skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is that junk mail enforced? Do the post office check that the mail isn't junk first? Or is it just a placebo effect?
You are right. First version of code actually used std::shared_ptr<Data>(new Data) (and produced similar code), but then I thought that it is unfair that we create a struct on a stack in Rust, so I changed the code. I should have used gcc with -Wall that detects the problem (clang doesn't).
getting sent to horny jail by the post office police would be a hell of a thing t have on a dating profile
That's true - for some reason I was thinking of tides as following the moon's orbit, when of course they're caused by the earth spinning underneath the moon (tides occcur daily, not monthly. Always check your working against reality, kids).

Weirdly, the resulting pool of energy is pretty much the same size - wikipedia quotes the rotational kinetic energy of the Earth as being 2.138E29J.

So we're still talking about an insane amount of energy.

If you use 17.7TW as the total power consumption of all of humanity, if we were to somehow derive ALL of our energy needs from tidal generation, it would take 358 million years to deplete the rotational energy of the earth.
Um... please name all these companies?
Even Russia's Evil Corp now favors software-as-a-service
I’ve developed a way of working, where I start with a “rough napkin sketch,” and begin writing, quite early[0]. I also try to get a high-quality (but incomplete) working prototype available as quickly as possible.

A very important part of my process is the “don’t try this at home, kids” part. It requires a great deal of architectural and implementation experience. Lots of scars and a pronounced limp.

If I describe this to folks, they tend to freak out, but it works on my machine…

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...
> DDR5 makes no sense today at these prices. AMD is going to be in a tough position in the fall with DDR5-only support in their new chipsets/CPUs.

Today is not the fall. Don't buy memory today for a processor that is not yet available. 'Next Generation' memory prices tend to go through this cycle, and it seems like AM5 will be out right around when the pricing gets pretty sane. If it released in Q1 2023 with DDR4 support, it would be a waste of die space. AMD has tended to keep sockets alive longer than Intel, so a transitional memory choice would be a larger burden.
Isn’t that a different problem? Like containerization is useful for dependency + config management, which I understand nixos is good for, but containers are also useful for “spin up a web server (with X configuration) and spin up a db server (with B configuration) at the SAME time on my local machine (configuration Z)”
I know you are correct about the seller being able to pay to avoid commingling. The fact that they refuse to show which products paid to the consumer seems hard to justify
64.7% of the paper you put in the recycling bin is indeed recycled.
Cytoscape – Network Data Integration, Analysis, and Visualization
won't that also waste energy shipping a brick? I'd say don't do that, just return an empty envelope which is light and won't increase fuel/energy consumption.
I visited the "Blue Room" as a young coder and was treated with respect.. very positive for me and much appreciated.
Holloway also has the best guide to equity I've read: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation. It's clear how much work they put into it to make it as approachable as possible.
Maybe I am missing the use case, but a dockerfile seems so useful for having an easily readable declaration of what exactly is inside the container. If I need to upgrade a package at a later date, I can simply change a line and rebuild the container. The same goes if I need to remove something; just delete the line in the dockerfile. You can copy things from one dockerfile to another. You can see how it has changed over time by checking it into git. You can have multiple people make changes to it and develop it over time. You can reorder things. You can build containers from other containers, etc.

With this tool, how do you even know what has been installed in the container? How do you share them, or make changes, or update them? Is this just for personal use where you don't care about sharing your work?
Very prominent multiple use on Snake Island in May with videos etc?
I kind of get this much, but it would be nice to see a small set of code showcasing this in practice to really cement it in for me.
This is just the financialization of the American mind
Too bad some product manager had to ruin it by adding ads to those emails. Another revenue opportunity and a way to promote USPS things.
Presumably this was written as an ambition for Multics.
it's the entire OS stack we need to take back

we already have, it's called GNU/Linux with wine.

the number of apps that it can't run is getting less by the day
New 'fabric' converts motion into electricity
I feel like I stopped being the customer and started being the product (at least partially) once Amazon started advertising shit to me when I searched for products. No, I’m not interested in $10 Ali Baba bullshit when I search for a $300 Casio G-Shock.

I used to spend about 60% of my disposable income at Amazon. That’s dwindled to maybe 1-2% over the last 5 years. I do most of my shopping at Costco or Target now. Amazon is a last resort only. Their customer experience sucks. It reminds me of what happened to eBay and Etsy. I’ll be cancelling my 10-year Prime membership at the end of this year, because I don’t use it anymore.
AMD is paying a smaller price; they still had some mitigations to do, but they didn't let speculative memory accesses bypass access control, IIRC, so there's less speculation to turn off.
Oh good, I can’t “rm -rf /“
> There should be DNS for paper mail.

is that what a PO box is for? You can give out your PO box instead of an address.

unfortunately, the mailing address is sometime (ab)used by parties that also want your real address.
That new IO die is by far the most important and interesting thing about their upcoming generation. Basic graphics capability as a universal feature, hopefully better idle power, DDR5 and PCIe gen5, while the compute chiplets will seemingly be getting fairly modest performance improvements.
Two different ways, most junk mail sent via the post office is unaddressed, and so it is in legislation that these are not to be delivered to houses with the stickers. The other is the usual paper boy who has been given a bundle to distribute, these are partially on the honour system, but there is a complaints system for companies that ignore them.
Amazon is no longer cheapest for most things I want, and as e-commerce has matured, most retailers do as good a job on the fulfillment side. Amazon uses crappy shippers so their shipping edge has evaporated such that the only lost or erroneous shipments I have had in the last 18 months were from amazon.
> You'll get 4 instructions (don't forget to put __attribute__((noinline)) on add_numbers()):

That's 4 instructions only for add_numbers(), but add_two_numbers_smart_way() still is unoptimized.
Quit smoking.
Well as you know in the US, taxes are a mortal sin. 0 chance that will ever happen. So we are stuck with junk mail.
Interesting. Imagine every single person in US register themselves in USPS, getting a "Post number". I'll be PN 1374582347. And I will only tell people "my mailing address is PN 1374582347. And like you said, I can change my address in one place and be effective everywhere instantly!

If actually everyone do this, we will even have an ID number that's not SSN.
Did you go to all that trouble to lower your premium?

Edit: I was on mobile and wanted to ask why they went to that trouble if the car insurance company was the same and it didn't matter who's fault it was. Didn't mean to imply it wasn't worth it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220605012533/https://www.econo...
"he found that Tesla’s commitment to transparency was not all that it seemed"

til in 2018 Tesla had a transparency commitment
i bet the cooling in a data center costs way more than the electricity used in the chips.
Then, instantiate the smart pointer with a custom no-op deleter and if you use the nt typedef I mentioned above, you'll get a similar compiler output to Rust's.

e.g nt_shared_ptr<Data> x(&d, [](Data*) -> void{});

https://godbolt.org/z/d3qv4cE1v
There are private mail forwarding services that do that https://www.postscanmail.com/services/mail-forwarding.html
"It's very nice indeed, but PowerShell pipelines are at another level of beauty"

What?!??

"PowerShell is weird"

Yes, totally agree with that.
I don't think encouraging people to engage in domestic terrorism is a good approach, although as a response to bulk spammers... maybe?
Yes!

Back in 2010 when I used to live in Berlin we found it almost fun and cute how there was bad internet, poor mobile coverage, and no credit cards accepted.

It was fun to return in 2020 and experience the exact same thing again
southern.
Doesn't it halve the throughput to mix channel sizes like that?
As I understand, one cannot convert shared_ptr to unique_ptr, so if we declare an argument to add_two_numbers() as unique_ptr, then we won't be able to pass a shared_ptr to it.
First I want to thank you for your engagement. It is rare to find some one so deeply engaged in the topic with such a well considered point of view. Secondly I want to point out the areas where we agree.

For example I would like to agree with your perspective on bitcoin, p2p and the internet.

I fundamentally agree that Bitcoin was born of the internet and if the internet were to go down then Bitcoin would likely go down with it. I view Bitcoin as the native currency of the internet and it would be nothing without the internet. I don’t believe the internet is going to fail for many reasons but I do agree that Bitcoin would likely fail without the internet.

Where we disagree is:
1/ Bitcoin is bad as a transactional currency today.
2/ Bitcoin is a bad store of value today.
3/ Bitcoin’s energy usage is out of control and bad for the environment.

Let me elaborate:
1/ Bitcoin is the best transactional currency for any transfer outside the G8 countries for any value between $100USD and 10 billion USD, where the one of the parties exists outside of the G8. This represents over 70% of the global population. It is convenient for most on HN to ignore this fact but 70+% of the global population exists outside your bubble. For these transactions, Botcoin allows for perfect censorship resistant p2p transactions between two parties with zero compLexity.

2/ The gov and taxation policy has convinced you that 1+ years is the definition of a long-term investment but this is not the case. In Bitcoin terms, long-term means 3 years +. If you look at 3+ years as a timeframe, Bitcoin has returned an average of over 200% APR on average, handsomely beating any reasonable investment over a period of 13 years since inception.

3/ Bitcoin’s energy consumption is designed to consume only the lowest marginal cost of energy. It consumes the lowest cost energy sources which over the long term coincide with renewable energy sources for whom there is no other consumer. If there were then other consumers it would push them out at a higher marginal cost. By contrast, gold can only consume fossil fuels and rape the planet through strip mining while USD can only rape the planet through fossil fuels or through military violence.
At least in my area, I have noticed that my carrier has a stack of bulk mail that she grabs and sticks with each person's mail as she puts it in the mailbox. I imagine it would make her job significantly harder if she had to consult a list for each address. Most likely, it would require additional steps at the mail office.
I won’t use eBay for exactly that reason. I have heard the same story, frequently.

Amazon’s used marketplace has similar issues, but Amazon enforces refunds. I once brought a typewriter that was used, but advertised as “like new.”

What I got was broken (shipped loose, in a cardboard box), and filthy (it literally looked like someone puked on the keyboard).

I did get a refund, but the vendor ghosted me. I had to exercise Amazon’s guaranteed refund. Once I started that, the vendor contacted me, and I was able to return the item (packed better than they did), and get a refund.
Who makes these decisions really?

HN tends to be more developer focused but I suspect most of these horrendous type decisions aren't made by random dev, and random dev isn't in a position to stop it.

Many years ago I once worked at a place where a CRM app had "special instructions" and at one point management was so upset about people not following them 100% of the time they were considering "make them blink" so the drones wouldn't miss them ... thankfully the blink tag had been deprecated. These instructions were sometimes several paragraphs long ... and they wanted them to blink...
Sort by lowest price is also completely non-functional. It seems if you select that option, it will return 5 pages of irrelevant junk for you to wade through.
> not really. Russia didn't invaded Ukraine until 2014 because it had absolutely no enough power to do it

Your data is outdated for about 90 days, on some things for more than 15 years.

- Before February 24, we also think, that Russian army is second in world, etc.

But now we have 100% reliable info from real war, that Russian army is in reality soviet army from 1960th, they have only few dozens prototypes of modern weapons, so this is not making much difference.

And Russian army is extremely incompetent and demotivated.

In reality, they accounted to behavior seen in Ukraine in early 1990s and partially in 2014 - all Ukrainian military just surrendered that time, because was order to surrender from president and top officers.

Also in Ukraine exists very strong collaboration forces - daughter of Russian Orthodox church and communists party (after 2014 their deputies created few new parties, rebranded to not associate with prohibited communists symbols).

For Russia circumstances was excellent in 1990th, but after 2004 each day they become weaker and Ukrainians become stronger.
For example, before 2005, communists every year conduct processions in Kiev, but on 2005 they said, they have too few people (for street fights vs nationalists).

For Ukrainian army, after 2014 it becomes extremely motivated and incorporate best modern practices - use drones for intelligence, and use starlink for communications, and use tablets with special software for control - for organization level this much superior to NATO and is like US army in late 1990th.

Only problem still unresolved, that Russia have ~5 times more quantities of armored vehicles, artillery and air units; and Russia have large number of military ships and even submarines, but Ukraine have nearly zero size navy.

Georgia is tiny country, approx TEN TIMES smaller than Ukraine, so it is miracle they have even moderate success in resistance.
you've hit on why apple is spending all its time developing the ipad into a laptop replacement (despite relatively flat sales) rather than really improving macs/macOS. they keep saying they're not trying to do this, but it's been plain as day for a few years now (with the ipad pro).

there's no precedent for ipads to "upgrade" to another OS/firmware, unlike macs, so customers can't claim anything was taken away from them. plus, macs are considered essential for developing for iphones/ipads, so apple doesn't want to disenfranchise ecosystem developers too much by locking down macs, especially when laptops are a dwindling segment anyway.
Rust got the concept from C++ and it’s not a C++-specific concept, despite having originated there. You seem to have some fundamental disagreement with what I’m saying that you’ve yet to identify. What does RAII look like without scope, if it’s not about scope? How would RAII work in a dynamically scoped language?
On the last flight I was on, the AC service couldn't handle the power draw of my charger. Kept tripping the circuit immediately.
Glad to see DDR5 heading for more mainstream pricing. When I built a new machine to replace my well aged 4th gen, I was pleasantly surprised the 12th gen Intels supported both, so I’ve used nice high capacity DDR4 while prices come down, and in a year or two I’ll look at upgrading the motherboard and RAM to DDR5 and throw the older stuff into the NAS.
My biggest disappointment is remote schooling didn’t stick as an option. atleast Remote work stuck around a little better for adults.
Metric met!

I recall a new marketing executive who touted that they had improved the youtube ads so much that NOBODY had skipped a single improved youtube ad!

They made the ads all so short that you couldn't skip them.
Fully depressing the brake pedal would involve some fairly serious reason - you only ever do it in an emergency situation as it produces a very sudden stop. It's therefore highly unlikely then that someone would accidentally fully depress the accelerator because they mistook it for the brake pedal.
See here: https://www.teslaapi.io/vehicles/state-and-settings#vehicle-...

They have some useful info, but do not provide any data on any of the actual sensors in question.
My understanding is that companies like these have equity that is easily liquidated privately? No direct experience though, I could be wrong.
Also, C++ allows you to be explicit about things. Like std::unique_ptr<> that does not have to count references and guarantees at compile time that:

* There will be not more than 1 reference to the object at any time.

* The object will be deleted once the reference dies.

That's a zero-overhead GC that is enforced at compile time.

And that is the main appeal of C++. You can get close-to-optimal instruction-level behavior while still describing things at reasonably high levels of abstraction. Yes, it has a hell of a learning curve, but once you master it, you can beat any other language out there.
It's current year, no one is allowed to question anyone's sexual preferences.
Oh which emulator are you using? I'd love to be able to boot this back up someday
A practice I've seen in asset management firms:

(1) To assume high level roles, you must invest $LARGE_SUM_OF_MONEY in funds managed by the company.

(2) After leaving, you get back your money after $FAIR_AMOUNT_OF_YEARS. That's done as an incentive for folks to think long term.

Not sure how you could do that in a company as large as G or A though.
We get several hand-addressed Christmas cards for people who haven't lived at our address for at least 22 years. I always write "RTS/no longer at this address" but they keep coming.
A human interacting with a debugger can not compete with error detecting code printing out exactly when the application state is invalid. A human interacting with a debugger can not debug complex interaction bugs in a distributed system. A centralised printf log can. A human interacting with a debugger can not debug real-time timing bugs. But printf can. I could go on all day but hopefully you get the picture. Debuggers are fine in certain limited scenarios. But the systems I maintain every day are way too complex for that.
Depends.

The only time I've used anything like infinite scrolling it was for long search results.

For that customer's app / use case it actually worked. But honestly that was about it for times I've used it / felt it worked.
Jesus man, you should specify Amazon The Store. I was concerned HN had just realized all the issues with Amazon in total...
I interpreted it as post 2021.
Most important thing everyone needs to understand about equity comp right now: most 2021 rounds overvalued all startup by significant multiples. While equities have corrected dramatically, the revaluation for startups will only occur when the next round of funding comes around.

So, in all likelihood, that unicorn $3B valuation being paraded is sub $1B right now, and if rates continue to March higher, your equity value will be cut even more dramatically.

If your heart is set on a startup that you believe will survive the next decade, take money over equity now then when the company is hurting and needs to save cash, bulk up on equity at cheap levels.
As a corollary, I imagine this also probably means the dangers of nuclear power are overblown.
The first thing that happens when visiting that site is a modal overlay that forces me to interact with it before I can do anything else, so that website is what's dead, at least to me.
Unfortunately, the USPS now no longer is required to deliver that stuff. It's in their postal codes now.

https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/505.htm

> 1.3.8 Improper Use of Labels and Misuse of BRM Cards and Envelopes

> Improper use of BRM labels or misuse of BRM cards or envelopes should be handled as follows:

> When a BRM label is improperly used or a BRM card or envelope is misused as a label to return an unsealed item such as a brick, two-by-four, or similar item, the Postal Service may treat the item as waste to be disposed of at the discretion of the Post Office.

> When a BRM card or envelope is misused and affixed to a sealed item, the permit holder will be responsible for payment of the applicable Retail postage and per piece fee.

I think this is saying, "Attach it to a box with a brick in it." But neither do I think your local postal worker would be terribly amused.

Just send them their crap back with a "Please remove me from your list!" scrawled across the response. It does actually work, eventually...
Although currently in well-known stores like Amazon, over 3,000 different kits of DDR4 RAM are on sale and only 213 of DDR5 memory.

Of which, what fraction are counterfeit, floor sweepings, rejects, or stolen? That's too many resellers.
I’m still in awe that windows has had similar functionality available at a single press of the windows key, but you still can’t do basic arithmetic on it.
I think he deleted his comments or something, his account was alan-1
Elsewhere in this post it’s noted that spam is something like 20% of USPS revenue, perhaps less than expecrsdy
Yeah you're describing of https://simpl.fyi/ which is one person's chrome extension.
I imagine that domain had a higher RoI than any cryptocurrency could have to the prof.

Of course we can't know what it was sold for, but $10 million wouldn't surprise me.
That’s the rating at capacity though, which barely ever happens. The ocean current will never stop, so over the course of it’s life the ocean turbine might well beat out a wind turbine (ok, I consider that mildly unlikely, but it’s nice to have power generation that’s less susceptible to suddenly not producing anything).

Also note they say it produced 100kw, not what it was rated for.
Reconstructing Hi-Resolution Audio (2017)
If you're not aroused by the thought of pizza, you're ordering from the wrong place. https://i.imgur.com/jkeKAxK.jpg
I hope pricing keep going down for this Fall. Whether it be AMD or Intel for me this upcoming generation it's looking like the high end options will remain very memory starved when it comes to multi-core workloads due to the core counts and DDR5 helps with that.
It can definitely vary where you live, but it seems like I can get a good bit of stuff next-day at my location even from other larger online venues or especially some vendors which have a lot of local retail presence. Some retail still hasn't figured out internet home delivery but it seems over the years most have seemed to figure it out OK.

Also, while Amazon might seem to get it faster more often, its also the most unreliable. I've had way more taped up empty boxes and never-sealed bubble mailers from Amazon and many times I've had it promise next day and have it arrive a week later. Meanwhile other retailers seem to not have as many shipping errors and tend to hit their shipping estimates better.