skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of your points but I strongly disagree here:

> The methods they have now are not much better than what they had 50 years ago.

The methods are much, much more refined and quite a bit better. You are being sold to and you may not realize it. Everything you interact with on social media (including reddit) has a good chance of being part of an advertising funnel. Even reviews and unboxings are usually advertisements.

One of the best new tactics is ragebait - when someone talks about how bad/evil something is. This is almost always a lead up to a covert sales pitch.

Marketing is everywhere and it has gotten much, much better in the last 50 years.
Not sure what your point is here, though. I agree with you, but the right way to deal with people who violate this is to arrest them, charge them with a crime, and put them on trial. Not freezing their bank accounts without due process or recourse. The latter is undemocratic and authoritarian.
As a point of encouragement don't let some random internet bully discourage you from using a perfectly fine word like smart or from diminishing your self image. For all we know you're the smartest person in the world.
Microsoft has been happy-ish to have their games on Steam for a while now. They probably would've gone all-in on the Xbox store if the windows store (backend) wasn't so shitty.
Thank you for suggesting that literature could be updated with improvements.
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My personal favorite recommendation in this vein is The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ . They've got some great writers and editors and often deliver pretty unique insights. Their articles tend towards long-ish-form, but not nearly as long as e.g. the New Yorker. They're a little less world-focused and more US-centric, but not completely. There is some bias (isn't there always?), but I've seen them cover a single issue from multiple POVs using multiple writers before. They have a print edition as well, for ~$70/year (includes digital access as well).
Many long term political goals are achieved through incrementalism which others might call the "slippery slope." Incrementalism is a political tactic that is extremely effective. To dismiss it purely as an argumentative fallacy in all cases demonstrates naivety and the person who pointed out that you probably don't understand government was right to do so.

There are probably very few cases where the government implemented a rule or regulation or tax or anything where it was eventually rolled back. The government has a long and documented track record of incrementally expanding its reach and power.

The US homeland security act will never time out. The Canadian emergencies act will likely also continue on forever, but the act doesn't actually have to get worse to BE worse. The act is already dictatorial. The controlling government will just figure out how to apply the emergencies act more liberally against political opponents. That's how it will get worse.
Why do you expect this?
Machine learning is still too hard for software engineers
But it is, in part, your actions. The evidence does not support claiming depression is purely biological. That, however, doesn't mean blame is helpful or appropriate.
> Russia astroturfed an independence movement in Ukraine as a pretext to break off a chunk of it for themselves.

That's true, but one should note that that only worked because of a large local Russia-sympathetic population.

Otherwise, it would have worked out more like when they tried to inflame California separatism in 2016-2017.
> No, it doesn't. The obvious cause of the huge economic growth over the past 150 years, which is what the author focuses on, is population growth. World population is expected to level off in this century.

world population is leveling off because we're approaching many of these limits to growth and that's affecting the enabling factors for continued population growth.

> The author also assumes, incorrectly, that GDP--money spent on goods and services--is the right measure of overall wealth. It's not. The author even discusses "decoupling", the fact that many types of wealth require little or no physical resources to produce, but fails to realize that the long term outcome of this will not be to raise monetary GDP more and more, but to make monetary GDP less and less of an accurate measure of wealth production.

I agree with this.

> "A limited life-essential resource will always carry a moderately high value." This is a common misconception. An obvious counterexample is air: air is a limited resource (Earth's atmosphere contains only a finite quantity of it), it is life-essential, but it is free. Why? Because it costs nothing to produce.

you conflate value and price here. obviously atmosphere is not currently metered. That doesn't mean we don't place a high value on clean air.

> And if the cost of production of other life-essential resources, like food, were reduced, those things would also become cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Love The Economist. I have a subscription.
CNN and Faux news are both as reliable as the Daily Show for accurate news. All three are comedies.

Question: Did you even watch any of the videos before deciding your opinion?
The slippery slope argument requires a slope. In your opinion what the parent comment said is a radical departure from what's currently happening.

Personally, I don't think that a government which stamps out protest and bank accounts of political rivals is anywhere but at the bottom of the slope. I've lived in Africa and I've seen how this goes.
Interesting that the only two new laptops that have tempted me in years (the Framework and the new MBP) both arrived at roughly the same time yet with wildly different design philosophies.
You can theoretically solve a lot of problems with crappy, multitudinous game stores - easier payments, lighter software. But the real question is: do I trust that I'll be able to continue downloading my purchases for the foreseeable future?

I trust that Steam will be around for a very long time. I can download DRM-free installers from GOG. Everyone else? I don't know, I have much less confidence.
A dual socket EPYC costs about 15K. You can rent some online for 400$ a month. This gives you 128 cores for a relatively low price.
There will be many history books written on what has happened and is about to happen. I hope I get to read them, maybe I will even write one.

This will be an impossible subject to wade through due to the very charged reality of what has gone down. Preconceived perceptions are broken.

I respect Bill Maher's opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i72czkSUsM

I respect Jimmy Dore's opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNnGdv8ceM

One of the best objective timelines I have read on this subject to date: https://quillette.com/2022/02/21/the-ottawa-trucker-protest-...
This is incorrect. The lawyer is not confirming the story that people are having accounts frozen for donating. You'll note in that tweet they make zero reference to those donating.

Here is the information directly from the RCMP, who say directly that they did not at any time provide a list of donors to banks:
https://blockade.rcmp.ca/news-nouvelles/ncr-rcn211130-s-d-en...
I have zero trust in media anymore. Watching un-edited videos of certain famous events, then reading what well-respected, reputable news outlets wrote about it... it was basically at tabloid level how misrepresented it was.

Best I can do - if particularly interested in a current event and there's no video footage - is sample wide range of news sources and see if there's any common strand of truth between the lies.

But more often than not, I don't care anymore.
No one ever talks about the two different kinds of email. Incoming (identity) and outgoing (messaging).

I self host for the former and send through a smart host for the latter. I can’t begin to enumerate how much identity I have accumulated over the last 30 years. I must be known by hundreds of ID tokens (email addresses) and yet I have only ever sent from a handful.

Blessed is the inbound SMTP. Outbound* is a cruel mistress.

*to gmail et al
Watching the news used to keep you meaningfully informed back when it was a thirty minute thing once a day. Now that we have internet and can google up just about anything, I only need the occasional tsunami alert or whatever.

The world was also smaller back then. With eight billion people, you can't track everything of importance on the world stage anymore. You need to pick and choose.
Detect, or block? There are a few options for blocking, if you run uBlock Origin[1] the Resource Abuse list covers many.

1: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
I just don't understand these tools. If someone stores bookmarks - why not put them into a text file - one line per bookmark, and then search with grep.
I find this paper quite unconvincing.

Exceptions are exceptional so in principle it doesn't matter (within reason) how long it takes to throw one as long as it costs nothing not to do so. So measuring the cost of repeated throws IMHO doesn't cast light on any useful case, and the approaches that add runtime cost for the path not taken, even Herb Sutter's, are not acceptable.

His code transformation example is simply the compiler behaving properly, unless it can't make that transformation even when foo() is declared noexcept.

The high core count is a real issue and a legitimate reason for an ABI break. Exceptions are the kind of below the surface plumbing that can't reasonably be implemented in regular code.

And in that regard the paper does make a good suggestion, though it then dismisses it! The tree approach described in section 3.4 seems like the right kind of fix.

Ultimately there's a spectrum of branching (`return` -> `break` -> `goto` -> `throw`) all of which need consideration in light of multicore deployment.
How do we know any of these people committed a serious crime? They were not charged with anything or put on trial. A judge/jury has not (yet) found any of these people guilty of anything.

Seizing money absolutely violates human rights when it's done without due process, as was the case here.
Perhaps they need it to work on Mac? Granted, it seems the only game they have that’s Mac compatible is elder scrolls online…
Mapping all 446 of Pittsburgh’s bridges, hoping to avert future collapses
Using up scarce branch-prediction slots is a good way to make your program unoptimizable. Time wasted because you ran out will not show up anywhere localized on your profile. (Likewise blowing any other cache.)
Depressed people tend to underestimate what they can change, which complicates the matter.
Only you know what's valuable to you, but since this is a public forum, it's a bit strange to be so categorical about your own highly subjective opinions. Why would anyone care about them?

This sounds particularly deluded:

> as an outsider I have never understood how anybody thought Swift had a future.

The objective fact is that there are a million or so working developers happily using Swift. And there are also lots of people that dislike it, but clearly it's very useful and popular.

And in what sense would Swift be "walled garden"? Very few languages were constructed for philosophical purists like you.
Freeheel is still the only way to do "complete" skiing, where you go from flat cross country, to mild uphill, to a low angle descent without changing a thing on 3 pin or NNN-BC bindings, so it's a handy technique to have in that context. But yeah, it's pretty silly, and I think just worse than a parallel turn in a lot of conditions. Maybe I wouldn't think it was silly if I felt a good one!
When you will receive the bank wire from the exchange you need to provide to IRS the source of income.
What will you say to them?
Check https://synchro.net. You can access thru BBS's (telnet/SSH) or NNTP too, and you'll have night convos at FIDOnet and DOVEnet, both tech and non tech.
Again, most experienced C++ programmers would say that even a 0.1% "normal" failure rate indicates a situation that should not be handled by exceptions. You seem to be describing a style of programming where there's a bunch of work to be done, most efforts to do the work will succeed, a few will predictably (albeit randomly, perhaps) fail. While I would concede that you might conclude that exceptions are the perfect tool to use to deal with the failures...

1) you're describing a fairly unusual application behavior
2) it's only because of the performance goals that the speed of exceptions matters

I'm the lead dev of a cross-platform DAW where our "inner loop" is real-time constrained by hardware. We use exceptions freely (in a multicore, multithreaded context) with no performance issues, because if they ever happen, things must stop.
What if you just don't remember the experiences you've had during this moment? Not impossible, imho
There is nothing left to experience any void, as that experience would be something. Noone can experience death, only the moments leading to it. I feel pretty comfortable with that. On the other hand, if there is life after death then perhaps you live on somehow but let's discount that as unprovable and quite possibly not the case.

Dealing with the reality we do know, I comfort myself with the idea that, and this sounds cheesy, all is one. Not in some hippy, pantheistic way. More that our experience of ourselves as separate from anything else is itself an illusion. There are no things, not nothing but "no things". Everything is a giant process, everything interpenetrates everything else, nothing exists independent from anything else.

This is a somewhat Buddhist view. I'm describing emptiness in a way (the Buddhist term not nothingness or some sort of nihilistic viewpoint). It seems like a totally logical way to see things and, for me at least, comforting. It's all one process and it's all relational. It's relations all the way down. One Buddhist teacher I like put it this way. "All of reality is a vibrating verb rather than a bunch of concrete nouns".

So back to your point, this is tantamount to being part of that "infinite stream of energy" as you put it perhaps.
Not only is this relevant to HPC environments, it also impacts the other end of the spectrum in the embedded space. When dealing with real-time requirements, you are much more concerned with the worst case performance as opposed to the average case or happy path performance.

This article makes it very clear that exceptions complicate analysis of performance. The non-local nature of exceptions mean I can't analyze performance in isolation. E.g. I can test that thread 1 always meets its deadlines (even with exceptions being thrown), then I can test that thread 2 always meets its deadlines.... but if thread 1 and thread 2 happen to throw exceptions at nearly the some time I might miss both deadlines. Who knows, maybe this means a thruster fires too long and that insertion burn fails ... and Mars has a new crater instead of a lander.

And, once you throw -fno-exceptions you are no longer using standard C++, which the standard library assumes. So, using anything that would throw exceptions on memory allocation failures is a no-go. You can work around this with extensive use of allocators (that reference enough static memory to avoid any possible out-of-memory situation)... but this is not looking like idiomatic C++ anymore, and most off-the-shelf libraries are unusable.

A completely local exceptions implementation (e.g. Herbceptions) would solve this.
There's no ulterior motive, I asked because we're commenting on an article/ad about Flutter.

You posed the question if there were any notable examples of RNW used in production because you haven't seen any. (it's on their home page)

I answered who is using it and simply posed the question if there were notable examples of Flutter Web used in production because I haven't.

If you knew enough about RNW to look out for sites using it and pose a question about it then I assumed you knew enough about Flutter to do the same?
I believe that those sunset provisions you were referring to only applied to the surveillance parts of the bill, not the entire PATRIOT Act. Also, they were originally supposed to expire in 2005, so the government kept the power ~3 times longer than the end date of the original bill.
After one year of subscribing to the Economist I like it, but would prefer if it was a monthly newspaper with 1/4 of the content. Reading it throughout each week takes quite a lot of my reading time and I have a feeling that dedicating this time to books would be better. Monthly with well selected topics would be enough to stay informed of important current issues.
We evaluated those 3 options to develop an application used to configure, control and monitor battery systems at Northvolt, and reached very similar conclusions regarding the strengths of each platform.
in theory they could but I doubt most patients want to have to remotely authorize their provider any time someone wants to access their record.
Text based multi type calculator for peoples
In the United States you are pretty much required to give your name to police if they ask for it. They will run that name and if it's doesn't check out, match the picture on their computer, etc you will be arrested for providing a false name. In many states they can also demand you present photo identification and skip all of that.

Practically speaking the United States has been a "papers please" country for a long time.

What we're talking about here is a standardized, national ID. It's currently a weird patchwork of driver's licenses, identification cards, etc - each of which are slightly different variants issued by each of the states. So we don't have a standardized national ID. We have at least 50 of them, all with different formats, different issuing criteria, different validity, etc. We've tried to have some bare minim standards for years (REAL ID act) but the mandatory compliance date for that keeps getting pushed (currently next year).
Nice story. I presume the guy has some sources for it.
There's no such thing as an "unopinionated" kitchen sink language. Language features have all sorts of unforeseen interactions that must be handled somehow, and good high-level design is needed to ensure that the interactions are sensible.
That's a quite good read. I'd like an annotated version with fact checking and commentary.
Rural California. Nearest substation is 10 miles away. There is one line of medium voltage electricity into the entire town that goes through sandy almost wetland soil. Rain and wind can make the powerlines fall and routinely do. Sometimes someone crashes into them.
I'm not counting the rolling blackouts or whatever.
The manipulation part is what I find fascinating. And not just the way people use the term now about "fake news". But more about how the news cycle needs to keep you constantly engaged. If you follow the news, especially political news, it seems like the sky is falling constantly. I was always up in arms about something.

As the author notes, when I do pay attention to the news I feel better. Again, political news in particular. I still will watch sports news. I actually feel better when I watch that -- I love seeing sports highlights, and great comebacks -- even when I don't know a single player or team involved. The stakes are so low, but the enjoyment so high.
I can only assume that adopting this form of finance would involve a huge change in lifestyle for most people. Those changes should be adopted by choice, not because a government has capriciously pulled the rug out from under you.
There is no human right to not have it discovered a person purchased a firearm that was later used in the commission of a crime.

In the same sense that there is no human right to not have it discovered that a car that ran someone over is registered to a particular person, or that a plane that crashes into a neighborhood was scheduled to fly under a particular flight-plan and be operated by a particular pilot.

In general, society (American society included) assigns additional responsibilities of care and auditing to ownership and operation of machines and equipment with a high probability of causing the death of a third party if they are mis-used.
We expect software to be updated with improvements to its functionality, whereas a novel is non-functional.
(I'm not quite sure what non-functional means...)

My other reply is that A/B testing might be said to be accomplished in consultation with an editor.
That means that no DoD computer can be connected to both at the same time. Which is a reasonable thing to have.

Doesn't mean that DoD cannot use the global internet, just not use it and their own at the same time. I mean... They could even send traffic over global lines, without taking up IP addresses.
Connect it to your network and blackhole all their traffic.
Players should be saying they don't want "launchers" at all. They provide no benefit that couldn't be done a better way.
To further clarify the sibling's point, the reason for this is that the Progressive wing of the Democrats couldn't convince people to approve abortion access through democratic means as soon as they would have liked, so they decided to get a rather dubious Supreme Court interpretation of the Constitution that declared it to be a Constitutional Right. Now they are totally dependent on keeping agreeable Supreme Court justices in order to preserve that interpretation.

It didn't have to be this way. They could have left it to the states or local jurisdictions, and moved to a state with policies they agreed with. They could have (tried to) pass a Constitutional Amendment making it a clear and obvious Constitutional Right instead of a weird interpretation. Instead, they did this.

Living in a Democracy requires us to consider the opinions of our fellow citizens and try our best to accommodate them, rather than steamrolling them.

Consider the position of a Pro-Life activist. They will think that all abortion is murder, that the ruling is a grotesque twisting of the Constitution, and fight every inch of the way on every nominee. Does this sound like the way we were meant to resolve contentious issues? You may disagree with them, but they are also our fellow citizens, and will not be happy about steamrolling their positions.

Consider also the position of a Gun Rights activist. They will be outraged at how the courts have ignored attacks on an actual enumerated Constitutional Right, and fight every nominee on those terms, not particularly caring whether they are also likely to be anti-Abortion.

Maybe it's best if we resist using the Supreme Court to decide everything and try to pass clear Amendments for what's really important and broadly agreed upon. Though this goes back to how dysfunctional and useless Congress has become in their prescribed role.
Another reason to have decentralisation in financial system. I'm not for cryptocurrency but this excess in democratic state is exactly what brings people to alternatives, ie Bitcoin.
How does that work, doesn't Capacitor already provide its own bridge to native APIs?
>The police couldn't touch the protest for weeks not because of inaction but because your right to protest is a human right. They required the national emergency to remove our right to protest in order to label the protest illegal.

So you are saying under Canadian law, if you protest and do something illegal like blocking roads, destroying property, etc then Canadian police can't do anything? So if I go back in history and look at other protests in Canada like the ones against the pipelines for example, then I will see that the police didn't act against them?
I thought the Shiori project was dead. Great to see it's got a new maintainer. A new release also dropped after 2 years.
[1]: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori/discussions/376