skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We moved to Puerto Rico.

Suddenly there's this worry of making sure that I need to have mechanisms in place to deal with an unreliable electrical grid, unreliable internet (due to the unreliable electrical grid).

Then, there's hurricane season, initially I dealt with it by flying out to mainland anytime there was a hurricane on the horizon. Next year I started to 'prepare' more for the future (water tanks, food, generator, gas storage) etc.

This year was crazier than ever, we got hit by an earthquake. And believe it or not, it made us feel 'alive' (and other mainland families on the island were reporting similar things). Just as we were sorta done making preparation for the earthquake, Covid-19 arrived at the horizon, but I was prepared this time. We ordered survival food, solar cooker, buttloads of sanitizer (which became useless because we decided to use gloves instead) etc.

Also got a gun permit and got into guns. I aim to start carrying it once life resumes.

You may find many or all these measures ridiculous or unnecessary, and you may not have to do these exact things, but whatever you need to do to 'feel that hunger', will appear ridiculous and unnecessary to you.
TSLA? No idea.

But I think there's often some hidden game going on with tech companies that go well beyond selling more sugar water and expanding overseas to places that haven't seen sugar water before.

Amazon is the best at this... using one business to launch a second.

So what I'd look for with TSLA is not whether cars can ever justify this price, but whether there is an adjacent business that is actually bigger than cars. Is there? I have no idea.
I am so happy to hear that you were able to set it up and play it!!
Instead of a Resolution, Write a 21 for '21 List
Trust the timing of the universe - sounds woo woo but that's how I get through. Nothing that's meant to be your's will pass you.
> California isn’t an independent country, so it can’t just adopt arbitrary solutions from other countries.

Strawman. No country can adopt arbitrary solutions from other countries - they are always modified to fit.

> Even if it could, there is an assumption you are making that you can identify what ‘solutions’ led to particular results and can simply adopt them.

Strawman. I am arguing comparisons should be made, not blindly discarded because of <insert meme>. Look at what works in other countries, and see what can help your own. Don’t just blindly discard everything as irrelevant because the country is different (for example, a different size.)

> Also ‘California’ isn’t a person. ‘It’ can’t compare itself to anything.

Nitpicking.

> Do you even have an understanding of the problems? It seems like not everyone would agree on what they are. Otherwise it just seems like your position is essentially just a claim that because there is another country that you think is run better, there are some ideas that you don’t actually understand yourself, that could help.

Those are starting to smell like personal attacks. Nobody understands much, but we all have some understanding. Yes, I have specific beliefs about what could help, but I have epsilon interest in beginning that particular conversation with you.

Edits as follows:

> Edit 2: oh - I see you have changed a whole bunch of things about your earlier comments to make it look as though you made points that I failed to respond to.

Ummmmm, nope. I didn’t read your child comment first. I did add an edit against the most obvious attack, I should have marked the edit, sorry. I made the edit within a short time, so I didn’t expect your immediate response. The edit (last para) merely reiterates the theme, it doesn’t add anything of substance.

> You are completely intellectually dishonest and as such have nothing to offer to political discourse about corruption.

If you get flagged, it wasn’t me.
Society is always going to be unequal – some people will have more than others.

So long as there is work, the people who have a smaller share always have the opportunity of improving their lot by working harder and smarter than others.

A society with no work is basically one in which everyone lives off their assets, in which wealth primarily comes through inheritance. A society with even more inequality than today, but with far less social mobility.
I've been working on Stork for just over a year! I recently wrote a blog post about what building it has been like -- if you're interested in the project, definitely check the blog post out!

https://jameslittle.me/blog/2020/one-year-of-stork/
I just bought an ender 5 on amazon. But I’m pretty sure the cheaper ender 3 would be almost as good. (And it’s more popular so there’s a Lot more help out there)

Then just download some fun stuff from thingiverse.com, slice it in cura and get printing.

Later on I learned openscad to make some of my own ideas.
Patience, please! Just wait until 2017 by when, it has been predicted, we will a ton of self-driving cars on the road.
It captured nothing in my view.

Even a formal solution won't necessarily have a single solution for all problems.

Likely there are several optimal solutions given for each problem that exists. What formality will tell us is whether or not that solution is definitively optimal.

Right now our definition of an "optimal design" is whoever wins the "design argument" flame war.
That may be true for people who are well off, but there is a large segment of the population who are food insecure and many others that do not have that level of disposable income. Then you have the segments of the population that don't see any benefit to more nutritious foods and thing they are all the same.

For example, why is organic farming not the predominant method?
Thanks for the clarification. This sounds like an interesting book.

The phrasing used on the web site is "Post-accident attribution to a ‘root cause’ is fundamentally wrong." At first glance, it sounds like the author means there is no cause that can be found so you shouldn't try to determine the cause. First they clarify by saying there are many causes not just one. However, this phrasing made me scratch my head:

> The evaluations based on such reasoning as ‘root cause’ do not reflect a technical understanding of the nature of failure but rather the social, cultural need to blame specific, localized forces or events for outcomes.

I don't know what other organizations are like, but where I work, when we do a "root cause analysis," we aren't literally looking for a single cause, despite the name. The "root cause" is almost always that pieces a, b, and c came together in an unexpected way. I can definitely think of places where I worked where they were mostly out to place blame, though, and I guess that's what they were trying to caution against.
> 1) the likelihood rate of abiogenesis

> 1) Unknown.

Abiogenesis is known on Earth. Life appeared quite soon after Earth had cooled down enough, within the first couple of 100 million years. Of course, we don't know if it took 1 million or 300 million years. And it might be difficult to find out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms
Have you guys checked out the new CumTown website? Https://Chapo.chat
Great post. Uncanny how much of it maps almost 1:1 to security, which is too an emergent property of a complex system.
Integer Set Library: Study Notes
Planetary Annihilation is the poster child for optimizing for "Twitch streaming friendly" instead of actually producing a good game.
Ouch, this website needs some padding adjustments.
If you're retiring with a small farm, why are you concerned about the market prices of what you're producing? You're just eating it yourself / giving it to neighbors, right?

If you intend to sell it, well the differences of economy of scale of a small farm versus a large farm and the resulting cost difference alone should have been obvious. You wouldn't have been competing well in that market either, right?
Higher real estate prices, happy brokers, more private jets, more traffic, more bottle service, gentrification accelerated, and more post-pandemic conferences and speeches on how they will save the world.
To be honest, 80’s were the prime time. Things went downhill from then. Sure there is progress in medicine and productivity and what not. Just the general state of the world today is worse off than if we were to go back to 80’s with some hindsight on how to run the next 40 years.
Absolutely. I don't personally use a rubber duck when alone but we call it that in the team when you just wave someone over to your desk to talk something over (and now virtually in a quick call).

I personally have always liked writing down my "conclusions" so far into an evolving comment on a defect/bug ticket, which I only actually submit at the end when I've found the real issue. In the end you have a nice explanation of what exactly and why it went wrong and it helps with the actual debugging/thinking it through. And it also helps with the inevitable comments/questions in the PR when people wonder why the hell you are making the change you're making and you have something refer back to.
Inserting RFID chips under the skin is a cool hacker trend. Someone was using that to touch-on to public transport.
> For $5/month, you get world class in the cloud office/productivity tools + gazillion other services and email, SSO.

And if they ever decide to lock you out, you lose everything. That cheap price comes with a cost.
I have lots of old media:

- ancient family movies taken on super-8 film by my parents

- merely old VHS tapes recorded from the tv of weird things like an old superbowl where something was in red/blue 3D (+ paper/cellophane glasses)

- semi-old 8mm (minidv?) recording of hours of the news on 9/11/2001

some things I just pitched, like 9-track tapes, vinyl records, and windows 3.1 and XP era games on cd and floppy disks.. Maybe should have kept them.
Wow. I am not autistic but I do the exact same thing. Walking in a circle and talking to myself to solve a problem or come up with new ideas.

I work in an office but since Covid-19 I have been working remotely which has been extremely beneficial for me for this reason.
The only "real" issue with exceptions is binary size, and binary size does seem to be a rather specific goal of Orthodox C++ even though it's not explicit about that. But on any desktop or server deployment binary size is also so incredibly irrelevant it's not a good justification. On mobile maybe, but it's questionable. For embedded definitely, though.
I'd imagine the few billion number is high. The cost would likely prevent this from being deployed in the majority of the world.
Great list!

What do you mean by a life game in godot?

Also do you eat the mushrooms?

(Could you be convinced to take up bird watching?)
Not to people outside your truck though..
I suspect the reason you're downvoted is because so many small businesses HAVE been wiped out by FAANGs, and other megacorps. I mean, just look at the effects of the pandemic. Many independent retail stores in my city have closed up shop but Amazon is booming like never before. Even local restaurants that have switched to delivery, it's like they're barely scraping by (if they haven't already closed) but DoorDash etc. are raking it in.
That’d make a awesome anime.

The cracking sounds of the board, rigged dice, shady characters, a 40 something NEET with nothing left to lose, hell this thing writes itself!
I have 0 meetings with anyone that works with me. We’ve essentially eliminated all internal meetings. At least scheduled recurring ones.

I do, however, have roughly 10 meetings per week. These are with potential clients, existing clients (for feedback), external consultants (legal), investors, etc.

We are a startup, and as such, we all wear 10 different hats. Which means doing sales, admin, business, etc.
Could you be convinced to play disc golf?
How much does WASM matter for performance, or is it more about the convenience of only having to write Rust?
Is it quiet on the outside too?
> 33 greasers

There's a Liberty Ship that sails out of Baltimore at times [1] and if you go down into the engine room you can meet (or could 3 years ago) a greaser who sailed with these ships during WW II. They were the last mass-produced steam ships in the world [2].

[1]: https://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship#Propulsion
You can supply your own allocator for the STL
No way. You need income just to pay the ever increasing property taxes, the equiptment costs, etc.

The idea is to produce higher margin products, such as organics, honey, ir niche products.
Yeah, acronym overload is very strong here, MLM is Men Loving Men, thus the title is pretty funny on first reading.
Prior to the pandemic my phone could be reliably unlocked with my fingerprint, and I could access my bank accounts and confirm transactions with them.

Since the pandemic started, the extra regular and thorough hand-washing caused my phone to stop recognising my fingerprint most of the time.

Now to unlock I usually have to use another method instead, and some financial apps won't let me in or let me confirm transactions at all because they require the previously registered fingerprint, so I have to use the web version of those services.
Can you switch it off/on to hear the difference? Would be interested to know the difference perceived.

Are there any other cars that do this?
Try not to read condescension into things so easily. Eg I'm pretty sure that the line you quote,

> Don't use anything from STL that allocates memory, unless you don't care about memory management.

is not meant condescending but literally. Ergo, if you don't care about memory management (which is fine), then feel free to use lots of STL stuff.

Case in point: for lots of embedded software, memory matters a lot and it's important that it's obvious to the reader of the code what memory gets allocated where. The STL classes you quote make this harder to see. But if you have lots of RAM anyway (ie "you don't care about memory management") then this does not matter much.

A key goal of this list appears to be, I quote, "Projects written in Orthodox C++ subset will be more acceptable by other C++ projects". This particular guideline makes it more likely for your code to be deemed acceptable by embedded programmers so it seems to fit. I don't think it was intended to be condescending in any way. I think the same holds for the other points.

It could've definitely been written a bit clearer though.
I think this is credit card company policy and not specifically Stripe. IIRC, there is some language regarding using your own credit card because it could potentially be used to give yourself a loan. Credit cards have a much higher APR and lower limits for a cash advance. Processing your own cards could be used as an avoidance.
This is precisely why leaderboards suck. Instead of picking the single best contributor, do as the OP did and acknowledge all good contributors.
You’re not showing enough flair
The people who really got wiped out were Borders and Barnes & Noble. If you’re a small bookstore you actually have an niche now.

You can’t compete with Amazon’s virtually infinite selection and they can’t compete with your local presence and the physical experience and customer service you offer to your patrons. If you’re incapable of doing a good job with any of those then you’re toast, but then again maybe you shouldn’t have been running a small bookstore anyways.
Look at your friend's company and say "that's awesome, great for them", then move on with your life. Comparing isn't going to help if it's not used to improve yourself, and instead used as a way to meander in negativity.

Other opportunities will arise so just be on the lookout. You're around the right type of people for where you want to be so make sure you don't stop hanging out with then. As they say, you're just the average of the people you most associate with.

You could reflect on how you decided to not work with them. Do you have a clear framework or methodology that you use to guide your decision on choosing a startup? Does your framework/methodology need to be adjusted? Do you really want to go down the path? What in your eyes is true success?

I hope that helps.
When I try and connect to gdb (In-VM GNU gdb local debugger, /usr/local/bin/gdb) on MacOS (Big Sur, 11.0.1) I get the following exception:

java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: java.io.IOException: Could not detect GDB's interpreter mode
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Build Date: 2020-Dec-27 1528 CST
Ghidra Version: 9.3
Java Home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.2.jdk/Contents/Home
JVM Version: Oracle Corporation 11.0.2
OS: Mac OS X 10.16 x86_64
This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve read in a couple weeks. The world is better by nearly any measure than it was 40 years ago.
The root cause was the deregulation in the 90s and the removal of the Glass-Steagall act.

Complex systems are also simple systems when viewed as a black box from the out side. A lion always eats a gazelle given a chance and a bank always explodes if not regulated to within an inch of its life.

That people like to pretend internal complexity matches external complexity is a very odd mental quirk. It is false in both directions of implication. Conway's game of life is as simple a game as you can get yet it has the most complex behavior possible.
>There are branches of science whose theories are more often derived from data and observation than from axioms. Just because you may not be able to break something down into first principles, does not mean that the knowledge is useless.

Yes science is different from logic. Programming functions happens in a limited axiomatic world that simulates logic. This makes computer science a bright target for mathematical formalization. This is entirely different from science.

>It might be true that much of systems design is based on anecdotal evidence and intuition, but I don't think that's enough of a reason to ignore the field of design entirely.

I never said ignore the field. Often we have no choice. No one calculate the best work of art. Art is created by design.

>For example, the concept of abstraction in software design may be based primarily on the intuition that human beings are bad at holding too much complexity in their minds. But any software developer who has written more than one program will agree that abstraction is crucial to good design.

The concept of abstraction, good abstractions and bad abstractions can be separated from design and formalized into exact definitions. That is my argument.

The reasoning behind why a human would want to do that is irrelevant.
Don't you think vertical could have an impact in rain/fertile land starved areas like the israeli desert?
This is only 13%, so you could retract all of this and the only difference would be less "clinically confirmed" claims in commercials.
Yeah, I wasn't quite sure of that reading the article. I think to prove the usefulness of this hybrid SoC they did at least some of the development. There are situations where Xilinx makes a commodity product that you buy from a distributor, but based on almost nothing, I really suspect developing the software and logic of this system was a subaru/xilinx partnership, or maybe primarily Xilinx.
A 5 trillion GDP is bigger than every country beside the US and China. Japan is 4.9. Germany is 3.9.

But comparing market cap (wealth) to gdp (production) doesn't really make sense.

It would make more sense to compare revenues maybe?? Top 5 tech revenues would combine to about $1T - which still makes them bigger than all but 16 countries...
When I visit archaeological sites, I normally get ancy and can only stay for an hour or two. When I visited Pompeii, I stayed until was kicked out after 6+ hours. Walking through the huge city and all the life one could piece together was amazing. These people were no different from us in every appreciable way. They too probably hated their lousy ISP as much as we do.
Managers should code, but not at work
> Combined FAANG (say 10 biggest tech companies) is over 5 trillion dollars, more than a lot of countries' GDPs with sovereignty.

That's apples and oranges. More apt is the comparison of FAANG revenue to GDP.
Good luck!!!!
In this case your citation of the the Wikipedia page has no citation... any other news of what actually happened?
I asked the guy at the corner bookstore if it was zero sum, and he said no. Then he offered to sell me an Econ 101 textbook, but I got it on Amazon for 1/2 the price.

We both wonder how many shops have been wiped out. I also wonder how many online businesses have been created. I work with many online vendors who sell on Amazon that would not have been viable if they had to open a brick and mortar retail location.
Google docs absolutely sucks. Though at least it has driven the price down where I can get MS Office for a few $ more.
The full page display of selections seems like the most obvious difference to me.
GSuite can't just "lock you out" if you're paying, that's why there is a contractual relationship. There are all sorts of third party business relationships (e.g. banks, HR systems, counterparties, other SaaS products, etc.) that all companies depend on running smoothly, I don't see why GSuite is any different.
Pico-8: Doom
24/3 = 8

"An astonishing 8000 meters" is about as astonishing as 7,817

Machines are already 'correcting' our spelling, do we really want to lose our estimation skills too?
> I wonder if there's a port for web browsers...

I never looked it up, but based on my understanding of the fandom scene (which often produces technological innovations), I'm almost 100% certain that on the Internet, somewhere, some manga aficionados should have already compiled ONScripter to JavaScript using something like Emscripten, perhaps even with some prepackaged visual novels to play.
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It just needs to last longer than me. Bonus points if the kids don’t need to touch it.
This sounds the “why Tesla will never work argument.” Selling rich people what they want as a starting place to pioneer new technology is a good strategy even if it doesn’t feel good to you.
There are plenty of cash crops this would be perfect for.

They just aren't especially....legal at the current time.
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Were they wiped out by the pandemic, or Amazon?
The issue there is interaction between exceptions and deterministic destructors. In the end it means that there has to be some hidden code for every stack allocated object whose destruction could be skipped over by exception handling mechanism. There are various way to implement that, but all of them involves something that is "hidden code" and also the mythical "overhead for feature you don't use".

Another giant issue with C++'s "if you don't use a feature you don't pay for it" and interactions of various features with each other is that features you do use tend to be horribly expensive. It seems to me that authors of C++ tend to use some antiquated model of what "runtime cost" means which totally ignores effects of cache locality and code size.
Because the inputs to those processes (raw materials, energy, maintenance, and a bit of labor) all cost money/are limited?
I believe RISC-V follows a pretty simple rule, where one looks at destination register only. Intel CPUs have been doing macro fusion for years. And they had to tack that on in hindsight. I don't see why RISC-V cannot make this much simpler than Intel since they are deliberately designing their instructions to work well with macro-op fusion, something Intel never did.

If Intel is able to do it I have trouble seeing why RISC-V cannot do it when they are even planning for it. I don't buy this complexity argument at all. It doesn't add up.
Does the query engine support any boolean operations, or is it just finding documents that contain every (stemmed) input word?
Introducing Directus 9
There were games running on WinCE? As a Dreamcast owner I'm blown away. I only knew the home screen and browser were built on top of Windows CE. I was under the impression games were developed closer to the metal for performance.