skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not as long as those platforms have web browsers that haven't been crippled in some way. If I can buy the tee shirt I'm wearing from ebbetts.com on my iPad, there is more than one store I can shop at on my iPad, it's just that the one Apple provides is marvellously convenient.

Ironically, Apple is also in the payments business these days, and again they make it marvellously convenient to "Buy with Apple Pay" in a web browser. But they don't force anyone to offer Apple Pay on a web site, if vendors choose to do so, that's just market forces at work.

p.s. And it's an awesome tee shirt! https://www.ebbets.com/collections/negro-leagues/products/mo...
'final' only partly relates to virtual functions, you are forgetting or ignoring the use of 'final' on classes.

Also, 'virtual' functions are extremely useful to define interfaces that separate teams can implement and consume independently.

Variants and algebraic data types are not the answer to anything, and it is not "outdated" to use 'virtual' where appropriate, despite what your other comments might imply.
Pascal in DOS was as fast as C if no more.
Cummings: “I don’t like parties”
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is at least partially wrong.

Are you only speaking of public universities? I worked at an expensive, private, liberal arts, non-profit college, where I witnessed revolting inefficiency. Do such schools receive _significant_ state funding? Any?

One example of the waste I witnessed: at the end of the financial year, the student services departments where I worked would blow whatever money remained in their budget on frivolous, needless things, because if they didn't spend it, it went back into the college's budget. This mostly changed after the 2008 financial crisis, (I think?) but that's how it was for a long, long time. All staff were complicit, and knew what they were doing. These departments were given executive privileges with very little oversight of expenditure or outcomes. The corruption was surreal.

Another dynamic that I never see mentioned: in a small college town, the hiring pool is challenging, and the college jobs are the high-status local jobs. I witnessed, on several occasions, needless positions being opened for people who were basically friends of staff, so they could have one of the "college jobs".

When I hear students discussing college debt, and I remember these and other examples, it makes me a bit sick.
I agree that the late 19th to mid 20th century time period sounds amazing. I'd recommend "Connections" by James Burke as a truly well written and produced documentary that shows some of the accidental discoveries and connections that led to scientific progress.

That said, the majority of my life has been in the 21st century and so far I can't recommend it. You're pretty big on life expectancy, but that's actually down in the US and was trending down even before the pandemic. If you look at Robert Sapolsky's work into primate societies and neuroendocrinology, he'll tell you that inequality is one of the biggest stressors of primate tribes, and the implications for humans are obvious. Yet inequality grows ever greater while many of our elite try ever harder to create a morality in which this is acceptable.

I'd look also at children. We just don't have as many of them as we once did. There was a baby bust during the late 30's till the end of WWII that set up for the famous Baby Boom. It seems like we get the bust as though everyone fears the world might end (I'm told it seemed like a real possibility in the 40's), but now for distributed reasons that are economic and ecological. You may say that is just media scare-mongering (I agree their business models reward it dis-proportionately), but real lived experience says otherwise. How many economic disasters do you think a Millenial need live through before they fear the next one? How many years grinding away at a crappy job while education, housing, and healthcare all grow ever more expensive compared to your pay (which by the way might get shipped overseas next quarter)? How many record setting days of heat do I have to endure before I feel like something isn't right?

And if you want more data, look up the wealth and health of Millenials, Gen Xers, and Boomers at any given age - you'll see a continual slide downhill.

And all of that might even be OK - every generation faces its challenges, but when you experience them your entire adult life, and then you get gaslighted and told that the problems don't even exist (presumably in order to justify the ongoing inequality) then you might start to lose hope. You might start to see them doing some strange things. Look at mental health issues amongst Gen Z - another place where the data isn't going to look so rosy. Look at the rise in crime, or the ultimate expression of nihilistic anger - the mass-murder suicide by the young (male) zealot.

Sure you can blame the media, but that just seems like another lazy excuse or attempt to hide the real problems of modern life.
Many people think "idealistically" but sometimes forget to ground it in reality.

People often don't realize that the "utopia" of the Soviet Union where everyone got a guaranteed apartment, pay and a job, was in many ways behind Mexico for example (not to knock on Mexico) but in the USSR and the second world with it's then "UBI"-like system, people could afford less living space and food variety than your median person in Mexico. Often in second world economies, you were forced to live with strangers (not multi-gen families) in the same appt. You could not afford a second hand car and many luxuries were reserved for Politburo, Scientists and those in the nomenklatura.

But some "thinkers" believe that if only SF and other big cities would build complexes like the USSR, except that they would look more like SoMa mid-rises than the more utilitarian Soviet Apt blocks we could fit and satisfy everyone who wants to live in SF and other large cities.
Ok, but now you're moving the goalposts and switching to whataboutism. The original comment was about whether it's impossible or not to have SoCs with socketed RAM. Just because the rest of the ARM vendors also choose not to (because that's how it is in phones and tablets and because it increases obsolescence and their profits) does not negate this fact.
> despite the local 3-ton weight limits.

That's a reference to carrying capacity, not the actual GVW. A Honda Accord weights over 3 tons GVW.
I don't think it'll cost $5,000 USD to install a 200A panel. Though the results are a bit all over the map...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cost+to+install+200a+electrical+pa...

As low as $150 and as high as $4,500.
It's a custom template I created (based on https://vuepress.vuejs.org/), because I couldn't find anything that simple. The source code is available on https://github.com/kgiszczak/shale-website

Interactive examples are powered by https://opalrb.com/
You build expectations around relationships. It's hard when you define a rut. Try to reach out and suggest something to an old friend.

A trick for making friend is often to make a minor ask. It makes a person psychologically invested in you. In this case, the people are asking you and you are giving, but you don't ask. Try to ask them for some sort of help, even if you don't need it.
It's hard for me to ask people to do things or help me, but this it's often easier than setting aside a block of time convenient for both of you. Other people want to be helpful also.
More specifically they have confidence in the stability of its value over time. It's the same reason that US T-bonds etc are said to be "risk free" and why the USD comprises 60% of the world's currency reserves. The EU and EUR come in second in terms of reserves (30%) for the same reason.
Ah, maybe your area or land is better. I was hearing around 60 bushel/acre.
I hang around a few FOSS communities, and the idealism is even more exhausting there. Most people just want to build and use cool or useful things - the zealotry over the FOS part of FOSS has a tendency to produce toxic communities imo.
I often think about the role of universities in the education process. It seems that universities are just profit maximizing entities. They don't care about student's education unless it impacts their reputation or ability to make more money. They give the bare minimum support to teachers to teach as well as bare minimum investment in processes like admissions. Seems like universities are doing exactly what you'd expect any company would do.
Top-Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up to $510,283 in 2021
yeah it's a living. I'm sure there's some free time in the winter but you aren't exactly going to retire early.
"easier to become a medical professional" rather than only "easier to become a physician" is key.

There needs to be a lot more competition in healthcare service provision period. There are a lot of things that could be made over the counter (e.g., drug deregulation), and a lot of services that could be provided by other types of providers (e.g, pharmacists, other professions that don't even exist now).
The national labs aren't purely--or likely even mostly--dedicated to nuclear research. Instead, they cover a lot of the basic science research. These supercomputers will likely be used for projects like exploring cosmological models, or studying intramolecular interactions for chemical compounds, or fine-tuning predictions about properties of the top quark, etc.
This is what a aquisition in Open Source land looks like.. :D
The nix language almost always uses camel case while packages use kebab case.

Options are almost exclusively discovered through search.nixos.org, the configuration man page or by reading the source code. Since the introduction of structured settings there is also often a way to set settings in a freeform type.
Sync-a-Swag: Write SQL. Get free swag.
There are lots of malls, but if we're talking about the kind that houses >100 business (rather than small strip malls), any given consumer has at most 1-2 that can be reached comfortably. Others are available, but require more work to get to, especially for people without a car.

I strongly dislike Apple's and Google's business practices, but I think the analogy OP draws is fair: there are other ways of reaching your customers that require more work on your part and theirs. If it's still worth it to position yourself in the high-traffic mall, that's a valid business decision.
Yeah, seeing this for the first time, my brain wants to say "turk-aye". Hopefully someone can chime in if that's correct.
I think his point is true even in smaller teams and environments. Unless you’re forced to be together like in the military - I don’t see people relating to one another as soon as that context breaks apart. The shared moral fibers are important.

The people I talk to frequently outside of work after having left are people I share some deeper values with. Everyone else seems to not share the same values. (Not surprising either because many are not from a similar background or have gone through what my friends and I have experienced)

I think shared values is paramount to friendships developing outside the workplace/collaborative environment. I’ve worked with hundreds of people professionally and through volunteering - very few ever translated because both of these things I volunteer for and work for attract very specific types of people who I do not get along with. I just happen to do both of these things - and my type of values and personality are more spread evenly in society.
> fast and safe language (java, C#...)

No, no even close. Java and C# crawled on a Pentium III-IV even with SSE2 compared to C and C++.

If you said Ocaml...
Insert xkcd about creating a unified standard
It really puts into perspective just how much energy our vehicles us, whether electric or ICE, when the battery from a single electric vehicle can power everything in your house for many hours/even days.
Here's an idea for setting up the dev tools and accounts: automate the process, write integration tests and put it in a CI pipeline. Whenever breaking changes are made to the tools or services your tests will fail, and you don't have to find out the hard way during onboarding. When a new hire needs to get their computer and accounts set up, just run that automation.
or you rewrite something that worked fine, with buggy half-backed implementation that uses some new overhyped library/language :)
You can also get these lines via the git CLI like so:

git log --graph --oneline --all
Did you forget to pay them?
There are 85 ways to spell hummus.
He talks a bit about the psuedo-random generator [1] they used, including showing some code, but doesn't mention how the seed is set. Given this is an 8088 and in 1982, I guess there isn't a RTC and they wouldn't use persistent storage for that, so the seed is going to be taken based on startup ticks or something like that -- does anyone know?

If you were to plug in the cabinet and record it, is it going to make the identical sounds every time? (and if not, why not? that implies some external source of randomness)

[1] https://youtu.be/FhkLfz0GKYU?t=1607
Related:

4coder, a modern text editor based loosely on Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444912 - June 2020 (16 comments)
Both are dead in the water architecturally if you want to use a text editor that can render fonts and other graphics at 60 fps on a normal desktop.
Why are you so eager to dismiss this as FUD? Are you a google employee? Here are the screenshots of the response I received.

https://imgur.com/a/K66bX6W
My main use case is powering the blower and pumps on my furnace, so cords won't really work.

When you say you've installed it, you mean for someone else?

I kind of had the sense that it was expensive relative to the utility it provides, but it is nice and tidy.
and full blown point and click guis!

of course it was made irrelevant by the fledgling world wide web.
It is incredible how much hate people point to another person.

Why not point this hate to corporations that are destroying our society with their unethical business practices?
Surveillance AI firm with hidden ties to China seeks US infrastructure contracts
This is not the issue. When expected value is well-defined, it is perfectly fair to compute E[X] = E[E[X | A]], where E[X | A] is a function of random variable A ("conditional expectation"). If E[X | A] > A for every particular value of A, then E[X] > E[A], whenever the expected values E[X], E[A], and E[X - A] are all well-defined.

The issue in this case is that E[X - A] is not well-defined. The expected profit from switching is given by an infinite series whose positive and negative components are each of infinite total magnitude, thus yielding different sums when bracketed differently ("conditional convergence"; just a coincidence that the word "conditional" comes up here again).
Sounds like it's a living, but in the work months it's a lot of manual work. You're not exactly getting rich quick. People will pay up for excellent produce/meat.
Once HS/Link came out, I never looked back to x/y/zmodem if the BBS had it on their end:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link

Bidirectional transfers were so handy and a time saver if you were transferring mail files (QWK, SOUP, BlueWave) and your replies. If anyone has some of those old files available, readers are still available:

* https://wmcbrine.com/MultiMail/
Some notes on internal working of profiler
I just want to say that this comment alone has put me off looking into Dragonflydb.
Eh, see I don't agree with this in particular. Moving from savings to a house, can be a slow growth equation that COULD or COULD NOT be compounding (given our current market, in reflection of my own home up 200% from 2008 in our cost) depending on your expectations of that.

Paying off a home may have 2-3% yield, where as normal index is like 4-6% and the rest of the world can operate from 6%-?? in more traditional (but fee laden) vehicles. As far as I can see, a home is SAFE investment by not a progressive one, in choice.

If you are risk averse, then fine. However, we want 6-10% with compounded / low-fee returns over the course of 30+ years if starting around age 30 - which is I bet the average saving age start (thinking first kid, first house, marriage etc) when you get out of that 20's fun-house zone.

I'd say, 401K/IRA (to keep the tax burden off you), then hit up local start-ups in the industry you know the most about, then start working towards passive income. If you are the start-up TYPE, then start like Adam Houghton and do the 6-Starups in 6-Months adventure. (https://medium.com/@adam_c_houghton/6-startups-in-6-months-8...).

I honestly think its investing in yourself until you can be yourself - aka. fake it till you make it in investing by traditional path until you can eject from it .

Investing is a game of self-confidence and getting on with it. Me -> following that 6-mo/6-starups plan as of 6/1. Wish me luck!!!
This is incorrect. Bullet point 7 in the written formula does not refer to a corresponding pair of envelopes, as you imply. Instead, it refers to "the other" envelope only: 1/2 chance that "the other" envelope contains 2A, and 1/2 chance that "the other" envelope contains A/2. Notice that both references reference the same object.
There's always Sublime Merge on Linux.
Opposite situation for me. I've been using Sourcetree for YEARS and it was a PITA, so bad, slow and counterintuitive. On the other hand Fork saved my mental health and it's by far the best git manager I've always used. This is the only software I would be happy to pay for.
Nice to use the same idea as Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Ch...
Believing that all that's being provided is a "billing system" is equally absurd.
Haven't done it myself because my health isn't good enough to be a farmer, but I want to subscribe to your newsletter and live vicariously.
> On the production side, Google was running very large systems. For example, in March 2005, one 1,500-CPU cluster of the Sawzall log analysis system processed 2.8 PB of data.26 In August 2006, Google's 388 Big-table serving clusters comprised 24,500 individual tablet servers, with one group of 8,069 servers.

Neat. I have a custom golang binary (~20k loc) running on a cluster of close to 20k baremetal servers. As a language, it isn't perfect and I have some complaints, but it was definitely the best tool for this job.
Glamorous Toolkit is doing some interesting work here:

https://gtoolkit.com/
That's pretty neat. It looks like the support exporting models with JSON, I wonder if they support PlantUML C4 import? Or some sort of import in any case.
The question was $500/hr. A 30 minute appointment is about $150. Still less than $500/hr with considerably more overhead.
Just noticed when sharing the site link - the summary reads: Vue-powered Static Site Generator. A bit misleading.

<meta name="description" content="Vue-powered Static Site Generator">

Kudos for choosing Vue tho =)
I think you've made a slightly bigger claim than is necessary, which has lead to a focus on BLAS, which misses the point.

The best BLAS libraries use C and Assembly. This is because BLAS is the de-facto standard interface for Linear Algebra code, and so it is worthwhile to optimize it to an extreme degree (given infinite programmer-hours, C can beat any language, because you can embed assembly in C).

But for those numerical codes which aren't incredibly hand-optimized, Fortran makes nice assumptions, it should be able to optimize the output of a moderately skilled programmer pretty well (hey we aren't all experts, right?).
Similarly, my dad has a few email lists he is part of that route their links through something pihole tends to block, be it tracking or ad based, and I had to work with him to go to the website itself then find the articles he was after. Fully legit otherwise and I eventually found ad whitelisted the tracking domain on his pihole instance. He still says it is vastly worth it vs the ads he sees on his tablet when traveling or at other families homes.
Hi! I develop Fork with my wife. We don't have manager, marketing team, designers, etc. We also don't have meetings which makes us more efficient :). So, we don't need too much money to survive.
Answering your question, yes, it's a one-time purchase which includes future updates. We may release a major paid update in the future, however currently we don't have plans for that. The license is cross-platform. You can activate, deactivate and reassign the license.
>C++ instead of Go for ML libraries?

Because (Open)Blas, Atlas and such have decades of C/C++ implementations.
I thought that changed when they launched Games.

https://www.ubergizmo.com/2021/11/netflix-ios-subscribe-thro...
MBA is for people running Facebook Messenger and Instagram to use in coffeeshops, obviously :)
Could be the access to information that the internet brought on. People were able to see data and information much quicker. Perhaps this led to submitting information quicker and having less barriers between someone applying for a loan and getting the loan. This then led to money grabs by every institution and the risks were small since there was always federal backed money available.

Grow bigger, spend more, push the lie that everyone needs to go to college...admissions go up, quality goes down...but they get more money than ever.
I got rid of all my Rokus and replaced them with Fires because Amazon removed Twitch from the Roku and it’s a large part of my streaming content. I grumbled at them for making me do it, but I still did it because at the end of the day I just wanted to be able to stream Twitch.

My point is they all flex where they can flex and Amazon deserves no sympathy here. Only consumers are hurt by these territory games.
While this is a really interesting story, I really don’t see how we can draw any big conclusions from it.
>People see that timely action averted a problem, but somehow take that as evidence that there wasn’t a problem in the first place.

Depending on the situation, 2 cases are possible (and have happened):

(a) A thing was indeed about to become a grave problem and timely action prevented it.

(b) A thing was never to become a big issue, and all the action spent preventing it didn't have any significance.

In both cases the outcome is "thing didn't become a big problem".

But in (a) action is what helped with this, and in (b) action was irrelevant and wasted.

Now some people see the outcome (no issue) and think that action was wasted. That's accurate in (a) and wrong in (b).

My point is that whether "timely action averted a problem" or "the problem was oversold to begin with" is something to be argued and proved, not taken for granted.
in academia education is secondary to research... we make the mistake of thinking they it serves an education purpose, but in reality their focus is on research. this is what matters for their funding, their public name, etc etc
That's a lot to take in. Thanks for taking the time to share your insights.

Is their anything you might say to people that are looking for advice?
Indeed, every single time I've ever heard someone scream whataboutism, it's always been in response to someone else correctly calling them out for hypocrisy or a double standard.
Most of the time it's easier to unload the driver just to write bytes to the USB endpoints. These devices are basically the easiest possible thing you can talk to over USB.