skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The American government exists as a tool to protect the capital owning class and the capital they own.

Wrong. Just totally false. The USGOV exists to persist if you want to be cynical. Persisting in that context means avoiding social unrest that prevents electoral defeat and subsequent legislations that eliminates good paying bureaucratic jobs, and that reduces government spending (thereby reducing income of businesses that rely on USGOV spending).

In sum, the USGOV is not shy about cutting the nuts off the "capital owning class" and its doing that right now with higher interest rates, higher taxes, more regulation & declining asset prices.
ICF is pretty much bomb research masquerading as civilian fusion research. Always has been.

Any money spent on it is not at all badly misdirected, it's rather accurately directed, you could say.
Using a Windows Mobile 2003 PDA (HP iPAQ h4350) in 2022, including WhatsApp
For people who don’t know what MGLRU (Multi-Generation Least Recently Used) page cache algorithm is:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MGLRU-v1...

> There are wins reported for Cassandra, Hadooop, MySQL/MariaDB, Memcached, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and improving the behavior in general for systems with limited RAM capacities or a lot of memory intense activities.

> MGLRU is already shipping with Google Android devices and also patched into Google's Chrome OS kernel.
Paul Krugman also said:

“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically… By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

In 2002:

"To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

I wouldn't put too much stock in anything Krugman says.
Stop trying to enforce pixel perfect control. This is equivalent to old school Win32, VB6 GUIs with hardcoded pixel positioning of all controls designed to work on a 640x480 screen. Web technologies are designed to accommodate flexible layout. Accepting font rendering differences is part of that.
> forgetting to synchronize at all, inconsistent locking

At least for these two classes of categories, mutex usage at Google is broadly paired with compiler-enforced annotations to enforce that _all_ accesses to mutex-guarded member variables are done while holding the appropriate mutex.

https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/synchronization#thread-ann...

(While yes, it can also help with deadlock avoidance as well, that tends to be trickier to enforce across the board, especially if the mutexes in question belong to different objects. There's separate deadlock detection baked into Abseil that's used primarily in non-production builds.)
What's the cumulative size for the index to date? I'm not rich by any measure, but if it's within reach I'd probably fund the storage costs.
Maybe I'm completely off base here, but 1950s counterculture wasn't in the public eye. On the Road, for example, served as a messenger which signaled the existence of such a counter culture 10 years earlier and served it to a broad public audience. In the same way, Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential primed an popular obsession with restaurant culture which resulted in the celebrity chef literally mediated by media.

The point is that by and large counter/sub-culture isn't readily accessible by the greater public (if it was it would simply be culture). It takes effort and activity. Kerouac literally had to be 'on the road' for On the Road to exist. The public doesn't have access to the back of the house, etc.

The author will never connect directly with counter culture if he doesn't find our present's roads and the kitchens. His connection to counter culture will always be mediated through second-hand accounts at best, or substantively diluted by mass media leaving the hollow husk of form at worst.

This is a tale about what happens if one doesn't stray off the beaten path to seek out niche communities and untold stories. It's a feeling of suburban sameness, that there should be more, and that we're capable of being more. It's out there, friend - waiting for you.
Yet, people deciding where to spend their own money are spending it on solar. Nukes are always built with money coerced from other people.
Smart contracts are the future of gun control
Uber doesn’t make money. The bigger their enterprise is the less money they make. They should be firing anyone who says they need more complicated systems to scale when the idea could run on a PC under their desk.
Like "earn a buck" in Wisconsin. The DNR is trying to manage the herd and keep the deer numbers in check. Before you can get a buck tag you first get a doe tag and must turn in a doe to get your buck tag.
No: FTTP and FTTH are the same thing. It’s just that in the case of FTTH the Premises in FTT”P” is a Home. It’s a colloquial difference and doesn’t represent any difference in technology or provision.
I don't believe this for one minute. I don't think "the blockchain" is useful for anything other than revision control.
Anyone can see the current composition of the Fed's balance at https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_fedsbalanc... -- the latest balance sheet is here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm#...

As anyone can easily confirm, US treasury bonds and agency-backed bonds constitute the vast majority of the ~$9T owned by the Fed today.

During the global financial crisis, I believe the Fed was given permission (by the executive and legislative branches) to purchase other kinds of bonds, so it coulld maintain financial and monetary stability.
> We already printed 4+ Trillion dollars and handed it out in a year.

This is a very incomplete model. First, the fiscal stimulus and low interest rates created the fastest exit from a depression-level event in modern history. It took about two years to get back to the point of near-complete employment. Historically this would have taken a decade. The Fed and Congress deserve credit for this.

We would be so much worse off right now, facing a massive deflationary spiral and huge unemployment without that stimulus.

The issue isn't that there's a ton of money floating around, although it's not helping. The issue is that there's supply chain issues, fuel, grain and neon shortages due to a land war in Europe. Everything shortages due to COVID zero lockdowns in Shanghai. And the knock-on effects from a hasty and poorly managed exit from lockdowns. The Austin airport literally ran out of avgas a few weeks ago. [1] None of that has anything to do with stimulus and everything to do with high prices.

[1] https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/30609-austin-internationa...
Luna 2.0, “circus of fools”!
> Perhaps, “token-based” pagination would be a better term?

Let's do it. When I was first learning about it, I wondered how the concept related to database cursors, if at all.

It's really just a pointer to the next item at its most simple. But it really is just any opaque blob. Maybe you want it to be a jwt/encrypted blob with a request counter so you can track request usage by specific accounts (along with the pointer). jk that's probably a terrible idea (too entangled). Idk, just came up with it. Point is, you could do something like that, it's just a blob opaque to the client.

So I like "token-based pagination".
Never used it myself but I think it is this: https://sfcasualcarpool.com/ Found that at https://511.org/carpool which includes a few alternatives as well
Ok it might sound stupid but... make ur life as independent from stock markets as possible

If FED prints a lot of cash and lends it to banks for 0% = stocks are up, if FED stops printing & lends at 0.5% banks panic. Wtf?
So, this article is very evidently leaning towards a Left, anti-imperialist view by calling Ukraine a "proxy war" and the comments by Hudson. Not necessarily a "bad" thing; after all, it is a popular sentiment [1]. Two points:

1. As a Democrat, I frankly don't have faith in the seemingly nonsensical rationale behind much of this administration's fiscal and monetary policy with respect to stagflation (calling for increased taxation on corporations [2]).

2. In reference to Hudson's comments that oil companies are refusing to pump more oil to retain profits, perhaps I can provide some insight: I made some money off WTI oil, and followed the issue for a bit. In short, there's no economic incentive in pumping more oil when domestic production has significantly decreased in recent years due to legislation and declining oil prices. So why restart drilling at closed facilities that'll likely close again due a shift towards more environmentally sustainable energy? Even were they to do so, the period from decision-to-drill to oil-in-a-bucket is at least 6 months [3].

P.S. Amusingly, Biden argues he __wouldn't__ work to depress wages to fight inflation, contrary to the Fed [4].

[1] - https://www.axios.com/2022/05/05/world-not-united-ukraine-re...

[2] - https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/business/jeff-bezos-joe-biden...

[3] - https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Shale-CEO...

[4] - https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/1097891180/biden-names-combat...
You could select into a temporary table and return pages of results from that.

You'd need some mechanism to delete the temporary table after a time, of course, but I imagine this is not uncommon.

Another method would be having a last-modified timestamp on every row in the DB; then you could select records at or before the initial query time. Seems like overkill just for this one purpose, but I imagine it might be generally useful information to have in the DB.
The parent is just saying hyperbolic things to bolster their rant. Their is no direct connection between the Fed's balance sheet and buy backs.

The connection you could make is that by creating generally easy financial conditions like a strong market and low rates, they enabled the atmosphere which promoted the buybacks. But this is far from a direct connection
Slash Sales and Marketing by 50% and they'd be profitable.
Knots take a nearly 1-dimensional object and generate a 3d structure that is both durable and potentially useful, sometimes bordering on life-changing. That's super cool.

I think a lot of us also have a bit of a primitivist streak, and knots are a low technology that can replace a lot of higher tech and still get a lot done (compare to HN's enduring fascination with Forth).
While I partially agree with the theses, one should note that in absolute terms the compute spent even on the largest models of their kind is still pretty tame, compared to SV software engineer salaries: you could train your own Imagen for ~200000$. This is pretty much kickstarter-tier, and not at the higher end of the distribution.

The web-scale data is also available: we already have a dataset superior to one Imagen used: https://laion.ai/laion-5b-a-new-era-of-open-large-scale-mult...

Instead of despairing, we should train capable models in the open, like BigScience does: https://bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/what-language-model-t... and petition our governments to train & make available large models under permissive licenses, for the benefit of the public and small businesses.

The big tech exceptionalism is overblown, you don't really need exotic engineering to train an LLM with Jax and a TPU pod, or whatever accelerator you managed to procure.
I'm surprised that direct sales with one-per-address aren't a thing yet.

Cuts out the 15-30% cut your retailers are taking, boggles scalpers, guarantees your fans get what they want, without anyone getting ripped off.

I don't understand the problem. I've had everything from a spanner to a chair shipped directly from Chinese factories. What's stopping them doing the same with high end consumer electronics?
Automation was always a form of "investor story time". Going from a software company to a logistics company that has to buy, store, and maintain a fleet of vehicles across hundreds of cities was never going to happen even if they figured out full self driving.
> To the mods: consider removing the OP. I doubt it fits the HN guidelines.

The blog (which dresses itself to look like a news site) is the one-man work an editor of Grayzone, a known mouthpiece of the Kremlin and CCP.

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

I'm not entirely up to date on my slang but I believe Norton probably fits the term "Tankie", given Grayzone (and by extension, its editors, including Norton) are Uyghur genocide denialists.
Your OS can magically change the font if a glyph isn't available in the current one.
It's not even about being pixel perfect. I can't vertically align text with an image. If I align it with one font, the other one is misaligned. I need something like media query for fonts.
Anyone ever consider the possibility that crypto isn't needed in a society that is based on trust, and if we all trusted each other, then none of this is necessary? It is almost as if the powers that be want crypto because they don't trust anyone, and therefore perpetuates the problem of needless abstraction?
Pick one or the other. We could have taken our medicine then or now. Turns out we are going to take it now.

Yelling at the void isn't going to change that.
Really? the actual moonshot was exactly this, design by committee, no VC backed funding...
If you want that kind of analysis I’m sure I could come up with one for all the things you mentioned. Music “counterculture” doesn’t really hold any special properties that other types of media can’t. Goth was basically just saying that it’s ok to be a sad teenager or it’s modern Xanax driven branches that say it’s ok to be numb. I don’t really see a difference in depth between let’s say liking violent video games as an outlet or choosing to smoke weed and play vidya in opposition to putting on a suit and getting a real job. Most cultures don’t really have a deep philosophical root - like the anti-war movement did.

Tech also has a lot of counterculture still remaining - open source being a notable one
But the cosmic microwave background refers to one single event, that has echoes everywhere, right?

An event is a single point in spacetime, whereas photon decoupling happens everywhere, defining a spacelike hypersurface we use for synchronization (in the idealized scenario).

Subsequently, the CMB allows us to single out a particular reference frame (the one where it looks isotropic) and provides a measure of expansion via its redshift/temperature which we can then translate to cosmological time (ie time since the big bang as measured by an observer following the Hubble flow) via our cosmological models.
It’s what happens with stateless protocols and offset based pagination 100% of the time, but most people don’t notice it.
A nice summary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCswMsONkwY
Poor ventilation and a stir fry on medium-high heat will bring you above harmful levels for several hours in my experience.

Candles, cleaning, frying. All very good ways to increase air pollution in your home that nobody speaks about.
Sales and marketing affect revenues, you know.
> Does this also include the whole buying toxic assets thing?

Common misconception. The 2008 bail-outs weren't run by the Fed but by Treasury, and they weren't grants, they were loans that have been repaid yielding a $110B profit so far, with more to come. [1]

> Not sure where that fits in your 3 options, but it’s definitely something they’ve been doing, to the tune of trillions of dollars.

As you can see from the composition, 'toxic assets' amounted to a grand total of just 2.9% of the bail-out package ($18.6B). It was a one-off, it wasn't 'trillions of dollars' and it wasn't the Fed.

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
In a major metro like Boston 1 minute further down the road could mean a 5 minute longer wait. I think your point stands however with 6x traffic increase to once every 10 seconds.
In the past I found slight width differences between Windows and Mac that made a text take up a second line. Also, Google Fonts sometimes are updated and this can cause letter widths to change.

… My recommendation is not to implement any design that can’t handle the difference. This will be more robust and better for you in the future (e.g. i18n, zoomed fonts for a11y, etc.). Whenever I worked implementing a design by someone else and there were overly strict assumptions about text size I let them know this was a problem and suggested an alternative.

The problem with your proposed solution is that if you’re using a webfont and measure before it loads, it won’t match the width once it’s replaced. Also, back in the day browsers came with a command to increase char size instead of zooming the whole page… I no don’t know if some still do, or if it happens under certain contexts (a11y extensions?) but that would also break.
> Stop trying to enforce pixel perfect control.

Not the least of which because of text size zooming for accessibility. The web is not print!
Pretty sure Upton Sinclair debunked that theory over 100 years ago
We could also look at simpler ways of living. Simply not using that much energy. Politically that's a suicide move (to promote), but it can happen on a grassroots level. Housing policy for example would need to change. People should be able to build simple houses using natural methods without having to comply with complex building codes.

Upgrading living standards for poor people is (or should/would be) easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtbjQ51NvDg

A bigger problem is making people less career-driven and settle for a simpler life, small-scale farming, permaculture etc. Photosynthesis is free and abundant!

But we're locked into this mental trap of constant growth. We just assume that the only way should be up - more energy, more people, more stuff...
Wow, just looked this up and this is insane. Guess I’m gonna be eating out for a bit. Thanks for the tip
There comes a point where impossible to leave code in a better state without a major refactor.

The choice is between writing a few ugly if statements making the code a little worse or spending 10x the time refactoring hoping you don't introduce any regressions.
Then we'd have been in a recession in 2019 and wouldn't have high inflation right now.
The benefit of RAII is that a return value can guarantee cleanup isn't forgotten about. You can't do that with defer. If I return an FD and I need you to close it, I can just enforce that trivially by returning an RAII type. The same thing in a defer language requires both reading function documentation and not forgetting the defer.

Meanwhile, defer-like utility can trivially be created in top of RAII. So RAII is the more versatile and useful building block
Some very neat semantic-web looking ideas on the screens here.

The word is a huge turn off for a lot people, but that's a pity. There were a lot of problems (a very isolated ivory-tower community high among them), but there's ideas about making data common & open that are very compelling. It's not really data... just a general systems ability to have things, in information spaces.

I haven't spent much time with Notion, but the data-centric model is interesting. I was really interested a couple months ago to find out Roam uses Datomic under the hood[1][2], that this data-centric model deeply underpins it's capabilities. Amusingly, there was another open-source Notion project that sprung up right around then, AppFlowy[3].

[1] https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/01/Roam-Data-Structure-Query.htm... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295532 (51 points, 6mo ago, 4 comments)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29385476

[3] https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29384341 (149 points, 6mo ago, 21 comments)
How would such a ban even be enforced? This makes no sense?
So private companies get to freeload the ducting and telegraph poles that were funded by the public? Are they even going to contribute to maintenance? What happens when the ducts fill up? This sounds corrupt as hell.
Western countries are rapidly moving from being high-trust to low-trust societies. The reasons for this are multifaceted, complex, and self-reinforcing, and it isn't likely that the trend will be reversed any time soon. Certainly not within our lifetimes. So we can either stick our heads in the sand about it, or develop technologies to deal with it as best we can. I'm not a crypto fan myself, but I understand why it exists and why it will probably be increasingly important as time goes on.
Depending on what you mean by ‘page’, you probably want a query? (Show me all results with values between 1 and 10)

If you want to jump ahead in the results, that is fundamentally unstable though.
> It's different when you're a large company with a legal team doing something not clearly illegal - than when you're a single individual doing something clearly illegal.

If this is sarcasm it’s too subtle for me to recognize.
They also don't have the room in the tunnels
Except it doesn’t implement the axioms of math, it implements a crude facsimile of them for a certain subset of numbers, because what it’s really doing is a non-mathematical physical process.
Nah. That's just nonsense pop psychology with no real scientific basis. Avoiding seeing yourself as a victim is good advice for everyone, regardless of their perceived locus of control.
From the jobs page of the first link for a software engineer position: "The position is salaried up to $72,000 a year depending on geography. Fixed-term contracts are available."

Sorry, but you're not buying competitive talent with 72k/year salary. Uber can squeeze out tons of marginal efficiencies via better routing/matching, price discrimination, and surge algorithms. Implementing those algorithms means hiring good talent, especially in ML. Having a fancy frontend is only 10% of the picture if you want drivers to have good utilization.
People are pointing out that Lyft and Uber often brought car service to towns without taxies and that is true (and good I suppose).

But I do not think that's the business we should be sad about disrupting - Lyft and especially Uber have been fighting hard against all sorts of public transit systems across the US because they view them as competitors. It's unclear how effective they have been, but I also have no love for their intention - which is to lock the public into their service.
I like "The first 90 days" by Michael Watkins. It lays out an onboarding strategy that makes sense, with concrete steps. I initially thought that it targets management only, but it'd work for anyone if you consider yourself a "team of one".

He talks about common traps when starting in a new role:

- “Sticking with what you know.” -- when all you got is a hammer..

- “Falling prey to the action imperative” -- in my case it's sometimes coding before I actually understand the problem

- “Setting !unrealistic expectations!. You don’t negotiate your mandate or establish clear, achievable objectives.”

- “Coming in with “the” answer. You come in with your mind made up, or you reach conclusions too quickly about “the” problems and “the” solutions. You alienate people who could help you understand what’s going on, and you squander opportunities to develop support for good solutions

He then moves on to identifying company culture, learning the internals, establishing relationships and securing early wins to show your worth

It's a useful model if you need a template for when you join a new company.
I’ve got the 1Gb service from them and I have to say it’s exactly what I want - for £50 a month they just pipe a full native IPv6 connection with gigabit up and down into an XGS-GPON terminal that I can plug whatever I want into, and then send me a bill. It does exactly what it says and there is no other nonsense to deal with.