skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus, if it's as much work to create a diagram as it is to do much of the programming (not to mention maintaining it), you're just not going to do it.

One type of diagram I have found to be truly useful, though, is the sequence diagram. I needed to integrate someone else's library into my application, and having this was a huge help.

If anyone has a pointer to a good sequence-diagram generator (that runs on Mac, preferably), I'd be happy to hear about it!
The growing demand for currency not controlled by the government is undeniable. Only a matter of time. But this time, hopefully less irrational exuberance for alt-coins that serve no purpose besides speculation
Apple’s mixed reality headset will feature content from Hollywood directors
>I 100% agree about the different experience of listening to good/great/amazing albums and the benefits of doing so. It's just that it is a pretty rare experience, particularly these days!

Yes - I suspect many kids who are happy with Spotify haven't had the experience. (It's actually a similar trade-off with broadcast TV - I'm realizing now with kids the downsides to having on-demand every episode of every show ever made, versus having to wait until next week and having to be there at a particular time. Gives you time to digest, anticipate, and enjoy. And I always muted the ad breaks, which made them tolerable.)
Is there even a shred of evidence that the housing crisis is a result of higher construction costs?

Or is the Fed trying to draw attention away from the catastrophic impact of its zero interest and other policies on the massive increase in asset prices?
Zoxide – smart, fuzzy-matching cd alternative written in Rust
Good on Daimler, and RMS.

As an otherwise reasonably satisfied Onyx BOOX owner, I'd very much like to see the company fulfilling its GPL and other licensing obligations.
> Bottom line - this seems interesting, but is hardly as simple as "all ranked voting systems can be gamed"

It is almost that simple. Every deviation from the unattainable ideal in Arrow’s theorem corresponds to one or more ways that the system:

(1) can be gamed, or

(2) is insensitive to voter preferences, or

(3) changes outcomes in the opposite direction of changes in expressed voter preferences.

(And usually several from multiple categories.)

There are whole catalogs of these and enumerations of which ones apply to each voting system.
My bad. Apologies.
Lol. Intent matters, context matters, and in this case it's not intentional. also please show me the law so we can discuss where you are missing the context.
Argentina is blessed with natural resources and vast fertile land. It is perhaps the second best piece of geography in the world in terms of natural resources and fertile land after America

The mystery is why it doesn’t grow, not why it doesn’t collapse. Inflation is a beast if people can’t get enough food. But Argentina has never had much of a problem in that respect
History of Digital Nomads
Monopolies are illegal if established through improper conduct and anti-competitive practices. The exceptions would be for State-owned or State-granted monopolies... Amazon is neither of those.

> States fall for many reasons, but primarily causes are war and revolution

So, the way to get rid of Amazon would be to get the Government to simply start a judicial process against a company. The way to get rid of the Government would require bloodshed. Can we agree that that n corrupt and power-abusive Government is far more dangerous than Amazon (or any other corporation) could ever be?
Ask HN: Don't you feel attention economy has cannibalized the age of information
At this point, it feels like we have overwhelmingly more mediums to get to knowledge than actual valuable knowledge, at least in written form.

Was it the only way that this attention economy cannibalized the age of information?
> Those reversions would solve most electoral problems

No, they wouldn't, as the problems (including duopoly) predate the changes you would reverse.
corporations cannot put you in jail if law enforcement works.

if the government fails, corporations can and will put you in jail.
Knowledgeable about their job != knowledge about corporate equity.

There's a large share of capable engineers who are still wide-eyed over startup equity. Folks I know personally and greatly respect. Startups have had no trouble duping engineers into lower compensation while delivering serviceable results, and will continue to have no problem.
> math

I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Staying alive has been a huge part of human purpose for millennia.

Why should it be dissatisfying or why should people so easily adapt to the absence of that struggle?
https://twitter.com/patdennis/status/1518637225789042688
Recent and related:

Update on Hiring Plans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505 - June 2022 (466 comments)
I'm not an expert, but I would so no, it's not. The point of learning to implement with RAII, in the context of C++, is so that one will apply it to use C++ in a more resource safe way. It will help avoid the bugs that the language will inherently allow if the programmer is not being otherwise being careful.
Excellent summary for an outsider, thank-you.
Junk mail is sequestered carbon that's been removed from the atmosphere.
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Hmm, a few years late per SeaQuest’s timeline… I just hope we have a SeaQuest 4600 class sub handy to sacrifice in order to plug the lava flow when the turbines cause the ocean floor to break apart!

Ironically, in the SeaQuest timeline, SeaQuest DSV itself would have been abducted by an alien ship just a few weeks ago. Maybe there’s still hope that Mark Hamill is actually our first contact with an alien species?

Makes me want to go rewatch 90’s sci-fi: Babylon 5, Space Above & Beyond, SeaQuest (season 1 at least), TekWar, TimeTrax, etc.
> That was determined by a democracy.

Concentration camps, extrajudicial killings, racial violence, anti-labor violence, mass surveillance, and torture have all been done by democracies too.

"We're a democracy" in Europe and the US, generally speaking, means a tiny subset of the government is democratically elected and responsible for setting high-level policy goals. It doesn't mean the government as a whole carries out the will of the people on an even regular basis or always has their best interests at heart. We should be very careful about giving any powerful organization, government or corporate, more power (and information is power) regardless of its nominal method of governance.
It is a huge marketplace, so I would expect there to be a few bad apples. Overall, I would say 70-80% of the stuff I buy does the job.
There is no housing crisis.
That's not an easy thing to do as you will be easily identified. However, there is a market for getting identified as "lower caste/tribe" as it bags you affirmative action benefits.
Not true. Not true at all. That's total GOP political bullshit.

Private companies, especially including T. Boone Pickens, built out a lot of windmills in West Texas. That's true. But it wasn't ERCOT or the other energy companies building them out. It was private investors that wanted to take advantage of the pricing system built by ERCOT, because they felt they could build and operate windmills much cheaper than what they could charge for the electricity that was generated, and therefore they could keep an even larger amount of profit as a result.

During "Ice-mageddon", the windmills did really well. They produced way more power, even during those frigid weather conditions, than was expected. Most of them were already reasonably well winterized, and therefore were less affected.

What failed were the natural gas peaker plants. Many of them had not been properly winterized, so they froze up. Lots of the suppliers of natural gas also had not properly winterized, and so they froze up.

And then the power companies screwed up even further, because when they were trying to find businesses that they could shut off to reserve power for the critical businesses that still needed it, they didn't realize that some of the natural gas providers for the gas peaker plants were in the group of businesses that they were cutting off power to. So, some gas providers that didn't freeze up and could have provided gas to their peaker plant customers were unable to do so, because they didn't have any power to operate their systems.

This was further worsened by the fact that ERCOT chose not to operate the grid ties at their full capacity. There's not much power we could have imported from the neighbor grid, but we sure as hell could have imported a lot more than we did. And out west around El Paso, they actually disconnected from the ERCOT grid and operated through their local grid ties.

Don't let the GOP lie through their teeth and claim that it was the renewable systems that failed here. The windmills generated considerably more power than the weather conditions said they would be able to do. The solar plants also contributed as much as the weather permitted.

It was the natural gas power plants that froze and failed. But most importantly, it was ERCOT who failed to adequately ensure that all the natural gas power plans and their gas suppliers had actually been properly winterized, including local power generation systems to operate in the event that incoming power from the grid got turned off.
Apple is going all in on the metaverse.
How did search turn so terrible?

Not enough people complained, and/or voted with their dollars and/or attention.

The few people who do complain are inevitably answered with the ever-present refrain of the Windows fan club ("You just don't like change!"), which effectively cuts off any avenues for argument in favor of the perfectly-good status quo. The only way forward from that point is down.
I have to agree it’s buggy but awesome too. Very good value for my family plan, excellent sound quality. Every artist obviously. Makes me wish I had never spent so much time pirating in my youth.
The Siri integration is quite bad. Sometimes songs only half play. Needs a restart about every day. Yep it’s buggy, but I’m a Apple music subscriber for life. They nailed it.
Interesting post and paper, thanks!

Sometimes the state of the art is not found in another paper but somewhere else, e.g,. there is vxsort by Dan Shechter (damageboy):

https://github.com/damageboy/vxsort-cpp/tree/master

He uses a similar approach and while I'm not sure how it compares to the older Blacher et al version, I expect it to be in the ballpark.

He's written an excellent series of blog posts on the design & implementation:

https://bits.houmus.org/2020-01-28/this-goes-to-eleven-pt1
As a reminder, the original Game Maker Spelunky was a genre-defining smash hit in the indie scene. So Derek had nothing to worry about on that front.
The IPO market is fickle. Someone who joined a “near-IPO company” last year may have been reasonably expecting a liquidity event within 12 months, but now finds the IPO indefinitely postponed and the company trying to raise additional funding in a downround that may halve the value of those illiquid shares.

Personally I’d take my chances either early, with a meaningful share of the company, or post-IPO when the amount of shares is much smaller but its value reasonably predictable.
I didn't think about that part being a slowdown. The only interview I was able to find is that they are building a completely new lab in UK this year (one of the multiple locations), so it takes time to ramp up experiments.

I'd love them to be more public about their plans. mRNA / viral delivery needs to be optimized of course, but there are lots of other parallel experiments they can start, and we probably have to wait for the publications.
I suppose the issue is that there is precedent for the USA to support democracies until they decide to side against American insterests. Then the US supports a local dictator instead.
For any size company it’s a waste of time asking equity questions to most interviewers, just like it’s a waste of time asking questions about benefits.

Assuming your interviewers are potential future teammates, ask them questions about work. Ask your recruiter or future manager benefits and comp questions. At most companies >10 people, your recruiter will have a packet with all the answers to equity questions.
Well, one alternative is not to get into that situation in the first place.

> Isn't it a lot better to have a single all-hands meeting where you announce layoffs, the people who are affected will be contacted by their manager with severance information, and the plan going forward?

Well, maybe. But if my employer announced layoffs, I would be looking for a new job the next day regardless of whether I was included. For one thing, 10% layoffs is unlikely to correspond to 10% reduction in total work, so my workload just grew by 10%, and somehow I doubt I'm getting a 10% raise to compensate. For another, the company has now lost its ability to attract top-tier talent, for several years if not forever.
It's worth zero but people pay 30k for it. No, it hasn't crashed yet.
You use the waste heat from the combustion to also heat the home
Try to back away from the situation and see how you're coming across here. It's a free product, and you're behaving in a really entitled way.
The US Census is public record and breaks down all kinds of demographic information by zip code. The USPS is almost certainly just using census data. Even if they didn't provide the convenience, a marketer could easily replicate what they currently do.

If you have a problem with the US Census Bureau collecting demographic data or making it public, those are certainly valid positions to hold. However, point your ire at the right target.
I always find myself Ctrl+F 'draft' to find it.
I would love a game whose battle mechanics reflect this—make a plan before the battle, have a few moments during the battle where you can make a meaningful decision (e.g. where to commit reserves), and then the only other agency you have is to commit yourself to the fighting. Somewhere between Mount & Blade and Total War.
I believe those are Midge flies, not mosquitoes. But I'd not be surprised if someone has cooked up some mosquitoes after watching that short clip.
> Do you have any more details on the benefits of this operation?

You'd mostly do this if you're Austrian and want to stay in Austria. The benefits are relative to starting a GmbH under Austrian law.

* You won't need to put up the €35k in capital.

* You'd have freely transferable shares. In that sense a Ltd is more comparable to an AG under Austrian law than to a GmbH, but much lighter in overhead. You'll need to play by the rules of the country you're incorporated in, where share transfers are concerned, though.

* I've read of companies in Germany using related constructs to try to get around provisions mandating employee co-determination ("Betriebsrat") for larger companies. Air Berlin used to be a Plc & Co KG for that reason, but I may be mistaken.
The turbines are very interesting, these demonstrator projects seek to answer questions like how do you even make one, how do you install it and how do you maintain it… a very interesting piece of hardware required to scale this up (in deep water anyway!) is a subsea substation to up the voltage from the array to export voltages…
If the replacable cartridges can be transported then you can just buy some in the winter, perhaps 40% of what you need with the rest coming from your solar panels.
> Earning 50k€/yr after all taxes (working 30 hours a week, 10 weeks OFF)

Wow, that's insanely good!

Can I ask how to find such a great job? I live in Austria and make 50k€/yr BEFORE taxes, 40h/week, 5 weeks off, significantly worse off than you, but that seems to be the norm in this country.
Looks great, I cannot wait for when they will have a working version at least basic so I can give life to a bunch of dead ipad that are otherwise perfectly functional if it wasn't for ios on it...
Finally, the "you wouldn't download a car" joke has become a reality.
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I would think ZIRP and backwards zoning commissions would be a bigger problem
Then the nature of the universe (so far as we understand it) is "bad".
I'm pretty sure she's still alive at the end.
No, they need to make the software available, and you can use it in your own car if you will share your changes as well. But you can't run the "fixed" code in the car (ie, disable rev limits / speed restrictions etc). That said, "tuners" do sometimes flash updated settings, but it normally voids the warranty.
Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling
> Couldn't Austria come after you and say you're running an Austrian company

They would, and you would indeed have to do accounting according to Austrian rules and pay taxes in Austria, etc. ...so you wouldn't do it for that reason.
> I just started reading the 80000 hours website. Their argument against the former seems to be that your continued career and income is your most important asset (unless you inherited a fortune), and not being miserable or depressed STRONGLY supports building a sustained income and career, and continuing to give.

I have a fundamental problem with the argument of “mental health maximizes giving” which is that it doesn't do a good job of justifying self-care in many situations.

Fundamentally, the issue is that sustainability can't be an enduring argument when you have finite time horizons (as all humans do).

For example, if I ever retire or become irreparably sick, should I just donate all of my money and make my life miserable? That is, if I'm no longer productive, what's the point of caring for my mental health?
maybe my hoarding of old ipads will finally pay off? i have about 40 of them if anyone needs em
I feel like you're several years late to the party here. I think it's pretty common knowledge at this point that certain types of goods sold on Amazon have a huge chance of being counterfeit and everyone knows reviews are faked/not to be trusted blindly.

At this point people seem to not care since Amazon will give a refund/exchange pretty much no questions asked. It's still extremely annoying and it's definitely not a good look for their business, but I assume the number crunchers have determined actually dealing with the fraud isn't yet worth it financially.
Tl;dr: damage to the genes of adult atomic bomb survivors isn't noticeable in the kids they concieve after the bombings.
Amazon is now a collection of businesses, including:

- AWS
- Amazon Ads
- FBA
- Marketplace

This is in order of profitability. It seems that Amazon doesn't care much about the Marketplace itself.
I buy stuff from Amazon several times per week. There are whole swaths of items I won’t buy on there though - anything food related or personal care for two examples.

I’ve had too many incidents of improperly handled or expired food being sent to me or outright fake / gray market things.

It’s hard to lose confidence in a company overall though with such an amazingly easy and liberal return policy.
The natural environment already provides everything people need, if there aren't too many of them. The "fully automated luxury communism" we seek is already implemented by biology, and powered by the sun. Enclosure ended it.
I sold my BTC late Jan 2021 for around $30k. Everytime ppl say it has crashed since then, the price is still hovering around 29-30k like the universe is playing some sick joke to me.

So no it hasnt crashed yet. Let me see under 10k, then we can talk.
Great story. Sounds like nights at Joshua Tree, where I am more familiar. Apple's laptop speakers are the best in the world. But even the best laptop speakers aren't "good hifi system good", especially in bass and stereo separation, but these qualities are not needed by lots of music. Even cheap modern portables with li-ion batteries and rare-earth magnets are startlingly good, a real feat of engineering, and perfectly acceptable to blast Pharrel at a pool party. But if I'm listening to Dark Side of the Moon, I want good headphones!
I forgot to mention the human playlists! Those are great and get updated regularly, by actual people
> Same thing happened in March 2020

I wish it were the same as March 2020. You had a big drop and then almost an immediate reversal that lead to an explosive bull run to many new all-time-highs until April 2021.

Instead this time it's had the big drop and been very anemic for months since, with no clear end in sight. Could easily drop more. Starting to look more and more like the two year crypto winter back in 2014. Course if I was buying a coin a month that entire time it was $200 a coin I would have been retired by now. Or at least semi-retired.
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It’s relatively easy to use logging in an async matter. One windows approach, for example, is to set a thread activityId. This allows you to track a specific operation or context across threads / time.

Use with a filtering tool to filter in on a specific area of concern on specific threads.

Bonus if your logging also is tracing and ingested into some big data or telemetry tool.
Sorting is one of a few things that computers spend so much time doing, even a relatively small improvement over that state of the art can have a big impact.

On the one hand this means if you can come up with a better way to do it in some case that's awesome and could be very valuable. On the other hand it means a lot of people have thought pretty hard about it and the next improvement may be hard to come up with unless you pick a tight enough subset of the problem.

Definitely go for it though :)
There is an entire paper linked here that's exactly what you ask for in your first question.

What about it do you find unconvincing?
"Housing crisis": the first sentence is U.S. government concerns about great disparities in housing conditions are at least 100 years old.

So, a permanent crisis?

Anyhow: the shortage of housing has a lot to do with zoning restrictions, building codes, NIMBY-ism, credit availability, and lots of other factors, and very little to do with HUD and NAHB. Manufactured homes have a low social status, unfortunately, and forcing municipalities to accept them would be a very hard slog.
I seem to be the only person who was less than thrilled with it. The concept is clever, but always being on the clock quickly became frustrating. I kept spending half the available time getting to the area I was investigating, then frantically running around trying to find something new, and if at any point I made a wrong turn or the timing wasn't right I'd have to wait until the next cycle and redo everything.
You’re allowed to do whatever you want, and the person being interviewed can reject for any reason.

If someone has code samples, years of experience building things and can make it clear to companies that they can do the job, I don’t see the problem.

It’s a two way street about finding a good fit, I think a lot of employers don’t see it that way. Maybe they should.
I've always wanted to have a bigger Moon, this might be a way to achieve that.
On top of that, even after you lose your "US person" status, some financial institutions may just claim that "you have been found in a US registry" without any specification which registry, and now either you prove that you are no longer in the unspecified US registry, or they just deny business with you. Not fun, and a fight that you cannot win.
What's the limiting factor on bandwidth constraints for probes like this? Is it the power of the probe? Is it the distance from earth?

I wonder if you could build a mesh network of satellites/probes out farther into the solar system to get better connectivity for projects like this.
This is one reason I use Pascal

If the constructor throws an exception, the destructor is called immediately.