skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading in some article, right before the Arab Spring, the entire Egyptian society had become a society of pretense. Every one was pretending to be, and to be doing things which they were not. There was mind boggling amount of lies on which the society ran.

Eventual Arab Spring was also in some way the society maxing out the amount of lies that can be told to each other and continue without bigger consequences. Some day things like hunger, illiteracy, jobs, living standards, economy all catch up you and your reality. And that's the day reality itself gives you a brutal appraisal of the situation.

Taubman noted that the disaster marked "a turning point for Gorbachev and the Soviet regime".[217] Several days after it occurred, he gave a televised report to the nation.[218] He cited the disaster as evidence for what he regarded as widespread problems in Soviet society, such as shoddy workmanship and workplace inertia.[219] Gorbachev later described the incident as one which made him appreciate the scale of incompetence and cover-ups in the Soviet Union.[217] From April to the end of the year, Gorbachev became increasingly open in his criticism of the Soviet system, including food production, state bureaucracy, the military draft, and the large size of the prison population.[220]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev

Gorbachev might not have the man who messed it all up, but he was the last man to see through the end of this. Basically this kind of rot is long set in motion, and eventually leads to a black swan disaster event, then every one wakes up to the deep truth they knew all along, but chose bury and move on with their daily lives instead.

The job of leadership on the basic level is to give this brutal self appraisal to themselves, before these disaster big black swan events and do what it takes to fix them.

As an Indian reading this is scary enough as it is. India has been on this disastrous path for long now. Every now and then there is some respite from this. But deep down everyone knows the society is broken, there is mind boggling amount of corruption(Like you said "every man for himself"), and other standard set of problems have long plagued the country.

I hope there won't be a black swan disaster event. But given the history of the world and inevitability of these things, I wonder if one comes along, what could that be?
Dude, they built a massive hospital complex in just a few days. We have a... dumb f---ing wall that gets blown over by wind and has to have major stretches of it wide open during the monsoon season to avoid flooding.
Apple Maps displaying stop signs and traffic lights is a killer feature for me. Made me switch from Gmaps.
That is incorrect. The big loss was papyrus to vellum where the monks had to make hard choices. Anything written on vellum was expensive so carefully prserved: there weren't a lot of books.
I've got a Morse code decoder and encoder running on a Rasberry Pi, it both sends the ident for my WSPR beacon and records contacts of other beacons. It does better on non-human encoded Morse which is more consistent than a human but still does pretty well.
> Yes, debcargo is a great solution. Thank you for writing that. And really, I mean it, it's awesome.

Just to reiterate: I wrote the initial prototype, and massive credit goes to the current maintainers who picked it up and ran with it into production.

> there were no stability guarantees around the syntax, ABI, API, compiler flags, Cargo file format, etc.

There are absolutely stability guarantees around syntax, around compiler flags, around API, and around the Cargo file format. Code from old Rust and old Cargo will build and run with new Rust and new Cargo. We take a great deal of care to preserve that stability guarantee. The policies here have remained essentially the same since 1.0 (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/10/30/Stability.html), though we've since taken further care to specify them more precisely and to stabilize further areas.

(Source: I'm one of the leads of the Rust language team, and I'm on the Rust cargo team. Other Rust teams, such as the Rust library team, follow the same principles.)
I wish Apple were to use and contribute to OSM, then folks could just fix issues they come across.
Google maps and other navigational apps could potentially flood residential routes that weren't supposed to handle traffic. People have done different measures to combat this. One anecdote is:
"And in 2016, in Takoma Park, Maryland, residents went to great lengths to prevent Waze drivers from flooding their roads during a bridge reconstruction project. A Takoma Park man reportedly started reporting phantom wrecks and traffic jams on his street before Waze banned him" ref: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-05-0...
Is it? Highest deposit per bottle/can I'm aware of is 25ct. Which is a quarter.
Why lightning disproportionately kills the global poor (2016)
How common? I don't know. But it could work something like this:

All standard particles are composed of AnimAlMuppet's Magic Particles (AMMPs). AMMPs each have 1 eV of mass. An electron, for example, is made up of 511,000 AMMPs. We calculate a mass of 511 keV, in good agreement with experiment.

Note well: I have no idea if these people are doing something like that. All I've seen is the abstract.
Not be an ass, but "sometimes" for you is "always" for others. I think the chance of a bad outcome, for those with always, greatly outweighs your unlikely-hood of one...
Packet radio doesn't allow encryption so its utility for most applications is pretty limited.
Even if we posit that the conscious "I" is a conditioned construct, that doesn't resolve the problem of qualia: which is the really hard one, imo. It doesn't help, of course, that a lot of people don't seem to see a difference between the two formulations.
I am still on a 13' inch early 2015 MacBook Pro (128 GB SSD). Mojave already takes up 50 gb, is it worth upgrading to Catalina?
But now you have a 24 hour alcohol shop within 200 meters.
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What if what makes me happy is change with a base of general contentment? I'm pretty happy all the time, and I attribute it to often trying new things.

Therefore happiness isn't boring if what makes you happy is being not-boring. Just abstract one level up :)
Fantastically put! Just as periodic wildfires are necessary to clear the flammable brush and enable new growth, recessions will trim the fat and close down our least successful businesses. This creates more resources to pour into stable, or at least more promising, companies.
The notion that the market is always optimal is one of the central articles of faith in free-market fundamentalism. It's essentially tautological, a commerce-filtered spin on the just world fallacy.

What you ignore is that there are a bunch of information and experience asymmetries here, some of them intentionally created by vendors. There are also big problems with short-term biases and principal-agent problems. These lead to demonstrably sub-optimal global outcomes.

As an example, look at the recent wave of Softbank-funded idiocy. There's no way WeWork was an optimal deployment of capital. You could have lit $10 billion on fire and done better. But it worked out very well for Adam Neumann, who not only got lots of short-term adulation and wealth, but somehow ended up becoming a billionaire because they paid him to go away. And this is from the supposedly hyper-rational experts in the world of finance. If they can't get it right, there's little reason to think that random purchasers and Tektronic's middle managers will.
NY does the same.

But a $0.05 deposit for a can to be returned and melted down as scrap is quite different from a $1.50 deposit for a glass bottle to be returned where it can be sanitized and reused.

If small dairy farms can do the later, why can't Coca Cola? (And why can Coca Cola do it in South America?)
I like Ray Dalio. I’m a big fan of his book, Principles and his favorite book recommendation, Lessons of History by the Durants.

However, his LinkedIn post is irresponsible and appears more to do with discrediting journalism than sticking to and stating the facts. It’s becoming more than apparent that some members of the 1% are increasingly threatened about the role that unfettered journalism and left-leaning politics has in critiquing their unchecked power in this time of historically significant inequality.
There is also the 20th of February.

20200220 yy/mm/dd

02202020 mm/dd/yy

20022020 dd/mm/yy
Hah, I love the ingenuity but I'm not sure if they quite match the ergonomics of the Nintendo Switch. Though I do like the idea of buying a Porsche to play Doom.
GP was contracting sat-phone, from the article, to phone.
The entire point of satellite phones is that they do not rely on cell towers.
Reddit's "best" filter isn't their "top" filter and does exactly what the parent says, explanation[0] ; it does this by default unless the sub moderators choose to default to a different view.

0: https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sortin...
I too learned almost nothing of this history in public school. Only because I took an elective course on the civil rights movement as an undergrad did I ever learn about Tulsa, lynching postcards, Emmett Till, the Birmingham bombings, and countless other acts of horror that were part of the normal fabric of American life.

It was a profound and radicalizing experience. Even moreso when you think how few outside of the affected communities ever have that opportunity and indeed are often intentionally driven away from or are indoctrinated against ever experiencing the same.
thanks, misread that.
Gm definitely does not taken elivation into account. If you live in a hilly country you will want to avoid alternative routes that seem shorter but are really elevation changes.
... a one-party state, Homeland security, Judith Miller, two wars of aggression on foreign soil (one completely illegal), the President choosing not to enforce laws he didn't like, every critical voice being labelled "unpatriotic", every media channel bleeding nationalism 24-7... the sort of thing that in other countries we'd call "a regime".
Have you tried Synth Riders? It's similar but the aesthetic is different, the music is different, and rather than chopping at things you have to dance through them. The more energetic and accurate your dance is, the better your score. I find it more fun than Beat Saber.

Both are beat games. The most obvious way to see the difference between them is to watch someone else playing each. One game looks like someone dancing around and trying to look cool, the other looks like a robot being short circuited.

If you have experience with Beat Saber you can go straight in at expert modes in Synth Rider (e.g. level 4 or 5).

SR is also more like a puzzle game for me, there are certain songs where you have to figure out what kind of dance moves would make it physically possible to complete the track perfectly, how you could modify them to get more points etc.

No connection to the developers of either game, and both are worth owning.
Figure 3 does indeed show an exponential time complexity, but the base exponent is much smaller than for a classical computer. That is an asymptotic improvement at least.
I was the lead for a large tech company's efforts in this area for a few years (not anymore, so take my comments with a grain of salt). I spoke to many of the major publishers globally as well as some niche site aggregators, aggregated local news players, etc. The challenges were manifold. They are linked between what publishers are succeeding with and what users want.

On the publisher side: Large players were already making good money off of subscriptions and so micropayments would undercut that. They often didn't want to co-brand/co-market in any bundle or even under the same product umbrella with most other major players for brand/other reasons (owning the relationship with the customer was very important and they didn't want to be disintermediated anymore), and they often didn't want to be associated with medium to small publishers because they felt that was free-riding and diluting their brand. But most importantly, they were confident, as can be seen in articles like these, that ultimately, they could go it alone and therefore should. As for small to mid-sized publishers -- the problem really was that there wasn't enough meat on the bone in terms of willing-to-pay-traffic to warrant a service provider building a business around it. I think there could be a viable, non-venture product to be built if you can find the right bundles of niche pubs to band together.

On the consumer side: Enough people are slowly willing to pay the high fees for the big sites to not be worth investing in lower tier options. Not enough people are willing to pay enough for smaller sites to be worth their while. Many people logically say they are willing to pay a small fee for sites; for example, let's say publishers were charging $0.01 - $0.05/pageview -- you'd logically say that's reasonable amount to pay, you'd be shocked how few people will opt for that, and how many folks who do opt for that feel a sense of sticker shock when they see the bill.

Other issues: Actually charging consumers on a micro-level is a huge pain if you charge in currency, and from what I've seen now having worked in crypto, it will take a while before that model makes sense to the average consumer. Happy to discuss more.
So far, this is the best attempt I’ve seen to solve the problem: https://coil.com/
By giving it ridiculous power and making it somewhat cartoonish, I think it will be hugely successful on one condition, they have to keep the price manageable. Especially if they want to compete with the cyber truck.
If the report is saying almost 100% of phones sold follow the reg, then they must be saying Apple are in compliance, right? I don’t see how you can get near 100% of phones without including the iPhone.

Also, take a look here:

> Additionally, a voluntary approach may have had the advantage of having a wider scope, compared to the regulatory option, for example, it may have covered both ends of the charging cable.

>However, given the unsatisfactory outcome so far of the progress in the voluntary option, the Commission will shortly launch a study to assess costs and benefits of different options, including the regulatory one.

This seems to say fairly clearly that only a voluntary option would cover both ends of the cable. Then it says they are looking at the regulatory option instead of the voluntary option. It doesn’t seem to contemplate a non-voluntary regulation covering both ends of the cable.

I don’t think I’m being pedantic or obtuse here, just reading the doc plainly.
I think this strategy is aimed at the people who think they do not want an Ev under any circumstances
Correction: gcc 6 and 7 create them too.
They just have 7 unrolled calls to log finite before (and then again after) a loop surrounding the vectorized call.
They've been doing this in Scotland for decades (50yrs?+), you take the glass bottle of IronBru or cola back to the shop or mobile-van-shop and you'd get 10p or something back (it's probably 20p or more nowadays).

I also note in Poland and Czech Republic glass bottle beer always costs a little more than the sticker price so I presume there is some $$ in returning - a nice little tip for the airbnb cleaner after a month.
I dunno, I've been doing a lot of RF analysis lately as my company has been re-upping our capabilities in that regard. We went from an 80's spectrum analyzer (the Rohde and Schwarz rep laughed at us when we called to ask for calibration data... "that machine was made before you were born") hooked up to an ink plotter to a mid-level Rigol analyzer. It really made me appreciate being able to recall the settings for the scan I ran last week, dump the data for the new scan, baselines and a few variations I wanted to try, and compare them all in Excel back at my desk (alongside the results from the external compliance lab).
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I used to mock organic food and it's proponents, there's absolutely no nutritional benefits, but watching the sixth major extinction[0] on Earth unfold, caused by us, it's hard to justify the widespread use of pesticides.

We have a responsibility as the sentient beings here to protect all these things, they nourish us, they keep ecosystems and everything we need to survive in balance, small they may be, yet hold so much importance to the only known living planet in the galaxy. Life is really simple to nurture and hopefully we don't fuck it up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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Is that a regional change or a global change? Did the Japanese release retain the original ending?
This is a direct corollary of the existence of the internet and the effect that had on the scarcity of information that supported the local newspaper model. Ben Thompson has written a number of great articles diving into this topic at Stratechery[1]. I understand why blaming CL seems like it should be a thing, but it's absolutely the wrong target: the very existence of the internet made newspapers utterly unsustainable because the scarcity they depended on vanished.

[1] https://stratechery.com/
> You are now faced with a choice. You can believe my account of what’s happening or The Wall Street Journal’s.

Having now read both accounts, I think I'm going to have to go with the WSJ here.
I just read it for the first time and was surprised to learn that he was announcing massive cuts to military spending, with base closures, consolidating departments between branches, eliminating acquisition teams, and outsourcing things like janitorial work. That, and better tracking of where the money is going. It was actually a refreshing speech and the exact opposite of the warmonger Rumsfeld would come to be known as.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100301161721/http://www.defens...

"There's a myth, sort of a legend, that money enters this building and disappears, like a bright light into a black hole, never to be seen again. In truth, there is a real person at the other end of every dollar, a real person who's in charge of every domain, and that means that there will be real consequences from, and real resistance to, fundamental change."
Maps starts reading pedestrians in downtown SF as traffic during road closures for e.g. stadium events, and tries to direct cars along jammed and even closed roads. Too many times have I been stuck less than a mile from a destination for more than an hour, sometimes even two.
A regime of 4 "good" years maybe, before it started getting real blowback for all of its excesses. In regimes more properly called regimes - those good years last for decades, or the lifetimes of their supreme leaders. So.. at least we got that going for us.
Stated with a western perspective here, but I wouldn't be surprised if anybody who lived under an oppressive regime would openly admit they fear it, for fear of the repercussion. Can you meaningfully distinguish those who genuinely don't feel any fear (because they're bold, or ignorant, or possibly both), and those who superficially state they don't fear their government?
It's not suitable for all purposes, but it's suitable for all editor purposes (including an in-editor execution engine). We don't do GVN, or any optimizations really, right now - I'm sure when we have a compiler of sorts we'll have other structures, SSA, etc.
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I mean HN still doesn’t have proper replies and notifications so I’m not holding my breath
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Or just split speeds into a histogram and take the 20th percentile or something.
For those that don't want to go to yet another medium.com article: Rust, Python, Ruby, Golang, GraphQL, Angular, and JavaScript, with an honorable mention for WebAssembly.

For an article aimed at programmers in general, Rust seems somewhat specialized to be in first place. Ruby seems even more out of place in third.
I remember reading a cogent explanation for this inconsistency but can't seem to locate it.

JavaScript suffers from inconsistent mutation/return of array values in array functions, too.

PHPs design problems are mostly being swept away; it's the legacy that keeps its reputation down.
Do you think we know the truth about anything? The cause? The response? The scale?
> As a senior tech manager php and Jquery allow me to show functional prototypes quickly and easily get buy in from other department stake holders

I totally get it if you prefer to leverage your knowledge of jQuery, but modern JavaScript is just as quick to use. Eg, `fetch`, `querySelector`, and many more. Combined with modern css with flexbox and grid, and prototyping becomes very quick.
I suspect the reason we don't see this is because subscribers probably consume less than they pay for. To say it another way, many subscribers currently paying $10/mo for NYT do not consume 100 articles in the month, on average. If those subscribers switch to pay-as-you go it would be a net loss, even though the audience may have technically expanded.

In economic terms, i believe this related to The Law of Diminishing Utility. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility...

e.g. - a consumer will pay $10 to consume the first 30 articles in a month, but the 31-100 articles have a diminishing utility (so much time in the day to read). If they paid per article from the start, overall they would pay less.

If we were to say 1 article per day from NYT is interesting, a person would consume 30 articles in a month, paying $3. The NYT would need to triple their pay-as-you-go readership to break even. In reality, it's rare that a pricing change as such would accomplish a 3x gain in readship. So, the status quo continues.

Just for the record, I'm not judging your idea, just adding to the conversation of why it hasn't likely happened. There is probably room for a competitor to offer that sort of pricing, but it likely wouldn't work favorable for every organization, from a shareholders perspective.
In PHP 7 the correct code should be

function foo(?string $bar): void

Having `= null` marks the parameter as optional with the default being `null`. Using `?string` means there is no default and you can pass in either a string or null.
> I also felt as if I was constantly trying to recover a lost train of thought, like I was thinking, hold on.. wait.. what was I doing again..

Psilocybin and LSD can certainly produce that feeling. For that matter, cannabis at high doses can as well.

It's possible to train oneself not to "chase" linear trains of thought so compulsively, though. Some would argue that's critical to a good psychedelic experience: letting go of typical patterns of cognition and allowing the mind to go where the trip takes it.

On sufficiently large doses of many psychedelics, I have the impression that the mind becomes less a goal-oriented, narrowly focused "thinking machine" and more a child-like, free-associative, broadly perceptive sense organ. Fighting that tends to be unpleasant, imo.
without the paywall: http://archive.is/8QSfQ
Is there a way to do this in a systems language? I know there was the X32 ABI that’s essentially deprecated at this point. I suppose you could use your own allocator and pointer wrapper types, but it’d be nice if there was just a switch you could flip if you know you’re just not going to use >4GiB.