skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree on some of the points.

My point was that complexity is not a single face phenomenon and can't account alone for risk of failure.

I believe we should look at why complexity is there and what purpose it serves.

Human body is a complex machine, but the fact that failure can bring it down to the extreme is because human body is fragile and once single organs start failing things cascades to the point of no return very quickly.

We are in fact not build for extreme resiliency, but for extreme adaptability (not even the most extreme nature created)

A simple system most of the times is built with simplicity in mind (sorry for the tautology) and sometimes because of simplicity is more efficient.

It can also happen to more complex systems, like for example our body which is very energy efficient at the expenses of resiliency. Klingons OTOH have two livers, an eight-chambered heart, and two stomachs. They are bigger, consume more energy and need to eat (and drink) a lot more. Redundancy adds complexity, but have its purpose.

Klingons do not exists obviously, but nuclear factories are another example of complexity serving safety, not more efficient operations.

Simpler systems usually exhibit single point of failures, like for example now with the war our very complex supply chain can shield us better from the consequences than countries that don't have them or can't afford them.

Historically they died sooner and we haven't records of their sudden fall, because they never reached the point were it mattered enough.

So complexity - I would call it complex redundancy -, which is very costly, depends a lot on the ability of gathering the resources.

Going back to the Romans, at one point they stopped making new steel and warships because the huge amount of wood necessary was not sustainable and Europe witnessed the first massive deforestation of its history.

So, before collapsing, they had to add another layer: recycling. Which can be simpler as a process but also requires a longer chain of supply.

Add to that the will of their enemies to conquer them, the lost knowledge on how to reboot failing systems because they were so old that people took them for granted and things can go south pretty rapidly, but that's not an inherent property of complexity, but of fragility.

The Universe is immensely complex, but I believe it's still going strong after 13 billions years from its birth.
Don’t Tesla’s need coolant like a regular car? Or break fluid?
I don’t know, but if so EVs are a real game changer.
Have a look at the plans of Schleswig-Holstein, a federal state of Germany. The want to switch 25.000 PCs to LibreOffice and Linux from Windows/MS Office. Details here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-s...
In most cases, one can not use more than two guns at one time, and usually only one, so after reaching a 100fa/100ppl average further gun purchases are moot. It’s not the number of guns, it’s the number of emotionally-stunted crazy people.

Number of households with guns is a more sensible measure. A household with 100 guns is probably not 100x the risk.
Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, courts aren’t ready for DNA theft
I think there's a point where it feels like it's gone beyond simple price discrimination to leveraging hundreds of employees and millions of dollars to actively manipulate and exploit a player base that is often substantially comprised of children. I've watched developer presentations on how best to implement Skinner boxes and other gambling mechanics to help condition users and obscure exactly how much they are spending. That may be fair to judge a company poorly for.

For me personally, it represents the fact that the company is actively working against my best interests, and that feels bad. Additionally, completely selfishly, it makes me sad to see games that I would otherwise enjoy be distorted by this sort of monetization.
Pharma and [private] defense have other muscles to flex. They hire millions of people around the world, sell governments billions at negotiated rates.

These mechanisms give them much more influence, in a far more opaque way than donations.
>classify loot boxes with a random drop element as gambling

Most people who talk about this tend to have no idea what laws already cover gambling.

I think that, in this case, loot boxes should be treated like slot machines as far as minimum payout goes; in Nevada (for example) this is minimum 75% by law- meaning that the house must ultimately return 75% of the value it takes in as winnings to its gamblers.

As these systems are effectively slot machines (put coin in, pull handle, get box), not much more needs to be done other than applying the law as written.

It might be tricky to establish a dollar value for the digital assets paid out, and would add overhead to assets distributed in this manner (how one would put a price on "asset that changes the way the game works" is, of course, an open question), but provided it's done properly should clamp down significantly on the anti-consumer aspects of these practices- which is, I suspect, the real reason everyone complains about this in the first place.
Good points. I wonder how the leakage from the relatively large amount of furnace gas compares to the leakage from the relatively small amount of stove gas. For example, if the furnace uses 10x cubic feet of gas and leaks 50% less per cubic foot than the stove, the furnace will leak 5x more cubic feet than the stove. (Completely made up numbers.)

Then the next question is, how does the furnace leak in the basement affect the air quality where people typically breathe?
This type of “optimisations” is not unique to capitalism. In fact, in USSR some positions were simply semi-officially unavailable to young married women due to assumption that if you hire one she’d be away on maternity leave within weeks.
Imagine someone putting words in your mouth, four decades after your death, in support of the very thing you ridiculed as nonsense.
100ug is probably the most standard claimed dose, which often comes out to be around 75-85ug. 10ug is probably specifically tabs meant for microdosing.
Scientists develop a 'fabric' that turns body movement into electricity
Finding the length of the array is O(n), though.
Is there anyone speaking against this, at the EU level? These youngsters should form a group and fight back. I’d have guessed this to be a thing in say U.K, but it is depressing to learn it happens even in the progressive Nordic countries
Complex systems are always in a state of maintenance. Some part is
always failing, but we can repair it. Systemic failure happens when we
can't keep up with the necessary maintenance. It's very easy to look a
a big complex system, see lots of failure, and conclude the whole
ship is going down, but that may not be the case.
That sounds like an extreme opinion. I have nothing against Meta, and I hope VR and AR keeps on getting bigger thanks to them.
Reminds me Ants AI Challenge [1] which supported most programming languages. As far as I can tell LeekWars only supports "LeekScript"?

[1] http://ants.aichallenge.org
It's so hard to be a white male in the tech industry.

However do you manage to put up with all the discrimination you face every day?
Sounds familiar...
> If the Philistines had Greek cultural origins it explains why the David story involved one on one combat

Don't many other unrelated cultures have one on one combat?
If you know calculus try the Feynman lectures, if you don't know calculus you need to learn calculus first.

Aim to understand things for your own pleasure rather than being useful.
The Mac Studio does in fact dissipate up to 370 Watts quietly via a larger design, 2 very thick fans, and utilizing an external power supply. The Mac Mini uses the laptop/tablet class M1 SoC and does not deliver on HEDT workloads so cooling is unexpectedly an easy task.

The sweet spot in uniqueness with the M1 seems to have been the M1 Ultra mobile case. I've got a 16" Macbook Pro with one and AMD/Intel still haven't quite caught up in the workstation laptop segment without constantly kicking fans on.
I've noticed this trend more and more with apps, reddit starting doing it too recently.

There are times when walled gardens work, when they make sense. This is not that time.
I was in your situation and then I came down with MS when I was 26. How am I to succeed on my merit when my medication costs > 300k/yr and I have no idea how long I'll be able to work (or what I'll be able to do for the scope of my career)?

Can you tell me what the correct Konami code is for success here?
Heard of DeFi?
> What stops you from using discord messages as a database? :p I really enjoy this type of stuff though, is there a term for it?

Potential SIGBOVIK papers? But more seriously, for communications, it would be "covert channels". I met someone at NCSU who was working on something with bots communicating through WoW trade offers (which would be unlikely to be logged, unlike trades or chat messages).
Many people are quite attached to their cliches of nationalist historiography. In fact, they find it quite annoying when they are called chauvinists for believing them.
I'm a little surprised iOS doesn't have a way to report a notification as spam.
The human body is a very complex system. It's an incredibly complex system with 30 trillion moving parts (cells). And it doesn't stop there. Layer upon layer of abstraction culminating in organs, sub-systems (cardio, nervous, GI, ..), and finally a thinking hairy biped. It operates in a hostile environment subject to ceaseless assault by germs, viruses, and other organisms. Complexity clearly can not be the issue, otherwise evolution would favor simpler organism, but we're the ones lording it over simpler systems.

I think our design thinking is lagging. We need to work on that front.
For those who are too young or forgot this hearkens back to RobotWar by Silas Warner on the Plato system in 1970s and later on the Apple II (1981) and there may well have been something from an earlier time on the old big iron. Does anyone know of anything earlier? I had so much fun on RobotWar and it had an impeccable source level debugger which was a revelation in 1981. I'm excited there are current code battle arena games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar
2 Second Linux Boot on I.MX8
Great book: "The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next"
Let me ask you back: Why not? What would be worse than a regular cab?
That's a very interesting topic.

We still don't know what actually happened, but the scholars studying it are discovering piece by piece that it was a "perfect storm" and no single event can be assumed as the root cause of the collapse.

The most interesting part of it, for me, is that it was a cascade failure caused by "globalization" of the times.

Maybe if we really understand what happened it can help us prevent a collapse of our current society (assuming it's not already too late)
Well, indeed. I'm just old barely enough to remember the 90–2000s debate about "political correctness," and one of the things I find most fascinating about the discussion of "wokeism" is how completely indistinguishable it is from the discussion of "political correctness".
Every notification system eventually becomes email. What that means is that we probably need OS-level spam filters so that you can report things as spam. If the notification looks spammy based on the training, it simply won't show up. Marketers think they're reaching you, an army of software engineers remained employed to figure out how to refactor the API to send notifications with the V3 protocol or whatever unnecessary change the OS vendor made this week (driving up every other software engineer's salary; thank you!), but you don't have to be woken up by the latest not-actually-a-very-good-deal.

Whether or not the notification was delivered or blocked by the filter probably shouldn't be fed back to the application, to stave off the inevitable workarounds. But people will test stuff on their own devices and find workarounds. "Your order has arrived! Tap for details." But when you tap it's just an ad. On the other hand, it would be nice for things like Pagerduty to know that all of their notifications were blocked and that they should escalate to the next person on the rotation.

The "mark as spam" data should be fed back to the app stores, and if the app requested status notification privilege and not marketing notification privileges, their app is pulled until they fix it. (Cannot wait to read the whining about that. "I'm just trying to hustle like some blog post from 30 years ago said I should! <crying face emoji>")

In the meantime, I don't really ever turn on app notifications. They usually email me, and what's great about email is I have the Spam folder and the Promotions tab, so I never see most of their communications.
Not for a lack of trying. If monkeypox really flares up I suspect people will literally hold superspreader parties just to spite the system.
Depends whether we're discounting nuclear as "alternative", really.
> Until recently change, Noma sent stagiaire candidates a document labelled “informal agreement” to sign.

I think if it's a document you sign, it's not an "informal agreement."

> His spokesperson said Redzepi had been open about the issue and participated in “hundreds of hours of counseling”

I just vomited in my mouth a little.

Actually, independent of the content: this article is Journalism as it's supposed to be practiced. Good work, Imogen West-Knights!
> If you think ARM's slate is clean, you should read into the neverending drama that is ARM China. Nobody is necessarily good here.

I don't understand how having a regional subsidiary going off the rails on their own has anything to do with the typical experience of a licensee.
not the parent, but... I had to give up past Pitfall, Asteroids, Donkey Kong and others. One stick... 1-2 buttons - that's ... all I can handle. The switch to Nintendo and the "A-BB-B-UP-UP-X-Y-AABBA" key codes people would memorize from magazines... I just couldn't keep up. And that was... 35 years ago...
But the tool cannot automatically color code certain tables and visually group them together. That is where the real value lies.
> Surely you are trolling?

First of all, don't do that. It's obnoxious. Secondly:

> That's a very, very common setup.

So? Falling back on the argument that, essentially, "lots of people do this" is about as worthy as attempting to counter by saying that the other person/what they are doing is weird[1]. (It's actually slightly more respectable, but that's only because of how unrespectable the call-them-a-weirdo path is.) You either have an argument for $THING that will hold up under scrutiny without appealing to how weird/anti-weird $THING is, or you don't.

Thirdly, you are not compelled to comment. (What makes your decision to join in even more mystifying is that you were not the person being addressed—at least their impulse to do so would have made sense, even if the argument was still a bad one.) If you don't actually have an answer, why bother commenting at all?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30721113
Good luck to those folks in a world where they can’t afford food, fuel, and energy for air conditioning. I see gasoline is $5-6/gallon in many markets, and the price of electricity and food continues to rise. How long can financially marginal people last in a world where that is the new normal?

Sure, irresponsible people are always going to have kids, doesn’t mean their existence is going to be great or long. I have no solution for people who make poor permanent life choices.
The article itself is in Copenhagen? You’re just going to completely ignore that?
You'll discover the arguments why Fossil is better if you read the article
You mean aside from everything I already said? ("But why male models?")
This is from 2016...
There is 0 value to things that can be generated with in games like the 'loot' from lootboxes. Value is based on a limit in supply, not only demand. The massive possible amount of supply puts the value at $0. It's worse than gambling.
It seemed to me more like those people were coping with their lifestyle (in particular having to adapt to changing shifts)
That's not what the activists are doing at all - especially the idea of ignoring industry (!!) or "blaming" anyone (but the oil industry)!

It's the same old tactic used by reactionaries to polarize and disrupt every other discussion - somehow twist the reactionaries into victims, demonize whoever by just lobbing tons of BS at the wall, and turn it into an impossible emotional discussion. End of discussion!

I don't care what you think about activists; I think that's an intentional distraction - just like the others that have been used for decades to prevent action on climate change. You are doing a great job of it.

You are missing the point, purposely, because now we are talking about your BS (and there is more BS in the comment, but I have better things to do).
Thanks for calling this out. I too have noticed the same behavior and it’s frustrating. I’m happy to see others notice the same phenomenon.
Of course there is a point at which everything goes too far, but for a certain kind of person an amount of many of those things seems not to be abuse.
Personally, maybe $5000, but that might be too much. The guy is 83 years old, probably living on a fixed income (social security) making side money on fixing cars, or just has cars in his back yard. The amount fined is way higher than appropriate for such a "crime." You shouldn't beat people into compliance for minor transgressions, wether that be as a police officer with a baton/taser/fist/knee, or a clerk issuing fines. When we live under a government with no empathy, as shown by this example, we're doomed.
Oh yeah I have so many stories of Danish kitchen staff. One head chef kept a rock of MDMA like a proper huge rock in the downstairs locker. Cocaine use during service was de rigueur.
I just moved to Toronto from Vancouver. The pay gap between Canada and US is closing. I got FAANG
salary about 20% less than my US coworkers after conversion. However, I think I may still consider moving to the US in the future to have the opportunity to explore other cities. As well as save more to afford housing here in Canada.
Water Pump Theory
From 1981:
https://archive.org/details/Robot_War_alt.nib
That question will make more sense when you see the article is from 2016.
That's when you become a cop.
This story is much less general, though. It’s about fine dining restaurants in Denmark, a country that’s not exactly averse to socialism.

These dining experiences cost hundreds of euros per meal, so it’s not the most price-sensitive market. And the people who work in the kitchens are not necessarily poor. After all you can’t be completely broke to work for months on an unpaid internship.

The power dynamic here is more about exploiting ambitious young people and pushing them beyond their limits, even making them suffer abuse, while paying little or nothing. It’s like if Google took unpaid SWE interns, asked them to work in data centers where temperatures are above 100 F, and supervisors would kick them in the balls if their programming performance is unsatisfactory (this actually happens in Copenhagen restaurants based on the article).

To me, the revelation in this article was that these fine dining experiences are often unsustainably designed for the price. Even if each dinner customer brings in $200-500 of revenue, the amount of manual labor is so huge that these restaurants can only make it work by using unpaid interns. I wouldn’t have guessed that.
Curious what you would have those of us IN that group do?

I'm far from a brilliant programmer, but I did start as a 4-year old back in the 90s and I'm competent. I also got MS in my last semester of grad school.

Why is the grandparent commenter's experience a worthy anecdote and my is not? In order to know, we'd have to somehow control for inborn programming ability and run a large study comparing career/material results after several decades, which clearly we (currently) can't do.

(And this is without getting into other factors you can't control: There were plenty of people who were happy to accept help and do projects with me until they found out I was a.) female and b.) a teenager at the time.)

I ask because the answer seems to be 'sucks for you but the system is designed for the average person'. Okay, so why are we assuming the average person has no uncontrollable roadblocks?
Yes, Reddit Bad, Google Bad, Imgur Bad, NFT LOL, Karma Farm, Many Wow++

The web doesn't have to be this way. If there is one last bastion of idealism why can't HN be it, where we talk about the fact that unnecessary compromises have been made which undermine this perceived shared doctrine of integrity.

One thing Imgur and other image hosting sites are doing better than IPFS is permanence, but because they're not compatible with a content addressable web when the host goes down or the image is removed we lose a small piece of history with no way of knowing what it was or even what authenticity is.

There are better ways of doing this, with better compromises, and none of them preclude monetization of content - but the technically illiterate marketeers and MAU metric huffers have won.
To be honest, it takes a lot of effort. It’s a daily struggle. I have people who depend on me so I do my best to keep going, but I would rather do something else. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to keep working in this industry under these conditions.

I know you’re being sarcastic, but I’m a real person too, with my own wish to live a happy life.

I have a hard time understanding how some people care so deeply for certain groups but then seem to have no empathy at all for others. I would’ve thought kindness would apply universally, but I suppose there are plenty of examples in history that show that isn’t necessarily the case.
> A similar trend was observed with Myspace and Facebook

It's happening right now with Facebook/Instagram and Tik Tok.
This post really lost me at: "and I’m sure they’re getting that many more engagements because of it"
clearly what spam notifications do is make me question having installed the app in the first place. For me this has led to many uninstalls.
C++'s std::shared_ptr<T> is not at all like Rust's Rc<T>. std::shared_ptr<T> is more like Arc<T> or Arc<Box<T>> depending on the deleter.

Also, your Rust example uses -O (which is -C opt-level=2), but your C++ example uses Clang's -O3 (which is like rustc's -C opt-level=3).

Here are examples which are more similar:
Rust: https://godbolt.org/z/We7ah1ehe
C++: https://godbolt.org/z/r31jrcbjc

> Smart pointers are often used in high-performance code (like browser engines) so it is interesting to learn how their usage impacts the generated code.

Browsers like Firefox and Chrome don't use std::shared_ptr. You should research how the compiler optimizes those implementations.
Bring your own data. Most FinTechs would be glad to have a "get your own rating usin the Blah model" feature. The older dinosaurs need not comply.
Seeing 200M as an upper bound and that the current excess deaths are around 21M from COVID, the prediction is "only" off by 1 order of magnitude. At most.
Just visit a store that has various models and display and allows to "feel" them - e.g. Best Buy. That will give you the best idea what works for you.

I'm personally quite used to the Logitech shape so my last purchase was a G502 Hero - but other brands and models might work better for other people.
> That's because you are explicitly telling the compiler to create a copy of your shared pointer

This is also happening in the Rust code (x.clone()).