skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notion that some people want to escape the bleak realities of their grim existences is not particularly new. One just has to look at the history of alcohol consumption; for parts of history, a lot of people were drinking quite a bit. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcoholic_drinks#Me...

Sure, people also use Twitter for that. And almost everything else. As a kid that was surely a big part of why I read huge quantities of SF novels.

But that doesn't mean that the only point of having a beer or reading a paperback or using Twitter is time-wasting escapism. I learn a ton from Twitter, getting insights and experiences from people I never would have heard from otherwise. Other people get real community out of it. Still others find it professionally useful: networking with colleagues, finding jobs, keeping up with their fields.

So maybe you're using it wrong and maybe it's not for you. But your inability to get something out of it doesn't tell you much about the experience of a lot of people.
Big fan of https://danluu.com. Also recently stumbled upon one of his posts that lists various different programming blogs worth a read: https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/. Found quite a few interesting blogs from there!
You can also say it’s about a third of a day of data for CERN (they produce about 90 petabytes of data per year, according to https://home.cern/science/computing/storage), but I think you need to express it in human damage.

Some people may have lost years of research. Imagine having worked for a Ph.D. for a few years and losing all your data (if you have gigabytes of data, I doubt you’ll push it to GitHub, especially if the university says it is properly backed up)
Unvaccinated people are a threat to the public on many grounds. Many of these points are already all over this discussion here, but you’re asking so here they are.

Unvaccinated people with covid on average have the infection for longer and have higher viral loads, so they are more likely to spread the virus to others than vaccinated people are. They are much more likely to need hospitalisation, putting a burden on the health system which hurts health care workers, and uses up health care resources needed by others.

People with non-covid illnesses, or people with covid because they can’t be vaccinated for various legitimate reasons, are dying in some cases because health care systems are so busy caring for sick or dying vax deniers with covid.

So these people are a clear danger to the public, and our health care systems in particular. Their choices are putting unreasonable and unfair demands on health care workers, and even killing people.
This doesn't seem stupid at all.

BestBuy is considering two different scenarios and trying to handle both:

BestBuy is avoiding leaking account status on their password reset page. This is done precisely so that people who don't have access to the email account can't figure out where you have accounts registered. This is a pretty standard approach.

BestBuy is providing visibility to people who can't remember if they have accounts or which email they signed up with. Simply trying to reset your password and never getting an email leaves you in a situation where you are unsure if you waited long enough, missed the email, the business is having deliverability issues, or if you have an account. Having worked with businesses around reports of password reset email deliverability issues, it makes complete sense to me.

This all seems like a perfectly reasonable approach.
The running water in even large cities isn’t potable, since the Chinese apparently don’t put a high emphasis on water purification. Instead, the tap water is cleaned just enough to be free from major impurities and contaminants. Everyone is used to just boiling their water instead.

In all likelihood, even if they went to the expense of cleaning the water to drinking water levels, people would still boil their water and distrust the tap. So, I think drinking water is not a high priority.

Also, it’s uncommon to have running water in very small communities. Here we’re talking about villages with an average population of 1000. Well-water works just fine for many rural folks, and so it is in China as well.
You can disable that element of the Reddit website using uBlock origin.
I would love to team up with someone for the purpose of collecting detailed product data similar to Geizhals (gtin/ean, detailed specs, origin country, price history, available sellers based on country, etc).

My only requirement is that I'm allowed to use the data for my non-profit search engine (https://ask.moe), including exposing the data through a public API (you would of course also be free to use the data for any purpose). I would also love to use the data to build for-profit websites together (ideally in Hugo or Vue.js, and without any user tracking).
I have an idea to replace posting on Facebook/Twitter where you sell your and your readers privacy with posting on your own blog.

To achieve this, blogging platforms (I am aiming to WordPress right now) must remove the obstacles in user experience: people stopped blogging and switched to Facebook because posting on FB has more profits: it is easier (just visit front page of FB instead of logging to wp-admin and doing next steps), you have all content in one place (FB wall shows your posts and your friends posts etc) and tickles your ego (you immediately get likes and shares while on your blog barely anyone comment your post)

I am working on plugins and tools to remove this distance: front-end editor box for your blog ( https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box ), plugin to subscribe to other blogs and see their content as part of your blog, plugin to give local likes for posts, broadcast your content to other blogs...

Everyone will have kind of their own Facebook on their own WordPress blog.

I am WP plugin developer as my main job but all above I am doing in my free time as a hobby.

If anyone is interested in collaborating to make the network a bit less occupied by big techs, please reach me here https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box (create an issue or pull request if you have an idea how to extend this plugin) or find my email address at https://muzungu.pl/o-mnie/ (in Polish but you will easily find the address)
Cofounder at clerk.dev here

2021 was an exciting year for Clerk and for authentication more broadly. I wrote this to share where we see traditional auth solutions missing the mark, and a bit about our expectations going forward.

It's been an exciting space to work in, especially as technology stacks are actively changing around us. If auth challenges interest you, we're hiring: https://apply.workable.com/clerk-dev
Well, since I have no plans to make a business around this, I'm not worried :)
BTC ASICS have much better performance per watt for mining Bitcoin. It’s almost impossible to be profitable with btc mining on GPUs. ETH and many other alts are mined on GPUs though.
> And it does no matter if the number comes from HN comments or peer-reviewed journal article.

I’m sorry, that’s absurd. You will always be picking pedantic fights with people if you expect everyone everywhere to meet the standards of peer reviewed medicine.

From the outside picking a fight over the difference between “93%” and “about 93%” on a technology board is pedantic to the point of being suspicious.
Econmist has some free limit /month. Also some universities and other insitutions IPs will get full access without subscribing directly

In general, Economist has been paywalled for 10 years now.
You are the one who made the claim that age is relevant to this when it is not as if the ICUs are full, it impacts everyone.

So maybe find the source and share it here since you are the one who made the argument? Burden of proof is on you, not me.
Oh I agree its a bad long term solution, but assuming they had noticed and used the correct type, 2043 is likely well past the lifetime of the product and would have worked fine till then. Not great, but certainly passable.
Writing system software in Rust is an awful choice. Use Julia instead. /s
This post is about Canada.
My thought when reading this article was surprise at that perspective. It's not one I've seen before. A lot of comments here as well as in the article itself hints at the issue being that it's grown so much in the last decade that there's too much to get into for a beginner.

I've worked with graphics programming since before these changes, so I might simply have had the benefit of watching it unfold while already having a decent grasp of the state of the art at the time.

Is it more complex than any one person can handle?

If we're talking grasp of the theory, I don't think so. I feel I have a rough idea of what tech is out there and how things work throughout most layers of hardware and software. And I'm not the most knowledgeable. But I dedicate quite a few hours every week to reading up or brushing up on things.

If we're instead talking about a single person being responsible for the full graphics pipeline in a AAA game that certainly seems like too much. The projects I've been part of have ranged from teams of ten programmers using an in house engine to AAA productions based on fully featured engines maintained by a dedicated team. On both ends there were multiple programmers working on the graphics. I've also been the sole graphics programmer on a AA/large indie game using Unity. That's definitely possible and required me to understand and make modifications to most levels of the graphics pipeline.
Not smoke at all when at work, because otherwise you are going to take smoking breaks „outside” but actually positioned in such a way next to an open door that the air flow will pull the smoke towards inside and I will still smell it
Once basic access and activities are tied to money, there are more transactions and audit trails. How do you envision keeping privacy?

Also, right now, we have problems, but do get both types of free (beer and speech). I'm afraid we'd lose both once finances are attached to basic activities.
I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but algebraic days types are a fairly common way to encode different kinds of days that have the same shape.

You may also be looking for fields: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics). You could probably also describe the relation between different number types as linear operators over a vector space
Relativity is not modeled in the vast, vast majority of computer systems that track time. So the nitpick is irrelevant.
No, it is very much relevant. And, systematic denial of employment, education, access to government services etc to a group based on a medical condition very much is apartheid. It is in poor taste to deny it, but I guess the apologists in South Africa were legalistically talking about “nature of the government’s power” too.
Hey I just added me email to my profile. Happy to share more directly!
GP found HN that year, might have missed the headlines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosu...
Postwar American suburban development is terrible for raising children, too.

https://youtu.be/ul_xzyCDT98
-maybe. Depends on the transaction. The currency could be up to the trading parties. Some may be effectively anonymous.

-criminals use the free internet now and use the free real world too. Crime is crime regardless whether it costs money to engage in or not. If gasoline was free do you think crimes would increase or decrease? I'd say probably increase.

-sure large corporations would be able to afford a large number of micro transactions but it seems that is better for society than a bunch of manipulative or irrelevant ads and user tracking.

-no

-poor people would still exist just like they do now. Watching the latest meme video is not a human right. Almost everywhere on earth internet service costs money. I don't see how it is different for content to also cost money.

-no you would not be required to charge for forums but it would be kind of stupid for you not to if most other people were doing it. Just like it would be stupid for restaurants to give away free food. Creating content takes time. Time equals money. Right now the surplus goes to mega advertising racketeers like facebook or google. I would rather see the returns to content creation go more to the creators or moderators.
I agree, and I would love to see more exploration of this in non-toy programming languages for sure.
I actually like C++, it is not perfect for sure but it's getting better, plus the famous "there are only two kinds of languages: one that nobody uses, one that many complain".

In the end there is really no alternative, in fact there is none. I could not find a language to replace c++ myself in practice, so I will keep using it all the way.
There's three 0s before the last 1. That pushes it over the edge of what a long int can handle
Can you explain how variadic generics are solved by traits, please?
This post is frankly delusional. You say a bunch of things but have zero explanation for WHY those things might be true. It’s clear at this point that Bitcoin has become an utter failure for almost all the things it was supposed to do, aside from making certain people rich due to speculation.
>and you already have the IT staff and servers to run it on (you can try to justify it with less admin costs and less server costs but the numbers don't add up for some orgs)
Wouldn't it be done more like this though?

"%04d%02d%02d" % (999,1,1)
You do not need a code of conduct for complaining about a sexist remark inside a corporation. CoCs ruin projects, create a stifled atmosphere of hate and distrust and it is always the wrong people who obtain power.

Persons who are vocally against CoCs can very well be on your side regarding sexist remarks. Personal attacks are difficult to quantify. Often they are a last resort for shutting up someone who thinks they should dictate everything in a code base, even if it is outside their area of expertise.

Perhaps Google's C++ code base is too mission critical to let it be ruined?
I consider an area unwalkable once an intersection 5 or more lanes wide appears.
Toddlers that know the difference between browsers and command prompts should be enlisted.
Awesome thanks for sharing! I can see this being helpful for us as well.
As a clarification the more we are not in the early days anymore the lower the IPv6 latency is expected to be so being this far along is a supporting reason not a how come.

It's likely not the peering points creating the difference at this stage. Initially they created a difference in favor of v4, now they are about equal, and later they will create a difference in favor of v6. For the moment the directness of v6 to being routed out vs v4 being sent to some centralized translation entity then being routed out is the likely culprit. Particularly since these numbers are driven primarily by mobile carriers who sometimes don't even have native v4 to the end user at all.
I completely agree. I also believe strongly that this will be the natural progression to which the internet will evolve.

The capacity for processing microtransactions exists now. And the ever growing discussion around privacy, and profit driven attention trap platforms has added pressure to find a better solution.

What would it look like? Because I don't see the current platforms every adopting microtransactions.
Not even worth arguing with this propaganda hype man…
I'm good with aerospace related subjects. Python is my main language. Would love to contribute to any aerospace projects!
Just as an existence proof, I interviewed for a team at Apple in Tokyo. The job was all in English and the team members had varying levels of Japanese language ability. I did not get far enough in the interview process to discuss comp.
It doesn't have to be, but our economy is structured to name it one of the primary ways to justify something's existence, Ave basically the only way to make something sustainable.

The incentive structures are built to make financial incentives take precedence with most things
When imperfect and unpredictable human beings are involved, nothing is certain.

But I can say with a very high level of confidence that ultimately this case has no legs to stand on.
I'm working on solving the problem of allowing non-technical people communicate about math without needing to learn Latex. There is also an element of classroom organization/grading optimization along the lines of gradescope. All code for the project is GPL.

https://freemathapp.org
Not sure why they mention Bitcoin throughout, afaik no one is using GPUs for Bitcoin anymore, ASIC miners like Bitmain's S19 thoroughly dominate.
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/

detailed blog of development of a Wii emulator
> But it's a forced choice, and people who are not interested in sport or TV should be allowed to prefer something different.

Exactly. Why not allow philosophy, or history, organic farming, game theory, theology, Austrian economics or other subjects as preferred party conversation topics? Why does society privilege TV shows and sports?
for a usable multi-user system it is necessary to be able to protect files from other users. a simple profile is not enough.

fortunately haiku does have multi-user support in the kernel, it's just not implemented in the GUI yet.
We’re building a Golang library designing DNA. Most synthetic biology tools are essentially crap Python scripts - we’re looking at building maintainable tools for the next 10-20 years

https://github.com/timothystiles/poly
Okay, so for real. Please don't always equate "higher paying" with "better." Probably the most destructive force in the world. May you find happiness.
Every Major Tool a Heart Surgeon Uses [video 8:16]
> I always hear about the easy setups, but never about total (man-hours included) cost of ownership through a couple release cycles on each component.

I run about half a dozen web apps on a single node on Hetzner with Docker swarm mode + traefik ingress + whatever the web apps need.

Any app I have is deployed in seconds as a docker stack. I treat my Docker swarm node as cattle, and I have an Ansible script to be used in case of emergencies that deploys everything from scratch. The Ansible script takes, from start to finish, only a couple of minutes to get everything up and running. I can do this with zero downtime as I have an elastic IP I can point at any node at will.

If I wanted, I could optimize everything even further, but it's already quite fast. In fact, I can get a new deployment on my Hetzner setup up and running faster than I can get an EC2 instance available in AWS.

Proponents of big cloud providers as the only viable option typically have absolutely no idea what they are talking about regarding availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery. It's mostly resume-driven development seasoned with a dash of "you don't get fired for picking IBM".
The exception is the async API which was first implemented by Neovim, but Vim followed with something incompatible. Most plugins that need it are compatible with both though.
Come on now, you can't really believe that someone who "just couldn’t let something go because it was wrong or incorrect and it bothered" them - would have failed to live in and deal with society 30 years ago.
There are almost certainly very few cities in the world (if any) where residents who need to use public transit day in and day out think it's a consistently great experience.
Anyone who buys a GPU second-hand is an idiot. They would have been running at maximum silicon temperature 24/7 with the result of massive wear.
Indeed, I'm aware but felt it would be overkill to mention this when the person clearly didn't even read the whole article.

For people interested, look up the "nothing at stake" issue.
The map is not the territory.

The efficacy of any computational operator on a specific representation does not impute the same for all instantiations since the semantic link between identity and representation may only exist in the mind of the programmer and not the computational device.
I have the same setup in both vim8 and neovim. It's symlinked over from neovim, because I like the xdg ~/.config dir better, keeps things tidier. Basically pathogen, lightline and vim polyglot. I use vim8 most if the time out of habbit. I like Lua better but I understand it has poor handling of strings and I don't know how that fares with and editor extension language.
And what's to blame for the tulips high price? A broken fiat monetary system.

The reason why tulips are so successful and anti-fragile is that they can be grown everywhere.

By the way, if an activity like mining is only profitable because of money printing (depressing interest rates), given the world has been in zero to negative interest rates, this means the activity is not productive.
This argument is scientifically (which you wanted) void: since you are not making a comparison with a low vaccination country, it does not make any sense. Try harder.

I'll give you an example: Russia with relatively low vaccination rates has close to the highest number of excess deaths per capita. Portugal you mentioned is not even close.

> are absolutely no 2 countries like each other

fortunately there are like 200+ of them, so one should be able to see a trend. Even the 50 US states would work.

From what I see you are the one not understanding science and ignoring facts here. You just dismissed my first link based on an irrelevant claim that countries with high vaccination rates still have outbreaks (duh).
I vote for making this a monthly post or at least biannual!
A few from things I've bookmarked:

https://netflixtechblog.com/predictive-cpu-isolation-of-cont...

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...

http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/decisions.php

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/intelligent-dns-based-lo...

https://medium.com/bumble-tech/api-for-qa-testing-features-w...
Lua is already a supported scripting language in Vim.
my experience is that c++ community is very helpful, community is a small part of the real world, there are friendly and "bad" people, ask politely and to the point, help while you can, ignore some rants once a while...
Blackberry Will Run Out of Juice on January 4th
I agree with advertising being a racket but the internet used to work just fine before the likes of Google, Facebook and payments for access to things etc.

For those of us old enough to remember, there was a time when people created things for fun on the internet. It cost pennies (relatively speaking) to do it, and it still does, and there was no worry that we were being exploited in the process. And there was no expectation that when I visited your web page about the electronics behind purple Beany Babies that you were trying to monetize and data mine the shit out of me.

Plus, the website owners didn't give a shit if they knew who I was or not: if they really cared (and I really cared) I could sign the guestbook.

Some of them eve had ads. Nothing wrong with a banner ad that relates to the content. Nothing at all. But that's not enough. The ad companies want to run javascript to figure out every single data point that they can about me and everything on my home network.

It's not my job to validate a company's business model on the internet. If they need ads or microtransactions to survive and all ads are blocked and no one pays for their content, then they die. End of!

No, I do not want that kind of internet. We used to have a perfectly functional internet without mega-corps wanting to fuck me over constantly. We used to have a perfectly functional internet without SEO spam. We used to have a perfectly functional internet without constant monitoring and having to prove who I was etc.

We can have it again too if we really want it.
ask your mom, you'll find out its still important.