skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Google and AWS have outages. Bitwarden has rarely had issues.

And this is all free service. Customer expectations have skyrocketed.
US new car sales are still more than 2,000,000 fewer per year than pre-pandemic (about a 12% drop) [1], mostly because of restricted supply. A less than .5 percentage point change in default rates is not nearly enough to close this gap.

[1] https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/usa-auto-industry-total-sales-...
The argument is that Nitrogen would have lower moisture content than air, and that allegedly reduces corrosion in the tires and wheels.

Also Nitrogen filled tires lose pressure more slowly, because Nitrogen molecules are larger. The difference is not significant.
takes one to know one (yikes). I do find it tough when readers attempt to deign a writer's mental state from some groups of characters strung together. Why, some might call that mindreading. '-)
Please send me Bob’s number.
i'm literally amazed how much is brain related. I've been obese my whole life, highest weight was 690 in 2012, had surgery got down to < 500 but yoyoing between 400/500 ever since. After covid I got really anxious/depressed and was at my highest weight. I'm told also if I had skin surgery, I'd probably lose 75 pounds of just skin, but I was kinda waiting till I got below 350 as a sort of 'target'.

Since May when I started wellbutrin for depression, that mixed w/ my vyvanse for ADHD has made me feel so much better. I tried SSRI's and they just gave me ED.

I've organically lost 50 pounds since May without even dropping soda, I just don't eat junk food, and a few days I've forgotten to eat at all when my wife was out of town. Literally, I have no cravings. Haven't tried adjusting anything in my diet, haven't thought about it, just haven't wanted anything chocolate or sweet, except maybe when I'm not intensely focused on work (i.e. get bored). I actually feel a little perturbed when my family wants dinner because I'd rather not eat and do something more enjoyable.

I'm planning on going back on keto and adding fitness (only thing I've had success w/), which by itself always stopped cravings but at the cost of keeping track of carbs and what not, and switching to crystal light (I have a hatred for the taste or lack thereof of water , I've tried and tried different types etc, <5 cal lemonade packet though and I can down those, and my dr's have said that's way better than soda). Side note I think my water aversion is related my bitter aversion (Beer, coffee, etc taste like shit - i can stomach beer sometimes depending on brand, but I'd rather have a margarita).
What can we know about that which we cannot even imagine?
It's not the single set of AirPods that bothers me so much as knowing that, on a larger scale, a lot of AirPods are breaking on a similar time scale and it's a greater trend that causes damage.

I don't think there's much as an individual I can do to make a difference, it's just disheartening to see massive multinational companies dumping out electronics that become non-functional so quickly – even when they're a high enough quality otherwise that they wouldn't really become obsolete for a very long time.
In all fairness, that sounds a lot like "The citizenry is too stupid to get it, so now we force our will upon them." or, and that's even less charitable, "the section of the citizenry that wants carbon emission deceleration does want others to pay for it."

At some point, I think we need to decide if we want to continue the world trying to be democratic, or if we want more-or-less benevolent, eco-dictatorships.
The design flaws of these systems are the fact that they are terrible at changing passwords, dealing with the arbitrary password requirements of many sites, and dealing with the fact that many sites require the storage of additional secrets for practical use that cannot be generated. (eg. secondary passwords or pin codes for privileged operations within the application, mandatory security questions, etc)
> figures like "110,000 results" were an estimate, and if you kept hitting Next, you'd only get about 1,000.

Sounds like they're using biased estimators for the number of search results. If the estimates weren't biased, the underestimated numbers would balance out the overestimated ones, so for every query where they fall short by 2 billion there would be one that has two billion more hits than shown by the UI (or two billion with one hit more).

> The word "lie" is kinda hysterical, don't you think?

If it's true that they show biased estimates, I'd say that's a pretty adequate description.
Logo definitely existed on micros in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

> Apple Logo for the Apple II Plus and Apple Logo Writer for the Apple IIe, developed by Logo Computer Systems, Inc. (LCSI), were the most broadly used and prevalent early implementations of Logo that peaked in the early to mid-1980s.

> Aquarius LOGO was released in 1982 on cartridge by Mattel for the Aquarius home computer.

> Atari Logo was released on cartridge by Atari for the Atari 8-bit family.

> Color Logo was released in 1983 on cartridge (26-2722) and disk (26-2721) by Tandy for the TRS-80 Color Computer.

> Commodore Logo was released, with the subtitle "A Language for Learning", by Commodore Electronics. It was based on MIT Logo and enhanced by Terrapin, Inc. The Commodore 64 version (C64105) was released on diskette in 1983; the Plus/4 version (T263001) was released on cartridge in 1984.[9][10]

And so on.
Fatty foods are good. No one sits around with a spoon eating butter. Just don't pair high fat with high carbs; that combo leads to over-eating everytime.
I don't think monetary cost was accounted for, and I assume by emotional cost you don't mean the hits to someone's health due to emotions (which are accounted for). It's really hard to get diagnosed with a cancer, but early detection is very helpful for improving outcomes.

In the US (in particular), there is a lot more monetary cost to someone's late-stage cancer treatment, and then eventual death, than there is to early-stage cancer treatment, so I would assume that early screening tests are monetarily net beneficial based on the reduction in cancer deaths.
> We've been through that. Those are syntactically delineated unsafe features for C interop. Rust has them, too.

And again we're assuming that the ones we went over in the previous thread are all there is. I found some more: @intToPtr, @bitCast, @alignCast. Some of those @ functions are spatially-memory-safe, and some are not: the differences are not clearly called out.

(I'm going to charitably assume that taking a pointer to an element in a dynamically-allocated array, and then shortening that array and dereferencing that pointer, is a temporal memory safety violation rather than a spatial one.)

> That's right, but Zig is much closer to Rust than to C in that regard. It has clearly marked unsafe features for C interop.

How are they clearly marked, when they're neither relegated to a separate section of the documentation nor behind a switch? As far as I can tell, the person who has gone through the most effort to isolate the spatial memory safe subset of Zig is me, in these HN threads.

> So disagreeing that the design of a language that's struggling to get 1% of the market is the only right way is a fringe view now?

Again, "struggling to get 1% of the market" is a weird way to describe a language that's serving billions of users right now.
You misrepresent history: Stepanov implemented STL first in Lisp, then in Ada. Both were manifestly inadequate. Stepanov openly despised "OO gook", and lamented that "begin", "end", and operators ++ and * had to be class members until partial specialization finally made that unnecessary. (Now we have std::begin and end.) Partial specialization was added to C++ specifically to make STL more practical.

C++ proved adequate. But C++ compilers of the time were not; all of them needed massive improvement to usefully build programs that used STL. (It took many years for Microsoft to get there; STL implementations obliged to work under Microsoft compilers were badly crippled until after C++11 came out.) But no other language was up to the job.

Bjarne did not motivate porting it to C++; the language did. Bjarne helped, but Andrew Koenig might have helped more.
What does rotation have to do with it?

Isn't the situation like an egg in a jar filled with water?

Would a sudden rotation of the jar damage the egg?
https://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-michelle-obama-...

Even if he's made more since then, 10-15% of your net worth definitely isn't peanuts.

Not to mention being as high profile as he is, and talking "my legacy this and that", you'd think he would have paid more attention as to what kind of message he's sending by doing that.
The project has a proper website[0], with a progress blog[1].

0. https://rec98.nmlgc.net/

1. https://rec98.nmlgc.net/blog
In the context of censorship-resistant technologies, this is both technologically and semantically incorrect.
Im not sure people are always referring to the tech sector of Amazon when they call it toxic - unless explicitly stated as “planned attrition” etc. I’ve heard great things about AWS, for example. My opinion is people refer to the company as toxic as a whole because of how warehouse workers’ conditions are or the disruption of communities around Amazon warehouses.
there's a problem between Bob and the bureaucracy. whether it's a Bob problem or a bureaucratic problem is left as an exercise to the reader.

However, I'd be thoroughly unsurprised if Bob happened to be on the autism spectrum. And autistic people are counter-intuitive but very easy to handle: force yourself to be extremely explicit, and to stick to first-degree in your exchanges to a point that seems ridiculous (to you). That's it, really.
Your post is exactly why the engineers were dismissing "computer numbers".

I was certainly a very green engineer, but I had played around a lot with numerical simulations in college. I knew I could get better, faster, and more reliable results with a computer program than the calculators everyone else used.

My lead was right to be very skeptical, and I enjoyed the challenge he set up for me. I had no problem being asked to prove my results were correct.
> It was already disgusting message about hiking

Your strong and emotional reaction made me read the article (thanks for that) and it makes your statement even stranger.

What is disgusting in saying that the majority/the average can exercise a moral tyranny on the individual that is above the average by virtue of its sheer number?

The author is right in saying that, by prioritizing the slowest, you penalize the fastest. This is not a moral opinion, just pure logic.

> the moment the author said "you can also apply this to poverty and obesity" he crossed the moral event horizon.

Again, you're getting outraged over what seems, to me, a very practical and healthy reasoning :
"If someone is standing on a slope, you don't just offer them your hand and let them hold on indefinitely, wasting both people's energy, because you will soon both fall down. You should instead get them on solid ground instead, and get them to move better on their own. If someone wants sympathy and aid but rejects offers of working on a solution, that means they don't want to expend any effort in solving it themselves."

What did you want him to say? That your duty is to sacrifice yourself for others' well-being even if they don't do most of the work themselves?
I am seeing a parallel here to the article posted yesterday about how everything is measured by engagement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32765002

As a product, I would think that you would survive by finding a niche and expanding it. But these changes seem to try to compete for engagement rather than serve the niche.

Yes, you expand your business and make more money - but I would also think that the competition would be more fierce as a trade off.

Kind of wish it could be a setting "sarcasm on".

It's also very similar to how by a bands second or third album (after they hit it big) - they end up changing their sound (often sounding like every other band in the process) - because they go on tour and then they tailor their music to what makes the crown react more.
Rust is serving billions of users right now. It's far past the "experiment" stage and has proven itself.
I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the author's arguments, but good luck optimizing something like those NASA evolutionary antennas [0] with a slide rule... in optimizing difficult numerical problems sometimes you DO need dumb, raw processing power.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/antenna...
Can't see my karma :-(
Though ironically, this is exactly what is being attacked by the article.

They're arguing that giving money to renewables producers should only be done, if the renewable wouldn't otherwise be a viable business, and that some credits are from older renewable energy projects that got grandfathered in, before the offset organisations decided that they could spend their money more effectively elsewhere since the renewables would get built anyway.
Well, it's not because they have different opinions. It's because to me it feels like one of the greatest things life can offer. Just like most people would consider intimacy with a partner, having children, finding a satisfying career/hobby as great things life offers to us humans, I tend to think having a bond with an animal (cat or dog I suppose, but they're very different kind of bonds) is another thing life has to offer to us. Of course, I don't mean to imply a human is less valid without the love of an animal (or less valid without the love of a partner, child, job etc) but I still do think that some people are missing out on this. This is part that makes me sad. If you truly gave cats a shot and you dislike them, I don't give a shit how you feel about them.
This is so interesting, I used to read The Register back in the mid 2000s. I learned about it by stories posted to /. and later loved the headers, it is what attracted my attention. For one reason or another I stopped reading it and a couple of months ago I stumbled upon an article and remembered I liked it quite a lot.

Now I understand why it has not captured my attention in these last years: I checked the homepage and the titles are pretty vanilla, they don't read tongue in cheek not witty, which is something I liked. Nothing wrong with that, I assume the standard editorial style attracts a broader audience.
I think I can do a healthy disagreement without harassment.

> Computers should work for us; if they can automate and enforce something, we should let them

I agree. But in my experience type hints are often treated as a goal, not as a low cost solution. "We're not going to compromise on type safety". Same happens in TypeScript ecosystem.

As you correctly mentioned, Python type hints are somewhat limited. So naturally what happens next is people change the way they write code to work around those limitations. Readability and velocity (major things Python is praised for) gets sacrificed for the sake of "type safety".

The promise was for tooling to correct my mistakes. But more often than not I felt that I have to correct tooling mistakes.

Before mypy became popular, I often used type annotations because I wanted to. I didn't use them everywhere, I wouldn't enforce them in code reviews, I would never use deeply nested types (those are just unreadable) or generics. I was able to extract value from type hints, they gave me 80% of value for 20% of effort. Static analysis feels like it tries to get another 10% of value for 90% of cost. It's not a good deal anymore.
Putting America on economic parity with manufacturing polluters like China and Mexico is reasonable. The environmental tariffs would be helpful to stop companies from green-washing by manufacturing the iGadgets in polluting countries.
Not an expert, but as a hobbyist farmer I can feel some differences in climate, so I am on witnesses of global warming side of the conflict.

The page [1] seems like careful cherry-picking of "good" facts. Presenting text information in pictures hardly obstructing analysis, especially for those who are not fluent in English. The most disturbing for me fact in the punchline was the tweet about fracking [2], because this is a nonsense in every word.

And one more thing. Note how webpage is called - "The case against environmental alarmism". But those hopeful graphs with declining trend of annual carbon emissions were achieved because of climate activists (may I missing some other forces that stimulate businessmen to do less emissions??) and no respect to activists has been given.

[1] https://environmentalprogress.org/the-case-against-environme...

[2] https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/14993866370667274...
I don't know where you're getting your science from, but seltzer water is not dehydrating, and distilled water is not undrinkable for humans.

At best you can say that if you consume exclusively distilled water for a long time, you might deplete your body of some minerals unless they are replenished another way.
It definitely had nothing to do with computers. My physics class was full of jokes about frictionless brakes, massless points, and pointless masses.
https://mvmagazine.com/news/2007/08/01/changing-shape-island

"Parts of Martha's Vineyard are only feet above sea level today. Recent projections target Edgartown as the first town to submerge.

In less than a hundred years, you might be strolling down South Water Street in a kayak. A hundred years - nothing in geologist years. In fact, it doesn't seem like a terribly long time in our years either."
Seems trivial to argue that free social networks and even certain military actions are in the public interest. But that's the problem with something like this, it's just vague non-sense.
> Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

Make that legally binding for the people I work for, and we can talk. Until then...
Interesting. Will take a look, thanks.
I don't accept the assumption that the US gets more potential value out of roads than trains and buses - I do accept that currently the train infrastructure is so insanely poor that nobody wants to ride it.

I think if we take a look at the world at large we'd see that the eastern seaboard and southern california could look a lot more like the Rhine valley and the lowlands while improving quality of life for residents.

Roads need to exist and I am not trying to say they don't - but they shouldn't be the primary transit option for most people on most of their routes.
>Maybe the impact is simply that outside house cats exist in numbers that are not supportable for a normal wild predator due to the fact that house cats have meals provided by humans to sustain them. So house cat numbers don't reach an equilibrium with their prey the way a wild cat could.

That's exactly it. The density of house cats is orders of magnitude larger than the density of wildcats would be.

> Either way I suspect that the impact on bird populations by domestic cats is often overstated.

Why?
That's probably mineral related as someone else said. My wife's best friend actually craved dirt and wanted to suck on rocks, probably for whatever mineral she could smell or get from those sources. Odd how your body knows where things are that you're lacking. I wonder if that works for sunlight too when D deficient.
There was even an issue of Byte featuring Logo, August 1982. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08
You mean mentioning someone's qualifications in order to inform a conversation, like you just did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32781073?

Jennifer Widom has a PhD in computer science from Cornell, btw. I don't see how they are comparable in any way.
The problem is these should not be any more refineries, drill holes etc. The fossils should stay in the ground, the industry should not grow anymore int should shrink. But actually it looks like they only plan digging and pump up and let us burn every single bit just faster before climate conditions become to bad and disinformation no longer works as it did.
I think the digital vs analogue clock is an adjacent, everyday example.

On the human scale precise clock maths is rarely necessary, and conceptually thinking of time as a base 60 number can be more trouble than good.

Technology Connections has a very good video on this, and completely changed thinking: https://youtu.be/NeopkvAP-ag
I agree completely. It is much easier to directly capture the externalities at the most centralized and traceable point (production/refining, and importing) than to have a decentralized system of varying standards and shadiness. If you tax carbon at the source there is no nuance and it’s much harder to cheat.

The problem does become partly a tragedy of the commons though. If eg China doesn’t tax carbon at all internally, then we’d need to figure out how to appropriately tax the emissions of imported finished goods so as not to incentivize them to release CO2 as a competitive advantage. Even if we do that, they may still trade with another country that doesn’t tax imported goods either. One benefit for carbon offsets is they can in theory be used to incentivize cross-border emissions reductions without requiring the poorer countries to sacrifice anything.
> Purring Is a Love Language No Human Can Speak

You might say that the human version of the language is not “purring complete”.
> Pretty sure that's not true.

> harder to do

You can do it via CSS trickery, or you can even do keyboard/mouse event detection and swap out via window.getSelection(), but both are much more involved & less reliable than via a button.
You seem to be saying that game developers have to keep feeding the beast, so to speak.

Game developers don't have to do anything.

They choose to, and the Twitter mob grows more powerful as a result.

It's my opinion that they should stop doing that, because, as they say, the mob comes for all.
Most of the harms discussed in here result primarily from proprietary software licensing practices, so it is unfortunate that no reference is included to something like https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html.

From my point of view, the only intellectually serious investigation of the ethics of software engineering is that conducted by the FSF, for example in the essay I linked above. That's unfortunate, because I think the FSF's analysis is shortsighted in many ways, and software is profoundly important to many aspects of human life already, and becoming more so every day. It's an area of philosophical inquiry that has been seriously neglected.

Nothing in, for example, the ACM's linked code of ethics, even attempts to tackle the difficult ethical issues that arise when, for example, the law conflicts with the public interest; indeed, the ACM's code doesn't even attempt to engage in any sort of moral reasoning, simply presenting a series of mutually contradictory conclusions without attempting any justification for most of them, much less exploring how they play out in practice.

Many people will object that both the ACM's principles and the FSF's principles are inconsistent with the current state of the software industry and indeed the economy in general, and therefore it is not practical to follow them. (Probably some will silently downvote this comment for the same reason.) But if this is true, it does not necessarily mean that the principles are bad; it might mean that the state of the economy is bad, and we should work to bring it into accordance with whatever principles we decide are best.
Bob Iger Assesses the Streaming Services: “I Don’t Think They’ll All Make It”
Michael Shellenberger: San Francisco right now
Interestingly, there was a period of time where spamming "Hello" in Hearthstone (using a very similar system) was considered particularly toxic, especially while running out your timer every turn.