skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your characterization of tagging being “too much even for CISC architectures” doesn’t fit with my memory of processor development in the 80s and 90s back when I used to care about such things. Tagging originated in the 1960s far before the 801.

Tagging can also mean two different things; one is a privileged control over part of the word (basically capabilities) and the other a user space option for pointer or immediate typing. Both can be handy and can benefit from hardware support.
qpdf --decrypt infile.pdf outfile.pdf
lower anxiety => higher sleep quality => higher academic performance

poverty => higher anxiety => lower life performance

higher instagram use => lower baseline dopamine => higher anxiety => lower life performance
That is not how it was taught to me. Expat is when your job moves you to a new country, as in "you're an expatriate employee". Immigrant is when you move for your own reasons. Expats are expected to come back to their original country, or move to a third one at some time. Immigrants are establishing themselves in the new country.
Yeah, the US has a problem with spending more on healthcare than any other country, but it isn’t a “profit” or “administrative overhead” problem.

(Insurance companies have legally limited profit margins on health insurance.)

Does multiple private insurances add a little administrative overhead? Sure, but nowhere near as much as you see in the OECD figures.

There are many reasons why US healthcare is so expensive.

Some of them have to do with litigation: Skyhigh insurance premiums and a medical “Cover your ass”-culture with unneeded tests and MRIs done on a regular basis.

(In Canada, there is a legal ceiling on how much in damages you can sue a doctor/hospital for. This would be a good idea to implement in the US.)

Another added expense is free riders: All the people that show up in the ER, whether because of the flu or a gunshot, get treated/operated on, and never pay their bill.

Another issue is that the US has some of the best doctors in the world, and new, prohibitively expensive treatments are often introduced here first.

Many, very expensive treatments simply aren’t done (or done very rarely) in countries where the public (fully or in part) pay for treatments.

Waiting lists are another way of limiting costs in European countries. (Waiting lists that can be over a year long, but their healthcare systems are arguably cheaper to run.)

I could bring up some new medicines that in the US cost thousands of dollars per week (Crohns medication for example.) In European countries those medications simply aren’t available, or are only available on an exemption: Meaning that your doctor need to apply to have the cost covered, and is usually turned down.

Another example would be something like SRS surgeries.

These can be extremely expensive, and are covered by insurance, which of course increases the costs of coverage for everyone.

In European countries you’d either face a very long waiting list to get the operation covered, or you wouldn’t be eligible for it. Or only eligible after jumping through extensive hoops.
Driver salaries would likely have been much higher because the position wouldn't also cover room & board. Also the gender differences in pay would influence things as well. Last is that household cleaning etc. would have been considered lower skilled labor.

This document indicates that somewhere around $20-$30 per week may have been the wage, around page 128. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/bls/bl...
> So I put myself in robot mode

This is the key insight. A rut is entirely emotional. When you don't want to do something but you need to do it there is an emotional conflict.

Robot mode is not emotionless. It's satisfying a different emotion (fear, anxiety,etc) than desire. It might even be considered a form of bravery. In a crisis situation do you panic or do you 'just start doing things' and help without thinking about it? It's a similar response.
It's fascinating how most of hackernews is arguing against making usable products for 70% of the internet users. Go on https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats and look at the screen resolutions used in africa, india, china and most of the non developed world. Do you think these devices are in any means powerful?

Let them eat Megabytes.
If I think about Google search I think at a search engine. Not a content producer. Probably they try to become the latter while starting to suck at the former.
BBC television programmes used to give the year in Roman numerals, in the copyright notice, I think. It has been suggested that this was to make it harder for people to notice how old the programme was. The same technique wouldn't work so well on a web site because you couldn't do what the BBC did and leave the Roman number on the screen for about 0.5 s so that most people don't have time to decypher it. Also the dates at the end of the last century were particularly hard to read in Roman. Here's an example. Time yourself:

© MCMXCVIII
> Japanese people can tell the difference between reality and cosplay.

That quote would look good in a meme.
This presumes that software is the entirety of the problem being researched, which is not always the case. Especially as you get more physical.

That said, I don't think waterfall works any better there either. Sometimes there's no way past the "muck about and find things out" work.
I don't watch movies.

Bare in mind I'm not suggesting an entire race is frequently abusing their maids to this day. What I'm saying is there is recorded history of it happening. You only have to dig through some of the abuses that happened during the slave trade to see evidence of this fact. So we do indeed have a bad track record in this regard. It might be an uncomfortable truth for some of us to hear but it doesn't make it any less true.
Uber, an American company with heavy presence in Western countries, is not going to do that. It would be suicidal.
Cryptography vs. Cryptocurrency
There are so many lessons to learn here, but I don't think we are in the lesson-learning era.
Compaq's success was that IBM lawsuit failed.
I’m not sure shareholders contribute anything to companies other than capital, so your point doesn’t make sense.

The editors most certainly contribute to prestige. You don’t get big name editors unless you matter.

And the prestige isn’t guaranteed. Several journals that were prestigious when I was a grad student no longer are.

So I reiterate my point, the journals provide something of value, people just don’t like the price.
> Painting the faces is somewhat tedious. I regret not having the foresight to do this from the start when I could have copied and pasted the windows with materials already applied, rather than going through and painting them one by one.

Then why did you put "Add Materials" after copy-and-pasting the design elements in this article?! Like this was your opportunity to show us a better way to do things based on your experience, and you still described how to do it the wrong way. You learned something, and instead of teaching the reader what you learned, you walked them through the same mistake anyway.
It's not like "enforce more" vs. "enforce less" is the only axis along which the behaviour of a government agency can be tweaked.

For an extreme example, imagine you had a court system that picks 100 people at random to execute each year (most of whom are naturally innocent). Then, you have a crime wave. Would you say that the solution to this problem would be that the courts need to be tougher? ...more lenient? Both seem quite obviously wrong: being more lenient would solve the problem of innocents getting executed but do nothing about crime, being tougher would only trivially solve the problem of crime near the limit point where everyone is executed. However, being hostile towards such a court system seems quite appropriate.

Likewise, I don't think Theranos is sufficient evidence that the FDA needs to simply be stricter, nor is the difficulty of getting approval for pig hearts sufficient evidence that the FDA needs to be more lenient. Instead, taken together the two imply that the FDA needs to be more specific at blocking the bad therapies and allowing the good ones - in other words, it simply needs to get better at its job. Is this not something we can demand of the government?
> I think I will be subscribing to kagi for their better code search alone.

Agree, an absolute no brainer for me as an engineer in tbe west at least. Even if Kagi just keep their current quality it saves hours and tons of frustration every month for me.

My fear is either Google will throw a wrench in their gears or they'll start optimizing for the masses just like Google did and I'll be stuck another decade with Fisher Price tools instead of power tools.
They could just call whoever leaked the stuff and ask them to stop.
Yeah I find it completely bizarre to not check everything for error conditions, unless you're writing some sloppy one-off code and don't care.

People out there write some pretty funky C.
I believe it would be enough to demonstrate the functioning of the system in action - there was a crude UI that you could use to extract the string from the input document, so it would be easy to demonstrate the PDFs uploaded by the attacker to a given service do in fact contain that strings.

But in this particular point it wasn't even necessary. After a couple of months it turned out that the person who had been uploading the unprotected versions made a mistake and was located as a 20-something living with his parents in a small house in the East Coast. It was enough to notify them and the malicious activity stopped. The company wasn't interested in extracting every penny from the the kid (or his poor parents), they just wanted him to stop, and one letter from a lawyer was enough. If they wanted to go full steam, they would have involved the police and I'm sure they would have found quite a lot of incriminating evidence on his computer, but they were clear ruining someone else's life was not their aim.
Neeva signups are bizarrely region locked. I get that there may be some local results for some kinds of searches, but that's easily handled with a banner in results for geo searches that states "local results aren't available in your area yet", rather than locking much of the world out of the service.
> Anytime you perform a DB / Redis write aren't you back to waiting 70ms-300ms depending on where in the world you are?

But that's always going to be the case surely with Postgres? If you're running your one DO box config in say US East, every request is going to have that 70-300ms response time for people not in US East region.

With Fly, I think what they're saying is if you are doing writes to DB then you are going to get no optimisation over having one box. However, if you are just doing reads, then you are going to get a lot of optimisation from having it closer to the user.

If you had a simple blog for example, reading blog articles would be fast as it could serve locally, but if you created a blog article it would be 'slower' as you would have to write to the DB. Given for most blogs are 99.99% reading articles you are going to get a significant speedup.

The problem is though that many applications do writes regardless of what the user is doing (analytics/audit logs and that kind of thing).

I think what Fly needs (maybe they have this already) is a specialised message queue which sits in the same region as your servers and doesn't require waiting for global sync. You could then put many write operations through that, and only have to wait for global sync when you need to show something in the UI immediately.
Qatari is something like 10% citizens 90% migrant labor from Africa, so universal for citizens would be correct.
The internet is probably the biggest set of tools right now for preserving the past and keeping it at arms reach.

You're referring to googles search practices, which is a for profit industry centered around marketing, people need to see those ads. And they can make sure of that.

The discrepancy is of the interests of a company vs the interests of the majority.
Considering how ludicrously fast modern computers are, offloading your calculations to them (on its own) cannot possibly explain why web sites are so slow. Games routinely perform millions of trigonometry calculations in tens of milliseconds, web pages render some images and text!

Edit: Ugh, yes, I know network is part of the equation. Parent specifically called out client-side rendering though and that's what I'm responding to.
>It's fascinating how most of hackernews is arguing against making usable products for 70% of the internet users.

Don't know who you're referring to but I wasn't arguing against making usable products. I'm not even a web developer. I merely stated the facts grounded in the real world. Most of the web is dogshit slow. What is more likely to happen from the two: 1) Web-devs starting to optimize their code to run well on old hardware or 2) People upgrade to HW that can run the current web a little bit better.

> used in africa, india, china and most of the non developed world. Do you think these devices are in any means powerful?

I find it funny the moments the HN users try to shoe-horn the poverty of the third world into various arguments, as if that's somehow a consideration for most people in rich countries on how they conduct their lives. Spoiler alert, most people only care about what happens in their surrounding, and in their personal bubble, and that's it, and most app-devs and web-devs care about the userbase they can monetize the most, which is why some app devs, especially in the US, never port their apps to Android as well and are fine with only with the more affluent iOS majority userbase. So bringing up the third world poverty and inclusiveness in such contexts feels deeply ironic to me.

Yeah, I'd like that too, that web-devs and app devs would not discriminate between iOS and Android and all websites would run great on older machines, but that's not the truth. The truth is that most websites developed in the west are not optimized property therefore heavily favor those with modern machines and some apps are even Apple exclusive to the detriment of those left out.

I've seen Facebook offer Lite version of their mobile client and messaging apps but that's only due to their huge userbase in the developing world, which like ou said, owns mostly low-end devices.
this is web dev mindset, in all other languages the module name is just a name, it's not supposed to tell you how to retrieve the module, that's the job of the module system. Otherwise it's the service locator anti pattern. I always find it redundant that syntacically, the module name in javascript has to be a string (as in quoted) for whatever reason. In python and php it's just tokens and namespace separator.
Sounds like a good option. I've been finding it hard to understand how this all fits together. For example, which of the standards listed above is the mechanism used to unlock a PC or a mac? Which one applies to allowing sudo?

I guess that's the crux of it. I'd prefer to find an open hardware alternative if possible, and not have to trust additional software. I know my use case, but don't know which standards apply and are required to make it happen. Knowing that would allow me to pick an open hardware key that, by meeting those standards, would let me do what I need.

It just seems even ticking those boxes isn't much of a guarantee when so much extra software appears to be needed.

The alternative is to either find:

- the open device with the most active developer community and hope the feature comes

- the device that just meets the most standards (as you suggest, a Yubikey)

If I sound confused it's just because I am.
Let's just say I am very drug positive and believe in decriminalization of everything and legalization of everything non habit forming.

Psychedelics are powerful drugs. It's hard to know if someone can help themselves out of a bad trip or if they will spiral further. It's hard to know how much the people around them can help if things become difficult. They don't always change your perspective in a positive way. I am not saying the drugs are the reason for anything bad, but they do amplify what is already there.

I think you would agree that there are some people who shouldn't take psychedelics at a certain moment. Mindset in my opinion is much much more important than setting.

Psychedelics can easily become an escape and a way to avoid your real life and responsibilities. That's my main concern and why I am against recommending them generally to a reader of HN I don't know personally. Especially when it's someone questioning motivation and not something more existential.

I can expect an average reader of HN to do research. But I doubt most people find the answer to their lethargy in psychedelics. I don't think it should be anywhere closer to an initial response to what the author is describing.

I would argue psychedelics are most mentally expanding when the user doesn't feel a strong need to take them.
What is the trust guarantee that an EV cert provides me?
Ah is that what it was. Mixing ltr and rtl text always trips me up. To make matters even weirder it seems that sequences of nummerals, such as ١٠ are ltr again. That has some very unintuitive consequences when you try to edit that sentence.
I think "concentration" is too strong a word, even, since samatha is really about letting go (of objects other than the object of meditation), rather than buckling down and trying to focus, which I think a lot of people associate "concentrating" with.

For me phrases like "gently staying with" or "quietly attending to" or even "remembering" (which is sort of what sati means anyway) work better than "concentration", but it seems like there isn't a perfect piece of terminology to describe the kind of effort/effortlessness balance that has to be achieved for samatha to work. But I feel that "letting go of distractions" is a better way around it than "concentrating one-pointedly" which tends to sound very effortful.

Mindfulness/vipassana/insight, I have no idea what a good phrase is. There are so many modifications of insight techniques that it's hard to find a common core sometimes.

That said, I believe the early Buddhist texts (i.e. the suttas) don't really make the samatha/vipassana distinction much if at all, this is a (relatively) recent development. And it seems like practicing one necessarily invokes some of the other (apart from during very refined states of samatha where there's no "bandwidth" for the kind of analysis and noting that happens in most insight techniques). I've often thought of vipassana practice as "applying the principles/mechanics of samatha to (xyz mental noting technique)", which might be why some traditions tend to have you do some form of samatha first before vipassana - because the mind needs a little training in being steady and dropping distractions before it can apply a vipassana technique in a (roughly) one-pointed way.
Jon vom Neumann also comes to mind when thinking about brilliant people from the past century.
Maybe consider working 32hours and project on friday?
I reject the notion that you can clean anything by licking it.
I doubt the dolphin loiters long enough. It's probably a "boop" and done. My money is on the dolphin in almost every situation unless there's a large disparity in divers vs dolphins.
That would be an interesting study, actually, to see what percentage of medieval kings died of old age (and not in their successor's dungeon). As a first order approximation, I've looked at the Wikipedia article "List of monarchs of the British Isles by cause of death"[0] (which covers more than just the medieval period), and counted this summary:

Natural causes: 60
In battle: 15
Murdered, assassinated, executed: 17
Euthanised: 1
Other: 2
Accidental: 3
Unknown: 10

The "other" category seems to be cases where the monarch was effectively imprisoned and/or murdered, and I'll exclude the euthanised king as being controversial from the point of view of "violence". That leaves 107 deaths, of which 34 were violent (battle, murdered, assassinated, executed, imprisoned), giving a percentage of about 32%. I guess if you live like a king you have to be willing to die like one too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_the_Britis...
Also not available in my region.

Straight from the playbook of big film ;-)
I have the exact same experience with a rigid sleep schedule and large breakfast. It's a big deal. I don't even need coffee anymore.
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Someone needs to haul big hunks of steel into the machine, clamo them down tight (and straight), and haul the part out when it's done.

Also install tooling, swear when a tap or drill inevitably breaks and gets stuck in a very expensive part, etc.
your program might as well be an infinite loop sampling a boolean, sigsegv can be thrown after hardware errors. I wouldn't sit under that piano even if your code is formally verified and that formal verification was verified to be verified. :)
Something that has been revolutionary for me has been to set a _bed time_ alarm, instead of (or in addition to) a morning alarm.
You can't just leave accusations like that without links to concrete issues. The discourse becomes Kafkaesque.
I'm not sure how true this urban legend is but it is not too hard once you get the hang of it

(And dates aside, how the program ages is more important)
I just don’t see how Go is more uniquely suited to do this than any other language with the same feature and admittedly I may have read too much into your comment.
At the same time, I assume Americans would love to have 20 days of PTO, and not be afraid they end up in debt over disease or die because they can't afford insulin.
And that path currently goes thru an autist welding up rockets in tents on a beach.
Like a true millennial I just entered it into Google and was surprised at the result.
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i agree - i do the same (although i do take 30 minutes extra on the weekends if im being honest).

> but it means I’m rarely at my fullest focus or energy levels, especially early in the day.

At the moment I'm trying to lean into this. I have the brain power and focus to work late at night, so I use that to do the mental work of planning/organising the evening before (clothes laid out for the mornings task, breakfast/lunch made in advance, gym bag packed, etc etc) and decide what I'm doing the following morning. I've found that it's the perfect time to go to the gym, do the "long" dog walk, scrub the bathroom tiles with a toothbrush etc; anything that can be somewhat autopiloted but requires physical effort.

I've been doing it for about 6 months now to great effect (so far)
It's just that there is nothing of value in regards to blockchain or smart contracts. They are a solution in search for a nonexistent problem, while heating up the planet.
Sleep deprivation migth help to focus and do those tasks at all instead of procrastinating. That's my experience at least dealing with boring and unpleasant tasks.
Their API docs are incorrect half the time because they rarely update them. Finding documentation on their dynamic parameter system that all APIs use dumps you out on one page with every possible parameter domain.
It was definitely my intro to socket programming. I wrote entirely mIRC script based IRC services - NickServ, ChanServ, the lot. I c:lined it (is that the right flat? I don't recall), then wrote my own little set of slash commands to perform various fun raw commands - e.g getting ChanServ to message someone and ask how their day is going.

IRC was a way cooler world than the current internet.
It's the "WorldWideWeb".
Except that the ternary operator in C and C++ is not really an operator but a control flow construct.
Is zlib the most installed software component in the world? Or is it curl or sqlite.

Interesting blog post about this topic:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/21/the-most-used-softwar...