expe...

But its share in Global car sales is just 9.2%
> I'm planning to make a fantasy computer myself (basing it off the z80)

This is so much fun, I did this last year, although initially it only ran inside Unreal Engine. Later on I did a "native" port to Linux. It can run CP/M 2.x and Wordstar (https://i.imgur.com/rIY1he8.png), it had a telnet+VT100+zmodem client for accessing BBS's (https://i.imgur.com/VszSPkB.png), and I even added a graphics mode later on (https://i.imgur.com/t3kreQM.png).

I'm working on a 68000 based one now as well. It's a really great learning experience.
My favorites are the highly rated and vetted learning resources or canonical resources for a given topic. It’s gem hunting for knowledge and it pays off frequently.
Local newspapers have already been gutted. There’s nothing left to cut
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“I - or Rumor, then - acted a little on impulse; jumped out of the bushes and snatched the hat off Ibelin. Stay silent for a moment, we looked at each other. Then I ran away with his hat, without thought for where I ran, says Lisette and smiles.”

You can’t do that in the game.
> ... free access to publications and open society are completely different things
Of course they are and it wasn't my intention to mix them up but as you also noted they are connected somehow.

> 2. free access to articles → high quality journalism goes out of business as they have to compete against zero-cost alternatives → misinformed (or even deliberately disinformed) society → people less likely to fight for openness.

This can be right in the capitalistic framework many have to live in and deal with. On the other hand this encourages people to write what is sold best / for the highest price.

You can see how damaged the scientific publication system is as organizations and individual scientists are rated by how many articles (quantity not quality) they publish and where they are published (artificial reputation vs. real value).

I am convinced that everything must be open to really pave the way towards an open society.

The problem with this ATM is just the capitalistic framework. Peoples sole purpose in life is earning enough money to not perish before kind of a natural death occurs [which is also connected to amount of money you have].

The need to enslave yourself without purpose just to exist and the reality that success can be easily achieved just by making money somehow (quality doesn't matter and in most cases is punished because you don't earn enough margin) does not foster quality in any way.

Same goes for writing in my opinion. Better to read something from someone who is really dedicated and interested in the topic than some mercenary writer.
Thank you very much :)

But that's exactly what I dislike: for everything you wanna do on the net you're forced to register. I just can't see it anymore and instantly close stuff that behaves that way.
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> too slow. Break ground now and you'll be producing energy by 2030

Rosatom will sell you a floating power station for $300 million [0], you can tow it into place and connect it up. The regulatory approval will probably take you longer than getting it here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power...
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Marketing speak. The real thing they should do is committing for repairable phones (easy) and more importantly update-able phones (hard). So that users do not have to replace a perfectly working phone because they fear for their security.
"began to stop"

This one is indeed lovely. Ceos....
"contaminating"? PWAs are contained a whole lot stricter than native apps. Specifically on Android I would worry a lot less about adding a PWA to the home screen than installing a native app.

Do you speak out against implementing apps in JavaScript or is your criticism pointed at PWAs specifically?
My understanding is that the semantics are exactly the same, but it’s just possible for the checker to match your intent more tightly.

For example, in lexical lifetimes, this fails:

let x = &mut foo;

if x.bar() {
baz()
} else {
foo.consume() // takes foo by value
}

It will complain that you’ve used `foo` while it is borrowed by `x`, even though a human can easily tell that `x` is already irrelevant by that point. NLL would accept this (I believe).
A related read:

https://www.barrons.com/articles/luxury-cars-used-5154751920...
> I think that it would be entirely practical to skim every new comment on HN given a simple chronological list without threading. HN isn’t actually that big.

The oldest comment on the first page of https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments was posted 15 minutes ago. Reading through all of them took me 5 minutes. Ignoring the fact that posting frequency varies throughout the day, reading every comment would require a single person to spend 8 hours a day every day. So it seems possible to moderate HN like that, but I really wouldn't want to be in dang's shoes monitoring the contextless comment stream all day.
Base internet is democratizing at complexity = 1.

The moment complexity on the web goes up, your need for governance structures goes up and the web becomes a force for centralized control of entities on the web: Human or otherwise.

The higher the level of complexity, the better the tools required to manage and analyze data. Therefore the better the tools available to analyze and manage humans.

I guess, if you project this, then the highest levels of the web probably are fully centralized and firewalled networks,.

At some point you have to deal with attackers, inimical and hostile networks and attacks to take over your "stack" of complexity/society. With the internet and high enough complexity, You can finally attack some subset of human behavior, privacy, brains, or information with automation.

The internet is probably the equivalent of flight based damage to fortresses.

And this is before people discuss something like singularity AI.
My point is more that it's not like I signed up for news about certain languages. So unless I use them all, there will always be some amount of noise.
Very good point indeed!

That's the western filter bubble and since this trade war it's even more obvious.

Typical double standards. The news tell you who the bad guys are and everyone knows that the news never lie...
Sometimes milk ends up spoiling before the expiry date, so checking if it's still good is a good idea anyway.
If the name Fiennes brings to mind actor Ralph Fiennes and his cousin explorer Ranulph Fiennes, it's no coincidence: they are related.

Wikipedia has several overview pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fiennes_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes_fami...
Come on, guys. It's emphatically NOT CLEAR.

There's a jump between 1:11 and 1:12 in the video. Just before, the sled bumps into the tires in the front of the car. You can actually see the car physically jerk back as the sled hits. Just after, all four wheels of the car have magically appeared on top of the sled.

Phooey.

If this were as simple as everyone thinks, there would not be a jump in the video at the exact point that the magic happens!
The Guardian view on consumerism and Marie Kondo: stuff this society of excess
> how moderation works

Crowdsourced via the flag button, which acts as a "superpowered downvote" even though it's not presented as such.
I see the same - lots of devs with opinions of M$ and "isn't ASP.NET that thing with forms and callbacks". Too bad for them!
Would have been nice for the Guardian to be upset about corruption and criminality in Venezuela over the past two decades. But no, it's time to blame America for that country's demise just as it's about to have a revolution against the socialism and corruption that did it in.
What? can you link a serious headline talking about "collapse" of chinese economy please?

Are you on the planet Earth???

Logic. Please. Keep The Logic.

I said "collapse"

Where is the collapse headline? ? ?
Well there's r/askscience and r/askhistorians which are similar on that matter.
I agree, there seem to be fewer in depth articles. It could be that the audience is changing to a less technical audience, or just getting older.

Could you suggest a suitable replacement?
Too bad that's all you were able to take away. I lived a similar childhood with parents who to this day don't understand how much my online friends meant to me. This article really spoke to me.
It doesn't matter where the issue come if it's still an issue.
One can argue that those are the best bits of the Hero's Journey plot structure
Dont worry about robots and self driving tanks. That I can assure you, will not happen. Any one still selling that is selling a pipe dream.

The acid test for self driving cars is whether they can drive down a road in India or any other country where people don't have western stands of driving discipline. The worse the better.

HOWEVER, And this is the idea I would pursue and sell to authoritarian governments everywhere you don't need Level 5 autonomous cars to get autonomous cars.