skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it doesn't work like that. Sensible architecture doesn't make compiler engineering trivial.

Compiler engineering is a highly technical area of software engineering. Think an average C++ programmer could take an old C++ compiler like OpenWatcom and make the necessary improvements to make it comply with the latest C++ language standard? Not a chance, that would be the work of a lifetime. They might have a shot at making small contributions to a compiler, but they'd have to set their sights quite low.

Another example might be operating systems. The abstractions offered by modern operating systems are terribly easy to use, but there's a high skills barrier to doing meaningful work on the kernel. Similarly, the average web developer stands little chance of making a contribution to V8 or WebKit.

This strikes me as analogous to discussing whether it should be harder to design and build a car, than to drive one. I don't like to be uncharitable but I stand by my earlier choice of words: this is silliness. Difficult engineering fields cannot be made easy.

I see that another commenter, 'gm', has done a good job expressing similar points.
What I find interesting is that there's a handful of small pixel chunks on their that amount to something like "Paid" or "Reserved", so they don't have valid URLs at all. Feel like those folks missed out on tons of eyeballs a decade back.

Also wonder if there's any study on ongoing advertising impact on these links. For example, a number of links on their don't resolve anymore - are those domains worth anything more than a usual registar price?
Legal systems different from ours, because I just made them up
That’s amazing! Here is the setting for others who didn’t know[0]

[0] https://imgur.com/a/lXXppBq
I'm hosting my own DNS server with DoT/DoH as reverse proxy of PiHole server. The latency might not as impressive as NextDNS' (7~10ms on my phone via TMobile), and I can have full control of the stack.

https://github.com/yegle/your-dns
Over the years I went from making fun of Windows Admins rebooting to fix everything, to, say, 12 years ago rebooting my unix boxes any time I made a change.

Virtually by definition if I was changing something, it wasn't in production at the moment, and I just learned my life was so much easier if I made sure my changes were really committed to state at the moment I made the change rather than learning it the hard way at 2am 6 months down the road, and desperately trying to remember what I had "fixed" and why.

Granted, these were still pets, but at least they were well-trained pets.
Photons are still a lot faster than electrons. Latency at the endpoints is still a thing, but this allows a lot of 800 Gbps channels along distances copper can't match.

I don't want to think about the NUMA model for a beast that takes this to its upper limits.
Ask HN: Rust Web Server Framework?
What's the current go-to web framework for Rust? Iron has apparently been sunsetted, and from what I can tell actix imploded under internet toxicity.

What's left? Is it a wild-west or is there something reliable?
Packaging and shelf placement probably do a lot of the work, compared with, say, web ads about toothpaste.
Noting the date and utexas.edu, I was expecting something from the EWD archive. After some mild disappointment, this did seem to actually feed my underlying desire for some curmudgeonly wisdom.
Not much besides the convenience of not needing to research/implement compiling something statically.
Even if it isn't legal are people really going to assert their rights in court?

That's one of the major problems with having weak consumer protections in the US. If this happened in one of several European countries ticketmaster could be fined, but in the US each citizen needs to sue in small claims or will be forced into arbitration that may cost more than the claim is worth (essentially nullifying their rights, or losing money to assert them).

Arguing that your rights have been violated with their customer services is a waste of time.
Multiple cursors plus C-x C-q on a dired buffer is amazingly powerful: you literally just make changes to the lines in the buffer and run C-c C-c to commit them, or C-c C-k to cancel. I've used this for very powerful mass-renames before. (I imagine it also works for deleting files by removing that line but never needed to try it before.)
Use a PWA instead. Go to Twitter on Chrome and do "Add to Home Screen". Really fast.
There are also lots of reports of confiscations of PPE:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-f...

https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/ppe/news/21133559/fe...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fema-denies-involvement...

I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but this smells real bad to me. The reports of confiscations are coming from democratic states, not republican states. And it seems like republican lobbyists are getting into the game of distributing PPE:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/bob-livingston-group-mike...

What it seems to me is happening is a coordinated yet amateurish attempt to restrict the PPE flow to/within democratic states, while allowing the free flow of PPE in republican states. This allows some lobbyists to make money off of it, as well as sticking a finger in the eye of dem leaders (and dying people/healthcare workers in dem states).
These kinds of pacts between States to coordinate on specific issues that are under of the umbrella of their sovereignty are quite common and perfectly legal. The whole point of sovereignty is that they have the freedom to deal with the issue as they wish as long as it doesn't abrogate one of the narrow powers delegated to the Federal government, such as this case. There are even pacts between States to coordinate action directly against Federal policy e.g. the Sagebrush Rebellion.

In other cases where the Federal government does have jurisdiction, such as interstate treaties regarding shared resource rights, the Federal government can delegate the issue to a group of affected States to sort out amongst themselves e.g. the Colorado River Compact of 1922.
Yep. At least it was a realistic experience :)

The hardest part when working with data is often not manipulating data per se, but spending time on crap like this.
On phone so can't link now.

1. Ignored the pandemic response playbook. This document was prepared after the SARS outbreak and contained all the lesson s learned.

2. Reckless public statements. Calling the virus "no worse than a flu" and "a hoax" certainly caused people to not take it seriously and helped it to spread. Pushing the hrdroxocloriquine study before the research was conclusive has gotten people killed.

3. Depriving states of essential resources. Massachusetts not only had their request for masks denied, but also paid for their own masks only to have them seized for the "federal stockpile". In the end the governor had to get masks smuggled in on the New England Patriots private jet.

4. When New York projected it would run out of ventilators in 6 days, their request was denied on the grounds that Trump felt 30k ventilators was too big a number.

5. The emergency production act (or whatever it's called) could have been invoked at any time to address the ppe shortage. Afaik it hasn't been.
Live design of React Native app
That ought to end well. "It enhances understanding! We benefit from a nomenclature..."

... that is apparently entirely reliant on case-sensitivity. Because "I'm Blue" is a very different color to "I'M BLuE" (and I guarantee there's probably dozens of other variations there, at least).

Seriously?
It bothers me that I can't sit down.
I want to see a 6502-alike clocked to 15GHz with an exotic semiconductor such as GaAs, InP, SiGe, etc.
Oh, I got one of them to be a disk duplication machine for the next Defcon. Only one of them will be in full file server service, and I intend to do an 8-20 disk array of 12TB disks.

That will still leave me with over a dozen slots for a secondary array of cheap refurb disks of any kind I can come across.

Power is cheap here; my current hobby bottleneck is drive cost. Ideally I’d be able to buy a few dozen extremely cheap disks that have been pulled from service that someone wants to dump as a lot.
The original wasn't really a scam either. The about page isn't live anymore (sure it's cached somewhere), but if I remember the story, the guy was trying to fund college/ university and he set this up a bit on a whim hoping to get a few bucks out of it. It took off after a few initial sales by friends and family.

This "sequel" bears no similarities to the original in intent.
We use NextDNS to access Handshake domain names and it's been working great. The privacy features are great too, although email links sometimes don't work because of them (more of a feature than a bug imo).
Small companies probably see the biggest bang for the buck on SEO and maybe blog posts. I feel like most small companies have niche offerings, since most things that can be big, are big by now. When people/business have issues with their sewage system, they go searching online for someone to help. So the difference in ranking between Walters Waste Water Warriors and Steve's Sewage System Saviors comes down who has the nicest, most informative site.
Ah, the impact of modernity :)
The creator of the original went on to build Calm.com which is got to be approaching a Billion in valuation.
Self modifying code was the norm. I hated the loss of optimizations you could do when going to a system on non-self-modifying code. I ended up just giving up on assembly.
There's an FPGA 65C02 core running at ~73Mhz. https://github.com/MorrisMA/MAM65C02-Processor-Core
I mentioned the Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois consortium the other day. Theirs was formed to solidify buying power. These are looking analogous to the relationship between cities and and a county.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22835488

You can roughly see where you would expect these to form on this map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_Stat...
Add "not allowed to pump your own gas" to the list of "things that are completely unnecessary and stupid that have been removed because of COVID-19 and never need to come back".
I am afraid it is, but I do not see that much of an incentive for a Governor to keep their State shut-down when it does not have to.

May be its posturing or may be its not.

I think the interests of White House and Governors are more in line than not.

Time will tell.
I'm a huge fan of Blokus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blokus), a deep board game for 2 or 4 players. https://blokee.mattle.online/ and https://pentolla.com/ are places where you can play it online. Quick, hassle free. Both places have bots, the Pentolla bot is not bad.
In ZSH I do:

mv foo-bar <alt>-m

It’ll repeat foo-bar. It’s very useful. I miss it when I’m using Fish or Bash.
Over 500k Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web
Have you checked out Handshake? It's a new experimental protocol that's trying to decentralize DNS https://handshake.org
Puzzle games are my favorite for that, but not any individual game, rather as a category. Most puzzle games are short, but it's hard to stop in middle and continue later since you'll forget some of the mechanics.
A doctor saved my uncle’s leg
Most people are bragging about braces while OP commented about that. It's especially useful for multiple alterations.
This policy is against California law:

California BPC 22507: "The ticket price of any event which is canceled, postponed, or rescheduled shall be fully refunded to the purchaser by the ticket seller upon request. Any local jurisdiction may require a ticket seller to provide a bond of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide for any refunds that may be required by this section." (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 378, Sec. 1.)

Ticketmaster is based in California. IANAL and don't know how this law might apply to events that are held elsewhere.
The budget for the year was $208 billion, so you only need a 10% haircut to need help. And the budget is HEAVILY funded by (1) Silicon Valley IPOs, and (2) Hollywood. Both of those are going to generate $0 near-term.

Not to mention retirement funds which are going to be obliterated, but that's a somewhat separate issue from the budget.
> ("GNU/Linux" is a strange beast- kernel+libc or what?)

Kernel plus userspace: the standard command-line tools, compilers and some additional stuff. Such as GNOME, for instance (it's considered a part of the GNU project).
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If only there was some sort of multi-state organization through which individual states could pull together on issues spanning multiple states. Such a "federal" approach would be very useful. If only someone had thought of this years ago. Of course it would have to be staffed by people selected and respected by all, but surely there is some way of doing that too.
They must have some very complicated gas pumps in Oregon, much more complicated than the pumps used in nearly every other US state... ;)
This trick works particularly well when your opponent doesn't know what that category is, but doesn't want to look stupid by admitting it.
Build, buy, and engage if it's part of a larger project that involves any innovation. Engagement falls under "vendor management," but that seems like a very reduced description.
?uestlove's theory of time management:

"People can really only do 3-4 real things a day, maybe as many as 6 if you're going overboard, but 3-4 real things"

The concept is simple. Pick your 3-4 most important real things to get done and do those.

link: https://jonpauluritis.com/uestlove's-theory-of-time-manageme...
No, he wanted to avoid being called a dictator for shutting things down.
He would have had to charge a lot more if he wanted to net a million dollars. He grossed less then $1.1M.
*3. a) You can submit a complaint to your attorney general. b) You can submit a complaint to the attorney general of __________, the State that Ticketmaster is incorporated in (I'm unable to find which State this is at the moment, anyone?).
and c). You can submit a complaint to the attorney general of the State that the venue is in.
Nature doesn't "try" anything. It just is.
reducing the chance you will spread the virus to others and to a lesser degree reducing the chance you get it yourself.
Certain agreements are definitely allowed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact

Of note: "Not all compacts between states require explicit Congressional approval – the 1893 Supreme Court decision in Virginia v. Tennessee affirmed that only those agreements which would increase the power of states at the expense of the federal government required it."

I'm not claiming that this pact is formally one of these "interstate compacts", but your maximalist reading of that article forbidding "all kinds of agreements" seems to be incorrect.
I would think they have wiggle room with "or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
> https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/

Very nice! Thank you.
While less efficient than regulatory action, the US does have a mechanism for this: class-action lawsuits.
The AWS Management Console.
By the way, those coordinates are in the Atlantic Ocean, with no land in sight.
Web user agents do this the best. You can run code in the console, delete elements, make that persist with an extension. And there you see the best outcomes and the dangers ("This is a browser feature intended for developers. If someone told you to copy and paste something here to enable a Facebook feature or "hack" someone's account, it is a scam and will give them access to your Facebook account.").
> Right, it's an either-or situation.

Not exactly, they're still complementary, just not in that specific way.

Suppose you have 100% solar generation with enough batteries to survive the night, and then it's cloudy for a month and they generate half as much power. You can suppress demand some by raising prices, but suppressing it by 50% is unreasonable. Suppose you can suppress demand by 20%. Well then you still need enough long-term storage to cover 30% of your total demand for a month, which is really expensive for something you only use once every two years.

Now suppose you have 50% nuclear and 50% solar. Immediately this gets you out of needing the day/night batteries because nuclear generates at night. Then it's cloudy for a month and you lose half the solar generating capacity, but now you're only down 25% instead of 50%. Suppress demand by 20% through pricing and you only need enough long-term storage to cover 5% of the load.

This also makes the leveling a lot less precarious. If two weeks into the cloudy month it turns out you've already burned up all your long-term storage fuel and it's still cloudy, you can lean a little harder on pricing and get to a 25% reduction even if people gripe about it some. If that happens with pure solar, pricing high enough to cut demand by the full 50% would have people rioting in the streets.
Maybe they don't want to use troops as an occupying force. Afghanistan / Iraq already proved how difficult it is to occupy territory, it'd be a lot easier without insurgents resisting. A war of attrition would suck up a lot of blood and treasure the government would need to ward off threats to a much-weakened U.S.

Maybe the half life of radioactive isotopes is acceptable enough to relax habitation restrictions in a short enough period of time. People do currently live within the restricted zone of Chernobyl, they just have shortened lifespans, but they are functioning properly. You can probably garrison troops after nuking an area six months after doing so, as long as you cycle them out on a regular basis.

Maybe white-collar service workers are less valuable than blue-collar laborers, especially if they're already demoralized. You can torture a blue-collar worker to create output, albeit slower and lower quality and with Byzantine faults. You can't torture an asset management consultant to give you a high ROI. The brain doesn't work like that. So at that point he or she is just another mouth to feed and you can get rid of him or her. Extrapolate to an entire city.

Maybe it's just pure hatred. Most cities are highly Democratic and liberal, which today apparently labels someone as less than yourself, as someone less than human.
Something else to know is that Ticketmaster is happy to list and collect commissions from 3rd party ticket sales, but they excuse themselves from "Ticketmaster Fan Support" policies. Caveat emptor.
I just use vidir(1) an ed(1), I'm lazy :).
Time to rebuild it with WebGL
Instead of California succeeding, maybe it should be broken up into to smaller states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_Cal...
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I absolutely agree that "dumb" AI can be explained away and integrated into a game's design and story in ways that make it much more interesting and believable than typical bad AI on its own. I also agree that by providing a flexible and interesting enough scenario, with conflicting goals and motivations, you can improve the AI in ways that are both noticeable to the player and add extra layers of interesting gameplay.

As an aside, unrelated to your reply, I just remembered another common excuse, which is that the enemies only exist for X seconds before the player shoots them, so effort on smarts would be wasted on them. For some games, I think its for sure the case, but I also feel that in many cases the enemy only exists for a few seconds because they are dumb and uninteresting.
Cryptocurrency of the 3rd Generation: Lessons Learned
Then why would the constitution forbid a foreign nation (state) from entering into an agreement with another foreign power?
And IIRC ZFS used by FreeBSD now is based on the ZFSonLinux project.
vidir + vi/ed does the same. It puts the directory as a text buffer, with an entry per line.
type file then ctrl-a
mv then ctrl-k
ctrl-y space ctrl-y
change file name enter.
You're calling it a scam as if this website is touting that they are offering the same SEO benefits of the original project. They aren't.
This type of tool is really interesting. I have a couple of questions related to this:

1. What are the alternatives if they don't use a service like Trunk?
2. What have you seen as the "source of truth" for inventory? Is it Trunk or one of the services that Trunk connects to?
Trump actually did use the DPA to order GM to produce medical ventilators. Because a car company will have no problem retooling all of their factories to pump out medical devices. I believe that just taught all the CEOs of companies like GM that they shouldn't offer to do a damn thing publicly before they've already got a program in place.

This is as opposed to ordering one of the several companies in the US who already make medical ventilators to simply make more ventilators.
Optional values are a code smell
The current administration's position isn't relatively pro-state here though: Trump is on record insisting he can "reopen" the economy over the heads of state governments.

The position on "closing down" (that it was up to states) doesn't tell us anything about the administration's principle in regard to COVID because the administration is willing to change those "principles" very quickly, as evidenced by their current statements (among other actions taken by Republicans)

It's arguable that the position on closing down was based on the desire of the admin that the country remain "open", but was faced with legal/political difficulties in directly applying their desire to the country as a whole. What ever tactic is taken with respect to this Pact, we should be unsurprised if it ignores any "principles" and instead looks to effect the policy that Trump desires to put into place, or the effect on Trump's perception of his authority.
California and Cascadia Republic. Put a tree on the bear flag and call it a day.
Unless you're arguing the budgets won't be cut or frozen, the data is the success metrics of those programs.
What are Handshake domains?
This is always surprising to hear, because for me GIMP is substantially more intuitive and productive and easy than Photoshop ever was. Maybe things have changed lately, but every time I've tried to use Photoshop my eyes glossed over, whereas whenever I fire up GIMP I'm pretty quickly able to figure out how to do something. This is especially true with "single window mode" enabled (which pulls those weird sidebar windows into the main window).

I definitely get that if you're already used to Photoshop then GIMP's gonna be an adjustment (and vice versa), and my GIMPing is admittedly not very complicated (mostly just making memes), but it's just weird to hear of people who think that Photoshop's actually easier to use given that I've experienced the exact opposite by pretty much every metric.
At the very most we might see Hong Kong-like civil unrest or something. But I see no path for any states to assemble a standing army under the nose of the federal government. Even if they tried to use the national guard; who's to say it would be more loyal to the state than to the fed?
The developers for the Mac build are aware of this issue and trying to determine how we can resolve it. As far as I understand it may be an upstream GTK problem, but if you'd like to know more (or even better, you have the skills to help) you can chat with them at: https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel_mac
You can accomplish the same with basic editing commands, e.g.

mv <filename> C-M-b C-k C-y C-y

It may seem overly complicated but notice that you don't have to release the control key, so it's actually very few key strokes.