skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having written this, I am actually completely incapable of retrieving the page number over dbus. (As you had mentioned). I'm a bit surprised that forward and reverse search can still be done.
What do you think is the relative statistical frequency of Balkan last names of American citizens relative to one's of English, Germanic, and Gaelic origin, and why?

And how do you think that ties in with the idea of a name being inherently more likely to be known by foreign groups and associated with that country?

I guess I understand your point though, that Tesla himself is very much an "American" and therefore Tesla is a household American name. Seems we've derailed very far though from the original discussion.
NYC gives you the city you look for in it
There are quite a few of these in SV:

Elizabeth Holmes, Travis Kalanick

Not sure who else.
> Yeah, my emacs config is a work in progress

Hahaha Sisyphus had a similar problem
In a lot of places it's strictly illegal to build car-free places. Minimum parking requirements, strict euclidean zoning, etc. The car-free or low-car places that do exist are hideously expensive due to high demand. If anything the car lifestyle is being forced on people.
That’s not capitalism. That’s some kind of meritocratic (anti?-)utopia. Capitalism is when you can do with your property whatever you want including giving it away to whomever you want.
Well, too bad IBM withdraw their offer, and if anyone thinks that they would care more about Solaris than Aix, IBM i or IBM z/OS, they are fooling themselves.

Databases they already had DB2. Informix did not had an happy life after aquisition, so most likely the love for MySQL wouldn't be that great.

And in what concerns Java, IBM has always had their own implementations, with extensions like JIT caches, AOT compilation, real time GC, special flavour of value types (ObjectLayout), so also here little value to get from Sun.
> guy above you comes home at 2am and never takes his shoes off

He shouldn't have to IMO. Building codes should require buildings to be sound proof between units. Yea, I know that's dreaming but I've lived in such units. I once lived in an apartment in LA. It was the first apartment in my life that had an in-unit washer and dryer. I asked the guy showing me the apartment "I'll bet I shouldn't run that after 10pm". He responded "These apartments were built as condos and they have double concrete walls between units so your neighbors won't hear you. Feel free to run them anytime day or night". And, the 18 months I was there I never heard a noise from any other unit.

Conversely, I lived in a fairly typical SF place. Older and not designed for sound proofing. It was so bad that I mostly stayed out of my bedroom because the just being in it the guy downstairs would complain. Basically all I ever did was walk in, climb in bed. When I woke up, get out of the room. I felt for the guy, it must have been like a drum but at the same time I shouldn't have not been able to live in my apartment (oh, and I didn't wear shoes).

I had a guest room. Every single guest (friends, not AirBnB) would get yelled at their first night just trying to change out of their clothing into their pajamas.

The funniest one was a girl moved in downstairs. One night at 3am I moved my bed about 4 inches. A single move not making a sound for more than 1-2 seconds. The next morning she came up to bitch me out of waking her up. I told her I didn't complain about hearing her masturbate every night. I just put on my headphones and checked in 20 minutes. She moved out the next day.

I feel like the law should have made the landlord make that apartment more sound proof.

In my current place there's an industrial air conditioner running on the building next door. It runs 24/7 even though no one has been in the building during COVID. With any window open it's around 60db which is fine maybe when you're awake but it sucks when you're drying to go to sleep. With the windows closed it basically sounds like someone is running a vacuum cleaner in the room next door, all night.

Further, some, the city, or some company, comes by at 4am and empties trash cans. The pick them up and bang them. It takes them ~10 minutes to get them all. Everyone in the building has complained and AFAICT both of these are illegal.

https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/ehsdocs/ehsnoise/guidelinesn...

But so far it's been impossible to get anything enforced.
No they didn't. Shanghai's testing capacity is around 2m/day.
lol, exact same story for me. my 'crappy' new email gets several spam messages a day + regular false-positives but that's nothing compared to gmail.
I'm a big fan of SpamGourmet, but I've noticed a few websites have started to blacklist it
No no, you need to store the CRC and the output of an object recogniser. A 16 byte CRC plus the word "cat" will have way way fewer collisions!
A tangent, if you have time: where would I go for a primer on operations research and/or discrete event simulation?

My thought is that Goldratt's "The Goal" / theory of constraints is a useful way of thinking about optimizing throughput in a computer system. http://www.qdpma.com/Arch_files/RWT_Nehalem-5.gif plus an instruction latency table is something like a well modeled factory. (The Phoenix Project applies these principles to project management, which I think is a somewhat less useful analogy!)

I'm curious about applying existing tools to modeling things like: how will this multi-tiered application behave when it gets a thundering herd of requests? What if I tweak these timeouts, adjust this queue, make a particular system process requests on a last-in-first-out basis? Can I get a pretty visualization of what would happen?
You could use an English dictionary and compress the image to words. "Cat on laptop" for example.
This is obvious to those (like me) who get stressed out with excessive noise. Despite having born and brought up in India I could never get used to constant white noise. It stresses me out like crazy.

I realised the value of silence the first night in Netherlands. I could physically feel heart go down and mental peace. They take noise levels seriously and it shows!

Edit: Details.
I have a non-terminal, but life limiting illness. I've got an expensive and silly car, and it brings me great joy whenever I drive it (like when I drove to the office this morning!). I haven't sacrificed other things that would bring me deeper fulfilment to own it though, and I think if that's the case then yes, silly material things can bring you some happiness.

Without my illness I'd probably be saving the money instead, so that I could have silly material things in retirement. Because I know that my retirement is likely to be a struggle I do these things now while I can still enjoy them.
I think you're in a poor position from which to talk about low skills if you don't understand why vetting components is non-trivial.
True for every language
That's not worth $18.2tn, knowing charity it was probably worth a few tens of millions, at best, and was used for tax write-offs.

Plus knowing rich people, he evaded/avoided taxes (probably hundreds of millions, if not billions) that regular Joes making $36.4k a year would never be able to.
Reminds me on the (incorrect) origin story of kangaroo.
https://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-where-does-the-w...
run for office, you seem to know what to do
Capitalism ideally means ideal free markets, free of distortion. Starting with market distorting money from birth by definition... distorts markets.
As one of the top comments mentioned that most of the people on our planet earth do not have reliable Internet connection especially in the rural and remote areas.

I think the most practical and affordable way of connecting people in the remote and rural areas is by wireless via terrestrial rather than satellite. Regardless of satellite or terrestrial, apparently wireless transmission itself need to be reliable in the face of interference, multi-path and physical obstructions (tree, foliage, building, limited groud clearance, etc).

Most of the efforts for improving wireless technology have been focusing on the urban settings not rural or remote areas for obvious reasons. Ironically the areas where there are less money to be made and there are the places where most of the digital divide are happening.

Personally currently I'm working on a next generation reliable wireless connection technology and the initial results are very encouraging. Hopefully this promising technology can significantly contribute to the improvement of connectivity to reduce digital divide worldwide in affordable manner. Please contact me if you are interested to collaborate on this new technology.

For global initiatives focusing on improving telecom and Internet infrastructure there is Telecom Infrastructure Project supported by the major players including Facebook, Intel, Nokia, NTT, etc:

https://telecominfraproject.com/
He’s always been like that. It was just less visible because he used to have some contact with reality.
I flip flop between seeing it as inevitable, and overly techno-optimistic. Can definitely see it both ways.

In the arms race between ML-copy generation and its detection, eventually the edge becomes "does this make sense in a coherent world-view", so there should be a natural pressure towards that outcome.

But maybe we're just not good enough at building these tools, and the incentives will align with an endless onslaught of digital sludge.

There's also the problem of: how does legitimate fiction, poetry, love stories, and art fit into a www where only the most logical is allowed to be seen? It could be a logically puritanical nightmare.
This is a good report that specify how to measure the link between noise and heart/health:
https://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/2018-0121.pdf

EU now require every large train, road and air traffic change to use this guide.

Short version:
1) Gather data from health records on the number of people that can be affected by noise by the change
2) Use this is the calculations for the new noise levels for the alternatives proposed
3) This calculations have to be made public, and you have to stay under certain noise levels
On small roads between the blocks ("strefa zamieszkania") it's 20 km/h. Also pedestrians have right of way over cars on these roads everywhere, no matter the crossings. Usually these roads are made of bricks and have these "bumps" so you won't go much faster even if you wanted to. That's the closest road to me (like 50 meters from my flat).

On regular roads it's 50 km/h. There's one like 300 meters from my flat.

On a few big multilane roads it's 90 km/h or more but the closest such road is 700 meters from my flat, and it has these noise-cancelling panels around it.
I don't think this comment makes much sense, arbitrary unicode text is very different than JSON. What application domain are you talking about?
WebObjects port to Java was still done under NeXT's umbrella, and it was initially used for the store (no idea what powers it nowadays), and even then its fate was sealed under Steve's management.
I know a larger than life man who is now very old. Years ago, he assured me that he would go the helium route himself, as soon as he realized his mind was slipping. I wouldn't be surprised if I hear that news any day now, although it would be quite sad news. He has many grandchildren and great grandchildren, and thousands of people like me that had the pleasure of knowing him. Perhaps you two will bump into each other in a spiritual realm, and swap stories of sailing and computer history!
The autocorrect of dual booting to duel booting really encapsulates the spirit of the era. At that poit tbe #1 feature of OS/2 was the boot manager and the ability to boot into logical drives.
Not really. I'm saying "heretic hunter" is clunky, bad writing.
If you want a breadth of industry publications physically delivered, I greatly recommend the Trade Journal Cooperative https://www.tradejournalcooperative.com/
There are fixes to this though.

Limit the time the tweet is editable, and postpone publishing tweets until that timer has run out.

Or show a history of what the post has looked like.
Debt liabilities are debt. Currency is not a debt liability.
Try to go to developer conferences on developing countries, or those unlucky ones not part of Gsomething, and those numbers will surely be others.
It's a common refrain that people get rich by providing value to others, and I used to think that way as well.

Unfortunately I don't think it really stands scrutiny.

First of all, there's no proper idea of what value is. It's a super deep conversation so I'll just leave that headline for now.

Second, even without a clear explanation of what value is, we can distinguish between value created and value captured. You can easily come up with cases where multiple people have done more or less the same thing but one guy gets more out of it than others. Is that the system we want?

Third, even without an explanation of what value is, we can see that there are people who provide no value but get paid a heck of a lot. Heirs, scam artists of various sorts. Not just straight give-you-nothing for something thieves, but also plenty of way overpaid people who live in the space between totally honest trading and totally dishonest thievery.
Nissan unveils prototype production facility for all-solid-state batteries
These are widely different tones and messages, if you have the other for context. Especially the bit about how “we’re still in control”. Seems obvious that a takeover is imminent.
> Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged.

The past few weeks?

The dude accused a rescue operations leader of being a pedophile after the leader said Musk's stupid giant box wouldn't fit through the passages in the cave. The one where people were having to take off their diving gear and push it through ahead of them because the passages in the caves were so tight.

Then there was a the "fuck California health code, I'm going to keep cranking out cars, who cares if my employees get sick and spread covid" thing a year or so ago.

Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at.

Etc.
He did that with money he already had, unless he somehow managed to turn a profit off a charity which would be a different concern
Developers of the world! Unite against the scrum lords!
Sleep until about 15 minutes before the first meeting. There's no sense bothering getting into work only to be interrupted by a meeting.

If it's a meeting-heavy day just resign yourself to the fact that you're not going to get anything done that day. So basically, you have to plan your sprints to be two days shorter than they actually are (or whatever, depending on your company's meeting schedule).

Adjust all your estimates accordingly. A 3 hour task will take all day when you factor in interruptions, meetings, and meeting fatigue, so estimate 8 hours for it.

Sigh heavily, and remind yourself that you couldn't possibly get more than 3 days work done in two weeks, under the circumstances. So what little you did is actually pretty good.
Success could be possible only if they also bought NeXT and replaces Scott McNealy with Steve Jobs.
if they didnt bring their drugs kn the plane, the probably took them just before getting on, and are high by the time the airplane is taking off or once its at altitude.
Yes, that was my first thought too. Not everything is a conspiracy or a mistake.
Yes but this is a discussion about ought, not is.
> The timeline of the posts, with an initial expected death by end of April, then extended to next winter then a sudden "routine scan" that brings to back to end of April feels odd to me.

It feels like an odd timeline on one hand but is also all too familiar in the context of cancer — uncertain prognosis followed by respites of hope dashed again without warning.
That’s right, the keyword enables additional operations, namely those that can’t be checked — which one might even call “unchecked operations” to justify the keyword.

My problem with the word “unsafe” is that many people seem to think unsafe code blocks necessarily have security issues. Hence the bullying of library authors even in cases where the authors did their homework.

Anything about the mechanics of the implementation is a second-order detail compared to that, as far as I’m concerned.
So many people are freaking out over Elon Musk's involvement in Twitter, but it's really not a big deal:

1. 10% is not enough to force the CEO to force the developers to implement obviously bad functionality. An edit button is a sensible thing, a button to delete the tweets of other people is obviously a bad thing. They aren't going to drop the 'w' from Twitter just because he says so. Get a grip on reality.

2. The suggestion of an edit button is a good idea, we're human and we make mistakes. The suggestion to put homeless people in Twitter's HQ is clearly a joke. Look at his other polls for context.

3. Elon Musk I believe could be fairly described as leaning right, in which case could really help to un-bias Twitter's heavily left demographic. This could be beneficial, i.e. bring back diversity of thought and opinion. Twitter is geared towards hot-takes, but that doesn't mean some important an interesting public debates don't happen in a handful of characters.

4. Twitter itself is somewhat irrelevant as a platform and its value is overstated, companies should stop using it to field product complaints and politicians should stop using it to engage voters. Most of your customer base are not there. If you're browsing it every day, you are in a _very_ small minority bubble. It doesn't represent the opinions or diversity of the world. Most Twitter users are American, young-ish and left leaning.
This entire comment is baseless ad-hominem and psychological speculation. It offers no useful point, and does nothing to advance the discourse.
I read that as a troll to bite back at Musk's humorous posts of the last couple of days.
True. However, there are two points worth making:

1. The purpose of many laws and regulations that support capitalism is to make it very difficult to capture value without creating it. (When compared to a world without these laws.)
2. It's generally much easier to capture value that you create than to capture value that others create.

The result is that there's a massive incentive to create value for others, and a great deal of rich people and organizations are creating value, even if it's not all of them.

IMO this is under-appreciated and taken for granted in the modern era, as if it couldn't be any other way.
That obviously doesn't make any sense.

Suppose you have more money than you need and want to be charitable, so you set up some terms under which you'll give some away. A scholarship fund, a shelter, whatever you like. You can set whatever criteria you want, because it's your money.

But then you could also use the criteria "the people who get this free tuition money and housing are your kids." Being able to do this, benefit their kids, is a primary motivator for parents to work to make more money.

And if you can give away the money to anyone you want three seconds before death, it makes no sense to say you can't sign a piece of paper to that effect at any point prior either.
I get so tired of comments like this, such low effort brain drainage..

Yes yes we know the glorious Soviet society that was the pinnacle of fair and just.

It's almost like justice and rule of law are separated from the economy and wealth. "But it is not so" - well it should be so, don't ask for further coupling of economic systems.

For law and justice to be fair, liberties need to be given. Not taken.
> But in accordance with what quite a lot of other Ukranians wanted, voted for and worked for for a long time.

Nope, the rejection of Eu did not had that much support. Trying to frame these two groups as equivalent in standing is a lie. And also, Americans did not made 10000 people to protest either.

> they wisely decided on neutrality and have been living with that peacefully for hundreds of years, staying out of many wars involving some or all of their neighbors.

This is nonsense. Neutrality means exactly what is happening now - large scale invasion from Russia. Anti-Ukrainien sentiment was there for being actively build up in Russia for years. Russia don't want to Ukrainien neutrality. They want to eliminate Ukraine all together. And there is no way you dont know it at this point.

And the debate here is about EU not even nato.

Also, real neutrality would required that there is no meddling from Russia either, that Russia wont try to impose own will on Ukraine. Wont try to put own puppets into government. Wont try to turn Ukraine into autocracy like Belarus. It would also required Russia to abandon imperialistic ideology, abandon the "we will suppress Ukrainian language and identity again" plans too.

This war is not about west. This war is about Russia.

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For that matter, Finland seems to be rethinking neutrality too now. Just one more data point about how "neutrality" is not looking "wise" now. It is either "naive", "attempt at dishonest framing" or "I want Russia to annex Ukraine, actually".
I used the Jelly 2 for 6 months https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2

Highly recommend it for people who want to get a smartphone break. It's a "proper" android with maps, google pay and surprisingly all apps run on it. But the small size of the screen (and the keyboard) somehow does not emit dopamine when casual/mindless browsing and the urge to check things quickly disappears like if you don't have a smartphone in your pocket. Yet it's sufficient for all the apps and features if you need them occassionally.

I switched back to an iphone after moving to a city where i have to use a smartphone a lot more for uber, food, maps, payments and entertainment for long commutes.
If you think euthanasia is like abortion you're already contributing to the slippery slope by conflating different situations, but hey nuance has never been HN's strong suit.

"It’s not your business to determine whether or not a person should live.", as a member of society it sure as hell is. If some woman is suffering from post-partum depression (highly treatable) it's societies responsibility that she get proper treatment and not support for killing herself.
For the silicon chip industry, the Linley Group’s Microprocessor Report [1] is amazing. I know of no better resource for high-end chip news. Here’s a bunch of cut down sample articles [2] and one actual one [3]

[1] https://www.linleygroup.com/mpr/

[2] https://www.linleygroup.com/sample.php

[3] https://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/55972/220401_Reprint.pdf
If the FBI is considering busting down your door, they do not have the wrong person.
If you’re dead you don’t get to make decisions anymore. These sorts of arguments would have more weight if the parents actually transferred the wealth earlier than their death or shortly before it, but they want to retain all the power that comes with that capital and then pick the winners in the next round of the economy by bequeathing it to their children.

If we want any sort of system even approaching a meritocracy then you should not be able to will away such vast estates that people can control entire companies or never work again a day in their life solely off the inherited assets
The Mac laptop has gone back and forth being the top laptop manufacturer in the world. It’s currently third but has been 2nd and first. It’s always been the most profitable.

I don’t even like apple but you are so incredibly wrong it’s laughable. This might have been true 20 years ago but dude. Apple is huge and it’s personal computing is huge too.
More like him criticizing the company and promising features was a deal breaker for Twitter's board and investors, and they have the power to tell him to fuck off.

Elon's lived in a fantasy land for years thanks to the Tesla board and investors letting him do whatever he wants.
I always read the article and then I most of the times also read other articles on the site linked before I return to HN