skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone cares to share how M1s performs with virtualization tasks? Say Windows desktop or Linux cli?
> Now you may put a comment if instead you sort things in the reverse order than usual, for example so that you can implement adding/removing a price level at the top more efficiently with std::vector (which is only efficient fot additions/removals at the back).

Though in that case you should probably have a comment explaining why you didn't use an std::deque.
Another deleter-a-lot is “Why do I need this fight?”.
A 'Big Mac' is objectively not nutritious, and cheap meat though.

I like systemd.
Oh no cried the scammers, how will we ever again trick people into clicking a link
I take it the RAND Corporation cancelled their employees’ health plans when their study was published.
You can turn down the heat a few degrees when you’re out of the house and save quite some energy this way.
Over the years, the itch they were scratching tends to get fully scratched, people move on from their needs to other things.

What was enjoyable, becomes grunt work, like making the full set of unit tests for features users want, but you don't actually use yourself.

Whatever this handwavy 'other benefit' was, stops being beneficial.

But they're still paying the opportunity cost, sitting down as the older, greyer, burnt out maintainer while others get the benefit from their work.
>So what you're saying is that 30% of the people of Ukraine belong in Russia? Duly noted.

The ones who don't want to live in Ukraine, and who want to speak Russian and not Ukrainian, do.

Ukraine is better off without agitators such as yourself actively trying to dilute the culture and language; having lived in Catalonia for many years, I absolutely relate to this.
Lit style probably doesn't have much impact on performances, it's handled by the parser and mostly by ignoring the comments.

It can impact the memory of runtime-oriented languages, especially if they keep the text around (e.g. for reflection or whatever) but that's about it.
Glad to hear that you are enjoying what are already doing. That's a great state to be in.

And if you were to ever consider retirement plans, you would fit into one of scenarios that I described on the website:

> If you are already working on your passion or interest, that's even better. You can continue doing what you are doing, just with an bonus peace of mind that you have the freedom to change if things don't go the way you liked.
>But Twitter's repeated, bizarre, and unexplained API limitations hobbled the system more times than I can count. They'd suddenly suspend one for "API abuse", I'd get it manually reviewed and they'd release it.. only to have 10 suspended the next day. I even started asking followers to tag @TwitterSupport on our behalf and zero progress.

Fundamentally that's the result of a toxic, lazy engineering culture that thinks the solution to heavy load is to punish users rather than improving the system. Whoever was in tech leadership positions there at the time should be ashamed of themselves.
The Stackexchange thread on the GoL quasi-computer (which is underlying the interpreter in the TFA) mentions that the metapixels have borders that swallow gliders from other metapixels. However, those gliders are apparently used to communicate the state of the neighbouring metapixels, so presumably they don't disappear without effects. Also the location of metapixels relative to each other is probably fixed.
You never forget the Judge.
Finance beginner beginner here: what is actually free cash flow?
> And a $10/month search engine is a bad deal when ad blockers are free.

Even if Google was completely free and didn't track me and didn't insult me with their ad matching, paying $10 a month for results that are in another league is fine with me.
Free cash flow is money in the bank. if that grows, you or any company is by default alive. The higher the free cash flow, the more growth the company can finance from operations. Profitability is something different. A company can be profitable and cash flow positive (something Amazon is and always was), non-profitable and cash flow positive (not necessarily bad if the company grows, because it is fair to assume losses come from growth), profitable and cash-negative (which is a problem as operations need to be financed by debt, even small market hick-ups impacting profits can kill those companies) or non-profitable and cash negative (those companied are usually dead already).

Important to note, that is free cash-flow from operations, not including cash flow from financing rounds and the like.
I think a better analogy would be: I make a pencil and give it to someone for free, and that someone puts that pencil in a box and sells it for $10m.
The Threadripper Pro has 1TB memory, which means it's likely ECC registered, which is slower at the same frequency, and it might not even be DDR4-3200 in the first place because it's rather new in ECC, and server hardware manufacturers like to use old stuff.
Just load the state's public key into the verification apps, have the identity QR code be signed with the state's private key and you're done. You can now verify identities without the state ever being aware of verifications taking place.

No need for blockchain when a central authority is issuing identity documents anyway.

If you want to delegate signing authority just do something like SSL certs.
Acid / base and oxidize / reduce are mostly orthogonal. Acid / base is about moving around protons while oxidize / reduce is about moving electrons.

There's a table here: https://www.vedantu.com/question-answer/acid-base-reactions-...
For App and Play Store that commission is down to 15% for 'smaller' businesses (< $1 million per year) actually.
- Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smill - May be a bit dense sometimes in raw data but overall provides an awesome overview of how humanity has used and continues to use energy, from a historical, economical and physical perspective.

- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee - A very well written narrative of medicine's fight against cancer (though the author also goes into detail into other aspects of pre-modern medicine) that really executes on explaining how modern day cancer treatment came to be and what are the probable next steps towards a cure.
Interesting business but I can't help but be a bit worried. You promise not to monetize usage data and such but as a paid search engine, you are in the perfect position to do so. Even more so than Google or DDG since neither of those have my name and other PII. You would have my payment information AND valuable insight into my interests.
I agree with this, plus the "it's fun" reason others have mentioned.

I started work on my canvas library (licence: MIT) 8 years ago mainly so I'd have something to showcase to potential employers. It worked: the reason I finally managed to land a job as a web developer was because someone took time to check out the library and decided the work I'd put in was worth them taking a risk on an older new entrant.

Since that time I've continued to develop the library to help me deepen my knowledge of all things canvas. Especially since I started to look at ways to make canvas elements more responsive, and more accessible. But the main reason is just the joy I get from using it to create pretty demos and animations - the library scratches a creative itch.

I got used to the idea that I'll never be rich a long time ago. Good friends are more important than money.
Yeah, Amazon's profits come from AWS. The cash flow to enable stuff like AWS comes from its retail business. That combination is quite ingenious if you ask me.
In other news: grass is green and the sky is blue, who knew?
> This is not the direction we want to go

You are correct this is not the direction consumers want to go, but it is absolutely without a doubt the direction companies want to go.

I used to work at a very large Telco, and it was common practice at the end of the month for the Marketing team to sit around with their feet on the boardroom table and say things like "How about we introduce a $50 fee for event x (i.e. customer downgrades package / customer disconnects / customer changes payment method, etc.) - the event happens 10,000 times per month, so that means we just added half a mil in revenue a month. Done, the whole Marketing team gets a bonus.

A few months later they think of another similar idea, get bonuses again, around and around.

That is literally how it happens.
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At long last, the most powerful space telescope is ready to launch
I hated the vaccination thing sooo much. I was already annoyed that the US is becoming a communist country where all the most valuable goods (e.g. vaccines) are given to powerful politicians (members of Congress) instead of letting people in the private sector buy them with their own money. The fact that people started lying to jump the line ahead of all the honest people in addition to the people who would’ve paid for them with their hard-earned money pissed me off royally. It made me feel like a sucker for working and paying taxes. I identify very strongly with the author of this article.
I’m on the fence about whether this is scummy. On the one hand, it is diminishing an institution that families like my own relied on to have halfway-decent things for our home. On the other, thrift stores could sell these things themselves and have more revenue to support charitable causes if that’s what they should be doing. I don’t think GP is a scum bag, but when a VC backed iPhone app shows up to gig-economize mass thrift store raiding and selling online I’ll be bothered.

That said, I don’t think “we shouldn’t let everybody shop there then” is meaningful. Means testing is itself expensive and would likely penalize the very people who need thrift stores. Some things depend on the members of a society having a shared sense of what is and isn’t decent. Halloween candy is free but if I organize gangs of kids to empty out every candy bowl and sell it online, Halloween won’t be any fun.
So what is the exact sequence of events when attempting to chat with someone for the first time?

Validation of new peers is a notoriously nasty usability issue. When both ends have access to the device contacts, then, in cases that matter the most (when people already know each other), it can be done transparently, because both sides will have each other on their contact lists. The friction is zero. No access to the contacts = the need to manually sort legit contact requests from spam. Hence the question. What is it like with Tact?

Also, as others have said, the fact that all goes through Apple makes Tact no different from iMessage. Perhaps I miss something obvious, but I literally see no reason to switch.

Additionally, taking Apple's privacy claims at their face value is a very naive thing to do, leave alone basing your product on them. At the very least whatever is getting stored in iCloud needs to be encrypted with the key that doesn't leave the device. That would make a good difference worthy of a switch - an iMessage clone running on Apple's infrastructure with Apple excluded from the loop.
Bought a $4k house out of state and flipped it remotely with one 3 week onsite visit to supervise the major renovations. Took 3 years elapsed to renovate and eventually sold it at a break even after expenses but learned a whole lot.

Now playing with arduino starter kit and a bunch of different sensors and also the amazing $29 oscilliscope I saw on another HN thread.

Also bought 3 plastic recorders (musical instruments) at Dollar Tree for myself and 2 granddaughters to play "$3 Orchestra" along with Youtube music videos.
> Access to healthcare might be an answer. (Probably not the only answer though, but likely other answers will be aligned similarly)

I wonder how much of this is explained by the obesity epidemic. And this isn't something that is solved by better access to healthcare - the best treatment that modern medicine has to offer (diet and exercise) is kind of obvious and accessible to everyone. One can argue that access to healthy and cheap nutrition options matters, but again, this is not something that one would classify as "healthcare".
I was happy ignoring systemd (and no, not depending on broken debian/redhat rc.d scripts) till my distro gave update that due to GNOME 3.8 they are forced to switch everything to systemd instead of keeping it optional like before.

It became a question of "are you going to have GNOME 3.8 or later, or not"
wow, that's mad. Congrats. How the heck do you keep both iOS and Android apps up to date just by yourself?
> At the cost of thermals and power usage

Isn’t this the whole point? Sure if you give Intel a bigger thermal envelope it will do better than the M1 but that really is Apples to oranges.
> Clearly it needed a punchier title.

and it's fitting that Mdm. Perlroth is the one to provide that "punchier title".

She's _the_ definition of an unhinged talking head of infosec. Her book on 0days ("this is how they tell me the world ends") is full of logical fallacies, jumping to conclusions, lacks technical understanding, etc., yet somehow she manages to now speak about cyber on behalf of all of us and everyone is applauding her shit takes whenever some news drop. There are plenty of capable women in cyber who we could amplify. But no! We have to give a podium to this carrion.
Sure. But it's also a matter of attitude. If you don't even try because "that looks like work and I'm not paid enough for this" you won't even know what is holding you back. It could be that you need mentors, it could need that you just need to read or watch videos or practice.

That said, it's perfectly fine to just do your job and not like it. All I'm saying is that you shouldn't conclude that working more necessary means that you're giving away your time for free to your employer. Often you can get something in return, if you make sure you pick the right kind of extra work.
> I sell it via agencies

What sort of agency do you use?

Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I can't wrap my head around this -- are there "sell your web service" agencies or what?
AFAIK the systemd parts don't have well-defined interfaces. At least I've never seen any independent replacement of any of those small parts, as opposed to replacement of whole systemd.
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> Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more/less devs of each "group" are deciding to participate.

Could be also AOC getting more popular and hitting the developer mainstream more, hence skewing the percentages more in favor of mainstream tools. The absolute number of devs from "fringe" groups might have stayed constant.

Though VS Code is also getting quite popular in general, so probably that too. It is quite lightweight, just works and setting up new languages is a matter of a few clicks. Honestly the only reason I am not using it (other then not trusting or wanting to support Microsoft), is that the VIM emulation does not feel quite right for me.
I had developed an iOS app with backend for construction site businesses.
It was making ~$700/month for the last year, now I'm in process of selling through microaccquire for $60k.
If it really starts to take off I think you should consider lowering the price. Initially I understand a higher price is required to be able to cover expenses. A price that is low enough to not matter would lure more customers into the fold (if the products deliver on its promise).
There is pretty much no customer support required - I only received 12 emails about it last year. There have only been a handful of thefts. The vast majority of wallets never get stolen.

Yeah - the whole thing is appengine, fitting fully in the free tier, and getting the html template for that home page working on every browser was the hardest bit. There's no login or anything, and the database is just one record per sale. Wallets are all pregenerated. Checking for theft just involves polling a block-explorer API and sending a mail if anything changed.
I'm not sure if its realistic calculus to think you'll be easily able to make $1m passive income side project. Would you trade $1m a year for $100k passive?
I second that but unfortunately they implemented only the basic functionality. I quote https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/464729

> systemd-timesyncd does no clock discipline: the clock is not trained or compensated, and internal clock drift over time is not reduced. It has rudimentary logic to adjust poll interval but without disciplining the host will end up with uneven time forever as systemd-timesyncd pushes or pulls at whatever interval it thinks the near-term drift requires. It also can't assess the quality of the remote time source. You're unlikely to get accuracy much greater than 100ms. This is sufficient for simple end user devices like laptops, but it could definitely cause problems for distributed systems that want greater time precision.
I had an intermittent chronic pain issue for a few months this year that went untreated because of covid backlogs (UK). It stopped before they had a chance to figure out the issue. Even assuming it never comes back again, and I am now "healthy" again - the impact this had on quality of life was stunning to me, as someone who had never experienced this before. Pain, anxiety, frustration - I would have paid good money to get it treated earlier, and I don't know what I would have done if I was poor + living in the US.

I'm not sure if this answers your question - but in general I don't believe health care should just be about preventing death.
I think the analogy would work better as:

You make a pencil.

Someone takes your pencil, and puts it in a really nice box with some other pencils.

People use those pencils to draw a $10 million picture.

The box maker uses contracts to ensure they get a 10% cut of that picture sale.

Actual pencil makers gets no cut.

I can see why this would annoy pencil makers, no matter how nice the box is, or how much effort they put into sales. At a societal level it seems incentives are slightly out of wack too.

Personally, I'd rather see all the money go to the artist than add more levels of ownership, control and cuts, especially if the inputs are non-rivalrous.

The classic economics example is lighthouses, we all benefit from the non-shipwrecked ships bringing goods to market but feel like the merchants should probably contribute to their construction via taxes rather than rely on randomly charitable lighthouse builders (see: Public Goods)
That's a bit of revisionist history.

Systemd was minority pretty much till GNOME 3.8 introduced super-hard dependencies on it through an interface that was supposedly documented (Ubuntu sunk a bunch of money trying to keep alternative implementation running).

For many a distro, it became a question - "do we include GNOME, or do we drop it?" and that was impetus to move to systemd
Absolutely not. Quite the contrary. They originally dropped the charges against him in agreement for 16 hours of community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond. He inflamed racial and political tensions for attempted personal gain, which is quite a serious crime.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/arts/television/jussie-sm...
Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models
Persieds and Other Stories
by Robert Charles Wilson

scifi
> However even HN must admit the art world is a real industry, with a lot of big money players, and the reason things have value is not in the quality of the art.

If your standard is 'there is lots of money in it, therefore it is cool & good and should be embraced' then sure, I will freely admit that both contemporary art and NFTs pass that standard. So do televangelism, diamonds, and robocalls.
I met with a coworker recently who has the intel macbook and I was shocked to hear the amount of noise coming out of the thing while just running the basic programs we need to run. It was even discharging while plugged in until they closed enough stuff and turned docker off. Meanwhile I haven't had any issues with the M1.
What is interesting so is, that digital cameras killed films, only to be almost replaced by smart phones. All that did kill, or considerably hurt, manufacturers of films and digital cameras.

EVs on the on other hand will, most likely, replace ICE powered cars. With the big difference that existing ICE manufacturers will just switch production to EVs and will be just fine in the new EV world. I do see multiple case studies in that.
> Antibiotics are great, but its damned rare you actually need them, and a lost week of work doesn't show up in studies like this, and contrary to common opinion, almost all infections go away with soap, rest, and careful cleaning.

I'm glad that even in our shitty underfunded universal healthcare when I had a respiratory infection which did not go away after 1 week of nothing + 1-2 weeks of the typical broad spectrum antibiotics my primary care doctor made an appointment for me for basically immediately at the nearby respiratory care department, and there they made an Xray then prescribed an antibiotic that worked.

Sure maybe it would have gone away by then without all this intervention :)

> With rare exceptions medicine just isn't good enough to actually help, not in a way that measurably improves lifespan.

Yep. Unfortunately we are not there yet.

Except the usual success stories of insulin, psychiatric meds, etc.
I just tried a search and indeed I found a bunch of serendipitously interesting stuff!

Well done, hope it makes you more some day.
Now if only there was a way to reliably test networkd setups...

Sincerely, someone who lost a week or two trying to get anywhere with a bit more complex setup and ended up going back to /etc/interfaces because it had a "show what commands will be run" option
A lot of the quality stuff in thrift stores is bought by professional buyers and resold. I'd guess 90%+, it could be country dependent. It's part of the thrill to find underpriced items and make a good profit. If there are still a lot of bargains to be made at your local thrift stores, expect these bargains to disappear when pro's discover them or when stores discover that they underprice. Whatever is still left as a bargain is simply your niche knowledge advantage.
Several projects.

https://vimalin.com - Backup software for VMware Workstation/Player/Fusion so that you can backup your virtual machines while they run.

https://vimarun.com - Automatically run a VM on startup of your host and suspend the VM on shut down (Windows only)

https://antview.dev - A WebView2 ActiveX control so that you can use the Edge browser control in software that normally would not be able to use a modern html5 browser control.
Fixing that would require me to figure out how to deploy appengine stuff, now that Google requires you to use a whole new deployment flow, with a credit card required.

Not gonna do that unless something more major breaks...
Docker runs a linux VM and it destroys intel macbooks. I hardly notice it running on the M1. Flawless experience with minimal power drain.
That’s not good behavior but I think it’s not really the same phenomenon. That’s more of a coordinated action/tragedy of the commons problem where people want to bury their heads in the sand and do nothing because the problem can be mostly ignored for now.
2021 was the year the world finally turned on Facebook
The approach was always "fuck you" and it's bigger part of "lennart hate" than people like to admit...