skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I swear. What happened here? Like why do things feel sluggish than software over 20 years ago? I just can't wrap my mind around it. We have SSDs and infinite CPU and RAM now compared to those days, yet there is always this feeling the computer is doing something more than I asked for behind the scenes. Even on websites, you can feel when you click on a link, it is doing something more. It's a very uncomfortable feeling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30875539
> isn't the quality of life much worse?

I can't speak about India, but I am a Romanian who worked in Austria, and when coming back, I noticed the infrastructure is lacking, especially public transport.

Still, with my savings and investments, my quality of life is much better than a typical Romanian's, though not quite on par with Austria's.
I strongly disagree. For me, the Grand Canyon remains the most awe-inspiring thing I have ever seen.
Yet thanks to the shipping container our general levels of consumption have never been so high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Eternal forced scrolling "powerpoint" HTML slide-show? No, thank you. I have stopped after 3 pages. What is the point of doing this?

Designers, who think that this is a good idea to waste people's time like this, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near computers.
Exactly! It’s wild to me that so many people here seem to think of it as a permission grant, like they’re upset their wife hasn’t added them to sudoers or something. “How dare I not have admin rights to our life” feels like the tone of the majority of comments in this subtree.

It was just surprising.
Basically my feeling about GPT-3 (or was it 2?) when it "released", except with a low weight for the prank possibility.
This is not true. The multiplier is at best 2-3x right now. Given the order of magnitude difference in living expenses this is insane.
Anybody who places a value on human life has every right to be frustrated by the current situation and every right to be outraged at the US' behaviour over the last 3 decades.
Same way you keep your kid from telling all the other kids that god isn't real.

If you don't make a big deal about Santa, it won't be a big deal to them, and when they ask about him, you can say 'some people believe Santa is a nice guy that's totally not creepy and somehow delivers presents to all the children' or whatever. And you may likely have already had similar conversations about religion and how it's respectful to let people believe what they want about things like that.

Of course, if you push Santa hard, and they're a fact oriented kid, when they find out the facts, it's going to be a big deal, and they're going to want to tell their friends about it. You won't know if they're fact oriented before you decide to push Santa though.
My name is not nobody, Mr burr.

I have been using it for email and calendar for many years. Don't wanna call you names but your contribution here calls for it
I'm still scared every time I use rsync because of that and have to thoroughly check the man-page examples :)
Small kids sometimes have random temporary preferences they make big deal of. Pretty often uncoprehensible.
Success for a blog? How you measure it? IMVHO a blog, witch these days and in the past one also, despite the name, is a mean to share knowledge, ideas to the public. I've learnt many things from countless small posts around the web, I contribute to some, that's a kind of "knowledge FLOSS" that share docs instead of code.

If you run it for the ads revenue is the measure of the success, otherwise just ignore metrics: a good website about high energy physics surely get far many visitors than one about sport or beauty stuff, and that's does not means it's unsuccessful. A personal website/blog is something you do if you like, not a job, if you like sharing things with anyone than you do it, otherwise you do not.

About knowledge sharing and discussions: often you might form an idea, something you think it's nice and correct, than try to put it down to teach it to others makes questions, corners arise and help yourself correcting the original aim, similarly other people's opinions, comments, help improve. That's the same mechanism of publishing FLOSS software, something low cost for the publisher, good for us humans, that pay back well if others share similar needs and desire, witch is moderately easy to happen since while we are all unique individuals we are also all very similar and even if anyone have a different life most of them are very similar at least for many aspects.

Reasons are the same of reasons why we have invented the concept of society, we choose to live together or at least near other humans etc. The same reasons for aggregation, scale, network economy.

The web help fix and share things for a vast community, the network and aggregation effect transcends the geographical and social distances and in some cases also language distances. A personal website is a personal web corner, our public face toward a virtual community. If we like being social animals we do that, more or less, expressing what we like.
I visited Persepolis several times. Saw lots of images and illustrations, but this one is the coolest. Thank you.
This seems a meaningless comparison unless we know what is actually done in these factories vs what is sourced. Diess is known for pushing his staff by doing all sorts of benchmarks
People are different. You find working quietly freeing, I find working in dialog with others exhilarating.

A straw man of your post is: “Blogging is irrational for everybody”, for which there are many counter points in these comments.

But I actually agree with a moderated version: “Blogging isn’t worth the time for me and many others”. You don’t enjoy the process, you’re not looking for even local fame, and you have better things to do. Great introspection! A functional society needs all kinds.
If you are developing against a supposed implementation, rather than the published interface, you are wrong. rand is not the culprit, newlib is not the culprit: you are.

You don't want to use malloc? Don't have malloc.
I'm the exact opposite of an expert in this but cell age and organism age are completely different things, right?
~1x memory looks like just reading the entire file into RAM (that would still be slow).

It's worth keeping in mind that typical CPUs from the past few years to today have memory bandwidths of several GB/s. Disks have sequential read speeds of ~100MB/s; SSDs can easily do 1GB/s and above.
Yes but no: On a zoning level it is allowed, but on an actual lot-by-lot level you'll probably get blocked by complaints https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-a...

In addition, you can't build anything that's so tall it would block people's view of the mountain backdrop ( https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/protecting-va... ). Vancouver has it's priorities straight, and it's more important to have scenic views from existing housing, than building new housing
This week in KDE: a feast for the eyes
Yes, Github is blocked in China
Interesting, what made you switch from spreadsheet to Quicken?
>So why should I trust them less than my distribution?

Just use google -> npm malware
US taxpayers unknowingly paid millions to get Starlink terminals to Ukraine
https://archive.ph/8oP3I
They certainly have preferences in blood type.

How would they know your blood type before biting you?
Interesting, is there a reasokn why you picked the txt format more than another format?
I keep thinking something must be "wrong" with my scrollwheel, as all those experiences are super annoying but keep getting published by some people. I think it's not as bad if you're on a Mac or something. Anyway, I agree, it's just bad ux
I don't recall lying to mine either (7 and 10). I'm not dogmatic about it, so I expect I have on occasion, but I certainly don't make a habit of it, and I cringe at the kind of casual lying I hear a lot of parents doing. That said, some information is definitely too heavy for young children, so I will demur or omit details when I feel it's necessary.
> Mom? Are you planning a surprise party for me for my birthday?

How would you feel if you did have a suprise party? / No, but would you like me too? / No, but would that be ok for a future birthday?

What do you think I would tell you if you asked me that and I was planning a surprise party? Or if I wasn't?

You don't have to answer all their questions. Personally, I'd say, no, I don't like surprise parties, so I'm not going to plan one for someone, but for the sake of argument, I'll pretend I might.
To add to this, this is usually explicitly forbidden by most affiliate programs.
Doesn't work at all on latest Chrome on Android.
But it doesn't. That's different for neural networks : there is no pre-made algorithm that someone would implement (well, except for the overall architecture, but that's not what we are talking about).
Ask HN: Why music copyright violation is more concerning than video or image?
I was doing some research on the Digital Assets NFT angle and saw that there are projects just talking about the copyright violation of Music not much of Movies or Digital drawings per se. Is there any technical reason to it or am I missing something?
Yes, there are algorithms to estimate the room impulse response from speakers and a microphone.
Funny but unfortunately true. The big market for bloggers will rarely be professionals delving into advanced topics (that's what research papers and conference talks are for), it's for the fledgling who is kinda interested and will dabble for a few weeks before inevitably quitting for some other venture.

That's pretty much why many specialized parts of tech have this massive dirth of intermediate content out there that bridges the gap between "how to color a button" and "2D Shape Rendering by Distance Fields".
Tumblr and Twitter NSFW will not be the same after this. Like this is pure cocaine for porn addicts
...which apparently results in a thirty-two megabyte text editor.
There are cheap high-density areas and expensive low-density areas. According to your and that blogpost's logic, Silicon Valley's high housing prices in single-family neighborhoods and the fact that people want to move there are proof that people ACTUALLY want a suburban lifestyle, not an urban one.

Looking at where people live and where they want to live is a better source of their actual preferences than looking at housing prices in a handful of expensive neighborhoods and guessing what the average person wants.
All Hail the Experts
And honestly some of the best food in this country is found in these strip malls. This humble strip mall of a half dozen restaurants contains some of the best Thai food in the world (1). If you've ever heard of the chef Jet Tila, this very strip mall is his formative ground.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1018633,-118.3056169,3a,75y,...
That's a good reminder for developers in particular to AVOID being tied to any platform and being spread in multiple countries to remain free if one contry decide something against another hitting also innocents in the middle (think for instance about sizing of private citizens assets in case of war, some might have a role, others not at all but all are hit and that's not a new thing).

Nothing wrong in using a free code hosting just to host code, many things are disasters waiting to happening depending on their infra for development.

For citizens it's the same: we have countless of example of "suspended accounts" not ONLY for government requests, using BUT not depending on any specific third party is good, depending is a threat. Or the classic: using but not depending is free market, depending is monopoly etc.
This is the right answer.

People who continue to say “expat” will justify it by saying “oh, they don’t plan to stay in the country long term”. But you can’t possibly know what a persons long term plans are just by looking at them. You can’t even tell with certainty if they came from a poor country or a rich one. All you can see is their skin colour. That’s what people base the “expat” tag on.

Sincerely, an immigrant.
> Also, my three year old loves Santa. It makes xmas more magical for her.

You just proved POV from previous comment. Lie/myth of Santa beheads some more lie/myth about religion. And I do not think this is the last item in the train of lie.
https://indieweb.org/POSSE#Why
Especially when it comes to numbers!

The other day I asked for direction at a front desk and the lady told me to go to the office # "trente quatre vingt", I wasn't sure whether that was "3420" or "3080".
Though according to caniuse, beacons is fully implemented which has much the same effect from a tracking PoV.

As a side note, I was somehow completely unaware of that feature (and I don't think in a "heard about it and forgot" sort of way). Every day is a school day...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30966197
Then why is he making ~$500k/yr?
This only really applies to a few developing countries, though. I actually think it only really applies to India.

When you're creating products for developing countries, you have to build for a certain market. The one in India is enormous and prosperity is increasing (although the pandemic has been a setback, yes).
Good for you but there’s no real advantage professionally in moving back, but no disadvantage either. Sure you’re saying H1B restricts but does it really? Have you truly explored all immigration options? Or did you just balk at all the extra beauracracy and said I’ll go back to india? Which is fine, but do note the irony of moving to india to avoid bureaucracy lol. Apply and do your GST, run between five different branches of the same govt entity for a permit and then tell me you have reduced your bureaucratic burden.

There’s a nice shiny shell of Indian startups now for sure, but the fundamental rotten core of Indian magistration is still there. There are smart people but for every smart cookie that didn’t leave the country there are 5 charlatans demanding the same salary now. Pretty much every successful startup in India is massively building on top of cheap slave labor / bad tech regulation / gambling. VCs are pouring money here because where else can they go? China? Middle East? How long will it last? Who knows.

Not saying india is not going to be successful, but to bet on it’s success over the same industry in the US is at best speculation.

Now coming to the society disadvantages, viz. the pollution and water scarcity, abject inequality in your face, and my god let’s not start on the safety of women (my partner said she will never bring a girl child up in india and i incline to agree). The last point is in particular interesting because only naive people have shrugged it off to my face till now. If you are a guy (or worse a girl) who insists it’s not that bad in india, then you grew up with extreme privilege or are extremely clueless about realities of life in this country. Anyways choose away but don’t for a second suggest this is somehow better.
Emulating the CPU of those newer consoles would be quite slow. The practical approach would be a translation layer like Wine with many application-specific patches. The translation layer for the graphics would involve a lot of reverse engineering.
Is there a way to search for products without falling for ads or marketing in general?

Even if I use an ad blocker, all the results are dominated by SEO spam. You can go and search Reddit to try and find honest recommendations, but companies are starting to spam that as well.

Searching directly on Amazon is pointless because they prioritise their margins above all else and show you the crappiest products that make them the most money.

For electronics I use a https://geizhals.at -- it's theoretically a price comparison site, but it has a great parametric search which is the best for finding electronics.

But for general purpose stuff I'm really struggling.
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Depends on which ones, though. And there has been a ton of investment in public transit systems, so its likely going to be a very different place after all these systems are built out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKcendj7TNM
This post is me reciting rumors about what I've heard of how things worked and how things played out. I'm not sure that I'm a good source for an article and I can't really officially confirm anything, even if I know it to be correct.

Your best option is probably to email virtual interview questions to Tom Ammermann, the CEO of https://newaudiotechnology.com/ He's a great guy, Granny-nominated sound engineer, and has been working on 3D sound with all those technologies for a long time.
100% of people asked answer surveys. They're perfectly reliable.
Does anyone know why the reentrancy layer needed malloc in the first place? I didn't understand that part.
Yes and no. They have patterns to create IQ tests, and those patterns change less frequently.
Every time I use one of the --delete/--delete-* arguments I first try with --dry-run since I don't trust myself that I got the trailing slashes in the right spot.
3k unique visitors per 10 hours
I've recently had to copy a bunch of files over two Windows Servers and was pleasantly surprised by robocopy's (basically Windows' rsync) solution to this dilemma: the first two parameters always only refer to directories, and then you can list specific files starting with the third parameter.

This way there can be no confusion whether you're copying the contents of a directory or the whole directory, and you can't create a duplicated directory within your destination by mistake.
The two lines should be swapped.
Quality of life is actually pretty great in India once you pass a certain income threshold. I would argue that its higher in certain aspects especially if your family is back there.
If you happen to be a game dev, just add "simulator" to the end of the phrase.

Prominent recent example: "space warlord organ trading simulator" :)
I think it was good in this case. They wanted to present a guided tour. May be they could have added buttons but this journey was nice overall.
> The wondrous ruins of Hampi are just a train ride away. Then there's the UNESCO protected majestic western ghats few hours away, and not to mention the pristing beaches of Malpe and Udupi

I agree, there are certainly amazing places to sight-see but I am largely referring to activities like rock climbing gyms (https://www.youtube.com/c/magmidt88), archery, horse riding, accessible national parks and a more extensive board games culture (surprisingly Hyderabad has 2 active clubs)

The Indian society would cast you as an extremely privileged person if you were to bring this up and rightly so, since most people here are trying to live a life first.

I understand that it may not be what everyone wants and this is personal to what I prefer. I would like to be in a place with a better infrastructure (trains), schools and with access to more recreational activities.
There isn't a recipe for this. Use common sense and empathy.

When a 6 year old asks you about sex there are limits and a context to their curiosity. Usually there's some particular unresolved question in their mind that can be answered truthfully without going into things they're not ready for. You need to understand their mental state.

You don't need to pull down an anatomical chart and start talking about sperm. You don't need to clam up and lie or give them the impression the whole thing is an inimaginable eldritch nightmare. You just need to answer the question.

(Source: Bringing up kids, since these are the only sorts of questions parents have some special insight into.)
The closest we have from that is the cosmic microwave background I believe.

Here's the picture https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/im...
I would love such a feature too. currently I have to either add a ton of identities or do a lot of unnecessary manual copy and pasting.

AFAIK, you can edit the from field for fresh emails, when using the user-defined-from-option below your identities. Nevertheless, when you have a conversation, it would be much easier if there would be an option to use the recipients address.
You will already need to handle the case when you don't get the last request, because there are more ways the user can just vanish on you: suspending the computer, killing the browser process, crashing the browser, turning off WiFi or going out of range, etc, etc.

The best you can hope for is a "happy path" where you can clear up a little sooner in most cases, but you can't rely on it.

If a user being on a webpage is holding open a resource, that might be an architectural issue.
Then you "just" have to use one of the formal proof languages and then verify the program ?

Also, "decide how to lend to someone" is an interesting example, since it will always involve quite a bit of intuition even with a program helper (which won't be able to use a neural network due to transparency requirements).
He interviewed as an engineering manager, his job will be probably people management, hiring and moving tickets around. Do engineering managers in meta do any technical work in order to require lc mindset? What 6 month experience do you expect from an new joiner engineering manager other that attending meetings and get to know the projects in high level and what do you expect to see in these interviews through lc questions?
[meta/feedback on the website]

reader-view doesn't show the images, and for me the webdesign is too hostile to read the content without reader-mode.

Please don't build websites that are attention-expensive to consume, everything about it is terrible.

If your content is text, ship it on a neutral background, everything else is not acceptable.
> For instance, almost every website has a thing where if you enter in a wrong username OR wrong password it’ll tell you that you got one wrong, but not tell you which one. This is good for security because you can’t use the information to figure out usernames, but it is a GIANT pain in the ass for people like me who can’t remember which username they registered under. So if you don’t actually care about exposing usernames (maybe on something like a forum or Pinterest where they’re public anyway), consider revealing the information to make it more convenient for users.

YES! Such a pain in the arse for a tiny theoretical unimportant security benefit. In some situations it is warranted, e.g. dating sites. For something like Amazon or Wikipedia who cares if you know that I've registered there?
What do you think the compiler should be doing differently? Is there’s no FPU support then what is the alternative?
Yes, and pretty much any truck of any size
Pink Floyd single after 28 years supporting Ukraine
> It never resolves to clean when the camera's still

Perhaps it just doesn't stack the renders - if it did, changing view would decrease the image quality back to low samples, maybe that's the reason...
I know it's offtopic, but adding perf probes to glibc's malloc in a running system was quite revealing:
- qsort calls malloc - and qsort is used a lot in glibc internal functions such as gethostbybame so... Yeah.
- snprintf can call malloc too

I'm sure I'm not finished discovering fun stuff.
As someone who knows the basics of driver automation software - I would love an in-depth breakdown from an expert on the topic of aircraft pilot automation.

I'd imagine there would be a many-decade long period of overlap where pilots would observe the plane flying before the plane can fly solo.
I think a video content would also be amazing or a virtual reality. A video game experience even in web would be nice too. I find that the scroll experience was hard to use. But the idea is pretty amazing
> But yes, I do think it's good to indulge a child's curiosity.

My mother indulging my curiosity is precisely why I am who I am today. She's told me that my most frequent word was why. That voracious thirst for knowledge and understanding shaped me into the scientist that I am, and we certainly need more scientists if we are to solve the pressing issues of our society.