skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you've said, but want to make one minor note:

> There's of course nothing preventing me from drinking so much that I die, but then again I can also jump out the window of my apartment, no substance required.

It's important to note that the ease of committing suicide can affect the suicide rate quite significantly. For example, before gas was made to have a terrible smell, people would often commit suicide by sticking their heads in an unlit gas oven. Similarly access to guns greatly increases suicide rates. In societies that have taken away such methods, it was observed that suicide rate directly drops: it seems many people who are willing to, in the moment, commit a painless act to kill themselves renounce if it requires more effort or the threat of pain or defeating other instincts.

In contrast, throwing yourself off a building requires defeating a very powerful survival instinct, and thus is less likely to lead to suicides. I believe that drinking enough alcohol to die is also relatively hard, especially for an adult, so it's not a common way to commit suicide (though alchohol + other drugs is).

The suicide equation may be much different with drugs you can more easily overdose on (heroin comes to mind).
what is the meat of the hunter biden laptop story exactly? and how did twitter prevent it from behind shared on their platform?
Lean salmon tastes too gamey for me. I find it very unpleasant.
Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind (2016) [pdf]
Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore firewall rules
Swiss train journeys are nice: https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/emission/slow-suisse?id=10943405
> uncontrolled immigration

Obviously not true.

Anyway blaming government failures such as social housing on immigration is a well known trick.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/04/how-did-the-...
Inside the Implosion of CNN+
Multiple copies that are themselves copied to new mediums every few years.
It's also interesting to contrast it with Trump's tax returns. It was claimed even if true the hunter biden laptop was obtained illegally and therefore cannot be shared publicly.

Now, there are about a million other things that are probably obtained illegally talked about on twitter, but even so, obtaining and posting someone's tax returns online is actually illegal, and it was also for a presidential candidate, so it really should have qualified under the same rules to be censored if Twitter was consistent. Yet that was never blocked on Twitter.
> for f in *.txt; do sed 's/i/n/g' "$f" >"$f".tmp && cat "$f".tmp >"$f"; done

$f = $f.tmp in this case.
Yes. Everything happens through trial and error. Intelligence is an illusion.
But JS isn't, so people look for other languages to fill the gaps. They seem to often settle on Rust, but it pays a relatively high productivity price to get those properties without garbage collection.

Is GC a problem in language analysis systems? Doesn't feel that way these days, and anyway JVMs have pauseless GCs anyway now.
The parent poster said every other pair, which is perfectly true (in English that means for a half of the transitions, i.e. those from even numbers to odd numbers), so your correction is false.
Follow-up question: Wouldn't another use case be if passwords from a database were leaked, but they were hashed, you can still login as a user if you found a collision? But I think salting would prevent you from doing that, as the collision you found would be of the salted password, which will be salted again before being hashed and compared, correct?
Canadian politics are extremely different from American politics so even though other aspects of our culture are shared you have to pay much closer attention to understand what's going on over the border. (This goes both ways, it took me years to understand how on earth your current PM could get elected.)

One other issue is that both sides will focus on what's happening in individual states and act like the whole country is behaving that way. What's really happening is that people are taking mutually exclusive extreme positions and it's influencing the state laws. This is by design and allows people who disagree to live in harmony.
What exactly is better in Rider?
> But please, do not print on a laser printer.

My understanding is that until recently the UK was printing laws on vellum, for maximum archival durability... but they printed onto the vellum using a normal laser printer. So it must be pretty durable? A laser printer uses simple carbon, rather than complex inks.
I was in graduate school in the 1990s when anti-sexual harassment training started to come in, and there were plenty of complaints about that.
Your points make sense and they're on The Checklist, thanks! I probably won't sweat CI/CD integration for the demo yet but ship (as the other commenter mentionned, also thanks!) something readable, mostly testable and usable (but limited) on day 0 and go from there.

I do wonder what a recruiter looks for in a good README though. Technical chops or perspective on potential applications/intended project direction or ... ?
I’m sure it is not the answer you want to hear, but partial use of GCs seems to be exactly that. Modern GCs have insanely good throughput OR latency.

Quite a few languages have value types now, with that you can restrict your usage to stack allocations for the critical hot loops, while low-latency GCs promise less pauses than the OS itself, which should be plenty good for even the most demanding games.
Yes people do not want to return to office because of the darkening international situation and the growing disorder of American cities. What kind of journalist can seriously write that. Its like just adding words to sentences to meet the word count.
the concept of audiation is interesting, I will explore further

thank you for sharing your experience. I too find it hard to memorise lyrics, but can sometimes have a full orchestra playing in time and in tune

I wonder if this audiation is a redirection for anxiety or depression, i.e. my brain's attempt at avoiding insanity
My theory:

Both Facebook and Netflix have cratered in stock price in the past year after bad earnings. It's earnings season now.

Maybe Twitter was going to surprise on the downside. The board knew that without the Musk bid, after earnings, the stock would drop into the 20s.

If they rejected his offer, reported bad earnings and the stock dropped that low, they'd be at huge risk from shareholders.
>No you see to be an elite means you have to have a viewpoint I dislike and the more I dislike it the more elite you are

Oh! We should have opinions so that we can disagree with each other and become elite. I'll start

All cows are spheres and have uniform density. These 2 properties make them BEAUTIFUL!
I wrote a stock trading strategy backtester for a client in Go and SQLite and it read 100k rows/sec on a cheap consumer grade SATA SSD.
> And it's overwhelmingly likely S3 will still exist in an easily readable form in 30 years time.

There is no indication that this statement holds true. Not even remotely.

Businesses fold all the time. How many services still exist today that existed 30 years ago? Not in some archive, but still operational?

In addition to that problem, tech half-life continues to decrease. 30 years in the future is likely more comparable to 60 years in the past. Hello punch-cards.
Sorry, that's just conjecture on my part.

Sister commenter posted this about Amsterdam: https://www-groene-nl.translate.goog/artikel/ze-zijn-hier-zo...

Here's one from google about Scotland: https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/13308928.crooks-using-sw...

Here's one from PrivateEye (England): https://external-preview.redd.it/nI7Pl0eLeF1y4l6ow_QARxTZ09b...
I'm probably aphastasic. Like others here, I struggle to picture things in my mind, and they are very sketchy even then.

I love reading fiction, but I realized a long time ago that I consume books differently than other people. People around me would describe people in scenes in the book as if they'd seen them, and I've never experienced that. I consume the facts, but I don't visualize them.

I also often can't remember if I read a book or watched a movie when someone asks about something. To me, afterwards, they're largely the same thing. I remember what happened, but video or text makes no real difference.

And finally... I think I've got a fair helping of face blindness. I sometimes can't recognize people if they change some major part of themselves, like hairstyle/color or grow a beard. I remember at work, walking by someone's desk and asking myself, 'Who is sitting at X's desk?' Then like 10 steps later, I realized that X is sitting at her desk, she just had a wildly different hair style. That wasn't my first instance of it, but it's a fairly vivid one.

And for fun: When I remember that scene, the outline of the cubical is pretty clear, but what X looked like then is completely missing and so is all of the stuff in her cubicle. I remember what direction I was walking, but I get no visuals of the actual walk. I know she had things like a calendar and a computer, but I don't picture them at all. When I think about that calendar, I see the outline of it approximately where it was in relation to the cubical's outline, but that's it.
But who is a fascist? Few people will openly profess being one; many more will be accused (by somebody somewhere) of being a fascist even though they insist they are not. So, are you saying we should be intolerant only of self-professed fascists? Or also people who are labelled as fascists even if they claim not to be? But if the later – since anyone can levy the accusation, who will be given the power to decide which accusations of "fascism" are sufficiently proven to justify intolerance, and which ought to be dismissed? And how do you ensure that whoever is granted this power will not abuse it?
I've noticed that whenever I find a bit music particularly enjoyable on the first listen, my enjoyment at listening to it declines sharply within a couple days and will never again as high. I guess it's like the idea of ruining a song for yourself by playing it too many times in rapid succession, but with this I find that regardless of whether I play the track only once or on repeat for hours (I've tried), every listen on that day is equally enjoyable, but a night or two of sleep and it loses its magic.

Perhaps this is actually a more general phenomenon—you often hear people wishing they could experience some song/show/book/film 'for the first time again'. Regardless, it seems to fall into a category of topics about memory I see discussed frequently online: maybe there's some book out there with a grand theory relating the enjoyability of music to the brain's constant search for novel things to pattern match on, and how boredom evolved to spur on everything that we do. It'd probably also incorporate spaced repetition and the role of sleep in learning—wasn't there recently an HN thread about unexpectedly good performance when coming back to a skill that's languished for some time, and how you can temporarily perform worse during nonstop practice?
And auto-completion suggestions (potentially means switching context back and forth on every keystroke), and inline editor hints / styling / folding regions, whatever is being changed by refactorings and so on.

Recall that most analysis is done async, so results arrive at different times. Even if you're not doing anything then, your IDE/backend will be context switching back and forth as stuff arrives to be rendered.

In the limit this degrades to the backend being the entire IDE and the frontend being just an translator between the OS IO system a stream of JSON rendering commands.
I read a story about aphantasia on HN a year or 2 ago and the extensive discussion, and got totally the wrong idea about it, and even thought I may have it myself. It's not easy to describe these phenomena (or lack of them) in a non-misleading way! But recently I read this excellent piece which I think does a great job of nailing down exactly what aphantasia is and isn't, and investigates how common it is, etc. And it's an entertaining read. p.s. I learnt from this that I don't have it.

It's been submitted a dozen times before on HN since 2016, but only once generated any discussion at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554894 (176 comments, 6 years ago)
> Taiwan, Korea, Japan

Japan has less than 1/10th China’s population. Taiwan has less than 20% of Taiwan.

Japan was far richer than China per capita before WWII. Japan was the superpower that believed it could take on the West. Until recent, did China ever try to expand and attack the West?

Japan was never occupied by a resource colonizer, while China had the opium war.

Right now, both Japan and Taiwan’s economy are at stagnating. How do I know? I’m a permanent resident of one, and have a passport from the other. The argument that democracy exists, and let people do whatever they want will lead to prosperous is false. Otherwise America wouldn’t be at risk of slowing growth, potentially civilization decline.

Also, what are your thoughts on Singapore which is a one family dictatorship ?

> Japan had two of its major cities leveled by atomic bombs.

Have you been or is this armchair philosophizing from intro to WWII? I’ve been to the monuments at both, but the fact of the matter is those were military cities. Those cities by themselves are not what crippled the Japanese economy post WWII.

> There's really nothing impressive about China beyond the sheer number of people the government has managed to hold back.

Is that why India and Africa with a billion people are in poverty still?
I got diagnosed with 20+. I had the suspicion and went to a specialist. He diagnosed based on my history (e.g. teacher reports from elementary school describing hyperactivity), my explanations and an EEG. When that lined up we started with medical treatment with a slowly increasing dose and just observed how it affected me. My understanding was if there were no apparent negative effects, but the meds helped against the unwanted symptoms it was seen as proving the diagnosis correct by successful treatment. Some subconscious things that I never thought of as symptoms like rapidly moving my foot when otherwise sitting still just to "do something" completely went away while medicated.

Personally I mostly do better without the drugs even though my mind is also in an always on state. But I do have them here and rarely (last time over a year ago) take them, if my very easily distracted mind collides with some very important and immovable deadline.

I also feel though that my brain sometimes kicks me in a hyperproductive mode (like being in the zone on steroids) and I just get a shitton of difficult work done and I felt the meds prevented that too.
Yes, works great for my sites (they are mostly read-heavy). I used to default to Postgresql, now I default to sqlite.

This [0] is a good article with some benchmarks, misconceptions about speed, and limitations.

[0]: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
Because people use it as a unique identifier for data.

Let's say you have a file on dropbox and they use SHA1 for data de-duplication. Someone else creates a file with the same SHA1. Dropbox will recognize the SHA1 and do one of two things:

- sync their file on top of your, or;

- sync your file to their file system

(not a real example, and an actual implementation will be less naive, but this is what can happen)
"I suspect a lot of the bad practices in the modern JS ecosystem are due to the paradigm of having the same language running in the browser and on the server. This creates conflicting incentives in the way things are designed and deployed and one necessarily undermines the other."

What do you mean. Could you give some examples?
The SEC isn't forcing anything, as such, but public information about being investigated for something like this, in a public company, might well affect the market's willingness to lend to you.

Musk has also said he is going to launch legal action on this. Because that's almost exactly what happened, and it is unfair. So you are correct, and this saga probably still has more to go.

What's funny is almost anyone on the planet couldn't go up against someone like the SEC, which is why they can get away with this. Good on Musk for doing it.
And then pay somebody to guard it. Aka the "pay someone else to do it" option that your sibling comment talks about (and of which there are many different flavors, S3 being another one).
Each contributor to Linux retains the copyright to their contributions.

Google is a pretty big Linux contributor.
haha, you're right but I'm willing to take that risk
The fractional reserve has been set to zero
I'm coming from a similar direction. Postgres is my go-to, and I love it's reliability when you get your schema right.

Glad to hear its type enforcement situation is improving.
For a longer list of languages written in Rust, see https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust
Nope, social media only shows that juicy ideas spread more efficiently. Do they stay long with us? Not many of them do.
I see that the days when people just sat down with their favorite code editor and wrote code are long gone.
You wouldn't necessarily call it suicide, but it can lead to a slow and drawn out death if one becomes addicted. Good addiction treatment is not so easy to get in much of the US.

Also, I believe the smell of gas was not the change. They switched from coal gas to natural gas.
That doesn't fit my experience at all (I'm from Germany).

As soon as couples start to have concrete plans for children (or children are already on their way), marriage suddenly becomes very relevant for many relationships, and is often demanded by at least one side of the partnership.

This puts aside the romanticised view of marriage (which might be perceived equivalent to living together) and points to a more fundamental reason for marriage: Securing resources for your offspring. And offspring needs a lot of resources for a long time.

In the end, its commitment that counts. And marriage was built for ensuring commitment as much as humanly possible, with a high barrier for abandoning.
Russia’s Deadly Artillery Drones Have a Strange Secret
> one thing is missing from this picture of returning normality: the rows of office workers bent over their desks.

I suspect that was not inadvertent.
In my country for example (Romania) a legal marriage requires a man and a woman (unfortunately gay marriage is not allowed) registering at the local "Civil state office", and agreeing to marry before the "Civil state officer", with at least two witnesses present. Once you do this, you are legally married. There are some further formalities to perform afterwards (e.g. your identity card must be changed to show your legal status as married, and I believe you must notify your employer of your change in legal status).
Unfortunately for some, whatever “science says” will be ignored next time.
I use a Samsung and my SO an iPhone which I'm the one "administering" and I can tell that both notifications can be customized at (our) will. I have no idea what you mean there.
If it's code like the OP seems to indicate, publish it on github; many services draw copies of source code from Github, and they themselves once put all code into cold storage for posterity: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

> Each was packaged as a single TAR file.

> For greater data density and integrity, most data was stored QR-encoded, and compressed.

> A human-readable index and guide found on every reel explains how to recover the data

> The 02/02/2020 snapshot, consisting of 21TB of data, was archived to 186 reels of film by our archive partners Piql and then transported to the Arctic Code Vault, where it resides today.
No, but they should probably share the same runtime, have some level of interop and be garbage collected because that makes crossing the barrier between language backend and IDE frontend so much more efficient and productive.

Historically for IntelliJ that meant writing everything in Java. Nowadays plugins are written in many different languages. You could write plugins in Ruby or Python if you wanted to. They run on the JVM. You could even use C++ and get the same benefits because GraalVM can run C++ on the JVM itself, i.e. it will apply GC to the C++ parts so you don't have to worry about ownership across the interface. But that'd be an advanced move and I don't think anyone has tried that; for such big gaps in language they tend to fall back on the more conservative multi-process model again. Stuff like Sulong is too new to have made such an impact.

Atom would have different internal data structures than VS Code.

LSP doesn't solve that. It either forces everyone to implement the LSP model and data structures, or you have a mismatch and translation anyway.
You would be wrong. I just pulled up Metro Detroit (4.5 million people) on Zillow and set my filter to $200k or less and there are hundreds of homes available within the metro area. Hmmm...maybe that's cheating let's check again with - Cincy, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St Louis, KC, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Albuquerque etc. Working my way down the list of metro areas exceeding a million and there are tons of homes under $200k in every single one of those.
Autocomplete, refactoring, UI, support for newest features, etc.

Anecdata time. I was working on codegen in C#. So I wrote the codegen in netstandard2.1. That is until a team member that used Visual Studio complained it didn't work for him. So I had to rewrite the thing in netstandard2.0 (shudder) and it worked.

I haven't seen anyone that wanted to go back to VS after using Rider. I did use it for a while, but after Rider it just seemed like an inferior version.
An obvious possible step is to put BAC interlock devices on all new and existing vehicles. That's not going to have a lot of public support, but I would bet it reduces that number.
But they are nowhere near the same niche. Go is much much closer to JS than to Rust by design, it just mimics being lower-level.

System level programming almost by definition requires quite a bit of complexity, and you can’t hide it no matter how elegant your abstraction is. Essential complexity is non-reduceable:
> a very real issue

Please explain. You have suggested that some men have a male identity crisis. How does that express?

Currently it sounds like you have a problem with some answers more than the common answer of this thread has with the world.
> something that doesn't even need active cooling

Only M1 Ultra seems to be comparable to the 12900k so that's not completely fair. It still seems to be ~2-3 times more power efficient though.
I think I have aphantasia, and I love math. I always did very well at it.

I don't visualize it at all. It's simply facts that happen.

When people told me they visualize code, I simply assumed they meant they organized it in their head somehow. I don't do any of that. My mental model of code happens automatically and it's just relations between things, no visual at all.
Ouch, that sounds like a nasty bug. But if I understand correctly it's more the driver/ORM's problem than sqlite's?

One to look out/test for early if I go in this direction though. Thanks for the heads up!
> It's legal for me to go and buy alcohol, and it's also probably legal for my employer to fire me if I show up drunk to work.

What if we spin it around and do what we want to do for "hard drugs"? What if tobacco and alcohol were only available with a prescription from a licensed medical professional such as a doctor? Maybe put a timer on it like this only applies to people born on or after 2025 or something?

Access to healthcare with no out of pocket expense (Medicare for all born on or after 2025?) would be a prerequisite for this.