skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well TIL that printf won't lock stdout.

Calling stdout.lock() by itself makes little difference for me. Using BufWriter as you have I get ~80 MiB/s (slightly ahead of PyPy).

My implementation also has/had a String allocation in the loop, kicking that out got me to 120 MiB/s. I tend to write it as though the numbers/strings could be changed by a product manager at any time.

Final edit/errata: I get up to 140 MiB/s by appending .to_string() in the integer case instead of format!(), which makes some sense.

I didn't bother saving my original C implementation, but in retrospect I think I didn't use string concatenation, as I have with other languages. Redoing it with string-concatenation, C is slightly slower than Rust, 110 MiBs. Also makes sense as concatenation in C is slow.
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Contracts are limited in what they can enforce. A lesser known example is if you don’t benefit in any way then you can’t form a contract.

Which for example brings up the obvious approach of to sue YouTube for copyright infringement as they don’t have the rights to display your video if their not paying you. I expect you would lose that argument, but it might not be thrown out of court.
Cool idea but that voice is like sandpaper to my ears.

Maybe a female voice, a bit quieter (the soundscapes are almost completely silent for me) and maybe add some high-room-size, long decay (5-10, maybe even 20 seconds), wide panned (like 100%) and moderately diffused (maybe 10-20%) reverb to the voice with like 30% mix or so, which would add a very airy tone and help the voice blend in a bit. If the TTS engine has a whisper setting (many do), add just a bit. It'll help thicken the reverb.

That, paired with bass-heavy soundscapes, will create a very nice balance between the low registers and the voice's high registers.

Just a thought. :)
How to wear many hats and stay productive
Ballistic doesn't mean space, it mean paraboloid trajectory. A baseball is ballistic. But I concede your point.

Its pedantic though. The new missiles do have a shallow trajectory specifically to avoid interception including in the boost phase.

Add to that, the Russians have hypersonic missiles.

Starlink wont checkmate the Russians.
Could you say a a bit more a about your experience that makes you qualified to “testify” about these things? One of your posts earlier this year noted you were an “undergraduate that mostly deals with front end”
You are paying for gmail, in a coin that Google accepts: your personal information. It's not "free" ...
I would suggest unenforceable laws are not only ineffective but have a net negative consequence on society.

Maybe this is enforceable, but I'm certainly nowhere near clever enough to imagine how it could be enforced and given the state of things like drug and human trafficking I'm not convinced a politician will be clever enough either.
I like AoC because it is the least 'know the specific maths trick' of the various coding challenges out there; there are normally a couple of problems like that each year, but most can be worked out if you can think even if you don't have a huge body of maths knowledge.
It seems almost touchingly naive to assume that a superuniverse would have similar limitations as this one. We don't know anything about how different universes might be structured.

That's not just because we can't access them, but because a superuniverse system assumes a coherent set of metalogic that makes certain universe features possible and other features impossible/unlikely

Not only can we not access that, there's absolutely no justification for generalising from this universe to any metasystem in any way.

Especially if you accept the premise that this simulation has less detail than the original. Because then of course you don't know what detail is missing, or what detail is possible.

So that argument nicely destroys itself.
For it to be a "skin", there would need to be a default "skin" to "reskin". WebKit has no default 'skin' becase it is just a web view. If you make an app with WebKit you have zero browser features, not even an address bar to type an URL into.
This reminds me of the time that I obtained my original cleartext password for my old tripod.com account by simply emailing their tech support from an email account not associated with the tripod account. The email address from which I contacted them had the same username as my tripod account email, just at a different domain.

Their response email was simply my password. Not a password reset link, not a new random password. No questions asked.

This happened less than 5 years ago, when password hashing should be standard practice. But tripod was created in the 1990s when it wasn't standard, and I guess there was no budget/willingness to refactor the old database and login code.

I was not surprised to hear a few years later that their cleartext password database had been hacked and published.
Wanted to post this for discussion as we begin to hear about immune evasion of the Omicron variant. This is specific to convalescent immunity and does not study vaccine evasion.

When you hear that Omicron evades natural immunity be aware that this is the paper driving that quip. If other papers emerge please share!

This BBC report touches on the paper: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59520945 importantly noting some confounding factors not discussed in the paper.
In the US, it varies by state. In Ohio, for example:

> If you are convicted for driving with a suspended license, you will be charged with a first degree misdemeanor. This entails a maximum of 6 months in jail and up to $1,000 in fines
How did we ever discover content worth watching?
Like an actual taser?
You are absolutely correct, and I was trying to imply the “how” in my post. I’m in my thirties, grew up on computers and “social media” (from forums/IRC to Facebook et al.) and never considered myself to be that out of touch. If I had to guess the target audience for these kind of “lessons”, I’d say that they are people in the 25-35 range… not teens. I would have never thought that a 25-35 year old viewer would find any appeal in that kind of format, and that having those TikTok clips as promotional material would work on them.

Foremost, this makes me wonder how education is going to be like in 20+ years when current schoolchildren become teachers and teachers’ teachers. Are all students going to be “home schooled” (online) in periods of 30 seconds to 2 minutes by some teacher lip syncing and dancing to the latest pop hit?
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> Why is CUDA so dominant?

nvidia decided they wanted to be the market leader, and spent $$$$ developing tools, training materials, and libraries (like cuDNN) which they gave away for free.

Other GPU vendors chose not to outspend them.
Charlie Brooker eat your heart out. This is pretty terrifying. I agree, no way I'd allow anyone to fall asleep listening to this. :D

It is also pretty cool though.

Reminds me a bit of Blue Jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8VG6HUimsQ
That's a violation of the Geneva Convention, art. 118[1]:

> Prisoners of war shall be released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities.

Which wasn't in place during WWII (signed in 1949, but is now). However, The Hague convention of 1907 was, which stipulates[2]:

> Art. 20. After the conclusion of peace, the repatriation of prisoners of war shall be carried out as quickly as possible.

So, the Allies were breaking international law and committing war crimes, even after Nuremberg where they made a big point of punishing German war crimes ( not even talking about before). That's great and all, but is it really an excuse to violate international law and commit war crimes today? Not to mention the torture, illegal kidnapping and detention of many people in Guantanamo, etc. etc. No wonder the US is afraid of the ICC, half the military and political leaders from the last few decades will end their lives in The Hague if they complied.

1 - https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xs...

2 - https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/4e473c7bc8...
The main difference is I suppose is the gift giving perceived as an obligation or an expression of caring and love. If you are culturally conditioned on one of these interpretations I presume the other feels plain wrong.

If it's an obligation, then I suppose the retributive action (if any) from not meeting this obligation probably depends on the society and the event. Different societies have different responses to individual who don't play by the rules.

In general even non-literate human societies are pretty good in carrying a common ledger of who-owes-what-to-whom.

I suggest the book "Debt the first 5000 years" by David Graeber on the details.

But overall, when traveling, check the local customs around gifts from a cultural guide :)
Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10
Publish literally anything textual on the web and a moment later you'll find a dozen websites copying your content, raking in ad money, identity protected by Cloudflare and conveniently ranking high on Google.

Complain and people will all be "Freedom of speech! Go get a court order, it's not Google's or Cloudflare's place to censor content and/or decide what's copyright infrigement.".

Why is the YouTube drama any different from that? Is it because the creators are well known and have a platform and a following they can complain to?
As I recall, congress stopped Obama from shutting down Guantanamo by pulling all funding required to make it happen.
In my short time working with it, I found it frustrating to debug. Using an incorrect tag meant it would simply be ignored with no indication of why my thing doesn't work, and I found tracing issues back to their HTML tag to be annoying.

The equivalent React/Vue/etc would throw a Javascript exception. Stacktraces aren't the best debugging experience, but they're functional.

I also think Angular inherits from a more traditional UI lineage of composing styling on an element, which I find less clear than something like React that has a more backend-y development flow. That's just personal preference, but I started on the backend so Angular's "build an element and then wire it up" makes less sense to me than React's "figure out the data flow and then build elements on that" style.

I don't find it showstopping. I wouldn't turn down a job because they use Angular. If someone asked me what framework to use, I just probably wouldn't suggest Angular.
Googler, opinions are my own. I don't work on these systems at all.

My general understanding is that Google wants to prevent account takeovers, as it happens far too often. They flag accounts for various heuristics, even if you know the login (as it could be someone that stole your credentials). This normally should just trigger 2FA for that login. If that doesn't work, you likely need to go through the account recovery flow:

https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery
To clarify, when you say these are "non-utopian", it would help to know what that means to you.

I honestly think blender is a technical marvel that in many cases is better than its proprietary counterparts. The bar is quite high for these kinds of specialised and very expensive software. So, if blender is "bad", then perhaps the bar is set so high, that I don't think I can give a satisfactory answer.

"Utopian" in that there is nothing that could be better or improved is a higher bar than what I had in mind. But, just "better or equal than its proprietary counterparts", I do feel there are examples. Linux itself being a very clear one. There is a reason why it's the most used operating system by a mile (something like 90-98%). More contentiously I would also include it for desktop use. Hmm, perhaps AOSP also.

Out of the many tools you've mentioned, I've used most of them as well, and I don't consider any of them particularly great. But, what are the closed source alternatives that are better?

Perhaps also fish, as I cannot think of a better proprietary shell. Powershell and its windows integration is uaf.

Maybe some of my examples are skewed by the value I place on it not being controlled by corporate interests. That my usage isn't profiled, that I'm not exposed to dark patterns for KPIs at some board meeting.
The request for a phone number is precisely a 2FA mechanism, and that's how it's being used. I don't understand what the bad faith you're assuming on Google's part is. What do they want that phone number for otherwise?
> And when you close the lid on your laptop it’s like playing Russian roulette.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430111
But as I said there is some benefit for those posting to YouTube. So it seems like it could well be an enforceable contract.
I would fix it by removing it.
I haven't once seen copyright being used to protect "the little man" (not saying it never happens, but I'm a bit sinical when it comes to big corps)
Why not abolish the idea of copyright and let stories / characters / etc. take their course.
At first this will probably cause chaos as people scramble to churn out a metric ton of material that was once locked under copyright but hopefully in the long run this will lead to an increase in overall quality of material as people start to be more critical of the things they consume.
I'm having trouble deciding whether you talk about something that has happened or about something that could happen.

Assuming it's the latter: given enough evidence that you are you (same name as the recipient, deep knowledge of the account, knowledge of the password, etc), any court would rule in your favor and force Google to turn over the account. But I would be willing to bet that, assuming you are no one "special", they would relent much earlier in the process - the cost of the lawyers alone would probably outweight whatever profit they obtain from you, and GDPR fines can be high.
> This distinction is captured by Frankfurt (2005) who argues that a liar is concerned about the truth, but attempts to replace it with falsehood. In contrast, the bullshitter is unconcerned with the truth and speaks with no reference to it. The bullshitter falls short of lying because they make use of insincere and misleading statements rather than outright falsehoods. Recent psychological work has found that established measures of everyday lying are sufficiently distinct from bullshitting.

I'll tell you what it really is: it's banal nihilism. We have this idea that nihilism is a kind of militant anti-truth, but it mainly manifests as a lack of conviction about anything altogether. When there is no fixed truth, and your survival depends on aligning to narrative, ("getting it" as they say) the abstractions you use become divorced from anything concrete that could be interpreted as a forcing function on the perceptions of the people you are speaking to.

The article underestimates the consequences of it, and we can say "ha hah, only bullshit!" but it's much, much more pernicious than that.

Someone who is enthusiastically fluent in bullshit can be trusted to be just as enthusiastic about destroying ecosystems, livelihoods, cultures, and peers, because instead of feeling existential dread at meaninglessness, they find security in it. It's difficult for most hackers to imagine that the dim agreeable affect of a middling project manager or adjunct eating lunch at their desk as barely concealing an abyss of rage and shame - one that is only relieved by tiny acts of passive sadism, but that's literally people everywhere.

The term for them was "Little Eichmanns," because the whole point of Eichmann was that nobody would ever have thought him capable of being the architect of mass atrocities, but he is the prototypical example of the "stupid and dilligent," who can be relied upon at scale to substitute compliance and bullshit jargon for meaning.

Source: banks, government, unicorns, and other institutions.
Oh yah the mortgage thing is hilarious in that you would think banks were smarter than they are (spoiler alert: they arent). Really demoralizing to see how mechanic a bank is, also means that you can understand how risk accrues secretly in a bank due to them being so mechanical.
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No colour. I want an e-ink with syntax highlighting. This is great and all, but even 16 base colours would go a long, long way. Oh also, would be nice if it were built into a MBP and I could switch between monitor types quickly, but I know that's a pipedream.
Why Developers Don’t Like Scrum
It's wood and mid-20th century slot head screws. A quarter a turn too tight or loose is fine and there's no such thing as perfect in anything made of wood anyway.

The tradition of clocking screws may be a bit silly but it is a mark of attention to detail. It is something you see in bespoke heirloom furniture and it serves no practical value.
Windows 11 Home Edition.
You and I seem to have different opinions on "dragging on". A full page of introductory fluff before getting to content, to me, is ridiculously long winded, needless bloat in an article.
> Google denying me access to YouTube videos asking me to verify my age by giving them either my passport or my credit card should be illegal as well.

Wasn't this added because of some EU law? It seems that YouTube's interpretation was that asking this is the opposite of illegal, actually legally required.
AWS to launch over 30 new Local Zones internationally starting in 2022
Are you saying that regressions only occur on Linux?
> That means I have hardware that doesn't run well on Linux, not that I have exotic hardware.

As with most things, it's worth trying again every so often. You'll be surprised how easy it is for even your mother-in-law to use Linux nowadays.
Even paid email you can be identified as a spammer. I use Namecheap's private email for my side project. I do zero marketing/automated emails.

All of a sudden my hand written emails to clients were going to spam. Namecheap verified my spf/dmarc/etc was all setup correctly and told me there was nothing they can do.

I don't communicate often and am just using my personal email address for now, but I'm looking to switch providers
The number I've kept seeing is 78% of hospitalizations and death were obese.
What Are DAOs? Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Explained-Stephen Ajulu
This happened to me when I was away from my home; I tried to log in to my Google account, but I couldn't gain any access; I tried to change the password and everything, yet the email won't update; it will only update on my browser.
I'm a bit of two minds on whether you can do writing (or other such creative work) while holding a grueling day job. On the one hand there's the notion that writes have to write, e.g. as Bukowski explains in "Air and Light and Time and Space" (https://wordsfortheyear.com/2014/10/15/air-and-light-and-tim...):

no baby, if you're going to create
you're going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you're going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you're on
welfare,
you're going to create with part of your mind and your
body blown
away,
you're going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you're going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment,
flood and fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don't create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.

OTOH, of course, there's the reality of finding the stamina to work on a creative endeavor totally unrelated to how squabble to earn your living. And, despite the commonly romaticized image, writers have to spend a lot of time honing their craft and works.

When I read about these seven writers I notice that most don't have kids and sometimes are inspired by they day job, rather than being hindered by it. Take the best example, Bud Smith (https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/bud-smith/):I get a sense that the stories that his coworkers tell daily is a main source of inspiration for his writing. And, BOY, does the following resonate with me: "I get up at dawn, drive in, get dirty, have a good time, sparks flying, squeeze in art, come home, shower, make more art. A simple and privileged life." I've often fantasized about being a blue collar worker, get home and work on my writing, as opposed to going over email.

So, what do you do if your job is, say, a Senior Product Manager, you have to go in meetings where people ascertain the obvious and say they love new ideas but explain to you why they cannot be done "in our company"; you have a kid, who you love and ant to give your attention?

I don't have the answer, except for the following time-worn message: If you're so inclined, make sure to spend time on such thipursuitsng when you're young and relatively carefree.
Yea, all the other systems.
Congrats you've reinvented ponzi schemes
Neat. Could play around hours with this.

https://code2art.jetbrains.com/#e2a68fb7
Utopia of Rules - our culture thinks that if we just had the right set of rules and everyone fallowed them then everything would work well. This is a flawed belief, like other utopias.
Failing to follow traffic laws usually doesn't result in you losing your licence because nobody finds out about it. An emergency override button would presumably be designed to alert law enforcement to the fact someone is driving erratically and claiming its an emergency. If it actually is an emergency you might be grateful if they turn up. If you just don't want to hail a taxi after having five pints... well you probably wouldn't press that button.
> Obama promised to to stop Guantánamo Bay's detention. I've long wanted to know why that didn't happen. His book Promised Land lists some of the challenges, but left me with more questions. My takeaway is that a cleanup effort that tries to follow the rules is all but impossible when the mess was created by ignoring the rules. In other words, maybe ultimately we have to ignore the rules to cleanup snafus; which is a very scary prospect, right?

Poor excuses. Shut the thing down, free everyone, and give them some sort of compensation in the millions for the horrible conditions they endured. Some of them might end up joining Al Qaeda or whatever, and using that money to fund terrorism, but can anyone really blame them? They were detained illegally and tortured for literally decades. They have every right to be pissed at the US and everything related to them, so if they decide to take it out, it's their prerogative. That's why it was a very stupid idea to begin with.
Picking out one particular extreme case and making fun of it is a pretty good technique in a debate, but it rather misses the point in an authentic conversation. The point is that the sum total of all exceptional use-cases for cars (including, but not limited to running from bears) is actually large enough in practice that this kind of rule may not be worth its opportunity cost.
Maps that could change the way you look at the world
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My personal gmail beta account is to this day being held ransom by Google. It was only used for my most important accounts, my bank, gov, utilities etc. My life, online and offline.

Despite only ever logging in from a residential line in the same city for entire life of the account; one day there was """suspicious activity""".
I did everything asked.. confirmed every detail, provided backup codes, secret answers, gave up phone numbers, every password change and dates, even the exact date and location when the account was created, E V E R Y T H I N G.

Turns out that my account is so secure that even I cannot access it.
Well I'm sure you can imagine what a total fucking nightmare it was to workaround the absolute evil that is Google.
That's my rant, I'm glad that you got your account back OP.