skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uhhhh none of the above? you just sound like him. nice to just fly off the handle based on a bunch of assumptions about my intent, though i think your assumptions and hostility say more about you than me. the emoticon was because it was teasing-- that's what the tongue out emoticon means.

didn't even know he was dead-- read his book not that long ago. not sure what the fuck you're on about comparing people to dead people-- are we just supposed to stop speaking of the dead altogether?
This might be true but my gut and experience says it's way more complicated than that.
Meh. HDL isn't that hard and there are good books on it. The main reason FPGA programming is unpopular is because the tools are pretty hideous. Icestorm makes things a lot better but it supports like 5 parts and they're not very powerful ones.
I'm on dev release channel (in order to use WSLg, very nice so far), and it has an updated look&feel in Explorer.

But Settings / Control Panel needs to be reversed. Just got a new computer, and having to look both places to find a knob is annoying. Settings is also too dumbed down and spacey to be usable. And actually slow to navigate.

But don't think they should or can break compatability as you suggest. Firstly, not having shit break every update is one reason I moved off MacOS and back to Win. But also for MS's part that if thing breaks and they have to do big upgrades, users might as well look elsewhere. People keep using Win because it works for them and the incentive to switch vs cost is low.
I believe iOS may not bother involving the GPS if the application requests (or is only granted in iOS 14) approximate location, and there are enough towers in-range to triangulate. Not having to enable the GPS subsystems and get a fix saves a fair amount of battery.
No no, you're completely right. Fixing my complains about Windows comes at a horrific cost.

Microsoft can continue down the current path and Windows will still be hugely successful and widely used. It's will just be terrible and continue to get worse. Most people and businesses will just live with it. I mean if Windows is just the thing that launches Steam, then you don't really care. If it's just the shit SAP/Excel/what-ever launcher your IT department forces you to use, then fine. Windows just won't be a smooth experience or something people enjoy using.
Genuine question, is Google Fonts used for tracking in other ways or is it an “honest” free service?
Makes sense as I really seem to be their pet most of the time or worse a glorified janitor: the "poo shoveler".
Interesting stuff. Having read Parse, Don't Validate, it would be good to know how to face potential practical pitfalls, such as:

1) how to serialise these types into different formats (e.g. "how do I save you in a SQL database?) - inside the type, which requires one size fits all, or as separate mapping functions, which could result in significant code proliferation?

2) how to cope with partial validation, e.g. do I need a wrapper class for (say) some form inputs that have these types in its fields, but override nullable on if it's off?

3) sort of a combo of (1) and (2), but how do I serialise groups of these typed fields in different ways? E.g. I want to save a model made up of these typed fields via SQLAlchemy and I also want to publish it to RabbitMQ. How do I manage the potentially varied formats in a type-safe way? When everything was Just Strings™ it appeared to Just Work™.

4) how to compose these things with monads - e.g. if I have an optional field, should Maybe treat the value as nullable, or should the type itself contain that option for validation purposes elsewhere?

Even as I'm writing these questions I'm coming up with a potential pattern for using this sort of thing, but I'm curious to hear thoughts.
Remember when software used to have a manual to explain how to use it? Back when you could actually learn some UI principles and have that knowledge transfer between apps?

Now every application and OS component does its own thing however and whenever it likes, and the whole experience becomes impossible to learn other than as a giant list of special cases and exceptions, which will change with the next round of patches.

This is why I can’t explain to my mom how to use her computer any more, and generally tell her to use her phone instead.
That would break the proprietary Nvidia and AMD graphics card drivers.

Just as a start.

Device driver universe on Windows may be a blessing or a curse, but entire industries have labored to make it sorta work, and to follow troubleshooting scripts (tech support) when it doesn't.

Aside from that, the leading edge graphics card drivers are their own, multiple OS universes. With their own collection of hacks for specific games.

I'm not familiar with the current state of high end gaming on Linux, but I believe Windows is still the platform for big game titles.
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This is the key to being a "Good Manager"; it is the correct way to show respect i.e. that you matter.
“desktops”: it’s somewhat common with mini-ITX and Intel NUCs
Relevant: Price of RAM over history[0].

[0]: https://www.jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm
Are Meditation Apps Useful?
Besides being abandoned when they upgraded. You actually owned the card because they came with receivers when you purchased them from brick and
Mortar stores. No agreement on the purchase. You called to activate them. Satellite providers also fried the receivers as well by burning all writes on flash memory that held the firmware. So that $500 directivo receiver could get hosed during an exploit.
> Realistically there is no such thing as a war without the destruction of civilian assets

What are those treaties for?
The article has one major flaw: you either want to date people that are younger than you or older than you. Not both. So the analysis should be split in two.
This comment made my day. I'm 31, founder of startup in an area I genuinely have high hopes for but is neither taking off nor dying.

I also moved to Europe from the bay area to do this, at age 28 feeling like I had one more adventure in me.

The uncertainty of the startup and knowing there is no way I would ever accept regular employment (software/computer vision/robotics if curious) in Europe has made me extremely hesitant to think about family.

I have no concern for my future earning potential, besides the difficulty of getting back to the US with covid (I'm not American, yet...).

30 hit like a truck though, and a year and a half on hold with covid doesn't help. Thanks for sharing your experience of being basically me +10 years.

Might consider getting my sperm frozen though. How would "Don't worry, I froze my sperm" work as a tinder line?

Anyway, thanks for the HN therapy.
Do you run the ads on Amazon itself, or on Google Ads, or Reddit ads, or somewhere else?
It does [1]. However I‘m not going to judge the Index count without knowing the exact use case. If it is r/w 95/5 percent, the amount of indices might be ok. If its 5/95, it‘s obviously not.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createindex.html
We are not about to tolerate corporate interests redefining what Open Source is.

Complaining is one of the ways we do show this.
Isn’t that mesh with back haul? I thought the characteristics of a mesh were that the APs were communicating with themselves to provide handoff. Data can move over the AP or through back haul.
You're referring to things like home-row touch-typing. My experience matches GP, which is touch-typing, but not home-row.
Since there was no answer, and no concrete example where inheritance was needed, I'll just provide one possible solution: you can store a function pointer that implements the desired varying functionality as a part of the struct whose implementation you want to slightly change. That function can accept self as the first argument like any method.

Performance-wise this is the same as a vtable generated by c++ and doesn't require creating more entities.
> it's messy, people behave really badly regarding rules

you didn't have the same problem when riding HSR trains? next time maybe just check how many are smoking on the platform.

another interesting experiment you can have is to visit both those old train stations and stations dedicated for HSR, you'd easily spot differences in terms of how people behave.
Sure, but the sad thing to me here is that no one even seems to care much about this. Note these articles are both from over 5 years ago. We aren't even capable of having that level of discussion nowadays.

Our federal government is projected to spend $5.8 trillion in 2021 alone. The entire Gates fortune is $124 billion.

And yet Gates probably does more for the world's poorest -- the federal government is overwhelmingly focused on serving Americans -- globally speaking, mostly wealthy white people: https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

What good is being done with that $5.8 trillion exactly? Is the federal government with its military interventionism, agricultural subsidies, etc. really doing 1000x as much good annually as the Gates Foundation? (The annual budget of the Gates Foundation is around 0.1% as large, at around $5 billion.)

The failed F-35 stealth fighter project alone has a total cost estimated at $1.7 trillion. Note that this has received almost no coverage. Defense contractors milk the federal government like there's no tomorrow and it doesn't get any attention because mentioning it doesn't serve either party's political goals.

Suppose we hypothetically took the entire Gates fortune and added it to the federal budget, so the government spends $5.9 trillion this year instead of $5.8 trillion. Would you even notice? How would you expect the $5.9 trillion budget world to be different from a $5.8 trillion budget world? I'm pretty sure that people in developing countries will miss the work done by the Gates Foundation a heck of a lot more than already-wealthy Americans will appreciate another $0.1 trillion in the federal budget.

Using evidence to focus on the most effective possible programs for helping the world's poorest goes a long way, and unfortunately the vast majority of the federal government's spending is not that. Increasing taxes on rich people isn't gonna change that. Before plowing more money into ineffective federal spending, we should first make it effective.

"It's ok to waste trillions, the important thing is for us to feel really egalitarian about it"
That's actually what they were doing[1] in Windows 10X, now cancelled.

I guess the future of Windows continues to be the Win32 API.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrmrIlgbIc
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Thanks for sharing, it is nice to see new engineers sharing this kind of experience.
Two don't make a trend when we're talking about billions of web sites. Typography it too important to abandon it in favor of whatever defaults Microsoft or Apple have enabled on their platforms.
I would be shocked if Microsoft abandoned the NT kernel but I wouldn't be too surprised if they open sourced a lot of the win32 runtime and turned it into some community maintained thing. They've already done this with .net.
>instead of one which is open source

It is NOT OPEN SOURCE, for the nth time.
One of the largest current national problems in the Netherlands is the overproduction of nitrogen compounds, mostly caused by intensive farming. There's more to sustainability than CO2 and topsoil depletion.
Debian/KDE. I used to use it since 1997. KDE looks well for Windows user.

But this week I bought new Dell Vostro with Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled. Although Ubuntu gave me some unpleasant impressions (controversial UI decisions, buggy as hell (can't imagine they call it LTS)) I gave it 2nd chance with fresh install of 21.04.
> I played MUDs as a kid.

For me it was the chat in StarCraft, had to get messages out fast enough not to interrupt the action.
Wow, HN rocks! That's exactly the app I was thinking about.
The same can be said for “speed” and “velocity”, “mass” and “weight”, “g.p.u.”, and “graphics card”, “working memory” and “r.a.m.”, and so forth.

But most people will live and die without such a distinction ever being relevant in their lives.

Methinks that this distinction plays an important role in your life, but you must realize that it does not in that of most.

The other difference is that of all the other things I mentioned, the distinction is of a very technical and exact nature, whereas “sex” as is common in biology is bereft of a technical definition, and “gender” as is common in psychology even more so. — I initially used the phrase “technical term”, but I am honestly loathe to do so for concepts so poorly defined as either “sex” or “gender” whereof specialists very frequently disagree on wherein to place objects discussed.
Ok. My bad. I assumed the casks included the upper layers. So, the casks of 29 fuse layers are gone.

Are they now impossible to install? The point of casks for osxfuse and Macfuse being to permit the layers to work.

Aside from complexity, what's the actual problem? Do you believe these specific fs can't be made eg by hand?
An IRS guy found the Silk Road guy? Do you have a source? I remember reading that DPR got caught after some faked murder for hire plot by a (what later turned out) corrupt FBI agent after leaking the Silk Road IP of his Icelandic servers, which were then silently taken over and monitored.
I find it interesting that prices seem to have roughly reached close to their lowest points around 2015 -- it's gotten a little cheaper at times, but it's hovered around that ever since.

And it wasn't that much cheaper even in 2012, not compared to how much the prices plummeted up until that point.

Have we reached the bottom of RAM prices? When could we expect prices to move sharply down again, if ever?
As a JS hater, I have to admit it was a pleasant read.

I would still love a "20 mistakes you need to avoid when writing JS".

One of the most horrible "WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?" moment in JS was when there was a missing semicolon after some multiline code and error messages were not helping at all. I'm wondering if JS compilers will have some linter or will one day help beginners be warned of "possible mistakes".

Isn't there a list of "good practices" or "js coding standards"?
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Because people coming from other languages find this confusing the let (and const) keyword was specified (ES6/2015) for block/angel-bracket lexical scope. Whereas var is function scoped.
@dirtyid: makes no sense for China to use the Korean fabs. They could simply hire more Taiwanese engineers, aka ex-TSMC'ers, who had been the main drivers behind the development of China's chip industry so far.
> How do i do this myself now?

As the essay notes, it's through TelephonyManager on Android. On iOS it used to be possible through CoreTelephony private APIs, but I think Apple cracked down on these a few years back and either removed them entirely or locked them down behind entitlements, as they were getting abused by analytics frameworks.
>They really aren’t. These are colloquial terms, not trademarks.

They are terms with strong definitions that are well accepted in the community, including the industry.

>It’s not a misrepresentation. “Open source” is a generic term.

It isn't. See above.

>Pretending it has a legal meaning is just not a reflection of reality.

Nobody said a thing (yet) about legal meaning.

However, there are licenses (legal territory) which are Open Source, and there are licenses (such as the ones used by NumWorks) which are not. And, to top it off, they are not Open Hardware either.

And I'd suggest great care on avoiding the misuse of "Open Source", as the OSI might invoke their right to protect their trademarks[0].

[0] https://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines
And, critically, it was well known what the results would be when those policies were bought in. The West purposefully made a trade off to have a better environmental and social outcomes and worse economy.
I’ve been having similar thoughts but in the end it is just bitterness. It is true that there is some poetic justice in it but how is unneccesary suffering ever justified.

Dig deeper if you feel your emphaty dissapearing. It is never a good sign.
Yes, as for the OS-es that the author calls "modern", the user is not really the owner of the device - the vendor is. Fortunately there are still many people who understand the value of unlocked platforms.
Why obfuscate it inside of a decoy driver?
Epic Games offered $200m for ports of Playstation exclusives
It's not imaginary scenario but a very real one concluded from the experience. There was nothing pleasant in gaining it.
Meh. I'll take "looking crummy" over waiting 30 seconds to read someone's ad-filled essay on whatever.
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try Elementary.
Well sure, if you don't adopt the new technology then you don't get the benefits of the new technology. But that's true it literally every ecosystem. If you don't upgrade to a C11 compiler, then you can't use libraries using C11 features either.

But in both cases, there's little reason not to upgrade because your old code will still work fine on the new version. And indeed you're free to continue writing new code in the "old" style. Adding additional API surface after 3 years while continuing to maintain and support the old API is hardly unstable!
There's a Google Docs plugin to embed them. They are not very clear in the doc but you can see a good outline and link through to the actual chart for viewing.
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> The legacy "cruft" is the good stuff.

That's clear to everyone except the author of the article. If Windows breaks backward compatibility, what's the reason to use it?
Pure politics. You can buy tickets for Taiwan's trains only in Taiwan, or online of course.

Plus, they missed to include Taiwan's high speed railway system. I am sure that was on purpose, too, since
it was build before the Chinese one (2007).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_High_Speed_Rail
I don't know who this guy you're talking about is but you can look at the grade distributions men and women have in school and see a pretty obvious difference.

You could argue there's an environmental reason men have a more shallow (wider variance) distribution while women tend to have a narrower one with a higher mean but I haven't heard a good argument for it.

At the end of the day this of course says very little about individuals, I think that's the mistake people make looking at these sorts of statistics and ideas (and why everyone gets so hung up on the idea that there are mental differences between the sexes.) Even individual performance academically says almost nothing about their ability to perform professionally IMO.
God damn that is one huge cookie consent pop up. I browse with cell phone and was unable to find what to click to make it dissapear. So I’m now here reading comments to figure out what the artcile said.
You re picture of the species is modelled on very simple animal behaviour and im afraid its largely wrong.

First its missing the specialization pressure. In a finite habitat, any species not afflicted by disease or predators, bumps repeatedly against the resource-roof in cycles of strife. Evolution, being the dumb, process it is, optimizes for that. So you get, within every population, neuro-subspecies that are heavily adapted to situations in this spiral.

Some of these subspecies actually behave like you predict, because their environment is to unstable and longterm planning is a disadvantage, when your risk seeking behaviour makes you jump on a mammoth with a spear tomorrow.

For others, who thrive in the more peaceful environment (post-conflict/diseases/disaster curve falling back into the habitable zone) they might benefit largely from producing societal byproducts.

"Sexual-Deviants" which your post designated as a die out, have valuable properties for a society.
They can form a third "power-pillar" upholding contracts between the different interests of "pump&dump" and "I-need-longterm-commitment".

Now, this gives us something, called prediction power. And with it, we can predict, that hating non-heteros makes you a more useful creature for the females of the species, who then can choose you as mate and force you to go into the current active social-contract-cult, which will force you to commit.

This "law-producing" biology is so useful, it out-competes the simple biology model, were it not for the resources running out, due to exponential hunger.

I hope we are all grown ups here, who can talk about differences and issues, without freaking out.

The whole topic gets really cool, when you start assembling social machinery from the different neuro-subspecies.
> Life expectancy between sexes varies by 3-5 years

It's close to 10 years for my country. Very common in post-communist states.
I'm sure there are, but I'm not sure this approach can correctly identify them. There's a well known size difference in brains between the genders, but obviously within the genders as well. Common MRI practice is to map each brain onto a standard shape; otherwise the regions can differ too much. They've done that here too, it would seem. But that involves distorting areas, and I didn't see that they could exclude that as a reason for the difference. So there's a difference, but to me it's not clear where they come from. Perhaps someone who's more experienced in diffusion tensor imaging knows.
It doesn't make any business sense at all.

Huawei doesn't have much of a future outside of China and the increasing distrust towards CPP doesn't look like changing this anytime soon.

So why would you want to help them out instead of trying to win business from US/EU companies who are desperately looking to diversify.
Didn't ES11 come out last year?
You're over-simplifying.

Hamas is a terrorist group according to the whole world. Insurgents make it very difficult for Israel or palestinians to move forward so there can be trustm since those insurgents hide into the population.

I totally understand the suffering of peaceful palestinians, and I'm against politicians like Netanyahu, but if you look at the bigger picture, peace and trust are not possible right now.

Israel will keep bullying the gaza strip as long as there are rocket attacks. Israel has always been in a position of strength, and they have little reason to change if Israelis get killed. Not to mention Israel is south of Syria and is surrounded by Muslim countries.
At least for graphics drivers it's common that the driver applies tons of game-specific workarounds and optimizations, I guess this is also the main reason why there are monthly driver updates (fixes for new games), and why graphics drivers have become so massively big.

Assuming that the same game-specific tweaking happens for CPU performance and compatibility doesn't seem like a far stretch.
> a missing semicolon after some multiline code

I'm not a JS dev but isn't this something almost any IDE with a linter would help you out with?
Somebody else would have created it.

The argument around wealth taxes is that we tax lottery winnings, hence we should tax this sort of things.

Bill Gates was a fanboy of a company called Digital Equipment which he predicted would be the next big thing. Stuff went the other way for them and Microsoft emerged instead.

There is very little agency in these massive net worth stashes

People who are smart already know this. Doge developers refute to bow down and genuflect to Musk even though his net worth is 1,000,000 times theirs.

Andy Jassy not like he'd not confront and get in heated arguments with Bezos even though his net worth is 300x his own.

It's people who buy into the propaganda and Republicans who elevate these people as they were divine beings. They are just smart people who got outsized returns because of luck....a wealth tax would just mimic the mechanism of taxes on lottery winnings