skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your point. I like the WSJ myself, and have been a subscriber for 15 years. However, the article is clearly biased, in that they give token space near the beginning to the responses of the actual subjects in the article, and then spend the balance 80% of the article continuing their narrative, regardless of what the subjects themselves said!

Ray Dalio is right. Journalism is not about informing or educating, it is about entertaining, and depending on your media source of choice, you are being pandered to.

This is not about "discrediting journalism" or whatever sob story media pushers want to cry crocodile tears about. They have killed their own credibility, and every day they behave badly, and continue to play victim, the more people wake up and stop trusting them.

Edit -- the big thing that media companies hate is that now with the internet and social media, people being covered have a voice and can speak up. Media companies absolutely hate this loss of influence, and again will attack anyone or anything that chips away at that from them. But again, they exposed themselves, and have wrecked their own credibility, hence the dying out of the industry.
> The vast majority of developing and undeveloped countries don't recycle - which is the worst thing you should be doing

Throwing the trash in a landfill is worse than recycling. But yeah, of the "active" actions you can do, recycling is the worst: reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order.
[Benedict Evans] Tech in 2020: Standing on the shoulders of giants [pdf]
I think 7.1 or 7.2 was where it generally beat HHVM.
I have to ask. Does this mean that maintenance is always someone else's responsibility and never someone's responsibility directly?
no. Salvia is considered to uniquely unpleasant. Other psychedelics (usually) bring various good feelings along- the sensations of insight or of love or unity or any of a bunch others
On the other side, I have already lost all of the printed photos from 2000 (I moved houses a few times...) but I still have the digital files from that year. Same with audio recordings - I have lost the tapes, but mp3’s are still around.

Sure, digital is requires a bit of effort, but redundancy is amazing. Every 5-10 years I move the files on the new medium, and it becomes easier and easier. I used to need a fragile, heavy HDD that cost hundreds of dollars - and now all I need a $30 MicroSD card.

(And microsd cards are amazing.. I love the fact that they need no mechanical readers to get worn out, and that the protocol is so simple it can be implemented from scratch in a week with minimal documentation)
At one point in US history from 1863-1930, the lynching of black men was a regular occurrence throughout the Midwest and South.

Another fun fact is that most slaveholding families recovered their wealth less than one generation later through their connections and the white terrorism that let them reclaim their power.

I’d recommend checking out the museum dedicated to these lynching victims in Birmingham, Alabama, the Legacy Museum and National Memorial to Peace and Justice.

Sources:
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/04/04/the-sons-...

https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-shows-over-a-c...
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> It's a rare person in today's world who doesn't have a credit card.

Ever been outside the US?

> I don’t see the problem here.

Total lack of privacy, and control.
Yeah. 15+ years after a bad trip for me, I am still dealing with the effect it had on my life.

It honestly had an entirely different effect than articles like this portray - it turned me from an easy going worry free 20 year old into a panic-attack riddled alcoholic (the only way I could get to sleep for many years.)

I guess the good side of it was that all that anxiety made me quit smoking, quit drinking caffeine, and come to terms with the fact that I am indeed mortal. So in a certain way it has really focused my life into actually living it and not just going through the motions.

I'm 95% better at this point, but yeah, not a good time in my case.
Hmm, your reply went in a direction I very much didn't expect, though I can see where you're coming from if I squint.

What I called technically interesting is "working on a large scale product", which for you seems to have implied "work on a new problem", but for me it's exactly the opposite. The kinds of large scale projects I find the most technically interesting are long into their growth curve.
ayahuasca is the traditional extended DMT experience
> Large cyclic data structures which are freed as one piece are annoyingly difficult in Rust.

If you really are deallocating the cyclic structure all at once, just use an arena and represent each element as an indice. Like https://docs.rs/petgraph/0.5.0/petgraph/ or https://docs.rs/specs/0.15.1/specs/
Humans seek social interaction, whether that's in person or online, or by doing good or bad things to get attention. I would not call that a popularity contest because it happens with everything. A popularity contest would be one extreme end of a range of behavior.

If you are producing content for yourself and it makes you happy then you don't need to put it in public view. The whole point of the internet is to interact, share your work and see others' work.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I prefer NixOS
This is the crucial issue, but I think price discrimination by user-persona is way more downstream. Even assuming there's a sufficient population willing to pay, I believe the challenge is, how does the publisher value its content v. the user in terms of willingness to pay. And how does the user value content before they've been charged v. after they've been charged. And as you stated, how does content value vary within a publisher's content catalog. Viewability and ad slots (crudely stated) was the way that ads tried to solve the latter, but would users feel similarly? Especially since this created loads of paginated content such as "top 10 lists".
Maybe a fountain system where people being their own reusable bottles would be better still.
It’s possible that they were farmed for hunting and then other things. (didn’t look it up)
Im not an American but it can be argued the US was not built from the same social situations Russia, China or any post colonial emerging power was built from.

US for almost all practical purpose for most of its existence is an extended Britain. And for the remaining part the best result of European colonialism. The US is basically Europe. There are now differences of course, but the bigger story is this.

By and large Russia and China are the result of revolutions, that were attained in the climate of what was then the dominant political and economic narrative of the time.

The fact that countries like China and Russia have done whatever they have done what it took Europe and its colonies centuries to do is in itself a huge proof of success, if you want to measure it that way.
Laymen were nor very aware of what was going on mere hundreds of kilometers away. It is very possible that either this meltdown or Bosporus overflow was interpreted by some as "everybody died".
Make downvotes and upvotes an economy. You can't downvote what you don't have to spend. You can't post if your bankrupt of points.

Idea might need fine tuning.
I believe any advantage this may have created is likely offset by China's extremely high population density compared to Western democracies.
Which is exactly the goal of our system. Now if only we could get term limits for the Senate...
Interesting! Thank you for all the great information. I'm opening those links from a mobile app, and both ended up as not found (not 404, but as the sites internal unrecognized URL page). Are they live for you?
sure you can - 35 years or so back I ported Unix (v6/v7) to run in a virtual system (under VMS) with relative pointers (so you could move swapped images around without playing too many MMU games). I did this by hacking the C compiler to use a relative pointer much the same as these people are doing
It’s worth at least as much as the New York Times, which is $8 a month
If they're not at least contemplating J.P. Lewis' "Large Limits to Software Estimation", they're just wrong.

http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf
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To be clear, it sucked for a bit but I came back just fine.
In Facebook's HHVM, PHP has had a JITed interpreter for well over 5 years that people have used in production for great gains. However, most people have moved back to reference PHP 7+ and I believe HHVM had even stopped supporting PHP (it's main use was as an interpreter for & three closely related Hack language).
...AMD seems hurt a lot less than intel by these exploits so far, and are also releasing some really cool hardware. It might be good to buy some stock and see how the next few years go?
http://code-poetry.com/

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_poetry
> It is best to cache metadata

And the thing you cache it in is called a database. You may choose to eschew an SQL database, or a no-SQL database, and roll your own implementation of a database, but you are building a database in some fashion.

> there are lot of benefits of saving emails as files that can be read from the file system

And now you're using the filesystem as key-value store, aka, database. Except since you're preserving metadata in a distinct database, now you have to maintain ACID qualities across two databases, one of which is pretty notorious for lying to you about durability. Or you can recognize that you're probably not very good at actually dealing with databases, and delegate the task to a proper database who has people on staff who actually worry about these sorts of scenarios.

> generally this isn't a problem unless you have unknown software accessing the same data as your program.

The most common such program is... backup software. Especially the kind that says backups are "copy all files in these directories," which I'm guessing is the kind of backup software that you advocate for.

But you'll find in general that many applications have people who'll want to read your innards. If you're a browser, your cookie jar is valuable; an email client, your email storage and address book.

> It is much easier to copy and sync files that store relevant information

It is easier to write such an application. It is harder to make such an application correct. To give a concrete example of where things can go wrong: Suppose I'm running my email client when the backup process is running. The backup process finishes copying the contents of my mail folder, and my email client gets a new message, which it dutifully files into that folder. This creates a new file in said folder, and also updates the cached metadata file. Now the backup process indexes the metadata file. Were I to try to restore from this backup, the resulting state is inconsistent, and the message may well be gone forever.
Correct on both points. Shit is a fairly strong expletive in English, so it’s not a word you’d generally roll out in polite conversation. And a shitstorm in English doesn’t have a specific context of something that happens online, it’s just any situation where a bunch of really bad stuff is happening all at once.
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I don't know why you think "media companies" hate anything.

I think that they're just doing whatever makes the most money.

Printing hardly researched often untrue shock-garabage makes a lot of money. It gets traffic from people who agree with it and traffic from people who think it's awful. Even lying outright-- there are no consequences and it's cheap to produce. If anyone cares the controversy just means even more traffic.

No great conspiracy is required. Modern consumption patterns have made essentially tabloid grade 'journalism' more profitable than it was while making traditional modes of journalism less profitable. If the commercial operations weren't producing junk at scale they'd probably be put out of business by grass roots tabloid-content production.

I'm sure there are plenty of journalists who would like to do better, but wishes doesn't put food on the table. They produce what earns money or they find another line of work.

We get what we incentivize.
Same with Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft.
Listing five publishers is hardly "Digital Publishing," and one of those publishers (The Information) charges $400/year.
Just another area where rules based heuristic systems can outperform machine learning systems by not removing edge cases through over generalization.
It feels like there is never enough time to get the kind of history lessons out there that are needed, and the time we do have is spent so inefficiently.

I'm not a student of these incidents, but its important just to get a sense of the scale in number of incidents of these race riots. Just two years previously, a particularly bad year in 1919 saw over two dozen(in part known as 'The Red Summer') recorded riots.

And they were everywhere. Just google '<major city> race riot', and you'll probably hit at least one, even for what are now liberal and metropolitan cities.

Then bear in mind, like Tulsa, many of these pogroms and lynchings were the victim of a cover up. The 'law' enforcing whites were often participants. Documents conveniently disappeared, survivors were terrified into silence, and witnessing whites told investigating officials that they just saw nothing that day. Any hard number you find out there is probably conservative because we just don't know.

Not everyone was sending around post cards of the dead and destroyed like in Tulsa, although many certainly did. If you're curious, there is an entire Wikipedia article on "Lynching Postcards". The imagery is disturbing, so you can find it yourself.

Even outside of understanding race relations, this and labor rights suppression (another incredibly undertaught topic) show how 'recent' and fragile the Rule of Law is in this country.
Just to make this technically correct, people still bunny hop in CS all the time, it just doesn't get you anywhere any faster.
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I had a near-death experience that I would describe similarly. Psychedelics scare me.
I get that Apple doesn't want GPL code included in their software, but their engineers can still use GPL tools without fear of opening up their proprietary code. I know of plenty of companies where you can not INCLUDE GPL code in the software the company makes, but I don't know of any company that says you can not USE any GPL software to do your job. Those are two different things.
When I went shopping last time I visited my mom I thought it was higher. I took back a crate with empty bottles and got mineral water almost for free. The price for the water was almost as high as the deposit if I remember correctly.

In any case I have heard about people stealing "Pfandflaschen" but never about people producing them. I think there are easier ways to commit fraud.
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It’s not even just pandering. When it comes to industry specific coverage, most journalists have no idea what they’re talking about, and are largely writing for an audience that doesn’t understand the industry either. With respect to finance, for example, there are a handful of reporters like Erin Burnett who know what they’re talking about because they worked in the industry. But guys like Matt Tabbi, who have zero subject matter experience, suck all the air out of the room.
Still way more expensive per megawatt than nuclear... Probably higher death toll as well.
I've always wanted to be able to right-click on a file that is synced in Dropbox and either have a submenu with versions to select or an option that pops up a window with the file's version history. Without having to open the Dropbox web app.
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Google docs, at least, has version history with named versions.

I don't think I'd want a scrub bar like that though, maybe? I suppose I've never tried it.
You’re right, when a sort size depends on n, then it’s not considered O(1), I agree.

> I don’t see why you think the addition involved in a comparison sort wouldn’t be O(1)

Because you can’t have an infinite number of elements using 32-bit indices, you have to use indices that can represent up to n, and thus you must do arithmetic and comparsion operations on those indices that are not O(1). Considering that this was your original point, I’m totally confused why you’re now arguing against this point? It still seems inconsistent to me. Are you assuming that the size of the data elements to be sorted are 32 bits and that the only operations are on the data and not the indices? Bubble sort has to do both data comparisons and index comparisons, as well as index arithmetic. Adding 1 to a large n-bit number is worst case O(n).

> The key difference for this project Euler example is that there the input n is actually an integer that we do the main artithmetic on.

No, bubble sort has to do arithmetic on size n numbers too, as well as comparisons, the same as with Gauss’ formula.

> then _any_ function I write whose only input is an int is O(1) and the notion is meaningless.

No, this is both a straw-man and incorrect. A pure function on an int is only O(1) if it’s run-time doesn’t depend on the input. When the implementation is a constant number of 32-bit int operations on the input, and it doesn’t depend on what the value of the input is, then the function is O(1). Addition of two 32 bit ints on modern processors is O(1). Calculating whether an input int is prime, without having a lookup table in memory, for example, is not O(1), even though it’s a function of one 32-bit int.
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Nice, that's a good tip. It's a little hard to test small speedups like this, but I used https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bench and got these results:

128MB
️ ~/D/M/h/mercury-web-backend> caffeinate bench "make test" 15:19:04
benchmarking make test
time 226.4 s (NaN s .. 240.6 s)
1.000 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 222.3 s (220.6 s .. 224.4 s)
std dev 2.390 s (104.1 ms .. 2.986 s)
variance introduced by outliers: 19% (moderately inflated)

128MB
️ ~/D/M/h/mercury-web-backend> caffeinate bench "make test" 16:18:57
benchmarking make test
time 225.8 s (208.8 s .. 233.9 s)
0.999 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 221.6 s (215.8 s .. 224.8 s)
std dev 5.576 s (1.671 s .. 7.491 s)
variance introduced by outliers: 19% (moderately inflated)

2MB
️ ~/D/M/h/mercury-web-backend> caffeinate bench "make test" 18:30:27
benchmarking make test
time 216.9 s (204.5 s .. 229.5 s)
1.000 R² (0.998 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 219.7 s (216.7 s .. 221.3 s)
std dev 2.863 s (1.283 s .. 3.658 s)
variance introduced by outliers: 19% (moderately inflated)

2MB
️ ~/D/M/h/mercury-web-backend> caffeinate bench "make test" 19:29:26
benchmarking make test
time 209.6 s (192.8 s .. 224.1 s)
0.999 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 216.0 s (211.0 s .. 218.5 s)
std dev 3.732 s (1.442 s .. 5.168 s)
variance introduced by outliers: 19% (moderately inflated)

So it seems like 2MB shared buffers shaves a few seconds off our tests. Is 2MB in the range you were thinking of?
Ask HN: What is your favorite Web browser of all time?
Was there a browser back in time which you really enjoyed using?

A good interface? Really fast?

Maybe it had some unique feature you've not seen in a browser since then?

It might be "obsolete" today, but I'd like to know anyway.

Me, personally, I'm a big fan of Opera 3.x/3.62 for its insane speed, Safari 3.x/3.2.3 on Windows for its clean design, and Netscape 3.x just for the nostalgia feeling.

I also liked Trident IE (4.x-11.x) for how "Windowsy" it felt, with the widget appearance and keyboard controls following the Windows design language to the pixel.
Am I missing something? This already exists in Google Docs. Much easier to implement when the doc is database-backed (recording every keystroke for OT) vs file-based.
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> As for The Wall Street Journal’s claim that I’m refusing to let go of control of Bridgewater, I can assure you that that is not true and that if it was true, I’d tell you it was true.

So your counter-argument to an article in a publication that has won 37 Pulitzer prizes for the quality of its news reporting is: “they’re wrong, trust me.”
Ray Dalio says journalism makes it so that we have no more heroes. It's funny to see that picture of him at burning man after reading his account. He wants to be a hero, deep down, whether he admits it or not (we all do). A flip side to what you point out is that because of social media now "heroes" also have to listen to people that might not share their worship the same way some newspapers often have. Carnegie and Rockefeller would have been covered differently in these times. I'm not disagreeing with you, and I do think the death of newspapers is not just because of journalists destroying their own credibility.
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This might be too ‘woo’ for the HN audience, but I found the plant spirit of Datura(Jimson Weed) to be fierce and feral. I had the most intense dreams and frightening ones. For a while before I started farming, I had a garden that I allowed to go wild with invasives and weeds. From wild lettuce(soporific..as Beatrix Potter taught us) to the borderline wicked crone spirit of black nightshades to Mandrake and Mugwort and Wormwood, each plant had its own ‘spirit’, as it were..

Except Datura. Which was very scary. I never ingested or smoked them but I also never wore gloves and was very touchy feely with masses of them. Having said that, I read a lot and my impressions were probably coloured with some fancy ..but it was something I wanted and welcomed. It was a very scripted imaginary ‘trip’, I guess ..on a mental plane as a well researched enacted experience...as I am very risk averse and protective about my physical health.
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> the article is clearly biased,

The article may be biased -- that doesn't mean its wrong. The same facts can be presented in different ways. The fact that the WSJ is presenting them in a way that makes Ray Diallo unhappy doesn't make them untrue.

> they give token space near the beginning to the responses of the actual subjects in the article

Very often the actual subjects of the article are not objective or disinterested. In fact they are often poor sources of information that may be unflattering

> Journalism is not about informing or educating, it is about entertaining

Journalism is about selling ads, nothing more, nothing less. Some journalists may present it as a vocation to truth etc., but the reality is they exist because there is still a market for reliable robust reporting. In the English speaking world, fake news, biased outlets and muckraking have been the norm rather than the outlier over the past three to four centuries.

> Media companies absolutely hate this loss of influence

Media companies hate that thy're being driven out of business.

But apart from all that, with respect Ray Diallo, money talks and bullsh*t walks. If the WSJ asserted disparaging facts about him, call a lawyer and stop writing cry-baby posts on LinkedIn.
Ironically it was a 1995 Toyota 4Runner. They're known to be really reliable and I love them but I just got screwed with that one because the previous owner seemed to have neglected maintenance on it but I wasn’t knowledgeable enough to have noticed potential problems at time of purchase.