skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They said without polling.

If the queue completely empties, then a normal application will use a system call to go to sleep.

But as long as it's not empty, the application can keep receiving events with neither system calls nor active polling.

You'd only actively poll in very specialized/niche cases.
From the article:

"I wonder if there’s a similar effect in the antivax movement – autism seems to really be on the rise (0.7 to 1.5% in this century)."

CDC is reporting that Autism has increased MUCH MUCH more than this. By their own reporting standards it was 1 in 150 in 2000, to 1 in 68 by 2010 (https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/images/autism_data_graphic...) and the exponential increase has continued.

The idea that Autism and Vaccines is not linked is fake news. The CDC's own experts have blown the whistle saying their research was faked at the behest of the CDC to engage in a coverup.

An entire book was released on this subject:
https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Whistleblower-Exposing-Autism...

And the semi-secret vaccine court which is heavily stacked against vaccine injury claimants, recently found that Autism was caused by a vaccine and paid out millions in damages.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-to-receive-15m-plus-in-f...

There are secret studies buried by the CDC showing profound increases in auto-immune diseases that RFK Jr. had to dig up via FOIA, example: https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/12040577205858836...

The idea that anti-vaxxers are misguided and need to be algorithmically silenced by some form techno-fascism will be seen as the scariest time in human history. This is nothing but a coverup for big pharma. It will go down in history as the biggest medical coverup in human history, dwarfing the "cigarettes are healthy for you" that the CDC pushed in the '60s.

The fact that the left is pushing this anti-free speech mantra is absolutely disgusting. The left used to stand for liberal values like free speech. Now they stand for big pharma, big tech and chinese style censorship to invoke cancel culture.

How shameful!
I just tried compressing one with 7-zip ultra level compression. Saved maybe 5%. Wouldn't get even that with realtime compression.
Don't over-think it. Jot down several bullet points that you want to talk to, and just write as best you can to those points (without re-writing any of it). Go over it once for any grammatical errors. Next step: post it.

Unless it's something like a thesis, I wouldn't worry about perfecting it. You'll learn more (and get feedback sooner) if you just get it out there and focus on the fact that your next article will be that much better, and the next, and the next etc. Otherwise you'll find yourself accumulating diminishing returns with repeated revisions.

If it truly is something quite important, then consider splitting it up over a series of posts over time.

As for the mindset to be in when writing it, think about what you would say to a friend if you were explaining the concept to them. Over an email, for example.
I followed the instructions on how to use Little Snitch to skip Apple's app start stuff.
> That would be, all kernels. They all program the physical memory controller to suit their needs.

None of the operating system kernels I know of (including Linux, all the BSDs, and Microsoft Windows) program the physical memory controller; it's always done by the platform firmware while running from ROM or cache-as-RAM, before the operating system kernel is loaded into RAM.
A12Z has it.
I did something very similar for a few years before I had kids. It was great! (So is being a father of course) unfortunately I can’t find a way to make it work as a Dad, as everything is so scheduled now. Hopefully when they’re older I can get back into it. It definitely worked well for me too.
Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#metadata-blocks (scroll down a bit to "Extension: yaml_metadata_block")
Uber and Lyft just scored a federal transportation contract
What makes MacOS good?
That would give you new lines, but not indentation..

But my point was that the markup is invalid.
No.No.no.no.no.no.no.no.

A million thousand times no.

As some one else said, every spare dollar I have is going to fund a company that values open source hardware, open source software, right to repair and own.

A company that doesn't purposefully force manufactured obsolescence as a business model, privacy intrusions, lip service to OSS, bullying right to repair in courts, tax evasions doesn't deserve any free work from the skilled people in the community. All of this, just so that they can make more billions when people around the world are suffering just to give their restrictive supply chain their blood, lives and tears.

You know why open source hardware is expensive for lower quality? Because Apple pays the premium on the premium quality stuff. But I'm that process they also drive up the prices.

Hardware manufacturers want the Apple cash, so they wait for the Apple contract and when they get that, any other contracts that you might have will get delayed and sidelined with lower quality stuff. Essentially, a monopoly in the supply chain
I really enjoy it until like day 7 where the difficulty just ramps up.

I need a casual difficulty because I really do enjoy cozy simple short puzzles.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I think I'm all for it! :D

Ancient computer magazines seem like magical treasure troves. I recently linked to an issue of Creative Computing which included the source listing for the Oregon Trail game that you could type in and run, as well as an article describing the game and a transcript of someone playing (and actually winning, haha.)

I'd say that's pretty interesting and educational because the code has to go through your brain and out your fingers, and then you have to debug it afterward. It cracks the black box open and shows you the inside components inside; even if you might not fully understand them immediately you can see what they are made of and how they work at a micro level. And limited system memory, page count, and and finger endurance seem to have kept source listings reasonably short and manageable, while still enabling interesting and non-trivial applications. There may also be more incentive to explore both the gameplay and its implementation in some detail since you put so much effort into it, rather than just clicking on the next opaque binary download.

That being said... github is also a magical treasure trove, but usually without the friendly magazine articles explaining the software, so the onramp is steeper even if you don't have to type the code in yourself. I'd like to see a github index of short-form, relatively self-contained software of this sort. Ideally with accompanying articles. ;-)

I'd also like to see more modern magazines like the MagPi.
The bit manipulation already generates an approximation of 1/sqrt(x), not just 1/x.
Check the footer of the website you’re on right now? The whole thing is content marketing for an offering of capital.
Just curious, how much of the black book is relevant for today?
I wish I could upvote this multiple times.

You go into any experienced woodworker’s shop, you can divide it into maybe 20% of the tools that see the vast majority of the action—table saws, band saws, milling machines, proper hammers. But then there is a halo of 60% or more of the things there are little helpful things—doodads, mallets, jigs, often even shelving and work surfaces—such that she uses a bunch of these on any build she undertakes, and she made them herself. “Why would I stumble around with someone else's mallet when it’s about the same cost and about half a day’s work to machine my own mallet down in a router that has exactly the weight and shape that I like it to have? Pays for itself.”

We are so far from this ideal. All of our software breaks because we imported left-pad and somebody unpublished left-pad. Wasn't even a world changing perfectly V8-on-x64-tuned performant version of left-pad, but we gotta “not reinvent the wheel.”

I don't think we do it for no reason, there is something about software itself right now that is amateurish. We’re still writing subroutines working on data structures; our brains are FORTRAN even if we call it Java, and whatever that is makes it really hard to decouple the tools that we are using to build software from the final outcome that has been built. The woodworker has a sense of the “shape” of the artifact, we routinely build the equivalent of gorgeous wooden tables that start spewing garbage onto their shiny surfaces after three weeks unattended, “oh, I didn’t realize that the built-in trash chutes could get clogged.” Wait—what? “Yeah, we allocate more wood at the bottom of the table to make up for the wood that we remove at the top of the table every night so that the surface is always clean.” Your user doesn't clean the table? “Hahaha you’re silly, users could not possibly have the technical knowledge to keep anything clean, they are not trained in sponges, and I especially could not trust the
with something as beautiful and delicate as this table.” The problem has a beautiful sort of fractal quality to it, every zoom-in is more WTF.
I think that, like any other skill, you need to practice, you could try to imitate the structure of articles/blog posts that you think are good
Ask HN: Would you like me to write a book on sales?
I was the CTO of an EdTech startup. I joined a leading tech company 5 years ago in a BD/Sales role primarily to learn sales as it always seemed mystic to me. Over the last 5 year I have grown a sub-million business vertical to over $100M/yr. I have learned a lot, failed a lot and succeeded a little. Would you like me to write a book on sales for tech people? Is that something you would pay for?
If they could do it at high resolutions, I'd be surprised. My old Lumia 950 would overheat after about 20 minutes at 4K, but record indefinitely at 720p (most I ever tried was about two hours; I don't think I ever got around to testing it at 1080p, and IIRC both were 60fps).
Fast inverse square root wasn't in Quake until Quake III though, right?
Programs on Intel Macs can do some funny things to invalidate their code signature in was that Apple silicon won’t support, which I guess you could call a change. But I agree that the transition was probably mostly made for simplicity.
Sorry, typos above:

>be ause then only the printable ASCII characters woyls

should be

because then only the printable ASCII characters would
They're probably still better off than if they clamped down on piracy and China decided to develop a competitor to Windows and switched to that
Find a writer you really enjoy and see what they have to say.

I really like Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club). He recently released a book on writing. I got it from a local library and it is full of actionable advice. Excellent stuff.

Another idea worth considering is that writing is a craft like anything else. How long does it take someone to learn how to play a musical instrument? At least a few years of consistent practice, right? Writing is the same, it'll take a few years.

Just because you can talk to people, does not mean you are a good communicator. I'm not :) Writing makes people aware of how unstructured their thinking is. Totally normal. Keep going.
I would suggest “don’t post it!” Go back to it the next day and read it. Anything sounds awkward? Then edit it. For me the balance is in the number of edits. You can post it after your first edit or you can repeat the cycle a few more times.
Dropshipping someone a life coach, now there's an idea
The history of the x86 instruction set is very complicated and involves a number of lawsuits and settlements. What you see today is the fruit decades of fighting and wrangling.
Wonderful to see this on archive.org!

My first console was an Atari 2600: https://hypertexthero.com/space-invaders-brazilian-cerrado/
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You can go lower than that; this is the “medium” security setting.
Alcohol is a lot easier to come by in nature. Bears get drunk on fermenting berries.
What kind of limits do Apple face in adding more cores. I don't have a good sense of how big these Firestorm cores are compared to say Zen3. Or how big the overall chip is and what the size limitations are.

Like say you have the Ampere Altra Max with 128 cores ARM processor. Can Apple do that theoretically or is Ampere only able to do that because they make significantly smaller cores, or is it perhaps because they don't have an SoC.

I am just trying to understand better the tradeoffs between smaller weaker cores vs lager but fewer cores. Like if Apple wants to compete in the top end where e.g. AMD has 64 cores. Will that even be possible for Apple?
> Except courts do not determine truth

Courts definitely rule on matters of fact. Or truth. The fact that they also have a responsibility to apply the law once matters of fact are established doesn't exclude the fact-related portion of their focus and responsibility. Where known true evidence is dismissed, it's usually to protect defendants against violations of due process or other important rights.

If your point is that courts have limits in their ability to bring truth to light and apply it... sure. Every human being and every institution has such limits. If your point is that courts have failed catastrophically in some cases and improvement in how they're conducted or how prosecutiorial incentives are placed or examining other aspects of the system would be worthwhile, I heartily agree.

But if your point is that courts are useless when it comes to arbitration of the truth, then you're not on any particular road to truth. Social arbitration of truth is necessary for society. There have to be some institutions trying to do that work, whatever shortcomings they have.

Courts are one particular model for such institutions. There may be others but most institutions are going to converge on similar functions (though potentially distributed across different roles with different incentives).
Seems to be one of several accounts being circulated right now. None of which seem to fully corroborate.

https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/fakhrizadeh-hit-squads-car-b...
Nobody forces you to drink your milkshake at that restaurant. You can go someplace else. You cannot easily go someplace else to install software on your iOS phone. On Android, you could but this makes the phone more insecure. There is no real competition among app stores. People usually use the store that was pre-installed. They don't compare prices in app stores app by app and then install from the store that is cheapest. No competition, no market. Your argument is fake.
The Case for Building Client-First Web Apps
Agree completely. My OSX environment fully mirrors various Linux deployment environments I run well enough to test any kind of shell scripting or crontabs or anything else I need to test locally before deploying them. Also, Parallels and VMWare both say they'll release M1 compatible virtual machines soon should you need a specific release to test on. I don't see the point of shelling out for Apple hardware if you just want to run a Linux distribution as your main OS. I'm more bothered by the current inability to boot into Windows.
EV doesn’t solve much actually. The total impact of an EV car is quite devastating on the environment, about the same as a gasoline car once you factor in manufacturing and mining and transport of lithium.
I guess I'm glad they also compared against tree branches and the like, but I can't help but suspect they just stumbled across another one of nature's repeating patterns, and it will turn out mangos also resemble the brain and the universe at certain scales.
I’ll surf pretty much every day if there are waves. During summer or dry spells I’ll run between 5k and 10k four to five times a week.
Some of us still run mod_perl stacks .... :)
I find RST simply miserable to write and even worse to read. All of your points are valid regarding it being an actual spec, but reading and writing it in the raw vexes me to no end.

I still use it for my module documentation, but I still use Jekyll for my personal sites instead of something like Sphinx (which is another element of hell for me - the errors when your RST is wrong are worse than useless;

> "You have an error somewhere between _here_ and _here_"

"You just pointed to everything"

> "Yes I did"
Perhaps but working for a company, they don't want genius specifically, they want results, and not to be locked into some code that if one person leaves they are stuffed.
Resistive digitizers also didn't freak and and refuse to function at all if your fingers were sightly damp. Hence why you'll see a lot of point-of-sale systems in bars using resistive digitizers for their displays.
One of the difficult parts of learning by blogging is that you rarely receive thoughtful feedback from your readers on the craft of your writing. You can look at analytics and comments to see which of your posts are popular, but nobody ever says, "Oh, this post would have worked better had your sentence structure been less repetitive."

I solved this problem by hiring a freelance editor from Upwork.[0] It was a few hundred dollars to have her read a few of my articles. The high-level feedback was extremely helpful and had a huge impact on my readership almost instantly.

Obviously, it's not a magic bullet. I still had to do the work of integrating her feedback and continuing to find ways to improve my writing. But like anything else, expert feedback helps you grow faster than just learning on your own through trial and error.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/editor/
Judging by the vote totals of the above post, it seems there is a cadre of users here who believe the Democratic party is detaining children in the basement of a pizza parlor[0].

No wonder HN folks have such a hard time with the idea of fact checking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory
Thanks for writing this. Though the post was a bit too long for me, I skimmed through it and got many relevant points. I’ve been thinking about using an SSG, but have found it difficult to decide on which one would be easy to use and also less restrictive for my (simple) needs.

The trade offs between any SSG and platforms like WordPress or Twitter are clearer. They sit on a spectrum of predefined needs, and figuring out what matches your needs is the key (and also the cause for analysis paralysis).
Hmm. I have considered that as well in the past.

Although I'd be a bit skeptical that Apple would allow this (as others talk about).

It seems extremely high risk, high cost, for an unnoticeable reward that will be obsolete in a year.
The only thing this is missing is OTP generation. 1Password does this for me, I don't know of any open source toolchain that makes this simple.
Cost isn't the issue in their comment. Time is. By the time you test it its already your time used.
Find 3-5 bloggers you really like.

Write out why you like their style and structure. Break it apart and look for patterns you can use as a framework.

Ideally you'll have 2-3 frameworks to start and that helps immensely with getting over the initial writers block and structuring your thoughts.

Write the first 20 posts and then worry about making it more complex after that!
“Hamburger” writing is an easy way to structure writing even if you deviate from it significantly.

https://www.readingrockets.org/sites/default/files/strategy_...

This is for your entire blog post, but also each individual paragraph. Add an introduction and conclusion, then build out and expand each section.. then you’re done.
This post kinda reflects my thoughts as well. Picked it as a hobby to explore writing a static site generator. I wrote mine in nodejs. https://github.com/rammygit/homegrown , it again a shitty SSG but again i enjoyed the process of exploring
What I learned from making a $20 sale
I did maybe a half dozen or so - nothing crazy. A lot of people were understandably scared to entrust me with a soldering iron on their expensive toy. Then PS2 came out and modding became much more complex. I do miss the satisfaction of putting in a chip, loading a burned game and seeing it load after a long anxiety-provoking black screen.
I think this is true in less extreme cases too.

People have a tendency to do more of what works for them. People with more raw intelligence have lower cost (effort) in considering multiple possibilities and keeping them all alive in their heads at once. (I'll assume just for this paragraph that "raw intelligence" is a thing, and means what I want it to mean.) If other, less capable people attempted to do the same thing, they would get hopelessly confused and be unable to decide or act. So for them, it is smarter to stick to conventional wisdom; they'll be more likely to get a positive outcome.

Combine that with the fact that different people have different interests, inclinations, and abilities in different areas, and the result is that the whole dichotomy of "conventional vs unconventional" quickly falls apart.

Do what's right for you, not what's right for pg.
Quick thoughts about it. I hope the authors read these comments and make something more integrated. It's not because it's funny that I will waste my time duplicating slides that I already made using ppt/gslides/keynote.

Other remarks:

Good:

- Seems fun to use and build things, liked the humor
Needs improvement:

- UI could be cleaner, the nagging about free premium takes a huge part of screen real state

Bad:

- No support to use google slides, powerpoint or keynote. If you think I will spend time redoing my slides in your tool, forget it. It just made me so pissed off that I deleted the app from my mac right away.

- Pricing should be transparent. No free tier (even with a watermark) is a huge bummer.

- Performance in older macs is subpar. My video slurred a lot in a 2015 Macbook 12'
Some writers find "beta readers" to give them feedback. (Think of how often Paul Graham's essays thank multiple people by name "for reading drafts of this.")

Forum comments on the topic can help you learn how to talk about a particular topic. Like I sometimes talk or write about housing issues and "affordable housing" is a buzz word that means a particular thing to a lot of people and what they hear is not what I am trying to say. So I went looking for other phrases and began thinking about what I want people to hear and began just avoiding that term most of the time.

Writing for pay can be an enormous growth experience that can help discipline you to focus more on what other people want or what the parameters need to be and get out of that mindset of just kind of talking to yourself, only in writing.

It can help to start blurbs and to work on it over time. If you put it away and read it again at a later date and stop and go "Wait a minute. I just interpreted that sentence as X and I know I really meant to convey Y." then you think about "How do I really say Y?"

It can help to find online tools of various sorts that give you feedback on your writing, like: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
AFAIK there's no problem in the US doing business (e.g. claiming copyright) under a fictitious name although you might want to file a DBA if you ever needed to enforce your copyright.

In general I don't see any problem with the OP's idea and I also wouldn't have a problem with it when hiring. BTW, I think there's code in Linux from "Solar Designer".
CMake still. I know there is something that will come out some day that is better, but until that day, CMake is still the best.
Like the indieweb? I think there’s a webring that takes you through it.

https://indieweb.org/