skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The performance data from the linked arXiv paper: 965.9±3.4 [s] on AWS p3.16xlarge instance for program which calculates Hamming distance between two 8-digit hexadecimal numbers.

Estimated sec. per cycle: 0.794 [s].

Also, from from the appendix, it takes roughly 116 seconds on the AWS p3.16xlarge instance to calculate fibbonacci(n) for n=5.
Conserving energy is the general rule of biology, violated only for very specific reasons.
Maybe browsing from work? Some companies have policies against installing third party browser extensions.
Go is really simple. Took me a while to get that. The issue is it forces you to deal with things that need to be dealt with rather than leave them as an exceptional case (pun intended).
There was only one free seat and the quiet kid had to stand because the bullies wouldn't let him sit next to them. That counts as bullying in my book.

Bullying behavior exist also in the bullied: The quiet kid had to appease the bullies.

Train these roles often enough, both parties are on a set course for life.
In your case I would probably start going to psychotherapy, weekly or bi-weekly.
Where did you get this notion from? That’s absolutely not true, and there are many acts that can be illegal without benefitting from them.

I don’t think AdNauseum users would be prosecuted, but you’re still wrong.

source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
I use Little Snitch on my Mac desktop. There is about a week burn-in where you are constantly clicking to accept things. After that it’s great.
Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
Free Rainer is the one I'm referring to.
Can they though? How would they even do that? The whole concept behind Android is to extend the reach of Google's advertising and service offerings into the mobile ecosystem.

This largely depends on them having the goodwill of the phone manufacturers in not de-googling their distributions. How would Google feel about Samsung switching the default search engine to Bing?
https://archive.is/0dxn4
Doesn't Firefox still include google analytics into its Preferences dialog boxes or something? Im finding these stats ironic.
I had 2x and I wasn't done... and this was a C with classes style project, so minimal templates and header complexity..

A much better alternative than precompiled headers.
Simple Home Automation Tweaks That Save Us Hours and Money Every Week
Take it out on yourself like the rest of us.
....how does seeing energy.gov help?

Even if you know that only US agencies use .gov, it's not like an American agency wouldn't publish a report on a worldwide trend, is it?
Ad platforms, like Google Search ads, will give you metrics on clicks/conversion on a keyword basis (obviously).

No marketing dept is dumb enough to equate brand-keyword traffic with organic traffic.
If I only had a downvote button… [sung to the tune of the scarecrow’s “If I Only Had a Brain,” from The Wizard of Oz]
The most productive and effective I've been was for my own projects. Just because I procrastinate for 3 weeks and more at a time, does not mean I easily average on 36h weeks because the high productivity I have otherwise.

If anything, not having a regular job made me less lazy.
They can do it in the same way they did with XMPP.
Wow.

I don't know how other Aussies feel about this, but to me this is so atrocious I just had to join HN to discuss it.

This is sufficient motivation to abandon my Australian citizenship entirely and move to a country that is not dominated by totalitarian-authoritarian policies designed to impede the progress of a free and open society.

This policy is clearly designed to make sure another Assange-type situation does not happen again.

Australians need to learn to watch their (digital) back with even more care and attention than previously. We do not have the rights we think we do.
> With GPU terminal emulators

It seems like something like inline postscript rendering makes sense for things in a terminal - it's text, vector based, versatile.

Then Markdown or man/mdoc are easily rendered.
I think that age was horrible, when you had no power to choose your own tribe of people. You got grouped together with people you didn't choose yourself, and what's worse, those people were kids who sometimes has no empathy whatsoever.

It really was the worst time in my life personally and I often felt like I just wanted to end my life.

Luckily I came through, and life as an adult is a lot easier. We still get grouped together with strangers at work, but there are unspoken rules how to behave as an adult that most adults actually follow. Also most adults have some degree of not wanting others to feel bad.

There are exceptions however. Some people are just mean.
5 Things To Check Before Taking Divorce Decision Or Separate: https://www.hackerslist.co/5-things-to-check-before-taking-d...
> Shipping a Python application is an exercise in itself

This, good cross platform support and single file executables. I use https://www.py2exe.org, and it works great once you've figured out how to set it up. However, doing the same thing in go is simply
`GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build ./cmd/...`
Worth noting that one of the standard anti-renewable talking points is to compare electrical energy production with the energy output by burning fossil fuels.

This latter number is about 3x higher than the useful output since if you need something other than heat, say a car to move, or grid electricity then 2/3rds of the energy will be lost as heat while converting the energy to motion (and then to electricity).

And if you do need heat, then an electric heat pump will provide 2-5 times the heat if you feed it one unit of energy.

This is why electrification of everything that can be electrified will reduce total energy requirements substantially (while increasing the amount of electrical energy we need slightly).
Given those very limited snippets of PulpScript I'm surprised to see no mention of HyperTalk and HyperCard from 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk#Messages_and_events

HyperTalk had similar objectives: making a structured programming language as natural-language like as possible. One of the things that made HyperTalk feel more friendly, I think, was the 'it', a temporary variable that was carried line to line. It let you write things like:

ask "What is the value?"
put it into card field "display"
bu you don't plan to distribute crons to machine that you don't control? why would you care ?
Check out the postgres mailing lists, https://www.postgresql.org/list/ in particular pgsql-hackers
Do you know of any solar factories using solar smelting for solar mass production yet?
In England and Wales, all three types of fraud covered by the 2006 Act have as substantive elements of the offence a requirement that a defendant intends to either "make a gain for himself or another" or "cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss", where gain and loss are defined as only referring to "money or other property".

Note also that the offence is framed in terms of intention to gain or cause loss. Even if no material gain or loss happens, the intention is what matters. (The equivalent mental element for theft in England is that one dishonestly intends to permanently deprive someone of the property being taken.)

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35

This applies to online ad 'click fraud' in both ways—if a publisher fraudulently clicks on adverts to make money, that'd potentially be fraud to make a gain for themselves. If a competitor clicks on adverts to get their competitor to lose money on pay-per-click, that'd potentially be fraud to cause a loss to another.

I can't speak for jurisdictions other than England and Wales but I'd be surprised if a fair number of other jurisdictions didn't also define fraud in a way that covers both gain and loss scenarios.
So the author is incredulous but provides no proof or stats, just a long rant.

Another overlooked "performance" feature of terse languages is that of the developer. Vector based, concise languages give you more in one line of code. And I don't find that readability suffers. Yes you need to stare at that one line longer, but there's more going on.
I tried Alchemist-mode for about 1 hour and compiled these remarks: https://gist.github.com/vindarel/59db5d57391f35e86288f2c6bf7...

- it seems some core lisp/Slime features are not there: compile one function independently, get type warnings and errors, goto source definition working OOB, no function signature (?), find who calls a function or macro, who sets a variable, and then no interactive debugger, no stepper, no inspector… ?
> If tech companies fail to comply with the new law, they could face fines of up to 3 percent of their South Korea revenue.

Is this appstore revenue or total revenue? If they charge a 30% commission, is a 3% fine incentive to stop?
To be honest, I've been waiting for the Linux ecosystem to do something about the desktop and the phone and it seems that they can't get it as consistent as Apple. Anything Linux, Google always has to step in, hand-hold them and run with their own creation in the end.

Essentially, they 'used' Linux as a test-bed for Android and now replacing it all with Fuchsia which aims to be as consistent as macOS and iOS. Starting with the Nest Hub [0] where the user won't notice anything different, which that is the point.

Due to the mess created by the Linux distro ecosystem, the free form swapping of system components by the user and driver maintenance hell vendors dealing with an unstable kernel API, I won't be surprised to see Fuchsia overtake ChromeOS and Android even by this decade. Not surprised to see Fuchsia attempting to run existing Linux apps too.

This just makes the process even quicker and everyone is watching them out in the open in real time™

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630245/google-fuchsia-o...
Recreation of Google Chrome dinosaur game, with the same classic interface
Option types require do-notation / computation expressions to be practical in my view. Otherwise you get the pyramid of doom!

match x with
| Some y ->
match y.Foo with
| Some z ->
match z.Bar with
| Some w -> printfn $"{w.Qux}"
| None -> ()
| None -> ()
| None -> ()

Compared to...

option {
let! y = x
let! z = y.Foo
let! w = z.Bar

printfn $"{w.Qux}"
}

Funny quirk in Java, the compiler checks that calls to `opt.get()` occur inside an `opt.isPresent()` branch!

if (opt.isPresent()) {
println(opt.get());
}
> Even cellphones are powerful enough to calculate every computation humanity had computed by the 20th century put together.

What does he mean? A single cellphone? Or all cellphones in the world combined?
Will you still abandon your Austrialian citizenship if you find out that no other first-world country meets your standards?

I doubt it.
I was intrigued by the weird-sounding title and found myself pleasantly surprised the article was a fascinating read, accompanied by beautiful pictures.

Coincidentally (or perhaps not) there is a song by Death Metal band Morbid Angel titled "Where The Slime Live", which I suspect might actually be about slime mold.
A lot of people talking about getting rich is not equivalent to everyone actually getting rich.
Not to be confused with actual `cat for markdown` https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat
How Do I Scrape Google Maps Data for B2B Leads?
Generally no, the government isn't an academic body. .gov sites tend to focus on the American people almost exclusively.

This isn't a rule by any means but seeing .gov usually translates to "pertains to the US"
Unfortunately many people still defend it and cheer for it. Fear is a powerful emotion and politicians know how to exploit it. Especially when the enemy is invisible and everyone you meet is a potential 'threat'.
I dislike ads in general. Specially Youtube ads. They are hysterical and for some god knows reason advertisers think its a good idea to repeat ad nauseum the same ad multiple times even on the same video. I end up hating the brand more than having some interest in the product.

(Paid) reviews on the other hand like unboxing, configuring and testing a product that I'm interested in are totally another thing. This applies to furnitures, house appliances, computers and so on. A good example is that I did not knew how much I wanted to build a fully silent computer before watching so many build videos of a certain fanless case that looks like a metal cube.
What even gives you the idea I am saying that? Did I say it? Nope.
>> when did HN become such a bitter, hurtful community

I don't think this happened. However, since HN inception, more and more people (edit to clarify: in the general population) worry about bad uses of technical advances. This is true outside HN and it reflects in the community. Both are good things in my opinion.

> When reasonable people stopped commenting

Quite the contrary. People are considering the whole picture, not merely the technical aspect of things. They are also thinking about the long term consequences and what is at stake. Technical aspects do not live in a vacuum.

I'm quite happy that people are no longer unconditionally in awe about new tech stuff regardless of what is at stake.

I actually understand people who only want to consider technical stuff less and less, as someone who is interested in technical stuff a lot. Please, think critically.

It does not mean you need to be against Fuchsia or anything. Just broaden your sight and take the time to consider whether things are done according to your values, and don't be angry against people who do.
Pretty much all pay per click ads are trash… and I guess most other ads too. No complicated logic needed here!
It just got posted to hacker news which is full of people who are unaware of it. It doesn’t take much work to copy paste a paragraph from the readme into the post.
I think not letting you encode relational, functional and domain-specific higher level thinking is by design.

I review a lot of code, and have been programming for 20 years. I think most programmers go through a phase, after 2-5 years of experience, where they get really into higher-level thinking. Everything is written according to a mantra like TTD, functional design, or everything-is-an-object, and they spend most of their complexity budget on abstractions.

The code people write in that stage of their careers looks to them like an improvement over the simpler concepts they started with, it ends up being so much technical debt 12 months later, because almost nobody is good at predicting which higher-level concepts you are going to need, and by the time you realize you were wrong, it’s too expensive to remove them.

It’s hard for a language to encourage this kind of you-ain’t-gonna-need-it thinking without seeming patronizing, but I promise you that the next 10 years of your career will change your mind.

(I realize I also sound patronizing and I’m sorry: I typed this on a phone, so left out some caveats, such as I don’t know you and your background.)
Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)
One of the key requirements of Wirth in terms of language construction was chasing languages that were not just simple but that 1. could be implemented simply (e.g. if a feature would significantly complicate the compiler, chances are he'd reject it), 2. where the implementation of a language construct was relatively unambiguously a near-optimal way of implementing that construct (e.g. he'd strip out things that might well be good if he did not feel he knew of a clearly superior way of implementing a feature at the language level), and 3. could be read in a very straight-forward way.

You can make lots of changes that makes for smaller and simpler languages, but Wirth was chasing a very specific set of goals that did not seek to minimise the syntax for the sake of minimising the syntax alone, but to seek a balance between language simplicity, compiler simplicity and a rigidity that forces (his idea of) readability.

His languages makes a lot more sense when evaluated in terms of those goals. Personally I admire his vision and execution a whole lot even though I prefer to use a language (Ruby) that is an utter mess evaluated by Wirth's criteria.
I would argue that most, non Unicorn, tech companies run on 50% profit or more.
A typically purile argument - "the other kids are doing it, why can't Australians also do it?" Just: no.

There are plenty of states that are still fighting this totalitarian-authoritarian effort. Austrian police can't modify peoples data online for their purposes.
I don't wear a watch anymore because I am already required to carry a phone and the phone has every possible function the watch would have. What is the value in the watch at that point? Since I do not check the time that often (there are three clocks on computer desktops/menubars plus a wall clocks in eyesight of me right now) there is little value in having the added convenience of the wrist over the pocket for checking time.
What matters is having a stable API, not having the code. Nobody needs the code if there's nothing to fix.
A single cellphone.
The pocket watch (cell phone) is very popular in my circles.
Probably in like a 401k or something?
Is an “up to 3%” fine enough to make these companies relinquish their 30% Apple/Google tax?
I'm still not sure that list comprehensions in Python 2 were the right move...
In the German room there are still hosters that get away with monthly domain costs that often are like half of the actual yearly cost. Per month.
Pihole (2M domains) + Firefox strict mode + uBlock Origin is what I do. Any other tips?
Used to have privacy badger too but it breaks too many sites for me.
Are they working from a formal spec or are they comparing against rustc? Is anyone working on a spec for Rust 1.0 that could be standardized by ISO?
I wonder where all of these raw materials for all the solar panels and wind turbines is going to come from. Do you think we can replace all of our energy with renewable energy without destroying the remaining natural habitats?

I feel like the drive to green energy is only to allow us to continue growth and consumption instead of saving the natural world. It seems short sighted.
...and what simplicity won't buy you, nothing else will.
Say what you want about the implementation but the new design is definitely better for watching memes. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the design doc simply said “focus on memes”
Agreed, I was born in the UK in 68, I've rarely worn a hat (baseball cap if its sunny) - but always take it off when going indoors. No gentleman should wear a hat inside.
People leaving might look to you as "more and more people worrying", but in reality the numbers don't show that. It's just your observation bias that is telling you what you want to believe.

On Reddit, this kind of situation on a subreddit is called a "circlejerk".
Oh. I must have remembered wrong then. Maybe I mixed those up. I think it is worth watching.

Edit:
Note: Free Rainer also goes under the name "Reclaim your brain"
In the days of XP I could not slap an old hard drive from one computer into another and expect it to boot.
With Windows 10 I have done so many of times to my surprise.

We have also virtualised many physical servers at my job. We use Veeam to create the VHD
Amen to that.

That's why tools like Anaconda and Docker were created and now even a simple utility can use gigabytes of disk space...
It actually depends on the country (and I assume even state and city). Where I grew up, most firemen actually sleep at home and not at the station. They have "normal" work hours during which they do non-emergency work, such as train, maintain equipment, raise awareness for fire prevention, etc. and they get paid for a target work week of ~40 hours. Being called out "outside" of hours is compensated, AFAIK in TOIL. Point being, there is no one size fits all model and it has to work for your environment.

Asking for being on-call for 7 days to be equivalent of 168h of work, i.e. after you have been on-call for a week you go on vacation for 3 weeks is just as unreasonable in most situations as companies asking their staff to be on-call without additional compensation.
The move to offshore is another big factor as wind there is more consistent and its a bit easier to spread them out.

Theres a lot of other small things contributing to the capacity factor increases too: computer modelling of how the wakes of different turbines interact with each other and the labdscape, energy market changes to penalise slow reacting coal plants and or reward flexible demand, better weather prediction, grid and battery integration, HVDC, marginal engineering and business process improvements as you get companies, technicians and tools dedicated to this industry.

Having said all that, I'm not sure how useful a number it is, but nice that it's going up as generally it tracks the price going down as fixed costs get spread further.

But if the price is low enough, then low capacity factors still make sense. Not sure if theres a stat that captures both of those things at the same time though and also considers the full system costs.

There's almost certainly times and places that a low capacity factor producer that hits your system peak is going to be the best option. Demand response, for example, could be modelled as very low capacity factor generators that only supply when you actually need the extra power.
In my opinion, writing code that is so complex it takes an expert to understand it, is undesirable.
> So the author is incredulous but provides no proof or stats, just a long rant.

I thought the same thing but on the other hand, what can you do? If you're not allowed to publish benchmarks you only can rant like this even if it sounds petty.

By getting attention here on HN it helps put pressure on commercial vendors to stop sharing unconfirmable benchmarks otherwise they will lose credibility since they've been called out.

The author does make some good points about the fundamental nature of interpreters too. Although it's hard to confirm there too what these languages do without seeing their source.

I mean that if K or some language is actually interpreting without a virtual machine at some stage, that is indeed going to be slower than any language with code running on a virtual machine.

And also that any code that runs on a virtual machine must be slower than an equivalently intelligent compiled code since it's running on another layer of abstraction that compiled code isn't. ("equivalently intelligent" because yes a virtual machine could be faster than terrible compiled code.)
It is not weird. The armed forces all do it, as they are preparing you to never forget to put on your helmet in wartime when you go outside.
It used to be a parenting decision till like one or two hundred years ago.
What would be sold on a Reddit market?
So proud of the plausible guys for getting to the top of HN. I remember reading about them in 2019 on indie hackers! All the best
Hey, thanks for the reply! My kids are fluent in Portuguese and I would probably enroll them in public schools. So you think a 2500 monthly budget for a family of 4 would be doable? (I raised your estimates to account for emergencies, healthcare, etc - btw, sorry for bothering you)
A lot of people in adtech block ads.
I've heard good things about FastAPI
I never really looked into Quota, do people get paid for answers or something? Half the answers I read seem like someone just compiling random things they found in related Google searches.
Given that the document has a section on WSL1 as prior art, they're clearly aware of the problem. It seems that they're mostly assigning the problem to NTFS not having the performance characteristics expected by Linux programs written against ext4, which seems like a solveable problem when working on a green field and can design the filesystem accordingly. Microsoft did not have that luxury.

Do you think they're misdiagnosing the actual problem that WSL1 had?
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You can run all of the above on your own server[s]. Gonna be expensive though, e.g. $500 just for the OS.