skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quebec was pretty disconnected from France for a long time, and it was not until very recently with Charles de Gaulle that the friendship started again.

Now Quebec is more influenced by the European way of living, but there is still a very "American" way of life.
Roadside Picnic is an excellent book. For those who don’t know, it’s the book that inspired the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series.
This looks great. Now I need it in emacs. pdf-tools could probably emulate some of these features with enough work…
Maybe crypto companies don't trust their employees, because there's a strong correlation between employees who have no qualms about working for a company that perpetrates scammy cryptocurrency get-rick-quick pyramid schemes, and employees who have no qualms about stealing from their employer either.
As someone who drinks a decent amount of red wine, always trying new ones & properly decanting. This makes me curious how I would fare on a similar taste test.

I wonder if many casual wine drinkers just pour straight from the bottle? If so, it would lead to me believe they would have a hard time appreciating more expensive/better wines. Starting out I had a decoy red followed by a duckhorn red. I disliked the latter, but now I’m less of a noob I prefer the latter (if decanted)

Personally, I find there are several wines around $10 that I enjoy (J lohr merlot is one) but around ~$20-60 is the sweet spot for my fav wines (E.g juggernaut Cabernet,pahlmeyer Jayson, caymus, etc).

I have tried stuff in the hundreds & have enjoyed some but not all, and none yet have solidly eclipsed the previously mentioned to make it $ for $ worth it.

I can’t imagine drinking Austin Hope and a box red, then rating the latter as better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A Dyson sphere is technically possible without any new physics with a few decades of work. By contrast, while we have the physics to analyze how black holes much smaller than a proton would behave, we have no plausible way to go about making one.
> You cover `git add -p`, but I want `git add -e`.

Interesting. I don't think I've heard anyone use `git add -e` before. It should be easy to add that feature, but it would be very low priority since so few users seem to like to manually edit patches.

> Also, I often rebase and `edit` commits to split them or undo parts of them.

You can do that by checking out the commit, then `jj squash/amend` (aliases) and all descendants will be automatically rebased on top, and branches pointing to them will be updated too. There's also `jj edit` for editing the changes in a commit without updating to it. And there's `jj split` for splitting a commit (without needing to update to it).

> Rebase and all this is all about making commits that have just the right content, and keeping history clean and linear. The tools have to make this possible and easy.

Yes, that's definitely a goal. I think Jujutsu does a much better job at that than Git does. Did you read https://github.com/martinvonz/jj#comprehensive-support-for-r...?
Oh!

I thought they said they don't sequence your DNA - it's just the covid DNA?

I thought that was a conspiracy theory?

"There won't be vaccine mandates - that's just a conspiracy theory."

"There won't be mask mandates - that's just a conspiracy theory."

"You won't be forced to get a vaccine for your job - that's just a conspiracy theory."
Just remember while you are watching that movie your brain is subconsciously working on problems for your work. By watching a movie you are still working.
"Tiger, Tiger" (or "The Stars My Destination" in the USA) by Alfred Bester.
Can you elaborate on why you would want two worktrees set to the same branch? I think if I were trying to compare two approaches involving incompatible changes, creating a branch for one approach would feel more natural anyway, and then I'd be able to use the worktrees.
> This is only one meeting. We have like 5 more before C23, and only ~2 more before it's ISO Draft Ballot time
I mean it’s been working pretty well so far, it would seem.
It's a pity that scribe is both astonishingly great and totally abandoned.
This makes seeing the rivers and catchment areas easier than other maps I'm used to.

It also easily highlights features that the sea has cut away in the past. For example if you search "Isle of Wight" and scroll west, you can see the ridge that runs W-E across the Isle of Wight continuing on the Isle of Purbeck to the west. I knew that a long time ago it was all joined up as land, but this map shows this particular feature more clearly than a geology map.
Wouldn't an automation tax change the funding labor problem?
While it's not ideal to have Linux being used in ways that aren't permitted by the license, it's not necessarily a violation of anyone's rights. These license-incompatible uses of Linux are ongoing and readily apparent. There's a decent argument to be made that anyone contributing to Linux should have reasonably expected that their contributions would be used in this way, even if it wasn't in the license. Courts have to deal with resolving disputes where the terms of agreement weren't clearly documented all the time.

Obviously that's a bit flimsy and it'd be preferable that the license be bulletproof, but it is what it is. It only becomes a problem if someone gets litigious. If that happens, and it's someone who's made a small contribution, then their code can probably just be purged and rewritten. If it happens with a bigger contributor, then the argument that they should have known what was going on becomes stronger.

Hopefully it never becomes an issue. /shrug
Increased wages also drives more automation. For critical goods like food, that's what would replace those workers if their labour value is below minimum wage, and they would have to move into positions that can pay better. That's arguably better than leaving them in poverty working below a living wage.
“One does not have to be a Richard Feynman to
figure out that 200 tons is 100% greater than 100 tons.“ https://www.judyrecords.com/record/dhuql2nm6942
My only real concern here is whether the manufacturer may be able to unilaterally _limit_ already-enabled hardware capabilities in the future. If they can do so without your express consent _at the time that the capability is downgraded_, well then one can fairly say that the capability is not owned. That would be tragic.
It’s a good long term investment. Just not viable in the short term. Too expensive.
There is an arrgument that the details matter a lot in code.

i mostly am familiar with network side of things, but little stuff like how you handle connection timeouts or retries, for example, make a really big difference to the overall quality of the system. Not thinking about a network call each time is setting up a system that will randomly fail in avoidable ways (excessive retries keeping a system from recoverying; excessive buffering in the face of
latency; unbounded memory queues causing failure propagatin; having best effort code handle connect failure quickly but not have good rear time outs, etc)

The higher level problems often emerge from the exact nature of the lower levels.
There's an infinite number of straight lines that eventually lead to Mexico from any starting point, but (if I'm thinking straight) there's only a finite number of ways to not get to Mexico from a specific staring point.
The Trajectory of Truth: A Longitudinal Study of the Illusory Truth Effect
And Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979).
Books Steve Jobs Wanted You to Read
> A Dyson sphere is technically possible without any new physics with a few decades of work

Not a chance. I disagree 100%. The materials science and orbital mechanics for coordination alone are way beyond our capabilities.
Usually when people have speed problems with Jetbrains IDEs it's one of two things:

1. Heap size is too small and it's GCing a lot without the user realizing. Open IDE VM options and double the -Xmx setting.

2. Using a 4k display on macOS. Try the new JBR17+Metal builds. They aren't shipped yet but switch it to using Metal to render. Makes it a lot faster.
Have you read Focusing by Eugene Gendlin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_(psychotherapy)
I don't think even nix can purge random config files those DEs throw in $HOME
I believe there may be some reasons why you may want proprietary (or incompatibly licensed) kernel modules. In such cases, as long as you didn't take code from the Kernel, I believe it shouldn't be considered a derivative work. I believe my opinion is quite unpopular and not share within the FOSS community.

I honestly speaking prefer BSD or MIT for the linking purposes. I believe forbidding linking makes it too restrictive for some use cases.

Particularly striking to me is this sentence: "It is rather ironic that in some ways, one has more freedom in how one licences a kernel driver for Windows than the freedom one supposedly has in writing a kernel module for Linux. "

It makes me believe there's something wrong in the current state of things.
You talk about schoolyard arguments but you seem to be the only one here trying to start them.
From your 2015 data: Miami, Florida has 19.9% of households without cars, New Orleans, Louisiana at 18.8%. Even Birmingham, Alabama is at 15.8% and Atlanta, Georgia has 15.2% of households without cars.

That’s much higher than say Arlington, Virginia at 13.4% which is connected to one of the best public transportation networks in the US.

A handful of places on that list sat at 2% without cars, but most of the south was over 5% without cars largely due to poverty.

PS: Not that I think the data is very accurate Murrieta, California seemingly went from 3.5% (2015) down to 0.7% (2016) which seems extremely unlikely for a single year. The poor are often missed in official statistics like census unless significant effort is used to track them.
People smarter than you, like Freeman Dyson, have thought otherwise. More generally, a human putting long odds on what anybody much smarter than mere humans would do is self-evidently a way to lose bets. Can you imagine a dolphin or a crow successfully predicting the outcome of the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan?
As someone who has suffered -- still sometimes suffers -- mental health issues and has closely followed software security and privacy engineering over the last two decades (probably no coincidence), I'd like to share a contrarian viewpoint here.

In a sparsely-connected digital and urban world, it was reasonable to expect that the contents of in-person conversations and interactions should be well-protected. I don't think that was ever strictly true for everyone -- there would have been exceptions -- but the society-level understanding would be that conversations with doctors, therapists, attorneys, law enforcement, etc would remain strictly confidential.

In some ways I don't like that the digital world has become so interconnected -- particularly because of the security and privacy flaws that have been evident yet broadly ignored along the way -- but I do believe that it was inevitable and that it's an ongoing trend.

I also believe that mental health is under threat, largely due to increases in tech-driven narcissistic behaviour. I'm not blaming the narcissists - that's many of us nowadays - but I think that many of the technologies we use (particularly social media) encourage it, and that they create a fallout effect that harms small groups and large populations.

Given those priors that I have -- that anyone is free to disagree with -- I believe that, hard as it is, it may be for the best of populations to realize that we do not have much individual privacy because so much information about us leaks to our surroundings.

This was, in some ways, the norm in village environments. You'd know -- or strongly suspect -- if your partner was cheating on you based on the time they and another person disappeared out of view, or when one of the neighbour's objects unexpectedly appeared in your home.

Automation of bid-based advertising produces similar effects in our advertising feeds; there's no need for malevolent surveillance entities when a bid-optimization algorithm fills the same role naturally.

To circle back to the issue at hand: what may be necessary is for mental health support agencies to be able to see, read and understand how people react given this automated digital reminderscape. Until they understand it -- and that is hard to achieve based on aggregated keyword data -- it's hard for them to respond.

(I'll add that I despise that this is the situation that we have collectively allowed technology to lead us to, and that I personally believe that the source of almost all of the blame lies within advertising companies; that's just my two cents, however)
Cryptocurrency trading is not the same as a regular market. None of the things that make a regular stock market not a zero-sum game do not apply to cryptocurrency markets. And cryptocurrencies are actually negative sum, due to miners and fees.
The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology
I think there's a misunderstanding of the data here. It appears that the underlying data used for this map is DEM data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model), which encodes values in the red, green, and blue channels of an image representation of a geographic area. You're not supposed to visualize this data directly -- instead, you combine those values in a simple formula to obtain a height value, then you use that value to create visual maps. This map just restyles what is geographically analogous to the binary representation of "hello, world" instead of the output itself.

You can search google for "terrain map" or "elevation map" and find many beautiful examples of accurate elevation data.

Edit: This is a good tutorial on how to derive the correct values: https://github.com/syncpoint/terrain-rgb

Edit 2: Looks like I was wrong about this. Apologies to the author and thanks to everyone who helped me understand GIS a bit better! I'll keep this up as a reminder that just because my voice is loud doesn't mean I'm right.
Good writeup on the intricacies and consequences of the Linux kernel being GPLv2 licensed.

The actual headline is debatable.

However, It seems to me that the license doesn't matter that much, since everyone has a vested interest in Linux being exactly the way it is, GPL_ONLY weirdness and all. It's unlikely that someone will show up and fork Linux and explicitly break the license (using GPL_ONLY symbols in a non-GPL context), because that person or company would be excommunicated from the Linux fold.
The joke is that a new programmer is happiest when adding code and the senior programmer is happiest when removing code.
Ask HN: Is MBA Necessary for Product Management?
I see a rising trend to hire MBA grads for product management roles. As one matures in a PM role, is it important to do an MBA to advance in more executive type of roles e.g. Head/Director or Product Management? Is it a company or industry-specific culture? What is your take?
I hate to be that guy, but isn't the behavior for

bool f(unsigned int x, unsigned int y) {
return (x+y == y+x);
}

undefined when x+y or y=x overflow? So no, it's NOT guaranteed to never return false. :/
> Argued and Submitted June 3, 1981.

John von Neumann died in 1957. The name is a bit generic, so many results show up. Hence I wished there was a way to limit search to a range of years.
Nix is repeatable, but not upper-case Reproducible i.e. you don’t necessarily always get the same hash from the same build. Order of operations or concurrency or something like that.
That doesn't include the free weapons the US gives them with their annual stipend.
The sentence you quote is near to the words:

“[The C++ standardization committee] WG21 has recently adapted the changes promoted in their document p12363. Generally, C++ goes much beyond what is presented here:”

I would be extremely surprised if the proposal to make signed arithmetic overflow defined behavior in C made it into C23. The window is narrowing and this would be a very big change to the language. Making it official that 2's complement is the only representation for signed integers is already a large change.

Later in the decade, maybe.
If you're working on distributed systems scheduling and orchestration, then yeah it's exhausting. I did it for six years as a SRE-SE and am now back to being a SWE on a product team. If you like infrastructure stuff without having responsibility for the whole system the way that scheduling and orchestration makes you, then look at working on an infrastructure product.
Unless you originate from a large confederation of such extraterrestrial civilizations, there's no way for you to know that.
If subversion had branches, they were not nearly as easy to use as in git.
It also didn't have a great notion of offline work (to my memory).

For what it's worth, SVN was pretty straightforward and worked well enough at the time. Later, Mercurial addressed SVN's deficiencies with a familiar interface.
I plan to eventually support multibyte in a way I can contribute upstream to OpenBSD.

The 1.8 branch of the Nvi editor, as well as the Nvi2 fork have mulitbyte support.

I could be mistaken but I believe both of these multibyte implementations descend from the late itojun's (http://www.itojun.org/itojun.html) Nvi-m17n project (archived at https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/editors/nvi-m17n/files). A paper was presented at USENIX99 (http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/full_papers/hagino/hag...) describing the work, which was actually developed as part of the KAME project.
Good for them. This is exactly the supposed use case of decentralized currency.

Now we just need a decentralized currency that is not ridiculously volatile and / or subject to the kind of absurd price increases that bitcoin has, and can be spent easily and without fees, and
that isnt a scam. I'm still not convinced that anyone is even working on these requirements
Web3 – creating problems where we need solutions
Any decent human will speak up when they see a scam being perpetrated.
The problem (for me) is that nowadays most of our IT infrastructure depends on Linux. Depending on an operating system hoping that nobody ever gets litigious because it's licensed in such a way that it creates this risk is, for me, a bit problematic.
My Web goes to 11.

Did I miss something, or hasn't the rest of the World Wide Web moved on to Web11 or so by now?

I seem to remember a little while after the Web2 craze, the Web was incrementing several times a year.

Am I misunderstanding it, or is "Web3" meant to sound charmingly retro?
Note that the actual EV of a Cauchy random variable is undefined...
A prompt would make a lot of sense here. Perhaps as an extension of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_Acc...
There’s no better time in history to be poor, at least in a functioning society. You get police, fire service, in many European countries a health service, relatively inexpensive telecommunications, and a device in your pocket… or smart TV with access to most of the sum of knowledge of mankind for you to use to improve your life. Not only this but in with west… the absence of war.
I'm glad everyone else is also not picking just 1 book :p

The Hitchhiker's Guide series is undeniably first for me. Aside from the hilarity and great writing it's also very nostalgic for me. One Christmas my dad gave me the Hitchhiker's collection, Going Postal, and Catch 22, all great books.

Permutation City by Greg Egan. Found out about it from an HN comment. If you're interested in scifi about AI and brain simulation, this is it.

Also looking at my bookshelf I've got to throw in Multiversity by Grant Morrison (and 8 great artists). It's a graphic novel but it's just so darn good. If you're not a comic-book superhero fan, it might not be too great. If you are, it's a great meta story and really rewards analyzing it for symbolism. Grant Morrison really knows how to treat comics as their own unique medium. Each chapter is supposed to be the #1 issue to a new comic series (in different canon universes drawn by different artists), except a DC multi-verse event tangles all their stories together.
Developmental milestones just changed for the first time in years
CPU binning (with fuses) already wastes “good” silicon. An i3 is just an i7 that wasn’t as good and had some features disabled. See also: the “silicon lottery” for more info. It’s been this way since the beginning. All this is doing is replacing unrepairable fuses with ones that can be disabled after the fact.

Theoretically, this is just giving you access to the features that would’ve been permanently fused off, but still good. Is it scummy? Yes. But is it wasting any more silicon than before? No.
A little bit of poo like that isn’t going to hurt the environment to a degree at all comparable to the massive damage done by car pollution and tearing down forests and obliterating animal migration routes.
A couple ideas:

1) Scratch the itch. Allow yourself time block on the weekends (maybe 30 or 60min per day?) to indulge your curiosity. Try it for a few weeks and see how it feels. See if that’s enough or if you find yourself missing out on other aspects of your life. A lot of people swear by a daily practice and maybe part of yours could be learning or practicing your craft.

2) Journal / meditate. Allow yourself to notice these thoughts of anxiety and stress and release them as you breathe out, or write about them or draw imagery as you explore these thoughts deeper. Just transferring these thoughts from an internal experience to an external act helps a lot of people move through feelings of discomfort.

Either way, bottling these feelings probably won’t help. I’d recommend finding some outlet for your thoughts.

And by the way this all sounds totally normal and relatable.

If neither if those things work, maybe just give yourself little 2 or 3 week experimentation windows to try something new. Whatever brings you the least amount of suffering is probably a good choice.
You don't have to be a vegan to save the Earth
> the bias is comical and the talking points are recycled as a new article every week (scams!, speculation!, hype!, wasted electricity!, tether!)

There is a very strong bias towards the truth, yes.
I've done some intermittent fasting as well, and one thing I've noticed is that it's easier to suppress what feels like actual hunger (stomach rumbling kinda feeling) than it is to suppress a "want to eat", which I'm assuming is your "munchies".

If I think of, or see, something like Country Cheese biscuits or Pringles, something clicks and there becomes a kind of vacuum in my mind which can only be filled by that particular snack.

Want, it seems, outranks the mild beginnings of need.

This is one data point that helped me realise just how much humans are tuned to be slaves to their habits.
It's just struck me that a civilisation propagating through space can be envisaged a bit like light-cones, as in GR, except that the velocity factor isn't c, it's b (the maximum speed at which beings can move), which kinda depends on the beings.

But I think the cones thing is still interesting; it means that for any given maximum travel speed, there must be other civilisations that can never know anything about you, nor you about them.
It goes without saying that if you remove the price floor for labor, the amount of labor consumed by the market goes up.

But is it good for the laborers themselves? Or for society at large?

Do minimum wage laws or lack thereof correlate with broader measures of wellness and prosperity? How do countries with and without minimum wages compare on life expectancy, infant mortality, obesity rates, cancer rates, median disposable income, median wealth or net worth, suicide rates, divorce rates, accident rates, vacation time or leisure time, levels of pollution? How about harder to quantify stuff such as happiness, contentment, and stress levels?

The market exists to serve human needs and wants. "GDP go up" is not the point of all this effort.