skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what reality are kids inadvertently wandering into junkyards and getting harmed by junkyard dogs in large numbers?
It could be that the deep bench of high quality content is not there on reels yet. Most of the power user base of ig (horology, woodworking, crafts, fine arts etc) knows how to take high quality pictures and need to adapt to making videos (i don't think it is that easy to do - totally different medium + style + maybe your current followers wont like it).
Same day as RStudio changes to Posit?
Private DCs.
Necessary is a bad way to evaluate because it often devolves into whether or not it is "absolutely necessary". Of course the answer is often times no.

Rather than embrace minimalism, the better question is if it is more efficient to run the program that way and often times, universal programs are indeed more efficient.
Ties are back on the menu https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-mark-zuckerberg-wore-tie-...
(2017)

If you liked it, check out the work of Christian Bök, in particular “Eunoia”.
Can we not just have something like:

a {
&:hover {…}

&:parent(.theme):hover {…}
}

No crazy selectors with an ampersand in the middle allowed, but a way to apply a parent or ancestor selector, a bit like :where() or :is(). There could be :in() for ancestors.

No one needs this monstrosity:

dialog {
@nest html:has(&[open]) {…}
}
> I find it all that for all the data these companies have, they don't seem to be using it well...or stopped using it.

They've stopped using it to serve their users. They use it to serve their customers. The content they show you is what they want you to see so they can sell to advertisers, not what you want to see.
Well, unless that object was a single particle, it would still be affected by gravity. It would be slightly larger without the force of gravity attracting the atoms together.
It works though, because the bank can still receive the transaction and reroute it appropriately. It's pretty common in the EU, especially with things like road tolls that don't check the card validity in real time.
The barrier is capital expenditure, not regulation/licensing/taxation.

Besides, any competitor entering the market would be expected to make just as much or more profit as the existing companies. Which means they would price their product just the same as the existing companies.
Ask a stranger in a motel what they think "Hacker News" is about though. I too prefer the original meaning of the term but it's clear which meaning has "won".
Not OP, but I remember reading an interesting article about issues that simple write() might face: https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/

And here's what SQLite does to ensure that in case of application or computer crash database contains either new or old data, but not their mix or some other garbage: https://sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html
Probably because they just want a different mayor. Mayors and prosecutors don't have the ability to tie cops' hands. Even council and plebiscite acts to direct the police to treat certain crimes as "lowest priority" are routinely ignored. Mix in decades of copaganda and qualified immunity, and you get American cops that aren't accountable to anyone.
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What a weird straw man.

I haven't owned a car for my whole life and I am doing fine. It is not a big deal. Yes you need to life in a city with decent public transport but that is all.

It is insane how people seem to be not even able to imagine a world that is not car-centric. It is really a small sacrifice that would increase the actual living conditions of everyone as we could have cities that are much more pleasant to life in.
It's def. not any sort of life goal. More like getting a driver's license, so that you can drive. Once you pass the test, the driver's test is no longer a concern (unless you change countries perhaps).
Oh, well that settles it, right?

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/plato-got-virtua...
>This may be the beginning of the end for what Silicon Valley calls "tech"

There's something about the way you phrased this that just made me just realize there's a very real possibility that the internet could turn into television part two. If you think about the most popular platforms, they are mostly video and now the other very popular ones are trying to follow in kind. There's also all the streaming platforms that are not really thought of as the internet, but work basically the same. It really might be that the internet as we think of it--text based--might be a bit of a niche interest (not that this is necessarily a bad thing).
> Union busting is bad for workers and therefore society at large.
Write or maintain? Because anyone is willing to write almost anything, see: Twitter.
SQLite is 21 years old, and for me it just keeps getting better and better. More performant, more relevant features, all while being just as easy to embed and administer.
Because it is a much tighter “standard” than it needs to be given the constraints.

It is depressing to think of all the effort that people put into writing articles that no one can ever benefit from, knowing there’s no good reason for their work to be wasted in this way.
This need to run on a back up power system in case they cut the power before enter
Just more public money to develop private intellectual property. In a few years we'll be paying more for chips and IP that was developed using tax payer coin.
> Listerine is the only branded OTC antiseptic mouthwash in the United States approved by the American Dental Association.

The full list of ADA-approved products for plaque/gingivitis control is here:

https://www.ada.org/resources/research/science-and-research-...

All of the rinses in that category have formulas similar to Listerine, but many of them are generic store brands that have also independently obtained ADA approval. The generic rinses work just as well as Listerine, and they wouldn't be subject to the royalties.
My experience is that EU banks issue new numbers when the credit card expires, UK banks don't.
At the current rate of year-over-year decline in operating income, they'll be losing money in two short years.

Then they'll be as dead as eternal money-losing cash pit Uber.

someone whispers in my ear ... correction, I'm being told Uber is still not dead.

I know, I know, I'm as confused as you are.
It is despicable that we don't do enough for the poor, but the government can do two things at once. It does not need to be either or.

For the US this is a chip manufacturing is a key strategic asset. South Korea, China, and Taiwan governments are essentially funding their chip manufacturing. It is not a fair playing field. The fact that they are only spending $52B on grants and incentives out of $280B is actually too little. South Korea is spending $450B for local chip manufacturing over 10 years and that started last year.
The mustard seed that can fuel airplanes
My mind was blown away when I saw the dynamic query editor for dashboards and how it can be appended to each resource. That was pretty neat.

I will definitely use this on my next project. Thanks for creating and sharing this.
I don’t know if it even matters too much. You’ll always end up with multiple possible conflicting hierarchies that make sense. I prefer tags that can be interpreted as trees via prefix
It’s almost as if that’s not the ideology at all!
> Given that, Haskell, unless you're a mathematician, is still one of the least accessible language outside of purely academic, esoteric or intentionally obfuscated ones.

Tiny nitpick: Haskell the language and runtime is just another ML. You could technically write a ground-up Haskell program that doesn't do any maths stuff — in about the same way that you can write a ground-up Erlang program that doesn't use OTP.

Haskell just has a standard library and language-package ecosystem that's full of stuff only mathematicians were previously expected to understand. :)
There are lots of things that could skew this data. What suicide rate seems to be measuring is access to guns.

Lots of people in the police or other security forces have access to guns. Often people who have done military service have an issued gun at home (eg Switzerland I think). Military service generally overlaps with a time in life when males are more vulnerable to suicide.
> Semiconductor manufacturing is of military and geopolitical significance so it makes a lot of sense that the government is willing to spend big here.

You expounded on the value of semiconductors but you didn't on the value of feeding children that would go hungry otherwise.

This is why saying

> This is a shallow analysis.

rings hollow.

The value of feeding the next generation of Americans and ensuring they do not go hungry should be just as much a matter of national security as semiconductors. It's not because the poor are viewed as expendable.
Fair, but like any language this becomes a non-issue given enough time with it.
I thought Gmail was someone's "20% time" personal project?
You know what else isn't happy-times? When Wikipedia editors are trying to maintain things one way or another, and someone disagrees with what they've done, so they go off and write an article about how these terrible trolls have so heinously decided to efface such a luminary of accomplishment, et cetera.

Look! I'm going to promote a rather dull controversy to an online magazine and the front page of Hacker News! I'm 100% confident that this process will effect justice and result in only 100% positive and desirable contributions to Wikipedia! cough
For me, it feels like the recommendations from Youtube, FB, Instagram, Spotify, etc, are really what they would want you to see, not what I would want to see. Never listened to those shitty podcasts, and that's what recommended for me on Spotify. The Youtube search is flooded with "recommendations" and "what's hot" that are hot garbage. Google search is getting useless, with tons of spam and obvious duplicated content.
Why is Meta's VR software so bad?
The environments look awful, the demo areas are badly laid out, they're apparently throwing basic ergonomics out the window. https://mobile.twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1548280749664903169 How did they spend so much money to get something so uncool?
Yes, Facebook has weathered past storms by adapting to changes, but anyone using Google+ failure to draw parallels with TikTok, is making a superficial comparison at best.

For one, Google+ never matured in terms of user engagement or DAU that interacted with its social feed. It's not Facebook's "war story" but a story of Google's own failure.
>No one is asking shareholders to do anything… We’re having the government give the company money for a joint venture. If the company uses it wisely in the way they promise they would, everyone, including the shareholders benefit.

The company belongs to the shareholders, that's what being a shareholder means.

Let me quote you:

>The sane way to do this would have been to give the handouts on condition of no stock buybacks for 10 years and cap total exec compensation for similar amount of time for any company that accepts the handouts.

>This should be true for any company that accepts gov money.

>The gov doesn't give money to benefit the stockholders, they’re doing it to benefit the larger economy and country. Stock holder shouldn’t even be considered as beneficiaries in these deals.

You'll note that not a single word in that post said anything about the company not holding up its end of the bargain. And indeed you made no mention as to why "stock buybacks" or "total exec compensation" would prevent the company from holding up its end.

Let's be clear here about what you're doing, you're so focused on hurting shareholders, you don't even care if the results you get are compatible with what you state you want.
Fab guy here. This is excellent news and much needed, but vigilence is needed to make sure it doesn't end up being devoured by crony corporate agenda and it actually results in favorouble pro-US climate for semiconductor manufacturing.

I'd like to share personal experience with how we bankrupted American leadership in cutting edge nodes. Although, it is not lithography related, I was part of a few billion $ ROI program where we'd hot test the chip for binning, best I don't disclose too many details. Let's just say, it was critical so much so that I sat in unmarked buildings. I saw that get transfered under my personal watch to China. We had Chinese employees visit US for 6 months at a time and during this rotation, we'd teach them everything. Had to take a Chinese culture course. Process charts, metrics, drawings and schematics, whitepapers, how everything works, be part of troubleshooting process and then test them for their acuity. This was around 2012-2014. Usually, US semiconductor manufacturers do not transfer fab capabilities to China, only assembly/packaging. But, here, the was a clear violation of backend fab activities that were transferred to China and built out. I visited China for 3 months to get things up and running. This was a brand new process that no one in the world has. All custom equipment from a major Japanese equipment manufacturer. This process was so insane that it took 10 years of development internally to come to this point. Even today, in 2022, no one has replicated it.

This should not have happened IMO from a national security standpoint. But, these things continue to happen and US gov does not have enough insight into America's semiconductor industry when it comes to protecting IP. Far too many things do not require ITAR and are exported without oversight.

I am pretty much against over-regulation, but here there needs to be strict regulation for exporting any semiconductor technologies whether it is fab or assembly or what have you. The entire industry needs to be hamstrung with export control.
> Au revoir, Facebook.

Modern day Linux on the Desktop.
> This was what Andy Grove wanted - more investment in chip manufacturing.

He was also the former CEO of Intel, so you know, not exactly impartial on the subject.
> proper due diligence requires a 4-year post-secondary education

I don't think that's the case here or indeed very commonly. You don't necessarily have to understand implementation details if some core tenet of popular ethics is being violated. One key feature of the domain -- namely that you don't own "your data" and so you don't get to decide what happens with it -- is pretty clearly in violation of principles that the vast majority of Westerners would at least profess to hold. Beyond the motivating principle that third parties should be required to receive explicit whitelist access to use privately-owned data, "implementation details" refers mostly to policy and enforcement, not really technologies.
GCC supports code generation that will call into several different software transactional memory (STM) engines. It's not difficult to write your own engine that is called instead of a default version.

What this basically does is generate multiple versions of functions that can be called both in and not in a transaction. Functions that may be called in a transaction have to be side-effect free (i.e., no system calls, recursively). The modified functions run code for each line of memory read or written so the STM engine can decide what to do with it (e.g., reads can be redirected to other locations, writes can be used to dirty memory or redirected to a scratch location).

There are different trade-offs for efficiency, conflicts, etc. For instance, if each transaction begin just started with a global exclusive lock it would be correct, simple, and you'd never get conflicts, but just serializes everything. There are trade-offs.

Languages with more rigid semantics and a propensity towards immutability would require less annotation. The GCC version generates these invocations for engine functions on most loads and stores. As you'd imagine, it's pretty expensive as is and basically is not used as a generic method of concurrency control for this reason.
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I met had the good fortune to work environs his son, Andrew, when I was around 18. He introduced me (unintentionally) to his father's work, for which I was very grateful.
Why would there be competition, and why would any company take that deal, when it cannot benefit from it?
Leetcode isn't an alternative to real world projects, it's an alternative to textbooks and lectures for beginners.

Zuckerberg was able to build Facebook because he got a good education and understood graph theory enough to apply it to social networks.

In the past, the only people who really understood concepts like graphs were people who endured rigorous four-year computer science curriculums. And only top students at elite schools would learn this. The average CS graduate has a very poor understanding of fundamental data structures and algorithms.

But with Leetcode, anyone can solve 5-10 graph problems and obtain the same knowledge. It's extremely efficient. In a couple of days, you can learn what used to take years.
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There is a 4 word phrase that encapsulates what happened to Firefox. I won't post it, but it began with how they did Eich and with how they're rewarding whoever that new "CEO" is.

As a 15+ year Firefox user, I finally gave up and moved to Brave. Good riddance.
Totally good point! Though, that is also quite restrictive. Some of the biggest innovations which change society the most are incredibly weird, out of left field innovations that a governmental or grant program would most likely not fund - just because the nascent idea is too crazy.

You get a lot of money funding weird ideas in VC firms, where the incentive structure (of profit) makes it possible to fund a tonne of ideas, where it is expected that most of the ideas will fail.
There's definitely political content too. It's just that it tends to be expressed much more creatively, through music, dancing and acting.
> Three letters that won’t save the planet

But which are the letters that will?!

That the planet needs saving is baked into whatever answer is about to be provided...
Any migration into (non-hydro) renewables will bring more water or gas turbines at the short term.

At the long term those will be gone, probably replaced by batteries (or just fed with synfuel). But right now they are the other side of the renewables coin.
I'm a huge admirer of TikTok and love to use it -- once a week only! -- but I sort of agree with the US government that it's crazy to give that much of (mostly) your youth's attention to an adversary.

However I find it baffling that all the VC in the Global West is unable to come up with a popular alternative, even though it's glaringly obvious[0] what the "secret sauce" is in TikTok and why it works so well.

Instead we get stuff like this, where a quite good photo-sharing service radically undermines its inherent advantages in order to play catch-up, with most of the videos still sporting a TikTok logo.

At some level I'm happy if Zuckerberg destroys my artists' community on IG because it at least opens the door to creating a better one elsewhere. But I'm also a little worried that this coterie of billionaires keeps having their lunch eaten by a pretty straightforward system run on a pretty classic Valley model.

[0]: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/a16z-podcast/tiktoks-al...
Comparing to 2021 can be misleading because the Covid year was a strange anomaly for digital businesses. That kind of profits may be a long way off for most of them.

Meta's operating income (i.e. profit before taxes and interest basically) for this past quarter was $8.3 billion. That's roughly the same as Exxon did in its Q1. "Au revoir" seems premature when they're still raking in that much cash.
>In 2013, Senator Harry Reid did it for federal judges (and not supreme court judges).

Yes, it was an extremely aggressive and short sighted thing for him to do. Most people don't know this story though, so it seems the Democratic Party gets a pass.

Here's McConnell lambasting Reid about it in 2013.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?316395-12/minority-leader-mcco...

>It appears to have led to an era of unprecedented judicial activism.

Judicial activism is a judicial philosophy holding that the courts can and should go beyond the applicable law to consider broader societal implications of its decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_activism

Based on recent decisions, we seem to be currently in an era of judicial restraint, not activism. Again, the SCOTUS doesn't create laws, congress does. That's the way the system was designed. I hope the Citizens United decision will get overturned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_restraint
> if we need @nest some times, why not always make it required, for consistency

Prefixing a parent selector seems super ugly. The facility is available in SCSS, but I suspect it is not used much (e.g. comment above not knowing the feature existed).

Using & for the usual case of appending selectors seems sensible to me.

Aside: I suspect using & to avoid lookahead parsing is important for efficiency and to avoid DoSing the browser (especially malevolently).
I've noticed (on multiple accounts) that TikTok stops view counts on videos after a point... Even though they can still be viewed directly, TikTok does not update view counts. Many creators stay in agonizing limbo even though they are getting views. It's pretty crazy how much TikTok gaslights everyone, there no better than anyone else.
And kids 100 years ago lived handling guns from a young age and lived dangerously.

It gets worse the further back in time you go.

Aside from the stupid product that hurts people like 'The Cornballer', it's still stupid people doing and allowing stupid things that stops us all from having good things. All of society has to cater to the few stupid people every time.

Those were parent's fault for not teaching or supervising children.

We grew up with easy bake ovens, we knew the dangers. We also had the creepy crawler molds and ovens. We knew better than to eat playdoh, we knew not to ingest 'slime'. Yet still stupid people did it. Wasn't the product's fault.
And then you find another little kitten in the next level that you (C)all "Falling rock trap III"

> If you die, that's it -- you can't just load a save; you have to start all over. It's legendarily unforgiving.

Ehum...

( $ cp -r /var/games/glhack/saves/1000user /home/user )

( ...suddenly a wild fire ant called Rita appears )

( # cp -r /home/user/1000user /var/games/glhack/saves/ )

( # chown -R user:games /var/games/glhack/1000user )

( $ echo "muahahaha im alive, stupid fire ant" | glhack )

( Pssst, Don't tell it to anybody )
It's kind of amusing to think of this from the perspective that the requirement for a person to be eligible for a page on Wikifeet is they need to have a bio on IMDB, and that is really easy to get. A whole lot of people I know from primary school are there for appearances in student films. I could be on there since I was on a television game show in 1992, but no one has bothered to create an entry for it.

If you're not already there, perhaps you can try to get yourself an entry in allmusic.com, which presumably would warrant a Wikipedia entry. You're gonna need to get someone else to write the article for you, though. You're not supposed to create a Wikipedia page for yourself no matter who you are, which is stated here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Your_first_article#Things....
The mere thought of Facebook codebase being usable anywhere else but by Facebook is silly. If someone gave somebody a dump of Google's monolith were to even begin looking?

You need the engineers too. There is no Bond-like blueprint to steal.