skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To some extent you're right, the benefit of a higher-level abstraction is using it without knowing the details. For standard usage, on the "happy path", this is fine. But if you need to modify techniques, or debug them, it's kind of impossibly frustrating without actually knowing what you're doing!

BTW computers have much cleaner abstractions than mathematics. e.g. the JLS defines Java independently of hardware; IEEE 754 is similar for fp arithmetic. There are specifications all over the place.

But my experience with mathematics is completely different - you have to understand the lower level to understand the next level.

In my personal journey, I started off with your perspective of just learning the higher levels that I directly needed. It was very difficult, but after heroic efforts, I made breakthroughs! After a while, I noticed these "breakthroughs" were mostly entirely to do with material from lower levels... So I went back to them. This happened again and again, going lower and lower. Now I'm basically re-doing high school maths.
I have no self control to pay it back on time.
Stark's book, while polemical and shoddy (in a non-trivial number of places), is not really any worse than much of the literature he sets out to make straight. A significant number of works that are often cited as authoritative regarding the historical issues Stark focuses on, end up citing patently inaccurate accounts from the 19th century. For example: for whatever reason, a non-trivial number of authors from the 20th century were completely fine citing 19th century works as primary sources, even though the events under discussion happened many centuries before then, and so were necessarily secondary sources.

The right take away after reading Stark is to become skeptical of a non-trivial amount of historical scholarship regarding the issues he covers, and skeptical of Stark as well.
BPF / eBPF is the reason I've finally started to learn C. I never had an actual use for it in the past, so it never really stuck (and mostly I got good at producing code that would segfault), but there's things I can definitely use BPF for.
We recently got something similar in Sweden too: https://www.spelpaus.se/

It's a blocklist that all licensed gambling companies in Sweden are required to respect. You add yourself to the list for a certain amount of time, and can't unblock yourself until that time has expired.
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You couldn't be more wrong my lad.

GPS is divided into two fundamental types of positioning services:
1) Precise Positioning Service (cool shit)
2) Standard Positioning Service (the shit you have access to)

PPS (which is what the military uses) chirps at ten times the rate of SPS, eg for every 1 position update you get on SPS, you will get 10 from PPS in the same timeframe. Why is this useful? Imagine if you are flying 500mph... now maybe 2000mph.... yeah you get the idea.

Yeah, you can use d-GPS to get really, really accurate resolution. But is it proven to work when I am dumping 5000 watts of jamming energy towards it?

The reason the military will always have their own enciphered positioning data is they want to be able to shut off the public segment while still having their war-fighting capabilities. Also most GPS jamming stuff will target civilian frequencies - the target market.
I'm fortunate to have a bicycle Co-op in my city. It's a do it yourself workshop to fix your bike and upgrade parts when the time comes. The staff are volunteers and the bikes they sell are all donated. Great tuned up second hand bikes can be purchased for $50. I enjoy using top of the line 1990s technology in my commuter bikes which can be had for a fraction for the price of new bikes.

We are also lucky to have youtube with lots of tutorials which I wish I had when I was first learning.

I agree the relative maintenance of cars is much lower, but I equate the time it takes to clean my chain to be the same as stopping to get fuel for my car.

I'm not against cars, I just feel the cost of ownership is underestimated.
I've used Bing for years now. The only time I go back to Google is if I'm searching for something super specific (normally programming related). Bing takes care of most of my search needs.
Anyone who spends several thousand pounds on a single video game is in all likelihood vulnerable, and quite possibly a child.
Keeping values small is still useful for the sake of CPU cache
why do they care if you have memorized all of each languages specific apis when you can easily look them up on the fly with intellisense or similiar. My own pet peeve since being super dyslexic despite being a solid programmer I memorize very little just the general idea and capability of how different constructs generally work across languages.
While the our industrial capabilities are indeed incredible there still is an insane complexity gap between finely threaded screws and nanometer pattering ultra-purified materials, treating them with some of the most aggressive chemicals known to mankind as a mere cleaning step. The complexity of the patterns, so intricate that people can't even design them by hand anymore. Or those barely-practical national treasures that are EUV lithography machines. And all this is mass-production.

There recently was an article on HN that fabs install microphones and other environmental sensors everywhere and use deep-learning to extract QA information from the sensors.
Or you just invest your income into shares of companies making the robots or investing in robot capex.
I may be a weirdo but I usually like to refrain touching my computer with wet hands.
I think the point the article is trying to make is that butterfly effect does not refer to unpredictability of future, as much as how difficult it is to trace back how we got to this point. While they are two sides of the same chaos coin, it is different perspective to look backwards and understand that it is not clear which event was decisive (if any) to reach current state vs trying to predict future. Especially as we humans are prone to creating easy narratives of past, but more easily accept the futility of predicting future.
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While we've started with outbound fetch/HTTP, we certainly plan on adding additional functionality over time.
> Package managers add a certain kind of complexity to parts of the system that, without it, would indeed be "simpler." But it is an extremely powerful lever that allows removing far, far more complexity than it adds, especially when it comes to porting software. We were very thoughtful about this tradeoff and tried very hard to get it right.

I disagree, so do others[0], but there's no need to rehash this argument[1].

> If it were truly about simplicity, don't you think Apple would have done it already?

Apple did. Twice.

> You are using ""magic"" in scare-quotes. Why?

Because I have come to distrust software that pretends work one way when it really is doing something different. In Haiku, this means presenting files to the user as though there are in one place when they're really in another, with the results that trying to manipulate them leads to errors that require you to peel back the abstraction, the "magic", to understand.

> it is also the case that "we optimized for the most usual usecases" is how 99% of software is written.

The most usual usecases for who? Haiku devs I imagine. And you know what? That's perfectly fair since you're the ones doing all the work and I'm just here griping. But that doesn't change the fact that I don't agree with your choices.

> So why are you singling out package managers

Because I'd be hard-pressed to think of something that has brought more complexity for less benefit than package managers. I remember a time when it was common and simple to carry applications around on floppy disks and just copy them to a new computer and they'd work. Package managers, even Haiku's, don't allow this because they "optimize for the 99% usecase", or rather, the 99% of the developers' use cases.

> At least probono seems more than happy with Haiku and its model:

Good for him, but I'm still not convinced.

But it's ok. Really. Calm down. I'm just an old curmudgeonly bastard anyway, you don't need to win me over.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/haikuOS/comments/7659fa/where_is_ha...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441773
Writing/ blogging might simply be the wrong approach to get your message out. Have you tried YouTube or Podcasts? Interviews of the homeless and/or activists? Photos of them on instagram? Add all of the Tools of social media marketing to your toolset and you might have more impact.
If we want unskilled laborers to have more money, it's much more economically efficient for governments do this through taxation and transfer payments then for individual companies that happen to employ people in this category to pay above market wages.

If society does it through taxation, it's everyone's responsibility.

If only certain companies are responsible, then only a portion of the population is responsible.
He builds the adders from ANDs, ORs and NOTs. With these, you can also build flip-flops, which are memory.
(Actually, it's enough to have only NAND (or NOR) to build all logic circuits, including memory)
I think there is a fair distinction to be made between growing the market, and growing the market share.

You may find the Econtalk podcast interviewing Dan Pallota interesting. He is a high paid charity consultant (450k) and defends his work and salary.

http://www.econtalk.org/pallotta-on-charity-and-the-culture-...
Let me help you with your misanthropy: try targeting it at companies which exist solely to exploit children rather than the parents of said children.
I think you are really overthinking it.

Bicycle can be very simple. You need just two wheels (can be made of wood with some steel support, just like a wagon wheels) and some frame to connect these (again can be made from wood). You do not need any bearings or even a belt - you can connect pedals directly to the front wheel (as was done in early design).

All of this can be made with simple carpenter and smith tools.
Yes. By convention we ignore that requirement for calling something Turing-complete, since in the absolute sense, nothing in the universe is Turing-complete.
I guess at least in principle, the search engines could return many more results than actually needed, along with some feature vector per result. Then a model could be trained on the users machine to sort the results according to their preferences
I've read warnings about oxygen and stainless steel tubing too. Works fine until something goes wrong and then it's bad news.
Gaming laptop chargers often approach 200 watts. So it's uncommon but a lot more than one in a million.
As Bill Gates was alleged to have said "640k ought to be enough for anybody."
Back in the late 2000's I looked around for the right tool for my Ph.D. dissertation and quickly ruled out Word, Libre (or Open Office) Writer, or any wysiwyg tool, because they 1) lacked fast, easy ways to work at the structural (tree) level of the document, which is important when you have many sections and subsections to organize thoughts and arguments; 2) couldn't do mathematical notation well; 3) didn't integrate well with the reference management tool I was using then, Mendeley.

As an Emacs lover, I soon found Org, and it was (and remains) the perfect tool, for working in plain text — which will never be obsolete, and works easily with git or version control. Then and now, nothing could match Org speed and flexibility: structural editing (creating nodes, moving nodes, promote/out-dent a node, demote/in-dent a node) was and is fundamental to Org (unlike Markdown etc), and it's ridiculously easy to reorganize thinking and writing as you go. You can export to LaTeX (or HTML) and customize formatting as needed, while also including code blocks from multiple languages. Integration with BibTeX was tight, and made handling hundreds of references easy.

Where other writing tools for complex documents previously made me cringe and cuss, Org makes writing a pure joy, freeing the mind to work entirely on content and its structure.
I just wanted to say that I've used Hexopress in the past and really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work!
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Or perhaps reasonable workers' rights and actual enforcement? Along the lines of mandating more breaks or preventing companies from hiring and scheduling many people at just below full-time so the employees aren't eligible for myriad benefits, both compensatory and quality of life.
i never said it would be predictable.

Also, I’m not trying to play what-if with the past, I’m trying to get you to think about a different future where we make an additional investmen/effort to learn more sooner.
I think it's a good question. Let's assume there is absolutely no animal nearby (tree branch makes a sound, slightly changing any animal's behavior, chain reaction...), and let's further assume that the tiny air currents generated in this scenario do not only not cause a tornado as in the original butterfly effect (which, frankly, is not very likely), but are "buffered" enough that they don't create any change perceptible to any human at all.

Then, overall, the makeup of the world is still different. Will this really never cause anyone to get a speck of dust in their eye that they otherwise wouldn't, flinching, preventing them from having the though "oh I have to buy milk" that they were about to have?

I don't know... maybe it's just that some changes are indeed so tiny and remote that it takes them a long long time to have an effect, but once an obvious effect is present, I guess we're back to everything changing again?
What audience would prefer a paywall site to an open one? Is your content free?
hmmmm, thanks! Will need to find the NZ/Aus version. And yes, I already use Amazon Smile on the US version, great idea.
I think this is a great article.

IMHO last line is the best.
I strongly believe that video games today are comparable to alcohol in the 60's. Y'know, how people in the 60's would say "Oh Johnny just likes his liquor" when Johnny's drinking at 9AM, drunk at 10 and hungover by 2. Right now we have people who are facing serious problems with video games, and yet we brush them off casually and callously. I can't count the number of stories on reddit about playing video games all day and all night, at the expense of one's social life, academic success and even career. That's not normal behavior; it's behavior indicative of addiction and dependency. And I'm referring to adults. For kids, who lack executive functions, this behavior can and is even worse, even more debilitating.

Now, regulating video games like alcohol may not be the best idea. We could end up in a similar state of binge drinking, except with binge playing. But perhaps some sort of preventative measure can be taken so that kids do not get sucked into these games that are, make no mistake, maliciously designed to addict and to steal money from the vulnerable. Even alcohol manufacturers don't dose their products with nicotine.
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You need the ability to convert between characters and some standard binary representation of them. But the language doesn't need to use that same binary representation as its internal representation, or expose the internal representation at all.
Looked around your readme and wiki but didn't see anything about this vs. deno? Both are Rust wrappers around V8 with privilege mechanisms. Am I missing anything?

Edit: well one difference is that this isn't TypeScript. This is only the subset that is JavaScript.
The contact link in the footer of the website (hn@ycombinator.com)
Three fun facts. One, most poor people live in the suburbs. In Atlanta, for example, the figure is 88%. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/suburbs.... Two, 80% of people living in poverty have access to a vehicle: https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructu.... Three, in post WWII cities, almost all jobs are in suburban and exurban areas. In Atlanta, more than 75% of jobs are outside the city itself (many parts of which are pretty suburban to begin with). 80% of all job growth is outside the city.

So yes, $15/hour employment in exurban areas is actually good for poor people.
No, most queries are in the long tail
The weirdest thing about that quote is that the screenshots in the article are all very low quality and hard to read. Maybe Medium just needs a better way to handle code samples.
If I remember correctly, two AC power sources were required to be in phase for measurements of the antenna direction to work correctly, but weren't actually specced as such, and thus not built that way, and randomly ended up so out of sync that it caused problems on that flight.

EDIT: this article has more detail https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/no-a-checklist-error...
Thanks for the answers.

Try to implement bounce processing soon - an average list decays at 2% per month (3% for B2B lists) so in a few months, the bounce rate can be high enough for mail box providers to start blocking your emails due to attempts to send to large number of invalid email addresses. Especially sensitive issue with your list size and sending volume.

There might be a couple more useful nuggets in this article on email deliverability best practices https://www.bigmailer.io/blog/improve-email-deliverability-b...
That's exactly the progressives plan. We can't get at all of that, and for sure, not at once.

But, there can be much better basics in place for people, and with those, a reduced need for charity to somehow perform at very large scale.

It can target, operate locally more, all good.

Disease, hunger, homelessness are all massive artifacts of long overdue policy reforms in the US.
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Are you talking about Office or something else? Do you actually think the Office port is good? I’m surprised how bad it is every time I use it. Excel is soo sluggish and to me everything feels a bit off and non-native in the ux. (Vscode is good though)
If anyone is looking to buy this game, it's currently on sale at Humble Bundle for $7.50. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/cities-skylines
That's noble, but a bit far away from the article, so I did not realize what you meant. (Plus, I'd consider it likely that most people spending any time on such rather academic concepts as the Butterfly Effect are well aware of the payoff that science and education can bring, directly or indirectly.)
The costs aren't 30%.

Assume a $50 game. 100,000 sales. 5 gigs.

Storage and bandwidth = $28,000 (per Amazon's calculator)
Cost of doing business in N countries = use paypal = 2.9%+0.30/sale = approximately $1.75/sale = $175,000

Costs = $203,000
Revenue = $5,000,000
Ratio = 4.1%

So yeah, Valve is not the shining knight here and that 30% fee is unjustifiable. Even Epic's 12% share is still very much profitable for Epic.

The 30% fee is also nowhere comparable to wholesale pricing schema of the retail model (effectively a 40-60% fee), since that involved the sale of physical copies of goods, and the retailers had to deal with issues like shrinkage and the risk of unsold inventory.
See also: Paris-Roubaix.

They often use customized bikes for that to keep from shaking their fillings out.
You usually have your account banned when a charge is reversed to undo the "progress grained". This makes it less attractive for real players to abuse.

Adult who realize what they are doing and want to stop cold turkey doing it? Fine with me as well.
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The ESRB is a voluntary organization. They have jurisdiction over whoever volunteers to let them rate their games.
> "The precision of keeping all those threads perfectly spaced is one thing"

> Making the first precision screw requires a "screw originating machine".[1][2] This is a special-purpose device which can make a better screw than the ones used in building it.

I hadn't realized screws would be needed to create a screw-making machine. I love that we have machines that make better versions of their own components, something I never even thought to think of!
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There are things much more important than humanity's 'total productive output', which is anyway not guaranteed to ever be managed and distributed in a better way. Human beings are not economic production units. The economy is a means and not an end.

Technologists are always hyperfocused on economic activity and insist that any problems technology creates will be solved by more technology. Well, all we appear to be doing is building an ever more complex and fragile civilization full of increasingly unhappy people racing towards Armageddon. What will trigger the ultimate systems collapse? I don't know, but I would be shocked if there isn't one within the next two centuries.

Yes, we probably would be better off without cars. Communities would be stronger, more tightly-knit. Urban sprawl would dramatically decrease. There'd be more multi-family housing. We would have spewed jillions of tons fewer of CO2 and other pollutants into the air (electric cars do not solve underlying environmental issues - they just shift them around to battery production and disposal and power generation.) One of the biggest causes of accidental death would be eradicated.

Instead of developing ICE/electric engines and understanding the best way to fit them into human society, we unleashed them willy-nilly and caused untold death, devastation, and misery. Such is the story of many if not most subsequent technological 'innovations'. (Yes, I have a car - two, even.)

Even now the 'ideal' Hacker News poster is hard at work at enriching fabulously wealthy companies intent on destroying privacy forever and creating dopamine addictions. We all say it's inevitable. But it's not. Every step of the way, it was individuals making decisions that led us to where we are now. We could have stopped it and we still can.

Or we can bury our heads in the sand.
> Ancient technology was astoundingly precise (see the famous Antikythera mechanism).

Ancient technology was neither accurate nor precise. Making two specific things fit (e.g. THIS dowel pin in THAT hole in a brass plate) does not require precision in the actual sense of the word, you can achieve the goal by consistently small iterations (ex: grinding the dowel down until wanted fit is achieved).

Precision (all my threads are the same) and accuracy (and they fit with the thread from every other machine shop) are what made the industrial revolution. Ancient technology had neither of those.
While the article seem intended as a web scraping tutorial, it's good to remember that there is an official HN api [1] in case you really want to do data science on the site.

[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API
You are right that traffic was revolutionary and that's why google maps became the defacto standard. However, in context with the original post, this is exactly why it's unfair. Google has an android that gives them user location data which they then use as a competitive advantage in another space to eliminate all competition. If Android were 1 business and GoogleMaps another, then people like MapQuest could also negotiate deals with Android to get user data and then it's a matter of who has the best platform that wins. That's what is best for the consumer as well. In the current structure, there is no way that a small business like MapQuest could build a smartphone to ascertain user data and nor should they have to. They should only have to build the best map application to succeed in the online mapping space. Having to also succeed in location data aggregation eliminates competition. It's designed so the giants can eat the small guys at will without them being able to fight back.