skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it's an incredibly difficult job. Interesting it's still such a common way to run organizations. Sounds like it'd be better, more scalable, cheaper, safer etc. to not depend on a single person with extremely unusual skills for the company to function.
The Only Certainty in Life
Kissa is a common short form, particularly for themed cafes: jazz kissa, manga kissa, maid kissa, etc.

In general, nearly any common long word in Japan gets truncated down to three morae. Kissaten -> kissa, McDonalds -> Makudonarudo -> makudo, Brad Pitt -> Buraddo Pitto -> burapii, etc.
Yeah, half of my coworkers used to be on CLion (for Rust). TBH I couldn't get past the fact that it reminds me of Java IDEs with too many things going on. What's better compared to VSCode?
Investigation of performance overhead in cross-platform mobile frameworks (2020) [pdf]
So long as multinational corporate media controls the messaging, you can expect the fear porn to effectively control the masses. Hitler's Mein Kampf should be taught in school (or perhaps The Myth of the Twentieth Century), as the means by which "the people" can be influenced and their perception of reality guided are still used today.
Accroding to the results from this paper
(page 34) performance of NativeScript is better than React Native, and both are better in performance than Flutter.

The results was quite surprising for me. My expectation was that Flutter will be the best (after Native) followed by React Native.

I found other small benchmarks that shows Flutter is better on CPU-intensive tasks but React Native is better on typical UI side. I didn't found other useful benchmarks about NativeScript.
That blinking is the notorious Drift “chat bot”. One of our marketing people convinced the CEO it wound generate tons of leads, while everyone else objected to how annoying the whole thing was. Especially given the very high costs.

Six months later: only four visitors ever chatted with the bot, zero leads generated, marketing person no longer with company. Drift bot code ripped out after 180 days, but we’re still paying the contract the idiot from marketing signed.

Tip for startups: annoying people is not a viable business model.
> I had no idea StarCraft still saved the entire game state: what a gigantic waste!
> Fun times: I'd exchange my best games with my brother, as email attachments IIRC. We'd then watch each other's games and make comments.

There is a major drawback to save files which rely on the deterministic nature of the game: what happens when the determinism changes? I don't mean due to bugs; I mean intentional modifications to the game's behaviour through patches. Either these changes will break old replays and saves, or the game needs to carry around multiple simulation versions.

You bring up Age of Empires. This is a small problem in the current AoE2 competitive scene. Yes, AoE2 has a competitive scene – the game has been re-released twice in the past decade, and still enjoys the attention of competitive play, including sponsored tournaments (e.g., the Red Bull Wololo series). Microsoft are attempting to give the game the same treatment as other modern, competitive titles, which means frequent balance patches, and occasional injections of new content (DLC). Unfortunately, each one of these updates breaks old save games and replays, which, as you point out, rely on the deterministic nature of the engine. It means that any casting/commentating of games must happen within relatively short order of them being played, and that the only reliable distribution format for old games is... screen recordings. I'd much rather a less space-efficient save format (or at least having the option to convert deterministic replays into a fully self-sufficient archive format) than having to discard native recordings of great games by the wayside in favour of videos.
> Has anyone else's impression of the Collisons been tainted by the realization that they seem to have inculcated psychopathy into their corporate culture?

Nearly every confirmation of this shared here on HN is still self-censored to some degree, but to summarize: yes.
People pushing extreme and divisive politics and religious beliefs are more likely to get votes when people are frightened and under stress. Unfortunate but true.
My take from the article and the discussion below is that libraries is what makes R the best. Is that true? Will python and Julia then catch up? Or is is just best to use R, warts and all?
Doesn't surprise me the slightest

Zoom has some of the most archaic security practices I have seen in 2022. It really practices security like it's 10-15 years behind a modern company. Almost all top-down initiatives to improve security have meant useless red tape practices such as hiding information from its own internal developers.

source: I work at Zoom.
Independent Subversive Networks
This is plain false. Quality of life is in no way strictly correlated with energy usage and pollution.

It's product of thousands more variables and the most important ones are urban planning and social issues.
I think you're talking about eliminating toil.

First time you have to step in and do something, cool, get in there, get it done.

Second time, sounds like that wasn't a one-off, you have toil, and you need a runbook on the company wiki or internal doc site - that way anyone in the team (or organisation or company), can quickly step in and do that thing.

Third time, have somebody else run through the runbook it, validate it, figure out if it can be improved. Perhaps have some better alarms and operational oversight.

Now, start automating parts of the runbook. Some parts will be easy, some will be hard. Do the easy ones first and update the runbook.

Automation will need alarms with the right thresholds. Think about those carefully and remember whenever an alarm fires there are only three things you should be doing: fix the problem; change the threshold; delete the alarm. If you do anything else - especially ignore it and just look at things and wait to see if anything else happens - you have misunderstood and are heading towards alarm fatigue. Don't do this. Ever. Remember the three possible actions.

Once all the parts of the runbook are automated and alarms are working correctly to trigger automatic resolution, delete the runbook.

You have now eliminated toil.

This can apply to any manual operational task that needs to happen anywhere in a business, but is most easily used when improving resiliency and durability in systems that have easy automatic resolution (such as horizontal scaling by adding more instances when loads are high on existing infra). It's exactly what an AWS EC2 ASG is there to do, for example.
Oh, interesting. Then it's just mobile where you can't skip it.
Brit here. It seems a little different than US. I didn't take any exams (except viva at the end). I was given some reports by PhD students/researchers working in a similar field in the same department as background reading. I thought that I'd never understand the stuff, but after awhile, it seemed fairly straightforward.

My supervisor chose me rather than the other way around. It seemed an interesting subject, so I went for it. He set the subject and had a general idea of the direction it should be going.

An alternative approach is to look at the PhD opportunities at various universities, and pick one that looks interesting. I don't think it's rocket science.

The overwhelming number of theses will be a bunch of results that are "quite interesting" and extend the field incrementally. Don't expect to redefine the way people look at physics, mathematics, or whatever.

My number one tip for getting a PhD in a timely fashion: work hard and don't arse around on the internet all day. You don't need the intellect of Gauss to get a PhD; although the brainier the better, obviously.
OP wasn’t talking about copyright, but was instead complaining that companies are never publishing their software at all, and are instead hosting their software as services on the Internet.

Ownership of web applications is not governed primarily by copyright law (which is only relevant as it pertains to the front-end portion of a web app that users download to their browser), but rather by trade secret law (with regards to the server-side code) and trademark law (with regards to the domain name).

Neither trade secrets nor trademarks ever expire if the proper precautions are taken—nor have they ever. Your point regarding copyright extensions is largely irrelevant to the question of web applications.
The browser version tends to lag behind the native one by quite a bit, and has some really annoying restrictions.

For a long time you couldn't use your microphone in Firefox.
Also some measurements over here, which are yet again different: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

I guess accurately measuring latency is hard.
Most of my teams meeting take place on client organizations, where I'm a guest of the directory, or just invited to the call. I never see profile pictures, and I cant find a place to edit mine.

I'm almost willing to pay good money to someone who can explain how MS' user management works wrt belonging to multiple accounts/orgs/acive directories.
I think I would probably die if I drank 1 liter of coffee
Yeah, "green technology" isn't more profitable if corporations don't have to deal with the consequences of non-green energy production. Everyone knows that.

Some people are also interested in not destroying the environment they live in, though. They are interested in acting as a global society to stop destroying the planet.

To that end, they want to pass laws that force corporations to clean up the messes they make and include the cost of that in their energy production. If they had to pay for the mess they make, it might very well make "green" energy more profitable and also help our environment. At the very least, they'd have to stop destroying the environment.
No, we had ascii art and point to point file sharing (DCC).
I'm guessing/hoping you're able to click on those comments once you make an account and login... either way though I agree it's a silly restriction.
Systems subject to stress sometimes do exhibit a phase change, also known as "collapse". Hard to predict when and what shape, but the probability of a phase change is rather uncomfortable. When it happens, we will likely blame social / ethnic group X, because our brains are, sadly, hardwired for social scapegoating in face of severe grief.
Use Wordnet [1,2].

It's an entirely local database with decent etymology and
provisions for synonyms, homonyms, semantic relations
and so on.

> $ /usr/bin/wn hacker -over

Overview of noun hacker

The noun hacker has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) hacker -- (someone who plays golf poorly)

2. hacker, cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk -- (a programmer who breaks
into computer systems

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet

[2] https://wordnet.princeton.edu/download/current-version
Well thanks to the DMCA and friends even if the patent is expired if the tech is marked as drm you are not allowed to bypass it for eternity.
If you click in the book, it's right in its description:

Kissa by Kissa is a book about walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of toast (toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.

And per my experience and what I've been told from locals, the "No gaijin allowed" is only common if you're visiting certain industries (sex work, striptease, and the like...), maybe yakuza owned underground-ish dicey bars, and areas near American military bases were soldiers have been known to cause problems.

When Japanese don't want to deal with foreigners, maybe because racist reasons, or just because they don't feel like explaining the rules or etiquette of a place to an outsider, they will just tell you the place is closed (even when busy), forbidden, busy (even when empty), or some other nonsense excuse.
Sure, you can use something like bubblewrap, but it doesn’t make applications easy to sandbox. E.g. how do you sandbox an application and still make it possible to use Open/Save dialogs.

You need to use something like portals like Flatlak does. But the Flatpak sandboxing model is clearly inspired by macOS and hated by a significant portion of the Linux community.
When you have to come up with a rationalization for why people shouldn't call you an asshole, you are an asshole.
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> If “green technology” was superior on it’s own terms (cheaper, more available, etc)

You should inform yourself before making wild claims. Fossil fuels are cheap mostly because of government subsidies.

Reminder that 6.8% of the world's entire GDP (5.9 trillion US dollars) was spent on subsidies for fossil fuels just in 2020. [0]

[0] https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...
> Did a postgrad degree in Mol Bio a while back, and I cannot think of any reason why this virus has/will not pick up genes that would increase its pathogenicity.

Yeah. We've been lucky so far, comparatively speaking. It's insanity to insist on unmitigated rolling of the dice, though.
> I was not aware one could (or even would want to) store JSON data in a relational database...

Perhaps it's to borrow some elements from data stores like MongoDB, but whilst keeping most of the system based on the typical table/relation principles.

I've actually seen JSON used in PostgreSQL and admittedly I found the approach to be pretty horrible in most cases, performance/functions/syntax regarding the datatype aside.

Yet, I can't say that there aren't valid use cases for something like that, even if generally I'd advise against storing data that you actually want to query in a relational DB inside of JSON. Perhaps that's just because I believe that it'd increase complexity unnecessarily in most cases.
>I think the men/women disparity is not really due to homosexuality but because due to societal views. A man who is promiscuous is viewed a as a 'cool go-getter'. A promiscuous woman is viewed as a 'slut' (Note: I don't agree with that!!). So it's just more common in men at first.

So women are immune? This theory makes no sense.
There really is a learning curve to using these tools, and the investment might not be worth it. I use GDB so unfrequently that I have to re-learn it every time I want to do something. Coupled with the fact that it's not integrated with the language (I can't run `cargo debug` or `cargo gdb` or something) and not the default on Mac (why should I relearn lldb), I end up just printing stuff instead of using it.
Maybe you don't get punished but maybe you get on an agency watch list and they check your other web interests
You are wrong in several points.
First of all, if we switch from burning fossil fuels to electricity for providing most uses of energy, energy consumption falls by 2/3rds. Heat pumps are easily more than 4x as effective per unit of energy used than burning fossil fuels. Similar numbers for electric cars and many other usages. So we are litterally looking at a moving goal post :)

Renewable energy also doesn't come in "bursts". Yes, the maximum available production varies over time, for that we need to compensate. By storage, by grids, by having more flexible loads (for many decades providers worked hard to make loads non-flexible to make their jobs easier, now it is the other way around). And of course, some amount of power2gas will provide us with perfectly renewable gas which can be easily stored for whenever it is needed - we only want to limit that because it uses more power than using the electricity directly.

And no, to get there we are not "destroying quality of life". There is no idication it would even compared to our current quality of life. Quite the contrary, as cheap, clean energy will improve quality of life.
You are also missing, that our quality of life isn't given. It currently is constantly reduced by the effects of climate change we are already experiencing. Europe is going through a catastrophic hot and dry summer. With ironically energy shortages as the water cooling for nuclear power plants is failing.

Just being able to maintain todays quality of life would be quite an accomplishment, which can only be achieved by cutting CO2 emissions very quickly, if at all.
C++ exceptions are considered by many a misfeature and that consensus seems to be growing. There are myriad corner cases with accidental slicing, pretty nasty performance failure modes, and toolchain/flag/platform quirks.

You can do pretty OK Maybe/Either types in modern C++, but there’s not an obvious way to get the ergonomics you want.

At the time this was written the right move was usually to signal failure with a return value and return your successful value with an out-parameter.

Java can do exceptions with VM/JIT support and it’s much more predictable, but doesn’t hit large parts of the domain. Anything north of Java in runtime support is targeting non-overlapping domains to C++ in 2022.

Rust is doing a somewhat exciting experiment with custom syntax for Maybe/Either. It’s a bit soon to say how it will age. I fear it won’t turn out to be general enough, but it beats the hell out of errno.
I guess it's like working at Facebook and Instagram and learning what the product does to young people. The cognitive dissonance must be profound to just keep thinking that 'steady as she goes' will be a fine approach. What's even crazier is that all of the people working in Oil, and Gas, and Coal industries, they have families that will be touched by climate change. Even the wealthy won't escape (See Californian wildfires.)
The Zoom's insistence on using .pkgs when you can perfectly well just drag an .app from a disk image doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

And yet we keep wearing those handcuffs, maybe out of laziness or a habit.
If breeder reactors are going to stave of climate change then they need to exist globally. Take "every neighborhood" to mean Venezuela, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and your favorite African dictatorship.

That is the proliferation concern.
Not because of using a dictionary but it could be used a one part of your profile.

Or it's used as a trigger to engage in further observation of your web activities
If you think climate change leads to more arable land in Russia, well, I think you are wrong. And of course, Russia is missing the least arable land. They could do with some airplanes and more population in general though.
does chrome update work the same way? i've felt uneasy enough that have jumped to firefox some time ago..
I have a similar experience, I started to use Emacs with my first Linux installation way back in the late 90s together with pico (later nano for fast editing). A few years ago i came to know about sublime text and I was astonished how much can be done with it and how quick it was compared to Emacs. Sure it does not contain all the goodies Emacs has but i after getting sublime text i realized how much time i saved and focusing on code. Recently i stop bothering and moved to VSCODE and its pretty damn good.

I miss sometimes Emacs but i prefer to use VSCODE nowadays as its a much modern environment and brings me directly to the point of comfort. I also tried Neovim but i was not convinced to replace VSCODE, i mostly use it on the console for quick and dirty editing.
As an American, I’m fascinated by your precise description of accents. We have plenty of our own, but we don’t categorize them that precisely. For example, I can usually distinguish between West Texas and North Carolina, but I probably couldn’t explain the difference.
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The paper explains that even crashing after fsync fails you can end up with lost or corrupted data because after the next start you might get the wrong data from the page cache which survives the crash as it's not part of the programs memory but in the kernel.

I recommend reading the paper or watching the video, it is very interesting.
Your first sentence is very condescending.

Would be fine if your comment would actually criticize something not mention.

But it states that they include energy storage.

You 'facepalm and laugh ' while probably only skimming the article.
Renewable energy doesnt come in bursts: Wind across big areas (e.g. Europe), biogas, running water, geothermal power, osmotic power, etc.

I don't know where you are taking renewable energy capacity from and what are you trying to say. Same goes for producing wind turbines, which actually doesn't require fossil fuel at all.

> I’m not saying this isn’t a “doable” goal, but only way you might get there by 2050 is destroying quality of life, population reduction and investing all resources into this space.

You couldn't make less baseless comments
Yet Germany still depends heavily on imported Russian gas despite all of theirs green propaganda
Terratag Open Source
Do you use #terraform? Do you want to automatically, recursively, tag all your cloud resources, skipping untaggable resources?

Then you must check out the #terratag open-source
I would be shocked if Hyundai wasn’t outsourcing most of its software development to the lowest bidder.

Any company that believes its core business isn’t software will not pay for software developers.
Absolutely not.

I'm just saying they are less likely to engage in this kind of activity due to societal stigma, so it will appear in lower numbers and later for them.
the establishment just loves to latch onto a narrative and push it till....either they win...or... there's a civil war...
I dunno man, I’m doing medical research and I think it’s pretty serious.
This reads like FUD. If more progress was made on the renewable energy front we would be in much better shape.
> Environmental groups have criticized Poland’s government for its slow response to the contamination, which local fishermen noticed in late July. The German environment ministry said Warsaw did not officially inform Berlin of the disaster until Thursday, weeks after the dead fish first appeared.

The apathy from Poland govt officials on this matter is baffling.
I've never used voice in Matrix, but I was sure that it was implemented using Jitsi on the backend?
> That sounds like an intense schedule for sure but not really that insane

I'm not sure what disqualifies that as insane, but it pretty much precludes any social life. I'm on-and-off doing these kind of hours (sometimes work takes over life, sometimes life takes over work), but when I do these kind of hours even when I'm not working my brain is still thinking about work. I can't imagine doing this for decades at a time, this is truly a life dedicated to work. But I agree that you can't achieve great things without sacrificing your life.
TRON CEO Is Now Blocked on Aave After Receiving a Random Gift from Tornado Cash
In theory, yes. In practice, it's highly unlikely that there will always be someone with the right context to fix the problem in each time zone.

The way my company does this is with a centralized incident management team that follows the sun across 4 timezones, and specific teams will be paged by them depending on what is broken.
That's a hard to proof issue.

There obviously aren't any official statements from each state and whistle blowers are easily silenced if the media is controlled like it is in China for example.

Statements by other nations would have to be taken with a fuckton of salt as that could just be propaganda too.

I don't think it will be possible to be certain about this, ever.
prose.sh really is quite interesting, a ssh-based blogging service. I was looking for something like this after reading more about astro.build, since in a way, prose is even more minimalist in that I don't even need to set up my own site, just my markdown files.