skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But my immediate manager won't allow it because the budget is allocated for the year, and if I bill extra hours, there will be a shortage of budget (or at least that's what he tells me). The client manager pushes so much work on to us, entire team is fed up. Last week, we were asked to work from 7 am to 11:30 pm, pretty much non stop.

At this point you send email to both managers and ask, "so do you want me to limit myself to 8 hours, or should I work overtime" and have them come to a decision.

(A decision might be: "work overtime but lie on your timesheet", in which case you save this email in case you need it for the future wrongful termination lawsuit.)
The reversal of what words mean is a big sign things are messed up.

Soon we go full on
Freedom is slavery

We already are full on
Ignorance is strength.
It’s only rich if you think addressing climate change is a particularly hard technical problem (it’s not).
> We care quite a lot about web standards and broad browser support at GitHub

From [0]:

> We design GitHub to support the latest web browsers. We support the current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge.

Following "web standards and broad browser support" and supporting recent versions of the four highest-budget browsers (three engines) seem different. There are at least a hundred browsers out there; keeping websites simple and standards compliant is a much easier route than testing on hundreds of different configurations.

On a semi-related note, to clear up any confusion: Qutebrowser uses QtWebEngine, which (like MS Edge) is Chromium-based.

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...
>It's not profitable enough to convince corporations to do it.

Can policy not make it profitable? It seems like regulation can be a means of creating market incentives. It worked well for leaded gas, I tend to think a carbon tax/market may work
Never tried this wine. The $5.99 Pinot Noir (Russian River Valley) from Trader Joes is pretty good. But taste of wine is very personal.
I feel like Mad was great when Donald Knuth was contributing to it, but had begun to lose its touch when I got around to reading it. I thought it was hilarious at the time, but... I was 12 and the humor was ostensibly adult. Or rather it was old hippie humor from people who didn't understand social currents that arose since the 1960s, like video games and hip-hop... and didn't want to.

Mad was at its best when doing pure gags and things like Snappy Answersto Stupid Questions and Spy vs Spy. And Al Jaffee was one of its funnier artists. I loved the Fold-Ins in particular, and they inspired me to design my own.
Show HN: Proposing a new approach for 'Gutenberg and Decoupled Applications'
What if that kid was going to grow up to be Al Gore?
Confusing isn't really the term I'd use, I think complex probably fits better. It is incredibly dense and there is a lot to take in. I can understand why its reputation is controversial. Among friends I know who I've recommended it to there's roughly a 50/50 split between people who love it and people who can't stand it so it is a fairly divisive work.

I saw the series when I was a teenager it first aired on Australian television (SBS) in late 90's it had a profound impact on me growing up. I'd never seen anything like it before then and it absolutely blew me away.

I personally think the whole series in an absolute masterwork. I do agree with the original commenter though it is kind of an outlier amongst mecha genre.
Seems like the least threatening option to the status-quo.
Iirc, Matt Taibbi said that newspapers are dying because the news never made money. Some of it was subscriptions, but most of it was the classifieds, ads, and other non-news items that were obliterated by the internet. This means that subscription models (like NYT) and media consolidation are the only viable path forward.

Subscriptions mean that papers will cater to a wealthy audiance and lock out the poors. Advertising makes news available to the poor, but makes their opinions unrepresented because newspapers can't say anything that would upset their advertisers.

Given the news doesn't really make money and is necessary for a functioning society, we might need to look towards public funding and ways to include the public.

EDIT: As a side benefit, a publicly funded news agency doesn't need to maximize eyeballs on it and so can afford to be less sensationalist. That is, it can be, but it has no life-or-death obligation to do it.
Lrzip is another one too
No one is claiming that, but the solution is through our current setup by finding actual better solutions when they are ready, not forcing them before they are.
It's been always that bad
"1800 to present" is very much inclusive of the New Deal.
I'd guess the rationale for comments would be implicit before then. e.g. it's not strange to see that there's a chat alongside livestreams on Twitch, or a comment section beneath YouTube videos. There's a natural community of people interested in the content enough to comment. - I'd guess the difference here is that newspapers get significantly more traffic from social media.

I'd also think it comes from a positive vision of technology. The internet as a means of "making the world more connected". Empower people to communicate in ways which weren't possible before. - Turns out this wasn't as positive as expected.
How far behind is Canada's Covid-19 vaccination effort?
Blasphemy! Next you will be saying that Carl Barks is not a god among men!
This, in my opinion, is the much bigger issue. The people being scammed the most are the artists themselves.
its not trying to explain what they are its trying to ask the right questions.
There's no need to change the packaging, it's a solved problem that hasn't been implemented for monetary reasons.

https://news.mit.edu/2015/liquiglide-condiments-0630
Though this is true, I've noticed the temperature goes significantly down when your true identity is on the line.
Seems like a better solution that would accomplish the actual goal would be "refresh-after" where you could specify how many days a client should wait until asking again.

Zero maintenance required but still gives a rate-limiting and time window function.
Or just implement a carbon tax...
What are some examples of "true things that happen to be taboo to say" that you can't say?
Calvin & Hobbes are for teenagers like Dilbert is for white/blue collared grown ups.
What signal does this question provide?
The source link is equally interesting: https://charliereese.ca/article/top-50-y-combinator-tech-sta...
A national seashore, but with a few more constraints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_lakeshores_an...
Despite the "U" in UBI, I would assume these $1k/month payments would phase out at a certain income level. Someone making $20k/month, perhaps even $10k/month, does not need their basic needs propped up.

UBI would likely replace most welfare programs, so that'd just be moving budget around. I'm finding a bunch of numbers for US welfare spending, some of them not really consistent with others, but welfare spending is easily over $1T per year.

I would absolutely be in favor of adding more (higher) marginal tax brackets to help with any further shortfall. That 1%er $34T cash hoard you mention is built through income, which can be taxed more. I'd also be in favor of a wealth tax. Top 1% is probably too wide for something like that, but a sub-5% wealth tax (perhaps taxed progressively, as with income) even on the top 0.1% or 0.01% would likely net a big chunk of change that could be put to useful work, vs. sitting around in some management fund for someone's great-great-great-great-great grandchildren to spend, assuming we haven't collapsed our financial system by then.
> calling them "Far East Asian naives" kinda undersells

Fine. Far Northeastern Asian Upper Paleolithic Hunter Gatherers then.
This is what the interviewee points to in the interview itself, but also adds that they mah not be the answer because there is evidence that original estimates for copper’s corrosion were far too optimistic.
I see as fintech overvalued, not because it's hype or a bubble, but because an already pre-existing part of society had a disproportionate amount of value extracted from it by the financial sector in general.

As these companies eat into traditional banking, even if they halve or quarter the overall market cap through disruption, it remains an obscene amount of money. Except it's more monopolized into a few dozen global tech companies who can execute than what used to be a market of tens of thousands of banks, insurance, stock brokers etc.
FWIW, I once read a claim that someone had found ca 30 different meanings of 'paradigm' in Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both works might represent good practice of philosophy.
gRPC Is Easy to Misconfigure
So, I wanted to check so I downloaded linux source tree and ran gzip and zstd.

Uncompressed .tar: 1064376320
.xz (downloaded file): 117637692 (88.9%)
.gz: 189299444 (82.2%)
.gz (level 9): 186533230 (82.5%)
.zst: 178012638 (83.3%)
.zst --ultra -22: 119676867 (88.8%)

So, even at maximum level, zstd is only about 6% better, or about 37% if you consider .gz as baseline, while being about 10x slower than gzip level 9. There are places where having a smaller compressed file is worth the cost of 10x execution time (and much higher memory usage), but serving web pages is almost certainly not one of them.

In other words, the reason gzip is still being widely used is simply because it's good enough for its use cases. It's less like the original T1, and more like complaining that people are still driving Toyota Camry 2011 when Toyota Camry 2021 is a so much better car.
Like all machines, they will fail. Picking up trash in space is harder then fixing what we did to the environment, even if it impacts us less.

Laying down optics is a much better solution to this selfish problem.
Community sourced agriculture boxes are often quite economical as well.
Fintech Stripe Scores Blockbuster $95B Valuation
Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?
I was tossing an extra example in the list of "Netherlands, Malta or Luxembourg".
#ifndef WYHASH_CONDOM

A what now?
https://github.com/wangyi-fudan/wyhash/blob/master/wyhash.h#...
I often need to covert timestamps to and from UTC. I sure hope I don't end up in a -6:30 timezone.
I feel encouraged to see this comment. Thank you for posting it. I've been reading Thomas Merton's _Raids on the Unspeakable_ recently and I sense some of that same heart in what you write.
We're focused on early-stage startup jobs, so they're mainly sales & engineering roles. For them, it's really important to find a culture fit, because the environment they operate in is unstable and chaotic. So, their employees need some soft skills (combined with hard ones) to succeed in their roles
five years ago half the coast of australia suffered massive dieback of mangroves, coral and sea grass.

The worst I saw was mangroves around the Gulf of Carpentaria, and my immediate assumption was the dirty lead mine nearby, but then people around the country started connecting dots to other intertidal and coastal failures that started to all line up until the entire northern coast was implicated.

The broad impact, coupled with records, suggested that this was a response to a season of low rainfall in the context of sustained elevated sea temperatures. recovery has been very gradual, as predicted.
Nice find. How did you come across this?

Were you there during the original Waymo / Google self-driving days?
It's hard enough to understand a codebase, but if a language was like Haskell for instance (you can enable certain extensions in Haskell with a flag at the top of a file), you could have a line at the top of a file defining that this file is 0 based, while maybe the default is 1 based for the language. It doesn't seem like that much more than you already have to consider in many languages.
A counterpoint to that was given in Philadelphia Magazine back in 2013. The Philadelphia Inquirer also tried a system of moderation by volunteers in 2015. The headlined article tells us that they did not work.
The US is the most baffling place for me. How can this insanity coexist with the insanity of religious fundamentalism in the same country.

It seems to me you are a country of extremes hell bent on tearing yourself apart.
This isn’t a pull request it’s a feature request in an issue. The maintainer response about why they won’t include it sounds like it isn’t technically simple or inexpensive enough to make it worthwhile.
Ok, but it's not just my opinion. https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-a...
Disagree. In a democracy, the only way to make the important policy changes is for the majority of people to be on board with it. Tiny actions by individuals move the needle of public opinion. Additionally, different individuals reducing their consumption in different ways provides a diversity of ideas which can later inspire the so-called "scientific solutions".
If it’s being used for certain mayonnaise packaging in Europe (where mayonnaise is the “ketchup” of the continent), I can’t imagine lack of ketchup market penetration is for cost reasons alone.
It can work, but you need enough moderators to keep the pace of posting moving and users willing to put up with the delays.
They’re not swimming in money because a thousand small independent newsrooms across the country, working independently, were no match for the massive VC-backed attention-stealing ad-revenue-sucking social networks coming out of Silicon Valley.
So it only has a 0% quality setting?

I'm not convinced that actually qualifies as "lossy".
If you have accepted this narrative then surely you can understand that there are also extremist ideologues who believe the other side cannot be reasoned with and war is the only solution. The pendulum swings both ways but eventually rests in the middle. Whether that middle ground is peace or a detente history will tell.
Your survival time in Minnesota (where I grew up) in the winter time is not appreciably longer than in a vacuum, and you'd sometimes have to spend quite a long time to suit up in order to safely operate in such conditions. Most of the Earth is, in fact, covered in water (much of it cold), and most people would last maybe seconds longer than vacuum. The parent's point is right, IMHO. Humans may have first evolved in climates without necessity for clothing, housing, or fire, but we definitely need it in much of the world. And even places requiring these things still can thrive.
Am I the only one that thinks that hiring links being part of the specification is gauche? The self-aggrandizement from the infosec circlejerk is starting to feel pretty ridiculous...
I know there are fundamental limits on compression and I know I don’t know the first thing about implementing a modern compression algorithm. With that said:

> Most compression algos don't keep the entire set of files to be compressed in memory

This makes sense, but why keep the uncompressed data in memory? If the memory constraint is your biggest concern and you’re not CPU conscious, compare the outputs rather than the inputs. If you’re concerned about collisions, do a second pass to validate.

I’m certain the best minds on the topic are already aware of these and either using them or have ruled them out for reasons I can’t anticipate. I really hope, that likely being the case, I’ll get a chance to learn in responses and not just unexplained downvotes.
Startpage with Tons of Links
Do people even read the ariticles they respond to?

For interviewee points to the fact that new nuclear is significantly more expensive than solar and wind. In fact, even existing nuclear’s base running costs are higher. And here’s the kicker. Solar/wind + existing battery tech is also cheaper than nuclear. And we don’t even need battery until solar/wind generation has increased by an order of magnitude.

So $1 spent on nuclear will do a lot less to reduce CO2 than $1 spent on wind/solar. Further, that $1 spent on nuclear will still take up to a decade to start helping reduce CO2, while the solar/wind options will likely be active within a year or so.

The article may be wrong about all these facts, but in a response to it one needs to at least show why they are wrong instead of pretending the claims were never made.
The issue is, something like 80% of the deaths and hospitalizations come from about 20% of the people. It is far quicker to vaccinate 20% of the population than it is to vaccinate the 80% (will less than 80 but more than 20) that covers the group you mentioned.
If course the us didn't do that...
> The US is the most baffling place for me. How can this insanity coexist with the insanity of religious fundamentalism in the same country.

Different areas have completely different and often opposing cultures. Don’t ask me how we’re supposed to efficiently govern that though, because I have no ideas.
Yeah, it works at NYT scale. They have a massive paying subscriber base, and they can afford to operate both automatic and manual moderation systems. But it’s not scalable downwards.
Also officially signed into law by then California Governor Ronald Reagan.
I was a small part of the project in high school. We took care of sea bass in a room in the school, and released them in the harbor near where I live. Nancy Caruso accompanied my class on that day and on a diving excursion, IIRC.
Note this is explicitly covered in the PCI self-assessment questionnaire levels. SAQ A-EP is specifically for websites where you own the website, but link out to something like Stripe for the payment processing. Here's a good overview I found googling for "SAQ A-EP vs SAQ A":

https://epayments-support.ingenico.com/en/direct/faq/compari...
It's the kind of thing people would say an authoritarian regime would do anyway.
Let us give Brahmin a separate country; They're just 3% in India; https://archive.is/VWFSC https://archive.is/h3TBP
They should throw the "Simple Example" through a code formatter. Would look more professional. Other than that, this is a nice project, congrats to the author.
For my current attempts, I bit off more than I could chew:

I tried to build a system that not only recognizes regular languages, but also serves as a parser for them (a la Parsec).

The latter approach pushes you to support something like fmap, but the whole derivatives-based approach needs more 'introspection' so support general mapping via fmap (ie a->b) is out, and you can only support things that you have more control over than functions.

(And in general, I am doing bifunctors, because I want the complement of the complement be the original thing.)

Sorry, if that's a bit confused.. If I was a better theoretician, I could probably work it out.

I haven't touched the code in a while. But recently I have thought about the theory some more. The Brzozowski derivative introduced the concept of multiplicative inverse of a string. I am working out the ramifications of extending that to the multiplicative inverse of arbitrary regular expressions. (The results might already be in the literature. I haven't looked much.)

I don't expect anything groundbreaking to come out of that, but I hope my understanding will improve.

> And these particular features just don't really pull their weight IMO. They are performance footguns, and IMO, are also tricky to reason about inside of regex syntax.

Well, in theory I could 'just' write a preprocessor that takes my regex with intersection and complement and translates it to a more traditional one. I wouldn't care too much if that's not very efficient.

I'm interested in those features because of the beauty of the theory, but it would also help make production regular expressions more modular.

Eg if you have a regular expression to decide on what's a valid username for someone to sign up to your system. You decide to use email addresses as your usernames, so the main qualification is that users can receive an email on it. But because they will be visible to other users, you have some additional requirements:

'.{0,100} & [^@]@[^@] & not (.(root|admin|<some offensive term>).@.) & not (.<sql injection>.*)'

That's a silly example. I think in production, I would be more likely to see something as complicated as this in eg some ad-hoc log parsing.

> The issue is that building a production grade regex engine---even when it's restricted to regular languages---requires a lot more engineering than theory.

Amen to that!
> I find it hard to believe there's anti-sub tech that can tell if a given vessel is being operated by cartel members or the Russian navy.

Passive sonar could trivially differentiate between military and civilian engines in the 1980s. And within those, often fingerprint individual vessels by their machinery quirks / lack of maintenance.

And that was without heavy computer pre-processing.

The more cogent point is: why would navies care?

30' length x 10' beam

Modern diesel / AIP examples are in the 200' x 20' range?

There isn't enough room to put credible military capability on a vessel this size. And if you're going low cost, then you want to go fully UUV and elimate crew spaces and logistics altogether.
Because predators usually reach a nice equilibrium with prey species, although it's often oscillatory.

But if people create a constant stream of excess feral cats, then pretty soon cats decimate songbirds.
I think that depends on your social group. I imagine there are many cases where the heat gets turned up when you know your real-life enemy is online.
With support from the NRA too!
Your grandpa isn't particularly functionally different in design from new humans being produced today, just at a different stage of his life. Also, he's a human.

Let's take some non-human examples for comparison. Just about every good military strategy produced when your grandpa was young is, objectively, junk when compared to the state of war today. But just about every good piece of music still holds up - it might be different from good music produced today, but it's not worse. Your grandpa probably did mathematics with the help of books of log tables and books of mathematical instruction. The former are thoroughly junk, being at best as useful as a calculator (or calculator app) but much heavier, and at worst bearing typos; the latter are every bit as useful now as they were back then.

Describing something from a previous generation as "junk" does not convey the belief it is old - there's a perfectly good term for that, "old." It conveys the belief that it is junk.
DC motors driven directly from the battery, probably with a large wire-wound rheostat to control the power. Many cars had voltmeters and ammeters for the driver.
IIRC our system of time is more so aligned with midday rather than midnight. As that is when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, which allowed us to create a common point between timezones.
Absolutely false.

The earth has 200 million square-miles of area, so your portion of the 7.6 billion people equates to 0.0263 square miles. Do your part to keep that virtual area as clean as possible!
With the constant ramping of propaganda and lies, it becomes too problematic to have hundreds of people disagreeing at the end of each article. The public sentiment must be known, and as such I am reversing this decision.
Take it up with the people who coined problematic 4 centuries ago.
HN aggressively mods away a lot of the stories which draw the most attention on local news sites.
> If I'm remembering correctly, I think the problem with derivatives is that they jump straight to a DFA. You can't do that in a production regex engine because a DFA's worst case size is exponential in the size of the regex.

Oh, that's interesting! Because I actually worked on some approaches that don't jump directly to the DFA.

The problem is the notion of (extended) NFA you need is quite a bit more complicated when you support intersection and complement.
EMA Covid-19 data leak and mRNA vaccine instability
I don't think you're calculating climate change into the cost. We've got maybe 100 years left before things go nuts with the arctic completely melting.