skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are few things as satisfying as beating GCC through pipelining, tail call recursion, and other absurd hacks as a 2nd year student who just learned to write hello world in assembly.

I feel the desire to actually learn it again and build bigger stuff.
I love the deep dives into the basics like the "What is energy?" and "True nature of matter and mass" episodes.
First off, avoid changing that property. It doesn't improve things

10 years later, still relevant -
https://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smooth...

Secondly, the issue may be the font being used. I don't recognize it, but probably not optimized for modern web screens. Or a "converted" typeface originally designed for print
> Reddit does not allow comments post via old.reddit.com

The title is incorrect/misleading. You can still post via old.reddit.com
I am not paid per hour (I have availability roughly between 08-15, of course I am not paid anything for availability, I am paid only per finished task), but I would still prefer to lose 1/3 of my income to have 3 day weekend, because whether I have 100% or 66% of my income makes no difference to me, it's just money (same as now losing like 10% (maybe 20K EUR?) of my current savings in stock, some people would go crazy here to lose that amount of money, but I don't care), but extra free day each week is priceless.
Surely the question was aimed at @qwertox, not @_Microft?
Despite having fewer hours on the clock, I will still deliver the same software on the same timeframe. It’s the software I create that they are buying, therefore I should be paid the same.

That being said, yes. As long as the salary is enough to maintain my standard of living, I will accept a lower salary to work fewer hours.
> I have a MacBook and I don't see the kind of display artifacts that I mentioned (grid lines set to same pixel width appearing to have different widths) on a MacBook. Why is that?

You just claimed that this is only possible with 200% scaling. Was that wrong?
I have no affiliation with the project. Just found it, tried it out, and it looks very promising...
According to an eco site this will have some impact, they call it "leash the lid":

> 6 Most Common Sources of Plastic Pollution

> 1 of 6: Food Wrappers & Containers (31.14% of pollution in environment, by unit count)

> 2 of 6: Bottle & Container Caps (15.5%)

> Nobody really thinks about caps. Most of the attention when tossing a plastic bottle is on the bottle itself. Caps are terrible for the environment because they float on the surface of water and look like a tasty morsel for birds: “For some species, such as the Pacific Albatross, plastic ingestion is a major factor in their decline and potential extinction.” 5 Gyres believes that policy-makers should implement “leash the lid” rules, requiring manufacturers to attach caps to bottles to prevent their escape and encourage tandem recycling.

https://www.treehugger.com/most-common-sources-plastic-pollu...
This is just a data point but in my experience over the past few years Postgres updates are usually nothing to worry about. There's other systems where updates come with a lot more baggage attached (Like ElasticSearch) where you have to refactor schemas and stay up to date with the documentation way more than with PG.
Maybe that is true for you, but not everyone. Some people actually like their work and find it fun and meaningful.
That sounds awesome! If you don't mind sharing, how do you manage school obligations?
Not even just this forum, there have been plenty of articles about data of varying quality showing that vanishingly few people actually work a full 8 hour day and/or are capable of actually sustaining heavy thought for that long anyway!
You do not say how.

If you mean in terms of productivity, I agree with you. Having a clear boundary between workday and free-time is a clear productivity multiplier for me. This is much better than one more extra day-off.

I can also maintain peace of mind throughtout the week if I do not do any work at all agter designated boundary.

This is true, when you want to do what you do. But when you work mostly for a paycheck, I will disagree with you. Then an extra day-off is so much better than a shorter work day.
Change job dude, you are going to have a burn out
I'm so glad to see this. I don't feel alone anymore. This is one of my biggest headache-producing tasks, reading poor contrast websites.

On the flip side, it is a great job candidate filter for design positions to show them a website and see if it's among the improvements they recommend.
Just be sure you don't acquire bad habits of the country your are living in ;)
Gerhard Schroeder and Matthias Warnig stepping-down from Rosneft’s board
I feel like that's the only measured answer.

This is normal. The thing that affects the team the most in this case is the complexity of the code base.

A lot of comments are blaming speed for a supposed lack of sophistication, excessive duplication or disorganisation of the code.

But sometimes a developer can be fast is due to someone not introducing unnecessary complexity in the codebase.

A fast developer is not necessarily a 10x developer, but it also isn't making a mess.

Most of the cases of unmanageable code were made by developers with a lot of time and planning on their hands.
> Wait, i suggest aligning it to the cost of a similar travel with a car!

I would wish they actually align their normal prices with a car.

It's absurd that it's cheaper for two people to travel from Karlsruhe to Frankfurt by car, than to take an ICE train. And that applies to almost any train connection inside a Germany.

No wonder people like their cars here.
And I'll take anything that's more square than 16:9 personally.

16:9 is great if I wanna watch movies all day, unfortunately for the apparently unaware laptop industry, I need to also work a little bit sometimes.

Thankfully Apple never jumped on the stupid 16:9 bandwagon with their laptops. Now if only some monitor manufacturer would wake up and start making 27"+, 16:10, 4K+ monitors with 120hz+ refresh rate then I'll literally instantly buy 5.
> not making any bets in crypto is not a sensible accelerator. You need to make bets everywhere and hopefully some stick.

Thats not how it works; VC's are allowed to pass on anything they want, and it turns out they dont cut a fat cheque to every idiot who knocks on the door.
The ideal would seem to be to have local bottling plants for everything. It'd be more expensive, but much better for the environment.
I bought in 2017 & sold the peak. My strategy was that in 2017 I back of the enveloped a fair price of 30k CAD, so when I checked in awhile later it was 69k CAD I knew things were getting stupid & had to sell for the memes

I also sold most my investments in January because I wanted to buy a house. Moral of the story: be a lucky bastard like me

I believe crypto doesn't need to "go to the moon" to succeed. If bitcoin hit a stable price of 1k it still works. If I were to make another play in the crypto space I'd probably do something stupid like buy 32 eth & stake it in eth 2.0
There just is so much work that I don’t get how working 4 days will workout. The work isn’t going to scale down. The deadlines I don’t think will change.

At my company which is a very typical big sv company, no one is watching how long you work but the work needs to get done.
I was wondering if I was the only one and glad to find out I’m not. I was a bit embarrassed because I absolutely love the videos (and have done so for years) but if I watch them in bed they put me to sleep in < 10 minutes.

Great quality and content. I recommend this channel for anyone interested in space and physics in general.
In this particular case she had lived there her whole life and I don't think she ever entertained the idea.

But many people have one year leases they don't want to break, or don't want to roll the dice just to move to an equally noisy place, or don't want to move and have to pay 30% more.

But I think it's safe to say the root cause is lack of resources.
Exactly the opposite. It should've been 0€, because then you:

* don't have to sell tickets at all

* don't have to check tickets in trains and reduce costs

The overhead of selling tickets with the new price points might actually eat up all what's left of profits.
Given what we saw in 2009, nothing could more-qualify them as a "real financial institution" than being bailed out as "Too Big to Fail"
While your point is well taken given historical context of rampant risky medical trials conducted against african and african american populations that are pretty horrifying, I suspect it has more to do with the high concentration of HIV per capita in Africa. To my knowledge, Africa had one of the highest HIV rates in the world so I suspect this is still the case making it a very reasonable region for the trials.

If you had an "obesity" vaccine, the US would be a good population to do trials vs say Ethiopia or Sri Lanka. If you have a Dengue vaccine, you probably wouldn't want trials in northern Canada but would probably target southeast Asia instead.
I don't think that the message was addressed at me but I agree that it was unnecessarily personal. You inferred my nationality correctly btw ;)
Oberon exception handling and other new language features
UBI first then automate? or Automate first, then UBI?
Massively different options for millions of people.
My understanding is that plastic is almost never recycled in America. Does Australia actually have a working plastic recycling system?
I used to live in a neighborhood of Queens next to an above ground line, and it is extremely loud. One thing I found interesting was that the support beams of the train were made of steel, however, down the street a little ways the support structure was built out of concrete. The concrete section was way quieter, despite looking nearly as old.

Having an above ground train that isn't deafeningly loud is a huge improvement to the neighborhood, and I wonder why we don't think more about making new quiet above ground lines, instead of drilling +$2B per mile tunnels. I understand that people may find them to be an eyesore, but the noise is the top issue by far. With 100 years of new technology since the last ones were built, we should be able to make huge improvements in this area.
As an example, the 1-month-ticket for Stuttgart for two zones is 92,20€ [0].

For those affected by inflation, the reduction from 90 to 15€ would already be noticeable, the additional 6€ would be neglectible to the consumer in comparison to the already offered discount (not to mention that these new tickets can be used in the entire country).

And those who will now leave their car in the garage will probably be saving even more. At least in my case it was always cheaper to use public transport to go to the city, at least if I also considered the parking cost. This for a 1-day ticket, which already costs a bit over 6€.

[0] https://www.vvs.de/tickets/zeittickets-abo-polygo/monatstick...
How much does checking tickets cost?
I start with that I feel similar type loneliness in my project. I always got a solution that other people were positively surprised of, I'm the problem solver in my small project team, and I also am able to write bulletproof-ish code. And I have exact same feeling, that I don't have anyone around that could, or want to challenge me.
I've recently been chatting with my friend, he works for another company, he has the same issue of being not able to discuss solutions with anyone.

I always wished there was a way or a place that people with this 'problem' can meet, chat and ideally brainstorm ideas in their projects or on some other project that they would contribute in.
In some cases it can be a lack of resources. In others, it's because that's where their friends/families/support network is. Or they want to live in an urban environment, just one without as much "urbanish" associated with it. I've lived in Manhattan for a summer, albeit at a time when it was rougher than it is today, and it was a bit tough to deal with week after week.
fair enough. I wonder if there's a job board for this kind of jobs..?
Ring pull on cans used to detach too. Overall that's been a great improvement, though it had the extra elemt of danger from lacerations.
Watches are such a weird, cool world.

Basically the most mainstream male jewellery. No one really needs a watch anymore, your iPhone tells the time more accurately than any watch ever made.

But for some a mechanical, often Swiss watch is an important part of their outward aesthetic.

Most people never notice others watches so you’re likely never impressing anyone with that expensive watch, but if it makes your buddy more confident then that’s great.

In an ever increasingly digital world having a microcosm of precision engineering on your wrist is kind of cool. They also come with some fantastic complications (a fancy word for features), some track multiple time zones which is useful when travelling, some have a stopwatch (chronograph), dive watches have been fantastically waterproofed, and usually have a bezel to measure how long you have been underwater (and how much oxygen you have left).

They are also, in a world of increasing uniformity of picking up the standard issue car or iPhone, a way to express individuality.
Author here. We have 364 separate test programs in the Cosmopolitan repository. However most of our testing comes from running the tests of huge existing projects that use libc, e.g. Python. Try running this on Linux:

git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan.git
cd cosmopolitan
make -j16 o//third_party/python

That command will build Python and all its dependencies from scratch within the hermetic monorepo in addition to running its unit tests. On my $1,000 Core i9-9900 PC this takes 31.078 seconds.
I reached 1k Twitter followers in less than 3 months
> Unhealthy content

It's just flavoured caffeine water.... just like your user name?
BitSNAP: Dynamic Compression for a Low-Energy Sensor Network Async Processor [pdf]
Too bad the city of Chicago half-assed their redevelopment of Northerly Island. Half the island is still closed because the waves kept on destroying the paved trail along the eastern side. The artificial reefs and barrier islands the engineers said were needed to avoid this weren't constructed because of budgetary reasons.
I made a journal based on Stoic principles
I can't seem to find information on whether it is possible to purchase the ticket as a non German citizen.
I'm an American who has lived in Germany, and it didn't seem like a personal attack to me. It's a reasonable thing to wonder when someone espouses a profits-first view in response to a social program.
To me less government regulation would reward larger factories which is what got is into this mess in the first place. Concentration of manufacturing. Most of the federal regulations I know of are around employee safety and excessive labor exploitations, safer environmental practices, or consumer safety. And I'm not sure I've seen where less regulation has had a good track record on this things.
Can someone please link a video how does it work with opening bottle? Can't find it on Youtube.
Sure many things can, allow me to ask what percentage of coca-cola bottles are actually using recycled plastic?
I wonder how hard would it be to create ML algorithms that can classify something as crappy content. I am pretty sure it should be quite doable.
Uh this offer is paid by the railway operators, not by the government?
"legal chess position" is probably defined in terms of being able to arrive at it by legal moves from legal positions.
Birds don’t eat glass
0 EUR 2nd class (presumably fairly crowded) and ~market priced 1st (and potentially a car or two of 2nd at normal 2nd fares) might be an interesting experiment.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Rollercoaster Tycoon were famously programmed in assembly by Chris Sawyer, essentially on his own. I recall they worked on my Pentium 166 practically without issue, even with large maps; perhaps only a tiny bit of lag when zooming out to view the whole thing. They've since been unofficially rewritten in C++ [1, 2].

[1] https://www.openttd.org/
[2] https://openrct2.org/
They still have to check tickets in trains because this only applies to one class of train, and they already are paying people to check tickets and can't/shouldn't fire them all for three months only to bring them all back
> my heart had an irregular beat followed by a drop in blood pressure

Yes I had that happen EXACTLY. After a coffee a few years back. First I felt a little weird beat in my heart, like it skipped a beat. That sort of scared me which probably made it worse, then blood pressure dropped a ton. Almost like i might pass out. Lost fine control of my fingers as they cramped up into an eagle's claw position.

Then all was well after a few minutes of controlled breathing.

I strongly suspect caffeine played a role. But I only had my "normal" morning coffee, an XL cup from a gas station. Was nothing unusual for me. It's hard/impossible to confirm what my problem was. Regardless I drink decaff now and get the same enjoyment from it.
strangely I had encountered mostly resistance to this idea, but after staying persistent on this condition I finally got what I was looking for. before (and still) I would've imagined this would make sense to employers. even startups have this old fashioned mentality ingrained...
Actually, those assholes are everywhere. I was raging to my brother about a modified bike that ripped a giant fart right next to a bunch of houses, and he was saying he gets those on his street all the time.
> ideas that either negatively impact the poorest portion of our society

I don't see the connection here, why would it affect the poorest?

I don't think people mean that all shops close earlier, just that they'd need to hire more people to cover a reduced shift.

> we need to automate out the poorest roles in society

I think we've done that many times in history but it has never led to a reduced workload, usually the company will take the increased profits and the ones that lost their job need to find something else
They are also extremely heavy, so they cost more to produce, more to transport and they are nuisance to get home.
The NS does not receive structural subsidy's.
Why? Presumably they took into account their own financial situation when setting this price. Why would you want an organization to try and claw a few _more_ euros out of people when they've already agreed on 9€? I guess I just don't understand where you're coming from in terms of the purpose of this suggestion.
There are tradeoffs, you need to think about the whole lifecycle.

Glass is heavier, which means more fuel burned to carry it.

You need to wash it too, more detergent in the ecosystem.
> a key-infra open source project

then proceeds to mention a project which is not officially packaged/distributed by any of the major distributions.
As a rule of thumb: anytime you see a human doing a manual task, it's expensive.
Maybe it'd be better if our society reprioritized so "these organizations are all amoral actors who exist for no other purpose except to fatten the wallets of their owners" isn't the assumed norm.
I remember when a simiar thing was done with aluminum soda cans. Old soda cans the top pulled all the way off and people frequently threw them on the ground. To this day I still see old can tops on the ground. This isn't nearly as big a change since bottle tops are resealable so don't get tossed on the ground nearly as much.

Some commenters are suggesting a better option is reusable glass bottles, which I wouldn't object to, but are there resealable glass bottles? (honest question, I haven't seen them. Most of my experience with glass bottles are beer bottles with pop off or twist off caps, but cant be resealed.)
Glass bottles don't leach estrogen. Won't happen
Great post, thanks!

One typo, which is a bit confusing until you look at the source code to confirm it's actually --ftrace: "The Cosmopolitan Libc _start() function starts by intercepting the --strace flag"
Populism. This will make the country consume more energy. There's a crisis and the solution is saving as much energy as possible. And help companies not go bankrupt. But that doesn't sell...
>People who use local/regional transport will be able to buy it anywhere in Germany via channels such as bahn.de and DB Navigator. It will also be available from DB Reisezentrum (travel centre) staff and ticket machines at stations.

Ticket machines can be used without need to identify.
Sadly I am from India, lol
This is a matter of perspective. The ticket is not aimed solely at people with median income of a tech worker (or the typical HN crowd), but help out the general populace as a whole. Including those who can not even afford a car.

Now I think when the times comes (3 month from now) for the program to run out, we might see discussions about continuing it at a price that makes it a more sustainable, permanent offer. But that's my opinion speaking (I wouldn't even mind if it was mandatory like back when I was attending university, as long as it is affordable for people with low to lowest incomes).
This was likely introduced due to producer responsibilty laws which would make the corporation responsible for the cost of cleanup.

Its funny how corporations can come up with solutions when they are the ones that are paying to clean up the waste. Much cheaper to blame the individual but they can only get away with for so long.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that some people need reduced contrast to read comfortably. They are in the same boat as people who need maximum contrast because of other visual impairments, most commonly focal issues.

Why wouldn't people who need less contrast simply reduce the contrast on their monitors, though?

It seems to me as though designing for those who need low contrast excludes those who need high contrast, but not the other way around.

From your link:

> The solution for contrast sensitivity

> If you feel that your child may be suffering from this issue, the first thing to do is test some tinted acetate sheets placed over the page of text.
Its not racist. I would support it if you are personally willing to take the punishment for any heinous crimes committed by immigrants.
Buying the 9 euro ticket is possible anonymously with cash at any train station, so yeah, you should be able to.
You don't need to give chase, just note the license plate and look up the owner it's registered to.
Water ingress into stored diesel is calamitous. See also ‘diesel bug’.
Same in the UK although unfortunately, the per-person cost is roughly linear on the railway and not in a car that will only need slightly more fuel per extra person.

I guess the only way round this is that the per-person cost should be so much cheaper on the train that a car only makes sense with, say, 4 passengers.

The thing is, most people already own the car so they don't consider tax/servicing as part of the cost of travel whereas on a train, this is all added to the ticket and the servicing is pretty extreme on the railways.