skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i care because he's been an invited guest on news shows for a couple years now.
i personally have found it on obnoxious that we were holding up this one rich guy as someone we should be listening to, based off seemingly his wealth. imo his qualifications seem slim... (he once sold some operating systems to ibm, & took advantage of strong antitrust winds in that situation). rather than poll experts & trusted advisory types, we've had this kind of vacuous weird up-and-coming media-personality figure Bill Gates to stand in & tell us how to think, what to think. don't we have better role models, people better qualified? don't we have experts, & synthesists, in depth reviewers, & trusted ranks? why pick him? it felt weird having a representative from the ultra-wealthy like him on screen & quoted so often, so regularly. we were being pushed, inexplicably, bill gates, for reasons that were extremely unclear, and it was scary. his media image was being built up and up.

no one's pushing anything anymore; that is the story. what was being pushed unraveled, fell apart. the noise you talk about, to me, is finally clearing. the agendas and mystery of the circumstance are dissipating into more of the same old story, the sunlight is reaching what were the less explored corners of this new, in the making media icon. this Bloomberg article bookends the noise, brings to a close this saga of this particular figure regularly be called up to the stage, for no real apparent reason. i hope it is a sufficient eulogy for this weird strange disturbing media habitalization & mobilization, that we can put this weird era behind us & find better people with less biased (less ultra-capitalist) perspectives to give screen time & press quotes to.

i'm willing to accept ambiguity, to not draw judgement personally. but the specters of doubt here seem fairly real, & like a good enough cause to do what we should have been doing: finding better people who can better tell us stories of the world about us & how we ought navigate our times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Design_concep...

Parts of ARM were modeled after 6502, it having been the processor used in the company's first successful microcomputer.
That's a false premise because consumers have endured the Microsoft ecosystem for decades and the risk vs choice is one that consumers have accepted. The only way Apple would have an argument for that aspect of their ecosystem, is that if all similar vendors operated the same way. This case is about consumer choice and it's the better consumer choice argument that is going to win.
I don't see how this is not blatantly in violation of anti-trust laws. It seems to me it is clearly harming the best interest of the consumer to have less choice and more expensive repair options due to lack of RTR.

I say this as someone who would still use Apple licenced repair shops. The standard of service quality is high, and the results are dependable and consistent. Why is it not enough to compete on quality, and why do they have to behave in an anti-competitive manner?
Alot of popular discussions that become unsavory, i.e. discussions about incels and sexless men get removed from the front page. Basically hard truths that are hot topics for men in technology. HN generally avoids allowing controversial discussions about race, gender, discrimination, etc.

All of which I think is fine, this isnt really the medium for that. When a big event occurs, they allow the discussion, otherwise, things get downranked. I really dont think the downranking is by members, it usually happens too rapidly, and makes no sense given the number of replies occurring in the thread.
Nobody knows UB rules. The WG14 discussions are full of confusion.
could be better. The scroll wheel is too far back. A pleasant surprise is the button on the flap.
Back when I had crappy internet I used wondershaper to mitigate this sort of issue. It worked great and was very simple, it just throttled all connections a bit to eliminate the throttling.

https://lartc.org/wondershaper/
The article does a great job explaining why lifecycle periodicity is prime. But its very curious that 13 and 17 year cicadas are common, but not 7 or 11. Do such cicadas exists as well? Why do we not see cycles beyond 17 years?
Did I misread this, or is there no real data presented whatsoever? There are a few anecdotes and that's it.

Slate used to have a series called "bogus trend stories," and this feels like a bogus trend story: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/08/bogus-trend-stor...
It's a thing this community actually says, not wordplay on the author's part.
> South Africa and Brazil have a common root cause of their crime problem: a tiny but grossly engorged upper class holds the majority of the wealth and income while everyone else eats mud.

Studies correlating wealth inequality with criminality are less than convincing [1].

A 2016 study, controlling for different factors than previous
studies, challenges the aforementioned findings. The study finds
"little evidence of a significant empirical link between overall
inequality and crime", and that "the previously reported positive
correlation between violent crime and economic inequality is largely
driven by economic segregation across neighborhoods instead of
within-neighborhood inequality". A 2020 study found that in Europe,
the inequality-crime correlation was present but weak (0.10),
explaining less than 3% of the variance in crime with a similar
finding occurring for the United States, while another 2019 study
argued that the effect of inequality on property crime was nearly
zero.

From that same article, Alaska has the lowest wealth inequality in the US and also the highest homicide rate.

Impoverishment doesn’t cause criminality, see e.g. post-internment Japanese-American and early 20th century E.European Jewish American immigrant populations. Rather, the root causes of systemic poverty are strongly correlated with criminality [2]. Which isn’t to say extreme wealth inequality isn’t bad: the French Revolution readily disproves that notion. But the French Revolution is in a different league from property crime.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_economic_inequality...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/16/books/what-is-intelligenc...

[2]: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/1994/10/16/books/what-is-...
> I don't see this as an accurate comparison. You can already rent a space right next to Walmart and open your own store if you like.

Opening a store in iOS is not "next to" it's "inside of".

> The argument of choose another phone is different, because it requires spending a large amount of money for the right to entry. To many people this is cost prohibitive.

This makes no sense, first because Androids tend to be cheaper than iPhones, and second no one forces you into buying an iPhone.

Also "iPhone is too expensive" is not an argument for "I should be allowed to do X with it". If you don't like what an iPhone does, don't buy one.

You don't get to buy a Tesla and complain how come it's so expensive and doesn't run also on oil, do you?
I live Apple and I want them to verify hardware, but I also want to ability to go “yes I k know this isn’t an apple screen/battery or said display has changed - use it anyways or register it”
I rarely care about my position on the "page" unless I'm typesetting something (otherwise I'm just typing from X number of tabs in), and when I'm typesetting, I'm not going to use a monospaced font very often.

I liked doing ANSI art back in the 80s, but that's not really interesting outside of terminal connections to a BBS.
> This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license.

What a nice, whimsical message.
It is also possible to trick grandpa into buying another iphone because that's the only way of preserving his text messages from the grandkids when his iphone filled up.
> Also, Javascript doesn't have a logical xor operator, so trying to do that would potentially reduce readability.

I also didn't know about any operator to logically xor two boolean variables (thought about (ab)using JavaScript's implicit type conversion mechanisms: `x ^ y`), and then I learnt that `!=` works fine as a logical xor for booleans. Tada!

I don't know how much readability is reduced by this.
Czechs sometimes write without diacritics as well, but the resulting ambiguities are funny.

For example, a customer of my e-shop gave his street as "Skretova".

So, is it "Škrétova" (named after a famous Baroque painter) or "Skřetova" (Goblin's street?)

Of course, most Czech cities do not honor goblins in their street plan...
Discussed a bit here:

The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431873 - April 2015 (3 comments)
Just a few bad apples? The fact that they feel comfortable doing stuff like the head kicking shows there is a organisational cultural issue in the police. If the citizens didn’t film it they’d be on their merry way and not a word would be said.
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>$20 per month will in no way cover the cost to send security guards your way

it will more than cover a drone. Especially AI based one instead of being remotely controlled. You can imagine that they can park a lot of drones around the city so the reaction time will be in seconds. While real people sometimes [think that they] have to use deadly force to protect themselves, a drone has no-self-preservation concerns (i hope it will be that way at least for some near future :) and thus can just blanketly use a lot of non-deadly force - acoustic, electric shock, 96GHz beamed power, etc.

You're going for a walk late at night - just a click in the app would get you a drone or a robot dog to accompany you for a walk. The drone or the dog is already imprinted with your voice from the app for the duration of the walk, so you can command it at any moment.
I suppose there are differences here, for example the root-of-trust of a car still isn't accessible to you; you can't run your own ECU firmware unless you jailbreak your ECU. Luckily, that is generally not the main 'feature' of the car, and for most people a car isn't a brain-extension with private and personal aspects.

Keep in mind that this doesn't mean you shouldn't own or repair your stuff, but there are significant differences between products, and those differences aren't always clear.
> but the C standard says nothing about what that function does

I'm pretty sure I'm just bad at searching through the standards document, but does the Standard actually define the precise semantics of function calls? 6.2.2 is about the function calls and the result thereof, but doesn't seem to be quite as precise about the semantics as I might expect.
The goal isn't to inform us, it's to be an onramp for their movement.
It's possible, it just makes the argument less relevant. Nobody will listen to a private jet setter preaching about the environmental impact of private jets.
Keynes advocated for rate cuts as a remedy for crises. His reasoning being that cheap credit will stimulate demand for consumer goods. It's almost the textbook definition of "wasteful consumerism".
Yaw Ansong Jnr of KovaDx speaks on tech for sickle cell disease patients
The elites have been obsessed with race and the new religion of wokeism, which has certainly percolated down.

> Veganism, exercise, obsession with health etc, it hasn't really percolated down much.

They aren't pushing exercise and health, just the opposite. "Stay inside. Obesity is beautiful. Drink coca cola."
Lego Unveils LGBTQ Lego Set
I used to be like this until about roughly the same time as I got my first smartphone. Now I just have to fill my 'empty' time with watching, reading or scrolling of some sort, otherwise I'll start to get anxious and bored. I miss those days of daydreaming and contemplation, but I've found it very difficult to go back to not needing to look at screens.
> But it passed in both cases because... it's common sense.

Yeah. I don't even understand why we have to argue in favor of stuff like this. Somehow we ended up living in such a fucked up world where the things we purchase don't actually belong to us and we actually have to fight tooth and nail to make it sane again.
When Phones Were Fun: Palm Centro
It's surprising how much software (mostly on Windows) doesn't properly handle Unicode in 2021. With something working in Unicode, it's not that big of a deal to both handle letters like Ł or ż and also to run normalization on text strings so that you can (if desired) treat Łódź and Lodz as identical (e.g., for text searching).
The title immediately made me think of this article on using prime numbers in CSS to grow natural-looking variations.

https://www.sitepoint.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-ma...

I’m excited to see the badass Deluxe Edition coloration of Brood X when they emerge in my area. I dunno what I was doing in 2004, but I clearly was not spending enough time outside.
There are non-smart phones, at least
I think Tesla's strategy is to start with the total battery supply and allocate batteries to vehicles with sufficiently high margin that they can scale as quickly as possible.

They delayed refreshing the X and S for a long time, I believe, in part because these two models are low-volume and therefore don't warrant a high allocation of battery supply and manufacturing floor space. Why refresh them now, then? I think they are using the 2021 refresh of X and S as a spur for the 4680 battery ramp (see conjecture that Plaid+ is going to be 4680).

Adding more models and variations doesn't do them much good when their demand for the mainstream 3 and Y far outstrips their battery supply, both today and into the near future, even with them ramping battery supply as hard as possible.

Brands that are making a wide range of electric vehicles are taking a significantly different approach. But seeing as they too will be constrained by a small supply of batteries, I am not sure the diversity will be as valuable on their bottom line.
Sunraycer, 1987 World Solar Challenge winner
You’re making my point (I think) - I was using the Muslim angle as an example of an integral part of France that some might wish to exclude or diminish. Are you free to consume art from any French person or are you free to consume art from only what a committee deems French? As far as rereading the article it says there’s an app and you can spend the money within it but presumably the content within is vetted. It also says major French platforms like canal+ but that’s it. It does explicitly rule out Netflix, Disney, Spotify and more. So it’s definitely not anything.
> underaged users who actually do not have any experience with adult material.

A vanishingly small group. Most people aggressively seek that shit out as soon as they hit puberty.
The Return of the RSS Reader?
This isn't welfare, you know. Perhaps live in a country that has it to learn what it is. It serves the purpose of not letting people starve. It's not about this kind of decadence.
I have to link this video showing off the Cray-2 with it's built in waterfall. Also the CM-5 makes an appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8X8w8a4f4
Yeah, I just recently replaced the battery in a family member's MacBook Air. Surprising that it was even possible to replace (thanks iFixit)! With this model the SSD is also replaceable, thankfully. Of course, once the logic board itself fails, that'll be a whole different story, but at least _some_ aspects of the system are repairable.
I'm reminded of the ancient Romans and Greeks, who had no religious opposition to homosexuality, since the "homosexual/heterosexual" axis is a modern invention, and it, along with the stigma, mostly derives from Christianity. But they did attach social stigma to being the "bottom" rather than the "top." [0,1]

So maybe, yes. But as stigmas go, probably no one would be disowned or killed over it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greec...
They never accepted that. They had no choice really. They do have a choice here. Use Apple or don't and go with Android.
I know people whose communication appears to be quasi-automatic responses to certain stimuli.

I thought they'd worked out that dolphins have language and complex social structures? I was definitely told that when I saw the dolphins at Monkey Mia.

And dogs definitely communicate with humans, and understand human speech ("W.A.L.K" or you get zoomies for 10 minutes).

What's the research that says all of this is "not language"?
The question isn't flawed, but ignoring final evaporation, nothing crosses from inside the horizon to outside. Nothing. Ever. Under any circumstances. Things can only move from the outside to the inside, unidirectionally, and on a one-way trip.

Gravitational radiation originates outside the horizon. It's noise in the near-horizon region caused by massive/energetic objects moving around outside the horizon (e.g. as a neutron star plunges inwards), and most of it dissipates away to infinity (a fraction settles down and serves to make a bigger, flatter horizon).

Gravitons in almost every physical theory that has them are simply what you get when you look very very closely at gravitational radiation like this, just as photons are what you get when you look very very closely at a bright flash of light.

Final evaporation isn't something we need to worry about for any practical purposes (and additionally it might never happen). However, just prior to final evaporation an extremely hot, tiny, almost-fully-evaporated black hole would be surrounded by a near-horizon region of extremely dynamical spacetime, which would be the source of quite a lot of gravitational radiation (and thus gravitons); the influence of that gravitational radiation on the spacetime-filling fields of the Standard Model would also generate quite a lot of electromagnetic (and other) radiation too. If we look very closely at all these different forms of radiation we'd see lots and lots of particles. That is, you might see X-rays and gamma rays, but they are not crossing from inside the horizon to outside. They're the effect of locally strongly curved spacetime on the local parts of universe-filling quantum fields (and the intense interactions of field-content being stretched and squashed in turn induces a backreaction on the dynamical spacetime nearby).
I don't think you're the target audience, then. A startup would be happy spending $70 a month (per developer) if it made their developers even 1% more productive:

$100,000 / 12 * 0.01 == $83.33

(This is a low estimate; the value an engineer delivers to an organization is generally much larger than their compensation.)

It's possible that you believe they should introduce a cheaper tier (hobbyist, open source) with a reduced feature set, but IMO $70 is probably undercharging for most tech corporations.
Yep, and even before 5.5, InnoBD was present (since the early 2000's IIRC), and is what most people chose to use for any production level deployment (MyISAM never even supported transactions, so people had to use something different when they got serious), it just wasn't the default engine until that point so you had to specify it in your create table statement or use a config setting to change the default.

MySQL 3.x was mostly just okay for simple website that didn't do much. (MyISAM is good for either extremely read heavy with few writes or vice versa, was very performant in those cases for the time)

MySQL 4.x added subquery support and InnoDB as a standard component, even if not the default.

MySQL 5.0 added cursors, triggers, stored procedures, views.

I think from about this point MySQL was fairly usable in place of some enterprise DB's depending on use case, and most of the essential features were there, even if not always the default.

MySQL started as a super easy to use and accessible DB, and slowly accreted enough enterprise level features to be able to compete in that field, but it's been in use successfully there for quite a while.

In comparison, my (super limited and possibly incorrect) understanding of Postgres's history is that they focused on stability and enterprise level features first, and then later added some things for more convenience. I think they aren't super different in capabilities now, at least for the core functionality most expect.
The article mentions a security escort service that seems like it'd have the chilling effect necessary to quell random people attacking you on the street, rather than relying on a "response".
There was also the incident in Philadelphia by the FBI.
Five Tips to Writing RISC-V Assembly
No, it's not a $10k option. People should stop repeating this TSLAQ meme.
More than just speed sensitive volume now. Replacing the stereo in my van requires a conversion box (Maestro) that deals with the various car settings that are done through the stereo, such as dome lights out duration, dash clock setting, auto door locking, etc.

The stereo is way too tightly coupled with the rest of the vehicle.
Why doesn’t Bitcoin migrate to Proof of Stake?
Not if saving 5k pedestrians kills 10k highway drivers. (Numbers made up, I’m just saying you have to consider them.)
I honestly thought this had something to do with Top Chef or something before I clicked…
This is a great news. I've been toying with the idea of generating parts of my blog from notion. There are currently some projects which reverse-engineered the API and provide an "unofficial" clients [1][2]. The problem though is that I'd like to blog to be minimum maintenance after a spike of work and I'm afraid the unofficial clients will inevitably break and will require updates.

The problem with the current beta is the limits of the API. E.g. code block are not supported[3], so you can't really use it to generate a technical blog.

Looking forward to the GA :)

[1]: https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py
[2]: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi
[3]: https://developers.notion.com/reference/get-block-children
Nice. If you like, could you explain again what the perceived difference is to adding

if (offset >= INT_MAX - 16) fail();

in foo()?

(I mean, besides the fact that the size of the buffer pointed to by arr is highly unlikely to agree exactly with either INT_MAX or UNIT_MAX.)
It really depends on your workload. In my case for example an app takes ~60% of time in Ruby code. Tweaking how the scheduling of the processing works will not affect it as much as speeding up the actual Ruby part. For someone else with a very thin API service, it may not matter much.

My point is, you can't generalise "what rails needs". Different deployments will need different things.
Computers and Android devices don't employ predatory code signing and can run anything without the manufacturer having a say, yet somehow the hell didn't break loose. Also, if you don't let people make mistakes or see someone else make them, they won't learn. In effect, one might say that this scheme makes people dumber.