skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define well? There is no singular dimension of “well”.

Protect them from international threats works if the goal is stabilizing domestic business for national security purposes. Ask airlines for most of their history. Or look at the ability to use American car factories for the defense production act.

Will it produce the best product for their customers? Probably not. Look at American made cars. Not the best product.

Will it produce the best outcome for employees? American car companies employee thousands of union jobs that pay very well.

What if we successfully starve the competition? What if we don’t? No amount of government intervention was able to kill foreign car companies. But American car companies are still chugging along providing valuable employment to many Americans.
Interesting… It would be great if you could see how users voted as you read through comments
It is weird. I think it's a stand-in for nostalgia for lost media formats and the experience they engendered. I have a lot of fuzzy feelings about it, because it was an event on Friday when my parents would take us there, or my dad would stop by after work and get movies or video games. I would just about shit myself when he finally got a copy of Super Mario All-Stars or Earthbound. When I was a little older it was close enough that I could ride my bike there.

But for me, it's not really about Blockbuster. It's about the format of home video. All the ritual, the excitement surrounding a new release that everyone wanted, sitting down to watch it together. It's about the object of video, the thing you can hold, and is similar to why I like to collect vinyl. I like the artifact in and of itself, along with what's encoded on it.
Woody biomass covers more than trees. Corn stover, sugar cane bigasse, rice hulls and a load of other agricultural and waste plant materials that are produced annually, and can be gasified and burned cleanly to produce electricity and heat.

The core proposal isn't to replace all energy production from burning wood alone, but to explore all renewable energy sources at our disposal. Producing high value heat and energy when the sun doesn't shine through biomass gasification or anaerobic digestion helps us to fill in the gaps and utilize fuel sources that are just otherwise rotting and releasing methane in the atmosphere.
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Very interesting! I as well really enjoyed AK, but I also extremely enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov, even more than Anna Karenina. It's probably my favorite Russian classic! I too gave up on War and Peace however about 200-300 pages into the story.

I find timing plays a big part of my enjoyment of tougher classic novels. If I'm extremely busy or don't have time to dedicate to reading in decent chunks (an hour or more per day) then I find it hard to maintain motivation to read dense novels.

I somehow got through Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow but don't recommend anyone do that, I was just too stubborn to let it get the better of me :)
A question for curiosity since I don't know much about llvm and specifically the architecture. Does LLVM not support architectures because there is some barrier, or a higher barrier than GCC? And GCC makes it easier to support some architectures or is it just as easy to add the support to LLVM but no one does it because GCC already supports it?
yeah this sounds normal and a lot like what I feel too, No real profound ideas or aha moment still, but I do end up spending a lot of time alone, either walking or biking or swimming , the best I can get out of that time is the ability to fill my nice to have todo list with some random diy projects, or web tools I know I wont prioritize building ever. But I do still like to spend that time alone lost in aimless thoughts as I feel it enables me to feel happiness and pleasure when I do have company or I am interacting online with friends and colleagues.
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That’s how it is or was in NYC. I never saw it or heard about is being a huge deal. Just something you lived with.
This is an interesting comment.

> Once you get really good at what you do, software engineering is where the real reward is

Do you mean any technological stack here.

> becoming an expert in any commercial software that costs at least 1m$ to integrate

Any particular examples here?

Thanks.
If anyone from FB is reading this, there was a change in mobile website behavior recently that likely had a big adverse economic impact on iOS.

It used to be that if you clicked on an email link ("your friend Bob just posted a new picture"), you'd see the mobile website and then you could click on the left arrow at the top left of the page to go "back" to the home page feed. Someone changed that code so now the left arrow button just does a vanilla browser-back, which does nothing in this case because it's a freshly opened page.

The whole point of those email links is to suck me back into my feed, not just show me what that one singular friend posted. The only way I can find to get "back" to my feed today in that newly launched page is to manually enter the Facebook url in the address bar, which obviously makes me infinitely less likely to get sucked into my feed, see the ads, and make money for the company.

I'm not a fan of FB, but that seems like it's got to be driving a pretty mind boggling drop in email to revenue conversion rates - the real bug isn't the change in the code, it's the failure of the analytics dashboards to spot the revenue loss.
If he'd "just" run a marketplace for illegal everythings, you might be able to make an argument.

When it crosses into "casually ordering multiple murders he believed happened," then, no, I'm sorry, you're not just running a marketplace. You deserve to be behind bars for a long, long time. The only reason that nobody actually died from that was because he was surrounded by scammers and informants, and didn't realize this. But incompetence is no defense against ordering multiple murders.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/inside-silk-road-staged-... has a lot of details on the absurdities surrounding it, but DPR genuinely did believe he'd ordered people killed.
It's true but part of the problem is also that people submit to it. The credit system "works" because for the most part, the information they provide is legitimate enough, to the detriment of victims of fraud who now have to prove their innocence.

If people with the means (those that have "fuck you" money and can afford to walk away) suddenly turn around and say "nope" and are happy to have bad/fraudulent credit, the entire credit system collapses - banks need to lend to survive and if the credit system stops being useful in verifying someone's creditworthiness (because even creditworthy people's records are contaminated with bad/fraudulent data) then banks will switch to a different system that doesn't have these problems (and that system could be to manually search for bankruptcy records and evaluating proofs of income, like it's done in many European countries), or lose out to those who switch because the "fuck you money" people will prefer them as they're willing to ignore the credit history system and use alternative means of evaluating creditworthiness.

Of course, a legal solution that outlaws this privacy nightmare is best, but that's a lost cause in the US. The market-based approach described above is more likely to work.
I'd never heard of this, and sadly its US only, but I'm really curious now. Does this make videos accessible on all platforms, or is it yet another video player I need installed everywhere that than lets me play back video I bought elsewhere?

It also looks to be funded by a selection of major studios, does that mean it only supports releases from those studios?
Thank you for this. I’ve tried explaining this to many of my peers and family but even now, this viewpoint is considered bigoted by many, at least in major metro areas on the west coast. I think part of the problem is people are responding to the messenger (the right) rather than the message.
Some of us just have a really bad ear for accents. I'm a native English speaker who's been to dozens of countries and have at least a passing knowledge of 4 languages, and I still have trouble with strong accents from the southern US, New York, and even my Indian coworkers that I've spoken to for years. I think it's some kind of bad aural signal processing in my case, since pretty low volumes of background noise can also screw up my comprehension of people I can normally understand.
Sequencing here does not mean "building sequences" or "a monad is a sequence", but that the bind/>>= operator build monad values as a sequence of operations.

For example with Lists the sequence is not the list itself but the sequence of flatMap[0]/bind/>>= operations necessary to build the desired list starting from `[a]`

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
This solution looks interesting. I'm looking forward to that blog post!
Of the countries in the world, the UK ranks sixth in GDP.
my answer to this is to do things that would have prevented the burnt out in the first place. Which means have various interests and hobbies, have healthy social life, also perfect sleep schedule, good diet, sunlight, going to fun places, hanging out with people... basically all things a normal life offers you. I feel it's like sprinting, there are only so many mental games you can play before your legs just can't go on any further. Walking and jogging is more sustainable.

Last time i got burnt out it took me 3 years to start coding with passion again. And first I had to get away from coding to heal. In the start I'd just spend all day outdoors and in gym. Then I started to go to events and parties. Then I started to read books and feeling intellectual curiosity coming back. Then I got into movies, esp movie recap/summaries on youtube. Then I got into gaming and I went from noob to competitive. Started to feel good about myself. Then I got into video editing. It was more challenging and vague. I was blown away at every thing I'd end up creating following tutorials and such. THEN... once I was rested, confident, curious and happier I came back to coding. Now I can detect burn out coming and peace out, doesn't matter how many deadlines are there, they are bs deadlines set by people not coding.
> plus if you want to rip them to a personal media server you still need to break the DRM which depending on the country can be illegal

And piracy isn't illegal? I know which one is definitely more legal and more ethical.
Smaller bookstores are actually doing pretty okay these days: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/18/indie-bookstores-com...

Mostly because Amazon decimated corporate chains, which freed up more market for independent stores.
Most private schools did 100% remote learning for a very short period of time, where I live most were only doing remote learning for 2 or 3 months, and then students were back to full in person classes. The public school system in contrast did 100% remote learning for 6 months and then implemented a system of A or B attendance for an additional 6 months where every other week was remote learning. As usual those able to pay for education have a huge leg up against their peers. The leg up will be substantial over the course of their lifetime.
> parliamentary systems tend to have representational seat distribution

> the "first past the post" system locks us into 2 parties.

What you say is true, but while we're discussing an article about the UK, it is worth stating, for the avoidance of doubt, that the UK also uses the First Past The Post electoral systems (for its national parliament) and therefore doesn't have a representational seat distribution.

Indeed, that may be part of the reason that such an extreme policy from such an unpopular party is being put forward at all. (The current government won 43.6% of the vote at the last general election, with 67.3% turnout, meaning it had the support of 29.3% of the electorate, but won 56.2% of the seats).
Does this mean the US government is about to convert $3 billion worth of Bitcoin into USD?

If so I wonder how the crypto market will react to that
Keep selling calls for a start
> his murder-for-hire behavior wasn't part of the trial but only considered in the sentencing.

Not only that (shouldn't consider outside claims that haven't been evaluated by the jury). The DEA withheld evidence that he could have used in his defense and later DEA agents went to jail for corruption (attempting to steal funds and it appeared setting him up).

Further, there wasn't a warrant for his records; they just took them and monitored his traffic. SCOTUS refused to hear the case (doesn't mean it was reasonable or not, they have discretion to skip stuff).

Many people (myself included) believe the government officials in this case were attempting to steal the funds and set him up to take a fall so they can take the funds for themselves.

A lot of this can be actually seen on the wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
> I struggle to codify what “coding as a craft” is

It means working with people who care about the quality of their work.
a naive question - would it be faster than the "regular" rust compiler?
You won. Deception is obviously a critical part of all warfare.
That sounds just like lying.
The best I can think of for consistency short of measurement is homogenization to make an average. This goes for many products. Blend the individual items, batches, ect. The larger the quantity, the more consistent the output.
I’ll watch with interest, and am heartened with the responses I see. One thing I wish is that the license were also more “lightweight”. GPL3 for a piece of backend network infra seems a bit fraught. This is usually the domain of ISC, MIT, or BSD.
In our 1-element datapoint, we saw fewer, larger food purchases, curbside pickup and a willingness to forgo items that were previous acquired "some distance" from home. Perhaps a bit more care in handling trash, garbage and recycling in that gloves were used more, but the outgo from the house was basically unchanged.

Props to the folks who kept picking up waste, along with those willing to shop for others. They were "essential" but the latter were certainly treated poorly with regards to compensation.
Never buy anything with margin
>In a statement, Uber said it had stopped using the kill switch in 2017, when Dara Khosrowshahi replaced Kalanick as chief executive and overhauled its corporate culture

And as we all know, conspiracy to obstruct justice only started being a crime in 2018, so they're all clear.

It constantly astonishes me the lengths Uber went to in order to build a shitty shitty business.

Yeah, sure we did spend copious amounts of effort to breach every law and regulation around the world, and then even more laws and regulations to cover it up - but look at the results! We have an incredibly unprofitable taxi company, we push our employees into poverty, and we've lost about half the company's value since IPO!
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My name is Rob and I built Debatable. Very excited to launch on HN, will be here to answer any questions :)
Very strange choice to run a public instance that is IPv6-only.

Unless federation is disabled altogether, in which case it doesn't matter, joining a room from an IPv6-only instance with other servers in the room that only speak IPv4 will result in a quite terrible experience. Both sides will depend on dual-stack servers in the room to fill gaps and that will likely only happen when the missing events from the remote side are referenced by something else.
Weird, from EU also, not paywalled nor geofenced for me.
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Your best bet at this time is to make sure your pages can all be reached via the Internet Archive.

The Late, Great, Michael O'Connor Clarke had a blog[1], and helped me out with a project once[2]. It was only recently that I learned of his passing, such are relationships on the internet. The Internet Archive is the only way you can see either of those, at present.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20120610075654/http://www.michae...

[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20090107033331/http://killsave.o...
If your son thought he was "entitled" to that place it would be a form of entitlement.

Most children start out feeling entitled. Learning that the world doesn't exist for their benefit is something that is learned. Even games teach you the concept. The game doesn't care about your goals and won't modify it's rules just so you can reach those goals. You learn while playing the game that there is a system there you need to work within. You can learn to exploit that system to reach your goals but the system itself won't modify itself to meet your goals. Games don't teach entitlement they teach you how to understand and adapt to a specific system to reach your goals.
It could be because no one seriously tried to build competitive AI player.
I should add that when testing this setup, start with 302 temporary redirects in case there is a mistake. Once you are confident it is working as desired then switch to 301 permanent redirects. Double check things like your robots.txt and sitemap.xml/txt.
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Up 4000 is a Raspberry Pi Clone with an x86 processor
The US criminal justice system is supposed to presume someone is innocent until proven guilty. He was never convicted of the murder-for-hire but yet it was taken into account for his sentencing. That is not right and short-circuits due process.
the wikipedia article for blockbuster contains a quote/source about this (search it for "mom and pop") but the citation no longer exists due to link rot.

essentially blockbuster operated at larger scales than many small video businesses and so had smaller unit costs while also having more selection.
Give it a robot body and have it work at Amazon.
seems in English only
https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc is already providing that; it targets 1.54 right now, which is farther along than this project (though obviously that may not be always true in the future).
Have you heard of Hathora: Multiplayer Game Development Made Easy?

- https://hathora.dev/

HN Discussion:

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- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/31934181
Best methods for torturing AGI into doing what I want them to do.
GCC Rust Approved by Steering Committee, Likely to Land for GCC 13
I don't think you are that familiar with how good Stratego is played. It isn't strictly a memorize where your opponents units are. There's a significant degree of bluffing and posturing.
I didn't see this mentioned in any replies, but I think another reason why this is wanted is for Rust in the linux kernel development. If Rust can compile using GCC tooling, it should be easier to integrate into the build process for the Linux kernel. As it stands now, if Linux kernel development allowed Rust in areas of the kernel outside of modules and drivers, you need the GCC tool chain to build the kernel and the llvm toolchain. So it also meets a requirement, or at least greases the wheels, for the possibility of getting Rust into the Linux kernel.
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Neat. I tried conduit a few months ago and didn't find it to be stable enough for my personal usage.
I'll give ungleich's home server a try and set it up again if it works well enough.
As I said, its not that you don't care, its that you care very very strongly, but wanted to pretend you didn't care, which was why you posted to say 'but I don't live in the UK' as if it was relevant to anyone but you.
Debate of the Day: "Is YC still a good deal?"

I'm curious how this one turns out.
> people asking you to justify your estimates aren't disrespectful

In my experience, people are only _pretending_ to ask you to justify estimates. In reality, they are just angling for a discount and/or rush job. It's just a technique for increasing anxiety.
Decommissioning of online services (September 2022 removing access to DLC)
Have a watch of border control TV shows based in the US.

They will literally cancel your visa and send you back home for admitting smoking weed in the US.

If you're not from the US, beware weed is very much ILLEGAL, and you should treat it as such.
lisp?

that'll be a hot-cuppa-nope fer me.
I dont know what will happen in the future, but as of right now, there is no way to buy at 1/10. Who knows, with the explosion in prices this year, it may well come down shitloads in the future, maybe near future, but that will then simply be market price, as it was 1 year ago when it was much much much cheaper.
Give it a few years. It's not a priority compared to cracking down on abortion and genociding queer people but they'll get around to it eventually.
So…I did this and pretty much made every mistake possible.

I:

- underestimated how much cash I’d have to pour in to get going.

- hate sales. hate, hate, hate with a passion of a thousand ESC keys trying to get out of vi, hate sales.

- didn’t have a shtick or model of what I would do or wouldn't do, I ended up taking a scattershot approach of what I’d work on.

- underestimated how many clients would slow walk payments or outright refuse to pay once work was completed.

- quickly went sidewise with my local city/state regulations and while not fatal ended up being a drag on my attention

- underpriced myself. In an effort to get business I kept either cutting deals or allowed clients to effectively con me into doing more work than they could pay for.

My advice, in light of those mistakes is:

- if you really want to do this, start by finding a consultancy to work for to learn that side of the business. Learn sales. Learn accounting. Learn how to build a backlog of prospective clients.

- Try to figure out what your pitch would be to a client and then try selling that over, and over, and over again. If you detest sales, then you should learn before you make the leap.

- set aside more than enough cash to tide you through the startup phase. Even if everything worked perfectly and your clients pay you on time you may have 60-90 day gaps before payments.

- figure out what your rate would be, and then double it. No, seriously, if only to account for the overhead you don't yet know you need to account for.

- If you are in the US the chances of you working on contract for your current employer are near zero. The IRS will look at that situation and deem you to be an employee. About the only way to make it work is to work through a third party agency, who's now taking 10-20% of your rate to provide a smiling face for the IRS and shuffle invoices around.

The other problem I had was I utterly failed to convince companies to hire me for the work I specialized in (this was early 00's so web site development / web application development). They would prefer to spend $1250/hr on an agency where there was also only one developer working behind the scenes than the rates I was charging.
> Sorry, two wrongs don't make a right, and this guy facilitated selling drugs in large quantities.

Selling drugs in large quantities isn't inherently unethical or immoral.

Trying to hire a hit man to have someone else murdered in an incredibly specific and graphic way, on the other hand, is inherently both unethical and immoral.
This is only applicable to a very small subset of STEM academics and is definitely not the expected career outcome for a STEM PhD.

There are indeed people with CS PhDs at Google and Microsoft whose primary job involves publishing papers rather than building applications. But that's not the norm.