skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't really been able to take pseudoephedrine for a number of years now due to getting heart palpitations with even a small dose. Luckily fluticasone is available without a prescription and I've had success with that.
Assuming your generic functions take _pointers_ to Components as input, full monomorphization does not occur and you're suffering a performance hit similar in magnitude, if not strictly greater empirically, to interface "dereferences".

On this basis, I don't believe your generic implementation is as faster than an interface implementation as you claim.
Personal responsibility is the weakest form of system improvement because it's guaranteed to vary between people. Expecting people to always behave perfectly within your scope is a recipe for disappointment!
Cross River Bank goes from tiny to mighty, with a crypto-first strategy
Making assumptions & cutting down on scope are immensely powerful tools.
There is a tendency among engineers to create systems that are universal and work in all sorts of environments, when in fact, this is not what is absolutely immediately needed, or is closer to a "nice to have".

A widespread example of this is linear regression analysis. Mathematically, it only works because we make assumptions about the data (and even these can be relaxed) & limiting the scope of the problems it can solve.

This also applies to delivering projects. A fully engineered & robust project could possibly require a great deal of human, physical resources and time. But if we start iterating over a list of problems your system solves (sorted by decreasing value), the project suddenly costs only a fraction of what it would otherwise.

This doesn't come for free though: your MUST understand the limitations & assumptions of your systems, otherwise you or someone will pay dearly. Look at Zillow & failure to understand its forecasting system. Look at so many other startups applying ML where it has no place.

Zillow's failure is the best case (though catastrophic): the principal paid the cost. But take something like Google, applying a fully automated system to make decisions about banning accounts. These are real world decisions that have a huge effect on people & businesses. In this case, Google saves money on providing human support & offsets the costs to third parties who often can't afford it.
> Go has user defined value types which Java does not yet.

C# has this. A lot of people overlook C# in this area, probably because until recently, it was not cross-platform.
> One study found that passengers on a seven-day Antarctic cruise cause as much CO2 to be released as the average European over the course of an entire year.

There are, what, maybe a few thousand people who do an Antarctic cruise every year?

The EU has a population of about 450 million.

The climate does not care one bit about per capita emissions, only total emissions.
It is sad that society has gone into such a protectionist stance. In our great grandfathers day you could buy opiums and cocaine you name it. Now everything is so locked up heaven forbid someone abuses drugs. The problem with a useless drug like this is people won’t get the desired effect and start compounding more drugs into their system. Like what I had to do with an abscesses tooth. I don’t abuse drugs, I no longer drink and don’t smoke marijuana I don’t even drink coffee anymore. But when my tooth went bad all I was allowed was Acetaminophen and ibuprofen which didn’t even come close to touching the pain. So I took extra acetaminophen and ibuprofen anyways despite the risks out of desperation. Then I started using copious amounts of oral gel tooth numbing medicine which has benzocaine I believe which can also increase heart rate I believe. I was so desperate for any form of relief while I waited to get to the dentist that I was forced to abuse anything I could get for relief that one narcotic medication would have easily treated. I have often wished I could return unused narcotics I have been given to show the doctors “look I’m returning drugs I don’t have an abuse problem I only use them for pain control please continue being generous with them in the future”.
Specifically, drugs with -D indicate that they come with pseudoephedrine. In the US, they (like the non-PE version of Sudafed) are only available behind the pharmacy counter.
They are long dead. It was sad. They doted on me and my sister because they had no kids. He was a salesman. He knew how to get books in Manhattan. He used to get my sister classics with the most beautiful color plate illustrations. In the sixties, these had little value. Today?
Not just in games, but also the real world. I've had issues implementing robotic mapping code coming from the naive use of GPS coordinates, for which the solution was the same as you just said: dynamically adjusting the origin.
Unix timestamps have a convention of being an offset from Jan 1 1970 00:00. But is that Jan 1 1970 GMT or UTC or local time? There is a right answer here! But! Did all the developers do the right thing? Was the default implementation correct?

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What I'm saying is - in your json document, you see a number and you rely on a convention to decode that number. The number has no way to tell you anything about what the number actually means. The ISO standard does. People could still mess it up, but I feel like the people who use the ISO standard care a lot more than the people who use the Unix standard.
And further in Mark Penn's Wikipedia article

>Penn met with Trump in February and November 2019 to give him advice on his 2020 re-election strategy.

The company claims to be right wing, why would you deny it?
I was going to go spelunking into the Internet Archive for a working link but it’s offline at the moment; so this comment is more a reminder to me to check back later.

EDIT: Success! https://web.archive.org/web/20050926032028/http://wiki.43fol...

See also: https://web.archive.org/web/20061018171833/http://www.43fold...
I've long enjoyed the Exacompta brand for index cards because the paper is uncannily thick and nice to write on. But those rounded edges on the Foglietto's look super cool. Going to see if I can snag some of those now!
Congratulations! This looks amazing. I think I am the target audience and I cannot wait to try this.

One very important thing for my use case is being able to run steps in parallel distributed across multiple agents. Is it capable of this?
I feel like "Don't make me think" is geared more towards designers who want the things they design to look different or unique or new. The main thesis of that book is to follow established conventions in web design. To me, it seems like engineers following conventions is what they'd prefer so that they don't have to think about how things look too much.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Commonly-held opinion is wrong, but read on to discover it's mostly right
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392.
Impressive. Vivaldi (which is a fork of a Chrome) gives me a score of a 97 so on a certain level SerenityOS' web browser is better than a chrome fork.
phenylephrine is a great drug in hospital for sepsis patients, but as a nasal decongestant, it really is useless.

the "war on drugs" push to restrict pseudoephedrine created more problems than it's worth. "the new meth" has been even worse.

https://crimeandjusticenews.asu.edu/news/chemically-differen...

There's a really good Atlantic article about it as well (google "the new meth" Atlantic) but it's behind a paywall.
Eyeing Business Cloud: How do you recommend to store the server key?
As an employee (currently) in the UK, I spend exactly 0 minutes preparing my taxes. I don't have to do it!
I decided to go ahead and do some ballpark math. about 2% of my city bikes to work:

36/80,000 = 0.00045

80% drive a car and about 250 die a year:

250/3200000 = 0.000078125

So its not quite a full order of magnitude more dangerous, but either way I'd say your odds are pretty low in either case. Even lower if you choose to bike safely, such as taking less busy residential streets vs commercial arteries or even opting for the sidewalk on those busy arteries, wearing helmets and using lights, using defensive bike strategies like avoiding lefts in favor of utilizing a perpendicular street, not being drunk, etc. I bet out of those 36 deaths in my city, none took place on like a 25mph residential street.
I'm talking about open-source libs, i.e., I don't know who is going to use the lib, which env and target language they have, etc.

So I think that Java is the best middle ground here because it guaranties the full support of JVM features and 3rd party tools. I mean just avoiding a risk that it would be incompatible with something.
Irrelevant not only because it's a foreign country but because it's two different fields (television channel vs. computer software).
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I've said this before, and I'll say it again. People lump Go in with C/C++/Rust because they all (can) produce static binaries. I don't need to install Go's runtime like I install Java/NodeJS/Python runtimes. Honestly, I think it speaks so much to Go's accomplishments that it performs so well people intuitively categorize it with the systems languages rather than other managed languages.
The existence of lobbying is in itself not interesting. Of course it is in their interest to protect their business, and it's reasonable for any company in a free market to oppose the government undermining or destroying their business.

The problem is that government has to suck up that cost and deal with it.

The larger issue, and the thing that keeps us from having our taxes done for us, is that there is a strong feeling in the conservative and libertarian movements that taxes SHOULD be painful, and that exposing taxpayers to the complexities and annoyances of filing taxes is a necessity to make people want to reduce the pain associated with taxes, and keep their legislators in check.

That is, any legislator who chooses to vote for an increase in taxes or an increase in the complexity of taxes should be voted out of office and replaced with someone who will do the opposite.

In practice, this has failed miserably. There is absolutely no accountability associated with this, and legislators know that, and they have no interest in actually simplifying or otherwise reducing the burden of filing taxes. It's time to just give up and put "taxation is theft" to bed because people only care about this one month a year, and by the time elections come around we've forgotten it completely. It's tempting to say -- "how can we make it MORE painful", like, let's move tax day to November 1st, so that you go to the polls cursing your senator, but we know that this won't work.
Generative art is really gaining a lot of recognition in the NFT space. It doesn't have to be on chains like Ethereum either. Fxhash is a generative art marketplace on Tezos. I encourage you to check it out and play with it. The communities exist mostly on Twitter and Discord and are very supportive.
Thank you for the feedback! I referenced it in an issue here: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1946
I had to file Australian income taxes for two years. I was kinda terrified of it. I logged into the government website with information I received in the mail (TFN), plus a phone call to link my information to my web account.

My taxes were pretty simple, admittedly. But the government website already had all of my income information pre-filled out. I entered a bank account, entered my health insurance details (hey, hey, affordable universal healthcare), and submitted. I was literally done in 15 mins.

The Australian government practically fell all over themselves to promise me they would get me my refund as soon as possible. They sent a text within hours that promised something like five business days. It was done in three. I never had to deal with them again.

WTF America.
> Food is a solved problem in the modern era.

Solved problem? We've hardly even identified the actual problem.

As it it stands now farming is an open loop system and input supplies are becoming constrained and expensive. We have killed our soils and the dirt that is left behind requires external inputs to produce current crop numbers.

In addition to this, we grow a large portion of our food in the United States in areas with active droughts and impending water shortages.

Fortunately there are better ways to do things, I just don't know that we can change fast enough.

To address the greater point of your comment though, I agree.
It even has a name: natural sort order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order
This seems similar to what https://earthly.dev is doing?
Every time she's mentioned, there's something to make me dislike Feinstein more than I already did. It does seem likely her strong opposition would be a high bar to clear, though as the oldest current senator, she may not be a factor for a long time.
I’d be interested to know how many interdisciplinary engineers you know who are the top 1% in two fields at the same time :)
WHY DO YOU WANT CHILDREN TO GET METH?--Opponents of rolling back restrictions on pseudoephedrine

But more seriously, the FDA ends up regulating something like 30% of the economy and getting them to deregulate something is near impossible
oh my. are we equating Japan with China?
Oh wow I didn't realize they have the trees marked on the maps. That's pretty cool.
What's the monetization strategy going to be?
It's interesting how many younger people in the US aren't even aware that the only useful decongestants are behind the counter. I assume they just think there isn't a useful treatment for the symptoms.
Yes, this would definitely help the government collect tax revenues.

> If I think about the state/federal tax services like businesses, wouldn’t the prospect of convenience be more likely to create more revenue inflow, or am I mistaken?

No, you're not mistaken. The problem is that one of the major parties fundamentally believes that giving more money to the government is bad and they go to great lengths to make it harder to reduce collection, which in turn helps them politically to argue that the government is inefficient and ineffective.
Researchers discover source of super-fast electron rain
Can I ask what kind of problems you enjoyed working on there?
Yeah, you'll never please everybody with music selection, so I just go with whatever I'm in the mood for at the time. Fun fact, I found that track on YouTube, reached out to the artist for permission to use it. His response was "yeah, sure. cool vid." He was just a teenager at the time, so I thought that made it a bit more interesting in an inside baseball kind of thing vs just some random track on a stock site.
You're definitely right. While it's not a particularly common problem, it does exist; one thing I'd really like to see enter the compiler world is an optimization step to use vtable dispatch (or something akin to Rust's enum_dispatch, since all concrete types should be knowable at compile time) in these cases.

I expect it would require a fair amount of tuning to become useful, but could be based on something analogous to the function inliner's cost model, along with number of calls per type. Could possibly be most useful as a PGO type step, where real-world call frequency with each concrete type is considered.
You're arguing against a straw man. I could just as easily say "why not make every line of code it's own function?"

C has libraries, and my comment made it clear that they are useful.

Argue against my actual point:

By not having a bespoke package manager, and instead relying on the system package manager, you end up with higher quality dependencies and with dramatically less bloat in C than other language ecosystems. It is all the benefit and none of the drawbacks of npm-like ecosystems.
Discussed here:

Serenity OS: Interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30214371 - Feb 2022 (52 comments)
But why would you need to compare such measurements for equality with an arbitrary tolerance? If your algorithm is doing something like producing a yes/no answer from some measured data then it should be obvious what tolerance to use according to the domain. I would code that explicitly using inequalities instead of depending on some mystery default epsilon.
That's amusing. Firefox 97.0 (on my machine) has a score of 97 as well.
Apple Working to Bring Financial Services Tasks In-House
Filing taxes could be automatic like in other countries. I'd much rather get a pre-calculated return and do nothing if everything looks in order or send it back with adjustments as needed.
What's the digital equivalent of this?
SmolRTSP: A lightweight real-time streaming library for IP cameras
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
*Kool-aid, you 1%-er.
Go compiles to static binaries. Java needs the JVM. That already is a HUGE difference in "picking the right tool".

Also, the JVM is way more heavy and resource intensive than a typical Go program. Go is great for cli tools, servers, and the usual "microservices" stuff, whatever it means to you.
Why? When they can make regulation once and that will be that?
He isn't making an assumption that everybody in the office prefers working from home. Where did you read that?
It depends on the platform you're using, but basically wherever you would store your secrets currently (API keys, database credentials, etc.) is where you should store your server ENVKEY.
Heh heh. Perfect example of why “extracurricular activities” are total bs.
Admissions people need to have intangibles. That way, they can do what they want, when they want to.
> I think Canada (CRA) is doing this behind the scenes

Yes, I noticed that the CRA website displayed my T4 this year, although the problem is I couldn't simply hit "Confirm" and be done with it.
Interesting, I should check out if this works with Gitlab CI. As Gitlab CI is quite a pain to debug (guess all CI environments).
In some countries working as full time employee via remote.com etc. gets you less money than having a company and dealing with the taxes.
How is portable AM radio possible?
For Google docs I switched to using a Synology server. Very nearly as good (better, in some ways) and I don’t have to worry about what Google is up to.

The up-front cost and setup time is a stiff investment, but I’m much easier in mind now.

The other side of the coin is my wife’s gmail, which is going to be deleted come May. So... we gotta figure that out.
The Flail approach does work.... You just really want to make sure you've sufficiently hardened the important parts. Explosions are not something you get many second/third/nth chances with dealing with if you undershoot the PPE required for effective protection.

It's actually really cool, because once you're done demining, you get a really fancy tiller out of it.

A horribly fuel inefficient one, but hey! Blades into plowshares and whatnot.
I got my node script working with Kestra
For most people in the US, taxation is already conducted at the source through estimated withholdings. Filing is how they get tax refunds. It's a clever scheme that seems to make people actually happy about income tax.
Crusty person with an opinion here.

Google wankers forcefully added "Google Prompts" as a 2FA method, without consent, and disabled removing it. Of course people are going to hit "authorize". Oh and if you remove the Google app, you can thankfully use the YouTube app (like that's a good idea). A _video streaming_ app now has the keys to the kingdom. Man I feel secure.

Just use hardware keys. It's not difficult. My 70 year parents use them. I explained "This is like your front door key, but for you account. It's safe to put this in whenever the computer prompts you for it."
Yes :) We rely entirely on buildkit (https://github.com/moby/buildkit) to run the pipelines (`dagger` itself acts as a "compiler" and buildkit client). So anything you can do with buildkit, works out of the box with Dagger. That includes clustering.

There is a lot of ongoing work in that area in the buildkit ecosystem. For example Netflix has a distributed buildkit farm, which I believe relies on containerd storage backends to share cache data. There are also integrations to run buildkit nodes on a kubernetes cluster.

Dagger itself is obviously quite new, but buildkit itself is very mature, thanks to its integration with 'docker build'.
I remember when the over the counter stuff just seemed to stop working. I just assumed that something about my body changed. Took me a year or so to find that the ones behind the counter still worked very well.

I think I'm lucky, in that I don't really need too much help that often. I can only imagine if my sinuses were as bad as they were back in the day, though.
Wouldn't it be faster for the autonomous trucks to go on autonomous trains in-between major hubs then drive off to do the last mile?

Might require a built up of rail infrastructure and I don't know the limits of freight trains in general, but seeing passenger trains, going 2-3x faster than road speed limits I reckon while maybe not by as much, freight trains could still go quite a bit faster than driving the trucks long distances.
Obsidian is a self-hosted repository that ultimately stores everything as plaintext markdown (.md). It is 100% portable and by default owned by you.

Protip: you can easily sync obsidian by sharing the top-level vault directory with syncthing. Its entirely transparent, you just start obsidian and open the vault, and changes you make on one system automatically appear on others.

As for protonmail, its better than google -- but you're right in the data ownership. In the case of protonmail, they have a much better track record than Google, but if you are really paranoid choose a service that supports SMTP/SNMP. You can then just have a mail client store the mail as an archive or connect it to any other mail system.

I have mentioned my preferences before, but I'll refrain from turning this comment into an unpaid ad. Drew Devault's recommendations are pretty good though: https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-rec...
What's humorous to me about this is that both ideologies can probably make this claim. I know a lot of people who are pro-vaccine and mask mandates that are mad that this pandemic is still going on because of people believing misinformation and refusing to do their part. I know people who are anti-vaccine and anti-mask mandate who are mad that they are being "forced" to vaccinate (in effect, because of businesses adding requirements - the government itself is not forcing vaccination for the general public). Both would say the other side is causing their strife. Both are right, if you accept their axioms/premises (which I don't think is reasonable for both sides).