skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditionally, democracy meant 'all Athenian male unenslaved citizens meet up every now and then to decide by majority whom to banish from the city' -> the exact reason why democracy was a dirty word for classical political philosophers, like Plato: tyranny of the masses was built in from the start.

What you describe was an "age of enlightenment"-style idealised version of democracy that lived for a short time before it was being killed again, bit by bit.

And that direct democracy thing ... it works for the Swiss, and many would argue the problem today is not too much democracy, but too little, and it becoming ever-smaller.
I am pretty sure the Russian the word used here was “автомат” which means “automatic gun”. But even if it’s the other word “пулемёт” (what machine guns are called) it would also apply to the ak47 well enough.
For sure. Hopefully the digital currencies will price themselves out of that market (and perhaps put pressure to put the less energy burning protocol variants into production).

To really give the right incentives to businesses probably requires some form of carbon taxes, very hard to get right but not sure we have a choice as a lifeform...
Doesn’t make having an accident illegal make it more likely that people won’t report the accidents and won’t learn and improve?
What 32 bit x86 Windows programs do you still use?
Really happy with my HP LaserJet Pro M15W Printer so far... Bought it only about 2 years ago but I print almost daily and didn't even have to replace the toner.
Just for the sake of spelling:
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Hungary
Cisleithania
If the old Android device doesn't get security updates, then it isn't safe to keep it connected to the Internet. Someone can hack into it and turn on the mic and camera. Or use it for mining cryptocurrencies.

LineageOS helps ( if the phone is supported by it: https://lineageos.org )
So they are basically a SPAC
Most of us will never be able to match that

this is part of the problem though. the expectation that the contributions to our relationship should somehow be equal. yes, both partners should contribute something, and it is possible that one (or both) of the partners are not contributing enough, but wanting to limit my partners contributions because i can't keep up is a problem in itself. the proper response is to talk about it, to share how these poems or whatever it is, make you feel. and come to an understanding that both can work with. the most important thing to do is to listen what the partner has to say, and how they feel. as with all these things, it comes down to communication.
Binary Search in Rust
A note from the author: go to line 126

Finds all items partially equal (not necessarily literally equal) to val. In a generic slice in ascending or descending order. Returns the Range of the matching items. When the range is empty (n..n), then n is the sort order of where the missing val could be inserted.

Assigns a comparator closure `pcomp` just once, depending on whether the order is ascending or descending.
I linked as source saying that's not the case. Maybe you can provide a source for your claim?
My local rewe doesn't accept Amex.
I think it's because there are investors desperate to get into this industry but can't invest in 5T et al, so they invest in whatever they are able to hoping they'll capture some of the uplift
You're right! Of all the game posts to post this, this was the worst. I didn't realize there was info if you scroll down, I just saw the buttons and instructions to play.

Thanks!

Edit: Ah, I don't have a scrollbar. I also can't scroll right on the screenshots. That might have been part of it.
I think there might be in a few years but it's super hard.

The technology is insane, the design skills are non-trivial, and the software is terrible
No worries, I can always watch this at night.
Denying who's choice and existence?

The point is pretty simple: dad has a traditional image of how men are supposed to be, mom sees her son isn't the typical man. Mom protects her son by standing up for him. Mothers protect their children all the time in nature. Why do they do this? Because they take care of their genes. Its their offspring. Do they always do this? No, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they fail, given the circumstances. For example with regards to abuse. Of course there is free will involved in such.

If anything, I am insulting males here, because they regularly act like dumb egoists, selfish, short-sighted, such as in this case.

I applaud smart egoism, as its a long-term win-win. And it isn't always the easy or obvious choice.

Existence has nothing to do with any of this. If anything, I am honoring her influence (past existence, as there's no proof for existence of ghosts etc).
They have recently become a real bank and converted the customers' accounts to real current ones. They are a UK bank though due to Brexit for EU-based customers they are a Latvian one (I think).
The unsaid truth about working from home
I'm sure you've often heard those tips about working from home. And if you failed to apply any of that obvious advice, here are the real underlying challenges.
> I never realized how much heat, vibration, air blowers negatively affected me before.

It's like a constant drilling sound that gets into your brain and makes thoughts flow like through the mud in the full sunlight.

For that reason, despite that I don't like Apple and I am not a fan of macOS, I decided to buy M1 MBP.

This is a lifechanging experience, that laptop. You can even put it on low power mode and won't lose much perfomance and it is absolutely silent.
Even if you run a prolonged heavy task and fans kick in, you will barely hear them (ha hope it won't get worse over time and that there will be a way to disconnect them if that is going to be a problem).

Oh and no coil whine. Even if my XPS 15 miraculously don't have fans on, you can be sure their noise is inconveniently replaced by distinct coil whine that is just as annoying as fans.

I am probably going to buy another macbook, this time the Air one just for leisure and learning.
You might try graded exposure therapy in conjunction with a therapist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy
I'm sure these founders grew up at least middle class, but you definitely don't need FU money to summer in the northern pines of Wisconsin. It's not exactly the Hamptons :)
In Diablo II there were these sites that you could buy gear from. A bot joined you game and you either gave it the item if you sold it or gave you the item if you bought it. So I guess it had play-to-earn.

In a way Diablo II was way more decentrilized than these strange cryptocurrency game contraptions.
How is a prime number better for expanding the hash table?
If a community really wants to severely punish something that's legally not a crime, jury nullification enables the community representatives to enact whatever extrajudicial punishment they want (e.g. the existing examples of lynching or "honor killings"/"honor rapes" in certain communities) and then protect these punishers from the legal system.
Those figures are useless without power consumption.
> I don’t know dude, if you want to write software for the worst performers instead of commodity hardware that’s up to you

I want to write software that people, most people, not only those with SV salaries able to buy a computer every year, can use.

Here's the current best seller laptop in Amazon in my country: https://www.amazon.fr/Dell-Inspiron-i5-1135G7-Ordinateur-por...

It's half past 2022 and the most sold laptop here in France, 7th-ranked in GDP, has 8 gigabytes of RAM and 4 cores. This is what the real world looks like. (and just a year ago it was still 4GB of RAM iirc)

The second best sale is a gamer PC which is a bit better. https://www.amazon.fr/MILUI-Modulaire-Colosseum-Livraison-30...

The third https://www.amazon.fr/Ordinateur-Portable-Celeron-Resolution... comes with a CPU that does not support hyperthreading (so 4C/4T) and does not even support friggin AVX and goes to SSE4.2 at most.

That does not mean not making use of multiple cores of course, but a software should still be able to work on a single-core. Right now we only have certifications such as https://www.blauer-engel.de/en/productworld/resources-and-en... (see https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/research/projekte/green-soft... for the methodology) but hopefully in a few years we can start making it first heavily discouraged and over time less and less viable to create resource-wasting software - in any case this is a thing I am asking of the people whom I vote for :-)
Pole climbing might help. You can go up as high as you can and just stay there for like an hour and go back down. But you will need someone close by to help you when you freeze up.
Mediocrity is the best! You live a good life and don't suffer from all the expectation of being amazing or even above-average.
> As far as I know China has invaded exactly 0 countries in the past 100 years.

The last time was the 1979 invasion of Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War Before that, there were invasions of Mongolia, the Soviet Union, South Korea, India and Tibet. Of course in each case the fighting was in territory that the Qing dynasty used to claim and subsequently lost, but that's the case for Taiwan as well, with Japan taking control after invading the island in 1895.
2 would be a kind of explicit destructors/drop ?
Heh. This article was posted shortly after we instituted a ban [0] on language talks at Handmade Seattle 2022.

There's an oversupply of enthusiastic engineers trying to provide C alternatives and it's creating massive bike-shedding and yak-shaving problems.

Language designers are encouraged to give a presentation if it's about building quality software using a language. Otherwise, no.

[0] https://vimeo.com/handmadeseattle/languages-are-banned
I hope they move into workstation. Something like a quad M2 MAX would probably sell like there is no tomorrow.
Seemed like the attorneys and judge knew what was up.

The reasons that seemed to get a quick dismissal were people who had been victims of crime in the past, people who had family members who were police officers, lawyers, judges. People who held not uncommon beliefs that would bias them (e.g. "I believe that people of color can't get a fair trial"), but not always if the juror said they could make a decision without that bias clouding their judgement.

The ones that picked extreme beliefs just got more questioning until they either admitted their belief wouldn't cloud their judge or that their belief wasn't so extreme as to bias them.

I mean, the judge and lawyers question people for a living, so they know exactly how to drill down and force an answer out.
Or perhaps they started on day 330.
I suspect that to a professional circuit layout engineer having the machine route traces evokes the same feeling as having gethub copilot write your code does to the professional software engineer.
Not the OP, but those kids need parents that have a steady pay-check (we can't all be entrepreneurs). Nowadays a steady pay-check is mostly associated with making things, especially in non-Western countries, things which are later sold (on the same internal market or to export markets).

Once a much bigger player from the outside comes in and gives stuff for "free", like it has happened with some of the Western aid, then that kid's parents I mentioned at the start of the comment risk losing their jobs. After all, it's not worth it anymore for their employer to keep them, well, employed, cause the market that he's targeting is getting dumped by all the free stuff coming in via Western "aid".

These are, in retrospect, basic economics-related things, but which nevertheless took a while to sink in into some people's minds in the West (some are still oblivious to it all). I remember a book written by an African lady (I think she was from Botswana or from that general area), former worker at a big financial institution in the West, and imploring the West to stop "aiding" the African countries if they want to see them actually develop.
I love this idea, thanks for sharing it.
Double axle semi truck is a vehicle that has two axles, one at each end of the body. The main purpose of this vehicle is to carry goods and transport them from one place to another. This type of semi truck can be used for both commercial and personal purposes depending on your budget and needs.
Found those, seems to be well established +19y on the market - https://krystal.uk/
Can some way more experienced than me ELI5 why the inner loop part was so clever? I'm the most novice of programmers and have never touch anything remotely like pointers so feel I am missing the lightbulb moment the author clearly got. Many thanks.
Thermite welding is commonly used to join railway tracks - not that scary in person.
I grew up watching this being developed and would see it in the air near my house all the time.
I agree with the parent poster in regards to top roping, but I will add one thing: climb up 8 or more meters and let yourself fall about a meter allowing the rope to jolt you when it takes your weight. The subsequent adrenaline rush will make you lose your fear. I can go from freaking out to smashing climbs in about 5 minutes :)

As a note: be safe if you do this -- get an experienced climber to belay you. I do not take any responsibility for any harm this could cause.

Cheers
tangentially related: if I'm already using Fivetran, DBT and Snowflake, where does Databricks fit in? From reading their marketing material, it would seem that Databricks is a full featured solution that replaces all of the above and offers everything from ingestion to ETL and even analytics. However I keep hearing of companies using Databricks alongside those other products and I don't understand how does it fit into that type of data pipeline.
A lot of these people seem to have ended up at twitter or netflix
Probably an accumulation of a lot of tech where it's cheaper to buy new than refurbish/maintain: New roof, new wiring, new windows, new facade, updating to latest building codes.

Insulation. In the UK an older £250k house could have £2k additional heating for equivalent comfort. Over decades that adds up. If climate change makes summers hotter so cooling systems/AC need retrofitted and winters colder, that'll be more pressing.

Modular factory built homes might be possible to disassemble or extend, allowing reconfiguration that people might come to demand.

This will also be pushed by other trends, aging populations mean people might demand more housing that better suits their needs and new is cheaper than adapting.
This person is actively trying to make a "better C" so it's no surprise his arguments against his own project are lukewarm.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
What software do you find irreplaceable?
GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
I would have appreciated some mention of the actual medium in which the notes are written.

Are we talking about a post-it note? Are the notes in a physical notebook? Is this done via some sort of mobile app? On a WhatsApp message, perhaps?

I know it will be different for everyone, probably, but I think it is important to know one that is already working for someone.
> Eh, it doesn’t feel like work for me. I really enjoy my partner, she enjoys me, and I don’t think we have to do very much “work” to maintain that.

For some people it isn't until it is. There are many things that can break a great relationship. Routine, lack of common projects, financial difficulties, personal struggle of one or both.
Congratulations to the blogger -- he has rediscovered the formulate first described in the 16th century by the French mathematician Vieta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta%27s_formulas
>Imagine being required to give 10 to 20 percent of your income to a political party.

I don't need to imagine it. I pay my f-ing taxes.

Between income, sales, property, fuel, sin taxes and government fees the state tax burden is probably close to 20%. Just like the Mormon church then go on to spend that money, a lot of it on good stuff that is helpful to everyone, but a ton of it is also spent on cronyism, make-work BS, enriching the leadership and those connected to it (with pretexts of course, they're not amateurs at this) and expanding the organization itself.

Utah is the same as any other one-party state. It just so happens that the values-defining "club" that nearly everyone at every level of government belongs to is religious and not overtly political. Why is this so hard for you people to grasp?
remember to take out the trash
From the wikipedia article:

Eventually he realized that Kaye was using self-modifying code to process elements of an array, and had coded the loop in such a way as to take advantage of an overflow. Adding 1 to the address field of an instruction that referred to address x normally just changed the address to x+1. But when x was already the highest possible address, not only did the address wrap around to 0, but a 1 was carried into the bits from which the opcode would be read—in this case changing the opcode to "jump to" so that the full instruction became "jump to address 0".

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
How to Improve Team Productivity, Efficiency and Happiness – Part #1
This page [0] includes an analysis of the manual for the possible machine Mel programmed in the story along with a probable photograph of him.

[1] is an instruction manual for the blackjack program itself, written by Mel.

Classic story solidly in the “should be reposted every six months or so” cohort.

0: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/macho-programmers-drum-mem...

1: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/royalPrecision/RPC-40...
https://www.moneysupermarket.com/gas-and-electricity/feature...

>By far the most power-hungry crypto in our study, we found that a single Bitcoin transaction uses an average of 1,173 Kilowatt Hours (kWh). If we consider that the average monthly electricity usage for a UK household is 350 kWh, that’s enough to power the typical UK home for more than three months at a cost of roughly £125 ($173), based on a fixed cost of £0.11 ($0.148) per kWh

>In the U.S, it would equate to roughly 6 weeks of electricity based on an average household electricity usage of 877 kWh per month (U.S Energy Information Administration).

Not quite an entire year, but definitely a number of months.

Also according to digiconomist's latest figures, it's currently at around 1500kWh per transaction. So even worse.
More info about the “drum computer” this was written on: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/lgp-30

Previous discussion where another person tried to replicate this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484330
Sadly we have strayed to the other extreme. From "every instruction is precious" right over to, "who cares how many instructions I use?"

Nowadays, desktop apps which started in an instant 20 years ago, seem to take several seconds even before they are even doing anything useful like loading a project or whatever. Even things like Visual Studio looking through the MRU project list can take 10 seconds (probably a threading issue) and VSCode, Teams and others are equally unimpressive - in fact the browser, the one thing that should be slow due to the network, is usually fastest when using a well-written site.

I'm not sure whether the multi-platform desktop app was ever a great idea. How much time have we saved "not writing multiple apps" but have instead ended up with slow, bloated software that doesn't usually run multi-platform, at least not all the time in the same way.
For those wondering Tornado here appears to refer to Tornado Cash [1].

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/8/us-announces-sanctio...
But all these things could be changed... Compilers could be permitted to change the layout of your data. standard libraries could be great. Exposing an API that takes a comparator need not be slow if that API isn't used, or the function passed in is fully understood by the compiler.

Basically, I'm saying that most hours of human effort put into optimising things should be put into compilers and standard libraries, because they benefit every project rather than just your personal project. It's hours better spent on a global basis.
My point is, it isn't. Laws don't enforce themselves. It's always people enforcing them - or not. That is, however reluctantly, acknowledged when it's jury nullification.

But judges get to stretch and squeeze laws all the time, all the way from nullification to the most unhinged overreach. And unlike juries, they get to pretend they didn't. And in an SC judge's case, it takes a constitutional crisis to overrule them.

It's personal power on an unbelievable level, yet this guy pretends it's not him? That it's instead some abstract intangible force? Seriously, what a terrible person.
Thank you! Please keep pushing such certifications until they become regulations that, like GDPR, even we American developers cannot ignore. Then I can make a strong business case to move away from Electron in the product I'm currently working on.

Edit to add:

Related to your links to best-selling computers, I've been thinking about downgrading to a low-spec PC as my daily driver, and using a remote machine for the times that I truly need something powerful for a big compile or the like. That would force me to feel the users' pain. But how far should I go? Taken to the extreme, I could use a machine with a spinning rust hard drive (not SSD) and the bare minimum system requirements for Windows 10 or 11, and keep all the crapware on it to more accurately reflect the typical user's environment. But then, maybe I'd just be hurting myself for no benefit, since the pressure to value developer productivity over runtime efficiency would not actually go away in the absence of regulations.
"Not «insoluble»" does not really define the smiling world of shining white sweaters strolling in the streets (it is not "problem solved"). I doubt that the coverage will be easily doable. There are apartments in remote places in the countryside (at least, it is very normal here). And in streets dense with parking need, which implies many aspects of space management. Moreover, if I had to imagine charging posts every, say, two spots, or basically every spot, in every inhabited street with the possible exception of villas with internal space for cars, I would immediately wonder of the infrastructural costs (which would be rotated to the final individual user as a component of the per-kWh, hopefully, but still worth noticing).

About the «very large percentage of people do live in detached homes»: interesting, I see data around that seems to confirm this (to Statista.com , in North America they should be 85% of the total this makes too little sense in consideration of urbanization: I would believe it more easily if it were 85% /in rural areas/). Other easily accessible data states that in Canada «55.3% of the population lived in single-detached houses [in 2006]», but with swings such as "7.5% in Montreal, 58% in Calgary". It reminds me of those infographics that show how compact and traffic efficient Barcelona is when compared to Atlanta (same population, 1/12 of the urban area, 1/6 of the transport related carbon emissions) - I suppose that a staggering amount of population living in single-family detached homes must entail that cities are affected (instead of being made of mostly buildings for apartments), which must mean "more Atlanta than Barcelona" as a concept.

Those who have this mysterious "85%" as set in their mind should be aware of this piece of info from Eurostat:

> In 2020, 46.2 % of the EU population lived in flats, more than one third (35.8 %) lived in detached houses and close to one fifth (17.0 %) lived in semi-detached or terraced houses