skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a point that yes, programming languages depend on the domain a program is in. If the program only handles up to 10k customers, it can be programmed in javascript and can indeed keep its entire database in RAM. sqlite even has a mode for this. A LOT of custom software is in this "small" domain. However, when you get to millions or billions, maybe you have to optimize and create a backend. What should this backend be written in? Previously the answer might have been C++. But now it's Rust.

Personally, being a Rust enthusiast, I think that Rust's benefits don't just unleash when you think about performance, but also when you think about large codebases. Such codebases are usually the scene for refactorings. In a dynamic language like js, these are extremely hard to pull off. In Rust, the compiler won't stop yelling at you until you have cleanly finished the refactor. I love refactoring Rust codebases, even ones I didn't write, while in C++ or other languages it's extremely annoying.

And note that while C++ enthusiasts might have believed that everything should be C++, not everyone followed them. Many people still stayed with C. Many still do even with Rust around. But there is a small group of people for whom Rust is such a great improvement that they take the portability cost and switch to Rust. Linus is heavily anti C++ for example, but he's open to adding Rust to the kernel.
Third : The Soviet Mars 3 rover was on Mars in the early 70s. Still a great achievement!
This is a great article that echoes many gripes that I have as a Latin American. The fact that it wasn't able to find an audience on this website is sadly fitting. Thanks for sharing.

And now for a mini rant: hey tourists, authenticity doesn't mean exoticism. Those are two different things. Be honest about what you want.
We've been ventilating rats with anal perfluorocarbons for years now and all we've really learned is that ten percent of them seem to like it.
Tangent topic;

I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
Provide the context - nicely, of course. If the manager is worth their salt they'll get it, all the way to the point that the BBQ is a team building exercise.

If said boss gets it immediately, I would like to know if he's hiring. ;P
Best intro, and one where I didn't go into meta-key flashbacks and turned off the video before the end. Worth the watch just to get an idea of what org-mode offers.

Pro of emacs: It takes care of your whole life.

Con of emacs: It really does take over your whole life.

If we're going to have AGI one day, it's probably going to evolve from emacs.
What you are describing is very different from UBI. With UBI everyone gets a certain amount no matter what. There is nothing universal about what you are describing.
I know you're being glib, and I enjoy it, but there is some truth to this. Maybe a better way to phrase it would be, try to find a career where you are part of the top 5%?
No problem :)

Yeah (and I've said this elsewhere) I think people should use the tools that make them productive! So if that's fzf (or something else) then keep using that.

I honestly just made telescope for fun on stream to start with to explore some ideas about fuzzy finding that I thought would be fun. It just happened to be that people liked it and it grew.

We have a pretty active gitter group & people hanging out in the issue tracker, so feel free to ask questions there!
I think thats still a negative, becauss it's a recepie for depression and low morale
I replied with numbers to a different comment but to summarize a person making $30,000 per year was making the equivalent of $49,000 per year instead during the extra $600 per week. Now it is $300 per week only and someone making $30,000 is now still making about $33,000 per year, again without actually having to work or even look. If they do come back they refuse to work more than about 15 hours per week so they can continue to claim unemployment for the rest and get their extra $300 per week.
I'm not an advanced programmer, so can somebody explain me why would you collect "insights" for a such made-as-a-joke service.
I hope this doesn't go the way of Smart TVs.

Smart TVs violate your privacy [1] and push you ads [2] on a device you already paid good money for. But every major manufacturer has stopped producing dumb TVs, so what choice do we have?

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/...

[2]: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/
Weird that people get upset by this. I wonder how anyone complaining about "copying" feel about software patents.

Honestly, I didn't even know about this mission until now. Good for China. I like "monuments" that countries engage in. They're not new. This is what Apollo was too. Better this than an F-35.

If bananas have taught us anything, it's that monocultures are bad (reinforced by the various COVID vaccines I might add). If SpaceX and all the "me toos" have taught us anything is that space (engineering) is hard.

The longevity of the NASA rovers is almost legendary at this point. They too were originally designed for 90 day missions. It'll be interesting to see how long this Chinese rover lasts.

If it's much shorter, which is what I suspect, I hope the lesson people take is just what an accomplishment the NASA rovers are rather than just cheap nationalistic shots at the Chinese space agency.
Context:

> Since Monday, more than 2,000 rockets have been fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad — both groups designated as terror organizations by the United States — from Gaza in addition to unmanned attack drones and anti-tank missiles. Three missiles were also fired from Lebanon on Thursday.

> Nine people in Israel have been killed, according to the Magen David Adom emergency service, including a 5-year-old, Ido Avigal, who was killed Wednesday in Sderot, a small town on the Gaza border that has been regularly attacked by rockets for years.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/weary-israelis-endure-mor...
Thanks for the feedback,
my issue is that I allocate only a few MB to my indexing thread so I'm looking for a more efficient implementation to avoid having to produce then merge too many segments from disk.

I'm currently considering using compressed pointers on some part of the tree to reduce the memory footprint as much as I can. Let's see how it goes...
Take 5 min to run it by your manager. "The microwave is broken so we want to being a portable grill to make lunch with Tomorrow."

If your manager has objections that's evidence it was a bad idea.

Maybe it becomes a company tradition instead to have a hill day instead though?
Have you ever thought that the problem could be with your wages, rather than with the UBI?
I imagine the answer is different depending on whether you have agriculture. Agriculture can be back-breaking work.
Yeah and it sucks. Why does the games industry think it can own our machines for the sake of some ineffective anticheating solution?
Israel’s Iron Dome keeps toll of rockets in check
It's a binary choice right now. You either work or you get the enhanced unemployment benefits.

With the extra $300 / week benefit, in my state (Ohio), the total benefit works out to a little under $20 / hour. Note that this is a sliding scale and earning that much would require you have at least that high of a wage previously.

What you end up seeing is a lot of margin in terms of how much someone is willing to give up in working wages to just collect unemployment. There has also been a lot of interest, and even competition, of workers seeking voluntary layoffs for companies that need some staff reduction.

I've heard a number of arguments using this as evidence that UBI will be a huge economic negative because it will reduce the workforce but I'm not sure how this can really be a valid proxy since the unemployment benefits are completely dependent on you not working. It seems pretty reasonable that if people could collect some basic income and also work for an even higher wage, they would.
This image alone is mind bending (incoming from the right, interceptions on the left)

https://archive.is/WaT0E/00f9a8f048895a3004c6494864578d77547...
One can dig up any UBI thread here on HN, and read the same arguments. Over and over again.

Doesn't matter one bit it is in Wales this time. Beaten to death I assume is the proper term.
You need to consider the motivation. Were the hackers just looking for a victim with deep pockets that would want to just hand over the money as soon as possible or were they actually looking to bring down a major pipeline? Giving the victim the chance to recover once the ransom is paid seems like it was more about the money. The attack could just have easily deleted everything from the network and totally crippled Colonial.
I agree with you completely. I love orgmode and I love emacs but using tool like TickTick or Things3 for my todos makes it so much better because without any hustle I have the same version everywhere and with nice UI. For stuff that I don’t need to sync, merge etc on many devices I definitely choose Emacs + Org. For stuff that I need on the go, updated on the spot - sorry, too much hustle for me
UBI isn't unemployment. You could collect UBI and still work.
Solzehnitsyn strikes me as someone who struggled with cultural shock and language barriers after arrival in a new country, but who had the sort of personality that would build up this myth of spiritual decay and opposition of civilizations in order to channel that personal frustration.

Another example might be Sayyid Qutb: was 1940s USA really that heinous for an ordinary Egyptian, or did Qutb just feel ill at ease during his time in the country and direct that frustration in an unhealthy direction?
How did this landed on Hackernews!
That’s not why copyright exists. It exists explicitly to encourage more writing.
Wages are a market. If everyone wants to be something then the wages will be low. The way around it was to hire many more people but for only 15 hours per week so they can all continue collect unemployment (with an extra $300 per week from the federal government).
I see contrarian opinions all the time on HN. This is a fairly libertarian place. There is plenty of groupthink, but there are pro/con opinions of just about every thread posted here.
I can’t see why it would be devastating in practice. Why can’t the servers that deduce every little thing about the users be also based in EU?

If I want a worldwide ad (is that even a thing?) for left-leaning horse owners between ages of 20-27.5 with a child and at least 2 partners, can’t that be dished out from an EU server for EU users?
The root cause in the US being income inequality. Less people want to spread the wealth and more people expect a version of wealth. UBI is not the blanket solution I think most are expecting. It will open a can of worms.

Give more people better opportunities. Folks don’t want a hand out.

Companies are too big and although do provide some benefits such as lower price in some cases we end up paying for it with lower wages and less opportunities for other entrepreneurs.
That's the point of the comment. The UK pays the price of UBI without getting the benefits of UBI.
How think sentence you that do is nonsensical not
> Instead of war, invest in domestic technology. It pays back better

is it though? if you got the biggest gun why not rob someone else? do you believe ethics/empathy/humanity plays any role in any form governance? since we know that if you can sell the idea, you can get away with anything. why not just do the thing you know best? this is not singling out USA or China in any sense, they are just ahead of the curve, flower of the century.

a system optimized for only profit with almost no accountability (externalities) reads like a recipe to transfer of the wealth from many to few. if you add war into equation many becomes many-brown, many-yellow, many-black, many-jewish, many-others basicaly many-we-can-target-and-get-away-with. if you remove borders from the equation you end up seeing yourself on the receiving end as well. yet no-surprisingly few remains always the same.

so, the question is 'it pays back better to whom?'.
Compared to something like pivotal tracker, Jira feels like trying to swim in glue.

It just gets in the way.
Individual actions are tolerable-ish. But it’s never setup right. Constantly hunting for the field that is blocking story creation.
Permission issues all over the place.

Finding things is often nightmarish.

Management basically doesn’t care, and doesn’t want to put effort into making it work in sane fashion.
Yet freak out if team wants to use something else.
So we do all our planning and story tracking in google sheets instead.
I stand corrected. I forgot I don’t upload anything there lately and am just using it to catch up with people.
The statistics are not updated on SELECT, but when:

- one or more rows are added to an empty table

- more than 500 rows are added to a table with less than 500 rows

- more than 500 rows are added to a larger table and the number of rows added is larger than a percentage that depends on the table size (20% under 25,000 rows, 0.1% for 1 billion rows, several values in between)

- when indexes are rebuilt, the associated statistic is rebuilt
Well, no. Only a small minority of people are on Universal Credit.

I don’t get how this follows, at all.
The building was destroyed after providing notice to the occupants, allowing the AP staff to take their computers and leave. So it was not an attempt to silence reporting in the region, as the article claims.
I really don't get this advise about not giving out a number. Seems like you yourself don't know your worth. Most of the times, save for FAANG companies, no other company is willing to pay me what I am asking for. So to go through the whole laborious and lengthy interview process only to find out during negotiation stage that they are not going to even match my current compensation is a lot of wasted time. If I talk to a recruiter, I tell them what I want even before interviewing. Most of the times, recruiters from non FAANG companies tell me that they won't be able to pay that much even if I performed stellar in the interview. I don't give out a number to FAANG recruiter before the interview but I do give out during the negotiation stage and so far my comp has been at at least as good as my peers'. My understanding is that most companies have a salary range and they want all the employees on the same level to be within that range. They won't break those rules regardless of how good you are. You are only one among many good candidates. So you should aim to be at the high end of that range during negotiation. That's how I decide the number to give out.
Powerful words: "Because in that picture above I’m dead. And I’d rather be alive with the measly results you get because that’s what the human experience happens to contain. And when you know what you’re feeling because you’ve learned to notice, most of these “bad” emotions aren’t even that bad."
All topical comments are welcome everywhere IMO.

If the average is £5K and many are receiving £0, it must be the case that some are receiving much more than £5K in benefits. If you normalize everyone at £5K, what happens to those who were previously receiving some multiple of that? (I’m presuming that £5K is an insufficient amount to meet what society has previously considered their need for support was.)

In essence, you’d be proposing a UBI for ordinary UK citizens to be funded by those who are currently receiving welfare [over £5K]. That would be unpopular with proponents and opponents of UBI I think.

(If half or more of that £5K is in staff and overhead and you were willing to dismantle those organizations as soon as it was clear UBI “would work”, this might be workable. I don’t know how much is direct benefits vs overheads [including eligibility and fraud checks, which would be dramatically reduced under UBI].)
"Pinnochiometry"
Israel’s New Challenge: Violence Among Its Own Citizens
Context: Israel has seized East Jerusalem and has been building illegal settlements for decades in the West Bank, contrary to international law, and the current regime in that area has been recently recognised as full-fledged apartheid. [1]

Meanwhile, Gaza is an open air prison with a million people trapped inside, under the strictest embargo. Since Israel controls its borders, air space and maritime space, it is still considered as an occupied territory.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...
Look up the old procedure of rectal fumigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema . There may be some actual benefits to blowing smoke up you ass.
These people spent 37 days in a 9ft dinghy in the ocean. A ladder rung, plus the rain water mixed with turtle guts from the bottom of the boat saved their lives.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/22/shipwre...
I am a teacher in the UK, working in the private sector. This industry has many ticking time bombs: the pension scheme is collapsing, regulatory burden means small schools must consolidate or die, and above all a class action sword of liability must surely be hanging over the closed-shop hiring practices. These are some of the anti-competitive informal rules about moving schools:

A new prospective employer (usually the head of the school you are applying to) expects to be able to talk to your current head from the moment you apply.

This in turn means that you have to tell your current employer the moment you start looking for jobs elsewhere.

Any other references are done before interview, not during an offer. Your referees will be writing a lot, on your behalf, O(n) — jobs applied for — and not O(1) — job offers you want to accept.

It is considered obstructive behaviour to not be open about your current salary. You are immediately viewed as “difficult”: just like candidates who apply without telling their current school, so too with candidates cagey about money.

Taking time off during term is not allowed. Taking time off to interview will be deducted from your pay unless you get prior approval, and you have to declare that you are interviewing.

Resumes / CVs are not allowed as part of the application. No one will read them.

Some other gems, when negotiating salary: “b-but no one goes into teaching for the money!”, “sorry we don’t aim to compete with the commercial sector”, and “we don’t define the hours you’ll need to work, only that you do what is deemed necessary and appropriate” only to later be told that it’s not the done thing old chap to work any less than 50 hours a week.
Substantially correct? Paying ransoms is legal except for a very limited set of payment recipients.
Excerise and especially walking and running does a lot for back health but at the same time they probably did a lot heavy lifting and handicraft (weaving, shoe making, etc) in bad ergonomic positions.
> Anyone who truly believes that Rust is a great language for the average applications developer, clearly has not met one.

What's a better general-purpose language for this mythical "average" developer? Java/C#? Rust has the same level of memory safety, and adds data-race safety that these languages do not have out of the box. Go is in the exact same boat, btw - memory safe for sequential code, but concurrent code is tricky since unsafe shared access is ubiquitous in real-world Go code. Haskell, Agda and Idris could provide more safety but are not approachable to the "average" dev.
The laws are like that, because someone feels that it's not in their interest that people actually get out of poverty. The logic behind that interest is simple. You can't make people dependent on you if you simultaneously give them the tools to achieve independence. And these guys love dependent people, because it gives them power. However this attitude is ruining most Western societies.
I feel rather awful about this, likely similar to how people felt about Stalin getting man into space, but to keep things positive, maybe it will ignite a new space race. The US has interesting things happening once again with SpaceX, I wonder if a private company will be able to keep up with a motivated nation state.
yes but the rate of recycling may explode due to EVs (potentially)
Housing can’t be both affordable and a good investment. The price of a home should therefore equal its replacement cost. If the market value of the home with the land is $1 million, but the cost to build the home is $200k, raise taxes on the land until the new market value is $200k. Tada, Land Value Tax.

Why am I mentioning LVT in a Universal Basic Income thread?

What should we do with the money we earn through a LVT? Give it away through UBI.

Win-win.

If you want to start with a smaller LVT and work your way up to equalization over a period of 20 years, that's fine.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/
Second this. Even within JIRA itself the markup it accepts is inconsistent. Back ticks vs double brackets being the bane of my existence.
Could be a cultural difference, but still think it sounds like they signal that something is non negotiable, either you accept it or leave.
For past 3 years, way before pandemic, FBI has already earn the butt joke nationally. Now, we don't even want to talk about it. Think of it as a past the prime stand up comedian.
It wasn't a single sentence. Articles, explainer videos, infographics etc. The goal was to force daily numbers and active hospitalizations below healthcare capacity. To smear out the infections across time. So instead of 2 weeks, it would be several months. The idea was that even if we can't reduce the total infections, we can prevent deaths if we reduce the load on hospitals. But people have extremely short memory span and nobody remembers anymore.
Interesting tweet from this guy as well - https://twitter.com/crypt0snews/status/1393340462044377090?s...
SELECT queries don't trigger statistics updates. Specific table changes trigger statistic updates, not reads.
The trouble with these pilot schemes is that they involve too few people and are too short to make any firm conclusions.

Elections and different politicians with different viewpoints can be elected half way through and other financial implications arise - like COVID, or in the case of the Finnish pilot a change to the unemployment benefits system that made making comparisons difficult.

The true benefits and costs of UBI are probably only evident after decades or even generations.
The Day the Swedish Air Force Saab 37 Viggen Saved the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Chiropractors are charlatans so it was the same as any other healing elixir scam that was being run (which are notable and commonplace throughout history).
TSMC reportedly uses over 50 million tonnes of water per year, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the annual 12 billion tonnes consumed by agriculture.

https://highscope.ch.ntu.edu.tw/wordpress/?p=42837

In any case, the current drought is likely to ease at some point but the electricity problem is only going to get worse.
Nope. I have plenty of downvotes but HN really does have a better incidence of open discussion unless someone is obviously giving an answer that's not thought out or off-topic with unneccesary hostility adding no value to the discussion (like a racial slur)

Not to say there isnt a hivemind, there is but conversation rarely disintergrates into mindless name-calling.

There is space to disagree. And anecdotally I tend to disagree with a lot of things but I've never been banned/silenced.
When, ironically, Oppenheimer revived physics in America after Second World War