skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this idea and have been thinking about a similar instrument that is also a bit simpler. I call it US Equity, and the goal is the same: align interests to the long term, rather than short term, and also prevent outside money from corrupting politicians. It works like this:

* After being elected to office a politician receives X shares of US Equity. They also renounce all other future forms of income (no more lucrative speeches or consulting jobs after office, etc)

* Every year, each share pays a dividend to the politician that is calculated based on some KPI we want politicians to be aligned to. For example, median household income.

* Shares are non-fungible and cannot be sold. These shares represent the entire future earnings of the politician, hence their incentives are for the longterm health of the country. They can't make money any other way, so they must double down on making a positive impact. Moreover, once they have Equity they can be less concerned about reelection, since their shares are lifelong.

* After a politician leaves office, they are just as incentivized to improve the nation. We thus have a large class of aligned ex-politicians that can help encourage healthy conversations across the country.

* We make the dividends pay out quite well, to encourage the best and brightest to become politicians. Because there's no need to find ways to make money on the side, we optimize for smart politicians, rather than corrupt politicians adept at squeezing their gig for cash.

I suspect this incentive structure would improve our bipartisanship and in general encourage politicians to get-shit-done.
> Maybe it's a big enough of disruption in the North America?

It's a huge disruption everywhere.

www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-is-deadly-2018-3
> free speech has been understood to mean in the past.

I actually think the opposite , that in the past free speech was a well guarded liberalist ideal, and we 've regressed to confusing the freedom of internal monologue as free speech.
I feel that this experiment can prove nothing about the quality. It does show that votes from initial users have roughly same distribution as votes from later users, but only because the initial exposure to the front page highly correlates to subsequent votes. So it rather proves that both group of users have the same usage pattern: mainly watching the (non-classic) front page. It would have been more interesting to see the front page that only consists of submissions from initial users.
I am surprised you did not get that from mathematics, so I wonder what level/type of mathematics did you do?

I can get that you usually don't get it from regular high school mathematics, but even there one should learn to deal with proofs and deducing stuff in a precise, non-ambiguous way, and you have to pay attention to detail.

Coding allowed me to build things with my analytical mind liking precision and patterns, so it's the way for my "mathematical" brain to express creativity.
> handmade webpages

Here is one of such: https://www.leocad.org

Source: https://github.com/leozide/leocad/tree/gh-pages
Except this is falling exactly into the trap that ClumsyPilot points out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464707

The USA can afford to emit less than it did 10 years ago precisely because it has emitted so much in the past and its economy is basically built. Any bemoaning about China or other currently-developing countries that doesn't also talk about how we should also be helping them bootstrap themselves with more advanced systems is just privilege at having gotten there first and pulling the ladder up behind us.
Peaked for the United States, which represents something like 25% of world economic activity. That's also accounted for the in the book. You're right about certain long-lived problems like CO2 because of how long it takes them to clear from the environment, but that doesn't mean that it isn't good news that we've decreased our consumption/pollution of a particular resource. It's certainly better than continuing to increase demand. The farmland one is a great example: I defy you to explain to me how it isn't good news that the amount of farmland in the United States has decreased by an area equivalent in size to the state of Washington. Blind optimism is indeed stupid, but willful pessimism is equally stupid.
I disagree. mmap will demand page into memory - typically reading 4K at a time off storage (though really the buffer cache in all these timings). Much less than 64K. Were the file bigger than RAM/were there competition, it would also evict earlier pages. It's really just another way to "buffer" without worrying about all the fuss in user space, and I don't think you're going to convince me otherwise. I mean, MAP_POPULATE might violate the idea, but that is a very special case of mmap.

Honestly, I think the author himself saying memory-mapped IO is a forward direction but "enough for now!" is pretty conclusive that he didn't think it was a forbidden optimization direction. I think you are over interpreting his early step-by-step style language explaining finite memory as a strict spec, or perhaps he shared an earlier draft of the article with you before he wrote that.

It's fine to fail over to a stream, but often mmap is faster, as I know you know.
Hope you get some answers cause I'm in bit of a similar situation and the roadblock is frustrating.
> I would argue that the conversations that have gone online are the interactions that were previously happening in-person (at least in term of criminal activity), to which the FBI didn't have access before.

Indeed. But those conversations/meetings were visible, risky etc. They were thus possible to monitor/attack and they weren't scalable.

From the perspective of law enforcement, criminals being able to discuss crimes or make payments without there being a phyiscal exchange is a nightmare. In the past, they could monitor meetings between criminals. Now they basically need to look over the shoulder of criminals in order to prove that CriminalA spoke to CriminalB. It must be extremely difficult.
Yep - it's an interesting twist at least. If HN continues to grow, we all know where it ends. And there's a reason we're here and not there.
Is the peril greater than giving money to large financial corporations? Extremely Large corporations often lobby or directly corrupt their surrounding regulatory authorities.
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(It was just some guy saying he doesn’t think tariffs are always bad.)
> It's always someone else's services, whether that was a printing press or a telegraph.

You can easily make your own printing press or telegraph system, though the work is in laying lines. Further, you never had the right to compel someone to print your book, nor send your telegrams. You are inventing these rights.

> Governments are in it in official capacity, and not in some other system.

Are there really governments who put information on twitter that is not published by other means? That's a massive dereliction of duty if so, given twitter serves a small subset of any given population.

> Yes communication which includes social networking is a fundamental need

Twitter kicking you off is not denying you the ability to communicate. Social networking is not a fundamental need, as evidenced by the fact that not everyone uses it, in fact the majority do not. The vast, vast majority if we're talking about twitter, which has an audience of around 100-150 million worldwide. You are exaggerating this massively.

> Freedom of association is a fundamental human right

Your idea of digital freedom to associate is clearly not something that exists at present, nor ever has.
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Yeah, these things are scary. My test for people who ask for these backdoors is to ask for them to hand me their unlocked mobile. I promise to not share any information I read/see. There is an expression in this area that I love (but I can't remember the exact phrase): If you follow anyone around for some small period of time, you will find them guilty of breaking the law.
> Why do you get to decide,

Because this waste has externalities and I'd argue that in a democracy, people should have a say in that.
ISO 8601: the better date format
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https://www.csdisco.com/case-builder
My understanding is that the last application code Gates was involved in was the TRS-80 Model 100 [1] circa 1982; I taught my kids assembly on the Model 100 and think it's great.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100#ROM_firmware
so, old people?
Not a coincidence. It rarely is, the crosswords are chosen pretty deliberately. In general, if you want the back story to a crossword in the NYT, they have a column - in this case, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/crosswords/daily-puzzle-2...
The tunnel is important and was protected, but it was protected by its obscurity.

Like all "security by obscurity," once the secret is known, it is no longer secure and thus is at risk of desecration. Pierre Malinowski put the government in a bind because he broke their previous zero cost security (via obscurity) and now they have to either secure it at a significant cost and effort or end up complicit in its desecration.
That would be accounts from 2011 and before.
Ahh that makes more sense. It felt like a bit of an odd cutoff point haha
Your result is very surprising probably because you benchmarked on the very small example corpus whereas other languages were benchmarked on a much much bigger corpus
“Euphemistically described as a ‘fire-and-forget’ weapon, the Israeli Aerospace Industries’ Harop autonomously attacks any target meeting previously identified criteria, but includes a ‘man-in-the-loop’ feature that allows a human to technically prevent an attack from taking place.”

Are you saying it is not autonomous just because there is a person in loop? Seems pretty clear that it would be easy to remove that person, making it fully autonomous, unlike a remote controlled device.
Cheers for that.

I merely wanted to verify the @ was authentic, and that page was the top "site:gitlab.com" result.
I support full time DST but ...

Isn’t it weird to think That the Vast majority Of people are so powerless over their own schedules that they need nationwide legislation to do what they want and enjoy their evenings?

I don’t have a point. It’s just kind of a funny thing to think about.
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Link to the (great) CppCon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkpMdDe4g4

The one thing I would say is: as you dig more into C++ perf, you can develop an intuition for the kinds of things the compiler can and can't optimize. For instance, the C++ example from the article uses `std::unordered_map`, which is just an absolute mess from a cache locality perspective—the best compilers today (or of the foreseeable future) can't do a thing to fix that. Improving the programmer's choice of data structure is just not on the radar. :(
Is that due to something at the OS or filesystem driver level?
Hold the bottle parallel to the plate and tap it gently against your other hand. The ketchup comes out easily. It’s only hard to get out if you hold the bottle upside down (like you would with anything else). ;)
Right — and it could perhaps default itself to the date you joined, since that's a moment when it seems likely you liked what was on offer.
It's interesting for historical purposes to see if the tastes of the "old timers" are different from the tastes of the "newcomers."

It would be hard to measure this directly simply by comparing the front page from 2008 to today, because different articles will have been posted on different days, so a direct comparison is imposssible.

By simply seeing what old-timers vote on vs what everybody votes on, you can make a better apples-to-apples comparison. Not a perfect one, of course, because many old-timers may have quit long ago if HN had changed too drastically, and similarly their own ideas of what HN should be may have changed.
They also spoke about it at WWDC.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10639/
the likely cause of similarity is the "classic" users browse (and vote based on) the regular front page
Things tend to go that way when your major sponsor is also the owner of your main competing product.
There's nothing surprising to the ranking being similar.

Old accounts don't use classic, they use the normal HN homepage like everybody else. Which means, they see the same top links as everybody else, and upvote them, like everybody else.

In other words, /classic is remarkably useless. It might have been useful when it was created (11 years ago!), if a sizeable part of those old accounts would use /classic, and only /classic.
> your ideology is currently winning the power struggle by censoring/deplatforming dissenting views.

Can you be more specific about which views precisely are being censored/deplatformed en mass, which, in your opinion, gained more mainstream dissemination and/or respect in the past?

When people attack the freedom of speech in the name of the freedom of speech, what they want is their fringe speech to be treated with the same respect as more mainstream kinds of speech. That is not freedom of speech, nor has it ever been the norm. Freedom of speech includes the freedom of various institutions to relegate some speech to the fringe.

> universities already teach many crackpot theories - the social “science” fields are full of them (https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...). But they don’t teach the alternative viewpoint to those crackpot theories.

That those theories are crackpot is the opinion of a group of people who are not researchers in any relevant field, based on a "study" that, itself, meets no criteria for scientific research, but you are free to believe what you like and even say it -- see, no one is censoring you. The point is that universities are free to choose what to teach and what to "censor" as that is freedom of speech. It is not freedom of speech to demand the same level of academic/publishing respect to be afforded to all views.

BTW, my characterisation of Quillette as a platform for pseudoscience is accurate and based purely on scientific rigour. It is perfectly reasonable for respectable publications to avoid that content, and yet those who seek it or disseminate it are not censored.
Maybe it would have been more constructive to give concrete examples and suggestions for improvement, but I've done that plenty over the years and it seems it's always fallen on deaf ears. So I'm just sharing my impressions, not making statements.
Ah yes because the Nationalist Party was so much better during the good old days of apartheid when corruption ran at an all-time high.

It does not matter who holds it. Unchecked power always corrupts.
What even is this comment
What if it was never about economic slavery, and computer people are just really into S&M.
It seems like the children going to school in the dark is the main counterargument. Could schools just start later in the winter or have reduced hours?

Or could we add street lighting?
The app has been restored https://twitter.com/EskomSePush/status/1371423310878183426?s...
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Smart personalised and decentralised search with comment aggregation and sharing.

It shows you what you're interested in, not what adtech, or social media barons, or VCs, think you should be reading for your own good. Or for "engagement."

Something something echo chamber? Probably. But it's not as if we don't have those already.
Your vote counts in the "primary" ;). You are part of selecting stories for the main page. Overwhelmingly, "classic" voters will vote for things that are already visible on the regular main page.
Why Should Project Managers Always Have a Staffing Agency on Speed-Dial?
When it comes to IT staffing, any company able to source all of the staff and skills it needs locally is quite lucky. But who do you call when someone quits, a new hire doesn’t show up (ghosting), or you need to ramp up quickly? That’s part of what’s involved in contingency planning and that’s part of a project manager’s job. For these reasons and more, PM’s keep a direct line with a staffing agency they can trust.
I think theres more than enough people who don't even boot the thing before wiping the drive and putting debian on it, especially among the readers of that blog.
physical locks are meant only to deter casual/opportunistic attacks. LPL essentially makes this point in the video on his home security setup. it's pointless to spend a lot of money on a front door lock that takes more effort to pick than it takes to force open the door or smash a window.
Unfortunate, because for all the badness of Perl, it shines in exactly this case of "read a potentially-infinite stream of text from stdin, process it, and dump another stream to stdout".
Apparently a lot, if you compare the vote counts on the "normal" homepage with the "classic" homepage. Actually the difference is so small that I highly doubt the "2008" claim in the title - I think it's still counting accounts that are over one year old!
By that same reasoning, you should probably avoid talking to people in person, too. Maybe you should carry around a copy of Krick's statement, shush people who try to talk to you, and give them a copy.

If you think that sounds rude and bad, maybe reconsider your approach to conversation when it's not face-to-face — because that's how it comes off to a fair slice of the population.
He has a point, priorities under MS ownership.
> . Unfortunately I don't know of any community that has erradicated crime and dangerous animals.

I agree, risk zero does not exists, but there is a lot that can be done before platoeing

To put things in perspective, these are some stats about Firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year

Country United States
Year 2017
Total 12.21
Homicide 4.46
Suicide 7.32
Unintentional 0.15
Undetermined 0.10
Guns per 100 inhabitants 120.5

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Country Italy
Year 2015
Total 1.13
Homicide 0.29
Suicide 0.72
Unintentional 0.12
Undetermined 0.00
Guns per 100 inhabitants 11.9

---

Country Japan
Year 2015
Total 0.02
Homicide 0.00
Suicide 0.01
Unintentional 0.00
Undetermined 0.00
Guns per 100 inhabitants 0.60

As you can see the death rate appears to be strongly correlated to the amount of firearms circulating: USA has ten times the number of firearms of Italy (proportionally to the population) and 10 times the deaths, Japan has 1/200 of the firearms of USA and 1/600 of the deaths, Japan owns 1/20th of the firearms of Italy and has 1/60 of the deaths.
Which is quite helpful. It’s my default bookmark as I prefer the mix.

// This account is 2010; I had been in the earlier cohort under different account. A decade later I still find the early but still active cohort votes a mix of links I prefer.
Dang, even my account isn't that old. October '09.
I think we can see a parallelism in the modern "money creation" with the ancient Roman Empire "currency debasement". Found this nice infographic https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/...
Posting your own stuff here is fine, if you don't repost it too much. For example when Dropbox started the founder posted it as a small personal project here.

[I can't find it in the official rules, but there are some unofficial rules, like not concealing that the submitter is the owner, no sockpuppets or shills, ... But I don't see anything like that here.]

If I have to complain, I don't like when the title is a question. I'd prefer something like: "Project idea: buying cheap lands with bitcoins as a service" [Is the "as a service" part correct? Is the "Project idea" prefix correct? My version can be polished a lot.]
You win. No more debate with you.
You've traded hashing for a memory access per byte. I did something similar in the 'optimized-trie' program for Rust: https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/master/rust/optim... --- It ended up being slower. But, it is very much impacted by cache effects. So the next step here would indeed be to figure out how to reduce cache misses. But it's non-trivial.

Like, maybe your idea works. Maybe. I don't know. You'd have to try it. But it's not clear to me that it will. And it doesn't support "is far from what an experienced C programmer would write if performance was paramount" IMO.
They remove PWA use on FF? More information?
> Which stupefies me.

You're surprised that the general tech population is remarkably similar to the elite tech population? :-p
The legislative solution to that would be to force all devices sold in the mass market to have the ability to use any operating system.
The nice thing about the Go GC is, it runs completely in parallel to your program, so that there are no significant GC pauses any more (typically far below the millisecond range, rather microseconds).
Thanks for raising it.
It already is an echo chamber. Except that you have zero control over the content you see, so you're stuck in someone else's echo chamber. It can be really fucking frustrating, which is why I closed my main account after 8 years.
Makes sense. The best thing you can do with Google is to stay as far away as possible.
Not sure about WA, but over here in OH we have a covid extension - if your registration expires between March 2020 and April 2021 you have until July 2021 to renew. So I've been driving a vehicle with an expired temp tag from November.
Sleep experts who have education in the area and study for a living seem to overwhelmingly disagree with what you're saying. There is extensive discussion of the issues in the linked article, with inline links to sources.
Based on the first link:

"Less than 200 years ago, humans organized their daily routines by the sun clock ... which was in synchrony with their body clock. Now, most of us ... use electric light at night... these new conditions challenge our health and can cause safety problems, [and] ... become even worse under Daylight Saving Time (DST)".

It seems like most people would agree that living in synchrony to the solar day is better for us, but I would think that DST would help with that when the sun starts to rise around 6AM and many people aren't awake yet.

Why would eliminating DST help?
Russia isn't a threat to the US. Foreign policy maybe, but not existential like China.
The say Steve Jobs died, every single story was about that. Not complaining, the day was treated well this way.
On a 4.3MB file:

https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/master/kjvbible.t...
Towards a new general dispatch mechanism in MoarVM
Will robot playmates become our children's only friends?
Doesn't seem to be working. I see many submissions by accounts created after that date.

Is there some reason why a person downvoted this? When I visit the link, I see links submitted by accounts created in 2019.
All of them, signed up to twitter specifically to follow those other people they already knew about? None signed up because of the service itself, and the generic offering?

It's nothing at all to do with twitter building the platform, advertising the platform, creating a user base? Nobody followed someone else because the platform promoted something, or made it easy to discover people, anything like that?

In that case twitter itself is completely unimportant. If you can build an audience without relying on twitter's existing user base, then why do you care if twitter bans you? Go build that somewhere else.
From his Wikipedia entry:

>In 1986, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a 4.2 GPA and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree (B.S.E.) in electrical engineering and computer science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
The comment section often has the actual news story hidden in it if you look hard enough. Most of the news stories I read are 30-40% accurate, if you scroll though the comments it’s often you will find the corrected story at 70-80% accuracy. So at least in that regard they have value
Progression of south-eastern English from the 14th to the 21st centuries
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