skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is a proper alternative such as LEDs were when Incandescent bulbs were banned then yes they can and should be banned. Unlike lightbulbs where the heat was waste, hair drivers are unlikely to see such alternatives though. But on principle yes, when there is an alternative the wasteful solution can be banned (or taxed, or the alternative subsidized etc)
It’s not a free market if some costs are externalized to society instead of priced in. Like pollution.
I cannot be inside anyone's mind, but I know that one can have more than one equally strong motives when doing something.
I would love for someone to come and visit. I'd take great pleasure in wasting as much of their time as possible and make them believe I'm about to sign up for a license via them (they get commission) just to get these assholes' hopes up.

Unfortunately Capita (the company license management is subcontracted to) must really be unlucky with the "investigators" they employ because according to their letters over a dozen "investigations" have been open against me but I have yet to see anyone. /s
Where does funding come from?
Rosetta Code Mic Drop
Many have tried, many have failed, many that is bar one.

[[http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code Rosetta Code]] is a wiki-based programming website
with implementations of common algorithms and solutions to various programming problems in many
different programming languages. Created in 2007, it has since grown (as of 16/01/2022) to a
total of 1,492 tasks, some of which are trivial, and some fiendishly difficult. One programming
language now (at last) has submissions for all of them, and it is one you have probably never
heard of: [[http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Phix Phix]]

Phix is a zero-dependency (though you will almost certainly want to install IUP on Linux) 31.5MB
download, with extensive help files and over 1000 bundled demos (~100 of which are win32-only),
which can recompile itself (full sources included, naturally) in under 20 seconds. The only real
downside is that most of the runtime is written using inline x86 assembly, so it won't run on
(eg) arm devices.

While Phix is primarily a desktop programming language, with versions for Windows and Linux, it
comes bundled with p2js which can transpile most programs to JavaScript so they can be run in a
web browser. Naturally certain activities such as such as reading and writing disk files are
not permitted in a web browser due to security considerations, however of those 1,492 tasks,
734 or 49% have been marked as js compatible, with just 82 or 6% marked as incompatible, and
obviously the remaining 45% are as yet unclassified.
Welcome to Dalian, China's high-tech hub
I read both this post and yours- I didn’t see anything inflammatory and your company seems orthogonally related at best.

If anything this comes across poorly for the IETF, while I understand the main point (they identify marketing/updates as a weakness) it feels like a personal rant against you.
It's an odd leap from electricity prices to carbon tax to basic income. And with free market as a cherry on top! There are better, more effective ideas that are effectively ignored rather than disrupting the economic and financial systems in place and letting "free market sort it out" as if it were ever possible in such a scenario.
For one such example, immediately ban or heavily tax the sale of massively polluting vehicles such as SUVs, that as a category pollute as much as UK and Netherlands combined [0], making road circulation safer in the process too, and riding the wave of EV getting more adoption. But this won't happen, since it's a successful industry with a strong lobby behind it. And as per usual, concrete is the major culprit of CO2 emissions. That's where one could look for opportunities (such as reprocessing plants where emissions are redirected) and stricter regulations. Don't increase prices like so many in Germany feel would be the right thing to do, it only impacts those who can't afford better housing (insulation, heating efficiency).

0. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/suv-conquere...
The "rage" was largely amplified by the Murdoch press who have been irked at having competition for decades.

A large contingent of the UK population can be reliably provoked into outrage when the necessity arises. This is largrly how unchecked power is wielded in British politics. Splitting the country down the middle in a fit of fury over Brexit and then sewing it back up was similarly provoked.
China looks to the Western classics Society and Culture
> •Freeze the BBC licence fee for two years to help the cost of living.

Hilarious. Even a 10% License Fee increase would cost about £8 per adult per year

Meanwhile the tax rise they're implementing next month will cost an average £300 per adult per year, and increase costs on employers by the same amount.
There is a strangeness to this piece that I can't quite get a handle on.

For one thing, it is a transcendentalist tribute, the contours of which are predictable: an intellectual living in Boston owns a vacation home in Maine. They go up there a few times a year to fill up their nature reserves, then import those back into their circles in academia/literature/media at the end of summer. That's been a cottage industry for a couple of hundred years now (Emerson, Thoreau, et al.)

That's not a big deal, I live in Maine, and this kind of mining is good for the economy. What bothers me is the piece feels compelled to cite studies such as an Oberlin "nature scale" (which seems insane) and various surveys and other studies to provide an academic backing to their run-of-the-mill transcendentalism. This approach to naturalism seems to denude whatever point they are trying to make.

As if we need experts to confirm our nature to love nature? Who is this written for?
True! That character was puzzling. As was the whole novel, though I appreciated it in its surrealism.

It is pretty funny to elevate American fast food mascots to the level of spiritual beings.
Got the Saint-Nectaire! Bravo!
> This serves as a valuable lesson, though: archive everything from YouTube channels you like!

Just threw together a script to do just this, if anyone wants it:

download () {
local directory="/archives/YouTube Archives/$1"
mkdir -p "$directory"
pushd "$directory"
# youtube-dl --download-archive https://youtube.com/$2 -o "%(title).%(ext)"
youtube-dl --playlist-reverse -o '%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' --write-annotations --download-archive .archive --add-metadata --write-info-json --write-thumbnail -f bestvideo[ext=vp9]+bestaudio[ext=opus]/bestvideo+bestaudio --merge-output-format mkv --all-subs --embed-subs -i --embed-thumbnail "https://youtube.com/$2"
popd
}

download "Jim Can't Swim" c/JCSCriminalPsychology
# etc. etc.

Throw this into a weekly cronjob and you should be golden!
Well, a few of my friends worked at Mercedes plants during summer time. Also on stations doing brakes. From the stories they tell, at least in Germany, I can absolutely imagine cars being delivered like that as well.

I had a small accident with a Range Rover some years ago that made the side airbag in the driver seat go off. I had it repaired at an official Land Rover dealer. When I got it back I only noticed at home that the seat leather is not well in place so I removed it to adjust it. To my surprise i find the new Airbag held ok pace with with multiple rounds of strong duct tape.

So far I trust Tesla more than the legacy automakers.
Composers as Gardeners (2011)
Once under construction they can be added.
See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix
> 1) There are reasons other than white nationalism for political parties to play politics with voting laws.

I referred to a very specific piece of legislation for a reason. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is, to quote Wikipedia, “a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting”. It is the direct result of Martin Luther King Jr marching against Jim Crow laws in the south. Supporting it was a no-brainer Republican policy as recently as 2006 (the last time all its provisions were re-authorized).

In other words, the VRA is no ordinary law: it is the quintessential anti-Jim Crow law. When the modern Republican party took the unprecedented step of removing these protections against Jim Crow laws, they effectively made themselves the champions of Jim Crow - the champions of white nationalism.

> It is overwhelmingly likely that these changes target Democrat voters rather than minority voters.

No, it absolutely is not. Civil rights organization like the NAACP and SPLC systematically challenge these laws on the grounds that they are disguised racial discrimination - and they win. The problem is that the legal process takes too long and enforcement is easily dodged by the states. This is why the VRA was crucial: it required federal pre-approval of voting laws, and allowed proper enforcement against states that persisted in racial discrimination.

This is not only well documented legislative fact, it is actually tought in History class. It is mind-boggling to me that it is even a point of debate. The only excuse for your argument is ignorance.

> 2) If this is the best a party of white nationalists can manage - marginal changes to try and tip tight elections in their favour - then the situation seems to seem very much under control from the perspective of all the non-white non-nationalists. It is hardly a defining policy.

Large scale voter suppression is a serious matter. MLK and countless other Americans shed blood marching to secure the VRA, and now their work is undone. That is a grave threat to our democratic institutions. I am optimistic that the white nationalists will lose, but it will be a difficult and uncertain fight ahead.

But you tell me. Assuming you vote for Republicans: what do you believe they stand for beyond white nationalism? And how do you reconcile your support with their efforts to undo legislation that Martin Luther King Jr fought for?
> 1. they are rarely stupid

I know at least 5 people who are fairly stupid but were at the right place, the right evening, the right dinner and spoke with the right people.

They all retired at 35 with tens of millions after taxes. They can coast on these savings for 10 years if they live lavishly and if they close all their businesses tomorrow.

They weren't stupid in 2-3 regards, yeah. For everything else that I chatted with them I'd call them stupid and be very confident in my opinion.

IQ is only important in the reverse direction: i.e. if it's below a certain minimum. From one point and on, whether you are e.g. at 100 or 170 doesn't matter much.

> 2. they often sleep a lot less

It's surprising that in 2022 we're still romanticizing this. Even young and energetic people can be severely debilitated by maintaining 4-5 hours of sleep a day for some mere 3 to 6 months (and I've experienced this myself, and I've seen it in dozens of acquaintances and colleagues).

The most resilient person to lack of sleep I've met is myself. I maintained a crazy sleep schedule AND was unhealthy for 13 or so years. Eventually it catches up with you. I actually understood my cognition got impaired one day, panicked, then took deep breaths and start putting myself back on track. This was 6-9 months ago and from then on I keep getting better and better at my job (again) and I heal gradually.

"Sleep less"... just no. This meme should die for good.

Seems that you bought the entrepreneur propaganda books.

> 3. they more often than not are hyperthymiacs (related to #2).

It helps if you're born that way but you can also cultivate it with diet and exercise. Or, you can be cautious and strategic and still succeed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> 5. they are stress tolerant (related to #4)

Same as sleep, this is very temporary. Be exposed to stress and uncertainty for a year and it will break you.

You might be confusing "stressful situations because you might actually live under a bridge and feed off of trash cans if you keep failing" with "uncertain situations in which the person thrives, because they are a gambler by heart, but they have a safety net or investors" here.

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Sure chronic depression doesn't help but you should also account for the fact that too many failures can and do lead to depression as well. Most success advice completely ignores survivor bias and that's a shame because it ruins the chances of a good quality discussion.
I have always been forgetful. I have never thought that was a problem. I often experience same things with repeated “love in first sight” reaction. My friends keep reminding we have done this before and I would not have recollection of that. I seem to have intentionally forgetting certain things just to experience them again, or not overthinking them that would cause any anxiety.

That’s why I hate year long lawsuits. I keep have to remember the details until the cases are settled. I want to move into woods to live in peace…
Goddamn it Jian Yang!!!
Is it it similar to Hotdog/Not hot dog app shown on Silicon Valley?
Most journalists have degrees and are aged between 20 and 50. That demographic is certainly "left leaning". The tory base is

* Old people who don't work

* People with little education, who aren't skilled enough to work as a journalist

https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2019/12/how-britain-voted-and-...

You (or whoever is downvoting) might not like that, but the fact is that in the UK context the country is left leaning, but elects the tories because of the split in the left
Middle Ages weren’t as sexist as Game Of Thrones would have you believe (2019)
For deepstream.io we've gotten quite far with a mix of node and c++ with both languages operating on the same buffer of typed arrays.

Our argument for this weird symbiosis was that we wanted the popularity of the NodeJS ecosystem at the time with the performance of C++ - and we achieved this to an at least satisfactory degree.

When it came to building binaries based on the mixed codebases, especially for windows, things were a lot more challenging.
> often on a ring road built specifically to avoid the city

I wonder who financed the ring road. Curious that we don't build ring roads where there's no cities.

> If the only “new” penalty is they can’t go see the pro sports team in person without paying a lot of taxes

The new penalty should be "you want to live in 100 km radius of a city - you chip in for infrastructure it builds the more the further you are". It's no accident that suburbanization doesn't happen in areas where there are no big cities nearby.

> Plenty of people want to live in the suburbs precisely because they want nothing to do with the city center.

Sadly you can't have suburbs without a city center somewhere nearby.
Me. A lot. For my tech work, I keep a simple text document with a long-running list (1 year now) of items to do. When I get them done, I mark them with an X and add a line of what I did, or,
if I didn’t do it (it becomes OBE, too old, or it was otherwise handled, etc.), then I also mark it with a X and make a note. I don’t delete items because I can always search my list for those things and have an answer for that item.

Surgeons in ORs have checklists.

Jira and Rally are essentially fancy TODOs.
> … this can’t be sustainable.

Cue the film _Idiocracy_
I'm really really tired of the Windows issue with their Xbox aka Game Pass App and Microsoft Teams.

I can't wait for the day I'll never have to use a Microsoft service again in my life
There is absolutely no way to set a fair price for something like that. We have no way of knowing the cost, if there is any at all.
At least pseudo-academic wokes like that leave plenty of evidence of the stupidity of their beliefs so that it cannot be in doubt.
> GUI isolation

Just like vsync, GUI isolation is a trade-off. It comes at a cost with major inconveniences for the user and programmer. On a system running primarily trusted open source applications GUI isolation is not a priority whereas letting programs talk to each other without restrictions is. On a system where you primarily run proprietary software from untrusted sources (like Android or Windows) GUI isolation has a high priority.

> The result is dramatically lower latency

You understand that the bandwidth between your front buffer and monitor is many orders of magnitude lower than the bandwidth from GPU to front buffer? This means it is impossible to have lower latency if you force vsync (especially if you have unpredictable events like user input). Besides, all the weird "timing solutions" and "offloading to the GPU" you are proposing can be implemented on X11 as well. Wayland is just a protocol to manage multi process access to memory on your GPU. Inherently it doesn't do more than DRI3 on X11.
It was Flavor-Aid. One of my supervisors in the USAF helped with the bodies when they arrived in the US.
Tesla brake grinding to a certain extend is actually normal or my car is also has a defect. Since I use my brake so rarely. It happens all the time that they rust and I need to brake a bit to have the grinding disappear.

I could imagine the rap thought that was what the owner was hearing.
I've seen other experienced people do this, like Jonathan Blow (Jai) and Per Vognsen (bitwise) I believe. I recall measuring a large space overhead from tokens myself when working on my toy compiler.

Token data will not typically be needed a lot: The token kind (integer-literal, plus-operator, open-paren etc.) at exactly one point in the parsing phase and possibly in the type checking phase but you could have a separate "literal expression" kind for that. Binary payloads (string bytes, floating point value etc.) will be needed in the constant phase for literal tokens. I wouldn't expect that a little optimization here is a difficult tradeoff to make - neither with regards to speed nor code complexity.

Update, here is bitwise's code. It looks very good to me from a glance: https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise/blob/master/ion/lex.c . I think thinking about this gives interesting insights, and the token struct approach is an illustration of how "object-oriented" approaches can go wrong. The concept of a token exists merely at the syntactical level, and the token kind controls the code flow of a recursive descent parser, but I don't see any good reasons to store a token represented as a tagged union. Punctuation tokens are completely ephemeral, and constant data, literal kinds, operator kinds etc. all should better go to very distinct places in the data store that have no resemblance to "token objects".
Don't have french cheese around me right now, I tried with the first google image of camembert and it mislabeled as brie...

On a tangent, as I'm developing a similar ai powered pwa, what's, in your opinion, the preferred way to let the user shoot a photo and upload it? Leverage the native camera/upload UI (like the cheese app) or using a custom html/js UI without leaving the app (something like this [0] demo not mine)?

[0] https://demo.kasperkamperman.com/mobilecamtemplate/

edit added link to js UI example
That's good to know. I've played 12,316 games on lichess so almost $3 worth. Might donate $10 or so soon.
The BBC is a propaganda mouthpiece of the state just like everywhere else. Even private media outfits in the UK are mouthpieces of the state like Reuters and Bellingcat.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-25/Reuters-BBC-participat...
I read a pretty interesting commentary on Canadian culture, not sure if it's more widespread but it seemed pretty apt: "If you ask a Canadian how hard they're working, you'll get one of two responses: 'Hardly working', or a long complaint about how hard they're working. There seems to be no correlation between the answer you get and how hard the person actually works".

I think Bill Gates (and Von Moltke before him) brought to public consciousness the value smart, lazy people bring to an organisation, and as a result, some people make a point of appearing lazy, either as a 'full disclosure' signal or to indicate the kind of role they aspire to.
You can spot a tourist a mile a way goes the saying in the big cities.

Your irritation is irrational; the group you are talking about is not coherent and it also exists where you live. I agree with you that there are choices being made that makes nature so much worse. I've always been a cityslicker with relatives on farms, my view of those that move in their circles they are a lot more pro destroy the nature.

If you are just talking about the privileges of nature from living in far out suburbs or country side, then I might be inclined to put you in the same category. I won't because our situation will be so different and it would be irrational to make you an enemy without knowing what your situation actualy is.
I’m not exactly sure we are disagreeing.

> we’ll give you $2000p.a. to compensate for the increased energy bill. Would you really just keep paying more for energy because you have that?

In the suggested policy I was replying to, the $2k would decrease if I (and many others) switched to renewable. That loss would muddy the gains, discouraging the switch. Besides, the methods you are describing tend to have high upfront costs.

Hence, the need for subsidizing instead, something very close, but without a negative-feedback-loop incentive.

To be fair, while that is a reasonable policy (and why so many countries enact it), I would favor requiring each company to be individually carbon-neutral, with an exponential penalty.
As a result, it is not a tax which could weaken the vulnerable, and yet it forces companies to choose between reducing their negative externalities, and bankruptcy.

But computing carbon-neutrality is hard.
Usually, the basketball playing happens when rent is still paid by parents.
BBC and ITV shared coverage of the Euros last year and their streaming offerings couldn’t have been more different.

The BBC were airing matches in 4K HDR and their service ran without a hitch.

ITV, on the other hand, a private company, had a site which crumbled under load. When it did eventually work, it was so poor as to be laughable. It probably wouldn’t even be considered HD and the frame rate couldn’t keep up.

It became a running joke on social media.

As much as I dislike the license fee, I do appreciate the services and content it funds. Non-partisan, non-commercial news is particularly valuable. I’m glad our TV news hasn’t descended into US style garbage yet.
Yep you're right. I think I made a note if it in the post at one or two points that I'm inefficiently doing these stack pushing/popping.
This is something that even the most die hard BTC fans should be happy about.

We can't go around claiming BTC is green while mining in countries that use the dirtiest of the dirtiest coal for their energy.
The German translations are pretty bad.

For example: "for starters" is translated as "für Starter" which does not make any sense.
My understanding is that the billing infrastructure for that part of Kosovo still hasn't been established. Quoting another article from balkaninsight [0]:

> While the Kosovo government remains unclear on how to proceed after the six-month deadline, Serbs in the Kosovo north remain confused on how and to whom they should pay their electricity bills.

> Miodrag Milicevic, of the North Mitrovica-based NGO Aktiv, says Serbs in the north of Kosovo are in a “grey zone” when it comes to their electricity bills.

> “Some still favour of maintaining this status, partly because they do not know who to pay, no one has complete information about it, about the method of calculating electricity, or who will be responsible for payment,” Milicevic told BIRN.

[0]: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/05/06/kosovo-pledges-to-solve...