skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, since when do our grandkids and great grandkids get consideration in our actions?

If they did get consideration, wouldn’t we want to reconsider a market-based economic system that destroys the natural systems they’ll be stuck with? That seems far more destructive to me than some human created currency numbers.
That seems like an overly-close reading of GP. I don't think they would pointing out the other pluralization of cactus unless they thought there was something off about the one the article uses.
Says the software developer making 100K+ a year. I have been poor before. I didn't need healthy. I needed cheap so I could work on other parts of my life.
And furthermore, it's how it compares to the profits of the company. If an engineer is returning $500,000k annually in profit to a company from their work, and getting paid $75k of that, they are being exploited. (Or at the very least are undervaluing their labor.)
Snowflake tries to auto-sort its containers to fit the query pattern; most of these platforms use at least one data ordering. Vertica allows multiple projections on a table with different orderings and distribution keys.

On top of that BRIN (block range) indexes are usually used to capture the value of sorting by pruning I/O. I don't see these mentioned here -- they seem like a good open-source version of this idea.
I think that's about right, and the "mess" isn't just code, but organizational. You might be hired to maintain some simple widget, and then 1–2 years later be writing a large scale job processing service, or designing a new front-end rendering system, or any other number of high-impact, challenging projects. Theoretically, these could be different sets of people (like techs vs engineers or something), but since companies are constantly re-orging and don't know what they need, it's the same people doing both.

I have to say however, that for engineers this is a massively good thing, both in terms of being able to work on lots of different stuff, and the compensation implications.
The zombie apocalypse would happen in some societies. But somehow I think countries like Japan would handle it well (no evidence for that).
It was "strongly implied" because no one was in the driver's seat. Now there is evidence there was a driver, after an investigation. Why should they retract anything?
DW is a scale problem, what you are describing is data analytics.

DW has always described the storage solution not the workload.
Really strange flashback feeling to playing Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (at the after-school 'computer club', heh) watching this! Incredible. As a YouTube commentor says, this is the C21 everyone was waiting for right? (L5 self-driving cars or drone deliveries will be others I suppose, they're just further behind.)
"Why are so many migrants desperate to get in on the border?"

Because it's all relative. The shitty jobs here are much better than the shitty jobs there.

Giving them the jobs won't fix anything. Now you would be adding to the people at the bottom of the income scale while still having people who were here drop out of the work force. If anything, the availability of cheap labor (and labor that is afraid to complain due to illegal status or because it's better than their past) keeps the labor price low, which could arguably hurt the overall labor price (I know, I know, Americans don't want those jobs; but maybe they would if they paid a lot more).
But as a teen the shower scene was still great.
I am planning on writing a book but only to say I did for my professional career. Money from it would be nice but its ultimately just an investment into furthering my main source of income. People really trust your opinion on something if you say you literally wrote the book on it... for some reason.
You are definitley right that it might expire. So far never had an issue with it though.

And yes this only works if you know some 'keywords' that are part of the URL for example, page title etc. It definitely doesn't really work for random personal stuff that you want to remember for a long time. I do use bookmarks for that actually. But I usually don't use the actual bookmarks, but Firefox takes the bookmarks into account when searching. It sort of "cements" it, saves it from expiring :)

I never actually use the actual history UI. I literally just type into the location bar and let it find what I need. Not sure what the default settings are any longer and whether history always comes before search suggestions or if that's a setting I changed, but it very much enables this too.

I'm taking this mostly in the context of frequently-ish visited stuff or stuff that's not 'too far into the history' that it's been purged (except for what I mentioned above about bookmarks I do make, but I don't organize them very well). It's definitely mostly for work stuff, though same also applies for frequently visited personal sites, like say Hackernews. Since I watch Netflix more on the TV "n<ENTER>" nowadays goes to Hackernews :)
> Hi! I run the team who made this decision, and I flatly reject the characterization that these changes were made by "recent hires" who are "copying Linuxisms into Windows bug-for-bug."

Hi! I see Microsoft people on "docs.microsoft.com" use forward slashes now in examples that only work on Windows. So, there's that.

If I open the latest version of Windows Terminal, running PowerShell Core (not some Bash thing with some VTY codes or whatever) and I run "Clear-Host", I can scroll back and see content that wasn't cleared.

THIS BREAKS MY WORKFLOW. I used Clear-Host so I can run a command with pages out of output, and then I know that scrolling back will go back to that output only, not something that happened three hours ago but superficially looks identical.

If I do this with PowerShell 5.1 with the old Terminal, it works as expected. It works like it has for the last 40 years of DOS and Windows history.

PS: It's broken even worse in Visual Studio Code.

You guys outright abandoned your user base to pander to Linux users. On Windows. Linux users on Windows. That enormous, huge majority of your paying user base that is apparently more important that the hundreds of millions of people like me.

So yeah, you should reopen the issue and rethink your priorities...
That's amazing! I wonder if I saw that and tuned it out as one of the 'boring' segments. It's genius, of course, but I'm not sure I would have felt so at 6. (I did recognize it from this thread a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18253445.)

One of the great things about Sesame Street was how they could entertain the parent along with the child. I remember a sketch about some composer struggling to write a song which is obviously "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", who somehow gets coaxed into the following instead:

Twinkle twinkle little bird
Isn't eating crumbs absurd
Try a ham and cheese on rye
Or a piece of cherry pie
If the crumbs are all you want
Don't come in my restaurant

That appeals perfectly to the small child who immediately recognizes the song and thinks it's ridiculous to rewrite it; perfectly to the adult with an ironic sense of humor; and perfectly to anyone who appreciates the craftsmanship it takes to pull something like that off. (Edit: I found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfqc07-C4Vw - I forgot the Kermit news reporter. What a brilliant thing. The nuances of those puppets are incredible.) (Edit 2: oh gosh, there were tons of those! https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Music.)

Another example: using "To be or not to be" and "Let It Be" as devices for teaching the letter B:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPb8oRJfNpQ#t=1m45s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPb8oRJfNpQ#t=4m3s (I wonder why they changed the melody - surely it would've been fair use)
Combining a few recent HN topics. I bet you could reverse engineer a prion to develop the mRNA to create it. Pack that gene into something like SARS-CoV-2 that's highly transmissible but maybe not quite as loud in the body. Let it burp prions into your system while it's humming away then in a year or two a couple billion people die of spongebrain.
I picked up an old stock 105mm last year, case included. I love how it makes people look, it's a great bridge between vintage and modern lenses.

How do you feel abbout the DC function? I've found R settings don't really focus correctly with AF, so it's best to focus manually. Is that the case with the 135mm version too?
Can you go into some detail about the specifics ways that the game job was better?
We won't know for a hundred years how many of the books that will be published in 2021 will be notable enough in 2121 to be on the 2021_in_literature wikipedia page.
This isn't uncommon in motor vehicle accidents, however.
My 50% tax rare isn’t enough?

My wife likes to work, yet contributes nothing due to taxes. Accounting for extra expenses.
Its not the rich vs. the poor, its the rich and the poor vs. the middle class
The rich buy up the votes of the poor using tax dollars in the form of stimulus checks and unemployment and then tax the middle class to death for it. The billionaires never get taxed to pay for anything, the multinationals weave in and out of tax loop holes on the regular. The middle class foots the bill while the rich rob the bank and the poor loaf around selling their votes to do it.
14% of Americans Own Crypto: Here Is a Profile of the Average HODLer
Perhaps partially, but that's not a reason for wages to stay mostly stagnant for decades
What you have proposed is a conspiracy theory, there is no practical evidence and tales of 5 eyes subversion of the root trust stores (in a world of certificate transparency) is just FUD. I’m sorry if you were offended by the parents reply, but I support their position and this is a virtual house of science, math and reason — I think you earned a serious push back when making a wild easily detectable and debunkable myth, when the practical explanation of the attack does not require such fantasies.
The fact that our political discourse is laundered through a medium that encourages the meme-ification of everything and thoughtless, emotional responses is a disaster.
I was going to ask about that domain because when I looked into it ICANN doesn't allow unicode/emoji gTLDs? Which seems to discriminate against non latin languages?

http://domainincite.com/18035-why-you-cant-register-emojis-i...
A Big Duck Named Long Boi Went Viral |Interesting News
Medical personnel, coast guard inspections.

As the tech gets better there could absolutely be a case for tactical assaults using this kind of tech.
If you really think that

1. your work is worth 150k

2. other comparable companies would pay you as much

then why would you negotiate further at that point? It’s obvious that your interview partner is looking for someone cheaper. If they do want to hire you, they will make you a fair offer.

Negotiation skills are about negotiating 180k in that situation.
Reading the article I had a sinking feeling that people haven't been honest with this writer (particularly their interpretation for why they are not as rich as Elon Musk seems incomplete). It's like when kids on a bad soccer team play against kids on a good soccer team and get their asses kicked to the moon and back... and then they still all go and get ice cream. Sure, that avoids hurting anyone's feelings, but it also removes valuable signal (eg: whenever I play soccer other kids get ice cream and I get none, so screw this and let's find something else that's a better fit for me, like music, science, art, whatever).
I’m mixing up nobody. They all get my support, as I believe in my fellow citizens and their desire to feel useful in this world. Sure, some people will abuse the system, but the benefits of treating everyone equally outweigh the costs.

When you means test, you require more bureaucracy while less effectively covering the people who need support.
If they’re living off their own resources, enjoying their life, while I work to make something they want to buy, more power to them, that’s awesome.

If they’re living off the taxpayer dime, enjoying their life, while I work to make something for them to buy, then turn around and, as the taxpayer, give them the money to buy my thing, that’s substantially less awesome.
Could you please elaborate what do you mean by 'their summer "holiday"'? Are you referring Ferragosto in Italy or what?
Maybe this is just a pedantic terminology thing, but what you're talking about is much narrower than the ETF.

I think the image of an ETF you're seeing is of the S&P 500 index fund or total stock market index fund.

However, an ETF is just a method of exchanging securities. There are thousands of ETFs in all kinds of different categories: https://etfdb.com/etfs/

I personally subscribe to the idea that the fears about passive indexes ruining the market with feedback loop economics are overblown.

What they really did was bring down the cost of actively managed funds by providing competition. Not only that, in the post-Bogle world there are a lot of "hybrid" funds and robofunds that offer index-like expense ratios with more opinionated holdings than VTI.
Brings me back to the compiler building lab I partook in university. Though before implementing an actual register allocator, we just emitted the same register operands for all instructions, mostly (e)ax, and spilled a lot, really a lot, on the stack. Stupid slow, but hey, seeing our compiler produce runnable code was a good motivator for the next steps!

But we were doing this for 32bit x86, so a lot of the limitations addressed here were not relevant anymore, and our register allocator code was likely far simpler, and probably still less efficient. (It's been at least 10 years now, not sure anymore.)

On a side note, I was surprised when some short time later I looked into Chrome V8's source code, and discovered that it didn't really have a register allocator either. I believe that was quickly addressed (by a new engine actually, if I recall right).
I understand how people get addicted to Twitter. But I don't understand why people started casually using Twitter in the first place.

It looks like someone took web forum progenitors of HN, asked how they could possibly make them worse, then arrived at the epiphany of optimizing for greyed-out content.

Edit: clarification
This would have been nice to see years ago!
Much of the US infrastructure is complete shit. Sure, it's not Somalia, but the fact we are even having the comparison is ridiculous.

We do have rolling blackout on occasion. We do have non potable water on occasion. We have completely fucked up roads and failing bridges. We don't have underground powerlines in most places.
This is all super exciting. A weird aside: one thing that'd be really nice to have is a userland verifier that we could build into our CI system; testing verifiability involves a lot of really contrived steps in our current process.
Have you ever met a Nazi, a flat earther or a white supremacist? I never have, not online either. People throw these terms around like they are on every corner.
It's more economically rational to build prisons. Think of the jobs!
Two reasons:

(1) They are being sold fantasies about how wonderful the US is, which don't reflect the reality of the life they will experience when they get here. There's a massive industry built around smuggling, fake documentation, and relocation assistance for illegal immigrants in the US. They make a ton of money selling the "American Dream" to desperate people.

(2) Even with a "low paying" job in the US, you still acquire an enormous amount of spending power in their home country, so remittances to family are extremely helpful. Often these people are coming from countries where $400-500 USD a month (or less) supports a family of 4-6 people.
I believe, unproven, that if you could see when your comments earned many replies, turned gray from downvoted, or got flagged by people, then That would be enough information to allow voting to continue to provide a social guiderail without the exact integers of everything mattering.

I would also like to see karma show rate of change instead of an integer, so that I can just see if there are replies, gray’d, or flagged posts/comments. Instead I optimize for only reading the last two digits of my karma. It encourages visiting too often just to assure myself that there’s no reason to visit.
Cyber Sleuths Blunted Pipeline Hack, Choked Data Flow to Russia
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Frankly I find it perfectly acceptable that if someone is making $X from their job, and the government says the minimum amount to survive per month is $Y and is going to pay you that amount, and $Y > $X, then why would I return to work if my job is paying me starvation wages?
It’s not at all obvious to me that wages should increase faster than inflation over a long period of time.
That's perfectly logical, why dress it up with all this talk about land and such as the reason to milk unemployment? This is standard practice in the maritime provinces of Canada where you fish for the season and claim unemployment until the next fishing season with no intention of getting a job in the meantime.
Related but far less polished (open source) tool I built that also uses web MIDI:

https://benkaiser.github.io/learn-piano/

Useful for the amatuers among us that can't sight read to save ourselves, but enjoy the falling notes style.

You can drop any midi file in and start practicing. It doesn't have many advanced features, but you can change the tempo and set "jump" points to go back to.
Given the number of unfilled jobs that basically anyone is qualified for, I'd say yes it is.
Because they're fleeing violence, organized crime and corruption, both in general and some which is specifically targeting them (i.e. wrong place, wrong time, witnessed something).
My impression is that the point would apply to those countries as well. The vast majority of people, even in those countries, lived just as their parents and grandparents.
BGP needs a complete overhaul. Every once and a while all the internet traffic "accidentally" gets routed to china due to a "technical mistake"

mhmm. Blacklist them.
No, you're not alone. bc is a not quite a life-saver, but it's always around and I can reliably do what I have to using the tool. OP is shortsighted, "I don't use these tools, therefor they are useless and stupid and should be banished".
Website design, promotion, programming and revenue making
Very good in theory. Any suggestions on how to get from here to there in the real world, without massive disruption to people's real lives?
The consequences of massively & rapidly increasing the number of unemployed doesn't seem to be covered in the libertarian literature. History books do cover this though.
Django uses a modern language and is simple

Rails is not sanely organized, very complicated, and ruby is just a crazy language
It’s older books not Netflix that’s the real competition. Amazon’s unlimited bookshelf holds a lot more than just Lord of the Rings. That said, residuals are also much easier to capture now days than back when book stores had extremely limited shelf space so it’s not all bad. There is a real trade off of fewer sales in year one but more sales in year 2-20.

On the numbers side people have a lot more disposable income, capturing a larger share of revenue per person can completely flip the equation. Patreon, etc don’t have to individually provide enough to live off of as long as all revenue streams add up to a living wage.
I suspect if the objective threshold is say 50k USD inflation adjusted, today is relatively speaking a much better time to be an author than most people here are assuming.

Of course that’s ignoring all the vanity books being published. Simply having an ISBN number doesn’t really mean anything in today’s world.
> Does this sort of thing happen frequently enough in peacetime [...]

> And during wartime, I don't see this being at all useful. This isn't the eighteenth century, warships no longer perform boarding actions

Exactly, this would be more for peacekeeping operations, the RM do a fair amount of anti-piracy, which is often/I suppose always, by the time they're involved, going to mean board & search & whatever else.

I don't think this video (on the OEM's YouTube channel no less) should be taken to mean it's the new SOP though! Just R&D/evaluation, not going to find the next best thing without trying any candidates.
> Why, 70 years on, does this one cultural event – first proposed in 1943 as a commemorative rehash of the Great Exhibition (with a not-dissimilar mix of industry and imperialism) – endure in the national imagination

Am Brit: Know of The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace... Never heard of this one. I wonder if the "endure in the national imagination" is pushing the facts somewhat.
This is highly questionable: ask any business owner and they'll declare there's a shortage of skilled labor, while whatever skill they're looking for is widely available in the market and has a decent velocity of job change (meaning they're looking for work).

What it means is they don't want to pay the market rate for it, not that they can't find it.
> For a democracy to work you need a basis of shared facts

This is an Achilles' Heel which is unfortunately now well known by the enemies of democracy. An article from last year[0] highlighted this quite well:

> The Kremlin specialises in offering alternative “narratives”: about who poisoned Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko, for example. The goal is to confuse the public and to spread the idea that the truth is unknowable. It’s a form of epistemological warfare.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2020/jul/12/covering-...
It seems very difficult for many (most?) of us to accept that outlier events in our lives are generally more random good or bad luck, rather than something caused by our actions.
Are you willing to pay for their living expenses will they go through their existential crisis? I would be willing to do this for my kids, maybe, but not someone else's.
You can often find these by going to: https://news.ycombinator.com/active

This view of HN more heavily weights articles that generate robust discussions. I often find interesting stuff here that only briefly made it to the front page (due to flags or due to HN's "flamewar detector").
I have always wondered who pays for this.
Oracle Executive's Interview with Reporter He Sought Dirt On
Can Samsung do 5nm in their own foundries?
I thought a Linux laptop/computer was the same thing as a Windows version, just without the Windows tax. I have not looked at these offerings in years, so has the Linux offerings from the big vendors matured enough that they are different than the Windows versions?
Of a specific cult/group/religion of mandalorians, 'The Children of the Watch'. It is brought up in season 2 by Bo Katan that not all mandalorians follow those practices.
I think your mistake is:

"living off their own resources" generally equals, for many people: "living in active exploitation in a ruthless work environment destroying their mental and physical health, because they literally need money to live, like anyone"

Whereas:

"living off the taxpayer dime" generally equals, for many people: "living free to do whatever they wish, for the most part" [and you find this absolutely abhorrent]
I don't get why you care about the company. Most of the time the sole purpose of existence of that company is making its owners and investors rich. That 100hr probably let them get an important contract, so they got a bit richer, but in return you were given food scraps (some time off). If it was me, I'd approach the owners and said "look, if this shit is so critical for your business, I can spend some extra time and try to fix it, but in return I'll become an LP with a small stake."
I'm pretty sure I had one of Sierra's King Quest games on a series of 12 disks (though they might have been 5.25" 512kb floppies). You'd walk from one screen to another and be met with "Please insert disk 8 of 12".