skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if you get a grasp on their syntax, I've almost never been in a situation where they could be used.

Parameter packs can make some ugly code substantially simpler, IMHO. For example, I contributed some changes to the Godot C++ bindings a couple of years ago that made a number of super common functions variadic instead of having to create and pass in collections (eg debug printing, specifying argument types when registering signals, stuff like that). While not a strictly necessary change, it makes the resulting code easier to read. Parameter packs allow this.
It's really not that RSS couldn't handle (/be extended to handle) this use case, it's that the parties publishing this information do not want you to have that much control over the feed.

See how much effort Netflix puts into making their catalog hard to browse, to obfuscate the actual size of the catalog and promote specific things they need to show a large return on, or all the sponsorships/ad-deals/promotions that inevitably begin to clutter almost any commercial news feed.

We have the technology, but publishers will fight tooth and nail to keep control over the platform away from the end user.
32-bit ARM assembly language provided conditional execution for most instructions. This was dropped in the 64-bit instruction set. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predication_(computer_architec..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#64-bit) I imagine the architects had a clear picture of the advantages and disadvantages, and made a very well-informed decision. I guess that part of the reason might have been that it's not clear when compilers should emit predicated code instead of branches.

Also, you can get something very similar even for scalar code as long as your machine has a conditional move operation, which they all have:

/* true path */
a = ...
b = ...
true_result = ...
/* false path */
x = ...
y = ...
false_result = ...
/* final result */
result = (condition ? true_result : false_result)

This works if the two "branches" have no side effects (memory writes, function calls) and cannot raise exceptions. Again, it's very difficult to estimate for compilers (and humans) if it will pay off to run both computations rather than branch.

The trade-offs for vectorization are different from scalar code since vectorizing a loop by a factor N gives a huge win, and even if you waste some time doing some redundant computations, you still have a reasonable chance of being faster than scalar.
Yeah, see, me and my neighbours are not bloody "consumers".

What matters is that we provide an environment within which we can trade amongst each other as (relative) equals, not one in which the Great Overlord owns all of the means of production.

This isn't a border dispute, this is about behaviour within a country.
Making Invalid State Unrepresentable
Nobody argues that requiring IDs to vote is “racist,” but that the availability of such IDs is implemented in a patchwork, uneven fashion, with the result being the disenfranchisement of many eligible voters, were new, stricter laws put in place.

Were identification to be provided universally and freely, with corresponding automatic voter registration, none of this debate would exist. Strangely enough, those who like to go on and on about voter IDs tend to oppose such universal access to them.
The point was exactly that, to keep low wage people from going back to work. They set the rates higher to disincentivize people going back to work. Don’t blame people for responding to public policy the way they’re intended to respond, blame the policy. (Also it comes across as petty and ignorant to blame the working poor for their plight. With wealth comes poverty.)
Probably for the fun of potentially making that mistake, or just because it sounds cooler. Slightly relevant is that they're operating unsanctioned on public property, which is gang-related behavior if you squint real hard.

But I had the same mistake; I thought somehow a business consortium had spawned based on mowing rights/contracts, from the title
That's one thing I was definitely envious of American teens of, as a French teenager. I did odd jobs for family friends etc., but that was a few hundred euros every few months at most; I was jealous of my internet friends in the US who were making the same in a week or so by working at the local coffee shop/tee shirt store.

They could drive too, which I cared less about because buses/subways/trains seemed much less of a hassle and much safer.
Interesting anecdote here:

> In 2001, more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders were removed from a heavily infested home in Kansas, yet the four residents who had lived there for years were never harmed by the spiders, despite many encounters with them.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Bite)

You're right - they're not harmless - but I suspect they're not as dangerous as folklore might portray them.
RSS was already broken and then medium came along and slurped up the majority of independent/longtail blogs (where most of the good stuff really is) and now we're stuck in some awful state that there seems to be no easy way out of. Content needs to be decentralized again before RSS can rule again.
Micropayments have been tried. They all failed. The fair market price for content is $0. What is happening is that the only publishers that will exist shall be only those who create it for free. There is simply a glut of content out there because the barrier to creating content is completely gone.
>> Easier for who?

For any decent SRE out there.

>> magnitudes more performance which is not possible by just tuning Cassandra

Magnitudes?? Are you talking about the order of magnitude? You should read the ScyllaDB performance report first.

https://www.scylladb.com/product/benchmarks/aws-i3-metal-ben...

Avg. 99.9% Latency (ms): 9.9

vs.

Avg. 99.9% Latency (ms): 474.4

While there is no significant latency difference in lover percentile tiers. Where Scylla really shines is TCO. Some companies trade SRE time for license cost, some other companies tune GC.
I did see a doctor and did all the tests for common sleeping troubles, but they didn’t find anything specific.

I can define myself as a relatively anxious person and it’s very hard for me to relax fully, but even when I am in good conditions to do it (I did a 6 months break from my work, away from computer and any source of trouble) it’s still the same.

I did talk a lot about this to my ex, but it didn’t really help me and now I tend to act as everything was normal because I can’t complain everytimes this is happening, almost every night.

But I do feel like a pressure on my chest, but I still didn’t find any way of getting rid of it, I kind of feel this is due to the lack of sleep.

Do you feel any change in your state of vigilance ? What actually changed in your mindset to get better ?

Thank you for the book, I already read a lot of them, but still didn’t the one with a solution..
I only see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990237 but it has only 3 points.

From the FAQ:

> Are reposts ok?

> When a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we bury reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
Im curious how effective do you think a test and trace program is likely to be? It seems like the kind of thing that works in isolated cases where things aren't yet widespread. Has it worked anywhere "at scale" ? And then even if it is implemented super well and everyone lets apple and google track them on their phones and stuff, how effective can it possibly be if symptom-free people can transmit it for weeks? One person who commutes on the subway in new york must come within 6' of hundreds maybe thousands of people every day. How can this possibly work? (Honestly asking)
Lots of good advice in this article.
If it's any consolation, the distribution of idiots is largely the same worldwide :)
The problem is that IDs aren’t free, therefore requiring one is the equivalent of a poll tax. Even if poll taxes didn’t have a racist history, it still seems wrong to charge to vote. I don’t think people are generally opposed to IDs for voting if they are free (voters registration cards currently serve this purpose).
I acknowledge the difference, but it is quantitative, not qualitative.

> We dont apply similar standards to blogs nor videos nor art - them being crappy is not "taking away our attention resource".

That's because the attention cost was driven way down by awesome information retrieval systems that we have (google, etc.). But the cost is still there and it is a good idea to compare it against benefits. Again, this doesn't mean that you should not publish anything.

> Publishing them is not using someone elses attention.

If you publish anything, you expect it to be found by someone (otherwise, why publish at all?). Voila, you've used their attention.

> And I dont go around hating on eHow. I do expect google to put them down in ranking over time and I do structure my queries so that I dont hit them.

This just corroborates my point that the cost is real. In this case the cost is paid by google (they have to expend resources to fight SEO spam) and you (you have to reformulate your queries).

> Also, small one time open source project is not tweaking SEO like content farms. That comparison does not work either.

I'm afraid without concrete examples we are talking past each other. Of course a small-time project that is clearly marked as such is totally OK, but the original post by saurik mentioned squatting common names and overpromising on features, which is definitely into the SEO territory.
I didn't edit that well. "Heavy work and little progress" is what I meant.
Well, if I am employed in one state, that means I am unemployed in almost 49 others, doesn't it? Time to fill out some paperwork!

For certain things, this perhaps one of them, there are benefits if handled on a federal level with more oversight.
EDIT: The following may be specific to the U.S. state.

Also ridiculous but only tangentially related:
Psychiatrists (or similar functions) cannot send prescriptions for ADHD drugs (Adderall / Amphetamines etc) to pharmacies (by any method) [EDIT: at least in Washington State as of March 2020]. You need to pick up the physical prescription from the health care provider, then take it to any pharmacy. The pharmacy may not even have the medication, and certainly will need some time to fill it on the spot.

Of course this is a controlled substance. Somehow this process is imposed by the DEA perhaps together with the FDA (unsure). I know it's a running joke to throw out the term Blockchain, but this really is where Blockchain might be a good solution. Regardless I don't see how a physical piece of paper changes the potential for abuse or any tracking of the patient. The pharmacy doesn't exactly make me verify my identity any differently from normal prescriptions to be picked up.

Also, the prescription is generally only issued for a month. You may get a few prescriptions with different start dates into the future. So every month you will make your pharmacy scramble (and waste your own time) because they could not prepare for your prescription to be filled.

All of this is even more annoying in the time of COVID-19. I need to unnecessarily have in person interactions for things that can happen remotely or virtually.
UE5 can run 40FPS+ on a 2080 1440p notebook
5% of users is fine -- nobody is saying that RSS should be the only interface to the internet-at-large.
We just want to enable the 5% (or less) of users that are invested enough in the process that it's worth it for them to get their specialized content efficiently, but not lose out on valuable content.
This article focuses on a delivery network powered by a large pool of cheap, unskilled labor. The role of poverty levels in India is very relevant to this topic. Your comment is also the only one that brings up caste.
> its Java roots

Citation needed.

AFAIR Borg is implemented in C++ and k8s has been implemented in Go from day 0.

Am I missing some crucial steps in k8s's history?
FATCA is an injustice of epic proportions. You can thank the US government of 2010 for that hypocrisy. It was used by the left as a way to “get” “fat cats” — it’s literally in the name: FATCA(ts.) Chuck Schumer was a highly vocal proponent. Instead it harms everyone overseas while for actual fat cats, it has been business mostly as usual.
People say this every time national id comes up, but I've never seen any evidence for it, and it doesn't sound particularly plausible. The US manages to pass all sorts of legislation that angers fundamentalists. Why is this one in particular a step too far?
The Inquiry didn't kill LVT, and efforts to promote it haven't stopped just because Lyons didn't recommend it as a solution going forward.

> ... extremely wealthy landlords ... killing LVT

LVT would not be an appropriate method for targeting tax extraction from extremely wealthy landlords. They would (probably) make up their losses through rent increases and additional service charges - effectively passing on the tax to renters and leaseholders. If you want to target the rich you need to use tools that target their personal and/or business income streams - in the UK, for example: Income, Capital Gains, and Corporation taxes.
The last bit you mention reminded me a lot of The Physics of Immortality (Frank J. Tipler, 1994) which I first read in when I was thirteen or fourteen years old. This was before it had been proven that the cosmological constant existed and was positive, so he was musing about how a quantum computer instantiated in the final moments of a Big Crunch would have asymptotically infinite processing power and could simulate everybody who ever lived (and everybody who didn’t actually live, but could have, too).
Sounds like the service worker didn’t register for you.

The logic that decides whether the browser accepts service workers is a little bit iffy. My vague recollection is that browsers default to something like “when you access the site for the second time, keep the service worker”. (Don’t quote me on that, and if anyone knows better, please correct me.) “Add this to your home screen” functionality will definitely make the service worker go. (That’s mostly for mobile browsers only at this time, though desktop browsers will eventually get it consistently available, as we’ve been promised for… hmm, about 8±2 years, I think.)

Privacy and blocking extensions may block service workers from being registered, too.

If the service worker is loaded, then it loads just fine with no internet connection, and the demo works too. The contribute and about links, being to GitHub, still don’t work.

I first actually discovered this completely by accident: I was offline, and thought “I need to shrink this SVG file, so I’ll open a tab to the SVGOMG URL and that error page will remind me to do it when I reconnect; huh, it loaded, must have a service worker. This is really great.” On later reflection, I realised that it being by Jake Archibald (a big mover in the service worker space) pretty much guaranteed it was going to work offline.
Wow, it just struck me that Ruby is already about 25 years old.
For a more detailed description of the future, see Stapledon's Last and First Men.
If anyone remembers, this is similar to the “Turbo Gears” vs “Django” of Python world. Turbo Gears allowed me to choose the best of each component - but pretty soon one ends up having to upgrade or migrate to the new-best-sub-component on a weeekly/monthly basis. django helped avoided a lot of headache by defaulting a decent, but not necessarily the best tool, and sort of “won” in the end.

For some reason, we continue to replay this fight in each and every language and environment.
> I would not be surprised if bank account numbers are compromised as well.

I don't that works too well for this kind of scam. What do you do with the money? ACH it to a totally traceable other account? This scam relies on a network of trust, that the mules will draw out the cash and take their cut (and only their cut) and walk the funds to another location for tender.
A slightly more pedestrian catalog was Radio Shack. And while researching this answer, I just discovered that the Internet has archived all the Radio Shack catalogs. Here's one page listing capacitors from 1979.[1]

The great folks at archive.org have archived a ridiculous number of these catalogs (and even books like Lance Leventhal's classic Z80 Assembly Language Programming! [2])

[1] http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1979/hr098.html
[2] https://archive.org/details/Z-80_Assembly_Language_Programmi...
I think git is a good model for what would otherwise be "laggy async and mismatched" distributed systems.

It has a fast sync algorithm, and after you sync, everything works locally on a fast file system. You explicitly know when you're hitting the network, rather than hitting it ALL THE TIME.

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I would like to use something like git to store the source code to every piece of software I use, and the binaries. That is, most of a whole Linux distro.

I have been loosely following some "git for binary data" projects for a number of years. I looked at IPFS like 5 years ago but it seems to have gone off the rails. The dat project seems to have morphed into something else?

Are there any new storage projects in that vein? I think the OP is identifying a real problem -- distributed systems are unreliable, and you can get a lot done on a single machine. But we are missing some primitives that would enable that. Every application is littered with buggy and difficut network logic, rather than having a single tool like git (or rsync) which would handle the problem in a focused and fast way.

It would be like if Vim/Emacs and GCC/Clang all were "network-enabled"... that doesn't really make sense. Instead they all use the file system, and the file system can be sync'd as an orthogonal issue.

Sort of related is a fast distro here I'm looking at: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-d...
Is it entirely out of the question for browser makers to maintain the DOM abstraction and upgrade the underlying engine to operate like an “app-first” layout system?

Take css translate3d, it forces the browser to use gpu to handle those transitions.

At the risk of sounding even more ignorant, but could the DOM be pushed onto the gpu layer, where things happen so fast it doesn’t matter at all how often relayouts/reflows happen? Obviously it’s using the gpu to render, no doubt, but what is about website rendering that’s just that much slower than a 2d video game?

I guess I’m describing React’s circumvention of the browser to some degree. Ideally, we want something like React gone, and implemented at the browser level.
Florida and Georgia seem really important since they opened up far enough back that we should be able to get a sense of how their shutdowns impacted infection rates.
Why Our Diets Are Badly Failing Us and What We'll Do About It
I don't know… true seems pretty finished to me.
Human history will probably look like a sudden, massive, and apparently-inexplicable upward spike in global atmospheric CO2 content accompanied by mass extinction.
California had early, aggressive social distancing orders and large parts of California had/have manditory mask orders in place.

Bay area: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/22/coronavirus-bay-area-...

San Diego: https://www.10news.com/news/coronavirus/what-to-know-about-t...

Los Angeles: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/05/14/coronavirus-covid...
NASA creates Artemis Accords in effort to extend its values to the Moon
Progress is already winding down. Deisel engines, airplanes, splitting the atom, computing, antibiotics...all huge but not recent developments. With the exception of the internet, what have we done recently? Maybe human genome project? Renewable energy? Practical neural networks?

Now, we've spent the last few decades refining these ideas, but we're hitting some peaks. How much more efficient can we make an engine? Can we really get off fossil fuels when they're used for everything ranging from fuels to plastics to fertilizers. We've been working on solving cancer for decades and haven't made much progress. We're still nowhere near widespread nuclear fusion and have abandoned nuclear technologies almost altogether outside of the US Navy. Computing is all about shrinking things, but we're starting to hit walls and practical quantum computing still appears to be a distant dream. AI is still nothing like we'd hoped it would be. We're no closer to understanding the brain in a way that would lead to an AGI. More physics research occurs in a matter of months than a decade at the turn of the century. Have we reconciled relativity and quantum mechanics yet? Are we any closer to GUT? I suppose there have been some advanced in our understanding of the universe due to the new instruments we've put into orbit. Nanotechnology is still essentially science fiction outside of some nanotube devices.
Interesting idea! I don’t know how to think about the threat model of “pay for it yourself, and then the government will run your code for essential services”. I suspect there’s a juicy target there, but it’s something I hadn’t considered so thanks for giving me something to mull about.
Buy a hardware source of entropy.
Sadly not really applicable to my job.. Or maybe I should apply for a vampire job as well !
But do you still have the same 24h day pattern ? Because I do feel this could be an issue for me, like 25h days would be the best
If you're running in a VM, you are at the mercy of the host, so you may as well ask the host for a random seed. Use other factors if you can, but those are all controllable by a sufficiently determined host.
The Painting Behind the Door
Because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
Your lifestyle must be pretty ascetic then? A society that only contains business bootstrapped by independently wealthy owners is pretty small. Almost everything we have required somebody else's capital to build. There was a reason unemployment spiked when lending stopped in 2008.
I argue that it's clearly racist. The intent is to disenfranchise one the poorest communities in America. The GOP knows that the more people who vote, the worst their results are.
I get your point, but to me hospital underutilization implies that whatever restrictions there are, they can be eased more. Ease the lockdown restrictions in a reasonable way and watch for runaway growth in cases.
This is not true anymore, Adderall can be sent electronically to the pharmacy. It makes things so much easier since I don’t have to find time to get into the office to pick up the paper prescription.
What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus
What does it take to make IDs free?
Apple News is not available in Germany. The only thing we get is the non-customisable News-Widget.
Yes! Something that touched me a lot was also that they showed excitement together with some very real competence and detailed knowledge.
I think one example of extremely unsorted data is random data in Monte Carlo simulations, in particular if you need to compute statistical summaries that need the data to be sorted - e.g. percentiles. So you may end up repeatedly sorting million-long random arrays many time a second.

Then again, maybe there are algorithms letting you compute percentiles without sorting?
Hospitalizations are a lagging indicator. The incubation period is 2 weeks, people grow sick enough to be hospitalized in week 3, and death occurs in week 4 or 5. That said, excess deaths are a reliable number, you can't fudge deaths.
Hey, I'm currently writing a newsletter on reframing ideas from pop culture using first principles, would appreciate if you could take a look: https://reframing.substack.com/.