skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMD is barely selling the desktop 4000 series (zen2) apus. OEM sales only, in limited countries. I obtained two through aliexpress, but that's not for the faint of heart.

With US retailers, you're limited to zen+, 4-core chips when zen3 cpus (with no gpu) are arriving shortly. Just because I don't want a high power GPU doesn't mean I want a CPU that old and limited.
Why sleep experts say it's time to ditch daylight saving time
There's a dropdown with examples at the top of the page, but apparently it doesn't show on smaller screens.
I used Workflowy for years, and when I used it moderately heavily it was a great tool. But I have my own tool for managing notes in vim that I prefer on the command line, enough so that I don't miss having a mobile app too much.

Over time I ended up just using Workflowy for a grocery list and it was relatively slow for that - nothing drastic, just a few seconds to load when I fired it up - so I changed to something simpler for that specific task.
I am lefty who used to mouse right sided but a shoulder injury makes me favor the left now. I still use righty button mapping so coworkers can use it immediately. It doesn't take long to get used to it. The biggest annoyance is left side keyboard shortcuts aren't immediately available.

My first mouse was on an Apple IIgs and I set that up lefty on day one but parental unit dissuaded me after that.
I think they're talking about arbitrary graphs and operations on those graphs.
It's generally recognized that reporting unsubstantiated details, before the actual facts are known, is poor journalism.

At best, polls are a simulated election, wrapped in a facade of a forecast. News orgs offer them as a surrogate for factual election results.

It is unclear how presenting this inherently unreliable mess as news helps any voter choose a responsible candidate.
> 51 different ballots

There's a hell of a lot more than that, the ballots include local votes as well.
Replacing NTP? Good fucking luck.
Not in general, but when you do it by writing articles, or posting on message boards, yes absolutely. Advocating for or against a cause by disseminating media is the definition of propaganda.
There are ideological arguments to make, especially with respect to campaigning, but this isn't it. This is about the difference between carefully adjusted polling data and the final outcome. Polling, in aggregate, isn't ideological, it's just statistical sampling. Now the analysts have to figure out what went wrong with 2020's statistical sampling, just as they did in 2016.
I.e, it is all ASCII's fault. But what would EBCDIC spaces look like in my electric bill?
Polling is going to continue to get worse, because our politics is deranging. When you poll you have to weight certain demographic groups. What groups though? We’re splintering as a country. There were so many anomalies this election. Biden underperformed the suburban vote in the southeast, but not in the southwest, he under performed with Latinos in Texas and Florida, much more than Hillary did, but he did okay everywhere else. There doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to it. The demographics are no longer stable even within the same party. Trump did better amongst non-whites than he did in 2016, and worse among white women and the elderly than he did in 2016, how many pollsters saw that coming and appropriately weighted it?

The demographic outcomes of this country are getting more and more unpredictable.
The party that captures most of the uninformed voters will push to make that happen. The party that doesn't will call it an affront to our republic.
ummm... to imitate a higher quality brand to make money. Sound familiar?
Mandatory voting would be the fastest way to "fix" America.
Turnout based voting means you win by radicalizing your side to show up to vote.
Most voters would fall into a bell curve of political preference and in the US that middle stays home.
In Australia it forces both major parties back into the center so they don't scare off the majority of voters, and the extreme wings of either side typically hold little sway.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/

In my opinion 538 nailed it in both 2016 and 2020. In 2016 they said Trump needed a full standard polling error to win. In 2020 they said he would need more than a full standard polling error.

The polls were wrong, and 538 told us what would happen in that scenario.
Implementing a Linked List in Rust
Thanks for commenting. First let me say that with current blockchains, we achieve "objective state" at the cost of centralized control of the algorithm by some core group of developers. This results in perverse incentives to maintain the status quo (c.f. bitcoin transaction cost problems).

Getting back to your question, I have no idea if the scaling functions will stabilize on a singular chain or not. However, I think it would be a Pareto improvement over the status quo. Indeed, you could embed BTC and ETH into DCC (with the proviso that all users must use the core-developer-chosen hash functions and scaling functions), and both chains could live side-by-side.
And then claim someone else stole them, when in reality they are just moving it to another address of their own
Intel also has an history of bad OpenGL implementations, where their drivers would state to implement features, which were actually done in software, making meaningless the feature query to decide what to call.
This could make a very entertaining movie.
I wouldn't say it's unusual for SaaS offerings to be semi-opensource; the commercial vs opensource markets do diverge in needs and there is non zero risk in making >95% of your marketable advantage open source.

Regarding it's current, although waning, top choice for hosting open source software, I certainly do think we are starting to see the trade offs the open source community has been making.

There are tons of hosted GIT solutions. I've started using sourcehut [1] which seems like an rising platform that is also opensource. Hopefully youtube-dl ends up there instead of risking it on another big provider.

[1] https://sr.ht/
This article compares the hierarchical nature of the type system of OOP languages (think Java) with the hierarchical nature of ownership in languages with Ownership/Move semantics (Rust and newly C++). The author notes that "composition over inheritance" is a rejection of the strictly tree-shaped OOP type system. In the same way, Rust's `RefCell` is an escape hatch from the strict hierarchy of ownership, maintaining a run-time invariant of one owner rather than a compile-time invariant.

One difference I see between these two escape hatches are switching costs. Rewriting the Java standard library to use composition and not inheritance borders on impossibly difficult. Rewriting the rust standard library to use RefCell instead of &mut everywhere would be arduous and possibly automatable, but not impossible.
Well, Github not being Free Software in the first place already means "everything is fine" is false.
If you sterilize an animal it doesn't reproduce. These insects only don't reproduce well.
I didn’t know there were pedometer nerd sites! As someone who has worked on a widely used pedometer, I’d love to see what is being discussed.

Can you please share a link?
Go is so simple that it usually doesn't make sense to express things in anything but simple terms. What surprised me about working in that kind of environment was how much it freed me to be creative about my algorithms and problem domain, rather than how concisely I was describing boring algorithms. I work mostly in Rust now, and that's a property I miss about Go.
I only support mandatory voting if there is a none of the above option, and that option means the office will remain unfilled.
What's wrong with SCP that it must be deprecated?
I stepped out of a formal architectural university degree, because I already worked as architect at the best architectural office in our country, and then founded a big architectural company, which did much more than just architecture. We did also civil engineering, software, visualization, vr, ai, modelling, surveying, city planning, and theatre stage design and movies. The university education was really nothing compared to practical experience. At the end I tought at 3 universities for about 10 years, without any formal degree.
Not dropout or autodidacts, just getting a better education in the industry. In our case we founded new fields.

Much more interesting was then when we founded an internet provider, became the largest independent provider in our country, then I switched to journalism and to automotive engineering (pretty successful), and then back to sole SW engineering, which is the most interesting in the end.

Several other architecture friends also had similar wild careers. One also did F1 engine design, and the provider startup consisted of 3 ex-architects. Architects are generalists, they can do everything. Literally.
I find tobacco smoke the worst, and it's not even close. There is almost nothing worse than being behind a smoker on the sidewalk.

I really, really could not care less about what people smoking do to themselves, but that horrible smoke carries so far and is so overpowering that it's hard to think about anything else when you're forcefully exposed to it.

A smoker is dominating a massive area around them and preventing other members of the public from enjoying that space. In a city space is at a premium.

Being an addict skews their ideas on what is socially acceptable, but the worst part is that the smokers themselves have no idea how bad it smells because they have completely ruined their sense of smell, so they are also at a heavily reduced capacity to judge how their actions are affecting others.

We have rules around a lot of antisocial behaviors, why should smoking be exempt?
Linked lists and graphs are the canonical examples of things that are difficult to model and express effectively in Rust. In other languages you can just store a pointer/handle/reference to the things each node is connected to, which is commonly not the most efficient way of working (and as systems scale up they routinely replace such techniques with fancier techniques), but is very straightforward conceptually and matches people’s intuitions about how to design such a thing. In Rust, you simply can’t do that directly, roughly because it’s not provably safe (in fact, in the general case, it’s provably not safe). So you have to solve things in other ways, the simplest being to wrap each node in Rc<RefCell<_>> or similar, which is basically a way of saying “I can’t cope with ownership semantics, gimme a kludgy way of checking it at runtime”; but it’s also common to immediately reach for fancier data structures like https://lib.rs/crates/petgraph. Yet even with that, you’re often spitting in the face of ownership semantics with your traversals, because traversing a potentially-cyclic graph is fundamentally against ownership semantics, so you have to be careful because some things will be being checked at runtime.

In the case of these fancier data structures, it is perhaps also worth pointing out that many of them actually do follow ownership semantics, down to things like allowing shared access to multiple nodes, or exclusive access to a single node, so that no runtime checks are necessary. This is where I think the original article severely missteps in calling it a fatal flaw—because people are successfully building safe ownership-oriented abstractions using unsafe code. That’s a super-important capability of Rust.
Funny video. He didn't mention getting the land, barns and equipment for free too. Just inherit and profit!
I miss home already :) (I'm from Bengaluru/Bangalore referenced in the article and Coorg is ~5 hours drive). For some of you who may not be familiar with some of the terms:
1 lakh = 1 hundred thousand
YouTube's stronghold is because of community, not technology. It's also been around for 14 years and has so much internet history baked into it that it's just hard to conceive it being dethroned.
I guess rich is relative
When to refactor
Just to be clear - the “federal legalization” of same-sex marriage came from the Supreme Court, not actual Federal Law, so it is definitely at risk of being overruled with the new court membership. The best our federal government could do was the Defense of Marriage Act, (reluctantly) signed in to law by Clinton in ‘96, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. Individual states, with significant aid from the Supreme Court, did away with that barbaric nonsense. We are not likely to see such progressive thinking from the current bench regarding drug use.
Irs themselves don't put out much information on the topic, without any other guidance from them it's generally understood that financial compensation (points, miles, cash) you get from using your credit cards are not taxable because they are considered rebates on purchases. Its considered like a discount on the purchases you made with the card, kinda like a coupon.
Monitor Network Usage in Linux
They're replacing it with NTPsec:

https://www.ntpsec.org/FAQ.html

> NTPsec already fully interoperates with NTP Classic. They use the same protocols and the same time adjustment algorithms. User-visible differences are minor, and consist mostly of obsolete code being dropped and a few tools renamed to reduce NTPsec’s footprint in global namespace.

It's impossible to greenfield a new network time synchronization protocol at this point, sure, but NTPsec is not that; it's a cleanup and modernization project.

That said, they have removed things, from Mode 7 packets (a known DDoS amplification vector) to support for obsolete time sources and computers:

https://www.ntpsec.org/removal-plan.html

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/568372
Every single thing from phoronix is clickbait, and has been for years.
If you're concerned about security, yeah I would disable IPv6.

Until all firewall and router mfgs. re-QA every little feature added for IPv6, you don't really know what your equipment is doing.
Reduce costs with new memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines for SAP HANA
If the politicians I know we're fighting in America all of them would have access to additional ballots.
I suspect the large beard and cap in his pictures are hindrances in recognizing him.
Azure Backup–Soft Delete for SQL Server in Azure VM and SAP HANA
I've never used TeXmacs but I do use TeX and Emacs.

Does TeXmacs at least have macros? (That's what "macs" stands for in Emacs)
I'm not who you responded to but I'd guess they mean something like a Boeing E-6B Mercury "doomsday plane," with the full capability to command the launch of the country's ballistic missile submarines and ground based ICBMs, a plane with access to enough firepower to plausibly end our civilization... worrisome in any context!
That’s a good point.

To be clear: I am a gigantic fan of API key pairs.
Ad Explorer v1.50, Disk Usage v1.62, VMMap v3.31 and Sysmon v12.02
The backups are also something that would differ greatly, along with metrics that rely on internal APIs which AWS may not provide access to.

Like other AWS products (RDS, Elasticache), there’s limitations since they provide protocol interoperability with proprietary tech behind the scenes.
The cover and inner page from this year's annual "Best Of" issue.

https://imgur.com/a/kPR5uj2

It's usually the biggest issue of the year, thick with articles and ads—but this year it was thin and filled with hilarious fake awards all related to the COVID and the statewide stay-at-home order, which had started two weeks earlier and would run for another month.

It was exactly the laugh I needed then; I'll be super sad to see this paper go.
Using IoT and Azure to Help with Family Chores
I used to think similar about AOL Instant Messenger, the Wintel monopoly, SEGA and Internet Explorer.
Not in any country I've lived, but I imagine there'll be inevitable outliers. Rent is rent though, no? I'd love to know which country penalises you for finding a place to live with low rent...
FFCreator is a lightweight and flexible short video processing library
You probably just don’t have a very sensitive nose. My wife would be able to tell any time I hung out with my coworkers for their smoke break, and that was many hours later.
> Seems to me if you want to do this, you're missing out on the experience. Push a button, get a prize is not very rewarding in the long run.

I disagree. I installed Home Assistant, got some smart plugs and ESP chips and bought a solenoid. Sitting on the deck and seeing the sprinkler go at sundown +30mins or getting the Slack alert as it turns on and off is very satisfying.

There is plenty of hard work to do, but I really believe that automating the watering is more efficient when done by my automation. It was quite inexpensive too.
How confused can one person be?

(Also: what distinction is being made between "oriented" and "orientated", and why?)

The author appears to believe that the analogies used to invent convenient names for language constructs are supposed to really be the construct, rather than a shorthand description.

Language features, once they map to actual semantics, become pure mechanisms with their own ironclad logic, with only an analogical relationship to whatever concept motivated and, usually, named them.

Thinking in terms of the concept, or (worse) the word chosen to refer to it, as the author does again and again, can only generate confusion.

The author is also confused about the role of inheritance in C++. Unlike in Java, which offers practically nothing else to organize a program, in C++ inheritance is wholly optional, and is typically used only where it solves a specific problem.

The author further confuses
regular and virtual member functions, and their respective roles in design space.

The sorts of confusion seen here are quite common in philosophy, which has great difficulty staying grounded to facts of experience, something I think Wittgenstein complained of. In programming most of us don't have that problem, because the facts of problems to be solved and, moreso, of the physical machines we use in solving them provide ground truth.

Computer Science perennially tries to cut itself loose from that ground truth, but is always brought to heel by the demand of its graduates for employability.
I wouldn’t call Quillette and Reason conservative. They are alternative media that do not fit neatly into simple buckets.

Quillette is part of the so-called “intellectual dark web” that prints articles too dangerous for places like The New Yorker and The Atlantic but in a similar vein. I would categorize it as a classically liberal magazine in the sense it is free thinking but the mainstream liberal press is too orthodox to print anything that challenges them.

Reason is the most mainstream libertarian news organization but is increasingly popular for its free thinking politics and resistance to woke trends. Highly recommend.
I can’t get over the idea that the HODL gang thinks that cryptocurrency=freedom when everyone can see the global transaction log.
I know that the motivation behind the question is outside of the blog post, but I'm really curious, and would love to ask folks here, what is so exciting about living on a farm? Is it about independence? Or radical self reliance?

As a person who lived my whole life in cities, I have a very hard time to find an appeal in a lifestyle like the one described in an article.Can someone share what they like / appreciate about the life on a farm?
Ulbricht kept very detailed records of everything he did, sorted by year/month/day, stored on his Windows laptop.

He definitely thought he had ordered the death of at least one, possibly more, errant employees.

I am aware that the errant employee and the hitman he hired were all FBI cutouts.
CERN Online introductory lectures on quantum computing from 6 November
Is there a place in the blog series where the async requirement is expanded on? Is it just the desire to transparently have Dark code use async IO so it's cheaper / can be said to be very scalable?

edit: in https://blog.darklang.com/adventures-in-async/ there's a short clue saying "The Dark web server is currently synchronous, and so long or slow requests--at sufficient volume--can cause operational issues for us" but it doesn't go into details.
We cannot not have a President. Ranked choice voting would be a more practical reform.
Telco (Celcom Malaysia) Subscriber Data Leaks
What’s their main revenue stream? The homesteading itself, courses or the Youtube advertising dollars?

Selling the dream is always more profitable than living it.
> ...freed me to be creative about my algorithms and problem domain, rather than how concisely I was describing boring algorithms.

Agree. I dabble in Kotlin and Golang at work. Those languages can't be further apart.

I occasionally need to read Rust code, but it has been a struggle compared to how easy it is to read Go.
It may be worthwhile to point out that the example is built in debug mode, and also Rust is including the whole standard library in the output. Re-configuring some low hanging fruit [1] reduces the binary size on my test machine to 27K. This is still not small, granted.

[1] https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
If the client-side solution is so simple, what's the problem? There are many things on the web where, if given a clean slate, it would be nice to change the default behavior. This doesn't seem to rise to the top of that list.
Selling the dream is always more profitable than living it.
I did watch me and my friends' touch typing behavior, and most of us use left index finger for RFCVGT(B), and right index finger for YUHJ(B)NM. the character in parenthesis means it overlaps between right and left area
Sorry mate.

That may be strictly true. But you must file tax returns. I met a women here in Aotearoa who had not stepped foot in the USA for thirty years and never thought about the taxes.

Facing extradition or loosing every single thing she owns. Or both.
Then your criticism should be levied at Linus for using an "overly" permissive license. You are allowed to profit off of GPL software. Investing 1000s of man years on a front end requires that people get paid somehow.
It's hard to tell due to the poor wording in Phoronix's part, but they're talking about "retiring" the ntpd reference implementation -- not the protocol, obviously.

Personally, I'd rather see them move to chrony over NTPsec.
Why do you need subscribers? Do you want to be a farmer or a Youtuber? Do you want to live the dream or get rich by selling it?
> you don't win legal battles by committing crimes

Tell that to the Civil Rights movement.
But they are still united by their common language. Even if they heavily deny it, and write in different letters. And call their little dialect a full blown independent language.

Semiotic slavistic researchers really need to be more politicians than researchers, it's a minefield still.
Github is a company not a community project though, they don't gain anything by going open source, it makes no sense to do so.

There are hidden costs to going open source as well as expected ones. Could you imagine the number of PRs, issues and discussions over trivial shit the GitHub userbase would create against an open GH repo? Nightmare. Not to mention code cleanliness expectations and buildability expectations and so on.

Of course they "could do this" or "do it that way," but the fact that they don't should tell you their priorities lie elsewhere, and that's fine. Closed source isn't evil and we have other open source git hosting platforms.
Updating Help for the PSReadLine Module
I’m adding to the point about why margins matter not contradicting Silver. (Though I’m convinced that Silver understands statistics better than politics.)
What is unique to the USA is: charging citizens tax on money they earn when they live overseas and forcing overseas banks to hand over details, in some cases of non USA citizens, to USA IRS
Are you sure that's not from your display font missing the symbol? I've got (unfilled) circles rendering for me.
When is it a good choice to use Azure serverless functions?
Right. The problem is the polling.