skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition of happiness is subjective of course, but I think a better "synonym" here would be the word prosperity.

People do optimize prosperity, and prosperity generally leads to happiness.
> 2. Reference counting can have arbitrarily long pauses as well. If you decrease the reference count of an object to zero, you have to decrease the reference count of all referenced objects, which can do significant amounts of work (specifically, it will do a lot of work in the cases where regular GC does almost no work).

The saving grace for the reference counter is that this is deterministic. The pause is an exact function of the allocation / deallocation pattern which is under the programmers control. So the code can be written in such way that it avoids big delays at inopportune times.
A better analogy may be most those couldn’t exist without the Internet
> People do optimize prosperity, and prosperity generally leads to happiness.

It's well correlated up to a certain level of wealth / income, and then only very loosely correlated.
> My main point was the reason they don't have US representation is they don't have US taxation.

The District of Columbia has to pay US taxes without being allowed any US representation.
Unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file
Imagine being a girl on HN. You see this cool map and see wow, not a lot of women I can look up to it seems. And you go to the comments and see someone agrees with you. OK cool, maybe people would start replying with some important women who should be more famous.

Nope. Turns out it doesn't matter, because there are poor people who aren't famous either. You're actually priveleged to want to look up to women when there are poor people you could look up to.

>I personally find the responses significantly more interesting that your insults.

Have you considered that I'm not responding for the benefit of the enjoyment of some disinterested reader?

>If you are only interested in shutting down conversations that don't fit your preferred narrative, perhaps you are the problem.

And isn't this in and of itself shutting down a narrative? Aren't you just admitting that you would prefer if there wasn't all this unpleasantry, and that I'm a problem for not fitting that preference?

I'm not a moderator. I can't "dictate" anything. What I did was point out the problem inherent in a statement. If you got so offended by that and equate it to shutting down conversation, maybe you should examine your biases.
You’re decrying Bitcoin’s affiliation with criminals while advocating its use for money laundering.

The solution isn’t Bitcoin. (It’s never Bitcoin.) It’s fighting such laws. Also, simpler than using Bitcoin with a similar risk profile: use cash. It’s tougher to trace than the blockchain, which makes it less likely you’ll get caught ex post facto.
I remember when people were getting suspended from Twitter for telling journalists to “#learntocode” after a bunch of them got laid off [0]. It was characterized as “targeted harassment”.

Which was ironic as several months before the tone deaf journos had been writing articles encouraging former coal mines to learn to code.

[0] https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/tech/2019/1/29/182016...
That's being fixed in theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Rail
The atlas obscura article on old isochrone maps and how travel has changed is great. I really like the Melbourne Tram map style.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/isochrone-maps-color-t...
Reddit without Python might still have been written in Lisp!
> and how much control the programmer has over RC costs (determinism allows to profile this and apply mitigations).

I fail to see how would it be deterministic in a highly dynamic program. Like, imagine a game for example where the user can drag'n'drop different things to a "parent" object. Observability is imo an entirely different axis.

> RC with borrow checking can avoid a lot of refcount increments.

That's the same thing as escape analysis - with language support many many objects could be effectively "removed" from the guidance of the GC, decreasing load and greatly improving performance. It is a language-level feature, not inherent in the form of GC we do (RC vs tracing)
GLONASS is pretty underrated. For example, it powers a whole bunch of vital farm equipment in the US.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/invas...
Yes I have known many people who have made this transition, and I myself did ~5 years ago. It takes most people about a year to figure themselves out.
Nobody optimizes for happiness but they do optimize for "cheerfulness".

> The goal of life is cheerfulness (euthymia), which is not the same as pleasure . . . but the state in which the soul continues calmly and stably, disturbed by no fear or superstition or any other emotion

> “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”

https://www.lookingforwisdom.com/democritus/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tranquillitate_Animi
Yeah these are pretty interesting! I wish there was a 2 handed chorded keyboard, but these might actually work. The Tap also looks pretty interesting, although I don't think it's all that practical
I want something that doesn’t operate on scarcity (like the corporation), but can work at the velocity of a corporation.

Things like GPS and the internet would’ve been deployed much faster by a private corporation but then they would be dumb monopolies as opposed to the public good they are now.

Also we need a space to work on big dumb ideas and toys[1] and neither Unix, Uber or GPS fit in that category. What is that sweet spot?

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3U-why-build-toys
It seems like every perceived problem these days is grounds for legislation. Let’s work on additive solutions as opposed to regulation.
Here we have it, the first successful model rocket propulsive landing
I wonder if we can get him on Team Tau: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
I think the opposite. Everyone thinks they're optimizing for happiness. It's nearly impossible to target because there are far, far too many unknowns. But nobody just aims to have a ton of money for no reason. They do it because they want money. Why? They think they'll be happier when they have it.

Some have a whole-life plan, and some are just living day-to-day, but everyone trying to earn "more money" is aiming to be happier.

There are some who aim for happiness only in the short term, too. People call them lazy, or good-for-nothing a lot of the time. They're not trying to make others happy, just themselves. And so far as they can tell, it's working because if they knuckled down and worked hard, they could earn more money... But they'd definitely be less happy in the short term.

There are even some who optimize for other people's happiness. It brings them happiness, too, of course, but probably not as much as it brings others. That's called charity, selflessness, or altruism.

But everyone optimizes for happiness. They just don't always get it.
Yes. When virus infected system files are removed by antivirus sfc/scannow run afterwards Replaces necessary now missing files.
I'm sure there's some of that in a society that has turned victimhood into a virtue and a competition.

The reality is that victimhood rarely makes people better, and usually makes them worse humans overall.

The best solution is to stop congratulating people based on how much they have suffered.
AWS Lambda Powertools for Python
Email him. I got a check for noticing some macro barf in a preprint.
If it iterates over every item in the list then it’s O(n) time
Apple Pay does not work in non-Safari WebKit browsers on macOS as of Ventura beta 4.
I would chalk that up to a mental illness at that point.
It could also be a way to better resist to jamming or (government mandated) data pollution by matching the data from the two receivers for significant differences.
I'm 100% pro-Ukraine but that looks a smart move to me.
Try assembling furniture from another maker (e.g. anything from Target, Home Depot, etc) and you'll be thirsting for the clarity, completeness, and the large, legible print of Ikea instructions.
I predicted it few years ago, we are headed towards a cash less society

That's the natural evolution of the economy anyways, optimizing energy, resources and usages, no waste, no trash

Money only just an agreement between parties, as long as we agree, then we don't need money anymore

Social contract, as long as you are part of the community (it'll end up being worldwide), you'll receive everything you need (universal basic income), unemployment, crime, poverty, diseases, all will disappear

Optimizing energy for finally sailing in space, and engage with space exploration, meeting with our advanced neighbors
Apple can’t stop malware on macOS

Google can’t stop malware on android

Microsoft can’t stop malware on android

What makes you think Apple will be able to stop malware on iOS?
(Hey, want a laugh? lets give the worse bits to the prisoner to see if he vomits)
Other examples: UL, arguably AT&T before the breakup, the Queensland public bus system which does privatization "right": the government establishes common routes and a common fare system, private carriers drive the routes and compete on quality and price.

Chaordic entities are a good choice for government administration of public services without being too heavy-handed with state intervention.
No, opening a connection and exchanging IPs falls under "technically necessary" processing of personal data.

But from a legal point of view we, as a European company, are forbidden to use any US infrastructure provider. We can't ask for consent to transfer data to an US based entity if our consent form itself is already hosted by an US based entity. And even if we did find a solution, like hosting the main infrastructure with a European company and asking for consent for some later data transfer, we are most likely forbidden to transfer data to US based entities at all.

From what my lawyer told me the ruling from https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-... applies to all services from AWS, Google Cloud, ...

There will be many rulings that follow. Everybody is just waiting for the Irish Data Protection Commission to actually do its work, but the Irish DPC does not seem to be much in favor of data protection: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-handles-9993-gdpr-complaints-wi... & https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2022/lifetime-achievement-iri...

This will change soon. From what I heard work is underway to let national data protection offices handle cases without the Irish DPC or force the Irish CPC to work.
> And there are ways to avoid having to do JVM GC in critical areas of the code as well.

Yeah, you allocate a large pool of objects up front and manually reference count them. Every high-performance Java application I've seen ends up doing this. But isn't that an argument for reference counting?
„My Documents” isn’t the same as a home directory. Home directory in recent Windows versions is „C:\Users\CurrentUserName”. Or better: %homedrive%%homepath%.
I think the problem is that react is larger than several frameworks but provide 1/10 of the functionality.

If react were preact it would feel smaller and people who care about performance would embed it without thinking too much
I get it, reddit is a fun place to beat up on the Ruskies. But the usage of a Garmin doesn't mean GLONASS is bad.

GPS and GLONASS use different frequencies and redundant signaling systems is common in aviation.

And Garmin actually works with both for a more accurate location:

https://www.getaway.co.za/gear-reviews/news/garmin-russian-s...
More of a MS stack than a windows stack. If they are microservices and .net core, they are likely running Linux containers for hosting.
Interesting. I wonder why not just have a monthly fee for unlimited streaming, and no other costs to play. No purchasing of games or anything like that.

And if they need more market segmentation, then offer an additional premium monthly fee that gets you early access to upcoming AAA games or some other similar value add like that.

It's just weird they decided to make some games unlimited and some for purchase. Maybe that was the best deal they could negotiate with the publishers, who knows.
When did you retire? What exactly is a lucrative thing that generated said wealth? Always interested in hearing stories!
Why should Alaska be a weird attached island like that? It should all be Canada
What if programming languages start offering both?
In my opinion RC is GC in disguise.
At least for example Golang GC has the merit to run in a separate thread(still has to stop the world when reclaiming memory back, and the memory allocator model is helping achieve great GC perfs).
Ask HN: How has your area of study or work helped you more generally?
In what ways have the knowledge, skills, etc you've gained in your area of study/work helped you in other areas?

For example, how has programming helped your thinking skills in other subjects or in life?
If you dont like the stats quo, it seems like improving the laws to prevent abuse is a lot more plausible than trying to reform how 350 million think, feel, and act.
I'm not a HW person but as I understand it, the latest chips AMD produces seem to have something in common with NVIDIA GPUs .. they have these blocks that they can essentially copy and paste. In NVIDIA parlance, these are SMs. I think what the OP is referring to may be the interconnect and this sort of simple architecture. You get the power from scaling the blocks (not from a more complex individual block). My previous gen Ryzen is slower on an individual core basis than the comparable Intel part but I went for it because of the core count. What is interesting is that as TSMC improves their process and they both move to a smaller node, it makes it possible to fit more blocks on an area of silicon and it gets better (power-wise?) Would be interesting to hear from an EE if my thinking is on the spot or if I am in error.
Sure.

I use Make.com (former Integromat) for many automations for my small business, and while quite handy, the automations are cumbersome to edit and very limited. Pretty often I have to resort to something dumb like composing a complex JSON by hand or using a third-party web-service token just to unzip a file. Sometimes I rage too much, wanting to rewrite the whole script of visual blocks in four simple lines of Clojure, but the complexity of deploying that four-lines webhook (or scheduled task) online cools me down pretty quickly, and I just give up.
I'm not sure it's true -- just think about your browser displaying this page. Which DOM elem allocations are alive and which are not? The object graph depends on runtime data, and runtime data only. Some pattern may exist for a given program, but that is just as actionable under a tracing GC.
> Why are you skeptical of graves existing?

Because the evidence so far can have many explanations, graves being only one among them. The place apparently has a history of agricultural use, too, with several rounds of irrigation works.

It doesn't disprove that those are graves, of course. It's quite plausible that at least some of them are. But I don't feel like, on the balance of probability, it makes sense to make claims about "200+ children bodies", given the evidence we have so far.

> "I think my grandfather died in France during world war I and is buried somewhere in this field but the records are patchy so even after looking for decades we're still not certain" is something you respond to with empathy, not skepticism and demands for certain proof.

Well, for starters, nobody actually claimed to be a relative of some specific person that is ostensibly buried there. Indeed, it seems that there are no claims made of specific people being buried there at all - no names, just "N children". So the more accurate analogy would be "I think someone's grandfather died in WW1 and is buried somewhere in this field, but I don't actually know any of the people involved".

More importantly, if there are bodies there, a crime was committed - and many of the people responsible (if only for negligence allowing it to be committed) are still alive, so their reputation is directly affected by the claim. Organizational responsibility is also at stake; not that I have any love for the Catholic Church, mind you, but I'd rather blame them for the things they actually did.

If and when they dig up the holes, and they do indeed turn out to be graves of children - then I'll join the torches-and-pitchforks mob. But I resent the attempts to goad me into that before the facts are known - and it is exactly what the headlines in the media originally tried to do.
not a trivial concept*
> the fun fact that horses (and camels!) originally evolved in North America, only becoming extinct around 10,000 years ago

It is important to note that those "horses" that became extinct were about the size of large house cats. We have miniature horses today, but the originals were much smaller.
I'm sure you understand the difference between intent of what you're saying and the actual meaning of the words you're using. 'Let's Go Brandon' does not in fact mean people are cheering on an individual named Brandon, and often #learntocode wasn't used to actually help people learn to code. It was a bunch of people hijacking a slogan, hashtag, whatever in order to annoy a group of people they disliked. Much like 'Let's Go Brandon' is used by people that are, I don't know, afraid they're gonna get assassinated by a Democrat or something?
StarLink. Remote work outpost. AirBnB it too maybe?
What's important is doing whatever the expectations are in the given market. But customer development is just as important as product development, and there is more to even product development than just coding.

Nobody is going to just discover you, you need to address a pain point, and sell a viable solution to it. You need to become a student of human behavior, and you need to understand the market you are in. Marketing is about finding which buttons to push, and then pushing them like crazy. Many of these buttons are visual and emotional. You are a storyteller, your job is to get intellectual ideas across emotionally. Humans tell stories to teach, this is why every story must have an element of truth. Your job is to find these truths. Sounds esotheric, but this is how you create a revenue, unless you are in a market where demand outstrips supply. One important thing is to differentiate yourself properly, but you also don't want to be too different because every market has expectations. There is only so much wiggle room between these. You have to find the patterns people are looking for, and play with some of them just enough that you are unique. And of course you have to get in front of people somehow, which can mean running ads, posting on social media, having a blog. You have to be genuinely helpful and constructive in solving the problem. It's better to create a minimum lovable product than a minimum viable one, and if your product is a transportation device it's better to build a complete skateboard, then a bike, then a motorcyle, then a car, instead of starting with an incomplete car. Your product should be loveable first, complete second, and it's worth building different products at different scales.
That is a fantastic and highly amusing speech, thank you for linking it.
You just conceded, one sentence before, that the bolded subhead is accurate. The burden is now on you to establish that "rolling coal" isn't racially coded behavior. I don't know for sure whether it is or it isn't, but I know where I'd bet. Pickup trucks are popular for reasons distinct from the popularity of deliberately creating plumes of noxious gasses as a protest against pollution regulations.

Again: a deeply weird thing to bring into the discussion. And none of the subtlety you're providing now was in your original comment, which strongly implied that a Bloomberg article said that pickup trucks were coded white supremacist, which it clearly did not.
Thanks! Do you recommend Privacy Bee? The comments on this article don't inspire confidence:
https://sensorstechforum.com/privacy-bee-deletes-user-data-d...
OK manchestercalling it seems you've caught a pretty major grammatical error unprotected in the wild. Now, do you replace the second if with it or add an it post second if?

"if and only if" is a standard and well understood term in our rather wooly language, so we will probably need your missing "it" to complete the sentence. Note that nothing was lost anyway - both you and I could see what was going on. English is pretty close to stripped to the waist and holding both fists up already. There isn't much left to remove for conciseness with clarity and unambiguity. I think we need to keep the pronouns but they can often be dropped with minimal loss of clarity. If we lost pronouns wholesale, we'd have to get pretty weird on suffixes or the like. Before you know it - you are speaking German or Dutch instead of our unholy brew of pretty much every language that has been seen on the continent and cuddled up to nearly every other language in the world.

(The last time I saw JB in the flesh was 1977 when I was seven and lived in Wythenshawe for a year in between parental postings to exotic lands like W Germany - it looked like science fiction to me then and it still looks rather impressive now)
True happiness is being a child till ones dying moment on earth.
The book 'Stumbling on Happiness' by Dan Gilbert is great on this topic.

People are very bad at predicting what will make them happy. Much better to see what people who are happy now actually did, rather than imagine what will make you happy.
Bracelets as Productivity Tools
With a further optimisation in the batch handling of snail mail:

"I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming postal mail and separates out anything that she knows I've been looking forward to seeing urgently. Everything else goes into a buffer storage area, which I empty periodically."

from: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
The phenomenon is well known to bondage affectionados who know what they’re doing. They will regularly get pinched nerves and lose sensation, which is an absolute no-go to just «power through». Communication is essential, and many learn to subtly shift to stop the pinching without completely stopping the scene.

Accidents are really frightening, and can happen due to inexperience, carelessness, lack of communication or just really getting caught up in the monent.