skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much computing would have advanced if in the 1980s IBM had told their big institutional bank and insurance company customers to get their program code... er... up to code because of the cost of maintaining backwards compatibility. I'd be really surprised if the incumbent legacy industries really were fine with paying IBM through the nose for the privilege of not having to hire people to stay on the upgrade treadmill (and avoid the problem of being stuck on COBOL in 2021...). If not, then that's very, very short-term thinking on their part and you'd think insurance companies of all things would know the true value of long-term thinking...

Well, IBM did kinda cheat: rather than go with Microsoft's approach of making the platform backwards-compatible (e.g. by not fixing bugs that programs depend on, or introducing shims, or redirecting/intercepting calls from known older programs), IBM introduced some pretty hefty OS virtualization technology to their platforms decades before x86 virtualisation was a thing - which I imagine makes back-compat much easier.
Agree, that is absolutely not how AB tests are run. No one runs tests sequentially on 100% of traffic - that would be like a McDonalds offering two versions of the Egg McMuffin, one from 7a-11a and the second from 11a-6p, and declaring the v1 a clear winner because it had more sales.

Assignments are also almost certainly sticky based on a browser cookie.
I’m honestly not super passionate either way. But the argument the author made is fundamentally bad.

If I were going to make an argument for time zones, I would probably start with the fact that it’s fundamentally simpler to think about a day “Monday” starting when most people wake up. Having it change from the 1st of May to the 2nd of May right after lunch would be weird.

Eliminating time zones in the US? Honestly don’t see any downsides. Make on “USA Standard Time” pegged at current central time and I think it would simplify a whole lot of things.
70% of the electricity in France is nuclear. Almost all other power (heating, cars...) is still fossil fuels.
Even though I have trackball with tilt wheel (MX Ergo), I noticed that I never use them. When I should scroll vertically, I just middle click and move cursor, or grab scrollbar and drag. Maybe because tilting wheel isn't comfortable way to scroll.
To be honest the best probably would be to get small modular reactors (SMRs) into mass production. That would give economies of scale along with other benefits. But we aren't quite there yet. I'd imagine if SMRs became popular larger reactors would as well too.
Rust+Bionformatics+AWS Google Summer of Code project idea
There isn’t too much in the article about cost (“affordable” is vaguely mentioned in passing), but it seems like prefab isn’t generally cheap. Does anyone have any insight into why prefab construction isn’t much, much cheaper than a traditional stick build?

It just seems so obvious that it should be cheaper to do as much work in a factory as possible. Home construction seems like one of the few large industries still stuck in the time before the Industrial Revolution: work done by hand by a variety of highly-skilled artisans instead of mass-produced at scale.

Land isn’t the main driver of cost (unless you’re in one of a handful of ultra-desirable locations). Nor is the sitework or the foundation. From a few quick sources, it seems like the structural and finishing work (everything starting with a slab and ending with a finished house) is roughly 80% of the cost. This is exactly the part that seems like it could be done in a factory with a high degree of automation, like with cars and furniture and most manufactured goods.

What am I missing here?
A Note about Functional Efficiency
Self plug / just wrote a thing.
Has it been a while since you've done frontend development? For many use cases it "just works" now - webpack, the TS compiler, ESLint, React etc. is all well integrated
Being able to adjust the colour temperature and hue of my house lights is nice, so is doing it by speaking to my watch or speaker.

Turning all the lights out when I'm finally comfy in bed is nice. Turning the string of Christmas lights on the lanai on, which don't have a switch indoors or anywhere near the door, is nice.

Being able to ask for an album or genre to play and having it happen: nice! Having a certain light turn on at sunset: nice.

None of these things were broken before, but they weren't as nice. It isn't garbage.

Although having it reset during a 3 am power outage, resulting in lights turning on in my formerly dark bedroom: not as nice! Still a few bugs in the system...
I'm not sure what political positions have to do with cooking.

Then again, I'm not a subscriber to this whole new-age identity politics wokeness mess.
Didn't "based" come from Lil B initially? I've heard the phrase "based and redpilled," but I've heard it separately. I interpret "based" as a compliment given to radical viewpoints that are completely impractical, without signaling assent. See Political Compass Memes for numerous examples.

For example: anarcho-monarchism is based. It's a ridiculous ideology, and I wouldn't support it, but it'd be cool to meet someone who actually believes in it.
If we wanted to we could cover the Sahara with solar panels and have several times more electricity than we know what to do with.

The important shift btw is not from coal and nuclear to renewables, it's from fossil fuels for heating and transportation and industry to electricity. If we figure out how to build fusion power plants safely for cheap in a few decades, we will already have set up our infrastructure to run on electricity instead on carbon. Cutting energy usage is just a nice side effect of switching from 30% efficient ICEs to 80% efficient electric cars and from heating with gas to heating with a heat pump.
To learn the techniques, history and scientific background, "On Food and Cooking" [0] is great. His second book, "The Curious Cook" [1] is entertaining and interesting as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Food_and_Cooking

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101255.On_Food_and_Cooki...

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117144.The_Curious_Cook
Sounds exactly like Bitcoin!
I genuinely truly wouldn’t mind it if all the filler were easy to skip if the reader so desires. Some (and increasingly more) sites offer a “skip to recipe” link but for a long long LONG time that wasn’t the case.
Especially when Twitter is far worst in both reach and content. I could at least understand Apple stance on pronography. But banning Telegram channels and this makes me worried. Along with the Apps in Hong Kong Protest although I could give them some benefits of doubt as it was a request by government.
Also, if the content of the story changes with the headline, then it is probably just reflecting a developing story. That's what the SpaceX and Cuomo stories seemed to be doing. Assuming that all headline changes are just because an algorithm thought they were more dramatic seems to be jumping the gun.
This is very reminiscent of how the YouTube algorithm when optimized for views and clicks drove a lot of people into deep rabbit holes.
If there's any programming-adjacent technology that is practically guaranteed to make you want to pull your hair out, it's CSS :-) I don't find web dev appealing in general either, so lots of sympathies there.

It's nice that you've tried Java and computational stuff and found those more appealing. Re: CS50, my understanding is that while the course is well-structured, they do start with C, which is better suited for people who really like learning from the "bottom up", rather than those who learn better "top-down". You might be in the latter group.

If all that sounds about accurate, it's probably better to focus on courses that start with higher-level technologies like Python, C#, or Java in the beginning (but stay away from web dev). Python is the most likely to feel "natural", so that's what I recommend to people just starting out. You could check out Berkeley's CS 61A for example (though I think MIT/Harvard have Python-based courses too). If you stayed on Windows, I'd recommend Visual Studio 2019 (not to be confused with Visual Studio Code), since it has everything well-integrated together. But courses focus on UNIX-based tools, so you'd indeed want a Mac if you're following anything that uses the terminal. And if iOS app development is your goal then you definitely don't want to go with Windows, though I don't have any experience with that so I can't give you pointers (hah) there.

CS in general isn't about just coding though; the algorithms and data structures are extremely important, and they aren't necessarily easy to pick up, so that's normal. And self-guided courses in general definitely need a lot of motivation, and that's easier said than done for most people, so don't feel like it's just you. You probably want to pick something where you have a good dose of interest & curiosity to drive yourself instead of just relying on the course, regardless of what you're doing.

Not sure how helpful this is but best of luck trying it with a Mac!
> I think there is a targetted campaign to push nuclear... even on this site.

I'm not trying to call conspiracy but I was a bit surprised that this is the third nuclear post on the front page in the last two weeks. Usually we do like once every few months. I came to this thread wondering why there's so much nuclear talk lately.
LA's Biggest Garbage Dump Is Now Its Famous Freeways
But they didn't make a profit. TVs are sold nearly at cost.
I am pro nuclear, but it is actually SpaceX’s plan to fuel Starship with methane produced by offshore wind power.
It's not based (verb), it's based (adjective). Your subdomain idea would really only make sense in the context of the verb.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based
This is nuts. We're moving soon and I thought I might get a bigger, 4K TV. We've been using the 720p plasma I bought in 2005 + a 1080p 47" from like 2009. Not bad by any stretch, but I'm curious how 4K would look on a larger display, and prices seem pretty good these days.

Then I read stuff like this. Can I still buy a dumb TV? I'll pay more. Who sells them still? Or, like, can I open this thing up and take out the wifi antenna or something? I'd block it at the router, but I hear they also try and connect to open APs. Awful trend.
For many things I would take HLS over writing SystemVerilog. My background is software, but I've written a modest amount SystemVerilog professionally in recent years. While there are specific cases where I'd still pick SystemVerilog (building an AXI peripheral with a specific address space layout or unique semantics for that address space), I'd tend to prefer HLS for anything actually dealing with complex data processing. Think packet pipelines, sorts, database joins, index processing, etc. If you were already in the mindset of thinking about streaming data through a pipeline (as you might in SystemVerilog) you can write fairly boring looking C++ with ordinary unit tests and the HLS tooling will do a reasonable job of turning it into equivalent pipelined Verilog.
It's the goal of Meredith Levien, their current CEO, for the NYT to be considered a "world class tech company"[1]. I believe doing A/B tests is a way to work towards that goal.

[1]: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meredith-levien-want...
I know it's replaced some vhdl I wrote a few years back for shuffling for data onto an ftdi usb chip.

Same performance but the HLS made a smaller footprint
Wait, did I read this right? 1.3m round valued at 5b? Lmao. I haven't heard of such a round before. Why such a small %?

Edit: I read it wrong, false alarm. Zapier managed to reach a 5b valuation given that they only needed to raise 1.3m in funding total. Impressive!
Absolutely. This article was annoying because I've worked with real 10x devs a number of times over my career. And one of them only worked 4 days a week and kept the computer closed on weekends! She was remarkable, and easily more productive than anyone else, at least by a factor of 10. She also wrote the best tests.
Let me translate to what they are trying to say: "the dynamic range in the music mastered for vinyl sounds good".
On the other hand, I think a recipe site should include some pictures of the product. If the "modern web" is obesity, this is anorexia (pun intended).
No its not. No one is selling 120 Hz OLED monitor, to the point that people are buying 48" LG CX 48 as a monitor which IMO is just too large for a monitor
I remember punting. At one point AOL suspended my account for a month for running a punter. I also remember searching various chat rooms and sites trying to find crackz and warez for expensive software like Adobe Flash, so I could make animated videos. Good times!
So many DOM elements, if you inspect a wall it's made from thin slices. Wonder if they could be merged to form complete 'walls' and then use gradient effect... heck, SVG may be more effective.
Replace 'Apple' nouns with 'Windows' or 'NetworkManager' nouns in this post and you'll get the exact same tone of reply. The proper noun used doesn't matter here. The incompetence of construction of the conspiracy theory does. It's such a shame to see HN users promoting something that's no different than a tabloid article at the supermarket, except that it's about Apple Computer instead of Fiona Apple.
CDs do emit music over higher frequencies stronger than vinyl. That is not a lie.

The lies about lies are lies.

Some people can’t hear it. I can. I can hear a TV when it’s on, and I can hear harmonics of Wifi, so when I say I know it’s true- I know it’s true.
Works well for me.

And yeah:

Them: you can't do that

Me: watch me

Them: but it is our name

Me: yeah, and my email. Try it.

Did not get any takers. Pity.
First time I'm seeing the Bookdown R package which is used to create books: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/
Why Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits
Obligatory: "Ok boomer."

I use C++ everyday and I am still shocked about how user-hostile it is. I don't buy the usual "backwards compatible" and zero-cost abstraction canned arguments. I identified a lot of missed opportunities for simplification... I wonder how much energy we wasted by trial and error while writing/compiling useless C++ programs /s
The collapse of that company is old news. See https://youtu.be/OZSvDYDfd78 by Asianometry. He also provides far more context. Published October 2020.
Capability-oriented version of the Rust standard library
Making Methane is important too. We already have infrastructure for storing vast amounts of natural gas. We can just use it to store Methane made from Water, CO2 and electricity.
I also was a little confused about the term -- urbandictionary.com is a great resource for this kind of internet terminology.
How does open source interact with export restrictions? I'd imagine ITAR being the biggest blocker
Retailers like wal mart supposedly demand their partners and suppliers to not use AWS.
I would suggest that this can be more 'evil' that just trying to get more clicks.

A number of times I have seen on some place like Facebook where the initial article has some extreme headline, and then hours after when engagement is up, the headline is swapped to one that is less inflammatory. A few more extreme-perspective friends will send me an article saying "see?!?!" - and by the time I see it it's already been rewritten.

A few times I would click on an article going viral and find the headline in the article itself doesn't match the one cached by Facebook. Remember that most people aren't even reading the headlines and just assume that NYT are trustworthy. The first headline is the one they end up internalizing.

Bare in mind, there is zero consequence for doing this either. The newspaper and claim they were "correcting an editorial error", whilst openly spreading misinformation about some hot topic.

I think at the very least it should be mandatory to maintain a list of edits to an article once published - and to indicate to the reader clearly that the article has received a number of edits.
Bad news if OVH was your failover.
Yup. Defined here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_B#Artistry
In terms of "right to repair", Apple is a big offender, and the top one people think of - that's the reason I was singling them out.

And no, I don't think we should force a company to sell a product for a particular price, or keep making it - unless they don't allow generic parts to work in their devices. That's my suggestion - Apple can give consumers the "right to repair" (and compete on all those features you mention with their first-party parts) or they can suffer the penalties (which is my suggestion for a company unwilling to allow repairs of their devices).

Think of it in terms of cars - if you bought a Honda car, would it be acceptable for it to not start if you put the "wrong brand" of tires on it?
I am also running a couple of validators at home without special hardware.
> In the former case, it's trivially easy to jog the screen up and down or sideways, to see if there's missing content

"I jog my screen around to see if anything moves" is a clear sign of two things:

One, that you're looking to see if there's missing content.

Two, that you do not know if there is missing content.

Missing content should be made evident by a display system designed to make it easy to access content. If your display system is hiding content from you and not showing you this, then is it really doing a good job of helping you access content?

Plus, consider how many users won't do the trivially easy thing. At scale, I would lay good odds that it's a disturbingly high number.
I'd say that puts you in the good developer category, or someone with a job they like. Hopefully both!
I think switching days in the middle of the workday is the single biggest good argument for time zones. When lunch is is something you’d get used to quick. Having it be Monday before lunch and Tuesday after would be a head F*. It would also screw with date calculations in a big way.

Having the whole of North America on one big time zone would be fairly easy. This is basically what China does.
I scanned his video titles and nothing racist jumped out- could you link to a particular example?
Care and Feeding of Magic Numbers (2001)
If only Guantanamo Bay was the only detention center lacking in accountability.

Even still, race directors have even wider latitude for DQs. In the end I suppose it ultimately comes down to propensity for those in disagreement to riot.
Also, although still a generalization, quite a different attachment to things, especially buildings, partly due to the routine exposure to natural catastrophes.

I mean, sure people are attached to old buildings and monuments, but even those can be rebuilt more or less often.
I call upon all entrepreneurs to invest in Mexico property and businesses like grocery stores make Mexico great again
The basic sequence was:

- Rewrite B compiler in B (generating threaded code)

- Extend B to a language Ritchie called NB (new B). This compiler generated PDP assembly There is no version of the NB compiler known to exist.

- Continue extending NB until it became the very early versions of C.

You can read the longer version of this history here:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
Microsoft Proposes Unprivileged Chroot on Linux
That's how I understand it. Often a single-family home gets replaced with multi-unit housing.
Surprisingly, this is the only comprehensive guide I could find on generating a robust magic number prefix for a new file format.
That seems like a "simple" matter of putting it in some container that survives a rocket crash intact.
I imagine most people on HN would take the latter, but most people in the broader population aren't that bothered by ads, and most people would probably put up with ads rather than pay e.g. an extra $50 (especially if it's a side-to-side option, like an "ad-free upgrade").
Are those impurities an issue when reselling the CO2?
> Can I still buy a dumb TV?

Most of the big names sell displays designed for commercial use (e.g. the screens you see at entrances to shopping centers), which are basically just big monitors, so no smart stuff, other than maybe being able to turn it on/off remotely. However instead of a $800 TV you are probably talking $5000 - not that the tech is much different, it's just that it's designed for commercial use. Is not seeing ads worth that much more for you?
I think it was written in B as Ritchie extended B for the PDP-11. By that point the B compiler was written in B

https://sci-hub.do/10.1145/155360.155580
Amfora is great and has pre-built binaries for most oses, including Win10, which I hadn't expected for this sort of project. Also worth mentioning is Lagrange, which is graphical and vaguely resembles the original Mosaic browser.
I’m curious where the idea that women weren’t integral parts of the
economies of antiquity comes from.

Just a few examples from the Bible which I assume would shape modern perspectives:

Lydia, unmarried merchant of purple cloth and independently wealthy[1]. First convert of Europe.

And the “wife of noble character” from Proberbs 31[2]:

> She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night.

1. https://www.gotquestions.org/Lydia-in-the-Bible.html

2. http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/PROV+3...
These children were born in to cages they just weren't locked up yet. Mexican here lots of these kids were created because they were going to be a "free ride."
Wildly too low.

London is £650/day minimum.

Do a lot of googling all the information you need on contracting has already been posted. Check out Patio11.
I decided to enable IPv6 on my home network two days ago. My ISP said that "most service areas" and "most devices" they deployed supported IPv6 without giving any way to verify if my service area or modem supported IPv6. My ISP also didn't give enough information for actually configuring my router (e.g. the size of the prefix delegation). The only useful information I found about actually enabling IPv6 came from regular users on forums for the ISP and a different forum for my router. But I got it working. Once I found the 3 settings I had to change on my router, it worked without any problems, though so far, it's working without any perceived benefit also.
Seems like this introduction to Vitis would be a good partner page to go with this announcement:

https://xilinx.github.io/xup_compute_acceleration/
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410135
Unlike fertilizer, which of course gas never been used to kill anybody.

(FWIW it isn't hard to argue that fertilizer has saved more lives than any other technology. But nitrates are also how you make bombs...)
Yep, moment Rust adopted non-monadic style of async, I stopped looking at rust.
Sure, I'm open to talking about it, and seeing if we can make something work.

I made an email: aworkerbeehn @ protonmail.com
I've heard japanese housing is a depreciating asset due to cultural and tax regulation in Japan, as opposed to the US.

So there would be greater economic demand to rebuild/churn the housing stock.
> The average price to sales for S&P used to be between 1.5-2.5 for many decades. However for these newly IPO companies the price to sales ratios are around 10-15.

You’re off by anywhere from 2-20x on the price to sales multipliers. At one point Snowflake had a market cap of nearly 200x the projected sales of the next twelve months. Before rates started creeping up, most SaaS was trading between 20-40x NTM and up to 60-80x on upside spikes.