skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a functional can opener in my kitchen which I crank by hand. The suggestion to replace it with an electric version is stupid virtue signalling.

Ah, “virtue signaling”, ever the reliable indicator that someone is attempting to converse in good faith.

Take this as an opportunity to learn what a major appliance is and that some of them burn natural gas or use electricity very inefficiently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_appliance
you can't cut their pay, but you can have bonuses be variable based on company performance. People don't get as mad about a bonus being smaller if they know it affected the whole company.
Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline
domains.fj

fiji.gov.fj

usp.ac.fj

etc.

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/fj.html
This sort of thing was common in the '80s/90s. I still know several people who are known exclusively by their handles. I changed my own legal name to match my alias.
The lobbying organization of dealers, NADA, actually stopped publishing profit numbers for the first time in the nearly decade I've been watching. [0] It can't help their lobbying effort with data that makes them look bad.

I consider that pretty telling of the markups they have been getting during the pandemic.

[0] https://www.nada.org/nadadata/
From a simpler pov, assuming $50/MWh, biking super hard for 1 hour(100W) produces $0.005 of electricity.

Biking super hard for 16 hours a day for an entire year would produce $29 of electricity (assuming 100% efficiency in the generator and electronics).

And from an environmental standpoint, it would be better to idle on your couch while you burn the food you'd consume in an ICE.
There are both kinds, and also those who do both.
In my experience, being familiar with inductive proofs is pretty useful for programming. For most non-trivial code involving recursion or loops the way I personally "know it works" usually has the flavour of an inductive proof.

For example, I might not remember how to code bisection search but I can figure out the loop invariant and from there it's easy enough to code a working binary search. And even if you have right bisection search down to muscle memory, you can modify the loop invariant to create left bisection search if you need it, while if I tried to keep two binary search algorithms in my head I feel like it would be more error-prone.
I thought of this in a very similar way, but couldn't articulate it as well as you did. To add my two cents, peace is not simply lack of war, it's an active way of being. Psychedelics are a passive form of being, essentially a form of consumption. Historically, I believe the real peace movement which originated in the 60s was co-opted. Drugs and sexual liberation were inserted as substitutes for peace in order to divert the movement from achieving anything meaningful; the beliefs of the movement became dominated by desire, rather than the other way around. Being dominated by desires is ultimately a form of slavery, not liberation nor peace.
Yes, import tariffs based on USA pollution requirements. That is going to sting when toxins from iStuff and solar panel manufacturing are no longer profitable to dump on the ground in China and India.
I was a religious user of Airmail until it went subscription, Mimestream seems almost as good. It feels incredibly lightweight, it uses almost no RAM, and it has that 'cool' mac app polish.
PicoCTF 2022 Competition – CMU Cybersecurity competition
Deflation happened often in the US during the gold standard years.
https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1367614591698690056

>Interfax reports that the Deputy Chief of the General Staff and the most senior communications officer in the Russian military, Colonel General Khalil Arslanov, has been arrested for fraud in relation to the purchase of special equipment.

>The case involves Colonel Pavel Kutakhov, who was arrested last week for stealing an estimated 30 M RUB from an 800 M RUB contract for comm systems.

30M rubles, pocket change

>Kommersant reports that Colonel General Khalil Arslanov, head of Russia's Signal Troops and Deputy Chief of the General Staff, was charged in the theft of 2.2 B RUB and was hospitalized after suffering a hypertensive crisis during his interrogation

2B rubles, now we are starting to talk real money

>After expanding their investigation, investigators discovered that Russian troops had received equipment that was made in China even though it was supposed to be from Russia (they changed the labels).

>The investigation isn't limited to 2.2 B RUB worth of theft, but also to fraud related to contracts for the Azart comm system built by NPO Angstrem JSC and Yaroslavl Radio Plant. Of 18 B RUB spent on the radios, 6.5 B RUB might have been stolen due to artificially high prices

6B rubles, ouch

>Arslanov says that they saved so much on the purchase of R-187-P1 Azart radios, 6.7 B RUB of the contract's 18.5 B RUB was allegedly embezzled, because the radios were purchased from China in almost finished form with some components added in Russia

so corruption and potentially backdoored by China

and this is how you end up with https://twitter.com/radio_research/status/150084725994823680... Chechen soldiers wearing 3 non military radios (susceptible to basic radio finding/tracking), one being Motorola DRM and two analogs.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
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Imposing Chaos on Magnetic Fields Suppresses Runaway Electrons in Fusion Plasma
<https://www.energy.gov/science/fes/articles/imposing-chaos-m...>

Generation and Suppression of runaway-electrons in MST tokamak-plasmas
<https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1602423-generation-suppression-r...>
3rd party Mac apps that I like better than any of their counterparts on any OS are:

- iTerm2 - it works right, it feels responsive. I don't have to futz with it but can

- Pixelmator Pro - it's what Photoshop used to be to me 20 years ago

- Omnigraffle - When I need to hand-layout a diagram it's my favorite ever

- Postico - It's weird that I like a single DB UI. But it's nice over just pqsl sometimes.

I have some handy utilities I like:

- The UnArchiver

- Flycut

- SwiftBar

- Disk Inventory X

- Amphetamine

- Skitch

- Magnet

I use Office 360 begrudgingly. But I do like it better on macos than Windows.

The rest of my GUI stuff is largely cross platform (and some electron)

- Firefox

- Chrome

- Notable

- Signal

- KiCAD

- Wireshark

- VirtualBox

- IntelliJ (I use less and less)

- Spotify

The killer app for me in a lot of ways is just Homebrew. I live in the terminal. I love having up-to-date dev tools. I hate maintaining it. Even with Linux it can be a pain to hit the sweet spot between up-to-date and DIY. I'm happy running a FreeBSD server, but I want my workstation to not require a lot of planning. I also love that I can install/update native apps from it. I always use it before I hit the App Store.

I've ditched making VSCode and IntelliJ like vim and made neovim like VSCode. It's glorious. I use git and text for almost everything I do, unless I can't or when a picture helps.

And I don't play games on my laptop anymore. Really just Minecraft on my tablet. Sometimes I let my kids play with me :)
They're great laptops. How many of those developers are targeting MacOS though?

iOS has 50% market share in the US. It makes sense why Uber and Twitter (a pittance of desktop users) buys them - they have to.
Polkit was also local privilege escalation. And this one is easier to exploit.
I don't know if Trump would have gotten the Republican nomination if he hadn't gotten so much extra airtime and coverage during the primaries- not only from news media, but late night news comedians praying he would get it so she had an easy win.

Likewise, her campaign had some phenomenal missteps, like never visiting a fairly rural swing state because they just assumed (wrongly) that she would win, while wining and dining megadonors in states that would never have voted for Trump like California.

Her and president Obama's obvious disdain for rural people (as evidenced by the "bitter clingers" and "basket of deplorables" quips among other incidents) made democratic establishment politicians rather disliked.

Personally, I think there are quite a few democrats who could have beaten Trump in 2016.
That’s a good thing. Buyers are able to know the exact price without having to waste hours driving to a dealership and haggling.
"In general, I find that deplatforming Pornhub increased the value of cryptocurrency accepted on the site by 21.0 percent on average. Deplatforming
Pornhub increased the value of bitcoin by 45.7 percent, while the the value
of the other thirteen cryptocurrencies accepted on the site increased by 19.1
percent on average."

I can't really follow all the paper's logic to its conclusion but it seems to me that the conclusion was due to an over generalization of the data so it's not valid. Can someone weigh in with their thoughts?
If buses ever go Lithium they may figure out a way to do large battery swap-n-charge systems at the main station.

Taxis are already solved via Uber and so it's likely that people are already interested in buying EVs and that's no different for Uber drivers.

Delivery vehicles are often carrying only so much cargo and so it's likely the single night charge can handle everything. Mountain deliveries may see problems if we don't have a liquid fuel however.
iTerm2 is amazing. https://www.patreon.com/gnachman/
Yeah, I am pretty unhappy to see a perfectly functional classic machine like this not only gutted but having its original, functioning motherboard cut apart so he could use the power button from it. Now the old and increasingly-rare logic board cannot be used for a replacement for another system (I was reading the thread really hoping he gave away the logic board to someone who needed it).

These iMac G4s still run Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD (and of course OS X) very happily, and are very nice machines to run those OSes on (I run OpenBSD on one of mine, and OS X on another). Soon the "new" M1 hardware inside will be just as obsolete. Still, whatever, it's his computer to butcher I guess, and the overall stock appearance was retained well. I just don't personally like the destruction of somewhat rare, working hardware.
Or some sort of softbox.
I use Mac. Other than my browser (Firefox), my IDE (Intellij), and Terminal, I don’t really use any other desktop software. Everything else is in the browser. For example, Google docs more than fulfills all my word processing and spreadsheet needs. On occasion I’ll use software that comes on the OS, like Preview. Other than my IDE, I don’t have any other paid software. And I only use IntelliJ because my work pays for it. If I had to purchase it on my own, I’d just use VSCode (despite IntelliJ clearly being superior in my experience).
is the website up to date? it seems to be missing a package that has a repo in their org.
I use Spark for a number of jobs for language-specific features still but I think within 2 years all custom code will be trivially invoked as native UDFs in SQL data warehouses (ie Snowflake, which has essentially solved big-data performance as a going concern).

I just write SQL in Snowflake and it replaces 95% of what I would otherwise have done in custom MapReduce or Spark code.
I interpreted "being able to read or reconstruct all data" as meaning that there must exist a good valid copy of each chunk of data somewhere in the array, but not necessarily on the device that you're trying to remove or replace. That interpretation matches my experience, which is that btrfs can correctly handle replacing a drive that is dead or dying. You should certainly expect errors if eg. both copies of a chunk in a RAID1 are lost/corrupted.
It looks great on mobile too.
rip www.sbhacker.net
Deflation occurs on the supply-side when spending/credit/lending decreases significantly, it doesn't need to have anything to do with the gold standard.

We had CPI-measured deflation as recently as May 2020, were we on the gold standard then? Or were there velocity of money explanation for the deflationary activity?
The best C and C++ package manager I have used is Xmake/Xrepo. They support all the major package repositories out of the box including Vcpkg and Conan.

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake#supported-package-reposito...
What country do you live in? Sorry, but for us, Hungarians inflation is devastating. It's the same for people who live in Argentina, Venzeuela and Turkey getting almost the same salaries as last year with prices of basic items going up like crazy. There are new price controls introduced all the time, but it's never enough to not feel poor.
Others can probably speak to this better, but I’ve found TPM is very different from PM roles so make sure you are be offered the one you want!

Generally a TPM (technical program manager) has more of a schedule / timeline focus to help people know what is happening when. Whereas the PM (product manager) role defines the vision while adjusting for user and business needs.

If you want to be a product manager I’d probably interview for that role directly as TPM is not always in the same org. Hope that helps and good luck!
I'm curious why you even started coding? All it takes is an email
host where you have a catch-all and a sieve filter on a couple of lines.

I saw your whitelist approach before, got a bit inspired, and considered doing the same thing but never got around to it because it seemed like too much of a hassle (it needs to have not only a separate running process but also maintain persistent state). Funny how perceptions differ.

While both share some benefits I think they're somewhat orthogonal. Your approach mostly works for humans mailing you individually (as you noted) while the biggest benefit for mine is for group- mass- and automated e-mail.

IMO the golden thing would be to combine them, only using the whitelist for a subset of addresses you actually use for personal comms.
In my experience, Mt. Rainier is king of the lenticular cloud formations.
Rock art in Colombia may depict extinct giants of the ice age
Checkout Soulver on macOS. It’s awesome! It’s like an old paper tape calculator on steroids. It supports variables and comments, for example. Also, no virtual keypad :)
This is Great! Thank you very much.

How would you compare this to The Art of Writing Efficient Programs by Fedor Pikus? I am looking for a comprehensive guide.
I can confirm that when the article was written, bad SSAO was everywhere :-)
Despite being lossy, JPEG is one of the more magical forms of image compression in my experience. The implementation for a JPEG encoder/decoder can be made to be insanely fast on SIMD-capable hardware (see: libjpegturbo). The practical effect of JPEG on a complex scene is almost a miracle when you consider how the alternatives work. The frequency domain and our perception of it is truly a wonder.
Agreed, but I would go further to say that the type system and immutability helps in the area you describe as well: "or where you failed to predict some sequence of actions and account for it correctly."

Basically immutability serves to create more invariants and reduce complexity of the program such that it is much more predictable.

I'm advocating exactly your conclusion hence the reason why I specified that immutability is the keyword, not monads and other advanced concepts associated with functional programming.
Yeah, unfortunately the logic board can't be reused because he cut it apart to reuse the power button from it.. ( https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/imac-g4-to-m1-conversio... )
This is the key comment. Free college education, glut of college trained programmers, lack of a legitimate job market.
My Speedometer results on an M1 Mac are:

- Chrome v99: 204

- Safari: 266

How come I fall so far short of the post's advertised fastest-of-any-browser 300?

Edit: Running in incognito got me a 251, so some of the slowdown must be from extensions.

Edit 2: Seems like 1password and uBlock Origin decrease the score by around 30 each, I got a 276 with both disabled.
I recall https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9707/df970710.jpg from back in my college days in the CS building.
I like it, because the world is not going to reduce its suicidal dependency on fossil fuels with just renewable energy (solar, wind, tidal...). Safe(r) and cheaper nuclear reactors could bridge the gap.

But, I do wish the development of thorium based nuclear reactors would be accelerated, so we can stop with the primarily uranium nuclear reactors that have the capacity of dual use for helping to make nuclear weapons (which the world has enough of). Additionally, thorium is safer.
It’s not telling us anything new because we already have the answer supported by several other studies. Their mental illness is so debilitating that they cannot function and they need professional help. That help is now being offered and you’re expressing doubt? As you’ve pointed out yourself they have no one and they don’t have “good insurance”. What’s the alternative, keeping the status quo? Imo this is best scenario. Like the Drug War, we’ve tried the Reagan Kennedy experiment with the mentally ill for decades, and it has failed. It’s time to move on.

As a former homeless person myself and not someone from an upper middle class background, being more proactive with the mentally ill makes total sense.

Btw chronically homeless people tend to experience schizophrenia more often than ADHD. It’s much easier to be high functioning with ADHD compared to the mental illnesses that the homeless tend to deal with
The author doesn't seem to take her own brilliance into account when composing these self-study guides.

For the other 99.99% of us, it would take many lifetimes worth of free time to make a substantial dent in these materials. To me, guides like these are too intimidating to even begin. Maybe what's needed is a meta-guide on structuring one's time and developing the necessary focus to be able to do this within one human lifetime.
> Scalable clouds are 100s to 1000s of times more expensive than using your own hardware.

This is trending into hyperbole. a c6g.metal at AWS is $21,502 for a 3 year all upfront reserved instance. You're telling me you can pay just $21 for 3 years to get a 64 core/128gb machine racked in a datacenter?
I also find that questionable. The compiler is allowed to pull a bit field from low or high bits (i.e. not specified in the standard) and it might be further affected by endianness.

This code is assuming that on little-endian, gcc pulls 62 bits from the low bits of the word, and on big-endian that gcc pulls from the high 62 bits of the word. It might actually be what gcc does, but I don't think any of that is guaranteed.
And vast miles of suburban sprawl coupled with endless roads is not boring?
The discoverability argument doesn't make a lot of sense for a calculator app.

One might want to list the content of a directory without knowing that the magic word is "ls", but there is a 0% chance that someone wants to compute the cosine of a number but can't figure out to type "cos".
There's no particular reason to think a cash phaseout is more likely one way or the other. CBDCs won't change the consumer experience.

I think concern about government power is valid and important. Which is why I think it's vital to save talking about it where there's actually a material difference in government power. I don't think it is here, and you haven't given any reason why it would be.
Psst, if you use an inclusive-exclusive interval for the parameters and an exclusive-exclusive interval for the implementation (see my top-level comment), it becomes nicer and you can keep your original invariants. You just need `left -= 1`:

def binary_search(left, right, is_green):
left -= 1
while left + 1 < right:
middle = (left + right) // 2
if is_green(middle):
left = middle
else:
right = middle
return right

# Usage.
binary_search(0, len(array), lambda i: array[i] < 6)

This is equivalent* to @anonymoushn's version if you define `left = lo - 1` and `right = hi`.

*Equivalent except for the rounding in the division.
Anyone know of a book or guide to doing lovely lighting, digitally or real world.

Looking for a book of principals.
What dangerous defaults do you think may exist with btrfs? A simple mkfs.btrfs won't set you up for later trouble unless you go out of your way to give it multiple devices and ask for one of the parity RAID modes.

There are some arguable footguns in the btrfs-tools workflows for repairing a damaged filesystem, but that's exactly the fragile situation where asking the user to RTFM before making more changes is perfectly reasonable.
Yeah, I use VS Code as my terminal now. I love having the directory tree visible if I need or want to single click a file and play with it instantly with zero overhead. I use thunder client now instead of that dreadful postman obomination after learning about it here last week. VS Code is becoming my general purpose environment.

I was working in PowerShell ISE today and was thinking "this has to go" the whole time. So if I have any PowerShell work in the future I'm going to try the VS Code tooling for that.

I knew at least one person at Capital One who was using it for their Spring Boot project instead of Intellij.
Part of what I love about modern western cities is how much verity there is in buildings. When I look out my window I see buildings of all different eras and design styles.

Some of them are “ugly” in a way but they still contribute to the aesthetic positively. One old 90s concrete office tower is fine, 30 identical ones would be ugly.
“People have written books”

Is not a response to “why do you hold this opinion”

It strikes me as pretty much straight up satire to use as your primary source the writings of a guy with degrees from Harvard and works for the Hoover institution at standford. To then go from the arrogance of the left to the arrogance of authoritarianism…I honestly think this is parody.

The basics here, that are worth reiterating, is that there is, as usual, no serious people on the left claiming they have all the answers…the only people claiming that are constructing useful strawpeople to then try and tear down.
Everyone is different, I guess. I loved the experience. Placed the order, got an email, set up the bank transfer, they called me exactly one time to confirm the delivery time, then dropped off the car. I spent less time[1] buying my Model Y than I have on some products from Amazon.

The opinion and memery about this brand is just unbelievable. Cars are big and complicated devices and selling them is equally complicated, and I'm sure there are people who have bad experience buying them, as is basically inevitable. But the overwhelming majority of owners think it's great.

[1] If you don't count the incessant, obsessive checking to see what the current delivery estimate is, of course.
36 comments in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18559477

19 comments in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10105437
It's about time. I hope it carries over to all cars. Having to negotiate a car's price is such a waste of time and resources. I always feel like I got ripped off after a car purchase.
Checked the edit history, looks like somebody uploaded an unlicensed image which got quickly removed.
Why build Mac apps when IOS apps would make more money?

Why build native instead of cross platform. The costs are significantly higher and you'll lose out on market share. See figma VS sketch.
Yeah, I barely remember my dad buying a Saturn in the 90's and he bought a Tesla for similar reasons just before all this craziness started. I'm looking forward to buying a car in the next couple years since these sales models have popped up like Tesla, Ford's, Carvana, etc.
The Manhattan layout is good for multi-routing between any two points - no preferred roads, all sharing the load together.
Combine this with NATO ties to the Russian coup in 2014 conducted by some US funded neo nazi orgs in Ukraine (some of which are part of ukraines national guard today):

What would we do if Russia had setup that coup in Canada? We’d have boots on the ground in weeks.