skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think that most readers don't get instantly alienated as soon as they read something criticizing them a bit too harshly
There's also https://www.kiwix.org/en/ which is great to take on long offline flights, browsing through wikipedia.
BYOH - Bring You Own Handle

The purpose is not to assume what the developer wants, but provide access to all the resources(and manipulation) they need.

If you need guardrails there are 10s of languages designed for specific purposes.
Perfect if stuck on a remote deserted island! Must be the closest existing thing to the Hitchhiker's guide?
I think employers should be open to what works best for each employee. I am currently WFH but I do server work so I do occasionally need to go to the office for configuring or picking up equipment. I would be okay with doing a hybrid option because of that. If I had to go back to the office full time, I would definitely start looking elsewhere.
There’s was infighting over how to divide up the financial benefits of legalization.
There are financial incentives to push propaganda on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
This is not funny or clever. It's ghoulish.
Yes, what about whataboutism?
Are real estate holdings that much of a factor? Office leases seem more common than a purchase that generates equity, at least at medium/small companies, and some larger ones too that may have a headquarters but also lease in peripheral sites.

In that sense, I'm wondering if the push to get back in the office is more about "Damnit we're locked into a 10 year lease on this space, we're sure as hell not going to let it go empty, get those workers back in these seats!"
Nice lesson that a patent, other than some possible value to the marketing dept, is nothing more than a a ticket to start a lawsuit.

It does not actually prevent anyone else from infringing or doing what they want, unless and until they hire the lawyers to attempt to enforce it.

Having a lot of published prior art may form a decent moat. Sure, you'll have to defend, but if you fold, they get nothing, and if you sustain the defense, they'll likely lose the patent entirely.

She also makes a very good point about bridging patent- light and patent-heavy sectors/cultures.

Also relevant is Musk's choice with SpaceX at the other end of the scale -- to forego patents entirely in favor of the trade secret route. He figures that publishing in a patent would just be tantamount to publishing manuals for the Chinese and also be unenforceable...

Patents sometimes seem almost magic, but they're really quite limited.
> "One of them asked me when was the last time I was personally penetrated, if I liked being penetrated, and how often I got penetrated," Mitchell told Waypoint. "I was furious and felt humiliated so I took the free swag and left."

Took the free swag and left?!
Hmmm. I'm torn. At a first instinct, this seems a safe assumption.

However, it is also somewhat safe to say that Amazon's growth has not been cutting in to Walmart, per that article. So what has been shrinking?

That is, assume a somewhat finite pool of shoppers. Since Amazon has grown, and Walmart has remained steady, is Walmart about to start shrinking? Or is there enough of a shopper pool to maintain this growth for Amazon?

Edit: I think it is safe to guess most of the growth came from the death of malls. But my question remains on how large is the pool of shoppers?
I know the Chinese government themselves are just as given to engaging in it, but the idea of talking about "thousands of years" of Chinese administration as if there's no real difference between China's various dynasties and the modern state makes about as much sense as considering the Firth Republic as representing an unbroken chain going back to Charlemagne.
Their most successful product by far, the iPhone, was built by teams where the hardware people had no idea what the software looked like, and the software people had no idea what the hardware looked like. That's how secretive Apple has historically been.

This is why it's surprising to read that they rely on the same 3rd party communications service many of us use daily.
You mean like adenovirus vector vaccines do or inactivated virus Sinovac?

There is nothing to do with mRNA vaccines here.
Ahh, I hadn't heard of this!
That's funny, I've watched many speedruns, both RTA and TAS, and thought about the reaction time issue a bit, but never fully articulated this important difference to myself. Thanks for putting it so clearly!
This is fantastic. I knew that we’d see things like this once that hosting sqlite databases project was posted.
Bitcoin Mining Operation Has Plans to Convert Coal Ash Landfill into Solar Farm
I wonder how much the Delta variant is going to influence these things... we're a short ways into a spike-- if it continues on current trends w/ break-through infections of those already vaccinates, it's going to be hard to push people back to the office.
Shocked to find out that this is very much a static website, it's "merely" downloading a small portion of the 43GB SQLite file in question with HTTP Range requests, and then it uses a WASM-compiled copy of SQLite to query the requested data. Very impressive.
Not sure why the need for unionizing at Mapbox in particular, but generally not all engineering departments in different industries are treated the same.

You'd think that because earning potential is so much higher in other adjacent fields where you're doing the same exact job, people would just leave, but that seems to be a lot more personal than economic.
"rightful owner" is a funny ol' concept.

Basically, whichever power is able to hold it at the time is essentially the "rightful owner".

I can't seem to get past this nihilism as the correct answer.
If your livelihood isn't dependent on that kind of a display, personally, I would try to avoid falling into their trap. I'd call it anti-competitive to have previously supported an industry standard, only to then remove that support and push their product as the only way to achieve an equivalent to that standard.

I'm not saying the ProDisplay XDR isn't a good screen, or even overpriced in the class of displays it lives in, but there is a major leap between "I write code/documents/etc. all day and like vibrant monitors" and "I do professional multimedia work and need hyper-accurate displays to do my job correctly."

Telling all the people who want HDR to go buy a $5,000 display they don't need is a bit of a mean spirited move.
Your story reminded me of this comic, about looking out at the stars. http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/rave/
> So aside from “just stop buying from Amazon” what can we do ?
Create a better service, sell cheaper and better quality products, etc.
Is it easy? Of course not. But what do you want to do? Why would I buy product X more expensive at another store?
The convenience is not addictive, is just good. People who don't have SDE salaries can afford the things they need at amazon, because are cheaper. Most people will find the best deals, unless you know a better place, I don't think you can do anything about it.
When was the last time you looked at one? Was it todsy? I own half a dozen PVMs and two PC monitors and have been looking at CRTs consistently since the 90s.
The convenience of Amazon is amazing, in part because American urban design and malls suck.

In denser neighborhoods there is a certain charm to walking around dense streets, and sometimes randomly entering stores that catch your eye. Having malls be this dreary location that you must visit to get anything, makes amazon look so much more attractive.

Similarly, small roadside stores in high foot traffic areas can end up being sustainable due to a high number of customers per second. On the other hand, malls are built to be large and inefficient in a manner that almost feels like it's by design.

There are a huge number of products that benefit from use-before-you-buy. Brick & mortar is innately profitable in this scenario. Brick & mortar stores can also facilitate warranty more easily and will generally have fewer returns. Usually, they would have be able to stand against online shopping in those product categories. However, most US cities lack areas that would naturally see high foot-traffic. This makes it impossible to actually run a physical store. As for the other product categories, I am so glad online shopping became a thing.
Be kind. Be yourself. When you feel like making more money leave and get a new job. If you liked the company and didn't want to leave, go back a year later for better money and title.

Edit: I just realized you didn't say what you do. Results may vary if you try this outside of software.
> The idea that just because “who is pointing to this object” is a hard question we are not going to even try to track it, and instead repeatedly scan large parts of the heap to recover that information later, really makes me cringe.

Its cringy, but the more you think about it, the better it gets.

Only "Live Memory" costs you time in the scan. If there's a long-lived object, you move the long-lived objects to the "old generation" and now its not costing you any scan-time anymore.

As such, the "cost" of memory collection is in fact O(n), where n is the amount of effective live-memory. And its somewhat easy to keep "n" small in many cases.

Its one of those things that you think "Oh, that can't possibly be efficient", but then any alternative (ex: ref-counts) end up also being O(n) operations or worse (every single shared_ptr in C++ needs to be ref_count++ and ref_count-- repeatedly as you copy the values onto the stack... and those ref_count++ need to be cohesive across threads. The ref_count-- needs to be sequentially-consistent and 100% sure that its time to cleanup when that ref_count does in fact reach 0)

Once you think of adding all of those thread-synchronization primitives onto the shared ref_count variable to guarantee smooth operation of ref_count-- (which happens to be 0)... all of a sudden Java's generational collector leads to better multithreaded performance in some scenarios.

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> Ownership Analysis

Well, that's a nifty idea to say the least. To use static compile-time analysis to reduce the costly ref_count++ and ref_count-- operations (again: costly because they need to be globally synchronized). So it sounds like the general gist is to optimize away most of those ref_count++ and ref_count-- operations as possible, through some kind of compile-time magic.

EDIT: I guess its not magic since this "Lobster" is a new programming language. So that analysis is in fact the point of this discussion! I have my doubts that this analysis will prove to be useful in highly dynamic situations (ex: Lisp lists, which are linked-lists on steroids). But maybe that's not a problem. If "most code" leads to the straightforward simple scenario, then you get the benefits of the analysis in "most situations".

I don't think that most code use dynamic memory. Its just difficult for most programmers to think of.
It is not well known how many doses we need to get near full immunity. Some other vaccines require up to 3 doses https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult.html
"Fix my deck stairs" is basically a handyman job. So you'd look for someone like that. My local ACE hardware provides that service.
Totally agree that we need to make top contractors happy. We're building a way for them to not have to deal with the "running a small business" tasks that can eat up a huge chunk of their time and that many (most?) don't enjoy. It frees them up to spend more time doing their trade and, hopefully, earn more.
The only reason why that happens is that C refuses to standardise support for anything else.

Standardise support for pointer+length strings and the most active parts of the ecosystem will start using it. It will take a long time to get widespread but the sooner you start the sooner it will happen.

Sure, you will have to revert to traditional strings. Some times often. That's no big deal, there should be helper functions. In D you just add .toStringZ to any D string and you get a C string which makes interacting with C code easy.

Of course none of this will happen because C is dead from a evolutionary point of view. Hopefully new CS students will likely not have to deal with any of this bullshit in a few decades.
Peace among worlds
the link looks fine
Killing millions of innocent people in a pointless war does not seem like a very good way too prove that all countries should respect human rights. I mean as oppressive as the Chinese government is almost all of the people they oppress in Honkong or the mainland are still much better of (and more free) than they would be during or after WWIII regardless of who won. And claiming that it would be the right way to solve these "irreconcilable" differences is much more antithetical to the Declaration of Human Rights than whatever China is doing now...
The search seems to be broken right now, but it looks like you can access whatever page you want via URL (e.g. http://static.wiki/en/Computer_Science)
This is also a valid warning to not trust immediately. This kind of reaching out is exactly what many other groups do.
The profile page should really mention that the email address isn’t publicly visible. I’ve been confused about that in the past, and I’ve seen others as well.
Interlace – Turn single-threaded CLI commands to multi-threaded commands
Aren't they though? It's just one of the requirements is the conduct would have to be a crime in both countries? It's not like extradition is "you give us everyone we want, and we'll give you everyone you want."
The Discovery of Global Warming
Yep, that sounds a lot like Apple. Thanks for the thorough and interesting writeup on this. I didn't even know I wanted this so badly until now... luckily I still stand a chance I guess.
Sadly, xs4all is dropping its dialup support on October 1, it's parent company is slowly dressing the brand down to the bare minimum. Use it now if you need or want to, but don't rely on it exclusively.
It spikes up the CPU like crazy.
This seems ill-advised as it mostly serves to increase the attack surface for data miners and spammers.
Thanks! Reach out if you ever want to work on this or just geek out on the category - myhomebreeze at gmail
It is also a very good point in this situation. Just look at how many informers there were under the Stasi…
UEFI on an sd card -- that is so cool.
This is basically a better version of what I came here to say. I worked in a family construction business, and my perspective / experiencr is that good, established contractors do no advertising and have years of backlog (at least for custom homes or major renovations). I like how you define two markets, that's how I have seen it. There are people that are looking for quality and have the experience to know what to look for and what to pay in terms of money and patience, and there are those that watched a show about how to negotiate with your contractor and get three quotes, etc. Ironically, you usually pay less with a good contractor because you're paying for work and not marketing.

I've seen different variations on the "connect you with a contractor" business model, and to me they don't work because good contractors are not a commodity. There is definitely a class of contractor that will go for this, but they are always the worst ones because if they were better they would be loaded up with work without having to pay in to a service that takes a cut from them.

For very routine jobs, this kind of service is provable fine. Like ordering McDonald's from uber eats. And this appears to be what they are initially targeting.
Yes, true. If your comparisons involve pointer-chasing or string comparison or anything complex, then it's not clear which strategy is faster. I always write the simplest possible code first, which is usually a linear search, benchmark it, and then try to beat the benchmark if it's warranted.
Human story tellers are very attached to humanity, so the stories tend to anthropomorphize aliens. Most alien stories rehash old religious and hero stories. What do we have to offer aliens? In the category of vague as well as less is more, Arrival/Stories of Your Life and Others are about as compelling as it gets - humanity hasn't yet achieved full potential, going further out on a limb is folly (however entertaining it might be, it becomes less compelling).

The more truly alien, the less in common we have in all respects, the more boring that story turns out to be because? We're a selfish, self-interested, loathsome species who consistently overestimates its importance. The more different a fellow human is, the vast majority of people reject that individual because of their (weird) non-social behaviors.

So these alien stories strike me as deification, angels, devils, i.e. the supernatural, and don't adequately explain why or how any alien civilization would take interest in us, except via our own attachments to ourselves. This is central to good science fiction because they are stories ultimately about exploring something about humanity, it's not really about aliens at all. They're entirely incidental even if they seem important, aliens are just a literary device. But getting to science-non-fiction, a factual case of aliens, that's quite hard for most humans to imagine at all.

Consider how poorly most people coped with covid, and then consider how much more traumatic an alien visit would be, even assuming they were nice.

In Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End (1953) those aliens were "nice" but with a really big caveat. (And neatly explained devils.) But again, humans are the central part of that story, not aliens. It wouldn't and couldn't have been interesting to focus on the interests of the aliens without us being part of the story - we're just too self-interested by nature. The aliens' interests would have been boring to us, we just don't have the necessary common frame of reference with such beings. How could we?
It's the same trick that was described here - it's absolutely brilliant: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
You might enjoy this film - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Fire_(film)
Not Ubuntu, but a very stripped down Linux install.
> What would be the cheapest way to have an emergency internet access?

How close do you live to the border?
Haha I saw it last night. So funny when he calls zip ties “tweezers” - maybe it was meant as a joke.
Over the years a fair number of people have contacted me through HN. Only one time did I feel like the person was trying to sell me something, all the other interactions were positive. So I'd recommend doing this.
thgttg.sqlite3
they don’t run hotel and hospitals yet.

also GP was half serious/half joking and was talking about some point in the future, not today
Localbitcoins does not let you arrange f2f or online meetings anymore without KYC. You have to pass KYC/AML to sign up.
I applied for a patent after reading that book but was unsuccessful (for various reasons). I successfully obtained different patents with an attorney. I found what I learned from the book to be very helpful when getting patents with an attorney.
I'm not sure who/what you're replying to here. I wasn't making a moral judgement at all. I'm just correcting the GP suggesting that the Enlightenment is somehow a universal ideal (the way I read it), when that's far from the case. In fact there have been many ideologies even in Europe since then dealing with criticism of each former philosophical movement.

Meanwhile it's undeniable that Taoism is a major cultural cornerstone of China and very much affects how the state and its population are related. Thus "Moral relativism is a cancer, applied selectively by the lazy. Do better." is actually quite an ignorant statement that applies a specific moral lens to the entire world without acknowledging the lack of universality in ideals across humanity.
> If the cropping algorithm changes the focus or purpose of a photo entirely, it has objectively failed to do its job.

You just changed the problem formulation to an objective definition of “purpose” and a delta of deviation that is tolerable. That’s just kicking the can.
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> One of my political science professors in college claimed that they used to struggle to translate constitutional documents to Chinese, as they didn't even have an agreed upon word for "human rights" until the 1970s or so.

Simplified Chinese:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%E4%BA%BA%E6%9...

English:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=human+rights&y...

That claim appears to not be true. And since many Western concepts (like all the specialist communist terminology) made their way to Chinese through Japanese words using Chinese characters, if it _were_ true it would seem like it'd imply something about Japan too. Japanese uses a word with the same characters but I couldn't run down a good citation of the first dates all of these appeared besides the ngrams.
Hitchhikers Guide to Wikipedia? HHGTWP?
...from government agencies and municipalities statewide.
I can't get a Mac Pro high enough it's 7 months of junior developer salary.

Was it a typo?
UT's group is Citizenlab, https://citizenlab.ca/
Install WSL with a single command now available in Windows 10
Awesome, have them email me sam [at] aproductguy [dot] ca
Not downvoting you, since this is a common sentiment. But how is this comment helpful? OP has asked for help defending themselves and you've offered "Surrender".
Chinese leaders are likely more familiar with Western thought than the other way around.
US does not support any idea other than handover. It is called handover in English, but somehow in Chinese it is return to china or hand back to china. Subtle but substantial difference. ( Only New Territories belongs to the them, not Kowloon or HK Island ) Deng Xiaoping also made it explicitly clear, hand it back or soldiers will cross border.

If they dare to hand it over to ROC, they might as well kept it themselves.
Quite literally an insta-buy for me. Tried with an LG HDR 5K Display and it worked perfectly in trial mode.

Location mode is everything I've ever wanted from non-Apple monitors with a Mac mini. https://lunar.fyi/#location
> Apple just built a giant new campus before The Event so of course they want to justify it by seeing butts in chairs.

Same with Asana, whose founder recently announced[1] "Asana will have an office-centric synchronized hybrid environment," which is another way of saying "employees may work from home on Wednesdays only."

[1] https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1384556019636862982
That was an ill-mannered comment of mine, I apologise.

Writing an academic paper is hard, it takes months of work, you send it off and it gets rejected, that crushes the soul. I've had that happen to me plenty of times. Is it fair? it does not matter, you can complain all you like about it, it will not make any difference, no-one in the history of the world has ever had a paper accepted after complaining that it's not fair. Sorry, that just the way it is.

Put the paper and review in a drawer, leave it for 3 months, then look at them again when you're not so cross. Read the reviews, see if you can find anything in them which might be justified (particularly if multiple reviewers say the same thing), address those, then send it off to different journal. Do that 2-3 times, then give it up, move onto something else.
If OP is cushioned from reality, you are traveling through a wormhole in another plane of existence entirely. 90+% of people buying homes in NJ are going to have a lower household income than your personal income. Somehow, they make it work.
It seems many governments did this, though.

"We've bought some time, what should we do now? Maybe shore up our healthcare system in case a wave hits us?"

"No. We... wait.".
> What Snowden did was herioc and needed to happen. The fact that he had to break awful oppressive laws to do it is an indictment of the laws, not Snowden.

The laws he broke weren't awful and oppressive, it's just that "legal" and "moral" are categories that will never completely align.