skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my start with computers in 2nd or 3rd grade, in our elementary school computer lab filled with Commodore 64s running LOGO. I and one or two other kids would get to leave the class before 'computers' early to boot up each of the glowing boxes of power, feed them their floppy discs, and load LOGO on all of them before everyone else got there.

As a reward, we'd sometimes get to spend our lunch hour with them unsupervised. This led to us learning basic, finding early demoscene-like animations (that someone got from a high schooler! wow!), and typing in programs from the backs of computer magazines.

I'll never forget that feeling of discovery and control - it was so empowering to be able to make this box do something that I created.

Now I spend my days trying to thwart ransomware and cybercrime... sigh...
> Take for example SA, where private security forces are widespread.

I don't think we want to use as a model a place where police services are only available to the wealthy.
Technically it was only the approval process.
Tried this out with a basic set of React deps in package.json

Reloading now spends 10+s "installing dependencies" - pretty quick, and the UI is still interactive.

Also, Chrome has two "Google Chrome helper" processes each sitting at 550MB+ RSS. I'm not sure if "no node_modules black hole on disk" is quite as compelling if the black hole has merely been relocated to RAM.
What does this have to do with class? Its a public project, for everyone, for whatever each person considers cultural.
How do you manage to be so clear about a group of people of whom you know nothing ? One can only hope you're not in politics with executive powers.

Use of social media: https://backlinko.com/social-media-users.
Good! It's about time that our industry's monopoly of the ages is put to bed.

Apple put us in the kettle and slowly turned up the heat. They delivered good hardware, good software, but at the same time demanded that nobody else have the ability to run JIT, other runtimes, first-class web, browsers, marketplaces, etc. Over time, Apple rose to 50% of the market, all the while exacting complete control and taxing all market activities.

Unfortunately, iPhone is now responsible for a majority of its users' business activities. It's the single plane of control between a user and their banking, commerce, communication, entertainment, and social lives.

We didn't allow this level of control with Microsoft in the 90's and 00's, and there's no reason we should allow the increased scope of control that Apple has now.

They need to lose the App Store.

They need to have an open platform.

They can't run Apple Pay.

Other browsers and JIT runtimes need to be allowed. Marketplaces, too.

This needs to happen to Google as well.

We don't pay the electric company for every app we install. We don't pay UPS for our Netflix subscriptions. Apple isn't providing any additional economic value. They're a tax, and that's it. They're also an impediment to repairing our own devices. It has to stop, and they have to start playing fair.
Odd that the ANC would get worse... but yea, I do totally believe it. Especially situationally, I imagine it goes up and down.

Comfort-wise I found them fine, but the ear-cups are definitely small compared to giant audiophile over-ear ones :) I love the giant ones, I have no idea why companies make these tiny things (e.g. M&D MW65 is absurdly narrow, V-Moda is absurdly shallow). I can only guess it's some weird sense of fashion.

If you don't mind noticeably worse microphone and ANC, the Shure Aonic 50 pads are quite a bit larger and very comfy.
They had several stockpiles, including actual fucking short-range missiles. Didn't help them at all against a modern military force, did it? But you think the US Army is concerned about Bubba and his cache of AR-15s?
Non-blocking Postgres https://github.com/socketry/db-postgres

Non-blocking MariaDB https://github.com/socketry/db-mariadb
I knew a girl some 15 or so years ago who was charged with terrorism in atlanta. Apparently while trying to wiggle out of being arrested she 'attempted to light a cop car on fire' - so got that charge.

I am guessing she had a lighter or similar - not a gallon of petrol or anything - and was lashing out in some type of way, maybe burned the back seat a square inch?

Law enforcement and the courts were happy to refer to such a (knowingly) unsuccessful burning as terrorism then. She had to deal the consequences of such.

It appears to me that some situations have higher up politicians that choose some situations will not be charged as such or 'refer to them as such' in order to signal one thing or another.
Exoornithologists disagree.
More often than not a problem that looks simple and has insane complexity once you dig a bit deeper is based on some faulty assumptions. Assumptions that either changed over time or never made sense to begin with. The wast majority of software systems out there are significantly simplifiable. However, not all developers are willing to analyze and question fundamental assumptions about systems they deal with. Most, in fact, are far more comfortable learning to jump through arbitrary hoops. They then brag about their "expertise" in the "domain" (which often doesn't even exist outside of software).
And the huge debate will suddenly stop when an innocent person is killed and everybody will always have been dead set against it.
This post really exemplifies what HN is today: People oohing and aahing on a blog post that makes a mountain out of a molehill and ultimately complicates the issue rather than addressing it elegantly.

I understand I'm not really bringing anything to the conversation by saying this, but can we really not do any better than this?

On the other hand, posts like this make me really glad I'm leaving software for good, what with the industry just amounting to smelling one's own farts now.
I think they don't work on Slack, Whatsapp and other apps
Minneapolis is not getting rid of its police department.

There may be one or more options on the ballot this fall to make the department report to someone different, and/or to remove the current minimum number of officers, but even those are yet to be resolved.
Me encanta, de verdad que es muy bueno, me parece una idea genial
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> This is less a problem with threads because of preemption (though they of course compete for shared resources like database time).

eh, just because ONE implementation of async is single threaded, does not mean that others aren't.

basically you trade of latency because most async implementations do SCHEDULE their tasks/promises in a WORK STEALING fashion (overscheduling and stuff) and another tradeoff is context switching, of course not all task implementations try to reduce that. also if you have blocking operations it might happen that you have two tasks/promises on the same thread, which are lightweight at the beginning and at the end the blocking operation might block the other promise (thus latency for b is reduced)

with threads you MIGHT have higher latency in p50, but probably not in p99. of course if you have 16 threads and only 16 requests at any time, the sync engine wins, but most often that is only the case in small applications with few users.
I live on a sheep farm (though the sheep are gone these days). I recognize how incredibly useful tractors and high-clearance pickup trucks are. I also think helicopters are useful too. Neither are safe in the city.
Prevention is cheaper and results in a friendlier environment for everyone. The proliferation of expensive, reactive solutions that tend to aggravate the very problem they're ostensibly working on is great for shareholders though. Public health is boring by comparison, and no one gets rich when it works.
Covid vaccine profits mint 9 new pharma billionaires
Definitely something everybody assumes and makes a mistake around.
I actually don't understand their business model.
$20 per month will in no way cover the cost to send security guards your way, or maybe I'm misunderstanding something here.
> I mean, most women streaming on twitch are using their looks and body for viewership. It’s the oldest play in the book

This is the real sticking point. If they came down hard against titty streamers they would be destroying a large portion of their own viewer base.

Not to mention how bad it would look from a "Twitch is being sexist" viewpoint. Top male streamers would continue to do extremely well, male streamers would be unaffected almost entirely ( I bet some stream shirtless or whatever sometimes and might get in trouble from that )

But lets be real, such a crackdown would basically only effect women.
> and don't see how Freenode will recover without these amazing people.

Huh? Freenode is fine, they just had to move to a different domain name (liber.chat) due to aggressive domain squatting.

The ridiculous statement is that:

> People that aren't in the wrong don't need to save face like you're desperately trying to do.

not the associated implication that rasengan in particular is in the wrong, which is true, but not particularly supported by their desperately trying to save face.
Short of doing something criminal, you will always get covered by your insurance policy in this situation. But they will drop you like a hot potato the moment they cut the check. Insurance covers stupidity at least once.
yes, but by the time you've generated an intent it's too late to improve recognition accuracy using the prior.
The slogans are easy but you need to define what "ecosystem" is so we understand the system-wide implications of these attitudes.

Can I for example go to Walmart and setup my own store inside their store without having to ask them?

Can I do the same in your local mom-and-pop store?
It happens in the DC area too. We get a mix of civilian and military helicopters at random times every day, the military ones annoy me the most because they often make the windows shake.
Also check out his “Alien languages” and “First Contact” videos!
> I don't know of a single computer language that isn't based on English in ASCII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
This is a false dichotomy, but what's worse is that social programs are already heavily funded in all the major West coast cities. For example, LA spends over half a billion dollars (yes, billion with a B) on services for the homeless every year, to very little effect. It's not irrational for someone (even someone who advocates for those very programs and services) to look at the full situation and conclude that the best available option is to just throw in the towel and hire private security.
Interesting, up until now I would have trusted most tow ratings. How can you tell if a manufacturer is fudging the numbers or not? It it mostly a matter of engine/truck size?
Gcode: Logo you can use to build stuff.
Oh yeah, I'm totally into that. It's perfect for a grocery run and you don't need to do anything to keep it from rolling around the bed of the truck or get rained on.
That was exactly the mission duration for Spirit and Opportunity. Doesn’t seem too far off, if Chinese rover tech is ~15 years behind NASA/JPL…
The only guy this article has made we want to avoid is Ash Bennington.
It's only 50% lower because most electricity grids emit a lot of carbon. Once the grid switches to 100% carbon-free, the number becomes a lot lower. And most of the embodied carbon in the car comes from industrial electricity or transport, so as the grid & transport goes green the embodied carbon goes down, eventually to zero.

Electricity only accounts for about 25% of greenhouse gas emissions, but it also enables industry (20%) and transportation (15%) to decarbonize too, by allowing them to replace their fuel with electricity.

A 50% reduction is already massive, but electrification of both vehicles and the industrial processes creating the vehicle will eventually let that number go to zero which should be our goal.
You would call in a private security force to intimidate your loud neighbors because you can't? I wonder how else that security force might be used to enforce personal preferences.
Thanks, I'm also a big fan of Fridman. He's Rogan 2.0.
Thanks so much for sharing feedback!

In this scenario, your collection is "purchases" and there's a "buyerId" field in a purchase document? And you want to get the email from buyerId?

If buyerId is a uid, you can do another query to get the user document from uid and get the email address from that. I may be misunderstanding the question.
Pride doesn't even matter here. It's simple economics.

It's far less effort and cost for developers to accomodate the world's existing scripts, than it is for the vast majority of the world's population to re-learn how to read and write a new script.

By orders of magnitude.

And obviously, it's not just direction that differs from English but a whole host of other aspects as well.
The sexual counterrevolution is coming
My friend with a pickup gets a lot of his building materials delivered still.
It's a rather large privacy violation
Geomagnetic storms are not EMPs. An EMP is a high-frequency, very intense burst in the electric field. A geomagnetic storm is a low-frequency, low-intensity change in the magnetic field.

The effects of EMPs vs geomagnetics are very different.
Thank you! I was one of the kids in school in BC whose life was likely changed by that.

In spite of the feelings of the teachers, it worked. One day one of us (may be, maybe it was my friend Ronny, I dunno) figured out that we could open up a magic screen that let us type more than one command, and have them all executed when we were done. We were programming and didn't really know it!

I realized years later that I'd learned programming from Logo, and look back on those days in the computer room with great fondness.
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The good french workers paid for the soon to be workers to be cultured enough, in the hope they'll become good french workers and sustain the next generations.

Welfare, helping each other, not being an egoist you know
You know what would be great? If Karens had access to an app that could deliver branded cars full of rent-a-cops to their location at the push of the button.

What's the problem, Customer? Did that nasty man demand you leash your dog in an area where dogs are required to be leashed? Let us just sit on him and hit him with sticks for a bit.
yep, suspect how they never mix the two. Just like laptop reviews.

- can carry X tons / X petaflops and ai engine!
- can drive up to Y hours / last Y hours

but never mention how long is Y with X being true.
They would just stop making the phone.
There’s moments like this that I wish I was savvy enough to short some Apple stocks before the verdict. I suppose you could even use the windfall to buy more shares before the stock price recovered too!
Department of Healthy Speech? I can see how in just 10 years media will ban people practicing misleading and unhealthy speech and there will be an AI bot looking for malicious sarcasm.
Barry Diller says cryptocurrencies are a 'con'
Why not?

edit: You changed your comment and added your line about mom-and-pop stores. To which I reply that different rules should apply to multi-billion dollar corporations.
Syonyk >"Talking on the phone didn't used to be painful - but it is now."

This.

I ceased using a cellphone when I retired. Three days ago was conscripted into a cellphone conversation that had terrible audio and communications drops. If anything, cellphones have grown worse IMO.

My landline has ISDN to the local office but the audio quality drops b/c of the other party's cellphone. Good news: it worked through the recent Texas cold weather power blackout.

Wishing for the old days, when not only could speech be understood but also the emotions and inflections of the speaker were transmitted. All those nuances are lost "like tears in the rain":

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Blade Runner - Final scene, "Tears in Rain" Monologue (HD):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU
Practical?! Have you ever tried loading heavy objects into a truck bed that's 4.5 feet off the ground? There's literally no utilitarian use for them at this point even in agricultural settings, much less the urban and suburban landscapes where they typically plague. What ever happened to the small truck? Much easier to load, much less of a road hazard/nuisance.

For me it's the increasingly large size of all trucks which have made them hugely inconvenient, and frankly dangerous, to circumnavigate. You know how you feel when you get boxed in by a couple tractor trailers on the freeway? That's how everyone else in reasonably sized vehicles feels driving around your truck. There are way more blind spots involving the modern truck compared to other cars which present a danger to everyone else on the road, I don't care what kind of whizz-bang "safety" cameras you have. And you also create blind spots for everyone else who can't see around your absurdly bloated truck in places like parking lots and passing lanes.

It's a safety and practicality issue which goes beyond the "you don't need that" mentality, there's legitimate reasons for people to NOT like them.
> A security force is also going to cooperate with the police and perform surveillance. Not like they pull up in an armored van and exit with weapons drawn, because a neighbor called them for an illegal lemonade stand.

I am curious as to why you believe that this scenario isn't exactly what would happen. Because I think eventually this is... exactly what would happen.
The /s indicates sarcasm. I apologize for expressing myself with sarcasm, I know it's a vice that often causes confusion.
Good Work my friend
Alternative: links.

links -dump https://www.cnbc.com/amp/id/41759013 > 1.txt

firefox ./1.txt

Sometimes I think the number of sites that "won't work" for people using graphical browsers running arbitrary Javascript is greater than the number of sites that "won't work" for people using links. As a long-time links user, I would be willing to bet this is accurate. The term "won't work" as used here means unable to read the text content.
It's uniquely American. Most of Western Civilization is not like this. We're like this because this country was full of puritans and other religious people at the founding.
> They would just stop making the phone.

Stop making their high margin hardware that integrates into paid Apple services? The same phone that works with other massively popular Apple hardware, such as Air Pods? Extremely doubtful.

Apple will not cut off their nose to spite their face.

Maybe you have less faith in Apple than I do. I believe they can succeed enormously without their monopoly. They make great products. Microsoft managed just fine (look at their market cap!)

edit: I'm confused. Are the downvotes from Apple fans that think the hardware sucks without the monopoly? And that Apple can't survive without it?
Shouldn’t this be the responsibility of police? How hard would it be for the precinct that sent the chopper to also take a minute to update their website (if they have one) or send out a tweet? “Working on putting out a fire on E 71st” ...
You forgot to tell about 'ref'(refresh) that you have to do very often while using gdb -tui (each time an output "corrupt" the terminal)
That said, yes, TUI is very useful indeed.
To be fair, some of these features are available on the recently released hybrid, as well.

What I would like to figure out is if it can actually backfeed the home with 240V split phase power. That would be a seriously big deal if it could, it's not a common generator feature as it is. I'm skeptical, but they did claim it could transition from charging to supplying the house and back to charging when the power returned. Probably some fine print there where they say "only with the 120V charger". Otherwise, that would just be killer. An automatic whole-house UPS that can easily support all your needs for hours or even a couple days in a pinch.
Gfhkbffr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax worth a read.

"The tariff affected any country (such as Japan) seeking to bring light trucks into the U.S. and effectively "squeezed smaller Asian truck companies out of the American pickup market."[16] Over the intervening years, Detroit lobbied to protect the light-truck tariff, thereby reducing pressure on Detroit to introduce vehicles that polluted less and that offered increased fuel economy.[15]"
US Army continues to struggle to control Afghanistan. Russians failed to control.
As the first and only NFT securities brokerage, Darkwood Capital

FFS you crypto people have literally NO SHAME. Get all the way out of here with this advertorial garbage.
You think way too small, especially on a scale of a billion years.

Terraforming our planet is a megaengineering project in itself. It's not much of a stretch to imagine megaengineering changing the orbit of earth, or increasing the lifespan of our star by collecting the gases for later use.

You should watch Isaac Arthur the youtube channel.
I really hope Epic will release a gaming phone. It appears they have enough cash, enough clever people, and a good connection to Chinese manufacturers through their partners.

If they make it Android-based but Open Source, similar to how the Unreal Engine contains proprietary components while remaining easy to customize, that could be quite the popular move for grabbing market share from Apple and Google.

I, at least, am unhappy with Apple's greedy behavior and also unhappy with Google's Data Kranken tendencies. So there's at least a niche market opening for a 3rd OS. And I'm not holding my breath for Linux. Instead, I think it'll be something like Lineage OS and its privacy protections but more professionally managed.
> Jonathan Blow, in a talk about how software is getting worse, points to the example of Ken Thompson's text editor, which Ken built in a single week.

This kind of sentiment drives me crazy. Yes, internationalization makes things harder and more complex than they were in the old days. But, back then, only people who lived in one small part of the world were able to usefully use computers in their language. (Simply supporting the Unicode character set is not enough.) Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugly cultural implications. It's easy to say "let's go back to the time when things were simple"; it's a lot harder to say "folks in (e.g.) Israel shouldn't be able to type in their native language".
Did you read the article? No one is suggesting a private army with special legal rights to employ force.
It's not an interesting optimization. Micro-benchmarks are of limited utility. The extra complication is to protect the code from flying off and writing on random memory. Well worth it.
Cherry-picking? There has been steady upward growth year after year except for a single year (2018) that reset the numbers downward. The following year was another rise so, in fact, the most recent data _does_ support the hypothesis. The numbers have been constantly growing and continued growth is not exceptional, that hypothesis misses one year in the past 20.