skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Galesburg Illinois has a total population of 30k people, so nobody in Galesburg is spending 2 hours in a car unless they're commuting to another state.

I grew up not far from Galesburg, in a town roughly the same size. Many of the rural subdivision roads outside of downtown are paved with chipseal [1] rather than asphalt concrete or portland cement. While chipseal is certainly not as nice as concrete to drive on, it is much cheaper to maintain. I remember the road in front of my house getting re-treated every few years. Meanwhile the paved blvd connecting all these subdivisions hasn't been maintenanced since the 1980s, and is turning to rubble. So I personally think the problem (at least for small-ish midwestern towns) is the bias of state DOTs towards creating new infrastructure (paving new roadways / bridges) over maintaining the infrastructure they've already built (there's no ribbon-cutting ceremony when you're just filling potholes). Of course, this mentality only exacerbates the problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface#Bituminous_surfac...
This seems like a way to make sure nice neighborhoods have the best maintained streets. Oddly regressive for Minnesota.
> called someone a racist, days after they passed away

Wilson was being called racist by many back in 1975. I agree with them. He was a racist who tried to dress his racist political views up in scientific jargon. Like William Shockley.

If you don't want people knocking you after your death, don't write books saying whites are genetically superior to oppressed races in the US and that slavery is natural.
We are part of the nature. Whether our actions are conductive to a healthy eco-system or not, whether we maintain an environment that keeps the biodiversity in order to keep life viable for the future are the questions. But this cult of a past forgotten pristine nature, this misanthropist vision that every one of our interventions in the nature which we are as much a part of as a beaver or an ant is just religious, superstitious garbage.
Implementing a File Pager in Zig
Switzerland disagrees.
> because people really don't trust each other

Not necessary people in general. But people interested in crypto certainly don't trust each other.
It's a good strategy when you're playing SimCity but the real world doesn't work that way. The major costs of government, as the article's pie chart clearly shows, are services to people. And in the real world dense cities spend more on services per person than rural areas.

It's just the fundamental misconception that underlies all these sorts of articles. Land doesn't pay taxes and land doesn't really consume resources. People do.
My personal theory is that story telling is an ancient meme that may predate modern humans. By telling failure and success stories we learn from the experiences of others, sometimes even when exaggerated or largely fictional. On the whole it makes some tribes better equipped to survive.

Even the movie Croods has the father telling failure stories each night to warn the kids. At least until meeting the more 'successful' boy.
But isn't Tumblr userbase mainly teens and their subcultures? What's the value of not having ads, sponsor and astroturfing, if there's not relevant or interesting community to join to begin with?
I don't think you know Kosovo.
Cleopatra has been similarly dismissed, but in her case as just a beautiful face. It's wonderful to see a more serious approach to history that judges people from their acts instead of personal expectations.
> Let this man in on the Bell Theorem.

Not being able to go from here to there, sorry.

Care to elaborate?
The fossil fuel companies have been largely unable to stop environmental regulation (though they've arguably been able to slow them down in the US somewhat); I'm not sure that a few VC firms would necessarily be able to stop the government in its tracks.

Like, the big private players in crypto-nonsense just aren't _that_ big.
Agree. While I can't help but feel the timing of this announcement is deeply cynical given the appalling behaviour of number 10 staff and Boris, I also feel the BBC's editorialising has gone too far.

A good place to see this is actually on the Radio, particularly things like the Today programme and Radio 5 live. Brexit was a stark example of the same kind of coverage. Regardless of what you think of Brexit, they gave only lip service to the idea of any kind of reasoned debate (to be clear, I am not commenting either way, although I have lived in Europe for the better part of a decade and speak multiple EU languages fluently). 5 Live's 'debates' often descended into acrimony.

Boris actually banned ministers from appearing on the Today programme of the BBC at one stage, which to use a current favourite term amongst reporters is 'unprecedented'.

Don't get me wrong, the government needs to be held to account and I'm fine with the BBC roasting the government over partygate, but the BBC is a public service broadcaster that is supposed to be impartial as much as is possible. If the journalists prefer to follow an editorial line, they can move to a newspaper outlet aligning with their views. The BBC don't need to stick to the government lines either, but they should present the facts and host civil debates and BBC journalists should hold themselves to strict impartiality rules.

I think they've long annoyed conservative ministers. I'm not sure I think partygate is going too far (unlike say the relentless negativity you mention during the pandemic) but clearly Ministers have now decided to act and I can't say the BBC made a great case for themselves.
>>Extra-ordinary claims require extra-ordinary evidence. You have provided none.

You have yet to explain what is extraordinary about my claim, besides your baseless claim that the intellectual authorities you defer to haven't concurred with the assertion.

The statistics speak for themselves, and don't need confirmation from the state apparatus' amen corner to be believed.

>>outlandishly superficial and biased interpretation of a single figure?

Again with your absurdly disingenuous characterization of the share of GDP spent on government social welfare programs.

One more time:

This is an all-encompassing figure that is constituted solely by different types of social democratic spending, and encapsulates every major type of social democratic spending.

Claiming that me using this extremely revealing macro-economic statistic, as evidence of the rise of social democracy, as:

"an outlandishly superficial and biased interpretation"

is a desperate attempt to gaslight the public to hide reality from it.
We use honeycomb panels in acoustics construction as means for high stiffness (low deflection) with the tradeoff of low mass. Often we laminated a thin layer of plywood to each side to improve the stress skin system. Orchestra shell towers are a common example of this, though we are also doing this for portable seating towers that need to reflect sound too. There are both wood pulp and aluminum versions commonly available in the US.
> I hope the BBC continues to survive, just with a more modern funding approach.

"The Problem" with the ABC in Australia is that it's funded by the government, so the government can cut/freeze (and raise, one could imagine!) funding.
You're right. And it is so cheap, so vulgar, how can most people not see it?
This sounds like premature optimization to me (I know, that phrase gets used a lot lately). As with all optimizations it probably makes sense to not do it and keep your code highly readable until the point where you've profiled issues at this level.

And definitely my focus in writing a post like this is to be as explicit as reasonable to serve as the best educational reference.

I also haven't seen real world compilers do what you say (thinking V8, CPython, other mainstream ones) but I'll keep an eye out for it now.
This sounds like an opportunity to put the beer money towards a therapist for the same effect.
It's impressive.

A few years ago, we made an unofficial effort in the Racket mailing list to reach #1 in Rosetta Code, and overpass Python IIRC. We reached #1 for a while, but other langue as have more solutions now. Tim Brown made a tool to see the board positions easily http://timb.net/popular-languages.html It's somewhat Recket-centered but it may be useful for people that use other languages.

Anyway, I remember that some task were easy, some required a few hours to understand deeply the details to try to make the best idiomatic solution, and some task were just insane and there was no way I was going to attempt them.
Reporting on yourself is the polar opposite of journalistic integrity.

Reporting on yourself but not even noting to the reader that you're reporting on yourself is worse yet.

Writing a named-author analysis piece about yourself, which they have here at the end of the article, is reaching insanity level.

The BBC shouldn't report on the BBC.
I would not take the British (voting) public to be a particularly progressive population.
Except that isn't true. The chip in the hair dryer would become obsolete before it ever mined a block, so your expensive hair dryer would be even more wasteful. What a ridiculous proposition.
> Energy use is being decoupled from global warming at an ever increasing pace.

Unfortunately this seems to be more like wishful thinking.
As one example: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
Actually, no, when the road is being overhauled, the town can come back with you with another invoice. See "Straßenbaubeiträge" [1]. Sometimes, these are prohibitively expensive, forcing homeowners to abandon their property, often amounting to several 10k Euros [2].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fenbaubeitrag
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPdigJ6dOL8
In windows 10, in a multimonitor setup with "never combined" enabled. If foo.txt is on the left monitor and bar.txt is on the right, the two icons in the taskbar almost always has opposite sort order compared to the the monitor layout.

Clicking the left icon bring up the document on the right monitor and clicking the icon to the right brings up the document on the left. You very often end up picking the wrong document and must do over. That pretty annoying.
Netflix, amazon, itv and Now (Sky) mostly. He does use iPlayer but, AFAIK, you only need a licence to watch live broadcast TV. I concede you can watch live (or pretty much nearly live) TV on iplayer but he doesn't do that.
Is There Toilets in Tank?
“I remand you to the custody of the prison system until you reveal your Bitcoin wallet passphrase.”

Now the detainee gets to choose between remaining in prison or giving up their assets.
The schools, can share a specialist on different days of the week, or if there is an economy of scale then parents will choose it.

Sure there may be schools that handle kids with disciplinary issues, like they do today in the public school system.
I would rather have a bug report basically ignored than actually modified. There is a big difference between ignored and modified because it speaks to not only we are going to ignore this but no one will respect the content of the forum.

I remember when an admin for reddit changed a bunch of comments and it was controversial when he did it an they introduced a policy that would disallow engineers to have that kind of access to the database [1]
Sometimes also asks if you are over 18. Just as well so many people are honest?
The search for the Origin of Covid-19 with Dr. Alina Chan [Podcast-1hr 53]
Canada concurs
I remember listening to the Art Bell episode with Bob Lazar, late at night with the lights out.
VS Code and GitHub will hard carry Azure if need be
Could you expand on the restrictions regarding relationships with clients outside Toptal? When I signed the contract, I remember paying attention to this and being pleased to read that you are allowed to work directly with a client after one year from the engagement's end date (which is similar to a clause I had when I was employed for a consulting firm). Are there other restrictions than this?
I have been using the Magnet app[0] since 2013 for window management on Mac. You can use it to position/resize windows using mouse gestures (dragging to edges etc) and shortcuts. BetterTouchTool is another powerful tool that can be used for window management along with many other things.

[0] https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

[1] https://folivora.ai/
Interesting - I honestly didn't know Usenet was still in use.
Completely agree that Data Engineering is a bloated skill set. I have devops engineers who can manage/build out complex pipelines and actually prefer they do since we simultaneously manage large scale cloud architectures.

For anything overtly complex (actual data parsing challenges) they usually consult with a data scientist on a team.

I’m constantly reviewing data engineering resume and am wondering “what exactly is this person going to be doing if it isn’t some outdated architecture and o&m work …. Why would we hire this person vs a cloud native software engineer who costs x2 less” etc
We need a service that periodically contacts each of those and removes our personal information.
So we are literally killing ourselves to get rich. If a powerful alien race stumbled on the human race they would be compelled to destroy us to save the universe.
I think this post says more about your own biases than the BBC.

For example the government made a big deal about "reaching" 100,000 tests in a day by counting kits mailed out to people as completed tests (it would be just easy to criticise the BBC news coverage for parroting the government's claim that they'd hit it in the headlines). The government had set that as a target with a specific date, and when it was clear they were unlikely to hit it, ministers started talking about capacity. A number of media outlets correctly pointed out this wasn't the original target, Germany had that "capacity" for a month and was now actually processing that many tests. But it's not the fault of the BBC or any other media organization that the UK didn't actually carry out 100k tests and so government ministers flipped to talking about capacity and other indicators to fudge the issue in the public's mind.

Similarly there is a school of thought that state broadcasters should only cover the upsides of government decisions (even when the downsides are so clear the government changes tack) and shouldn't give any of the government's critics any publicity, but it's a school of thought mostly associated with authoritarian states. Being criticised from all sides - regardless of what the policy is - is an occupational hazard of being a government where public debate isn't censored or controlled by them.
Everyone who owns cryptocurrency is cashing out to dollars, euros RMB etc because you can't use memecoins to buy a Lamborghini.
That is cryptocurrency's point of failure.
That road comes out of state or federal taxes though. It's still a coat but not relevant to the math about city budgets. And yes, there is so much more space in the US even without leaving populated areas.

The lower density in urban areas is still real though.
No not really, miners pay electricity with cash, they are constantly selling at least the cost amount of whatever they mine. Also big mining facillities are really easily traceable.
> Are clothes dryers indefensible?

So the trend there has been for reduction in use in energy (particularly in Europe, where the regulators are leaning on the manufacturers). A modern heat pump dryer is far more efficient than a traditional dryer, say, and will be the dominant type in Europe soon, and probably shortly afterwards in the US.

Crypto-nonsense, on the other hand, tends to use _more_ energy over time.

And, frankly, if you banned hairdryers and clothes dryers, literally billions of people would be very annoyed. If you banned crypto-stuff tomorrow, certain parts of twitter would be very annoyed, and the vast majority of people would not even _notice_. Totally different political calculus.
Does your analysis change if it is not a dead end street?
Well it is either sarcasm or ignorance to say that Taxes, UBI and a Free Market could ever exist in the same economy or be part any economic device.

I'm thinking probably ignorance as the comment also thinks that raising the costs of energy used to produce BTC will somehow make it less profitable to mine when in fact it will simply increase commodity value and most likely drive more interest and increase speculation thus consuming more energy.
Me too, and I wondered how long they paid the server and domain name cost in advance.
This is a general statement about smaller towns in general: I also think that the fact that the US birth rate is falling (for a myriad of reasons) is partly to blame. Not that the author can do anything in particular about it but it's a problem we must face as a society
Hemingway (claimed he) never wrote a word while drunk. In fact he was highly critical of contemporaries who drank and wrote.

Hemingway wrote, and Hemingway drank, but in that order on any given day.

[edit: I agree with your point, I just wanted to clarify re: Hemingway specifically]
It is sarcasm. Nintendo is extremely hostile towards perceived infringements on their IP, and go out of their way to make modding and fan content difficult to use.
I’ve done contract work for
Microsoft, Amazon and Google.

Microsoft is remarkably terrible.
Riddled with the hierarchies and politics of IBM or Oracle, but the lack the self awareness that they are slow and terrible.
And Azure solutions are not good at all.
They have truly bizarre backwards apis and SDK.
Imagine you do not have admin access to the company DC.
Now, your Azure k8s cluster pods need rw access to an azure keyvault that you created.

It is entirely possible to do this, but enjoy the hell ride there.

My hats off to you if you manage to figure it out in 1 workday.
> Also there's never been an American SciFi show that's been so fundamentally athiest.

Well, there's Teal'c approval of the biblical God, but I guess he's not engaging with the reality of the Bible, either way: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709069/characters/nm0431895
Why would negativity and falling prices drive prices up later on?
Agreed. If you care about CO2 emission, tackle that, directly. Canada has started to, for one.

It's dismaying: HN used to be pretty united about digital rights.
Shouldn't that be the other way around? What good is it for a company if the only products people end up using are the ones given for free?

I'm sure other software companies faced similar fates (no one paying for services, only using freely available services) but I can't think of any ATM.
> Work hard towards your goals but remember to enjoy that journey.

Milan Kundera had something similar to say about this in his novel "Immortality" (1990). There's a difference between a road (used to go from point A to point B, e.g. a highway) and a path (inviting to self-reflection, philosophy, and mindfulness). Most people live their lives going from point A to point B to point C, etc. Spoiler alert: don't think you're immortal. Be mindful. Enjoy the path.
> The risk to get myocarditis from the mRNA vaccine is higher than getting it from covid for males under 40

Citation required. That's been debunked IIRC. And even if it were true, myocarditis isn't the only thing a male under 40 can get as a negative effect from Covid.
Does anybody know how (or even if) these kind of campaigns are run in the US?
The first paper[1] comes from authors of News-Watch[2], which from the website seems to have a clear agenda against the BBC. This is at least mildly ironic.

[1] https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/brusselsbroadcastin...

[2] https://news-watch.co.uk

I could not find the source (and methodology) used for the second article.
>We are part of the nature.

In semantics only. We all know what is generally meant by the term ‘nature’—wilderness, parts of the Earth relatively undisturbed by man’s industrialization.

If we built a planet-destroying nuclear device and used it to turn Earth into dust, would that still be nature to you?
Investopedia, start with economies of scale, go down the rabbit hole.
> Comte and Beaufort maybe

This is heresy!
Bitcoin mining is a waste of electricity. Energy is not a free resource.

"Real" money is essentially free. Only cost of producing real money is in materials needed to print a miniscule amount of it.

Vast percentage of money currently in circulation is already virtual - in the form of bits inside computers. Your bank has desks with computers, a server where the actual data is stored and a vault with a mandatory reserve in the form of printed currency.

So, only reasons to prefer Bitcoin are if you want to, for some reason, avoid the banking system or you don't have cash ready.

Either way, Bitcoin is a murky ground to tread on.
A DE is what, now?
>Chances are something unsettling has happened within 500' of you, some time in history.

Meanwhile in Europe…
Lots of people saying "You can improve costs here!" without factoring in the developer time/learning/upkeep dollars it would take to do that. Sometimes the best solution is the one you know that will be easiest for you.
What about Iota coin or just using GPG signatures?
>Sure but the point is that this will be earned back easily.

No, it won't. Most chips go in the trash without ever mining a block. This is just more crypto theory that doesn't match reality.

If you find me a way to cut down on my heating costs in the winter using chips, you can bet I'm going to use it. The problem is, you can't.
Really excellent explanation. I appreciate the writeup!
I see this as a good follow-up after this thread on the use of mmap to implement a database[1].

Indeed, there is a first implementation using mmap [2]
to be compared with a full-fledged implementation [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29936104

[2] https://ayende.com/blog/195588-B/implementing-a-file-pager-i...

[3] https://ayende.com/blog/195713-B/implementing-a-file-pager-i...
This article lead me to learn that Thunderbolt is the grandchild of PCMCIA, likely the most requested christmas present of nerdy teenagers in the 90s (second maybe to DDR DIMMs)
Let’s play a game of who has more influence:

A16Z or Goldman Sachs?

Block or JP Morgan Chase?

Coinbase or Vanguard?
Switzerland can disagree as much it wants, it doesn't make the fact less true.
Given enough time, they all will rot.
I've read their cult was mostly tech people and they raised money developing websites.

87% Pagespeed:

https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heave...
I don't live there anymore, but it so weird to see my hometown on the front page of Hacker News. Some of my friends still live there and it is depressing to hear them talk about what's going on. When I have gone back and visited, nothing seems to be the same anymore, save for the few restaurants I liked.
It's just like representing debt with marks scribbled on a totem instead of a generic vague feeling of owing you something, or like movable types on the printing press. We could do without those, they were novelties at their time, but they happened to change society at a fundamental level when their substained use changed relationships built around the new tech.
Microsoft has recently been pushing a new centralized web based feedback portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/

It looks like they have imported feedback from other places such as the feedback hub.
And Now Linux Has a Real-Time Linux Analysis (RTLA) Tool
All Systems Go
Oftentimes people sell curcuma saying it is saffron to trick customers using a relatively inexpensive alternative, but the taste of curcuma is way different from saffron’s.

Here in Italy we have some cultivars and many dishes prepared with saffron, for example “risotto alla milanese” also called “risotto giallo” which means “yellow risotto” and you can distinctly taste the saffron in it.

Also since saffron is expensive some people use too little spice when preparing dishes and this might be the reason why you say it has no taste.