skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Twitter is epic. Always real name, always in some kind of trouble when people drag online to offline as though it’s a dark secret and indicates deep rage.

Account is marked X rated, indicates comedy/parody, and can be linked to my old life as a pretty good software engineer in open source and SV.

The hidden F response needs more real name love from the rich, because bad prescidents are being set legally with me and I can afford to do nothing, not even show up to the hearings. Freeze, Flight, Fight, F——.

OpenTable vs. Iverson, Santa Clara, CA, USA 2019-20.

One can find my personal contact details from this account but I will not answer unknowns. God allows me to have my reasons for this, which can be an attack from lawyers in itself.

Homelessness + Pandemic + Slander + Motivated criminals + Unforgiving commercial dependencies = hard mode, and yet I Tweet insane on real name.

I can come back as pandemic eases, and the legal syatem needs love so others less fortunate than me can dig their way out in general. And me, 3 year saga sofar.

Draft of the open source book PDF:

https://harlanji.com/urban-camping-pro/Urban%20Camping%20Pro...

Twitter is “Potty @____” same handle in blank. We potty out bad food, and bad thoughts alike. I just show my toilet and others sunscribe. I want it all out, children acquire automatic behaviours before Age 7. To retrain requires space for potty without consequence.

If things go right I will break the system and not go to jail and be able to choose my vocation freely.

“Jesus never sinned and kicked over at least one table:” How much is this exaggerated? Okay, we can logically argue if Jesus is real, I am not bent on that but as a Christ (not a Messiah, as we see on Twitter; partially a security move, no ambiguity).

Christ consciousness can be entered via choices and habits, so to those who have experienced it the truth of the situation and contrast may still be seen as holy, yet holiness is contextual and critics often differ greatly.

I got banned from Bay Area Clojure after years of 100% Pro behavior when a new attendant found my non-secret account and complained, rather than socializing at the event it would seem.

I claim this is holy while the call comes. My name was tarnished before all this, and I disagree that it should be a death sentence. To others: I never feel fear beyond realizing I am afraid and choosing loving action. I do use the triggers as Tweets, because fellow humans often share triggers—short form POV homelessness with consent.

If you’ve read this far, dug up garbage: I hope we can cross paths when the time is right. God protects. Day 1,200ish with no fear despite much movement. Peace and be well.

I see another comment mentions finger printing: yes. I assumed so in the past past when I used Pen names still, but I realized that it was put with awareness of Machine Learning. Nothing will haunt me, and this should be normal. They try, but do they do not because each attack is an opportunity for growth.

Use of Public space is required to travel between or to a firsr Private space.
Yes it's a single battery pack burning and you need to keep it cool with larges amount of water for a long period to let it cool off so it doesn't restart.
Beginner Board Games for Adults (2019)
I've been telling people that the way to get people to take the vaccine would be to give Trump credit for operation lightspeed (which I think he deserves but that's irrelevant) and start referring to the vaccine as Trump's Vaccine.

I'm okay with handing Trump a win if it can help save lives and end this pandemic.
My second major
bike accident (first was being doored) was getting rear ended by a minivan. She treated me like someone in a vehicle, not a, you know, bike. There’s a real disconnect for some people driving a multi-thousand-pound steel piece of equipment where they project their sense of safety on fleshy human bodies at all times.
> What types of languages do you see would enable more efficient VLIW compilers?

I was thinking of languages where dependencies are more explicit and the idea of a global evaluation order isn't there in the first place. I'd be very interested to see a reduceron-style effort that implemented graph-reduction evaluation on a VLIW processor.

> Somehow I suspect the limited uptake of better suited languages to be a sign that they aren't very helpful most of the time, and most of the parallel operations people do is more like serving a lot of individually sequential transactions per second, which is something C and unix is pretty good at.

Heh, that was the idea that those barrel-processor SPARCs were designed around. But they weren't so successful in the market either in the end.
> Kids today don't ride bikes to school.

In the USA. But in plenty of other places they do. In fact, at the bike rack of my sons school there is too little place, so some of them overflow onto the school yard.
If the US didn't throw practically unlimited money at pharma and research companies, hedging their bets by buying a multitude of vaccines, it's easy to see that we wouldn't have a vaccine at all right now and we'd have 10x more death.

In a world where third world countries are handily running rings around the Australian Government, it shows the emperor has no clothes.

The US' bumbling bureaucracy, as dysfunctional as it was at the time and still is, leapt into action like a phoenix from mediocrity. It wasn't even just the vaccine, it was sourcing of masks, medical supplies and more.

It's not perfect, but under 12 months is literally unprecedented and orders of magnitude faster than a vaccine has been developed, distributed and administered. Of course, this is highly unlikely to be Trump's competence rather than the competence of people he put in charge of the various pieces of the puzzle. But the results were clear.

The entire media establishment, and "experts", claimed the speed at which it was actually delivered was impossible.

I mean, let's take a look at NBC News' "fact check" from May 2020.

"Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a 'miracle' to be right." [1]

Those "experts" said a vaccine before mid-to-late 2021 would be a "miracle".

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-cor...
Tesla builds its industrial battery packs so they don't spread fire to nearby packs and are insulated such that nearby fires can't cause them to go off. It's not exactly clear in the article, but the fire didn't spread, it's contained to a single module inside the battery "field".
Stuff doesn't always completely break -- e.g. Google forcing new Chrome-only web standards on certain sites and making other browsers like Firefox resort to alternatives which can end up being 5x slower [0], or serving a more dated design of google search on FF mobile vs Chrome. I suspect this sort of thing might be enough to make some people switch.

And I have had a few experiences with sites not loading properly in the last few months. Try windy.com for example: on FF 90 with no extensions enabled and tracking protection on 'balanced' I get blue and yellow banding on the map, and the wind gusts graphics fail to load properly. I have reported a few of these instances in the past, but a lot of the time I'd rather just switch to chromium temporarily and continue with what I'm doing.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozilla-exec...
Yes completely. No problem with those.
If pedestrian fatalities are increasing as cars become "smarter" or "autonomous" then this is a cause for concern.

I am always baffled by some of the driving coming from supposedly super-duper-AI-enhanced cars. You would have thought that it would be impossible for a Tesla to break the speed limit, burn over a pedestrian crossing that kids are waiting at, or to make a turn without using a turn signal, yet you see this happening fairly often.
covid-19 is doing it.
My M1 works flawlessly with my usb c LG monitors except for HDR leading to washed out colours.

On the other hand, both my fullspec 2016 and 2019 MBP have days where the displays and usb and Bluetooth hubs freeze every few minutes and I’m watching a the screens go blank and the windows being retiled while I can’t type. The only thing that continues is audio over the 3.5mm port.

So for me, things improved with M1.
You don't need any evidence at all to convince the online public of anything it wants to believe, especially if it gives it a target for vitriol. I have to agree with my sibling commenter that believing otherwise is naive given the wealth of evidence to the contrary.
Modern web apps are good. I prefer to

- edit my files in Google Docs (seamless sync)

- play games w/o ever downloading them

- do design in Figma

- swipe on Tinder w/o ever having to install or uninstall it

- browse code on GitHub

I want as much stuff as possible to be on the web. I dislike having to install applications locally.

On a less self-centered level, the web helps small businesses succeed. Do startups have the time to develop 3 different applications? I don't think so. The power of the web allows people who don't need to be developing native apps to avoid duplicating their work.

The web seems extremely important to small business innovation.

As for "large" / "bloated" sites. Features like new CSS properties seem unlikely to add more bloat or degrade accessibility.

If we left the web as hypermedia / documents only we would have killed its potential (figma / repl.it / so many others wouldn't have existed).
Allow me to mention that we are adding another horse to the race, a WebKit based browser no less, Orion [1]. There are many things we believe Safari could do better and we are set to do them.

[1] https://browser.kagi.com
https://archive.is/R8Mxg
That page is way out of date and in general not accurate (thus all the warnings on the table). If you have the space, it's cheapest to do gravity storage with water reservoirs, however you need specific geography for that to happen. If you need to build such a reservoir without assisting geography it would be prohibitively expensive. The only other real option is batteries.
Does it actually work? I tried and it would always give up partway through the downloads (and most of the times when I ask in these threads it turns out the person recommending it doesn't actually use it, they just think it's a cool idea...)
Fuck those people. When I was starting out, I had to work with a company like that. No questions for me, no resources or backup, minimal direction; I was never once relied on for direction or advice despite being the one most qualified to give it, which I did on many occasions, none of it taken.

In fact, after I left, I came to the realization that the leadership team had first licensed the initial product, then basically contracted out all the changes they could do to patent it separately, essentially doing none of the actual developmental work themselves.

Unsurprisingly, it was a shitshow.
That's just not accurate. Most mastering starts from finished mixes, not multitrack masters. (Source: I'm a former mastering engineer.)
You’re right, it was probably with our react native package, and maybe also with our electron package. And also with Strapi. And maybe others, I will never know.
I didn't propose any particular solution, I just said we should discuss the problem.
Sadly, people who continue to promote hysteria are the reason why this "crisis" will never end.
what? the point of this is that it seeks just parts of the files through http ranges… not all 43 GB… just try the page? or am I missing something?
In fairness, resources have also scaled. What's a few hundred million when that much only buys a tenth of a Duolingo?
It’s more subtle because it depends what you consider to be the market.

Windows was the dominant operating system of the PC platform. But the openness of the PC platform wasn’t a problem. On smartphone, you are bound by the hardware to keep the OS sold with it. So it could make sense to consider the « iPhone devices » market instead of the « smartphone » market (same for Android).
Which is why they have no choice but to continue to take in Google's money which accounts to 80% of their entire revenue.

Not only they failed to find a sustainable business model, they completely failed in their mission of promoting a privacy-focused browser. The users couldn't care less on this message or 'advantage' and are dumping them for Chrome.

The only message Mozilla has stuck to for years is 'if you can't beat them, join them.' (and get paid by them).
In this case a made up evidence would suffice.
USA is a terrorist nation.
So should I cover the idea of pair programming, then? Or do you just mean "pair" as in "I want someone like that on my team, and the value that they get is not primarily in the programming, but in understanding their industry vertical."

I can probably come up with some way of doing a pair programming exercise (the course is fully remote because of lockdowns).
Times have changed radically since it was first mooted. Broadcast and social media didn't exist then, so the 250 year old model has no mechanism to handle market failure.
Once Safari is gone you're not a web developer you're a ChromeOS developer
It's worse than this, as even on platforms where actually reading from 0x0 is a guaranteed abort, dereferencing a NULL pointer in C is still UB, meaning the compiler can assume it won't happen and optimize the program accordingly.

To take a rather convoluted example, if you dereference the pointer and then call a function that does a NULL check then writes to the pointer at some offset, it's possible that the compiler will in-line the function, then ellide the NULL check (since you've dereferenced it, the compiler assumes it's not NULL), then remove your dereference if it didn't have side-effects, so now the write goes through without any check. Granted, it would have to be a write to a massive offset to actually hit an allocated page, but I'm sure there are similar scenarios that are more realistic.
Peaker plants are burning possibly explosive chemicals. If you can build a peaker plant safely in a certain location, you can put a battery there as well. It'll be safer than a gas or diesel fired peaker plant.
So one assumes you're super cool if wherever it is you live or come from is the place that becomes uninhabitable, then. If it's your family that has to abandon their home and become refugees. That's just the way things work.

Or do you have enough money that this isn't a problem you're terribly worried about? Can you just up stakes and move to another place and obtain residency and live off of savings or remote work until you can legally work in your new habitable home, confident that all of this is very normal and easy to adjust to?

Sometimes, reading the comments on this site, I wonder how the tech industry has a reputation for attracting the brightest people on earth.
Judges have a very strong institution bias because they are by and large products of the insitutions. You climb high in legal circles by generally expressing a fairly high level of belief in cops, courts and the like.

And sometimes, to call something like official whistleblowing channels the nonsense that they are, you imoly something very damaging about the whole system. I think it's too much to chew. And it's much easier to profess belief.
This is the same for me, though so far I have been contacted once in 6 years. And that was someone asking my email in a thread. So, I guess I'm not interesting enough to be worth the effort?
You're missing his pragmatic and creative solution to leapfrog the problem altogether.
I’ve ridden in centeal london over the last 15 years. The biggest problems have always been buses and taxis.

Riding in 2020 when everything was abandoned was great. I was in a hotel near Blackfriars during the first lockdown, and rode along Oxford street, barely any traffic at all - it’s normally chock full of buses attempting to kill you.

Ride confidently, take the lane, ignore the bus and taxi drivers who think they own the road, and it tends to be fine.

Outside of london there’s a big problem with car drivers though - every year in the U.K. about 40 pedestrians are killed by car drivers while they are on the pavement, yet we continue to turn a blind eye to drivers who drive on the pavement, and even those who attempt to murder people with their car get off with less than a year in prison

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/dad...
Inline with other comments here, I think that Mr Stephenson missed the point.

*nix operating systems were and continue to be successful because they are a complete and powerful toolbox for computing at all different levels.

And yes, if I had to identify a "Hole Hawg" of Unix it would probably be the `dd' command. But I certainly don't use it on a daily basis :)
The vaccine doesn't stop you from getting covid. It reduces the effects so you're less likely to need hospitalization. So saying x% of people with covid are vaccinated doesn't mean much. There's some education for you.
Do you honestly classify the death toll of millions, where a good portion of these deaths were unequivocally preventable with trivial health and safety precautions, as "hysteria"? Or is this one of those things that you feel everyone is hysteric just because so far the problem didn't affected you personally?
Well, car drivers. Cars don't kill people, as they say.
Using microtubules. Very interesting. The same structures found in our brains, and posited by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hammeroff as being key to consciousness. Penrose proposes that they are using some previously unknown quantum phenomenon to kickstart our conscious minds - but whatever their internal workings, if they can act as computational devices, estimates for our brains' computational power must rise by several orders of magnitude.
Turn on red while the pedestrians get the signal to walk.

This is an almost daily problem for me as a pedestrian. A high proportion of drivers are, unfortunately, assholes. It's baffling to me that they can't bear to wait 5 or 10 seconds at a light.
Binary file contents are often strings, right? If you're using snprintf() to copy strings, as the thread was suggesting, there are valid reasons to try to copy such strings (though they would be few and far between).
Battery fires last a long time as they smolder for a long time so you need someone to watch them so they don't re-ignite. They need to be kept cool.
#defoundThePolice because BLM
If you're entering code on a calculator keypad, brainfuck starts to look like the best language choice
If you're talking about a normal local SQlite DB and your dataset is less than maybe 100GB of plaintext then SQLite FTS will work fine regarding performance.
Unix is more like a shotgun than a hole hawg. It solves all problems, not necessarily correctly but quickly enough and reliably enough to go home and do something else. Sometimes it hurts you when you fire it and sometimes you lose a couple of toes if you don’t know what you’re doing.

The last line of the article is a killer because I’m writing this on an Apple unix system on a train at the moment after balancing my books.
Do you mind sharing the exact model number of your LG monitor? And is text as sharp as the Retina display?
Around that time, they also added that Keyhole shaped back and forward buttons that looks off on all platforms. That's one of the first instance where I felt they prioritized what they want - a brand identity, over what the users want - a consistent user interface.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120725235602/https://blog.mozi...
Don't bike in traffic, just dont. It is annoying.
The implicit assumption, I think, is that car drivers have more money and pay more taxes and thus should get priority.
Meh. I’ve had my contact info here for years. The only time anyone has contacted me is the one time Paul G asked me to stop running a scraping bot experiment I was running for a bit many years ago.
No it's not. A single rare fire is not a rebuke, nor are they time bombs. You're completely over exaggerating. Fires in electrical grid equipment happen all the time.
Please offer this machine to the debian-hppa port, post a message here:

> https://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/

It might be worth to be hosted at the Open-Source Lab at Oregon State University where we just lost one Debian machine IIRC.
The choice of being publicly known carries consequences. Simple automated scraping opens you up to spam, adds another data point to your marketing profile, and so on. If you convey a strong opinion, you run the risk of attracting an outrage mob, or a swatting, or harassment by bored trolls.

As virtuous as being unmasked might seem, the risk/reward is skewed exponentially toward the negative. I think the stigma of anonymity is a fallacious aspersion, and that much of the communication we engage in suffers from prejudices rooted in reputation and pigeonholed identity. Let ideas stand alone, free of the baggage of misplaced suspicion and uncharitable bias.

Until or unless the asymmetric consequences are brought to parity, we're human... let that be enough.
how much of amazon is causing the mortar stores to sell things higher than necessary ? it's common that when a competitor swipes the rug, the old guys have to increase prices to survive (a little longer)
In London it’s definitely faster cheaper and more convenient. Still hasn’t reached the critical mass.

He’ll in central london it’s faster to walk than get a bus, and buses he special lanes to bypass the traffic!

They should get ride of bus lanes and use the lane for bikes and escooters. Put buses in with the delivery vans.
I recently drove from socal to Colorado Springs and the only cops I saw were speed traps at state lines or pushing burned wrecks off the I-15. I feel like they could be doing a little better.
So I researched this a bit. Accounts vary on this.

The RCG source I linked above puts China's territorial CO2 emissions at around 14 gigatons and China's consumption based emissions (accounting for place of consumption) at around 13 gigatons. So that's not actually a particularly significant adjustment.

The Global Carbon Project also attempts to quantify this. They put China as a net exporter of CO2 to the order of 0.7 tons of CO2 per capita in 2018. Compared to this Western European countries imported around 1-2 tons of CO2 per capita (https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2). According to Global Carbon Project estimates China's 2018 CO2 consumption was similar to that of France or Spain. Of course since 2018 China's economy and CO2 emissions have continued to grow.

So to summarize even adjusting for place of consumption China's CO2 emissions are at best broadly similar to those of Western Europe and certainly not 5x lower as originally implied. That said the US is definitely a worse emitter per-capita.

That aside I think the problem of consumption based emissions accounting is that it ignores the impact of different industrial development choices made by different countries. For example if China chooses to burn dirty coal so that it can provide cheap energy to increase the competitiveness of its exporters that's okay, it's the fault of the countries taking those exports not China.
> Coordinated city planning and lots of regulation plus one or two decades until the results are visible, „big government“ at its finest

I'm not sure this actually needs a significant increase in regulation or "government". The government already builds and maintains infrastructure on government-owned land, according to planning rules. The change that"s needed is a change to the existing rules and reallocation of that existing land and money to more diverse modes of transit. The tough part is convincing drivers that taking some of "their" lanes of car infrastructure and parking and dedicating them to bike and pedestrian infrastructure will benefit everyone because people who drive and walk to their destination aren't taking up space on the road.