skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> taking a clock to a mountain

http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
On this note, if you're forming a company in the US and some of the owners/founders are not American, be sure to get an accountant and lawyer in the US to confirm your compliance with US foreign ownership laws.
> In my opinion, that is much more invasive

Sorry, what? You’re saying a digitised deaths registry is more invasive than tracking all supermarket purchases?
even if it does, all they have to do is just keep swimming
> Having to pay for a compiler sounds a little funny through the lens of 2022; I wonder if the majority of people buying these software/packages at the time found the idea strange, too.

Nope. I have, right here on my desk somewhere[1], the CDROM for the Watcom C/C++ compiler that came with an IDE and the watcom assembler wasm. IIRC correctly, the IDE had a Vi mode and it came with a make that was much better than the nmake from Microsoft.

I remember buying it for a relatively large sum back in 1996 or so. I did not think it strange to pay money for a C and C++ compiler + assembler that allowed me to produce Windowed applications, device drivers and netware modules, that came with an IDE (with Vi-compatible bindings), as well as make.

There was tons and tons of documentation as well (Windows help files), more than I'd ever seen before in my life. It had enough documentation on that disk to take you from "Never used C++ before" to "expert C++ developer". It assumed that google and stackoverlflow did not exist, and so it answered any question you could possibly have had.

It also had samples for all the major things, so you could easily start a device driver project (for example) just by copying the samples.

Honestly, it seemed like great value for money to someone who had no internet.
Does this also hold if your employer (i.e. your client) is outside Germany?
Malta ranks high on a corruption index like https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/cpi-2020-malta-lost-in-...
Solving the housing crisis requires fighting monopolies in construction (2020)
There are legal whistleblowing avenues and protections. Nowhere does it say to give classified material to the press.

Maybe they tried that already and the reporter was a last resort. That's still a criminal act and it's the FBI's job to go after these things.

I just don't see what the big deal is.
What product u developing?
> I used to sympathize and engage with the theoretical arguments; but at this point a more productive approach is: if the advantages are such and such,

Distributed ledgers are being used for real business cases in banking. Realizing these full benefits will take a very slow process of societal adoption and legal/evidentiary recognition.

I said "not going away". These use cases are going to slowly grow and become ubiquitous, but it will be a very slow process. It isn't some overnight disruption where notaries vanish and banking is dis-intermediated in the next 5 years.

> where are the companies benefiting from this competitive advantage

E.g. JP Morgan and Liink are quietly connecting hundreds of banks and using it to more robustly and quickly move payment-related information between banks.
I think the Ponzi claims stem from the fact that so many people are in the market for speculative profit (and not to revolutionize finance or whatever), and the fact that earlier investors can only capitalize on their investments by proselytizing, recruiting, and ultimately selling their bags to new investors. Framed that way, it’s quite Ponzi-ish.
> Is it not is already publicly known? Don’t think there’s anything to leak

The purchases made by an individual, already public? That on that day you were in that place? That you read "The Lance" instead of "The Spear", that you read Comte instead of Hegel?
It's a reference to the tulip bulb mania.
No; if you give a shell script the .command extension (and make it executable), then you can double-click it in the Finder to open and run it in the Terminal application.
I haven't watched that video, although many people do reference it[0], in part because its clickbaity nonsense title leaves me with a poor impression of the creator.

It would be pretentious if Jon's intention had been to throw a bunch of crap out there and then say "it means what you want it to mean", but I don't think that's what Jon did. Jon did what artists do: they take ideas that can be difficult to express simply and they try to express them in art. That any individual can come away from the work with one experience or another is just how the world is. We all exist in our own contextual bubbles that inform our interpretation of the things around us, and while an artist can try to communicate the meaning more clearly they will find, like Heisenberg, that precision in one aspect ensures imprecision in another. And yes, these are all themes expressed in the game itself, though by no means the only ones.

When I see criticism like this, I can't help but feel like some people just can't stand that there isn't some definitive documented interpretation, some twist ending that makes it all makes sense. Like it's a twilight zone episode or something.

[0] Actually, I've only ever seen people link to it and try to claim its ideas as their own. I don't know about you, but I'm especially disinclined to take "here, read this link" seriously if it is the sum totality of an argument.
Email is _a bit_ similar, but the analogy doesn't work too well. While email might be a decentralized protocol, participation in the protocol requires quite a bit of technical effort. Whereas in crypto (e.g., Bitcoin) you can participate by just downloading a simple client and sending transactions via a nice little UI. In your example, Google actually provides a pretty huge value add by abstracting the complexities of participating in the email protocol away from the user. Crypto protocols (insofar as the assets provided by Coinbase) don't really get _that_ complex
The most important part for me is not construction,but the guaranteed destruction. So what about:

Resource Is Getting Guaranteed to End up Destructed.

I try to have RIGGED as backronym, but the words are not completely right. Even so, the slogan could work like this: Prefer using RIGGED resources in C++
Such fees are basically nothing for a company that makes money

High % taxes are where things get way dicier, e.g., some US states have high capital gains / transaction taxes while others are basically 0, which vastly changes how good exits are for employees

"Penny wise, pound foolish" => optimize for low opex overhead on growth. Another example: $1K to setup a new state registration for an employee sucks, but is fine relative to their salary, so not the the # to optimize on.
Has been for 20 years IMHO
Or perhaps you’re just getting older, and your income level is rising, and you don’t operate near any edges of the bounds of the law. Due to your perspective, freedom may have become less important that security.

Of course there is always a balance to be found, and everyone’s perspective is different, but personally I’m a 1 or a 2 in the `freedom |—————| safety` scale.
> You might just end up sending a million malaria nets to Africa which might contaminate the wildlife.

EAs have long since internalized this idea, and do actually look at the reality on the ground. For example, here's a citation-laden summary of the empirical evidence that those malaria bed nets are helping, both on net and on the margin:

https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/in...
They also don't have rescue equipment like the midwest. We have scalable plow trucks which work for medium rescue and even special large tracked vehicles for deep snow efforts.
Shooting is fun. But life is strange.
> - What prompted you to make that switch to rural developer?

My wife's parents live in the countryside. Coming from an urban place, I enjoyed being surrounded by nature. Best thing for me is coding under a tree, listening to birds.

It's my life journey, I was't happy in cities. I just found my balance in that way but it took us time to find the right place (not to remote, not to expansive, not to "old", etc...).

- Are you an expat or French? If an expat, what was your pre-France life like?

French.

- What is cost of living like, and how does that compare with your salary?

It is really subjective but I feel like living in abundance. Earning 50k€/yr after all taxes (working 30 hours a week, 10 weeks OFF). I bought the farm for 300k€. Standard houses (100m2 with 1000m2 garden) are loaned for 600€/month around here.

- Does/did your salary get affected by your remote location?

I have always worked remotely so no change at all.
How did you learn the skills to grow your crops and look after everything?
It's not okay to write a disingenuous comment that assumes false facts and then act like you're on a high horse while saying it.
FWIW the 1 week every 4 months is on top of your vacation, not "encouraged vacation", but rather a company wide recharge week

I agree those who started in the 6 months after IPO got the short end of a stick. The current packages are based on 90 day moving average IIRC. At least the grants being yearly helps in this case
Skype? Initial release in 2003. Purchased by Microsoft for a gazillion dollars in 2011.
Water is stronger than air. This is a double edged sword; IIRC most tidal power projects have failed because the greater wear and tear is worse than the additional power generated. I would imagine the deep ocean magnifies this problem.

Not to mention, we do enough environmental damage to our oceans as it is.
In order to avoid catastrophic climate change (hard to say we even can at this point) - we need anything we can get. Nuclear is part of anything we can get.
Convicting an unpopular guy is easy. Shutting down a government institution is not. Even Obama failed to shut down Gitmo, despite being the most powerful person in the country for 10 years.
It is an interesting argument, but I think the reality is you don't get to opt-in. You are automatically opted in based on the local jurisdiction and, more importantly, you have no way to opt out beyond Michael Scott's cry 'I declare bankruptcy!'.

You can go to live in a forest. Your obligations to the jurisdiction remain.
The Last Guardian
Why would you ever want monetary amounts as fractions or any kind? Why would you want to separate dollars from cents? Just represent them in cents or other smallest units ($15.27 would be 1527), and only make the distinction between dollars and cents for human-readable output. Problem solved. I don't understand what BCD would solve here vs plain binary integers.
Thanks! Highway is included in Chrome and Firefox. Not sure what you mean by process? It's pretty easy for example using git submodules - you tell Git the Highway version you want to depend on, notify your CMake or Bazel build system of the hwy library dependency, and that's it.

One requirement is C++11 or later - some people have asked about supporting C but I believe that's infeasible.
Are they cash flow positive? They made a loss in the latest quarterly filing?
Is there evidence of such avenues being effective, specially within the US Intelligence Community? I can’t find any.
Yes, I'm well aware. I agree that it's arbitrary, and it doesn't bother me much.

The problem is that this argument doesn't seem likely to succeed if you're talking to someone who is especially interested in philosophical or moral consistency. The arbitrariness of the boundary will bother them.
Maybe not for the compiler, but you pay though your nose for almost everything else!

Look at how Microsoft is pushing everyone to the Cloud, including desktops. All their developer products are wholly focused on pushing your workloads to Azure.
I find this super interesting. Around the time Chernobyl happened I remember that damages for the subsequent generations were widely sold as a fact by the media.

At university I had to do a course in radiation protection and that was the first time when I heard this idea challenged. Especially that we needed to distinguish between teratogenic damage to the unborn during exposure and potential genetic damage passed on to children conceived after exposure. The former was an established fact the later a possibility no one had found proof of.

The article seems not only to corroborate this, but also my impression that these two things are regularly confused.

"Inasmuch as even today the issues are occasionally confused, a clear distinction must be drawn between these studies and studies on the children in utero at the time of the bombings."
Not sure about the composition of atmosphere at those exact altitudes on Jupiter, but aerodynamic heating was a serious concern during Cassini's close Titan flybys, and that's "just" at ~6.3km/s max. IIRC the closest one was the T-70 at 880km; a lot of work has been done to make sure it won't tumble or overheat. (Titan's low gravity makes its dense atmosphere reach very far, so 880km is really low)
Dear monkeybutton, you're about to commit a consumptioncrime, a social service worker will visit your household in the next few to days to check if everything is fine with you and your loved ones.
Thank you for this post!

Violence in video games, if it must be present, should be a like a garnish: in vanishingly small quantities and hyper-realistic.

The fantasy (as in ludicrous, not swords and sorcery) violence of modern gaming is just a skin on underlying game mechanics. The imagery, sound, and themes of ultra-violence are not really necessary.

It is ultimately laziness on the part of studios; understandable, though, since the violence sells. Still, I hope studios take note of this thread. There is a thirst out there for non-violent games. And studios hold an awful lot of power in what they contribute to the culture these days.
It's clear that he meant they are only using printf debugging. The most basic form of debugging. The point is that most developers don't use the tools that are available to them. They're stuck in the stone ages.

Nobody is saying that you should never use printf debugging. Sometimes it is the best way.
All direct mail marketers do this, because it allows better targeting (& re-targeting old prospects & previous customers) but Brave explicitly said they didn't, and only went through the USPS's service.
Have you tried plex/jelly-amp? Plexamp attempts recommendations and does a good job streaming / keeping media between devices (although for some reason you can't copy the entire library, only playlists/albums/artists?)
BMW shows this in the main screen somewhere.
"pedo guy" was him overreacting to a direct attack on his employees and him work after Musk was directly requested to do the work by rescue divers and government officials on the project.

Most of the takes on that event drastically misrepresent the facts in order to make him look worse than any other normal human getting caught up in a flare of emotion after having something important attacked.
Subnautica. You have a knife for self-defense against creatures but that's it, 99% of the game is just exploration of the ocean. It's wonderful.
No, what you said in your first sentence is a pretty good description of EA as it's typically practiced. The article's emphasis on non-core stuff can give a misleading impression.
I have installed a 4g antenna on the roof : https://www.speedtest.net/fr/result/13239915850

50€ for truly unlimited traffic.

Fiber coming next year in all the Tarn!
Yes, its all intentional, many laws. On top of that also bureaucratic hurdles, widespread incompetence and a little corruption.
But our company gradually learned the solutions with the help of many Spanish and Portugese locals and high fees for the local lawyers and technical architects.
There are millions of dwellings in Spain and Portugal built without permits. Nowadays they are demolished quickly if they find out. Buying the older illegal houses is also dangerous (and the reason so many foreigners are scammed bying their dream property).

For example, you can not build on rural land outside of town, not on farm land or on nature reserves. The government owns the water, you can't just digg a well. You can only get permission to build a tool shed in some areas if you own at least 5000m2. The police will evict you if you start building or living on your land, tipped off by the neighbours who don't like foreigners or competition from your farm.
If you rent out your house to tourist, you'll need a permit and pay more taxes. And anything is slow, you'll run out of money much quicker than the government runs out of ways to delay you. Watch the 17 years of Dutch episodes (thru a dutch VPN) of "Ik Vertrek" for all the horror stories of people buying land or houses in Europe and losing all their money.
Abstractions don't do anything for me. I like being in a lit room, watching Netflix. But when I don't, I just use data.
That is actually very fascinating.
Never heard of it.

Back in the late 80's Portugal it was either Borland or Microsoft for MS-DOS, eventually we also became aware of Watcom, Metaware and Symantec.
So we should keep doing the known harmful power generation methods (coal) instead of experimenting with new methods (deep sea turbines) out of a diffuse fear of the unknown consequences?

It’s sad that this is such a common argument against progress. Where do people learn to think this way? Does it come from education? Failures in life?
Few notes:

- glucose levels are not always "normal", for instance goes high if we eat something rich in sugar while we are PERFECTLY healthy, the smart-glucometer can't know that;

- a needle, even a micro-set of needles that constantly punch through our skin always in the same place is a recipe for infections and minor issues.

Surely Apple, and not only Apple, like to collect as much health data as possible, perhaps in a not so far future linking them to a new kind of social score "The Life Score" who decide for instance if we need meds what we get, sometimes good ones if we are useful for the society, as decided by those who master the score itself, a small élite, sometimes something to make us die because we are evolved to be useless again for the aforementioned élite.

Oh, BTW such planning-management-erotic-dreams was not much new a guy named adolf from Austria then Germany few years ago have tried a world war measuring how much "soldiers" local women can "produce" to match number of fallen ones... Try looking for Lebensborn project, which BTW means "those born out of love", a curious kind of love anyway...

Is this the society we want for the future? Something like the relatively recent Canadian TV series "Continuum"? for the future distopic part, without the rebellion of course.

Oh sure, we might have some marginal, in some cases potentially life-saving, benefits, but at what price? Do you really prefer being eventually saved at a certain age if you are still useful and you eventually fall ill, trading THE ENTIRE LIFE to be allowed to live under conditions you do not control if you are useful for someone else?

Such ideas have born before the French revolution, perhaps earlier, just to overturn the Revolution itself, maybe it's time to recover a bit of the old good spirit dropping the rest.
PDB is rubbish compared to Debugpy. You should try that instead. With VSCode you get a proper GUI debugging experience.
At least in the US with 1900s rail infrastructure most trains run on diesel(?). In Japan or China I’m sure they run off electricity already
He's previously stated that he works over 80 hours a week, and that less than 10% of his time is spent on things that aren't SpaceX and Tesla.
You also need to read this: https://web.archive.org/web/20200319062355/http://www.michae...
So is it possible, if you find some bug in the car's software, to fix it using this source and run the fixed code in the car?

Because that was RMS' original motivation, that he couldn't fix the bug in his printer.
Tbh I’d rather have my salary public than some of the public information out there about me. I’m still dumbfounded I can basically dox people with voting registration records if I know just a few things about them.

I’ve hunted down estranged family members before and I was kind of concerned because I was able to find a ton of information about them I wouldn’t want out on the internet
With respect, one can and should try, but in lots of places and for lots of products it can be pretty hard/much more expensive to do.
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I'm not sure I understand this comment. For the record I downvoted it because I don't think it makes any sense.
> You don't? Nor me

Technically (in at least some systems), you do when you ask for residency - when you leave the parent's house to live somewhere defined in the territory, and make that formal. That is the "signature of the contract".

The simile of the "service" holds credit. Of course, do not forget that many other models were drawn in History (e.g.: Hobbes, "better compromise than the insecurity which comes with anarchy", etc).
I mean, I guess you could call a B-Tree over a subset of columns "columnar"... And bit-map indexes are by columns too — but that's really bending the definition of what most people mean by columnar storage in databases.
Thousands upon thousands. There are a lot more companies in the world than FAANGs and SV unicorns.
It theoretically could, but… why would they do that?

And before you say “Ukraine”, consider that Ukraine and Russia have a common history going back hundreds of years and together with Russia were part of the USSR. The attack on Ukraine is illegitimate, but at least it makes some logical sense.

Russia going after Romania or Poland which are part of EU and NATO and were never part of the USSR, but instead individual countries in the Warsaw Pact makes no sense at all.

The Baltics are more complicated, but once again - NATO and EU.
Does government make justice better or worse? I think most people are fair minded. The state is a tyrant though.

What does it say about us, if are so accepting and defensive of it?

How much money is it ok to forcibly take (tax)? If any is forcibly taken, are you enslaved?

The are individual options are poor. But I'm not going to say the tyranny is 'good', 'right', 'acceptable'.
> It’s saddening that we as Americans tolerate this kind of abuse from the department of “justice”, FBI, and NSA.

what do you suggest we do about it? We have no meaningful recourse against the myriad of government abuses.
This kind of replayable debugging can be wonderful - especially for hard to debug issues like heap corruption and such.

Windows has something similar called Time Travel Debugging[1] but in my experience the dump files it creates can be enormous and be a pain to analyze as a result. (It also relies on WinDbg which while being extremely powerful and capable, has a huge learning and usability cliff. I’ve been using it for over a decade and I still need a cheat sheet from time to time. The revamped WinDbg Preview[2] improves the UI a lot, but ultimately it’s still WinDbg.)

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
Cash is available, but very very rare these days. Enough so that using it is an outlier for most people < 60.

Debit, or mobile payments are the norm, to the point that even kids having a cookie stand will expect mobile payment.