skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it’s just me but when I Google something, and land on a reddit result, and then am forced to open it in the app, the link opens the app but doesn’t navigate to the post. Therefore it’s actually impossible to see the full result, even if you have the app installed, without re-finding it in the app. Super frustrating!
I often forget that a lot of things that I take for granted today where innovations at one point in time.
I hear you. I am self employed but try to mimic the standard 37-hour work-week of my country. Most weeks I do it 6x6 instead of 5x7,5ish...

6 hours feels more productive and 6x6 feels less hard than the normal 37 over 5 days...
And nothing is true white so don't use #ffffff.
We can continue with blue, green, red. /s
One trick I employ for myself is:

throw "TODO" // <comment with some additional context to remember>

Substitute for your language's syntax of course.

I find this especially handy when writing test specs, but it's also handy when creating new functions etc. For tests I lay out the test descriptions with just this one line in the function body. For new functions/methods I can define the function and its return type (assuming a type-safe language) which makes the code using it compile, but leaves the implementation TBD.

The placeholders are then implicitly flagged in test runs and easily found. Basically my text search results for 'throw "TODO"' become my TODO list.
As someone who has never (at least knowlingly) encountered a flaskBB forum in the wild, what do you like about it? And what are your gripes about Discourse (the interface is bit whitespace-heavy and 'pop', but serviceable IMO)? Discourse has a LOT of moderation and QoL stuff baked in, so I'm just wondering. Is it the missing old-world feel?
Stronger concrete sounds much more interesting than just that less concrete means less CO2. Should open up some design possibilities for architects.
Let me rephrase: distributing work to web workers won’t be faster in first page load than images in this conversation.

Because we have to participate in the main thread either way, prerendered images will always paint faster. There is simply too much action in the thread during the initial GitHub page lifecycle. The 40-50ms (~one long task) cost of spinning up a new web worker just solidifies that.
> [C]ompanies like Rolex spend a lot of money on enforcement to get rid of counterfeits because counterfeits remove the willingness for people to play to pay the high price for an original.

An interesting scene from the movie House of Gucci (2021)[1] is when Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), the wife of Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) discovers the fake bags you can buy on the street and tells Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino) who is then the family brand leader.

The point Aldo makes is: The distribution of fakes strengthens the brand, because it gives normal people a belief that they can own a Gucci bag. They know their bag is fake, their peers may or may not know, but they still advertise for the real bag and the belief that if you're affluent, you want a Gucci bag. The brand would be worth very little if only the people who could afford it cared to speak of it.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11214590/
Climate change – Many think it's world's top problem. Is this right?
What you want is for the complex things to be verbose and the simple things to be concise.

Objective-C makes everything verbose. It’s too far in the other direction. Memories of stringByAppendingString
Vis timeline: https://visjs.github.io/vis-timeline/examples/timeline/

CHAP Links Library: http://almende.github.io/chap-links-library/timeline.html
Well the thing is those who use new layout are more likely casual users that have no res or adblock installed, compared to old reddit users.
Yeah the load balancer bit sucks, I forgot about that. I use terraform for multi region deploys but yeah, the load balancer is a major cost.
Love this channel!
Very excited to see what the future holds for this. What kind of crazy books, stories and plots will be written with AI? How will AI's creativity manifest itself? Will AI ever develop its own unique style?
Depends on the monitor. If you’re using a normal LCD or you’ve spent your money on features other than contrast (namely resolution and latency), black text already looks grey. No need to make it any more grey than it already is.
You shouldn’t really be shorting if you don’t know what you’re doing, so the parent still applies.
It all comes down to productivity.
Who can be productive 8 hours, day after day, for years?

I know people (in IT) that work 6x6hours. And both they and employers are satisfied with this arrangement.
Can we also make an extension for simulating bad eyesight that everyone who makes websites with thin gray text would be forced to install?
The price is not know yet, but this Paris-Rome line look like a luxury train, a bit like the Riviera Express line (Nice-Moscow), the Paris-Moscou Express (both on hold since 2020) or the classic Venise-Simplon-Orient-Express. None of them are cheap choices for a night train.

That said, the actual choice for Paris-Rome by train is to take the Paris-Milan TGV trains with the french SNCF or the italian Trainitalia, and then the Milan-Rome (with Trainitalia or NTV). All in all is a 20h travel for around 200-300€ (for tomorrow), probably way cheaper than this 2024 train, and around the same than most plane tickets (but you can find "cheaper" planes...).

In the past, there was a night train between Paris and Milan by Thello (a Trainitalia subsidiary), but is't also closed since 2020.
One of the advisors in the 100% remote company I just started in recommended me to read into Nozbe. It's an app for project management but that's not what I want to highlight.

The company has been working on effective asynchronous processes since their beginnings (over 10 years ago) and they've written an open source book about it called "No office". They also have a podcast and a blog and I'm looking into them for reference as I build a proposal on how to optimize communication logistics and information management inside the company.
If only the new code were working.

You cannot browse some subreddits on mobile because it shows a message saying that you need to install the app to see its contents.
> You've obviously studied this, but having actually lived in a city center police sirens are actually fairly rare. Despite what you say they rarely sound them at night unless they really have a need, at least in Nottingham.

Where I lived in Bristol they were surprisingly common; when I had video calls people noticed and it became a bit of a running gag with my coworkers. Also lots of police helicopters (sometimes in the middle of the night) that kept circling for half an hour or more.

Never had it anywhere else though. AFAIK I didn't live anywhere near a police station, but I think the road near my house was often used to get to the city centre (in spite of not being that large).

Interestingly, I never personally experienced any problems with any of the other issues you mentioned, except cars (not taxis) idling; I often had people stop in the parking lot to make a phone call safely (great!) but they left the engine on for 20 minutes (less great).
Sounds like you're bringing network tech in, which is unnecessary and costly.

I suggest you considers structuring the reusable pieces as a library and then reaping the benefits of strong typing and absurdly low latency when building the non reusable UI.

Akka might be interesting if you were a team but you really can just use regular old method calls.
For information, you can play proxies in some competitive MTG games if you prove you have the card. And in less known games like vampire CCG, proxies are allowed in tournaments without proving anything (and imho it makes that game even more competitive, and allow players to modify their deck at will depending on the clans/player at the table.
G7 Calls for Urgent Crypto Regulation over UST/Luna Fiasco
At a meeting this week, the body indicated that the goal is to ensure investor safety and financial stability as soon as possible. Reuters reports that the G7 asked the Financial Stability Board to expedite "consistent and comprehensive" global regulation.
Diesel goes off fairly slowly.
One year old diesel can be put into any modern car.
Two year old diesel can be mixed 50/50 with fresh diesel and put into a modern car
10+ year old diesel can go into a tractor or an old (pre 2005) diesel car.
It’s almost like they’re trying to copy Digg’s demise.
*nah man, I voted it down.
It's a discovery that was hyped way too early and way too widely in order to drive research grants. I hope this behavior stops but unless incentives change it will likely only increase.
Anybody has some extension to change colors when background is black and text is white? I don't know if this is common or not, but I just cannot look at that for more than a few seconds, my eyes burn. I never found an extension for Chrome that fixed this.
I think you would have a hard time in Africa; Africans themselves tend to have a stronger affiliation to their continent than country and refer to it as-such.
I believed that was actually common practice already, especially near crossings, in order to make the asphalt more elastic, so that it bends under the weight of a standing car and then goes back to its old shape.
Yes, happens frequently to me in my area of Queens. Especially on weekends. Often, it's difficult to go back to sleep. A day of productivity lost for me and probably many others for no particular reason. It's kind of a tragedy. I once commented on it in the neighborhood FB group, only to receive a cascade of "get over it" and "Karen" comments. It's amazing to me how few New Yorkers are aware of the effects of noise. And then there's the honking. Every day, on a quiet neighborhood morning, at least one person will feel the need to make their displeasure at having to briefly stop known to hundreds of people. It's the main reason I can't live in NYC full time. Not sure what it would take to get anyone to care, but it seems that it'd require such a large cultural shift as to be almost impossible to change. Even NYPD use their siren through almost every intersection for no particular reason.
the value is in the limited edition asset signed and distributed by an artist. you can verify this by taking the Beeple PNG and re-minting it yourself to see if others value it the same way. or you can take any popular artist's or photographer's signed print like Damien Hirst and create a copy without a signature to see if people value it.

banks and CEX both have nothing to do with the topic of certification of art. neither a bank or CEX upholds the cert.

interesting that you say NFT-as-certs have no impact for notable artists yet there are a variety of notable artists using NFT-as-certs. see: Hirst, Koons, Pace gallery all using NFT. the nice thing is that this tech is available to all, whether you are a notable artist like Hirst or just an illustrator or pixel artist, such as @jmw327.

https://twitter.com/jmw327
More like Reddit in the days before subreddits.
There was once a guy who traveled from somewhere in southern England to London by way of Berlin because that was cheaper than simply taking the direct train to London.

It's utterly ridiculous how much air travel is subsidized and train travel is not. Another problem is indeed that trains can't really compete with each other; even privatised, they still end up with local monopolies on specific lines, or else it would become chaos. I suppose there's some competition between high-speed rail and short flights, and sometimes, high-speed train tickets (to France at least) can get surprisingly cheap if you buy them at the right moment, but the competition remains unfair because of all the subsidies air travel gets.

Maybe EU governments should subsidise trains to the point travel becomes free. I'm sure that would cut down on traffic jams on roads too.
I think it depends on the job quite a bit. For creative work, I often find it impossible to force myself to work past 4 hours in a stretch; in other cases, I can easily work 11 hours before noticing that it's been that long and I haven't even had lunch yet.

My company does a version of summer Fridays, where it's very easy to take 3-day weekends every week and I very much appreciate the "extra" day and would strongly not like to go in the other direction.
Flexible hours in general should be encouraged and fought for. 4x6hrs would be ideal for me, but you have to have leverage to convince most places to agree to that.
“Keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out.”
Yeah, fuel degrades over time. There are different numbers out there. Exxon [1] says up to six months. "In general, gasoline should be used within a month of purchase. When the engine will not be used for an extended period of time, it’s best to drain the fuel tank and then run the engine until it stalls. If you choose to store gasoline and follow proper storage guidelines, the gasoline can be expected to remain of good quality for at least six months."

https://www.exxon.com/en/gasoline-safety-storage
I'm in a very similar position (2 kids under 2) and i've been over-consuming coffee just to feel functional on a daily basis.

In order to cut down a bit, i've been mixing decaf with caff when making Cafetiere coffee and it's helping me ween off it a bit.
I don't have a citation, but a personal anecdote: When I was in charge for a website, an elderly woman contacted us and asked, if we could change the black text to a dark grey. She mentioned that the contest was too high, resulting for her in seeing ghost images of the letters. I changed the text color from black to something like #eee or #ddd (at least a change barely noticeable) and she later contacted us to to thank us, so it must have had an effect on her. So it seems, for some people with limited eyesight, contrast can be too high as well.

However, I agree with the generell sentiment that in modern web design, contrast is often too low.
Interesting how I scroll onto this while finishing up Dan Carlin's Hardcore history series about Japan/Pacific WW2 history. Still can't really grasp what life would have truly been like then.

The Japanese had an almost unbelievable fire and intensity.

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-62-Superno...
Hmm... I would guess there are more people in the world who knows what "sum" means rather than "∑"
When USA nuked Japanese civilians we didn't call it genocide. Targeting civilians is not the definition of genocide.
https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/
Has some interesting - scientific based - design choices regarding how to handle contrast…
> This is what generics are for in most languages.

That goes exactly opposite of this optimization, and is just entirely orthogonal.

> It's also super disappointing that in 2022 we're still manually marking 10- line functions used in one place and called from one site as inline.

You misunderstand the change.

In a nutshell the prior version was a polymorphic function pointer that varied by the sort type.

(*sort_ptr)(data);

No compiler can inline this, no matter how aggressively you turn up the optimizations.

Their change adds specialized cases.

if (dataType == PG_INT32) {
sort_int32(data);
} else if (dataType == PG_INT64) {
sort_int64(data);
} ... {
} else {
(*sort_ptr)(data);
}

This enabled the inlining, and while it's no harm to add the inline specifier if you want to be very overt in your intentions, most compilers would inline it regardless in most scenarios.
where do you see the pricing?
I'd be fine with that reputation, given circumstances not worth getting into.
You must be against democracy and freedom. Dont you see weapon sales and money laundering is a good thing? So what if a few million people die..
> It's also a tacit admission that they have a QA process that is dogshit and simply expect users to catch bugs

Since when did we expect OSS to have QA process that is not the users ? It's telling that the co-opting of OSS by business led to this expectation that OSS is something to consume rather than participate in.
That’s been going for a while now (it goes on to Åre as well). What I’d really like is the proposed Malmö – Brussels night train, but no bidders approached SJ for that one.
The new reddit is an embarrassment.

Old reddit load time: ~0.5 seconds / ~1-2mb transferred

New reddit load time: ~15 seconds / ~14mb transferred

After those 15 seconds new reddit threw a popup in my way, asking me about my interests. Once I dismiss it I'm in some weird information-scarce hellscape where I need to scroll to even get past the first submission.

It's inexcusably bad. It's throw it out the window and try again bad.

Any somewhat experienced developer would be embarrassed if that was their weekend project. Reddit had how many people work on that for how long?
I haven't used it (I prefer to write my site myself), but perhaps https://bearblog.dev/?
I'm not a gamer, my only usage of Gpu is Cuda basically. Still angers me.
I will take you at your own word. Where could someone read your meta-research if one wanted to? Even if that is on a non peer-reviewed Arxiv type site?
I have a pair of Samsung earbuds, can't remember the modelname. They cut out all the time and lose connection or drop out of sync regularly. They are unusable.
I nuked pretty much all my comments and walked way from my account perhaps a year ago now. That sounds kinda absurd in the context of a website, but I personally did need that kind of 'clean break' in my head to put it behind me. Now I only touch the site briefly by happenstance when seeking some particular piece of information, my starting point being elsewhere, and I quickly dip out. That pattern of use is starkly different to how reddit is commonly used, as a starting point and jumping-off-point for a session of low-to-no-direction browsing.

I've lost nothing. My time goes on things that are significantly more productive, like online gaming and polishing my nails. I'm only half joking.

I hope reddit's slow decline continues rather than hitting some sudden turning point, because the alternative is some new clone coming along and everyone migrates like happened with digg redesign. That would just perpetuate the situation for another decade or two, and that would be a shame.
In my experience debuggers handles this fine. Some archs also has a link register (jump and link) which may help finding back. This test is from x86-64 Linux.

/*
gcc -g -Wall -o x x.c
gdb ./x
(gdb) r
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1 0x0000555555554617 in foo () at x.c:6
#2 0x0000555555554628 in main () at x.c:10
(gdb) f 1
#1 0x0000555555554617 in foo () at x.c:6
6 bar();
(gdb) p bar
$1 = (void (*)(void)) 0x0
*/

#include <stddef.h>

void (*bar)(void) = NULL;

void foo() {
bar();
}

int main() {
foo();
}
This is a good thing since it will make sure that mostly useful projects that have real applications will continue developing and improve the adoption.
Does getting used to the noise still affect people on a subconscious level? A family member has a newly built fire department and it used to alert me every time I heard the siren, but now I rarely notice. I was curious how that affects people living there in the long term.
"Climate change makes people feel angry, powerless, and — above all — afraid. If society doesn’t act more decisively, climate change will affect all our lives and gravely damage livelihoods around the world."

I agree. The media has done a great job scaring people while at the same time providing zero information about how solvable the issue actually is. We still have time and the way people live can change so quickly (e.g. many people managed to adapt to.covid fairly well within weeks).
How can one make the judgement that the journalism is good when one cannot read the articles as they are behind paywalls?
Don't forget that you can use new.reddit.com while logged in with your account that is configured to show you the old layout.

This skews the numbers on how many people will bail once they drop support for the old layout. I'll definitely be part of that exodus and it will surely be bigger than 2%.
By different people that have been approved by the compiler developers.
Awesome! The Quad Drum Voice also looks amazing. Where do I find prices? Would love to order
That is only if you bought Bitcoin when it was <$10K and as low as $5K or 6K in March 2020 which I hope you got in at the time and not at $20K, $30K or $40K.

> Just an example last year I had a target of $150k when it was at $50k, and also (like most people) I got a BTC based loan (it made sense for tax purposes as well).

That doesn't sound like a good idea in the middle of a bull run and everyone being in profit on Bitcoin when it was at $50K last year or even $69K. I have a different strategy - taking profits and taking advantage of the hype.

It's better to get in when the market crashes so that you can buy it significantly lower, (Like say <$10K) and sell some of it during the height of the euphoria, than it is to enter when everything is going up and end up bag-holding and waiting months, or years in an unrealised loss for it to go back up again.

Hence being against anyone jumping in at >$60K last year [0] and warning another person about DOGE going all the way up and bag-holding it at $0.6; thinking that it will go to $1 by August. [0]

Anyways, Good luck with your strategy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27206314

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046019
That’s what I was thinking when I read it. I have no idea if tritium emits more radioluminescence near a source though.
> Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home

Anecdotal evidence is no evidence.

Cars and bikes are complementary, not alternatives.

Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home too, they travel 100 kms a day on an highway from one side to the other of the city.

If they had to go by bike, they had to be pro bikers, which they are very far from. Even if they took the road through the city, which is shorter, they would have to climb a few steep hills (you know, Rome it's not flat like Amsterdam and it's huge).

Starting from now there'll be 35-40 degrees celsius in Rome until august, not really the best climate to bike, also considering that arriving all sweaty at work and having to shower and change is not exactly what "most people" want do or can do.

They could, however, use the public transport.

That would solve the issue.

Bike would not.

> the conclusion you drew from it is false -- at least from the perspective of society.

Show me the proof that on average what you say it's true and I'll consider it.

In my country average commute time is 30 minutes, only in Milan, 1.5 million residents, the subway moves 400 million passengers/year.

Also in Italy there are around 10 thousand electric scooter on rental, in the past two years there have been already 2.000 incidents, mostly self inflicted.

Put those 400 million passengers / year on bikes and the next month ER rooms will look like the COVID 19 period.

To convince them to bike for 30 minutes under heavy rain, or scorching sun or uphiil, it would mean forcing them.

Cities are already bikeable, but most people prefer not to, because biking is not the best way to move for many people.

If they wanted to do it, they already would.

I think if you speak about society, bikers are some of the worst offender of common spaces, if you'll ever come to Milan I'll show you why that's the case.

One example above all: they protested for the bike lane, the city made the bike lane, they are not using it because they "don't like it" and now they bike on the sidewalk.

And they also think they have the right to.

At that point it's far too easy to prefer car drivers, at least they don't drive where it's clearly signaled that the space is pedestrians only.
Erh. I thought you wanted more squiggles, not less. My bad.