skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes: there is no shortage of people who literally value their life so little that tech companies get away with exactly what you describe. They can because the vast majority of engineers don’t value their own lives. That’s what the time they’re trading is: precious seconds of their lives.
I hadn't actually commented on Google. I am saying that I think there is much weaker correlation between tweets and users/growth than in the early days. I therefore don't think WordleStats is a very useful barometer for the Times' investment.

As for Google Trends, I actually think those are some good numbers. Considering what the 100% peak represents in absolute terms, 40% of it is still very solid. I think it's more informative to look at the trend in the context of other search terms. Pick any of the news major stories that have captured the public's attention over the past few months: Russia's invasion of Ukraine; Depp v Heard; Roe v Wade. Wordle is crushing them all. Indeed it seems the only thing more viral than Wordle is COVID. Maybe we'll see some official numbers from the Times at some point but in the absence of anything concrete I suspect they are happy with their purchase.

In any case, do I think Figure can match the meteoric rise of Wordle? It's statistically unlikely. Can it be profitable? I'm no expert in game monetization but for the OP's sake I hope so. I like it.
>It does mean that disputing charges or accounts becomes way more onerous.

So? It's also more onerous to recover your belongings if you don't have an alarm system and the burglar makes off with your things instead of being scared away.
Is there actually something in the electrical code that prohibits installing a 240 volt outlet wherever you want? I know people often install them outdoors for EV chargers.
Also:

https://www.amazon.com/Sunburst-Luminary-Apollo-Don-Eyles/dp...
Looks an awful lot like the patterns left by woodpeckers who probe wood for critters to eat. Perhaps this is an animal that occasionally checks for sound, chemicals or some electrical field that would indicate a burrowed creature nearby to eat.
It doesn't make any sense to talk about groceries becoming less affordable with real wages staying flat, because grocery price levels are factored into the definition of a real wage.
> It is obvious for the peer if a complete message (inside a stream or single response) is received

If I'm reading [1] correctly, you can't distinguish between [repeated element X is empty] and [message truncated before repeated element X was received] because "A packed repeated field containing zero elements does not appear in the encoded message." You'd need X to be the last part of the message but that's not a problem because "When a message is serialized, there is no guaranteed order [...] parsers must be able to parse fields in any order".

[1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding...
Yes, it is called "Marketing". And the world runs on it.
> They are often the ones blocking the road.

Hah - trust me, that's not just Italy either. Though it's more likely to be construction workers who hopefully do actually have some sort of permit to be using the bike lane, but it's still an issue for cyclists.

And yeah, the moment someone starts comparing what you can safely do on a bike (where your total weight is very likely under 100kg, most of which - your body - is squishy, and is rarely moving at over 30 km/h) vs a car (literally a hard metal box weighing up to 10 times as much, and capable of speeds well over 100km/h just with the lightest touch of the driver's foot) I just tune out - the physics involved are fundamentally different.
Probably not, but it would be pretty hard to find a pilot willing to do this.
So you just admitted that all the hypotheticals about victims in poverty and $10 thefts are nonsense. He took millions from Nissan and Renault, neither of whom are exactly widows and orphans.

And they were all quite happy to go along with it, for a long, long time. Did he hold a gun to their heads and make them hire him? And couldn't their Boards just fire him?
No. You make it revenue neutral by using the money to reduce other taxes (and make the 0% bracket wider) rather than introducing a distribution system. Why make it more complex than it needs to be?

I'd like to see most forms of pollution handled this way--take the vast majority of pollution laws and throw them in the dumpster. Instead, make a list of pollutants and set a tax per ton (or other suitable unit) for emitting them. This tax is assessed at the point of creation (mining is considered a form of creation) and is rebated upon verified destruction (in many cases you'll "destroy" A to make B--you pay the tax on B but get back the tax on A) or long term sequestration. (Thus you can do things like grow trees and chuck the wood in an old salt mine and recoup the carbon tax even though you never emitted carbon.)

There ceases to be any issue of what is feasible and no issue of company A emitting a lot more than B because what B does is easier to control emissions. You don't get situations like what happened to my former employer--kept being hounded by the EPA because their record on reducing emissions had been so good and then they stopped. Duh, they stopped because they had done everything viable at that point--effectively we had the EPA on our case for doing too good a job!
I'm a Swiss working in Bangkok (I'm fluent in Thai). So I'm quite a bit acustomed to people cheating in many situations of life. When we started hiring a couple of Indian coworkers for management level as well as data science roles, I became close friends to the whole group.

Whenever we discussed frauds like that, I always said that we shouldn't think people (or Indians in particular) wanna game the systems and not everyone would act in malicious self beneficial ways, tricking systems like that. But: Whenever I held this position in our discussions, my indian friends smiled at me. They were the ones saying that you usually can't trust a bunch of people to follow rules there. That most would simply game the system for their own benefit. I tried arguing that this is probably the same for all human beings, if they just have the chance and live in a system where there are no (or little) consequences of doing this.
They kept arguing that it's part of the indian mindset to just game systems like that, from state schemes, to work to anything.
It's shocking how one nation can see themselves in such a negative way.

I still believe though that Swiss or Indians or whatever nation doesn't matter. Humans will game systems if the circumstances are right.
You’re changing the argument again. I never said the “same opportunities”. I simply said there are opportunities available in sufficient numbers that crime is no excuse.

Poor people aren’t as stupid as you think. Most don’t turn to crime.

To reverse your logic, affluent people should never commit crimes but yet sone do too. People make choices.

I think this was once called the soft bigotry of low expectations. You are a bigot by your logic. Looking down on poor people is offensive.
No disagree, but I wanted to make sure that the potential un-bricking was visible to you Because being irrevockably bricked sucks.
This is essentially how drawing with comparative measurement works. Along with sight-size and grids, intentionally practicing this technique helps with learning to see the true proportions of shapes, and therefore to also make more accurate marks, whether drawing from life or imagination. It's one of the key training methods for visual art and a major missing link for many self-taught artists.

If you grind out studies of the Bargue plates - or really, any pictures with some detail and complexity, though Bargue's system is designed to gradually increase in difficulty - you will become very good at estimating distances and angles. It doesn't solve all drawing problems, but it makes them much easier.
Maybe it's not of much interest to economists, but I find median wealth quite interesting[0]. The data is a bit surprising, especially for USA. For example, it ranks #26 for median wealth but #2 for mean wealth. It also shows that a random middle class Canadian is wealthier on average than a random middle class American[1]. As a side note, the data is probably heavily influenced by real estate prices.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

[1] Making some reasonable assumptions about wealth distributions.
DuckDuckGo is a for-profit (so no, they don't accept donations) and very profitable since 2014. They sell non-tracking ads and affiliate links related to search queries. They also have various investors.

Most interestingly they donate every year (last round was $1M in 2021) to orgs that work to improve privacy.
Really disingenuous to compare the US to China in this way as if they are comparable failures. We're talking about under a million cases and 5,000 deaths. In the US we had 91 million cases and over a million deaths. Especially embarrassing for the US to loudly proclaim how impossible it is to do anything in a country this size when China's mainland is about the same land area with 3x the population. China's "super strict approach" didn't "sort of work for awhile". If they had taken a US approach millions more people would be dead.

The US is 91 million of the 584 million cases identified so far. It's ~5% of the global population with pretty low density outside of, what, 3 cities? Truly embarrassing that one of the wealthiest G8 countries can't handle outbreaks of any sort — to the point that NY has identified hundreds of polio cases for the first time in a decade.

It's not going to be pretty if the US faces another outbreak of something that kills and cripples the way that polio did just a few generations ago. I'm not convinced the answer then won't be the same, except now instead of sacrificing grandma we can place anyone on the altar of capital.
"We make no profit from selling these units. If you think that a minor dissatisfaction, such as a dead pixel, will prompt you to file a PayPal dispute then please do not purchase the Pinebook. Thank you."

"Please do not order the Pinebook Pro if you’re seeking a substitute for your X86 laptop, or are just curious"

"These pre-orders are meant for enthusiasts familiar with the Arm architecture and interested in the PineBook Pro for this specific reason"

There are recovery methods, I would expect to be using a screwdriver on the first day with anything from the Pine store, tbh.
This author must have buried their head in the sand before C++ destructors.

The need to have an opposite function to constructing a new object isn't coming from malloc; it's a resource management problem. fclose(f) doesn't just free FILE *f; it releases some operating system file handle/descriptor, and also removes the object from some global list. (There is one because fflusn(NULL) or process termination is somehow able to flush all streams.)
Which is why we should never implement such a tax all at once. You implement such things slowly to let the market adjust.
I am not sure why anyone would use that particular standard.

If your org has lots of serial-using equipment (like routers or port concentrators), it would make sense to use pinout compatible with them. You'd still need to make DCE-side adapters, but at least DTE-side cables could be purchased off-the shelf. And you could use simple straight-through cables, too. The main downside is you might still need null-modem adapters.

If you are designing system from scratch and you really hate null-modem adapters, why require mirror-image wired cables? While they were very common in 4P4C format, the pre-made cables were very rare in 8P8C. Instead, I'd design this using Ethernet crossover pinout -- at least the pre-made cables exist. Oh, and while at it, let's put RX/TX on green and orange pairs -- this way we can use those cheap 2-pair ethernet cables for serial too, if we do not need flow control.

But IMHO, the biggest problem with the standard is this little sentence under pinout:

> The Green and Red wires in the RJ-45 adapter must be soldered or crimped together.

This step is a major pain (before, all you need a single part from amazon + your fingers. For this, you need soldering iron, wire cutters, etc...), and increases assembly time significantly, especially if you have to assemble many converters. Yet it is necessary to fix "hassle 3" and eliminate the need for null-modem adapters.

My preference would be to use straight cables with occasional null-modem adapter. IMHO, the occasional need is not worth it making every single cable harder to assemble.
Do you still support it for Black people? You could coherently support affirmative action for Black people while not accepting a complicated hierarchy of grievances (which: most people outside of Twitter and nonprofits don't).

I'm glad you support it for women, but I'm not sure what the "different in significant ways" thing means in relation to it. Almost everything thinks men and women are different in ways.
Similar, check out VimGolf:

https://www.vimgolf.com/
i rather do that than grind leetcode and receive zero respect for my years of experience and skills.

you write the code, you own it. if they want to use it, demand payment to sign the rights over.
This is great. I played Spectre and SpectreVR a ton as a kid. The 80s retro theme is a perfect fit.

I think a gentler, more wispy synthwave song would fit better, but this is certainly a subjective topic to opine on.

Well done!!
This is a common misunderstanding, I think. But it actually still works. What matters is that the tax makes fossil fuels expensive relative to other energy sources. To take the extreme examples to make it clear: if you go 100 off fossil fuels, you pay no tax but get the dividend, so you win. On the other hand, if you were to for whatever reason choose the maximally carbon-intensive lifestyle you could, you'd pay way more in tax than the average dividend.

In other words, the tax you pay varies with your carbon emissions, while the dividend is constant (or rather, depends only on the total emissions of everyone). You still have a very strong incentive to reduce emissions, as it would reduce your living costs substatially but reduce your dividend by only a fraction of a penny (I.e. the change in total tax collected divided by the population).
He asks questions we still don't have answers for.

His answers are probably rubbish, but that doesn't matter. Without a suggested answer, there could have been no book. The assumption is that somebody will take up the questions and get a better answer.

Similarly, the question of how we see was answered with gradually increasing merit. First rays shooting from your eyes, then rays entering your eyes, neural processing for feature extraction, and integration into the fractionated attention stream, with a wholly confabulated continuity.
https://lwn.net/Articles/814508/ Lots of the history is here
HOLY SHIT that’s a lot of rooms. A lot, a lot, a lot of rooms.
Previous discussion. Same holes, different article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32272937
US consumer spending was $14,047B in 2020.[1]

$300B sounds like a lot, but it's 2% of consumer spending.

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/cons...
Note that if we impose a carbon tax we just drive a lot of energy-intensive industry offshore. China and India very much do matter. I think we might be able to handle this by applying the tax to imports. As a rough model, look at the value of the import as a % of their GDP, it's taxed that % of their total carbon emission, credit for any foreign carbon tax already paid.
I talked a bit about some of the advantages in this pretty old blog post:
https://www.singlestore.com/blog/what-is-skiplist-why-skipli...

Simplicity is really the biggest advantage. Being simple, its much easier to implement a skiplist lock free vs other data structures. This helps it perform really well under highly concurrent point read and write workloads.

Its not as good at scans, but if you really care about scan performance you should be using a columnstore layout (and not a tree).
You can pipe to `say` as well
The source code is available on GitHub along with a virtual version you can play with.

- https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

- https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/
https://blog.jooq.org/a-beginners-guide-to-the-true-order-of...
Why would anybody care what you have to deal with in a Fed Soc meeting? I care about elected officials because they can actually do things. I don't care what the Sunrise Movement does, except to dunk on them. Anybody can start any kind of "intellectual institution" (see: UATX). How much control over your own thoughts and beliefs are you going to give random collections of people in positions of self-proclaimed authority?

The reality is that if MTG becomes President, nothing about the pledge is going to change; the issue will be that she's an incompetent nitwit, and the government will fall apart and we'll make especially stupid foreign policy decisions, which is the area where the executive branch has the most authority. Likewise: despite the fact that no President the Democrats elect would support your schools forcing your kids to "build their AAPI identity" (the D party elects normies, as I keep pointing out), even if it did elect such a person, nothing would actually change, modulo their basic level of competence running the world's most complicated organization.
It would be more correct to say "thanks to two pro-austerity political parties" — neither of which "listened to the science" or offered a solution more substantial than "sacrifice grandma for the GDP".

Public health measures didn't put your family in poverty. The lack of any social safety net in the US did. Stimulus should have gone to people directly and not companies, but that's communism or something.

Maybe in hindsight the pandemic could get us thinking about why it’s a bad idea to tie health insurance to employment? Or the idea that shelter is contingent on laboring. It costs more to have people suffering and it makes everyone less safe needlessly.
it would break tens of millions of people's expectations. decades of muscle memory for many people. pretty big effect for no objective benefit
I just texted Dave that he made the HN front page, a lifetime achievement to be sure.

My favorite rant of his is web dot.

https://yost.com/misc/nix-on-www.html
Maybe credit card ads should include "Enjoy responsibly"?
There is nothing at all unreasonable about talking about race affinities to parties; it's a hugely discussed topic (for instance: the erosion of Latino support from the Democrats in the border states).
At that point why even take pictures of landmarks? Unless you have a decent camera and invest the time to learn how to use it, a professional pic of the Grand Canyon or Eiffel Tower is gonna be way better than yours.
I'm interested in specific cases that cause extra noise :)

I don't recall doing any extra work to reduce noise on my personal PC that runs windows. I'm unaware if I forgot about stuff I did to make that happen (it's been ~2 years since I set a new PC with windows 10 up) or if there's things that I unconsciously block that other people consider noise.
It's a yardstick for productivity per capita, from both labor and capital. I mean, I guess that's just saying "gross domestic product per capita" in different words.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220808014712/https://www.nytim...
A Requiem for Descartes Labs
moonchild supplied a link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200607225553/https://www.funct...
Also, http/2 over cleartext is not very well supported by a lot of things. Which is probably a good thing when going over the open internet. But it means you have to deal with setting up certificates even if just developing locally, and makes it more difficult to use for IPC on a single host.
Because going off IBM's design would have been illegal. It's one of the most famous and well documented reverse engineering projects ever, and they had no copies of the IBM Bios in their clean room because otherwise it would have been illegal. That's literally what clean room reverse engineering means.
It's not a comedy trope here (it also predates Seinfeld by several months). It's more a trope of the Sandman comic, of finding excuses to tell slightly-edge backstory narratives and doing little character studies, then knitting all the characters together to make something happen. Basically all of Sandman works that way.
When I saw the title, I planned on posting about systemd's boot stub and unified images. Happy that I don't have to. A couple of random additions:

1) If you are using a dracut based initrd (which seems to be the standard for general purpose Linux distributions), then dracut has a --uefi flag that automatically creates a unified image. Under the hood, it does exactly what the article describes, but you can just add a flag to the command that was creating your ramdisk instead of needing to figure out the obj copy incantation. You're still on your own for signing though.

2) You do not need to pivot out of the ramdisk. You can put your entire system in the single EFI executable. In addition to the security implications, this makes it very easy to create a portable OS. Just copy the file to a thumbdrive with an EFI compatable filesystem and select it from the EFI boot menu.

2.5) To hawk dracut a bit more, while it is very much designed around the assumption that its job is to execute a pivot root, it is actually quite useful for the above as well. You can easily specify executables on the host system you want to include, and dracut will automagically include them and any libraries they depend on. Set the kernel commandline to include a dracut breakpoint before the pivot happens, and you will be dropped directly to a terminal.

3) > One can easily compile the boot stub separately from the rest of systemd and copy it over to various systems to be used.

This is probably because I am not familiar with systemd's build system, but this was only half true for me. I had to check out the entire repository and due a build from the top level. I was able to get it to compile nothing but the stub, but before it would do that, I still had to satisfy the dependencies of all the other components (which I could do by deleting the dependency in the build files since I wasn't actually going to compile them).
I'm curious if you bought a laptop or if you bought a windows 10 license and did a fresh install?

When I built my PC with windows 10, the experience was way different from buying a laptop with windows 10. The laptop manufacturer purposely loaded a bunch of bloatware that I had to get rid of.

I also don't launch any apps from the start menu. I usually click the search bar and then type the name of the app then hit enter. So maybe that's another area that I don't see that other people consider noisy.
Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air but contaminating the sea
>America is a de facto surveillance state, where we’re all victims of decentralized, lone wolf Stasi. Most of us just haven’t realized it yet.

The article gets one thing right, regardless of your opinion on the rest.

If you are blind to this as of now it is your own doing
100k salary is poor compensation taking into account the cost of living
I appreciate the curiosity, but it's probably not great for us as a community to be un-privating people's private repos.
I once had the pleasure of using the Microsoft C API for creating an HMAC:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccrypto/exa...

They managed to mix both patterns into a ghastly 9 function call!

The example above speaks for itself but I kind of see the "we provide you with memory you need to call 'FreeX' on" and the "call the function twice, once to find out how much memory you need to allocate" patterns to be equally annoying to use.
Is earth getting closer to the sun, or farther away?
Skip it, it's aimed at laypeople.
I guess whatever spam control system they use is simply blocking all VPNs rather than more fine grained check if the request is for read/write