skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show me an affordable house in on the edge of NYC in the "undesirable" neighborhoods. Even if you pick neighborhoods past where subway lines end (a very undesirable quality for city property to have) that also happen to be high crime areas it is still too expensive for anyone to purchase. Like two examples look at New Lots/East New York and South Ozone Park/Jamaica. Both fit my description above, they are at the very edge of subway access, and are high crime areas, and both are too expensive for normal middle class people to buy property in.

Contrast this with great people I've met who are ~60 now, who just stumbled into the east village/alphabet city in the 1980s in their mid-20s and bought up cheap houses while bumming around paycheck to paycheck. What area of NYC or the valley can I do that in now? If the answer is none, and you can't point me to a city in the midwest or south where buying up cheap affordable property IS going to turn me into a multimillionaire when I'm ~50 what does that mean for our growth/stagnation culturally and as a country? This is the difference, there is no place that even has the faintest whiff of a city that is about to take off where such gains would even be possible.

In other countries that have similar issues in Europe, where a lot of cities are unbelievably expensive there are two solutions that you see a lot. One is that it is culturally common to live with your entire extended family and not be able to afford a house, and the second is welfare or new home ownership incentives that make it more viable. "Rugged Individualism" in American mindsets and cultures makes both options seem untenable but clearly we have to adapt.
I actually love how much the HN community is invested in demonizing Bitcoin for its energy consumption.

It gives us, the ones who understand Bitcoin, more time to enter the market before it runs yet another full cycle.

I truly wish for you bashing Bitcoin to keep all your wealth allocated in assets associated with fiat currencies.

I also wish that you spend lots of time running political narratives in order to stop a decentralized piece of technology from growing.

Good luck trying to reach out the Bitcoin CEO in order to ask him to shut down his "environmentally damaging operations".

In 5 years time, however, once the US dollar has lost 50% of its purchase power, you'll be begging your employer to pay you in Bitcoin.

By that time you'll conveniently forget the narrative about energy consumption.

You'll even claim that Bitcoin is one of the most important technologies ever invented, and that you always believed in it.

Screenshot this.
100Mbps UP will never happen because large uploads are considered undesirable. Providers want us to consume not produce content.
Where I grew up (Inland Empire in Southern California), gleek was slang for spitting droplets of water from under your tongue. I'd never be able to dissociate the name from this. Similar to people who associate Gimp with certain things.

https://youtu.be/BV4ZeNvXfhk
> Modern compilers will not create a copy assignment, if that is what you are afraid of.

Probably, but using the canonical syntax removes all doubt, following the C++ language specification. That's a small but real disadvantage in robustness when using the unnecessary assignment, and I'm not aware of any reason to favour using it.
Turkey goes to a further extreme. You cannot even call a criminal a criminal after it has served the punishment.
As a canadian software engineer who owns no real estate, i beg to differ. (Before anyone says ancedote != data, this article has no data only ancedotes)
You are clewrly juwtifying slavery. Wvery single white supremacist uses this rhetoric:

Native Americans enslaved each other so they needed white Europeans to civilize them.

Africans enslaved each other and sold them to us so it was OK to make avaracian fortunes doing the same.

You enslaved Africans so it is only fair play for them to invade your nation, rape your women and enslave your populace.
That cache is that big because the decode and ROB are so wide. If AMD or Intel's current designs widened the L1, it wouldn't make a difference. In fact, AMD reduced L1 cache size from 64k to 32k from Zen 1 to Zen 3.

x86 needs to find a way to scale decoders without blowing the power budget. Given that the decoders are already bigger than the integer units, I suspect that will be a hard thing to do.
That issue serves to prove that the line between "highly skilled troll" and "exceptionally earnest individual" is very fine!
The ability to reflect on inputs (or even on internal processes) doesn’t necessarily imply a subjective experience—which is what most people mean by consciousness even if they’re unclear about it. Taken generously, it would be appropriate to replace “consciousness” in the GP’s argument with “the subjective experience”. In so doing I think I’d be hard-pressed to argue with his claims.
Reason I went AT&T fiber was actually the dual up and down. I get 1Gbps up which helps uploading photos, videos, etc.
I presumed it was because pushing people back to Reddit-wide serps led to some conversion goal.

How else could something so stunningly opposite user intent persist this long?

It is customer-hostile but something to get away with.
Sense of smell predicts your overall health
That’s not something I felt before lockdowns, I was already working remotely from home and had no issues with it. But since COVID, and more precisely since my country of residence started their latest lockdown (now 4+ months in and no way to know when it will end), I really have difficulty staying focused.

Something I’m currently experimenting with is to practice sport outside and more regularly. I just got a bike with the goal to go outside a bit every day or so, and relieve my anxieties and other sources of tensions.

That worked for me in the past with other types of sports but all sport facilities (swimming pools, squash courts, bouldering areas, etc) are currently closed here. So let’s see if biking helps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey, you're dead, though I'm seeing a lot of perfectly fine comments from you that contribute valuable things to discussions. You might want to do something about that.
I'm also curious about game engines and I'm wondering why you didn't list Unity. It seems like the default for a lot of mobile game projects. I've heard for 2D it's a bit of a glutton, since it's ultimately a 3D pipeline. Is that why?
Given the employment rate over the last 30 years has stayed relatively stable at around 60% (https://www.statista.com/statistics/192398/employment-rate-i...) and unemployment had never gone above 10% prior to covid in the same time frame (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate) I've wondered what the breakdown is of the remaining 30-35%
Tonic: The Fake Data Company
>a boom in use that threatens to undo all of our progress and then some

Then we're back to policing people's energy use. There will be little ROI in going down this path, and a huge opportunity cost.

This is all not to mention the incentives driving crypto. We have many smart minds engaging in this realm - imagine if those same minds were allocated, via a better economic system, to improving our energy production and distribution. Addressing that dilemma is real policy. Unfortunately, in the West we play whack-a-mole and end up with policies to address the effects of prior policies.
And decreasing household size.
The incumbents are not building out new capacity or upgrading, which is why the whole conversation is happening. They're going to maintain regardless of what the politician does.
My comparison period was 1900 to 1920.
That's where the Signature header comes in. The host can sign the resource and the client can verify the digest and signature. If you're trusting the TLS connection you'd have the same amount of trust in the resource signature.
Something that's helped for me, and frankly isn't possible for everyone depending on their living situation, is to keep an "office", in any way you can. The other thing I do is try to, even ever-so slightly, diversify my schedule.

I work from a laptop and desk in my bedroom, and in the evening if I want to do "computery" thing, I move down to my basement where I've a gaming rig set up. There, I can work on side projects, play video games with friends, etc...

The only rule I make is that I can't work on side-projects on my laptop, or work on my main work on my second rig.

In terms of diversifying my schedule, I try to not work on any one thing for more than 2 hours. I force myself to either work on something else, take a coffee break, or literally anything else.
Yep, big city here, 1G/1G fiber to my apartment for $80. It’s supply and demand.
You really only wanted CGA when you had to do something graphical. The nicest thing you could probably say was it was better than nothing. For most purposes, it was better to just use text monochrome. (There was monochrome graphics with Hercules and some other proprietary variants but they were never very widely supported.)
Handshake TLD .c has moved into the top TLDs
But their offspring would figure that out before long.
Congrats Joan hope you make lots of dollars out there.
> …in terms of the “creators experience” we have yet to see the parallel of Flash…

Flash Professional lives! It has a different name and targets multiple standards-based formats (HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR, SVG) now: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
> prop up the status quo.

> play to the confirmation bias of their audience

I wonder how much overlap their is between the two. It seems to me that lately, if anything, the media pushes the narrative that the status quo is hopelessly corrupt in order to confirm to their audiences conformation bias.

People on all sides of the political spectrum are eating up stories about who's to blame, whether it's the government or the billionaires or probably, more typically, both with the assumption that whatever both are doing is at the expense of the common man.

I'm not trying to imply that those stories are accurate or inaccurate, just that they are the stories you see rising to the top of reddit or FB or other social platforms as proof of what the poster believes.
They do rehabilitation but only as a side effect of imprisonment, not intentionally.
> when's the last time you heard of a famine or major war in the 1st world?

Does what we're doing (I'm Team USA) in the Middle East count?

In re: expectations of a stable future and the pros and cons of modern civilization, in the USA more people have died in car accidents than in all the wars we've fought.
Container Plumbing Days (March 9-10)
What Martin Odersky (Scala) said about Phil Bagwell (HAMT) when he died
Pretty much. It was a queryable, flat file spreadsheet verging on what we would call a NoSQL these days. Referential disintegrity.
How do you jump from lack of motivation to a diagnostic of depression?!
While tongue in cheek, I do entertain this idea sometimes.

What I meant was, if one could quantify the minimizing of the output of CO2 by greatly accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles, and largely credit that to Musk, would that make him the “coolest?”
> incumbents are not building out new capacity or upgrading, which is why the whole conversation is happening

Look up your local telco monopoly and look at the number of field offices, warehouses, et cetera they have. It's substantial. That's because telecom is tough. It's also because it wins contracts.
It doesn’t take years to pass a bill. In fact a bill can be passed more quickly than a regulation because it just takes a few votes whereas with a regulation there are unavoidable notice and comment periods.

I’d say that your “this is necessary for efficiency reasons” model is, if not simplistic, than at least naive.

We’ve moved to a system where Congress has abdicated the legislative role almost entirely not because it is impossible for legislatures to legislate (after all some countries combine the legislature and executive) but because feckless Members of Congress have found that doing nothing except carping from the sidelines is a pretty good gig.
Correct no repo yet, and you are right everything is client side, it uses client side encryption, everything is in the HTML. I guess adding a repo will convince some people so I will add that to my work backlog, the repo should be up soon, thanks for the suggestion!
Indeed. If you reject that "the room as a whole" speaks Chinese, you reject functionalism. If you think philosophical zombies are conceivable, this is also a rejection of functionalism. Ultimately the acceptance or rejection of functionalism is (as far as I can tell) only a matter of dogma, and these two arguments serve to find out which dogma you (implicitly) subscribe to.

Personally I place the rejection of functionalism on basically the same level as the acceptance of dualism. I don't know what precisely has happened to make most serious researchers reject dualism, but perhaps non-functionalism will run the same course.
Related: Ice Pilots NWT was a reality show (free on prime video) about an airline company called Buffalo airways in the northwest territory of Canada. They fly in and out of very remote, iced over regions, with VERY old aircraft, and it’s fascinating to watch.
Having worked with riders, there are a lot of things that folks ask for but which get clarified by communication.

When a request is super specific, weird, and hard to fill, it usually gets pushed back on, at least in my world.

My understanding of the "check" is that you get a call from the person advancing the show to ask about the strange demand, not that you verify compliance.
The thing to remember about philosophy is that philosophy is more akin to mathematics than to science. It's the exercise of taking some postulates and forming a theory atop the assumption the postulates are true. Whether the philosophy you end up with actually reflects reality is a function of whether those postulates map to real things... The philosophy can (and, in history, many times, has) live independently of the postulates, describing an interesting, self-consistent world that just isn't real.

Aristotle described matter as being made up of atoms, and he's first-order-approximation correct, but his mechanistic details of how they worked were extremely wrong. Descartes' famous "I think, therefore I am" proof rests extremely heavily on an assertion he makes earlier in the Discourse where he combats the hypothesis that he's just a brain in a jar being fed lies by an evil demon by asserting that the God that would allow that reality would be a really shitty god, so he dismisses it out of hand. It's through scientific investigation that we came to discover which parts of Aristotle's philosophy matched reality and which can be discarded (and we lack the scientific insight, as of yet, to have strong evidence for or against that evil-demon brain-in-a-jar hypothesis. ;) ).

There are a thousand, thousand algebras that are internally-consistent but ultimately uninteresting because they map to nothing we observe in the universe, and then there's linear algebra. There are a thousand, thousand philosophies that are internally-consistent hot garbage, and then there's Jung. To say "Jung described this, why did it take science so long to discover it?" is like saying "Complex wave functions already describe quantum mechanics; why did it take physicists so long to realize that?"

Now, what philosophy does gift us with (if it's grounded in strong logical consistency) is a roadmap of where to look next if we notice that things in reality do align to the postulates, because the philosopher has already imagined, in vivid detail, the consequences of those assertions. And that is extremely cool.
Fantastic, didn’t know that was possible
Didn't realize we had anti-vaxxers in the Millenial/Gen-Z demographic but I guess idiots know no bounds...
I will be the first to admit that the way I'm doing things is not conducive to creating something robust, sustainable, or actually allow me to ship a game like using Godot or parts of Godot would. But my needs are different then most. There are two main things I'm trying to get out of my work right now.

1. My main priority is learning the D programming language. Making games just provides a useful project/goal for doing that

2. My target platform is a Raspberry Pi 3 running Freebsd with about 400mb of ram free after all background processes are loaded. I want to develop _and_ work on my game on the Raspberry Pi 3, which means it needs to be performant and light on resources.

From the ground up I need to work with the Raspberry Pi's hardware specs in mind, or I will easily create something unplayable on it. Opening the Godot Editor on the Pi and trying to do any work in it is a painful experience (I've tried), but my workflow allows me to do this.
How do you know there is a difference between a conscious being and a glass of water? I'm not saying the glass of water is conscious. Let's say it isn't. What tells you that an animal is any different?
I completely forgot about Brackets, despite having spent too many night shifts in it. And yet I’m kinda sad to see it go.

What a joy it was to use back then.
And let's not forget Btrieve. Prior to my Clipper work, I did a lot of work building an estimation and accounting system based on Btrieve databases, using an obscure system called TAS Professional. Evidently it still survives in some incarnation: http://www.cassoftware.com/tas/manual/index.html?btrievesetu...
I remember seeing something like this on a test in grade school; if I recall correctly, there were instructions at the top under the "name" field to not write your name there, but write it on the back instead. Following those instructions would comprise some small portion of the total grade.

In hindsight, I'm not sure what the point was of checking who was reading the instructions closely on a test...
> Around 10% of applicants actually fill out the form.

That is a very good sign that it is you who is doing something wrong, not the applicants.
Right I know the van down by the river sketch with Chris Farley, but the parent post is almost definitely using the verb “vanned” to mean the app will get disappeared.
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My current favorite is chunked encoding.

Does amazon.com really make it's page more performant by sending 25 chunks less than 2k, some less than 50 bytes, while I'm trying to grab 115k for a page?

It's all so weird to me.
Highly recommend the MIT course on the human brain if you have the time, absolutely amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216634
Agreed, RES has done more work to make Reddit usable than the reddit team has for the past few years.

Granted, RES has a different charter and goals.
See also: Anders Hoff AKA Inconvergent

https://inconvergent.net

Previous hn discussions on the above:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=inconvergent.net
https://tildes.net by an ex-reddit staffer. Small yet, but decent.

Otherwise, HN, Metafilter.
Interesting. I have a 2015, 2017 mbp and m1 MBA sitting here. The 2017 is the worst of the bunch in terms of fan noise and heat. It is faster than the 2015, and both are 15". I don't have a 16", so maybe they fixed some of the issues on that one.
This is an area where the cynical conventional wisdom just doesn't hold up to actual facts. Congress made it illegal for localities to grant monopolies back in 1992. Many municipalities are trying to get more competition, not block it. But they insist on imposing public interest obligations that make it unfeasible to build competing systems.

Baltimore, for example, tried to get Google Fiber several years ago, and actively solicited competitors to Comcast: https://www.wypr.org/post/why-comcast-one-and-only-cable-and...

> “We’ve, in fact, asked other cable operators if they’re interested in coming into the city and, so far, nobody else is,” says Minda Goldberg, a chief solicitor in the city’s Law Department.

> She was explaining things to Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke during a hearing on Sept. 22 on the renewal of Comcast’s 12-year-old franchise agreement. Clarke had asked if the agreement was an exclusive one with Comcast.

> Franchise agreements between a local government and cable operator are non-exclusive. That means anyone with the money can operate in Baltimore. And under federal regulations, the agreements apply only to cable television service.

The reason Comcast is a monopoly in Baltimore isn't "political donations." It's because the city insists that any competitor must build out to the whole city--which means running fiber to vast swaths of the city where people are too poor to pay what it would cost to recoup the investment. That, in turn, would force the company to recoup that investment from paying customers, which would drive up prices compared to the cable that's already in the ground.
Not existing is better than existing? Suicide rates should be 99% then right, because if you’re not a 1%er it’s not worth living.

That said, I do fear my kid will live to see something we’ve made apocalyptic movies about. Hell, we all might.
They may not recover.

The pandemic didn't craft a new future, so much as accelerate the timetable of the one that was coming anyway.

Working from home took off because corp's legacy-driven resistance was eroded by catastrophic events rather than typical ones.
Don’t mean to butt in, but personally, the fact that I’m typing this on a piece of $300 hardware (phone) that would have cost millions in the 80’s, hundreds of thousands in the 90’s, and definitely over a thousand in the 00’s is a good indicator.
Exactly. auto is only useful in contexts where the type is expected to be inferred (by the compiler).
A bigger battery means more room to boost clocks higher. A larger die means not just more CPU cores, but probably 2-4x the GPU performance.
Technically is a very valid opinion if you're writing software that needs to be robust and secure in the face of user input. std::set is guaranteed to be logarithmic strictly in the number of comparisons in the worst case without exception.

std::unordered_set has some very difficult to reason about worst case scenarios that must factor in both the size of the collection and the hash function. Unless you are very careful about the type of hashing you use, you can easily be vulnerable to DDOS attacks that scale on the order of O(k * n) for key size k and container size n.
This was not how the system was designed to work and it doesn’t seem to be working. Correlation is not causation but it is pretty suggestive that government worked better before Congress stoped legislating in the 1980s.
I pay for 200/10 Mbps and out of hundreds of tests, I have never gotten less than 235/11 and usually get 260/12 on hybrid cable (fiber backbone, DOCSIS 3.0 32x8 local loop) from Comcast.
If you show me a cool wood car you built and I go home and make one for myself, did I steal it from you?

In what way is copying "taking something"?
Ads? Not sure what you're referencing here.
This is pretty close to what you'll pay/get in a lot of US urban areas as well. $65/mo for 1Gbps symmetric here in Cincinnati, Ohio.