skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GNU wc is actually fairly fast for what it does.

That being said, even with all the extra stuff it's doing, I'd assume it to perform roughly as well as your single-threaded version (when you use a non-multibyte locale to keep the comparison even remotely fair).
"It does help that wc is such a useless and trivial program that it doesn't rightly benefit from such interfaces only exposed to C which languages such as Common Lisp avoid out of good taste and a sense of proper design."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490714
"It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind", 9 days ago.
> until you're in that position you've no idea how bad it can be

The exception being, having a manager who not only does not shield you from politics, but creates even more politics themselves.
What is the dollar value of that behavior relative to other behavior? In other words don't neglect to consider opportunity costs.
It’s a perfectly fair assertion given the abundance of commercial software in active use which is a “server” written into the back end of a desktop application. They are not written as stand alone Services.

Remember this is the real world we live in, where once a developer learns how to build a Windows application in Visual Studio, everything becomes a Visual Studio app based on the same template. Consider yourself lucky when the developer uses a newer version of Visual a Studio and dotNet than the one they started with a decade ago.

In the perfect world, yes we would be paying developers high salaries and allowing lots of “down time” for retraining into the current version of dotNet, and allowing plenty of time to upgrade legacy applications to current versions of Windows.

In the real world we still have that Windows 2000 server sitting around with a printed sign taped to the keyboard saying, “DO NOT UPDATE: PLEASE SEE JOEL BEFORE TOUCHING” only nobody remembers who Joel is and he left the company before Confluence arrived. All we know is that we can’t even install Remote Desktop Services because when Joel tried that it broke the application software. That sign appeared on the machine a week after that incident because that’s how long it took Joel to repair the server to the point that the application would work again.
Native German speaker here. Other recommendations (I learned English this way):

- Watch movies / TV series with (German) subtitles. Recommendations: Dubbed stuff that is easy to digest like e.g. Crime Stuff / Big Bang Theory.

- Or more advanced, German productions: Dark on Netflix; Babylon Berlin; Bad Banks; Stromberg (The Office clone); Tatortreiniger; Tatort.

- Read books like that you might know in your native language: the Little Prince, Harry Potter.
That's not really true, is it? I rarely have any reason to personally drive the highways of Iowa (despite living in Illinois next door), but presumably benefit directly and in a variety of ways from their availability to trucks. Amtrak can make no such claim.
> The reason Google and Facebook dominate the internet has little to do with technology and much to do with economics, namely scale economies and network effects.

And the network effects can only happen because there is a tight coupling between the data (contained and scrambled within the HTML page) and the presentation. Had data and presentation be decoupled, I could have combined network information from various providers and present it to me in one overview.

> I'll grant that CSS is a mess. What else?

Everything. The security model, the fact that the user has limited control over their identity (and it is not build into the protocols), the multi-threaded nightmare, no component standardization, very limited integration with low-level OS systems, the 'one-tab is one context' metaphor, the box-model, the misfit of page-to-interaction (and the history API), the non-existent voice interaction, the color-model, the DPI/pixels/ems transformations, the invisible local storage we barely manage, the resource utilisation, the lack of uniformity in the programming model, the peer-to-peer communication (WebRTC does not count, since it is not standardized and has quite some flaws), the lack of (easy) customization abilities (high-contrast websites), the limited math-rendering, the enourmous complexity... I could go on.

> You can create multiple URLs that point to the same object.

Yes, but they would not denote equivalence. I could use a redirect, but then one system needs to know the representation of the other. It would be fundamentally asymmetric.

Also, it would contradict the term Unique Resource Locator.
It's useful when you start typing the name of a business into Maps and it auto-completes "Pla" into "Planet Pooch Dog Grooming" (where I take the dog frequently.) It can show me that result, instead of the 100 other businesses & addresses in the area that start with those 3 letters, because of this data.
> but to be a potent multiplier for economic gains in other segments of the economy.

Why can't the same logic be applied to power and telecommunication?
When you buy wafers, particle counts at sizes are specified, along with all kinds of other properties-- some determined through non-destructive testing (and can be used for binning) and some through destructive testing (and can be used for characterizing lots).

Better wafers cost more.
Maybe because it would upset developers who had chosen GPL2-or-later version. They might see it as overreach. That could hurt adoption.
> Once all the inter-actor controls are sorted out, there would need to be a system of dynamic resource distribution. The profiler/scheduler should be able to identify things like - this actor is handling 85% of traffic, distribute the actor to 6 cores - the cost of the route from a core to a core on the same processor is X, the cost of the route to a core across a network is Y - distribute actors that have the most cross communication as closely as possible - payload size would also need to come into account

It's not that simple. Objects that can assume locality are written differently than those that can't. The optimize for fate sharing, low latency, etc. If you have just have a mesh of floating objects, you must remove all of those optimizations.
Windows 10 can run Linux in a VM (e.g. Windows Services for Linux, which is a VM these days), and it can run DOS or Windows 3.1 or whatever else in a VM as long as you have virtualization enabled. What it can't do is run native 16-bit segmented code as a regular user mode process. Linux can.

The NTVDM port appears to be a legally dubious emulator.
That’s not how scientific discovery works. We aren’t handed a description that might have fractal complexity, but rather we invent models to describe it. Even if reality is infinitely complex, out descriptions need not be. And it’s well established that our approximate models can be vastly simpler than underlying reality.
In personalized AR education, there's an opportunity of peer AI agents. Companions and colleagues.

Ones with very non-human in/capability profiles. How to handle expectation management, especially with younger students, is a challenge. Visibly-malfunctioning cartoonish Sparky, the flaky robot dog?... If it misunderstands or forgets what you said, or is emotionally blind, well that's no surprise, it's broken.
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Both Low German (Platt) and Bavarian are classified as separate languages from Standard German in ISO 639-3, with language codes nds and bar, respectively (as opposed to deu). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3
Both the California Zephyr and the Southwest Chief go through Iowa. Why should people in New York subsidize each of those trips?
The privacy policy of not storing passwords is nice but what about when they get hacked and the site starts uploading passwords to some attacker's website?
It's quite shocking how blatantly China discriminates against everyone but Han-Chinese, yet doesn't even get a mention on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)
I used to do this with just my smartphone (and the default photo editing apps ok my phone). It's quite easy to make an image that fuses well, but it's quite hard to get a photo of human scale stuff that maintains scale correctly.
That's an interesting license, thanks! I would have liked some examples about what exactly it does, because reading the text doesn't make all the ramifications clear, but it looks promising.
employees agree not to exercise their GPL redistribution rights

If you prepare a derivative of a GPL app as a work for hire, what GPL rights would you have? You don't own the copyright on the modifications, the employer does.
I keep hearing that, but I've used many of UIs over the years, and I prefer the UIs of VS Code, github.com, or Gmail to any of the UIs I can think of built with "actual" UI toolkits.

Maybe I like text more than the average user, though.
And yet, I still think we need to subsidize Amtrak more. Perhaps a lot more so it could at least begin to electrify those railways and put some electric locomotives in service. What's up with this mid-century diesel bullshit they're running now?
Cortana was doomed the moment Microsoft gave up on Windows Phone. It could never become as integrated with the mobile os as the competing assistants. Even if Cortana was better, it wasn't always listening. And on a desktop the assistants are still not sufficiently versatile at home, and not compatible with the open office environments at work.

Also Cortana was always good at languages it suported, but it couldn't provide good localized content for most of the world.
So apparently the Switch (via Pokémon Sword/Shield) is sending out probes to try and find other switches connected to the network (for local communication probably), along with the standard bluetooth probes it does. Select Rokus do not like being randomly probed/data being flung at them, and start bootlooping as a result.
Layers of understanding. That's what we are talking about. How many Layers must be understood to know something is broken? Or what's broke about it?

It's broke. I know that. I don't think continuing down a broken path is gonna fix it.
Air pollution is a big deal
I side with you, but your last two comments are basically the same "but what about this?!"

Rayiner clarified and meant there should be geographical considerations to some subsidies:

> "It’s not like Medicare or social security that can be used by anyone"

Schools and federal court would fall under that categories of medicare and social security.
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You can arrange the three colors in a triangle, which defines a plane, is treated like a circle in color theory, and looks like a weird stretched out "U" when put in a perceptually uniform space (stretched towards green, which we see best, and flat on the magenta side). Perceptual color spaces combine this with luminance, which is sensed by rods instead of cones.

Tetrachromatic colors could be placed in a tetrahedron, defining a space and being approximated as a sphere. A perceptually uniform representation would probably be curved on the three edges that agree with the spectrum and flat on the three that don't. Green is still probably the biggest. Then you'd add luminance as a fourth dimension because it's still rods.
Your entire geography argument goes out the window if you look at China's high-speed rail system instead of Japan's.

E.g. Shanghai - Kunming is more than 2200 km and takes between 10-12 hours[1]. At that speed LA-SF would take around 3 hours. For context the flight time is an hour and a half, so when you account for airport overhead, taxiing etc. the train would take around around the same time, and be a more pleasant mode of transport.

The density argument also goes both ways. A country like Japan is going to find it much harder to find empty space to place rail than somewhere like the US.

There's a lot of reasons for why the US isn't doing what China's doing with high-speed rail, but those reasons are mainly political, not geographical.

1. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/shanghai-kunmi...
> People in America refuse to use Amtrak for travel.

People in America are diverse, with diverse preferences and needs.

I love taking Amtrak, and happen to live on one of the cross-country routes. I prefer it to airline travel in all ways. Clearly, the routes are sparse, so it does not always work out for me. But as a remote software engineer, I can work from the train, I can relax and read a book, and watch the scenery go by. The extra time it takes is not a problem. It is a great change of pace to sitting in my home office.

There certainly are people who disagree, but generalizing that the whole country refuses to use the service is simply incorrect.
https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/kubestone.io

This looks no different than STRIPE.COM (which, of course, is also not signed).

https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/stripe.com
You usually arrive at the airport 60-90 minutes before a flight, vs 30 minutes before a train. And train station locations will give you a 30 minute advantage over airport locations. So really we're comparing 3.5-4.5 hrs for a flight vs 6.5 hours for a train. Trains are also a lot more comfortable, have charging points even in economy class, and don't charge baggage fees.
Do you have a source for the statement that 'there's barely a road in the entire country that's turned a profit' ?
> And the network effects can only happen because there is a tight coupling between the data (contained and scrambled within the HTML page) and the presentation. Had data and presentation be decoupled, I could have combined network information from various providers and present it to me in one overview.

I'm with you in principle. I think such a modular architecture based on standard interfaces between objects is exactly what we need, but I don't see how it precludes e.g. the dominance of Google. Google dominates because they have all the search data. People don't want non-Google results in their views. Non-Google results are worse.
Whether you like it or not, the laws of economics always apply. The profit signal informs individuals/organizations how to properly allocate resources. If you provide value and efficiently use your resources, you generate profit.

Further, all economic activities generate wealth, therefore are "multipliers for economic gains."
How can this get a patent today?
It is almost like Roku engineers forgot that other devices can send BT packets as well
Public transit is not the same as Amtrak. A fair accounting for Amtrak has to compare to the bus alternative. I suspect Amtrak is pretty efficient in the NE corridor (at 4x the ticket price of buses) due to density, and loses a lot on the long hauls cross country and the rest of the coasts.

Also, on the side, remember that non-city dwellers get massive subsidies from city dwellers for their cost ineffective lifestyles. One can argue that this is justified to support the people working in critical agriculture and industry that can't be moved to the cities and we want low sticker prices on, but it's a much hard case to make for suburb dwellers.
I really hope people that are burying physical copies of the entire Wikipedia are archiving the entire edit history and not just a snapshot that hides all the ongoing edit wars. It's a much larger dataset (terabytes) so they probably aren't.
Private ownership should be the product of private development in my opinion. Especially when what you'd be doing is granting a monopoly over a public asset.

We should never privatize profits deriving from public investment.
> Why there were no fundamental discoveries in physics since the quarks in 1968?

There have been; 1968 was the first physical evidence supporting quarks, but the top quark wasn't observed until 1995.

That's kind of important, because a lot of effort between 1968 and 1995 went into fleshing out the theory around the quark model and confirming it, including hunting down the theorized ones not yet observed. Heck, the six quark model wasn't even proposed until the 1970s, much less confirmed.

Now, if you want to revise the question to “since 1995”...

Then we’ll talk about the Higgs boson, theorized in 1964 (just like the original quarks) but confirmed in 2012.
I don't think there was an ulterior motive at the time.

Archiving used to be hoarding. It was phenominally expensive and in the end, nobody would make use the stuff.

But now we're entering the era of cheap inexhaustible storage, so the economics have changed.

And ironically, now corporations DO delete data due to pressure from lawyers (except for consumer data, which is valuable)
Mass transit can both be profitable and a multiplier (just like any other set of goods and services). See Japan: excellent train systems that are private and profitable.
Fun fact: Turkish coffee, Cypriot coffee, and Greek coffee are all exactly the same thing... except perhaps for the ethnicity of the hand serving it.
Sounds like some recent failed unicorns that shall remain nameless.
Tree Style Tab [1]. That is the main reason I am on Firefox. My screen is wider than it is tall, so I can make use of this by displaying the tabs on the side. It is 'tree style' which means that it is nested. This allows me to have child tabs of say, hn for reading all of the different articles. This can be easily collapsed, expanded or removed altogether.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
"I beat C.... by running a different race, and the outcome of the race was determined by my opinion of who the winner is based on no particular specified measure but the way I ran the race was pretty cool, so it must be better! anyways the race was pretty pointless in the first place, anyways, I won"

Ok. Not the best article. I'm sure there was a better point to be made
I never understood why specifically HDD manufacturers are criticized when in fact all vendors and all types of hardware (expect RAM) follow the same convention of using decimal prefixes: http://blog.zorinaq.com/decimal-prefixes-are-more-common-tha...
Those benchmarks are ridiculously out of date. See https://wrosinski.github.io/deep-learning-speed-vol1/ for updated benchmarks by the same person. PyTorch beats Tensorflow on every single model.
Simula originated the terminology "object", which was then adopted in later versions of SmallTalk. Objects differ in fundamental ways from Actors.
The rights are $0 of that budget

Amtrak doesn't compete with local roads, it competes with interstates.
One vying for this approach can wax poetic as much as one wants, but for me, seeing a difference between 'style="color: purple"' and 'class="color-purple"' (with '.color-purple { color: purple }' in the css file) is very much the same as seeing the emperor's new clothes. It looks and feels like indirection and I am aware of duck typing.

The "it limits options" defense is not really here nor there, since ultimately you could just rewrite all css rules into classes. Much like the style you can add is infinite, the classes you can add are infinite.
Surely you can recognize that the taxpayers in Iowa derive indirect benefits from commerce between NYC and DC.
I still want to see the mill cpu in silicon. It sounds too good to be true.
My thought on that is your rough revenue over infrastructure + development + maintenance cost is what matters. There is google/facecrack in one corner of that problem space and a chain smoking accountant with a ledger in another corner. You are likely not in either of those places.
" So-called Thinnet (10Base2) uses cable TV-style cable, RG-58A/U. This made it much easier to lay out network cable."

That's not quite right. Cable TV type cable is 75 ohm RG59. I guess maybe they just mean both were coaxial and relatively flexible.
Cigarettes taught me this in college. Definitely the only positive impact smoking had on my life. I would be deep into solving a hard problem, and my nicotine brain would force me to go outside and smoke. I would very often come back inside and immediately get past a big hurdle I was struggling with.

It happened so much that when I quit smoking I made sure to continue the routine of getting up to go outside for a few minutes every two hours or so.
As was briefly touched on in the article, the real benefit would be integrating and enabling sister cities (e.g. ~100 km mark around major cities).

Regular, daily train service would revitalize and open up a lot of smaller communities.

Precisely as major cities are grappling with housing and affordability issues.
Let's use a blockchain for that!
Imo this has nothing to do with coffee itself. It could have very well been some other drink or food that was used as a medium to socialize over.
Depends. Usually (German) news papers cater an audience which wants to read things in a "more complicated" way. I don't know your level of proficiency and which publications you looked it, usually magazines and news papers might try to be more playful with language as well, this could be what is making it more exhausting to read it.

If I am perfectly honest, reading articles and things written by non-native English speakers is easier for me. If I read articles in WSJ, Washington Post, Guardian, etc. it is harder to comprehend and takes more time to understand, compared to a Medium article or blog post written by a non-journalist.
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> Is this accurate? My understanding of wealth might be simplistic or reductive, but I have equated it to two neighbor craftsmen producing and trading goods. Each benefits from the other’s specialty and increases overall wealth, which is not zero-sum.

It's accurate for the society we live in, but not for all possible societies.
> no component standardization

This one is interesting because Alan Kay is so expressly against it ("browsers shouldn't have features"). He thinks every object should just render itself as a bitmap.

Besides, browsers do have standard components. That's what the semantic HTML tags like <button /> are. The specific views vary between browsers. Is that a problem? Regardless, almost no site uses the standard stylings that do exist. They use a de facto standard like Bootstrap, or they build their own.

I agree with some of your other points, but I don't understand your lament of "enormous complexity" while you're advocating for more features.
Maybe I'm being too pedantic, but I found some errors on the first few pages and am wondering about the accuracy of the rest.

https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/introduction/: "Einfluß" and "Zusammenfluß" have officially been spelled "Einfluss" and "Zusammenfluss" since the reform of 1996, i.e., since before much of this book's audience was born. "beeinflüssen" should be "beeinflussen".

https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/noun-gender-no...: Not an error of German per se, but I find "memorizing the gender of every noun is not particularly important" and "It is recommended that, as you learn the nouns you choose to memorize, you learn each noun with its definite article" contradictory and confusing.

On the same page: "All nouns that end in –ei, –heit, –ie, –in, –keit, –schaft, –tät, –ung are feminine." Counterexamples I came up with in a minute or so: der Brei, das Allerlei, das Benzin. The reason is that in these cases -ei and -in are not suffixes in the same sense as they are in the common case illustrated by the authors' examples, but a beginner would not be able to tell.

This feels like it could be a better resource with more attention to small details.
The hard part in proving the four color theorem is proving that there aren't any possible maps that can't be colored with four colors. Perhaps there's one out there that needs five and can't be colored with only four.

Proving some maps can't be colored with three colors is easy, you only need to find one and enumerate all the three-colorings and find none of them work.

It's not really a theorem about colors though, they're just labels.