skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickbait: the coaster is “Top Thrill Dragster” at Cedar Point in Ohio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Thrill_Dragster
Nothing was non-trivially usable on an IBM PC without a pile of assembly code.

Integrating C with assembly was easy. Pascal originally didn't support that at all. And academics were utterly horrified by things like Turbo Pascal.
I never got the point of pre-sliced bread. What's so hard about slicing bread yourself?
That is an amazing story! Did you get paid for your IT services as well?
Maybe have a chat with him sometime.
> Every day, people come to YouTube to learn something new.

True.

> shows content on commonly used education apps without distractions like ads, external links or recommendations

External links seem important on educational files, and I kind of like recommendations when I'm browsing educational stuff, but whoo, no ads on educational stuff? That's great!

> Next year, qualified creators can begin offering free or paid

There it is.
Very interesting. Just tried it with "covid-19" and its true.

About 13,460,000,000 results (1.35 seconds)

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Page 2 of about 163 results (1.15 seconds)

>"If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."<

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About 12,620,000,000 results (1.26 seconds)

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Page 4 of about 361 results (1.75 seconds)
There are so many more things people can work at and actually benefit society than security theater and public harassment.
So it's just a receipt printer in a different form factor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlaT6Ge4Tw&t=492s
So do typical impacts on hard hats cause head rotation?
> At a quick glance, a lot of the intersectional feminist/activist modes of thought seem to be the polar opposites of what eg. cognitive behavioral therapy

What a non sequitur. Why would feminism and stoicism have any incompatibilities?
When I was an intern a fellow intern got a 4 year old Land Rover.

In the next 6 months he had to

- Check engine light on. Checked multiple time. Never went away
- Replace engine gasket
- replace rear diff
- replace rear axle (did the dealership broke this?)

The forth one happened while he was returning from the manufacturer dealership for the 3rd issue, about half way to our town (about 90km left)

The worst thing was, he actually bought warranty from the car dealership, but they managed to weasel out every single item.

Pardon me if I am on the grandparent's side.
Isn't it odd that it's always the high end models that seem to have all sorts of issues? I got a cheap $25 pair of earbuds from Amazon a year ago and they work flawlessly.
I don't side-project anymore, but here's what I used to do back in the day:

I got myself a dedicated box from OVH, located in Canada. 32 threads, 64 GB EEC, NVMe disks and unmetered 1Gbps outgoing link. That cost me ~$100.

In it I had my application server and database, as well as disk caching layer in front of S3.

No need to worry about auto-scaling, as that beefy server could take care of 10-100x more users than I currently handled.

No need to worry about bandwidth costs or getting DDoSed. The gigabit link was more than sufficient (I think I used 5% of it), and OVH provides an anti-ddos service included in the price.

I had a cheaper ($10) dedicated box from Kimsufi which I used to host CI, Phabricator and other non-critical stuff.

I'd deploy with a simple ansible script which would launch a new docker container that HAProxy would then point to (similar to a green-blue deployment). This allowed me to deploy small changes[0] silently and I could test them before the actual release.

My side project was not critical enough, so if for any reason my host was unreachable I could perform a disaster recovery anywhere else by restoring from my backups. In ~4 years, I never had to do that.

If I were to start a side / weekend project today, I would probably follow a similar route. Running cloud compute instances with unpredictable bandwidth billing gives me anxiety.

[0] - As long as they did not have database migrations in them.
That sounds good but it probably wouldn’t work in the developing and undeveloped world. Also, it doesn’t stop the problem of new things being made because they have a floor price set by carbon offsets. A new polluting asset becomes more valuable when it has a fixed rebate for decommissioning it. You can scrap my old shitty polluting boat but I can probably just buy a new shitty polluting boat
You mean the brand specifically, or used cars at all? I'd always heard (and acted on) the advice that the sweet spot when buying a car is a few years in, when you're no longer paying the shiny-and-new premium but it's otherwise reliable -- i.e. someone else has eaten the bulk of the depreciation.

They generally segment out the bad-with-money crowd by the ridiculous financing/lease surcharges, not new vs used, right? (If anything, I'd say the bad-with-money people will unnecessarily prefer new over used.)
I think both of those examples are bad because they both have situations where they were extremely effective:

* Masking in tight places: air planes, elevators, etc

* Airplane parts have been incredibly hard to source for the Russian military, they've been forced to regress to cannibalizing very old parts and reaching out to their neighbors (North Korea, China, Iran) for materials that may have been readily available without sanctions
They don’t want to catch a turkey. We’ve had turkeys kill medium sized dogs and they’ve put holes in the side of the feed man’s truck with their claws.
That's possible with KeePassXC (desktop) [0], KeePassDX (mobile) [1] and Syncthing [2]. Best thing about it is that the bridge between devices is also end-to-end encrypted, which is a nice bonus if you want to sync something else. I wish there was an easier all-in-one application for this kind of stuff though, would be much easier to maintain and setup for family/friends.

[0]: https://keepassxc.org/

[1]: https://www.keepassdx.com/

[2]: https://syncthing.net/
That would mean that the lie is that they show a completely irrelevant number which paints Google as a very extensive and comprehensive search engine while hiding the relevant number which is always radically smaller.

> the expectation of being able to see all the results.

Which would not exist if Google weren't pushing this massive mystery number that we're currently, in this thread, only speculating about what it could be referring to. This expectation could be easily solved by showing the number of results that Google is planning to return to the user, and tossing out the number that means nothing to anyone.
Does it bother anyone else that YouTube has its own TLD (.youtube)?

TLDs used to carry a lot of weight, and used to signify something besides individual entities/companies... but it feels to me like that designation is becoming rather diluted.
Silly in that it is not necessary. Any ICE vehicle can be converted inexpensively to burn pure ethanol, no petrol required. Any diesel will accept biodiesel as fuel without mixing with petrol. If fossil fuels are a problem, and ethanol and biodiesel covers all petrol applications, why bother keeping petrol around?
http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html
I've not experienced any of the things which you describe and I find personalization to be generally valuable. I also think its less personalized than many people believe it to be. (Disclaimer: I used to work at Google/Alphabet but not on Search).

I didn't say Google was the best for everyone all of the time, just for me most of the time. I just didn't agree that anyone that uses Google hasn't carefully evaluated the quality of the results: I intentionally made an alternative my default and, despite it being harder for me to use Google now, I still fall back to it more often than not.
Next year, qualified creators can begin offering free or paid Courses to provide in-depth, structured learning experiences for viewers. Viewers who choose to buy a Course can watch the video ad-free and play it in the background.

So you're cloning Udemy? Meh. Not much to be excited about so far.

Finally, to help learners apply what they’ve learned, we’re introducing Quizzes — a new way for creators to help viewers test their knowledge.

That could be somewhat useful, but..

For example, a math creator who recently posted a series on algebra can create a Quiz on the Community tab to ask their viewers a question related to a concept taught in their latest video.

Does anybody ever actually visit the "Community" tab of a channel? Why add this extra friction? Hasn't the technology progressed to the point that quizzes could be integrated right into the video player? For that matter, why not have "adaptive" videos where your quiz results can affect the video that you see (like triggering an extra in-depth explanation for notoriously tricky topic if the quiz taker scores below a certain level, etc.).

I hope this works out and provides some value, but I have my doubts as it stands.
The tagline on their homepage is "The World's First Robot Lawyer". If you advertise as a lawyer, the lawyers are going to say, where's your license?
They use saline instead of pure water because it's isotonic with respect to serum/plasma. i.e. you're not going to go into electrolyte imbalance if a lot of it is put into your blood.

Normal saline is about one-quarter the concentration of sea water, by the way.
Ok. Overall, though, there aren't a lot of cancer screenings otherwise either. You might get a colonoscopy, but you probably aren't checking for bone cancer either.

But you would probably get an MRI of your brain if you were having headaches. An ultrasound to check for gallstones, a CT scan to see if that's your appendix that is hurting. And we are getting way more scans than we used to. A lot of tumors are found as a result of modern imaging technology. More are found by self-examination: We know to watch moles and to do breast or testicular exams at home, for example.

When we find precancerous stuff, we can often keep an eye on it and/or do something about it, hopefully before it gets out of hand.
Europe has a carbon price and it hasn't wrecked their economy. They of course have other energy related problems but those aren't related to their carbon price.
C/C++ have been used to implement the backbone of computing for 50 years. That is a proven technology.

I'm not diminishing the success of Rust. It's been proven it can be used for serious projects.

It's a bit of a reach to argue it's proven to be the best choice for all system programming use-cases going forward.
I always freeze my bread, and frozen bread would be very frustrating to cut.

Also... Why not?
They are saying there are that many results but Google isn't going to serve some random dude all of them.
I hope these succeed, but we still need transpilation/bundling:

- TypeScript needs transpilation and it’s very popular

- Bundling is still beneficial with H2/H3, if only so that compression can work well
AssemblyScript: (WASI) Standards Objections
I must admit I was wondering why this popped up but then I realized it's September 9th, the NA launch date for the Dreamcast.
Huh!? Is this some sort of Peter Pan solution where we stave off starvation by simply imagining real hard that we're eating a big meal? What on Earth are you attempting to even suggest here?
Problem is that the people who consume less than the average amount of carbon are generally located in cities and therefore already support liberal policies. You need to convince the conservative leaning suburbs, which are the hardest hit by a revenue neutral carbon tax because they have high incomes and don't live in high density areas.
Just install yourself a vaultvarden, migrate your data and reconfigure your client to your own Bitwarden server.
It's like the sticker that says "this amp goes to 11". Google just went further!

Somewhere a product manager is beaming with pride
>Even if it is not, we may further bankrupt ourselves in more ways than monetarily while looking for something to do the thinking for us that we are too lazy and too irresponsible to do for ourselves.

Individual humans do not have the physical ability to not be lazy and irresponsible. In groups, any of these dynamics are amplified.

If humanity is the peak of intelligence for the universe then there's no hope for anything.
Cars could soon ‘run on thin air’ thanks to hydrogen breakthrough
Odd statement, even in jest, considering the ban was on the sliced part not the bread part.
It's an old habit, I'm not sure where it came from, but for me it's always been 'C'.
As a US cellular user, me neither. The only reason I can think of is that iPhone users are such a large portion of all US users, and this would effectively require convincing them to use something other than iMessages just to include Android users.
That would actually be great if it works like that (I haven't had the chance to use esims at all yet)
As an Oregonian, I think the reason it’s infamous is that Oregon schools are terrible and many people blame the kicker for taking surplus budget that could have been spent on schools and giving it back to the taxpayers instead. It also gets a fair amount of criticism for proportionally distributing funds based on how much a person paid in taxes, so the wealthiest get the most money back.

Can’t say how much the kicker really does impact these things, but I can say that when you compare state funded resources between California, Washington and Oregon, Oregon’s usually come out looking worse. For example, if you take a road trip up i5 from Los Angeles to Seattle, you’ll notice that the rest stops in Oregon are far worse than those in California or Washington. It does seem that there’s an austerity in Oregon absent in those two states, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s imposed by the requirement to send back the surplus.
It's not blackmail. You're taking $40k in exchange for an unbounded number of problems. Maybe someday some exec will come up with "Oh, we used C++ at Twitter, so answering that question on StackOverflow is a violation of your NDA, please return the $40k immediately." Now you're on the hook for either $40k of court costs, or writing them a $40k check. (I don't think you get the $15k you paid in taxes, either.)

For a few million dollars for a bounded period of time, sure, disconnect yourself from the Internet for that bounded period of time. For $40k, you're just taking on unnecessary problems that you don't actually have the resources to solve.

(I was offered $0 to sign an NDA after leaving my last job. I did not sign it.)
So, like a thermal receipt printer (often in 80mm width), but wider?

Thermal receipts have their place. They are quite fast, and maintenance is either you replace the paper roll, or throw away the printer once its lifespan is over (usually about 50km on most entry level models), small, and cheap enough to install a bunch of them at every checkout lane, delivery driver, etc.

The downside is that the prints don't last. Try putting a tape on the printed paper, and the print fades in a day or two. Even a heat as small as running a nail with mild pressure on the paper activates the ink.

If this were to be a serious contender, the real innovation has to be the paper; not the printer.
I think Walter Bright knows how a calculator works in extreme detail.

You do realize who that is right?
Also the core code (in C++) of the Stellar consensus-based cryptocurrency.
Personally, I think people are looking for the wrong thing. Try instead to keep your daily carb count under 60 grams, and eat as much protein as possible from cheese/lean proteins but also some fatty if you like. My faves when I'm doing keto are: Brisket, cheese, sugar free pudding for craving control or chobani greek yogurt, bacon, hamburger, chicken. I tend to keep it simple just rotating through easy things to keep on hand, like I'll pick up a pound of pre-smoked brisket at the supermarket in town and heat that up for dinner.

The issue i think more is calorie in/calorie out as well as switching your metabolism some. Keto-eating does this really well.

Low fat was the fad diet of the 80s/90s everything was low fat this or that, and it was the biggest growth in obesity ever. Sugar / Starches is what really leads to obesity not fatty foods. 'fatty' is a misnomer, I mean it just means animal 'fats', doesn't mean it causes you to become 'fatter'.
> as we tune our headlines to match what people expect from an irreverent technical title.

Except you're not irreverent at all anymore. You're basically Ars and CNET. Why on earth you'd abandon your readership to attract people who already read Ars, and are unlikely to move, is beyond me.
> At some number of pages they drew a line and decided that the value of these pages isn't worth the cost (and DoS vulnerability) to serve them.

They have literally one job.
You can certainly buy things at this store, and there are certainly things for sale at 90% off. The things that are 90% off are at other stores, though, and this store can't be blamed for your assumptions.
> Forget the Camry, it's hard to construct a road use application that actually makes sense.

For daily driving, sure, but a lot of people track their cars.
I don't care about nitrogen in my tires because I'm hardly a competitive racer or frequent track-goer, but for owners of "from the factory" track cars like the ZL1 1LE or GT3 RS I'm sure it matters more to them.
I see this more as a challenge of managing the different threads of communication. Basically, threads, as they are implemented in most chat apps, just suck. If you're not involved in that particular thread, you tend to just skip over it. And most of the time, you have to manually interact with each thread to figure out what's going on.

As a more real-world example, in Slack, you can decide to use more channels instead of having a big channel with lots of threads. But this tends to need a lot of discipline on channel management. Places devise naming conventions, etc. Or maybe they integrate with some other tool to manage the conversations.

So, a lot of my DMs tend to just be me and a "tiger team" on a particular subject. Which is really just a workaround to not having to figure out channel management. It's not a carefully thought through system, it's a workaround to our current crop of chat tools.

Personally, I've found older "discussion forum" systems do a better job of threading instead of a chat-style tool. But maybe I'm just getting to be an old person.
In a practical sense, if you do not track something, you have no way of knowing whether it has an impact and whether it outweighs currently known carcinogens. And why immediately go after something people actually willingly put in their bodies as opposed to something that ends up there... somehow?
I moved to the middle of nowhere-ish, where there is zero food delivery (except Amazon).

I've been eating steak for dinner for a long time, and yes it's expensive. But I feel great, and I lost weight.
Good stuff - I could have never imagined how much I could learn through YouTube - it has basically taken my Spanish from a very rudimentary level to being able to almost watch Netflix series without subtitles (via Dreaming Spanish, which is hosted on YouTube).
1984 - George Orwell

Was obsessed with this book while in high school. Don't think I've given it another look for the past 30 years.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

Fantastic book on the limits of computation.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

A very reflective autobiography told as part of a hero's journey into their own madness and how they overcame.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki

Love this simple approach to Zen

Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

Kicked off my love of Tom Robbins' books! I don't read much fiction, but Robbins is sublime and this is the book that started it all. If you're not familiar with Tom Robbins then you need to fix that!
What BASIC dialects did you use for that 14-year period?
> Chinese has, what, 10K chars? It doesn't seem like a big deal for Latin-based chars to have a similar set size when accounting for all mark variations.

I believe it's over a hundred thousand (don't forget scholars need to work with classical and/or obscure characters which aren't in common usage), and while not common new ones are being added. Han unification is a good cautionary example to consider anytime you think something related to Unicode is easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification

Now, there are on the order of 150K characters in Unicode so there is definitely a lot of room even for Chinese. I'm not so sure about the combinations because there are languages which use combining marks extensively (e.g. Navajo) and things like emoji skin tone modifiers (multiply everything with skin by 5 variants) or zero-width joiners to handle things like gender and you can get a lot of permutations if you were trying to precompose those to individual code points.

This is already sounding like a ton of work, even before you get to the question of getting adoption, and then you have to remember that the Unicode consortium explicitly says that diacritic marks aren't specific to a particular known language's usage so you either have to have every permutation or prove that nobody uses a particular one.

https://unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#10

The big question here is what the benefit would be, and it's hard to come up with one other than that everyone could treat strings as arrays of 32-bit integers. While nice, that doesn't seem compelling enough to take on a task of that order of magnitude.
Just the stuff from your user agent that shows up under device details is not good.
> shows content on commonly used education apps without distractions like ads, external links or recommendations

It's almost like they know how addicting their recommendations and other "distractions" are. They have to make a separate product to actually create a healthy environment for learning.
The comedian was Shelley Berman.

Edit: notice he signed each note "S. Berman"
Does it cover JIT compilation? Or modern concurrently garbage collecting runtimes? What are good resources?
Beyond Chess is chess played on a Kinetic Chess Board
Google version of RCS would cripple iMessage. standard RCS is not good enough to be used in practice. Basically google wants apple to use its own version of iMessage (conveniently calls it as RCS and make it looks like it is standard)
>Why you don't promote Bob?

>Bob doesn't want to lead or be a manager,

pretty sure at amazon or any "big tech" you get fired for this
"mere" is doing some really Herculean lifting in that sentence. most of the terrestrial surface is water. even a 6C mean surface temperature increase means all of our forests are deserts now. 12C mean surface temperature increase is something I don't want to imagine.
My interpretation is that the author is being cautious for new technologies, and suggesting to only embrace them if they actually add value.

> Am I arguing that we should throw away our computers and go back to slide rules? Absolutely not! Some problems can only be solved by computer simulation--because we really do not know enough to solve them any other way.
> But, most design problems can be solved with simpler, less expensive, less time-consuming methods and tools and more experience and knowledge of basic principles.
> wasting time with tools that are not appropriate for their jobs

I'm sure the CNC space also has the "next hot thing" that in reality is less efficient (time, materials, process) than older methods, or a method using existing techniques.
All of these examples sound like they can be scheduled. You cannot schedule the sun and wind. You can predict the sun of course and it's nice that it sometimes lines up with peak usage.
Many would say the same of "pre-baked" bread.
You appear to have read my comment too narrowly in relation to the parent. I didn’t say anything about OnlyFans, in particular.