skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
doesn't this premise presuppose that an accurate portrayal of reality is hidden within history literature somewhere?

at best the portrayals are murky/ambiguous/incomplete, at worse they're out-right wrong or propagandistic.

there isn't even a clear perfect unbiased picture of right now available for me to consume, why would I think that historical chronicle wouldn't share the same issues?

So, in essence, are we polling people against a clear picture of what happened, or some bizzaro stuff?

A quick glance at the survey[0] hints that it's bizarro-world shit that has no relevance like "Do you believe in parallel universes?" , along with 61 unreported questions that I am sure are just as ridiculous, leading to no conclusions that are psychologically interesting unless you're someone obsessed with the meme 'mandela effect' mentioned over and over again.

[0]: https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/ayd4ypbk8w/toplines_Mandela%20Ef...
He bought his way into Tesla very early on, oversaw the design of the first Roadster, and took over as CEO before the first Roadster launched. He’s also been at SpaceX from the start and has apparently been involved at a technical level from the start.
Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles
Seems on-brand for the CEO that believes he can complete Full Self Driving for 5 years running. Wait 'til next year, screams the fans. It will be great then.
> I’d assume they care because Go was designed to keep the codebase as “neat” and clean as possible when being worked on by many developers

So someone’s anal retentive was made into a langage mandate rather than anything actually useful?

> Given enough time and developers, things like unused variables will start to seep in and make the codebase dirtier.

Why are dead variables any dirtier than dead stores? Or unchecked errors?
Every human is entitled for this service. This should be free, like GPS.
BadgerBalm has probably the most environmentally friendly sunscreen. It can leave a white cast on some people so there is that issue. But if your at the beach regularly give them a look. Using UPF clothing and a bigger hat really make a difference too. I burn far to easy to not use some level of sunscreen.
How? SIM cards are going away.
Hard agree that the Nexus 5 was Google's best device. It was perfect, and it was cheap.
And Solar is just a steam engine with less steam, and less engine.
I think an interesting angle would be a categorization by the author of what they found was useful/fluff/low quality. Would be a good way to figure out where you're wasting time vs getting value (of course sometime the point is to waste time...)
Since the top causes of overeating are grief and "comfort eating", it's common sense that fat people are less happy. Being fat is a symptom of self-neglect, which is a component of low self-esteem. But "experts" pathologize children's refined intuition. For shame.

The playbook is getting old now: denounce innate intuition of human nature as "biased" or "based on stereotypes", falsely claim that that intuition was shaped by media perception, relentlessly use the media to artificially socially engineer the opposite perception (you are only allowed to notice the platitude that "bodies come in all shapes and sizes" and any other opinion is bias). Maybe soon brain implants will "auto-correct" our perceptions and intuition for us?

These "experts" with huge institutional and media influence are a far greater danger than any degree of political polarization or political bias.
Android is Linux, not Unix. Linux shares no code with Unixs.

Solaris, BSD, Darwin all share code.

Linux is POSIX compatible and userspace is similar, but the kernel is distinct.
Most people I know don’t moderate their drinking.

Sure, a drink or a cigarette a day is not so harmful. I do know people that only have an occasional puff when out socialising and don’t even have one cigarette a day,p.

You chose an unrealistic starting condition for your comparison. I agree one drink a day is surely less harmful than second hand smoking from a pack a day. But choosing those starting conditions makes for an unfair comparison, so I pick different starting conditions, in part because I live in a country where alcoholism is rife and binge drinking is normal. Excessive alcohol consumption directly harms the drinker (accidents, cancer, disease, mental health) and directly harms the family, friends and children of the drinker (alcohol has different harms from second hand smoke, and the secondary impact of an alcoholic person is sometimes more acute than chronic).

Disclaimer: yeah, anecdotal, but across a wide variety of my acquaintances.
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that cyberattacks are equivalent to kinetic attacks. Whether or not you’re entitled to respond is a larger question. Are you having difficulty understanding my point or are you just trolling?
Yep, that's how orgs work. Any org older than a certain number of years must delete itself and allow others to form another entity - or else it will amass warm bodies that collect titles and dont do anything useful. Unfortunately orgs will do everything to continue to exist, despite becoming irrelevant, inefficient, and losing their merit.

Code of conduct is apart of this, it is designed to prevent strong dissenting opinion by claiming its offensive/improper. You cannot call out the true bad actors, because culturally we view offense as wrong and authority to be correct. COC is basically an HR document, it's to protect the org, not to do the right thing. History repeats itself.
I would think water resistance would be worse than air resistance.

But I guess the massive size of freighters allows them to still be more efficient than trains.
Most people who use beach showers have come out of the ocean. Swimming seems like the primary point of transfer of sunscreen from body -> ocean, not the shower.
Wireless air systems work in the kHz range, while bluetooth is up in the GHz range unfortunately.

I would love to see a system that uses ultra-high frequency noise in combination with the watch microphone, but it's doubtful manufacturers are going to want to support that.
It doesn’t always take much. I know someone elderly who survived tearing off their hepatic artery after falling. It turns out you don’t need it, so if you survive the blood loss you’ll be fine. The big pot belly from the blood takes some time to resolve.
a mix of hydro and non-lithium batteries. for grid scale batteries, you don't care about weight, and if you make it big enough can hear the battery if it helps. as such there are a lot of very cool battery technologies in various stages of commercialization that will never go in a phone, but make a lot of sense when you scale them up to a few thousand pounds.
eSIM isn't nearly as easy to get outside of the US as it is from the inside. I can't imagine getting an eSIM if/when I go to India again in the future. Getting a physical SIM was REALLY REALLY difficult.

that said, all of the US carriers have extensive international roaming agreements and international data/voice is much cheaper these days.
A friendly reminder that height is not normally distributed either. Within a population it has a bimodal distribution.

Also a friendly reminder that a quarter standard deviations above the mean vs. the same distance below the mean is quite often a trivial difference in population statistics. And it should be nonsense (pseudoscience if you will) to make the distinction. A much more interesting statistic are the outliers. And grouping an outlier with a person who is 0.05 SD from the mean is just confusing at best.
Darwin possibly shares still the few files identified from infamous Unix wars lawsuits, but it doesn't really share code with Solaris (which is System V)
Power to overcome drag increases at a cube. If you were pushing it a half knot, 10 knots would require 8,000 times the power.
It's 100% obvious clear & true that WASI has ignored literally everything that has ever happened on the web & built entirely novel specifications. This is uncontestable. I'd never really thought of this before, but it's clear & true.

The WASI group seems to have no outreach, no attempt to influence or shape actual web specifications. There's zero obvious interactions on modern hotbed topics like File System Acccess APIs. They're happy making their own specifications that are "webassembly" but decidedly free of any influence or incidence or compliance or compatibility with anything else at all web/web-platform. It's a kind of scary path, and I hadn't really considered that before.

I'd been very much a fan of everything happening, and I think there is some (vast) room for independent innovation. I also would note that some of the authors here are a bit high drama (they used heavyhanded tactics to not just ask for but to demand UTF-16 support, in very strident tones. Mentioned when I cited this link earlier today, [1].)

It's a long jump, but this ties back to PWA's & the success of the web in general; there's a kind of sad temerity, enforced by a lot of negative attitudes & won't do restrictive implementers (see: browser choice matters[2]) & general naysayership that keeps implementations & ambitions on the web small & low (see also my opinion on "Why haven't PWAs haven't killed native apps yet", [3]). The web is dogged by hostile negative forces that dislike & want to keep it slow & low. That WASI wants nothing to do with the web, only & has zero places it's tried to work with the web & it's standards bodies is unsurprising, because there are so many latent highly-conservative, highly restrictive forces & voices. Being independent & uncoupled feels sensible; change from the outside, become the better world yourself, then maybe as you rise above commit down into the dirty slow dogged world of web standards, where half the people here hate progress & hate doing things & hate expanding capabilities on the web.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32751657

[2] https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1433711260235755521

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32760831
>I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly.

Besides my general distrust of Google, the real source of my headache is the ransomware attack. Thus such a simple schema is unsatisfactory. And the proper automatic backup procedure needs noninteractive testing whether the cloud copy is not garbled. Until now I don't know how to do it so I make backups of my Dropbox copy by hand.
All scale out databases use some form of sharding, tautologically.

The parent asked about use cases where there wasn’t an _external_ (which I interpret to mean “handled explicitly by the app, not the database”) sharding / caching layer.

Spanner internally handles splits based on load / size.

That having been said, more careful reading of the Uber post shows that they still do employ additional app-level explicit sharding to resolve hot-spots, so it’s probably a fair point that this doesn’t qualify as an example the parent was looking for.
If you really were stranded on a mountaintop, you would probably have been hiking all day, which means your iPhone’s battery might very well be dead and the satellite feature would therefore be unusable. :)
No my question is 'how do you determine if you have your faculties?'

For a variety of reasons I won't go into, 14- year old anon291 would think 30-year-old anon291 had lost his mind and was speaking gibberish...

From my own perspective 16 years ago I'd be incapable of making decisions.
Much better table overview at the end than the last version. Not much surprises, just the different sensitivities on bad hashes.
In my corporate training, we're counselled to never refer to what competitors do, and particularly not to discuss affecting competitor sales (even braggadociously), matters of marketshare etc. to avoid running into risk of bad legal outcomes if such material were to be brought up in trial. Interesting how Apple does not feel compelled to hold itself to the same standard.
> Couple of comments from someone who trained with professional cyclists for some years, and even won a few (amateur) bike races:

Same here, although I only won a couple of very minor races

> > When you're leading a peloton, never go aero (when you lower your upper body so you're "cutting the wind"). Always keep your eyes on the road ahead, looking for potholes.

> You can do both, with flexibility and core strength. If I'm on the front in a road race, I'll be in the drops. My breakaway performance improved dramatically when I started including yoga & pilates in training regime.

Yes, it obviously depends on the speed the group is going, but the front of the peloton will always go into a more aero position when riding fast.

> However, for time-trial or triathlon bikes, i.e. those with specialist aero bars that help us become more narrow to the wind, you'll hear general advice to never get down on the aero bars in a group. That certainly is a good safety guideline to follow, with the exception of training for/racing a team time trial. Not so much due to visibility as it is the altered handling characteristics and lack of brake levers.

I know several group rides who would not let people with tribars (typically only triathlete would try) into the group. You'd likely get pretty aggressively get told to f off (hanging of the back might be tolerated). As you point out there are pretty good reasons for it.

> > For maximum efficiency and safety, your front wheel should a wheel's distance from the rear wheel of the bike in front of you.

> That's a lot. In a competitive event we're often down to a few centimeters gap between wheels. In such circumstances the proper safety protocol is to be slightly laterally displaced from the wheel you're following, enough that any unanticipated change in speed means your front wheel slides past their rear wheel rather than making tyre contact. The choice of left or right generally depends on wind direction, and on very windy days this coordinates with echelon formation.

Again full agreement. Living a large gap in a peloton or pace line is again a pretty good way of getting a "talking to" (more or less aggressive depending on the group and the speed). One should also point out that if it came to a touch of wheels it is largely considered the fault of the person in front.

Finally and that is something many beginners get wrong. If you're riding two abreast (large group training rides will often ride like that), you should have your handlebars next to each other. Imyou can then ride very close (handlebars can touch) without danger, because if one needs to come very close you just lean into each other. The dangerous situation is when handlebars are staggered because you can slot into the bar of the other person. They then try to move away from you (shouldn't but often happens) and you both fall.
If you're suffering in your current mental state, go see a therapist.

Depression makes you feel like this. Trying to find a way out of it by trying to find new and fun things, can be devastating to your current situation as depression will keep you from feeling good and new experiences, even if you may actually enjoy them when you're not depressed, just are not fun.

The 20s are usually not the fun part of life.
You don't really know who you are and you don't really know what to do with your life and you may have trauma, that you first need to heal from.

This is normal and a lot of people suffer from it. Don't feel invalidated.

You are good, just as you are.

Now go see a therapist.
macOS as of Leopard is “certified UNIX” (Single Unix Specv3). Darwin is the “Unix core” that macOS is built on, but it hasn’t been certified by itself[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
I'd equate this more to not paying your phone bill.

Your phone can still call emergency services, even without a SIM card.
It's a valid concern in that the government has no problem with legislating and then enforcing mutually exclusive rules. Example: driving the speed limit on some highways is actually unsafe and can get you hit with an impeding ticket, driving the safe speed gives a cop license to pull you over since you are technically speeding.
You're right, my statement came from a lot of frustration. I still think it's a hit for the Scala ecosystem.
>I can't start a program that prints all strings and claim I've achieved ideal compression because the desired output is among one of the strings printed.

I don't follow why this is an example of run time mattering. It sounds like an example of not including crucial information in your "compressed" output to enable decoding. You'd have to have a pointer into your sequence.

Also, why wouldn't consideration of run time be a free choice people make? I vaguely remember trying some allegedly state of the art compressors and finding them extremely slow. Probably in the PPM family. Theoretically, people are sometimes interested in the maximum compression no matter how much it takes in resources.
Correct: he is not.

All the success he has had comes from lots of bucks to start from, and lucky hires. You can tell from all his obvious duds, and the idiotic things he says whenever he goes off-script.

Gwynne Shotwell probably deserves the credit for SpaceX, and probably all of that for her personnel actions.
The issue with much of Floridas land is it’s wetlands. It doesn’t so much matter what you build on it as it is about minimizing impact to the environment.
Depends how you are measuring efficiency really. If the goal is to get exercise it is pretty efficient. More efficient than using a chairlift to ski :-). And about the same as a bike race that is a circuit.
Last August my wife and I visited Maui, bringing a physical sunscreen (Zinc oxide based, I think). My wife put on so much that her face almost looked like a kabuki actor, and I looked only a little better. On beaches we'd see all those people in bikinis, apparently completely free of sunscreen whiteness.

"How come they aren't getting sunburned?" I wondered.

"They're using chemical sunscreens," was my wife's answer.

And that's often right next to a signpost telling people how those chemicals are killing corals.

This is why we can't have nice things.
You might be experiencing a confirmation bias. Without a double blind study there is no proof that your valuations—let alone your conclusions—are valid.

I’m sorry to say, but your methods are flawed, as are your predictions. Your methods may only be helpful in confirming your biases, nothing more.
you're ignoring how big grids can get. there has never been a day where the entire US was cloudy at the same time.
It's call click bait. Implying a controversy will always get people's attention.
You and I both clicked on it. Yet, it turned out to be implied BS.
it is basically impossible to get a SIM in India once you leave the airport as a foreigner, in my experience, unless you know someone local
AI generated voice and video.
And yet its still filled with unncessary parentheses like an involuntary tic.
On Hurd you probably could, just mount a merge translator over /bin that merges all the directories you want. IIRC on Hurd translator namespaces are per-process in the libc and are inherited from parent to child process. So like containers/namespaces on Linux but implemented in the libc.
This is a thread about Apple but the words India, Foxconn and workers rights are missing - but this is the only thing that should be discussed currently when we discuss Apple. Please inform yourself about how bad workers are treated there, life in the Foxconn Apple facilities is terrible.

We, as Hacker community, need to speak up - these practices must be stopped.
Once you've granted a website enough permissions to run in the background and notify you when a food delivery has arrived, it's safely crossed into the "app" sandbox.

The OPs point is we're now blinded to all these website popups asking for permission, that the web app potential can't truly breakthrough.
They’ve committed to obviously bad choices before like the touchbar.
No algorithm can stand up to rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
Where are the macros?
Does CPython follow semantic versioning ?
Holy cow, seven times more energy in summer months. Hydrogen storage sounds compelling in that situation.
Chrome Extensions are a related Cousin, though.
Isn't hydro more like gravity ?
It all depends on how large the addressable area is for irreversible, open-access, immutable data is. Right now it looks rather big from my POV.
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People don’t think that’s what they’re arguing for, but that’s what happens when you go green too optimistically and aggressively. If you sacrifice reliability and robustness for being green, your grid becomes vulnerable.

From what I understand it seems reasonable to get rid of coal in the US over a reasonable time frame with appropriate replacements. I’m not arguing in favor of coal. I’m arguing in favor of going with cheap reliable energy and whatever the best and actually practical solutions are for a given area.

The fact that coal has fallen by half in 20 years doesn’t mean the other half is just as easy, either. You need a certain amount of supplemental power at night, during bad weather, during usage spikes, etc. The remaining percentage of coal use is going to be more and more concentrated in the supply areas that are harder to replace. That doesn’t mean it can’t all be replaced or that we shouldn’t pursue replacing all of it, all I’m advocating is for a sane transition that takes practical constraints like that into account and doesn’t get perfectionistic about solutions. Frankly I don’t often see considerations like that being made, I see a lot of hysterics and dogmatic assertions about how everything needs to be solar panels and wind turbines yesterday and everyone who wants moderation or other green solutions and more gradual phase in is a greedy oil shill.
Yeah, I think the title should be updated to something less elaborative. Looks like the reference to Lisp comes from the Github Readme?

https://github.com/henriquegogo/kamby

Still looks awesome; 400LOC is an incredible achievement for grok-ability c:
That's very interesting. That link is dead though.
Hahahaha... everyone know what when someone says "I will look into it", it means there will be absolutely no action taken.

hahahahahahahahaha
This is why my primary donations are to bio diversity and endangered animal protection orgs instead of climate change.
It’s POSIX conforming but nobody, no distribution, has ponied up the money or taken the time to do the conformance testing necessary to get branded as UNIX. Additionally, it sounds like this testing would have to happen with every new release.

Why spend all that money and time when Linux has so dominated the certified Unices for some time?
Absolutely not - the experience from the United and Marriott apps on iPhone are worlds better than their respective websites, and certainly better than their mobile websites.
so which one do you pick?
Google profits off hurting neurodivergent people (think YouTube ads, recommended videos, etc) so this is sadly consistent with their business model.
I think this is getting into somewhat nitpick territory. If we include per passenger we could just use bikes with 10 riders (extreme tandems). On a flat road the increase of energy for more people is very minor so you can just divide by the number of people.
Here's a riddle.

If using my birthday reduces the entropy of my PIN, what does it do to its entropy if I happen to have the same birthday as one of the most famous people in the world? Does it matter if I am aware or not? Does it matter what they use for their PIN?

For the sake of argument, I'm thinking month and day, not year.