skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never.

Intelligent life bypasses Kardashev's milestones. If people really wanted to consume a lot of energy they'd disassemble Ceres and build a small megastructure. (Small compared to Niven's Ringworld)

https://www.livescience.com/megasatellite-colony-ceres-oneil...

similarly the Dyson sphere is an unrealistic goal (not enough mass in the inner solar system)
Not about vanlife. It’s the chronicle of an anxious person who shouldn’t have a driver’s license.
Fair point. I don’t spend much of my time on middlewares - write once, use forever - but we do have pretty nested and layered architectures between the user-level handler and what it’s ultimately doing. That’s where it’s painful to thread the errors through.
I don't think it is, or the quick fix the owner made is not working.

There appears to be a database collision.

If I search "Birmingham" the search tool returns a list including "Birmingham, UK" and "Birmingham, AL, USA" but choosing Birmingham, UK goes to https://workmode.co/birmingham which shows the map for Birmingham, AL, USA.

Maybe they could add short alphanum strings to the URLs to disambiguate (eg /Birmingham-D4F7A) or make each place it's own alphanum strings and add the name as an extra part that ultimately isn't needed (eg example.com/D4F7A/Birmingham).

I guess this is a solved problem but I don't know of a town level global naming scheme?
Payment system for tomorrow: Frictionless, sustainable, low-cost and scalable
Look I’ve designed electronics for big corp; if you used the internet 99-2004, parts I designed probably switched your packets, or boosted signal.

You’re trying to predict your future. No one here can help with that.

You know your philosophical constraints. Hardware across vendors fails at largely the same rate due to normalized manufacture and sourcing patterns now. It all comes from the same few parts bins pretty much. The key specs are listed on each site.

Reality is you have roughly the same risk of getting a lemon or finding a laundry list of nitpicks with any choice.
What then is the point of the article? To tout something implemented by another administration? I haven't been employed by the taxpayers so who cares?
> The pressure is on being educated enough to be polite with the people you discourse with.

Oh I'm well aware of the PC rules, I disagree with them. They have nothing to do with being polite or educated.

> I do not know how we can meet in the middle ground since you believe that using accurate words to describe people is censor.

Most of the time the PC words are not accurate at all. They are confusing to everyone involved, by design.

> Since it is within your control and you can choose to use any word you want (as long as you are fine with the repercussions), this is not censor. You can absolutely call anyone by any word you want.

This is why I said self censor, you're bullying people to conform to your silly rules.

> That said, refusing to expand your vocabulary will diminish the range of you thoughts. Keeping with the previous example, calling two different and unassociated tribes by the same name will prevent you from learning about them separately.

Oh I know your PC words and my thoughts are expansive. I just disagree with the entire premise.

I call Inuits as such, if I've ever referenced them? I don't think I've even used the word Eskimo ever before, as it just doesn't come up.
Yah, I thought that was clear. But if you get one of the machines with 4G soldered, your basically limited to 1/2 the full capacity of the hardware (36G vs 64G IIRC).

edit: Its actually 20-24G max according to the spec sheet, compared with my similar age cheepe dell which does 32G because it has two dimm slots so I have a pair of 16G dimms in it.
> Malicious outcomes in the real world, obviously this is different.

I definitely agree with you on this point. If someone looked in my window from the street and saw me eating breakfast, no harm no foul. If I didn't want them to see me I should have closed the blinds. But if someone sets up a camera at the exact same spot and streams it to twitch, I feel like I should have some recourse. (I don't think, legally, I would, but ianal).
Sorry again, it supports up to 3 wich is actually fine for a laptop.
The 13 inch mbpro only supports 1. That's not fine. That's not entry level.
I think people forget quite how long the population tail in Africa is and people also forget that malaria used to be endemic to Europe.
The weakest link in this setup is your current internet. I've found while traveling, internet is generally pretty bad under, 10Mbs. Making this a rather difficult task. American view.

At home, my "laptop" is a dumb terminal that docks to my desk monitors. But computes to servers in the closet.

At my families who have (150:down/10:up)Mbs it was no different from being at home. I connected over wire guard. I even took my zoom/client calls in vms over rdp. Passing my webcam from my local laptop -> wire guard -> server. I also used parsed to stream gaming from home.

Conversely, I was at an Airbnb recently with (5/0.512)Mbs DSL. It was a real chore. For the internet black hole, I've opted to go for a SFFpc instead. That can fit into checked baggage or carry on. Even if I can't setup a monitor and keyboard at the airbnb hotel. Having both off in lodging wifi is suitable enough.
Oh, Amazon remade Utopia stateside and it was just rubbish next to the BBC series
> The researchers came across this entirely by accident, and one of the questions that remains is how the trout is able to sense its surroundings well enough to intentionally take advantage of the effect.

Should have been:

The researchers came across this entirely by accident, and one of the questions that remains is how ignorant we are about some of the most basic aspects of the world.
Yes! It was actually a plot point in Better Call Saul season 4 that an engineer on a covert underground project violated OpSec by talking about it about it a bar, which prompted a ton of interest and follow up questions.
Fair point. You would need to spend quite a bit more on a comparable PC if buying new. However, the breath of applications and interchangeability of the PC may render the price point moot.

For example, I just changed the notebook graphics card on a refurbished HP ZBook... I paid $275 for a Gen 3 and upgraded the Graphics card for another $350. It was a lot easier than I thought and this computer is a beast.
Ah finally -- the crossover between Reddit and HN. I knew I would live to see this day.
At first this seems logical: solve the existing probleme on Earth, and only then devote resources to 'nice to have' projects. The counter arguments are:

The money saved would probably not go to solving real problems (who gets to decide what problems are real?), but rather various politically favored boondoggles or just politicians' salaries

It's relatively small chnage compared to other budget items

space is a major driver of technological advance which can then be used on Earth

space has the potential for enormous economic growth (admittedly this is a long term thing)
It is that hyperreal that Baudrillard and Eco warned you about.
peeps sitting for hours taking up a plug + wifi in exchange for ~£$4. Hugely uneconomical for independents.

It's only uneconomical if enough potential customers leave because they can't sit down or I guess if they use a ton of power. Business Internet is not usage based, right? and you're buying that anyway...

One place near me instituted a "co working packages" which you were expected to pay a certain fee and that got you drinks, maybe a pastry and let you sit down for some amount of time.

I would go in there for a pastry from time to time and the place sometimes had one or two people on laptops in there, and had plenty of seats both before and after having this co-working policy. It's not a surprise, there are tons of cafes in walking distance and this was the only one that cared about charging people to sit there. They were all pretty similarly not at capacity regardless of "scarcities".

Then there's the cost of enforcement - what happens if someone causes a scene and doesn't want to leave? You have to pay staff for that that you might not have to otherwise. Same with software tracking minutes of wifi used.
I would wager that the post is not genuine. I'm surprised something like this would get so many votes on HN.
Even in Rust, mapping memory between processes, or via files between past and future processes, happens. Although structure-blasting is frowned upon in some circles, it is very fast where allowed.

But... when you are structure-blasting, you are probably also already paying generous attention to layout issues.
The real solution is to stop figleafing the problem and have the government handle all aspects of the loans directly without the involvement of any banks.

The government already has a large department of the Treasury that handles this kind of thing.
As many liberal policy wonks (not a pejorative) will point out: the American people love their welfare benefits! A common claim is that "A majority of Americans support $POLICY! It polls so well!", wherein $POLICY is broadly a sub-component of "welfare state". I sometimes hear it said with an undertone of exasperation: Why can't policies that are so self-evidently popular get enacted into law?

The challenge isn't getting people to say "Yes" when you ask them "Hey do you want all of this great stuff?" That already happens, per the above popularity of individual benefits.

The challenge is getting people to say "Yes" when you ask them "Hey do you want to pay for the government to give you all of this great stuff?" Those two details: higher taxes and government administration, are what erode support for these policies.

The median US citizen believes that "government run" is a synonym for any of dozen negative adjectives: wasteful, won't work, abused by the rich, bureaucratic, untrustworthy, and so on. Are those true or false in any given instance? Would a private sector alternative would avoid those negatives? The specifics do not matter when people are acting on deeply-entrenched, life-long perceptions.

As for why that perception came to be? That would be a historical thesis of its own, and might be tangential to your question.
"Fix" how exactly? I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting.
I grew up in Bulgaria, but my experience as a kid (80s-90s) seems like similar to what my (future) boss (in Los Angeles) when he was growing up in SF Valley (60s-70s) - get on the bike, go places, school, etc.

We had much smaller amount of cars. For one we had these self-made wood carts with ball-bearings as "tires", and we would slide with them on the streets while other cars were driving. Ok, not on the main street, but somewhere on a hill. If I get bloodied, my gramma would be - yaaah it's fine. Go to the doctor (by myself, 2nd grade) and get tetanous shot (I vividly remember this when I stepped on a rusty nail). They were still worried, but I guess due to lack of phones (even land line wasn't covered well), that's the best they can do.

One day, I was 4, maybe 5, me and my cousin (year older) decided (well it was my decision apparently, lol) that we need our plastic toy truck from my grandparents, and decided to take it. So we took off from a small city (Tzhernomortez) nearby my home city (Burgas) - and decide to walk it - I haven't checked - but the distance is 20-30km. So we walk, put some signs down, ate some really bad grassy looking thing, a bus of janitors/workers picked us up and left us somewhere, so probably from 9:00AM somewhere to 2, 3pm was our "trip". And we end up knocking on my grandparents door - we need our truck! :) - Well, yes everyone was spooked (normal), but that was it. It was later just told as funny story. Now many years later, in US, with my son (~15 soon) I'm still spooked where he goes, we have the tracker (he's okay with it) and track each other in case something happens. I wish I had less available information...

But also the streets in the US, even in neighbourhoods where people live, not work are just too damn wide :) - and cars, while observing most of the time the speed limits, when comes traffic time and they look for shortcuts, some of them go way too fast (and yes, I probably did the same in other places, when in a hurry). We had our neighbour's two dogs killed, because someone was swerving too fast, where you should slow down to a crawl really.

But it is, what it is.
> As soon as you can adequately explain why there are people that are vehemently anti-Apple, you will have the answer to this question.

Oh, oh! I know this one.

Apple's devices are extremely closed. This is antithetical to the spirit of personal computing. But this is only one component: what ultimately pushes Apple to generate an anti-Apple crowd is the combination of them being a closed platform, them using every dirty trick in the book to suck users into their closed ecosystem, and them being extremely successful at it.

Want to make an iOS app? Buy a Mac. No, not an old Mac, a new one.

Want to send proper messages to an iPhone user? Get an iPhone. Or convince them to install Signal. (I'll wait! LOL.)

Want to make a video call to an iPhone user? Get an iPhone. (Or ask them to install Duo, haha!)

Want to install Mac OS? Buy our hardware.

None of this would matter so much if we were talking about coffee makers. But we're talking about personal computing, a very central component of our nerd lives. If you're a youngster you're probably happy with occasional hardware replacement and messes of dongles, but for many of us our computing experiences are rooted in opening up the box and switching the guts around, or booting different software on the box, and we don't especially appreciate having to constantly battle the hardware vendor to make this happen.

Apple products seem to be very high-quality. But that's not really the point.
Most British thing ever said and it's not by a Brit
If you want a black substance high in minerals to add to your food, I highly recommend molasses.

Molasses are good for preventing anemia in meat poor diets (such as peasants), which is likely why it was historically common in recipes. Once upon a time there was a similar substance from sugar beets but that has largely fallen out of use.
"As a company we take a lot of pride in helping developers"

Oh really? You: commoditize humans by reducing them to a score, you: destroy their public contributions

Sounds like you're a pretty terrible dev advocate. You should be ashamed to show your username and affiliation on HN.
:(

The backend should normally fetch data from APIs if no results can be found. Temporarily disabled due to HN's traffic slowing down the website a lot.

Sorry for that.
Reminds me of this Veritasium video were a wind powered car accelerates into the direction of the wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
what is the resistance to a welfare state

America is a welfare state. If you truly can't afford to go to college, the government will pay for you to go. Look up FAFSA.

If you can't afford medical care, the government will provide it for you. Look up Medicaid.

People pay into Social Security for Retirement, Social Security Disability if you get disabled, Medicare is universal healthcare for anyone 65 or older. Affordable Care Act subsidizes healthcare for anyone else that can't afford it.

I could go on and on and on. There is no black and white - we are just another shade of gray out there.
We know for a fact that pedophiles, kidnappers, and murders exist. I think we just always thought we could sniff them out by knowing our community. That was probably a false sense of security all along. Now we mostly live in communities too plentiful to know everyone so our fear is unchecked.
Yes but Framework does not support selling to businesses yet and, thus, can't create an invoice. Maybe this is an important point to some.
Twitter, the Blockchain Business Model, and the Innovator's Dilemma
> The absolutism towards […]

> I'll tell you that both extremes are incorrect.

Being extreme or not have little bearing on an opinion being correct. Some opinions, such as "murder is bad", are both extreme (they suffer very few exceptions), and correct.

And it happens quite often that the most informed opinions also happen to be the most extreme. And as far as I can tell, this seems to be the case for crypto currencies: the more I look at them, the more I think they cannot be redeemed: to date, I have seen no problem that is best solved by a blockchain, and I increasingly doubt there ever will be.

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> Not all cryptocurrency projects are scams

I can believe that. However, I do believe that all crypto currencies, without even a single exception, are a net bad for the world. If we restrict that to proof-of-waste crypto currencies, that belief is a near certainty.

Long story short, it seems that in practice, all crypto currencies eventually devolve into a pyramid scheme. They're also used as an actual currency, but their volatility is such that it's not very practical to begin with, and that use is so marginal compared to "investment" that the financial freedom gained by people who actually need it is outweighed by the harmful side effects of the pyramid. (We ruin more people than we save.)

Add proof of work (or space-time, or whatever scarce resource you can think of), and you end up with a massive waste of resources on top of that. A waste so massive in fact that it manages to influence electronics prices around the world, not to mention the energy consumption of the Bitcoin network alone, in a world that really really needs to reduce its CO2 emissions. Like right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Sixth_Assessment_Report

They may not be all scams, but as far as I can tell all honest attempts are doomed to fail.
> usually comes from relatively wealthy people in stable countries whose idea about "poor people" comes from watching a Netflix overproduced dramatic documentary.

Ok, I was born in Brazil and I experienced 40% per month inflation in the 80s and I saw a government confiscating everyone's saving accounts as part of a "economic plan". I also saw another government putting a tax of 0.38% on every financial transfer (does not seem like much until you think of all the cascading effects) and I can tell you how little of all those taxes came back to the people in the form of public services.

Are you satisfied with my credentials or are you going to continue with the gatekeeping?

> web3 is more unstable and volatile

If you are talking about Bitcoin (or crypto currencies in general given how BTC unfortunately still makes its own gravity in the crypto market), I will 100% agree with you. But web3 does not need Bitcoin to exist.
is there any tech product that could alarm you about forgetting a child or a pet in the car. I know that you should use your brain for that but just a precaution and out of curiosity.
That's true. They are similar in that they enforce consistency, but yes one takes resources in the steady state.
FaceTime Users Bombarded by Group Call Spam and Apple Can’t Stop It
> I've never seen a developer with a macbook in my country. The idea sounds absurd.

What country is that?
Pond turtles are considered fish and live fish is not available to bring on embark. Since the only source for shells is fishing it is somewhat common to mod the game to make shell acquisition easier, you might have had one of those running.
> LLVM history: Back then we recognized some really interesting benchmarks and we didn’t recall anybody trying to really benchmark sorts on different data patterns for standard libraries.

Timsort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort :

> In the worst case, Timsort takes O(n log n) comparisons to sort an array of n elements. In the best case, which occurs when the input is already sorted, it runs in linear time, meaning that it is an adaptive sorting algorithm. [3]

> It is advantageous over Quicksort for sorting object references or pointers because these require expensive memory indirection to access data and perform comparisons and Quicksort's cache coherence benefits are greatly reduced. [...]

> Timsort has been Python's standard sorting algorithm since version 2.3 [~2002]. It is also used to sort arrays of non-primitive type in Java SE 7,[4] on the Android platform,[5] in GNU Octave,[6] on V8,[7] Swift,[8] and Rust.[9]

Sorting algorithm > Comparison of algorithms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Comparison_o...

Schwartzian transform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_transform :

> In Python 2.4 and above, both the sorted() function and the in-place list.sort() method take a key= parameter that allows the user to provide a "key function" (like foo in the examples above). In Python 3 and above, use of the key function is the only way to specify a custom sort order (the previously supported cmp= parameter that allowed the user to provide a "comparison function" was removed). Before Python 2.4, developers would use the lisp-originated decorate–sort–undecorate (DSU) idiom,[2] usually by wrapping the objects in a (sortkey, object) tuple

Big-O Cheatsheet
https://www.bigocheatsheet.com/

Quicksort in Python 7 ways (and many other languages) on RosettaCode:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Quicksort#Py...
That’s all fine and dandy until you realize the people who where smart and careful have to foot the bill for those who weren’t.

I was smart and sacrificed a little by going to community college so I wouldn’t have debt. I was also smart enough to get a degree in stem where jobs are actually available and in demand.

Why should I have to foot the bill for someone who just partied and got a useless degree? I did everything in my power to avoid student loans because I knew they where insane, I shouldn’t have to pay for others student loans because they didn’t think about any of this.
I think the solution is to allow student loan debt to be discharged under normal bankruptcy proceedings, on one hand, and to return to c. 1980 costs for a university education, on the other.

The latter requires cuts of administrative salaries across the board in the American higher education system. For example:

> "The university’s highest paid chancellor is UC San Francisco Chancellor Samuel Hawgood, whose salary increased from $795,675 to $819,545. At the bottom of the pay scale are the chancellors of UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside and UC Merced, whose salaries increased from $394,655 to $406,495."

https://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/18/uc-gives-pay-raises-8-10...

In contrast, the governor of California makes $220K or so in salary. In 1980 UC tuition was $300 for the academic school year, plus a student services fee of $419. That sums to about $2500 a year inflation-adjusted today. Today's UC tuition is about $12,500 per year. On top of that, a minimal $20,000 per year for rent + food is tacked on. So if this is all paid by loans, ~120K debt is created for a four-year education - unless you have quite wealthy parents of course, then you get out free as a bird.

In reality what's going on here is the conversion of the American 20th century education system - which put America on the leading edge of technological development for over half a century - to the British Empire education system, in which a small aristocratic class attends exclusive colleges to get networked into the posh system of aristocratic class privilege. Everyone else just becomes a victim of the parasitic investment capitalist sector which collects interest on the debt for the next 20 years (oh yes that includes feeding into 401K boomer retirement plans, so there's that lovely angle too).
I'm confused, so the comparison function can modify the list? I thought most sorting algorithms assumed the contents of the list was constant. Why would I want my comparator to ever modify the list under sort?
So it's just about Nevada and Texas? These are the only states where unintentionally leaving a child in the vehicle is allowed.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mit+geothermal+microwave+dr...