skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No we wouldn’t.

I would argue that they are not the same thing. I find it easy to tell which direction a cyclist will go even when they don’t/can’t signal. I see it in their head movement, the orientation of the bike, etc. Especially when driving behind a cyclist.

When cars don’t signal, I find it harder to guess where they are going.
95+% of computer users who mention not wanting to use or see a command line are so utterly terrified by the command line "bogeyman" that they imagine command lines appearing in places they would actually never be, or be required.
Except keep in mind that Rust adds more constraints than your typical statically typed language.

It is still more fun and efficient to program in a language that is garbage collected and statically typed.
The Tortoise gave the phonograph record to the Crab.

(The Crab had a record player which was claimed to reproduce any sounds.)
They asked about specfic policies:

> For each policy, we asked participants to estimate the percent of Americans who would support it. Our list of policies included support for a carbon tax levied against fossil fuel companies and redistributed to Americans through tax breaks. The list also included a renewable energy standard that mandates 100% electricity generated by renewable energy in the near term—an essential step in decarbonizing our energy production34. And, as decarbonizing our energy infrastructure will require rapidly siting of wind and solar across the US, we also included support for siting renewables on public lands34. Given the need to consider infrastructure, jobs, and social equity in transitioning to renewable energy, we also asked participants to estimate the support for the Green New Deal (GND). Notably, large environmental policy packages like the GND and the American Jobs Plan may play a key role in passing environmental legislation, as research shows that bundling more redistributive, social equity, and job-creating measures into major environmental policies makes them more popular35
Hard disagree. The most walkable, desirable neighborhoods in America are the ones that could not be built under current regulations.
This. SMTP was built upon FTP originally, and it's a protocol designed for ARPAnet, not Internet. SMTP is inherently the wrong protocol for the job. But it keeps working and is the gold standard for email communication and is dead simple to implement, so it keeps being used.
Except 80% is regarded as pretty much EOL, and this is a 2017 model.
I strongly disagree that the problem with email is clients. We simply get too much information sent to us via email. I don't want to have to filter my inbox--I want to receive just as much information that I need.

For example, my company sends me an email everyday telling me about company-sponsored social events. Often, the emails contain information they've already sent at least 5 times. Email is the wrong way to communicate this information. They should have a shared calendar or web page that lists this information. No email client UI can resolve poor information sharing practices.
Electric vehicles are all a way of moving power, and huge spare battery capacity. They are not a problem, they are the solution.

Just throw software at it. I know Musk does not believe that, but essentially it has to work.
>Linux users are probably the worst target market for advertisers.

Yes but not for the reason you are imagining. I can think of a few things in common between everyone I've ever known to use Linux for personal use and general consumerism to improve quality of life is not one of them.
In Berkeley we invented zoning, our zoning code is 15000 pages long, and there is a junked Volvo in every front yard.
That's the maximum, right? I would imagine they have plans from sub-gigabit up to 25G. I know I'd absolutely love the option of 10G for a reasonable price (thousand(s)?). Heck, I'd be overjoyed to get symmetrical 100 Mbps, and I'd gladly pay a few hundred for it.

Meanwhile my Dad has 500/500 AT&T Fiber, and he pays half what I pay for 930/35 Charter Spectrum cable :(
u/blutomcat's point clearly (I think) was that instruction sets didn't do what you suggest, so zero-based index is (was and still is) what you'd do if you wrote in assembly (which was not uncommon!), and on any given platform, assembly was the main language 50-60 years ago. It follows that it's easier to carry that over to higher level programming languages.

Whether that's what actually happened in the cases of HLLs that adopted zero-based arrays or not, I don't know. But today, to me, zero-based array indexing feels very natural, and the idea that zero-based arrays being simpler in assembly carrying over to HLLs seems at the very least plausible.
I understand it as they have faith in their beliefs despite lack of scientific evidence
If [asbestos-free insulation/unleaded gasoline/flame-retardant bedding] is so great, they wouldn't have to force its use or ban what people really want to buy. This is more coastal elites sticking it to everyone else.
> Is there any example of a famous game written using it with source?

Here's a page of links to Inform source for a number of games including Zork. Obviously it's a rewrite of Zork using Inform as Infocom predate Inform by many years.

https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/games/source/inform...
https://archive.ph/y5ivm
After DDG decided they would censor material they considered misinformation from Russia I went out search engine shopping and I'm using brave search. I value transparency and fairness and can make my own mind about things (I remember when being against the Iraq or Lybia wars made you a terrorist sympsthizer).

Do you have any stance there? (I'm not saying you should have one or agree with mine, just curious. Every search engine might have its time and place).
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Yes, they were also physically bulkier, weighed more, and substantially lower battery capacity. The last non-screwdriver replaceable MacBook Pro was 50% heavier, 50% thicker, and had a battery that was less than 50% the capacity. That difference in battery capacity matches almost exactly the user experienced battery life from the last screwdriver-free replaceable battery MacBook and the last intel laptop.
shellclear is a security tool that provides a simple and fast way to secure your shell command history.
Sensitive data can be stored in your history file when exporting a token of something or running a script with a token.
Sometimes those secrets can be visible to others when sharing your terminal / autocomplete command and more.

* Shellclaer can be a shell plugin that shows a summary of sensitive data when opening a new terminal
* Get a list of sensitive data found in the history shells
* Clear the sensitive information
This is only useful for people who know what a search engine is. (Seriously, many people equate "googling" = "search engine", and don't know there is a general category of this thing). Unless there are two big bold buttons on start-up--one that says "Use Google for Search" and the other that says "Use Duck Duck Go for Search"--it would appear broken to them. Even then, almost everyone would pick "Google" just for name brand recognition.
He handwrote them, and occasionally typed them (especially early on, I gave up trying to find the transition point). It was something he was known for. If you read the EWD's over the years you'll see the same (or very similar) handwriting throughout, which would not be the case if he had a secretary writing them for him (who wouldn't have been the same person as he moved between countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#EWD_manuscr...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ - Pick random ones from different decades and you'll see very similar handwriting.

(Didn't read these, picked two at random):

2001 - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1307.PDF

1984 - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd09xx/EWD901.PDF
> Student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy:

Mostly false. I prepped and processed bankruptcies for two years and I only came across one instance where a student load was dischargable under chapter 7. IIRC, under a Chapter 13, they can be consolidated as an unsecured debt. I only did a few Chapter 13s so I'd have to go back and reread that part.
The random crashing at low usage sounds very similar to an issue I had with my previous 5950x. There seems to be a real problem with 59{00,50}x’s where you either need to disable PBO (I think that’s the name) or bump voltages.
After finding out it was a silicon lottery thing I sent my cpu right back to Amazon and the replacement has been perfectly fine from first boot (outside of figuring out the upper memory clock for 4 dimms)
> As in, "we have a PHP monolith used by all of 12 people in the accounting department, and for some reason we've been tasked with making it run on multiple machines ("for redundancy" or something) by next month.

I find this comment highly ignorant. The need to deploy a distributed system is not always tied to performance or scalability or reliability.

Sometimes all it takes is having to reuse a system developed by a third party, or consume an API.

Do you believe you'll always have the luxury of having a single process working on a single machine that does zero communication over a network?

Hell, even a SPA calling your backend is a distributed system. Is this not a terribly common usecase?

Enough about these ignorant comments. They add nothing to the discussion and are completely detach from reality
Ah yes, Janet Jackson's infamous 'hard drive malfunction'.
Only on HN would someone compare software engineering to slavery. Give me a break.
got a link handy to more detail?
I'm from the Netherlands, so very much proud of our bicycle culture which only works because it's a fundamental part of our road design and related facilities, like bicycle parking. It's questionable whether you can retrofit this into a city.

Anyway, even in our little bicycle paradise there's a new danger: electrical bicycles. Currently, about 1 in 3 is electrical, and it seems most new ones sold are electrical. They are most of all popular with people 50+ y/o.

Recently I saw an accident happen from the outside security cam of a friend, the incident explaining the danger very well.

A woman in a car is trying to cross a road that intersects with a bicycle lane, so she checks for oncoming cyclists. One does seem to be oncoming in the distance. She then concludes there's plenty of time to cross, makes the move, and finds the cyclists on the hood of her car.

The way she probably read that situation: pretty far away, old guy, slow leg movement. All adding up to a low speed estimate and a high time estimate. That's how all of us have been subconsciously trained for decades.

Until electrical bicycles. The "cyclist" came on about twice as fast as expected. The obvious solution is to watch longer, to monitor speed over time. Yet to effectively get through traffic and not spend forever parked at a crossing, you do need speedy judgement. Also, these e-bikes can accelerate in ways a normal bicycle can't.

Another common dangerous e-bike situation: One passing you unexpectedly when cycling yourself, on a bicycle lane. Normally, just about 2 bicycles fit next to each other, but only barely. You'd normally anticipate such a passing because you can hear one coming behind. Now they seem to come out of nowhere, passing you by an inch at high speed.
I understand. My point is there is no reason to reduce energy usage. There is reason to reduce "dirty" energy usage. There is an abundant supply of "clean" energy.
I have encountered it as building insulation recently.

In my neighborhood, millions of styrofoam beads blew away from a construction site, then settled like snow on grass fields, in gutters, and in other nooks and crannies. I reported it to the city and they did nothing. Now that styrofoam will be out there forever.

I would not be opposed to a ban.
> Hardly _any_ prairie ecosystems exist in NA

To really understand this, open google maps and zoom in to any random point in the US, where you would expect a prairie. You'll see a farm.
Except the phrase "open door" doesn't mean that. It's a door you can walk through, not see through.

Perhaps Glass Source would be a more accurate phrase for code you can see but not touch.
12 is zero, in 12-hour clocks.
Follow-up to: "(Not) getting a new computer"[1].

[1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/08/22/not-getting-a-new-com... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32553017 (58pts, 2d ago, 90comments)
Comparing a stack of unbundled $5-$20 items to a monolithic bundle isn't very wise.

That $75 bundle is one thing: a service with channels.

Each one of those items is a thing like that: a service with channels. It's almost like those 8 services that add up to $89 are 8 different cable boxes in one (and in theory you could own 8 streaming boxes and install each on a separate one).

Pick one or two and be happy.

You can share passwords with friends and family members easily on some of them to save money.

I don't know about cable everywhere, but cable boxes in Canada are tied to a particular subscriber line. You can't just put one in your suitcase and watch your stuff in another location, like a hotel room.

They have shitty, antedeluvial remote controls with way too many buttons, which are hard to use. The software is garbage.

You can't go back in time to view programs, except ones you've laboriously arranged to be recorded.

The Shaw cable boxes don't even have their own HDMI-level volume control. The volume control on the remote sends IR commands to the friggin' TV to change the TV volume.

With any decent IP streamer, that's not the case; you set the TV volume to 80% or whatever, and then forget about it, using the streamer's own volume control: the quick, responsive Bluetooth-based volume control that doesn't need a line of sight to an IR LED, and doesn't go through 100 steps.

I don't understand why that has any customers at all, or any who are under 75.
So I'm only guessing, but I think it's because the internal display driver was actually working at 60Hz, but the monitor was just advertising the refresh speed incorrectly to any connected device as 59.95Hz. The error would accumulate and after about 20 seconds the monitor had to "stop" and resynchronize the clock.
> If the best we can do is Thunderbird

What about KMail/Kontact? Evolution? Sylpheed Claws? The Client of the Vivaldi(?) Browser? Not to forgotten all the commercial clients. Are they all dead or trash?

> a slow-moving almost abandonware monolith (have a look at its extension store. It's a ghost town)

To be fair, Thunderbird has a complicated history. The unloved child of Mozilla, survived far too long on it's own, until it got love again, at the time when the parent moved away from XUL, giving the future of Thunderbird-extensions a timelimit. That it's still surviving on high levels is more of a miracle.
Not sure how you've setup Kodi however I switched from Kodi to Jellyfin about a year ago.

I purchased a low powered computer with a Celeron N5100 (sorry I might have the model wrong) but I was looking for something that could support and transcode modern video formats in hardware, and connected my external drives too. From there I was able to install Jellyfin, then the Jellyfin clients on all my devices (TV, Phone, iPad etc).

It seems to work really well, espeicaly when exposing the server to the internet using nginx, a SSL certificate, DNS and a dynamic DNS provided by my Asus router. Unsure of the security of this or how to harden it -> VPN might be better for more security conscious people.

You mention you like the unique channels and the Newpipe feature, I don't think any of this is available in Jellyfin, it doesn't seem to be very customisable at all with the exception of a limited list of plugins.
Well, given that year numbering system's start in Europe, zero wasn't as broadly accepted as other digits at the time.

By AD 150, Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#History

To keep it confusing: the traditional proleptic Gregorian calendar (like the Julian calendar) does not have a year 0 and instead uses the ordinal numbers 1, 2, ... both for years AD and BC. Thus the traditional time line is 2 BC, 1 BC, AD 1, and AD 2. ISO 8601 uses astronomical year numbering which includes a year 0 and negative numbers before it. Thus the ISO 8601 time line is −0001, 0000, 0001, and 0002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Dual_dating
You aren't supposed to. Even if you assume they lie in every sentence about their data collection, with their current setup it would be much harder for them to build a valuable shadow profile about you.

They haven't been caught running fingerprinting scripts yet and they dont have an account system to tie to your searches. At best they could use your ip to build a shadow profile and thats wildly inaccurate in our mostly ipv4 world.
In other words poor assessments demand even poorer methods of enforcing integrity. Also, a graduate program should definitely be the point in a person's education where they aren't really competing with other students based on points on a quiz.
Time to interview is when you’re happy with your job
> And the irony here is that you're complaining about taxing the poor while living in an affluent suburb.

I'm not sure how this is ironic. Maybe you mean how poor voters tend to vote against their own self-interest?

> The lifestyle you chose is car-centric but you chose it, and I think that's a very important detail.

We're moving to GV next month specifically to move away from this lifestyle and we only have one car that we share. Economic freedom dictates what decisions you make at different points in time.

FWIW you can criticize something that you yourself are doing, especially when you are fighting against all societal incentives at the same time. A trivial example is an overweight physician suggesting that you need to lose weight.

If we're still talking Columbus, almost all incentives for housing are geared only toward a car-centric lifestyle. I'm not going to criticize people for choosing that. I am going to raise awareness that continuing to push those incentives is a bad idea and highlight the continued unnecessary costs for doing so.
Ask HN: Does the Ethereum foundation really not develop a post-Merge client?
TL;DR: To use the new Proof of Stake network, you'll need 2 pieces of software in parallel. It seems only one of those is developed by the Ethereum foundation - implementations of the other one are only developed by various seemingly commercial entities - despite the foundation holding $ 1 billion in assets (see comments).

Now that the PoS-merge is close, I tried to find out how to actually use it.

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/ says:

> After The Merge, both execution and consensus clients must be run together in order for a user to gain access to the Ethereum network.

Here are the lists of implementations of those two clients:

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/#execution-clients

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/#consensus-clients

So they do develop an execution client, commonly known as "geth".
It's on their own GitHub: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

But the 5 consensus clients not only have websites which aren't ethereum.org - they are in fact also hosted on different GitHub accounts:

https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse

https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar

https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1 (yes, this is also for eth2, see "About" at top right)

https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm

https://github.com/Consensys/teku

Further, all of these 5 institutions seem to be companies from the looks of their website, not non-profit foundations. (Please correct me and pardon me if that is not true, I don't have the time to navigate through all these websites to figure out their precise legal status.)

So is it true that there is no official reference implementation to run the post-Merge, Proof of Stake Ethereum?

Only 3rd party software which is somehow endorsed but which you have to choose on your own still?

Sure, more choice can be nice, but it would seem advantageous to have at least one trustworthy reference client instead of the users having to decide which of 5 commercial entities they trust?
> What’s an IF game? Very difficult to search that; Google prioritizes matches containing the English word ‘if’.

Replace "IF" with "text adventure" and you'll get better results. Their heyday was pre-Windows and the classic names to look for are Infocom (US), Scott Adams (US), and Level 9 (UK).

Edit: To add, just download Inform and try it, alongside https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_1_1.html which takes you step by step through stuff.
> I had a first-gen AMD Athlon and ran Win2k, where support for Thunderbird CPUs/mobos was not complete

Nit: Thunderbird was the third iteration of Athlon and I only remember this because I had an Athlon 700, which came on a Slot A cartridge (!) and had the L2 cache as separate chips

That same system also had one of the first GeForce cards. The term "GPU" was not unknown before GeForce, but it was the first time the mainstream computing media started using it regularly.

That was the first computer I built with my own cash and boy it was not cheap. (21" CRT monitor and dual 10k RPM SCSI drives...)
> Even with a pure renewables grid where you have huge excess of energy at certain times of day and year you will have bottlenecks due to inflexible demands when supply is at the lowest

Not with good energy storage solutions.
I used to be ambivalent about the existence of zoning itself, but I recently found an old city of Berkeley report from 1972 that explains the motivation of the changes around that time. Their purpose was to save the white nuclear family from the rising black population. They just wrote that down in black and white letters! Now I think local zoning should be unconstitutional, and the people who wrote that stuff should be identified and punished.
I always took those posts to be a form of (dark pattern) undisclosed advertisement masquerading as content offered as a perk to YC companies. The last thing those advertisers (and YC) want is comments that are similar to what you might read on glassdoor, criticizing the company, management or work culture.

And, it's also possible that they are used as plain-old "brand recognition advertisements", and no one really gets hired. Unless of course Smarking is hiring dozens of "head of engineering" positions (or turnover is that ridiculously high) [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27294446

Edited to add: I see it as a dark pattern because it is not explicitly stated as an "Ad" or "Sponsored", and relies on us navigating somewhere else to determine if this is some kind of special post, or for us to have the experience to recognize it as something different than an organic post.

I.E. If today were your first visit to this site, would you recognize them specifically as promoted / sponsored content?
Not entirely, I would argue, if you look at it from the application développer.

You have to adapt parts of your app to handle the fact that two machines might be handling the service (either at the same time, or in succession.)

This has impact on how you use memory, how you persist stuff, etc...

None of which is rocket science, probably - but even things that look "obvious" to lots of people get their O'Reilly books, so...

But you're right that a part of the "distribution" of a system is in the hands of ops more than devs.
/remindme in 10 years

In all seriousness, YES! File sizes are not getting smaller. If the bottleneck of data transference were my hardware, then we would live in a data utopia.

Imagine the size of files for the last 20 years and you could probably do a relatively close comparison for the next 20. I would say they have future-proofed their system for a long while.

I would also say that with the addition of IoT, there is going to be a LOT more casual traffic across the wire in people's homes/businesses.