skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and between centralisation and distribution of responsibility has never been resolved.

Its never been resolved because people try to have their cakes and eat it too. There's pros and cons to both ways, but people refuse to deal with the cons. Dealing with that in my current org, where a decision was made to distribute a specific subset of responsibilities, and as soon as it gets even a little difficult, they start centralizing again (within that subset), even when there's solutions to the problems.

So we end up in this weird kind of Frankenstein organization, and that's the worse of all worlds.
How do we know they aren't already?
What's wrong with not traveling?

Oh no, I won't be able to spend the money I don't have to impress people that do not care about me in the slightest via Instagram.

Oh no, I won't be able to attend that conference that's 100% recorded and available in video format where I see the material and the presenter in better detail than in person with the ability of replaying, pausing and resuming at any time I want, where 90% of the time the content talked about is an abridged version of what can be learned from a used book, free online documentation or a PDF I can buy for a few dollars.

Oh no, I won't be able to visit some random distant place while there are plenty of nearby places that are just as nice.

Oh no, I won't be able to visit some snobby establishment that sells overrated products such as fermented fruit juice that I don't even really like that much and can't even distinguish from a boxed product sold at 1/100th of the price at my local grocery store.

Surely in 2 generations where everyone is living in a ruined planet eating diseased vermin people will care about my pointless traveling. I am such an important person! I am surely more important than the environment that sustains the life of everyone in the planet that's why I am so entitled to such things.
Agree, and a big part of the problem is that Politicians will not be proactive and spend money for no apparent visible return. If they're wasting money they're unlikely to get re-elected. It's the same as asking IT accountants to invest in mirroring systems that appear never to fail - until they do...
Third party doctrine is nothing new and was a direct result of money transfer becoming easier (not sending gold bars around that could be seized). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Miller_%28197....

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts like to think that just because their transactions are done inefficiently on a blockchain, banking laws don't apply to them. Of course they apply. The only difference is their transactions are more expensive.
An organization doesn't become a monopoly just because they are large. Otherwise you might as well claim McDonalds has a monopoly on food and Nike has a monopoly on shoes. There are tons of competitors to GitHub out there.
Skinning a carcass seems easier than live flaying.
So far the only places to fully ban cryptocurrency (afaik) have been authoritarian countries like Russia[1] and China[2]. The US banning an emerging tech would not be a good look.

[1]: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/07/15/vladimir-putin-ba...

[2]: https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/24/china-s-makes-all-c...
Because it’s how people have driven cars for 70 years. Why would anyone drive a car _with_ a plan for refueling? Gas stations are generally everywhere, and you just to pay attention to how far the closest one is in the most remote and deserted of regions (of the US).
I'm glad this just a metaphor about discrimination of signal from noise.

When the idea of consciousness comes up, too often I've heard the exact claim that consciousness cannot be from the brain. They assert the brain is just the receiver of the information coming from the soul. When asking why damage to a particular part of the brain usually results in a predictable deficit, they confidently reply that is also true of a radio receiver -- the non-physical soul is intact but the brain just garbles the message.
Also because I assume ARM needs less transistors compared to x86 so they can use more die area for caches.
I would definitely be in the marker for such a fake battery as well, though I suspect the fact that modern phones don't have normal battery connectors (and instead rely on glue and ribbon cables to connect power) will make a standardized product quite difficult.

Still, though, a correctly set voltage regulator with a normal USB plug and a few easy solder joints to attach the device's battery connectors to would already make the process quite a lot easier.
Please spare me, the Green party in Germany (and Austria) did more harm than good by pushing for renewables which underdelivered and hidrocarbures over nuclear which they were vehemently against.

Just because you call yourself green doesn't mean you know what you're doing.

And let's not forget how several former high ranking German and Austrian politicians are on the boards of various Russian oil and gas companies, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence and not in any way related to the countries' energy policies. /s
The EU can also prevent companies from doing business in the EU if they don't follow the local laws. No need for an armed invasion if the EU can block all transfers from EU banks for anything related to your company.
Why the emphasis on "unidirectional data flow"?

I happen to think Lazarus (based on Free Pascal) is great, but it's not a functional language at all.
From novice to master, and back again (2013)
As a policy, homes can be a savings tool (like a cushion against disaster or emergency retirement capital) but if they become investments that is antithetical to affordable housing and thus ultimately economic growth and social well being.
>I don't think anyone arguing for WFH is really advocating fully-remote for all

In general I think that's true.

However, the flip side is you have people who want to go into a 2019 office. And they're going in and finding a ghost town. And at least some of them think it's the responsibility of their coworkers to fix that even if they're getting their jobs done perfectly well from somewhere remote.
It is a subliminal response to protect oneself from guilt and fear of change / death.
So, the RPC-4000 version of blackjack seems lost, but the LGP-30 version exists (and can be run on simh). I've disassembled and partly annotated it, and found that it too has a sort of cheat switch.

The LGP-30 has no source of randomness to use as a seed. From loading the program, if the player plays optimally, the games will all be the same. Over the first few dozen games, the player ends up in the hole (IIRC, noticeably more than the long-run house edge).

The LGP-30 has one conditional branch instruction, that tests the sign bit of the accumulator. But if the sign bit on the instruction is set, and the TRANSFER CONTROL switch on the front panel is set, then the branch is always taken. This appears once in the program. On startup, if the switch is set, it marks two of the aces as already dealt. This perturbs the sequence enough so that, over the first few dozen games, the player has the advantage.
Lmao this is like saying the US should charge the Fed for printing dollar bills with serial numbers later found to be used abroad for prohibited purposes
What keyboard layout do you use? Q and L sure aren't in the home row on a QWERTY keyboard unless you're one of those sales guys that only ever types TYPEWRITER. :P
My wife and I want to leave a legacy for our kids and glorify God with our marriage. We've also had many first hand experiences of watching other marriages implode and cause harm to family members and children. It's always better to keep working at it, keep humble, and have fun enjoying life :)
I love how you blew through my reply from 15 minutes earlier clarifying the obvious concept of the balance of societal benefit to post a me too comment. Do better
Can’t disagree with that. I’ve made more (paper) money in the last two years owning my house than working at my job.
The bad thing is is that it’s too late. From this point forward it’s about adapting where we can.

This is the downside of climate change deniers and the inability of humans to recognize existential threats. Climate change and global warming was never about it just getting hot and that’s it. It is about extreme weather popping up more and more frequently.

In my location, we had a weird winter. The snowfall was above average but it only snowed on like three or four separate days. This summer has seen a heat wave and serious drought. When it rains, again only one like three days all summer, it’s for like 10 minutes. We actually just had a major storm, and it rained violently for about 5-10 minutes. That does little to get the ground soaked again. Even the ferns are dying, which are typically robust.
I attend my parish often and it is true that a lot of people are leaving but to be honest it doesn't bother me much. As Catholics, if we spend our time worrying about "the numbers" then we've lost the purpose of what it means to be a member of a community. It's not about programs it's about people.

In my (entirely anecdotal) observation, boomers were the last generation to be raised with social pressure to appear to be religious, in communities where Catholic traditions and the Church were a central and reasonably respected part of life. They got married relatively young, baptized their kids and maybe sent them to Catholic schools all to keep their own parents happy, but didn't pressure their kids in the same way.

As the boomers got to middle age and figured out their own way to live, they dropped the pretence. In parallel, the church largely retreated from public life, education, politics, healthcare etc.

It's easy to blame this on the Church or the boomers but it's part of a wider trend of community and common institutions losing their hold. People move further away from family, have less friends, participation in community activities is down across the board, the self-sufficient nuclear family has been pushed as the ideal since the 50s and cultural gatekeeping or telling someone what to do in their own home is the biggest sin.

It's all a trade-off for getting rid of some of the genuinely more awful parts of the pre-war era.
I hate my P15v. Fans are always on doing the lightest of tasks and the battery won't last more than 2-3 hours. I dream of low power x86.
Cool, good thing I didn't say to panic everywhere.

That lkml post has zero relevance here. He's asking for fallible allocations. Which is totally reasonable.

Serious question: did you read the entire blog? If so, can you specifically point out passages you disagree with and why?

EDIT: And seriously, I started out this conversation with a serious comment asking you to elaborate on what you meant by asking something very concrete: how would you change the code example in my blog to conform to your view? You decided to flippantly respond with a non-answer in the first place. Why not go back to the original question I asked and give a real answer? If you don't know Rust, then use pseudo code. We're talking about a dozen lines here. It shouldn't take long.
I don't care about boot times but I do care about keeping state.

In addition to the obvious browser I typically have an IDE, a few terminal windows, email, a few communication clients (due to internal and customer choices, not mine), and usually one or two database clients open at most times. Some of those restore their state nicely while others don't. Some of the terminal windows have e.g. a particular set of terminals at certain directories because I need to keep track of and work on multiple source repos at the same time.

Starting all of those from scratch every day would indeed be a chore. Perhaps more importantly, having my desktop be the way I left it also automatically reminds me what I was doing and helps continue from where I was.

A fresh desktop every morning would be a misfeature for me and would annoy and frustrate me immensely if forced on me.

I do of course reboot now and then for system updates etc., and I don't mind that.

There might be a decent rationale for forcing a reboot or disabling sleep on non-tech office devices if the staff are technically unskilled, but this is HN, so it's not much of a surprise if people aren't keen.
Question is: why are these sanctions here in the first place? The US uses its control of the Dollar-based system to wield its power as it sees fit. It’s apparently ok for the US to have as many nukes as it sees fit, but not ok for others to have the same.
I had a Chase account and for some years was able to use email for 2FA. Somewhere around 2019, they changed their requirements and forced SMS for 2FA. Since I don't use a (SIM-ed) phone and since my wife's phone number was already known to them, I had to pull all of my liquid savings out of the account and move it elsewhere.

I will never bank with an institution that requires SMS for 2FA.
That's not a pure number system though, because it didn't have a separate character for each digit
I was informally referring to the insert and the much later lookup as "2 lookups."

> I'm not sure what you refer to with "huge pages" though. Can you elaborate or provide some info?

CPUs for servers and desktops made within my lifetime (?) use what's called a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to cache some of the most recently used mappings from virtual pages to physical pages. Page sizes on commonly used CPUs are 4KB except for Apple Silicon which uses 16KB pages. Since at least 1996[0], consumer CPUs have shipped with the ability to use 2MB (or larger) pages in addition the default page size. This capability is awkwardly exposed on Linux. Linux users can either use transparent huge pages, which will slowly replace 2MB-aligned 2MB regions allocated by long-running programs with huge pages, or they can use hugetlbfs to directly request huge pages when calling mmap. Windows nominally supports this feature and calls it "large pages," but in practice users can either run their program as administrator right after booting the machine and then never close it or give up. macOS supports this feature since 2016 and calls it "superpages." I haven't used that so I can't comment on how usable it is in practice.

A lot of the runtime of a program like this is TLB misses. So you can just have way, way fewer TLB misses, like >99% fewer, if you use 2MB pages instead of 4KB pages. The mmap man page[1] says how to ask for huge pages when you call mmap. Here are some other[2] pages[3] about setting up hugetlbfs, which you must do before calling mmap in this way will work.

> Also about reordering the lookups you mean changing the order of the values i check? I wanted to have a random lookup since this was a test for how well arbitrary lookups would perform, this is why i generated a file with unique random numbers ahead of time.

I just wanted to be specific, like maybe a program could compute the set and then check that the set was computed correctly more quickly by partially sorting the input. No sorting allowed!

0: http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Jul96/

1: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html

2: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/hugetl...

3: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
Vespene Energy Raises $4.3M to Help Cities Capturer Landfill Gas (Methane)
Qt for Python may be an option: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/

While the Qt API is imperative (`self.layout.addWidget(self.text)`, ...), focusing on declative Qml whenever possible helps with a more declarative approach.
My point is that some people need to do that regularly, such as myself, as an environmental/water quality engineer in a rural area.

OP indicated they couldn't see why anybody wouldn't want an EV.

In reality, there simply IS no feasible recharging plan in that scenario.
The reason I made the point is this: I have regular need for my 4WD truck, and I carry a lot of self-rescue equipment: a 2-stroke gas chainsaw, winch, extra fuel, a satellite text communication device (this is less helpful than you'd think in a deep forest), food, water, clothes, shelter, hygiene products, a trauma kit and a firearm.

On this website loaded with urbanites, many people regularly attack those things as being "totally unnecessary" and would have no problem banning them without any consideration for edge cases.
To be fair, the UK has a "grass turns yellow" style drought once every 10 years

2003: https://historicdroughts.ceh.ac.uk/content/hot-summer-2003
2012: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17533235

Of course, the heat records and the drought are worse in 2022 than either of those.

And grass turning yellow doesn't necessarily mean that it's dead. It can regrow from the roots when conditions improve. Assuming that the drought is not too long.
>and it is going to backfire

it isn't. the sheep have been bleating "corporations can do whatever they want" for 10 years now. the pigs will be fine.
Devs writing Terraform means ops doesn't move fast enough. Fix ops instead of forcing the teams to roll their own.
Funny how you mention Chinese factories, and not the factories of the country that’s been proven to plant backdoors everywhere.
But the formatting

is part, I think

of the charm.
I think you're right.
For all we know the universe is perfectly balanced and there is no heat death coming.
This is new homes only.

All homes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

New Homes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPNHSUS
I know working with distros is tough, but please do the work to get into debian/fedora (and not via a PPA.) In the meantime make a snap/flatpak. Asking your users to run a script directly from curl trains security-unaware people with a really bad pattern.
You are correct, I misremembered this. The packages are pin compatible, but there are different 2+8 and 6+8 dies this generation. It was 11th Gen where the 15W and 28W were the same die.
You don't have to ban crypto. You could just ban exchanges. You can always exchange Bitcoin for cash and back, but that's a lot harder.
Regardless of who is doing the job, you're still going to need some device on your person (or otherwise readily accessible) that can be used to confirm that you are actually you, and whatever that device is will become a single point of failure.

The real issue is there needs to be some simple standard workflow for when the device (be it smartphone or otherwise) fails. And in this case the government pretty much already is providing that service, or at least the backbone for it. "You lost your phone? Well send us a picture of your driver's license or passport plus a selfie in [this] pose from a different trusted number and, after we try calling your old number just to make sure it's really lost, we'll use the new number." Financial institutions already have the infrastructure for photo-id confirmation for KYC regulations, and selfie verification is widely used for dating apps. Yeah if someone breaks your phone, steals your id, and can deepfake you then they can probably steal your identity, but someone in that position can probably already steal your identity.
I love being able to get stuff done that's technically personal and not work related, like chores or cooking food. I can take a break from work and not have to use my limited personal time (after 5 and on the weekends) to get the boring stuff done. It just makes more sense to kill 2 birds with 1 stone in that sense.
There is nothing on the subreddit that indicates that anyone considers it a waste of time to consume content there
Impose severe sanctions on any state or business providing funding for fossil fuel electricity generation.

Subsidize carbon free electricity generation in developing countries.

Help women in developing countries access education and family planning => reduces population growth and so energy requirements.

Simple enough, but there is absolutely no will to do it.
I heard about the flower metaphor before, so I actually hear what you're saying now.

The last time I heard this metaphor was in the context of avoiding too much flattery or dependence on praise of others. So, a well-adjusted person does things because they want to, or a have a responsibility to, without relying too much on praise.

I think this framing is useful for a person too reliant on others' opinions for happiness, but even within this framework, you can still feel happy when others appreciate you (while not reliant on the emotion). So, it's still a positive to give and receive gratitude, so long as both people have a stable sense of self and aren't reliant on gratitude for happiness.
The US has expansive view of what is speech. A theater play satirizing the US congress is definitely a political statement, yet it also just code for actors, right?
You can say this about anything, though. "My university requires us to use Blackboard, therefore it's a de facto monopoly." "My work email account is through Gmail, therefore it's a de facto monopoly." They're still not. If another party requires you to use a service for some reason, that's between you and the other party.
At the end of the day people want transportation, they want meals, perhaps fresh bread. How they are provided is an implementation detail.
This headline will likely be recycled frequently over the next century, perhaps once every 5-10 years. It's right in line with predictions dating back to ~1980: midlatitude warming in regions reliant on summer snowmelt for a good portion of their water supply results in warmer winters where: more precipitation falls as water instead of snow, there's faster spring snowmelt, and soil and vegetation moisture gets reduced over the summer months (the latter being implicated in enhanced fire seasons). Here's another article about this, a bit more comprehensive:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/08/the-new-...

> With surface soil humidity the lowest ever recorded and July rainfall 85% lower than usual,.. more than 100 French municipalities have no running drinking water and are being supplied by truck, green transition minister Christophe Béchu said, adding: “We are going to have to get used to episodes of this type. Adaptation is no longer an option, it’s an obligation.”

The summer rainfall factor is a bit more random, for example Germany was hit by record-breaking massive flooding at about this very same time in 2021. This is because of the nature of water vapor increases, if the atmosphere is loaded up with water vapor (a CO2 increase feedback effect) then that can drive either extreme heating ('clear air water vapor') or massive precipitation depending on whether the condensation threshold is hit or not.

It is not going away and it will get worse. The tipping point has come and gone.
That's not so easy nowadays.

Firstly with covid-19 many banks don't accept walk-ins and have a long waiting list for appointments.

Secondly, what if the bank or other service i'm using has no physical offices at all?

Or what if they're simply too far away and I'm an octogenarian, perhaps with no driving license? Eh? Am I supposed to take an uber to somewhere 100/200 miles away just because morons are given decision-making power and myopic online-apologists on HN even make excuses for them?
There are parts libraries if you work in a company (there would be a whole division devoted to building components) so that internally there is a ton of (mandatory) reuse.
If you bought your home as shelter but need to sell because you lose your job, get divorced, get a job in another city, then this will affect you.

The average person owns a home for less than a decade.
We're up against massive loss of biodiversity, loss of habitable space on the planet, and an enormous amount of human suffering and loss of human life due to the current and future effects of climate change. A smaller population will not solve these problems alone, but it will buy us more time to solve them.

FWIW, I'm not trying to promote anything extreme like population control policies, just pointing out that the current trend of population leveling off is generally a good thing.