skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Early versions of Windows and Mac OS were written in Pascal.

Windows 1.0 in 1985 was written in C Language and assembly. The x86 alternative os to MS-DOS such as Digital Research GEM was also written in C and assembly.

The Windows 16-bit ABI did have Pascal-style calling-convention for the stack but the OS was not written in Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#pascal....
Reading some of the other use-cases on here. It seemed like it would fit my need. It 100% does, except that you can't tag pages, so searching through is a real pain in the ass.
Yes, even cooking requires competence and tradition - food and nutritional science exist for a reason. Scott Adams joked about "a diet entirely made of cheese".

If the kids don't trust your dish, get the feedback and work on building trust.

(Consolidated vegetables are not neomania.)
This was actually the article that put HN on my radar and brought me here.
If you make a poor person drive down to the DMV and wait in line to pay a fine they will likely loose a day of work (which they cannot afford to lose) or perhaps even their job entirely (can't make your shift? Sorry, don't come back to work). A richer person will lose some money, but on the other end they will still be essentially where they were when they started.
I clicked on it thinking is was "hacking" in the black hat/white hat sense.
I'm sure there are some who do. There are a lot of people out there, you can find just about any belief.

But sometimes I get the sense that people say things like this as a way to derail the conversation. They'd rather talk about other people's motives and beliefs than the the actual observation about the environment.

And we know those people are out there. Some of them get paid a lot to do it.
The weight of your college experience degrades rapidly after your first job.

What did I do? I went to a shitty city college, self-educated myself in coding, and then I got hired by the smallest bootstrapped startup I could find, so thrifty and broke that they only bought used equipment for everything.

My asking salary was so low that even they had mercy, upping it by 1K a year. Yes, I was underpaid, but guess what - that is the price of actual education.

Don't go into debt - get AN education, and low-ball yourself on the first job. That's where you learn and make connections, that is where you want to pay the "fee".
is surface area a fair comparison? A deep well should be able to extract all along its length
Based on the comment, I'm sure OP is also against banning vice. So I'm not sure that reasoning will convince them.
What engine are you building it with?
I think your criticism of my criticism is fair. Perhaps this is somewhere you simply cannot provide a clean abstraction and need to be opinionated.
"Human" being the keyword here. You're no longer considered "human" if you have gotten the vaccine, since what has been injected into you is patented. You are no longer considered a human, and you have given up your human rights. You are now, by definition, part of the Transhumanism global agenda.
> Gamedevs working on multiplayer FPSs and MMOs (which requires resolving incredibly complex state synchronizations at millisecond-scales) have done this for decades

...no they haven't? Those aren't distributed systems. There is an authoritative server that holds the source of truth, and players sync up with it.

A truly distributed game would have each game client contain the full world state, and would synchronize with every other player rather than an authoritative server.
Ya that isn't true as they don't die fast, and they usually don't all die:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-costs-smoking-...

Estimate on this says 8.7% of health care spending caused by it.
My alternative hypothesis would be that you would expect the imbalance to increase if sin taxes work, because they would suppress consumption among casual consumers, but not the addicts, among whom demand is expected to be less elastic.

Which is a societal change, though maybe not the intended one.
Sorry, "SFC" and "SWC"?
I find that React + styled-components in the same file gives me almost entirely the same experience as SFC.
come on. can we just drop this end to end encrypted bs on whatsapp atleast ? when you report a message, you allow admins to see the last 3-4 messages. if only you and your receipent is supposed to see the messages, "e2e", how can an admin see them?

edit:https://www.huaweicentral.com/new-whatsapp-report-feature-wi...
> There is clearly is no strong consensus that bitcoin is bad, since it's worth over a trillion dollars. In fact, people are jumping into bitcoin because they believe the existing financial system is bad and on the verge of collapse.

Price is not consensus of goodness, and it's not value. You wouldn't believe what the market cap of heroin is. Market cap is the most recent trade price multiplied by supply. The price is overwhelmingly determined by USDT trading, not USD trading. According to Google Trends fewer people care now than in much of recent memory.

And further, they're quite mistaken about the impending doom. Just as the man with the megaphone yelling about the rapture has been wrong for decades too.

I guess what I'm saying is, it's time for an e-waste tax and a carbon tax.

[edit] You know, when the Cuyahoga River caught fire, the official response wasn't "well folks we should probably just keep dumping stuff into the river until we find a new process, nothing to worry about, just wear these brominated swim trunks when you go for a dip to avoid burns" -- it was to create the EPA and tell companies to immediately cease and desist until they found a better way forward.
People are taught the basics of STEM. At least here in the US.

It just doesn't stick.
Don’t get lost in the details, focus on this one thing
It's weird, but standard. These exchanges are a formal way of fleshing out what the parties do and do not dispute. Both sides limit what the agree to as much as they can with a straight face, and everything is qualified as much as possible to make it hard to pin you down on something later, after you've learned more about your and their case, e.g., they might disagree that TI is the assignee, or that the language is properly part of the patent b/c it was amended during prosecution or by a certificate of correction.
Your social security benefits are calculated based on your 35 highest income years; which includes 0 income years. The guy quit in 2001 in his 40s-50s, so he may only have 20 years of income for SSA benefits.

That said, the formula is a political choice just as the UBI benefits are a political choice. We could give everyone the same SSA benefits regardless of prior income and index the amounts to age instead. UBI and SSA could be the same administration with lower amounts for younger people and higher amounts for retirees.

https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-an...
This is a common anecdote, and a situation I remember as that's when I started driving.

Also one used in scientific study with seemingly dire results:

>The survey of insects hitting car windscreens in rural Denmark used data collected every summer from 1997 to 2017 and found an 80% decline in abundance. It also found a parallel decline in the number of swallows and martins, birds that live on insects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-spla...
What FOSS tools does it compete with? Windows Terminal?
I don't know, Japan seems to be doing OK. There are all sorts of problems that are going to eventually arise simply due to the fact that our economies are built on endless growth. But IF they embraced it and were able to advance automation fast enough, most of those would be overcome. Mainly: who will take care of the elderly.

HA part of that could be easily solved if suicide weren't so stigmatized. If everyone could just agree that once you're past the age of 80, once you get to a point of being infirm you just take a magic pill and peace out on your own terms, we'd be far better off as a species.
Very good point on not wanting this to take off so that you know if you send it to someone, it is for their eyes only.

It does seem like since both Signal and Matrix are open source, including the servers, that there should be a path to let one a Signal user know if they are sending it to a Matrix bridge and the encryption is no more.

Also worth noting is that you do need to trust the person on the other end for Signal to have a chance at working, e.g. they can take screenshots or real camera pictures of the messages. So establishing trust with the recipient is rule #1, and this should go for if they are using a Matrix bridge with Element One too.
In the advertising world, there are roughly speaking two major objectives:

- Creative: also known as "brand awareness". Keep the given brand top-of-mind for as many prospects as possible. The hope is that they will then choose products under the given brand at some future opportunity. This is the type of advertising that Coke ads are. They aren't attempting to get you to buy a Coke right now; they are trying to brand "buy coke, it makes you happy" on your brain.

- Directional. These ads are trying to get you to do something as soon as possible. One obvious example is the annoying "you just looked at this thing, still want to buy it?" ads that follow us all around online. Presumably these ads are somewhat effective, otherwise they wouldn't exist.

From this perspective, removing attribution barely effects creative advertising. On the other hand, it is obviously quite destructive for directional ads. Whether this is a good thing is arguable; I personally find the desired objective of "creative" advertising to be more disturbing.
Chrome has over a billion potential users of a game, and the reason it's so compelling is that fun is just a click away. Local installs of a client can be a thing of the past.
The true origin of the virus? I don't think anyone credible is claiming that the coronavirus that they supposedly did GoF research on is the same coronavirus that causes covid-19. Stop spreading blatant misrepresentations and political propaganda on hn.
Advertising doesn't need to be explicit.
I won't comment further as I was roasted here when I wrote what I thought about the RPi Zero scarcity (which lasted years) when it was launched.
The parent comment, however, was referring to liquor. Which, I assume, to be whiskey, vodka, tequila, etc.
That would probably be Windows 11 LTSC ... Like Windows 10 LTSC ... If only MS would make this version available to Prosumers!
It's not so much high schooler choice or HR's inability to properly assess candidates (although that is also a factor). It's the emotional and material "stock" put into degrees by degree holders that guarantees that this system will remain in place. Most people do not have the strength of character to extricate their personal identity and value from their level of education.

Post-secondary credentialism is the new form of feudalism. This book is a little too woke for my tastes but there's a significant amount of scholarship on this concept of education's rise as the new "cool guy" power structure, replacing politics and the church.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Beyond_Education.html?id...
I agree with most of your comment, but it's a bit too judgemental.

The main political wedge we're facing is the absolute destruction of the manufacturing-production economy (which requires open space and other distributed capital), in favor of the finance-metagame economy (which doesn't). In this wider context talking about subsidies is a bit disingenuous, because if we had a balanced economy then resources would be flowing to the rural areas from the urban areas as revenue of private companies. Instead, most of the resources for building out non-urban infrastructure are flowing abroad, while the little remaining bit trying to mitigate the hollowing out gets called a subsidy.

It's easy to get frustrated with the regressive hypocritical politics, especially with the last few years of objectively utter nonsense. But if that is ever going to get fixed it's going to require even more resources going to rural areas to alleviate the poverty driving the anger and spite. Ideally this would happen by fixing the market dynamics, but really it needs to happen any way possible.
Big chem selling pesticides like there’s no tomorrow.
Interesting idea, congrats on putting it all together.
Do you have any working examples of the end result? The landing page only had a few screen shots and it was not entirely clear to me what the results looked like.
Are users able to export or copy the created guides?
Are user accounts required to view the created guides?
In my back yard when I was a kid there used to be thousands of these horrible beetles in the grass. You would step on them everywhere you walked and they smelled terrible. They are gone now but so are the dragonflies and the butterflies. I don't think whatever we did was worth it.
I might obviously be wrong but I do think it's different. People didn't spend a good chunk of their day at newspaper stands waiting for new content. No one got "The Daily Worker" recommended to them because of their person (age/sex/income/location/communication/...). I feel like that fact often gets ignored. The problem isn't that "problematic" content exists but that FB is actively shoving it down people's throats in a sinisterly targeted way to increase their bottom line through increased engagement.
At least it isn’t SWF…
It probably has little deterrent effect on those that are already using the product. If I enjoy nicotine or alcohol or are addicted to them, I'm likely willing to pay more for it.

I wonder if there are any studies about the deterrent effect for adopting smoking / drinking.

If someone is considering taking up smoking and cigarettes cost $1 / pack vs $10 / pack, I would imagine that there would be people that would see the $10 / pack and think, "too expensive a habit, better not start."
I remember a Nature paper where they did essentially this (I can't remember enough to look it up quickly). There were two parts to the model, one of which was a simpler "transformation" part involving little optimization per se, the other of which was a more traditional DL model.
YES. Drove with my parents to the Catskills in upstate NY almost every weekend in the early 2000s. The windshield was covered in bug splatter. Now - nothing.

Edit: it was a Hyundai Excel

https://retrocars.fandom.com/wiki/Hyundai_Excel/Accent
way to blame the victim buddy.
Not necessarily. Demographics indicates that developed nations seem to have near-replacement birth rates. Anything less than 1 and you get exponential decay. So a small nudge will eventually lead to large reductions in population, but the rate of decline need not be severe.

There are of course issues that a lot of the economy is predicated on growth, but again, I'm actually pretty optimistic that markets and humans are pretty resilient and adaptable given enough warning and time.
My goto terminal emulator on Windows. Without a doubt, Moba is what SSH on windows has been missing.
> Who makes that decision? In a democracy, the people do, via the government they elect.

So, you're proposing people don't form opinions or try to influence opinion? You're just arguing for maintaining the status quo here.

> Also, wealthy people consume less, proportional to their wealth, than poorer people do. It's pretty much impossible for a billionaire to "consume" their fortune, unless they decide to do something useless and absurdly grand, like building a thousand ziggurats or something. Consumption taxes only work to concentrate the tax burden on non-wealthy people.

In real terms the wealthy consume far more than the poor. That's how Ferrari's exist; that's why consumption taxes make sense to a lot of people.

The money the wealthy don't consume (therefore the part that wouldn't be touched by consumption tax) is invested in producing assets and is already being used by society. Consumption taxes produce more money from the rich, and provide incentive for the rich to invest more and consume less.

> One important thing that's missing from your analysis is power.

Real power only comes from the use of wealth, you can trick some people by the promise of eventually paying but that wears thin very quickly. Influence via media campaign is easily taxable (probably already is?); gifts are already taxed once they get meaningful. Paying public officials for preferential treatment should be treated like the blatant corruption it frequently is.

If you want to improve society, that's great. Consumption taxes are a way to help society. Bashing consumption taxes because they don't hurt the rich sounds more like petty bitterness.
True, although it'll eventually happen on its own, and it likely won't be on our terms.
Get an automatic line break & low pressure shutoff valve. They make DC, AC, and mechanical solutions.
I've already addressed sales. It was trading at 161x future earnings before this deal. That's an insane multiple.

As far as summing up dealerships, let's go!

Tesla has 438 stores worldwide. Toyota has 1500 dealerships in the United States alone. GM? 4500 in the United States.

Do you honestly think that if we summed up all the Toyota dealerships in the world, it would be worth $750 billion? I don't, but that's how much they'd have to be worth to give Toyota a market cap of 1 trillion dollars.

Or to flip it around, even if we spotted Tesla manufacturing 2x Toyota. (Toyota is the most valuable manufacturer by market cap at $240 billion.), that would mean those 438 stores have to be worth over a billion dollars EACH.

It's even worse for General Motors. Their market cap is only 84 billion. The entire worldwide network of dealerships would have to be 11x General Motors proper, or over $900 billion dollars.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TM/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GM/
In Texas there are 3 million smokers. The avg smoker smoke 14 cigs per day, which is 255 packs per year.
A pack of cigarettes is currently taxed at about $5 in Texas.
That 3mil255packs$5 = 3.8 billion in tax revenue.

I doubt we're spending anywhere near that much money on cleaning up cigarettes.

Note* these numbers are wrong.

The actual taxes on a pack of cigarettes in Texas are 2.42. i grabbed the $5 from a proposal.
Outdoor lights disturb insects. At night I turn most of my outdoor lights off.
It's widely accepted you should almost always use some smart pointer like unique_ptr or shared_ptr, and even sometimes the the unpopular weak_ptr depending on your use case.
Ben Bernanke has studied and written [0] extensively about this topic; a copy of a speech he delivered at Washington and Lee University in 2004 can be found at [1] for those interested.

0: https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c11482/c11482.pdf

1: https://www.bis.org/review/r040305e.pdf
A nominal fee is pretty common in contracts, it tends to be more binding than zero costs (because an important part of contract law is that both sides benefit from the contract).
It's the other way around. Photoshop is not forcing their customers, it's chasing after them, as they're already switching to Figma.
Not the situation for ESP, but the C++ pain is real. Once that is sorted, it works great on mac.
This is so easy to game it's not even funny. Anyone could simply choose to donate the money instead, hell, they could take a tax cut for that.

They could donate it to their own foundations. After all, money doesn't matter directly, control of money matters.

They could split the money beforehand and "not be billionnaires".
Yes it hits poor people more. At the same time, gas prices have a very strong correlation to the purchase of gas guzzling cars.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/auto-sales-hit-ne...
Anyone who isn’t aware of the value will be taken advantage of. “Here have 50 bucks, just look into my orb”
Why didn’t they leave a message?
Lots of downvoting, as you're about to find out. For some reason, HN really really hates the idea that there's enormous monetary incentive to ignore existential problems caused by modern capitalism.

Probably because, as Jeff Hammerbacher said, "the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
ah nice! make sure to fill out our waitlist if you want our managed service: https://temporal.io/cloud

meanwhile if you like workflows as code and want to stay in the AWS world what about AWS SWF? our CEO used to be tech lead of that and it shares similar ideas.

yeah we are hoping to establish what best practice/architecture for workflows looks like. Feedback/questions welcome: https://docs.temporal.io/blog/workflow-engine-principles
We'll call this the "California in 1998" approach.
As someone who's documented a lot of users flows by hand this would be a really handy service. However, it'd be great if there was more of a demo available without a sign up. At the moment it seems like there's just a couple of tiny screeenshots and a single GIF showing what your product actually looks like. How about a sample screencast or a sample PDF of a finished guide?
Poverty is itself supposed to be an incentive. The reason we have a market-based exchange economy is to incentivize people to a.) work b.) for more productive firms that can pay you more and c.) innovate to create even more productive firms.

That people view their station in life as fixed and their success outcomes as binary (either poverty or a $150K/year job) indicates that something has gone seriously wrong with capitalism. Which may very well be true - I think a lot of people would say that something has gone seriously wrong with capitalism. But the solution to that is to fix the root cause that divides people into castes, not make things cheaper for the lower caste.
I was actually thinking about my wishlist for recipe apps the other day. Some key features:

1. Split up ingredients into more parts.

2 tbsp ground black pepper is actually:
Quantity: 2 tbsp
Ingredient: Black Pepper
Preparation: Ground

2 finely chopped scallions, just the white parts
Quantity: 2
Ingredient: Scallions
Preparation: Finely Chopped
Note: Just the white parts

Often you'll have apps (like plan to eat) that adds the preparation to the ingredient and makes shopping lists much harder to manage

2. Ingredient replacements. Often you'll see recipes calling for one ingredient and then has "You can replace this with x and y". It would be extremely nice to have this programmatically available. I know if I can't find scallions, I can replace it with garlic and onions.

3. Variants. Often I have the same core recipe in my recipe book with just different variants. Meringue cookies with different flavors. 90% of the recipe is all the same, but it's duplicated a dozen times for a dozen specific flavor add-ins. It would be extremely nice to have this somehow programatically available, so I can have the base recipe and all the variants with a reused core :)
Modular process automation: More than the sum of parts
Well, let's add that in this case there was nothing scientific behind this 'therapy'. The quack medication was produced by a medical school dropout (and then the poor patient over consumed the otherwise dangerous and poisonous substance) [1]

The history of science may be littered with similar examples, but we see less and less of them. And also let's not forget what your other option is. Sometimes it's simple, you just don't use the new thing and lose little. You don't have to use the newest cell phone or car. Sometimes you have to make a compromise. E.g. when talking about medications to potentially life limiting conditions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._A._Bailey
University of Wisconsin hospitals have blocked the Gab social media platform
I'm at the hospital today for an appointment and tried to access a link to a Gab post that a friend sent to me. After making a few attempts to access the post with the different browsers on my phone, I turned on my VPN and et voila, the post loaded.
Forth – The Early Years [pdf]
Really? I did not know anywhere allowed indoor smoking. There are even states that have banned smoking in hotel rooms.