skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'gaol' always throws me for a loop when I'm reading something British. I need to remind myself it's pronounced 'jail'. (A quick google tells me that all the major British newspapers switched over to 'jail' by the 1990's - score one for the good guys!)

I remember reading 'Mutiny on the Bounty' as a child and talking about it with my father and I said something about the 'boatswain', and he (a former naval officer) looked at me like I had two heads. "You mean the [BOSUN]?" "Well, no it says 'boatswain'" "Yes, it's spelled like that, but it's pronounced BOSUN. It's like 'colonel'. Don't think about the letters."
This is what I think of whenever I see someone taking a dogmatic stance on function length, conditional nesting depth, functional purity, OO-purity, etc. "Here's a person who has never worked on text rendering, text editing, GUI event systems, image decoding, etc."

I have a chunk of code for implementing pointers, cursors, button clicks, and drag-and-drop in games. It's some of the gnarliest code I've ever written. It's also some of the most resistent code to "good design patterns" I've ever seen. I've written it and tweaked it and rewritten it and thrown it away and started from scratch and it always comes out the same. When you're dealing with things that have to meet long-established user expectations, it's always going to be full of little edge cases that you can't abstract away.
Have you ever minimized your own accomplishments?
This is the kind of talk I often hear from people who never take public transport. The question then arises: do they not take public transport because it really is that awful, or do they actually have no idea whether it's truly awful because they don't take it? Or a little of both? :-) One thing you ought to know, though, if you often travel by train, is that trains in Belgium almost never make up for lost time, that's just wishful thinking on the part of the conductor and instead delays just seem to cause more delays, so arrival time at the final destination (together with delays to/from Brussels, which is where most people go) is not a perfect metric but not all that bad.

Anyway, just joking around, public transport in Belgium could be better, that's for sure.
As a non-native speaker living in a non-English speaking country who has started learning English decades ago at school in my teenage years, the sheer richness of the English vocabulary never ceases to fascinate me. There are so many words with subtle and nuanced meanings (primarily of Latin and French origin) you can almost never hear in an American movie or a reality show. I have encountered them primarily in British news articles and documentaries. Using them among other non-native speakers even seems snobbish and counter-productive. I mean stuff like "subjugate", "rejuvenate", "reverberate", etc.
You can now purchase your FCC amateur license? Back in my day, I had to go to an FCC field office and take a test. Times have changed.
Academic articles have abstracts, and it's not because of lack of attention.
A Movement Systems Percussion Computer: http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/the-movement-computer-syst...
My Amiga 500 and my PinePhone. Neither are cutting edge tech. One might've been, over 30 freakin' years ago. But both are pieces of engineering that encourage exploration and are just what their particular niche needs.
Ha, reminds me of overclocking the Tegra 2 in some Toshiba tablet. People were saying it's impossible, with various modified files linked by people saying it should work but it doesn't, must be something hardware related.

Being a naive dumbass, that did not stop me, I looked through the source files and thought "why not just edit the voltage/frequency tables in all of the files?"

And it worked. Could've easily bricked the device, but it didn't. I believe I had the same feeling as you. Yay for ignorance, I guess :D
I think moving away completely from engineering is very hard, you've likely invested the best years for your professional development in that engineering skill. You can do it, but you will suck and likely will make a very bad compensation and regret it in the end.

I'd look into jobs that allows you to either work less or make engineering some sort of side activity, like in finance they need people that can write python, technical writing, law, biotech, product management etc. I believe in those areas you can even attain a similar compensation.
The CCP runs an arbitrage. It is willing to destroy any citizen’s life — to deprive, to immiserate, to extract - in exchange for marginally better systemic performance for the party state.
Most other modern governments just aren’t willing and able to use and abuse their citizens to quite the same degree that the CCP is.
And with a lot of expendable people + total control, you can drive some fast results.
But this is also why the world needs to firmly reject such unethical governance plays, by banding together to shun and decouple from any ruling elite that tries to run them.
My MacBook m1, a stretchy waist leash thing for running with my dog and really good running shoes (Vaporfly next%)
"why don't you just ...",

We also saw this with COVID. Plenty of people with no knowledge in infectious disease stating that the public solution was stupid and wrong but instead the obvious, simple and effective solution would be to "just do ....".

Personally if that happens at work and somebody (often managers) tells us to solve a difficult problem by "why don't you just..." I usually tell them the code is available and they "can just do it" themselves. So far I have never had any takers.
Seen this comment a lot in the thread, I'd like to know which libraries do. Google didn't help (as usual nowadays).
Calling what the modern day American poor have as 'a form of slavery' is disingenuous. Not being able to afford all of those things is a result of being poor, not of them being subject to 'a form of slavery'.
Matter is stuff.

Condensed matter is stuff that is not gas.

Soft matter is shorthand for soft condensed matter, which is stuff that is not gas nor solid.

Fluidics, liquid crystals, polymers are examples of soft matter.

Source: I am a soft matter physics PhD that focused on liquid crystal phase characterization.
I wish the US to stop funding Israel too
If you mean in English, I would say look to the poorer corners of blighty, or deep enough into Australia, and you may find what you need. Or, if you're in Los Angeles and white, ride the bus from Santa Monica to DTLA on any given weekend and just listen to people talk: that's English just as sure as mine is, but I get maybe half.

(Also, is Scots not a dialect of English? I'm not sure -- a mix at the very least. Great tutorials on TikTok for that as it's apparently endangered.)

If you mean German, haha that's easy, just go to Switzerland with a short stop in Swabia on the way, though in both places you'll have to practically beg people to speak their native tongue in front of a foreigner. The Swiss Germans especially will reflexively speak one of the major foreign tongues, namely Hochdeutsch or English, though in my experience the Swabians will still say stuff like schaffe gell and assume you can grok it since Germans know that much from TV.
> I just moved to an outlook company after years on google. It’s so nice having my mail client be native.

Hehe, I also moved to an Outlook company a few years back. I’ve had to switch completely to the Outlook Web App (OWA), the native app gets too bogged down after a while, and it’s frustrating to deal with Outlook native across multiple machines. My Outlook experience was vastly improved when I stopped using the native client. And there are a lot of reasons I prefer Gmail as well, Outlook seems to lose threads easily, the spam filtering isn’t as good, and it has all kinds of unintuitive UI quirks and gaps.
Yet another link to a summary:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-makes-1nm-breakthroug...
“Mega Power Frunk” is some Tesla-quality naming. Well done.
I moved to Ireland 4 years ago. And for at least 2 years, I could not understand ( or hear ) a word my - not direct - Irish manager said. It was alien to me.
Might wanna change the "Chat" page from Freenode to Libera.chat.
This does resonate with me!

Happy to discuss and help you where possible. How can I reach out to you? Or maybe you can send me a 'hi' at harsha.xg{at}gmail.com?
You should look at some of their dev blogs. Their engineering team has done some pretty remarkable things, like re-writing the game server to be deterministic so they could better deal with problems that occur in pro play[1]. They've also talked a bit about the past and future of the game engine specifically [2]. They also have blogs talking about operations- taking the game from something written by 2 dudes in a dorm room to being one of the most played games in the world- how their stack has changed, how they're set up to do patches and rollbacks, how they do their internal testing and playtesting, etc.

[1]: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/determinism-league-leg...
[2]: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/future-leagues-engine
To call a distinction pedantic is to say it lacks importance to you. You are seeing a clash of values, not a bad-faith argument.
> - why was freenode being sold in the first place?

> - for what was it sold? For money? And who was paid for the sale?

> - Why was a volunteer-run IRC network even registered as a business which could be sold?

It was to organize and sponsor a live conference ("Freenode #live").

The contract is not public, and not even (now former) freenode staff knows the terms. See the first two paragraphs here: https://gist.github.com/edk0/478fb4351bc3ba458288d6878032669...

> - Did whatever freenode was sold for go back to support the IRC-network? Or did someone weasel it away for themselves?

It was mainly to support the conference, so this was a success. It's unknown if any other money was exchange.

> - why would anyone buy and IRC network? What did they expect to gain by owning the network?

There is a tentative explanation in the OP, but we may never know the actual reasons unless we are Andrew Lee himself.
My regional accent is midwestern (I'm from Kansas). I don't think I feel quite the same about regional accents, but of course, unconscious bias is a thing.
Looks a very promising tool! I am sure that it will save me a lot of time in future projects. Are you planning to add support for automated deployments to AWS Lambda using some framework like Serverless?
A compiler could inline SIMD with or without an operation having an explicit map, the dynamic type checks needed are gonna be the same. (and, since this is an array language, the tiny extra overhead of completely dynamic dispatch is gonna be small compared to the executed SIMD afterwards anyways)

You lose a lot of simplicity & brevity by requiring explicit mapping, and gain close to nothing.
Point made was that there are succesful competing alternatives in slack and discord. Hence any damage to existing IRC communities is likely to see some users move towards IRC competitors, rather than another IRC server.
You've just summarized the beauty that is n-gate.
I suspect this is a 1-to-1 response to GCP's Cloud Run service, which launched in 2019.
Wall Street Journal is free to read today
Paywall dropped today. This URL works (not an affiliate link & I have no financial interest):

https://www.wsj.com/?mod=jswoh21

I also tried the bare URL on a private tab and it also seems to work:

https://www.wsj.com
I wonder which country will claim it and make it into an aircraft carrier.
But I don't want to trust, and pay for, multiple email providers. It increases cost, complexity, liability and lock-in. I'd prefer an email productivity tool that is a downloadable desktop/mobile app that I can start/stop using with no friction.
I translate PoW as Proof of Waste.
It's the richness of possible sentence construction that gets me. Nearly any word order can be made to work.

And I still construct sentences oddly, even though I've been speaking some English every day for 50+ years.
California is reimagining math instruction
It might depend upon what you count as native (as the article talks about later), but she certainly seems to have had constant English exposure since early childhood. Anyone more familiar with New Dehli might have a better guess, but to me it felt like the article was doing what the second speaker complained of:

> "I grew up with three languages, as my parents did not share the same 'mother tongue' " Madani says. "And, in any case, how would this manager know what language I grew up with? I was especially miffed as she spoke but one language."

It's my (possibly mistaken) assumption that anyone from India, self-described as a linguistic "have", and majoring in English and teaching English now, probably has been speaking it since before they started school. It seems strange that article doesn't actually clarify anything about her language education and the second interviewee specifically shows that the authors didn't only select for non-native speakers. I assume the editor wrote the title without sufficient thought and the author would have chosen something else.
I'm really curious as to what route you were on, and also have to assume you've never had to ride the commuter trains.

I've had to commute by rail since 2014, I now have to head out half an hour earlier than at the start, purely to account for consistent 5-10 minute delays.

Atleast once a month the train is packed beyond standing room.

Several times I've had to say fuck it and use the slower, further away tram to have any hope of reaching the office.

And if your train is cancelled (dozen plus times a year) station staff are fucking useless and annoyed you interrupted their chinwag to ask how to get home.
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> This doesn't kill IRC. The name isn't important. It's just a brand.

Sure, but it will still negatively affect the number of users.

For example, I'm already aware of one community that decided to end their IRC presence altogether (and only keep their discord) rather than migrate their freenode channel to another network.

There will undoubtedly also be a number of individuals who decide to just quit IRC instead of moving.
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I'd be happier than the status quo even if it just meant presented to customers as a single brand — I always found it ludicrous trying to get to, say, Gatwick from London Bridge & thinking "There's a Thames Link train leaving at 5 past, I'll go for that but if I don't reach the platform on-time, I won't be allowed use my ticket on the next train, because that's South Eastern, so I'll have to wait for the train after that". Unnecessarily confusing.

"Flexible season tickets" is also a really welcome one, especially if people go to WFH/office hybrid set-up.
The reason so much low level code is written in C is that not having exceptions forces one to write robust code. Panics stop the kernel. Sigsegv kills the CPython process. Exceptions make it extremely difficult to have that level of robustness.
Getting positive comments from HN users is priceless!

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* Bluetooth bone conduction headset: perfect for the daily cycling workout

* Belka DX shortwave radio: one of the best shortwave radio on the market, with a small and portable form factor
Theragun pro. It's a percussion massage gun and oh my does it make me functional again for all sorts of things.
How does the fcc lisence work exactly? Do you get the rights to broadcast at a certain spectrum or something? Does it work for space communication?
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The reason processed pet foods are so addictive
Facebook Said It Would Stop Recommending Anti-Vaccine Groups. It Didn’t
How can you be so sure of that?
Intelligence is not something as clear-cut as eyes color. While there are some evidence of an inheritable component, it is probably the result of the expression of several genes, with complex and different phenotypic expressions. It is far from clear how much we can expect that the offspring of smart people will be also smart, once you account for all the other variables associated with nurturing.

Meanwhile we DO KNOW that nurturing have a strong effect. This is a fact.

And then you have the problem of how to ensure that smart people have more kids. Are you going to force smart people to have kids? raise their taxes? prison? What about lower intelligence people? what do you propose? compulsory sterilization and abortion? As you can see, even if we knew for sure that smart people having relatively more offspring would actually work, The policy changes to enact that are a complete minefield of ethical and practical problems. So, at least in our society, this is clearly not a solution.

But, on the other side we do know that we can have interventions on nutrition, education and other such stuff that do have a demonstrable effect on increasing a series of variables that we collectively call intelligence.

You have, right now, for kids that already living, not some hypothetical future Einstein's offspring, tools to raise their intelligence and to make the most of their genetic potential, even if on average, their potential is a bit smaller (and always remember, intelligence is normally distributed, outliers abound, and the difference between the average of both groups is not that big to start, meaning there is a lot of overlap in relative terms, and considering we have for more poor people than rich people, is very likely that by virtude of the sheer numbers, you have more genius individuals, in absolute quantity, than on the upper classes, even if the average tends in favor of the upper classes.

And as intelligence is normally distributed, by giving poor kids a chance, you will even be able to identify among them some high potential individuals and give them the nurturing they need to reach what they are innately able to if given the chance.

So, what is your policy choice? Chase a pipe dream, while increasing inequality, something that historically always led to violence, or do something that is feasible, doable, ethical and fair?
That's interesting. I'm a portuguese language native, and I can relate, but not because we talk like this in portuguese:

> "move the burgers to the periphery of the barbecue"

That would be really formal over here too, the kind of wording that I'd expect in a grilling manual explaining how to use it, but not at a barbecue.

I can relate because sometimes I find myself speaking like that when talking to english counterparts, but mostly because when I'm "translating" my thoughts into sentences I have to choose between a group of words of similar meaning, and due to my inexperience, I often choose a less "popular" one.

EDIT:

After reflecting on this a bit more I also believe I often sound formal when speaking english because it's easier to use more/fancier words for the sake of not being misunderstood than it's to come up with a short, direct sentence that transmits my message in a clear way.

It's like adding redundancy to the message for reducing the risk of transmitting unintentional errors ;)
What I'd like to see would be more projects picking up Servo.
The coverage of this has, I think, been misleading. Google has not officially said (anywhere I can find) that AMP won’t get preferential treatment. They have only said that AMP won’t be required to rank. Those are very different statements. “Sure, we will include a few non amp stories,” is different from assurance that you will not be punished if you remove amp support from your site. The second one might be true— but Google hasn’t confirmed it.
No, I don't think I ever shared it outside of personal acquaintances.

Diffing the game.dat we use vs an "untouched" cracked one there are a few more differences than I expected (I at one point fixed the random version number and the 3:30 auto defeat if the game thinks you copied the game illegaly).

If you send me a mail to the email in my profile, I'll send you the binary!
Also check out https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub, it's aggressively compatible with websites that refuse to do RSS, and has a large community that keeps it up to date
The level of Mac malware is not acceptable, says Apple exec at Epic trial
It’s not that these devs don’t understand the complexity of curl, since it does make things appear simple, it’s because they don’t understand the complexity of the protocols implemented by curl.
Long ago, at ${WORK} we implemented the http 1.1 protocol on top of platform tcp sockets, it took several months to implement a correct subset of the protocol, then when we needed more we scrapped it and just used libcurl!
Jeezzz, thank you. I just noticed the device today ( Sweet Dreams is a favorite since the 80ies ). I did do a cursory search and read Behind the Song [0]

Sweet Dreams was the first music I ever heard being reproduced by a computer that sounded somewhat right ( a BBC Micro, around 1986 ).

[0] https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-eurythmics-sw...
if he's truthful in saying he funded freenode with more than a million dollars... seems like it

I wonder where that money went, especially considering the hosting for all the IRC servers is donated by its sponsors (ISPs)
This is not merely long, and it is not merely a narrative. It is teasing.
Huge network... Japan... sure if you’re Taiwan I guess you’d think it’s huge.
Yeah. I once though I would have a look at what it would mean to just send a single file over SMB. What better way than to just reverse engineer the little bits of communication between a client and a server?

The simplest solution would have been to give up the instant I started reading the catched traffic. I gave up after about 40 minutes of trying to figure out where to start.
> While the researchers were not actively looking for any particular defect in the material, the advanced imaging technique uncovered a surface defect, called a twin boundary. At either side of the twin juncture, the molecular networks abruptly transformed their handedness.

Reminds me of Q1D models that simulated glassy dynamics[0]:

"We describe numerical simulations and analyses of a quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) model of glassy dynamics. In this model, hard rods undergo Brownian dynamics through a series of narrow channels connected by $J$ intersections. We do not allow the rods to turn at the intersections, and thus there is a single, continuous route through the system. This Q1D model displays caging behavior, collective particle rearrangements, and rapid growth of the structural relaxation time, which are also found in supercooled liquids and glasses. "

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0960
>I can still see (refurbished for the 3rd time) trains from ~25years ago operating in Italy nowadays.

If that's the problem, then do not try to use polish railways. You can still find non-modernized EN57 from 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP_class_EN57

Long distance trains can be no better tho...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/973...
While everything you said is correct, we should all be aware that the existence of floating ice tends to hold back the glaciers that are on land. Without the floating ice, those glaciers will flow more rapidly off into the ocean, and that will increase the average sea level.