skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do things like message queue sizes, transactions per second, errors per minute, memory usage etc become less useful after solving one bug?
Apparently for today's developers, yes. Used to be users could arbitrarily change their own colors and fonts, now having 2 whole choices takes a team of developers months of work.

Our industry is pathetic.
There's no way someone hasn't implemented DOOM in a pixel shader already.
People are less active these days compared to 10, 20, 30 years ago. Accessibility to food, not necessarily good food has increased and the combination of the two leads the average person down a pretty bad path.

This could be helped if the average person took more responsibility for their own health and wellbeing, easier said than done as there are many pressures on people now that weren't present 10, 20, 30 years ago.

While exercise is an important aspect of weight management, the single biggest factor is nutrition. So while I'd love to see more people getting off the couch, for no other reason than they'll feel better for it - addressing the food component is critical.

To make big strides in addressing this epidemic around the world, governments would need to start making sugar and fast food unattractive by imposing significant taxes. In parallel, they'd need to make high quality, nutrient dense foods cheaper so it is the obvious choice 6 out of 7 days.

At face value, that seems might seem daunting or unachievable but many governments have incrementally increased taxes on cigarettes as an example. As they get progressively more expensive, it gets harder for the average person to justify spending that money and coupled with education programs in schools and so forth it changes peoples behaviour over time.
Knowing calories matter doesn't solve a thing.
You pointing it out like it's a revelation indicates you don't understand the difficulty of what you expect.

Let's say you are now 120 lbs over weight. You know CICO.
How long will it take you to get skinny, assuming you ate nothing at all until you hit your goal weight?
A pound of fat is 454g.
A gram of fat contains 9 kcal.
Being 120 lbs over weight means you have to burn 9x454x120.
Let's say your basal metabolic rate is 2000 kcal/day
9x454x120/2000 => 245 days of not eating a single thing.
Is this a reasonable thing to expect society to adopt en masse?
Do you think you could starve for that long?
Could you instead only eat 700 calories a day for 3-4 years?

It's a privilege of both time and wealth in the US to be able to tightly control your diet and eat healthy, most American's can't afford the luxury.
A more reasonable position is to just accept that some people are going to remain fat and focus on positive health outcomes for those people. 'Educating' them about simple arithmetic that doesn't change the fact that losing 100+lbs of weight is a multi-year commitment you cannot break if you wish a modicum of success.

I say this as a person who did lose 80lbs when I reached adulthood and successfully kept it off.

Edit re your edit: "Downvotes mean I'm onto something"
is not a wise stance to take almost ever.
I didn't downvote.
but I'd wager the reason folks are downvoting you isn't because they hate trivially obvious facts, it's more to do with your analysis being shallow compared to the scale and complexity of the actual problem.
Is the code freely available someplace? I found papers that talk about the math but I don't understand the math...
Are they comparable? I thought Openshot was like After Effects and Kdenlive was more like Premiere?
Do you really think anyone reading this is going to think you're anything other than an obese person with polite friends and a mild case of self-delusion?

Of course, there are many nuances. Your musculature (though surely if you were a bodybuilder you'd have said so). Your sex, both for where fat sits on your body and for social expectations. The clothes you wear. Normal human variation - if your femurs just happen to be -2 standard deviations in length, your BMI will always be higher than it would be otherwise.

Someone with a BMI just into the thirties can still have a good level of walking-around fitness, look good in a shirt, etc. They wouldn't stand out in today's society. But the medical risks are still increased in a statistical sense. It being normalised may make people feel better but doesn't solve the medical issue.
This blog post is published tomorrow, just a funny heads up :)
I recently learned about the real danger of fast food - the hidden sugar content. Not only does it mean hidden calories, but apparently the stomach also has neurons that can "sense" the sugar, causing dopamine spikes (and consequently increasing sugar cravings.)
I feel like I have seen a lot of BS peddled about artificial sweeteners over the years, but it seems like they would certainly be a better alternative to the sugar people have been eating.

Despite their widespread consumption, I have yet to see any reports of people being directly affected by them, at least in the amounts currently consumed.
Database internals are becoming less important than developer experience
It's a very apt comparison to large multinationals, but this one had hundreds of millions of "employees". So you can imagine how little people cared about their jobs.
TBF, it is common tactics for manufacturers to do this. They even have specific SKU for each retail store (Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc), including Black Friday SKUs (they are inferior/lower quality product intended for Black Friday/Cyber Monday day).

Not surprisingly that WD are going down to this route. "Shareholders is a priority over customers" is a common business mantra.
I think the example in the readme is presented and worded in a confusing way, "Finally, we need to be able to react to any produced messages and change our state accordingly in our update logic:". Since your referencing the Elm architecture, it's 1. send msg, 2. update 3. view. This is presented, 1. 3. 2. The code looks right, but the example seems out of order and consequently confusing.
I think that's a little understating, certainly anyone with experience of fringe groups attaching themselves to Pride each year (Minor-Attracted Persons and furries well represented), "perspective and respect" is probably the least interesting aspect.

Sexually developed adults suffering from age or species dysphoria and ultimately demanding rights to match their self image is something that should not be encouraged in civil society, as those rights are inextricably linked to an implied requirement for consent which cannot be given.

It might be tempting to try and draw a line between the kind of folk above and the folk from the video, but I find that difficult given the variety of clearly sexually exaggerated avatars on display. The one that sticks most in mind being a fox with a pair of impractically large breasts.
The problem with being prepared for tropical storms in the gulf is that it takes a few days to get prepared, get people evacuated... But 'a few days' isn't enough time for hurricane forecasters to reliably predict where a storm will make landfall, and how strong that storm is going to be. (Sheltering in place against a small storm, that your infrastructure is built to handle is the correct play.)

Not to downplay the corruption problem, but if the gulf states prepared for every incoming storm, they'd be in a constant state of evacuation, and nobody would get anything done during hurricane season.

Oh, and evacuations kill people in themselves (Car accidents, the sick and infirm, etc, etc). Do too many false alarm evacuations, and you'll kill more people than the storms would have.
Worrying about credit card safety is silly. Your bank shoulders that burden. In the US you are legally not responsible for significant credit card fraud.

I'm much more concerned about monopolistic behavior. The solution to payment security isn't to choose one company and make them the gatekeeper.
I'm not sure if I understand, but we did not use a memory map (mmap), but rather blocks of memory that are explicitly (un)loaded by the buffer manager.

The M1 + SSD performs really well here. We tried to an external sort experiment on the x86 machine, but the SSD is old and only has a write speed of 150MB/s (compared to the MacBook's 3GB/s) and it was incredibly slow. So you definitely need a fast SSD for this.

The columns we chose to sort by are rather arbitrary, but we shuffled the table before running the experiments to make sure there is no ordering left from the generation in there.

I like the merge sort trick you described!
I actually tried with up to 256 bytes and got the exact same timings. But sure, that's the absolute possible best case considering glibc thread pool, but it's (allocating and freeing in a loop) still a pretty common case
I don't get enough volume for ad support to be meaningful, and i didnt want to ruin the experience with ads. Before subscriptions, for a long time it was a one time purchase only. Then some VC's suggested i experiment with subscriptions, and I was very hesitant and semi grossed out. But I decided to give it a try, and I was seriously amazed that my conversion was barely impacted, and the same people buying one time purchases were also willing to purchase subscriptions. From there I did price experimentation, and was even more surprised to see the results there.
It can find the global optimum for a function of a few variables.
Why are you trying to manipulate someone into doing something he strongly feels is wrong? This is sick.
RSpec Tracer is a specs dependency analysis tool and a test skipper for RSpec
With std::shared_ptr each copy has a pointer to the ref count & there is only one ref count, atomically updated with a cmpxchg instruction. Not sure what you mean by "references are updated or moved around"?

But I agree that GC has higher thruput than malloc/free as most gc allocations are a single op, at the cost of higher initial memory usage and worst-case latency. That's why "scripting" languages like python / perl use refcounting as they need to start quickly and might not run for very long, whereas java / c# programs tend to be longer running.
I used to work on a massively distributed system called Cosmos in Microsoft (there are some public slides and blog posts about it), so I was surprised to hear this, but apparently "Cosmos DB" has nothing to do with Cosmos, it's a completely different system.

Azure actually, in my opinion, made the original Cosmos worse via "synergy"; but apparently they ALSO used the name for something unrelated :) WTF? Now I cannot even tell people anymore because the name is forever associated with this debacle.
You seem to be assuming that anti-vaxxers are responsible adults.
Nonsense. McDonald's hamburgers don't taste any better than hamburgers cooked at home. They're just more convenient. And they don't contain MSG.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/ae/en-ae/your-right-to-know.3807.d...
Interesting that it's not the 51% (and I think some of the 51% may be held by non Chinese investors) that has been key but rather Allen Wu having the seal - so even without control of the board he's still been able to get control of the company.
No, AFAICT that flow wouldn’t be permitted. Only bulk emails to customers that have signed up, making the change pretty useless and the previous rule seem absurd.

See these comments:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324005

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28328356
struct Counter {
// The counter value
value: i32,

// The local state of the two buttons
increment_button: button::State,
decrement_button: button::State,
}

impl Counter {

pub fn view(&mut self) -> Column<Message> {
...
}
}

this looks like it holds state in the ui layer... wouldn't it be better to keep state in some separate state/model object (struct) and bind the ui to that instead?

not doing it this way couples a lot of logic/state to the ui framework which means its much harder to switch ui frameworks later, not to mention testing the logic independently of the ui choice...
I've always worried about copyright infringement as well.
Having them aligned looks much better when you're used to it
Softbank sold 51%

> Arm Holdings, the SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors for paltry $775M.
> It is allocated to people by systems that society chooses

Exactly. And history is pretty clear that nearly everyone is worse off when society decides how to spend money instead of letting owners decide how to spend money. It's why every first world economy has a massive dose of capitalism and a tiny dose of socialism in their GDP. And why a significant part of the worst economies of the world don't.

>The idea of the specific "rightful" ownership of money we have today is not universal throughout history

Yet the poor (and pretty much everybody else too) in most of the world, if not all, today are vastly richer than the poor of the past.... Maybe there's a reason the world has moved away from the economic systems of the past?
I don't think the App Store looked like it was trying to prevent this. It favored low-priced titles from a very early point which led to the race to the bottom where eventually everything was 0.99, and then eventually everything was "Free" and loaded with microtransactions. They only later on added an indicator so you could tell it was "Free*" and not Free.

And why would they prevent it? When a gambler spends $450, Apple gets $135.
What NFTs to purchase?
I am interested in NFTs, and apart from NBATopShots is there anything else that might be interesting to purchase?
You're the one making it easy to misinterpret by making it massively more complicated than it needs to be. Copy pasting from a previous post of mine:

How to lose weight, by me, someone who has lost 30 pounds and kept it off:

Step 1: Count every calorie you consume. If you don't know the exact amount of a dish, do your best. Apps like MyFitnessPal make this easier.

Step 2: Limit that amount to 1500 calories per day.

Step 3: Weigh yourself everyday first thing in the morning, and only look at 7 day averages at least. Daily fluctuations don't matter.

Step 4: After 2 weeks, see how much you've lost (if any). If you've lost more than 1% of your body weight per week, raise that 1500 number. If you've lost less than 1% per week, lower that 1500 number.

Repeat until satisfied!

How can you make this easier?

1. Eat things that are filling with fewer calories. Think vegetables and protein. Stay away from things that aren't filling and have a lot of calories. Think candy bars. Water helps too.

2. Walk/run. This will burn calories efficiently and if you attach a fit bit to it, you can incorporate the calories burned into your 1500 number above. Weight lifting doesn't burn many calories, though it's nice for your overall health of course.

You're stuck on how fat cells are stored or insulin levels? How is that at all approachable.
Social Network for local cafes and Bars
It is subscription based model. $5/month or $35/year.
Is it constructive to try to silence those who disagree with you?
Because the powerful people with more crypto than you can't magically issue infinite more crypto and give it to themselves, devaluing the crypto in your wallet.

Classification as an asset is part of the state fighting against crypto currency. It's a non sequitor. If the dollar was deflationary more people would be holding onto it as an asset. But the dollar is intentionally manipulated/inflated so that it's a liability to hold it, therefore people trade it for other asset classes.
It's because it's actually used in a lot of places because it makes sense
thanks, writing copy is not my strong suit, and this was after many iterations.
No need to pick on JS. Most devs in any mainstream language are ignorant of how IEEE754 floating point works. In the 2000s, it was Java developers. In the 90s, Perl programmers. Today it's JS and Python. In another 10 years, it could be Rust. https://0.30000000000000004.com/
Hampster Dance (1998)
MIT graduates cannot power a light bulb with a battery
Rails Console1984 Bypass
Thanks for providing some nuance on the banking accounts. It's helpful to be able to compare crypto's impact (which I still think is substantial) against a realistic situation instead of the "centralized strawmen" that seem so common in crypto arguments.
I think we're in agreement here -- I did not mean to imply that a lay person following the claims bandied about in the mass media this year would have been under this impression. In fact, six months ago a claim like this would have been likely to be labeled misinformation on Twitter. I'm just saying that for the Covid vaccines to have provided better immunity than recovery from infection would have been very divergent from what is observed for the vast majority of other pathogens.
I don't know why you're downvoted. It really does seem like Apple not only facilitated this, but continues to implicitly encourage it.
I've always been concerned about this, but there are so many meme creation tools out there that don't seem to be impacted by this problem.
The gulf is HOT right now. And that heat goes pretty deep.

I wonder if we'll see a Michael situation, where Ida just continues to intensify as it closes in on land.
It's those addicts that would be willing to use an alternative payment mechanism if that was made easy and there was some benefit to them. That might be why Apple is so strident here given that 54% of App Store revenue could easily vanish.

Also, the number was .5%: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/7/8/app-store

I'm also not sure if "addict" is the right term. If someone likes to go to a high end restaurant once a week, they'd likely be spending far more than $450 a quarter on food. Do we call them addicts even though they probably only represent .5% of the population as well? We only live once, so who are we to question how people spend their money?
> Overall, men and women with college degrees had lower obesity prevalence compared with those with less education.

Makes sense.

> Although the difference was not statistically significant among non-Hispanic Black men, obesity prevalence increased with educational attainment.

That's unexpected. So every other demographic gets less fat as they get more money/education, but Non-Hispanic Black Men get more fat as they get more money/education. I wonder why.
There is a recurring theme here.

- Police share information on protestors with pipeline company.

- NSA, after lying under oath to say that it doesn’t, conducts mass surveillance of Americans, and then shortly after that bungles security of its own hacking tools, so they end up in the hands of, well, just about anyone.

- Large trusted organizations from credit agencies to banks to phone companies leak millions of private records.

- US government deliberately — yes, deliberately! — turns over personal identifying information about people associated with the US *TO THE TALIBAN* because, what… the Taliban are “the authorities” now and thus utterly and completely trusted with this information.

And with this backdrop, the US government wants keys to unlock our encryption, and claims it will keep them secure and safe. What’s the worst that can happen… well I don’t know, it’s not like they would turn our information over to the Taliban, right? Oh, wait…

Please remember what they did here next time they say the keys will be held in escrow only to be accessed by trusted authorities.

Also: Apple, are you seeing this?
Dynamic loading and their scroll hijacking makes Discourse horrible to browse.
Study finds Large Solar Storms could cripple the world's internet for WEEKS
Incidentally, it's heavily regulated in China, where the developers are based. It's only a free-for-all overseas. There are regulatory limits on how many loot boxes a player can open, etc.
Softbank held 49%. "SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors for paltry $775M."
"In one case, the official passed along intelligence to Enbridge’s security chief for Line 3: a list of people who attended an anti-pipeline organizing meeting."

Aside from clandestine attendance for the purposes of intelligence gathering, there were more than a few things that needed to be done to accurately identify and produce the list of people who attended.
My point was the the U.S. has plenty of each place.

So, yeah, that's exactly my point.
20 years to replace core infra is optimistic in a lot of places.

I've seen some places running ATM hardware which was phased out two years ago.
it has been running for well over 20 years.

people also seem to forget that with a new network protocol, new designs probably need to be made to make use of new (much needed) features.

those designs already exist in ipv6.
Producing food for the starving is hardly the problem the world faces. In regions that face starvation shipping costs and distribution networks are the bottleneck.

And almonds are hardly any more of a luxury food than a 20 minute shower or front lawn. Look at residential water consumption; how much really goes to basic living vs wasted? And how much effort goes into conserving or reusing water efficiently?

The point is to price water any let it flow to the most efficient use as determined by the market. When that happens, you’ll find that suddenly farmers stop flooding fields to grow alfalfa for Australian cattle and pick crops that are economically viable with the water constraints we have. Maybe nuts are too expensive to grow here; we don’t really know.
If you use youtube-dlp to download the videos, it can use sponskrub to cut out those sections entirely (or flag them).
It is also not safe, from a business perspective, to ignore China altogether. Very difficult situation indeed.
So, I cannot see this sort of thing stopping, until we see a point where non-Chinese investors revolt when they hear about the company they've invested going into China, rather than cheering. If investors have had such a change of heart at this point, I have not seen it.
Google is the same way. I have smart lights and my phone will insist on unlocking to change them whereas the home mini will just turn them on and off. But the mini does not always hear.
Cities shouldn't be made for cyclists anymore than they should be made for cars.

Most people do not care what form of transportation they take. They do not identify as cyclists, drivers, or anything else. Transportation is an inconvenience in their lives as they travel from A to B. They will do whatever is cheap, fast, and convenient.

Cities need to be built to a human scale and not a car scale. Cities should be designed so that riding a comfortable, durable, upright bicycle is a fast and convenient option for people. That means bicycle paths that are physically separated from other forms of traffic. It means constructing different kinds of buildings and businesses so that bicycle routes are short and convenient.

Most people are never going to risk their lives to ride bicycles on roads where cars, driven by people on their phone, are travelling at speeds exceeding 30 mph. They won't ride their bicycles for an hour over the vast distances that are convenient for cars to travel in a few minutes. And they won't take their bicycle to a big box store with car-parks larger than the store so that they can clumsily chain their bicycle to a street light pole.

If you want normal people to ride bicycles as transportation, you need extensive bicycle infrastructure.
Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash
The other influence is the evolution of the virus itself. A longer lasting less-than-lethal infection is, in the long term, is selected for by evolutionary pressure.

In the short term though the biggest selection pressure on the virus is vaccine evasion.