skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In just a 100 years time, we have completely wrecked this planet. Decimated wildlife, emptied the oceans, spread our pollution everywhere. Humanity as a whole very much behaves like a cancer, and that makes it hard to love ourselves.

The goal isn't necessarily self-hate, it's damage control.

Furthermore, consider the option that a lower population long term can be a positive to humanity itself.
well put, or more succinctly hindsight is 20/20.
I call that “Actual tank controls, like a tank” - which is unfortunately different from “Tank controls like a PS1 video game”...
Indeed. "London" is actually more correctly the city of Westminster. London was a walled city while Westminster wasn't so it could grow.
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"local ip address", not localhost. They're doing file sharing on the local network. This also means that the common 'install a custom root for localhost' https trick won't work because it's machine-to-machine communication - https everywhere specifically stops machines from communicating locally.

You could probably hack it with a relay server but at that point, why bother?
Saw this story go the number one spot to the third page in a few minutes.

Unfortunately, it's now on page 5. No, 6. No wait, it's page 12 now, at position 357; between a 16 hour old story with 3 points and a 15 hour old story with 8 points.

Saw this drop over mere minutes. Seems pretty unusual, and worth pointing out for the record.
They might have enough, there are 122 P-8s in service, and surely the Navy has > 1 pilot per P-8.

I can’t speak to any material differences between the P-8 and the civilian 737, but legally this still seems problematic. The DoD isn’t required to type certify their aircraft, and it doesn’t look like the P-8 or the C-40 (also a 737) are type certified as a 737, which means their pilots probably can’t legally fly a 737 civilian model. I could be wrong though, the FAA’s website is hard to navigate.
Would anybody use a doubly-linked list if they care about performance? Cache misses are where performance lies in modern systems and linked lists are maximally bad for this.

You can also say almost the same things you are saying here about C++. Type punning is almost always undefined behavior. There is no way to construct an array of variable size at an address that you specify without a pointer indirection. But with ASM you've got no such problems!
That's right. Detail and overtime fraud is rampant and in some PDs it is pervasive. I am surprised nobody has tried to "defund the police" simply by enforcing the law.
Last year I needed some quick scraping and I used a headless Chromium to render webpages and print the HTML then analyze it with C#.

I don't remember exactly, but I think it was around 100 or 200 loc, so not exactly something that took long to write.
In fact the most difficult thing was to figure how to pass the right args to Chromium.

I wonder what does a scraping framework offer?
One-by-one processing:

find $start [ criteria ] --exec cat {} \; >> ../data.txt
As more people buy electric cars they will consume significantly more electricity than they did before. There’s also many on here talking about switching home heating to electric heat exchangers.

Reducing electricity consumption is not going to happen. The bulk of the green movement today hinges on tons of net new clean electricity generation.
If I understand correctly, a “sick-out” would be considered an illegal work action in this context.
> do the minimum amount of work necessary to underwrite a good life

How much health insurance would you need for a good life?

I can't help but thing everyone already does this, but some people have a different concept of "good life".
I didn’t adopt them, they still lived with their single mother.

That said, I appreciate the sentiment. Thank you. :)
This almost mirrors my own experience, only difference is I take erenumab instead of fremanezumab - it really has been a godsend!
TBH, while I can think of many layout optimizations that Rust does and C does not, I can't think of any that C or C++ do that Rust does not.

In particular when it comes to unions which are heavily used in low-level code, Rust does optimizations that C and C++ can't even dream of (like all the niche optimizations).
Most likely it is, but you can't do that with huge numbers of animals
Then it shouldn't be hard to share a few examples, right?
It would be great if there's a law by which we can plant trees in every kid that will be born. In that small little way, we can drastically help our climate.
Doom in task manager - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSoCmAoIMOU
I don’t think Facebook having bad algorithms is comparable to bridges collapsing or the plague.
From what I remember someone should basically be free to modify the DLL distributed under the LGPL license, so they need to be able to access the corresponding source-code and whatever logic is necessary to link a new DLL to the application (if required).
Well, by far the major issue would be the disruptive influence on offshoring manufacturing. Consider Ford or GM manufacturing cars in Mexico. These cars are 'products of Mexico' and if sold in Mexico (to the exporter division of Ford and GM) then that cash could not be transported back to Wall Street without the Mexican government taking a significant cut, say 20%, which would make the whole offshoring of manufacturing uneconomical to the Wall Street architects of US free trade deals.

This would force manufacturing back to the country of ownership, which would be good for domestic manufacturing and middle class prosperity, and very bad for the current global tax evasion and money laundering system.
The City is not even remotely independent of the government. Name one way in which it is so? It is also part of London proper, just separate from the GLA, e.g. it is part of London Councils.
Some interesting work on the visionary writings of the 12th century Abbess Hildegard of Bingham. Her visions are now being understood as manifestations of migraines. I believe Oliver Saks was the first to understand them in this way.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103393/
I'm planning on replacing the TodoMVC example and use a more real-world example.

However, Kent is only using XState in one non-trivial interactive part of the site – the call recorder: https://github.com/kentcdodds/kentcdodds.com/blob/main/app/c...

Seems to me like a proper use of a state machine (I might be biased, though).
What makes you assume that dental hygiene wouldn't exist in a foraging society with primitive tools? People were using things akin to toothbrushes as far back as 3000BCE and, as I understand it, a lot of modern man's issues with dental health are due to our high grain diets anyway.
Extreme risk aversion is costly and probably causes on average more damage to the people than operating based on a realistic risk assessment. Problem is the out of proportion fear of ionizing radiation fuelled by the campaigns of the various Green movements.

I am pro nuclear power due to the fact that producing the same amount of energy using coal power causes more loss of human lives. This has been true even when comparing just the real radiation exposure from the fly ash of an operating coal powered plant and the maximum allowed radiation exposure from a nuclear power plant. It is still true when comparing the loss of lives per produced energy when both the Chernobyl accident and the Fukushima accident are accounted for.
What’s wrong with people getting vaccinations every 6 months until Covid isn’t an issue? It only takes a few minutes, it’s hardly a big deal. I’m not sure what your Ontario stats have to do with anything.
> You can't even put solar panels on the roof of an apartment building and then sell the power to the tenants, regulation prevents it.

At least in my country, AFAIK regulation explicitly allows for something like that: there's a net metering modality in which a group of consumers (for instance, a condominium) can split the credits from the net metering of a shared solar power plant. It's meant for precisely that scenario (power panels on the roof of an apartment building, each apartment has its own independent meter).
Having a child doesn't mean they'll eventually go on working to solve climate change. If they don't, they'll actually make it (infinitesimally) worse by increasing resource consumption and carbon in the atmosphere.

For all I know, my spawn might decide to work for Exxon Mobil.
SeL4 is not the Linux kernel and it doesn't use RCU.

So yes, there is a correctness proof for a completely different operating system that does not use the one thing we are talking about here.
So let's die out as humanity?

Sorry, I find your assertion as a sign of depression and helplessness
Assuming that every American is incapable of questioning their government because entrenched systems protect the powerful is exactly the kind of thing OP was accusing others here of doing: crossing the line between criticizing the government and being anti the people.
I recently got a pixel 3a for $83 on Amazon and loaded up CalyxOS. I swap sims back and forth and (re)register Signal on the device I’m using at the time. I also use MySudo on each for my burner numbers. Works well and I get to try out Android. I’ve had an iPhone since the 3g one I think, and was an active iOS developer since iOS 4. I can really say I like both systems.
Where I come from, there is so little urbanization that the average number of active cars is very close to the number of adults in the country.

Even within cities, the situation is pretty rough, there's just too many cars, and too little public transportation.

This creates a vicious cycle, nobody wants to move to the city because of the cars, the smog, the noise, and traffic, so everybody moves out, except that most people have to commute in the city.

I have since moved to Copenhagen, and I have not used a car in 2 years, buses are always packed but there's always another one coming in 5 minutes, and a bike is more than sufficient for my needs.

Contrasting the two was eye opening, and Copenhagen isn't even a Metropolis like NY or Tokyo.

I hope that pedestrians and cyclists reclaim cities from cars. Vastly more efficient, better for our health, the environment, noise pollution, and far safer for children.
or shrink people with genetic mutation
So the guy panicked and bluffed during business negotiations that he wasn't really trained for - so what? Could happen to anyone under pressure and facing disappointment of an unexpectedly low offer. Jobs, supposedly an experienced business professional, could have just coldly smiled, Warren Buffet -style, and could have sent the rookie on his way with a 2/3 offer just to make a point and educate him. Instead, Jobs started calling the poor guy a liar in front of his co-founders, stormed out of the meeting and, in the end, screwed every single person in the entire startup by shamelessly copying their product. To me, it seems like behavior of a Yet Another (Proverbial) Silicon Valley Narcissistic A-hole (YAPSVNA).
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Your argument feels compelling, but I'm hesitant to embrace it fully given we're talking about ~50 years (post-BW) and a single country as an example (most western, and many other, countries embraced a floating currency as a response to this Nixon-change).

Depending how you measure it, the gold standard existed for a half century - so about as long as it's been gone, now - or perhaps much longer, at least de jure if not de facto.

(Economics still feels to be a lot of bluthering about in the dark.)

I'm wary about ascribing too much weight to the (exclusively) US experience since the 1970's, as the culture there skews both assessments and comparisons - which is basically what TFA is all about.

Comparisons to early 20th century elite are doubtless valid from a purely quantitative perspective, but perhaps less convincing in the abstract (coming back to TFA) of gross inequality (income & wealth).
The later Steve Jobs is a changed man I read. I think it is true.
40 Km around here takes about 30 minutes drive or almost 2h with public transports, due to the connections and waiting times.

Not counting the actuall walk into the nearest stop, and how much humans they might try to fit into a single bus or train wagon.

Guess which option people go to.
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I would love to understand why?
very cool, nice UI, simplest tutorial but grasps the gist, perfect for starters to have a big picture before diving in the details.
More than 2 Decades Later, Heaven's Gate website is still online
There are companies that hire globally. Here's some example: https://github.com/yanirs/established-remote
I clearly burned a lot of CD-Rs in my day because I immediately recognised that surname but didn't know why. Condolences to his loved ones.
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People do not expect to pay to get a contract together.

If you need to look at it (and possibly run it) to figure this out, don't spend too much time or charge enough on the contract that it makes up for it. But then you might not win the contract, so tread carefully.
The world still has some hunter gatherer societies living today, so studying them could give us some insight into how many hours our hunter gatherer ancestors worked.
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My point was that the sticks in Montana are not representative of land prices in the rest of the country, and that they are on the high end.
It's possible with the hue rotation CSS filter:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter-func...()
I don't like that this article is heavy on details of how to implement anti-debugging techniques, but light on details on how to bypass said techniques. In its current state, it seems more useful to the bad guys than to the good guys.
Deploy a tiny game engine to build 3D shooter in C++ (with Vulkan or OpenGL)
http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/index.php
Same as always - proxy farms, random popular UAs with random delays etc.
The only way to stop mobs is to reveal each individual in it and hold them accountable. How can we organize to unmask and reveal the individuals of these mobs? I bet we would find some of these accounts are the Russian accounts specifically built to divide Americans.
Absolute poverty has never been lower. And I would rather have kids now than in a more equal, but poorer on average, society. For the important things (health and safety) it's never been a better time to have kids.
> Rust is a very young language. It benefits from the clang tool chain and gets some of that optimization for free, but there is a lot of room to make Rust faster.

I feel that this sort of belief relies too heavily on a presumption that performance is somehow proportional to the age of a programming language, and in the process ignores the fact that a) it's already using a highly optimized toolchain that benefits from decades of research and development, and b) there is absolutely no suggestion that any potential performance gains are relevant or exclusive to the Rust's front-end.
Agreed. I also think there's been a cultural shift in that people think more critically about whether kids really fit into their life goals (and existing parents seem more open about sharing the downsides of the experience), rather than just having kids because "that's what people do".
A transaction where you lied about your side of the deal is still fraud, and yes that can still be charged by the state independently.

Also conspiracy doesn't require you to be proficient at executing your plan but rather the intention and motivation and opportunity to do so. You can still shoot a gun and cause harm even if you don't know how to shoot, and there's no way to really prove you don't either.
I don't think we should encourage coporations to control what can and cannot be said.
> Consider Ford or GM manufacturing cars in Mexico. These cars are 'products of Mexico' and if sold in Mexico (to the exporter division of Ford and GM) then that cash could not be transported back to Wall Street without the Mexican government taking a significant cut

We don't need to use hypotheticals: China is heavily capital controlled on the outbound side of the equation. On the other side of the coin, the U.S. corporate tax regime, until recently, penalised bringing capital home. That acted as a limited inbound capital control. So when considering a U.S. company investing in China, one would have symmetric capital controls.

The result? Not less offshoring. Just more money sitting uselessly in various accounts being tended to by teams of lawyers and accountants.
Controversial opinion: You don't use a VPN for privacy.
I really get nervous that this is such a widely held POV. Yes, things are bad, probably they're going to get worse (but there's also a good chance they get better!), but not having kids seems extreme and a lot of folks seem to be tilting towards a degrowth mindset. Maybe I'm a techno-optimist but I think we're way beyond just being able to pause where we are or go back to stone age living and we should push forward and try to make a better world with technology and science. Maybe finally get some of those fusion reactors!
I’ve been an airline pilot for a long time and work for a large airline. In the US, pilots tend to be quite culturally conservative. It’s not my naive generalization. Yes, if the mandate happens most will get vaccinated, but there will be plenty of kicking and screams leading up to it.
I thought water filters use charcoal, not coal.
It's not only about Golang, it's a great textbook on network programming in general. Great job!
I'm 51. I lived the era you're describing, so yeah, I understand the historical context quite well.

But you're crossing the streams a little here.

Yes, it was a net win for the shift to GUIs to include a shift to very, very consistent interfaces.

HOWEVER, it doesn't follow that goofy, hamfisted attempts to mimic those interfaces in text mode was a good idea. If you want that, just go use Windows (or the Mac).

Word for DOS 5.0 was a fantastic program that I could move around in VERY VERY VERY quickly. It was powerful, stable, and extremely usable once you learned its interface.

Word 5.5 for DOS ripped out the ESC menus for a crappy text-mode UI, and basically killed the product. (For my part, I immediately uninstalled it and reinstalled 5.0 so I could get work done.)
A true software hero was lost today.

My deepest condolences to the family and friends.
> For example, the quality of life of being born in 2200 worst case scenario climate in San Francisco is better than being born in 2200 best case scenario climate change in Lagos.

First, the idea that anyone living today can accurately predict what life is going to be like for anyone anywhere in 2200 is pure hubris. Heck, it's pure hubris to believe that we can do this even 5-10 years out at this point.

Second, quality of life can suffer immensely in scenarios well short of "apocalyptically bad". The author's argument appears to be that the First World can fairly easily mitigate the "symptoms" of climate change once they start to impact quality of life for enough people. I think this is hubristic too.

Using the pandemic as an example, it's worth pointing out that the US and UK were ranked first and second in pandemic preparedness according to a Global Health Security Index released in 2019[1]. Yet despite their significant resources, both have been abysmal failures.

The First World doesn't have nearly the insulation the author of this post thinks it does. And it has a lot farther to fall.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparednes...
> it's not as though larger houses require a linear increase in construction workers

Right because you are now importing prefab assemblies produced from other countries, and using off the shelf bulk produced components like drywall. That supply chain DOES require significantly more people.

> Hey, now healthcare is a full fourth of it!

Well I guess you could go destroy the MRI machines that require a steady pure helium stream, unplug the 400+ computerized monitors that are centrally linked back to nurses stations, or get rid of all the neat robotics that allow non-invasive surgery and save some cash. We could go back to when medicine ended at what your local doctor could do by hand.

> Something tells me that greater productivity allowed this cool and normal situation of proliferating middlemen to occur.

Please go share this opinion with your real estate brokers. Ask them what they do with all their free time that they have so much of apparently.

> The existence of relatively inexpensive ovens, etc, has been the case since easily 1970, which is around when productivity started to decouple from benefits to citizenry.

Cheap per unit doesn't mean cheap to produce from scratch. You can't go buy a machine shop and crank out modern ovens. Let's not even get into safety testing.

> I assume you're assured of this perspective because the existence of your boat makes you uncomfortable with the idea that we're using the insane productivity gains our species has realized to be gainfully employed not doing anything material or beneficial

Not a boat guy, sorry.

You are about a hundred years behind in your understanding of economics. Production doesn't mean spinning yarn in your cottage. The broker managing real estate contracts is doing work the same way the person assembling surgical robots is doing. Life is no longer about building wooden cabins on land you claimed by fencing it off only to have your house burn down when your open top oil lamp turns over and catches your flammable ass bedding. Humanity has had progress since then.

> I also understand that we don't really have to have the underpaid underclass to whom the ads are shown,

If you don't like Hulu's business model then stop watching it.
> I wonder what does a scraping framework offer?

HTTP requests, HTML parsing, crawling, data extraction, wrapping complex browser APIs etc. Nothing you couldn't do yourself, but like most frameworks, they abstract the messy details so you can get a scraper working quickly without having to cobble together a bunch of libraries or re-invent the wheel.
Why is it smart to want to continue passing down your genes?
Ask HN: What physical newspaper should I get?
I'm tired of the endless scrolling through online news. It's mostly the same news day to day anyway. I've heard people are having success with getting a weekly physical newspaper or magazine instead.

What newspaper should I get? I'm in the US.