skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ is used my many big actors who are either competitors or have very different requirements in the field they operate on, why significant codebases. Those reasons are why C++ committees are painful and long.

C is fast to compile, compared to C++.
That's my weekend sorted then! Thanks for that list. I'd love to see your bookmark list/browser history to see other blogs/sites you read
That's just an insult.
So what happens after 117 years?
Microsoft Edge, which is built on Chromium, would fit this parallel nicely.
^ this paper is mind-expanding to see the huge evolution and depth of effort around performance optimization over years for this system
The waste heat from the inefficieny is an environmental issue if cooling with sea, lake or river water.

The article talks about the advantage of not needing steam cooling apparatus. The stations could be located in urban areas.
Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became the Norm Again
You know what's a shitty move? What the euogroup did to greece and other countries.
> they're the common folk, the clay of the Earth.

"You know ... morons."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg

RIP Cleavon Little (1932-92) and Gene Wilder (1933-2016).
Might be worth taking a look at And the Weak Suffer What They Must?. While I still think Varoufakis is a bit too much of a calculated politician, the book is compelling in showing that the treatment imposed on Greece stemmed to an important degree from the creditor state's desire to save their own banks and from cultural animus.
Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe
Twitter should follow Musk’s advice. Get rid of all bots, spend all AI effort on doing that.
the idea behind telling people you have a product is it gets them into a presale funnel or at least mailing list which you can use as traction to raise money

if you are bootstrapping, you don’t need to do this, but you do need to compete with people who do this
Tax rates dont pay for services, they pay for preventing inflation. The government printing money pays for services.
People Are Killing Puppy Clones That Don’t Come Out ‘Perfect’
isn't soft delete an update?
So now we are implying the the population of a country are less than human, because of economics. Cool!
> Personally I don't trust anything from Ikea anymore. Their quality is such garbage for all their products from furniture to glassware to lamps, I can't give them a dime of my money knowing whatever I buy won't be around next year. Multiply whatever you were going to spend by 1.5 and go to a decent home store, or just go to Target instead.

IKEA is such a hit and miss. For the price, their ceramicware is pretty good. All of their glassware is cheap and too small. They can have a really nice real-wood dining room table for $500, or a glued together entertainment unit for $2000.

I generally find they have good quality for wood dining chairs, wood tables, BEKANT desks, and rechargeable batteries.
> There are, of course, web email services that purport to encrypt messages. But they store encryption keys (or code and data sufficient to derive them).

While I assume they are talking about things like Protonmail here, there is a case where PGP is better than nothing here. Mailbox.org allows you to provide a PGP public key which they will encrypt all incoming messages to. I have Mutt configured to auto-encrypt emails saved in my sent folder.

Now, obviously this doesn't help if Mailbox.org becomes malicious or gets attacked. But it does protect my personal email archive. If someone managed to access my email account, they couldn't read any old emails (but they could disable it for new emails).

Maybe I'm LARPing and I don't know it, but I think it's a neat feature which is worth more than nothing. But I do agree with the rest of the points the article makes -- though I think Matrix is a better secure messaging replacement than Signal because it's federated -- especially now that it has E2EE by default.
> fortunately fixable if you disable all spread-spectrum

If these are on by default, are they required for FCC certification conformance? Presumably the device has not been EMI/EMC tested in the mode where spread-spectrum was disabled.
I recently finished reading "Call Sign Chaos" by James Mattis, and it was interesting reading his viewpoint on Iraq and Afghanistan. A common theme with the Bush and Obama administrations is that they would ignore the recommendations from military and intelligence advisors, and pick whichever option was the best for them politically. He said that these "bring the troops home" statements made by Biden are being done to pander to his base, and are causing these forever wars. By bringing most of the troops home, he can look good on TV, even though it means there isn't a military presence big enough to actually get anything done.
So, it's a kickstarter, without the kickstart if you only have 1 person sign up. Theres plenty of successful kickstarter projects, also plenty that did not deliver, so I wonder about the harm of being up front about intentions? In open source a lot do it for the passion of the work. They accept donations, some move to a paid model, but usually they are honest with their users and those users are retained more often than not. It depends on what is driving the company. Profits or passion.
It doesn't have to be linear, that's just the easiest model to visualize and understand it just should be smooth enough in a way that ensures no discontinuity.
I'm missing something here. Fragments (everything from #to-the-end-of-url) are never sent as part of the request to the server.

As a developer, I can't even know if a user has a fragment server side. Instead, I'm forced to use JavaScript to read it.
Working part time to put yourself through school would be an extremely effective explanation if true. If your grades were bad at the beginning but have improved recently you could point out that you've become more mature and serious in your outlook. Talking up the side projects because school is too boring strikes me as unhelpful because it suggests you'll continue that pattern at work.
Well, that depends. ITER is tens of billions. The most expensive part of this reactor would probably be the petawatt laser, which is tens of millions for one-off experimental devices. A turbine and generator is about a million dollars per megawatt, so it could be a significant percentage of total reactor cost, especially in mass production.
To quote Bartleby, that sage of modernity, ”I would prefer not to.”
How can the public take informed decisions if the reasoned debate is always assumed to be held in secret?

OK, national security and foreign negotiation is a special topic where secrecy can be warranted. But if the government of a country or union of countries is considering, say, pay cuts, why on earth would the population not be entitled to hearing all sides of the argument?
-5 insightful.

This post could turn into +5 informative if names and contact details were added for this unidentified "ex-NSA guy" and the "security software."

As-is, this is post is becoming popular because people are replying with random experiences and hate they have for NSA and insecure systems. But instead it could be helpful by damaging the reputation of a specific person that is peddling insecure systems.

This is why I browse with -5 insightful.
I was on gear for more than a decade until a strange incident one morning made me quit.

I had started meditating after my workout for about 20 minutes - standard "following the breath" stuff from Zen/vipassana. I'd been doing this for about 5 months. And after a session one morning, I was brushing my teeth in the mirror. I still had a pump from earlier, and was looking at the front deltoid in my right shoulder jump around as I brushed.

And out of the blue, I was absolutely floored by the pointlessness of my workout regimen. I wasn't lifting for health - in fact, I was actually hurting myself in pursuit of a cluster of goals that revolved around a denial of reality.

Mainly, I was 1) raging against the natural aging of my body, i.e. if I'm strong enough, then clearly I'm not getting older. And 2), I was pursuing a shallow admiration from other people, i.e. if women are attracted to my muscular shell and guys are a little intimidated, then deep down, I'm not really this insecure guy who struggles with social anxiety, right? And 3), the physical body is just so ephemeral. We're only granted a few decades of life, and did I really want to spend all of my waking hours in a self-oriented optimization of the appearance of a muscle-suit?

These illusions just fell away for a few moments, and I couldn't pretend after that. After a few more weeks of my old routine, I tapered off the gear, cut my volume by like 2/3, and. . . lo and behold, had time for other hobbies. I started meeting people outside of the gym, started seeing a counselor for social anxiety, and generally started feeling like, I dunno, a more healthy human being again. I might wear a muscle-suit, but I am not completely identified/defined by it.

I don't wake up in the middle of the night with aching hips & shoulders anymore, only to guzzle a shake so my gainz won't catabolize because I've gone 4 hours without protein.

I still work out, but it's a more reasonable, balanced mix of strength training, cardio, mobility, etc. so that I can be a good dad for my two young kids. I might have gotten a late start on raising a family, but I'm putting my efforts into staying as healthy as possible for them, as well as for myself.

I can only hope that you look within yourself to see the real reasons for your obsession. Maybe your situation is different, but my life has utterly changed for the better since I addressed the baggage that was originally motivating me.
I have a hard time reconciling working for Oracle/Ellison and being that sensitive to ethical issues.
I assume this is due to AVX2 being rare in general-purpose software, so the design "one core is running AVX2 -> switch large part of CPU to AVX2 mode" doesn't hinder use cases where you are hammering all cores with AVX2 code.
Not necessarily. You can insert a new row with a field named ‘deleted’ or similar set to ‘true’. This is how you would implement soft deletes in an append-only table.
I reminds me of that quip that if libraries didn't exist already and did not have a history millennia long, no government would create one today. Instead, they would create a means-tested tax credit for purchasing books.
Gilbert Strang got me through linear algebra in University. Fifteen or so years later, I told my wife who went back to school as an older adult about him. He got her through, too.

His teaching capability is so great, we ended up buying his textbook and using that instead of the one assigned by her college. My wife ended up with the best grades in the class, but not only that, ended up actually learning the material and retaining it many years later. Her field is in no way related to mathematics, but it would not be an exaggeration to say that she benefited greatly from her maths exposure.

Linear algebra, heck yeah! Thank you, Dr. Strang.
Well,I can say that I did learn from this essay. I will start writing more, the freedom of writing without having to publish is as obvious as it's a novelty for me.
Yeah, this seems game theoretically problematic. We clearly want a deep warchest of antibiotics, but new antibiotics won't sell in any meaningful quantity likely, or even hopefully, until after their IP rights expire. I don't see how you make money here.

Maybe the government should structure some new incentives for stocking the antibiotic warchest.
Retirement age in Greece is today and was in 2011 higher than in Germany. Using some anecdotes and guess for aggregate data is bad induction.

"privatize" means that today all the Greek airports are owned by German companies.
Is it legit to suppose there was a slight conflict of interest between the "doctor" and the "patient"?

I mean, would you trust your doctor if he gains on your death?
I’ll hold you to that.
Entrepreneurship and Happiness
I've noticed the same thing.

I'm almost certain that at the scale Amazon works at, there has to be a priority queue for these sorts of things. There's no way they could make Prime work if they just changed the shipping method to make it faster, there has to be order fulfilment prioritization too.
I Talked to Jake Paul About His “Financial Freedom” Courses and, Well, Woof
Click-Bait title.

Better title/article. https://www.forbes.com/sites/beasleydavid/2020/02/21/report-...
Because sometimes the layer on top can express ideas more succinctly. A classic example is CoffeeScript's fat arrow syntax. It expressed a pattern in JavaScript we didn't, at the time, have a shorthand for. Example: https://coffeescript.org/#fat-arrow
It doesn’t have to be. You Can write reads that don’t return entries if a separate deletion entry exists.

Can’t say I’ve worked that way in sql, but I have seen that pattern in append only data structures. With for instance a “order fulfilled” entry essentially is a delete operation on an outstanding order entry.
> On an average day during the period studied, 25% of all tweets about the climate crisis came from bots. This proportion was higher in certain topics – bots were responsible for 38% of tweets about “fake science” and 28% of all tweets about the petroleum giant Exxon.

For those wondering, it's estimated that 9-15% of all tweets come from bots (https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/new-study-says-almost-1...), so there is an estimated ~2x typical bot volume on this topic.

However, it would be nice to know their reach. It's not clear if these bot tweets on climate are being liked, retweeted and followed or mostly ignored.
Personally, without drawing from rigorous empirical proof that doesn’t exit, I don’t think things like unique IEC approaches are based in fairy tales. Fusion science used to be very tribal and dogma was important. That era has largely passed. Tokamak, stellarator, ps laser, steam machine, whatever. If you can find the money to make it and do the science to show its performance, great. Everyone wants you to do that. This idea of pulling resources away is tricky to navigate, because there is finite resources spent on research and getting any one design to work takes significant effort. That’s why so much is being poured into ITER instead of other promising leads. Humans are ready to see a machine work. It’s painful to get there. It’s not my first pick on a machine. But in order to keep progress moving a real reactor needs to be made of some kind.
Currently someone who has transitioned is noticeably different than someone who was born that way. I think it's not far-fetched to imagine that in the future there will no longer be any 'uncanny valley' and the stigma will disappear.
Because it's hard and especially hard for monolithic systems (i.e. governments) to go up against private enterprises in certain spaces. Governments are really good at funding cutting edge research that does not have an immediate or obvious market (e.g. early internet, space exploration, fundamental physics research, etc.). Governments are not good at actually competing in a space where there is a market and private competition.

>But I would think it would be more productive to have an international software arms race than a military / space arms race.

There is. It's called 'the market'. We are in the midst of an 'international software arms race', and this arms race spans every category of software. You want project management software? There are a thousand options. In a top-down communist-style system, you would maybe get one option.
Deep respect for folks such as Maryam. I admit I don't know much of math or for that matter much of anything. After she won the award I remember visiting the Fields medal website and reading a short synopsis of her work. I couldn't understand even one sentence fully. These guys work is so amazing and so far from one's own field. Such brilliant people we have... I felt very sad and wept when she passed away. If the Lord showed more mercy, she could have continued to bring forth even more amazing work and humanity would have flourished because of it.
>> I'll say it again, it's a piece of writing that wouldn't warrant any attention if it weren't for the author's status here.

This is probably true. If I was the person to write this, and post this on my personal blog, and submitted it to HN, nobody would give a fuck.

Of course, that may not indicate anything, because that could be said for Newton's Principia, Einstein's Relativity, The Great Gatsby, Proof of Fermat's last theorom...

I think the question isn't "Would the world appreciate this if it weren't by PG?" but "SHOULD the world appreciate this, even if it weren't PG?"
Here it is:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22372005
really, if they are concerned about the 'teaching' aspect and parens being less new user friendly, why not just do a LUA-on-racket, maybe with some small extensions for the 'teaching' language - LUA maps to scheme pretty well, and its already 'done'.
Varoufakis also mentions in his books that German reparation payments to Greece after WW2 were conveniently cancelled by the Western allies when they needed (West) Germany onside to face the Soviets.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/10/10/greece-to-renew-call-for...
No it's an analogy for a population who didn't see fit to pay their taxes, have a functioning state, who thought it was a good idea to adopt a foreign currency when it didn't make sense economically, and doesn't understand why they are forced to make economic sacrifices to correct the situation.

I think the accusation of ignorance is kinder than the alternative ("let's not pay our taxes, the germans will pay for us").
What if it is a counterfeit not coming directly from China? You can still be duped when the seller is stealing the pricing, ads and marketing materials of the genuine product.

Each product listing seemed legitimate, with some prices that compared to retail stores and official-looking advertisements.

This is what we're talking about here, not the marketing obvious knockoffs with comically misspelled brand names. Even the article talks about only authenticating the products after they were purchased and received.
Travelling with 24“ Monitors
She probably didn't. I took "current job" to mean the job this person has at the time of the telling of this story - i.e. they have since found a greener pasture.
I am confused by this article. It went an entirely different direction based on the question proposed. It was all entertaining, nonetheless, but besides some passing comments to Reason’s documentation being better, the question does not seem to be explored much by this article. It’s a good article and should be renamed to maybe “Getting started with OCaml and OpenGL”
If only political grandstanding wasn’t necessary and we could have nuanced discussions in public.
If we get compact working fusion reactors, what probably happens is we import as much helium as we want from Jupiter.
Means testing is paternalism. Just giving the poor straight cash and leaving it up to them to use that to get back on their feet is probably the least paternalistic strategy I can think of that isn't just cruel and results in systemically and permanently disenfranchising large parts of the population for bad luck.
Sounds like the business should be paying their employees enough to feed their families.
There's no need for us to provide links: you can read any mainstream news articles about his work -- either recent ones from the past few months, or archived articles from his tenure in earlier administrations -- to get the gist. Actually, you can read pretty much any article about him NOT published in The Federalist and get the gist.
I can vouch for Cloudflare blocking Tor.
Thanks! I somehow spent several hours researching how to run watchdogs on Linux without finding this. Seems like exactly what I need. While I'm here, systemd's watchdog docs are also pretty good: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/watchdog.html
Java, Lisp, and Agile Shape and Reflect Their Culture
Start looking for unexplained helium signatures among the exoplanets, as evidence of a civilization that applied this method successfully.
When these discussions impact so many people (various countries affected) I don't believe they should be kept secret.

Lets (just for example, I am not saying it happened), during that meeting, the German/French Finance minister said: 'I don't care about the Greek people, we can't let German/French banks fall, so do what you must if you ever want the ECB to lend you money'. Wouldn't the greek people deserve to know and make up their mind about their part in the EU project?

(again, I am not saying this happened, but I can see similar backdoor deals being put forward)

Lets not forget that any opposition to the EU project by the citizens is seen as misinformed or misleded people. It is never the EU's fault [1]

[1] - https://torrentfreak.com/eu-commission-portrays-article-13-o... (Sorry, no time to search for other source, but the comments were also published in my local newspapers)
However for proteins - which, even if broken down to small peptides in the mass spec, have large numbers of C, N, O, H atoms then monoisotopic makes no sense.
> The public can act completely irrationally against its own interests under FUD (I guess we have some recent examples from the UK and the US), and in a lot of cases, they are better off not knowing.

FUD comes exactly out of not knowing. The more obscure the workings and negotiation of power are, the more mystique they hold and the more chances for spin they have.

Democracy is not and must not be limited to choosing your representative once every four years - it should be a living system of dialogue, where you constantly offer feedback and hear back from your representative (not saying it has to be personal). This is the only way to build trust and have a responsive system.
Not unless you could somehow bang three of them together at once to get to C-12. That seems unlikely with current technology. We can't even get C-N-O cycle fusion in the dinky little star we live next to.

So that's at least 20 years away from being 20 years away from being 20 years away. And you could just make more alpha particles, anyway. It's not like the universe is short on hydrogen.
Twitter testing ways to fight misinformation, including a community-based system
I used this course years ago while I was self-teaching CS, really great course. MIT in general makes some awesome stuff available -- so awesome, it helped this disgruntled lawyer get the hell out of law and into my dream field.

I can't express strongly enough how appreciative I am to MIT, and also schools like Stanford and Harvard, and Prof. Sedgewick from Princeton, for making courses like this publicly available.
It's hard to start over out of a box.
Without the exact phrasing I don't think anyone can give any advice.
They are, but I'm not physically in the USA. At any rate, isn't a computer case basically a Faraday cage?

The frequencies are up in the microwave band, so I can't imagine there's much range.
I have a Laptop 3, not tablet, seems fine.
Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages
> Where is this meme that RDBMSs do not scale coming from?

They don't scale to Google or Facebook operational sizes. Once you get to a billion customers or so the ol' RDBMS tends to struggle. Because everyone wants to be Google they imagine they have Google's problems. I've been in a meeting where the client was talking about their severe scaling issues for their "big data" which could only possibly be resolved by state of the art cloud solutions. I pressed them on the numbers - they had 400GB. You can buy an iPhone with 512GB.

Oracle's Exadata X8-2 is ~1PB per full rack.