skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment that started this discussion is about the specific case that most of your execution time is in libraries rather than your application code. In that Python is usually no slower to execute than C/C++. You disagreed with that by claiming that such programs cannot be multi threaded because of that GIL, and I just corrected that because it's untrue (edit: it's untrue in general, but especially untrue in this situation we're talking about).

To be honest I'm not sure what your new comment is about. If you're saying that Python is not necessarily faster than C then I'm sure no one going to dispute that; in the situation we're discussing, the performance of your code is totally dependant on the efficiency of the libraries that are doing all the work, not your glue code. If you're saying that Python is slower than C when it's doing a non-trivial amount of the execution, then sure, but no one was claiming that either. Or maybe you just want to simplistically categorise languages as "performat" and "non-performant" without thinking about the specific contexts they can be used in, but that wouldn't make any sense. Did I misunderstand?
The second case is easily solved by having an overload operator+(complex lhs, int rhs). No need to convert anything.
People always think of a technology that does everything for you (like a replicator). But often the sweet point is making something easy enough that it can be done by a busy person without needing lots of expertise. And ideally the task can be made fun and fulfilling. That is true of making, modifying or even designing something.
In the wake of the last "app stores are monopolies"-outrage (which happens at least yearly), I was thinking about a monopoly-less-appstore ecosystem.

In a place where everyone can start an app-store, people will need to carve out their niche. People could then start hand-curated appstores. For a niche. Put together with care and effort.

A little like-f-droid, but much more common and therefore covering a lot more niches. A "christian appstore", "socialist appstore", "appstore for old phones" and so on.

Kindof like the old "manually-created" indexes, but for modern times, in which phones are the primary gateway to the internet.
> I stream alot.

no kidding

1080p stream ~ 1-2GB/h -> 1TB/mo ~ 16h/day

> I last had a 150GB/month cap when I had ADSL connection

there is no cap, i meant what i said 'typical usage'

> How are you using so little data. Do u just read text and look at limited images?

indeed, we read a lot.
Cameras are allowed in Florida state courtrooms.
Cameras are prohibited in federal courts.

Strange that the article failed to mention the Dr. Sam Shephard murder trial: see, https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/docs/default-source/Bio-relat...

(pdf)
Thanks! In the article: "ZFS and Btrfs provide a bit-rot protection at the same level of SnapRAID, always checking data before using it."

Does it mean that Btrfs and SnapRAID need ECC too or they have some workarounds for using non-ECC?
The typical MySpace page was an audiovisual mess, but...I miss that world. Everything now is bland corporate minimal, no creativity required.

The same thing has happened across other visual fields. World leaders all (mostly) wear the same style of Western business suit. Cars basically all look the same. Etc. It’s been a global disaster for diversity.
My son (4.5yo) became a huge fan of Moomin tales recently. Books, audio books, cartoons; he likes them more than super heroes these days. These tales are not only nostalgia material fo adults, these are still great children stories.
I'm really grateful for this mentality, a lot of people cant be bothered to trace through things, hack it / compile it for themselves and are willing to trade a lot of resources to edit their home made videos/photos/etc for relatively little physical work when you do have the chops. I like it more than when I was installing electrical fixtures than others… don't even have to leave my apt, and I do it from the other side of the world!

Software wouldn't be valued as much if more people were willing to do the work lol
Kids today wouldn’t agree with this statement. What happened is you got older.
This one got my attention too. I don't know if it's because it's only one that's monochromatic, or it just reminds me of Radiohead's Kid A artwork.
The source is not available on GitHub yet.
To view the source code, install the extension, then you can find it in:

* Linux ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/eookhngofldnbnidjlbkeecljkfpmfpg
* MacOS ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/eookhngofldnbnidjlbkeecljkfpmfpg
I also thought of this and how do military hide from satellites. Do they use powerful lasers to saturate photon sensors. Since military satellites have existed for so long now military probably implemented a way to hide from them.
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Exactly the selfish reason why I recommend the practice be more widespread :-) The trick to bootstrapping is to start with either a scratch chicken or a scratch egg.

(not that there's much hope of the particular case you mention. The most recent amendment proposal to the US constitution that has actually been ratified dates from 1971:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_... )

Bonus image: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/ERH50D/the-adventures-of-baron-mun...
You can tell them to go to the Microsoft Store, search for Ubuntu, and click Install. I have used this to coach non-technical Windows users over the phone to run software packaged in Ubuntu.
The new internet is far better. People are taking for granted how much easier it has made it to acquire and publish information and communicate p2p, and how much that contributes to our lives.
Amazon's famous 1997 shareholder letter says "as we’ve long said, online bookselling, and online commerce in general, should prove to be a very large market, and it’s likely that a number of companies will see significant benefit."

Now they've completely dominated that market, they are using the classic monopolist strategy of trying to convince regulators and the public that they are actually in a larger market: "Simply put, retail is one market".
Vim bindings operate on commands that can automate many of the daily work you do in a text editor besides inputting text and search & replace. Deleting or copying text inside delimiters or by lines, changing words in place, recording and replaying macros, etc. are all possible with a few keystrokes. Since commands are generic and composable, once you learn the few basic ones you'll be able to come up with combinations of your own that make you more productive over using a mouse and a traditional graphical IDE. If you've ever seen a Vim master at work you'll notice how quickly they manipulate text on screen. It looks almost magical, which certainly makes it difficult to follow for anyone else watching, but to them it's the most efficient use of their time and brain power, since the binding-to-command mapping has become muscle memory. Using a foreign IDE would cripple their productivity.

While it's true that most programming is spent thinking about the problem rather than manipulating text, the benefit of modal editing and Vim bindings is not only in the saved time, but also in removing the barrier from thinking about how you want to change the code to actually changing it. That leaves you more time to think about the problem, but also doesn't interrupt "the flow" by having to think about moving and positioning a mouse cursor in a GUI, which is always a more mentally draining action than typing a few keystrokes.
I had been promoted to lead developer after 4 years at a company I up until then loved working for. I held this position for almost exactly a year.

I was consistently working 50+ hour weeks to just get done what needed doing. I was in hindsight not ready to be a manager, dealing with employees emotional arguments, dealing with underperforming employees, being pressured to do things I didn’t feel right about, I have never been so stressed in my life.

I went to the hospital thinking I was having a stroke because my head felt like it was being electrocuted. Turns out after a CT scan to be stress activated trigeminal neuralgia. Doctors advice was to try and decrease my stress levels. lol thanks.

Days later my yearly review rolled around. I had my first negative review in my 5 years, telling me that I wasn’t getting enough done. Icing on the cake.

My friend had been trying to recruit me to various gigs for years. I gave him a call that night. I had a new job later that same week. He and I are still there almost 10 years later, through several buyouts, and have had a great work life balance.

On top of everything, I set a start date 3 weeks out thinking after my two weeks notice was up, a week off would be good for my mental health. However, when I put in my two weeks notice, the owner of the company pulled up my contract and pointed out I’d agreed to a 3 week notice. I honored it and got no vacation.

My year as lead developer was one of the most miserable experiences of my life.
They have made a lot of effort on improving the platform though, I changed my opinion about developing on Windows from "unmanageable" as it was before to just "not great" now. I would still not use it for a dev machine but the improvements are there and visible.
I immediately looked up mine too. xs4all.nl. On which they annouce even more local ISDN dial-in points. And on which they hosted the webradio B92, and supported/funded journalists who investigated the war in Yugoslavia.

A very much missed mixture of political involvement, technology and commerce. It's really hard to imagine in 2020, say, Vodaphone, or Verizon, taking a stance in the war in Syria, for example.
What language(s) do you develop in though. I found this was fine for certain languages, but others such as C#, swift or perhaps Java really suit having a fat IDE. Or perhaps its me?
I've never voted, never will. Mainly because politicians don't really debate: that being, to convince an opposition to change their minds. I know sometimes politicians have gone against their party's wishes, but I can't see those being as a result of a well constructed idea from the opposition.
I never even really got to the point where most of the stuff from the article would be relevant to me.

Whenever I'm forced to using C++ only a tiny amount of the time is spent actually implementing my ideas.

Most of the time is spent figuring out how to fix incredibly cryptic compiler error messages that usually have nothing to do with what I actually did wrong.

Then I have to figure out how to get all the dependencies in a way that will still work in a year or two, without directly committing them to my git repo, and setting up various complex build tools that were created decades before anyone even imagined package management.

Finally I hope that nobody will ever look at my code because I definitely didn't follow "best practices". The best thing I can do is sprinkle "const" wherever I can because of my religious belief that immutability should be the default. If I wanted to stay up to date with the latest developments in C++ and the accompanying proper ways of doing things I feel like I'd have to forget what little I know about the language every time I used it and learn it all over again, just to avoid doing stuff that some blog post now says is "considered harmful". I might as well try staying up to date with JavaCoffeeTypeScript using the latest AngularReactVue and whatnot.
I think all of the stuff this guy wrote pretty much every single day. I miss the heyday of the web so much, especially as I've worked it in daily since those times.
No, it doesn’t. The majority of traffic is TLS encrypted these days.
Not true. During the Middle Ages, 4 levels of interpretation: literal, allegorical, moral and mystical. Of these, the literal was generally seen as the least important.

Of course there are parts in the bible that do describe literal history, and those are still very important for context, but a lot of stories are very clearly not literal, and even in the middle ages, an important Christian thinker or cardinal (I forgot who it was and can't find the quote at the moment) said: if our interpretation of scripture conflicts with our observation of the world, then our interpretation must be wrong. He wasn't stoned or burned at the stake for that. And 2000 years ago, it certainly wasn't the Christians who were stoning people.

No, the "figurative interpretation", as you call it, has been with us for millennia. Biblical Literalism is only a fairly recent movement, and quite at odds with the bible, Christianity, and reality.
Those cats would not have fit into a typical Amazon box nor would they have been considered a tasty snack by a passing eagle. Size matters.
Whole popular culture became a shopping mall. And if visitors of shopping mall don't agree with what I think, so be it. I cant change the product of our generation poisoning that make them attention junkies, perfect shoppers,... they just never went some other way to see it.
Everyone keeps only mentioning gitlab, whereas gitea[^1] has wiki, bug tracking, and git as well. No CI if I understand it correctly, but for the rest, it's there, and it's nice, and it's order of magnitudes faster and lighter.

Then there's fossil[^2], which is brilliant, and is completely self-contained, with version controlling, wiki, etc. It's a bit awkward, but nonetheless feature full.

[^1]: https://gitea.io/

[^2]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Here is statistical analysis of Russian constitutional referendum for reference:

https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1315579643106398208
> Now it turns out companies with massive legal departments can't do it?

No, it turns out they don't want to.
Libre Office Calc covers 99% of what Excel use cases, has a very similar UI, and doesn't do secret magic guessing of whether a value is a date or not.
I don’t think there’s anything preventing anyone from setting up a usenet similar service? As long as the barrier to entry is high enough it’ll keep out all the average people.
Repointing the link away from David Rubin and Raheem Kassam makes my comment now look crazy, but also is a fairly standard whitewash re. right-wing positions slowly but definitively taking over the skepticism movement in the US.
I've been staring at the "Iridium Phosphide surface @ 1000x magnification" for a few minutes now; I find it strangely enchanting:

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/1996-photomicrogra...
No problem, and no need to excuse yourself! I was merely curious and started thinking about the implications.
The Significance section of the paper Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea [1]:

> We present evidence from the Late Pleistocene of Sulawesi, Indonesia, where an unusually rich and unique symbolic complex was excavated from archaeological deposits spanning 30,000 to 22,000 y ago. Including previously unknown practices of self-ornamentation, used ochre, pigmented artifacts, and portable art, these findings advance our knowledge of the cultural repertoires of modern humans in Pleistocene Wallacea, including the nonparietal artworks and symbolic material culture of some of the world’s earliest known “cave artists.”

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/114/16/4105
Using WSL instead of dual-booting.
I wonder why this quote is paraded on HN every 6-9 months?

Maybe we need reminding; the more you feed the beast, the bigger it gets.

(Vague and broad maxim courtesy of any 'ancient' civilisation)
>My worry with quotes like these is that there's always a hint of nostalgia and conservatism mixed through it.

Nostalgia and conservatism are always attacked in a kneejerk way. Some things were indeed better in the past, and it makes sense to want to conserve them. And, similarly, the future or present is not magically better, just newer temporarily.

>In this case, were people really more well-read and less ignorant in Sagan's past than they were in the mid nineties, or was he simply surrounded more by well-read, nuanced people when he was younger than when he was older?

The public discussion and politics, and the people involved were more well-read and less ignorant in Sagan's past than they are today. How about that?

E.g. back then some serious news outlets (with more gatekeeping and quality control and staff in remote areas, paid proof editors, etc) were the average person's main option to get their news.

Now any random, under-staffed, "news" website (which doesn't even have proof-readers, on-field reporters, or anything, and just repeats AP and Reuters news, opinion pieces, and internet gossip, is a "media outlet" anybody can access. And that's the best case, on top of random blogs and social media accounts.
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3. Tucows, IRC, FTP, Newsgroups...

4. Winamp, Sonique, Eudora, Encarta, Download managers.

5. UFOs, chupacabra, Mars pyramids, Horoscope, Britney Spears.

6. VRML
Hah, you’re right. Those two are very similar!
Those with power learned they could use the internet to control people and accumulate more power.
But Thatcher seeking economic advice from an economist, Tory backbenchers finding Hilton a ridiculous figure and SPADs regularly getting fired by their seniors are not remotely similar to Cummings taking personal responsibility for firing the Chancellor's employees and holding press conferences to tell the public they're wrong to be upset at him for breaking lockdown. If my argument was that PMs never listened to their advisers before you might have a counter example; but my point is that advisers whose behaviour in their personal life has a direct measurable impact on polling support for the government don't, in normal circumstances, keep their jobs, never mind do public briefings in the Rose Garden. I'm not sure why my original assertion that Cummings was an apparent 'rationalist' with quite a lot of influence has prompted quite such an impassioned defence of his actions, but my last post asked for an example of a PM going to comparable extremes to retain an adviser whose personal life is at the centre of negative media attention and you responded by pointing out PMs fire advisers quite a lot...

Suffice to say you are also perhaps in a minority of one in believing that Clement VII had no influence on the Middle Ages. Especially when the point of reference the Church's influence is being compared with is a collection of moderately popular blogs and think tanks.
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No it doesn’t, it’s still surprising to see a CPU instruction added specifically to cater for such a high level language like JS.

It does totally makes sense though, given the importance of JS and it’s common use in mobiles.
This is not even remotely the case. I just recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a newly bought PC (Asus motherboard). It was really tough - the installer would not recognize the USB stick for the longest time until I found the USB 2.0 slot that worked.
> IANAL but The First Amdment, not Section 230, is what lets me say that Donald Trump is in league with reptilians to enslave all Americans who prefer pork to beef.

The First Amendment does not protect you saying that if it is false and you have knowledge that it is false or are grossly reckless in saying it without confirming its veracity, see, New York Times v. Sullivan.

Section 230 is what prevents Facebook from sharing your liability, as a publisher, if they relay your saying that in the conditions in which you would be liable for defamation.
To be clear, this is a TSP approximation that has been shown to be fairly close to the theoretical optimum. P has not yet been shown to equal NP ;)
Ceilings, and (knowing when satellites are passing overhead) when things need to be under ceilings.
> Classified clouds

That honestly sounds like an oxymoron.
I think it makes sense in context, where many tech enthusiasts do almost fetishise their or other's configurations as nerd cred. Just look at /g/ board on 4chan, people post their neofetches and compare kernels..

Let's all just move on from this trend of things that are sexy in a category being regarded as 'porn': earthporn, cityporn, natureporn. Maybe I am getting old..
This is probably the best sink: https://www.atlassian.com/company/contact/contact-ceos
I think OS discussions often become a breeding ground for people to feel offended because people have different preferences but:

I just don't find Linux (or Mac) a compelling alternative. I can do everything I possibly need on Windows; Visual Studio, gaming, VS code, docker, node, browsing, whatever. I absolutely think Linux is so much better for servers since it can all be done from the command line..NET Core was a game changer in that regard, but I'm still perfectly fine with Windows desktop.

I think it comes down to what you prefer, are you a tinkerer or just a user? I just want my desktop to run, I don't care what drivers I'm running or anything like that. Windows comes with the computer, I'm used to it and I've never had the problems described by people. I can plug in any peripheral and it just goes, it's frictionless for me. As far as restarting I'm fine with it, I don't run my computer 24 hours a day, I shut it down after work until I need it for gaming or other reasons, I'm not running software for the space shuttle so I don't need 10 nines uptime
One factor against bears being #1: Bears are not obligate carnivores, i.e. they can survive on fruits and vegetables. Cats cannot.
Well it’s the one often pointed to as “user friendly” even though it’s not my favorite. I would never choose it over say Debian but I also wouldn’t recommend Debian to my family
> PowerBI/Tableau for reporting

In my experience these take ages to load data that is near instant on Excel. I can totally see how people prefer excel.
> How does the world eventually come to realize that there are other reasonable choices for OS?

Mobile OSes are just as bad if not worst
What Went Wrong: Freedom and underculture.

The internet circa 1997 was an unsupervised, all-summer festival for free spirits & adventurers. Skinny dipping, legumes, transcendental dance and chance meetings that change the course of your life.

Now it's a residential school. 56% of the cultural machinery must be dedicated to dealing with behavioural problems in the cafeteria.
I agree, everyone who knows what they are doing can still disable windows auto update. The option is only gone for "normies" which is perfectly fine. If you don't know enough about how windows works to turn it off, you are the reason for it being enabled by default.
I'm partial to Matthew myself, but I think Mark and Matthew are both the most readable and the most accurate. John is more mystical, and Luke seems a bit too embellished.
Yes, but I only BCC myself. This it provide me with a 'CC' of the mail to ensure that it left me OK. It's also an alternative backup if things go wrong.

In fact, my mail client is setup to automatically BCC all mail I send.