skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly doubt that. If I moved to Eldora, Iowa and voted for the most progressive, liberal, all-blue policies, up and down the ticket... it's still not going to turn Eldora into San Fransisco. There's not going to suddenly be a drug problem where there wasn't before. There's not going to be massive traffic problems blocking my commute. There's not going to be people commuting hours to work because they couldn't afford a million-dollar house in town. Even if you doubled the voting population with people specifically chosen so you could enact the most SF-like policies, you still only have... 5,000 people in the entire town. There's just not enough people to encounter those kinds of problems.

Cities with poor quality of life and high cost of living are that way because their laws and policies aren't effectively managing the high population. If you move to a low population area, the problems you encounter are wildly different (and yes small towns still have big problems to solve). And if you move to a city that has a large enough population that SF's poor city planning actually matters, you're going to have to move a lot of people to overwhelm the status quo. And if a small number of new people dramatically changes the feel of a city, well that sounds like you had 51% of the people who wanted it one way overriding the 49% who absolutely hate the city they live in.

This fear feels like a socially conservative "I don't want them folk coming here and changing things". If new people move in and things start changing, they were always going to change and a lot of people have been waiting for that change for a long time. Embrace it.
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The situation is more complicated that just what color the state is.

Most cities are blue and rural areas are red.

I live in a red / purple state but all the cities are blue. The current estimate from the 2010 census is that we have grown 10% and added around 1 million people. Some of the rural counties are shrinking. The vast majority of growth is in the cities that were already blue and are just becoming more blue.

I live one state away but if you look at Virginia it did not change from red to blue because people moved into the rural areas and voted opposite of the rural voters. People moved into Arlington, Richmond, and Virginia Beach and made these already blue areas larger and more blue. After a few years it tipped the balance in the state.
You’re right. My apologies. I should have responded more respectfully and I’ll keep that in mind going forward. Thank you for taking the time to address this kindly.

Edit: it appears the prior comment is outside the editing window, so I’m unable to edit it to remove the inflammatory reaction. Is it possible to have the comment deleted?
Note that apple has a process advantage here. AMD's 5nm chips will probably see a decent perf boost.
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Volunteers still needed to test variety of Covid-19 vaccines
> If some misguided old people in the Midwest want to pretend they are not at risk, it’s their life and their body to do that with. Sucks for the healthcare workers tasked with dealing with that, but you can’t legislate away life, risk, etc.

I think we do legislate away life and risk quite a lot. I imagine you may have already heard the arguments about laws for seatbelts, motorcycle helmets, and more. Even suicide is illegal.

> From what I can tell a huge portion of the United States is engaged in a mass delusion, and is actively handing over all the prosperity for the next decade to large corporations who benefit from COVID, while risking the future of kids with mostly worthless remote learning.

For me, this hits on where I think the US government has failed the most. I believe we should treat this virus seriously and I also believe we should treat the economic crisis seriously. I believe we need not only medical interventions but economic ones and it baffles me the US Congress has not created and approved a new stimulus package.

In summary, I think some people only focus on the medical crisis, others focus on the economic crisis, and that we would probably resolve this a lot better if we provided help both medically and economically.
I run Slack as a tab in Safari because it avoids the pain of running the electron app, and reduces my memory footprint.
14nm was delayed, 10nm was massively delayed, 7nm is delayed again. That's a fairly long run of underperformance.

Sure, they sit on enough money that they can recover if they do it right. But there currently aren't any signals that they're getting things right.
That is called a conglomerate, not a monopoly.
It's not as simple as writing a law that says "Conglomerates are illegal."

How do you define conglomerate? Amazon started selling books. Then it started selling other things. Now it's starting to sell medicine. At what point should the line have been drawn?

Obviously, the goal is to prevent harm to the consumer, but can one demonstrate that the consumer has been harmed? As a consumer, I know it was very hard for me to get such quick delivery of random items before Amazon. I especially remember getting ripped off on HDMI cables and other cables by Best Buy as a kid, and Amazon was amazing for enabling me to purchase them so cheaply, and with such huge selection I never would have found at Best Buy.

(I personally use Amazon.com sparingly now due to their commingling policies and disinterest in providing me with a quality product).

But the point is that demonstrating consumer harm isn't simple. Conglomerates can deliver goods and services at lower prices, which is good for buyers. Conglomerates can also engage in practices which helps buyers in the short term, but harms them in the long term.

Before grocery stores, there were produce stands, butchers, delis, bakers. Then a giant grocery comes into town, and now, as a buyer, I can save time and money going to one place and getting all I need. Should this be illegal?

The purpose of my comment is to illustrate that the situation is not as simple as screaming "monopoly". There are even geo-political risks to consider, where having conglomerates on your side can be helpful, if not help counteract the effects of conglomerates of other countries.
It’s the same moat that Coca Cola has over a Panda Cola, Virgin Cola and supermarket colas. It’s everywhere, it has name recognition and for many people they have used it and it worked for them, so why risk using another option?

Also even though I know Airbnb isn’t perfect, I understand at least some of its weaknesses and how I can mitigate some of the risks. With a new service I’d be starting from scratch.
I have used similar editors in the past and since stopped. But, I found that the way these tools tend to train you to write has a long term impact. One of my newer colleagues often seems to choose the most complex words possible. I'm not sure if it's an imposter syndrome thing, maybe they feel the need to overcompensate, or they actually never learned the benefits of simpler word choice. I wish more people would learn the art of Writing Like You Talk.

http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html
Dude not paying rent is not the end of the world. Go where you can reduce your expenses to as low as possible - parents house, good friends, whatever. Get unemployment or whatever gov assistance you can get.

Clearly you are doing something wrong in tech, so hedge your bet and get a simple job at Starbucks or something like that for now. Use that to save up some cash so you have some legs to stand on. Early morning and night grind on development and leetcode and get a solid entry job.

Btw you should be getting student loan forgiveness by now, 11 years out of college.

All of what I said above is 100% doable but you have to be stoic and "just do it"... you can't cry and make excuses and say crazy stuff. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and just give it your best shot, you're not gonna fail if you do.
I took a look, and didn't see any huge price breaks.
I find that odd. Don’t they have some sort of icache? Intel could decode into a fixed width Alternative instruction set inside the icache, then use a wider decode when actually executing.
Getting drivers to work will be hard without Apple's help or blessing. And there are a lot of drivers.

For comparison you can check the progress of Linux on iPhones (which is actually a thing!)
I don’t think purchasing a computer is the same thing as buying a movie from Amazon. The computer is always gonna be yours, and you can do whatever you want with it, even if Apple has made it very difficult to do so. But there are lots of objects in my house that would fall under that category as well, but I consider myself as their owner.
And yet everything still feels slower after every year lol.
> understanding C is crucial to understand low level programming concepts

That is a patently false statement. To understand low-level programming concepts, you need to understand fundamental notions about how machines represent state in registers and memory, how memory is organized (including primarily the concept of function calls and the stack), and the indirect referencing of memory via pointers. Note that nowhere in that list did I describe a concept that is unique to C.

In fact, one of the more common approaches to introducing developers to low-level programming is to introduce them to these concepts via assembly (say, Nand2tetris). In my own experience TA'ing such a course, I am more than willing to translate code into whatever language the student is most comfortable with to express the concepts as necessary. You can absolutely learn these concepts in other languages, and my own suspicion is that unsafe Rust does a slightly better job of it than regular C does.

C does not have a monopoly on understanding the low-level organization of code, and quite frankly, C's lack of coverage here can be frustrating. C has no concept of multiple return values, functions with multiple entry points, unwinding the stack, computed goto, SIMD vector types, nested functions, discontinuous structures, or tail calls, and these are all concepts that are present in other languages that cannot be expressed in standard C or often even in vendor-extended C.
I agree.

Also, when you look at UI benchmarks for web frameworks replacing/updating thousands of DOM elements per second, I have serious doubts the problem of web-based UIs is performance.

I agree Electron is a cancer, but not because it uses web-based UIs, but because every app ships its own version of Node + V8.

A couple of years ago I built a cross platform app using the native web view on each platform (WKWebview on macOS/iOS, WebView on UWP, Chrome web view on Android and ChromeOS). The app for macOS was like a 4MB download from the Mac App Store and it consumed like 15-20MB or RAM.
> - I really don't believe COVID-19 is as dangerous as is projected in the media

Well, it's obviously not very dangerous, on a medium or long term. The Black Plague had a 40% mortality rate, SARS about 20%, etc. A virus with a 1-2% mortality rate won't bring society down, obviously.

The media machine needs nourishment and they tend to exaggerate things.

However Covid-19 is still a big deal. If it runs its course unchecked ~50-80 million of people could die. That's a lot of pain and suffering, the likes of which the world hasn't had in at least 60 years.

> - I believe the human influence on climate change is much less than what most people tend to believe

This, I don't think anyone can justify. Maybe the climate warming estimates are overblown, ok, but human influence is undeniable and worst of all, we have no control over it and little visibility. It's like physics and closed systems, humanity is an open system and we're leaking pollution everywhere. Any way you cut it, that can't be good or sustainable. And there are so many of us that we definitely have an impact on the world. For example the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch). And these things will only become worse as we will have 3x - 4x as many people living in industrialized countries (4 billion people or more).
SF native here. Those neighborhoods are highly transient. As others have mentioned in this thread, the people who moved out are largely migrants here for work. Now that the work has dried up, why stay?
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That's my question, and no way in hell I'm buying meds or supplements on Amazon. Nothing that goes in my body. They blew their trustworthiness on that a long, long time ago.
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This seems akin to a red vs. blue pill thing for you.

I am the same age and I recommend that you come to your own conclusions, based off of falsifiable evidence and your own beliefs.

Perhaps instead of the blue pill, directly address your own fears. Everything dies, it is a natural process. None of us, nor will the Earth and Sun itself, escape fate. Learn to appreciate and maximize the time you have.

Or take the blue pill and die all the same, you won't exist consciously in any way, shape or form anyways, so no harm there. So perhaps its a useful, comforting delusion if you find that you can't accept the reality presented by the evidence.
Natural gas absolutely can be ramped up and down and that’s critical to the stability of our grid. Just because there are other fossil fuel plants that can’t doesn’t somehow downplay the critical nature of peaker plants.

> We also have energy storage technologies other than batteries: the most common being pumped-storage hydroelectricity

These take tons of land and aren’t really anything like reverse hydro electric dams because if you tried to reverse a dam during high production you will be running a river dry and run out of water quickly.
If you don't need immediate access to the packet payload, I've been enjoying Brim Desktop [1]. It comes pre-packaged with Zeek (formerly Bro) and gives you a UI to view and query those Zeek logs, which will link flows together. It also supports opening specific flows in Wireshark for deeper analysis. It might not do everything you need, but it's improved my pcap analysis workflow. It's free at the moment, and this part of the demo [2] gives you an overview of processing a pcap.

[1] https://www.brimsecurity.com
[2] https://youtu.be/InT-7WZ5Y2Y?t=382
Amazon has more fingers in pies than a leper in a bakery.
What's so hard about:

if (((a > 0) && (b > 0) && (a + b) < 0) ||
((a < 0) && (b < 0) && (a + b) > 0)) { / * Overflow */ }

Now you may be saying, well, isn't there a branch-if-arithmetic-overflow instruction in practically every single architecture ever? To which I would say simplicity matters.

[edit] </sarcasm>
One of the books on the list is /Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/, which is very much not a book written from a white perspective, and as far as I remember is lacking white saviours.
Leaked screenshot from Centra, Facebook's internal cross-internet tracking tool
That point is the flimsiest straw man I've seen in a long time. Just because someone left NYC doesn't mean they hate 100% of everything about NYC, and anyone who moves to a rural area hoping to turn it into NYC... well obviously no one would do that because that's just ridiculous because it can't actually happen.

Absolute FUD. 100% straw man.
I like C fine, and I also taught it when I was in grad school.

New languages mostly don't replace existing ones. Rather, they supplant them for some uses, and open up new kinds of software which are easier to implement or to conceive with the new language. Now, you referred to C++ specifically, and since I'm somewhat familiar with it I'll address some of the points you made with respect to just that one:

C++ was not intended to "replace C", but rather to combine features of BCPL (later C) and Simula. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69edOm889V4

Bjarne Strousup said: "If you want to create a new language, a new system - it's quite useful not to try to invent every wheel." For a long while now, C++ teachers/trainers encourage their audience _not_ to think of C++ as an "augmented C" or "C with feature X Y and Z", and to avoid most "C-style" code in favor of idioms appropriate to what the language offers today.

Also, C didn't "win the competition" because there isn't a "bestest language for everything" competition. It has been, and is, a popular language with many uses. Writing operating system kernels is one kind of programming task, where C is the most popular. Even at this level (and lower still), other languages are potentially interesting and often used. See, for example:

* IncludeOS - Running C++ without an operating system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQPrtTsM7Zg
* Generating optimal assembly in an embedded setting at (C++) compile time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNw6Cz8Cb68

Finally, C++ doesn't require a huge library nor a complex runtime system because it has a "freestanding mode" in which the requirements are very limited (although more is required than for C). See:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/freestanding
Half this site is probably Millenials, which are 90's kids :-)
Not being able to afford food can also kill you (you would starve to death). Is that a sufficient justification for the government to step in to negotiate food prices on behalf of its citizens?

There are merits to government price controls and there are certainly countries that have employed them successfully. That said, it isn’t the only solution to bending the cost curve, and there are also downsides to price controls. It’s complicated.
The improvements were stumbles in the dark by comparison — people didn’t even realise colour blindness existed until the industrial revolution.

That said, while I am fine with automated bug tracking for this sort of goal, I absolutely agree that all automated tracking needs to be opt-in rather than opt-out.
Back in the day you'd have webrings - groups of sites that linked each other in clear association.
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You can use no-code tools for developing a really basic version of your product. (Bubble, Webflow, etc). Once you'll have something to show - you can pitch the idea to the potential tech co-founder. You can find them on relevant cofounder subreddit, IH (Looking to Partner Up), etc.
It is, surprisingly, not as critical as I would have thought. There is something about being a dad that is sufficiently general, the idea that I'm responsible for another person's wellbeing entirely, that made me more confident that I could be trusted with greater responsibility.

And I use the phrase "go to battle" almost as metaphorically as possible, in the sense of my willingness to be in conflict with people over right and wrong, but I think that's a good point about physical safety and quality time.
Foundations for the Future
A few days ago, this utility was published: [1]

After reading the comments and seeing multiple alternatives, I tried to Rewrite it in Rust. In comparison with the original, this one does not depend on Yarn/JS and can be used by downloading a single binary.
[1]https://github.com/geongeorge/Git-User-Switch
> Let us not use edge cases to guide our path forward.

Funny you should say that after presenting an edge case.

In North America during the winter the sun is setting during peak demand in the Northern states. That means we need to overbuild wind so much that we can run entirely on wind on non-windy days. The economics do not support that.

Storage is critical to make the US case work.
It reminds of broot https://github.com/Canop/broot/
Can someone explain the purpose of this decoder? As far as I know, decoding H.264 is already pretty solid on Linux and I don't know what benefits of making it stateless there are. I could definitely see why a stateless encoder would be beneficial (i.e. to spread out the load), but isn't decoding h.264 already a solved problem?
For those without context, WebKit apparently takes 30+ minutes to compile, as of (2018) Intel:

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2018/02/17/on-compiling-w...
That is undefined behavior.
Edge cases are the Arctic Circle. Naysayers keep naysaying while it's being done [1]. Enough sunlight falls on the Earth in an hour to power the world for a year, and there's roughly 200GW of solar PV manufacturing capacity globally.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/#tabs_unit-4 (Maps, right hand side showing retirements and commissioning; note wind is green, solar is yellow)
I don't understand that argument at all. What's the threat model?

I think it's entirely reasonable to be in the following posture: I want as much privacy for my web searches as I can reasonably achieve without having to run a search engine myself. I'm willing to trust that search providers are not saving personally identifiable information or passively turning over search data to law enforcement if they claim that they are not in their terms of service.

That's pretty much the use case for DDG. With Bing you know they are violating your privacy. With DDG you have a promise in writing that they are not. It's hard to see how that's not strictly better than what you get from Bing if privacy is among your core desiderata.
How about don't have public sector unions at all?

How about having standards for government employees and firing bad ones?

Maybe allow multiple police forces to compete and allow people to choose the one that polices their area and thus receive funding.

Maybe make police carry malpractice insurance and that way bad behavior has a cost, and those harmed are compensated.
This would be awesome! I'm so tired of google ignoring what I tell it, and trying to 'guess' what I want.

I'd also love to be able to specify I want results from the last year without having to set it everytime.
I am having difficulty locating which is the first sentence you were referring to in the README.md, and what it has to do with the (what) slang.

nnn - Supercharge your productivity!
Latest release Availability Travis Status CircleCI Status Privacy Awareness License
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[Features] [Quickstart] [Plugins] [Documentation]
nnn (n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager.
> Just give each server a separate domain and certificate as you create them. The matchmaking algorithm returns a url pointing to the server.

Do you mean a separate subdomain? (A separate domain would be very expensive.) I would need to figure out how to generate and provision certificates, in that case.
IIRC I read that U-haul rentals from SF to Phoenix are currently $1500. From Phoenix to SF? $300.
The amp project uses them a lot, and has a system where different kinds of commits get different leading emoji: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/commits/master

I'm used to them at this point, and it's kind of nice when scanning commits to be able to see what type they are.
There is no shortage of D candidates that would like to end the War on (Some) Drugs, for example. Libertarians are very much on board with Decriminalize All the Things.

Curtailing domestic warrantless surveillance is another issue that many liberal candidates support.

Libertarians generally dislike military spending as much as they dislike social security, so progressive candidates that would shrink the DOD ought to be a good fit.

Any particular D candidate that I could suggest will also have positions that Libertarians don't agree with, which is part of my point. Disagreeing with conservative stances on non-fiscal/regulatory issues doesn't stop them from supporting those candidates, but the converse practically always stops them from supporting Ds.

It's almost as if they don't actually care about individual freedom and liberty at all, but just about their freedom to make a buck without anyone getting in the way of them exploiting workers, polluting the environment, etc.

Huh. Imagine that.
Set up a pre-commit or pre-push hook that will run your tests.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks