skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, we are referring to an internal mechanism for the vendor to try multiple routes to meet the customer ask - this makes more sense, but I could see a lot of traditional enterprise customers being hesitant to buy in if they were made aware (if you could do it with only the partial resources that delivered the “successful” solution, why am I paying for the others?)
I'm guessing you've never used Python for a serious project before, because your statement is incorrect. Aside from the fact that Python is memory safe, my experience has been that it is far easier to avoid logic errors in Python than in C/C++.

Equivalent Python code is shorter and less noisy than C/C++, and Python makes it easier to create succinct and simple to use abstractions. The result is that code is far easier to audit. Furthermore, my experience has been that it is much easier to create unit and integration tests in Python, which means that people actually do it and/or test more comprehensively.

My experience has been that if the performance cost of Python is no object then there is a correctness benefit over C/C++ for a disciplined programmer. I suggest you gain some more experience with both languages before making an offhand comparison.
I'm one of those guys who cobbled something together in my basement.

I'm on my mobile so don't have a picture but will post one later.

One surprising thing to me?

I don't use it. At least, not much in comparison to my actual laptop.

It reminds me of folding keyboards for cell phones. I've bought a couple and thought, these are great, they'll make inputting text on a cell phone so much easier... except I don't end up carrying them around in my pocket, and so end up typing on my mobile phone using the touchscreen just like everyone else.

People think that a distraction free device will allow them to achieve their goals but it is actually the discipline to do the work which will allow them to achieve their goals; the device probably won't change that.
have you considered how (not "why?") was google able to give away one gigabyte of email storage to anybody before 2010s?

that was not free either... what I'm trying to get at (and not very eloquently) is that a lot of that work is done by the computers. also, something about how the code is written once and then used by everybody at the same time. sure, writting the code may be expensive at first.

dunno, I doubt better written words will get you to agree with (or see) whatever it is I'm trying to get at.
That seems like most accounts. I know many real people with exactly those properties.
I think they have gotten more efficient. Just by the fact that pretty much every laptop today has a much better battery life then any had many years ago. Of course the difference is also in the battery tech, but the change and improvement is still visible.
I think everyone except the bitcoin maxis would agree on that. Even they keep saying bitcoin is like gold which ain't a very good payment system.
> It's just how the base addresss of an array pointer memory block was referenced in C (and it spread from there).

There was also the famous 1-pager by Dijkstra: "Why numbering should start at zero"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=777580
What changed here of course is that after Putin gave Aeroloft the go ahead to seize aircraft they were leasing, western business lost any appetite for the Russian market. When your assets can be taken over at any moment and its encouraged by the state, its best to cut your losses.

A similar but more drastic example are the various communist revolutions in the 20th century. It was standard practice for the new governments to cancel any debts or obligations the previous government had and seize all sorts of foreign owned assets in country. That inevitably destroyed its diplomatic relations with many nations for decades.

So as you note, its not because McDonald's or any other corporation has morals, they are amoral entities. Its all just business and right now business in Russia is bad.
Try Otter.AI maybe for capturing ideas; sometimes we have a need to express ourselves like "rubber-ducking" and maybe that's just what this posting often in Hacker News is about.

By expressing ourselves and commenting, we feel better since we feel heard but there are other ways to do this like with Otter.AI maybe.
>I noted that there had been multiple weeks where not one single real person had visited a single blog entry for the whole week

The site is not on https://searchengine.party/ nor on seirdy.one's overview. Apart from the blog, how could users find that engine?

Is there some place where new search engines are announced and where new search engines band together to make themselves heard?
I would not call things fine. It's a mess of nonstop testing and ridiculous rules being enforced by people who are not trained for it. You've got old people who can hardly walk being asked to leave to get tested multiple times a month and millions who are quickly going broke for lack of work.
How does Elon benefit by NOT acquiring Twitter?
As for how many elementary particles there are in the universe, consider that there are between 10^78 and 10^82 atoms in the universe, according to this website: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/which-greater-nu...

"Titin is a multi-functional protein that behaves as a nonlinear spring in human muscles with its many domains unfolding and refolding in the presence of forces and giving muscles their elasticity. Titin is about 100 times longer than the average protein with its 33,423 amino acid polypeptide chain" (http://book.bionumbers.org/how-big-is-the-average-protein/)

How many different ways are there to create a protein containing 33,423 amino acids? I will leave this calculation as an exercise for the reader, but as a starting point, suppose there are only 10 amino acids available -- that would yield 10^33,423 possible arrangements.

But even an average protein would have more different possible arrangements than there are atoms on Earth.

Given that there are only 10^16 seconds in a billion years, we can safely assume that mutating a protein ten times every second for a billion years will search less than a quadrillionth of the search space.
> Our "traffic sources" come from a mix of Facebook, Search, Reddit, etc, in addition to our many loyal readers.

40k/mo is a pretty good number for an independent website. As a word of warning though, relying on social media reach is a dangerous game, as there is anecdotal evidence that tweets with outbound links don't get as many impressions as those that link to in-site content, like another Twitter post.

As for Facebook, well, there's a good comic from The Oatmeal (enormously popular on FB back in 2010) that talks about what happened in the long run:

https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/923250055540219904
If you have a neighbour that invades sovereign countries, it makes sense to seek strong allies. This is a direct result of Russia invading Ukraine, it doesn't matter how much Russia complains now.
this is far from the truth in multiple ways. There are a wide range of genetic issues (typically recessive mutations) where somatic engeering would work great. And genes continuous encode for "traits" (really, molecular phenotypes) after development (which ends long after the embryo is born).
I check everyone I follow (mostly artists) to see if they are posting art generally, and look at most of the people who follow me to see what they do before following them back. There are a few (legit) retweeting bots and I have ignored a bunch of people because they did not seem real. I remember a set of accounts followed me that had (1) no tweets (2) avatar pic of MCU movie actor and (3) hundreds of followers.
Twitter is as hostile to unauthenticated users nowadays as reddit is. Really sad.
Yes and British is the vassal of Normandy
Why are we always "surprised" by this?
What matters for something like this is not the idea but the execution. This page is little more than “I’m going to build a battery car” or “I’m going to build a reusable rocket.” What you want to see instead is descriptions of the hardware projects that the founding team has successfully shipped.

A major hint of trouble is “we’re accepting applications.” A team that is likely to succeed here would have a core founding team in place, not just a Wordpress post.
By using this kind of thing http://64drive.retroactive.be/
The thing is, Russia invasion and occupation (again) is not in interest of European countries around Russia.
It's acceptance of the fact that cats don't respond to commands.
The author's argument is that the bugs all share a pattern, and thus there is an intrinsic flaw. That doesn't necessarily mean the community wants to fix the intrinsic flaw, just like nobody is really interested in fixing the intrinsic memory safety flaws of C. But they shouldn't be denied as real risks, either, or a tradeoff of some kind.
I see no reason to continue using Zsh or Bash in a world where Fish shell exists.
> My profile matches 5 of those, and I'm a human.

Just out of interest, imagine you were in a hot desert. There is a tortoise in front of you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The turtoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without for your help. But you're not helping. Why?
Yea, I have an account that is literally just for reading 3 peoples' tweets (they're former generals that frequently comment on Russia's invasion of Ukraine). I have their timelines bookmarked, and just read the threads they post.

I'd almost certainly be marked as a bot.
You might want to look into OVH's k8s offering [1]. You only pay the worker nodes and the general purpose instances cost 26,18 € per month offering 2vcpu and 7 gb RAM [2].

[1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#568

[2] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#419
$100/hour+ human costs to migrate though right. Imagine downsizing 100 web apps, notifying clients of what's going on, and dealing with random breakages. That's not an hour's work
A Brief Review of the QTox Peer-to-Peer Chat Program
It was something like 6 payments at 0% interest so I took advantage of it. It was just offered as a payment option on the Amazon link. I'm seeing that now for condos I'm looking at renting next year too. While I can pay cash up front or just put on my credit card, I'd rather it sit and generate whatever small amount of interest and just use this to pay off my vacation over a few months with no interest.
With only 7 digits typed, we would expect at least some repetition ;)

The chance of no digit repeating out of 7 would be about 20%
> "By contrast, most “spam” accounts are an unwanted nuisance. Their activities range from peddling propaganda and disinformation to those attempting to sell products, induce website clicks, push phishing attempts or malware, manipulate stocks or cryptocurrencies, and (perhaps worst) harass or intimidate users of the platform."

My perception of Twitter is that some of the worst behavior on Twitter is coming from the 'well-respected authentic accounts of government and media personalities', particularly when it comes to disinformation, marketing, and indeed, intimidation of those with non-conformant opinions on various topics, such as, for example, the wisdom of unconditionally flooding Ukraine with high-tech ordnance in the name of repelling the Russian invasion (or is that really more about delivering a cash cow to US weapons manufacturers)? That's the kind of thing that could lead to doxing by corporate media reporters and charges of being 'a Russian asset' even if such concerns are reasonable.

Also, how many of the 'registered authentic accounts' include tweets not written by the actual personality they claim to represent, but rather by some kind of in-house PR/image management consultants? Just because there's a paid human somewhere in the chain doesn't mean the account is all that 'authentic'.
An accessible and thorough Rust course, especially for JavaScript developers
From your link it looks like Russia was breaking the treaty in many different ways.
Go through this comment section, you won't believe it

https://mobile.twitter.com/McDonalds/status/1521143128073424...
Perhaps they are attempting to argue that the value comes from the users that generate content more so than the eyes attached to the account?
Games run in many different contexts. The difference is that instead of your game state/achievements/assets being controlled by a balkanized industry of competitors seeking to lock you into their platforms, it could be stored publicly on a blockchain and available to you regardless of platform.
This comment will probably be the least impressive of all - but early 2017 I paid someone random online $60 for a WordPress website (tech blog) he had made and didn't seem to care for. I bought it, learnt about HTML and CSS while editing and posting every week. And towards the end of 2017 when I graduated from undergrad and went back home, it was that project/experience with WordPress that landed me one of my most fun jobs I've ever had.
Depending on the value of "fine" of course, one could also say that hundreds of millions of people are under some form of lockdown.

Can't remember the original source, https://qz.com/2164102/nearly-400-million-people-are-under-c... is the first thing that came up now.
Finally a use for Bitcoin?
I'm happy to consider God "natural" if you don't like the term "supernatural" -- the point is that we can definitely conclude that God exists. If that makes God "natural", then fine.
What an absurd statement. It's a factory in Ontario with a foreign investor, subject to Canadian CFIA oversight. Literally everything you rely on to live your life is made in China, this is a very strange place to draw the line as children are dying.
The question would be ... how much will Elon Musk pay to buy Twitter after pointing out that their business is essentially a bunch of bots, etc.?

Kind of "hey guys, look, I really think your platform costs around 52$ per share, but ... let's try to see the actual price. How many bots do you have again? :)" Whenever this guy speaks, a whole freaking market moves.

It's like "cleaning up the mess" even before joining the company as their CEO. In the worst case scenario, he dodged a huge bullet. So, who cares.
Yeah, it definitely makes sense to be able to scale workers and web processes separately. It just so happens that they app I work on for my day job is:

1. Fairly low traffic (requests per minute not requests per second except very occasional bursts)

2. Has somewhat prematurely been split into 6 microservices (used to be 10, but I've managed to rein that back a bit!). Which means despite running on the smallest instances available we are rather over-provisioned. We could likely move up one instances size and run absolutely everything on the one machine rather than having 12 separate instances!

3. Is for the most part only really using queue-tasks to keep request latency low.

Probably what would make most sense for us is to merge back in to a monolith, but continue to run web and worker processes separately I guess. But in general, I there is maybe a niche for running both together for apps with very small resource requirements.
100% this. I haven’t tweeted in nearly 3 years, and even that was a retweet. But I’m still logged in and consuming crap from Twitter all the time
I do the same thing as you, however, was not aware of microG.
Does it require rooting? (I could not find on the website.)
>The valuation the board has reached, for Twitter shares

Absolutely! When the board demanded that Musk pay $54.20 per share – which is a completely rational number that they demanded from Musk and not a meme number that he made up himself – they underestimated his ability to do Math, and he's about to show them what's what.

One of the core duties of a Board of Directors for a publicly traded company is to arrive at a valuation of the stock each morning before the markets open. It's a shame that this board is either incompetent or corrupt and came up with the number $54.20 based on bot accounts. Musk is having his people do a complete audit of 100 random followers of the @Twitter account to find the true number. I expect the terms of this deal to change significantly in Musk's favor.

It's too bad that this distracts him from shipping the Cyber Truck, going to Mars, and then building a 1.6km tunnel under Las Vegas (a feat which has never before been achieved).

Praying for a quick resolution so we can finally get some Free Speech on the Twitter platform.
NATO has always been a defensive alliance, a retaliatory deterrence against attacking any one member, especially weaker members that would be easy to pick off.

NATO expansion has pretty much always been a reaction to Russian aggression, including the most recent accessions following Russia's takeover of Crimea and now their invasion if the Ukraine.

Painting NATO expansion as an aggressive act that forces Russia to retaliate with their own belligerance is a reversal of cause & effect at best and a willful blindness or belief in propaganda at worst. The truth is that since the fall of the Soviet Union Russia has been free to participate in global affairs & economics as much or as little as it wants, and while geopolitical games are played on all sides there have been no efforts to prevent Russia's peaceful participation such things. The rest of the world has even turned a blind eye to some fairly brutal conflicts they waged to consolidate what power they could among former Soviet states. Such is that nature of realpolitik.

Russian leadership's desire to take that to an entirely new level right now is of course scaring the shit our of other close neighbors who rightfully fear that they would be next on the list.

US actions in, e.g., Iraq and Afghanistan are irrelevant "whataboutism". If you have a problem with US actions then complain about them, advocate for US sanctions or a NATO-like alliance against US aggression or whatever you thing is appropriate. But none of it excuses Russia's actions and the very reasonable response from other countries that now seek protection from becoming their next target.

Complaining about NATO expansion as an instigator of Russian aggression is like complaining that a playground bully is justified in beating up kids just because a group of those kids decided they would defend themselves collectively if the bully went after them again.
Hasn't been for almost a decade at this point. The p2p protocol was deprecated in mid-2014.
I don't think this is the simplest explanation. The simplest explanation is this: Musk's primary source of financing is Tesla stock. The sudden market downturn took a big chunk out of Tesla stock, which made his financial situation more difficult.

The delay in closing the deal is just that, a delay, in the hope that the market will recover and the price of Tesla stock will recover, thereby making Musk's financing position much easier.

Nobody anticipated the downturn, otherwise Musk never would have made a $54 per share offer for Twitter in the first place, because obviously it's much lower now, as is much of the tech market.

It's hard to believe that making a binding $54 offer on a stock that's only $39 a month later was "4D chess". I do think $54 was a reasonable, maybe even lowball offer a month ago. Twitter itself hasn't changed much in a month operationally speaking, but the whole market changed in valuation.
Or Fourier coefficients :-) Or pretty much anything where the index/subscript is related to the math itself.

Math textbooks and papers tend to use 1-based subscripts when it doesn't matter. It's hard to come up with examples where starting at 1 facilitates the actual math.
> there's absolutely no reason for Turkey to object over Sweden joining NATO in the first place

This is disingenuous. The YPG question is not "no reason" for Turkey. (I disagree about the reason, but it is still an actual concern for the Turkish government).

> if they don't really cooperate with you.

Turkey absolutely cooperated extensively with the US & NATO. Militarily, much more so than Sweden does.
Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
Headlines are almost never written by article authors.

The corresponding chapter title from Smil's book is "Understanding Our Material World: The Four Pillars of Modern Civilization".

Smil highlights their significance, irreplaceability, and that "the mass-scale production of all of them depends heavily on the combustion of fossil fuels, and that some of these fuels also supply feedstocks..."

The title as submitted seems to me to be fair: "The modern world can't exist without fossil fuels". Not that civilisation cannot, or that there isn't a possibility for replacing either the materials to a substantial degree, or the role of fossil fuels in their production, but that the result of doing so would leave us with something much at odds with the present parameters of the indistrialised, technological, high-energy, fossil-fuel dependent world we take as a given.

And to that extent, Smil's argument seems quite sound. You'll find similar viewpoints expressed both by strong critics of the fossil-fuel world, say, Richard Heinberg, or by apologists for the fossil fuel industry, such as Daniel Yergin. To the extent that they all agree that where we are now is a direct consequence of human utilisation of fossil fuels, I find no basis for disagreement.

The question is what the future implications and prospects are. Fossil-fuel defenders see an unlimited future for that resource. Critics think we need to eliminate all possible use immediately. Smil, as he himself notes, tends to cut a middle path in his arguments, though that's really not the most valuable aspect he brings to the discussion. It's an absolutely unsparing assessment and quantification of fossil fuels' role and where that leaves us in considering future options.

It's a philosophy which earns him strange bedfellows and frequent criticism from across the growth-sustainability spectrum.

And I think you'll find that the more you rely on Smil's actual text, rather than third-party headline summaries, the more his argument and facts cohere.
Agreed. Nix always means Nix Package Manager unless NixOS is specified. Its hard to distinguish `Nix` from `Nix package manager` in google trends though, so the "NixOS" trendline might be the best proxy for popularity of the entire ecosystem.
You can't get punched in the mouth on the internet.
Well the original article talks about how the work that a software company does in a year, can be done in a few months by a freelance developer with zero bureaucratic overhead. But which freelance developer? For every freelance developer that succeeds, there will probably be ten or a hundred that fail, or push out a mediocre product. This is what all the meetings and design docs and testing is for. To increase the chance of success.

I'm sure the same can be said for the academic world. If I was in academia and I was given funding without oversight, I would probably waste it all on researching things I found interesting but weren't necessarily useful to anybody. If you don't want to have to justify your expenses, then just fund it yourself.
I've priced up DO as an alternative to AWS on several projects and it has never been cheaper once AWS discounts (reservations, spot) are applied correctly. You need to consume a relatively large amount of bandwidth before DO becomes cheaper, and even then a third party CDN is likely to be a better solution
Thanks for the feedback I’ll look into fixing some of that!

As for “hardly any content” - it updates weekly and I forgot to include that info. It’s not meant to be an endless sea of content. It takes time to find more unique stuff than the average run-of-the-mill city website, which typically find the newest most expensive restaurants and writes 1000 useless words about it.
He ain't wrong, in fact he's right. Being a kissless virgin he fails to appreciate the importance of UX/UI decisions. But other than that, yeah