skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good public transport system is more convenient than a car. I see kids as young as 10 (maybe younger but I haven't seen it) riding my local city bus system alone - compare that to the other parents who drive their kids to school. When the public transport system goes where you want about when you want it is really nice to not have to drive.

Most people have never experienced a good transport system. Even in Europe most have not. Paris is good for some people, but not even everyone in Paris. It is even worse in the US.
Billionaire can also be framed as succeeding at creating a power differential at scale. The trick is that you can't achieve scale without using power differentials, and iphones are the fruit of scale. Idea: what you kind of want is for the power difference to decay at scale, so that way you don't have amazon workers pissing in water bottles. Remember: "Sufficiently Powerful Optimization Of Any Known Target Destroys All Value" [1] – I wonder if PG has read that? [1] https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...
I sense a bit of anger in your last sentence, "why does everyone". For new car purchasers, your solution is possible. For existing owners, that would mean a severe increase in cost of living.
I was expecting an article that would justify my recent design design.
the '=' isn't url safe.
> but if you want to see a runtime that really has the asynchronous exceptions thing figured out, go look at Erlang.

The erlang VM does indeed have async exceptions, and resource management figured out. Usually you can just kill an erlang process and you don't have to clean up after it's open sockets, file descriptors, etc.

It's also possible to hook the C FFI system to take full advantage of that: https://youtu.be/l848TOmI6LI

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Living in the close suburb (Neuilly/92) and i can't agree more, i don't know the reasons but the amount of people going to pick up their baguette or just go to the dry cleaner by car is insane. When I ask my neighbor why they took the car to do a one km ride to get to the "boulangerie" she was answering because it's more comfortable...

My gut feeling is that no matter how many cycling lane or pedestrian they would anyway park on there, the invincibility due of lazyness is unbearable high here.
excellent news
With Puppeteer and Playwright, essentially every site is scrapeable. Doesn't mean it is easy, but it can be done.
> someone has the snuffles or diarrhea.

Or a very serious and debilitating disease!

> In america ... that note would actually cost people money

Then fix the problem.
Drive to the edge of town and take public transport from there.

This is a common concept in some European cities, with large parking garages directly attached to the subway/train stations.
> Not only that but how many people can get into a doctor the same day for the note?

No, it doesn't work like that in Poland. You can just call it in, saying "I'm sick" and then go to the doctor. Doctor's note can cover up to 3 days before the visit.
"Scrypto"
I have a friend who lives in the Yukon (Alaska but colder), who cycles to work every day all year long. It's all about having the right equipment.
It still bothers me when people talk about dynamic HTML these days. Just two weeks ago some team lead said it and I thought 'dude, that is so 90s'.
And now the Dell Alienware AW2721D which has 240 Hz https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/alienware-27-gaming-monitor-...
Greed is basically all of humanities problems, isn't it.
It absolutely has for me, but at the same time I don't mind it too much because the gains from being able to work from home have been worth it for me.
Python Library for Font Previews
Just use uBlock Origin.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
And then the criticism would be “Google enables violating the privacy of rural and poor customers with less access to high speed Internet”. I’m not saying any one of these criticisms is wrong. Just that they’re predictable and there’s basically no move Google could make besides shutting down that would satisfy the complaints (and even then it would be the ultimate “Google kills products” meme).
For a while, I was living in Marquette, MI and that got to -10 to -20F (-23C to -29C) many days during the winter, even during the day, and that was before factoring in the wind chill and the 3 feet of snow around you. They'd frequently cancel classes because it was dangerous to go outside if you had any skin exposed. And Marquette is a relatively small town that I'd classify as mostly "walkable". But on those days, walking 2 miles to the grocery story was not something anyone should have been doing nor were the roads or sidewalks clear enough to ride any kind of bike (if you even can at those temperatures).

I now live on the other extreme in Phoenix, AZ and during the summer, you'll see 115F (46C) or higher for ~2 months a year with no cloud cover. That's hot enough that you don't even really sweat while walking; it evaporates so quickly that it can't do its job. We've had people at my office go for walks during lunch and collapse after 15 minutes due to it. And Phoenix is one of the most unwalkable places to live imaginable from a layout/distance standpoint to boot.

But I will admit both of those are in the extremes and most of the country isn't like that, although many areas will have quite a few days that go subzero (-17C) and over 100F (38C) each year. I think a big thing the US needs to do is start rezoning areas and rely less on everyone living on a half acre of land 2 miles from the nearest non-residential building. Unless that happens, much of the US won't be able to realistically implement policies like Paris is.
Makes you wonder what would have happened to our cities if they hadn’t build those oversized roads. Maybe the cars would have never entered the city in such large numbers.
I was wrong about Qt: middle (three-finger) click also does go right to where you click. Right click brings up the (Windows-like) menu.
Then recruit from those colleges for great students

Am I reading elitist bs or can you elaborate?
We still don’t know about trust in news
> getting a large group of people to say no to leetcode.

I assume you mean LC to be a stand-in for the types of interviews that focus on LC-style questions? LC didn't invent these and they're certainly not to blame when companies ask senior SWE candidates to invert binary trees.
It goes both ways, due to the sublingual glands.

Especially when tongue depression or other procedures might trigger a release of saliva, or make the saliva in the mouth spread. Or cough. Or sneezes.

If you were a doctor, would you be happy seeing a patient with a weird cough without masks/eye protection?
There's not really any land to buy either. It mean that only rich people are allowed to have cars.
There are also hidden costs in roads being clogged up with personal cars slowing commercial traffic.
Bluetooth is pretty close in frequency to 2.4 GHz wifi, so could imagine some interference there!
I read things like this all the time, but it's not been my experience at all. In the last year in had on-sites 5+ FAANG companies and some late stage prominent startups, all for a Sr (L8) IC role. They had a bit of of basic code and algo analysis, but not much. Mostly design.
No, this creates more problems because every driveway takes away a pooled parking spot.

Kinda like how hot-desking reduces your desk space needs by 30%+.
defense contractors recruit the same way as intelligence does
Precisely the same time I used to think JS was a lighter version of the Java language.
scripts [1] suggests this has not been the case!

[1]: https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs
No. I have stayed clear of vaccines since the 90's. I opt to keep my immune system strong.
I make it a personal policy not to connect to work email, VPN, or other stuff from home. Just dont set it up. I also dont bring a laptop home. Don't enable yourself. And if you must, use their laptop or phone and simply turn it off at the end of work day. Have solid boundaries on this, if your boss complains talk to HR or get a new job. This is not unreasonable and they know it.
Don't Germans already have the right to disconnect? You work 8 hours and then you switch off the company phone. Done.
That’s a good point. How many other Google researchers have submitted papers to conferences without waiting for the 2 week internal review to complete? What happened in those cases if the paper failed the internal review? Without more context it’s impossible to tell if this was a case of discrimination or just a case a researcher not following Google’s internal policies and suffering the consequences.
Fuzziness vs. Probability [pdf]
"A laptop to die for"
So this is a negotiation now...
Only 34% of households own a car in Paris.
It's pretty much free by Chicago standards too. That's not the point. You can only get the parking stickers if you live nearby!

Oh, I forgot to mention that you cannot buy more then 45 of the 24-hour passes per 30-day period. And that's per address, so if you have roommates or a spouse their purchases are all aggregated together.
...and this is what you'll get back because I used to write responses like these for a congressional office for years:

Thank you toomuchtodo for writing to me about government services to move to email first for correspondence. As you know, I have always supported government accountability and efficiency, and will certainly consider this should legislation come up about it. Please continue to keep me informed about the issues that are important to you. Sincerely, your Congressional Representative.
The largest investigation into electronic voting and its perils is ongoing right now in realtime, yet Hacker News is largely silent on it.
I wonder why?
or like it wasn’t a mistake at all and calculated risk, and not on the share upside.
All three are of your examples are wildly different in that they’re top-tier individual contributors. Of course you can become a prolific writer without exploiting anyone. A more fair comparison would be something like politician.
I've occasionally been able to get in same day in the US but it's certainly the exception (and I don't live in/near a major metro). A week or more to see a GP wouldn't be uncommon.
Perhaps a very limited set of response times. Increments of 1/10 of second.
Turns out I still have my copy[1]. I remember this guy[2] blowing my mind. He would move his arms to a menu, where your mouse hover. This whole book was a thrill for me.

1 - https://imgur.com/a/qMsw11C

2 - https://imgur.com/a/kZKyhok
They should have used the name LiveScript. Java in the name was a complete disaster.
I don't think the EU and US count them the same. It looks like the EU minimum includes banks holidays? Where US vacation days don't include them.

"By law, every country in the European Union has at least four work weeks of paid vacation. Austria, which guarantees workers the most time off, has a legal minimum of 22 paid vacation days and 13 paid holidays each year."

So the US has no minimum, but the minimum offered is typically 10 days and the a middle class job 15 days. On top of that you get at least 10 federal holidays off (or you get paid 2x if you work). Many companies recognize 13+ "official days off".

So most US employees (there are exceptions) get ~20 days off a year, while for middle class it's more typical to get closer to 25-30. (15 + 13)
I thought vaccines DID keep your immune system strong by forcing it to create antibodies to fight the diseases it hasn't even seen yet...?
Security, Moore's law, and the anomaly of cheap complexity by Halvar Flake
I cant tell if this is a sarcastic comment or not. I have a car in Chicago. There are no parking spaces in my apartment building. Street parking is the only non $250+ a month option. I did not have a car here until we needed one to be able to travel during COVID (to avoid taking public transit during the pandemic).

I can not buy land outside the city to park my car. I can not afford a second car payment to rent a monthly spot. City parking is really my only option to avoid taking public transit and risk getting and spreading COVID.
More suburban than rich. I seen million dollar NYC apartments that where it doesn't make sense to have separate room for work and the work "room" is more of wide hallway combined with the kid's beds.

A more fair options would be to still allow the room option for simplicity but also allow you to deduct things by the square foot so even if your office is just a corner it could count, though that is really mushy and people don't like mushy tax laws.
That's the thing. Because it's so rare in (most of) Scotland to get winters that bad, the infrastructure isn't there to deal with it.

There's a nice thread here on the expense of treating winters the way that Canada does:
https://twitter.com/JudithFlanders/status/958072934396039168
My problem with all these systems for reading books is that it starts to feel like a work I have to do, instead of enjoyment. I just want to read a book in my leisure time and not fill out templates in my notebook/app, constantly worrying that I might have missed some key idea.
Maybe when resources have dependencies it avoids having to wait for each resource to parse before knowing what else will need to be fetched.
Use of instructions that compilers have great difficulty (usefully) generating, for various reasons, is a common theme lately.

In this case, prefetch, which to be useful often requires a context switch.

Another, lately, is popcount.

One that only appears in very recent Intel (and AMD?) is an instruction to sleep until a particular cache line gets invalidated, as a way to both save on power and latency, as waking up can be faster than escaping the poorly-branch-predicted spin loop.

There are various appalling tricks to keep your branch predictor from killing your loop escape latency.
If that's true, then it seems like moat-buidling since Google most certainly engages in user fingerprinting for their own ad platform.
> So having virtual threads and "raw" threads under the same class has pros and cons, IMO.

That's one way to think about it. Another is that Java never gives you "OS threads" it always gives you Java threads, an abstraction with multiple possible implementations. One implementation is no more real or raw than the other (in fact, you could even theoretically make virtual threads the carriers for other virtual threads -- a thread is a thread, after all -- but we explicitly blocked that because it's not useful). There is no real difference between that and ArrayList and LinkedList both implementing the same List interface. They're both just as real, but they have different footprint and performance (the class hierarchy for threads is slightly different, but for uninteresting technical reasons).

> Or do you still disagree?

I still disagree. That network call might take 1ms, and that bit fiddling might trigger a GC collection that takes 10 times that or more. Moreover, neither Kotlin nor C# mark long subroutines with a different colour, and they don't even mark blocking calls with a different colour, just the flavour of them that's to be used with coroutines. The real reason that colour is necessary is because of the way the feature is implemented.

Originally, that colour meant to signify something else: nondeterminism in mostly-deterministic languages like Haskell, and it is also important in JavaScript. Trying to retroactively find a useful meaning for it in Java is an excuse.
Sir Ian McKellen backs bid to buy JRR Tolkien house
Now who's taking the extreme position? But your accusation applies just as well to you: putting individual choice before anything else will make the life we live impossible.

Should I get to choose whether taxes work for me or not? Sure be nice to take advantage of all the public resources without having to pay for them, at least until everyone else catches up.

Should I get to choose whether criminal law works for me or not? Sure be nice to take what I want and shoot anyone who tries to come after me, at least until we're all at each others throats.

People who are taking unnecessary risks aren't just projecting their belief systems onto others, they're threatening their health and their lives. Social pressure has its place against people who threaten us, because it's better than not having a society at all.
Clevo is a white-label supplier and other companies rebrand them. Dell has vertically-integrated their supply chain. That just means that Clevo competes with Dell at a specific part of the vertical integration. It doesn't mean they're not competitors.
> how much is 49Wh

Not huge; same as a MacBook Air (a much lighter laptop). For something this size you'd generally expect more.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Wikipedia articles carry semantic data (ld-json), so it should be pretty easy to just scrape away.
I certainly wasn't expecting an M1 mac mini to compile our iOS app codebase in half the time compared to a 2018 super beefy MacbookPro.
My go to answer to questions like this is pretty simple.

We shouldn’t punish the majority for the indiscretions of the few.

Ultimately some people will abuse sick leave, just like everything else in life. But those individuals should be dealt with on a individual basis.

Otherwise you just end up treating everyone like a criminal, at which point for an individual there’s no advantage to not engaging in abusive behaviour. You’re already effectively being punished for potential abusive behaviour, might as well make the most of it and actually engage in the abusive behaviour you’re being punished for.
Lol. Less transport = less wear on the extra expensive roads. Less pollution, less crowd, less money for oil industry. If anything, people should be blessed and get tax returns for WFH.
> A lot of the lead is process

Given that this TSMC 7nm->5nm process improvement has lead to the smallest gen-on-gen performance improvement for Apple's iPhone chips - the performance gains from the A13 to the A14 are the smallest in years - I really don't buy that at face value. Surely a better process helps a substantial percentage, but I think a 7nm M1 chip would have impressed in most of the same ways.
I would pay $1500 to have my family vaccinated right now.
Stop Using “Data” as a Variable Name
And yet, there are still so much value one can create with software... A lot of it is even outside of the reach of the spy and divisiveness as a service companies, it's the kind of thing that if they touch it, they destroy it.

The late years of Rome is actually a great metaphor. We are suffering from human capital loss, and have signs of institutional collapse. A shock can destroy our institutions and throw us into something like the early Medieval period: much less wealthy at the beginning, and messy too, but fast growing and with a much higher ceiling than the previous age.
All the libraries have been closed for almost a year.
Hi there! I manage the GitHub team responsible for the Code Nav part of this. Re 30-80% coverage, can you elaborate on the biggest missing piece for you? Is it the number of languages that are covered, or too many false positives in the results we show? (Or something else?)

For the latter, it's a known limitation in that we're only doing "fuzzy" or "c-tags-like" Code Nav — defs and refs are only matched by their textual unqualified symbol names. For some languages that's not a big deal, because symbol names tend to be unique. But for a language like Go, you might have dozens (or hundreds!) of methods named "Parse", and we don't currently distinguish those in our Jump to Def UI.

That's something we're actively working on, though! One benefit to the current fuzzy approach is that it's incremental (we only have to analyze changed files in a commit), and does not depend on tapping into a build or CI process. That makes it much faster — we have a long-running indexer service live and hot, and typically have new commits indexed and live in the UI within 1-5 seconds of receiving a push. And it requires no configuration on the part of the repo owner — no need to tell us how to build your project, or to configure an Actions workflow to generate the data. That makes it easier for us to support entire ecosystems when we roll out support for a new language. We've also tried to make it fairly easy for external communities to add support for their languages — this is all driven by the open-source tree-sitter parsing framework. This file, for instance, is where the symbol extraction rules for Go are defined: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go/blob/master/qu...

We've been working on a new approach to generate more precise symbol data, while keeping those incremental and zero-config properties. It's not ready for public launch, yet, but it's close!

For those who want to learn more, I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2020 (back in the Before Times) going into more detail on some of these constraints and design decisions. (Though please note that this talk references a legacy way of defining symbol extraction rules, which relied on writing code in our open-source Semantic project.) https://dcreager.net/talks/2020-fosdem/
>a lot of it is simply a better design

Define better.

Processor designs, as with many things is a question of tradeoffs. Apple is vertically integrated and has the luxury of designing cores based on a different set of requirements that drive the rest of the industry. As Apple makes a profit off per device sold, and not per chip, they can strategically approach chip design differently. For example, the area of die used.
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Right, Bezos didn't set out to bankrupt as many small businesses as he could. He started with providing a wider range of books to people over the internet. For the person who wanted a specific book and was only able to get it on Amazon this is a "good" thing. For the local bookstore who is now bankrupt that is a "bad" thing.

I've come to the conclusion that to be a CEO you have to wear these blinders and have faith that overall your company is a positive good for the world. That means that when you have a low performing employee you have to fire him even though you know that it may cause terrible consequences for him and his family.
I was going to get it without the money. Sure I'll take a check with that.
A 10W SoC roughly matching a 65W CPU... That's bonkers.

Those benchmarks also aren't differentiating between the fanless MacBook Air, the actively cooled MacBook Pro, or the wall-powered Mac Mini, all of which have different performance characteristics with the same chip.
What about software? Was the headline changed?
Sounds a lot like human knowledge. Its filled with cultural and political issues.
Another way to think about it might be "how do we give workers bargaining power, without them withdrawing their labour?"

How can we use capital to create meaningful work, rather than the status quo oscillation left<-->right?

Using capital just automate for the sake of excluding workers is (IMO) silly. Improving safety and reliability, fine. But capital is also needed to start new labour intensive jobs, and anti-labour capitalism has a blind spot for this, and it leads to more political unrest.
Coming at this late, but that is a really good price for a fully installed system, does that include some government subsidy?

Considering a similar system like that in southern Europe where installation is pretty cheap, and the prices are higher, I see A$12000 for a 10KW system of panels and a 10KW Fronius three-phase inverter.
That sounds more like mostly a technical problem. You could simply configure forwarding from your gov. email account to your personal one. You could create filters to only care about certain domains to prevent spam.

It's still a lot easier to check email than walk to a mailbox daily. But the best solution is probably to default to both email & mail such that the email can be send when the letter is sent but neither would be considered a delivered message until the letter itself was delivered.
It's scrapeable if you try hard, but it probably won't get archived well.
Downvotes are pretty random sometimes.