skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lmao
>The only people I know
This is quite obviously an anecdote, never did I refer to you.

We can only draw comparisons from our own experiences and the majority of people I know do not drive such long distances, the ones I do know make a point of stressing the fact that they do not stop whenever I have gone on a long journey with them.

I haven't forgotten the relative size of the US, but the same applies to any country of relative size. I guess it begs the question of _why_ you all drive so far. Does land mass correlate to miles driven? Is it because of an emphasis of road infrastructure over public transport/rail? Hmmm
See also, from the 2009 major financial crisis:

Anatomy Of A Bank Takeover

> On a mid-January night, some 80 agents of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pull into Vancouver, Wash. Their rental cars are generic, their arrival times staggered. One by one, agents check into a hotel, each quietly offering a pseudonym to the guy at the desk.

> They're here to take over the Bank of Clark County, which the FDIC has decided is insolvent.

https://www.npr.org/2009/03/26/102384657/anatomy-of-a-bank-t...
> Also, google maps works disturbingly well for Tokyo subways.

Tokyo is a large engineering office for Google (and the first in Asia IIRC). This probably explains it.
> Is there a reason why you would make fn(1) and fn 1 equivalent?

1 and (1) are isomorphic. A single term tuple can be converted to the single term, and vice versa. Having an implicit conversion doesn't seem too crazy.

The biggest issue I suspect would be confusion about the most idiomatic way, or a mix of styles in real-world code bases, that causes confusion or inconsistencies (increases cognitive load for the reader).
The big acceleration points are predictable. Electrify those areas. Then you only need enough batteries to maintain speed and get through the lesser acceleration points.

They would still want enough batteries to accelerate from a dead stop to prevent a 5 minute delay from becoming a 5 hour delay. Energizing the acceleration points would be more about reducing wear on the batteries and prolonging their life.
There is a difference between winning (over other private companies) government contracts to provide a service and being “funded by taxpayers money”
> ministers have proposed replacing pop-up cookie alerts on websites with an opt-out system where users set cover-all data permissions in their web browser settings, removing the need to consent to cookies on each site they visit.

That sounds like a nice idea, but are they going to make it illegal for a site to have one of those banners? The headline says "appear less", so it doesn't sound like they'll be forbidden.

Of course the real reason for this law is to remove the protections of the GDPR, and the "cookie pop-ups" claim is just designed to make people continue hating the EU. If the UK government really cared about those pop-ups, they'd properly fund the UK's data regulator and bring actions against companies that don't have a one-click "Refuse cookies" option.

It's also worth asking why companies started using those cookie banners in the first place, instead of complying with the spirit of the GDPR and not using unnecessary tracking cookies at all. My guess is that the pop-ups were designed as a way to gaslight users into hating the regulations, so in that sense the cookie banners have been successful.

I only hope that, as these banners won't actually be illegal, companies that implement UK-specific cookie banner functionality will put up different wording for those users, saying "Thanks for voting for a government that lets us not care about your privacy any more. [Accept]"
Especially now that the LGB movement has embraced the T (transgender) one, and that Biden and many state governments run by Democrats support "affirming" care as the only appropriate one for children with gender dysphoria, condemning efforts to reconcile them with their biological sex as "conversion therapy", there is reason for concern. A current article is

The Biden administration’s executive order encouraging “affirming care” and gender transition is final confirmation that support for procedures deforming and sterilizing children goes to the top of the American power structure.
https://www.city-journal.org/bidens-blighted-executive-order...
I made an app last year that lets the user track virtually anything. Most notably, it is possible to track prices from any website.

The app has made me a fair amount of money, but I don't really mention it to my friends or family. The thing is, I am Norwegian, and most people here use iPhones. Since the app is only available for Android, the conversation usually ends in an -oh, anyway.

The app (AnyTracker):https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shervinkou...
Oh, actually, I have CleanShot. Bought it back in 2020. And I was offered an update to the recent version, so will check out the new features and the cloud too, thanks.

I still would pay for Shottr!
I have a Macbook for work and a personal Xiaomi laptop. I think the quality of the Xiaomi laptop is just as good. Fingerprint reader doesn't work on Linux, but everything else works as well as on the Macbook. If I were to buy a new laptop now, I'd go with Framework because the ease of changing components appeals to me.
I feel it is slower now.

1981 IBM PC - turn key useful but expensive and clunky

1982 Commodore 64 - cheap, good gfx + sound

1985 Amiga - you could drop someone from today (2022) on an Amiga and they could still find their way around the UI and write a document, save it, print it, use the calculator, whatever. (Before you start comparing with MacOS v1 and Windows v1, yes, true, but Windows 1 has clunky UI and neither MacOS nor Windows could execute more than program at a time. Only Amiga had that.)

So, within 4 years we went from the "Personal Computer" becoming a real actual thing with the PC, to having basically the same desktop metaphor we still use today, with the Amiga. That's incredible development speed.

The only thing I have seen which was just as fast, was the iPhone driving adoption of touch interfaces and mobile Internet. This also drove the concept of an "app" as something you pick and choose and expect to be there for major brands and services.

It's hard to say if the "PC" (I mean that loosely) or the iPhone/touch/mobile trifecta had a greater impact.

On the one hand, almost "everyone" are or will soon have a smartphone, so that has a huge impact.

On the other hand, while "PC" adoption was not ubiquitous, it drove major changes in mass culture (printing, music, video) and industry and economy. Not everyone had a computer, but everyone was aware of them and were impacted by them in ways large and small.
Britain Orders Extradition of Julian Assange to United States
The article doesn’t understand dwell times at Penn Station or the capacity limitations there.

For example:

* Penn Station Dwells are not limited by passenger movement at doors. It’s not a metro, go and watch trains being loaded.

* Escalators constrain the rate at which people can actually reach the platforms

* These escalators need to switch direction when a train arrives, meaning multiple arrivals and departures are not simultaneously supported.

* The tracks do not support all operators and the station design divides Amtrak from LIRR

* Some tracks do not support full train lengths

* Not all tracks in the station are through tracks

* Trains are terminating at NYP which requires a longer process of ensuring no passengers are still on on board before leaving for the yard.

* It’s not only the north and east river tunnels, there is an entrance from the Empire line for Amtrak and separate paths to the WSSY for LIRR, not to mention train storage within Penn in the ACDE yards.

* Engineers walk the entire length of the train when a trip reverses direction. This takes a long time. The OP mentions through-running solution, but doesn’t point out the problems with it, namely incompatible equipment and giving an entirely different agency access to your multimillion dollar trains.

I could go on and on.
SSH-MitM has prebuilt windows executables
That building is somewhat reminiscent of their SF headquarters:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/internet-archive-headqua...

That said, the biggest threat to the Internet Archive is from overreaching copyright legislation, and Canada is not that much better than the US. Iceland or some other such locale might be better indicated, and Iceland has natural advantages in cooling and cheap hydropower, a big part of a datacenter's operational costs.
I created a caption competition website seventeen years ago: https://www.caption.me/

Pulls funny photos from a Flickr group. People write funny captions and vote for their favourite. Some of today's active users have been on the site for more than a decade.

I used to pay the £50 monthly prize out of my own pocket, but some generous users offered to fund the prize themselves via a whip-round.

So the small amount of money from paid link advertising on my sites (approx £45/month) now covers the hosting. In my head, that means I can justify spending my free time modernising and grow the site. I'm slowly upgrading it from PHP to http4s+ReactJS

There are some fun tech things I enjoyed inventing on the site - real-time collaborative mind-mapping to help people think of caption ideas; bots that identify bad user behaviour and create forum topics to start a private discussion with the admin team; real-time updates using websockets; a system that automatically identifies the best voters and rewards them with a quota of "super-votes" they can use to vote more than once on the best captions.
They weren’t listed together because I think they’re all great. They each have something “difficult” or “pretentious” about them in the popular imagination, and people get criticized for “putting on airs” when seen reading them in public, people are classified as “oh, one of those guys...” if they have it on their shelf/nightstand.
Wow, I had no idea that java was so fast. One thing I like about go is that you can cram many thousands of concurrent requests into the same process. But it looks like java has some pretty robust async tools... So I bet you could do something similar
I'm not sure I like a single item tuple being equivalent to just the item. Can you ask for the length of a tuple? The length of a tuple with two 100 element lists would be 2, and if you looked at the tail the length would be 100.
"Fustian", the exemplar word of this polemic, is also a rough fabric, typically worn by servants and ultimately politicised as such, the fabric of the working classes much as the British 1970s socialist worker party obsession with donkey jackets. Worn with pride to show class consciousness.

Before that it was just hardy cotton cloth, used for padding furniture so the Shakespearean sense of "bombast", which is also a fabric, used for padding...

(Bast is a quality of fibre used for spinning.. even bombast is surprisingly technical as a word)
Well the reason this one may be a good example is that you couldn’t do this optimization in C even if you wanted to. You would have to call a function at every use-site to handle your “abstraction”. And the same thing applies in other cases.

Also, I’m not sure the added conditional branch will increase the binary too much, and the reason it is inside the c++ stdlib is that it was likely measured and proved beneficial.

But I do agree that maybe your allocation example is a better one, though the solution to that is perhaps a full GC, which does have a few tradeoffs (which are worthy to take more often than not).
Can anyone, except maybe intel, compete with TSMC?
Yeah, it doesn't have a simple answer that works for all cases.

Say you need to do some data processing from format A to B. There's already a maintained codebase for converting from A to C, C to D, and a service that converts individual elements from D to A. All steps require storing back onto disk.

For a one-time thing it'll be MUCH cheaper to do it the naive way reusing existing high level blocks, and going to lunch (or vacation), and let it run.

For a recurring thing, or a pipeline with latency requirements, maybe it's worth building a converter from A to B.

Or… it could be cheaper to just shard A and run it on 20 CPUs.

Let's say you have the expensive piles of abstraction, and creating huge waste. At my company one HOUR of engineer time costs about the same as 20 CPUs running for A YEAR.

This means that if you reduce CPU use by 20 cores, forever, then ROI takes a full year. Including debugging, productionizing, and maintenance you pretty much can't do anything in 1h.

Likely your A-to-B converter could take 1h of human time just in ongoing costs like release management.

And to your point about code readability: Sometimes the ugly solution (A-C-D-B) is the one with less code. If you needed the A->C, C->D, D->A components anyway, then writing an A->B converter is just more code, with its potential readability problems.

On the flip side of this: It's been a trend for a long time in web development to just add layers of frameworks and it's now "perfectly normal" for a website to take 10s to load. Like what the fuck, blogspot, how do you even get to the point where you realize you need a "loading" animation, and instead of fixing the problem you actually do add one.

Human lifetimes have been spent looking at just blogspot's cogs spinning.
I haven’t followed this for a while, but I remember the main argument for extradition was that he induced the release of classified information. A transcript used as proof that I read in the grand jury testimony was a joke a d certainly showed no evidence of inducing the documents’ release. Hence I still haven’t seen any evidence that a crime occurred (even according to US law). The publication of classified documents certainly isn’t a crime. Even when making biased choices about what to publish or not redacting information.

Also I don’t see why you put so much importance on his testimony being under oath. Clapper directly lied to congress under oath and never saw any consequences. It’s an interesting double standard we have.
They should adopt servo or help revive geckoview, to have an independent default.
Rust advocacy at a medium-sized startup
> colour changes only every few rows near the top of the screen. E.g. let those buildings (or whatever) extend to the top, but require the top floors to stick to the same colour. Now you can reduce e.g LDA/STA/LDA/STA/LDA/STA to LDA/STA/STA/STA and similarly reduce your inlined scroll code.

Here's the thing: I've just looked at video of Cobra. It's 100% plain to my eye (having worked on a multitude of published C64 games, over a number of years, and played a hundreds of C64 games, and taken their code apart to see how they tick) that this game is using full colour scrolling — albeit in only one direction. It might look like it's not, particularly on the first level, because you think the graphics look too simple. But sadly that's just how it looks.

You can plainly see this when various accent colours for e.g. windows and such like scroll into view. Don't be fooled by the fact it's tile based and the first level has poor graphics. And the fact it's full colour scrolling is even more obvious on later maps, e.g. see 5mins into this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eog6-zvts6g

— That's full colour scrolling. In one direction. With tiles of 2x2 chars, with each char in the tile being able to have its own colour. 100%. There's no tricks there. Your theoretical/toy code example simply won't do what is seen on at the 5min mark there (level 2 or whatever).
It's called surveillance.
Probably safer in the event of a crash or mechanical failure. I would not like to see what electrical fire would look like from a lithium battery big enough to power s train.
If this was run by a major collection or archive it would have been cool to link out from the gods to images of the works that depict them.
That’s a possibility. It was hard for me to get past “5 to 8 miles per hour”. Of course that pace is a cardio workout!
> So I work, always, because I'm anxious

I think most people are like this. It's the religion of the modern age. It is a meditation, that takes us away from our underlying fears. And there's plenty of reasons to be afraid. We are all poor fragile monkeys here, any one of us could get wiped out randomly at any moment. How can you be ok with that? You can't. And so we search for a release. For most of us it is work. Of course there's many other things people try: money, food, sex, drugs...
Sorry, why would the UK drop it? The UK has an extradition treaty with the US, the US wanted Assange extradited, what would be the basis for the UK refusing?
Priti Patel does far more shameful things on a regular basis.
So what’s the oldest line of code currently active?

What’s the longest-lived line of code in the repo?
Hyperledger Fabric Node
Deploying a Hyperledger Fabric node on your own computer can be a helpful way to get started with the blockchain technology. This guide will show you how to set up a Hyperledger Fabric node on a Ubuntu 16.04 system. First, you will need to install the required software packages. After that, you will create a configuration file for the node. Finally, you will deploy the node using the command line tool. https://www.zeeve.io/blockchain-protocols/deploy-hyperledger-fabric/
Just based on memory, Visual C++ 6 was written using the good old Win32 API, which is just plain C code. Without access to the source code, I can assume that the object-oriented craze and XML fad had not corrupted that codebase. Superb software.

Visual C++ 7 was rewritten to use another SDK, likely based on .Net, and it was noticeably slower. The problem, as I see it, is people don't understand the cost of abstractions and intermediate layers, and add them gratuitously. This has been a trend ever since.
Listing token times instead of just apps, and doing so nearer the actual time instead of 3 months later, are the key parts of my suggestion.
That's a regrettable decision considering their reputation was made by small businesses.
Elon Musk told Twitter employees that workers who are 'exceptional' can
I didn’t notice that. Thanks for pointing it out. The error in the article is pretty glaring and it is hard to get past it.
How so?

Or are you just a drive by idiot who is jealous of people who have interesting thoughts?
I'd argue that SSDs have done more harm than good. Since the worst-case is now far superior that it used to be (HDDs), most developers see no need to optimize any further. For example, plenty of video game engines will stream copious amounts of data from disk instead of optimizing memory usage, asset size, and in general more creative solutions (i.e. shader effects instead of GBs of redundant assets). If hitting the disk slowed everything to a crawl, then maybe software would've been designed in much more efficient ways. Good (enough) is the enemy of great.
But then why go? You can also implement that logic in a likely much more readable way in Python (as at that point performance doesn’t matter), or just write the whole thing in Java/C#/Scala/Kotlin whatever, which in my opinion are more expressive for business logic.
Games do use JS, some UIs actually render using a webview (Unity etc is capable of this)
Marketing what? They largrly sell chemicals and oil.
We use to be with Synapse and Evolve too - have thankfully moved on ;) We went through the same pain with Synapse that it's their name and not the customer's name on the wire. I thought at Mercury's scale you could get them to change this by now.
I wonder of Intel wins back Apple's business in the near future.
A fig leaf. See which parties those agreements favor, and you will see how much sovereignty you have left. And "parties" are not necessarily countries - e.g. it is not to the benefit of the average American that the WIPO copyright treaty [1] forbids DRM circumvention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty
I do judge a lifestyle that is non-procreative and more likely in men to cause sexually transmitted diseases to be a poor one, and I hope (but think it unlikely in my lifetime) that new marriages will be restricted to male-female ones. You praise inclusivity, but your comment seems to suggest that people like me are assholes.
I see what you are saying, but this doesn't negate the need (or perhaps better responsibility) to do something like this. Not exactly this, but something of the kind.

Accordingly, I feel your "no evidence ever given beyond “experts came up with this” that the message would work" is too dismissive.

I mean, is it even possible to produce "evidence" of the type you are looking for? How could we convincingly show that a message is able to travel 10ka without trying it out?

To me it seems the only thing we can do is argue about whether it might work, and discuss what our options are and which of them has better chances, and then try the thing that seemed most plausible and promising during the discussion. Saying "this is propaganda" might be correct, but we still need to have some kind of discussion like this (or we just say "screw future generations", which to cynic me is the most likely outcome).

I argued above (top comment) for the spikes and thorns. Do you disagree?
This is not correct, at any level.

1. "By working harder and harder for the digital economy you are actively contributing the problems you've listed. Stacking up piles of money is the last thing you should do if you care about pollution, war and digital alienation."

No, you can work in the digital economy for change. "Stacking" money, or saving is not the last thing to do if you care about pollution, it's not me first, it's about being a conscious human being able to plan ahead akin to storing food for winter. Exhausting your runway, savings and comparing it to Pollution, war and digital alienation is the same as poisoning the well. Saving money is financial independence.

2. "Take a look at game theory and the prisoner dilemma if you haven't already. The "me first" mentality is killing us. The textbook example is gun ownership. You may feel personally safer by owning a gun but places with more guns have more shootings. So in reality by owning a gun you're actually increasing your chances of getting shot."

Game theory =/= Me first, while the prisoner dilemma is introductory, you're thinking it in the wrong way of juxtaposing it as a net benefit and someone loses "e.g. I say they did it, and I'll be free" vs collaboration, it's not binary.

3. "The digital economy is at the epicenter of the issues you've listed. It's a resource sink generating a lot of pollution, has always been closely linked to the war industry and is a factor of increased inequality and mental health issues." Disagree, it's also the most efficient economy we humans have created thus. That's why it's centerstage, whereas before geographic arbitrage was strong now people all around the world can communicate semi freely, if not entirely free and conduct business. Saying it's the epicenter, is comparing todays Internet to the postal service of the past and men on horses riding personally for 1:1 messages - how was business, trade and war conducted before? Was it all 100% that looking back? No.
On mobile, I just go to ⋮ then "Desktop site", much wider display.
Funny how rarely they call it that, isn't it?
Who knows? Perhaps they tried to give feedback "up the chain" first and were stone walled?