skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that American males are closer to the warrior archetype than any other democracy. We certainly have fought more actual wars than any other advanced nation, we have the best combat athletes in the world, many of us hunt, shoot and practice warrior like skills. I am hard pressed to think of any other modern society that comes even close.
yes because one can only be sexist by explicitly mentioning gender
The thing is, Mountain View is hardly cheaper than San Francisco. That's what makes the Bay so weird. There's no way to escape the high prices.

I've lived all over the Northeast and the Northeast is definitely expensive but there are absolutely cheap places out there. You can live in a suburb of Providence, Rhode Island, and commute one hair on a direct train to downtown Boston. You can live in much cheaper Lowell or Lawrence and commute, again, one hour to downtown Boston. You can live in Worcester, again, one hour to downtown Boston. And the city has little pockets of affordability, albeit in less nice/higher crime parts, but they do exist.

SF really doesn't have this. The public transit is lacking so it's basically cheaper => closer to the jobs, with few exceptions.
It's kind of amazing how many people think an idea is the biggest part of a viable product.
Sure, but my point is that the magnets in the Bay Area are the folk who control the corporate coffers, those multi-billion-dollar treasuries that can determine whether you make $1-2M/year or $150K/year. As long as being geographically close to them gives you a much better shot at making multi-millions a year, people will move back. The junior engineers are moving to Vegas because it's close and cheap and right now nobody's advancing quickly in anything, so it doesn't matter. They'll all snap back (or be replaced by other people who do) as soon as the next technology wave starts.
I don't think anything is uploaded anywhere, you just need more RAM to keep frames around as long as they are necessary. The decoder operates on data in system's RAM.
Sure. You're talking about glyphs that are composed of multiple unicode codepoints; my earlier comment is true of single codepoints only. The comment I was responding to is also talking only about single codepoints (wcspbrk cannot represent delimiters longer than a single codepoint).

On joiners / combining characters: I'd encourage using composed normalization (NFC) rather than decomposed normalization (NFD).

Just curiosity: are there any glyphs that lack a single codepoint representation, where one of the joined codepoints is an ASCII character? (That only helps after normalization, of course.)
> What's "be" if it's not a verb?

The phrase “to be” is an infinitive verb, and in this “sentence” is a component of the adjective phrase “more succinct than it needs to be” (which is modified by the adverb “sometimes”, remaining an adjective phrase).

When talking about the basic parts of a sentence (or, more generally, an independent clause), the required “verb” (the predicate) is more precisely a finite verb, which this phrase does not have. It also lacks a subject. And, for that matter, an object, though that's not generally required. It's just a freestanding adjective phrase.

Sad.
Clearly neither did you as he is correct. DDGs crawler is not a crawler like googlebot.
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So much for dang’s “trying for something different” here at HN.
If memory serves, those crawls are only used for Instant Answers. My interpretation of the blog post is that it would be nice to have a search engine that's sort of a hybrid approach based on Instant Answers for the whole web.
> New Zealand is an island that, for all intents and purposes, closed their ports to human travel.

Firstly, New Zealand is not closed to human travel. It has mandatory quarantine for inbound travelers.

The US can do the same. It is in an even better situation to do so than New Zealand, because its economy is less dependant on tourism and imports.

It would be utterly pointless, of course, because nearly anywhere in the world has less COVID-per-capita than the US. A random traveler from Kentucky, or New Jersey is just as likely to be a COVID carrier as someone flying in from Paris. Keeping Parisians out isn't doing anything to stop spread, at this point. [1]

As for the legality of locking people in their own homes, the US is no stranger to blanket curfews during a state of emergency... Or for imprisoning symptomatic, or asymptomatic carriers of a disease.

[1] In a stroke of brilliance, travel from China to the US is still banned. Can anyone puzzle out how this policy is currently helping improve American health outcomes?
WAIT my turn to eat crow here: that "should never happen" -1 return statement actually does happen when the search value is greater than the greatest value in the array: https://ellie-app.com/byQ8vnnGTLba1
Putting on my embedded engineering hat, it's not that I wanted the bare minimum it's that I couldn't afford anything more than the bare minimum.

I couldn't afford abstractions, memory safety guarantees, algebraic data types, generics, pattern matching, thread data safety (at least in the context of interrupts). The languages that had these things were hulking languages with giant runtimes and exactly zero support for embedded development. Not to mention no vendor toolchains.

Rust supports all these things, with no allocator, no standard library, and often with zero additional cost -- in terms of compute and in terms of memory. Then, being built on LLVM means that the vendor toolchain support is quickly becoming a non-issue. I suspect we'll start to see more and more of Rust in embedded, but only time will tell.

And as others have called out, Rust has very few OOP features like an optional notion of a `self` on a function bound to a structure. There's no classes, no subclassing, no message passing, no inheritance at all (structure, interface or implementation), limited dynamic dispatch, no polymorphism.
But why would you offer your i3 with 32GB when you know you are going to make i5 and i7 processors soon? Apple could offer 32GB here but choose to not offer every configuration at every level.
Firefox has something like this called containers. The best example is one for facebook, where any call to any facebook servers only works in the facebook container. It has similar setups as well, Work, Home, Commerce, etc.
I wonder if cities having a high proportion of knowledge workers that are all able to work from home has a big impact too. The less people gather in groups, the better.
If it’s electrostatic (rather than, say, van der Waals forces), could it not be dealt with by big sheets of metal and a high voltage supply?

(I’m not a materials scientist, this is a question not a suggestion)
Intel has had problems with architectural cul-de-sacs before certainly. But they had other architectures on the back burner they could go back to to recover when things didn't work and they still had their process lead to keep them in the game. Recently, though, Intel's architecture work has been at fine but their process has been the thing having trouble. Maybe they'll be able to get 7nm working properly first try despite the problems at 10nm but I'm not sure given the attrition in their process team after the 14nm death march.
erlang is written in c. somewhat controversially, the new JIT has C++ in it.
> prestige?

I fervently avoid prestige. Why? In my experience it tends to attract the self sacrificing over achiever types that make the workplace a ego battlefield. In addition the strong competition can drive down wages and benefits.

That said it feels great to be able to mention to people I meet the popular projects I've worked on and have them not only recognize it, but appreciate it.

But, it's not worth it to me, in the long run, at this point in my career.
No, it wouldn't. It would just be a freestanding adverb phrase rather than a freestanding adjective phrase.
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> With that attitude, I would never, ever, ever, hire you.

There are two separate issue here though.

(A) How much work does a given person want to put in

(B) How much work does a given tool require.

It can simultaneously be the case that git is bad/overcomplicated AND that you should only hire people who bother to learn it really well.

Why?

Well, learning hard things is a reliable signal of diligence and hard work, which are generally useful traits.

But at the same time, forcing everyone to learn something annoying and time-consuming just as a test of grit isn't maximally efficient. The same effort could be put into more productive tasks.

> Why did you go into software engineering?

Well, I'm not a software engineer - in the Data/ML area so I am much more interested in the properties of data than the properties of code. But having said that I certainly like clean, efficient code and I care about languages (maybe just spoiled by python?!).

I can't see myself as a software engineer so I think your instinct is right. My passion is data and ML.
This is fun to mess around with. It would be nice if you could select "climate" (like daily weather or even season) as an additional input. It keeps adding puffy vests and jackets over an already warm shirt. Maybe loosen up the top/outerwear distinction? e.g. a flannel shirt could also serve as outerwear.
Sure, but morality aside there is something to be admired in people that do dangerous, frightnening and difficult things for a living.
for generic stuff DDG is mostly ok. But for local results, even though it has a switch for local results, it REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks bad and often doesn't get any of the expected places anywhere in the first few pages for New Zealand which makes it somewhat useless
I wonder if instead of another search engine we would benefit from a directory, like DMOZ, or perhaps something tag based or non-hierarchical. Sometimes I find better results by first finding a good website in space of my query, and then searching within that site, as opposed to applying a specific query over all websites. Once example would be recipes: if you search for "bean burger recipe" you will get lots of results across many website, but some may not be very good, whereas if you already know of recipe websites that you consider high-quality or match your preferences, then you'll find the best (subjectively) recipe by visiting that site and then searching for bean burgers.
> CHAPTER: How many meals, and when?

> I eat basically one meal a day, about 7 or 8 hours after I awake.

Before that he says it doesn't matter, but he based many thing on his own experience which is given above.

This is entirely wrong:

> Only total calories per day count. For the most part it doesn't matter when you eat them or how you spread them around the day, so long as your schedule stays pretty much the same, day in and day out

Lets say I eat every hour. That is going to be enormous stress to the liver for one. If you eat carbs you will basically simulate diabetes entire day... you may be thin depending on how much you starve, but you will still be candidate for insulin resistance. WRONG. We know better now, nutrition science progressed since the book was written.
1. Yes, it does. I use AdBlock Pro.
2. Yes, it does. I've been using Safari as my primary browser as a Rails developer for at least the past decade and have always found the developer tools at least adequate. I don't use the developer tools on other browsers heavily, so I don't know if I might be missing something.
One word of caution: at least if you're based in the EU, this is basically impossible to do legally correctly by yourself globally unless you spend many thousands of dollars VAT-registering yourself in all kinds of places around the world and knowing global tax laws to make sure you get everything right, since electronically delivered goods (like your SaaS) are taxed in the country of the recipient of the services. Within the EU it's at least possible to use a simplified MOSS (mini one stop shop) process, but that also has its drawbacks.

This is the best summary I found of the situation so far: https://quaderno.io/resources/eu-vat-guide/

Basically I arrived at the conclusion that it's impossible for me as a small business to do global B2C VAT (not just calculation, but also actual remittance) myself, and thus am using resellers (Copecart, Digistore24, Paddle, FastSpring) that do all this for you by being a complete middleman in the transaction. Of course they then also take a larger cut than something more light-weight like Stripe. I wish Stripe also supported global VAT / sales tax remittance.

EDIT: See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowACIitd1s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO4nzWWMAvg
Sure, if you compare it to scenarios that aren't remotely the same. I think we were supposed to take it as an obvious given that this applies to scenarios where the side giving away the power is watching the side that was given the power.
> and they promise that the favicon service is 100% anonymous anyway.

With that logic, Apple’s OCSP server is also 100% anonymous (which I legitimately can believe it is).
“Access” in this context is just a weasel-word cooked up by hospitals and insurance companies to protect their bottom lines. Almost every other wealthy, developed country guarantees healthcare itself, not the right to get surprise billed or screwed by your insurance company. And even those countries that are closer to the American model (e.g Germany and the Netherlands) don’t let these industries get away with egregious abuse of people at their most vulnerable, as happens in the US. I don’t agree that I want people with critical illnesses or disabilities (or anyone else) to get “access” to healthcare. I want them to receive healthcare itself and pay for it with my taxes.

SNAP and ag subsidies are also just price controls with extra steps. We can argue about their efficacy, but they’re far closer to price controls than anything like free markets, especially given the increasing monopolistic control of industrial agriculture in the US.
They build on the far side to address this.
> I think people would be nicer to one another if they could be a parent for a year, at least.

Eh. I've seen other parents be just as shitty as anyone else. I don't think parenthood is an empathy-panacea.
I think the strategy is simple:

Go hard and go low to make CERTAIN that this transition is for the best.

If this were the high-end, some folks could have say: "Yeah, sure cost the same than i9 but you fork $$$$$$$, when go low you will get less and still pay $$$$".

With this, instead, you rest the case!
To look at these CPUs a different way, it’s fairly competitive with Ryzen processors that cost $600-700 alone, except that will buy the whole Mac Mini.
So are a+b and b+a. ;)
Put a reverse proxy in front of it.
This doesn't really seem immune from spam.

I got signed up for goodreads (book review site), and I get tons of spam. It's not quite the same as your idea, but it is a
currated list. I don't know how you stop spammers from adding bogus links in the python interest list (to use an example).

This is a hard problem..

EDIT: Clarified goodreads reference!
I strongly believe that you could get funded by Google if you attempted to port stylo to chromium.
Firefox still has state of the art css performance I believe, thanks to stylo.
> > If you're going to make bold claims like this, include some details.

> I wonder: does your mind desire evidence when it encounters the inverse of my ideas?

Isn't this a Russell's teapot sort of situation?
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Interesting. I can think of a few other ones. Bakersfield, Spokane, a few spots in Oregon like Corvallis.
Firefox also has profiles, though they're not a very prominent feature and are a bit less polished as a result.

firefox --ProfileManager
Sorry, number 3 was the color and number 4 was spare.
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> Clojure provides some advantages over other Lisps like Common Lisp and Scheme: CL only includes lists in its core language spec. Clojure introduces vectors, sets, and maps which makes reading and writing code so much less tedious.

CL most assuredly includes vectors and hash tables in its core language spec (not to mention multidimensional arrays). And hash tables are one form of what Clojure calls a map. (The other forms exist in Common Lisp too; they're just called different things.)

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/t_vect...

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/18_.ht...

The author may be assuming that because CL does not use the '[]' and '{}' delimiters, CL doesn't implement the things that Clojure uses '[]' and '{}' for. If so, that assumption is wrong.

If the author finds that the use of '[]' and '{}' make code more readable, that's a matter of opinion. It would take about 6 total lines of code to teach CL to read '[]' and '{}' as a vector or a hash-table if one so desired. And yet over several decades of programming in Common Lisp, I have yet to see a program where a programmer did that. That tells me that working Common Lisp programmers have no difficulty with vectors or hash-tables absent special delimiters.
My writing is much more formal than speaking. If one writes much enough in a certain style, they get used to it. Same thing about speaking - politicians, actors, and other public figures have a certain effect on their everyday demeanor.

Once I heard that writing and talking involve different areas of the brain.
Tangent: is your username in combination with that comment a reference to the Mozilla Lifeboat?
Even if you are running an aluminum smelter 24/7 having periods when the price of electricity goes to zero helps your bottom line a lot. Aluminum is difficult case because the electrolytic cells have to be kept hot. I've saw paper describing electrowinning iron. The process used aqueous sulfate electrolyte. One assume the capital cost of the cells themselves would be minimal.
This is a real concern.

The new hardware is cutting edge cool. But very proprietary, so not for me.

I'm curious about it. Its the first time in a long time that custom silicon outperforms the volume X86 manufacturers. For a long time custom chips (Sparc/ PA-RISC/Alpha) where the fastest, till commodity x86 chips took over being faster and cheaper and those chips are extinct. I think it helped that there were multiple vendors of these X86 CPUs.

But competition is good for us. As long as there is competition we'll get better performance for less power usage/cost.

Apple silicon is not a riskless. Apple need to continue to execute on design and hope that their manufacturer can get the yields they need. Its on the newest chip making process, so if there is a hiccup in the supply it could cause problems. (I think of the harddrive supply drying up 10 years ago because of earthquakes.). Nvidia is buying ARM now, so who knows what might happen if agreements need to be negotiated. It can give them a advantage, but they have to keep executing.
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So, in a 25 minute compile, thermal throttling kicks in on the Air due to its fanless design, and it loses to the Pro by about 5 minutes. Still, that Air beats the 2019 Pro by 2 minutes. Not bad!
Odd? I don't think so. Just like the Fibonacci sequence appears all over nature, so do other architectures. Evolution has, apparently, standardized on architectural infrastructure - and replicates it across a broad variety of environments.
Yeah, but if they're lying they'd lie on the high end, not the low end. If it's actually 99%, they'd say 99.999%. If it's actually 10%, they'd say 35%.
Making storyboards fast: improving JIT storyboard thumbnail performance 30x
as a recent ddg convert, I've noticed little difference from google

(might be because google's results these days are so bad though... can't really tell)
It's Turing complete if you let a human feed a bunch of clicks to proceed along the computation steps. [1] It also allows embedded JS (in some browsers), which is Turing complete. My point is that languages really quickly surpass the Turing complete barrier if you let them do fancy things. Godel realized that proving interesting statements about unbounded natural numbers is quite a fancy thing.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-co...
New EU-funded project will use AI to capture the key scents of historical Europe
Firefox 83 enables Webrender on macOS and older Windows
How about a crowdsourced search engine like wikipedia or stackoverflow? Like:

When you search for "kittens" you get the links that are most upvoted by the community.

If nobody has ever submitted links for search term "kittens" , you get a link to selected generic search engines. And "kittens" end up into a list of words someone has searched but nobody has yet added a good result link for.
So that I can enjoy HW decoding on my SBCs that use SoCs for TV boxes (Allwinner H5, H6), on Pinebook Pro, and on Pinephone. Your 12y/o laptop will not do that for me.
I've heard a few people say this but it's never been explained to me. What exactly are you talking about?

I know a number people don't like him but it seems to be mostly a negative reaction to help they need rather than a legitimate argument against what he's said.
> I switched to MacOS because it's fundamentally BSD with a nice/ well integrated GUI. Almost all of the good OSS I love is supported nearly perfectly.

This is the reason I initially started using macOS more than a decade ago.

However, I've been told that I'm the wrong kind of user by Apple fans whenever I criticize Apple for transforming macOS from a pretty Unix into a locked-down App Store appliance.

The BSD parts of macOS are getting old and crufty, and are being locked out and overridden by Apple's proprietary and significantly-undocumented layer. For an example of this, check out how networking is done on modern macOS versus how networking is done on a BSD or Linux.

> Perhaps I'm a bit jaded after running into too much bullshit trying to get Linux running well on laptops in the 90s and 00s

Linux has gotten much better, and the problems of the 90s and 00s have vanished for my use case.

These days, at least to me, Linux is the pretty Unix that just works that macOS used to be.
> but also higher capacity chips that can be connted through PCIe to surpass your CPU capacity (Blaize).

How do things like Nvidia Nvenc fit in?
Thanks! I already have my own Germany company, but it may be interesting to others.

For now I'm just using resellers like Copecart/Digistore24/Paddle/FastSpring to handle all the global B2C VAT stuff for me.
This is great. In my comment, I almost mentioned that because of how much earlier people historically had children (than most Americans and Europeans do now), most of the people we think of as "masculine ideals" throughout history would have been (were) fathers.

The number of times I read about a famous historical figure on Wikipedia, and they mention almost as an afterthought that they had 6 kids...

But I didn't want to go off on a big tangent about the "masculine ideal" although I agree completely that there is ret-conning and we could definitely use a rethink of how we expect men to act!
Thanks for the software and documentation you've written for the reMarkable. I've taken a different approach for running Debian buster, but your guide [1] saved me a lot of time nonetheless.

[1] http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/

chroot for now, systemd-nspawn as soon as I have time to hack on it later, as I want to be able to switch between whatever I'm running and reMarkable's original software.
US Marshals straight up executed an American citizen in Portland (to wit, Michael Forest Reinoehl) on order of the President. Trump himself all but admitted it, in classic Trump style. I'd say that ranks as "kick the shit out of you" and, since there was no consequence for the police or the one who ordered the hit, it sure appears to be "legal".