skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know what their criteria for acceptance are. My first, rejected, request discussed looking into distribution of available domains. My second, accepted, request was more carefully worded to indicate it was for general research.

The purpose of my request was for a personal research project to satisfy curiosity. My initial motivation was that there were things that seemed to be true about the distribution of available .com domains, and I wanted to see what the reality was. And, using NS queries would not scale.

I looked for the shortest English dictionary words available, percentage of various length domain names still available (alpha only and alphanumeric; with single numeral, two numeral digits, etc.), for non-words I looked at the distance from the closest English dictionary word, collected the patterns of common permutations of dictionary words into domain names, I monitored change rate, etc.

I've never "used" the information learned except to be able to speak with a little more authority in a single conversation where the subject matter came up. But, it was interesting to me :)
This may be true. Ultimately my personal story is not worth much. I do know that there is a growing community of people who share this story, though. One does not personally need to be affected to notice an uptick in anti-knowledge behavior recently.

The greater point is that if X percent of the population has biases that if fed would lead them to deranged behavior, is it responsible to take advantage of that?

The reasonable discussion of course goes to how big of a number is X. If 100,000 families get destroyed per decade, no big deal in relation to those sweet advertising impressions, I guess. But if FB, YT, Reddit, etc collectively take the mostly hands off approach, does X become big enough to achieve history-book-level harm? Like making [effective representative democracy, pandemic response, ecologic collapse mitigation] impossible.
>And 1 cup is a lot easier measurement for cooking than 235 ml...

Really? What size cup is that... a tiny dainty bone china teacup?... big ceramic builder's mug?

While we're at it, we might as well bring back spans and cubits. After all, everyone's hands are the same width and everyone's arms the same length </sarcasm>
Pentagon Acknowledges Aug. 29 Drone Strike in Afghanistan Was Tragic Mistake
Counterpoint: the Atlantic is well on the way to being an abomination.

I have written them twice in recents weeks to say that as a long-time subscriber, I am considering cancelling and furthermore urging others to do likewise.

Maybe I missed some change in ownership; the new editorial policy appears to be to invite terrible opinions, typically with a clear and politically unpalatable agenda, cleverly dressed up in intellectual snark.

This is not what I subscribed to, nor what I want.

This is a fine example. Ludditism that is literally 10 years stale. WTH.
Because dynamic typing is terrible for big projects, and typescript's fake sense of security doesn't cut it. When you know that your code works you don't need to check it in your browser every nanosecond (although you could).
rvz asked me to elaborate on it in a sibling comment
Huh, that's interesting and wouldn't have occurred to me. Even without that, there's value in testing the "bus factor" of critical roles. So, Jane wants to go on vacation and everyone's panicking because work can't get done without her around? It's much better to find that out now than when Jane switches jobs.
Microsoft Warns of Uptick in Mshtml Attacks
I wonder if this is something GPT-3 would say. Am I GPT-3?
It's a consumption-driven economy, where those who are economically useless are driven out of the game.
I've got an AMD Zen Threadripper (1st generation) with 180W of TDP.

If I'm doing something computationally expensive, I can feel the room heatup for sure: just 2 degrees F in practice (~1C or so). Enough to notice + enough to see it in my thermometer I keep in my room... but not enough to be worried about anything.

And honestly, I don't spin up all 16c/32 threads that often.
Two of the motors have to be synchronized together, because there are certain angles where either one or the other lose any torque transmission.
Honestly, I don't think our auto industry is the result of soft collusion at all. I think it's 95% due to market forces (and 5% regulation that basically gives companies a break for producing what the market wants).

The car market naturally bifurcated itself such that wealthier individuals buy new cars, that they trade in on a frequent timeline, and are sold used to lower income buyers.

The reason I believe this is because there have been tons of great, small, cheap cars sold in the US, and they have never succeeded. The quintessential example would be the Honda Fit or Scion xB. Both were very cheap cars, with a relatively large, usable interior, and rock solid reliability. None of these cars lasted in the USA for more than two generations. And the second gen xB is basically a totally different car from the first gen.

For better or worse, the majority of low cost car buyers believe in, "Why buy a new <cheap car> when you could get a five year old <nice car> for the same price?" I honestly thinks that the majority of buyers have been brainwashed to think that used cars are always a better deal, because it's not uncommon for lightly used cars to cost more after two years than they did new. That really only makes sense if used car shoppers aren't even bothering to price new cars.

Another point of reference: the best selling vehicles in the USA are all full sized pickup trucks. In their financial statements, Ford reports the number of F150s sold for >$50k.
> That said, I do understand that not everyone wants to have to put in that extra work, but it does feel damn good if you do.

I do think this is valid, but feel I should add: that willingness needs to go both ways. You were willing to put in the extra work, and your employer was willing to "get it".

There exist organizations that will never "get it" despite the extra work, and these are the places others are talking about when they say "run away".

I experienced both variations of this earlier in my career. I was successful the first time, and tried to apply that success in a larger environment.

The lack of organizational willingness to "get it" in that second environment is what motivated me to move to a place where building software is the primary reason for existence. I do not intend to look back.
I can't speak to whether it's normal but it's a red flag for me. One of the companies I've worked for was pre-IPO and went IPO while I was there and when they hired me two years before that IPO they laid out the vesting schedule (1 year cliff, then monthly vesting of the remaining 3/4s of options) along with the strike price of the options along with how that strike price/valuation was calculated. Other places have had varying levels of professionalism like that but that was the only place that ended up IPOing and I believe there is a correlation between the professionalism of laying out clear compensation and the actual performance of the rest of the company.
It is reinforcing a stereotype.

But it is also telling his reality. It wouldn't be honest for him to say his daughter watches 3Blue1Brown if she doesn't, would it?
You are committing a logical fallacy. Claiming that there have been misinformation campaigns around Covid is not the same as claiming that all disagreement is misinformation. Your outrage is therefore completely off the mark.
>that in your 20's and early 30's you have nothing but time

20's and 30's are where lots of people have time pulled away by kids, not later (median in 2020 was around 28 for kids). And in your 50's and 60's people generally have lots more time as kids move out (28+20=48 = kids gone or at least not such a time sink).

If anything, 50's and 60's should be a golden age of learning.
That's fair, since I am not a founder and have no direct personal experience with YC (nor interest in gaining such). My "from what I've seen" is based on reading HN, talking to a friend who was accepted into YC but turned it down, and pg's essays. As such, I will confess that this is a bit of an uninformed cheap shot -- but given the confirmation bias of current and "successful" founders and the political/social pressure on all founders, I'm not sure this viewpoint would be exposed if it existed.

I furthermore admit that my opinion is heavily influenced particularly by that last component; I find pg's seemingly rational exhortations of "how to be successful" to be slanted and self-serving. They are excellent logical argumentative essays that assume a limited definition of success and guide the reader inexorably to the best way to achieve that particular flavor of success while ignoring (and subtly implying the nonexistence of) others. I may be inferring too much about YC's actual behavior from what I glean from those (otherwise excellent) essays.
"As a thought experiment, what if the pandemic mostly hurt 20-somethings?"

This happened [1]. They told young people to go ** themselves. People had school, people went to eat, people carried on with jobs, NO government checks sent out. Deaths: 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.

"Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old"

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n...
Looking at the post you quoted again, in paragraph 2 it says it did include expectation of a volcanic eruption:

> Scenario B and C had an ‘El Chichon’ sized volcanic eruption in 1995.

EDIT: Looking at the graph once again, he predicted in scenario B that we would see more than .6 deg C of warming between 2000 and 2020.

But it appears that we've only had about .3 deg C of warming in the past 20 years: https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/global-land-o...
I wonder how many non-mutilated adults could it fit?
I find it pretty decent if you tell it you don't like certain videos. But it fails to identify obvious, literal sequels to your current video. And if you don't trim it, it will surely feed you clickbait garbage.

On some level people love to click on things they expect to hate and downvote it. I suspect that increases the odds of showing them similar content, vs. say, spotify which explicitly says "sorry we will try to avoid things like this". Youtube should make it clear which strategy they're doing, and they should do the latter.
In my experience, if it isn't measured, then it is assumed that the policy (whatever it is) is working. If you don't measure, you can't be surprised by "wow, it didn't work like we thought". Therefore, mistakes don't get recognized or corrected. There are many tools, but measurement is one of the only ones that brings unexpected bad news to the user, and that is invaluable.
My first programming language was (I think) BBC Basic. Later on I used AMOS Basic which was tailored to do amazing stuff using the Amiga hardware.

AOZ studio[1] is (I believe) a modern descendant of AMOS (but without the Amiga). Every now and again I visit the language's homepage but I haven't downloaded and played with it yet.

[1] - https://www.aoz.studio/
Foreman 3.0
Some people may not consider it a beater, but rental cars get treated like absolute crap (regular gas even if they should get premium, traditional oil vs synthetic, renters beat them up because they don't care). If I were choosing between a rental car at 36,000 miles or a non-rental at 46,000 miles, I'd assume the non-rental would give me fewer problems in the short term and probably make it to a higher mileage in the end.

Still better than the proverbial $500 Civic with 250,000 miles, 7 owners, and 3 accidents, but not great vehicles to own by any stretch of the imagination.
It's not, but it does correlate with the highest performers in endurance sports.
Others have already shared their opinions on BASIC past and present. I agree with most.

In the event you are willing to explore another language I might suggest to have a look at Lua.

https://www.lua.org
Why not? WASM is gaining features after it's MVP, such as GC support, direct targeting with DOM APIs (with reference types and interface types), it's not a fast process, but it's coming. It doesn't take anything away from any programming language, but it provides a more efficient platform for those languages to run... what is there not to like?
- What kind of hurting and to what degree? Does slapping kid in the face just once counts? What about psychological torture? What happens if we get this wrong, can we "unexecute" someone?

- that would a pain to charge and enforce.

- if someone has the means to pay for their own welfare, why would they be eligible in the first place? Isn't providing for those without means like the whole point of social welfare?

- many citizens have no understanding whatsoever of how their country work.

- you can only bind reality through law to some very limited extent. Suppose Winston Churchill had promised "four years of peace"...

- that seems harsh...

- internet is most certainly a public utility.You can, however, live without it.

- I think that's a good idea.

- That too.
It was a.out to ELF, there was separate stabs to DWARF migration afaik related to how debugging info was stored.

For me, the biggest migration pain was being a heavy KDE user in the middle of GCC 2.95 -> GCC 3.0 migration, with my Debian unstable (in between woody and sarge, iirc) getting into state where half of the C++ code was compiled with 2.95, and half with 3.0...
It's interesting to notice that Apple is earning essentially $0 per year from the presence of Facebook on the app store, while Facebook is earning quite a bit from their iOS apps. Facebook has no leverage here.
Climate models should not be relied upon as much as everyone thinks they should.
It would have a negative impact. The Russian government would be very glad to ban platforms like Google even though Google cooperates with them because it would help to control the population even more. Google discloses emails after request? A local social network will monitor every message for them. Youtube removes a video when it's already viral? A local video platform will ban the channel before it gets views.
It easily gets tricky though.

By that definition google is not a tech company, their product is selling advertising space. Tech backend just enables that.

Or Netflix. Certainly not selling tech or software, they rent movies.
My personal/hobby website, w/o any stack

https://petmanson.com
Israel data shows third Covid shot restores protection from infection to 95%
HP 3458A – Why is this 31 year old Multimeter UNRIVALED?
Is there a reason that 175W of processing power on 80 small cores at 2 GHz would be faster than, for example, an AMD EPYC 7F32, which has a similar TDP of 180W and 8 cores with 2 threads each that run at ~4 GHz?

Naively, assuming identical instruction sets (I know they're not), 16 threads at 4 GHz is less than half as good as 80 at 2 GHz. But that can't be the whole story.
And Linpack FLOPs aren't a measure of 64-bit integer performance. And yet, we use Linpack FLOPs to compare supercomputers against each other, even if they're going to run 64-bit math on them.

No microbenchmark is perfect. But maybe some microbenchmarks are useful.
This was also in Oct 2020, we are in a much better place than we were then
For comparison:

Chery QQ: 20 kW / 700 kg = 29 W/kg
Chevrolet Bolt: 150 kW / 1600 kg = 94 W/kg

So a typical American EV has >3X better power to weight ratio than this vehicle. LiFePO₄ batteries tend not to burst into flames though...
this is what I was thinking. I installed a gitlab instance on an old laptop for a friend and myself to use to collaborate on a couple small projects a few years back. I haven't checked in to see what gitlab offers today but I'm having a mental disconnect between all those millions of dollars and what my understanding of the product is. there must be something the product offers that I'm ignorant to that justifies all that money.
Jupiter Seems to Have Just Been Smacked by Something Pretty Big
Really? I wouldn't have said so. Yes, if bikes had the scale and vertical integration that automobiles do, they could be somewhat cheaper, but the price point has never felt unreasonable to me.

Particularly given the fairly smooth ramp from Walmart special ($100-200) through to entry level "good" bike at a sporting goods store ($300-600) to an actually-good specialty bike store bike and ultimately pro-am ($800-$2000+). And across all these tiers, there's typically a robust second-hand market in most places, though at the higher levels you'll find it via local riding club forums and so on rather than FB Marketplace.
Here's one of their more recent decks if anyone is interested:
https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20...
From Wikipedia:

"The measurement of V̇O2 max in the laboratory provides a quantitative value of endurance fitness for comparison of individual training effects and between people in endurance training. Maximal oxygen consumption reflects cardiorespiratory fitness and endurance capacity in exercise performance. Elite athletes, such as competitive distance runners, racing cyclists or Olympic cross-country skiers, can achieve V̇O2 max values exceeding 90 mL/(kg·min), while some endurance animals, such as Alaskan huskies, have V̇O2 max values exceeding 200 mL/(kg·min)."

So maybe it is a measurement of "endurance capacity"...

[edited for clarity]
Instead of more cars, why not optimize for more public transport, bicycles and pedestrians? Cars suck in cities.
Any time you pay someone an amount, you could be said to be "stealing" income from them by not paying them more. But the fact is that these MailChimp employees were not owed more than they were paid, and were not entitled to it under any widely accepted economic or legal theory in the United States, where they are employed. They agreed to work for a certain amount, which by all accounts was compliant with minimum wage and other laws, and nobody has alleged that they were paid less than that.

As far as being lied to goes, people would be better off if they replaced "never" with "not in the foreseeable future" any time they hear it. Who knows whether the founders genuinely believed their statements about never selling when they said them. Probably so, but if not, well, it's unfortunate. That being said, I doubt that anyone worked at MailChimp mainly because they believed it would always be privately held.
October 2020
I love the concept of submarine cargo ships but there are three main issues that make them less appealing than ships.

Subs require significantly more thrust per cubic metre of cargo.

Communication and navigation are more difficult because GPS and satellite comms don't work underwater.

Loading and unloading in comparable times to a standard container vessel.
What corporate stuff do you have on your main page? Mine is all pretty much filled with content that matches what I watch.
> The complexity of the language is at the opposite side of what webdev is about.

That's not true, current JS is getting complex, but we don't have a choice, except for WASM but the options aren't great. TypeScript is also very complex, but it's the most popular so people use it. Basic Rust isn't that complex, and I would argue is easier than TypeScript. I wouldn't want to be the guy building the framework, but using Rust to write business logic? That might be nice.

On the backend side, Java dominates, with PHP, JS/TS, Python. All of these (in their modern form) are complex, usually by way of OO soup, or big frameworks, or a large ecosystem that you have to learn at first. On the other hand, languages that people like calling "simple" like Go or Clojure are relatively nice (at least for "business logic" web apps, Go is popular for "infra/devops" web stuff").
> I sympathize with the guy who had line-of-sight issues. Or anyone who lives in a multi-unit building, or far from the Big Antennas.

> However...

I don't mean to be uncharitable, but the "however" you wrote is doing a lot of the work here. A lot of people are saying that Locast is pointless or not a big deal because, well, they put up an antenna and it worked so no problem.

Except that it is a problem. I used Locast from the day it became available in Seattle because, try as I might, I could not get reception from all of the TV channels. Standalone house, apartment, low to the ground, high up, didn't matter. There are three broadcasting sites in Puget Sound and the best I could do was 1 reliable, 1 iffy, and 1 not at all.

> Should be easy, right?

Should be, but isn't if you can't get signal. Locast offered that signal (Comcast charges about $19 a month for the privilege of having a plan with just local channels but also charges $19 a month as a broadcast channels surcharge) for a nice donation.
> Text Must Be The Answer because it's just so easy to write `ls | grep`

That's actually not quite it. What's so fantastic about the textual interface in Unix is that it is the same packaging[1] for both use and reuse.

This is highly unusual, usually packaging that is optimised for use is unsuitable for reuse (doesn't compose well) and packaging that is good for reuse is unsuitable for direct use (cumbersome/inconvenient).

Using text to fill both roles comes with a ton of compromises, as you rightly point out. It's not really great at either function, but sorta/kinda gets by at both. But even with those compromises, pulling off the feat of having the same packaging for use and reuse is just incredibly powerful.

There are other ways of achieving the same result, for example Naked Objects[2] bridges the gap by the programmer only providing the reuse packaging (an OO API) and the tooling then automatically generating direct-use packaging (a GUI).

Other ways of bridging the gap that can learn from one or both of these approaches clearly seem possible.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/vit/ftp/pdf/Pa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects
https://susam.in/maze/

This was the first website I ever wrote in my life back in my engineering study days during 2001-2005. It was originally written in plain handcrafted HTML + CSS. Some of the server side scripts were written in Classic ASP back then.

Now it is just a static blog generated by my own Common Lisp program. The comment form is served by Common Lisp + Hinchentoot. All HTML and CSS is still handcrafted. Check out the source code at https://github.com/susam/maze.

For me this has been a quick way to share notes, thoughts, experiments, etc.
Not sure what you mean by 'emulator', but I will assume you meant ISA for a different hardware architecture.

> The emulator would identify hot code blocks, generate C like constructs (or ideally the AST)

The idea behind copy-and-patch should be able to handle your use case of quickly translating code blocks in another ISA to native instructions.

However, I think Pochi's metaprogramming capabilities might not be too relevant here. After all, you are translating from a block of CPU instructions (in another ISA). It's probably not necessary or helpful to translate them back to C-like control flow only to compile them again.

> The ability to call back to host methods, handle exception semantics and all the while being totally oblivious to the platform

I'm not sure what you mean here. Yes Pochi supports intuitive inter-operation with the host program (call methods, handle exception etc). This is important for metaprogramming use case (e.g., generating a program that executes a SQL query), but I don't see what it has to do with emulating a program in another architecture.
For $80/yr the Channels DVR is a great option https://getchannels.com/plus/.
I'm using it along with a HDHomeRun and it just works great!
The "left wing" in the USA is the "center-right" in other parts of the world. We're still a ways away from basic stuff like universal health care that every other developed country has.
The OnLogic Helix HX500 Review: A Rugged Fanless 35W Mini-PC