skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! This is the exact post I want to see as I take a 15 minute break from developing a new personal blog to read HackerNews...

Luckily for me the learning experience has been worth it regardless if not a single person reads anything I post.
Yes. After removing "3D Objects" and other stupid useless folders from File Explorer too many times and having the re-appear randomly some time later, it's easier to just give up and just try to tune out all the rubbish they shove at you.
Isn't the Pro line optimized for power, while the Air line is optimized for mobile utility (incl. battery life)?
Are people, in general, supposed to know Growl is? The link provided certainly provides no context nor got me curious enough to google it.
GOTO is like weed - some people swear it corrupted the minds of a whole generation, others are just like "Whatever" and moved on.
GitLive Case Study: Kotlin Multiplatform Across Desktop and Mobile
> Then you specify that the source files depend on the makefile.

Then you gratuitously rebuild everything whenever the Makefile changes, even if you only changed a comment.

Also this scheme is incorrect if the Makefile was written to allow command-line overrides of variables like CFLAGS, as many Makefiles do.

But these are just details. The larger point is this. The language of Bazel is defined such that builds are automatically correct and reproducible.

While it's true that Make has some facilities like "call" that support some amount of abstraction, it is up to you to ensure the correctness. If you get it wrong, your builds are back to being non-reproducible.

It's like the difference between programming in a memory safe vs a memory unsafe language. Sure, every thing you can do in the memory safe language can be done in the unsafe language. But the unsafe language has far more footguns and requires more diligence from the programmer to get reasonable results.
‘same level of flexibility as make’ should read ‘same level of flexibility as bazel’
If you squint really hard, it looks like Nim! (this is coming from someone who never learned Pascal)
I went to state school and do consulting at a B4 - you're right on the money, consulting (especially at Big 4 level) isn't sexy. MBB is a league sexier though, but gets beat out by PE and some good spots at the FAANGs
That seems like a very specific use case. I've had 8GB until 2016 and 16GB since and I've never had to deal with that much memory use.
This just reads like someone who needs to install Arch one weekend. It's configurable to your heart's content. Right now my clock is a notification I bring up using a key-bind to a bash command to send the time to my pop-up server (which I also chose). It's absolutely useless and my previous status bar was better but it is configurable.
Hm I admit it's hard to talk convincingly about election prediction, since we don't have practical algorithms to do this; a lot of it comes down to human judgment.

The philosophical point (which might be approximated algorithmically someday, or by intelligent minds today) is that your election probabilities should come out of an overall highly compressed model of the world. In theory, a Bayesian who uses the prior 2^-K(x) over all strings x should, with sufficient life experience, come up with good estimates, in a certain sense.

I'll have to think about this example more carefully when fulfilling my promise of writing about how this theory relates to everyday decision-making. Thanks for pointing out a potential weakness :)
More than 2.5m people in England to get free Vitamin D
In Montreal many deps (corner stores) are Chinese run.

In Ottawa they seem to be of Indian decent.

In Ottawa taxi drivers were largely Lebanese. Also an empire of sorts. Operating vehicles 24/7 to maximize revenue per car.

Could you link to the Albanian documentary? That story is super fascinating.
Thank you, this makes sense!
Last week I would have said “ok, but I’ll never need to do that”. This week I had to do exactly that (find the size of a struct member).
Or the coolness (lack of heat).

I bought a laptop with an AMD chip once, never again. Thing was a fire hazard.
Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left ‘In the Dark’ After a Cyberattack
I feel this way for 95% of my system, but the last 5% is important for my ability to focus and work efficiently. An underappreciated aspect of customizability is that you don't have to learn new habits when the defaults change. You can't know your tools if they're constantly changing in ways you can't control or override. I feel like just another dumb user. I've been using VSCode a lot recently, and I just don't feel the motivation to learn anything about it. Learning a tool is for suckers. Just google for what you need right now. No sense going out of your way to remember anything if they're going to pull the rug out from under you next month.

Not a knock against VSCode; I acquired this attitude before I started using it. Maybe if I invested in learning VSCode thoroughly, the investment would pay off. I've just been so thoroughly trained not to treat anything outside the terminal as stable that I can't bring myself to do it anymore.
It’s just a realization that a lot of people come to when they want to create a blog. They end up putting more work into setting up the blog than actually blogging.
Tesla Model X Has Flaw Allowing It to Be Hacked and Stolen
Whatever one thinks of that though, aren't those good reasons not to disable javascript?
Using Google is voluntary.
Man, I would love it if this could be integrated into Steam or GoG along with a curated collection of great flash games.
I published it here, actually: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/pilikino#alfred-workflow

That is the repository for a Markdown full-text search engine that I use, although if you wanted you could modify it to use the normal Spotlight search.
> Public Health England (PHE) advises everyone to take 10 microgrammes of vitamin D a day between October and early March, particularly the elderly, people who do not go outside and those with dark skin.

10 microgrammes is about 400 IU -- so a lot less than most people on HN self-report as regular dosage.
How common was that LFSR program counter trick?

The sharp 4-bit SM590 used as the copyright chip in the NES and the cartages also use this technique.
You can't really make all things be equal and get increased efficiency and longetivity for most cases.

The trade-off are explicitly made to have reduced longevity to have better efficiency.

Take tires for example. A low rolling resistance lightweight XC tire will have significant advantages over a dual casing 2.6" DH tire. The XC tire will smoke a DH tire but not have better longevity on dirt. The XC tire will be slower on some DH tracks and the DH will be slower on XC. If you ride a DH tire on a road it will ironically wear down more quickly than a typical XC tire, and you can shred an XC tire in one day on technical DH.
To those who say Iranians are not sincerely hospitable to foreigners, and that they are practicing Tarof. As an Iranian I can assure you this is not the case. Iranians love foreigners, to a fault, to the point that I have felt discriminated against in my own country.

Here is a little anecdote. I once saw a baker giving free samples to some tourists. I was there at the bazar to buy some souvenirs, so I decided to also try a sample, only to be told that “they do not give out samples”. Funny thing is, the tourists didn’t even want a sample while I had approached him with the explicit intention to buy (which I decided against after his treatment). But I don’t think he really cared as long as he got to have a positive interaction with the tourists.

I suspect a big factor contributing to this culture is how the Iranian public have been isolated, due to both the sanctions from the outside, and the Iranian government from the inside, to the point that foreigners are regarded as exotic people to be treated better than “ordinary” locals.
Thanks! I hope to better address your concerns in Part 2.
Yes, it is the networks that demand extra payment for tethering. That is still a thing in the US; you have to pay extra for a plan that includes tethering.
I Went Ahead and Did This
> How it works in general is that the business visionary has a close relationship with one bank, and the ability to sponsor a lot of friends and family in the old country.

in both this article about donut shops and the article about Bay Area motels, the "business visionary" grants personal loans to other immigrants who were already settled in the U.S. to bootstrap their own _separate_ businesses.
I’m the author of this blog post. Feel free to ask me anything.
It’s shocking to me that nine months into this thing I have no idea if fomite transmission is something worth worrying about. And that an article like this doesn’t even bother to try to summarize the case that aggressive use of sanitizers like Lysol will actually cut transmission vs. simply kill the virus on surfaces where it might not matter.

Nine months! What a colossal failure of epidemiology and public health.
Twtxt Is a Self-Hosted, Twitter-Like Decentralised MicroBlogging Platform
Ha nice try, China.
Should have called it Rash.
Security and Configurability are not in conflict. But we need "developer unlock modes" where we can prototype desirable workflows and associated MAC policy.

On iOS devices, Apple Configurator is a good start and the XML policy files can be generated by OSS software. But there's currently no user-controlled way to prototype and request new policies, outside of jailbreaking.
I don’t get it, and tried to look it up without success. The only way I get it is if it also reverses logic was a 0 start value becomes true. But how is this different from !x ?
Reminds me of the movie The Death of Mr. Lazarescu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Mr._Lazarescu
Growl did more than pop into a corner. :)
Did... you just imply monotheism represents progress?
> Holderied says it could be possible to make materials ‘10 times more efficient at absorbing sounds than what we are using in our homes and offices’. Think sound-absorbing wallpaper, not panels, he adds.

I would love to have something like that. All these open floor plan offices and open concept homes are loud AF.
I am thinking of performing an experiment over the holidays: use EMACS as complete an operating system as possible. One problem I immediately have is: no OMEMO XMPP encryption inside EMACS!
> the art world quickly speculated that it was the work of John McCracken, a sculptor fond of science fiction. He died in 2011.

This is a weird assumption given the Monolith first appeared years after his death according to satellite photos last I saw.
Interesting that you can traceroute up to the destination. Over the years I have got accustomed that it's not possible any more in most cases. Some router is not sending or dropping the ICMP packets I guess. Not sure for what reason. To save the load? To stop people (competitors) spying on them?

news.ycombinator.com is no exception that it doesn't work:

5 a9k2-49-infra-dc2.dc3.poneytelecom.eu (195.154.1.118) 0.745 ms 195.154.1.188 (195.154.1.188) 0.865 ms a9k2-49-infra-dc2.dc3.poneytelecom.eu (195.154.1.118) 0.720 ms
6 lag-110.ear3.Paris1.Level3.net (212.3.235.197) 0.940 ms ae53.edge7.Paris1.Level3.net (212.3.235.201) 9.700 ms lag-110.ear3.Paris1.Level3.net (212.3.235.197) 0.955 ms
7 ae-0-11.bar1.SanDiego1.Level3.net (4.69.146.65) 139.415 ms 139.085 ms 139.031 ms
8 GIGLINX-INC.bar1.SanDiego1.Level3.net (4.16.105.98) 150.362 ms M5-HOSTING.bar1.SanDiego1.Level3.net (4.16.110.170) 140.286 ms 139.842ms
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(sorry, somewhat poor formatting caused by typing on the phone?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_economics should fix https://archive.is/EnFUU
This doesn't seem healthy.
I hate those apps really. I use them because I need to but they aren’t fun to use.
!!x gives you 0 if x is zero and 1 if x is anything else. !x gives you 1 if x is zero and 0 if x is anything else.
Do we have any reason to think it wasn't the artist or someone related to the artist who took it?
“Driskell's team used a new technique called single cell RNA sequencing to compare genes and cells in developing and adult skin.”

This reminds me of a way I’ve debugged unfamiliar features in complex software systems. As in: What does switch B do? Well, let’s turn it on and diff the records made with and without it.
It would be interesting to see “after” photos of the site now that it’s been removed.
A small snippet to add to your nojs sites.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/kupyj

Shows a banner "You Don't Need JavaScript to Run This Site (turn it off here)"

It's a response to all the "You Need JavaScript to Run This Site" banners we see everywhere even on plain text/image sites.
A better rule of thumb is miles because hours don't reflect the amount of energy put into your drive train.

Typical recommendations are every 500-750miles for a mountain bike. For the average mountain biker I think that would be more like every 125 hours at 6 mph. Mountain bike chains see much more abuse than road, and you can go further too.

You can be more scientific by using a chain ware tool to measure how much stretch there is.
>the convenience factors are so overwhelmingly against installing native apps.

Citation needed. I can think of precious few applications that are better in the browser than native.

MS Office and Libre Office are significantly better than the horrid google docs experience.

Not a single web-based text or code editor is worth a damn.

Games are better, more featureful and more performant as native than in the browser.

Web based CAD is a joke.

Almost every major application is inferior as a web app. Gmail on desktop is about the only thing that's better than the native experience, at least that I can think of.
Those chips are probably a bit too obscure for me :-) I tried to figure out what General Instruments CPU you are describing, but the CP-1600 is the only one I could come up with.
From some of the images I see it has rivets holding the panels on. Any glimmer of hope that this time it is aliens has been dashed. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBf7YuALr3/
My personal choice: Talend API Tester - Free Edition (formerly called 'Restlet').

It's straightforward, and (most importantly for me) works seamlessly through a corporate proxy. I also like it's approach for having a hierarchical tree of saved queries, which can be easily exported and traded between developers (I'm sure there are superior, centralised solutions but this works well in our team).
I guess it was more common than I thought. It shows how precious every transistor was back then.
Good lord I forgot about that interview. I was so young haha.

Growl started around 2003 really
KFC Self-Driving Cars in China to Deliver Fried Chicken Limiting Contact
No paywall: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/house-vote-bill-restrictin...
Thanks for the detailed critique! I'll take some time to think about how to better make the points that I wanted to convey with those sections.
Am I odd or just a former biochemist? I just use bottles of isopropyl alcohol around the house with paper towels and don't need all this Lysol/ammonium stuff that leaves semi-sticky residue and film everywhere. Alcohol was scarce for a while but last 2 months you see it getting restocked more reliably.
Why did it take nine hours to go 130 miles in our new electric Porsche?
It would be silly to transport a solid chunk of metal through interplanetary space when some sheet metal would do the job.
> at that point, you might as well just have a build tool, and have your content and layout decoupled in the first place

Maybe. One of the (many) problems with static generators is that it's really really really hard to get it to generate the code you want. It's easy to get it 95% of the way there. But that last 5%? It's brutal, and sometimes impossible.

A tool automatically does 95% and can be manually finished is very different from a tool that must do everything 100%.

A good rule of thumb would be "use wordpress until you hit 50 posts". At that point decide what makes sense for your content. And at this point you should know what you want, so any choice you make is likely to stick.

I don't recommend handcrafted HTML for most people. But I do think more folks should at least consider it. For my content it both gives more control AND saves me time. Even if I have to do a little grunt work every once in a blue moon.
There are hundreds if facilities which can produce computer chips, all over the world. The chips would be "old tech", though, e.g. 70 nm or even 120 nm.
It's not a right or left thing. The natural human tendency, the base state, is fundamentally tribal in nature and the objective is to win, to beat the other tribes.

The recent push to censor and silence dissent isn't an anomaly: the several hundreds years post enlightenment that gave us the ideas of individual rights and freedoms were the anomaly.

I also do not believe anyone advocating the censoring of others has been themselves censored, or put in a minority position where they were afraid to express dissent. Because if you have that experience, it tends to give one a dim view of censorship.
Ask HN: I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?
I’ve worked hard in the tech industry for the last eight years and have saved up a nest egg. In addition to that I recently sold my house which means I literally have $1M in my bank account right now.

For so many on here that is not too much money, but for me and my bg, I feel more fortunate than I ever could have dreamed of being.

I like my job, but it’s stressful. My dream is to use this nest egg to make investments that will grow the capital and allow me to live off of it.

Am I jumping the gun? Is $1M not enough? I’m sure I could get way more money if I endure more years of my job, but I so want a break. What are the chances of taking $1M and investing so that I don’t have to work anymore?
How is window management on these super wide monitors?
Post-acute Covid-19 Syndrome
Being born rich can overcome a lot of obstacles. Plans are not always required. Didn't Slack start at a gaming company?
I agree. Europe will aggressively build chargers, but at the same time EV sales will skyrocket.

The third party networks will work out some kind of shared system like ATMs work today, but that won't happen overnight.

There will be teething problems for a while yet that you can just avoid by buying a Tesla.
Indeed, although it's worth saying that GNU were offered LLVM and said no, they have suffered from their own success because new developers and culture within programming is now post-GNU where people can't remember the environment that led to the GPL becoming popular.
Just as it's impossible to build skyscrapers or bridges or ships or cars or pretty much any modern sophisticated structures or machines without specialized equipments and skilled people and organizations - mostly companies, you can't build chips without companies. Modern semiconductor fab are a marvel. It takes amazing concentration of equipments and specialized folks to get a fab working.

This "trust no one" is complete BS. A modern human society can not function without some trust.
Is this hyper cleanliness and germ aversion going to have any unexpected side effects on our immune systems?
Don't expect any answers to practical questions when there's a neurotic narrative to promote. Hygiene theater for everyone!
You have 1M and is not enough?
DHT routing as seen with IPFS and DAT is certainly the future of content distribution, imo. It remains to be seen if this content based model can also work for websites, though.

IPNS offers something useful, but the kinds of routing we need for the "web" as we know it vs content/file sharing are different. Browsing the web through IPFS or something similar is a bit nightmarish.
Amazon, like Uber and all the other companies criticized here gives me exactly what I want: a trouble free shopping experience without getting ripped off. No one else wants to enter the arena. No one wants to even come close. If there were viable alternatives, I would use them.

I live in NYC where Walmart is banned so we're left with the Mom-and-Pop stores + the permitted national retailers like Walgreens and CVS both of which charge multiples over products available on Amazon. We're talking like 300% more for items like toothpaste and other toiletries. And in-store experiences that flat-out suck. Everyone knows this and that's why practically no one cares about Amazon's bad PR or their questionable HR practices behind the scenes. In one ear and out the other.

Execution and customer service is everything and right now and Amazon's execution for customers has been amazing for a long time now. This isn't like a 37Signals space where you can one-down the competition. You one-up or go bust. I can't sympathize with your situation without more details being shared. Whatever your response was to that case must not have been up to Amazon's standards. It seems unlikely they would randomly pick on revenue generating sellers without cause.
It really depends on the actual design of the processor.

Some things like the instruction density and inlining heuristics translate from processor to processor, but the actual microarchitecture (rather than the ISA) determine what is "good" code from platform to platform e.g. Good instruction scheduling depends on how the CPU is designed.
Each node on the network does not have a complete map of the network, so cannot determine the shortest path. And if the shortest path is chosen by everyone it will become congested. This is essentially the main problem with all Internet routing. Because of this, network operators share information about the path taken by packets they route, and which packets they want to receive to control congestion. When they receive a packet they use this information to determine a best next destination. Since all sources on the Internet cannot practically share this information, source routing is at a disadvantage. And attempts to discover short or fast paths result in added network traffic contributing to congestion.

In addition to the basic routing issues, source routing presents DDoS and 2-way spoofing attack vectors. You can spoof a 2-way conversation because destinations will take the reverse of the packet’s route. Eddie pretends to be Bob talking to Alice and crafts a path so that Alice returns communication to Eddie, thinking she’s talking to Bob. This is a major security vulnerability with source routing, which requires the use of encryption to prevent.
Hardwork and grit is overrated. Without proper opportunity you can achieve nothing.

I wish we keep survivor bias in mind when reading success stories; we should ask "out of those who work hard and gritty, how many are successful and how many are actually not?" And not "out of those who are successful, how many are hardworking?"

Most of the time, hardwork is just the minimum prerequisite to success that every aspirants have, de-emphasizing the role of luck in life is simply unwise.
> Once I paid a Tehran taxi driver 250,000 rials for the ride, a fare we had previously agreed on after a hard-fought negotiation. Oddly, the money was refused.

> “Ghabel nadare,” he said smiling, indicating that he wouldn’t accept it.

> Scratching my head, I insisted. Again he protested. Giving up, I thanked him in Farsi and left the vehicle with a grin on my face. “All is well,” I thought, incredulously.

> “He was taarofing,” my friend Reza later explained. “Of course he expected you to pay. And you should have insisted more.

This is confusing, I say that as a Pakistani whose culture also has Taarof. Here is a TED talk[1] by someone with Persian parent and she states in this talk that a shopper, by insisting to pay for an item, insulted the shopkeeper.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Trdafp83U
This seems like a convoluted method to achieve the end goal, straight up regex parsing pages seems like a last ditch effort not the up front start.
>all of them were of their own making.

Having taken it out themselves doesn't make the mortgage any less real.