skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classical music is 300+ years old. I also love Opera as do my parents and grandparents.

I think it is more about what gets played on the radio. The music is good and new. That tricks our brain into pursuing it.

Eventually each genre finds its own classics that basically capture most of the attention.
> A new king will seize the Iron Throne from Mark Zuckerberg, whose empire has been disarticulated.

I always wondered what a Facebook 2.0 would look like. I'm not so naive to think it will be around forever. Just that: it won't fail catastrophically like other companies. It will die out slowly. And when it does: it would be largely replaced by federated networks and indie types running their own Mastodon instances. It won't be glamorous, but it's much better than a centralized monopolistic platform running on surveillance capitalism.
The US had currency competition relatively recently. It's normally described as a compatibility nightmare with each city issuing their own currency, but this perception is mostly based on a few extreme anecdotes. In practise, it worked somewhat well -- it had some benefits over the current system, but also some downsides.

The term to search for is free banking.
What's with the value judgement? It is known to be very addictive -- why is that? Because it is so "good", the experience is pleasant. That why people take it!

To me being an addict is not a problem. I see coffee/nicotin/alc/TV/porn addicts every day and call them my friends'n'fam. No problem. It's "their choice", and they dont look bad for it in my view.

In some cases addiction comes together with other behavior that do make people look bad to me: not taking responsibility, being a cunt, etc. Those behaviors I do look bad at.
Even 95%, 90% or 50% would be better points of comparison than average. Average is nearly meaningless.
use Invidious https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md
That's not true. If you write the byte swap in ANSI C using the gigantic mask+shift expression it'll optimize down to the bswap instruction under both GCC and Clang, as the blog post points out.
By the way, mathematicians also have their fuck ups:

https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
Can dark matter be just deformed space ?
I am not any good with GR but most of the introductions to it assumes that all frame references are considered uniform to each others, what if that's not the case.
FCC Speed Test App FAQs
To me dark matter has always seemed inelegant, like a hack, which is exactly why and how it was introduced. Now nature doesn't care what's elegant or not, so maybe that's how things actually are. I always thought it'd be nicer if we found out our equations for gravity were off instead. Something that's a rounding error at small scales but that matters at large scales and could explain the faster orbits at the edges of galaxies and in galaxy clsuters.

However, as Sabine points out, it seems that really, at the mathematical level it's the same thing. Add a field, add a particle, both ways you're just adding some terms to the equations . Fields and particles are two sides of the same coin.

I guess MOND and dark matter aren't as different as I thought.
Author here. I'm improving upon Rob Pike's outstanding work. Standing on the shoulders of a giant.
U.S.'s Biggest Gasoline Pipeline Halted After Cyberattack
Did you watch the video? The FBI itself disclosed to Rudy's lawyer that they accessed his iCloud. Thats a post facto admission from the government itself. There's no good reason to think Rudy, a practicing lawyer for 40+ years, is making up statements of legal fact.

Article with statements from Rudy's Lawyer
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-feds-got-rudy-iclou...
Negative interest loans for consumers would be very interesting.

Assuming we allow every citizen to borrow $1000 at -1% then the effect is very similar to helicopter money because the value of the debt is being eroded by inflation and you have to pay less back than you borrowed.
Seems like rust is actually the winner. Average latency is a meaningsless metric for performance. If not, why not perc20?
That's not really an accurate view. Christianity is open to absorbing anything good in any culture (logos spermatikos) and the Greeks were unrivaled in terms of philosophical and artistic sophistication. St. John couldn't convert the Greeks to Christianity until he made the connection between Christ and Logos (John 1) because Hebrew genealogies didn't mean anything to the Greeks. And then it clicked.

"Hellenizing" better describes the Seleucid influence, which lead to the Maccabean revolt, that not only led Jews to adopt Greek cultural practices and customs at odds with Jewish worship, but even to worshipping the pagan gods.
We'll have to keep it as a quirk of history...

A bit like the electron has a negative charge...
This is why, in 2021, the mantra that C is a good language for these low level byte twiddling tasks needs to die. Dealing with alignment and endianness properly requires a language that allows you to build abstractions.

The following is perfectly well defined in C++, despite looking like almost the same as the original unsafe C:

#include <boost/endian.hpp>
#include <cstdio>
using namespace boost::endian;

unsigned char b[5] = {0x80,0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04};

int main() {
uint32_t x = *((big_uint32_t*)(b+1));
printf("%08x\n", x);
}

Note that I deliberately misaligned the pointer by adding 1.

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/5416oefjx

[Edit] Fun twist: the above code doesn't work where the intermediate variable x is removed because printf itself is not type safe, so no type conversion (which is when the bswap is deferred to) happens. In pure C++ when using a type safe formatting function (like fmt or iostreams) this wouldn't happen. printf will let you throw any garbage in to it. tl;dr outside embedded use cases writing C in 2021 is fucking nuts.
A short story that explores this premise:

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov © 1956

https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Goodbye, Simple
The seller gets bidenbucks. What is he going to do with them? Buy Doge?
the greatest of all is lisp not being the most mainstream language, and we can only blame the lisp companies for this fiasco. in an ideal world we all would be using a lisp with parametric polymorphism. from highest level abstractions to machine level, all in one language.
actors and singers are contributing to the arts, plus they require at least an iota of talent, which is more than can be attributed to those vapid degenerates
I have a fat emergency fund and live below my means. This gives me the confidence to be sure I can find another job if required.
Here is a short and sweet article that might answer your question. It starts out a bit heady but if you can chew through the initial paragraphs, the pigeon hole explanation is easily digestible.

http://matt.might.net/articles/why-infinite-or-guaranteed-fi...
Given it can be done with careful code AND many processors have a single instruction to do it I’m surprised it hasn’t been added to the C standard.
Watching the Universe Expand in Real Time
It's good but even less known, and paid, so there's no chance of a massive adoption.
That reminds me of a project to interface with vending machines. (We built a bookshop in a vending machine that would tweet whenever it sold an item, with automated stock management.)

Vending machines have an internal protocol a little like I2C. We created a custom peripheral to bridge the machine to the web, based on a Raspberry Pi.

The protocol was defined by Coca Cola Japan in 1975 (in order to have optionality in their supply chain). It's still in use today. But because it was designed in Japan, with a need for wide characters, it assumes 9 bit bytes.

We couldn't find any way to get a Raspberry Pi to speak 9 bit bytes. The eventual solution was a custom shield that would read the bits, and reserialise to 8 bit bytes for the Pi to understand. And vice versa.

9 bit bytes. I grew up knowing that bytes had variable length, bit this was the first time I encountered it in the wild. This was 2015.
You can you them in parallel and they share no extensions, sessions, website settings, or other local data. You can even have separate themes for each profile.

I'm unaware of any potential problems relating to fingerprinting and so on, but for your use case it doesn't sound like it'd be a problem.
Luckily we don't have to admit that when somebody else wants the things that we were throwing out. Let them get a chance to admit it. Pass that chance down the line until the book ends up in the landfill. We all end up in the landfill eventually, there's no hurry.
They must be so fucking old. I bet they have some good stories.
/s
They are also part of the Chromium project, so you're welcome to check it out, inspect the source code, and build it locally.
I was going to say tech people, but I think more generally people like to view the world in black or white or 0 or 1 when in reality there are few issues that clear. As you stated very well, most of the world exists in the gray. Apple can care about privacy while not being perfect. Privacy can also be good for their bottom line at the same time. Even the App Store policies are not wholly bad or good for users, just a different set of tradeoffs, some of which as you say deserve criticism.
If memory serves correctly, ada 2012 and beyond has language level support for this. I was working on porting some code from an aviation platform to run on PC and it was all in ada 2005 so we didn't have the benefit of that available.
In antenna theory there is the concept of the near field and far field.

I had an idea that maybe black holes have an additional near field component that becomes exposed once the singularity is formed, like there is a limit/floor to infinite density. Energy in the far field falls of at 1/r^2 but near field is 1/r.
I'm not a physicist, so, please take my opinion like you would take the opinion of somebody chatting in the groceries shop queue, but I find the subject fascinating and I just want to share my crazy theory. At least, I think it would make for good science fiction.

I "think" that dark matter observations are the effect of interference between different Everett branches. The smaller is a volume space, the less possible states it has, so gravity in the center of a galaxy would be less that in the borders. The borders of the galaxy are more entropic because more different states are possible, ergo the stars there experience interference with more Everett universes. Gravity being so weak, it would only show its effects in other branches at huge scales. In this "theory", it seems that dark matter effects would be less visible the further away in space (time) we look. No idea if that's the case.

Again, I have no idea what I'm talking about, so this is just for fun.
`role=“button”` can be faster than overwriting the crappy default button styles for people who can’t spare 15 seconds
OK, fine, they're gatekeeping not their hardware, but their dev tools. Kinda sad that you're fine with that...
Hmm... Since when did we reach this height of "enlightenment" that children (humans) are now being compared to a stonewall in relevance, no matter how sophisticated the wall might be?

Yes, it is more meaningful to have kids than to build a stonewall.

Aren't walls inventions of man, as such, an effect caused by man. How can an effect (invention) of man be equated to the inventor?

Do you compare the effect of human freedom to the effect of unconscious matter in history?
> Under lots of metrics, today's planet is a much healthier and prosperous place to live for humankind than it was 100 or even 50 years ago.

We have created healthier and more prosperous societies. It is difficult to argue that we have created a healthier planet, yet our long term survival depends upon the health of the planet.
> I don't think that C disallows RVO,

optimizations should never change the output of a program unless explicitely allowed (the as-if rule).

In c++ since RVO is allowed, it is ok for

intptr_t value = 0;

struct foo f() {
struct foo the_foo;
value = (intptr_t)&the_foo;
return the_foo;
}

int main()
{
struct foo the_foo = f();
assert(value == (intptr_t)&the_foo);
}

to assert or not depending on the -O level. But I'd wager that it is not the case in C.
See Charles Stross' Singularity Sky (aka Escaton Book #1).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81992.Singularity_Sky

https://textarchive.ru/c-2418451-pall.html

In which a materially-post-scarcity society called The Festival liters a world with telephones that all make the same offer.

“Entertain us and we will give you anything you want.”
The article explicitly shows that the provided macros are very efficient with a modern compiler. You can check on godbolt.org that they emit the same code.

Though the article only mentions bswap64 and mentioning __builtin_bswap64 would be a nice addition.
I don't know, is it though? Properly done reference counting AFAIK requires using atomic increase/decrease in order to be safe, and that creates a bit of overhead every time you assign a reference, while assignment to a reference with a precise GC is basically a pointer assignment. It's much better for latency though, given that the overhead from rc is deterministic. It has been a few years though since I've looked into garbage collection techniques, so I could be a bit rusty about the current state of the art.
Mentioned somewhere else: Windows NT has subsystems. E.g. posix, os2, win32, ... What they do is adding a subsystem to windows. The module they code is the subsystem not the distribution. Nowadays it is a bit blurry die to the full kernel and this windowing subsystem.
Comments from one of the maintainers on why Java is on top

https://www.reddit.com/r/grpc/comments/muy8dj/grpc_bench_ope...

Small clarification (to my understanding, I'm not a Java Guru) on why Java got on top - those Java implementations use something called Direct Executor. It's super performant when there's no chance of a blocking operation. But if you are to do anything more than echo service, you might be in trouble. Other implementations probably don't suffer from the same constraint

PR and discussions here- https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/pull/91
It's factual if you consider average latency important, which is debatable. On 90th, 95th and 99th percentile latency, it isn't the most performant. On memory usage, it isn't.
This is absolutely amazing.

It's so convincing that, on an iPhone, I went to one of the applications with camera, got a camera permission dialog, assumed it was part of the mocked up UI and clicked through... then was a bit surprised to see that it was actually using my camera feed!

The UI was of course the actual iOS safari permission dialog :-)
But then you have to #ifdef the endianness of the target architecture. If you do it the right way as Russ Cox and Justine Tunney say, then your code can serialize and deserialize correctly regardless of the platform endianness.
Good question. I had to think about it and I can't get more definitive beyond "it depends".

In many ways, it's already the case. Browsers are already possible through partnerships with companies that manage certificates, DNS and so on. They also have special APIs that are open only to the vendor. You can't spin off your authoritative DNS or certificate authority or malicious site detection and have it made accepted by Firefox/Chrome or others.

On the other hand, we have an understanding about what web is and expectations about the web standards which makes me to expect neutrality. It's the tool that promises me to parse whatever HTML I throw at it and execute any JS.

Then we have things like Brave browser that has API that's not of any standards.

So, I don't know. It depend. I will know it when I see it.
Have you seen what China did to all their farmers in the last few decades?
Seeing the Real Faces of Silicon Valley
> nobody would like it done to them […] Would you say the same if it was for dogs, cats or horses?

Yes, I would. If an animal needs to be killed, this is one of the most humane way to do this. Where I'm from, a lot of farm animals die more painful deaths (nobody can afford electric shockers there).

This is one of the least painful ways to die. If I had to die and wanted a painless death, I'd choose being stunned with electricity and not feeling anything.

> above is obviously very cruel

Argument "it's obvious" works when something is obvious to the person you're talking to. In this case, it's obvious only to you.

And if "it's obvious" is your best argument, it usually means you don't understand very well why you came to that conclusion. Think about it.

> cruelty of the above is only ignored because it's normalised through culture and tradition

Yes, and it's not normal to you because of your culture and tradition. People's views are formed by culture and tradition, yes, there's no discovery here. If you grew up on a farm and saw animals getting slaughtered since your childhood, this idea wouldn't be so shocking to you.
One of the things that I don't understand about libertarianism. You abolish the government. Then what? x) Do they think nobody is going to step up and grab that power vaccum?
If you're in an area where it's not worth building cell towers, then Starlink will have plenty of bandwidth... but that's not where most people live.

When you look at a city from orbit, you see millions of radios all stacked on top of each other, screaming. That can never scale as well as a distributed array of towers.
Hah. gmail already doing this to me, be I see it as a golden opportunity to harvest only the relevant email addresses from my gmail, then dump gmail for proton mail.

Start over with a clean slate, my gmail is trashed with spam and promotion crap.
Tried to run the benchmark on my laptop (with a Ryzen 5 3500U), got different results much closer to what I would expect normally:

==> Running benchmark for java_grpc_pgc_bench...
Requests/sec: 25563.46

==> Running benchmark for cpp_grpc_mt_bench...
Requests/sec: 31389.24

==> Running benchmark for dotnet_grpc_bench...
Requests/sec: 25376.18

==> Running benchmark for go_grpc_bench...
Requests/sec: 29158.60

==> Running benchmark for rust_tonic_st_bench...
Requests/sec: 28120.25

Different images for the same language (java, rust, cpp) performed with similar if not worse results
We 3D printed wood in 2012. There are lots of filaments available this is just a fluff piece.
I didn't experience a recursion limit when I just tried it. Maybe the site was updated after your comment? I'm using Firefox.
I didn't get this part:

> I got the impression that the theory was that the power was the individual. But in practise it's 65% Chinese miners?

Are Chinese miners not individuals? China has the largest population, so it's only natural that it will also have the largest fraction of miners.
Can anyone explain why Microsoft is always so incredibly slow at keeping Windows modern compared to Apple with MacOS? The difference in quality has always baffled me.
> The good thing is that Big Endian is pretty much irrelevant these days.

This is nonsense - many file formats are big endian.
I don't believe there is any correlation at all between actual social stratification and any of the fake internet points. Even the successful influencers I met while nomadding around SE Asia were pretty charisma-less (though usually good looking) irl.

The problem with hanging out here is that I'm doing this instead of anything useful or productive, because my brain likes the feel of fake internet points.
Little endian has the advantage that you can read the low bits of data without having to adjust the address. So you can for example do long addition in memory order rather than having to go backwards, or (with an appropriate representation such as ULEB128) in one pass without knowing the size.
In this case I think you're making the common mistake of confusing capital requirements with reserve requirements.

That said, if we change "capital requirements" to "reserve requirements" your question is still valid: this does become an implicit money multiplier. The fallacious thinking lies in assuming that "banks cannot lend in a way that exceeds their multiplier." Because they do, all the time.

In normal (non-QE) times, banks keep the minimum amount of reserves they need to meet the requirements. This means any loan they make violates the reserve requirements temporarily. After they've made the loan, they go get more reserves to cover the requirements.

In other words, the money multiplier does not say anything about how much they can lend given the reserves they have, it says (indirectly) how much reserves they have to get after they have made the loan.
Some assert that life has meaning.

So assert that life has no meaning, as alluded to here.

These are axiom-like statements that cannot be proven. Everyone has a faith as to which of these assertions is true.
A change of extruding temperature changes the color of the wooden filament and produces features like natural wood would have.
Here you go - https://12factor.net
I would honestly hazard a guess that there's no marketing person on the team yet. If the founder is in charge of the content of the site, which could very well be the case, they are more likely to use technical terms because it's natural to them. Plus, it's the more boujee option.
This book was referenced in the intriguing wiki article on Goethe's Theory of Color. The referenced passage (below) sums up and clarifies the essential nature of the discord between the respective natural philosophical outlook of Newton and Goethe.

"The renouncing of life and immediacy, which was the premise for the progress of natural science since Newton, formed the real basis for the bitter struggle which Goethe waged against the physical optics of Newton. It would be superficial to dismiss this struggle as unimportant: there is much significance in one of the most outstanding men directing all his efforts to fighting against the development of Newtonian optics." - Werner Heisenberg, during a speech celebrating Goethe's birthday [ref'd in OP]

Generalizing, one could formulate this duality as the objective (Newton) vs subjective (Goethe) understanding of Nature. In terms of contemporary concerns, this can inform consideration of topics ranging from interpretations of QM, mechanical minds and decision making systems, to transhumanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours
No, it's not a security feature. If you do allow contact access, but don't add people to your address book, you see the name they chose for themselves. And it looks different (slightly faded gray instead of color coded, a tilde in the beginning, slightly smaller font). At least on my Android.
Of the people that lived 100K years ago, we have almost nothing. Possibly some cave paintings, though the vast majority of art from then must be gone. However, every single person alive today is descended from people who lived then. You may or may not find that meaningful, but it would be hard to disagree that having children was the most impactful course of action available to anyone alive then. The same is true for nearly all of human existence.

With the current pace of change, having children may no longer be the obvious winner it has been for all of history, but it might still be...
What is it? "a highly evolved technology for the circular technosphere"

What does it accomplish? "It allows millions of trees to remain in place in their forests".

How does it do that? "By rearticulating cellulose and lignin into assets for present and future generations."

It's a pretty coherent description of the technology, aimed at people who only care about the impact instead of the technology itself