skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of what we do in the west could fall into the category of unhealthy dependency. I drink 4-6 double espressos daily, plus about 16oz of green tea. I vape. I code. I sort out issues on servers, for which without the caffeine and nicotine would suffer :).

This is life in the west. Being comfortable is no sin. Getting used to "better" is likewise not a bad thing. It's bad if/when you use your "status/wealth/etc" to impugn or degrade others. I feel like I've earned my place in life, as has my wife. We live in a normal house, drive so-so daily drivers (car status means nothing to me), and wear clothes from the outlet stores.

I do, however, not skimp on coffee, tea, meat, or leather boots. These I will gladly spend money on.

Like a lot of guys, I enjoy a fine cigar and a cold expensive lager on the back porch while cooking steaks. All washed down with a healthy measure of espresso and green tea.
I’m not sure why this company is still allowed to send mail. Why can’t their mail servers be blacklisted?
Aren't paying for externalities like these like this exactly why we pay taxes to state government? Why is the school paying for it's own air filtration? This sounds like a problem of ineffective government, not highways and pollution. It's the state's job to use tax money to smooth out these kind of issues in a roughly equitable manner.
The API does support "width" and "height" query parameters to set image size!
Ask HN: What is the most popular desktop Linux distro?
agreed unless its a web based graphics card, terrible name
Unless the commuters are coming from out of state, wouldn't the people driving (being residents) be paying the taxes which would pay for this anyway?

I get that it is coming out of the budget of the school, but ultimately the taxpayers _are_ paying for it, albeit in a round-about kind of way.
They burn out, and they inevitably taste funky. That's what drove me to a Chemex.
This is a good example of the Dunning–Kruger effect. Guy reads some books on a subject and thinks he understands all there is about it and think everybody else is stupid.
It does some curious things though. It makes reading online an interactive thing - you have to 'flip pages' quite deliberately and quite often. That would have a significant effect on engagement I would think. Perhaps (older?) folks like us are put off; but I can imagine a crowd that would be more likely to finish the article, once they got going/hooked?
On desktop the text feels like a supplement to the pictures more than the main part of the content.

As I looked at the pictures, scanning the text for callouts and deeper information, I found myself becoming very emotional.

The linked article tells a very powerful story through images, a story that touches upon love, adoption, middle America ("the heartland"), family, and race.
I never got the hang of Devonthink and couldn’t get into the habit of using it for all (or even most) files. How did you get started with it and what resources, if any, did you use? Do you always only index files (while they remain in whatever folders you have left them) or do you also import (copy into it) too?
Because they are pooooooooooooooooooooooooooor

This is a terrible title and shouldn’t be at the top of HN
I use a French Press abut 90% of the time. But the different methods are better at extracting certain kinds of flavors, so it really depends on what kind of coffee I'm using. For most coffee, the FP is great at extracting deep, earthy flavors (and the oil, obviously). So that's always my go-to coffee in the morning. For brighter, more citrus-y coffee (Intelligentsia brand excels at these lighter ones), I favor the pourover or Aeropress method to really highlight the fruity notes.
> 2-bit digital audio? Like only four total values of dynamic range total? 4-bit meaning only 16 total possible amplitudes? Is that even physically possible? ;)

Surprisingly, yes. With noise shaping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_shaping), very coarsely-quantized digital audio can produce high signal to noise ratios in the audible frequencies, via quantization techniques that push the error towards ultrasonic frequencies.

This doesn't violate information-theoretic limits because noise shaping requires very high sampling rates. The 1-bit Sony DSD format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital) used a 2.8MHz sample rate.

In the case of vinyl, the effective sample rate is physically limited by the (linear) record speed divided by the vinyl grain size, and to a rough approximation the bit depth would be log of the maximum groove amplitude divided by the grain size. However, the analog cutting mechanism would greatly limit the opportunity for dithering and noise shaping -- for example a needle cannot cut a wave shorter than the tip size.
I think it’s something very much societal. In Japan or China, Vietnam, etc., drug use is almost always seen in a negative light. It’s not about sowing wild oats, having forbidden fun, an outlet for hardship, etc. They’re always denigrated in all media, in society, in school, in music, films, at work, etc. It’s never any kind of cool in any way. It’s shunned ostracized outlawed and unaccepted. Does that map well to our society? I’m afraid not much. We’ll have to find another way out.
Binance's crypto BNB no longer tracks Bitcoin
Apple is already doing this (transparent memory/cache compression) on the GPU side, and there is some speculation they are doing it for the LLC on the CPU side, or may start doing it soon, based on patents they have filed.
My twenty-something friends and I used facebook extensively to run all aspects of our social lives, but now we exclusively use it for messaging and event planning. Nobody reads posts, comments, or notifications unless it has to do with an event.

A few of us have been dropping off and now we're starting to use chat programs (groupme, now Discord) to socialize.

I have to stay on to keep track of goings on in my amateur radio hobby, which as you'd expect is chock full of old men, a majority of which are on Facebook. I think the generational lag has finally caught up to them.
Interestingly that's exactly how algorithms make things go viral. They pick up on things that get a quick reaction with complete disregard for what happens in the long term. Jaron Lanier explains this in his talks [0].

So features on social media are decided based on short term gains and posts on social media are promoted like that too. It's like an entire industry forgot their parents warnings about thinking about the future.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q
In defense of Coase, the "flaw" is part of the theorem and discussion in the original paper, and Coase himself wrote extensively about the problem of using his conclusion while ignoring his assumptions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
Sounds like the Vietnamese single-serving coffee apparatus! Fun to use too.
"Attention to Detail" is my major weak point. I don't have it in coding. Give my a philosophical essay, a political discussion or an academic paper and I'll drown you in details, implications and references. Those come intuitively to me.

Writing codes is completely different. I have to practice everything what others seem to do intuitively. I need checklists. I need to take notes. I need to review my task and codes several times. And still, I overlook the obvious and never spot the easiest implementation (even for trivial tasks like checking for empty Strings). All while it takes me a great deal of discipline to take care of the level of detail that is required.

If someone here has/had the same problem, I'd like to hear their solutions.
Crypto market fell 90% but 95% of developers stuck around
The report itself uses the term deaths of despair. It's not talking about obesity.
In my experience, ARM Thumb (which is ARM's 32-bit take on dense encoding) makes code which is about 75% of the size of the equivalent x86 (i386) code. I am sure ARM, if there was enough demand, could make a 64-bit version of Thumb.
It's kinda funny. Classic MacOS had a spacial file manager, so folders and files stayed where you put them. I'm guessing that isn't true anymore? This kind of thing seems like a regression.
<rant on pointer-heavy data structures>

The continuing emphasis on pointer-heavy data structures in computer science curricula is really doing a massive disservice to students and all the employers that go on to hire those students. Pointer-heavy data structures are TERRIBLE on modern hardware. They were great back in the era when pointers were small (≤32 bits) and unpredictable memory access was roughly the same speed as CPU operations. We have left that era long ago. Today pointers are a whopping 64 bits and looking up your next node through a pointer is so slow that it's the CPU equivalent of taking a ten year sabbatical.

For example: at what size does it become better to use a list rather than a vector when doing lots of insertions and deletions which are O(1) for lists and O(n) for vectors? NEVER. It is always better to use a vector. Don't take if from me, this is according to Bjarne Stroustrup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo

Pointer-heavy data structures like linked lists are so bad for memory locality and storage overhead on modern hardware that it is impossible for them to catch up with contiguous memory vectors.

There are still situations where you need a tree but if you do, try very hard to use a representation like a binary array heap where the child links are implicit. Or if you must use "pointers" consider allocating all the values in a contiguous block and storing the link structure separately as 32-bit or smaller integer indexes into the data array. This at least improves the memory overhead and locality.

</rant>
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I don't think so. Pulling a journalist in once to ask for information would fit with that.

But flagging them so that all future border crossings result in automatic detainment for questioning can't be seen that way. I can only read that as surveillance and harassment.
Webrender might be the abstraction you want.

I don’t know anything about this, but node wrappers for webrender: https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender

And even a demo app: https://github.com/cztomsik/slack-app/blob/master/README.md
The story is pretty clear that the villains are ODOT who built a highway right next to a school.
I don’t disagree, but there seemed to be a lot of a publicity around a backend tech change, and to me, it is that publicity that undoes the whole idea of keeping businesses separated. As a side example, everyone knows that Coke makes Diet Coke, but many don’t know that they make Sprite. The Sprite model seems to be a better approach than FB’s new Diet Coke approach.
Reducing the amount of land we use is one of the best ways to restore our ecosystems and combat climate change. As we engineer better crops with higher yields we should use less land, and as we develop vertical farming we should use even less. I would like to see government buyback programs for farms and reforestation on those properties in the future. In the US states like Ohio, Indiana, and other midwestern states were heavily deforested for agriculture in the past.
Does that analysis to apply to the area immediately adjacent to the freeway, before particles disperse over a wider area? Even when trucks are absent, traffic smells bad.
I use a pour-over Chemex and manual bean grinder at home. I enjoy the process, but I really don't drink coffee that often, maybe once a week on a lazy sunday morning. I would definitely need a side by side taste test if I was to tell any subtle difference in fresh ground pour over vs pre ground in a normal drip coffee maker or a Keurig.

If I was a daily drinker, I doubt I could resist the temptation to get something convenient like a Keurig, despite all of that plastic waste it generates with the K Cups.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=facebook
> So many things have to go right just to get a software program to compile. That’s why attention to detail is so important...

Even the sloppiest coders who work with no attention to detail still compile their code with ease. I get the author's larger point about attention to detail but I don't think compilation is an effective example to illustrate that point.
How can I know I won't commit suicide, die via an overdose, or another kind of death of despair? As far as I'm aware, these are still choices for most of us. So if I choose to not die a death of despair, what would my life expectancy be?
The cyber criminals who penetrate these companies seem to be a bit better at doing useful things with the data.

Not as much of a concern here, but nefarious governments around the world are quite good at doing awful things with this data as well.
Alphabet is a publicly traded company and the officers have a fiduciary duty to do what’s best for their shareholders. This normally means maximizing profits. A corporate officer could make a case to shareholders that not maximizing profits in X area could have Y long term benefit, but that’s not very common these days.
I’m not actually actually sure that’s the case, as long the regulation is in place HGV’s have the weight and cost margin to include really solid filters, so particulate pollution at least from the engine is equivalent to passenger cars. Tyre and break wear would be more, but then the numbers of vehicles would also be a lot lower. Do you have any evidence that passengers cars have a nominal effect? I wouldn’t expect that to be the case.
My understanding is that Subaru engines are the most popular auto engine used in custom small aircraft. Maybe he can knock on their door.
So McDonalds is Uber for cooking food?
people should realise that forgein powers demotivate them against their own government

But what's wrong with that? Americans have every right to be "demotivated" and seek change from the government. The government has zero authority to coerce people to support the government, or to prevent dissatisfied citizens from agitating for change through free speech.
I didn't know about the Coase Theorem. The link between property right, transaction cost and externalities is not obvious and interesting.

We could imagine many tech examples similar to the school and highway :

- An ISP provides a connection with poor delay/jitter and it creates problem for software developers (Skype, multiplayer games,...) --> should the ISP compensate the developers or the developers pay the ISP to fix the problem?

- A developer is selling created a program that degrades the performance of another program if they are both run simultaneously. Who should pay who to compensate/fix the problem?
Well of course SIMD performance is part of the "hard part", because it implies things like very wide cache access, including perhaps unaligned access, high bandwidth between cache levels, wide register files, etc.

Plus a sane ISA extension strategy that actually gets people to use your SIMD instructions helps a lot (Intel hasn't done well here, but so far neither has ARM e.g., with almost non-existent support for SVE).

SIMD performance is one place that Intel is still fairly far ahead of both AMD and the ARM competition (with Apple far out ahead in that group).
Is Flynn actually in jail?
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major claims Mint (1 minute google search). As you've seen in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19254903 everybody has their own favorite.
They should investigate why do people actually use that much alcohol, drugs or whatever. What are the roots of these problems. I know a lot of countries where they just put on some silly laws on for example alcohol consumption, but do not look at facts why people start using alcohol at first.
There's no need to tie the 2D UI framework to the underlying rendering API. If you look at immediate-mode UI systems like Dear ImGui, those provide vertices, indices and a command list for rendering in each frame, and it's very easy to render those commands through all existing 3D APIs.

For instance here is an example of such a render function, it's just 50 lines of C, implemented on top of slim cross-platform headers with support for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android and WASM:

https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/0576ed914290a35...

(this is from this demo which is 513 KBytes all in all: https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/wasm/imgui-highdpi-sapp...)

With such a bloat-free UI system you can create statically linked single-exes with embedded font data and shaders in a few hundred KBytes, and people are starting to use this for "proper" desktop tools too (not just as embedded tool UIs for games etc)
I filter messages that contain the Unsubscribe word.
So...in the future, when we can harness bacteria for our mobile/fuel cells, will we simply call these devices BACtteries?

(You see what i did there? And, yes, I'm a father, so am compelled to pump out silly jokes. ;-)
Having the ability to choose between 0$ and anything more than 0$ ?
Indeed! Seems like there are quite a few aviators here on HN. I'll be impressed the day I casually see someone mention a Robin DR400 aircraft... (more or less unknown in the US, but the most common training aircraft here in France, and I believe in Germany too).
“In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-pole. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo [Illinois] and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” -- Mark Twain
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Schools are mostly funded by the town, not the state
The „back endification“ of front end development
Also, ARM is one of the densest RISC-style ISAs. A64 less so than A32 but it still has things like conditional execution of some of the most common instructions, loading two registers in one instruction, etc.
Mind reading computer may offer way to speak to those who cannot
This lacks several points from being conclusive:

- it describes only "peak hour, drive alone commuters" without apportioning the fraction of total pollution caused by that group.

- How much does evening peak rush-hour pollution affect school-day air quality? (morning peak would probably have a direct effect)

- by dealing with averages, it obscures the distribution - it could be that the majority of the pollution is caused by lower-income commuters driving older vehicles, but Tesla-driving higher income commuters drive up the average income

- it assumes that the money paid for the pollution somehow belongs to the students, when it is apportioned from the tax dollars paid that fund the school district budget. Maybe those dollars already come from the high-income commuters.

- it brings in race purely to add to the emotional content of the narrative

If you disagree, please describe why you find this narrative rationally compelling.
Agreed. I generally see a lack of attention to detail with regard to things like linting, unit tests, and documentation. Our CI builds fail way too often due to the first two items, which can be easily done via a single build target on a developer's machine.
OTOH, if you can move a couple billion transistors from instruction decode and reordering to the L1 cache and execution pipelines, you'll get less cache pressure and deeper pipelines.

There is no magic - down at the back-end, x86's and ARMs are doing the same thing and getting the same performance will cost about the same chip area and power. Where they differ, however, is on the front-end, the pieces that decode instructions, issue micro operations and schedule them through to the execution units. In that space ARM64 seems more promising.

Unless, of course, Intel decides to throw away a lot of the backwards compatibility and goes very low-transistor-budget for legacy instructions (maybe software traps), freeing a ton of chip area to implement the ones they care about in a fast and power efficient way. That x86 would be unable to run DOS, but I don't think many of us would care.
Funnily enough, I happened to be on the page that answers this.

Page 160:
"Alcohol-induced deaths and drug-induced deaths are mutually-exclusive. However, these deaths may also be considered suicide deaths."

Also, I can't find any more info on what is included here. They just say it doesn't use ICD-10 codes:

>"NCHS has defined selected causes of death groups for analysis of all ages mortality data: Drug-Induced causes, Alcohol-Induced Causes, All Other Causes. The group code values are not actual ICD codes published in the International Classification of Diseases, but are "recodes" defined to support analysis by the Selected Causes of Death groups." https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/mcd.html#Drug/Alcohol%20I...

EDIT:

If I go to CDC WONDER (https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D76) and click "Drug/alcohol induced causes" a box populates showing (presumably) ICD-10 codes: X40-44, X60-64, X85, Y10-Y14

That includes stuff you wouldn't expect:

X44:

agents primarily acting on smooth and skeletal muscles and the respiratory system
anaesthetics (general)(local)
drugs affecting the:
· cardiovascular system
· gastrointestinal system
hormones and synthetic substitutes
systemic and haematological agents
systemic antibiotics and other anti-infectives
therapeutic gases
topical preparations
vaccines
water-balance agents and drugs affecting mineral and uric acid metabolism

http://apps.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online2004...

So this could be partially due to "better access to healthcare". More people are being put on blood pressure, etc medications and are dying from over/under-dosing on them. I don't see any reason for them to include X44 in the current study besides trying to mess with the numbers...

EDIT 2:

Indeed, when I selected only x44 on CDC WONDER, here are the results:

Year Deaths per 100k Pop
1999 1.5
2000 1.7
2001 1.9
2002 2.4
2003 2.6
2004 2.9
2005 3.3
2006 3.8
2007 4.2
2008 4.5
2009 4.7
2010 5.0
2011 5.6
2012 5.3
2013 5.5
2014 5.8
2015 6.3
2016 7.4
2017 8.1

So the death rate from normal (not addictive or recreational) medications is 5.4x higher in 2017 than in 1999.
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Yes but then you meet them as adults and they exhibit (and unsuccessfully try to hide) tons of mental issues due to messed up childhood. Usually revolves around trusting others in relationships and this trickles down to many aspects of their lives
Continuous learning is also critical for success.
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Google has long held the stance that anything that's good for the web is good for Google. Google is nearly ubiquitous online these days, so people spending more time online will almost certainly benefit their business.

That's why they don't need any ulterior motivation for efforts like HTTPS Everywhere, Google Fiber, or Chrome. The very fact that those technologies make the web safer, faster, or more powerful already benefits Google indirectly.
Browser compatibility is better in early 2019 than I think it was in early 2011. I think it is worse than it was in early 2018.
Microsoft open sources the Windows Calculator
You frame the difference in oils as a bad thing, but it's simply personal preference (I much prefer paper filtered coffee).