skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just having a go at your vocabulary use - which I don't object to in any way - just reminded me of his.
I actually agree with your analysis of his viewpoint on the matter. There are some valid aspects to it but that ship has sailed.
anywhere and everywhere. The same process works with our political leaders, so everyone should be aware
Another excellent Smith quote with which I fully agree, and one often overlooked by avowed Smith fans, though I don't see it's immediate applicability to the issue at hand.
That makes a lot of sense.

I've been playing around with embedding sqlite for a Rust project and checking the C into the source tree made sense there too.
France is also an exception then from what I remember pre-2015 (unless things changed dramatically since then).
Thanks for sharing this.

* I clicked your link
* closed the HN tab
* was completely blown away by the article
* "Reopen closed tab" and up-voted your comment
You're using national average math, not net-recipient state math. It's rarely the case that states that receive more than they pay do so as a result of social security. It would also be pretty hard for a state's net receipts to be interest on the debt absent some kind of sovereign wealth fund that held US treasuries, which most US states don't have.

Moreover, the military budget is where a sizable chunk of the pork lives.

And the problem isn't just pork, it's the general inefficiency of hoovering up your state's money and then sending it back with strings attached. Federal programs can require hot garbage like designated "affordable housing" (i.e. cordoning off a slum to concentrate poverty in) as a condition for housing grants, or "teach to the test" education programs like NCLB. It's not a stretch to claim that the states could be better off with less money but without the strings attached.
I lost around 2.5 years to World of Warcraft, I'm talking 12-14 hours per day over that period. This is over a decade ago and my mum still talks about the wasted time and she hates the name of that game. She doesn't realise that without that escape I wasn't far off suicide. That addiction gave me enough time to sort out my life and figure things out. I'm in my 30's now and I truly love my life and I have for a number of years.
Queerbaiting – Exploitation or a Sign of Progress?
> Bitcoin provides substantial utility and value to society

Only for speculation and money laundering. Bitcoin's exaggerated volatility makes it unusable as a currency. If it would you wouldn't be making fun of the guy who spent N bitcoins on 2 pizzas instead of holding it. And conversely, if everyone would hold bitcoin, it wouldn't bring any utility to society.
Attention Poppin’ – Users Droppin’. How to Design for Attention and Save Face
You're describing society. Any free "social" system, virtual or otherwise, can and will attract the same ingredients and the outcome will be a strong approximation of a normal society.
I mean... weren't influencers always fake? It is in their name - they exists to influence people towards some specific outcome. For some - it is equivalent to ads, for others it is political agenda.

Some might even believe in what the say and do, but first and foremost they are platform to deliver an idea. There is nothing real required from them, just an illusion of it.
aprils fool
iPad / iPhone are captive rich markets, where only Safari is available. So companies/devs will keep on testing/supporting for it.
What rubs me the wrong way is that a lot of build systems have a fatal combination of unfamiliar syntax and complete lack of debuggability.

Conan and Meson seem so much better in that regard.
Linux kernel development and writing a simple Kernel Module
> "Then why aren't we selling drugs?"

Because Google makes much more money than the cartels and employs far fewer people, so it's more efficient and more profitable.
> CMake can generate:

Although you're conflating project transcoders with makefiles, nevertheless that's the whole point of cmake: generate makefiles that are used by some third-party program to actually build the software.
I have yet to encounter any closed stackoverflow question and think to myself “boy am I glad they closed that one!”

In fact, most of the time I encounter one of these closed questions, it was precisely the question I was curious about.

I just don’t understand why they do this.
Desert kites: they're mentioned in passing in the article and I was curious so I looked them up. Apparently they're 5000 year old traps for gazelles that can be kilometers long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite
I had Sonic DSL & was happy. Had to ditch it when until I needed faster upload for work purposes.
I'd rather take a well tested i386 than a new processor that crashes Linux with microcode errors.

Paper manuals actually instill confidence. Should pilots contact Stackoverflow in an emergency?
Warning, not error. And it shows the rest of protections enabled, good enough for me.
I found a stark difference in German and American higher education that the German higher education system treats you like an adult, including accountability for your own schedule, whereas in comparison American universities appear an extension of middle school. Carefully created and controlled curriculum, etc. That's in no way a statement about the academic merit in either direction, of course.

This is very much aligned with the direct cost and services provided. Attending German universities is virtually free, and under certain conditions, the country will give you very cheap loans to pay for your living expenses. My spouse had a single digit number of thousands of Euros to pay back after graduating.

PhD students are often underpaid employees and are treated that way (for better or worse) instead of being considered as and treated like students. This doesn't imply one is preferable to another, just that it is a continuation of treating them with and expecting a higher degree of maturity and independence.

An upshot for me was that when I applied to my first industry job, the time as a PhD student was treated as work experience.

So yeah, I think you're spot on in that many folks from continental Europe would find the amenities bewildering. :)
Awesome! :)

I love this field of CS/Math.

How much time/energy/space does it take to think a thought? Is it possible to think this class of thoughts? What difference does it make if we change the computational substrate from classic to quantum?

I wish I had two lifetimes, so that I could spend one on dwelling on things like this. (Maybe I do, if we made enormous advancements in cybernetic prostethics et.c. before I die.. lets hope!)
> just create a virtual environment

Yaw super lightweight ...
The paper discussed in the article describes writing such a crawler. They simply use the GitHub search API.
Except for, you know, all the miners wastefully vying for a chance to be the middleman for a given block.
Ten years ago in France, it was around 279€ and since my familly was in the lowest quintile, it was covered by the state. But i've hear that the true cost was in fact 3.8K€ per student, up to 7K per student if you count lodging. Or around 10K$.
For "Elite" schools the upfront cost is between 7K and 15K, and you can add 2K for the true cost (paid in taxes, VAT or income) and 3k for lodging. I say elite but the best school in France for math is actually a public university (ranked 5th in the world or around that), and you can get this for almost free if your parents are poor.
I have been dubious of effectiveness of homeopathy during many years. Now, it is widely used in breeding to compensate for prohibited antibiotics. This seems to prove that tiny doses also matter.
> Bitcoin provides substantial utility and value to society

Equating the cost of Bitcoin and aluminum doesn't seem like a sound argument unless you can also equate the value (or show that they are approximately close.

Could you credibly claim Bitcoin brings the nearly the same value to society that aluminum does?
Apple tends to support products for a very long time, even if they're discontinued. But comparisons are hard as most products are hardware based.

Amazon has a bad track record when it comes to hardware products but hasn't had much volatility when it comes to services they offer.
They try to address this up-front:

> As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.

Questions like this, although very interesting, just don’t fit the Q&A format they are promoting, where they aim to be free of debate and opinion.
> Yea, but what it's not is simple.

That really depends on what you're trying to do. Cmake's happy path for building an executable that depends only on libraries that already support cmake is very straight-forward.
What is the IDE they are using ?
With Fargate you have containers running all the time, and you pay for that....from what I've seen of Cloud Run, you just pay when you're actually serving requests
My favorite resource about minimalist CSS : http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

And at least it uses its own recommendations, whereas the OP isn't (it ships way more CSS than the mere 58bytes it talks about)
Everything that we do in life is a form of marketing and PR. The very way we present ourselves to the world, our body language, how we dress, make up, color and style our hair, stuff that we talk about, it's all an attempt to sell ourselves as better and smarter and sexier than the competition, and we all do it all the time. And for all of us at least part of it is really just plain fake. If you'd apply the same rules used for commercial products on all those happy couples, perfect housewives, cool bros having crazy adventures that you can see all over Facebook, Instagram, etc. they'd all be charged for false advertising. So don't be that hard on people trying to sell you skateboards...
Of course they will. I’ve flagged actually illegal content on Facebook and got that kind of response. I mean, there are card fraud groups operating on there right now and nasty teenagers flipping stolen bikes on Instagram Live so why am I even surprised?
Hash Tables, Sorting, and Security
Hi, thanks for the feedback, Firefox version coming soon stay tuned.
Show HN: remotejobsflow.com, like rubyflow, but for remote jobs
If you exclude gold and every other physical commodity ever.
Conan is orthogonal to the choice of build system, as in fact Conan's main choice of build system is cmake.
Don't worry, I'm sure the owners will catch them doing that via their own cameras.
I've been keeping an eye on alacritty and sort of expect to switch at some point, especially if I begin using Wayland. I've got urxvt configured the way I like it but it can be annoying that default packaged builds are often configured for 88 rather than 256 colours. At the moment, I'd miss the search plugin for searching the scrollback buffer (though I'd prefer if it'd just let me use less) and the single process daemon mode of urxvt.
I can only speak for myself but I'd be happy to get my 90s Internet back. The Internet was much better before companies grabbed their share of it and eroded standards.
It doesn't really prevent fraud that isn't already a solved problem. When was the last time you had to deal with wire transfer fraud?

If you buy counterfeit goods with bitcoin there's not much you can do. A credit card protects you from fraud over $50.

What exactly is this bitcoin waste getting us?
What I miss about these tools is some "relatively" straightforward dependency detection and generation.

That is, I have a bunch of .cpp files which need to be compiled into individual executables in a folder bin/. I also have a folder inc/ which contains some headers (.h) and those headers possibly also have some associated TU (.cpp).

Now g++ can already generate a dependency graph of headers for an executable. It is then (with a standard Makefile and some supporting bash scripts) quite straightforward to mangle that graph into a list of translation units (namely those files whose name matches a depended-on header) which must be compiled and linked into the executable.

That is, I can simply create a new "executable file" .cpp file in bin/, include some headers therein and when I say make, the Makefile automagically figures out which (internal) dependencies it needs to link in when linking the executable.

Now that I have these "relatively straightforward" scripts and the corresponding Makefile, the incentive to move to another (nicer) build system which would require me to rebuild this infrastructure to fit into this other build system's view of the world is quite low – unless there is some way to do this directly?

Xmake as shown here (and also Meson linked in a sister comment) appear to still require manual selection of dependencies.
Ruhnn Holding Limited – Pandata
Man, that was a good time. I remember writing out paths on paper that were lines of arrows. Had to adjust turn values based on the surface friction; linoleum needed less turn, and carpet needed more. Talk about learning to debug...
Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge
Feels really interesting, too bad It has THE code of conduct. I don't support, distribute, endorse, use, and give any kind of publicity to projects using it.

inb4: "what's wrong with being decent/nice/inclusive?" it's not about that.

The CoC should be neutered with something like including protection for political views, or explicitly putting social media out of the project spaces.
As a techie and a math lover, I was initially excited with Bitcoin, and did a bit of mining, transactions, etc. But after learning about the environmental impact, I no longer support Bitcoin. It's just not worth the cost, a very beautiful idea but with a serious flaw (which I hope can be fixed in the future). So this sounds quite sensible to me.
Sure, Dylan writes poetry. And it's enjoyable, I have many Dylan CDs. But if you're interested in learning more, it's a dead end.
Catching a Catfish
I know there have been a couple of occurrences where I dropped into the web dev tools to see which font a site was using because they used beautifully, fitting fonts.
Personally, I vastly prefer autotools, both as a user and developer. When I got to the point I needed some kind of build system, I found autotools much easier to learn than cmake.

As user, I find the experience with autotools to be much nicer as well. For whatever reason, the interface just seems more intuitive. I mean, ./configure --help will tell you basically all you need to know. An underappreciated bonus is that you don't have to install more stuff just to __build__ some program you might not even want.
I've run into more than one project that required a specific version of cmake, which as luck would have it, was not the version packaged with my distro. This leaves you either building another cmake first or finding a tool/library that isn't so persnickety.

Given the choice between trying a project that uses CMake or or autools, I'll choose the autotools based project every time.
No it doesn’t answer the question. If there are two sensors already installed, not requiring change, how come the MCAS only uses one, not both?
Gold can't be used electronically without permission from a third party.
Oh thank the lord this idiotic waste of (often fossil) energy will find it's end.
Crypto proof of work is such a flawed (proof of) concept in many ways.
https://youtu.be/hMsNd1W_lmE

YouTube video that generally summarizes what's of special interest about this.
I strongly suspect that the data comes from Microsoft's MSN page. Video downloads is really the only usage scenario broad enough to generate such a data set. MSN serves loads of them and is the default page on Windows. Since their contents target the audience favored by advertisers (i.e. young urban folks with money), the data could have a strong selection bias. Rural Americans simply aren't viewing the pop-culture-centric materials on MSN.
Same- I remember it as a massive, worldwide source of envy.

I’m glad at least one commentor remembers it the same.
All of these things sound plausible to me. I'm curious why you needed a throwaway account to post this, however.
I think the author was referring to processors handling UI displays rather than a computer system that has only the processing power to only handle a blinking LED.

For example if a UI display showed:

"Warning: MCAS overriding pitch up. Disable?"

Is better than a LED #234 and LED 412 are on. Consult manual for instructions.

I would imagine that a lot of the fly by wire or control systems nowadays are either analog systems or very very simple digital systems (with extreme redundancy).
I'm not really aware of how FCC collected this data and how the analysis were done. I'm also not aware of the policies that are set by the US government to provide rural connectivity. But I have a few general thoughts on the issue.

Estimating the broadband adoption is a tricky issue because of number of stakeholders involved. First there are the companies that provide the physical connectivity. Their job is done as soon as the lines are laid to the base station or the satellite is sent into the space, etc [1] According to them anywhere the physical layer has reached there is internet connectivity (which is true...to an extent)

But this does not actually get the internet in to your home. Local distribution is a very big challenge. A similar thing happened in India with Bharat net [2]. While the government successfully laid down the fiber optic cables the last mile connectivity was overlooked. So of course the broadband is inadequate when the capacity is not being used.

I agree with the article that internet is connected to a higher economic growth and overall prosperity. The same sentiment is also echoed by the WEF report [3]. However these reports miss one very crucial point. Internet is not a service provider. Internet is a transport. You need to have people provide service on the internet if it is to be used. Local internet economy is almost non existent.

Many of the faults in FCC's report can be explained if you look at the internet provider business as a marketplace.

- Big companies own the platform and assert that the platform can reach anywhere. Which might very well be true.

- Local internet service providers use this platform to provide services to the customers.

- Customers pay for the internet service according to usage.

Why should a customer pay heavy charge for the broadband usage? Why should the local internet service provider invest into last mile connectivity?

On a global scale internet rapidly reached new levels of adoption when the application layer succeeded. Something similar needs to happen on a local level, I think. And this is what microsoft is also trying to do with their airband platform [4].

[1] If you do a bit of digging into physical layer distribution there are many exotic ways to provide network connectivity including sending weather balloons up in the air! Very interesting area of research if you're into this sort of thing.

[2] https://www.prsindia.org/parliamenttrack-policy/report-summa...

[3] https://www.weforum.org/projects/internet-for-all

[4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/airband
>What about 95% of the content on the internet that ads pay for?

This is such a pedestrian argument, as if advertising pays for the content to be made and then hosted - when the truth of the matter is that someone else pays for the content to be created (and hosted) and that cost is recouped (with additional profit added on top), after the fact by advertising.

For example, advertising companies are not paying for YouTube content creators to create their content and then for it to be hosted on YouTube. Advertising companies seek those with the largest audience (typically, that requires having made content a priori, yeah?) and then make partnerships with those people and, then, those people may make videos pushing those products.

WSJ, since this is predominantly an American board, doesn't have advertisers paying their reporters', photographers', editors', etc. salaries. Advertisers are not paying for the content to be created or to be hosted. All of that is done by WSJ, who then recoups the costs via advertising, yeah?

So, the only point at which "95% of the content on the internet that ads pay for" is true, is (predominantly) after the content has been made and hosted and is only true over time (e.g.: not with immediate effect).

>Malware isn't advertising

You have that backwards from the OC's comment: Advertising networks have been used to push malware.

>...and security is an issue in any industry and sector.

This comes across as a whataboutism, "So? Other industries have security problems, too!" and, whilst true, largely ignores the fact that those other industries (mostly at large) weren't leveraged as attack vectors to spread malware. (I'm assuming your meaning of "industry" infers the meaning of "commercial industry", that generates revenue in exchange for a product or service, which would ignore the obvious things like P2P and the like.)
He didn't get paid.
I've been watching this thread in amazement. If this is how you communicate with people you'll often have your style described as petty and terrible. Are you just repeating what you hear yourself a lot?
Had to install FTDI drivers on (an admittedly old) Windows laptop 3 weeks ago before I could use it to talk to the Cisco gear I was reconfiguring ...
> if they'd just add a makefile (and maybe ./configure)

That's the whole point of cmake. Instead of running autotool's ./configure (which in fact is a whole dance involving autoconf, autoreconf, automake, and whatnot) just run cmake . to get yourself a fancy makefile.
Do less-ripe fruits contain fewer calories, and somehow “gain calories” as they ripen? Is energy transformed from less-digestible forms like complex carbohydrates or fibers into simpler sugars? I have long wondered about this.
I think most VPNs use NAT, so many users share the same IP address. Otherwise the VPN would be mostly pointless.
Or alternatively with two, and disabling MCAS if they disagree, seems a better solution than having one and having no way to tell if it is working (keeping in mind both can still fail simultaneously). Not an ideal solution but better.