skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You most definitely aren’t :) I am happy most of the times but that is boring and nothing to talk about. People love to talk misery and drama. Apparently some people would rather live with a partner who is unpredictable, and even perhaps a bit dangerous, because of the drama. It’s like living in your own reality show.
It doesn't take much of a smart phone, which many already have though. I'd rather buy someone a smart phone for this purpose than a custom, one-off testing device.
Okay, wow. So, we're very much not going to achieve anything like what you describe, and Elon certainly isn't going to get there before you and welcome you in with open arms.

And honestly, I don't know why you believe any of these things you list are achievable, let alone desirable.

A question. You have two paths before you. Either path might lead you to you desired destination. Perhaps both will. Nobody knows, because (surprise) nobody can predict the future. One path definitely involves conscious animals mutilating themselves, the other definitely does not. Which do you choose?
As far as I am aware, they get no special exemptions, and offer Mac minis with 24-hour minimum renting terms.
Such a smooth-brained take.

There's a reason prisons are called "schools for crime", and it's because of silly lines like "if they do so again [...], imprison them again". Please actually think, and eventually realize that reducing recidivism rates is how you get your "people who come out don't commit more crimes".
That's because it's really just a standard commodity.
Isn't it fantastic that we are alive and seeing the resurrection of the great library of Alexandria right before our eyes?

She has done more than any other organization or individual in the history of mankind when helping people in second and third world country pursue advance research since the advent of internet. Well she and the people who pirate and distribute MS Office. Faculties around the world recommend scihub as the main and only source of research and journals.
Tried to convince my mate to have a room in his house dedicated to this game so we could have a play. Sadly life (and children) got in the way!
> If I define a date MM/DD/YYYY as equal to the time MM/DD/YYYY 00:00 GMT

That's the exact problem - if you contrived a date into an int then yes, it is compatible with the =, >, and < operators.

The point of the blog post is to assert that that contrivance is not appropriate in nearly all use cases, despite how popular it seems to be. In the vast majority of use cases contriving MM/DD/YYYY into MM/DD/YYYY 00:00 GMT is not reasonable and can mask a vast amount of unintended behavior.

For example, a person in California who enters a date of 06/05/2022 in reference to their local time zone will suddenly wind up the day before - because 06/05/2022 00:00 GMT is actually 06/04/2022 16:00 PST.

If the developer wants to contrive the date into a "midnight instant", they are welcome to do so and there should be plenty of convenience functions to allow them to do that, but implicitly performing that contrivance is dangerous.
"Nearly 8% of the top 10 million websites support HTTP/3, according to the latest figures from W3Techs."

And 100% support HTTP/1.1. HTTP.1.1, while not new, sounds quite useful.

Being a mostly non-commercial, text-only web user, I only request resources from the host domain. The browser does not automatically follow URLs sourced in a page nor does it process Javascript to fetch or make XHR for additional resources. Often I do not use a browser to make HTTP requests, preferring to use smaller command line utilities instead, as for me this can be faster and more flexible. There is never any delay for a website to "load". For example, if I request the resource "index.html" from the host example.com, I do not make connections to any third party host domains, e.g., doubleclick.net. Thus, "head-of-line blocking" is generally not an issue.

Perhaps if I were requesting multiple resources, e.g., index0001.html through index1500.html, from example.com, then HTTP/3 might be faster than HTTP/1.1 pipelining, but I have not seen any evidence to support that idea. I have been using HTTP/1.1 pipelining to request multiple resources from the same host for a long time. Year after year it keeps working, and in some cases working better than ever before. In the years before Nginx was popular, when Apache was the most popular web server, it was common to see maximums set at 100 HTTP requests per TCP connection. Today, in some cases, maximums seem to have no upper bound. I have made thousands of HTTP requests over a single TCP connection.

The so-called "head-of-line blocking" problem seems to be restricted to "complex" websites that use resources from multiple hosts, especially trackers and ad servers. Those are often websites with lots of advertising, distractions and annoyances.

I enjoy using the web without invoking the "complex" website model. Nearly 100% of websites look great in the text-only browser, meaning I can read all the text and glean the information conveyed. For me, most "complex" websites can still be treated as if they were "simple" websites without losing information. When I visit example.com, I only request index.html from example.com. Nothing more. I do not make additional connections to third party domains, and, as such, there are no "blocking" problems to worry about.

HTTP/3 may be optimised for certain types of websites, i.e., complex ones, and a certain type of web usage, i.e., consumption of "complex" websites that include third party "content" and/or hidden elements. The biggest push for "HTTP/3/" comes from companies with vested interests in "complex" websites, the proliferation of online advertising and the attraction of "eyeballs".

HTTP/1.1 feels less corporate, from a time before Google et al.'s takeover of the web.

I do like the idea of QUIC (though I do no think Google was the first to implement the idea of reliable transmission over UDP), and I look forward to potentially using other (less web browser-centric, advertising-oriented) protocols over QUIC "connections".
HDLs like VHDL and Verilog are at a different level. If HDLs are like C, the interchange format is more comparable to a .o file.

That being said, EDIF already exists.
Did these "some engineers" get their degree from a crackerjack box?

Holmes was always full of shit, and a "big breakthru" in this area is impossible, as there is ample evidence that capillary blood at these volumes is simply not homogeneous enough to give accurate results for quantitative tests.
That's not true. Newer research shows AA is the most effective way to quit drinking https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/alcoholics-an...
You buy it for its negative or low correlation to other assets. It’s a non-productive asset. Easily marketable and convertible to other assets.
>we're at around 90% vaccination rate

Vaccination rate doesn't relate much to mandates support.

>Reality shows otherwise - we'd be talking about an election if this was an actual problem politically, and an election simply isn't in the cards.

Canada very rarely triggers elections mid-term. Plus, the fact that the government is a minority already indicates people are not aligned with the elected government.
this site tried to download a potentially dangerous file to my machine on navigation to the link - flagging.
Hehehe :) Nope.
That is an interesting idea, I wonder how it would work out. Added benefit of just eating up any demand for energy, I guess crowding out any non-renewables. I bet administratively it would be easier than my idea -- people could proactively show they are selling renewables.
Been there, done that. Terribly underestimated the challenge.

In 2013 I wanted to create a simple time-lapse camera: 3 intervals (every minute, hour or day - rotary switch), store on SD card, recharge via solar, weatherproof;

"Can't be that hard", I thought and started interviewing potential clients and because of the nice 3D renderings and eventual 3D prints I got back "So cool - I want one" and naiv as I was I registered a business and collected a few hundred pre-orders at $150. Even had a cheap startup booth at CES in the basement next to the washrooms one year.

When they say "Hardware is hard" they are sugar-coating it. I could rant for days about the things that happened over the 2 years that it took to ship the first camera. We underestimated everything: Optics for example and what role condensation plays when deployed outdoors for long periods of time, or the impact of temperature on batteries. Also, just having a "cool" product was not enough to launch a sustainable business. Without recurring revenue, customer support was a pain.

I was lucky that some of our early clients were enterprises who wanted to pay monthly fees for extra services, otherwise we would have gone bankrupt trying to make consumers happy.

Eventually I decided that for us "only a camera that generates MRR is a good camera" and stopped selling to consumers. But it sure makes me happy still seeing recently made videos on social media from cameras I assembled myself.

Anyway, times have changed, maybe someone wants to give it another shot, happy to share more of the experiences I had.

Be aware though, manufacturing electronics is even harder these days. I know because we still make cameras. They are a necessary evil to get the kind of data our customers in Agriculture and Construction need to operate.

I am Michael Schwanzer of Toronto based ZEITDICE INC. Happy to be contacted via LinkedIn or our website.
I wonder how that was done, assuming the original stats were stored in local storage?
> Some engineers I spoke with told me she was 2 years before her big breakthru.

That's pretty gullible given her history to date. 2 years before a breakthrough spells 'never', that's exactly how the rest of the investors got bilked.
Not the Dan Price you were thinking of.

Also very few pictures, and it auto downloads an .swf file when you open the page.
The navy seal copypastas are incredible, particularly the Zizek one:

What in Slovene psychoanalysis did you just write about me, you ignorant little piglet? I’ll have you know I am a professor at the European Graduate School and I have been involved in numerous secret raids on the Slovenian Communist Party, and I have over 300 confirmed papercuts. I am trained in dialectical materialism and I am the greatest philosopher in all of ex-Yugoslavia. You are nothing to me but just another militant atheist. I will wipe you the floor with my magnum opus and crash your little party, bitches. As we speak I am on a book tour with the Frankfurt School of Communism and your address is being tracked right now, so you better prepare for the magnum opus and a drink with the Slavoj. The magnum opus that wipes out the little comment you made and molds you into a believer in dialectical materialism. You’re going to be a believer soon, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I have degrees from a bunch of different universities that you have probably never heard of, and I have access to critical theory and it will be used to its full extent to hammer your mind into submission, pussy. Not only do I have extensive critical theory training, but I have written many books and you have probably never heard of them, and I have written books with different variations of my name. Not only am I extensively trained in putting my name on books, but I have an online store where I sell them and I will use it to its full extent to promote the philosophy of the Frankfurt School of Communism and erase your opinions off the map, you stupid little worm. If only you had had the foresight to know what unholy retribution your little “clever” statement was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have thought twice. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re going to pay the price, you damn fool. I’ll make you into an object lesson for the schoolchildren of Slovenia with my interpretation of your work, and when they finish their semesters they’ll crap all over you and you will be erased from memory, you stupid little pissant
Unreliable garbage data.

It also implies that Bitcoin, at the range between $42K (current price) and $65K (all time high), gained half its user base, they were all first time purchases, and yet despite all that growth and buying, and division of liquidity, the price still fell 30%.
Possibly a naive question - isn’t this a complete pain?

Downloads are a primary usage in the browse for me, and copy/paste is too.

Do you not find that this and the ‘control v’ versus ‘command v’ thing drives you mad?

How do these (relatively minor) things get solved? Key remapping might do the latter.
Preface: Nix is sometimes difficult because it forces you to be explicit about what you mean. For instance, your example specifies particular versions of end-user packages. Do you want all of them to use the same shared libraries? Do you want each of them to use the libraries that they were tested with at the time those specific versions were released? Should we use the latest secure+patched libraries, but the older application versions? Do you want the patches to your applications known at time of release, or the latest? Most systems don't allow this much specificity or power.

Yes. An example that i had to do recently. I forget the exact issue, but I wanted to express the thought: "keep the rest of my system up to date, but pin only the notmuch package to an older version. Oh, and to make sure it is not unspecified: that older version should also use the dynamic libraries that it is tested to work with, potentially older than the rest of my system."

in code;
```
nixpkgs.overlays = [(self: super: {
notmuch = nixpkgs-old.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.notmuch;
})];
```
Where nixpkgs is basically 21.11 and nixpkgs-old is a particular git commit hash.

But you can express other nuanced thoughts as well:
- bring in an old application, but don't change anything else on my system (non-interference)
- patch some core library, AND recompile EVERYTHING that uses it (global replacement)
- only replace a core library for the software used for a particular service, no where else (targeted patching)
- change some ./configure flags but otherwise track the latest security updates for a release, recompile only the things needed (dynamic customization)
- recompile everything with optimization flags (source based distro)
- only update what github revision used as source for an application, otherwise everything the same (stay on bleeding edge for a specific application)

I think people tend to overthink Flakes, they are a standard code organization schema and an entrypoint into the Nix language that ensures everything is tracked and locked. It makes things reproducible, both the successes and (perhaps more important!) the bugs and failures.
You haven't responded to my points about the long term vs short term tradeoffs with dependencies, at all. That is an efficiency tradeoff, with externalities.

To be clear of course use of dependencies makes sense according to the situation, with consideration for the tradeoffs of the system. If it's write one and never maintain then use whatever works in the moment.

But npm style solutions come with hundreds to thousands of dependencies, which has a real long term cost. Left-pad e.g. is real. You don't seem to be addressing the long term cost at all in your comments.

Hammering on people who are judicious about using dependencies, sounds like an application of when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Impossible with todays technology. When Musk was initially pitching electric car, everyone was laughing because back then the batteries density made it impossible for battery to be lightweight enough to be carried in a normal sized car. And look where we are today...

Let's revisit Holmes claims in 15 years. Unless you want to argue that there will never be any progress made in terms of blood tests???
> It's weird and doesn't follow normal language conventions

Maybe this is a key ingredient in successful languages. Just warty and anachronistic enough that users learn a lot of unique patterns that keep them glued to the language.
You give ‘em whatever you want. :) I think I’ll publish my next open source project with a license that permits no use whatsoever. Code provided for entertainment purposes only.
I would never bring my phone to the grocery store. It feels good leaving in a place to get recharged where it can't be lost.
This appears to be a repost/summary/blogspam of a 2017 kotaku piece: https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-...
> Your argument presupposed that those who want harsher punishments do so because punishment is tied to crime per capita.

What? No.
Define "fair"?

If there is a 3PM class and an 8AM class, 90%+ of your people are going to sign up for the 3PM class (commuting students might not if they can use the early classes to pile all their classes into the same day).

Normally, if you needed a class to graduate, you could generally work something out. However, those classes were generally "in your major" and mostly never banged into hard limits (laboratory classes being the exception).

I am reminded of my beginning foreign language classes. They were always oversubscribed, but if you showed up the teacher would always sign an exception for you. They knew that at least 25%+ of the class was going to drop, so, they could basically give everyone an exception who showed up to the class.
Kinda off-topic:

Can someone more knowledgeable than me on the inner workings of the web explain why Paul Graham website is one of the few(only?) website that I go where absolutely NO reader mode works? I've tried firefox, chrome, edge.

I have no idea how web dev works but it seems to me that his web page looks like it was made in the late 90s or early 00s and it's almost all buttons and text. Why, oh why it's the only website that I go that defies my reader mode?

Sincerely,

Someone who can only read more than one paragraph of text on reader mode.
Until you get killed by a hacker, or your device manufacturer silently changes camera firmware to include shitty AI updates to your computational photography device and breaks the app etc. I'll buy the actual medical device, thank you.
You can withdraw bitcoins from the blockchain? That would be fascinating new feature if it existed. /s
Sure, hooked up to a bench with ideal temperature, RPM, throttle, auspicious planetary positions etc. Put that same engine in a car that drives around and you won’t see anywhere near that.
Tolkien said they actually reproduce like the animals (and men and elves) do. So there are female Orcs for sure.

The extended LOTR film depiction of them being made from a mud-like mixture is nonsense.
Wouldn’t this do it for you? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/modeling/map-d...
Dumb luck. And the fact it was led by a mentally ill guy in a buffalo costume and no one thought to bring weapons or make a plan to take over the government.

It wasn't a coup. Nor a coup attempt. It was a protest against an election that many people considered fraudulent that got out of hand.

Exactly why it got out of hand and who encouraged that is another topic.
> Your "painstakingly optimized with SIMD" doesn't apply much to those 4 year old programs.

What's this then? https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/ma... There are some explicit SIMD instructions, and some programs written to allow autovectorization.

> Never throw the baby out with the bath water.

/eyeroll

There's no baby. There's no significant investment in applying equal levels of optimizations to the programs across languages. TypeScript vs JavaScript is a telling example but hardly the only one.
I asked someone why local village wine in the south of France was better than 75% of the bottles I'd had.

They told me "The best grapes never make it out of the village. The next best grapes never make it out of the region. The next best grapes never make it out of the country."

Wine was probably a terrible example, being a less perishable good suited for transport, but the quip always stuck with me. No idea the origin.

We (city folk) assume that the best agricultural output is exported, but... why would it be?

The price differential for quality likely isn't very large, local consumption is relatively modest compared to output, and cap that off with the freshness timer.

The best wine I've ever had was in the French countryside. The best beef I've had was in a dirty road place in the middle of cow country. The best salmon I've had was in Seattle. The best sushi I've had was behind Tsukiji (when they still did wholesale fish there).

Eat local is as much about quality as it is other things.
> Somewhat. Through effort I can take on a more objective perspective, but there is no platonic stranger I could pick out. Everyone has his own context and his own needs. What I try to do instead is visualize people I know who are not close friends. I think "What would X think if she were reading this?"

Writing something down and then ignoring it for a few days is another way to get a fresh view of your writing and see the problems. Not an original idea: one of my profs in grad school suggested it. Best writing advice I've ever received. (Like every acolyte in history I of course ignored it at the time.)
AWS/EC2 offers x86 and M1 macOS machines as instances which you can rent in 24-hour increments.

I could imagine them slicing those machines using virtualization, licenses permitting (apparently the 24 hour requirement is from Apple's license agreement.)
> you can't have a client that has [...] better information density on the screen

A far-from-ideal means of making the client more dense is to zoom with ctrl-{-,=,0}. It's exposed as an settings option too. Rather annoyingly however it doesn't seem to reduce the minimum frame width.
I know I’d easily pay at least a few hundred a month for at least one overnight shipment of fresh, in-season, rare/novel fruit.

Receiving a shipment like that would be a joyous monthly treat.

I can’t be the only one … can I?
Let Your Kids Be Bad at Things
Your comment is insightful. But what would be the solution? IP blocks for everything? Smarter compilers/mappers? A dominant FPGA vendor who would force a standard for everyone to follow? Or are you content with the status quo? I mean, I don't see why an FPGA expert wouldn't be :)
I don’t agree with this article at all. I have known plenty of not very smart people who live unhappy lives because they don’t have the mental skills needed to fix the problems they have. And the happiest people I know are very smart. They actively find ways to remove the pain/friction in their lives that stops them from being happy. They also tends to be honest with themselves about what needs improving. And do the work to fix it.
Not sure why I'm feeding the trolls, but anyway:

> everyone was laughing because back then the batteries density made it impossible for battery to be lightweight enough to be carried in a normal sized car.

That's simply untrue. The issue was always recognized to be economic, not a physical impossibility issue. There were a bunch of (crappy) electric cars in the 90s.

With respect to Theranos, impossible as in it is physically impossible, because of the non-homogeneity of capillary blood. It simply doesn't matter how good your blood test is, if you are doing a quantitative test, for many types of tests you can simply not get good enough accuracy doing a finger prick test.
We're trying to slowly reduce the amount of technical debt we've built up. It's not a naive copy and paste for us, since it's possible they've done silly things, but for teams they will understand what the alerts are for.

That said, I've had teams forget they had alerts at all or outright deny they owned alerts on their service.
Any news yet what were the offers all those "Chinese" athletes accepted?
Do you have any timeline on when i can use this with rust?

Found this: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-rust