skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been a few books attempting to justify geography it's not as fundamental as Guns germs and steels tries to prove it is.

For example: The wealth of nations defends the institutions of a country play an important role and they can be independent of geography. There's a sequence to this book: The narrow corridor that further defends this thesis.

A 10,000 year explosion makes the case genes are also important. For example being able to digest milk made the people that could wealthy and powerful and allowed them to terrorize their neighbors.
> i tried Kubuntu, pop_os and mint

These are all Ubuntu derivatives. I agree on the sentiment that there's a lot of push for obscure distributions, but it's worth trying the major ones. I recommend Fedora, it's another first-class distro for workstation and people that have work to do, and has nothing to do with Ubuntu or Debian at all.

Why I prefer Fedora to Ubuntu/Debian, in my personal opinion:

* Ubuntu GNOME is a frankenstein of patched GNOME software (some from GNOME 40, some from GNOME 3.38), Fedora is stock vanilla upstream GNOME.

* Maintainers of Debian and Ubuntu derivatives tend to be liberal with patching upstream software, often introducing bugs not present upstream. Fedora adopts an upstream-first approach (patch only if absolutely necessary)

* I'm not a fan of apt, rpm is slightly better

* Ubuntu snap is a dead man walking, often disabled on its own derivative distros (mint, pop_os, etc.), while Fedora/Redhat uses Flatpak which has first-party support pretty much everywhere and it's not under control of a single corporation like snap is.

* Red Hat actually pays people to work on major Linux user-space libraries (wayland, GNOME, pipewire, kernel development), while Ubuntu often goes its own way to create its own solutions that aren't adopted by anyone else.

* Fedora is probably the most stable bleeding-edge distribution, where the future of Linux is being promoted and tested slightly before than anyone else. We've got default Wayland, btrfs, a functional app store, pipewire, soon GNOME apps distributed as Flatpak.

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That said, Arch Linux is another worth exploring to learn how all Linux user-space fits together, has the best package manager and documentation in all the Linux world, but IMHO it's more for tinkering than having a rock solid workstation (I've used Arch for a decade before moving to Fedora)
Laws -- whether abortion or idling -- aren't some permanent unchangeable thing. They just cater to the whims of lawmakers and public opinion of the day. Idling wasn't always illegal in NYC either; somebody made it so, and then tacked on the bounty hunting in 2015.

Preventing abortion may be illegal now, but probably won't be for much longer if the rigged Supreme Court gets its way. Still, that isn't a novelty. Control of abortion has been a partisan fight for decades. Idling just doesn't attract the same constitutional scrutiny (and why should it).

The bounty hunting thing is an additional layer on top of that, however, and one that's relatively novel. It's why California copied it for the gun bounty.
Well... the GPU works in Intel Macs, I think. Which is pretty big.
We get the same Search/YouTube/Whatever when on the Google network or on Google-managed devices. The only difference is that the ads don't generate revenue.
On Apple devices.
And I’m the CTO of a unicorn I helped build from nothing! We have different opinions yet lived similar experiences.

I do respect and idolize the winners. Saying “someone would have done it if we didn’t” is defeatist. No one does anything unless someone does it. So we respect the people who actually do it rather than critique from the sidelines. It’s depressing to me that you were part of something amazing yet you view yourself as a replaceable cog and the success a meaningless byproduct of a system outside of your control.
I use meld by default. Honestly it's not great. I kind of miss beyondcompare. It is however readily available and works well enough.
Sounds like a great way to not have funders
I'd say it is more complex than this. I can recommend the book written by Marie-Janin Calic [0] which goes over the complicated history of Yugoslavia and makes it a bit clearer why the Balkans is the way it is these days.

But regarding your first sentence: definitely. If you listen closely you will often notice how Europeans mentally exclude the Balkans from whatever it is they are talking about. I think this sentiment has been especially felt when the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize given that apparently there have been no wars in Europe after WWII.

[0] https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24993
I don't think things are nearly as "broken" as these types of alarmist takes make it out to be. Quite the contrary I think FOSS is a model that other industries would do well to adopt.

People talk about companies "free riding" on FOSS, but the corollary to that is that this allows an individual developer to be massively more productive, justifying the high salaries we see. To obtain value from just about any open source project, companies need to hire developers, individual developers are in a position to benefit as the gatekeepers to all this "free" value.

Everyone is benefiting from this. Free is absolutely essential to making this work. Free is frictionless, free is equalizing. I'm not choosing between Redux over Mobx based on price, I'm choosing purely of intrinsic merits and community.

It is always easy enough to find problems, but looking over the past couple of decades, I don't think you can argue but that things keep getting better.
That's an old joke, not something that your buddy's son actually said.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/24/16505912/floppy-disk-3d-...
Here in MA, there is a special "State Police Association" plate you can get, that has an image of a state trooper's hat and the words "Protect and Serve" on it. It costs an extra $40 every two years and proceeds go to the State Police Benevolent fund.
Wow -- I remember seeing this at the time!

Thanks so much for this. I'm amazed it is still there.
I have heard so much about Sanderson but never read anything. Where should I start?
> Accept that your opinion isn't a fact and move on

She seems to be struggling with this as well.
Defining Primary Storage
And judging from some of these comments, those who haven't quit are sounding increasingly like abused wives making excuses.
She state can't enforce an abortion ban by itself; it depends on citizen enforcement.

The state can enforce the emission law; citizen enforcement is not required.
Yup. I was assuming $200k total cost for a senior developer in the Midwest. If you want someone on the West coast, you’re easily looking at $300k for just the salary due to the cost of living being more than double.
after all these years i still mostly use kdiff3
From a top down perspective, strategy is a how. As you say, it is how you accomplish your vision. But from a bottom up (implementation) standpoint, it can also be a why. Why are you doing these particular actions? As part of the strategy to accomplish the goal.

A well articulated strategy acts as a linking layer between ultra-high level goals and lower level decisions. We don't expect all actors in a large enough organization to re-derive all of their plans from first principles (nor do we want them to always do that), so a well defined strategy is essentially a pre-determined framework to operate in.
Jobs in a concentration camp though
Or Whatsapp. Or Signal. Or Telegram. They all work like that.

You'd think they designed it like that because it works well for their paid use case, using it for work. But no, it's really annoying to use in that context to. I can't call a colleague, instead I have to add an impromptu meeting to the chat, join it myself, wait until they show up. I mean, it's just two of three clicks instead of one, but still.
Citus. Built from scratch to make this as easy as possible.
Yeah. Guess it's easier to dismiss your users for wrongthink than it is to revise your entire marketing effort when someone calls you out on your hypocrisy.
`.` only produces a reference if you explicitly reference the result.

`a.b` is of type `B`, only `&a.b` is `&B` and `&mut a.b` is `&mut B`. This is unlike your proposal of `->` where `a->b` would be `*const B`.
Theft, colonialism, an international legal system that supports this and never made them pay back the nations they stole resources and labor from for hundreds of years.
https://archive.is/BqS0n
I kinda get where this discussion is coming from but to me it sounds extremely weird to not use the amenities you've bought. Kinda like walking around with a jacket and a hat at home when you can easily pay your heating bill.
I learned how to cook around 15 dishes in 2021... I never watched youtube prior to 2020 probably but since then it also taught me various origami techniques, React and how to read well :)
No small feat - first, to have the intellect to do so, and second the courage.
This is the creators dilemma when it comes to UX - you know how it works so it feels intuitive.
Complete step-by-step instructions for Metamask. It is my duty to tell about this to all newcomers, who are becoming more and more lately.
China has committed a genocide over the Uighurs and has also peacefully brought hundreds of millions out of poverty in the last fifty years. These two events are unrelated.

Every nation has committed exploitation and genocide but that that is the cause of their wealth is a stretch. Most wealth is generated peacefully.
As an outsider, it is a bit incredible how the USA institutionalised corruption in many tiers of their society. I live in a notoriously corrupt third world country, but many examples of corruption that come to mind are similar present in the USA, the only difference being that in the USA it is not considered corruption, done in the open.
The OP was clearly discussing invasive tracking, not SERP curation and delisting. But ok I guess? "Search engine picks and chooses results to show. Must be evil like Google now."
Deep ML cannot be built in-house
Opinion – Russian Forces 'Clearly Have Poor Standards,' Gen. Petraeus Says
Not squared exponential (that's just an exponential), but exponential of a square, even. Anyway.
Whether DHH is a dick (he is) or at times a diva, he’s literally none of the things this Twitter account is trying to label him as.

To call him far right is ludicrous, and pretty much the exact absurdity he’s often writing about in regards to people being unable to handle any differences of opinion anymore.

The leap to “you disagree? Nazi!” is why we all need to quit Twitter
Hi! Thanks for your notes here. I'll take these suggestions back to our team. re: 2. Being able to connect two accounts is interesting -- right now I solve this by having two Neeva accounts, one associated with my work email and one with my personal email.
Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?
There is no back story here, but just curious of you who actually started off as an engineer and decided to switch early, mid or late career. What are you up to now? Why did you switch? How are you liking it?
You know what happened in 2014? We just don't know why does everyone feel the need to be right and no one can admit that from an external point of view SOMETIMES you just can't know the real reason behind actions of other people.
We reduced our infrastructure costs by 8x without sacrificing performance
I have to admit I worked in "news" a few years back. Since then I mostly refrain from the dopamine kick of reading news (or headlines).

Imho news is like a mix of slot machine (aka Skinner Box) and a 'Confirmation Bias Machine'. Our brain is wired to prefer new things. Especially if we have the delusion this new thing (or information) might benefit us in some way.

What I found enlightening was the late Hans Rosling's idea (in his book Factfulness) that one roughly consumes (on average) about 10.000 news pieces a year (about 30 per day). And that one should ask oneself how many of them trigger or at least influence a relevant decision one makes/has to make.

How much of news is noise vs. signal?

To me this combination of low signal-to-noise ratio and addictive quality of media/news consumption while fostering my confirmation bias was enough to change jobs and turn my back to news.

Given the additional fact of massive propaganda in war times (or any crisis) would only be the icing on the proverbial cake.
Without mercy - Double parking should be next on the list. Especially in Queens.
It is huge in the US also. The main feature Whatsapp enabled was free international messaging. So it immediately blew up in immigrant US populations and bigger cities where there would be more international connections.

At the time Whatsapp came out, I was in NYC, and I do not recall anyone not using WhatsApp. I remember how amazing it was to effortlessly chat with my UK family since we were no longer subject to super expensive international SMS/MMS charges.
Clustering millions of sentences to optimize the ML-workflow
Diesel electric is only used in locomotives (and some big mining equipment) because the realities of the "get the power from the engine to the wheels" problem makes it work well in those use cases. Directly transmitting the energy without converting into electricity and back is more efficient until you start talking about absurd levels of gearbox and input/output speed discrepancies and whatnot. If the double conversion was more efficient we'd see electric drivetrains in far more places.
It's the opposite in the UK. I can't think of anyone I know who doesn't use WhatsApp.
Um, this is discussing a systematic recreation of the system of nepotism that plagues smaller communities where size is insufficient to have anonymity and therefore "accidents" like ticketing the sheriff's wife.
Nothing wrong with combining genetic programing with neural networks, there many ways to do it, for example, you can have genetically evolved network that produces actual network(s) (weights, locations, connections), to me biggest is issue is with escaping local minima as efficient/performant as other methods (does not beat deep RL methods), in simple sense it stops evolving and it is really hard to figure out why.
> The west was able to control most of the globe due to their advances in weapons

How did they secure these advanced weapons without being rich in the first place? Like the other comments defending this you're confusing cause and effect.

Note there are two other top comments making the same case as this one, so this is not adding much to the discussion and it's forcing it to be in different places.
Read the README, and noticed the picture. My first thought was “why don’t they show the result?”.

Then it hit me. Excellent job!
>I've heard some don't even consider these parts Europe.

Absolutely. I'm from East Europe and you can really feel and notice that when the European Union address certain topics.

This is also the struggle of the former Eastern Bloc countries. Rejected by the west but culturally always closer to them (especially Germany and France) not to the slavic Russia.
Yes, I like working for free. I tried doing open source work for money but the only thing that happened was that I lost all motivation. It stopped being fun and became yet another job. And I make more than enough money from my main job.
Yea, GP seems like it really bothers them (which is okay, we all value different things) but I love living in NYC.

I’m always going to new events, parks, restaurants, museums. Transportation’s extensive, cheap, and quick for the most part. There are rivers, beaches, woods, bays. Biking is becoming a real joy with all the new bike infrastructure. Love the new outdoor dining scene, the people, incredible amounts of architecture styles.

And besides, we upgraded from piss smell, to weed smell! Much better.

I have experienced pretty much everything in GP’s post (although the way they go on you’d think it’s a near constant which I don’t think is true even in the rougher neighborhoods like Brownsville that I’ve lived in) at some point or another… they’re just not the parts of NYC that I focus on I guess.
$140/hr
But I don’t really understand. If they could create those virtual creatures in 1994... How come we do not have any real world machines that can do that? Why do our robot lawnmowers still use wheels?
Yeah. That's why people shard. There's effectively no other reason to bring in that complexity.
He has plenty of industrial experience, not a pure academic https://christophermeiklejohn.com/meiklejohn-cv.pdf
The problem isn't that it's open world, it's that there is zero guidance. There are no quests markers, no quest log, anything. The most you get is the ability to put markers on the map.
No. It is not inconsistent to get upset about any individual thing we do to children.

So gene therapy? Let's consider the consequences. Everything else? Let's also consider the consequences.
Quickly finding recurring events in sequences
Contracting for the US gets you about 100-200k per year, so you certainly can afford the max. rates for healthcare and social insurance.
I think I paid about 700/month healthcare which was max. and I certainly didn't pay any tax accountant.
what I forgot was to pay into some kind of pension fund.
I get that they were technologically advanced. But how were they richer?
+1 I loved Stormlight Archive so much that I read it twice and I would probably read some chapters over and over. The struggles of various characters with past failures and the way they overcome it gives me hope for myself. Not only the mental health angle is really meaningful, the whole storyline is super interesting. Anyway, I can keep going on and on about these books. You have to read them at least twice to appreciate the intricacies and subplots.
If a European country created wealth in its factories, but those factories used slave-grown inputs (cotton, sugar, whatever) imported from colonies, would that count as wealth produced internally?
No, for decades DHH was almost obnoxiously pretty far left.

That he is now being labeled a nazi for saying we went too far with masks and that crypto might have a use after all because the ability for government to cut off all your money with no recourse is dangerous for society… it’s absurd and pretty much exactly what he often complains about now
Both these things can be true.

Yes, Texas used citizen lawsuits as a workaround for something they couldn't themselves enforce without risking constitutional ire (for now). It's a legal sleight-of-hand that wins them bonus points with conservatives while buying time for the new Supreme Court to outlaw abortion. It's disgusting.

At the same time, it is creepy for Texas, California, New York or any government to entice citizens to act as informers and tattle on each other. The social costs of that aren't just measured in less budgeting for meter maids, but also increasing social distrust between neighbors.

These aren't mutually exclusive, just two complementary, nasty things happening in government.

In all three cases, it mobilizes private citizens to factionalize against each other to fulfill some elitist agenda, creating legal conflict with a profit motive where there wasn't before. Sure, somebody might've rolled their eyes at an idling truck or silently viewed their aborting/gun-toting neighbor with contempt, but these laws encourage active interpersonal conflict in the name of the state, turning untrained citizens with no experience in de-escalation into deputy law enforcement.
Why do you list code density as a potential disadvantage? With changes to the ISA that has already been approved, RISC-V will have the best code density of any significant ISA in real-world code.

The article touched on this briefly so it's odd that you would claim this without a source for the claim. I know there's some outdated benchmarks where it's slightly worse than Thumb for instance. But then Thumb isn't relevant for desktop CPUs.

The downside for RISC-V for high end desktop/laptop is lack of a large commercial backer (someone like Apple could pull it off, but clearly they've bet on ARM,which was clearly the right choice since RISC-V was far from ready). Lack of the huge legacy of tool chains and software built around x86 and ARM is also obviously a huge disadvantage.

But you could have said the same about ARM back in the day. The thing is I'm not sure if the advantages for RISC-V is big enough to take over all of ARMs markets the way ARM has the potential for with x86.
I used it a lot many years ago, not so much now. I don't even know if it's on my laptop. I'm not using any other alternative. Maybe git merge and git diff are good enough for my needs. I'm also using both gitk and gitg, usually gitg. Maybe they qualify as alternatives.
I think that Sanderson's faith influences his writing but his novels are very accepting of other religions and he almost criticizes the "overly religious preachy" stuff (eg. through Jasnah's story and the hardships she faces because of her anti-religious stance) in Stormlight. Although I might be wrong.
I live in NYC, I’ve lived in a bunch of cities globally and I’d say you’re exaggerating to the extreme here.

“The streets all smell like piss” genuinely sounds like a take from someone that visited midtown while on a three day conference and then left. There are some disgusting streets, no doubt. There’s too much trash on the street on trash days. On rare occasions a subway car has homeless people in it and it smells. None of this is great by any means. But the idea that all New Yorkers are walking around smelling piss 24/7 and saying “huh, guess it must be like this everywhere” doesn’t pass any kind of sanity test.

Reminds me of the Principal Skinner meme: “am I wrong? No, it is the eight million inhabitants of NYC who are all wrong”
Show HN: Monitor your terminal output in realtime from everywhere
A comment elsewhere here pointed out that RISC-V can do it with two fused compressed instructions for the most common operations. So seems like they did the right trade off to me.
Decentralized exchanges with no oversight or accountability and the ability to "mint" an endless supply of their own crypto and influence it's price.

Most people coming from the traditional finance world understand the de-value in this.
First you complain about "armchair specialists", then you make a blanket assertion about branch delay slots. Believe it or not, there are ISAs for applications where branch delay slots are useful, for example TMS320 DSPs with up to 5 delay slots.
Ipython 8.1.1
Sure 300k barely supports US market rates, but should it?

There's plenty of people working the same job for many years with low-ish salary? Sure they could find new one and get the latest high market but they haven't

I mean the project was already being developed before even having full time staff, and some contributors are not in the US and could live less for sure

many OSS projects can go a long way the same way

and that's the point, why should babel take "a big chunk" of OSS donations, while many others take nothing

and looking at another comment below, seems it's becoming irrelevant, so it would make sense to reduce funding further and let staff to move away to other projects or take full time employment at a profit making organization and take market rates.
I wholeheartedly agree and I read it twice as well. It's also the only book or series I've ever had the heart to read twice. It was just that good, and every time you read it, you pick up on new details and it's just as refreshing and beautiful as the first time.
Well sure, the question is how were they able to out-exploit and out-genocide the rest of the world.
"So you compare software to hardware decoders?"

No. I understand your vitriol, but please just stop. I'm not demeriting AV1's technical basis.
Permanent daylight saving time might not be as popular as Congress thinks
So ... like https://github.com/schani/metapixel or any other photomosaic program, but only one tile per pixel?

*photomosaic is a trademark of Rob Silvers.
Damn you Swiss, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia for colonialism.