skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hilarious propaganda, can only work on people who never interacted with Soviet products. Real reason is you could only afford to buy it once in your lifetime with soviet earnings.

> But this longevity wasn’t just a matter of thrift. Soviet goods were more about quality than quantity.

hahahaha. Just one random example - Russian made Rubin 714 color TV had the tendency to overheat, catch fire or straight up blow up, and burn down whole apartment complexes. From the very same source as this PR piece comes: https://www.rbth.com/history/329086-why-soviet-tv-was-danger... It was so bad even official Paper controlled by central committee was allowed to write about it https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-01-me-580-st...

"fires caused by defective color television sets that explode totaled 5,490 in 1985".

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/tv.htm

"sixty percent of all apartment fires in Moscow are caused by mass-produced Soviet television sets, which had a tendency to explode. Of the 715 apartment fires in Moscow in November 1987, 90 were blamed on exploding television sets, a statistic the Soviet press viewed as an alarming commentary on Soviet technology."
Why would different individuals need to "get their story straight" just because they discussing a similar subject? The "there aren't enough web tools" folks and the "there's too much effort spent on web tools" people are not a collective mind. They are each individuals with their own experiences. What does it mean for them to "get their story straight"?
> You can certainly go wrong with Docker if you wander too far off the reservation.

Such broad generalization can can be said about any technology.

You probably meant things like Kubernetes right? Well, that's no longer Docker. Kubernetes even work with Podman so it's not a Docker-only thing.

Stick with Docker and you'll be alright as far as technology to learn for 2022.
Yes, but can it run Empire for the -10?

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-10
Why would this be caught after so much releases ? Any link to the history ?
Yes, and comes with a ton of off target effects
Maybe someday I’ll write an Earley parser in rust to figure it out (and I like writing Earley parsers and not actually using them).

What gets my goat is people saying it is a crime against humanity to write code in C++ instead of rust because reasons.
is this still the case when you get lightning triggered from large amounts of smoke in wild fires? i’ve seen footage of fires in australia where the smoke becomes so big it starts to cause it’s own lightning
My point was that it increases stress and anxiety over time
That sentence is under the "Limited Lifetime Warranty" section. TP-Link's "Home and Smart Home Class" routers have a 2-year warranty, not a lifetime warrranty. Also, as others have noted, the OnHub is still being sold.
https://www.pcg-random.org/

PCG's statistical quality is "excellent" but chacha20's just "good"?
Agreed. I have been going to those VR demos at SIGGRAPH and film festivals for years, generally ending up with eyestrain or nausea. This year, after a covid hiatus, I notice much more attractive results.

(1) The hardware is better: higher resolution, faster fps, cable-less.

(2) Authors are starting to figure out how to tell a good story in a VR/AR environment.

(3) Artists have figured out what works in a 3D immersive environment. I have seen some really clever renderings.
This can't possibly be sustainable or worth the reputation risk of getting caught.
Agreed, I think it's important to highlight that the 73% is a projection.

That said, to be clear, the 0.7% is what was measured the week of 12/4, not more recently.
Yes and this makes all the Lisp-like metaprogramming possible!

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/

It's pretty cool, although I haven't used it much myself
Wow unless you were specifically bringing up racial issues as a personal problem I can’t even imagine how that would come up. I went to a therapist for years and had no idea what his politics were.
I'm a little confused as well, but 2 things I noticed.

1) It's 2% cut a year, so you save 200B the first year cuts, 160B the second year cuts etc.

2) This calculation is based on happening several years out, with significantly higher military spending.

But I still "only" see .65T in savings when they start cutting 2% a year in 2025 from 2.2T budget
In fact it was, but on the second day, it would no longer compile. After a long debugging session, Romulus realized Remus had unpublished the hWall (or aMoenia) function in the night. Romulus then murdered his brother.
My first thought was: how hard to do you have to strum it for that to happen?
Things that solve hard problems tend to be beautiful only from the right angle
2022 is going to be even more about communication, with many of you working remote.

And unstructured, dispersed, realtime communication is not going to cut it.

The skill to develop is time-boxing and scheduling communication, as well as avoiding communication silos.
Agreed. I liked everything about this but the mandatory week-long travel.
From Facebook and Java to Common Lisp
The sarcasm is getting in the way of whatever point you're trying to make.
When you think about it, it would actually be crazier if our common words matched exactly with biological evolution.
Europeans are a lot worse at capitalism, in general, than Americans. Partly because we're not required to be. Western Europeans are more or less born into a massive insurance scheme that will bail you out whenever the going gets tough. This is mostly good, IMO, but not without cost.
We use Streamlabs OBS and their support page guides you through BlackHole for setting up on a Mac.

Where would I go to find info on setting this up natively? I've looked before but clearly missed something.
Show HN: Embeddable Prolog in Go
You are talking about what stringy things can be done with byte slices and I'm talking about all the byteslicy things that shouldn't be done with strings.

Like subslicing. And accessing individual bytes in it.
I was always bemused by the claims that MS-DOS "stole" from CP/M, since CP/M was clearly modeled after the DECSystem-10 and RT-11.

It's too bad Microsoft used EDLIN instead of TECO, however. I miss TECO.
AWS serverless all the things
It's important to understand -- the ODs are caused by adulterated supply.

Perhaps PhDs are on average better socially-connected so that they have better supply chains. But it isn't directly because of personal characteristics.
As a security guy, I'd much rather hear from the Rust "zealots" and all their Rust "hype" all day long than hear about yet another memory corruption vulnerability in software used by millions.
> I'm not aware of non-academic general purpose languages that actually fall in this category.

Erlang?
Is that another company that they purchased and crushed?
That's really great to see. Just today I was downloading graphics apps in Haiku and looked around for GIMP to no avail. I didn't realize it was such a complex issue and am glad some good people are sorting it out.
Read the article. The management of WHO covered up sexual abuse, up until an investigative journalist blew it open. Yes, they are a deeply corrupt organization.
That's true, but it's true for all non-gc languages, and a problem for gc'd ones too.
Unfortunately malloc-free is unavoidable if you're writing code that needs to allocate memory rather carefully (e.g. guaranteeing no OOMs—Rust has many situations where it'll silently heap alloc and then panic on OOM). Looks like Zig has accepted that it'll be used for those situations and decided to make that experience really good, instead of deciding to be a rustalike or insist on RAII. I think that's an appropriate choice! It makes me excited to use C less.
I am absolutely sure that if I had been given the out of ‘having anxiety’ as a young adult, my life would’ve gone very differently, and probably very much worse, than it has. I think I would’ve allowed myself to lean into my tendency to be introverted and possibly ended up friendless and alone, and in an unfulfilling job.

Note that I’m not denying that people might have mental illnesses that have deep rooted or physical causes that _need_ therapy or medication in order to live a fulfilling life.
> it shouldn't be easy just as e.g. treating floating-point numbers as byte sequences shouldn't be easy.

That's a nice analogy.

> Doing find substring by find byte subsequence won't behave correctly in many cases, where semantically equivalent strings have multiple different bytesequence representation.

Unfortunately that's nearly impossible to do sanely in the general case, no matter how the string is represented.
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Is there a place where we can see the raw count of samples that were sequenced in the last week and what % of them were Omicron vs Delta?
And lived and died something like six miles from where they were born.
You don't have to be a jerk to have low social credit score. There are many things which are obviously normal (like being gay) or even beneficial (like particular psychoactive substances or uncensored books) but are outlawed in certain countries.

Did you know having smoked some weed in Arizona (where it is legal), which you could have done even for a scientifically-backed medical purpose, automatically makes you a criminal in South Korea and you will be thrown in a prison if you then travel to there and their officials find out, even if you are not their citizen and have done the "crime" years ago and fairly far from their soil?
How and why sound to me like slightly different questions and the best one might depend on the answer.

"Why is something still standing" could be circumstances related - eg all the other ones got demolished except this one for reason x, or y group of people stepped in to maintain it etc

"How is something still standing" sounds more like the method for it standing - eg the structure had some extra cross bracing on the lower level etc

Maybe it's just me :)
You’re in for a treat, it’s within a timescale of 200 years or so, but definitely. The climate, terrain, distances, ownership, and uselessness of most of the land involved really encourage preservation, albeit rotted out and rusting.
Learn to be kind to yourself, while being kind to others, and vice versa.
Dr. McCullough certainly sounded like he had expertise on the topics discussed, but a search for his name + fact check shows some unfavorable results such as:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

That was definitely one of the more anxiety-ridden JRE episodes this entire pandemic. If half of what he says is true then we’re just like the average German citizens living through WW2. Completely oblivious to the atrocities.
The news articles stating this number are refering to data for the week ending the 11th. I can't get that data through the link, only the week ending the 4th of December with a low estimate. iOS, Sweden. Anyone else having that issue?
How does it end up in the main Facebook feed, almost working?

Because Facebook is, itself, a giant scam machine basically.
Python is fine if you have a good IDE and a very strict type checker config. I use the most strict configs I can manage and it's almost at par with static typed languages, at least where you're developing and refactoring. Runtime is another matter altogether, though I've never had problems with Python once I have ensured types going in and out match and validate inputs.
I’m ignorant to such optimizations—-is the idea just to be small enough that your presence isn’t noticed stuffed into a exe/pdf file or are there other reasons a virus designer would want to create such small executables?
Of course it's unethical, it's time theft. It requires you to be dishonest. You can make money as a con artist in many ways, this is just one of them. You can lie about your qualifications and experience too. If your only reservation with being dishonest is the possibility you might get caught, I think that says a lot about you as a person.
I'm almost degoogled... except for Recaptcha, and my Pixel phone with LineageOS...
I enjoyed this book about the Carboniferous and the late Paleozoic ice ages.

https://www.amazon.com/Carboniferous-Giants-Mass-Extinction-...
Carmack made a few veiled statements about lack of technical maturity for making immersive 3D environments with low interaction latency.
Technically the shortest UTF-8 representation is _the_ representation and _correctly_normalized_ Unicode is uniquely represented, but fair enough. The unknown input may be slightly malformed. Complexities like this is why one shouldn't underestimate the nuances (and runtime costs!) of implementing proper Unicode. As for representing byte sequences as byte sequences, that is the most basic way to represent strings of text without placing any assumptions on them. It's the assumption of potentially incorrect invariants that's the issue. If you have faculties to handle Unicode correctly (and very few languages do), then using something more opaque may be better fitting than a byte slice.
There's a connector called Tag-Connect which is actually only a PCB footprint with holes, so you get it for "free".
My career of treating patients has ended
Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes
I have this strange feeling you could switch two sections in there and make the exact opposite argument.

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You pay taxes so that there are roads, healthcare, schools, libraries, firefighters, etc, and yes police and the military.

The bulk of taxation in pretty much every country - even the US - goes to protection, not some naive idea of supporting the common good.

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Also note how all of your examples are nationally bound, not global services.
I am confused. Is this article in favor of Rust or does it complaint Rust is over hyped?
Who says the 200 acres isn't farm land which already doesn't support wildlife?

And Sally may be providing more housing, but she is also making significantly more income and can do so subsidized by her neighbors. Her housing is also likely to go to higher income residents as it would be new housing in an expensive area - and those residents will have less space and no yard.
Though I think Clojure has a linear datastructure that's O(log32(n)) for all the common ops. (This is the one with all the memeing because someone called it "practically O(1)".)
CDC should remove note about Newcast from website. It gives wrong impression and may confuse people.
785 Omicron cases in Denmark, Dec 16 report for Nov 22 to Dec 7, Table 2, https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

0% fatal, 0.13% ICU, 1.2% hospital
4.3% Covid-recovered
76% double vax, 7% booster
14% unvax, 2% single vax
77% no travel history

Edit: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/politics/white-house-omicron-...

> Some of Biden's advisers are encouraging the administration to begin discussing publicly how to live alongside a virus that shows no signs of disappearing ...
Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic's every up and down.

Edit2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29633899

> The CDC’s Nowcast algorithm has some kind of bug, and the prevalence of Omicron nationwide wasn’t really 73% in the week ending December 18. Take that to the bank ... You will see this walked back. The CDC will explain what happened. The Twitter experts will have to walk back their initial tweets. The press will have to publish a new round of articles clarifying their prior wave of headlines. It might happen tomorrow, later this week, or some time next week, but it will happen. This result won’t stand.
It's not about hygiene theater. It's about the government mismanaging the health system and degrading capacity, while leaving the educational system without any actual hygiene measures (no masks, no distancing, no ventilation, etc...)

The entire testing and contact tracing infrastructure has crumbled. You have to wait 3+ hours to get a test, and you have a good chance of being sent back home. Meanwhile, there is an 81% chance that one of the two people next to you in line are positive, and there is not enough space for you to distance themselve from them.

Now even the most optimistic projections are that within two weeks there will be a shortage of ICU beds, so a lockdown is required.
DBT is an evidence-based psychotherapy and it specifically calls out catastrophizing as one of the 10 unhelpful thinking styles. Whether practitioners should be specifically trained in DBT vs some other modality is up for debate, but catastrophizing's not this unknown systemic risk - it's just more of healthcare under capitalism, which is rife with these sort of issues.
Cold showers are a great way to start your day. It takes a while to get used to them but I've always found them refreshing. River immersions, I don't know.
Thank God, no debugger needed.

:)
If you disable "Nowcast", you go two weeks backward in time. The CDC is doing its very best to give you information here.

I've been making Covid-projections since ~May using these data. This is the first time I've seen them emerge on a day other than Tuesday in months -- they got this one to market because it matters.

It is my ongoing impression that the people behind these projections are doing the very best they can with the very best data available in the US. If you compare last-week's data in today's release with those released last week, you'll see a substantial refinement as new sequencing data roll in. If you're forecasting covid-trends in the US, this is one of the very best resources you've got.

(Also, shout-out to the UK HSA. When the next variant comes, I hope we've gotten our latency and reporting up to your daily Omicron-report and weekly Technical Briefing level. Y'all are helping the whole world, too.)
Obviously if you had been using a memory safe language, like Rust, the zealots wouldn't have been able to get in.
Lipstick Index
>They laughed at Columbus

They were right to laugh at Columbus. He thought the world was 3x smaller than it had been known to be for more than 1000 years. He was lucky he found the new world instead of starving to death halfway to India.
Wouldn’t that apply to any kind of disaster or disablement fund? I don’t get it.
Google uses visibility rules all the time (with Blaze, which is basically Bazel). Mixed with the repository's OWNERS system which uses a hierarchical tree of permissions files, you can't take a dependency on someone else's private packages without their permission.
I’ve spent countless hours playing insta-team on Venice. Any Linux distro which doesn’t include Sauerbraten in its package repo isn’t one worth using, IMO
The Gunfighter Pa
Try reading up on the neighborhoods in your new city, figure out where stuff is, and just go walk around and explore and see the place. Maybe that means parking somewhere each day and then walking from there; try to write enough directions on a napkin that you can find your way back without using your phone.
1 in 3 people get cancer and yet nobody thinks it will happen to them.
Lucky that he was able to use a clip - the power draw of the other components on the board sometimes overwhelms the programmer and causes the voltage to sag. When my BIOS failed I was unable to use a clip and had to desolder (don't have hot air equipment). Ended up pulling off one of the pads under the SOIC8 BIOS chip and had to reroute the pin of the newly programmed chip to another point on the board.

Also props to the writer for mentioning the fact that the CH341A drives the flash chip with 5V rather than 3.3V without modification. Many sites don't mention that and that can destroy a 3.3V chip. I believe the datasheet for my Winbond chip mentioned that the limit was 4.3V or something like that. I only figured that out when I probed the programmer's signals as a sanity check before programming.
I've had Chinese MREs, once. It was the worst food I've ever tasted. Someone in the family had a can from former prc military service.

I don't know what it is, but maybe the Chinese army deploys so infrequently (almost never?) that they place zero priority on their MREs.

I begrudgingly eat US MREs once every 3-5 years for about a week or so as I replenish my one case of MREs for earthquake supplies.

They're actually not as bad now as they used to be. The new replacement for thin wheat bread is like actually edible and doesn't break your teeth.
Any ArchiveBox user here? I can successfully archive the linked html page of the full article, but archiving the url of the PDF (which is viewable in the browser) only gets the limited version of the html page.
> (I agree the US Senate should have a supermajority voting requirement, etc.)

The senate is inherently anti-majoritarian, in that it half of all senators can represent vastly more than half of all citizens. When you pile on a legislative super-majority it just becomes absurd. At a 60 vote requirement, something like 25% of the population potentially holds veto power over the other 75%.

That ain't mild.
It's not a exact comparison due to the winter storm, but ERCOT does see wholesale prices $1000+ MWh during the summer peaks and super peaks.
Wow, this article is probably one of the best non-technical arguments against Rust I've ever read.

Thankfully most of the Rust enthusiasts are not like this one at all.
In the US the Feds and most local govt have left it up to the local communities which has been a disaster. Nobody wants to do the right thing.
> Military spending has roughly doubled since 2000, both globally and in the US.

But is this in nominal or real dollars? Because a large potion of that would have eroded to inflation at this point if nominal.
Sounds like a new Soundflower.
> * CSV: wrong. the spec does not tell you to decode any strings, nor is it necessary to have any unicode awareness in order to properly read and parse the data or deal with the delimiters.

CSV is defined in terms of characters, not bytes, so CSV parsing does require you to be encoding-aware: if your CSV file is encoded as UTF-16, bytewise parsing will destroy the data.
Linuxtouchpad.org – The Linux Touchpad Dev Guide
Stupid RCU Tricks: Removing Config_rcu_fast_no_hz
Also, learn language x and understand the problem space it operates in before trying to kill it.
The cube2 cell data structure is one of those things that stays with you forever. An octree where the leaf node encodes edge lengths delta to a cube, allowing for practically free-form meshes.

One might imagine an alternate universe where Minecraft is inspired by cube2 instead of infiniminer.
Rust evangelism is one of the cleaner examples of people absorbing a technology as an element of personal identity . You have all the hallmarks:

- rhetoric taking on levels of hostile zealotry like the linked post

- aggressive insertion of the topic in conversations where it is inappropriate

- inability or resistance to recognizing faults

For another modern example of technology as crusade, see "the blockchain".

It's just a programming language. It doesn't seem like a great sign that this is the type of language emerging as acceptable from a community.
That is super cool. Thanks for the reference. The TTL footprint would have saved me a ton of hassle on a recent project.
Why not just implement a subset of SVG?
You are no authority to redefine computer science terminologies, make a new one.
It is already 2 weeks for "Omicron" hogging the news. If it is as deadly as Delta, by now you should have heard a lot of death and not "number of infected". Even if there is a delay in death due to better care, hospitals in SA should have full of patients in ICU rooms with pictures showing rows and rows of patients on ventilations. Even if you use the arguments lots of them are vaccinated, there are stil many not vaccinated especially outside of 1st world categories. SA isn't exactly at western EU level. I think this isn't as severe as most healthcare professional have expected. I would speculate this would be nature's way to confer us with some immunity.