skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Care for correctness was much more of a thing, when coding was a rare art and not a copy/paste from stack overflow to finish this week's sprint on time.

There was also a lot less code in general so I would expect every line to be considered in much more detail. Also, 'laziness' tends to be a character flaw that manifests itself everywhere in a person's work, not just in one place. And Richie/Kernighan don't exactly have a bad reputation.

I wonder if the '-a' parameter of ls appeared at the same time. If so it definitely wasn't an oversight.
Perhaps if 80% of edible crops weren’t feed to livestock and subsidies were removed from animal agriculture then those will be no-issues. I find appealing that anyone on HN being a progressive and open-minded public with an objective opinion would be promoting an environmentally destructive industry like the animal AG.
Several interesting algorithms, but why a picture of a table instead of a table?
Heh, anything but allowing them to help themselves.

But Canada is way ahead here compared to most countries. Simply on account of cannabis laws. It ain't much though, still better than half of Europe (likely not the half you're thinking of lol).

If you have mental problems and are desperate (and/or have nothing to lose), do yourself a favour and look into illegal drugs.
A function call in JS is usually just a few machine instructions. It's an example of a case where a conventional C++ compiler can do less optimisation than a JIT JS compiler.
You can call js functions in qml, but that does not mean qml is a js framework. Normally you call your c++ functions from qml.
If the police invite you for a voluntary interview then you're absolutely free to refuse.

The police also have wide discretionary powers to arrest without warrant. One of those grounds is to allow "prompt and effective" investigation of a suspected offence. And PACE Code of Practice G expressly suggests "won't come to be interviewed unless arrested" is one case when this might apply.

So, in practice, if you refuse the 'voluntary' interview then you may well face a compulsory one, plus a bonus arrest record.
time is a flat circle, were back to forums. tbh they never left, forums rule
From Wikipedia (which seems to be concise and accurate): "executive authority remains vested in the Crown and is only entrusted by the sovereign to the government on behalf of the people."
So it appears that it takes 2.5 years to accept the ineivitable conclusion to a really hard and/or painful problem.
Don’t forget to watch TC with captions on, because some of the jokes are only available there. It’s like the alt-text for XKCD.
There's a chart of various timings here [1] and objc_msgSend is actually pretty efficient (it's received a lot of optimization over the years for obvious reasons).

A cached IMP is faster than a C++ virtual method call (both of which are slower than a non-virtual method call, inline code, or a C function call of course).

[1] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-co...
Russians tolerated 10 years of basket case economics in the 90s. Prior to that, they [patiently] suffered under USSR's police state. I wouldn't bet the farm on who can tolerate more pain and misery. They will win that one.

Likely Russian calculus: Fissures in NATO/EU, creation of new fronts (Taiwan, Middle East), and continued madness of US's political and social space are all ticking bombs. It the West that needs to wrap this up quickly, not Russia.

(dated) Likely Western calculus: The European war is intolerable to Chinese (because of BRI plans) and China will lean on Russia to end the war so business can resume. The recent brouhaha over Taiwan however likely has altered the equation.
>"look at how much energy is being wasted" argument to be anti-crypto

Bitcoin will be still wasting a crap load of energy, proportional to its value and has no plans to stop doing that.
Effectively, the USA does not either. Parties are free to choose who to run any way they want if I recall correctly, and then when it comes down to voting, you are really only directing the electoral college who to pick. It's sorta halfway.
Well, up to 8lbs could be water weight. If you have excess calories, your body will retain water. If you disrupt that excess you'll rapidly lose 8 to 10 lbs. Weight loss often has great results in week one, then levels off, so a portion of this could be attributed to eating less and increased stress during a tournament.
You've written a lot there, so on the first line of your comment, please write one sentence that summarizes what you want to say.

Because without that context, it's very hard to process the rest of it, and I guess many people won't bother.
Some things just bug me
No. Most people do end user computing (where the Electron-based apps run) on laptops, which, for battery size/weight/runtime purposes, are already power constrained.

The efforts are going into making browser engines and processors more efficient.

> Native is much more energy efficient by definition.

"much more" is not true. It may be much more efficient in some cases, but with modern runtimes for interpreted code for many operations it is very close to native performance.
That link is awesome. Thanks.
even though all the metadata is weird and overengineered, i would probably still use hdf5 as it provides for interop with other numerical computing environments (matlab, julia).

also hdf5 is at least securable. pickle streams are not designed for that. it's good to be able to send your data to others.

fwiw. matlab .mat files are hdf5 at their core.

i should also note that json is pretty bad for numerical data. the specification says nothing about how much precision to retain and printf/scanf is ridiculously slow for storing floats.
Of course we cannot be 100 % sure it will work for humans, but the results on mice are promising and they are replicated by different labs which is very rare for anti-aging compounds. Rapamycin consistently shows effect. The effect on humans probably won't be anywhere near the 25% increase that is shown on mice, we will maybe get some extra years + better health span but the cumulative effect on society will probably be more than any current intervention. If we look at how ageing appears on different mammals, it is actually remarkably similar in terms of the decline, the speed is just different so I would say it is indeed quite promising if the mice results are replicated majority of times.

There was study on a drug what is now called Everolimus (mTOR inhibitor) and it showed that it increases the influenza vaccine effectiveness on elderly people
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25540326/

The dog aging study is ongoing and they are conducting double-blind placebo controlled trial for rapamycin on dogs.
https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/tech-entrepreneurs-pledge-25-mi...

Some smaller scale study on rapamycin for dogs:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5411365/

I just don't think there is any compound currently that is more promising than rapamycin, so that's why I mentioned it here.

The most promising future treatment seems to do with cellular reprogramming as it increasingly looks like epigenetic alterations are responsible for a large part of aging, the epigenetic drift theory of aging.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-019-0204-5

Good video about epigenetic drift theory by Vera Gorbunova from University of Rochester.
https://youtu.be/FhfXP_MX0U4?t=639

The current way of doing medicine for the elderly will never work simply because of ageing, it is like trying to bail water from a sinking ship without fixing the hole. Will work for a short while until it doesn't. I am also very skeptical of getting a working treatment for diseases like Alzheimer's disease without intervening in ageing.

Already when I was a teenager I realized that treating ageing is the holy grail of medicine and it seems recently this field is gaining more attention, but realistically it will be decades in minimum until we get some more radical treatments, might be even longer. At least the billionaires have realized that there is not much point being a billionaire if your body is breaking apart.

All we have now is lifestyle choices, possibly some medicine like rapamycin, and just hoping we don't get unlucky. Worrying trend is also people taking HGH for anti-aging but in the lab it seems to have complete opposite effect, it actually seems more like ageing accelerator.
I agree that large, dense urban centers are not good economically, especially when they depend on one industry. That said, dense urban centers can have communities, and I don't think it's fair to automatically exclude anyone who has chosen to not put down roots there. I've mostly read your comments as negative and gate keeping.
Yes I can. That's sorta what we do in this one meditation technique called vipassana. I've been doing it for a few years.

When you get out of the habit of doing stuff with your attention all the time (thinking etc) then your attention moves in a new way. It sorta grows. It's pretty great.
No more egregious than "agreements" stuck into email signatures or hundred-page EULAs.
> People want their bubbles. We’re all here on HN for that exact purpose.

100% disagree. I'm here to find ideas I disagree with and tell people how they're wrong. I'm not looking for an agreeable experience here. I'm also here to learn about new tech.
> 2. Treat any borrowing in the US the same as repatriating foreign profits if there are any. Effectively you want to stop companies keeping profits offshore (to avoid tax) yet fund US operations with debt;

I think you need to update your screed for the Trump era tax changes. There's no longer a tax on repatriated earnings (they're exempted from corporate income), and the previous funds held offshore were taxed as a one-time charge (optionally payable over 8 years). There's no longer a US tax reason to keep your offshore profits offshore.

> 3. Have inheritance trigger a taxable event. This includes, by extension, allowing heirs to inherit stocks and property on a stepped up basis for CGT purposes;

Inheritance isn't a taxable event, but death is. The step-up in basis corresponds to being subject to the estate tax. When the estate tax expired, estates weren't subject to tax, but there was no step-up in basis; it was made retroactively optional to subject the estate to the estate tax and get a step-up in basis. Certainly, the federal estate tax has a pretty large deduction, but just because the effective tax rate for a lot of estates is zero, doesn't make it not a taxable event. Of course, raising the estate tax comes with a lot of bad PR about people's family farms and what not; any honest attempt to increase estate taxes needs to address that, perhaps with an installment plan/lien for illiquid property -- if you can pay the taxes on the proverbial family farm over 10-30 years or when the property is sold, that might be more palletable

> 4. Tax stocks on market value every year just like we do with property.

The US government doesn't run a property tax. Maybe you want mark to market income taxation on stocks? That's possible, but you'd need to make capital losses refundable or at least add carry-back, or people who were invested into a crash are going to be pretty grumpy. Paying taxes on unrealized gains as of Dec 31 in April when the market is in the toliet isn't palatable either.
> The vast majority of people would consider any kind of coding work a "tech" job.

I'm not so sure. Even on Wall Street (which is pretty mainstream), "Tech" means FAANGs and similar, not a yogurt factory releasing its iOS calorie counting app.
It was a really old beater, and the problems, I think, stemmed from there - think of electrical problems, because of old USB ports and such. Otherwise it was chugging along like a champ. What I like in my current setup more, is that I could upgrade it as my needs increased - in the desktop, I could fit 5 HDDs and 20G RAM, impossible with my old laptop.
> "file systems need to have a flexible metadata mechanism instead of ad-hoc hacks"

xattr's require a system call for each path you want to look up, and then another system call for each value you actually want to retrieve. Plus all the error handling that goes along with those calls. Oh, and they're all strings, so even more work if you want to have an integer attribute. Also, which quota should the space used by the attributes accrue to? Should we split that into "user" and "system" attributes? Whoops, looks like we need an "ad-hoc" namespace here too... this time with actual security implications!

The mechanism exists, but it's more cumbersome than it's worth. That's certainly the way I've felt about it every time I have to muck around with a system that "mistakenly" decided to use them instead of just a database.

In that light, the dot is not a historical mistake. It's an obvious optimization of a particularly popular use case.
A lot of double fine games are on Linux. Hopefully Linux support continues for games funded post MS purchase.

https://www.doublefine.com/news/mac-and-linux-baby
What about fiber? As far as I know you can only get fiber from plants, and we need some fiber in our diets to maintain a healthy gut.
evidently you used the phrase without familiarity with its origin?

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

>A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, and that he lost them in the park. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, "this is where the light is".

Hence, the drunk and the policeman are never going to find the keys under the streetlamp because they were lost in the park.
Factorio.

I play it with my kids (10 and 16) and my father (70) and brother. Everybody finds something to do and everybody has a lot of fun.
"Significant that one of two DOJ officials who signed today's motion to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant material is Jay Bratt, chief of DOJ's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section." https://twitter.com/BySteveReilly/status/1557814138923061250
Honestly, the typewriter interface is pretty useful. A program can make text appear on the screen by just writing ASCII (or these days, UTF-8) bytes. The only sad part is the design of escape sequences, but that's more a consequence of chaotic evolution rather than the fact that it's emulating a typewriter (and most of the evolution happened with the early software terminal emulators).

Honest question: How would you design a simple text outputting protocol? Would it be radically different to how it's done today, or would it be the same basic ideas but cleaned up a bit?
USDD has a market cap of $745 million. By comparison, USDC is at $54 billion, USDT is $67 billion, and both are only supporting PoS.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/usdt-issuer-tether-also-confi...
I mostly only use one 27", which is not curved. I am fine with only using one as I don't like to constantly turn my head. As for the size, I have never used a larger screen, so I cannot tell if I would like that better or not.
I don't even use virtual desktops that often, I am just constantly switching opened windows with alt+tab and very fast with that.
This one might be the most appropriate since it's a joke about jokes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMT7MAnJna8
In those terminal cases, that makes sense.

This woman was in her fifties, and took her life with governmental involvement because her housing wouldn't restrict the use of strong cleaners and prevent her neighbors from smoking cigarettes. This is a massively different thing, and some of the professionals involved in the assisted suicide took great issue with the circumstances here.

There is certainly a discussion that ought to be had around the circumstances of this (tragic) case.
I heard the authors of the study tried to contact the cohort that succeeded, but not a single person bothered responding!
Ralph Nader Demands Recall of Tesla Self-Driving Tech
>>What a piece of work. She was using threatening of death as a blackmail. I don't feel bad that someone who blackmailed others in this way had their card called.

>Wait, are you saying your glad someone with a mental illness who wasn't getting the help they needed (to the point they felt that they needed to end their life) is somehow a good and just thing..... it wasn't like she threatened a spouse or individual, the government of an industrialized western nation wasn't providing proper care.....

No but saying "do what I say or else I lay the emotional burden of my death upon you" is absolutely despicable and should not be encouraged.
So… Prey tell?

Bad puns aside, there’s many theories in the scientific literature (from cognitive psychology, linguistics and AI) that describe the mechanisms of puns (and many other types of jokes, really), and they mostly talk about deviations from a script/subverting expectations and norms (Hanks’ theory of norms)/accessing a non-default interpretation that is different from the default one (Giora’s optimal innovation hypothesis).

For the interested reader, i suggest starting with Raskin https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110198492...
It's not my intention to second guess Ken, but at least in terms of performance I'd say that the current user home directory structure would bet a hit in the buffer cache since Unix got filesystem buffer caches.

In terms of wasted CPU cycles, it's another story but hey these are the days of using npm packages to basically do a string comparison.
It's not a history lesson. It's just baseless conjecture.
IMHO Social Media is a toxic mutation of the capabilities offered by the Internet and is the opposite of federated, open communication. I don't consider blogs, forums, or IRC to be "Social Media". When you add the idea of followers and audience and attention seeking (both from participants and the platform) that's when you get "Social Media".

We live in the Infinite September. Scale is not conducive to valuable or fulfilling communication. Decentralization, variety, and focus are. When I want to read about motorcycles I have a forum for that. When I want to plan a vacation with the family we use email. When I have a question about a software project I get on their IRC channel. At no point is my racist uncle (or yours!) involved. This is the potential of the Internet and it is not social media.

When I want to be depressed by all the things that other people have better than me I go to Social Media. I can't think of a single fulfilling experience I ever had on Facebook or any other social media platform. It's just not possible when you put everyone in a room. It's like studying philosophy on a bus.

Social Media is by (my) definition the valueless corruption of the Internet. In that sense I am glad it is dead, I hope it stays that way. Facebook and Tik Tok are the inevitable end-state of "Social Media". There's no "good" social media and there never was. Anyone who builds a platform for "everyone" is doomed to die the death of social media.
In my country we give them to people with lesser means on the streets.
When the winter season gets close some people will start collecting clothes to bring them to people living in the mountains
You're trusting that stated expectations are the same as actual revealed expectations, which is something I doubt in this area. If I'm right, men doing more of what women say they want will not lead to more relationship success for those men.

I agree that it's hard to judge the reasonableness of other people's decisions, but I think that if they either fail to find what they are looking for (i.e. I expect a luxury car for the price of an econo-box, and am persistently disappointed), or expect more than they offer (i.e. I expect a partner who is equal or superior to me in all respects), the expectation may be unreasonable.
There is also an energy consumption tax in Germany:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromsteuergesetz_(Deutschland...

I don't know if Finland has something equivalent or not.
I think openstep, objective-c and cocoa owes a great deal to smalltalk. I'm not sure if objective-c ever was any better (or practical) than smalltalk/strongtalk/self (or Java) - but it's at least possible to dream of the macos going for smalltalk, not obj-c.
Sounds great, but no one is willing to pay for it. And as long as it has to be ad funded, there will always be pressure to track, monetize, and increase engagement.
It looks like they’re already learning this the hard way:

> Venice authorities this year announced a plan to attract remote workers to the city, but it appears to have made little impact.
Yeah I can look these up no problem but links to articles would have been rad.
I tried “machining a Siamese cat on the lathe” but with disappointing results.
> the disorder is a psychiatric one

That doesn't make the symptoms any less real for a person suffering from the condition.
That's the analogy of the person I responded to. I just extended it, but I think you're subverting it. Those customers who built their infra on GitLab while it was free aren't in the cab on their way, they've been to the joint over and over again. And again, they had at least a full quarter to find another free service to build their infrastructure on.

I'm going to put this on its own line just to highlight it:

[...] find another free service to build their infrastructure on.

W-w-who actually thinks that's a good idea to begin with?
If you're into some light edutainment-style videos, I enjoyed watching RetroBytes recently: https://youtu.be/4o4MXV-d-jQ
the problem with this approaches like these that it requires blocking the runtime: https://github.com/jaboatman/tokio-scoped/blob/master/src/li....
> Communities are created over years or decades by people who stick around to plant roots and build homes, lives, and businesses

This is nonsense, community is simply about about shared experience and can absolutely happen with strangers or short term acquaintances. In fact I'd say that's the primary way I've experienced community from college onwards (now 30 y/o) and I expect many young people would feel the same.

More to the point, digital nomads often stay in a place for months on end. That's more than enough time to run into people in similar circumstances at a bar/cafe a few times and befriend them, creating shared in-jokes and opinions of your situation, passing them on to other people you meet such that they take on a life of their own—aka, culture. You need look no farther than major digital nomad hubs like Chiang Mai and Bali to see that there are extremely vibrant communities in these places, which is why so many nomads find their ways there.
Bubbles don't need to be harmful. HN is a bubble. There are ideas that are not allowed here. There are other ideas that are explicitly promoted. This is the value proposition of HN. You are free to go elsewhere to get other perspectives or interactions. This is as it should be.
It is, however, missing the 1-click Kubernetes feature of Docker Desktio.
Exactly! I find if funny that Microsoft is complaining about Sony buying "blocking rights" when Microsoft is doing effectively the same thing. It just costs them more money.
No Kubernetes cluster, which is kind of the whole point of RD.
Born in 1928, an undergrad in 1951, if she was working as a teenager as a "computer" in WWII, that was menial calculation.
Or maybe an upcoming election?
Are you asking for the Hamiltonian of the Snake world? I don't think it exists. The transformation is non-linear :P
A lot of times a cross platform non-native GUI is the right tool. Same UX on every platform. What's not to like? Allows faster iteration for small teams, you can use TS and doesn't even have to think about Swift/ObjC/Java/Kotlin/C++, and you can use whatever you like for the backend.
Filaments in the Firmament Fend Off Fiery Fury
Did you try scrolling down to the links?
Where do you get vitamin c?