skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh! you remind me of my time as a newly minted mechanical engineer undergrad.

Linux was a new thing in India at that time. It was a lot fun to go through the code, especially for someone new to C, to understand the printing pipeline end to end. For me the driving motivation was to enable that cool 'draft mode' where only the outline of the font used to be inked leaving the insides free of toner.
I've recently been surprised much better EU manufacturing is doing than US manufacturing. I don't think cost of labor is the only factor at play.
While you're right that that some nutrients are better (or worse) absorbed based on what other nutrients you digest at the same time, that doesn't really change the fact that you won't absorb/use more of any given nutrient than you need, so without a deficiency, supplements don't help.
Eh...finally? Like 10 years after its competitor weibo.com? Says a lot about the culture of Twitter.
Nope, but why to use binaries if you may not?
Does anyone have thoughts about how to use these to eliminate Amazon-Affiliate pop-up shops with auto-generated listicles of products no one so much as even looked at?

I would love a "Product Reviews" goggle that helps find legitimate reviews or recommendations without having to narrow to somewhere specific like reddit.
How do you ban being fat without banning all foods? Banning smoking is easy, just ban sales of cigarettes. How would you even enforce banning being fat? Random checks for weight? Everyone needs their weight checked periodically and if you are too fat you have to ...idk pay a fine or go to jail? That is some true dystopian stuff. Even just banning unhealthy food would not work, because there is a lot of healthy food that can cause people to being fat if they eat enough. I guess you could make some food stamp type program where you can only buy a set number of calories per week (i.e. WW2 style rationing), but that would be another very intrusive solution.
17 ways to add two integers
> like disable all results from say, pinterest and a few other sites I dislike.

I use the uBlacklist addon for that
I did that too. I learned how to insert PCL commands into my XyWrite files to correct type spacing issues. I could also manage some simple graphics.
This is false. The world population becoming fat has only been a problem in the last 50 years. It is because we have an abundance of calories available for cheap now, which wasn't the case before.
He's made available[1] the charts and maps used in the book. I found this one quite illuminating on demographics.[2]

[1] https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world-maps/
[2] https://zeihan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/global-fertili...
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>Since we're indulging in conspiracy theories here

Are you Brave's native marketing arm at work? When I open up wireshark and I see telemetry sent back to Brave after I open the browser, must be a conspiracy right?

I find it funny that you did not even try to refute the points about them impersonating people to sell their products or the telemetry in their browser. You instead deflected into a combination of "whatabout-ism" and then say the same vague positive statements "Brave is a good browser and a decent search engine."

I think Brave is shady, explain to me why they are not using technical merit. I will fully admit that I may not know all the facts, and I'm willing to hear you out, so explain why they impersonate people to sell their product.

>Do you apply this standard to everything?

Yes, if a company markets one thing, I expect them to deliver on that marketing promise. Brave markets privacy, and they do not deliver.

>I'll just throw out that mine is that you have ideological motives to dislike Brave and those motivate your criticism.

Explain further. What is my motivation here? That I'm tired of the Brave spam? That I want a browser that is actually private, like Librewolf or Ungoogled Chromium?
Compiling functional languages to other high-level language s generally has pretty awful performance compared to simple native compilation. Even compiling to C has it's limitations.

The fact that Go has a nice compiler doesn't really help, because the code generated by the functional compiler will have usage patterns that are very different from what the Go compiler is designed around.
> The difference between sugar and nicotine is that sugar isn't addictive

~40% of our population is obese and another 35% or so are overweight and we don't regulate it at all in any capacity (marketing to kids, packaging, etc).
Shoes might be more expensive, but not $300. New Balance still makes shoes in the US, and they're priced about the same as other brands.

But US-made stuff, on the whole, is also better quality and longer-lasting than Chinese.
Open Server.

But even with these damaging examples which I agree with you about, it's still better.
UK delivery firm Yodel confirms cyberattack is disrupting delivery
I had one of these back in the day. I seem to remember it cost a lot less than buying a PostScript printer. A major downside was that it was extremely slow!
As in Spanish.
Total Incompetence or Extreme Evil 2020-2022
I wonder why RAM manufacturers are so generous that they don't engage in deceptive marketing, while everyone else does.
Lawmakers are activist on the matter because they believe it will somehow protect their own children from vaping... Truth is it's too late to prevent their own children from vaping, they've already caught them vaping.

Because of social media and populism, too many bad/harmful decisions are being made now in government. Most of it is driven by people seeking re-election or social media popularity more than by people who truly want to create positive change.
I have the feeling that we might be in our current predicament because a few billionaires are reading the same books, and trying to bring about some ideological nonsense into reality.
I did a version of this waaaaay back in the day. Naturally since Google was sooo cool back then I called it Google Goggles. Now of course they're not as warm and fuzzy.
the more places I work the more I realize that the standard is bad leadership.
> "We grew like crazy last year (over 400%)"

You went from 0 to 4 paying customers?
If the opinion you share is unpopular, it's because it's correct, and the truth is the enemy of the oligarchs that are scamming citizens in the US and the West in general. US is now a scam that exports inflation and crap 2nd rate weaponry. Scam economy, scam military industrial complex, scam military, scam president, scam everything.

If you have a feeling the US is in decline, it's because it is. The situation is much worse than most Americans realize. There is no hope for either Democrats or Republicans to fix anything here. I recommend to all my friends that they emigrate if they can.
One major differentiator between the US and China is that China traditionally / currently is not considered a good destination for foreigners / immigrants. (even Chinese people inside China from lower tier cities / countryside struggle to gain residency in top tier cities or get good jobs / benefits). Whereas the US, for all of its flailing around politically, is perceived by many people in many countries as a good place to move. So immigration is a major leverage point the US can / should use to keep the economic engine going. A working age person coming to the US and working hard is basically one of the best case scenarios -- the US tax-base did almost nothing then suddenly you have a new productive person. Contrary to tons of rhetoric, unless you have a failing business, virtually all people at your company will maintain employment if their production is more valuable than what you pay them -- so they end up being a net gain. And last time I checked, not many people come from another country with furniture, a house, a car, etc.. (so they both produce for some company, and consume likely at much higher levels than say boomers who already own virtually everything they need). So, hopefully the US doesn't lose its "mindshare" leadership around being a good destination for immigrants, because in the next 50 years we will see more and more battles for bringing immigrants to your country to make up for the low birth rates.
Nowhere else in the computer is the base-10 version standard

As the parent said, networking. (Which also suffers from an unfortunate bits/bytes mismatch.)

The real problem with storage IMO is that software used base-2 measurements and vendors used base-10 and eventually the discrepancy got big enough to be noticeable.
for some projects I prefer static, for some others dynamic.

recently I regretted using C for a big library as I had to tack on dynamic-like features, like huge hash tables for all it's objects and methods, so that I can dispatch dynamically. in a proper dynamic language the project would be 10x smaller and safer.
I think we should be focusing on creating abundance of clean fuels. I do think it's worthwhile to tax fossil fuels to make people less likely to use them. Probably with dramatic taxes. But really there's no such thing as "natural scarcity" or "natural abundance" these things are all based on our choices. 30 years ago we could have created an abundance of nuclear power and we would be better off. Today it seems like creating abundance of other things is a superior option. We knew that persisting in leaving fossil fuels as the abundant option was a mistake but we did it anyway and continue to do it.
The success of the US Navy in the past was due to constant training and the empowerment of the officer corps at the junior ranks, and billions in cash thrown at tech and equipment. If China can afford to train well, has decent technology that’s reliable, and is flexible enough to allow power to disseminate the ranks, then I assume they are on the way to overtaking the US Navy in ability as the USN wanes due to lack of leadership and misplaced priorities.
The deeper you go into the tech stack, the slower things move.

Frontend frameworks move faster than backend frameworks, which move faster than programming languages which move faster than operating systems which move faster than processor architectures which move faster than the technology used to create them.
Google collects so many data it is difficult to beat, but i was impressed seeing that Brave Search is just miles better than ddg and has way less problems understanding which language i’m using and providing localised results (i’m not from the us)
Yes it takes more effort to ensure you stop by a gas station on the way home than it is to plug in at night, but still fairly minimal.

My father instilled in to me to never let my tank get below half, in case there are emergencies and I still follow that practice.
I'm still a fan for cost reasons of FTTN, because I think with Coax in the last mile, you can deliver fantastic performance, so long as you're not also trying to delivery video too.

Furthermore if you actually run Coax in duct for buried circuits, its easy to replace with fiber later.
> For one, the old format forces succinct points.

Succinct points on Twitter can often feel like a clickbait/ragebait headline that's cynically designed to elicit "engagement" from as wide of an audience as possible. There is no guardrail protecting against clout chasers who have the skill to rile up online crowds and make a name for themselves.

At the scale that Twitter operates in, I think we can all identify some pretty awful things that have happened because of the above.
It's not just you. There's something in the back of my mind that tells me that Brave is a sketchy company.

I have absolutely NOTHING to back up that feeling, but I'm profusely against using any of their products.
Respectfully, it feels as if you're not reading my or anyone else's posts in this thread. Yes, I do not advise someone start vaping nicotine if they're non-smokers. From everything I understand, there really isn't more harm in applying a nicotine patch a day compared to drinking a cup of coffee a day, assuming average/recommended doses.

Yes, nicotine can be addictive. Caffeine can also be addictive. Yes, nicotine can cause certain health problems - as can caffeine. I'm surprised you worked at a company that sold nicotine products and yet have such a moral panic mentality around a fairly mundane, mild cholinergic stimulant out there.

Smoking is terrible for one's health, but smoking cannabis is possibly not much healthier than smoking tobacco; people just smoke tobacco far more frequently per day than cannabis, typically. At least one study shows cannabis smoke is actually more likely to cause lung cancer than tobacco smoke when taking that into consideration. Odds are burning and inhaling the leaves of many other kinds of plants will have similar risks. This is not a defense of tobacco smoke on my part but rather an attack against any kind of combustion-based smoking period.
Yep - if you're getting a particular error code or message that makes no sense, googling as often as not finds it in a SO post, along with 20 ways to solve it, of which at least 1 usually gives you what you need to do so. It's hard to imagine how much time I'd have spent tracking it down otherwise.
Just FYI, in French, we would just skip the "e" and say something like leeb-roffice.
I would argue most of the people that aren't developers don't like to code. or at least don't want to code 8+ hours a day.

To me it seems like one of the easiest professional jobs to get into, but if you don't enjoy the job I wouldn't recommend doing it.
Yes, it should. EVs make great standby power sources.
It's possible. Yes, the drives were sprinkled around in the inventory, and we had some servers where there was a mix of old and new drives in the same box, behind the same controller.

We use the controller in HBA mode, so the controller shouldn't be doing anything fancy, but you might be right.
Wars of retribution are the result of fiat currency? The thread gets thinner and thinner...
I wonder if there were ever any PostScript ROMs that did things other than fonts, like special purpose graphics procedures?
Brave has a long history of doing unethical things. You covered some of them, another is the time they hijacked affiliate codes in URLs without disclosing it. They turned it off when they got caught and claimed it was a mistake. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...
Imo let's be real, drop the pretension. I'd rather we get off the notion that these things are possible. I.e. we are ruled by smart people (aristocracy), that enrich themselves, but that are smart and have skin in the game. Rather than dumb (and impressionable) collective deciding in a popularity contest, probably _extremely_ influenced by a 3rd party (media), pretending it's fulfilling its duty, while it's actually falling in some 'cool' 'wolf's' song, that only accomplishes short term gains, while mortgaging our future.

Just drop the pretension.

Edit: maybe I'm schizo-ranting, but in my opinion, this is a very sober/hyperconscious perspective, that should be had by everyone. Not this Plato's Cave bs, that we live in a 'free democracy' where nobody questions status quo, except a minority of right-left non-npc people.
Apple switched macOS to base 10 a while ago so the UI matches the hardware.
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It's one thing for power use to hit record highs - I would expect increase to be more or less constant with economic development and/or population growth. The sources from this article state that the mid-continent ISO is actually expecting to _lose_ 3,200MW capacity 'as result of retirements, and the decreased accredited capacity of new resources.'

https://cdn.misoenergy.org/2022%20PRA%20Results624053.pdf
> Rest assured that one of the companies you mentioned has deployed a catalog of reusable software components not long ago. It's already quite populated. But the funny thing is, you need VP approval to submit your modules.

LoL this seems par for the course.
And I believe microsoft counts their SaaS offerings in their Azure usage, which significantly skews the numbers.
I think ultimately you're getting to the _why_ of the equation - there is a big desire to keep you, the customer, within the app rather than let you abandon the feed. Going back from a note to scrolling through Twitter is easier than jumping back from your browser app to the Twitter app.

I haven't had issues with link previews on my own content, but that very well could be the case for other sites.
Drinking significantly increases your risk of certain cancers. While smoking is more of a cancer risk, drinking inhibits judgement and can lead to all sort of issues in addition to cancer risk - drunk driving, violence, etc. In short, alcohol is legitimatly bad for you.

https://www.icr.ac.uk/blogs/science-talk/page-details/when-i...
>> Twitter's ad targeting depends on knowing what a user looks at

But they can track which tweets are being clicked, the IP of the person and a whole bunch of things even when you're not logged in.

>> and how their network of connections/follows

But that's the problem right there. If you force people to create an account to read tweets, they might do so but they won't follow anybody or follow very few people and tweet quite infrequently. I just don't think it's feasible to expect a significant number of people (like say # of users on Facebook) to be tweeting regularly. But it's possible that I'm wrong.
FTR, the accurate French pronunciation would be something like leeb-roffice, the "e" in "libre" being absorbed by the o.

But in any case, I agree with GP that the naming is meh.
Yes, you nailed exactly why.

I'm hoping the post can be allegorical for other things--I extrapolate this advice beyond just gardening--but it's also my exactly literal gardening advice--because, as you say, time and space are more limiting than dollars.

Thank you!
Yes, there are lots of other things to consider in tobacco and nicotine vapor solution. Just in terms of the single molecule itself, nicotine doesn't appear to be more harmful than caffeine. Acute caffeine poisoning can be fatal.
What about married women?
Brazilians tend to take two hour lunches without work interruptions. Outside of that time, the ones I have worked with have been fast and responsive. Had I not known that I too probably would have thought they were slow and unresponsive. I figured that out by actually going down there and working with them for a week.

As far as the "unlbock people, get shit done, etc..." I think that's the case with a lot of outsourced work in general and I don't think it has anything to do with Brazilian culture. Outsourced labor are used to being treated like cogs in a machine so they are less likely to take the initiative or speak up when they see something that doesn't make sense.
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Except that from January to March this year pundits swore up and down that Russia wouldn’t launch a full invasion of Ukraine. When it happened a lot of people were surprised. You could have made a killing in the stock market if you’d realized that Russia would certainly invade, and they probably had a deadline in order to maximize the summer fighting season. It seemed obvious to me, but not so obvious that I positioned myself properly in the stock market.

Everything is obvious after the fact. Look around for the people asserting that it’s obvious BEFORE the fact and measure their accuracy. Those people might have useful insight.
Yeah, it's nuts that power companies either didn't notice their capacity was decreasing, or they didn't care. Might be time for them to lose their public utility status, and have that passed to someone who can add.
I would hope that the expansion of renewables would offset the loss of fossil fuel based sources due to retirement. That would be the ideal scenario.
>And those individual human beings are dead or retired.

A company's culture doesn't necessarily change just because some folk are dead or retired.

>In 2006, a United States court found that Philip Morris "publicly ... disputed scientific findings linking smoking and disease knowing their assertions were false."[11] In a 2006 ruling, a federal court found that Altria, along with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard and Philip Morris were found guilty of misleading the public about the dangers of smoking.[12] Within this ruling, it was noted that "defendants altered the chemical form of nicotine delivered in mainstream cigarette smoke for the purpose of improving nicotine transfer efficiency and increasing the speed with which nicotine is absorbed by smokers."[13] This was done by manipulating smoke pH with ammonia. Adding ammonia increases the smoke pH, in a process called "freebasing" which causes smokers to be "exposed to higher internal nicotine doses and become more addicted to the product."

>In 2010, the FDA banned the use of “Light” for ventilated cigarettes because it misrepresented the products as a healthier cigarette, and Philip Morris switched to using colors to brand them to circumvent the rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria
Reading his book The End of Everything is Just Beginning, he posits a history of early human evolution that is throughly debunked in The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow.

Not that this invalidates his future predictions, but...
Easy for me: Facebook, apple, lots and lots of small and normal size companies without even any ethics committee or regulation bodies.
I've hired my own manager several times now (I'm told this is a bad practice) specifically because I wanted to remain a tech lead but needed somebody to advocate for my team and handle the people management time. It has in fact worked spectacularly.
EDA software provides the infrastructure for projects with very high NRE and with low tolerance for failure (you can't just recompile and deploy a new chip design for free when you've already built a million bricks). Their entire business model is built around risk avoidance, so it would require an enormous improvement in efficiency for a client to take a risk on a "disrupting" startup's tools.
I really want to learn Rust, but I just don't have enough time in the day to commit to learning it if I'm not going to be able to find a job with it that doesn't involve blockchain or cryptocurrencies.

Can anyone tell me how the general Rust job market looks for you guys outside of things like Indeed?
Both Rust and Elixir are languages people generally love, and I too really like them both.
Yes, exactly. The drive has to be faster to keep up with the platters.
Exactly. I’ve used ddg for more than a year and startpage for some months and it’s great to see a search engine that doesn’t suck, tries to be independent and has no problems understanding that i’m not from the us
The problem in the US is fair distribution of income, not lack of production. In other words, we don't need to make more stuff.

"When you are a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." This is faulty reasoning that probably makes sense to an engineer because, well, engineers usually make stuff.
Hopefully this will mean the end of threads especially the ones with the first teaser / void of any content tweet.