skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thousands? Probably millions of years. Far longer than human civilization/species will last or need to worry about.
>>> As of September 2021, the Wikimedia endowment stands at >$100 million.

>> It seems that this is approximately how much they spend each year and have ~500 staff.

> It's one of the most visited site on the planet, and people are constantly writting on it. It's on the same scale of facebook, youtube or twitter, activity wise.

How much of that money and staff goes to actually running the site and maintaining the software? IIRC (and correct me if I'm wrong), a large fraction actually goes to other efforts.
Because mr PaulHoule from hackernews owns shares from the company that makes them

Same from people all over europe who for decades pushed down France for its Nuclear efforts

Now that the US is working toward catching up, they all voice they pro-"US"-nuclear

It's very sad, europe is full of cowards

But yet again China ahead of everyone else because they are free from these little "marketshare" fights
Sometimes a five year delay could be a community that sues over a new reactor, then appeals, appeals, etc. Then if that lawsuit was posted here the title might be "US government tries to rush reactor, threatens small town life".
My favorite idea for this issue is that the gov't should pay for college, except it should pay a multiple of the student's increase in earned taxable income averaged over the 5 years preceding and following the degree. High school students would have near zero income, so it would mostly be a multiple of their 5 year average income after graduation.

This pays directly for what the gov't wants (increase in the student's productive utility in the economy), it correlates increasing expenditures with increasing long term tax income, and I think in the long term it would create structural incentives guiding students towards more practical degrees.
If it's anything like my experience it's luck of the draw on the proctor and their "interpretation" of things. I used the same room and setup for every exam with them. Second to last one, the proctor said my room was 100% unacceptable. I protested and was told that there was no way this very same room ever was considered acceptable. So I moved into a new space and finally moved on to the test. My last exam with them? Used the old room and had no issues.
What frustrates me a bit about this argument is that interfaces really do offer a tool to solve problems around dispatch and polymorphism. Like a lot of things in Go there are lots of opinions and tradeoffs that can’t or can’t easily be revisited by someone using the language, but it’s a very different argument to say “I don’t like the tools the language provides” than “the language doesn’t provide x, y, z”.

IMHO there are convincing arguments that Go needs x, y, z (or: prefer another language if you need x, y, z). A good example of one of these that is being addressed would be priority queues. Doing them via interfaces was always possible - there’s a whole std lib package for them. Generics will be better. But looking at the pre-/post-generic ways of doing priority queues confirms and emphasizes, rather than negates, the utility of interfaces as a way of structuring code. It’s still opinionated and I think it’s fair to argue about alternatives but it’s absolutely not the case that some large class of reasonable problems was entirely ignored or forgotten.
The differences in languages, culture, and legal aspects mean that at least for consumer-oriented startups EU is very much not a single market yet. There has been a lot of progress over the last decade or two, but when starting a company you still pretty much start with the market of a single country and have to do a bunch of work, adjustments and local hiring to expand to a neighboring EU country.
Have guidelines like complete sentences, proper grammar. Create templates for different purposes.

Given them many examples of good writing, both internal and external.

Let and make them iterate, don't accept until it is acceptable.

Use slack to mention them when what they wrote was helpful. Generally give praise and positive feedback.

Make the documents collaborative, living. Provide clear changes desired. File bugs for incomplete or incorrect docs. Generally make docs an acceptance criteria where appropriate.

I'm building a list of resources here: https://verdverm.com/resources/dev-docs/

(I have a few more to add, will try to get to that later tonight)

Documentation is cultural, it takes time to change this. It will improve with time and effort
Discussed yesterday (and weirdly flagged to death)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29155505
Some immigrated to avoid military service for the Apartheid regime.

I despise Apartheid though perhaps we should point the finger less at our predecessors and act on similar oppression today.

When there is significant evil in our societies, is it enough to say I didn't support it? Or are we obligated to put a stop to it? The latter is a harsh, demanding judgment, but that doesn't mean it's not true.

Tacit opposition is no different than tacit support.
Exposing a setuid program that prints the file would be more dangerous though. The result is the same (you can read /etc/passwd) except now you have a vector for gaining root access through an exploit to this setuid program.
F1 Brakes Stop from 200mph to 0 in 4 Seconds
A warning that this is a LTT video would have been appreciated ;)
I agree that's bad, but what does it have to do with the current conversation? It seems like a non sequitur.
Perfect. I just bought it just because of that. (I might have bought it otherwise to if I remembered it tomorrow, but this was enough to get me to do it now :-)
> Between content moderation....I can easily see how Wikipedia can grow to 500 people.

IIRC, nearly 100% of all content moderation is done by Wikipedia volunteer editors, so that's not actually an operational expense of theirs.
A worldclass episode. <3 Thank you!
Yeah, that would simply put more obstacles in place. We need less ass covering and bureaucracy and more action. You don't solve that by creating more risk and the need for more ass covering.
Thousands of researchers making predictions with ever shifting probabilities is what you call unfalsifiable.

The predictions we’re talking about play out over decades. The sources cite other predictions. It’s a feedback loop of assumptions and peer review from people who you know already share the same assumptions.

Climate science is much more akin to sociology than a hard science.
Emacs is written in C and Emacs Lisp. I’m not able to download the source right now, but from some googling the C portion is around 20-25%. So 75-80% lisp. That’s a rather substantial amount of code that would need to be rewritten, not to mention that probably does not include all the lisp code that’s not included in the core distribution. Tons of packages out there that would need to be rewritten.

-----ADDED-----

Downloaded 27.2:

Emacs Lisp: 1,171,507
C : 318,611
C Headers : 43,738

(that's without comments)

That's a lot of code to replace, and again, just what's in the core distribution.
Right but they're still requiring you to set it as the default search engine or you can't use it on Chrome outside of an Incognito window. That's such bad behavior (and I know it's a hard market to break into) I can't really see ever trying this out more than once or twice just to see what it looks like.
expecting collision to happen is probably a waste of time, but it still sounds like a good idea to bound how much damage a collision might cause.
Sorry but you're largely wrong on all counts there.

1. There was a lot more around than just BASIC and Pascal,

2. Pascal wasn't born much before C (roughly a couple of years),

3. and BASIC compilers did exist even as early as in the 60s.

Some examples of other languages (all of which pre-date Pascal and C):

Pascal itself was inspired from ALGOL. So there's a whole class of languages you're excluding. ALGOL was typically compiled too.

Also compiled was FORTRAN. In fact the first FORTRAN compiler was written in the 1957 and the language is credited as being the first ever high level programming language.

Even BASIC wasn't one of a kind. There were a few languages similar (the names of which escape me at this point in time). But BASIC was definitely the most popular of it's ilk.

And lets not forget LISP. It's the second oldest high level language after FORTRAN. LISP has had compilers around since the 60s, although the language is older than that.

Another popular language with compilers back in the 60s was COBOL. And as you maybe aware, some banks are still stuck running COBOL code (albeit modern COBOL looks nothing like 60s COBOL)

And I'm just listing the highlights here. I could also talk about how C evolved from B and B evolved from BCPL. But BCPL's syntax is a lot more like ALGOL than it is C. I could also talk about how FORTRAN, ALGOL and COBOL themselves aren't really a single language but rather a class of languages too. In fact Pascal evolved from ALGOL W and ALGOL W compiler was written in PL/360 which is another ALGOL-like systems language designed specifically for the IBM System/360. Which leads nicely onto the next point that there was also a lot of machine specific or vendor specific languages out there too. In fact it was quite common for organisations to design their own language - possibly even more so then than it is now.

So no, it wasn't just a decision between BASIC and Pascal in the early days. There were a lot of choices even back then. And in fact Pascal wasn't even an option in the early days because it didn't come onto the scene until 1970. Verses the 50s and 60s for all the other languages mentioned above.
But do we see this trend, that companies are using these corporate bonds to hire more staff or raise wages vs just buying more of their own stock?
There was an old story about a multiuser OS where the user would hold down a key to get more cpu slice during compiles… but my Google fu is failing to find it.

The idea was that the OS gave more cycles to interactive sessions … something like that. It may be apocryphal.
Are they? C#'s generics required runtime support, unlike Java's, which kept bytecode compatibility through type erasure.
> It is mostly about turbines

Turbines used in nuclear power plants as well as nuclear ships. That sale was/is a major scandal in France.
And yes, they do. The filesystem of the original ipod convinced me that Apple didn't want to build computers that played music but instead wanted to mediate their influence. A site "anythingbutipod.com" convinced me to go forward with Cowon music players. And so it goes, if you want a real pocket computer that does what you wish, it isn't apple.
Melbourne Australia is in the third year of population decline now. I know on top of this population shift that a huge number of the major employers have shifted towards much more work from home arrangements due to the pandemic and due to the the 263 days of lockdowns that were imposed I think many of these changes will last for longer than in places that were less disrupted. That said I still think commercial real estate prices here are artificially high/in a bubble because of the high number of vacancies even if there's already been a pullback in prices. Just structurally speaking the demand side for commercial real estate here has substantially fallen, but I'm not sure the same can be said for other parts of the world right now. I'd be curious to know more about what's happening in other locations as I feel like Melbourne is a bit of an outlier in many regards.
Or you can just use Google and not bother with any of this
Worse than the C2xxx family? Intel has a trust deficit.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/02/07/intel_atom_failures_g...
Same in German. I mean they are kind of similar concepts in any case.
I don't understand your point. Stories about bad people sell? That goes back to Bible and the Odyssey.
Yep, after. And all hyper casual (lol @ the term) publishers have a free-to-IAP business model.
Without specific numbers it is a bit difficult to be as clear as I would like but I read your comment as suggesting that the savings from owning/hosting your own equipment could pay for the team needed to operate that solution -- but then what was the point of switching?

The devil is in the details, and I wouldn't say that it never makes sense to bring operations in-house, but your post didn't make a clear case from my point of view.
https://archive.md/5lmc9

rm is disallowed to remove . and .. under POSIX, so, for that reason, / needs to be treated specially too.
Can you elaborate on the TF-IDF and document matching part? I'm very keen!
Valve is a private company which gives them a lot more freedom in their statements. Apple is a public company, their statements have real and sometimes severe consequences.

Eg See the sorts of messes Elon Musk gets himself into
It goes both ways: local talent will learn from the biggest companies in the world without having to leave, meaning their know how can be turned to local entities as well.

For the pay, eventually it settles down as more and more companies try to see what they can get away with. US companies won’t be paying boatloads of money eternally (they were already resorting to offshoring to skimp) and local companies will have to align to get people to work for them.
Link is so riddled with ads I can't even load it. Alternate link: https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome-weta-digital
I wrote a BASIC interpreter in literate org-mode Scheme once. I find it helpful to organize my thoughts in notes, add code, and turn that code into a working program via "tangling".
Last year,I was trying to download wine to do something on Linux... I was in a hurry and just copied a `sudo apt-get install wine-i386` command... I said yes, and it proceeded to uninstall my Linux install, because I am on amd, so it basically saw a conflict and removed all my operating system packages. I went back to windows after realizing there was no easy fix and I'd have to hard reformat now that I had uninstalled everything.
I appreciate your 2 cents, seriously.
Unity to Buy Parts of Weta Digital for 1.6B
yes, you can just go into incognito mode.
we care a lot about privacy so we didn't want to mess with that.
it should just work when you're in incognito mode.
if you then also go into private mode - you'll have the MOST privacy preserving search experience that we know of, certainly even better than DDG:

Here's our blog post about how we think about the privacy-convenience tradeoff:

https://youdotcom.notion.site/Privacy-and-Data-Protection-at...
Well it may depress you even more that I didn't even expect constructive feedback like yours when I pulled in Germany into this discussion (it is the Elephant in the European Grid-Operators-Room anyways).

> 1. Coal

Yes, from Poland

> 2. Renewables

Yes, definetly

> Solar

Already plans underway to force every new home to have solar panels on its roof, regardless of the direction of the gabel and regardless how non-significant solar energy is in Germany anyways. Existing home-owners love the idea of increasing construction costs for future home-owners...

> Wind

Already plans underway to massively increase density of windmills per km, regardless that the existing mills already are turned off for most of the year (because it would melt the grid to keep them running), regardless that we're chopping down huge amounts of trees to make room for them, regardless of the environmental impact of planting unremovable kilo-tons of concrete footing into the ground

> Ocean Currents

No, for two reasons. One: Maintenance costs make this technology inefficient (rust). Two: Since we're world champions in moral soundness our whole tidal-range-gifted coastline is deemed a national park and as such is forever excluded from any such infrastructure work

> 3. imported oil

Already doing that.

I fear, unless there is some crucial pain of whatever sorts on behalf of the average German, our nomenclatura will continue to proceed with the current polciy of "nearshoring responsibility". Because:

> It ain't gonna happen. People won't meaningfully reduce their energy-consumption

German consumers still don't do that, despite paying the highest electricity bills in the developed world (almost twice of what the French pay). Apparently we can still afford to kick down the can (or rather to kick it across the border).
> The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director.

Although rotoscoping is a venerable technique, the results we're looking at with this service don't bear much stylistic resemblance to early works like Fire and Ice or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (or more recent rotoscoped works like The Little Mermaid either). If they did, I'd have given them a pass on the 'anime' claim, even though calling the Disney house style — or Bakshi's — 'anime' is still a stretch.
I've had access to You.com and I can attest that the initial experience is good. The search results are on point, the layout of those results is flexible and fresh.

In contrast, when I use an engine like Google, the ads often cover the first five slots, or the totality of my phone's screen...
“ Critics of the software say it essentially allows the state to buy its way past the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans from unreasonable searches.”

Interesting. Clearly data analysis can find all the tax dodgers, but is that an unreasonable search?
Why are multiple people making the same post. Is this a popular talking point somewhere?
My understanding with housing is that is nearly always costs the same amount no matter what mortgage rate is, so in times of high rates list price is lower, times of low rates list price is higher, and adjusted for inflation the ultimate montly payment of mortgage+interest remains about the same. Seems like if you bought today you'd have to cough up a huge down payment vs when rates were higher, and its this initial costs from things like down payment and paying pmi that makes people initially house poor.
Very weird. Whether this is a misguided project or not, the issue of censorship is extremely relevant to HN, and is often discussed at length. How did this end up getting flagged?
Privacy invasion and surveillance is like invading countries a bipartisan issue. They always moan when one side uses government excesses against the "other" side but still vote for enhanced executive power and overreach all the time.

The national security and surveillance state is as bipartisan as putting economic sanctions on poor Latin American countries, arming proxies, funding NGO fronts and bombing countries.
Yeah There's better jobs then programing for 50k a year. Why would I keep doing this then. I'll work a ski lift or something
I thought the same thing as I was reading it, but I think they are probably using larger block sizes than the SSD's blocks for better compression. I'm not certain though.

Edit: reading other comments, it looks like their block size is only 64KiB, so this isn't the case, so I don't know the answer. I can only think that perhaps it is an issue because ZFS doesn't deallocate the freed blocks quickly enough and they are making changes fast, meaning a significant amount of disk space is used by blocks that are about to be TRIMed but haven't been yet.
Slack and WhatsApp do it, too. I bet also in most of the other major messengers around right now (Signal, Matrix, Telegram). It's a thing in MarkDown, as well. Now that I think about it, some of the only places I type prose where that's not what surrounding underscores do, are HN and various Apple programs (mail, notes, et c.)

[EDIT] For that matter, we all did the same stuff in ascii for years. Asterisks for emphasis (bold, now, in many places), underscores for underlining (which, in the case of, say, book titles, is better represented as italics if you can print italics instead, so I'd guess that's where the "underscore = italic" thing comes from)
Although if this ends up undoing the entire explosive upward trend then it would probably end up lower than $1000 for at least a while.
P.S. This book just came out that should be interesting to a few folks here: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/time-travel-probability-and-impo...
We're actually focusing primarily on the hardware right now. The website is very much a placeholder, but it does provide a rough ballpark.

It's a challenging task, but by focusing on productivity applications and a higher price point we can go a long way.

We're working with a specialized VR optics design firm to get variable resolution lenses that will give us ~40 PPD in the foveal area at 90deg monocular FOV, or ~35 PPD with 100deg. Currently finalizing the spec and we expect the design to be finished by December.

Our panels are going to be 2.5k x 2.5k Sharp LCDs, so towards the higher end of what's available on the market right now.

The original plan was 2880x2880 BOE LCDs, but we ran into issues with them (lack of support and then the entire product line was tossed into dev limbo due to an ECN from their main customer) so we tossed them and worked with Sharp to get something suitable.

The mechanical parts are probably the most "visually" advanced at this point, and we're planning to update with our first prototype soon.
Is the WaPo subscription full or is it more like Apple News where you only get access to a couple headline articles and have to pay even more beyond news+ for full access?

just looked it shows me $5.99 a month for wapo add on.

If so might be worth it for me even though I don't use twitter. The rest I think are mostly available on news+

Full bloomberg on apple news is $34.99 a month, though they do have more free articles than WaPo it seems and at least I can understand the value and niche of financial news not really worth reading about unless you're in finance.

I don't think NyTimes is even an option anymore. They make enough profit on their walled garden seems they won't ever participate in this stuff again.

The Apple News subscription I already pay for seems to be more for magazines. It used to have everything.
that's it. very easy if you're technical.
of course, we don't want to block our users.
we are just trying to make it convenient and easy to have navbar searches - we found that if you're not in the navbar yngmi..
In my opinion, the fact that all your extension does is change the setting is worse, not better. It's purely a user-hostile choice.
Congratulations! Game development is what got me interested in programming in the first place. Once I put my first pixel on the screen and I figured out how to interact with it blew my mind, limitless possibilities. Since the pandemic started my wife and I have published one game [0] and currently have a second one [1] in a pre-release phase (probably going to make a separate SHOW HN post once it is live).

Keep up the great work! We use Unity3D for our development

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gibberish-game-against-friends...

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-setting-sun-block-puzzle/i...
Sandra's Experience Visiting Egypt
I'm not sure if you're aware but Tor has a specific mode for OP's situation, where it disguises traffic by using standard TLS on standard ports which looks no different to any other HTTPS traffic for example, among other things.
> But if free will exists, then time must be multidimensional.

Can you elaborate on this? I don't see why free will contradicts 1D time.
For those interested here's the thesis written out by someone at the start of this year.

https://josephcollinsul.medium.com/the-uranium-bull-thesis-c...
The Folds.jl package [1] mentioned in the article is very nicely written, IMHO.

For another alternative to Julia's built-in `Threads.@threads` macro, folks may also be interested in checking out `@batch` from Polyester.jl [2] (formerly CheapThreads.jl), which features particularly low-overhead threading.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaFolds/Folds.jl

[2] https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/Polyester.jl