skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general I like the idea that we should use less stuff and use what stuff we have for longer.

But I wonder if smartphones are the long pole in the tent here? Obviously there are a ton of them, and they're full of stuff that we probably don't want in landfills. But they are tiny, and can be had pretty cheaply. So is it worth focusing on replaceable batteries, or is that just an easy thing to target?

I don't particularly want to replace my batteries. I tend to keep my phones for 3-5 years, and if I have to pay a pro to replace the battery once or twice, I personally am OK with that. It's a device I carry around all the time, and would prefer its design be focused on convenience for the 729 out of every 730 days that I'm not replacing the battery.

If they can manage the best of both worlds, awesome. I don't know how much it would cost in terms of battery life, size, waterproofing, or whatever to make the batteries replaceable. And I don't want to be "that guy" just because I'm more cranky about vast amounts of disposable plastic packaging than a phone -- we need to fix all of the problems.

So I'm genuinely curious. Is this a significant issue, or is it a bit like the plastic straws, where a smallish but real problem just happened to be the one that people focused on because it was in front of them?
But you must have seen something I didn’t. See my comment nearby.
How is this different than selecting a non-"main" base branch for a PR on Github?
If you're stepping away from organised activities, practically every kid in the world plays football, all you need is a ball, clearly that outnumbers sports that need equipment - Tennis and especially Squash.
The title. Omg. It is incorrect. Misleading. And infuriating.
Blackmail is for mid-level aspiring politicians who get bigger than their britches. A presidential candidate is a smiling face that carries the decision-makers' platform.
If only it were this video
The Book No One Read – Why Lem's Futurism Deserves Attention
yeah and get myspace back as well.
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I get what you're saying, but you might not be realising that the top teams from the EPL _also_ play in the UCL. It's a "super league" made up of the top European soccer teams from the domestic leagues. There must surely be some kind of cumulative recognition effect from playing in both leagues.
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Hey HN, I created Nolific because I like to write and none of the other second brain apps was sticking for me. I wanted a tool that was minimal, plain-text, and worked in the browser.

It's still early in it's life but one of my primary goals is keeping the tool dead simple.

Nolific is free and open-source.

I've created a demo user that you can play with. Nolific isn't designed for multiple users and the demo user is shared with everyone who stumbles upon it, so it could get messy if this gets much traction. Edits are saved automatically and they're currently "last out wins". The username and password are both "demo" if you're prompted to login.

There's a chance you've heard of it because I've mentioned it in a couple of my blog posts, one of which spent a day at the top of the home page. Thank you for the amazing discussions, support, and contributions so far.

Previous:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30151963

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29640765
The yield issue is going to be much more of a factor when a process node is young and defect rates are high. The big savings is in engineering hours where you can re-use a design across multiple products.
Big fan of DO.

I have a Droplet I haven't accessed in 7 years. I'm pretty sure if I look at it the wrong way it will break, but it's been running the same app with no downtime like a champ.
You can be making more money. It seems like your salary is stagnant since you are working at the same company.

Start looking around for what you can possibly get and start interviewing. When you get 2-3 go to your current employer for a counter offer and then decide what you want to do

Other than that: you are paying mortgage and not rent. so you had some large sum of cash in the past (to apply for the mortgage), I'm guessing that it got spent on monthly living? you can try to talk with your bank/mortgage issuer and lower monthly returns but making the loan longer, calculate the added interest before doing this though

Looking at your expenses you don't have a lot of things you can legitimately, kids are expensive. you might be able to cut your food costs by a couple of 100's but that won't change the outcome that much
> strcpy in C is Turing complete

How so? You've made this claim twice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27910640), but I can find nothing else to back this up. We know about C++ templates "accidentally" being discovered to be Turing complete, but I've never heard of strcpy() being so...

while((*p++=*q++));

... I'm not seeing it.

Honest question, can you shed light on how this can be?
My understanding is that Newsweek is not the same respected magazine of old, so is there confirmation from another source?

https://newrepublic.com/article/158968/newsweek-rise-zombie-...
I haven't heard nearly as many people wanting a return to maximalist 90s web design. People miss the time when a website wasn't a 3 megabyte download, and didn't pop up a newsletter signup form. They don't (as often) miss the web pages with 100 animated gifs on them, an over the top tiled background, blinking text, and so on.

Many more people want the minimalism of a page that gets out of the way and shows you the content you came for, which was (if you like) 90s web design minimalism. That's the motivation all this gopher revival/gemini protocol stuff is about, at least from a design perspective.

I'm just trying to say there were different strains of "90s web design" which are not compatible with each other.
The example is a previously arrested sex offender and child molester writing crazy revenge stories.

From there, potentially guys who can't get laid are suspect of thought crimes? What?

Good to see we still have Pulitzer prize level journalist doing hard hitting investigative reporting instead of writing nonsense with clickbait titles.
Competitive gamers agree with you and have been trying to increase visual clarity for a long time. I remember finding out about picmip back in quake3 and never looking back [0]. In AoE2 there was a mod called 'pussywood' that made the trees smaller so you could see things. People then also started putting borders around tiles and cutting buildings so they didn't block what was behind them [1]. In SC2 some weird settings made invisible units more visible, I think you set everything ultra-low apart from shadows or something. There are hundreds of other examples, if you watch any competitive gamer stream, their game will look different to the default experience you'd get if you installed the game yourself (unless it's a tournament stream, they'll turn all the settings up to max for that 'gen-z' factor).

The problem nowadays is that companies are incentivized to reduce visual clarity by selling super flashy rainbow skins(doesn't apply to Mario Kart, applies to Fortnite).

[0] https://twitter.com/cabbagebrains/status/1246155602625064961

[1] https://imgur.com/hqRkLh2
The Amelia Bedelia series of children's books get tons of mileage from these types of words.
Their goal - and only option - is to sell the company for as much $$$ as possible, and this strategy helps them towards their goal.

This is the simplest and most effective way to make Arm books look good, which is what regulators all around the world - including the UK - have decided is what's best for the world.

So this is not idiotic, this is effective, and is finance 101.

For Arm's long term success this is a very stupid decision.
But that's not what any of the parties involved need or care about.
What they care about is $$$ right now.

I won't be buying and holding Arm stock, particularly not as a long term investment, cause it looks like its going to be a poor one.
I consider "in the grave" to be a feature. It means Microsoft isn't trying to pull the rug out from under me each night with updates.
This seems like a step in the right direction away from sphere-projected 'immersive' video. Very cool and can't wait for the 6dof VR player to be ready!
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Interesting post! We use a monorepo at Mito [1], it’s open source if you want to check it out [2].

We solved the test flakiness issue by getting rid of all of our frontend tests, which means we spend more time manually testing our product. We’re happy with the tradeoff because we like being forced to use our product. It’s something a velocity focused team can forget to do… at least something we can forget.

Merge races aren’t really a huge issue for us. They happen sometimes, we catch them, and we fix them. Putting thought into making them easier to fix isn’t something that makes sense at our scale.

That’s being said, we’re a tiny team of 3 first time founders - so the above choices make a lot more sense for in our context than at stripe :-)

A reminder that you need not design your systems how the big companies do! Read their informative blog posts, and then design them for your goals and constraints! There’s a whole world of solutions to problems you don’t have when your small, and it can be very easy to feel like you need to adopt all of them. Hint: you don’t.

[1] https://trymito.io

[2] https://GitHub.com/mito-ds/monorepo
> Is this how it works on newer OSs

It can be. Not all devices will use memory-mapped I/O. USB devices, for example, use message passing. Messages are packets called USB Request Blocks, or URBs.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/usb/URB.ht...

A USB device driver is just a program that sends and receives theses messages. There are standardized device classes which enable generic drivers. Human interface devices, for example, will most likely be handled by a generic driver which can deal with any device of that class.

Hardware manufacturers can still add custom functionality on top of a standard interface, usually through control messages. A USB keyboard with LEDs, for example. All the key events are handled by generic drivers, I only had to figure out the LED control interface.

I used wireshark to reverse engineer it. Captured the USB traffic, saw a lot of control packets and correlated all of them with the proprietary manufacturer software's functions. With this data, it was simple to write a user space Linux driver for my keyboard.

https://wiki.wireshark.org/USB

The manufacturer's program would send a control message containing a payload, essentially bytes instructing the hardware what to do. For example, to set the color of a specific LED, my program sends this buffer to the hardware:

const unsigned char report[] = {
0xCC, /* Some kind of prefix? Always present in all payloads. */
0x01, /* Set LED color command. */
led, /* LED index, some keys have multiple LEDs. */
r, g, b, /* RGB8 color of the LED. */
0x7F /* Some kind of suffix? Always present in all payloads. */
};

hid_send_feature_report(keyboard, report, sizeof(report));

To turn off all LEDs and clear all configuration:

const unsigned char report[] = {
0xCC,
0x00, 0x0C,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x7F
};

> I've rather fallen into the trap of thinking of kernel code, including drivers, as being some sort of deep magic beyond human comprehension

There certainly is a lot of deep magic. Often because dealing with hardware is an ugly business. I've read Linux drivers which actually work around literal defects in the hardware. For example, I remember a bit of special code for a button that inexplicably sent two press events every time it was pushed. I wouldn't even have known that was the case were it not for the extremely helpful comments left by the developer.

In my case, I discovered the proprietary driver from the manufacturer was intercepting all of my keystrokes in order to support a special mode where LEDs light up when you press a key. It boggles my mind to this day, why couldn't they have done that in hardware?
I know one person who wrestles with the fact they and their long-term partner have adopted different world views. Faith, no faith. I know another person who broke off a new relationship based on faith, no faith. I would advise not be afraid to share your views in a kind manner. As to pursuing relationship, I think the op doth protest too much, methinks.
12100f is $178 right now at Newegg (shipped by third party; Newegg has none):
https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i3-12100f-core-i3-12th-gen...
This! The lack of a central authority to fix things is an anti-feature sold as a feature to libertarian-minded folks.

Even account balances are a bad idea to do on the block chain. Ever had to dispute a credit card charge when you dealt with a sketchy vendor? Well too bad, all sales are final now in this new immutable world.
And there’s still a design language underpinning the site. It’s chaotic and loud and whatever, but the elements are consistent.

It’s not random. Still has a theme and a palette. I like it as well.
Thank you for all the tricks you've supplied me over the years. Here's to many more.
> I would guess an average soapie episode has more viewers than an average match

Very few of these are special events; most of the games on this list are roughly the equivalent of, like, an Everton-Burnley match on a random Tuesday in February. Imagine if that match drew more viewers than the Eurovision final - that is the level of dominance that sports have over the American entertainment landscape.

There’s a reason Amazon is paying the NFL $1 billion per year for a single weekly game package.

> we're comparing stadium visitors with the draw of netflix, social media, games, etc.

Even on this basis, it’s clear that sports are still thriving. Once this NBA season is over, total attendance for the 2021-22 MLB, NFL, and NBA seasons is likely going to be ~90 million. Obviously many people go more than once, but still: 90 million people through the gates in one year, and that doesn’t even include the NHL or college football.

It’s also worth pointing out that two of the top five and three of the top 15 best-selling video games in 2021 were sports games licensed by those three leagues.
Looks like Docker's registry API (what the docker CLI uses) supports doing single-chunk uploads: https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/#monolithic-upload.
You always see 10-15% cuts leading up to an IPO. Investors love it for some reason. It wouldn't surprise me if they intentionally overhired in anticipation of this. It's mostly not the technical talent.
What went wrong is that people learned how much NVIDIA pays, figured out they were significantly underpayed, Arm is not a very profitable business so couldn't compete, and the moment it started looking like the NVIDIA deal was not going to fly, top talent started jumping ship.
If you have not tried something with a cockpit (like Elite: Dangerous), it's worth a shot. I found it very accessible and actually quite fun, even though I hate the game outside of VR.
I’ve performed on stage at the Kennedy Center. True story.

Have you been? It’s absolutely massive, it has multiple huge theatres and could sustain several large scale touring productions running concurrently. So our hypothetical Broadway production of Cats should be allocated a portion of those building expenses. And of course only the portion of the year they’re actually there. And of course they’ll sell tickets and either rent the venue or share the ticket revenue depending on how the event is presented.

Of course the Kennedy Center isn’t profitable, it’s not intended to be it’s basically a national monument on the mall.

But my point is that when you see Cats is in town that’s not where the money is going.

Why do you think $40MM is large number? The Kennedy Center has three theaters comprising around 6,000 seats. If you sell out every seat every night of the year for $100 a ticket that’s $219,000,000. You can pay for a couple furry costumes with that. Plus you’ve got the building the rest of the day, that’s only a few hour long production in the evenings.

Popular Broadway style touring productions, rock concerts, corporate product launches or broadcast takeovers (think Apple events or Jimmy Kimmel broadcasting from BAM in Brooklyn), conferences, auto shows, fashion launches, and so on, are subsidizing the performing arts center not the other way around.
How is this relevant to the pro sports bring value through children's leagues discussion though? It appears these kids leagues exist completely independent of the professional teams, and would continue to do so even if the pro team left.
Also the track and field teams.

And in my experience, when the teams are not using the field, the public can use it (either it's open for e.g. walking/jogging, or it can be reserved for a group event or youth football, soccer, or other community events).
It takes literal ages to edit videos in this style so while the end result may resemble h.264 encoded ADHD, the process does not.
The "I want it like Windows" people are an issue. Actually they were always? Old and bad behavior patterns. This hits the responsible people themselves. I'm feeling myself bad regarding using plugins from Github which aren't packaged by my distribution. And these plugin managers make it to easy :(

Regarding Flatpak (which I wish success) and Steam (which already has a lot success) I'm feeling more worried. They want grow and add stuff but actually must be a reliable source.
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I thought the same thing. I'm not sure if NW is entirely unbiased anymore.
Yes, there is an issue with megastadiums that double as a concert venue. Among other things, the stadium and associated concert revenue, while built with government money, go to the sports team.

It's hard to get a large amphitheater going without government support. While I'm sure there are examples, but none spring to mind either currently or throughout history. But subsidizing live events of a revolving nature is different from subsidizing a billionaires sports team.
This isn't a new concept. When I was at Uber I heard of some places in the world we did data over SMS, using it as a secure transport layer.
And yet the base OS of Android is made by volunteers ;)
I'm firmly a Millennial but I relate a lot more to Gen Z because our childhoods/formative experiences had a lot more in common. (For example, I got online when I was 4 and was allowed free rein, very similar to a lot of Gen Z/"iPad kids", but that's a pretty rare experience in my age group [33]). Our worldviews are more aligned as well: Things that people thought were insane when I said them 10-20 years ago are now mainstream. I feel like I have backup for the first time in my life.

I adore Gen Z.
Remember folks, for greater context around the psychology/perspective of a user, you can view their profile and comment history: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=etotolkoya
>it's someone with deep mental illness who happened to turn it towards women

I don't think this was just happenstance. You don't just randomly become a misogynist because of mental illness. This kind of hatred is cultivated over time through what you are consciously and subconsciously taught and conclusions you are making about the world around you. That level of hatred eventually devolves into something clinically diagnosable sure but I don't think it's right to say that he just "happened" to direct his hatred at women.

I agree with you though on destigmatizing mental illness and that our systems are not set up to deal with cases like this well enough.
It is simply not possible with the state of the grid and the electric generation capacity available, you'd have blackouts/brownouts and not enough electricity to actually keep people warm due to the higher power requirements.

Now, you'd still have that problem with heat pumps, because our grid is simply under-sized for it, but just not quite to the same extent.
That's how I felt in 2015. 7 years later, i still haven't learnt Rust and i don't see companies around here using Rust anyway
It's quite possible to have the apparent rate of separation of two particles, from the standpoint of third frame of reference, be superluminal. It happens in astronomical observations. See http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys200/lectures/superlum/super... for a nice example and explanation.

But you are quite right that from the frame of reference of either of the two particles sent traveling at .75c in opposite directions, the other particle is receding at subluminal velocity, not FTL.
garbage collector isn't a limiting factor for wasm.

my main issue with wasm is no standard interopt for primitive types. thankfully some sort of FFI is in the works from my understanding.
This is only if you really want to be able to open different browsers depending on which link you click. You can still set the default to some other browser and forget it.
Not sure if you meant cryptography or cryptocurrency, but assuming cryptocurrency...is it actually used that much? I can't think of any major cryptocurrencies that use it. All of the major ones are C/C++.
> Minimalism is has probably already peaked

I hope so, I thought that the original intent of it was anchored in a functional way of designing UIs. Now it seems to have been taken to absurd levels where important controls are hidden behind modals, dropdown, hover states, popovers etc. instead of just being visible and available when you want to use them. I really don't understand this but have given up pushing back on it.
Yeah, increasing comp is a good idea, but I assume their comp has increased multiple times over the past decade and it's had zero effect on their saving.

Something's causing a growth in spending exactly equal to the growth in income. Increasing income only helps if that function is addressed.
JMP.chat does pure SMS by default, you have to ask to be part of the MMS beta.

I've only really tried AT&Ts gateways in the US from gmail, maybe something has changed but it never worked for me.
Confused by this too. I assumed some Racket:Next was some Russian raquetball something-or-other.
Your post is literally a "whatabout". Aren't many publicly funded opera houses/theaters owned by the city and not at the same whims of football owners? A football stadium is almost exclusively designed and used for a single, privately owned entity.

It's a huge difference, not a minor one, and not one divided by class like you imply.
"Pumping" in this context is a very thinly veiled pejorative. The original question is using it in the sense of a "pump and dump" [1]. They're implying that the amount of Rust content on HN is in some way artificial: it's the strike force[2] posting a bunch of articles, or its some startup throwing "made in Rust" in their title for attention, etc.

As you might guess, it's hard to distinguish between a "pump" and general interest in something. And, of course, each probably does feedback into other.

---------

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

[2] https://enet4.github.io/rust-tropes/rust-evangelism-strike-f...
Protestware: “peacenotwar” NPM package drops anti-war message on user's desktop
Everyone is paid the same, regardless of location.
I don't know that this is an option everywhere. It is categorically not allowed to use the toilet during an exam here, so this is a thing that you cannot do.
> Teams will often threaten to leave their respective city trying to leverage new and expensive facilities in other places from their current cities.

We've seen this happen time and time again.

I wonder how viable government regulation around this would be, to effectively ban the concept of moving a sports club by making the barriers to moving so high that no one would ever want to do it unless the team was in genuine financial distress.
There's also culture death during layoffs. People get nervous, start focusing on their own tasks and don't altruistically help others.