skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Googler, not working on ads.

The idea is that the advertiser ultimately wants to buy a certain amount of conversions. With their ad budget being roughly constant, better targeting means that you need to show fewer ads of that advertiser to get to that point. So, you're decreasing the denominator, increasing cost per impression.

This is obviously oversimplified, because actual payment happens at the intermediate step of click. But the inherent feedback loops finally work out to the above.
> I've had interns teaching interns, juniors teaching juniors

If those interns and juniors came to you knot knowing Haskell, then this is a very bad way of teaching people. You end up with bad, non-idiomatic code, poorly understood concepts etc.

> If you start bean counting

It's not bean counting.
It’s an interesting approach, as you wouldn’t enter a restaurant and ask what dish would make them the most margin. Or go to the post office to ask what packaging is cheaper for them to ship. In that respect I think asking what payment means costs more to the shop would break a social norm, so I’m surprised you file it under politness.

Otherwise shop owners have many many ways to signal how much they want you to do something or not. Wether the card reader is hidden under the counter or the most prominent thing when you need to pay could be a very clear signal for instance.
Bubbleos, a Self-Contained OS
meanwhile crypto people, in less than a month, have coordinated around klima and bought 10 million tonnes of carbon offsets, about 2.5% of the entire worlds voluntary climate offset supplies.

https://twitter.com/Dionysus_Klima
do you know if the grocery store was relatively successful? I imagine that doing business with whole town, instead of just 75%, is economically preferable
This is incorrect. The transaction costs are very low and you are free to choose whatever wallet you want.
I will note that some features actually don't seem to scale reliably on GitHub proper. For example, the profile pages of prodigious commiters tend to time out on. As an example of one that pretty much always does it, check out https://github.com/scala-steward (not on mobile).
Are EVs worse for the environment than ICE cars?

Let me check with some experts, okay, no they're not.

But what if they burn coal in the electric plant?

Well, we shouldn't do that but still, mildly surprisingly until you think about it, no, still better.

But what about when we run out of rare earths?

They're not rare, so that's not a problem.

I didn't mean run out, I know they're not rare, I meant what about the pollution and the foreigners owning them all?

Did I mention they weren't rare? They don't own them all, they just make them at the moment because we moved a lot of extraction and manufacturing there to take advantage of their low wages and lax labor and environmental laws.

Hah, so you admit that EVs are worse than ICE vehicles!

No, see my first answer.

But if mining stuff is bad and you need to mine stuff for EVs then EVs are bad, and we shouldn't shift to them. QED

Is that seriously your argument?

Okay, never mind that, but what about this warehouse that has hundreds (yeah, not simply dozens but hundreds, with an h!) of batteries in it. Isn't that conclusive proof that climate change was just a hoax by communists to take over the world?

No?

Hah, no-one really believed that, we just really hate regulations so pretended to believe that.

You seem very concerned about pollution and recycling for someone who doesn't like regulation.

No, it's okay we're lying about that too.
> Also I think you mean "Catholic", not "catholic".

Wow, I sometimes like to think that I speak English at a native level and then I learn about something like this..

Catholic: relating to the Catholic church
catholic: including many different things

She is a novelist who is catholic in her interests.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catholic
> whether there are a few miners or a lot. Bitcoin will continue to mine a block every 10 minutes

Thats not exactly true. Every 2016 blocks the network compares the actual blocks mined with the target blocks (at 10 mins per block), and adjusts the difficulty accordingly.

If you suddenly had less miners the current difficulty would mean that the time to mine a block would be greater than 10 mins. Depending on where it is in the 2016 block cycle it could also mean an extended period of time before the difficulty is rectified.

If the network suddenly dropped to a VERY low hashrate (like a single PC), it is possible it would take (at current difficulty) tens of millions of years to mine a single block - let alone 2016 of them. Of course, thats probably not going to happen, im just using it as an example to show that its not a fixed period of time per block.
I wonder what she ever did with all the souls she bought last year...
this calculation ignores layer-2 transactions which are just a few TCP packets
It makes only if you're doing a few operations and all of them are on tables. As soon as people need to mix up table operations and other code (custom functions and calculations, REST API calls, linear algebra etc) in the same script, it makes a lot more sense to use a dataframe and have all of your code in the same language.

If there's a way in which sqlite is underrated by data scientists, it's as a storage format - it's a lot more reliable than passing around csv files.
how did you make sure that apps built with gravity are secure, eg. for malicious inputs?
Yeah that seems like a problem. In the early days of computing, you had consortiums competing against eachother. That might be helpful in speeding things up.

I wonder if it is possible to build a Verse on something like Godot, which is open already and has VR tools.
Malware found in two NPM packages with 23M weekly downloads
Reflecting further upon that, might that aspiration for philosophy ultimately stem from a yearning to be freed from the burden of making subjective moral judgements?
A yearning for a one-size-fits-all kind of morale that can be universally applied?
> Bitcoin is being fought by banks and governments because it threatens the dollar and the banking system.

What's wrong with the dollar? Just because something is centralized doesn't mean it's bad.
Some problems are complex. If you asked me in 2012 if fuel cell cars would ever exist I would have called it a pipe-dream, but now you can buy one and use it as a real vehicle in California.
Production and training aren't a binary. It's realistic enough to have a couple of senior devs write the scaffolding that segregates the nasty details, then have junior devs pair with them on the more logically pure modules. As long as you don't work for sweatshop that expects delivery on day one, it's no biggie at all. I've been on both sides of the equation and it works quite well in the long run.
Does anyone want to buy mine? I'll sell for 1.5 million dollars.
This is because you don't live in a sanctioned country and you have a good social credit score.

This is like saying "why do I need encryption, I don't have anything to hide".

Many people do not have this privilege.
The first point is classic whataboutism. Would you defend a murder court case by claiming people don't care when the police kill people? It's the same thing, but people being replaced by the planet.

Second point - who are these people, and how much of BTC usage comes from that, vs greedy 'investors'/'evangelists' who have bought in, and get rich by other people buying in?

It's a rich people's plaything. Poor people in third world countries own very little of it, because they are poor. Bitcoin, and crypto as a whole, is a solution in search of a problem. It can be hammered into lots of use cases, but most are solved more quickly and efficiently by a backend and a database.
Speaking to engineers at Youtube, their sentiment was similar. They felt when they took off the posters of 'don't be evil', it was a turning point.
The very first time I saw email, I immediately knew I wanted to have it. Ditto with the web. Ditto with video conferencing.

I've known about crypto for almost ten years. I worked in the field writing bits of the rippled code for a couple of years. And I still have no idea why anyone would want to use cryptocurrencies, except of course for crime.

> it’s like saying cars are the devils tool in the 1900s …

Hmm, is this comment intended to be a parody? Well, it certainly turned out that the car was the Devil's tool, because we are running as fast as we can to devastate our climate by turning fossil fuels into carbon dioxide.
Archaeologists Map Ruins of Karakorum, Capital of Mongol Empire, for First Time
On an even more macro level I've had a great experience with ripgrep-all[0], which uses Tesseract internally.

I have e.g. a directory with all weekly lecture slides for one lecture, and can directly find where (both file and page) we learned something related to photosynthesis via `rga photoshynthesis`.

[0]: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
AMP sites have a 8 seconds-delayed CSS animation on the body element, turning visibility from hidden to visible.

This animation is turned off instantly (as far as I can say) by Javascript. However when you block Javascript entirely or block ampproject.org you have to endure the whole 8 seconds. I inject "body {animation: none !important}" into all pages to remedy this.
We definitely don't want an app, but a standard API of some kind. 3rd parties can then write apps, or web apps, etc, spawning a 3rd party market to create great UIs. Manufacturers can focus on what they should be good at, manufacturing ergonomic, efficient, reliable, long-lasting and repairable devices and appliances.
Yet more whataboutism. People need entertainment, but an investment medium that is designed to use as much power as possible is not remotely comparable to the basic needs of humans.
Not my problem, and not a valid problem in the first place, and not the charge against them.

There are an infinite number of ways to make enough money to survive.

You can sell your work honestly without artificially witholding work that is already done so you can sell it a million times over, and get people to do it by artificially creating or at least artificially preserving a pain point and randsoming the salve.

That is not simply doing work and paying for that work.

If a thing is at all useful enough that anyone even wants to use it, then there are a million businesses that would love to pay you for expert installation and training and support of perfectly free software.

Ahh but that doesn't scale. You can sell your time to a few people and live very very well, but you can't sell your time to a billion people.

No one is "trying to survive" in this story. What a strange and incredible thing to even try to say.
How does this make for a solution that meaningfully differs from just declaring that any problem can be taken care of by someone else doing all the work? In this case, the work is certainly doable; that's not the problem. "We'll make sure all the code we ship or consume is audited" works as a strategy against the problem that exists here. "We'll make sure it's audited, but we're not going to pay for any of it" would also "work" so long as you're able to achieve that, but achieving it is what presents difficulties. How does your proposal take those difficulties into account? It sounds a lot like when you tell a child that you don't have enough money for something and they tell you to go get money at the bank.
The US regulatory scheme (among others) guarantees that nuclear power is expensive. ALARA - As Low As Reasonably Achievable. In practice, this means that if nuclear power is cheaper than alternatives, regulators can demand that more "reasonably achievable" steps are taken to reduce exposure to radiation.
> if overcommit is disabled, then the system drops its internal caches (dentry cache, pagecache) to satisfy a memory allocation.

Couldn't the system just reserve the pages for future use by the application but still use them for caching until the application actually tries to use them?
> the key is to upgrade often

* and have a very good test suite
I am afraid you are still not getting it. Bangalore is the ideal place for me. It may not be for you and I am sure rightly so.

No place can be ideal for everybody - not Lisbon, not London, not SF.
I'd love to see how people design software with fully static memory (and limited one at that)
Likely these charter planes are related to the illegal Biden administration relocation of millions of illegal aliens across the US from the southern border.

You can learn more about how the federal government uses charter operators by reading previous news reports on the single-engine Cessnas used to monitor US cities from above. One employee said, "If you report on this, the government will just rent different airplanes."

(There is a group of 3 Gulfstream III customized jets used as a backup for Air Force 1 with different tail numbers than reported in the twitter thread.)
tl;dr: People drinking no alcohol tend to have a higher mortality rate than moderate drinkers because the majority of them have a history of alcohol or drug abuse.

> Of the abstainers, 322 (72.04%) had met one or more criteria for former alcohol or drug dependence or abuse, alcohol risky drinking, or had tried to cut down or to stop drinking, were daily smokers, or self-rated their health as fair to poor.
If anyone is curious, user “tomvault” submitted this post with the following title:

> Microsoft open-sourcing VS Code Server and Gitpod won’t send them a cake

… which was later changed to:

> Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server
No, I'm not. I get annoyed when people pretend plant based alternatives are a strict win with absolutely zero downside.

If you think about it, there actually is a perfect way to produce consumable resources, and it existed long before humans came along. Ruminant animals graze, migrate and their dropping rejuvenate soil in perfect balance with nature.

I'm not making the case that it's practical or even possible to feed 8 billion people in this way, but the way that we're depleting the Earth's nutrients with industrial farming is not practical in the long term either.
Ever since I learnt about overcommit I've enjoyed blowing C programmers' minds with it. It's really surprising how many still think malloc fails!
Consider this.

Crypo cannot create or destroy fiat currency. So if you sell your crypto and make a profit in dollars, it's exactly because someone else bought it at a higher price than you did.

And they expect someone else will buy it from them, in just the same way...

So every dollar that comes out of cryptocurrency is because a later investor put a dollar in.

Doesn't that sound like the definition of a Ponzi scheme?
I am using roughly 200 lines of Fennel to do that, and my current website (taoofmac.com) is nothing more than 17+ years of that exact approach, but using Python.

If you’re looking for inspiration, the older source code is up at https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy. The current version is pure Python 3, but I haven’t cleaned it up for public use (and likely never will, since I want to do something simpler now).
That's absolutely possible but I would add another. The tendency in large corporations for someone to get some software or thing for the whole company because they've got bamboozled by the marketing and now inertia has stuck with it.

It's an easy enough one to sell to management, "stop lost sales!", Oh crikey we can't have that, this software company says all the right things and sounds professional, I'll buy it!
> due to interconnection with the swedish grid and its hydro power

... and its hydro and nuclear power.
Handball 17 is 5 Years
From the fork() man page:

“After a fork() in a multithreaded program, the child can safely call only async-signal-safe functions (see signal-safety(7)) until such time as it calls execve(2)“

For example, you can't do any dynamic memory allocation or call a function that may allocate.
Ordinary milk isn't very healthy. On the one side lactose, for few of us a problem, but there's help with enzyme supplements.
The problem with mammals milk is that extra portion of hormones you get.
Ever drink raw milk? It taste like the cow smells and looks.
The milk we drink out of the Box is processed. So, basically they take the strange taste out of the milk by homogenizing and pasteurization, but leave the hormones in it, which are needed by newborn offspring in reality.
Like some medicine can also be transmitted by milk to the newborn, so does the hormones and medications.

On the other side, plant based milk has also quite few problems. One is pesticide, and fertilizer that are used for growing the plants.
The other thing is what they need to add to keep the "milk" smooth without demixing to water-oil-phases.
I like oat milk. I love lactofree cow milk. I like horse, goat and soy milk - but try to consume not to much of any type.
Were games at this point of low enough complexity that the combinatorial explosion of branches could be contained and reasoned about by humans? Or did you have software doing this?
This is most certainly a check against either virtualization or the presence of a debugger observing the process. If the maximum performance of the core you're running on varies significantly over time, chances are that your process isn't running on its own in an OS running on bare metal and the extra layers give an attacker a chance to observe and reverse engineer the checks.
I do alternate between oat milk and pea-based milk (the latter might be my favorite, taste-wise).
Dualit NewGen - all as mechanical as possible including the timer, super sturdy.
Definitely not "Calm", but unique:

My Crazy Giraffe Whistling Tea Kettle That Sounds Like A Car Horn! (hopefully especially rare!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYro3fpa5GA

A boiling kettle singing "Tea for Two" (extremely rare: a limited run of 200!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYro3fpa5GA

>A kettle designed by American engineer Charles Hutter sings 'Tea for Two' when it boils. Read about it in the July 2014 issue of Saga Magazine

https://musicalteakettle.com/

How the musical tea kettle came to be and die

https://musicalteakettle.com/blogs/news/how-the-musical-teak...

>Well before the astonishing success of the Rabbit, Riki was on the hunt for new products. Her T42 kettle was born during a 1980’s cocktail party conversation in Manhattan. Riki was always trying to create new products to sell, and had this idea for a teakettle playing a nice tune when water came to a boil. Riki related this idea to a woman who claimed her son-in-law was a mechanical genius who could create such a kettle. And he did!

>A few months later, Riki received a long tube that contained blueprints and schematics showing the design for a teakettle that plays Irving Caesar’s 1925 hit “Tea for Two” using steam power. The man who created this as nothing more than a challenge is Charles Hutter, founder of the Aeronautical engineering company Click Bond.

>Charles and Colleen Hutter, and Riki and Bob Larimer, together made a trip to Japan to prospect some manufacturers. While on the train, Rikki recalls Charles said, “We may as well make it beautiful.” Charles designed the kettle to be made from a billet of stainless steel, with a minimum of seams and a smoothly curved shape. The ingenious tune-playing steam-driven mechanism was made in the USA, with the kettle body produced in Japan, then Korea, and finally in China. All producers eventually found it too challenging to produce the kettle design at a competitive price; the designer’s insistence on the kettle’s form required many time-consuming and costly manufacturing operations. Nevertheless, a large production run was manufactured and marketed. [...]
It's funny and sad that when people talk about their "freedom" in 2021, it's almost always some sort of madness: freedom not to get vaccinated; freedom not to wear a mask; freedom to use cryptocurrencies.
Fabien's The Game Engine Black Book Doom is so good if you're interested in how how it was possible to do something like Doom on the hardware of the time.

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

He also wrote one for Wolfenstein which is good as well.
This article, like many before it, seem to think that we altered the wolf as some sort of project, a one-way manipulation. We have altered wolf into dog, but most of that was very recent. What is missing is how, very long ago and perhaps before modern language, wolf altered us.

Why do we find puppies cute? Is it because they have evolved to look cute in our eyes? Why then do we find wolf cubs equally cute? They certainly don't care about our opinions. We have done some evolving too. The humans that found wolf cubs cute adopted them. The humans that could best take care of and communicate with wolf cubs gained massive hunting and safety advantages. A spear or shotgun cannot wake you up when a bear gets near your tent. An adopted wolf certainly will.

Just look at any baby interacting with a dog. They know what they are doing. The babies that got along with the adopted wolves were more likely to survive the winter. Parents that allows their babies to play with the adopted wolf were more likely to see those kids thrive, their genes live on. We made wolf into dog, but wolf also made us.
Good questions to ask is does Sweden need crypto? Does it overall benefit the society than some other type of industry? I would probably argue that it is not very beneficial. Some profits are extracted, but in general economic activity ends pretty much there. Rent a warehouse have one or two people monitor and maintain it.

And it is not like Sweden doesn't already have entirely reasonable financial, payment and banking sector.
Yeah. That was a bad call.

Having been a manager, about 1/10th of employees had... issues. Those employees took up an inordinate amount of management time and especially energy.

I don't know whether she or her manager were the problem; in most cases, it's 50/50. If I know a potential hire had issues before, it raises the risk of a hire a lot. I want to avoid that kind of employee.

If they act unprofessionally after leaving, that goes up to 95/5. Perhaps her boss had issues, but she definitely did as well. Posting a list of management emails? Naming her boss publicly? That goes to a serious red flag.

When I was managing, I would never have hired someone who did this. The risk goes in several directions too. Since then, I've picked up a harassing stalker. Having an employee do this sort of thing went from psychologically draining to potentially devastating to my safety.

Privacy is kind of important.
Publishers should never have trusted Google in the first place, seeing how they're feeding from the same pie, and Google wants more of that pie. That's like trusting the Green River killer with a brothel. Even if nothing happens right away, eventually you'll regret it.
Are you saying the standard CPUJID registers are different between the two types of cores? I'd imagine that that would break a lot more software.
> But more importantly I think crypto is the most wasteful, pointless and potentially dangerous development that happened this century

How did you manage to miss the atomic bomb?
> In normal circumstances, swap should never really be utilised.

I don't agree. There're plenty of dormant virtual memory pages which will never be used. Keeping them in RAM is wasting precious resources.
No comment on the project itself, but its stated Long Term Plans are a thing of beauty.
I know this isn’t the spirit of your comment but this is one of the use cases of VR that I’m most looking forward to.

We’ve invested a LOT into immersing people into past worlds - think Jurassic park for dinosaurs, plenty of TV and movies about Roman times etc. VR would make all that seem so dated and boring.

Work up a sweat running from a T-Rex - quick shower and off to work!