skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many successful governments subsidize food production and delivery in many, many ways. Your talking points are tired and debated to death; mostly by people who don't actually have much interest in learning anything and would rather invent straw-men to pwn.

If you really want to challenge your view, I'm sure you can read a book that lays it out better than I could in a quick YC comment.

For example, here's Chomsky's take:

"Privatization does not mean you take a public institution and give it to some nice person. It means you take a public institution and give it to an unaccountable tyranny. Public institutions have many side benefits. For one thing they may purposely run at a loss. They're not out for profit. They may purposely run at a loss because of the side benefits. So, for example if a public steel industry runs at a loss it's providing cheap steel to other industries. Maybe that's a good thing. Public institutions can have a counter cyclic property. So that means that they can maintain employment in periods of recession, which increases demand, which helps you to get out of recession. Private companies can't do that in a recession. Throw out the work force because that's the way you make money."
Right? I think, in 25+ years of computing, I have never once wanted to paste rich text. Ever. I just want to paste the text! Yet every time, I have to either fumble for the "paste and match style" key combo, or fix things afterwards.
Ask HN: Should I checkmate my employer?
Dear NH

I've been working at a company for 8~ years.

In those 8 years i've taken them from a small "home server" to a full 42U rack (AD, procurement + all services ) & 20K+ LOC (20+ git repos).

I'm currently earning £60K a year ($70K) and I'm beginning to feel "aggrieved", everyone tells me I should. They're a "SMB" but they wont/cant justify a raise.

The problem/s? They wont give me more engineers & nobody wants to hire me based on my current CV.

My CV has got 0 response. This is drafted fresh, with my entire circles feedback (though I out earn my entire circle).

I know they would counter, beyond what they want to, if I got another offer.

What do you do here? I'm applying for jobs in the £60-£100K range but get no response - is my CV BAD? Is my XP Bad (PHP, but everything I apply for is PHP)? What am I doing wrong?

I half want to runaway to "tourist destination" and serve drinks - I will fail if they dont expand my department soon.

Roast me HN.
During the time of energy crisis why would the integrated energy market be the highest priority? Is it more important to trade, or to keep economy running utilizing whatever local advantages available?
Here’s an article about a different approach, where the house is built completely off site and just unfolded and set up in a day:

https://singularityhub.com/2021/07/29/these-foldable-houses-...
It's like, what is the point of chess, or any game?

After the life-and-death struggle, we just put the game pieces back in the box, neither having gained nor lost anything in the end - except some joy, sorrow, love and friendship in between.
> But retention works in summer too… so I had to get air conditioner

It's the opposite. Insulation protects you from heat as well. That's why refrigerators are very much insulated.
IMO this is exactly what we should be doing. It would be a great "excuse" to re-open friendly relations with Iran, even if the Americans wouldn't like it.
> i do regret the fact that i wasted so much of my life on games like World of Warcraft

You might be able to parlay that into a career in game design / programming? I also spent unreasonable amounts of time in WoW (and still sometimes do) but it taught me a lot about effective game design.

I've incorporated so much of what I learned from that game into games of my own: level scaling with the sqrt of XP, social features like clans (structured like guilds), chat, friend lists, achievements, in-game economy management, the importance of mechanics that feel good right away but have a (somewhat) high skill cap, and the list goes on.
That’s not entirely true. The prices of the underlying different electricity sources is different but they can’t be traded separately. As a result the market is very dysfunctional.
Used this in union meetings and Mason meetings. Definitely worth picking up!

A simplified version, Rusty's Rules of Order[0] is used by the IWW. It's worth checking out if you're unfamiliar to Roberts' Rules or need a quick refresher.

[0] https://libcom.org/article/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rule...
What Our Fantasies About the European “Middle Ages” Say About Us
Perhaps your interlocutor was confused with Roget.
Swastika Mountain in Oregon to get new name
How is it possible to model "significantly more intellectually capable" agents? No such thing exists. We have no idea what it would even look like.
Looking ugly is not a trivial concern. It is one of many pollution sources that devalue quality of life. Whether its particulate emissions, light/noise pollution or just windmills that destroy the scenery of a seascape, its still pollution that has a lasting effect.
4% of British gas was imported from Russia.
> "I go to Church" works because Church is a proper noun when used in that sentence (and it's only used as a proper noun by devout Christians).

You're definitely wrong here, because "I go to school" and "I go to work" are equally grammatical statements, and there is no way to construe those as involving proper nouns. You can also see this construction with words like bed or the various mealtimes.

The commonality I can derive from these various examples is something along the lines of "state of being," although I find that a poor descriptor. This kind of formation is limited to relatively few locations (you can't say "I go to mall" for example), but for everything I can think up, you can also use the word sans determiner in other circumstances ("College has gotten expensive as of late," for example).
It's not too late to start now, you are wasting time right now thinking about this
Like the parent, my impression from discussing this very book with many people who work in the academic social sciences, is that Guns, Germs and Steel is largely discredited today. This might actually be an example of a situation where the wikipedia article is simply out of date, incomplete, and/or biased.

I would instead recommend reading the heavily moderated r/askhistorians sub-reddit for a description of that is more in line with mainstream academic thinking. For example https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6meq1k/a_det...
this game is also named after his book (the electric state)
Reducing the usage of gas is exactly as effective as magically creating that same amount of gas, but cheaper and more scalable, and puts the money spent in the pocket of someone not selling fossil fuels.

All the thing suggested by this blog do that (insulation, more renewables, efficiency).

They also mention some government things which don't help, but that's not what they are recommending.
There is nothing I can see in that NYT article that mentions those folder names and consequently that they were added in September 2020
Already exists. The main limitation is the number of cables and GW capacity.Also ramping up cable production has a bit of latency and installing them even more. And it's capital intensive and only makes sense when electricity prices are high. They are right now but that's not a permanent situation.
And those bulky devices didn't work well without LOS to the sky.
Exactly. Detecting CO2 is cool, but it's very stable and found in lots of places. Finding more reactive gases would be more exciting, because that might imply they're being replenished from somewhere, presumably either geological processes or life. And some gasses like oxygen don't really get produced by geological processes.
Have these additional globalstar sats actually launched yet ?

If so, maybe it’ll work at launch of the iPhone 14 and even though they didn’t beat SpaceX/T-mobile to the announcement, they’ll implement first; I don’t see Starship / Starlink 2 flying anytime in the next 10 days…
Do we? Please enlighten …
Copy C++. The underlying string buffer must be null terminated, but still carry its length.
The trouble with criticizing your past self is that you're comparing a real timeline, with its warts and disappointments, to a fictional timeline that has neither.
OP,

I have been programming since I was a kid. I was fortunate to grow up in a time before social media took over and internet was still for weird people. Viewed externally I wasted a lot of time on the internet. I played a LOT of video games, which was my primary impetus for learning to program. I wanted to build trainers and tools someday because I looked up to the crews who were so popular when I was young.

I got into to school and it took me 6 full years to graduate. I programmed and gamed (and when I wasn't doing this I was working) so much I did terrible academically in high school. I started from the bottom. I ended up graduating at 25 with a degree in computer science years behind everyone else. For a long time I regretted this because everyone I worked for was far younger than me (18-22). I then wasted several years in graduate school, which I didn't finish because it wasn't my thing, and then wasted several more years drinking at bars for no reason other than boredom. I regretted everything for a long time wondering who I'd be if I was a social person, better in high school, did more things, was more popular, etc. I still have these regrets. They never go away, you just learn to deal with them because you don't get any redos.

You will make it. You're having a quarter-life crisis. Carmack is an incredible programmer but it helps to remember he was just in the right place at the right time and success builds success. How many failures did he have? Tons. It also helps he was a programmer in a time when there wasn't millions of them. These days it's far harder to get recognized. Perhaps comparing yourself to him is not worth the trouble.

What you should focus on now is simply deciding something to do and going with it. You're young with plenty of screw-up room in front of you. Keep focused on your education and don't force anything else. Meet people outside of programming that are more difficult to make a direct comparison to. Go be a young person - after all youth is wasted on the young. As it turns out the more I talk to people outside of my field, the more I realize they look at me and have the same regrets about themselves. It's okay to have regrets. Don't let them keep you tied to the bed wallowing in your own self pity.

Oh...if you're going to dump anything in order to change your life it should be social media. All social media in any quantity is the most lethal poison you will ever take. It creates the exact kind of comparison you are doing now to other people but scaled infinitely.
Where do you see IMCP?
Tmobile would still need masts to redirect the signal, correct? But Apple is rumored to receive the satellite signal directly?
Other countries have to send their citizens abroad to find work isnt the most compelling argument.
I really don't understand the appeal of The Worldly Philosophers. Maybe it's just me but I found the explanations of the ideas of each philosopher to be rather muddled.
It's not impossible for something to arise out of nothing. Well, what I really should say is, it's not impossible for two somethings to arise out of nothing, as long as they have opposite charge and annihilate when they come into contact.

I like to imagine there's an anti-universe moving backwards in time from the start of the universe, and that's where all the unexplained missing baryonic antimatter ended up.
What your funny name for France, where we pay as much (if not more) than Germany for our electricity since the start of the year? More than half the country's nuclear power capacity has been shut down, mostly due to safety concerns https://nuclear-monitor.fr/#/mix.
Early pixel blob analysis (I don't know a better way to put this, check Figure 5 in the paper) from the James Webb:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09428.pdf

Suggests that the universe may be older than the Big Bang theory predicts. There are a lot of qualifiers on both sides of this, so I would suggest sitting back with some popcorn and enjoying the spectacle of a lot of primate descended life forms earnestly debating something that in many cases they couldn't even be bothered to read up on.
Maybe regret (about the past) and worry (about the future) are similar because they serve to deflect one’s attention from the here and now.

Trust that your past self chose as best they could then, and have compassion for that past self. Those experiences gave you skills and perspective you can use now.

I have found that big changes can be good, but never underestimate the power of marginal changes too. Walk instead of drive, go out a different exit, ask someone to lunch, try the random thing on menu, stay up later or get up earlier, try the book on the Librarian’s Choice table.
No, they are largely imprisoned for literally nothing, or because of irrelevant formalities: https://twitter.com/equalityalec/status/1562849803297366017. Or https://twitter.com/equalityalec/status/1556292658615750656. Or sometimes just executed: https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1562837493648871430.

It does show a bias that at this point should be obvious even to you: you are conditioned to believe US prison victims - I’m guessing including those forced into slavery - deserve it, and to believe those imprisoned for all kinds of felonies in China don’t.
A much easier plan delivering similar outcome would involve blowing up Nord Stream 1 & 2 right now.
In the context of debates, the person who needed to resort to saying "Wikipedia is an unreliable resource" misses the point that Wikipedia is still orders of magnitude more reliable than the claims of some random debate person.
Not heard Swiggy and Zomato but I guess the moral of the story is don't trust them and don't give them your business.
Just like your don't trust Amazon or Alibabab or any of these other shop aggregators that do not really care what goes on under their name.

Find a good restaurant and call direct. Perhaps make some friends that do deliveries, so you can trust them too.

The free market only really works when their is sufficient competition, rational consumers should avoid big players, if at all possible, because it is never in your interest.
If you are forced to purchase from them take it up with the government that is meant to be keeping the market free.
Most if not all string algorithms will eventually do this anyway:

size_t length = strlen("some string");

It's so common. Might as well memoize it so it's always available with no need to constantly loop through strings which is an O(N) algorithm. So many string algorithms call strlen, often multiple times on the same string. I remember GTA V took 6 minutes to parse a goddamn JSON file because of stuff like this and part of the fix was to store the string lengths.

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

So is a length variable really such a big deal? It even fits in a register.

I understand and agree with your one memory span point. Ideally they should be located as close as possible in memory.

struct bytes { size_t size; unsigned char data[]; };

const char *literal = "some text";
size_t length = strlen(literal);

struct bytes *text = malloc(sizeof(*text) + length);
text->size = length;
memcpy(text->data, literal, length);
Kapital is extremely interesting from the point of view of understanding Marx's very singular view of the world, but doesn't tell you much about how modern economists think about modern economies even from a contrasting perspective since neither existed at the time of writing...
When I was your age, I also worried along the same lines. As you get older though you realize it doesn't really matter.

You are still very young, no matter how much you may think otherwise. There is still an incredible amount of time ahead of you which can be put to any use you so desire.

Just spend the time you have wisely, don't worry about it when you do not, and above all else have fun. All of us only get one go on this ride.
The most interesting story was the flying saucer invasion of Washington DC in the early 60s.
> We’re all going to die. Every day we live a little and die a little
Beautiful perspective there. Thanks for writing this.
To what end? Any actual war with NATO quickly becomes nuclear.

They seem to have all they need for propaganda, simply by saying it. An actual strike would cause expensive damage, and not achieve anything that they couldn't get cheaper by just claiming it happened.

The article suggests that they're content to tell their people that they already own Ukraine and are under attack there. It seems pretty effective domestically.
I enjoyed the video. But clickbaity title with "we will never know" disgusts me.
Are these that widespread? I've never seen one in Russia, all our bread comes with those bendy plastic clamps with two pieces of wire sealed inside edges. I've only seen the flat plastic ones in UAE and thought they were neat.
It's very relatable for many to feel that one's time was wasted online, but wanting to change, especially for people who find forums like Hacker News. The interesting thing is that the solutions to changing one's situation can also be found online (or preferably, a starting point of the solution that leads to real-life resources).

It's a double-edged sword in that sense: on the one hand, one can unintentionally spend a lot of time online, but on the other, browsing has given me the ideas and encouraged me to contact people in real life, which led to real positive career changes.

I think a lot of people can relate to OP's situation, and really wish them to succeed. If they can think critically about a lot of these comments, and selectively consider the ones that make sense, it can be a great starting point to seek real-life resources that will make a massive difference over time.
Globalstar devices were already pretty small even 10 years ago. I think they only require a 2W transmitter, whereas Iridium requires 10W. And their satellites are in more normal orbits rather than Iridium’s polar orbits, so coverage isn’t truly global. The satellite has to see you and a base station at the same time.

Edit: Globalstar modem data sheet: https://www.globalstar.com/Globalstar/media/Globalstar/Downl...
>What we do know is that the universe didn’t begin from nothing. It’s impossible for something to arise out of nothing, so there has always been something.

Got proof?
...and isn't that the whole point of the discussion?
You will be glad to know that Unilever is also in the ghost kitchen business.

https://www.icecreamshopus.com/
I just can't believe that aggregator sites would be gamed by bad actors... Shocked, I tell you.

Also, on all of these delivery services I desperately just want a "no cloud kitchens" option. I want to support local businesses — actual restaurants. It's annoying having to research any new place I want to try to make sure it's not operated out of the back side of some warehouse.

(Also: "Curate," don't aggregate. It's a little more expensive and requires actual knowledge, which is why no one wants to do it. But then you actually become a service people can trust.)
It is designed to extract credible bids from energy suppliers and minimize costs.

The wider range of prices is the new thing, but the cheaper sources getting paid at the marginal price was always the intention. It stops people inflating their bid, which renewables could do if they wanted to queue jump, they'd just be risking that they are the most expensive renewable and they don't get picked, and get paid zero.

It incentives the lowest cost producers (as long as it's regulated properly, see the Australian experience with gas cartels abusing the system).
A third rate civilization on a backwater spiral arm. It is what it is.
The point is to enjoy every day, instead of trying to do things others consider meaningful. If you like playing games all day, do that.

Whom are you living for?
The tax deduction for non-resident Americans is, of course, a little more complicated than the article suggests. With the disclaimer that I'm not a tax professional and this isn't tax advice, there are two options: for income up to some threshold (around 120k) it can be "excluded," basically a deduction on your AGI, with anything above that threshold taxed at the higher bracket; the other option is to basically treat taxes paid to foreign governments as a tax credit (with no threshold).

If you're lucky enough to be in the second group, it means you need to file your foreign taxes before the US ones to end up knowing how much you pay. The fun twist: many countries in Europe have a tax system that doesn't assume everyone pays TurboTax, so actually filing is somewhat unusual, and basically impossible to do before 15 April. To find a European tax professional isn't always easy, and if you tell them you're an American they often back off, knowing your case is nightmarishly difficult. And if you do pay some US taxes still (e.g. capital gains on stocks still in a US account) then you're required to at least declare it on your European tax statement -- which itself must be submitted before you know how much US taxes you pay.

The pool of recursion-ready tax advisors is unfortunately very small, and US citizens living abroad suffer for it. As a US citizen living abroad, I think it's still preferable though.
Moore's law is not over. It's not about density. It's about quantity of transistors on a chip.
We talk power, not servers, at work because it’s the limiting resource at any scale. “How many MWatts do you need next year”. Its not that you can’t do these workloads on CPUs or GPUs - you can. But you can do it at 10x-30x less power on custom silicon.

That’s why Amazon did Graviton3; Google did TPUs and VPUs. Ditto on personal computer with Apple & M1/M2.
This is a great comment, added to my favorites.

Kleene choice doesn't map to normal imperative conditions, as you gesture at, but what does is Brian Ford's ordered choice alt combinator, '/'.

When you use Kleene choice, you're in the realm of definite clauses, where control flow is deliberately underspecified.
Lol, ‘cause this American general pronounced his name “the French way”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martyn_Robert
I read The Worldly Philosophers a long time ago (I was young) and I loved it. I remember really liking the narrative and the historical background.
Well, I'm not sure what you're waving at. If the website is nothing more than a RTE, then it's better (and safer) to do it in the browser. If the RTE is just part of the website, then that's a part that's better done in the browser.

Perhaps you want a RTE that doesn't depend on JS. I think that's a reasonable thing to want; but if you normally browse with JS switched off, then running into a working RTE is at least going to violate the Principle of Least Surprise.
Student debt forgiveness only makes sense if accompanied by a broader reform that regulates how the participating universities can charge for tuition. Without such constrains on schools, debt forgiveness is an invitation for the educational institutions to jack-up tuition even more.
Is there infinite?

Tough for finite things to try and understand much less comprehend such a simple and complex quandary.

What happens if there really is infinite no beginning and no end. Or what if there is an Alpha and Omega - such a beautiful thing to not understand.
The renewables are apparently not ready yet. They can't produce them fast enough, and they take an inordinate amount of material. Corporations have advanced marketing fables, recieved huge public grants all on the delusion that it is a simple switch. It's not.