skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume they meant uniques. I agree, it's a ridiculous stat and probably exaggerated ... OTOH, porn traffic numbers from the "official sources" are way underreported for obvious reasons. Is it believable that half the people on Earth visit one of these sites every month? Probably not. Is it possible they are pulling Google-scale traffic? Yes quite likely IMO.
What the science fiction writers explores doesn't have to be possible futures, it can be impossible ones. And some science fiction, like Stranger Things, is set in the past.

In fact it's been a while since I read Snowcrash but it's set implausibly close to when it was written in 1992. This is presumably intentional.
That's a perfectly fine pronunciation, but the point is that it's not an English word, so plenty of people will think it looks weird or not know how to pronounce it.
> I've already spent the money on whiskey and synthesizers

You know, after reading Game Programming Patterns years ago I knew I'd get CI eventually, and have only delayed because I know I don't have the time to give it what it deserves just yet (two kids under three, fulltime Senior Eng, yada yada you know the drill), but this line hits so close to home that it's getting purchased right now.

Everything I've taken the time to read on your blog has stuck with me Bob, but knowing you're a whiskey and synth lover too just makes it all the better. Crafting Interpreters will still wait though, I've got a bottle of JW Gold and my barely touched Dirtywave M8 to attend to first.
Median is obviously not mean. I never mentioned median anywhere. Where is the median of market return relevant here?

Yes, volatility matters and is why people generally prefer to get the lower volatility average market return. But that’s not very relevant to many peoples claims on here that SP500 outperforms most capital, which is obviously incorrect.
I would like my goggles to block Pinterest.
Too little too late? If they do a better job than substack or medium they can probably take marketshare. Instead of innovating on it they can emulate the effective products and build on top of it.

It's like saying instagram's videos were too late to tik tok. It effectively stopped the hemorrhaging and kept market share.
That would be a genius judo-style move. David versus Googliath — the headlines practically write themselves!
In the ideal case yes - and a significant portion of requests fall into that case (varnish cache), but its also the cheapest case by far.

Wikipedia gets edited a lot, and a single edit can often affect many pages (in extreme cases, millions of pages). Keeping up with content churn is where a lot of the computational resources are directed.

Now sure, this is still a lot easier than if every page view had to be rendered on demand dynamically. However a truly static site where things don't change at all is trivial compared to wikipedia to host.
> it's a really strange form of hypocrisy.

It's totally sane when looked at through one lens, and asinine when viewed through the other.

From a societal point of view, banning these products makes sense. They don't add value to the world, but they cause a lot of damage. The people who feel they are flipping the bill for the damaged caused don't see a reason that they have to pay it. The costs can be abstract, like increased medical costs, but they can also be direct, say, your child gets hooked on one of these and suffers some sort of medical complication.

From an individual perspective, then banning these products seems ridiculous. It's pretty common for people to believe that they aren't impacting others with their choices (which is wrong), or they acknowledge the negative impacts, but they just don't care.

Generally speaking, if you want to maintain a freedom, it is advisable to not bother other people with your activity.
'Substantial weather pattern change' bringing heat and monsoons to California
I disputed it, but after three months of waiting, the bank decided there's nothing they can do because Airbnb's position is protected by the user agreement and CA law. It was a severely disappointing moment.
"Intentionally campy and satirical" and "chillingly predictive" are not mutually exclusive. The movie Idiocracy has probably become the canonical example in that space.

In any case, speculative fiction is usually more about the present than it is about the future. The original Star Trek, for instance, dealt quite a bit with the racial politics of the 1960s, even though it was set in the 2260s. The hypercapitalism in Snow Crash (and other cyberpunk works around that time) reflected the trend of American society in the 1980s and 90s. It was less "telling lies" and more logical extrapolation of the existing trend, which hasn't really been arrested since, either.
How do you make money? Ads Im guessing? Will check this out
Indeed, it seems that copy-pasted playground with custom UI. They didn't bother themselves even to create at least some new plugin for it.

Playground plugin: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic...

Copy paste: https://github.com/ozanyurtsever/verbum/blob/bfac38815eb0057...

Made a PR at least to credit the authors https://github.com/ozanyurtsever/verbum/pull/3/files
>Does anybody find the constant promotion of Brave on HN annoying?

Yes, its extremely annoying, and I do not trust anyone saying positive things about Brave or its other product offerings. Brave is a shady company that:

>puts profits over privacy

>impersonates well known influencers to sell their products without their knowledge

>constantly pushes their cryptocurrency, functionality completely unrelated to web browsing and of negative value to anyone caring about their privacy

>their search results appear to be based off of google, despite claiming an independent index. all of your queries may just be going to google anyways

>the browser frequently sends telemetry to their servers

>they have consistently added more spyware to the browser unless users en masse call them out, which only happens some of the time

I don't think for a second you are being downvoted by real hacker news users. Brave has created some sort of native marketing arm or something that drowns out any criticisms with vague positive comments like "I've been using brave search, more privacy and better search results than google!". Something is truly fishy about Brave, and I refuse to go anywhere near their products.
Nice! Ability to quickly choose goggle would be nice, something similar to "site:" or !bangs in ddg. Example search: "integration tests best practices goggle:tech-blogs".
You can do that but it's incredibly lazy and selfish. But hey if you don't care and you think you are that useless to the world, that's fine, there's no convincing you otherwise.
You’re completely cutting off the other half of their post which makes sense with the context you’re quoting.
My post wasnt clear on this, but I support doing whatever we can to ease chronic pain.

I just disagree with the position that Google can do so while preserving privacy. If we are going to trade privacy for cures, let's at least do so openly.
That seems to be an issue in general for Twitter, particularly when logged out. It often doesn't load on the first go around and you have to refresh to see the content.
Bonobos' tolerant, peaceful group relationships paved way for human peacemaking
Looks like he authored 62 Goosebumps books, published from 1992 to 1997.

So potentially only a little over a year's labor in total at a book a week.
step 1) mass email announcing lan party

step 2) sit back while everyone sets it up

step 3(optional)) provide mountain dews baby

step 4) have a lan party

step 5) realize that OP asked about an offline lan, not an office lan.
Generally speaking, foot soldiers didn't have swords at all. Most of them were given a much cheaper to make spear.
Brave has a long way to go, but they results are sometimes better than Google on technical searches, which was the only reason I started using Google Search back in 2000.
This is a beautiful and ambitious project. If you’re unaccustomed to listening to historically-informed recordings of these works, the tuning can be a bit jarring at first. We are so accustomed to hearing them at A ∼ 440.
How Disney+ Hotstar Simplified Its Data Architecture for Scale: Replacing Redis
I would take this article with a grain of salt - especially the whole "logic designers do X and then physical designers do Y" bit.

My experience doing this has physical designers working on cell libraries in parallel with logic designers working on designs, then both working on layout and then the physical designers leading the final tapeout - logic designers need those cell library timings early on to drive synthesis
You apply an arbitrary filter that deranks 'shitty' sites, and then you play a semantic game about what 'bias' is, and how you don't have it, but all the competing search engines do.

There's no objective measure of what site is 'good', and what site has been 'SEO-gamed' to rise to the top of <arbitrary search engine's algorithm>. The measures are subjective, and people complain when changes to the algorithm aimed at punishing black-hat-SEO also punish their website (Rightly or wrongly).

Not to mention the problem of using black-hat-SEO to punish a competitor (By creating scummy links to them, that make it look like they are trying to game the search engine.)
Maybe. I think implementing APIs like WebUSB, WebHID API, Web Serial API, Web Bluetooth, Web MIDI API etc. is not a big issue. Missing Filesystem Access API and Push API, WebGPU API would be nice to have. But the latter two would need to implement in a way to protect privacy of the user.
"Introducing Go" by Caleb Doxsey. It covers the absolute basics of the language and does a pretty good job at that.
Funny you should mention Georgia, since they declared war on Russia. Every single one of my factual claims is just an internet search away. And yes, (though you said it in jest) I do believe you are brainwashed.
Support for maybe common fitness trackers or common outdoorsy type watches could be cool?
Yes?

That's already a thing in some city centers (at least in Europe), and we're moving towards banning the sale of new petrol cars.

It's not an instantaneous process as society would pretty much collapse of we did so, but we are moving in that direction.
As long as one does not have various gastrointestinal disorders and accepts the adverse cardiovascular, cancer, and diabetes risks. A lack of dietary vitamin D also does not risk immediate death like a lack of oxygen, but similarly increases risk of adverse conditions like rickets.
Or you reap benefit until it blows up in your face at an unknown time :-)
I'm responding to a claim of "The whole OOo, mysqL, OEL junket...", and all you've got is to accuse Oracle of what they might do in the future? It's fine to hold a negative opinion of them because of what they might do, but I don't think it's fine to use MySQL as an example of something bad they've done already...because, as far as I can tell, they haven't.

> Savvy people just use MariaDB and avoid the whole mess.

I'll ask again: what mess?
Forgot about the EVs. Excellent point there.

Always shocked by the labor component of PV arrays. I did my own 6.6kW array (split into two physical arrays, thus increasing the parts costs a bit), and it came out to around $13k. I don't mean I don't want to pay people a living wage, just always hard to remember (when you're used to doing stuff yourself) what fraction of the total cost that will be when you do pay them.
1) many states have already raised the vaping and smoking age to 21,

2) I don't know a single human being who drinks who did not drink in high school. Same applies to smoking and vaping.
If being born to a wealthy family is "luck" then being born to a family who will work their butt off to give you a good start is also "luck".

> "Where does personal agency end and circumstances begin?"

If it's "I choose to work harder", it's personal agency. If it's "we're voting away support systems because I turned out OK and you should just work harder" it's not.
And this is why you don't take "google searches" seriously. Anyone can write anything, let alone a clearly anti-Islamic website like the one you linked to. Many many scholars have spoken against the validity of such a marriage, and called it out as what it is.
> cost many times and takes much longer to build than in other OECD countries.

Is there a known reason for this? I know in the past (possibly still) that there was a lot of corruption in infrastructure contracts. Is this still the case for these NYC contracts?
They've talked about PEDs being endemic to cycling since forever.
About 5k words a day, or about 15-20 pages a day (for normal novel-size pages) - call it a chapter. Pretty impressive.

(Intentionally does NOT calculate the number of words posted to various Internet forums over the years)
No, many things related to 'computers' are determined by physics and chemistry. In any case, 'computer' is being used loosely (and poorly) here, which is why I have been putting it in single quotes. 'Computer' can mean many things.
‘Bubble gum flavour’ is just a less common variant of mint. We have some of it growing in our garden - wintergreen. There’s nothing inherently childish about mint.
Full agree, with one additional detail:

Tests are code too. Like the code being tested, they can be shitty at times, but they are still code and should be treated with the same level of care.

Which is not to say "your tests should be as DRY as a desert". That's frequently a poor fit for test code's lifecycle. But it does mean you shouldn't do stuff that wouldn't pass code review elsewhere, just because "it's just a test". Someone later has to read, understand, and maintain that code - treat it as such.
Meta settles with US Government over ad targeting-enabled housing discrimination
But is it any good? That's the question. I don't doubt that they'll try something in the next 10 years, because now is the largest force they'll ever be able to muster. One child policy screwed them.
I wish we would stop arguing about what is "safe" and "not safe" and instead focus on the actual issue here, which is addiction. Nicotine is wildly addictive to a lot of people and that addiction is the primacy cause of the harm done from all nicotine products. Taking a drag off a cigarette isn't bad for your health in any measurable way. It's the compulsively dragging of a cigarette throughout each and every day for years, due to an acute addiction, that results in the actual harm down the line.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/google-org-donates-2-milli...

You’d have to look at their annual reports to get more granular info
I think it's for environments where 2.4 is just trash and you'd rather not run any of it all, and your iot crap is the only reason you're force to still stand up a 2.4 AP in the first place.

This lets you go 5-only, and that's big for some settings.
Ok, I may trust the VPN, but can I trust the binary app?
I have the same complaint about IRC. :). I'm ok with both Slack and IRC for collaborating on an immediate problem, like an outage, but I hate having it just sit there as a way for someone to ping me any time.
Apparently we are supposed to live our lives as if we have the awareness of a small infant.
But it might be that they get a buzz as an evolutionary strategy, similar to why humans find sugar so appealing (it signifies caloric density). So the cats certainly get a high but maybe they get the high because of the insect repellent action of iridoids (per the article; I don't have any special knowledge of this).
What would you recommend as non trivial projects? Do you mean trying to clone some existing service with a given toolset or should I try to come up with something (somewhat) original?
I love that C++ developers only want to work with C++ and Python, while nearly everyone else is doing web stuff.
Tl;dr:

> In almost every project we were taking care of, removing String.intern() from the hotpaths, or optionally replacing it with a handrolled deduplicator, was the very profitable performance optimization.

> Do not use String.intern() without thinking very hard about it, okay?

Overall fantastic article covering intern() in depth!

The only thing I'd like to see added would be visual graphs instead of numeric tables for the benchmark results.
What virtual machine?
> Here is what they can’t manufacture: electronics. Or planes, or tanks, or even ordinary cars.

They'll just buy it from China. Like everyone else does.
It probably refers to DDG down-ranking so-called Russian disinformation.

Which sounds like a brilliant idea until one remembers the clusterfuck of censoring pandemic-related disinformation which transformed into a witch hunt of everything which didn’t match the mainstream political opinion.
Majorana fermions hold potential for information technology with zero resistance
Oh definitely, Microsoft docs are usually very well written. And you're right, those percentages look pretty good.
You can, but people get annoyed if you don't respond quickly, because they expect a quick response, otherwise they would send an email.
I think it's the "Generic boosting" comment that might have thrown the parent off. The comment could say something like "Keep these sites with default ranking" instead.
I see, I think you will have to spend a lot of energy on creating that trust to make them want to hire before they are convinced to use your platform. Otherwise they won't be interested in just using it.

Or... They will already have developers in Latin America and already have a solution to hiring here overall.
Nothing weird about it at all. Based on their footer ("Schluss. Basta. Stop.") it's supposed to be read as an exclamation. As an exclamation ("Schluss."/"Schluss!") it would be translated as "stop it!".
I recall an applicable quote (paraphrased) "it's not hard to make truthful predictions. Its hard to get the timing right."
Commenting to remind myself to check these out later.

I've also found SunTimes, SMS Backup+ (for SMS, MMS, Call log -> SMTP email), Markor, LawnChair, OpenCamera (specifically for manual camera control like exposure and focus), NewPipe, Aegis Authenticator, and FluffyChat to be really useful.
The difference is that gasoline powered engines add value to the world in exchange for the destruction they cause, while cigarettes are purely destructive.

But yes, we should eliminate gasoline powered vehicles as soon as feasible. This is something that's already going on.
> Cigarettes are directly marketed to kids

Can you provide a recent example of cigarettes being marketed to kids in USA?
Nicotine is not intrinsically addictive. The form in which it is consumed has a significant impact. Nicotine in the form of patches, gum or lozenges is not addictive.

> What's the upside of nicotine?

Nicotine is potent cognitive enhancer.
This comment does not explain why one should use Libreoffice if Openoffice is working just fine for them.
Who defines "fundamental human rights". I think once you start poking, you'll easily see that such a definition is frail and subjective.
Yeah, a better UX would be to just make long threads more readable (compact tweets with smaller icons).
What do you think prevents D to become more popular? It seems Rust and Go captured some of the mind share of D.
"Do me a favor, boy."

"What's that, Dix?"

"This scam of yours, when it's over, you erase this goddam thing."
Smoking has been banned successfully in most public places. You rights to clean air are reasonable to an extent, but outdoors it's a different story. Can you tell people driving gas burning cars and diesel vehicles to stay far away from humans? There has to be better reasonability in discussion of the issue.
What the Celsius crypto big freeze means for your money
Because it gets them high.

Disclosure, I didn't click on the article, but that's their fault for the headline being dumb.
I make displays out of discrete lights and panels, when I use dual-core chips I usually use one core for driving pixels and scanning continuously while the other core does network stuff and actual framebuffer content updates. Makes for a very glitch-free and seamless experience :)
"Lee-bray" is closer to accurate.
And 80% of their oil imports from ME go through a lot of countries that could stop the flow.
I've never worked anywhere that didn't expect an immediate response from Slack. If they wanted a delayed response, they'd send an email.

Worse yet, if I try to enforce that myself by not responding, there is a whole conversation in the channel before I get there and then I have to respond to all the messages in a mess of threads or some big long response block.
"People" might, but the post you're replying to didn't. All they said was "Declining populations simply cannot maintain the “grow at all costs” current economic order" which implies a change is necessary, not whether that change is good/bad/whatever.
Here's California's energy usage by hour from 2017:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341393321/figure/fi...

We need some kind of alignment between Electricity producers / the Grid, and EVs / manufacturers.
Nice for them. But I find general-purpose search engines are becoming worse across the board. They're all so bad now that I find them to be a waste of the time more often than not. I've found myself relying more on the search functionality built into websites. Instead of going to google/ddg/brave with the intent of landing on a wikipedia page, I go to wikipedia directly and search there. Wikipedia's search is much better than I remember it being, and I don't have to scroll through half a page of commercial results before finding the page I'm looking for (if what you're searching for is something that could be sold to you, that's what these general purpose search engines will prioritize. They all have a very strong commercial bias.)
My reaction to this is that it's an effort to keep users within the "walled garden" of Twitter, which is not the best thing for those that write.

Recall the story with Medium - yes, you get broader reach with less effort, but at the cost of giving up control of your content.

I know that I am talking with an overly developer-focused lens (a-la "you can reimplement Dropbox in a weekend"), but self-hosting blogs outside the "walled gardens" is not super complicated even for non-power users. Ghost has existed for years and is a very user-friendly experience. Want to be a bit more technical - go the static site route.

It might be a lost battle to convince the majority of the social media audience of this (after all, can't beat the convenience and the cost of $0), but I really do not see this as beneficial to those that deeply care about their long-form writing accessibility and sustainability.

Twitter already has login walls to just read tweets, so I'd imagine the same is likely to apply to long-form content as well.
Yeah I own a nintendo switch for games. One store for all my home and mobile gaming (for what little travel we do these days, where I'm not driving the car). I have no desire to get on the microtransaction treadmill as I am not part of the 3% or whatever of users that provide the majority of their revenue. Nintendo Switch has more than enough jrpgs to last a lifetime. Even charges off the same connector as my phone.
> any form of nicotine consumption is very bad

Oh, really? What exactly is very bad about nicotine gum?
Thanks so much! We grew like crazy last year (over 400%). Do I think we can do the same this year, not sure, but definitely 100 times again this year and 100 times again next year.

The company is only as big as the need for employing great devs worldwide. We may not be a consumer known product, but we hope to help lots of companies and devs for many years to come! Also, we've been very careful to not give up control so the company would never be forced into pivoting against our mission!
Completely agree. There’s a very digestible video on why this is true as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAemz1v7dQ