skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always an Acorn kid (now ARM and taking over the world). I still have my Acorn Atom; 12Kb of memory (with the expansion pack) that somehow included a BASIC interpreter, assembler, and left 10Kb of usable program/graphics memory.

I was jealous of the Spectrum kids with the sheer number of games made for the Spectrum. I'd go round to my mate's house who had a Spectrum but wasn't into games, and bug him for hours until he'd load something up and we could play it. I'd then try and make bad clones of those games on my Atom.

I think there's a whole generation of British techies like me, raised in the 80's, who owe Sir Clive (and his peers) our entire careers. If there's a Tech Valhalla, he'll be seated on the high table.
On one hand I can see the logic for not including unicode directly in string types (simplicity and when you want unicode you have to be aware of it). On the other hand, JSON for example should be unicode, so how does having JSON in the standard library but not unicode mesh?

I'm sure Zig will figure this out eventually, but I think the solution is much closer to unicode is available by default than currently.
> It's really hard to buy this notion. 3 days is not long enough for symptoms to manifest after infection.

So in your previous comment you alluded to the idea that infections can creep in to a community where it has been previously eradicated. The virus wouldn't really be dangerous at all if we knew that this was happening in real-time, because we could just isolate every case. The reason the virus is dangerous is because it rapidly spreads undetected, and by the time we find out things could already be pretty bad.

The point of the immediate lockdown isn't that it will inherently prevent spread for long enough the virus dies off - it's just to give the contact tracing teams enough time to find every single person who has interacted with any single person that has interacted with any known case. Then all of those people have to do a proper quarantine (usually 14 days) and get tested regularly. Once you've done that, you wait a couple of days to see if any other seemingly random cases appear out of nowhere, and if they don't, everyone else can be assumed safe to go out as they'd please.

> I looked at the aerial photographs. Chinese, Europeans, coastal Americans, would have a hard time thinking of such a place as "dense" or "urban".

The trick here is that no-one lives in the areas that no-one lives in, so they're not really relevant. Yes, the desert 100km away from Adelaide is empty. But people travel by plane to Melbourne or Sydney, not by wandering around the desert - Australia has one of the most urban populations of any country on the planet.

You wouldn't say that Malé isn't dense or urban just because it's surrounded by water, and indeed that characteristic has not helped the Maldives at all when it comes to COVID-19.

> They're lying.

About having (previously) eradicated COVID in Wuhan? Definitely not. Just ask anyone who actually lives there - life returned to complete normal after a couple of months. If COVID was still present in a megacity with absolutely no restrictions, everyone in the city would have stories of friends and relatives dying. That was happening in February. It wasn't happening in May.
They already have GraalJS which is afaik up-to-date with the EcmaScript spec and has insane throughput (on long-running tasks it has comparable speed to V8, with a much much smaller team behind it) - it can AOT compile said code as well, but I’m not sure about the performance characteristics of that.
In which city are you? I can try my magic hacker google searching skills searching for repair shops in your proximity
> Yeah, if you don't intend on selling then you should say so and not offer equity so the employees can make a better decision

What's wrong with offering equity and staying private? I don't see any deception there - say if Valve gave equity to it's employees, that'd be perfectly fine.
I replaced my desk and chair with a standing desk and a walking treadmill. I get at least 2 hours of walking per day out of it and it's benefited me a lot.

No longer have back pain and it just keeps the mind fresh throughout the day.

It took a bit of getting used to, but I can now type without making many errors. I walk at 2 km/h

Due to getting a bit of activity at the beginning of the day also makes me motivated to go out for a run in the evening.

you also need to take care of that burnout. Take a break, spend some time to recover and then get into the habit of moving throughout the day.
Use a pomodoro timer to remind you of taking breaks
That’s not clear at all. Blazer is still very niche.
Or it’s just the second coming of CIH, and a bunch of computers get bricked.
I'd say you can forget half marathons for this year, as normally you can increase your running distance by 1km per week. So if you can't do 5 today, you won't be able to do 20 until 15 weeks later.

Just start small and keep it consistent no matter what - like running 1-2km per day NO MATTER WHAT (rain, snow, cold, w/e). Just do it.
Whatever activity you decide to focus on, I highly recommend hiring a coach/trainer. Getting somebody else to make your plans significantly lowers the mental energy required to do the activity, and the feeling of expectation from them creates accountability you may not be able to replicate on your own. Mentally reframing the cost from “that’s a luxury / it’s too expensive” to “that’s a small price to pay for radically improved health” helped me overcome my initial hesitation. A few hundred dollars a month on coaching can make the difference between success and failure for many people.

At the end of the day of programming, the last thing I want to do is try to put together a workout plan. My trainer puts that on autopilot for me and I just have to commit to doing whatever they say.
In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of waste:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...What is more important today is why fast reactors are fuel-efficient: because fast neutrons can fission or "burn out" all the transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides) many of which last tens of thousands of years or longer and make conventional nuclear waste disposal so problematic. Most of the radioactive fission products (FPs) the reactor produces have much shorter half-lives: they are intensely radioactive in the short term but decay quickly. The IFR extracts and recycles 99.9% of the uranium and Transuranium elements on each cycle and uses them to produce power; so its waste is just the fission products; in 300 years their radioactivity will fall below that of the original uranium "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry some people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amount of waste is very manageable (the Netherlands actually stores their waste in an art museum!) and in a relatively short amount of time we will likely be able to use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.

If you are actually worried about nuclear waste, do some web searches about the problems with coal waste - it will be a much harder problem to solve than nuclear waste. The problems with coal waste aren't discussed much since people focus on the air pollution from burning coal as it kills so many people.
IMO the energy you expend doing exercise is coming from a completely different place than energy for knowledge work. On the contrary, doing exercise clears your mind and engages your body -- the opposite of sitting at a desk. In my experience you will feel your baseline "mental energy" also start to increase.
I built a home gym.

Over about a month I got the following equipment:

- power rack (and 1/2 squat rack)

- barbells x 2

- bumper plate 200kg

- dumbbells from 9kg -> 40kg

- SSB

- etc..

I put it all on my veranda and now it stares at me while a code, it's a powerful incentive to work out most days...I spent a bunch of moolah on this I want to get my monies worth.

And it's working....
It means there is no local supermarkets, just one large monopoly.
1. Cook/prepare 90% of the food you eat, meal prep for 5 days on Sunday. Mostly vegetables, some meat/protein, few carbs. Eat more or less the amount of calories you can burn in a day. Drink (almost) nothing but water. Caffeine only in the morning.

2. Don't consume any junk food (soda, beer, pizza, pasta, donuts, bagels, cookies, sweets, fast food, processed foods, etc), except once a month for a cheat day.

3. Only eat 2 meals per day, lunch and dinner, spaced out by 4-5 hours, with zero calories before lunch or after dinner.

4. Exercise moderately (walk/jog, bike, play sports, etc) 4-5 days per week, use audiobooks and podcasts to make it enjoyable. Ramp up to more strenuous sessions very slowly, over time.

5. Sleep consistently at the same hours every day of the week, for ~8.5 hours.

6. Get a bluetooth scale and monitor yourself on your phone.

7. Do bodyweight exercises like push ups, lunges, etc as much as you feel like you can throughout the week.
Any more info? From what I can tell AMD acquired Imageon in 2006, and sold to Qualcomm in 2009. Adreno is an anagram of radeon, afterall.
Facebook could stop trying to grow as quickly as possible.
They are clearly trying, and they are clearly failing.
That doesn't exonerate them, it highlights a problem that must be solved for global safety.
Most people are interested in growth, but for me it is the start. How did you achieve 10$/day or 1$/day?
Ahh happy memories. My first Walkman didn’t even have rewind. One had to remove the tape, flip it over, place back in, forward the tape (which acted to rewind the other side), remove tape, place back in. Then repeat until you hit the sweet spot you were after :D
The article covers ways to obtain smaller error bounds, mainly for testing algorithm stability in practice.

The methods proposed are very varied in nature: blocked algorithms, x87 80-bit arithmetic, AVX2/ARMv8-A fused multiply-add (FMA) operations, and probabilistic bounds.

While the article is otherwise very good, I am unsure about one of those in 2021: 80-bit arithmetic. The corresponding x87 instructions are deprecated by Intel, and their performance is disastrous. For example, the complex algorithms implemented in software by glibc to compute transcendental functions (sin, cos, exp, ...) are faster and more accurate than their single instruction x87 FPU counterparts (FSIN, FCOS, ...)!

I would be very curious to see, in a few algorithms, a comparison of x87 arithmetic with double-doubles and even low-precision MPFR. MPFR, by the way, may have its place here if we're talking about sacrificing some performance for higher precision.
> This is warrantless mass-surveillance, and done overtly. The US is still a democracy, and people should push back, and demand that their elected representatives block it.

Agreed. The Community Bankers association is requesting that U.S. banking clients contact their elected representatives. Only 90,000 have spoken up so far, more are needed to push back against the normalization of dangerous proposals.

https://www.icba.org/bank-locally/consumer-alert-from-icba & https://www.icba.org/newsroom/news-and-articles/2021/08/19/r...

> While community banks do not endorse such broad IRS access to their customers’ account information, consumers need to be aware of the potential effects of this proposal. Mandating new, broad bank account reporting to the IRS would infringe on the privacy of bank customers, push more people away from a banking relationship and overload the IRS with more personal information about American citizens than it can possibly process or keep safe from a data hack. To be heard in Washington before this bank IRS reporting regime is enacted, you can send the following customizable message directly to your members of Congress and ensure your voice is heard.
Many years ago I joined a bootcamp. Military style training for civilians. All they did was push us pretty hard for 50 minutes, do 10 minutes of good stretching and let us go. Two days per week, and it changed my life. I from being slightly underweight and unfit to "really fit" within 6 months. I would take on anything. 100km cycles, 15km runs. So when I switched jobs and my new office was 10km away from home I made running my commute two days per week.

The training was all outdoors, in city parks. It was a mix of intervals (jog/sprint) and body weight exercises (squat, pushup, lunge, plank and side-plank). Depending on the props they brought we might also be dragging tires around or lifting stuff, but not often. They'd also include "fun" stuff too (stupid games). What kept me at it was actually the social thing. Once your get to know the people in your group, they know if you don't show up. I went in lashing rain and snow. Kept it up for a few years.

I don't know if you can find anything like that, but if you can, I recommend it.
The comparison does not make sense. WordPress is a CMS that happens to be written in PHP, while ASP.NET and Ruby on Rails are frameworks for building web services which don't do anything by themselves. At best you would get a blank "Hello world" page and nothing more from a "one-click" installer.
A founding team usually doesn't cover all of the core responsibilities necessary to run a company. Between legal, sales, marketing, product, hr, accounting, and engineering, it's rare that the founding team collectively has all of these skills mastered.
Even if you strung fiber to every home, you still need to get the internet to your area.

I looked at some major carriers maps, and it looks like you are going to need to trench at least 25-30 miles of fiber along 502 and 84 to reach the Zayo fiber running along 25 south of Santa Fe.

THe Nuclear Security Administration is in the process of laying a second fiber path to the lab up there, and while you have zero chance of piggy backing on a DoE fiber line the planning documents might be helpful in figuring out what is viable and what isn't. https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2020/04/f74/final...

(Feel free to email me if you need further help, it is in my profile)
The noise must have been eardrum shattering from farvaway. If anyone is interested, I recommend Julian May's "Saga of Pliocene Exile", a time travel series in which the Zanclean Flood plays a part.
I haven't been on a mailing list for a while. Do you know if gmail or protonmail do the "correct" thing?
I'm excited to see Tailwind and the "Atomic CSS" style gaining popularity. It's one of those things that looks repulsive and backwards at first, but works so well in real-world projects.
You can still support millions of these requests per second if you just bake all of the dependencies directly in a small OS running on your fastest raspberry pi.
It's nobody's fault but the XYZ registry. They sell XYZ domains for $1 for the first year, which makes them the #1 favorite of spammers/phishers.
Started Zwift back in February and it's one of the best things I've ever done for myself. I love the fact that it can be whatever you want : a structured workout program, a way to casually ride around a map or a way to compete against other riders. The initial investment can be quite high, but a normal road bike and less advanced home trainer are good enough for someone just starting out.
I’m FJ’s side in this whole saga, but you’re minimizing Jonathan Hoefler’s contributions a bit: it’s true that Frere-Jones made Gotham, but Hoefler has made many iconic typefaces as well. Hoefler Text, obviously, but my favorite is probably Champion Gothic (think “Straight Outta Compton”).

It’s not Wozniak/Jobs situation where one of them was a creative genius and the other a cold-blooded businessman: they’re both creative geniuses. One of them just screwed the other one over.
Animals Are Evolving to Cope with Climate Change
Find good audio books/podcasts that you enjoy. The rule is that you are only allowed to listen to them when exercising. What you'll find is that you look forward to the exercise because you want to listen to that podcasts/book.

Also track your progress! Once you start seeing progress, it provides motivation to get to the next milestone. I've been doing weights for nearly 2 years now and have started to see real size increases (in naturally very tall and skinny).
I'm surprised a car with a yoke is street-legal.
One last addition: i have been to a east german city recently. When i was there, there was no mask mandate anywhere.
Not in malls, not in bars, clubs (which weren‘t even open in other cities at that time). Nowhere, except for public transportation.

While my city was still in „lockdown“, no private meetings with groups bigger than 10, police checking in on private parties, we had 13x the „incidence rate“.

This was one of the cities with the lowest cases in all of germany.

I wonder how that‘s possible. Might all these measures not be as effective as we hoped?
Should we return to accept that life is a risk, thank science for the vaccine, take it or not and live life?

I know it sounds bad, but to me, this whole pandemic politic still seems fishy.
China has a lot of polling stations, they can crawl social media to get what is annoying citizens. They also have a long and rich workers uprising and rebellion.

There is enough to be worried about.
I have doubts this will be as game changing as the article promises. It basically looks like the system currently in use in Germany, and Germany still suffers from the problem, where a LOT of the "recycling" is actually burning the stuff to generate energy.

Official recycling quotas in Europe are, to my knowledge, still calculated immediately after collecting the stuff, so all plastic exports, or all plastics which go into the recycling process but are later deemed unrecyclable, are calculated as recycling while they probably will just be burned abroad, too.

If you want to increase recycling rates, you have to make sure your packaging is actually recyclable and have to make producers pay more for badly recyclable materials. Too much plastic is simply not recyclable at all in an economic way.
$12B is all your descendants forever if you manage it well.

I mean treating it as a lump sum you only ever pull from without any appreciation in value and you can bankroll your descendants to the tune of $10,000,000 per year for 1200 years.
We would (almost) all of us be better off if we had a financial transaction tax, and the IRS focused on THAT.
If you want to live a healthier health style, you will naturally gravitate to it. Start off by trying to get your 10k steps in a day. After you have begun to shift your mindset you will start to find yourself naturally wanting to get into it.

I got into powerlifting over 2 years ago and I have not looked back since. I got myself a PT/Strength coach, and to meet my goals I had to expand my knowledge to fill my daily needs, fix my sleep habits and manage my stress.

Don't focus too hard on the exercise / food, you need to change your whole mindset. It's a journey!
> "Knowing that this is literally our co-founders' (Ben and Dan) money, and that they share it so generously, is remarkable."

We've been trying to placate the working class for decades now by convincing they should feel ownership in their work and careers. And now you go and say the quiet part out loud that it's actually all a lie and labor is just enriching capital. 10% of the profits may be generously trickled back down to you by your gilded overlords.

It would be refreshingly honest if these founders could just come out and be proud of the fact that they managed to keep the company entirely out of employee hands, and are each probably ~$2b richer because of it. Have some dignity.
> Sounds rather obscure actually.

It is how cloudflare workers work
This is brilliant - I can actually surf the web for fun again. This engine's actually a nice complement to another mainstream engine, as the regular one is good for searches during the working day, whilst "marginalia" (?) is great for recreational reading, and actual learning.
It all starts with solving a problem that people face. People will pay if you can save their time or save their money. People will pay more if you save time and money at the same time. So solve a problem that lot of people face. Forget about making money on day 0. But once you solve the problem for decent number of people then you can easily monetise from those people.
Fossil fuel firms sue govs across the world as climate policies threaten profits
More than political will, it requires co-operation from the people. If you do not convince people that a thorium reactor is safe and necessary, the progress on the reactor will be stalled by public protests and frivolous lawsuits. By the time work actually begins, elections will be around the corner and you will be soon voted out of power to be replaced by someone who's sole motive will be to reverse all the work done for reactor.
Taking care of children, much like being sick yourself, is not vacation. Staying home to do so shouldn't reasonably be deducted from your vacation days, regardless of vacation scheme.
Then why isn't there any serious discussion about tighter alcohol regulation then? The CDC says that alcohol abuse in the US results in ~95,000 deaths per year, combined with drunk driving thats over 100k deaths, thats significantly higher than all gun deaths. On top of that it's difficult to argue there is any utility to it at all beyond recreational use. Where are the cries to ban alcohol?? Wouldn't it be worth banning it even if it saved just one life???
Hate speech, political advertising, and lobbying are some of the big types of speech that are heavily restricted in other western democracies compared to the US.

You said previously that "there is very little compromise possible while still maintaining a free society" and "The reason being that without a clear line the government always pushes for less freedom, not more. Sometimes it is better to have a few societal ills than a slow slide into authoritarianism."

I took those two statements as implying that countries that have "compromised" in comparison to the US will have trouble "maintaining a free society" and are pushing "for less freedom, not more" and that therefore they have begun "a slow slide into authoritarianism."
I've always found it amusing that the core Democratic party apparatus in San Francisco is literally the Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC). Both the name and initials seem like such easy fodder for red baiting. But I suppose there's not much value in pointing that out when so many outsiders believe the city is an actual communist enclave.
It's fun to see that mantra repeated on an article about company towns of all things.

Where is the competition when Amazon (or whoever else) is employer, landlord, bank, store and city government at the same time?
This is how you get terrorist... Basically the government believing they can do and get away with whatever they want and you are powerless to do anything about it.
And you can't change your biometrics, at least not as easily. So it can be used as an identifier as well and also can be used to match you in between databases.
Hmm, I fail to see the consequences of the Russian market from Google and Apple's perspective. The Russian market is kind of inconsequential if Google, Apple lost the relationship for noncompliance with the Russian state.

You think maybe the US State Department told them to comply? There is probably a lot of user data that Google, Apple get from Russians by having access to that market.
I tried two searches in Norwegian ("norsk ordbok" [norwegian dictionary] and "stortinget" [the parliament]), and they both returned many extreme or "alternative" websites. It was especially striking that the neo-nazi group Vigrid's website was the top hit for both searches. Maybe these sites just have less modern web design?