skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, but the "outskirts" has gone from a 30 minute drive to work to a 2 hour drive to work. At some point something has to give.
It's still very debatable whether advertising works at all, not just targeted but in general. And if it does, the extent is questionable too. Freakonomics had a very good episode on this a few months ago - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/
World's first subscription payments in software development
Good lord, $180 a month ?!! In the UK it's £62 (~87$), though it's not widely available.
It would at least make sense for it to be mandatory for any vehicles or weapons used by the DoD, no?
IBM IMS goes back to 1968 (originally developed for NASA). Cincom's TOTAL was sometime around the early 1970s. I'm sure there were databases on DEC's PDP systems. And so forth. dBase II was an important early database product for CP/M and then DOS systems but there were many earlier databases on mainframes and minicomputers.
If this was true, then the monetary policies of the 2008 financial crash and the 2020 pandemic would both have created consumer price inflation. They haven't. We've seen some asset price inflation instead. In effect we did create a bunch of dollars and credited them to people's home equity and mutual funds... where it just sat there doing a whole bunch of nothing to consumer prices and wages.
Two counterpoints, though I'm using old.reddit.com:

- I like reddit's javascript. I like being able to collapse comment threads.

- HN doesn't have multiple niches and community. You get what you get for that day.
Excellent comment overall. One quibble:

> Myth #3: Strong dividing line between diseases of the brain and body

> Everything seems to point to her being right on this one.

The problem is that most of the time people debunk this "myth" they are using some motte-and-bailey tricks.

First, there is no perfect dividing line between disease of the brain and body, but there is also no perfect dividing line between diseases of the brain and differences of the brain (do domestic abusers have bad character or a disease?) or between diseases of different organs. Nevertheless, it is highly useful to have a taxonomy of phenomena that cuts reality roughly at its joints. These divisions have important practical and moral implications, and they fact that there are gray areas does not mean the categories should be undermined.

Second, these seemingly scientific "there is no line" arguments are almost always used asymmetrically by experts to advance a normative position, e.g., my psychological disease should be treated like a physiological disease by the law and my friends because there is no perfect distinction between the psychological and physical. It is possible to go in the other direction and argue that many/most alleged psychological diseases are really just different preferences and should be treated as such; see Thomas Szasz:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353517/

This is just as well supported by "there is no line" argument as folks who want physiological-psychological disease equality. The reason the latter position is more popularly is based on values.
Can you elaborate on some of those differences?
Profiling is essential. I found a performance bug in calling some C++ functions a while ago, because they accepted a const std::string& and were being called in loops with a C const char*. Every single call had to construct a std::string involving a strlen, allocation and copy.

std::string_view is a nice fix for this but few programmers seem to use it yet.
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> Why can't you just increase buffer sizes and write more data to them to avoid frequency of wake ups?

Because then software volume will take too long to apply, and a new stream will have to wait (again, too long) until everything currently in the queue has been played. PulseAudio tried to solve this with rewinds, but failed to do it correctly. ALSA plugins other than hw and the simplest ones (that just shuffle data around without any processing) also contain a lot of code that attempt to process rewinds but the end result is wrong.
I think this makes tons of sense when you look at Cash App's distribution strategy. They have heavily focused on targeting the rap and music communities through influencer marketing.

> Square has run similar campaigns [referencing a seperate Burger King campaign] with rappers like Travis Scott and Lil B and other influencers, triggering a network effect for the Cash App. With 120,000 replies, Travis Scott’s tweet gained more momentum than Burger King’s. If only 129 of the 120,000 who commented on his tweet were new to Cash App, then Square’s cost of customer acquisition would have been less than the $925 per user that banks pay on average, according to our research, and 6,000 comments, only 5% of the total, would have dropped it to $20. Moreover, as the converted users appear to spread the word on social media, the Cash App can acquire additional users from just one.

https://fintechradar.substack.com/p/breakdown-2-a-deep-dive-...
Brackets killer feature was beginner friendliness. You can type some HTML, CSS, and Javascript and you can watch it render live right there in front of you, without having to open a browser window. The very first time I sat down to try to learn some code, I tested sublime text and brackets and went with brackets because I didn't really know how to structure a development workflow. Its kind of similar to Thonny for python in that regard.
it feels good? ...You cant with a straight face say that New Zealands low number are to do with people being less fat and nothing to do with the NZGOVs solid response to the pandemic!!! .. I mean, I guess you can try..
> Although true, that's like defending all human speech by saying that philosophy is a subset of all human speech, which itself has science as a subset.

Not really. To use your analogy a bit, the GGP was basically rejecting human language in favor of English on account of it being so wonderful that English-speakers visited the moon. It's nonsense. If you reject philosophy, you reject science.
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Sure. I'd be embarrassed if they didn't have the issue on their backlog ("Load times are high"). But the priority seems low, and the actual effort and viability of a fix seems unknown. Speaking as an engineering manager, that is very much going to be a "if you have spare time" ticket. Now, I also try to ensure people have spare time to investigate stuff like that, but that's me, and I don't work in game dev. I can easily see another manager, especially one in game dev (where what keeps players coming back is new content and features, not reduced load times) prioritizing other tickets ahead.
If your yardstick is in meters, you will be measuring meters.
My congressional district has a Comcast call center located in it. So my representative bends over backwards to support Comcast because they 'provide so many jobs' in the area. It's pitiful.
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I'm in a vortex of downvotes, would expect this to go the same. Ho hum.

Thanks, I guess. Whoops, more noise.
The biggest change I've had to make this year is to dedicate my working space to just that - work. Before, my desk used to serve as my PC gaming setup as well as the sometimes work from home zone. However, sitting at it all day every day has caused work and personal time to blend too much. I find myself tempted to watch Youtube or fire up a game in between meetings during the day, and at night I find it hard to unwind and get my mind off of work.

I bought a PS5 and have been doing most of my gaming on that in a separate area and it's helped in both aspects.
Same, I'm not too far from releasing an MVP mobile game built in Godot, and the "time to game" as well as the burgeoning plug-in scene make it quite fun to get something working.
Jay Z live coding session coming soon.

Jay Z is a bit unique among mainstream rappers, his first album , Reasonable Doubt, was released independently. He's much more involved on the business side then your typical act taken for a ride by the label and left broke.
It’s still not explicitly exploitative
old.reddit.com + RES is the pinnacle of the web forum experience

They day they kill that (and third-party app support), I leave reddit for good.
My wife does this to me. She'll be talking about something and I'm not listening but I make semi-plausible automatic responses. Sometimes she catches on that I wasn't paying attention and calls me out on it. At that point the last 6-7 seconds of speech pops into my mind like magic and I can pay attention to it and respond. Sadly sometimes that's not enough to deduce what she was talking about.
>The web has degenerated as a practical tool for the common man. It is programmer and SaaS lock-in nowadays.

That's not really true. I can still use Notepad to create an HTML only document (remember learning HTML?), and host it on any site, and everyone can still view it on any platform. Don't even need Dreamweaver to slice an image up to do a layout in a table. Don't even need 100s of KBs of JS libraries to download to display it.

Just ignore the hype of whatever JS library is the fad darling, and go with what you know. The end user of the website probably won't care. Only other techwheenies on the internet will chide you for using such an antiquated method, and make fun of you for not being part of the cool kids.
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microcomputers. But, yes, that was probably the case. At least the first one of any significance that I can recall.
They are political monopolies, not geographic. Congress created a telephony and cable video regulatory regime based on monopolies to subsidize the buildout of those technologies. Congress has only halfheartedly moved away from this system because cable and telecom are the largest political donor groups. Some states have made progress moving to more competitive models but for the most part the system is a rats nest of federal, state, and local regulations designed to block competition.
> That's not even remotely true.

I beg to differ - when's the last time you heard of a famine or major war in the 1st world? (same cannot be said of elsewhere, it is true)
Amazon renamed the product, probably due to this. https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Everyday-Sling-Inches-Bl...

though the url still says "everyday sling" the product page does not.
Why does selling make a difference to the injured party? For example, most people who are torrenting have no interest in sales.
> At the very least GitHub is going to get "FOR BUSINESS!" laced all through it.

That already happened, but with no negative impact on its public/free side. All we got from it are unlimited private repos, and limited github action minutes and repository storage in the free tier. I call that a win.

Also, the GitHub sale was 2.5y ago, if things would have gone wrong, we would have already seen the cracks.

Ruby devs abandoning GH is simply because they saw the writing on the wall that Ruby was not seen as long-term viable tech by MS. And from a sysadmin/SRE/devops pov, if there is one stack I hated supporting more than JVM-based deploys, it's Ruby, so I wouldn't blame them.
Yes, ColdFusion was the Allaire brothers. J.J. now does RStudio.
I did not want to have kids. Then one day I realized that for the past 3 billion years my ancestors had been passing the torch. I was not going to be the one to let down the team. I felt a duty to give my genes a chance to fight it out in darwin's cage match. I can not guarantee my genes will win, but if I fail to reproduce I guarantee they will lose.

Looking back, I am not sure this justification makes any sense, but it was how I thought at the time.

In any case it's moot now because it turns out kids are great fun to have around and generally make life better. Except the car seats, car seats are a pain in the ass.
Are you imagining something like the PLATO system?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
Yes, value investing!
An attempted coup? You have to be joking. I think you are reading a little too much Vox.
I am really curious what you mean about Texas mismanagement? If you are talking about energy, that has been in place for a very long time. If you are talking about revoking COVID mandates, the majority of Texans are for it.
If you would like to talk about mismanagement, we should really be more focused on California and New York.
> What's sadder for our society as a whole is that, despite this comment and the GP comment, this is happening, and will be allowed to happen by regulators who won't give this a second glance.

Not trying to be trite here, but it shouldn't surprise you when an organization with a lot of capital gets its way in a capitalist society - all other concerns are secondary. It's a feature, not a bug.
Trolling is indeed a fishing method, but "don't feed the troll" was a common phrase on Usenet.

Both meaning were probably intended.
Seriously, f*ck "engagement". It has become such a dog whistle.
> How is America behind on this? Everything is hosted there and cached there.

The ISPs and networks that serve datacenters do not serve apartments and houses.
Oh, hey Tim! Hope life is treating you well!
I know it was probably not very romantic in reality, but I can't help but imagine a Star Trek style adventure and the exciting challenges that come along with it.
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Do numbers exist? I mean really big numbers.

How about algorithms? Those that are not yet implemented.

I believe consciousness is some kind of algorithm. But consciousness alone doesn't define who we are, inherently.
have you tried okra, mushroom stems, and Brussels sprouts? Okay that was a joke, but how about diced vegetables mixed in something else and then slowly increasing from there? Optimal world being slowly as in over years.
pomodoro was making me really unhappy, i cannot explain it :)
The network effect is sometimes a curse. Reddit is the worst UX of a product that I use routinely.
While it's not a fixed function pipeline, there is some level of correlation between 'brain damage at site x' and 'effect y' so while phrenology is bunk, the brain is also not just a blob of compute.
Ticketmaster has worked themselves into a bad position. There is a subset of people who hate them. If square could get the sort of after purchase fees that that Ticketmaster charges legislated so they have to be shown up front and named in non deceiving ways it would go a long way to weakening my Ticketmaster and LiveNation’s position.
Thanks. Also noting that upx has the same behavior.

I didn't inspect the binaries, just try to see how/if they compress.
It's a full engine not a library you invoke. It is not structured in a way to swap out pieces bit by bit. You can use GDNative to write your game logic in stuff like C++ or Rust but it is tied to being invoked by specific parts of the godot engine same way the scripts are, so not really a good way to work towards swappable code.
So you don't want to continue to play the game?

It's not an assumption, it's existential.
Semantics denote meaning, so splitting hairs on the meaning of a statement is an adequate subject for argument. You're making broad assumptions about the nature of voting rights in general by referencing an individual narrative regarding one company. You're also oversimplifying the narrative. The aggregate activities of a company cannot be denoted through some parable about an evil man with "absolute power". Rest assured, whatever has happened with Facebook was a team effort involving many different stakeholders.
Yes - for the origin of consciousness, look at the simplest organisms - protozoans like slime mould on a rock under the sea 4 billion years ago.

In the morning, the slime mould colony positions itself on the western side of the rock to maximise exposure to solar energy coming from the east.

As the day grows long and the sun moves overhead and then to the western horizon, members of the slime mould colony on the edges detect the variation in radiant solar energy and, at thresholds, issue the command to move.

The cells on the south west edge of the rock cannot just move towards the north and then the west, because all the other cells are in their way. So they have to initiate a communication. "Move". The neighbouring cells in the colony begin to move.

Eventually, the message propagates to the other edge of the colony and the whole colony moves. It keeps moving until the new position of the centre of the colony reaches equilibrium for the radiant energy of the sun in its then position.

We can say in the aggregate that the colony moved because it felt like it. To say that is to ascribe "consciousness" to a blob. But really this was just the result of sensors in individual cells registering a drop in radiant energy reception, followed by a communication to move, followed by a behaviour, terminated by a new homeostasis when the sensors again reached a threshold.
It really depends on where you live. Where I live (Ohio, U.S.), 1GB down is $65/month.
Ask HN: How to run an in-company architecture workshop/meetup?
Hi HN,

One day I expressed to my employer that I want to systematize and expand my knowledge on software architecture, and somehow the conversation ended with me committing to start architecture meetups at work. I've never really organized any in-company event, much less one on architecture, so I have questions :).

Anyone here participated in such event? Perhaps organized one? Does it help people grow their knowledge? Could you share some helpful tips?

I've been thinking about the form of the meetings (they'll be remote, because of COVID) and material to cover. One idea is sort of a "reading club", going over a chapter from AoSA books[0], or picking a topic from Microsoft's Patterns & Practices[1], and trying to connect it to some of the projects we're building.

Do you think (or know from experience) if this form works? Or are there better alternatives?

Thanks in advance for any insight you can give!

--

[0] - http://aosabook.org/en/index.html - they're broad, interesting, and importantly, free and online, so nobody would have to procure anything.

[1] - https://github.com/mspnp/ - I discovered it only recently, so I'm not yet sure how useful it would be.
It would be worthwhile to pinpoint which definition we are discussing here:
the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings (fish, humans)
the awareness or perception of something by a person (fish, humans).
the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world (humans, ?)
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Back then I refused to call it a database. It was more like a data bundle or data bunch.
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Thanks for the recommendations. I'm still very new to streaming and still buy CDs for most of my music. I am currently using UAPP on my phone and plug it straight into an RME ADI-2 DAC, the advantage being I don't have to fire up the PC. The disadvantage of course is storage on the phone.
I am a core Brackets user and have been since day 1, as a designer/animator that frequently needs to write code. I suspect that I'll continue to use it without support as it is, or possibly shift back to Sublime.

I have always preferred Brackets as a simple visual editor that I can add/write small extensions as needed, without complicating the UI or process flow.

I've tried many IDEs, used dreamweaver and BBEdit for years, tried to embrace VIM and EMACs, and found that even VSCode is more than I need.

Maybe something like codeshare.io is the future of my market, taking hints from Figma?
It's not weird because where you expect it to be is where it is, if it were somewhere else (some distant ansible transmission) you would be used to that and think it weird to imagine it being in the body.
Issue got fixed.
Not necessarily. Ryan has said a major motivation for creating deno was to let JS compete with Python for local scripting and ML.
Made changes as recommended
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It's one of those situations where most customers call at the end of their 1 year promotional period and pretend to threaten to cancel, gets transferred to customer retention, and resign for another year at the discount rate.
$180 is crazy, even for the US - for less than $100 I'm getting 1GB symmetric (which in practice has been a true 1Gb down, ~300mb up). Then again, I am currently lucky enough to be able to choose between a hone company and a cable company. At my last house, the cable company was my only option and service was not nearly as good (1gb/50).
The 3mbps upload speed for 25/3 does seem too slow with the rise of Zoom and other tools that can actually use the upload. Defining broadband as 25/10 or above would make more sense. 25/10 is plenty for work applications.

100Mbps upload seems pretty unnecessary for the vast majority of uses unless the FCC had a goal of promoting BitTorrent and other p2p sharing.

I have gigabit 1000/1000 from fios now and it does let me download games from steam faster though.
Just because Freud wasn't very accurate in psychology doesn't mean he isn't important for other fields of work. His influence has spread far beyond psychology, whether you like it or not.
This is, bluntly, a very low effort comment.

a) It's not journalists questioning these numbers, it's politicians and economists, and b) the criticism is long-standing and entirely accurate. Folks have been criticising this statistic for many years, and COVID has only made those criticisms more salient.

The top-line unemployment numbers factor out a large number of cohorts. For example, the number of people who've permanently stopped looking for work aren't counted.

COVID has inflated numbers in those cohorts and the top-line figure is likely understating these effects as a consequence.

Unfortunately, you've opted for a pithy dismissal based on, frankly, a cliche about mass media that offers no value or insight.
It's downthread of his mention of joining the board. I wonder if that's what he's referring to.
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Trawling is with a net. E.g. commercial fishing. Trolling is traditional rod/reel/bait.
That analogy doesn't work at all, since "the body contains the brain" does not describe a recursive relationship.

By contrast, you see people trying to "explain consciousness" by telling a story that assumes consciousness. When someone makes a statement like "Consciousness emerges from mechanism X in the brain.", every observation that lead to this statement originated in someone's consciousness.

It's less obvious than, but completely analogous to, how it's impossible to decide whether we live in a "base reality" or some sort of simulation - everything you could say about this reality that we perceive is contingent on that very reality.
Serious question for anyone familiar with game dev: what IS the other legitimate reason to encrypt saved games besides in-app purchases?

I've been thinking quite a bit and just can't find one, yet the people on Twitter that started this mess assure us that there are plenty...
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I use this quote occassionaly by Chuck Close:

"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself."

Second advice is - Get a routine. Learned about it from a book - Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make time, Find Inspiration and Get to Work.

The book has short paragraphs and anecdotes about world famous artists, writers, novelist, musicians, scientist, painters etc, so some people may find it boring. But I keep reading it intermittently.