skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In writing performance critical cross platform embedded code, I have found that exact width integer types are less useful than the "minimum width" style types you get from plain C (e.g. you can't write cross platform code with an 8-bit exact width integer type, because there is no such type on some platforms). It is disappointing to see this language provides no such types.
Why not list the obvious option?

Option 4: Just keep it running as is.
For non Americans it does not make much sense to use an American company fpr privavy reasons, because the NSA has direct access to them.
I like qwant and startpage as a good alternative.
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This has been my experience 100%. I’d rather pay Google than use DDG for free.

Which is exactly what I do. I trade them some of my privacy and data in exchange for the best search results available (in my opinion).

It’s a fair trade for me.
Here’s an example https://youtu.be/Z0oFJ2jbkDI
Probably impossible without damaging the earth. The article talks about the magnetic force crushing particles electron fields to be flat or spindle; I would imagine generating a field like that anywhere on Earth would have a chance of flattening the magnetic core of our planet into a disk.

On the funny side, the flat earthers would finally be right.
I sincerely hope it's for benign reasons, but HN does seem to be the only "normal" forum I read where this level of contrarian-ness wrt the Whitehouse/Whitehall line on Russia (I would say Assange too but I feel some qualified sympathy towards him). Make the argument if you want but not via Craig Murray

The older threads on Litvinenko have basically the same debates going on, same with Skripal, now with Navalny. "but how can you prove Putin [noted ex-KGB Lieutenant Colonel turned naive pacifist apparently] ordered it"
Same here. In fact, I was surprised when I woke up to realize it had updated over night.
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This advertisement/article is crap. It contains almost no information, certainly nothing useful or actionable and the title is mostly just buzzwords. I don’t know who’s voting this up but it’s depressing.
I'm amazed how a nation as rich as the US allows things to fall apart as much as it does but maybe one of the reasons it is so rich is because of the lack of money used on fixing things? Last time it was dangerous bridges called out. What's next?

If only state run wasn't even worse in the US it could be a better way. It baffles the mind that electricity, gas, internet, etc. is being run on a for-profit basis. Clearly these are all in the nations interest to have top-notch.
That dockside warehouse needs to handle its explosives better, but the welder is clearly at fault.
What is the adware here? The SteelSeries control center most certainly has never displayed an ad to me.
Does California need to do this, or the Federal government?

Where I'm from in NorCal it's all National Forest except for the parts that are private land.

A quick search indicates that some 58% of California forest is managed by the Feds and about 3% by the state.

So -- in addition to PG&E being at fault, shouldn't we be talking about Washington more than Sacramento here?
Well clearly, the fuel load accumulates faster than it decays, or else the fires would not have reached this scale in the first place.
Maybe that was a bug, wrongly promoted as a 'helpful feature' :).
I gave up on budgeting apps as I felt I knew roughly how much was coming in. as long as I kept on top of prices on insurance, electricity,... Then that's about as good as I needed

I did use buckets when trying to budget. It's the same as ynab but not online
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A great way to put it indeed. This applies so well in a huge diversity of hierarchies (social constructs) where any manifestation of power is involved.

Also reminds me of the famous poker phrase: "If You Can’t See the Sucker, You’re It"
It would be a really fun map though, to determine where is "safest" based on an individuals risk profile.
Interesting. I don't know the name of the song, but have often visited this video simply to listen to the drumming. It seems mood-boosting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atkp8mklOh0. In the comments people way things like, "this is so calming", "why do I keep watching this?" Will explore some of the other links here with the addition of meditative breathing.
This happens to me so many times, sometimes I will wake up about 30 minutes after my alarm was supposed to go off. I've always wondered if I was somehow turning of my alarm while waking up and instantly falling back asleep or if my alarm just never went off.
Leaving the ad aside, does anyone besides me think it's time for "software engineer" to become less of an aspirational BS title and more of a real standard we can live up to? I am painfully aware that you can't get a job unless you buy in to bad engineering practices, so I don't blame most individual people necessarily, but a duty of care and a duty to the public trust shouldn't be foreign concepts. If we really thought we had a duty to the public, would we leave codebases in such a shambles?
Yeah, it especially annoys me that it recommends videos I've already watched. Even if I say "don't recommend this" and give "I've already watched the video" as the reason, YT will still keep recommending videos I've watched.
So, for security reasons, right? Then, I imagine a random resident would also be denied entry based on the same criteria as a non-resident, no?

It still is similar to preservation areas, in that entry is restricted for some logistical reason rather than proof of residence.
> "the solution is not to go around and check every single c-hook"

The solution is precisely to check every single one at least a few times a century. This is not that much to ask.
Aren't other countries that have already ratified UP in violation of those agreements, too? I.e., how is this about Germany in particular and not about the European patent system itself?
The term "technical debt" has a certain semantic load and is therefore almost impossible to have a proper discussion about it.

There are several things that are meant by it:

1. Every written line of code could be improved. If we use such a definition, everything is technical debt and we can spend 100% of our time in improving it and we will still have 100% technical debt. Stepsize would benefit from letting you do this :)

2. Code rewriting needed because of progressive insights and new features that need to be implemented or new requirements, updated dependencies like libraries, frameworks, programming language, runtime system etc.

3. Inadvertently incorrectly written code: this has actually nothing to do with debt. It's a natural and largely unavoidable thing that happens when a human writes code.

4. Deliberate choices while writing code and taking short cuts that are actually almost not acceptable that need to be rewritten later.

Only the last category is in my opinion actual "technical debt" but I would rather call it "shortcuts to be rewritten".

I don't think it makes much sense to discuss it without making an explicit distinction between these 3 categories.
What would Charles Manson have done after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
>You still need dedicated devops people / a dedicated team.

Why is this surprising? You always need people to manage stuff. Was there any point where Kubernetes was advertised as a way to NOT have sys admins/devops?

Don't even get me started on "serverless"....
This article is absolutely useless and the title is misleading since it provides no lessons at all. I just created an HN account so that I could prevent other poor souls from going to this junk of an article.
Or better than StartPage, try Runnaroo. Organic results are also derived from Google.

Search quality is subjective, but in this case I mean better because it respects your search terms, quotes work for phrases, and organic results are enhanced with additional data sources like Stack Overflow [0].

I am the creator of Runnaroo.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=react.js
on my 3rd coffee as I read this. too real
Maybe a good example that ties both together is some sort of filter on a list? If you add more constraints (more processing) the list gets smaller.

Suppose I have a function f : x -> y. x -> y is also a functor in y. If you have an x-> y but want x->z, you can use y->z and adjust your original function by post processing the output of f. However suppose you want w -> y but you still only have f. You need to post process with w->x. So f is covariant in y, contravariant in x. Things change in the opposite direction of the adaptor.

Perhaps serialisation is a useful example?

Perhaps contravariance becomes even more useful if you use it in some profunctor dimap where you have a producer and consumer and process, eg moving through a data structure and pre/post processing things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtGECfksds
> yes you can try to ask the owners. But what do you do, when they refuse?

The same thing they would do if you didn't want to pay them: you sue them. For abusive occupation of your pictures.

I am being paradoxical, but the point I want to make is that if you want to make profits or claim any rights on the image you project in a public space (admitted that it should even be allowed, since you didn't pay for said space) then you must also accept the liabilities deriving by the same. You should not be allowed to claim the rights and disown the liabilities.
I couldn't get it working with a self-signed certificate and I'm now forced to use a let's encrypt certificate, although the server is not public facing.
Android got night light even before Apple did, you could just set it at high intensity, but I’m sure you know this.
> California's mismanagement with its forest is the same issue.

I agree that the forests should be managed differently, but if this being "California's mismanagement" is an actual thing as opposed to political disinformation, I'd love to see a couple links to back it up.

Some quick googling suggests that it's mostly a Federal problem, which has very different implications especially right now. Am I wrong?
to me, cofounders are partners in the business and therefore are part of any major executive decision. Is that your view?
Not just that, but it feels like I get more results that are just rehosted StackOverflow answers when using DDG.
Which service? I'd also like to hear more about your multi-region journey (I work at AWS on the IoT services). Any way we can connect directly? You can message me on Twitter (@timmattison) if that works.
I’m a native English speaker and have been using it primarily since 2012-13.

I love it, as I’ve said here in the past. I came for the privacy and have stayed for the bang syntax. Paradoxically it lets me search with google products better than google.

Under google I type in “Boston, MA” then need to click with a mouse.

Under ddg I type “Boston, MA !gm” and am brought right to the map.

Same thing for the hundreds of other bangs
A rich seam perhaps, but that needs to be "mined" and what you get is raw material.... uhm analogy still working right?

There's a big difference between "someone somewhere has done this and documented it" and "these exact builders have built 100s of these in my area." The gap between principle and practice.

Software design and engineering is very influential these days, obviously on HN. We need to remember that bits have all sorts of magic to them. One magic is refactoring, bug fixing and malleability generally. With a building, any "bug" in the initial build is usually there forever.
No but that doesn't refute my point, does it.
Has anyone used elixir for building command line tools? It seems like this would be very useful for distributing them.
A contributing cause is the sheer amount of infrastructure in North America. Since the advent of suburban settlements, the amount of infrastructure has been growing at an unprecedented rate. One day all of it will reach end-of-life. The local governments haven't maintained it. They haven't been saving up to replace it. When it becomes an emergency, all of them will turn to their national government for help.

This is partly human nature. Short-term gains overshadow the distant consequences. I am confident that in 60-100 years China will have an even larger infrastructure crisis.
> I haven’t heard about this Unitary Patent Court.

That's probably intentional.
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A legend. His core stuff is very powerful and his voice is up there.

Going slightly tangential: There was a Bollywood song he did with Shreya Ghoshal (an angel in her own right). I kept listening to that song repeatedly for some reason; often on repeat. A month or two later I decided I had to wean myself off it - I actually felt it was affecting me in some way and I was not sure it was good or bad. Recently I came across another song which ended up on loop and I had to stop listening to. Not as powerful as the first. Early on, I did look at the singers - they were the same two. So perhaps it was not a trance state - just a combination of singers that appealed to my senses. Those two have my number. I know I listen to it at a reduced level of comprehension since I know very little Urdu/Hindi; so I rely entirely on the audio aspect with little brain devoted to language comprehension.
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Climate matters as does location. Plus it was built in the 80s, I doubt any contractor in 80's Arkansas had any idea how to figure out about houses in the Alps even if they cared to.
I'm not sure where I originally saw the recommendation for OOSU10, but it was someone on HN, so whoever you were, thank you! After Firefox, it's the first thing I install on a fresh Windows install, and just applying their recommended actions makes Windows a much more tolerable experience!
I agree so much with your sentiment.

This is what will get lost on hn: 99.99% of companies don't need FAANG-level capabilities.

I bet that 80% of people moving to K8s just follow hype and don't even benefit in any netto positive way.

And it's probably 99% but I'm just too afraid to be wrong.
Just like the the boy who cried wolf, even if Murray had credible source inside FO, all his other writing undermine any real information he had.
Logitech isn't great with this either. Last I used their "drivers" for my mouse it would randomly reset settings, have constant notifications and a UI that was probably designed by their marketing team. I just removed the driver, used the generic one and booted into Linux where I can adjust settings and save it to the mouse itself through some open-source drivers. Those settings then work in Windows as well as long as I don't install the drivers there.
Your parents set it for you, perhaps?
Next time when you want to convey something make it direct. Table 6.5 is meaningless information if no one can directly reach it in a huge file.

Try to to give the exact page number.

Anyway I did waste my time to see what is on table 6.5, i see can year 2010, where is the more recent data?

If more people are dying by drugs, OxyContin and big Macs does that mean these people dont get access to healthcare/emergency services because they are poor or they are not educated because they are poor?

Isnt that a proxy to signal that people in other developed countries still have a better life compared to Americans?
I was watching Selling Sunset and one client was introduced as the founder of Wags, but she was not one of the founders listed on their Wikipedia article. Had a look at her LinkedIn and it looks like she was an early employee. Not sure if it was spiced up by the show or if she's actually considered a founder but I started thinking about the same thing.
I know.

I nagged EA to let me fix SimCity 4 bugs, but they didn't help.

I found some former employees and nagged them about stuff, interestingly instead the result was being informed they were trying to organize the release of EASTL, so I nagged EA about THAT instead, and kept talking to the employees. That part DID work.

https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

Even with that I still couldn't figure out how to make a patch for SC4 though. (I want to patch out RDTSC, that is the source of many, many of its bugs. SimCity 4 uses RDTSC to count cycles, that is what RDTSC was supposed to do when originally released, but Intel later changed it to count time instead of cycles, SC4 crashes on modern machines for example is because of that).
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My own usage scenario is reflecting the changing landscape I think:

- I've noticed DDG's quality slowly improve, while Google's slowly decrease. But Google is still on top.

- When I really want to search for something, I'm using a mix of Google, Yandex, DDG, and sometimes another weird one like Dogpile.com

The times they are a-changin', but slowly, over time.

It's quite ironic now that when I want to do some Internet searching, I will use search engines - NOT (just) Google.

If I want to 'use google', I use Google. They're definitely not a pure search engine anymore, for better or for worse. What they offer is nice very often, but sometimes all I want is the ability to do some deep searching and nothing be withheld from me. Google increasingly censors and filters out information for an increasing number of their own reasons, none of which I ever asked for. That's not why I fell in love with the Internet.

Google is now fundamentally out of sync with the soul of the Internet at the core level. Thankfully, the Internet is bigger than it.
So you are saying that Ansible, Chef and puppet are fads? That solve no real problems?

OpenMosix, Bewolf and Grid computing were mostly confined on research circles. I never saw them took off like K8s did.

So comparing K8s with OpenMosix is a bit unfair...
Recommendation bubbles are partly privacy matter -- without the ability to track users, there would be no recommendation bubbles. It may sound like a far-fetched possibility -- how to maintain privacy of logged in users? But I figure it is doable from technical standpoint; the key question would be how to transform the financial part of the operation to keep Youtube afloat.

At this point, even the awareness of recommendation bubbles and their shape & size can help quite a bit. It's a valid research.

It grates me that Mozilla seems to take very one-sided view on the politics of it, but hey, it's a start. Hopefully others will follow to counter-balance the Mozilla's slant.
Nice thought, thanks, but I don't think so.

The way things are set up, your `tableTypes[T]` would need to map table names to namespaces, and this gives errors like "Cannot use namespace 'X' as a type".

Would be pleased to be proved wrong, though. :)
I find that the best place to have an actual documentation for writing yaml files is the API Reference[0] and falling back to the "regular" documentation for more detailed explanations about specific topics. The reference lists all properties and type for everything that you can shove in your yaml files.

[0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-ap...
My older smartphone (few years old) had less Google-related stuff. And for one, it had its own goddamn music player. Can you imagine? I did not have to use Google Play by default, and go to the Play Store to download a fscking music player. A music player!
DDG user for nearly 11 years (IIRC). Switched almost immediately to it after it launched. I prefer the results I get to Google.

Maybe I've mastered DDG-fu or something but I also cannot stand looking at Google results anymore, especially not if there is page upon page from the same site (e.g. if the thing I'm searching for has results on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, experts-exchange, etc, etc - it often has page upon page of mild variations of the same link) which DDG doesn't seem to do.

The bangs are what wins me though. Their value to me dwarfs that of the privacy concerns (which is really important to me, anyway) it's like a curated list of specific searches available to me as long as I can get online, and I don't need to sync anything. So good.
Why yes I am! I am a big fan of Amazon, or at the very least Audible. It has made my life much better, and in my experience they treat their customers very well.

Of course I'm always happy when there's more competition :)
Cory, first and foremost, sticks to his guns and writes what he believes. Glad to see this getting some press.

He makes me want to ditch my kindle for a kobo, but the book buying experience is just not as good/workable for me along with rebuying my catalogue. Not to mention cost of hardware.
Just as a counterpoint, about 2/3 of the enterprise contracts I've either helped fulfill or reviewed has specified the tool (and sometimes a minimum version but that was only twice out of ~25-30 contracts I've seen). That being said, for the mast majority of those (90%+) the client was very reasonable, and if we had a good reason to remove a specific reference to Veracode, for example, they would probably be fine with it. But I could definitely see it becoming an issue if you just sign the contract to close the deal and try to get out of using Veracode later, especially with whatever the client's internal approvals/review process is.
Because it's a letter addressed to members of Bundesrat. It's not an article about the issue in general.
Tax pyramids occur when the total value is taxed at each point of sale instead of the value added. This results in taxes being taxed which effectively increases the tax paid on earlier stages. For example, very few would find it reasonable for a 100% excise tax to be applied to alcohol or automobiles but less would object to a 30% tax and legislating a certain structure for the sale of alcohol, for example farm -> brewery -> distributor -> retail or manufacturer -> dealership, that effective results 185% or 69% whilst only having the appearance of charging 30%.

The easiest and most effective way to reduce this tax burden is simply expanding your vertical. This is why tesla is so staunchly against third party dealerships or why hyperscalers and apple, google, microsoft, and amazon are all starting to make their own chips. Breaking up big tech won't accomplish anything in the long term without fixing the broken tax system and the incentives it creates.
Maybe because rationality could be exercised only if a person is given diverse high-quality information. Being tracked means being figured out, put in a Turing box, and utilized in accordance with someone else's agenda. This research seems to attempt observing how digital bubbles form and how they could be circumvented.
Interesting. For me, DDG is more aggressive than Google about changing my search terms. They both do it, but DDG more frequently asks forgiveness rather than permission.

DDG: You meant this.

Google: Did you mean this?
How do you include record adults not paying taxes in that then, along with record employment?

Do you want everyone paying more, and the poor paying tax as well, or more income inequality but less people paying tax? You can’t have both.
I use DDG for everything except for programming and local searches. For everything else, DDG works almost 100% of the time for me.
Which parts are burning? The federal or state?