skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using "wc -l" or "sort | uniq -c | sort" to count and classify things.

Count processes and threads by user on Linux:

# ps -Teo euser=,comm= | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
locking is needed to order transactions, mysql already has acid transactions. i use mysql metaphorically to describe a single centralized database protected by single entity that controls all the writes. we already have such payment systems: visa, mastercard, paypal, venmo, etc.

blockchain and miners only make sense if you need and actually maintain decentralization. if you don't and/or can't - miners (and validators in PoS systems) are useless overhead.
Or wl-copy / wl-paste on wayland.
Lol arguably Winamp + Napster did :D

But really, 99% of the value-add of Spotify over Winamp is stuff that happens server-side. Your Spotify client doesn’t have a database of all the songs, nor the ML models for computing recommendations. As far as playing streaming music goes, Winamp would happily play an m3u (mmmm soma.fm).

Don’t get me wrong, the discovery and search features in Spotify have brought me a ton of value. But wow is the client resource usage dramatically disproportionate for the added functionality
I don't think them falling behind is necessarily bad. Modern systems, languages and programming practices are much nicer, but they also have a lot more effort behind processors, compilers, frameworks, operating systems, etc., so overall the system is much more complex.

If anything, I think having a separate, archaic, mostly frozen system base for critical infrastructure is a good thing. The current ancient COBOL abandonware situation is probably not the simple and mostly standardized solution one may wish for, but it's a lot closer.
We're not keeping coal in Belgium. The last coal mine in Belgium closed in 1992, the last coal power plant closed in 2016.
I don't "believe" it will be possible; I am absolutely, 100% positively certain it is possible.
> for actions that only lower the ad revenue and actually benefit the customer.

False, it only does that for their competition.
Not much different than other ways of slowly dying TBH. They're all mostly horrible.
This seems like a non-sequitor and off topic. There are plenty of better places to give this feedback.
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EDIT: Should've looked at all the comments first - https://archive.is/Y7IFZ

Someone has a non-paywalled link? Sounds like a very interesting topic.
> I'm simply pointing out that if we assume that the distribution channel is compromised, any distribution channel could help distribute malicious software, not just if you use "curl | bash" method.

And from that you conclude that all channels must be equal? That's a logical fallacy. There are trusted channels like the debian repos. Or maybe cargo, pypi, etc. And then there is this abomination.

This is like comparing a vaccination at your doctor's office to a needle found in the park (the needle looks respectable, of course) and stating "well, theoretically, my doctor could inject me poison as well, so it's probably ok to take this one here".
Yeah, remaking society seems like a just and scaleable solution
Would this have worked pre-NLL?
Thanks for the insight. I don't really have a problem with public speaking, I actually enjoy it. The problem is my brain, which stops working even when prompted for insight.
Here in Denmark it's 1.78 USD to mail a letter, and that's delivered within 5 days. Next day delivery is 4.7 USD.

I reasonably trust it'll get delivered on time, but I haven't tested it.

This is letter pricing, for packages the private options are usually cheaper.
As this is another shim based manager, you can expect that at some point in time, someone in your team will have a broken setup due to shims generation failing for some reason or because something else messed with the way the tool relies on the PATH.

This has been my experience with rbenv, asdf and all other solutions that relies on shims.

Depending on what you are trying to do (for example running short lived CLI), you will incur into a slightly performance cost because of the bash/zsh/fish shell you need to spawn before running your code. In ruby's case rbenv/asdf adds around 20-50ms (could be more etc depending on your shell and your shells initialization code etc).
For those who don’t know what Taproot is: https://river.com/learn/what-is-taproot/
Alternative viewpoint: Everyone is hyper-stimulated by modern entertainment and lovable hobbies, therefore making friends at work is becoming harder to do because we're all bifurcated in our free time. Our interests used to be more basic, more shared, our community was tighter knit. Now, I feel the Internet and consumerism has allowed a massive blossoming of new hobbies, DIY, go it your own way, hang out by yourself activities. Either that, or something like online gaming, where you're finding a digital community.

Especially during the pandemic, I became very used to hanging out with only my partner, and I think our bubble has amplified my introverted habits.
Im perfectly fine being lonely at work. Go away
The reason I'm against nuclear power is the human greed factor. See my past comment for more details and sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348520
I worked at Yahoo! when this was going on, I’m amazed the share holders didn’t sue Jerry Yang and the board for avoiding this sale. Yahoo had very little of technological value and was actively trying to destroy its own search business amongst other properties at the time. They really were in a prime position and bungled it extremely badly, I think they had maybe 20% of the search market at the time.

Carol Bartz later came and told everyone it was pointless to be in the search business because Google were too big and impossible to compete with on investment. She made it very clear the equation for success was money spent === great search engine results, ignoring how Google came into being in the first place. Pure Harvard Business School spreadsheet stuff.

It still feels like a wasted opportunity to me, it seems so weak to just throw your hands up in the air and say it’s too hard to make your extremely successful search engine better.
When your letter or package hits the bottomless pit known as the north houston facility, you just have to wait for it to come around the dark side of the moon. Basically everything in houston hits that. Makes me think of toledo too. All mail was routed to detroit and back, even if you mailed it from toledo to maumee.
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If nixos is doing that they're not alone. Fedora is in essentially the same camp unless it changed in the latest release: It's pgp signed but with a totally new key with every release and that pgp key isn't signed by anything else, and the only way to verify it is ... to download it from the same place you got your iso from.

A number of years back openssl changed their pgp key and for a month didn't publish it anywhere. AFAICT I was the first person to complain about it-- which also suggests that all the distros that had already shipped the update hadn't checked it.
SVG filters are really powerful. Once you define them in SVG, you can also name them and then apply the filter to regular HTML content via CSS with `filter: url(#mysvgfilter)`
Dejoy's own business would benefit by the collapse of the USPS. It was in his interest to make that happen as fast as possible. Plus blatant manipulation of the election. His management has been pretty corrupt.
Actively sabotaging mail delivery in a pandemic for political purposes.
How Tech apprenticeships could take off in America
Sorry to hear. I don't know much about cancer, but that sounds scary to say the least.

What was your pathway to diagnosis? Was it picked up in a routine checkup, or did you feel symptoms that convinced you to see a doctor?
BaseCamp Exodus was brought on by Arrogance
Ohh that makes sense. Thank you for explaining!
We could cross-examine but as far I am concerned every package I ordered (one) from France to Belgium came in less than a week. I thought it'd take longer but I was wrong.
Don't worry about it to be honest. The guy is just giving the typical American response. Nothing that works in every single other country in the world could possibly work in the US due to their size. Nevermind the fact that it works in less or more populated countries. It just can't possibly work in the US. For other examples look at how the only way to deal with trash in New York is to throw it on the street or how California has huge forest fires almost every year due to powerlines falling.. If only there was a solution to those already solved problems
This is a very good read and the explanation takes a very balanced views of possible ways by which the virus could have become virulent. Thanks for submitting.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27022120
I worked at HuffPo right after AOL was acquired by Verizon and before AOL/Yahoo became Oath. During this time Arianna left; rumor was she was forced out or at the very least, her power was undermined/neutered by Verizon and she was unable to fulfill her vision.

Shortly after was the 2016 election. It was very surreal to be working there, while everyone on the editorial staff was sure HRC was going to win and then Trump won, without the namesake leader at the helm.

As time dragged on, it started to become obvious that Verizon was starting to extract as much value out of the acquired AOL web properties at the expense of quality/brand integrity. Then came subsequent layoffs and now HuffPo really is a shell of it's former self.
This would make a way better Arduino project that a fully fledged device. $60 for basically a gag device with no other function? Seems like a waste of hardware to me.
The owners of the Danish Yahoo clone Jubii got rich by selling to Lycos, who sold it back to a Danish media company. It’s now owned by a Norweigen company. With each sale the site loses value.
If you live in an urban area, rentals are convenient. If you are in the suburbs, it's not as simple as you will need a ride to/from the rental lot.

You may also be limited by the drop-off/pickup times. Road trips often have very early departures or very late returns.

I have a headache just thinking about re-installing 3 car seats for every weekend hiking trip...

Things become significantly more painful when you have kids.
Spray it with truck bed liner, job done.
As an etude, problem 99 of the "Ninety-nine Prolog Problems" is a "crossword puzzle" that's much more approachable than the subject of TFA.
I'd actually say they're closer than Waymo to FSD, given that Waymo's solution relies on much more expensive tech and high fidelity 3D mapping. To my mind you're not true FSD until your car can drive literally anywhere an average human could, and I'm not sure that's possible with Waymo's solution until they've mapped the entire world.
> That's vastly inaccurate.

Which part of the article (or my comment), exactly, is vastly inaccurate?

Having lived in an affluent part of coastal Africa for a couple of decades, I am intimately familiar with the wealth disparity which you speak of.

But I don't see how the luxurious living of the minority renders the overall arguments in that article inaccurate.

Please help me understand what you're referring to?
Once again, it's demonstrated for us, trusted third parties are security holes.
Except the IRS, right? or so I was told when I lived in the US.

(if you get PWC to do your taxes as a relocation service, you have to submit in paper, though given the amount of paper it's almost a package, hehe)
Yeah I still have yahoo.stanford.edu in an old bookmarks file.
None taken.
which makes the problem more likely to emerge when the various hardware companies stop developing new drivers due to lack of significant new hardware evolution.

e.g. why update the nic drivers if the nic hasn't changed in 20 years? this could easily turn into "how do we even modify and release our companies nic driver?"
It's so annoying when I have to open Logi Options everytime I want to use a physical mouse to get the scroll going right.
> The other challenge is to get those tiny wins into the sprint when your PM can be clueless about the ROI on those.

If the PM is clueless about tiny wins for the customer you should find a new PM. That's basically the crux of their job.
I'm in the Bayou City as well and all my holiday mail arrives around the next holiday. New Year's cards were coming in around Valentines. All packages and letters appear to be "batch" delivered, regardless of when they're sent. We don't even get regular deliveries every day because supposedly there's "nothing." I imagine it's sitting in that facility you mention.
At time of writing storing a TB for a month is ~10 usd. That looks to be cheaper than s3
Ladies and gentlemen I present Sunk Cost Mentality.
History channel and regular cable TV had that programming too. I guess it was only a matter of time.
It is already technically feasible to have cheap mass produced RFID dust directly mixed into the tar/concrete pavement and programmed to supply navigation/road condition information. They don't even need sensors, the cars using the road could update the data instead.

The cynic in me could imagine how the road will inform the car where the potholes are, car will automatically avoid them and the road maintenance can be further postponed.
Not sure why you're bringing up Scott Walker, unless it's to take a political cheap shot. The state of Wisconsin is not in the mail business.
This isn’t just the postal service being neglected. The entire global supply chain took a supply hit in COVID at the same time that demand went through the roof. UPS and FedEx struggle too.
> 3 cigarettes a day is also extremely low

The addictive nature of cigarettes makes it very hard to stick to 3 a day.
I sometimes wish there was a linux command that when piped into turned anything into json readable format, so `ps | json-pipe` would output something like [{pid: 133, name, etc}, ...] or `ls | json-pipe` would turn into [{name, size, etc}].

It would handle most known commands and maybe had plugin support for the rest.

Just a thought I had. Don't really know if it's possible or feasible. But it would make working with command line much more predictable and easier especially if it also supported jmespath! What do you guys think?
Nothing is trivial at that size but given the immense resources and market power at their disposal, I find it more convincing that it's just not a priority because their market position is already too secure.

I heard similar excuses back in the IE6 heyday for how improving the browser was "hard". Realistically 94% market share just meant that it wasn't broken from Microsoft's perspective.
"The mail hasn't changed over the last two years in some fundamental way that makes it disruptive"

COVID has very fundamentally changed the equation.

Also, some institutions are more adaptive than others, some are more resilient. I suggest the USPS is very low on 'adaptiveness', but probably fairly resilient.
en_SE is a nice one if your system has it. Seems to be a sort of made-up locale. Things are in English, but use YYYY-MM-DD date format.
From here (and my number was indeed wrong, its 1/5, not 1/6):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
I doubt that you did since OpenGL implementations are hardware-specific. Perhaps you mean utility libraries building on top of OpenGL such as GLEW or GLUT.

Some libraries (OpenGL, Vulkan, ALSA, ..) the shared library provides the lowest stable cross-hardware interface there is so linking the library makes no sense.
Pkgsrc Security Practices
Then by all means, don't use it.

The point is that Apple's policies don't allow other browsers to actually compete on their platform. So users don't get to make the choice. All browsers on iOS have to be WebKit based by explicit policy that's the issue at hand.

It sounds like you like the default choice, and that's great for you. But if it's truly better, they shouldn't be scared to allow users to make a difference choice for themselves, no?
Isn't this the direct result of startup incentive structures? Don't startups measure success more in "number of conversions" than "number of return visits"?
Living overseas, it's always entertaining to get letters from the IRS. Especially when they say "you need to do such-and-such by Feb 15th" and you received the letter on May 1.
I don't think that would be the implication, because we are in the context of a function. Otherwise, we should also not write foo(x: int) but foo: int -> ?
GraphQL isn't a replacement for REST.

REST is great for most applications. GraphQL is helpful in some specific applications where the benefits outweigh the downsides of additional complexity, but it shouldn't be viewed as universally superior to REST.
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One I used to use when website performance seemed bad. Prints out hits in the current log with a count for each unique client ip:

awk '{print $1}' < apache.log | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn |less

Produces output like:

4482 66.249.73.135
3264 46.105.14.53
3157 130.237.218.86
2073 75.97.9.59
1013 50.16.19.13
...

And fairly easy to throw in a "grep" for specific fetched urls, slices of time, etc.
FYSA, The Rust approach is the same way it's done in Python.
That's an interesting thought and would certainly explain why I haven't been able to relate to the issues people say they have the USPS.
> That would imply that "foo(x: int)" is a string rather than a function

But foo(x : int) is a string! It literally reads "foo applied to x". In the function definition, it appears to be used as a left-hand-side pattern which is "matched". The definition is written as if to say, whenever the term foo(x) is encountered, use this definition here. At least, that was my expectation.

> Haskell doesn't use that notation either

OCaml does and Haskell once had a proposal to add it. Haskell type signatures are normally written separately, but it does support annotating patterns with the right extensions.
Setting aside the theme park idiocy, I'm actually all for limiting bans to 60 days. Go be an asshole in public for a day, then take two months off. Come back, and if you haven't learned your lesson, you get another 60 days to cool off. And yeah, you're on a hair-trigger if you've just come back from a ban.

Reducing assholery by 60/61 seems about as good as banning it 100% to me. I'm even all for letting the Asshole in Chief come back to FB/Twitter -- though of all people he should be able to just start up a new ban-free channel (and watch it be overcome by spammers in a few seconds, because that's what happens when a channel doesn't moderate).
Yes, almost all of them.

The pickup truck people are very brand loyal and don't forget the buy American crowd.

You just see a lot of Tesla stuff because there is a cross section of tech people who like Tesla because it is marketed like a phone instead of a car.
I've been reading articles about Republicans sabotaging the postal service by making it pre-fund its retiree health fund since well before Trump. In fact, the law was passed 15 years ago, just as you started shipping stuff.

It's always been absurd to expect a government service to make a profit, and we've been talking about that for a long time, I don't think most people say it's Trump's fault.
REST itself is such an amorphous term nowadays that it's tough to even measure/define this. It seems to now mean basically any multi-endpoint based JSON API.

GraphQL is trendy and might take over "REST" for startups soon if it hasn't already. But in real-world adoption in established companies and dev teams I'm not sure that it ever will. REST / typical JSON APIs are so prevalent because they are fully backend agnostic and so darn easy to write (Note: not easy to write well). GraphQL has some architecture and typed overhead to learn prior to spinning up an endpoint and the underlying logic to stitch together the data. With REST, it's just HTTP call, backend processes call, return JSON, done.
Explain that to the Danish banks.
This is always still annoying since you type in your email, then get sent off to your SSO page - and they can never be bothered to post your email over, so now you have to enter it again.
Robinhood: The old guard of investing is at it again
The data-oriented design approach is and has been standard practice for doing numerical simulations on High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Still the problem of language support and syntactic sugar to make this style less error-prone and easier to do needs more work.
I agree with that. Certainly there were lottery winners who got in on the ground floor of ultimately very successful companies. And there were others who had disposable income who bought into companies like Yahoo early and got out in time.

But, in general, salaries were mostly unexceptional in tech even in Silicon Valley, a lot of companies went bust, and even most of the surviving firms--including the big systems/storage/chip/networking/etc. players--went through some very lean years with a bunch of layoffs.
Mentors can give you feedback that books can't, though. No matter how good a person is at self-reflection, you simply can't perceive yourself outside of your own perspective.

Not trying to knock reading of course, but it's no replacement for a good mentor.
This should ideally reduce the tendency of VTOL aircraft to destroy landing helipads, since the vast majority of the air being pushed around is ambient temperature rather than being turbine or low bypass turbofan exhaust.

But it doesn’t solve the problem that VTOL aircraft like this are fundamentally unsafe, as they lack the ability to glide effectively and they don’t have the option to autorotate should the propulsion system fail. Helicopters are already significantly less safe than airplanes, and VTOL aircraft tend to be less safe still.

Even the Harrier, which at least could fly normally, was notoriously crash prone, with an accident rate 3x higher than the contemporary F/A-18. The V-22 is proving to be a pretty reliable marine killer in its own right, and that’s before you account for its abysmal uptime and tendency to be grounded.

Perhaps this aircraft will fix some of the issues of past VTOL aircraft, but I’d still be super wary about getting in one.
> Scott Hoffman [...] told GBH News the slowdown in the mail has been a direct outcome of policy changes implemented by DeJoy, including a reduction in staff overtime, removal of high speed sorting machines and a decision to hold mail trucks until they are full instead of letting partially-loaded trucks head out to get mail moving.

> “The postal service is now walking away from its service commitments” in the new 10-year plan. Hoffman said he thinks DeJoy’s real goal is to erode public confidence in the government-controlled postal system in order to build support for privatizing it.
"Apollo to Buy Yahoo, AOL From Verizon for $5 Billion" from today's edition of WJS.
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So do you think it's worth trying to get it published? I enjoyed writing it until I got to the last chapter. By then I was ready to do something else.

Honestly, I'm kinda curious what the "time commitment" is to revise and publish. It probably took me about 100 hours to write the first draft. When I've looked back I see typos, so I assume that putting the polish needed to try to publish it would take at least another 100 hours.
I don't think you’re including enough data in your analysis. I agree that there’s been a correlation between the inflation rate and the rate of interest for the past century, but before that there was no such correlation. It seems to be a feature of our current monetary system.

Also, the correlation between a rising rate of interest and rising prices is much better than high interest/high inflation [1]. For example, from 1990 to 2000 we had relatively little inflation but the rate of interest was 5-8%.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=DCxk
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