skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know! We are all just sitting around waiting to kill or be killed and every year and unfortunately 99.9994% of us are disappointed that we didn’t get to kill or be killed.
I'm not sure how you get from 50% slowdown to fast. That's my point - in the space of ahead-of-time compiled, statically typed languages Go produces code that runs significantly slower than other languages. Even if you include JITCd languages it's not that fast. It's an intentional choice, so I really don't even know why this is proving controversial - Go's designers were always crystal clear that their priorities are:

1. A fast AOT compiler (which therefore, cannot spend much time optimizing things)

2. A low latency GC (which therefore, sacrifices throughput)

3. Ease of use (which therefore, means avoiding complicating the language with optimization related features)

Not included: raw performance.
Hmm. I never thought of it this way. I always do my best work at the end of the day or late at night. Often when I'm really on a roll I'll feel like I need to eat soon, or hours ago but don't want to stop.

My solution has been to eat larger meals so that I'm less likely to need to stop if I happen to get in the zone. This new idea makes that the worst solution.
Ugh. I had the same experience with a company recently. Completely put me off them.
Well, it's clearly illegal, but you're correct, it's common in big companies.

It's kind of mind-boggling that we're in this situation where illegal discrimination in hiring is not only tolerated, but generally encouraged.
Show HN: MongoDB ObjectID to Timestamp and Vice Versa
This happened in Atlanta (technically Brookhaven). The police were looking for the source of gunfire reported at the 3600 block of Buford Highway [0] and the 911 call related to the shooting came from the 3100 block of Clairmont Rd.

There are some single family homes in the area, but it's not low density suburbs or a rural area.

As I said in another comment, this sort of thing is unfortunately not uncommon in Atlanta. My wife is an attorney and has worked on several lawsuits arsing from stray bullets hitting people inside in their apartments. For whatever reason, knuckleheads go out in the parking lot or the nearby wooded area and shoot off their guns. Tragically and inevitably someone gets hurt or killed.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/3600+Buford+Hwy+NE,+Atlant...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/3100+Clairmont+Rd,+Atlanta...
I’ve certainly avoided a nasty bug or two with Python type hints without an IDE. Not sure why you’re so hostile to the idea, the OP didn’t say everyone must use them, just that it’s helpful to be familiar with them.
Why bother with cloudflare here?
It's absolutely possible, consumers just have to be willing to pay more.

The situation with 'cheap' bikes is the same as it was almost 20 years ago when I worked at a shop; If you spend less than X$ on a bike, it's almost certain to require repairs down the road and there's a good chance (i.e. if it's a 'full suspension' cheapie) you won't even be able to find the parts to do it.

If you spend more than X$ (while still using common sense and realizing cheapies exist at higher dollar amounts,) you're probably going to get something between a Corolla and an Elantra. (Elantras -have- gotten better over the years and do last -longer, but do often need more TLC and perhaps wear a bit harder.)

Many bike shops, at least the ones in seasonal parts of the US barely make money on their cheapest bikes (When you factor in free tune ups, etc,) and will at best make money on accessories.

The shop I worked at, sometimes we'd take someones broken wal-mart bike on a trade-in for one of our base models. Nine times out of ten though we would just part out what was good after a month or so (cool-off in case the bike was hot, but I never recalled seeing a hot wal-mart bike, let alone a broken one.)
https://archive.md/mfas5
Rocket.chat could be workable. I did experiment with usinging it with a bot that could call an API.
That's quite a niche of a niche vehicle. Pretty cool, but at 70kg, and 500W, I wonder how it's legal in Europe without being registered as a motor vehicle.
Linux doesn't need malware because what use can scammers get out of someone who can't even afford a MacBook? /s
I hope we get cookie banners in every ad as a modal window, too.
Some ideas:

If folks actually value "right to repair" support companies that offer right to repair.

If no tractor company exists that offer the type of open setup you want and you think this is critical - start a company up and take out Deere and others.

Deere's views on software changes by users in the field is pretty darn clear.

My own view - having watched individuals and dealers etc "tune" trucks etc (with all the endless problems involved) - is that for something like a 10,000 part count + heavy piece of equipment - Deere is going to want to keep stuff locked up tight to preserve brand value. Apple has done this with iphones, and the resale value after 5 years on an iphone is incredible compared to players pushing out android phones.
Check https://edit.photo - it's similar to popular Android native mobile apps.
I've been hearing about farmers trying to organize for at least the past 5 years to tackle this. I'm not going to hold my breath for much progress, sadly.

An "open tractor" from a new company is also going to be hard to justify with how thin margins are with farming.

Maybe some techies can get together to make repair easier. New electronic control boards, diagrams of how to machine their own replacement parts, etc. for the most popular tractors people own.

It's a tough problem to solve, but one worth fighting any way we can.
For being the guy to cultivate Adam Smith, you'd think he'd get more attention. But the issue is the f-s printing of the time. Hard to read!

His work on the inner sense of harmony and beauty is great psychology. Big influence on smith, whose first book was on Sympathy.

Oh, he also coined the term "inalienable rights" and wrote the text on moral philosophy that was used to educate over 60 percent of the signers of the declaration of independence.

Also had a big connection to secret societies and the whole western esoteric deal. Part of why Adam Smith burned all his papers (one may presume).
> I still think the best solution to this is still a startup that can create tractors that don’t require repairs by a first party.

You're still going up against massively entrenched and influential opposition that could likely undercut a startup's prices and then raise them again once the competition dies.

We saw it with the rideshare companies. Their business models are flexible enough to take losses when necessary in order to beat out alternatives and then programmatically raise the prices again once they've captured the market again.
>Since brakes are almost always conveniently close to the frame, though, in not sure that wireless buys you anything compared to wired. Electronic braking has most of the same problems regardless of wireless, and wireless doesn't simplify or improve any problems (that I can think of? ) Maybe isolating each brake from the drive controller is desirable for reliability?

Potentially (and I say this with skepticism) it could simplify the hydraulic lines since if it's full brake by wire then you could only run one system to control the master cylinder rather then the multiple required for ABS. Then you could run something like an armored ethernet cable to the brake lever itself (just using armored ethernet as an example, I've got no idea if it's a good idea or not). Assuming you've got some mechanism to sense what's going on in the hydraulic lines and transmit it back to the to the lever and the hands of the rider, it means that potentially that brake feel can be adjusted on the fly.

That said, I don't really view it as a big enough advantage to loose ability to control the brakes in a loss of power situation.

>I can see wireless controls allowing for novel form factors where brake cabling isn't possible or becomes complicated, but for most regular bikes, it seems unnecessary.

That's really debatable. Mostly because even if you can move your brake lever where ever, it still needs to be within reach of your hands while on the bike's handle bars, and that inherently limits it's placement to where your hands are near. Maybe if you moved the controller to a glove on the hand itself, but then you'd have to think about preventing inadvertent activation on whatever glove you're wearing. And I really doubt anyone's silly enough to think that we should use an app on your smartphone to control your brakes.
1) The US approach to multiculturalism, drugs, mental health, and social safety nets has been different from most of the rest of the developed world since the mid-20th century.

3) I wonder what happened culturally and economically from early to mid 2020. Quite mysterious.

2) Economic prosperity, increased surveillance, and simply learning that there are better ways to engage in the drug trade than murdering people over street corner turf, probably contributed to the decrease in violent crime. There was an article a while back about how gangs in LA had essentially transformed themselves in the past few decades—less standing out on street corners, more delivery/pick-up kinds of operations; I can't find a link right now. They still do some of the same stuff, but there's less of it. Also, if you buy the environmental lead explanation or abortion explanation, those are available too.
99.9% of all software engineering is making it correct. The remaining 0.1% is about making it "fast". I.e. either reducing latency or increasing throughput. This is why Python wins. Once it is correct it is trivial to also make it fast.
I'm not sure revenue won't dip, you'll probably see companies spend less on marketing\ads and compute resources. It's not gonna be a crazy dip, but enough for a nice short-term correction.
landing on a Wix page is noticeably worse for someone who tries to limit ads and scripting. Everything has to pretty much be off for a Wix page to work, it is very heavy.

I can see how the lack of plugins may make it more secure though. I haven’t tried Wix, but squarespace is pretty good for getting something out the door quickly. It’s quite limited otherwise and the customization of wordpress makes it a very appealing CMS for most.

If WP provides security screens for add-ons and integrates it into their hosting business it would protect their ecosystem moat.
This is actually at a lower level. This is to bind webusb remote device as a virtual device in Linux. It would be more flexible and has very interesting use cases.
Deep Blue preceded this. They had specialty equipment for crunching chess moves. Really excellent hype machine.

I liked the documentary about it: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0379296/
Probably "matres lectionis": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis (probably should have been "mater lectionis" (mtr lctinis?) given the rest of the sentencr ;) )

I didn't know this term existed, but the letters felt like Latin to me.

Presumably the point is to use some well-chosen vowels where they are necessary for disambiguation.
Speed of code and speed of development are not mutually exclusive.
I'm torn on this. No doubt money is important but how much is needed? I've been thinking about this for a while [1] and I think more important to drive innovation is to change our culture to admire people who dedicate themselves to solving big problems over a long period of time. And a close second would be a culture that prizes modesty and eschews material wealth.

I realize this may be a pipe-dream but it feels like a better long-term strategy than "pay researchers more than FAANG".

[1] https://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/89407/How-much-salar...
Virtual and augmented reality will find uses and markets.

Will Facebook be at the center?

I know the only real VR headsets Best Buy sells are from Oculus (Facebook.). With stimulus cash burning a hole in my pockets I thought about buying a VR system and found that competitors for Oculus are more expensive relative than what you get considerably. No way am I logging into Facebook, but most folks won’t care.

That might not turn into a meaningful advantage.

See the movie Ready Player One that makes Zuckerberg look like a clueless follower instead of a bold leader. Sword Art Online particularly in the arcs after the death game is better science fiction, but Spielberg tamed the nostalgia of the book to make something which I think speaks to all generations in the ‘West’ and is a great jumping off point for conversations.
> 2. Do "social bots" exist...

> For (2) the correct answer is "there is no reliable evidence to support this". The term social bot is of course vague, but these papers are usually defining it as bots that attempt to subtly manipulate political discourse for ideological or geopolitical agendas. And when you go looking for evidence that such bots exist you end up finding what Gallwitz & Kreil found - that not just some of the research is bad, but all of it is. Where are the papers proving this problem actually exists in a clearly convincing way? There aren't any.

I'm not sure clear on your distinction between "spam bots" and "social bots," but clearly there is reliable evidence to support "bots that attempt to subtly manipulate political discourse for ideological or geopolitical agendas," exist, like plans to procure accounts for them.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/20/technology/ch...

> Suppliers should provide accounts on overseas social platforms to purchasers at any time. The platforms include Twitter, Facebook, etc., and the supplier should provide about 300 accounts per month on each platform. Note: Content for this project is highly time sensitive. Suppliers should be able to supply accounts at any time.

I'd imagine those accounts would be deployed and managed in an automated fashion. Is someone automating accounts to send out propaganda operating a "spam bot" or a "social bot"?
This is what I'm missing. What was ideological and disruptive about it? It seemed like a status symbol, but otherwise just a blog.
Yes, I'm not against profitting off your content, though you can make money with your own blog as well, with the upfront cost of having to build your own audience, of course. I'm not saying it's easy, just saying it's also possible without the need giving away your content rights/ownership.

What I am against it's to clickbait your readers into "Sign up to read for free", then you sign up and find out you still have to pay. It leaves you with a poor taste impression, because of the bait and switch dark pattern right there, after you've given out your precious personal information at the sign up form.
Thanks! That one is out of stock, and $300.

But inspired by your find, I searched again and found this on Amazon for a mere $100

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M68BNQQ/ref=ox_sc_act_t...
How would this not kill KDE? There's all kinds of alternatives that would not have ads. Ads carry malware, too. Why would you subject yourself to an easily-avoidable security risk? I mean, KDE users aren't locked in like Windows users are.
It’s promoted as a complete system, but you end up paying them to build out the system to do whatever you wanted to do.
I think your mentioned examples fall clearly into two categories. Plain memorization and understanding.

Spaced repetition (so in extension, anki) helps immensely with the former, but does very little for the latter. Eg. one could probably go through some advanced math anki deck, but would likely not get better in math at all.

The second category (with math, as well as programming languages, but many hand crafty thing also) require practice and only that can help the process of learning here.

Most study materials have aspects from both (medicine comes to mind, with immense amount of “trivia” plus the occasional logical correlations that one might argue are the most important), and I have been trying to write a program that could tackle this duality for years, but unfortunately it never got priority :/
Mouse, mice therefore singular of dice is douse!
It won't happen primarily due to government regulation. Medical information has "dangerous, don't touch this" written all over it, and everyone is scared to try.
I think those pushing DEI in the US would take issue if you are selecting from the majority.
> Gun control advocates manipulate statistics and call any death by gun "gun violence" as if there is no distinction between a suicide victim and a murderer.

I would be happy if we could avoid that kind of death and the pain that their family and friends suffer. So, they are different by definition, but both are avoidable and should be reduced as much as possible.

> responsible gun ownership

That's an oxymoron. The most responsible is to not own guns. Guns are not toys. Buy a PlayStation if you want to shoot something. VR is also getting better.

> how regulations work if deterrents don't work.

Deterrents are just one of the tools. In combination with reducing gun advertising, and concienciation campaigns on the dangers of weapons, it could cause a great improvement. Mental illness treatmeants, better general education, etc. also help.
Usually spelled GAFAM.
> The Thai version was so much shorter

I don't think that Thai compresses much. Here is the above comment I replied to, Google translated into Thai (will be totally incorrect but a reasonably guess to length? I would guess English with spaces removed would be similar length?)

การวิพากษ์วิจารณ์ที่ถูกต้องมากมายที่นี่เกี่ยวกับการวัดความซับซ้อน แต่เมื่อพิจารณาถึงแรงจูงใจเริ่มต้นของผู้เขียนฉันคิดว่าวิธีการนี้สมเหตุสมผล: "นิตยสารมีบทความการเดินทางเล็กน้อยและเขียนเป็นภาษาอังกฤษในหน้าหนึ่งและภาษาไทยในอีกหน้าหนึ่ง เวอร์ชั่นภาษาไทยสั้นกว่ามากจนเริ่มสงสัยว่ามันมีประสิทธิภาพมากกว่าหรือไม่"

หากเป้าหมายคือการระบุว่าภาษาใดที่จะผลิต "บทความสั้น" ที่มองเห็นได้อัตนัยมากที่สุดตามคําอธิบายข้างต้นวิธีการฟังดูโอเค ตัวอย่างเช่นความกังวลเกี่ยวกับ serifs การเปลี่ยนแปลงของขนาดตัวละครเนื้อหาข้อมูลของตัวละคร ฯลฯ กลายเป็น moot เพราะพวกเขานําไปสู่ความยุ่งเหยิงทางสายตาและการพิมพ์ซึ่งผู้เขียนต้องการนับกับภาษา
This is outstanding work!

The tl;dr: is that the wing made of bristles provides 68% of the lift of a membrane wing, yet masses only a fifth as much, so they don't need to store and recover elastic energy, like most beetles, to fly 3x as fast as their size would suggest.

I found a swarm of almost invisibly tiny thrips settled on a surface in my backyard, years back, and was duly amazed, but these are much smaller! Notice the pic in the article comparing the whole beetle to a single-celled amoeba.

They note the wing mass of 0.013 micrograms, less than a fifth what a membranous wing would mass. In the methods section, they reveal they got this mass by adding up how much the measured volume of chitin must weigh. Actually weighing something 0.013 ug would be very hard. Imagine collecting the wings of 38,000 beetles to get up to a milligram so you could weigh them!

This beetle innovates vs other bristle-winged insects by having bristles on the bristles, improving their effectiveness. The bristle is very tiny. Can the finer detail really be made of separate cells? Or are they sculpted of raw chitin by the cells making up the bristle?
A counter point, I grew up in a country where military service is compulsory.

From my experience, having to carry an assult rifle night and day for months is very effective in curing childish notions about guns .
Not at all, this is absolutely what would eventually happen. Especially on a site with a bunch of entrepreneurs creating startups that need marketing.
Swapping hard drives, yes. Slackware boots on the original Windows 98 hard drive alongside Windows, and I have two other drives. One has BeOS 5.1, the other is my test drive I use to try out other OSes (NetBSD is on it right now if I remember correctly, but it hangs during boot sometimes). PATA laptop drives are getting scarce but I do have a PATA-SD adapter lying about that works in a few OSes and I have no shortage of SD cards due to my Raspberry Pi addiction.
Crashing is also the perspective of new investors who for reasons like not being old enough to invest yet, or being born poor, only entered after the QQQ hit 400.

Gambling should be illegal.
> The $200 million made in year 10 by Growth is only with $122 million (year 1 dollars).

> So you can see, future money is less valuable in an inflationary environment. In contrast, the $100 million made by Established is worth $160 million in year 10.

I'm a little confused by this. If $200 million was projected as the future earnings of the growth company, isn't it likely that that will also change with inflation? In other words, if we think today that Growth will make $200 million in 10 years, based on inputs X, Y, and Z, then aren't X, Y, and Z also affected by inflation in the future, and so Growth would be affected downstream by this? E.g. maybe part of the $200 million projection is that X will spend 20% of funds on Growth. But now we multiply that 20% by the effects of inflation -- (1.05)^10 -- and X has more to spend, and so Growth makes more as well, proportional to the increase from inflation.

I guess what I'm getting at is that inflation affects everything. In your example, it's as if Growth has some static 10-year-out contract for $200 million, which feels a little odd.
Stars are very much unrelated to quality and impact of a project.

Case in point: the top 20 starred projects include joke projects, "awesome" lists and some javascript stuff.

It's probably also easy to buy stars.
I would have thought that if something is random, then it would not appear rhythmic to the human air. However, I do sense some kind of rhythm in the video.
> Then this is a feature, not a bug.

> Both in terms of enhancing one's understanding of python's memory model...

In much the same way as having your company bricked by a buffer-overflow ransomware attack does in the C world? I'm not a big fan of elucidation by gotcha.

> [...and] for introducing static/persistent variables to a function (without the need for global declarations)

Except when you are at risk of someone calling with their own variable(s) that do not have the static-singleton semantics that the default would have.
My experience has been that using canvas to resize images produces inconsistent results from one browser to another, and in most cases is higher file size and lower quality than other tools. Enabling imageSmoothingEnabled helps, but is only supported in chromium-based browsers right now:

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_paintrenderingcontext2d_imagesmo...