skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Democrats because it ultimately buys “indentured servant” votes. Same result for mass legalization of illegal immigrants.
Who will think of Apple's revenues in these trying times?
I don't understand this way of thinking. Rust isn't magically fast. You can use most languages to write both performant and lazy code.

Also just so you know, Brave isn't "written" in Rust alone, it is a big software with a lot of parts, including but not limited to a rendering engine, a JS VM and a WASM engine.

The Rust part at most (unconfirmed) would be the glue that connects them together, and I doubt that's where the bottleneck is for most browsers.
I love these kinds of things, this is lit
Kind of makes you want to hang out along the edge of glaciers to see the big reveal. Pretty interesting find.

The arrow in the picture appears to be metal so not stone age. And the question of why so many in that spot? Did something in the ice collect them there from all over? Or was their a seasonal hunting ground where these guys hunted?

Sadly what I see in hunting spots around the bay are discarded plastic shotgun shell hulls[1]. Sadly I think those things will last for a very long time.

[1] Yes, I pick them up when I find them and hike them out but clearly not everyone does.
This sort of thing could also make a great "Darmok"-style Star Trek episode for Data
Leafblower Legislation: The WaPo and the Current Weigh In
The following Patent Application by Intel is an interesting use case for Hyperdimensional Computing in a Localizing Key Value Store. It's also behind the recent move to enriched metadata in RDBMS systems (VLDB Endowment):

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190227739A1/en?oq=US20...
Consoles exist as an exception rather than the rule. You should be able to run whatever you want on what is basically an x86/RDNA2 gaming PC.

The openness of the PC should be enforced legally across anything that can be reasonably construed to be one.
Or Flust…
Five Decades of Access to Tools
The reason I, and I suppose so many other people took up bread making was because it was an interest that was limited by available time in the house. I used to rarely make the bread I wanted because I'm not home enough on a weekday and on a weekend I am too active to make sure I can tend the dough. Now taking a break at 3 to start some dough for dinner is an easy reality.
Both axes are irrelevant (not that the statistics have any validity: itsajokeson.jpg)

The real question is: what tools are people who write truly excellent blogs using?

Rakhim himself is using Hugo.

Gwern organises their blog on a long-content basis using online services but a custom software and design mix, static site.

https://www.gwern.net/About#long-site

John Baez's Azimuth blog runs on Wordpress. https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com The wiki is on Instiki: https://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/HomePage

Steve Keen posts to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen

Tim Bray's "Ongoing" is "Generated from XML source code using Perl, Expat, Emacs, Mysql, Ruby, Java, and ImageMagick. Industrial-strength technology, baby." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/

Joey Hess blogs on ikiwiki (wwhich he wrote himself). https://joeyh.name/blog/ https://joeyh.name/code/ikiwiki/

EFF runs Drupal 7 https://www.eff.org/document/end-trust-0

Most Interesting People post to some Wordpress, organisational, social media, or other blogging tool. It's what's easy or available.

My own experience across 20+ years of online posting is a mix of trying to suit my needs and find a good conversation. Currently, HN is one of my principle outlets: the crowd's pretty good, tends to call my bullshit, dang keeps the noise floor down, and Algolia search lets me find my shit. It's not a blog, but it fills some needs and interests.

The problem with "choose the easy path" is that eventually you find yourself outgrowing your needs, at least if you're doing anything half interesting. Or having hosts pulled out from under you. With about 800 posts to a subreddit, lack of real ownership, quite obviously incompatible site directions, shitty conversation-generative capabilities, and a real risk of losing any access to posts beyond a 1,000 count limit.

Self-hosting on a static site doesn't fit all my preferences, but it should be fairly future-proofed, extensible, portable, and convertible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

There's a Nobel Prize in there somewhere, get cracking
$1m is not enough to retire on by itself. I have a large family and our expenses are around $100k/yr.

I want to stretch the $1m as long and as far as I possibly can. Looking for tips/suggestions on how I might do that.
Sonic Foundry (then to some extent Madison, then Sony, then MAGIX) made creative tools that used the native widgets to a pretty good extent.
It appears to be this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455921/
Sounds a lot like post lyme disease syndrome which I believe is still not very well understood decades after it was first observed.
HN is becoming more conservative by the day. Shouldn’t companies/people be applauded for thinking outside of the box and trying to innovate?
And Americans still aren’t even asking for a public healthcare option or universal healthcare. Americans kinda get what we deserve.
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.
Not really relevant to the idea of your point, but his first job was as a janitor (mentioned in the article). He expanded into others, including the donut shop.
A strawman from the onset in my opinion.

What happens if your country of residence enacts laws and/or regulations that make business unprofitable for Amazon (or the like)?

Better yet, what if enough people are put out of work such that there isn't enough demand for the economy of scale required for Amazon to remain profitable?

I assume you are technical, perusing this site, thus isn't a monolith, a single point of failure a significant risk?

Your perspective appears to be of wealth and privilege. What about those that can't afford a Prime subscription?
Indian developers are racing to replace TikTok
Related to this topic, check out this lecture from a designer with GE appliances...

https://youtu.be/TfCn4B8QzXg?list=PLbnsTpgUhcOfzC4qbV3n3R55Z...

> Now imagine if you couldn't organize your kitchen to your heart's content. Not because you're lacking the funds or skills, but because some federally appointed clerk is constantly coming to inspect it.

It turns out we live in this world more than we realize :-)

You can buy a handmade car from http://themetalsurgeon.com ...and they’re amazing! Yet, most people buy prebuilt cars from dealers, choosing from just a few options.
There's a few here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/11/28/utahs-desert-obelisk-...
Show HN: liblgpp – an extensible stack based VM for interpreters in C++
Same thing here. Infinitely customizable doesn't matter to me anymore, sane defaults do.

I think it was putting work into a vimrc that finally changed my mind. It was great customizing vim, getting it to be just right for myself. But there were a few things that ended up bothering me over time:

* No end state meant I was just constantly toying with it and wasting time. Sometimes the changes would be minor things that barely mattered, but I couldn't decide which way I liked things more
* Not always available, leading to needing to essentially remember two different versions of vim. Mine, and the default.
* Keybind clashes. Bringing in new plugins was always a pain because there was a good chance that one of my custom keybinds clashed with the plugin, requiring me to make a mess of the plugin's default bindings or to reassign and relearn the colliding binding.

With sane defaults, these problems nearly disappear.
I got my first computer in 1995, but it wasn't until 1998 that a classmate told me about QBasic. I remember my first "program" was a text-based RPG, except I didn't know about variables so it was basically just a digital choose-your-own adventure book where I enumerated all possible outcomes. I must have written a few thousand lines before looking at some of the pre-written programs and the help manual and learned how foolish I was.

The next few years would be an escalating arms race among friends for who could make the coolest game, culminating with an extremely slow ray traced 3D shooter

I became pretty good at programming, but having matriculated into college in the early 2000s when software engineering was somewhat unpopular, I'm a physicist now. When my son gets a bit older QBasic might not be a bad starter language
Exactly. You don't even need to go "ancient" to get that level of manual control, Arch exists, Gentoo exists, Debian is pretty close.
I didn't say it wasn't real. I said something along the lines of they are victims (if they are victims) of their own choices.
I just hit reader mode on FF. I didn't know modern sites would even load without JS enabled.
Those sample files.. bring back memories. I think we took a step backwards in serving vector art/animation on the web. When YouTube replaced Flash, we've probably wasted petabytes of bandwidth serving rasterized content when Flash or a similar format would have been much more effective.
The grocery store I shop at has several dozen large bottles of alcohol hand sanitizer on the discount table, marked down about 80%. They've been there for a couple of weeks. Either they're not selling well even at a discount or they keep restocking the discount table with a larger overstock in the backroom.
I honestly was just kind of flow of consciousness riffing so I don’t blame you. Just overextending the metaphor of gaming applied to cheating with applied knowledge versus cheating with deus ex machina
Being born in a free country with a working brain and body is most of what you need. 85% of American millionaires are self-made.
Contracts, subject to collections and leins.

Yes, law.
There was a little Strong Bad skit about Ruffle posted to @StrongBadActual twitter... gives me hope that Homestar Runner's content will be preserved as is.
I assume people who use spray cleaner more will be at higher risk of lung disease, as is known from e.g. people who work as maids.
Same using tracepath from another country

6: ae65.edge1.Stockholm1.Level3.net 35.147ms asymm 7
7: ae-0-11.bar1.SanDiego1.Level3.net 457.605ms asymm 16
8: M5-HOSTING.bar1.SanDiego1.Level3.net 199.025ms asymm 17
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10: no reply
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Its funny to me to see Newgrounds and New York Times listed as diamond sponsors to the same project but makes sense.
Yes, and I also read the published data from my state. We had a huge spike in deaths in March-May.
Interesting that he would start the talk by sharing a story about a Zappos employee pulling up the billing history for the wife of someone on an office tour. That would be a fireable offense at every place I've worked and would certainly not be condoned by any C level.
There are some shooters, but they are hard/expensive to make and not that common among indie games.
Same, I worked in bioscience labs and I also just use spray bottles of isopropanol around the house, just like what I used in the lab. If it's good enough for working with human tissues and infectious HIV derivatives, it's good enough for my kitchen counters.

Sometimes I add a few drops of lavender essential oil if I want to feel fancy.
This is laughable. If propaganda and advertising don't work, then why is everyone so invested in creating it?
> ‘Nobody's done it yet, ergo it's not possible or easy’ is not a valid argument.

Ultimately, make and co are text oriented, while bazel and co are object oriented. Hacking object oriented capabilities into a text-oriented language isn't particularly fruitful or ergonomic.
>Driving back with $85,000 cash in the boot of the car, they were stopped by the police... When they were released, the cash was gone.

Civil forfeiture strikes again!
Source routing also gives malicious hosts the ability to influence packet routing. IPv4 already tried this with the LSRR/SSRR[1] options. The LSRR option was useful to malicious hosts for many purposes, such as[2]:

o Bypass firewall rules.

o Reach otherwise unreachable internet systems.

o Establish TCP connections in a stealthy way.

o Learn about the topology of a network.

o Perform bandwidth-exhaustion attacks.

Due to these "well-known security implications"[2], RFC 7126 recommends[3]:

Routers, security gateways, and firewalls SHOULD implement an option-
specific configuration knob to select whether packets with this
option are dropped, packets with this IP option are forwarded as if
they did not contain this IP option, or packets with this option are
processed and forwarded as per [RFC0791]. The default setting for
this knob SHOULD be "drop", and the default setting MUST be
documented.

[1] "{Loose/Strict} Source and Record Route" http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/option003.htm

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7126#section-4.3.3

[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7126#section-4.3.5
It's a bit more midwestern, but Adios is coming out soon. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/Adios/
That's cool, thanks. I always create dummy projects to be able to quick test a library or develop a few lines of code in the REPL and wished I could test them without doing a "mix new". Even better than that is the ability to script with libraries.
We tested http api call response times. Hosting application region is AWS us-east-1. Created VMs outside AWS in other regions and tried to access it through browser. Tested the setup before and after enabling AWS Global Accelerator and hardly noticed any difference.
“Growl” is the kind of thing the old Apple used to create: not just solving a problem but doing it well, handling lots of different cases and being cool on top of it all.

Meanwhile, today’s Apple gives us something that doesn’t even show you where notification buttons are.
...and not some mass of efficiently-communicating Soylent-drinking robots. <- That made me smile :)
https://reddit.com/r/financialindependence

$1m invested correctly will net you $40k/yr, before taxes, in perpetual income. So you’ll need more than $2.5m to live off at your expected annual expenses of $100k.
Though not many people would've had have access to a Cray X-MP back in its time, and certainly not to use it for compression in creating a hobbyist Apple II demo that's not expected to generate any profit. Again, possible in theory, but impractical in its day and age.
Sorry for your losses, that is really tough. I appreciate you sharing, it resonated with me. My mom's dad passed away two days ago and in the last two weeks before death a stroke destroyed his ability to speak. Nowhere near the level of locked in but terrible in its own way.

Death really is grim, I haven't had much exposure to it in my life up until losing two grandparents this year - holding my mother as she sobbed was heartbreaking.

I can't help but contrast the idyllic memories I have of my grandparents when I was young and the world was so bright and wonderful to the feelings of dread and sadness now. As if a layer of darkness has been laid over my perception of the world. It feels like hapiness and joy, things I used to find intrinsic to life, are now fleeting constructs that we build in spite of the inevitable. Maybe this is the difference between a youthful perception of the world and a mature one.
Making a habit of pulling out OSM or Apple Maps from time to time and tracing routes through the local area is quite usful.

Or buy local streetmaps --- they're getting harder, but not impossible, to find.

One of the best ways to develop a spatial sense is to purposefully get lost, then reorient yourself.

It's a trainable skill, though yes, it does seem to come easier to some.
It’s fair that the core app still compiles and has some maintenance, but there hasn’t been work done on the plugins and system integration in about a decade. What’s left makes a nice but slowly decaying launcher. The magical workflows of being able to navigate swiftly between app context menus, system services, and web services without a mouse or even leaving QS...those are but memories.

QS circa 2008ish spoiled me for all launchers since.
I'm a little freaked out that my baby is turning 1 year old and has never caught a cold or had any kind of sniffles, because we've been so isolated. Surely I'm supposed to be exposing her to germs to build up her immune system or something?
No, most users would rather trust Apple. These are the people who drop their computer off at the Genius Bar for software problems. They never even think about rolling up their sleeves to fix a problem, never mind firing up the terminal.
This makes me think about removing every other sprocket tooth and then milling down the attack angle on the forward side so that the two rollers would both seat on either side of one tooth. I think the point of this design is that the link transfers compressive force forward as pressure if both sides are engaged.

The loss in a chain is nearly all in the roller as it engages with the first tooth in the front chain ring. Most of the force is being transferred from this first tooth, and it presses directly on the roller, which is also rolling into its seat position on the tooth. So a better design would have the roller get seated on the teeth before the force gets transferred to it, and then have no rolling until force transfer is done, then roll off gently.

A new chain on a new chainring engages at the bottom of the tooth, right where it seats, and the torque of the chain ring rolls it up the forward tooth ramp until the tangential component of the force pressing into the contact point equals the pedal force. This happens on all points engaged on the sprocket. So you get a lot of rolling, but that’s over a lot of rollers. As the chain wears, it gets longer, so the teeth catch early from the tip, and it rolls all the way down the tooth while the entire chain tension is all on that first roller.

This particular design has no rollers at all. It will still stretch because it has the same pin-plate interface, and it seems that a modest stretch may render it inoperable, but I’m not sure.
It’s already been renamed Teex.

Chill.

Otherwise this is awesome. Ruby and python have been my goto for years. Excited to have elixir as an option.
CSS Clip Path Maker
>Sure i shaved 4g on my $400 waterbottle holder.... but when i weight 80KG.. and have another 2kg of water with me, does that 4g really matter?

Plus don't cycling competitions set a minimum bike weight anyways?
I find HTML too complex and dirty for writing while focusing on the content. I chose plain-text with some spices of Markdown. I can generate HTML or other formats from Markdown with ease.
Pay down all debt. Cut down on expenses. Sell most of your possessions. Invest in stocks/crypto. Take a few months rest without any digital obligations and reset your health. Good luck.
See my other response. Remote login.
Another reason to have technical PMs & managers... because even if they don't have meticulous understandings of underlying systems, they can make cases for additional headcount/funding and recognize efforts that will affect tomorrow's bottom lines/issues.
Here's some anecdata that matches up with GP[0].
Note how Amazon is substantially worse-rated than most other companies.

[0]https://www.teamblind.com/company/Amazon/

Disclaimer: Am Amazon employee
> We need a way to manufacture our own hardware. Just like we can already write our own software.

We may write code but we didn't write the compiler which compiles the code. We didn't develop the runtimes, kernels, etc our software is dependent upon. The security, reliability and trustworthiness of the entire software world is dependent on trust.

You should read Ken Thompson's article on "Reflections on Trusting Trust"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210
Does Please allow one to easily specify a specific JDK version to use to build and run tests?

I wasted a lot of time getting Bazel to use a modern JDK.
First they came for software monoliths and now even metal monoliths are gone.
I've tried beeminder and other self-binding contracts, but after some time something in my life (moving, breakup, etc) pops up and I just can't fulfill the goal for 1-2 weeks. After I let it slip for a bit, I find it harder to come back and it feels that the contract loses some meaning.

For any system I've tried, it consistently falls after 3-4 months of use (this is beeminder, spreadsheets, text files, among others).

Does anyone have suggestions for how to keep going after a setback?
Most of those "indicators" could also be genuine reasoning without ulterior motives, which is also no doubt why they can be effective. But it does mean it's not that simple to recognize, it requires the use of some discernment.
This is so accurate as I started my blog in 2018 and the only post I have so far is about the setup
https://www.timshi.ai/blog/hello-blog-with-react
> Agencies like the CIA, NSA and whatever other group that does "clandestine" operations shouldn't even exist in the first place.

Who cares if they should or should not exist? The point is that they are there in most countries already (nothing limited to the US) so worrying about the ideal situation of not having them around is not very helpful. Just like "we should not have nuclear weapons" is a very weak argument as there's no way you can put the genie back in the box.
A mesh of micro-monoliths would have been much more resilient to this sort of thing. Just saying.
What about starting now and start slowly by writing something like, “My year 2020”. :-)
Rush would be nicer.
I should probably give Launchbar another shot at some point; recommendation appreciated. My expectation is merely that it’d be nicer than Alfred, but that’s enough.
Considering capitalism is on track to deliver the end of industrial civilization by the start of the 21st century no reasonable people can argue for it.

But reasonable people once thought burning witches was a way to end droughts, so maybe instead of following common sense we should listen to scientists and change the political system to one that means our grand children will not have to eat each other?
Are they not putting all sorts of stuff in their mouths around the house yet? It’s not germ from other people, but my little one does stuff that disgusts me, but I’m too tired to always stop it.
I think you're not realizing how ubiquitous TeX, and the executable `tex` are. It seems like a bad idea to overlap with something so commonly already installed.
One aspect of Kolmogorov approach is that implicitly models things like biased probabilities through compressibility.

The shortest representation of rolls of fair dice or coins is their exact results, but if there's "less randomness" in some way (biased coin/die, sum of two dice which means non-uniform probabilities, combination of some predictable pattern with random noise) then there are more compact representations of that information, and all of that gets captured by the Kolmogorov approach without any explicit handling of the various possibilities.
Same boat. Writing since 2001. Lots of boost and cheers from Macromedia, Adobe, WordPress, etc. helped.
Certainly could be his last work and deployed by someone else as instructed post death.
You can read up on the hygiene hypothesis. There are still a lot of unknowns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis?wprov=sfla1
Be careful to mid the gap between personal preference and obsessive/compulsive like behaviors. When personal preferences start to become a burden it time to re-evaluate them. Some preferences will be worth keeping but many will not.