skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when do you ask for a personal opinion vs a google search

Never, unless the "personal opinion" requested is for a private matter. Any
broad, technical question such as OP's is always LMGTFY.
When you saw someone on AIM, at least during dialup days, it meant you will get his/her attention. They were logged into engage in real-time conversation. You just don’t have that level of communication anymore. Most online conversations are asynchronous.
The benefits cliff of health insurance is so real, and those cliffs exist all over the place (an example is in the SUNY system for tuition). Universal programs without means testing seem like such a better way to run things. If you have a somewhat right wing philosophy: it allows the truly exceptional individuals of every cohort to reach their potential. For left wingers: it is giving equally to everyone's shared needs from society as a whole.
And with every macOS update you should do it again and again. Just another not useful tip.
That appears to be answered in the following sentences:

> I asked Benedict if it is worth migrating my website from .in to .com. He replied that in his personal opinion, NIXI runs an excellent, clean registry, and are very responsive in resolving issues when they arise. He also added that domain generation algorithms (DGAs) of malware are equally, and possibly more, problematic for .com domains. He advised against migrating my website.
Only until TSMC becomes irrelevant because US will have gained the same manufacturing capabilities.
I bet this feature, relating to in game purchasing options, was retro-fitted by some non-core dev team who delivered it to spec and fixed cost
So what actually happened? Neither OP nor linked press articles seem to really explain it.

(There's a joke somewhere in here about how readable Perl is.)
Screenshots of UIs are going unnoticed
The rules being unchanged don't make something just. If BTC had granted 99% of all coins ever to be mined to Satoshi would that be just?
Little League whistleblower coming in 3... 2... 1.
His discussion of Ada (not all upper case -- can the HN title be changed?) is interesting, but his criticism of Fortran, although colorful ("eldritch"?) , is vague and likely uninformed. I program in Fortran 95 a lot and can easily understand my code years later.

"Admittedly, I had pictured Ada’s syntax resembling the uncompromising verbosity and rigid construction of COBOL, or perhaps the Lovecraftian hieroglyphics of Fortran’s various eldritch incarnations."
It was this past year (and I don’t like zoom) so I’ve had zero interaction with classmates.

If this situation wasn’t so stupid and anger inducing, I think I’d be much more depressed about it.
That's definitely worth thinking about, but I just don't know if it outweighs having high quality applicants that really know what they're doing in office. Politics is (or at least should be) a difficult specialist position.
> almost all people lack empathy

There isn't any empirical assessment that agrees with that. A lack of empathy is narcissism, which only applies to a small percentage of any population according to most of the research on this subject.
It's amazing that we're at a point where the next step after "I figured out an interesting variation of Maxwell's Demon" is to actually build the demon and try it out.
Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
Yes, until US builds the same manufacturing potential on-shore.
Distributing whatever was in the repo. Requiring a copy of the game doesn't magically make it legal. A modded game is a derivative work.
Hmmm... in that case I wonder if such offerings exist in the US?
> a pretty bottom-barrel ford leases for 300-400 a month

Ford leases seem to be expensive for some reason, and not indicative of the overall market. For instance, a base model Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic can be leased for $160/month, with $0 down. With $1000 down, these figures are close to $100/month.

> A company is looking to pay a person as little as they can and keep them, so a person’s pay is determined by how rare their skills are and how much demand there is for those skills

> I mentioned this before, but I can work on cars, and I’m able to do anything less complex than a full engine or transmission rebuild

I’m sure becoming a mechanic has crossed the author’s mind at some point. I’d love to hear their thoughts on this.
What you described is how sensitive a fighting game is. Which need to be 60FPS because moves are made within that limit with startup frames, active frames and move recovery on block vs whiff. The only FPSs that come close to FG levels of reaction/inputs is Quake, Unreal and maybe CSGO.
Europeans get 'right to repair' for some electrical goods
> In many European countries, renewables provide over 30% of the consumed electricity.

That fraction is not very important, unless you can name at least a country who is ready to devote all its renewable enrgy to 30% of their people/services/industries and permanently disconnect them from traditional energy sources.
Seriously, some responses here are mildly bewildering in the extent people can't relate their life experience to actual poverty.
The Las Vegas Deadly Sin
Yeah, I couldn't tell whether "1-year revenue share" meant annual or
one-time. Since it's one-time, I don't know why you even entertained it.
> Hindsight is 20/20, but it sounds like you're saying that even with hindsight closing AIM was the right call.

It was the right call. AIM was losing money with no obvious way to monetize it. AOL was not in the same position than Microsoft was. They had little experience selling to pro customers and they were bleeding users to Google Talk and Facebook Messenger at the time.

Even knowing that the mobile market would explose in popularity, it is far from obvious that AIM would have even been positionned to benefit from it. Google Talk was really popular then and notoriously failed to convert that into a leading position in the mobile market.
Any plans to integrate with dagster for pipeline orchestration (instead of airflow)?
Buildings take up a major proportion of the carbon and energy budget. Consider contributing to EnergyPlus[0]:

> EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.

There are a ton of open issues...

[0] https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus
Climate change will require a combination of technological advancement, policy change, and market incentives and alignment for it to be fully change. We need to make green energy cheaper to use than other forms of energy.
> you can't just assume that because their solution solved their problem without running into edge-cases

I agree in general, but there’s a class of general problems with good solutions. Such libraries tend to just work. Like database engine, XML/JSON parser, multimedia codecs. If you pick the most popular and compatible one, like sqlight or libpng, you’re very likely get your problem solved without too many edge cases.
> In some areas like cement the only option seems to be carbon capture and storage. There's no way whatsoever that a cement plant + a ccs plant is cheaper than a cement plant alone.

Yet, improving the cement plant and the carbon capture one makes it much easier for a government to intervene and require zero emissions.

We'll get aviation and steel production to use synthetic fuels in due time, and we will have plastics produced from captured CO2. Yes, those are more expensive, but nobody is saying that the solution should be left entirely to the market. But neither of them make any sense right now, and that's because the technology isn't there.
Those barcharts are painful watch and to try and decipher. Who in their sane mind would use different shades of gray for different values?
its not like you update everyday, once a month seems like a fair trade if it’s convenient.
> Beneath all the complexity and sleekness underlying the tools we use every day seems to eventually lie a system of IOUs, with an honor-based resolution mechanism between sufficiently trustworthy entities.

This is how societies - in the end - work. It is all about trust, I think.

And although there are forces to undermine that fundamental trust, it does still work.
Evolution of kube-rs in 2021 (Kubernetes rust client)
> What do I have to add to my kernel command line?

Paranoid users of Ubuntu and Debian can install this package:
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/hardening-runtime . Then reboot.

It disables SMT, so independently of mitigations you won’t be vulnerable, but of course Hyper-Threading will be gone.
Time was we had a labor movement and you're right: it took extraordinary actions on both sides to move the state of affairs back then.
Gitlab runners have been having degraded performance since Thursday
It's not a fair comparison, coal was pretty much the only game in town and at a time when understanding of pollution only related to local level.

Yes its unfair but at the end of the day its the developing countries that will be hit hardest by climate change, not the west. I do agree we should subsidise clean energy around the world though.
> There's nothing that prevents us from doing so with the technology of today if we're prepared to ...

We are not prepared to, neither do we want to.
Glide (YC W19) is hiring engineers to dramatically simply software development
FPS of a new RTX 2080Ti compared to one used for 18 months of crypto mining
The short answer is your idea of how things work in the US is incorrect. Building a bridge certainly doesn't require an act of Congress. Explaining transportation funding in the US is complicated because the responsibility for road building is mostly a state and local government issue and there is a variety of systems from state to state.

Federal funding to help states usually involves two methods. The first is transportation block grants where the federal government gives states money to use towards transportation at their discretion within certain constraints. The other is funding for specific projects. This funding generally involves the state applying to the federal department of transportation for funds toward a specific project. The department of transportation provides these funds out of a pool of money allocated by Congress each year. Congress plays no formal role in how these funds are disbursed. The department of transportation decides using defined set of criteria.

In the past Congress would sometimes earmark funds toward specific projects. This is rare these days as most earmarking of funds is against current congressional rules.
I've observed that brushes with mortality or ill-health can also quickly alter one's perspective. Once one gets the perception that there's a threat of being physically unable to work for much longer, I think the drive to have an increasingly large "safety net" can become very strong.
Ormat: Dirty Dealings in ‘Clean’ Energy
The Great Sleepy Savior, Joe Biden, will not allow that to happen (for free)
> [not IP address]

Are you saying an IP isn't / can't be personal data or am I misunderstanding the sentence?
> Until the 80s

You mean until Chernobyl?
I agree. I learnt nothing from it.
Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia (2018)
Pouët.net: your online demoscene resource
For the wealthy, a car is expensive but mostly a convenient way to get around. For the poor, car maintenance costs can be ruinous. However, our society (excluding a few large cities) all but requires a car for day-to-day activities. Everyone drivers, but the poor bear the brunt of the cost, since they are more likely to live near noisy, polluted roads. Meanwhile, the wealthy can afford to live on quiet suburbs and cul-de-sacs. Cities and infrastructure designed for cars ("car dependency") disproportionately hurts the poor.
I found my job at CarbonCure on the whoishiring thread. Sometimes we post here, but you can keep an eye on the careers page.
Shepard Fairey Announces NFT Drop on SuperRare
Previous discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17089175
Please check. Got below response from chrome

This site can’t be reached
www.corrily.com took too long to respond.
> I feel like someone stopping maintenance of a private server is way more likely than the most popular chat client at the time shutting down eventually.

I have been hosting my own Matrix homeserver and my 4+ years of service life seems to be longer than 80% of Google services... :)

(Admittedly I am just joking with this apples-to-oranges comparison, but sometimes it sure does feel like major corporations are trending towards shorter and shorter service lifetimes for their offerings... and this is coming from someone who rode the Google+ train all the way to the last station!)
Do you have nulbers to back that ?

As it happens, I'm coding on the 6502 for fun (demo maker :-)). And of course, I want to build my own super coll tools to help my development. However, I always come to the same conclusion : developping tools makes sense only if other people will use it (ie the effort I put in that must be amortized).

Now, if you say the 6502 is still a thing, then I may have some incentive to complete these tools...
I don't think this remark is warranted here. Your sentence ("3.27 times faster") is clear, but conveys the same meaning. His sentence ("loading times are cut down by 70%") does not refer to "speed" or "fast" (Ctrl+F the blog post to check for yourself) and is technically correct and clear. So the criticism raised in the WordPress article (about the usage of the words "speed" and "fast") does not apply. The mistake would have been to talk about "70% faster" or a "70% speed-up", because then there is ambiguity for the reader.
Through 3 landlords I only got a security deposit back once. Both times it was claimed they needed the money to repaint the apartment (I didn't damage the walls or even put anything up on them).
There is some speculation involved with stocks, but they are fundamentally different from gold, btc, or art because they are productive assets. They aren't just a thing that sits on the ground and does nothing. They represent some small portion of actual factual work done by human beings to produce goods or services. This is why buying the diversified stock market is investing and buying the diversified crypto market is speculating.

There is risk involved in both, but they aren't identical.
In reality (in the UK), those references precede your current landlord getting to check your apartment's condition out. By the time the landlord has ascertained the state of the property, the reference has usually been given.
I would argue the opposite, that its mainly a technical problem that has been coopted by a political movement.

The technical problem should be (roughly), how can we continue to enjoy our lives and the standard of living we have achieved, and continue to bring more of the world to that level, in a way that is sustainable long term. There are lots of promising routes to making this happen, and we have already seen lots of progress towards reducing environmental impact.

But there are people that want to move backwards, to reduce our standard of living, to reduce our freedom to make our own choices, and to enforce some kind of forced mediocrity that will help ration our natural resources. I reject this (and weaker versions of it) and believe there is more to be gained by focusing on progress than on telling people what to do.
Selling a Newsletter for 5-Figures
In central London just 600sqft can easily cost you a million pounds... The place I rented when I lived there was a bit smaller and was for sale at 950k asking price.
People learn in different ways and underlying truths are passed better with more relevant examples for specific audience.

Many might not create something completely new and original, but creating something new just for it to be new is bullsh*t too.

If the fundamental truths are already there, and one can mix it for a new platform, add some commentary and find new ways to make it accesible for new audiences - he is creating something valuable nonetheless.
Why a YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech
In the current age of post-truth this may be considered a heresy, but how about you know...

Telling the truth instead of manipulating people? Say that it is challenging if it is. Say that it is supportive if it is? List the requirements that are required?
It's a great language to learn as a gateway for language design, but I think what turns people off are unrealistic expectations.

Haskell has warts, as do all languages. Something that's tedious in one language might be a breeze in another. In Haskell, most of the baggage I've seen is around

- Cabal: seems the best advice is to just start with Stack
- Delayed exceptions: due to lazy evaluation (which is a really great feature once you get used to it!), the site where you trigger an exception may not be anywhere near the actual exception-generating site. For example, if you call head on an empty list, then return that as a result only to have it be used far later, it will go "boom" at some later time. This is also true for I/O things: perhaps the file I/O way deep down in some thunk was closed due to an error, so some code that is not equipped to handle errors gets an exception.

Michael Snoyman has a great series of blog posts about this [0], i.e. "Haskell the Bad Parts 1-3". Most of this is managed by not using some of the defaults or with practice. Just be aware that like any language, there will be areas that may not have the greatest behavior.

That said, I think these confusing behaviors are very limited in Haskell, much more so than in C++ for instance.

[0] https://www.snoyman.com/blog/
Scandal, Murder and Spies in the Wild, Hidden History of Washington, D.C
What do you mean by "statistical propensity to exaggerate their abilities"? How can you measure that without already knowing enough to just select applicants directly without considering which ad they responded to or who exaggerated more?
car/cdr have historic origin all the way back to the fifties. It made sense when creating the languages for familiarity. In essence it's a pair of data and can be used in any which way you feel like. Understanding that makes for a powerful tool, which is why many functional experts so stubbornly hang on to them. Many functional languages have types as a first class citizen, and you can define abstractions on top of what you already have. If you put a cons cell as the data, you have created a tree structure as an example where car points children of a node and cdr points to the next sibling of a node.
Oh that's odd! It's hosted on webflow... Is it still not working for you?
I wonder what UK's strategy was when they made that decision. It was clear they'd have no leverage in enforcing the agreement. I've also always wondered why there was so much investments in HK based on expectation that the status-quo would prevail.

I feel really bad for the situation and what it suggests about the future. Yet I can't help but feel this was inevitable.

Taiwan however seems a couple orders of magnitude less likely on the short/medium term, I believe, unless the US loses it's edge quite dramatically. That's all just my speculation.
> Why don't you think ...

It's not what I think: it's what we can be sure of!

If we ever get to the point where we can keep the same living standards as of today, with no fossil and no nuclear, well: let it be!

Should we push for it? Yes, we should!

Should we pay more taxes in order to push for it? Yes, we should!

Should we bet on it and risk our living standards? No, thank you!
I've just learned that we will soon be hiring a couple more software engineers, though we are in the UK:

https://www.indra.co.uk/
Covid-19 Revealed a United and Monolithic Media/Tech Complex
Avoid AWS and K8S.
I'd imagine the generated code could be hardened similar to the code generated by clang ASAN, UBSAN and TSAN, and also wouldn't generate code that depends on undefined behaviour in the first place. Or you could do a little detour through WASM:

https://kripken.github.io/talks/2020/universal.html#/

In any case, that's better than shrugging off esoteric platforms, IMHO.
Probably rule out activist EU stuff.
Having palatable tech solutions would mean not making unpalatable political choices.

The only answer is to tackle the issue from both a technological point of view and a political one. Waiting for someone to find a tech solution, and then failing to find one, will make things so much worse.
CrowdSec – Open-Source Security Automation Tool and Multiplayer Firewall
Have DBA'd a huge instance with pgperlu in this role. 10/10, It just works.
You can use Amex points directly on Amazon purchases. Not the most efficient use but generally what I do.

However if you return an item bought with points you may have to call to have them refunded. Which isn’t a hassle but worth considering. I just only use them on something I’m very sure I won’t return.
> People (who already use a memory-safe language!) shouldn't be complaining when their crypto gets rewritten in a memory-safe language. If they are, someone shat the bed.

Or they’re resistant to change and are going to complain about anything which means they have to learn something new. I mean, if you listened to the current crop you’d think that C builds worked perfectly everywhere whereas it hasn’t even been a week since I’ve to debug a C-based extension install on an Alpine container.

In reality, a large fraction of Python cryptography users switched without issues. They just didn’t take to the forums to say that it was working fine or that they were not unhappy because they didn’t derive some portion of their self image from mastery of a half century-old systems programming language.

> In re: complexity of Rust vs. C: The measure of complexity of a system isn't the ergonomics of the tooling, it's the time/effort for a newbie to achieve competence, eh?

I’d really seriously question whether it’s correct to assume that it’s easier to learn C plus 50 years of add-on libraries to get close to Rust-level functionality and internalizing all of the patterns people use to work around the unsafe and/or unfixable bits. That Rust newcomer will almost certainly have multithreaded code working safely while their C counterpart is acquiring some deep debugging experience. The higher level structures are a huge win and the frictional cost of not having core language support for basic tasks like text processing mean a lot of frictional costs go from being easily missed runtime mistakes or hard to debug crashes to IDE warnings or compile time errors.
> Sure, but I’d argue that the replacement rate itself is at an unsustainable level.

...I don't know what that even means. Or do you just mean, "we already have too many people, the population needs to go down"?

Probably the biggest thing you could do, I'd say, would be to politically support pro-environment measures. There's a lot of "yes, but..." Americans who only support 'green' regulations and whatnot when it will not cause the slightest inconvenience to them. E.g.

"Yes I support bike lanes, but this +0.25% sales tax increase to build them is just too much, taxes are already too high."

"Yes I support mass transit, but I don't support redirecting any money from roads for cars to them because I drive a lot."

"Yes I support higher density housing, but I don't want to hurt my neighborhood's character."

You get the picture. From a practical perspective, America would easily make strong progress on reduced energy consumption, but the political will there is weak.
Yet doge has shot up a ton recently.
Author admits 'probably not very efficient', but still a great SHORT article to consider something interesting. Thanks