skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My intuition agrees with the quoted statement. I cannot make a coherent logical argument for it, but I agree with the author: other languages have a richer, more nuanced vocabulary for emotions.

There are emotional-labels that only exist in other languages (e.g. German, Japanese, Russian, Ancient Greek, etc.) that simply have no equal in English (and in that case, we simply steal the word and pump up our total word count).

I feel like English's main purpose is to get people to do things, by making them feel a certain way, or by being so vague and unspecific it can be interpreted in an endless amount of ways. Whereas with German it might be to be exact, and to have every single thing accounted for and labeled.
Penn State is actually US's largest engineering school by undergraduates.
Theses are also short https://oceanbuilders.com/ but I could see them get taller and eventually be skyscraper floating cities.
I'm not following - can you elaborate?
• Clouds can be (mostly) ignored by contrast, shape, color
• Eliminate all trees from the viewport
• Birds would be an added bonus to catch!
> His stance is that institutions should not discriminate on the basis of race.

That is the Motte yes. The Bailey is that attempts to improve it are "appalling"[0]. And that Black and Hispanic students don't deserve to attend top schools[1], and that racism in medicine doesn't harm patients[2].

> there are plenty of organization that have a diverse workforce without engaging in racial discrimination. Google, for instance, is majority minority.

But Xu criticizes these organizations for not being diverse enough![1] And further criticizes them for not taking the lack of Asian representation seriously enough (which is one of those made-up positions I mentioned).

> And lastly, you should read the links you're posting. For instance, the post on abortion is about a proposed law expanding the ability to receive third trimester abortions. To oppose this isn't restricting abortion, it's maintaining the status quo in an already liberal state.

I didn't say it was. I said he held a generally conservative position on abortion, which is true.

[0]: https://twitter.com/kennymxu/status/1484263210404532236

[1]: https://twitter.com/kennymxu/status/1478573189861158916

[2]: https://twitter.com/kennymxu/status/1483482063047208973

[3]: https://twitter.com/kennymxu/status/1484218869699026954
Phantom planes are also technically possible. One could even do it themselves using the "Havok" firmware for HackRF One. I won't link to it, but to quote its wiki, "Yes, it works. For real. If you want to try it out, DO NOT transmit on restricted bands and ESPECIALLY NOT on 1090MHz."
My first x86 machine (after running a 68000 Atari ST for years before) was a 486DX50 and I ran the first versions of Linux (pre-ELF), 1993ish, installing off floppy, downloaded via 9600 baud modem. Dual booted with Windows 3.1 and DOS.

It's nice to see recent kernel versions can still work fairly well on this hardware. I don't recall my boot times being as long as 50s though. But who knows, it was a different time and expectations were different. I had 8MB RAM and a 200MB drive and while there was swapping, I was able to run X11, emacs, Mosaic (and then Netscape), and some terminals without serious problems.
It shouldn't be considered a local maximum if slight deviations can improve the situation. In that case, it's just lack of ability to optimize.
Los Angeles practically already is distributed clusters! That's what makes is unusual compared to most cities, that there is a Downtown LA, but it is merely one of many clusters of economic activity, each with their own downtown area.

And they are reasonably well-connected, certainly by freeways (which are not grid-based), but increasingly so by mass transit; LA had a deservingly bad reputation for mass transit in the past, but it has made unimaginably large strides forward. On top of that, the bus system is vast and fills in the gaps where rail does not go.
Maybe I’m just turning into one of those old programmers who doesn’t keep with technology, but the incredible inefficiency described and the workarounds for it are just mind-boggling to me.

Then again, maybe it is cost-effective to burn seconds of CPU time and tens to hundreds of megabytes per request handled.

I’m sure some C programmer from the CGI days would be floored by how much resources multithreaded ruby and python app servers use.
agreed. the examples don’t show the real pain. it is when every method returns Future or Promise. and you have to map each result. and many languages don’t have good support for that so you end up with lots of nesting. writing synchronous function signatures is much simpler to maintain.

there’s 2 language level syntax features i see that make this better:

one is scalas for comprehension. this lets you write async code that reads like imperative synchronous lines. the other is async/await, which let’s you write synchronous code that behaves like async
Designing a 100-year home in Accra
Tether and Bitfinex are certainly highly dubious and I would not at all be surprised if what they've done rises to the level of fraud. So far they have remained mostly out of the courts, but there's a wonderful quote by @patio11:

> Bitfinex and its principals have not yet been indicted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, but crucially, not in the same sense that you have not been indicted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

I definitely am not in any way pro-Tether, and I think the industry/the world would be better off without them. However, I do not think this implies a. that Tether serves no function, b. that their collapse will bring down wider markets or c. that this meaningfully reflects on the ethics of cryptocurrency as a whole.

As far as central banks go, I would love to see the adoption of a central bank digital currency at the Fed, ideally with accounts open to the general public. This would combat the plague of regressive fees at commercial banks, allow future economic stimulus to go directly to spenders, and perhaps even allow people to transfer money over the weekend.
Not really. There is a whole wide world outside CS - mechanical, chemical, materials. And while Berkeley, Stanford, UCSB are amazing in them Caltech for example is not and is just over hyped.
There are browser extensions such as Dark Reader that will display any site in dark mode: https://darkreader.org
Good point. Cloudflare tunnel or Strict Origin-CA on Cloudflare proxy settings. It will require setting up SSL on the host though.

It is not for security but for occasional spikes of traffic. Nothing says we can't use static-site-generator + Cloudflare. Even better.
There's an abundance of diamonds right here on the surface (or near it). Diamond supply is artificially constrained.
The point of skyscrapers isn't that they provide the affordable housing. It's that they provide a lot of medium price housing so there is lower demand for housing in smaller buildings.

The biggest problem with housing in big cities is that there isn't enough of it. When that is the case, the most important thing is putting more in. Even if the housing you put in is expensive, as long as it is dense, it will lower housing prices for other places because there is less competition.
I will take Stanford and the UCs. Every other school in that list comes below the Midwestern powerhouses
There is a very short list of hardware they do endorse here. I’m not sure if it uses those loopholes or not

https://ryf.fsf.org/
> We are broken. We have nothing left in us but screams of anger and pain.

I see three viable alternatives to screaming like animals: you can grow up, harden up, or, ideally, do both.
Attending an RMS talk at a university ~8 years ago, some (increasingly irritated) lecturers questioned him on the use of proprietary graphics drivers in image processing for use in medical equipment and research. While RMS argued his absolute stance that proprietary drivers are never permissible, the lecturers argued that the drivers were literally saving lives and people would die without them.

"They should die for the cause."

Harm isn't very present on the FSF priority list.
That's usually because of modern parking lot/space requirements.
> Go sits on the opposite side. The stdlib http implementation is a little slow. The stdlib json implementation is incredibly slow. No one wants to build these features outside of the stdlib though, and people would rather every codebase have the same looking go code, even if that means the actual code itself is slower.

What? There are multiple json parsing and http server implementations for Go.
Ask HN: Would you learn RubyOnRails in 2022 as a solo bootstrapped founder?
I started coding with PHP a decade ago, then Node.js 5 years later, and last year I started working with Typescript and Vue.js

And as much as I love the whole JS ecosystem, I'll admit that for me it's a pain in the *ss to quickly build a MVP while still caring about code quality.

It's cool for toy projects, it's also good if you have the time and the skills to build a big project with a real professional architecture, but for quick MVPs I find it kinda lame and slow, I rarely finish MVPs in JS actually.

I've heard a lot of amazing stuff about RubyOnRails, but I have this weird, maybe mistaken impression that it's a thing of the past(The stats about RoR in StackOverflow Surveys don't look great for example), or something too easy they teach at bootcamps to people who never coded, because it's the only stuff you can realistically learn in 2 months.

I know of the stories about Airbnb, Github etc...
but have they actually used it for a decent period of time with a large number of users?

Or was it mostly just quick prototyping and then quickly having to remake everything from scratch?

I just read this article from DHH called "the one person framework" https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-one-person-framework-711e6318, and I'm almost convinced, but at the same time he created it, so it's kinda biased and I don't know what to think.

Also how do you think the market will look like for RoR devs in 2 years?

Thanks
Ammonia burns fine in a diesel engine with almost no modification, just swap the fuel pumps and injectors.
That's the strangest looking Airbus I have ever seen... https://skybotstore.blob.core.windows.net/plane/a71efa_193_5...
Stanford and Berkeley are amazing, Caltech is definitely tier 2, while Harvey Mudd is not even an R2 school
Maids and cloth-folding services are great, but a lot of people who have a whole lot of money but no time are working 60-80 hours a week (many work even more of course.) But you’re giving up more than money if you quit and take a 40 hour a week job. Jobs with fewer weekly hours often aren’t as glamorous and probably don’t have that feeling of “velocity”. Trying to take less than 40 hours a week and you’re probably not going to be a first class member of the company. If Bob takes off every Friday, how can he manage his full time team? And if a company tries to employ people at 30 hours a week as policy, how can they possibly compete?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30041431
Unity is the most popular engine for video games right now, and uses C#.
And when it comes to materials science, Penn State will run circles around all of them.
The poster child for this was storage of liquid radioactive waste in barrels of clay cat litter.

Some bright-eyed purchasing agent substituted bark-pellet cat litter, because it was ecological or something -- anyway, not cheaper -- resulting in need for a cleanup so expensive that how much it cost is classified.
> Brave’s market share seems to be siphoning off Firefox users primarily more than Chrome’s…

I guess I'm one of those people.

I was on Firefox because I refused to use Chrome, but Chrome is the de facto standard whether I like it or not, so I was always open to switching to a Chromium browser that didn't suck.

I tried Vivaldi for a while, but it was obvious it was never going to grow beyond a very niche user base. I tried Brave a couple years ago and it wasn't quite ready. I tried it again last year and now it's my main browser.

Without getting into any technical talking points, there's definitely a market for "Chromium browser that cares about privacy and actually has a decent share of the market". Whatever you think about BAT or Tor support, they brought in a critical mass of early adopters.
This question, as I just learned from Google, has an interesting answer: modern steak knives have their current shape because they're derived a specific letter opener.
Hmmm... I like RK3399-based devices because they need very few blobs. Would you mind to list which blobs the pinebook pro needs?
I'm with you, and that's probably a good summary of my point. At this stage it's probably safe to say that the FSF isn't likely to ever add much value in the hardware realm.
False dichotomy is the fallacy you're reaching for.
> If you are trying to buy a book to bring you the joy you feel when buying a book, and you get that joy, then it isn't money wasted.

It's still wasted. That person would just be an egocentric idiot. Even if they are a happy idiot.

A capitalist society cannot work properly if the experience of buying is valued at the cost of whatever is bought.

Neither can this world or society sustain widespread wastefulness. It hurts everyone (else).

Wasting money on things that are unused causes labor and resources to be diverted from more worthy endeavors. More directly it causes the price of those goods to increase, or even become unavailable.
> However, the number of places you can walk to directly correlates to building height.

Except every floor doesn't have an equal effect? Lower levels and rooftops are going to host the majority of destinations, while mid-levels are most likely to be homes and offices that are adding to the pool of people able to walk to those destinations.
ActorsTheory serves as the rigorous mathematical foundations of capability systems.
>so if you take a couple readings and get a mental trajectory of when it's going to hit 115, you're likely to be wrong

I just keep a thermometer in for the entire duration of the bake time. Someone in this thread posted a screenshot of them doing the same thing with some sort of bluetooth thermometer.
I only know a small amount but from what I have seen, having the same CPU arch is not really that important, as we have seen, you can run x86 apps on the M1 at blazing speeds. The hardware in modern consoles is becoming pretty standard, so the vast majority of effort goes in to emulating the libraries and such the switch comes with.

Modern emulators are a lot like Wine these days where they are just translating the custom api calls to something that works on a desktop OS.
Ah, correct! I meant the emotion engine. Updated comment. Thanks.
You got nonpartisan citations for those assertions? I’ve been unable to find anything to back 2 and 3.
None of those have a plugin ecosystem that remotely approaches WordPress's, let alone the bevy of WP-specific consultants. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that companies can make WordPress do anything without any real programming on their part; this is just not true for the developer-focused alternatives, no matter how much better they are on a technical level.
> To do my job and boot my laptop nonguix is required but not even allowed to talk about it with the OS it intends to support, is not something I can agree with

The OS isn't a person. The OS has online discussion forums and the people who develop the OS CAN talk about it in the appropriate forum. Identifying and separating nonfree issues is a useful tool in their goals.

The FSF last year started a new campaign that is specifically meant to not be hardline and to respect the needs and desires of users: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/support-the-freedom-ladd....
Sources of Power by Gary Klein is an absolutely fascinating book for leaders, and covers this topic in depth: how experts use intuition and how they work to articulate and distribute that to others to build up similar expertise.

Just two of the interesting observations...

Experts conduct better pre-mortems - that is, given scenarios where eventually something failed, they are able to more accurately predict which parts of the scenario contributed to the failure.

And experts are "two steps ahead" in troubleshooting - which makes it (paradoxically) harder to convince others their direction is correct.

Anyway, great book on the topic, essential reading in my mind.
There is an experimental PS4 emulator that ran using QEMU, taking advantage of the fact that the PS4 is x86. Something similar could be done for M1 and ARM.

https://wololo.net/2021/09/08/release-spine-ps4-emulator-v-2...
How is this better than Voila, which is developed by the Jupyter Notebook team?
https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila
Immunity has seemed to wane every 3 to 6 months. Is that not certain?

Florida's big Delta-surge was just in August. And yet, Omicron surged through January in the state. In just 5 months, people's natural immunity has collectively declined to the point for a new surge.

There's a theory that repeatedly catching COVID19 will eventually make our immune systems stronger each time and time again. But until then, repeated boosters seem like the answer (especially if the booster is as good as, or even better, at building immunity).
Their fingerprint randomization works great.

But not as great as how fingerprint generalization works in a hardened Firefox[0].

[0]: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
So isn't the reasonable deduction here that the vendor was responsible for this given it was present on their website but not on the plugins through Wordpress? They probably didn't have the back door on the wordpress plugins because those would face a higher scrutiny than the ones on their site. Finally they get caught and go silent, but then when wordpress knows they finally respond because they know the jig is up and are trying to save face.
The “expert in the code” matters in terms of siloing. That was the context where I mentioned it. The engineers who work in an area all the time and know the code best are typically best equipped to make the next changes there. Hence a silo. Maybe I completely misunderstood your comment about late binding experts?

But stepping back for a moment, I’m increasingly confused about what your thesis here is. You’ve clarified that it’s not actually about abstraction. It’s also apparently not about clearly factoring code (though maybe you think that contributes to problems?). What is the actual thesis?

Engineers should be experts in the entire code base?

Code is in general too hard to understand?

Something else?

It feels like we’re discussing mostly tangents and I’ve missed what you intended to say. If I understood your message, I might have a better mental model for the utility of copying code.
These projects tend to intentionally make using them harder than other methods of piracy. Last I checked, to get this running, you had to dump the keys out of a hacked switch before the emulator will work.

But to dump the keys from a hacked switch, you had to already have a hacked switch which you could have just loaded the games on to which would run better than emulating it. So right now, there is little reason to use this project other than curiosity but in 10 years it will be the easiest way to play switch games when hacked consoles become too rare and nintendo doesn't care anymore.
I hope they implement it as a user option that you can turn on/off anytime. Dark mode hurts my eyes. Every time I read large blocks of white text over a dark background, I usually end up having a double vision of the text and later a headache. I find warm light to be the best
Fountain Pens Under $50
One interesting aspect I really wanted more of is the evolution of buildings/architecture based on legal restrictions. It is good example of man made natural selection process where you change the environment conditions ( legal ), you see different set of beasts ( skyscrappers ) getting evolved
Rollerball Pens That Use Fountain Pen Ink (2019)
>I'd expect the Switch and the M1 both being ARM would be an advantage?

Most emulators interpret the machine instructions in software so there wouldn't be any advantages there. Some are now incorporating dynamic recompilation but I doubt it would have any noticeable impact on ARM vs x86.
Wisconsin had active mandatory public service laws as late as the early 1900s. My understanding is that they are still on the books … but that’s outdated information.
Apple directly employs 80,000 people in the USA, and I believe pays the highest tax amount of any single US corporation. What are you even talking about?
> That is the Motte yes. The Bailey is that attempts to improve it are "appalling"?

This is a false dichotomy. There are ways to improve inequality that aren't racial discrimination in admissions, hiring, etc. His stance is that these institutions should be non-discriminatory. The right way to address unequal SAT scores between Asians and Blacks, for instance, is to help the latter score just as well. Not to respond to systemic racism with to the soft racism of low expectations. His examples for this are Jamie Escalante's efforts in East LA. Help the disadvantaged by actually improving their skills such that they can be equal, not by using inequality to create a false sense of fixing the problem.

Certaintly, conservatives disproportionately have this belief. But plenty of liberals do, too. California, for instance, recently defeated a ballot initiative to make affirmative action legal again by a significant margin (~60% against). And this is a state that saw more than twice as many people vote democratic than republican in 2020. It's not that I disagree that Xu opposes affirmative action, it's that I don't agree that opposition to affirmative action is enough to categorize someone as conservative.

> But Xu criticizes these organizations for not being diverse enough![1] And further criticizes them for not taking the lack of Asian representation seriously enough (which is one of those made-up positions I mentioned).

No, he's saying that they have a significant racial disparity between their executives and their workforce. A non-discriminatory workforce would have are more equal representation between workers and leadership.

> I didn't say it was. I said he held a generally conservative position on Abortion, which is true.

And I'm saying it's not a generally conservative opinion. Generally, conservatives are against abortion across the board, not merely thirs trimester abortions. Again, I think you're earnest in your categorization, but that says more about how exclusive and narrow your category of "liberal" really is.
> I have a human need to live among skyscrapers

Do you really? There are lots of cities outside the US with 6-story or 12-story buildings that are very vibrant. We don't really need skyscrapers for that.
> I may misremember.

Yeah, I think you do.

> Compiling the kernel was basically an overnight operation, IIRC.

When, on what hardware?

Who was it who complained that compiling the Linux kernel took always ten minutes, regardless of hardware generation? (which of course, isn't entirely true: https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-linux-kernel)

For me, on my 386DX 24Mhz with 8MiB RAM, it took about 20minutes late 92 or early 93 (SLS 1.0 -- pre 1.0 kernel), but I had to leave X11, as otherwise the machine would swap to death.
What are good alternatives these days that have as much flexibility?
??? Poland isn’t a communist country.
I think the OP was referring to the fact that as humans, we have the capability to create bombs that far exceed 6 megatons. I believe the largest nuclear blast was 50 megatons.
> ... but you can modify the base version.

There is some read-only memory that contains the base version. It is executed on boot. You can tell the cpu to run a different version by pointing it to a different version during the boot process (or later). You can't change the version in the read-only memory.