skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think at this point we can just expect this stuff.

The ridiculousness of it, though. The rekieta law stream (which is fantastic, btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7YXd2M5E-8) has anywhere from 4-12 active lawyers giving commentary and context to everything that is happening.

This is exactly the type of thing we dreamed about when we were first creating the internet.

However: often times these smaller independent journalists and commenters go against the reality that media companies want you to believe you live in. Thus: they get censored. Rekieta lost almost 40,000 people who were getting live commentary from a diverse (idealogically) set of lawyers, and now must to places where these companies can assert more narrative control.

It's sad.
I could take 7 month off from my job - all I have to say is when - it's the law and I could not be happier.

The child got off the ground well and I think it stems from both parents being regularly present during the first year. Also, being a young parent is stressful, so it's good to share the effort.

If all goes well, my kid will be a productive member of society - so maybe it's not just family friendly, but profitable, too.
You misunderstood, the day to day solution is batteries. Hydropower is for when your not getting enough sunlight in the day not when the sun goes down at night.

Currently, 5% of all solar power generated in California is wasted and that number keeps increasing because people just keep adding more solar. Storage is currently cost effective, and it’s only getting cheaper. More storage means building even more solar is again cost effective until eventually the grid ends up looking very different.
Assuming the filters don't add extra pollutants, the "bad" water would only have 25% more of whatever is in the input.

If the input is just barely not good enough for drinking, the "bad" water is probably still good for showers.
But those 'thousands of counterexamples' do not tend to have lasting success; fleeting success is fairly clearly popularity-driven. Lasting success takes producing works that appeal to good taste. Both Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa are great examples of artists that have produced works with lasting success. I would put Lil Nas X, 2Pac, Eminem in that category too, as another example from 'not pop.' T-Pain, less so. :)
Julia combines the following:

- multiple dispatch

- parametricity

- lightweight subtyping

- staged programming

In interesting ways.

felleisen's class talks
(partially) about it here: https://felleisen.org/matthias/4400-s20/lecture15.html

I guess the best way to put it is that Julia encourages a style where 90%+ of code can go through paths that are static.

Personally, I think Julia starts off as easy as python, but to get C++ or Fortran speed, you can't just code naively. Things go into a steep learning curve at that point, but perhaps there isn't yet as much know how about how to code "professional Julia" yet. There needs to be a book like Fluent Python or Effective C++ for Julia, or perhaps a condensed version of the Julia manual (see the 1 page zig manual for inspiration).

The other problem I have with Julia right now is lack of static type checkers. "modern python" (e.g, python in production in the last 5 years) tends to leverage the large ecosystem of things that hook into mypy (I'm taking about tools like pydantic) to reduce the inherent brittleness of the language. Ruby, php, and every other dynamic language has also seen that trend.

Right now, I've barely seen that with Julia, and it needs this badly for higher uptake in industry. It's why for example, perhaps you see a lot of Julia packages written for people's phds right now.
No, I don't agree there is an average bar. Everyone's opinion of that bar will be different, and nobody has a monopoly on deciding what anyone else's bar _must_ be.

In parts of America, operating a chainsaw at 10 years old is part of the bar. My bar does not include riding a horse, operating a tractor, or firing an automatic weapon. But there are places where those are simple life skills.

I guess you're right that there is some kind of blended average you could take of every bar in the world. It would probably include basic math and communication skills.
Show HN: Interactive maps of three historical conflicts
> basic, unhealthy, cheap, low-class

"Basic" is clearly not a useful adjective, when a grilled cheese sandwich can be made with a variety of different ingredients some of which are easily available in most parts of the world, and some are not. Certainly you can make a basic grilled cheese sandwich, but it's a logical fallacy to leap from there to "all grilled cheese sandwiches are basic".

"Low class" is again highly ingredient dependent. A grilled cheese sandwich made with some "rare" sourdough bread, irish grass fed butter and 3 kinds of artisanal cheese from different parts of the world is just as much as grilled cheese sandwich as one made with wonderbread and slices of american "cheese product". It's a similar logical fallacy: just because you can make a "low class grilled cheese" doesn't imply that "all grilled cheese sandwiches are low class".

"Cheap" is also covered in a similar way.

Unhealthy I will generally concede, other than to note that our ideas about what is and is not healthy or unhealthy food shift a lot over time (and often loop back on themselves).
the links are broken in the article. Not sure what twitter answers was
I want to say "that's not a function of the RO system, but rather an added complication to the rest of the water system in the house." It is similar (to an extent) as the collection of rainwater for similar non-potable applications.

This means running multiple water systems through the house. Hot, tap cold, non-potable, filtered. One could combine the tap cold and non-potable to simplify the use. But it's the same problem (and solution) of using rain water as non-potable and RO waste water as non-potable.
Dilemmas of Twenty-First Century Globalization: Explanations and Solutions
Not yet or not exactly.

The EU parliament has voted on the issue[1][2], but member nations have to implement the laws following a central directive.

[1] https://reclaimyourface.eu/our-voices-have-been-heard-ep-cal...

[2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210930IP...
I did a little analysis on this back in 2020 (pre-covid) when I was job searching: https://jcaip.github.io/Startup-Equity-TLDR/

Hope it's helpful!
Last time I got a fresh Mac, the bloatware all had an icon on the dock - so that is a combination of a start menu entry AND a tray icon.
Aren't you kind of ranting about rants? And am I ranting about you ranting about rants? :)
This looks like a herculean effort over just the past few months. Congratulations on hitting this milestone and hopefully you can take a breather and tie up loose ends at a more comfortable pace. As much as HN has changed over the years I still think this is a place where there are a lot of people who can appreciate how you feel right now. Nicely done!
Yes, true. But back in the day they were ultra reliable, I've seen a few fail but that was mostly due to gross abuse, if you were kind to them they'd last forever. Plenty of the oldies still in use today are proof of that.
This is very impressive, but I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t want to expose any new software written in C to the internet.
I find this interesting because there really is no opposite of depression besides not being depressed.

I've experienced death of loved ones, loss of job, homelessness, mountains of debt, abuse and I've experienced a huge range of emotions through all of that - yet, I've never attributed it to depression.

Most people I know who express they suffer from depression actually suffer from anger.. (and for valid reasons)
Funny thing about that.

At Alpha Microsystems, about 1982, I was in charge of the diagnostic programming group. At that time failing memory boards were expensive and customers would not be happy with such components.

I wrote a memory testing diagnostic that was based on knowing exactly how addresses were mapped to cell locations so I could try to provoke such failures.

Chip manufacturers were aware of this problem which is why they scrambled the addresses.

Potential vendors, Motorola et al, were required to provide mapping information before we would consider their chips.

Now I'm curious to know what such mapping looks like with modern memory chips.
ah yes, it's just a clocking driver. the ecc requirements are into the ram chips themselves. i had misremembered.

https://www.rambus.com/memory-and-interfaces/server-dimm-chi...
>a native speaker would most likely say

But you could also assume the title and post was written by a non native speaker (which appears to be true), then you are still confused.
This is the Little Snitch[0] problem. If you have ever used Little Snitch, you will soon realize that 1) there is so much crap phoning home and 2) most people do not want to deal with giving permission to each and every one of these services.

I have tried giving permission and at the end of the day, it's just not worth the time. For me, Little Snitch is great as a reporting tool but it's just too much work as a firewall.

[0]https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Deciding on the Future of Your Mainframe
Talk about not getting back to you sooner... Sorry about that! It's feedback like yours that makes us think this will not only be a good, affordable housing solution for some folks, but could also be a straight up enjoyable way to live regardless of the necessity of less-expensive housing options. Of course the family commitments make it extremely difficult, particularly if you have children (I'd hate to judge someone who would consider it, but it really doesn't seem like an acceptable place to raise kids once they're past, say, 2 or 3 years old).

Really, sincerely, thank you again for such kind words about it.
> Owners never have influence on the price of land. That is strictly determined by the surrounding dwellings.

But then the owners of those surrounding dwellings also had nothing to do with the appreciation of their houses, right? Only the owners of their surroundings added value, and so on. What a contorted argument you'd have to make, to claim that land somehow accrues value due to zero action of the people who happen to occupy it. Land appreciates because of the choices made by the community who lives there, e.g. to attract industry, prioritize certain uses, create or draw desirable businesses, etc.

The choices made by your parents, and the other parents from your previous generation, are almost entirely the reason why a the neighborhood you grew up in appreciates. And they make those decisions for your benefit, because they want to create wealth and community for you.

The responses to my comment confirm that yes, liberals absolutely believe nobody has a right to investment of their parents. What an alienating perspective, I hope you guys run with it and shout it from the roofs.
This breaks with using standard web scraping methods (non-headless JS engines). Had to deal with this issue recently due to everything being a damn SPA now. Look into Selenium for running headless browsers if looking to scrape the modern web.
Is it Apple's job to flesh it out, or is it better if they come up with a spec for HomeKit and have third parties create devices?
Piazza Virtuale – A Social Media Experiment (1992)
Free Nord VPN Premium Account Username Password List 2021
Yes, the wind powered deal, but it appears it's actually been conceded by the physics guy. I guessed wrong. Glad I didn't bet. :D
Exactly. For the longest time I trusted Google.

Today I still think there are lots and lots of nice people there but I don't trust the organization anymore and I feel like a jackass for trusting them for so long.

Please note that I trust them a lot more than China or Russia, I just don't give Google the benefit of doubt anymore, they have to earn my trust and then some every single time until search works, they have provably stood up against China a couple of times, restored the browser ecosystem etc. A tall order yes, but Google is the one who could do it if they weren't so ridiculously busy with things I don't care about ;-)
The full size SD card slot is awesome for photography.
California in recent years has been racking up a number of wildfires started by powerlines, both residential and interstate high tension lines. Granted, the PNW has a completely different ecological/rain story than California, but to say there's zero environmental impact (risk) is probably inaccurate

You also need to cut big grassy "highways" through otherwise undisturbed forest, and run roads through there, so that the trees can be trimmed back (ideally annually, but realistically every 3-5 years) it's pretty disruptive ingress of human culture into otherwise undisturbed wild forest.

I'm pro more infrastructure, but there's a lot to be considered here, you're introducing humans, effectively forever, to previously (and increasingly rare) untamed wild lands. Once that infrastructure is approved and built, it is almost never recalled
That's an interesting question: 1st gear at idle in low range (4-Low) in a typical ICE vehicle is about a slow walking speed. I wonder how smooth the electric motor would be at that speed without additional gearing.

Anyway, there's off road and there's off road. If you're a few hours from a road, EV can be useful at the low speeds you'll typically be driving at: If you are days from a charging source, not so much.

Going on a long trip with an ICE vehicle, it's not a problem to carry a few cans of gas/diesel.
My stock Ubuntu LTS desktop crashes all the time, about 3x a week. Still can't figure out why.

I love linux, have used 4 different distros as my daily driver for the last 15-20 years or so. Yet still my linux-using friends and I have this joke: 'but will it hibernate?'

And to answer your question directly:

> Why are people using obviously extremely broken stuff

a) it's not obvious and b) it's not extreme. Apple products work smoothly for most people most of the time. We're on hacker news where the entire point of this forum is the selection bias around tech stories like this.
It allows energy independence for a time of war and trouble, since you can install complex locally producing projects relying on a global grid to smooth them out.

Then at war, your local supply will have it's normal ups and downs, but you'll be self sufficient.

> Perhaps this creates a disincentive for any of these powers starting a war.

Or... we can just stick with Golden Arches theory and not move that to critical infrastructure.
Graviton is not a prediction of the trend; its a signal that Amazon is willing to make very deep investment into custom, customer-facing hardware if Intel/AMD can't deliver what they need.

The trend is yet to come. My statement is that, if AMD/Intel doesn't adapt, Amazon has the hardware investment to leave them behind, just like Apple did.

But to be clear on two points: They will probably adapt. And Amazon/etc will probably never leave them behind fully. DCs, especially public cloud, are not all-or-nothing like Apple's Mac Lineup is.

Then the question follows, why would they want something Intel/AMD isn't offering right now? The trend is System-on-Chip. Beyond Security (this isn't the last electrical interference/speculative execution-like attack we'll see). SoCs are easier to service (easier != cheaper. holistic replacement versus per-component debugging. servers are cattle, not pets). Denser. More vertically integrated. Capable of far higher IO performance. Lots of benefits.

Mega-servers with 256 cores and 4 terabytes of memory still have a huge place in all DCs; but not when multiple untrusted workloads are running simultaneously. They're not for EC2/Fargate/Lambda/etc; they're for S3. Highly managed, trusted workloads.
Does this stop a double spend?
It grasps it by the husk.
There's more than one way to leak memory though.

One way is the classic where you get memory from an OS call, and then you lose the pointer to it. Valgrind will then correctly tell you that there's this memory that your app can no longer access.

But you can also simply use more and more memory without losing track of where it is. Say you have some function that gets a new piece of memory and then stores the pointer, again and again. Such a program isn't leaking memory in the classic sense, but it's still using more and more memory. Your tool won't know that this isn't supposed to be happening.

IIRC a common way to leak memory the second way is in GC'ed programs where for instance you might have a closure that owns the pointer, thus the GC when it's marking the objects does not think it needs to clean up the object at the next sweep.
Here's the original markdown, hosted as a Gist. The original markdown came from thier RSS feed which seems to contain the original markdown instead of HTML.

Gist of the contents: https://gist.github.com/lelandbatey/0d699715405d9f1b61991f09...

RSS feed which contained the Markdown of the original: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/rss.xml
Yes? Original source vs not original.
While this article focused primarily on things being left unmaintained, etc. there is also a huge problem with things being touched for no reason and making them worse.

When handed what must be a mountain of bugs and unfinished items, why the hell did they prioritize things like breaking notifications and Safari tabs, for instance? They’re in a position where engineering resources desperately need to be closing gaps, not creating huge new ones.

There seems to be a prioritization problem at the very least. Which I get, on some level who wants to work on the broken things? But if they threw some money at this they could fix it.
Previous submissions (that have comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314648
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318508
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12484248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008688
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363705
I screwed up in university early on as well. I took a break of a few years. I don't know where you are, but there are a lot of universities that offer night/weekend classes. I worked full time and took classes at night. I ended up really enjoying my education because I was working and using what I was learning in class in real time. I ended up being glad that I waited and I feel like I got a lot more out of my education than I would have if I had started right out of high school.
I did the same. I disagree. It required two rounds of reboots even though it was the latest iso and the Ethernet didn’t work (i219). Then whenever the thing goes to sleep all the windows move to the top left of the screen when it wakes up.
Yep. I have a system tray CPU monitor running on both my Linux mint and mac computers. On mint when I don’t touch the computer it just sits at 0% basically all the time. On macos there’s always some junk flitting around doing who knows what. photoanalysisd, or sending telemetry for 3rd party apps, or iCloud syncing or something. It’s like the 2 E cores are there just to run apple’s bloaty crap. Shame those processes don’t limit themselves to E cores.

Is there any way to turn all this stuff off?
D.B. Cooper at 50: Push to solve case gains steam
It looks super clean to me, the only exception being for the love of all that's good and holy always brace your one-line if statements and loops.

You don't want your own "goto fail" do you? ;) [1]

I think you did a great job.

[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/02/24/anatomy-of-a-got...
Michigan's emergency manager law has been on the books since the eighties and was passed by a Democrat, Gov. James Blanchard. Most Michigan governors have appointed at least one. When the people have elected a dysfunctional and crooked city government (or school board) it's a way to do an end run and fix things.

Republican Gov. Snyder (a former VC) promised to fix Michigan and he appointed 18! What Detroit's EM, Kevin D. Orr, did was nothing short of amazing and it led to Detroit's comeback.

Most of the rest of the EM's either succeeded or quietly failed, except Flint. The guy running Flint was a complete and utter disaster. They weren't even saving all that much money by switching to the river water.

Where Gov. Snyder and his staff failed utterly is they tried to cover it all up. Someone should be held accountable for the coverup but sadly it doesn't appear that's going to happen.
I'm on my phone but I think you can do this if you're using awk anyway:

netstat -rn -f inet | awk '/default/ {print $2;exit}'
I graduated with a degree in computer science and engineering and I feel like I'm in a similar boat. I'm older(48) with a family. All the cool tech seems so far way with maybe 5-10 hours a week available to learn.
they sort of do, albeit with a custom api and requiring you to register as a developer: https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...
"Easily" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that first sentence. Moving is very expensive, and requires a lot of spare capital and time off. Renting trucks, breaking leases, paying deposits, and not working all burn through money pretty quickly. It's also logistically tricky, as often you have to land a job before moving because landlords want to see a job and income before letting you move, and low skill jobs don't want to hire someone in the indeterminate future.

And you also need to consider social networks. Poor people depend heavily on their existing social network for financial safety. Having a social safety network when things go poorly is the difference between having a bad time and going homeless. Moving to a new area involves potentially shedding that safety network, which is a high risk high reward maneuver. Often for those on the edge of financial ruin the potential downsides emotionally dominate the potential upsides, which is unsurprising if you've ever experienced poverty.

Can it be done? sure. People do do it, after all. But it's difficult, risky, and expensive. If you ever find yourself wondering why most people don't do something that's "easily" done, then chances are it's less about people being lazy or dumb and more about there being factors you've missed.

> but a lot of people can’t even envision not living in a mega-city.

I think the snide tone here is completely unwarranted. It's not that people "can't even envision not living in a mega-city", they live there for a variety of perfectly rational reasons. If you've ever talked with the working class in those "mega-cities", a lot of them would absolutely love to move to at least a smaller city, but feel like they can't because of everything I said above.

And even outside those mega cities it's not like everything is perfect either; there's not some magical utopia in Kansas or wherever with high wages and low COL that the workers are too stupid or too myopic to move to. Most of the areas with jobs are also expensive, and getting more expensive still. Places that are actually cheap are cheap because there isn't a lot of work to do, because they're unpleasant places to actually live, or because they involve a hellacious commute into the areas where the jobs are.

The commute thing might sound petty if you have a new car, but it's a big problem if you're poor. Long commutes cost more in gasoline and maintenance, and an unexpected breakage can put savings (if any exist) and jobs at risk. Nevermind that adding a long commute might not be possible on top of the hours required to float the household financially.
Isn't this just a market opportunity for other companies?

Google isn't the only company that owns the field of information retrieval. They just came the right place/right time after the .com crash.
Can I ask you why? I mean, I know about memory safety and stuff, but it is that bad?