skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure the comments will be awash with meta-discussion about social justice but I just want to point out the article does give evidence to some career advice I've always had.

Take a coffee break with your boss's smoke break. Daily, relaxed, and agenda free one on one meetings with your seniors/bosses will do wonders.
This isn't about the ads that are inserted by YouTube. This is trying to block parts of the main video that are ads.
00:00:00-00:06:00 Steve Pack: Intro to Cloudflare
00:06:25-00:50:30 Raph Levien: Declarative UI Patterns in Rust
00:56:50-01:19:19 Gabbi Fisher: CLIs in Rust
I think the more illustrative comparison in English here would be "you must not" vs "it is not a must to".
I bet a significant chunk of the money went into the pockets of well-connected Washington insiders and their friends. People like Paul Manafort who lobby for any dictator who is willing to pay have a lot of influence. Defense companies probably made a lot of money too.
That is also a HN thing, sadly. At least on reddit, it is easier to find a different community.
The US gov certainly can afford it but they'll pass the bill on to taxpayers all the same.
Everyday carry? I don't know the terminology! Ain't got nobody to correct me :/
ESA's e.Deorbit space debris removal mission reborn as servicing vehicle
That reads like a joke but I'm genuinely curious what the answer is.
Are other nations any different? If you had a dictatorship in your country, would a foreign attack win your "hearts and minds"?
The purpose of he US being in the Middle East was, and still is, to challenge opposing interests in the region. Without the US there they would be looking at more russian/Chinese/Iranian influence which is evident by their expansion into Syria after the US’s departure.

It’s hard to put a price on what that has meant in terms of was it worth the price they paid, but more stability in the region generally would mean more prosperity for Western developed nations simply from having a more stable dollar.
It's the Model S which had/has quick-swap capabilities. Tesla even built a couple of public swap stations in California at one point to test it out.

The Model 3 has a different battery design that was never designed for swapping.
> Windows did not enforce this either

Windows pretty much enforces it in the sense that syscall numbers can change between minor updates, so raw syscalls breaks extremely often.

> Moreover, some systems genuinely have a stable syscall ABI - I think Linux would be considered one.

Linux is not a system. It's a kernel, with userlands you can bolt on. That's why it has a stable syscall ABI: that's the only interface Linux can have if it intends to provide an interface.
If you can afford a $40k+ car, you can afford one of those "clean" and quite running honda generators...
They just don't have to be down at the same time to be useful.
In my opinion there’s simply too many dependencies to begin with. Some of the simplest things put into a GitHub repository to be “shared” with the world is great—as a gist file. Software needs to be a little more self-contained. Software reuse these days is honestly taking “not reinventing the wheel” to lazy extremes.

System package management systems do things just fine. Ask yourself, “when did I last properly package a Debian library? Do I even know how to do it properly?” Most people won’t be able to answer that because they didn’t.

But truth be told, having each programming language a unique package manager sucks. I’d rather have a consistent way of managing packages on a given system so that I can use various programming languages.
Surely a man who is successful in his career can support his children in many ways. This is undoubtedly important to many men.

But most men who strive for promotions surely have many reasons other than their children. Who doesn't want {appreciation, autonomy, status, money, ...} just for the sake of their own ego, identity, power, etc.?
You probably already know this, but just in case: you can trivially strip the DRM from Kindle books using the free Calibre software.
Hi! I wrote the original software for Long Bets some years ago. I can't speak officially about the project, as I was just a coder. But maybe my take here is useful.

I enjoyed the article, and think the analysis is correct as far as it goes. If your goal is to donate maximum dollars in the future, a Long Bet may not be your best choice. I just think that's rarely the goal.

The main issue here is that nobody does a Long Bet so that their charity gets more money eventually. The Long Now's mission is to promote long-term thinking. Long Bets in specific promotes clarity and accountability via carefully-stated long-term predictions and bets.[1] Take, for example, Bet id 362: http://longbets.org/362/

St. Warren of Omaha was not trying to maximize money to his charity. He has approximately infinite dollars; this was a rounding error. He was trying to make a point very publicly. He thought that hedge funds were generally horseshit, and that most investors would do far better making simple, straightforward choices rather than giving their money to people who promised to do wonders: https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/24/investing/warren-buffett-an...

What he was buying was not a specific dollar gain, but a clear, visible test of contrasting views. And it worked wonderfully; this bet was in the news off and on for more than 10 years.

I believe another goal of most people doing a Long Bet is to support the idea of long bets and long-term thinking, so I suspect that they look at the Long Now's rake as another donation to a charity they like. This analysis values that at zero.

I'd note also that for truly long-term bets, this analysis discounts the fact that the bettors will be dead. I think our current longest bet runs from 2002-2150. For a mere $1000, I doubt there's a donor-advised fund in the world that will agree to act as trustee for 150 years, selecting the most appropriate charity at the time of resolution. And of course no DAF will provide the clear record and eventual judging of a bet.

And really, if one's goal is giving money to charity, I suspect the best thing to do is give the money now. Whatever need they're addressing is presumably urgent enough that they'd rather spend the money today than put it in a long-term fund. And if it isn't (as is perhaps the case with the B-612 Foundation [2], which is saving up for a satellite), the charity in question is probably a better judge of exactly how to invest the money until they're ready for it. At the very worse, they money could be given with the restriction that it be used as an endowment.

So I look at this analysis as a good start, but definitely not complete given who actually uses the service.

[1] It's very much in the spirit of the Erlich wager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager

[2] https://b612foundation.org/
Shoutout to https://github.com/dessant/buster by the way!

`Buster is a browser extension which helps you to solve difficult captchas by completing reCAPTCHA audio challenges using speech recognition. Challenges are solved by clicking on the extension button at the bottom of the reCAPTCHA widget.`
You can make this claim how? Do you have intelligence that supports they are not actively undermining the US and that their capabilities are of no concern? I severely doubt it.
We have a tremendous appetite for risk when it comes to intervention. And we're extremely caution and austere when it comes to "investing" in our own citizenry.

It's also amusing how we become extremely obsessed with who "deserves" government money, establishing kafkaesque means-testing protocols, but have little issue handing out billions of taxpayer money to non-citizens in foreign countries.
I think the serious argument is whether US can afford not to do something.

US didn't have to invade Afghanistan, but it did.

US doesn't have to provide free health care, and it probably won't.
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Ask HN: What's the Best Tool(s) for Optimizing JPEG, PNG, MP4 and GIF?
What's the best tool(s) for optimizing/shirinking lossy the folling formats JPEG, PNG, MP4 (to WEBM/AV1) and GIF (convert GIF to WEBM/VP9 maybe?)?

Thanks!
> Some kind of weird Maven/Gradle thing that needs to go out and check something, even though the dependencies have all been pre-installed...

It is often possible to tell Maven at least to work in offline mode and not check for dependency updates.
The problem comes in in that the Fed should be the lender of last resort. Not the primary thing propping up the system.

If banks are not capable of engaging in interbank lending while maintaining elevated regulatory levels of liquidity then they've filled their books in such a way that they are not capable of doing one of the fundamental maintenance activities of the financial system.

This is also in essence a sort of signal that all is not well, since there is clearly not enough realizable margin between what the banks portfolios can generate vs. what they have to generate to be capable of playing clearinghouse for another actor.

My hunch is, this repo market is probably a normal mechanism used to moderate the system overall (some actors will have a good period, some'll have it bad, but over time everyone averages out) when the market is healthy, and generating actual value.

I think what we may be seeing now, is pickings starting to get so slim because of low interest rates/lower spending/lower actual (not surveyed, but actual) growth such that everybody is now turning to the Fed at the same time, because everyone sees everyone else as a threat to their liquidity.

The point is that in a healthy market, your growth should be able to surpass your minimum drop dead liquidity reserves.

We aren't seeing that so I'd say we aren't experiencing a healthy market; and no, I don't think the higher liquidity reserves are the chief cause of the unhealthy market. I think we're starting to run into the physical barriers in several industrial verticals as the low hanging fruit starts to dry up, and growth is becoming less and less certain, as well as less and less equitably distributed.

That's my wild-ass-guess anyway.
Took me a while to respond, but thanks for the list. I've purchased myself a set of 3m X5A earmuffs and started using the self control app which is incredible. Been experimenting with binaural beats, which are pretty nice overall. Feels like I go into a bit of a different zone.

Regarding the noise, I was surprised by how much of a problem it was, because I love working out of coffee shops. I hope I find a way to work around it. I just wish I didn't have to have an elaborate way to escape noise just to work.

5) I don't do martial arts, but I'm a skateboarder and have been progressing through mountain hiking hopefully to mountaineering and climbing and hitting the gym 3 or more times a week. It's always been something I do, but if I get too into work or something and forget to do any of it, I do get restless and my focus deteriorates even more. Also a great way to meet people.

How did you get your sleep shit together?
Like Tumblr, reddit is pretty good for porn links. Those are less interesting if text only.
With stuff like this I always wonder if Volcker had such a great insight or if he was just lucky to have things come together at the right time. Greenspan was also considered a genius until he wasn't.
Baijiu
How many more groups are left to join? There's no easy to way as far as I can tell to get a sense of completion. The extension goes in reverse alphabetical order, but also loops around again.
...how does that make any sense (even in the universe of my metaphor)?
> we want the Iranian people to stand up to the Mullahs

How are you defining "we" here?
One-off pallets of cash stories aside, most of these "re-building programs" are contracts that go out to US corporations (e.g., Bechtel, Halliburton, etc.) -- and are essentially corporate giveaways or corporate welfare.

Of course we can afford free health care for our citizens in the US -- but our leadership favors corporate welfare over citizen welfare and that is unfortunate. Corporate welfare is also welfare, it just doesnt get evenly distributed across US citizenry. You need to drive around McLean Virginia and see the houses to see the types of places where the money ends up.

On a side note -- many of the giant figures are not cash that we literally give from US coffers, but loans to these countries that come right back to companies in the US. The loans have a side "benefit" in that the loans allow us to dictate affairs overseas via loan covenants we can relax for this or that. If the loan cannot be repaid, only then it comes from US coffers (but the money never really went overseas, it just got re-distributed in the US.)
The obvious question to me is why must the cost fall on the provider instead of the player? If micropayments were easy enough then this would've been sustainable.
It's an unstable equilibrium, not win-win but win-lose. It's only win-win if you think being subjected to tracking, ads, etc costs you nothing. Many people would disagree.
Complex Computing in MATLAB and Chebfun by Lloyd N. Trefethen, University of Oxford, December 2019: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/ini.pdf
which book was that in ?
Free healthcare does not exist (unless you enslave doctors and nurses). What you want is taxpayer subsidized healthcare, which is certainly on the table.
> I don't think this is true, at least on Linux.

My assertion pertains to systems. Linux is not a system.

> Even the commonly used vDSO² is a stable interface.

https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

> [snip completely irrelevant everything else]
Hmm, can someone explain to me why this has a non-Medium link in Hacker News but goes to a Medium webpage?
"Misrepresented" is kind of an understatement. He is straight up lying. Seeing the search query compared to having ones adress, real name, kids and browsing history is quite the difference. One gives you enough data to see what results your adwords hit on, the other is enough for a psycholgical profile.

Adding to that he seems to copy paste this article with different subjects, as noted by another comment here, this post is just a scummy SEO post
I'm not thinking of Korean men as having a lot of spare time on their hands.
If Honda engineers were smart, they'd build a car with a built in generator. They are smart. Hence the Prius.
I still need my computer despite doing more of my computing on my phone and tablet. I do more consumption on the phone and tablet than on the computer. However, I have moved beyond consumption to more to“work” and productivity with the introduction of split screen and multitasking on the iPad. And I now do short travel trips without the computer.
No breakfast, and a very small lunch. A standard sized male needs around 2k a day :)
There are data brokers who claim to turn a phone number into a billing address zip code probably relinking via some credit card company or bank selling "anonymized" data.
I distinguished between velocity and acceleration.

My point was strictly that many people will falsely think gravity somehow meaningfully pulls lighter objects at a lower rate. This despite days off lessons that gravity on Earth is basically a constant.

That is to say, if your model of speed of things falling is hinged solely on gravity, it will not be predictive in the extremes.

Of course, most folks aren't playing in the extremes, so the simple model will be fairly predictive of everything they do actually toss around the room. Can easily explain why the stack of books fell at the same speed as the basketball when the dresser was knocked over. :)
Overhead.

You have the salary of the people who do the work. Then the salary of the people who do the oversight, management, accounting, project management, training, compliance etc.

So your $30MM in costs + $60MM in overhead (ie 200% which is sadly typical) and you are not even counting the %7 profit that can be baked in on top of the overhead numbers.
That’s over twenty years. So $100B/year. There are 0.3B of us. So that’s $3000 per person per year. That’s about what my employer pays for a BCBS elite HD-HSA PPO for my group of relatively young, affluent, healthy tech workers in Boston.

It doesn’t come close to covering all of it.

There are 3M nurses and 1M doctors in the US. That $100B/yr could pay each $25k in salary, and cover no equipment.

Let’s say we want to pay nurses $150k and doctors $250k, good middle class salaries comparable to tech incomes. You need $700B per year.

That’s not impossible to find at https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/US_fed_spending_pie_cha..., and I think we should—but it’s not obvious how to do so or what to sacrifice.
Well, now this show how polynomial time isn't necessarily any better than O(2^n), or exponential time in reality. Once the k grew bigger in O(n^k), our modern machine will still struggle to run it.
Actuarially speaking, the 2,372 American deaths in Afghanistan at 7 million per individual roughly cost about $17 billion dollars. A drop in the bucket compared to $3 trillion dollars.

It's hard to see dollar figures and realize we are watching the productive lives of half a million people being spent so easily. Then again, we don't know the economic benefits we gained from the Afghanistan war so it's hard to balance the sheet.

Maybe it netted us some benefit with regards to world trade we aren't seeing? Or maybe it only hurt us in that regard and $3 trillion is just the beginning?

Then again this is just economics without considering the ethics of such "peacekeeping missions".
I'm a happy uBlock Origin user but this one just seems unfair to content creators.
Like the sudden urgency to throw 700,000 off food stamps with work requirements.
Is the ISS not comparable in size?
> The entire study is not very interesting.

The study still has value even if they didn't perfectly study 100% of the world. It provides a useful datapoint for other researchers to build upon.
In practice, the crawlers that read robots.txt don't do adversarial interoperability. If a website doesn't want to be in Google's index, they can opt out, and no lawyers are needed to do that.
How are the ads narrated within the video tracking you?
What kind of beer are you drinking on a keto diet? I assume some combination of low carb and not too much of it?
$2T over 18 years is $111B/year or about 3% of US yearly healthcare budget. If the US could somehow magically switch to a Swiss style healthcare system, that amount would pay for about 4% of the US yearly healthcare budget.
Mountain view is kind of good in this regard. Few years ago they gave a bunch of permits to apartments, and now they started to being built. It is making city look much more modern, and house values will end up increasing due to that
Yes,

If I snack before bed or eat around 20/21, I can feel more hunger pains the following morning around 10, which is a negative on the cognitive performance :)
"parts of the main video that are ads" - well, i'm not sure what those are. Is it something that happens when they record a program from a TV and then upload that video to youtube without removing TV ads?
> Bitfields may appear only as struct/union members, so
there are no pointers to bitfields, arrays of bitfields

You can certainly have a pointer to a struct member, so this isn't the reason why you can't have pointers to bitfields. The reason is that bits are not addressable, fullstop.
2T is indeed a big number but its dwarfed by the cost of healthcare. Keep in mind that's over 18 years. We spend more than that every year in the US. Apparently Warren's plan calls for 20.5 trillion in spending over the next decade and that's with some optimistic assumptions on cost reduction.

None of this necessarily means we shouldn't do it. Healthcare is expensive, but certainly many countries do have more of the cost covered by the government, but you can't see a big number and assume that was paid and assume it would pay for healthcare
> it often arises from one O(n) algorithm calling another O(n) algorithm in each iteration, resulting in O(n^2) overall.

https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com was / is pretty much an entire blog dedicated to this.
There are a lot of industries where men outnumber women, but it's very far from "pretty much any."

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm

Just by eyeballing this chart, I'd say that women outnumber men in at least a quarter of the categories, and I'd bet there are close to another quarter that are pretty close to 50/50, where inferences drawn from the behaviors of the genders wouldn't be wrong solely because of the distribution of men and women. And given that the total percentage of women employed is 46%, many of the male dominated fields have to be offset by female dominated fields or else it wouldn't be close to 50/50.

This isn't to say there is anything like perfect equality, but men outnumbering women in pretty much any industry is much too strong of a statement, in my opinion.
I think it helps if you think of it as a project with two sides to it: a production/creative side, and a consumption side.

The positive thing about the 3d printed objects is that kids can choose and print them themselves. This has the benefits that the kids (a) get some hands-on 3d printing production experience, which is a fast gateway to wanting to make your own 3d models, which is a useful and empowering skill and (b) I have found that 3d printing a cultural artifact creates an incentive to learn more about it -- consumer 3d printers are so slow, it gives you plenty of time to ponder the item being printed, as well as the post-processing/finishing step, it builds an intimacy with the object you wouldn't have just walking by it in a museum. It might be hard to buy into this idea, but I have personally experienced it when printing scans of sculptures like the Pieta from the Vatican or Rodin's Thinker -- it motivated me to dig in and learn more about the background and nature of these works of art.

But yes, there is the issue that at the end of the day you are just pushing more plastic waste into the world. My adult daughter kind of hates my 3d printer for that reason, and I can identify with the angst. I wish there was a better story for PLA recycling.
I havent used it so i cant vouch for it personally, but IFTTT has been recommended to me highly.
> It's only win-win if you think being subjected to tracking, ads, etc costs you nothing.

No: only if it costs you less than the value of the content you're receiving. So yeah, it's win-lose: you get the content (which you consider valuable enough to spend your time on) and the content creators lose their revenue.
Been more difficult to do prank calls for a while now. Scammers don't have a problem though.
The entitlement of people who think they should get everyone else's time and effort for free is quite astonishing.

"I have deigned to click on your video, you may entertain me! Expect nothing in return! It is my right!"
No, as in, don't. Just don't. ;)
Ten years ago the hash-map implementation in Internet Explorer was also O(n2).

I had to inject javascript into some vendor code to avoid this after our production environment died. I ended up replacing the underlying hash-map into multiple smaller maps based on a hash of the items. So I'd have 50 maps of 1000 items instead of one map of 50000 items.
To build on this, I find that an arbitrary challenge doesn't really work for me. Deadlines, blackbox debugging, and quizzes fall into this category. I was fired from my first front-end job because much of the work ended up being me trying to debug opaque problems in Ember.js v1, and lack of productively writing CSS after solving the design and layout problems. My job was building UI, but I excelled at solving the CSS, JS, and design problems, then I'd stall at actually productively writing it. I'll usually feel guilty about falling behind and grind myself to sleep deprivation to slowly get it done.