skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the demographic challenges of Europe (sub-replacement fertility of the most productive and the vast influx of net-negative aliens), it is wise to crash the system: Abandon welfare, pensions and subsidized healthcare.

With those shackles thrown off, countries have a chance of regrowth. The nation state can maintain national (and border) security, run natural monopolies, regulate pollutants, and that's it. Fund those services with Land Value Taxes.

The alternative is endlessly raising taxes and throwing the country into a deaths-spiral.
yes, no car is better than a car - still, people won't get rid of all cars
Fine. Pure gut and a large account of gut-derived models.

I refer only to the foundation. Not what's been built upon it.

Even christianity is founded upon gut. The layered authoritarian edifice (be it religious or scientific) is... I'm not sure what you call that.

What do you call it when you have a model but have lost the empirical basis for that model?
There are many valid interpretations of The Wire's themes, but I dare to suggest that "hustle grindset" is not one of them.
What if the pots had no detents and the color could also be sent from the computer to this device? Bi-directional color.
I'd be curious though, in 20 years, what kind of technical debt SpaceX will accumulate.

I mean, as vendors, part of the debt we inherit is that of our customers. Then our customers switch to something else. As vendors, how do we support both the past and the future? By making changes opt-in if possible, but still, that technical debt is there, and requires devs and other support staff.

I don't work in anything rocket-science, but I stopped asking clients if they want to upgrade. We decide when to do it for them, and we take the blame if something goes sideways.

I still prefer to have something break, than lose a client because they didn't realize they could upgrade instead of opting for another product (and they probably silently grew resentful at the lack of features of the old version).
Sure, try this guy's channel https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTkKBA6LRqYuuQ-LboerRb... and his Putnam seminar vids, he shows an interesting process you can do for any problem outside math as well like collecting all ideas no matter how small to increment towards a solution, writing out examples and test cases, casting the problem into a different structure, recognizing if something has a notion of order then you can always reorder it.

There's books like 'Art of Problem Solving' or Polya 'How to Solve It' but they make sense only after you get some experience.
I think software engineers can afford luxury, sooner or later. But I get that saving is more important for some people.

I can only speak for myself, but I've looked for months to find something I really like so it's not an impulse buy and I'm not dropping 1k/mo on random things.

You have amazing people around you, it's great when people show you the good stuff :)
The US relies on private propaganda to normalize attitudes to its goals. Given how chummy politicians and “journalists” and corporate owners are off camera it’s laughable to think there is a real separation of power.

Our biology evolved for thousands of years before language was invented. To suggest our language influences our biology is nonsensical. Our biology influences language. Propaganda is all about setting a biological mood not embedding a specific chant. Media had been stoking the right moods until the internet enabled an unfiltered emotional meta-mind.

They intentionally wrap news in titillating music and graphics. It’s all research based effort in the fields of behavioral economics, public relations, etc.

An educated minority are leveraging that education against the majority to optimize for themselves. “Because that’s the history of our society!”
You weren't joking!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WokFi
Why whales don't get brain damage when they swim
And not a great one, as well.
And then you'll be wasting time marshaling data between the stream and your objects because they're not PODs and so you can't just memcpy() onto them.
See this comment in the same thread (for macOS) [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32952892
I dunno, I guess we just disagree.
By the time I made my comment, we had this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32942901
I think neither that comment, nor the commenter's self-reply should be considered lacking effort.
(Arguably the attitude that comes across when they complain about being "baited" isn't great, but their intended meaning seems fine.)

I do not take offense to the response calling out OP's first comment as low-effort and shallow because it was both of those things.
I just can't see the comment I responded to as defensible with such a strong combination of irony and infelicity.
Samsung’s AI: Megapixel DeepFakes
But the point is that there's not really ever this mythical one great move that's going to win your the game. Look at Stockfish's analysis of the game:

https://lichess.org/broadcast/sinquefield-cup--grand-chess-t...

There's not a single move that significantly improved black's position.
Lit is just syntactic sugar for bare metal stuff that is W3C standards based. There isn't any vendor lock-in and won't be "upgrading" your Lit because they told you to.

You are right on components for other people -- but if all the components are for you or your company, ones you handcraft w/ Lit will be lighter weight and easier to write and fix.
Meaning if you see that they just don't have taste?
I looked up what this meant, and I think it means this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk8Id06dcAQ
This x1000! Type guards are a joke and real runtime type checking could be so easy if they prioritized it. Yes you can use zod but then you have to define your types through zod which isn't as neat.

I actually googled for this just yesterday!
Well to be honest when you start to build houses in the forest voters want fire to be suppressed.
beg to get back into the EU before UK is just Wales and England with no GDP.
VS Code

It took me awhile to switch over. But really, I can’t go back to anything else. The customization and UX is unbeatable.
Free Assange first, or try not to plot an assassination against him again. Then we can consider listening to your lies on the podcast.
btw, strlcpy() is now being removed from Linux kernel code. strscpy() is the latest "secure" string copy function:

https://lwn.net/Articles/905777/
Google, Apple, or Meta retain the power to ship a tweaked binary with a compromised RNG to a subset of users if authorities order them to be it now or in the future after a privacy policy change.

Proprietary encryption means users cannot verify or control the keys or the code that generates or uses the keys. The app can exfiltrate the keys or do any keyword processing on behalf of Meta as well which can include well intentioned features like forwarding paintext messages containing certain dangerous-seeming words to authorities or theoretically trusted third party review teams. Naturally they could also return -metrics- about frequency of word use back to Meta for ad targeting as well.

I too have been a champion of encryption and privacy at past companies only to have all my work undone and watch all the data become plaintext and abused for marketing by a new acquirer.

The only way end to end encryption solutions can avoid these types of abuses is when the client software is open source and can be audited, reproducibly built, and signed by any interested volunteers from the public for accountability.

Short of that it is really not that much different than TLS with promises Meta will not peek, at least not directly, today.
Yeah, it is actually crazy how cheap even the listed prices (for example L-rate pricing) can be here. I'm surprised we don't have more datacenters (there are lots of them, but not as much as I'd have thought).
Best of James May: The Reassembler
Yeah, agree - building and verifying apps built on this models is very hard as they are hard to test extensively. But so are most other ML-based apps. The error in that example was on my side, not on the model. I mean, to me this seems simillar to saying that high-abstraction programming languages are a problem because their compilers are hard to develop and probably loaded with bugs.
I am on my 12th year of virtually no access to the traditional financial system. I had all my bank and brokerage accounts killed with no suspension and no allowance to appeal. No bank will do business with me either on my Pridnestrovian passport.

Your regulators are thieves and thugs and I don't trust them one bit. I have faith in Bitcoin, or things I can instantly convert to Bitcoin without your regulators interfering. Fiat currencies I need SWIFT or ACH to access are literally worthless to me as I have access to neither, and even if I did it would be a precarious situation that I have to worry about all my money disappearing in a Kafkaesque net of AML investigations from which it will never escape. Your sarcastic tone about "unregulated tokens" is exactly how everyone in my country views your worthless dollar.
Nothing stops the API evolving... Anyone can make a build of Chromium with a better API, test it out with their own extension, and if it works better, then they can send a PR to get that API into Chrome.

Obviously, extending an API is a long term commitment, so I can understand the Chrome team wanting to only do it if there is a decent benefit - "it makes my one extension with 10 users work slightly better" probably doesn't cut it.
Excess mortality is nearly 95% covid related.
I recall sitting in a packed room with over a hundred devs at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium while the topic of the number of filesystem bits was being discussed (link: https://www.linux.com/news/ottawa-linux-symposium-day-2/). I recall people throwing out questions as to why we weren't just jumping to 128 or 256 bits, and at one point someone blurted out something about 1024 bits. Someone then made a comment about the number of atoms in the universe, everyone chuckled, and the discussion moved on. I sensed the feeling in the room was that any talk of 128 bits or more was simply ridiculous. Mind you this was for storage.

Fast-forward 18 years, and it's fascinating to me to see people now seriously floating the proposal to support 256-bit pointers.
I thought up a few ways to visualize 2^64 unique items:

- You could give every ant on Earth ~920 unique IDs without any collisions

- You could give unique IDs for every brain neuron for all ~215 million people in Brazil

- The ocean contains about 20 × (2^64) gallons of water (3.5267 × 10^20 gallons total)

- There are between 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, so you could assign each star between 46,000,000–184,000,000 unique IDs each

- You could assign ~2.5 unique IDs to each grain of sand on Earth

- If every cell of your body contained a city with 500,000 people each, every "citizen" of your body could have a unique ID without any collisions

Calculating these figures is actually a lot of fun!
The thing is about all these tools is that starting out with a simple VPS is much more cost effective?
https://contabo.com has 4 cores for 5€ and you can scale up to 10 cores and 60 gb ram for 27€ a month.
And if you need dedicated cores 12 cores with 96GB is 130€ vs 8 dedicated cores with 64 GB ram for 550€

Choose a docker image and just docker-compose up your application.

If you outgrow that, you might aswell switch to kubernetes and aws/gcp/azure
My greatest success as a taxi driver was learning to follow my intuition. One passenger led to the next, until I'd met all the people I was supposed to meet for that day.

At the start of a shift I'd ask myself where to go. When I was between passengers, driving around thinking about where to find my next fare, I'd do a "left, right or straight" as I approached intersections. Sometimes it was definite response, sometimes I got the impression that it didn't matter.

One of the passengers I've told you all about ... I was next to her apartment when she called for her taxi. She's doing much better now, because I took some time to talk to her.

Ingo Swann said something about how we have much more than the 5 physical senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. ... Random blog post about our other 'senses': https://www.hellahealth.com/blog/wellness/humans-five-senses...

(I met Ingo before I took to taxi driving: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587071 )

Intuition helps keep us alive, and helps put is in the right place at the right time so we can meet the people we're supposed to meet to move us along on whatever we're working on.
The devs have talked about performance bottlenecks a lot - the real benefit of Factorio on the M1 would be the RAM interconnect, as most of the performance issues are related to RAM latency. Upgrading your PC from (e.g.) DDR3 to DDR4 gives you a whole lot more FPS per $ than upgrading your graphics card or CPU.
I was going to check it out, but IAPs are full of gem packs, which is not very encouraging. How is the freemium aspect?
Well it’s a very popular prequel story. A bit like Arcane for League. So yes, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it got people to play the game.
The Wire is radical, but not quite radical to the point of openly questioning the foundations of modern American culture. That would be crazy in ~2002.
Yeah you can always cut corners with the GPU if you have to, but Factorio has the large problem of making a CPU-intensive deterministic simulation run at 60 Hz.

Thinking about it some more, there are also probably some tweaks you could use for situations with limited resources which wouldn't apply to most PCs, but would affect the Switch.
A hat is fine, but the ideal merch is socks
Each car is typically driven 35 miles daily in the USA. Against a capacity of ~250 miles, this represents many days of non-charging, and thus a lot of flexibility in when charging occurs.

EVs can potentially strengthen the grid: if they are charged smartly, to balance demand.

We need manufacturers, regulators, grid operators to align on how to figure this out.

At the least, grid conditions/pricing should be sent to the car for smart charging.

Mandating 240volt connections in all garages and a large portion of apartment parking lots would also enable the solar excesses of the day to be quickly utilized.
Corruption is within all power structures without exception... It is often not a character trait as many wrongly assume.

In general, compartmentalizing a few clear limited-scope areas for each team member is an effective management task. In this manner, there is direct accountability when something goes wrong, and a user-base focuses attention on a flaw... a growing number of regression tests helps some do their job properly... rather than sidetrack the rest of the team.

This can be brutal to laggards getting hazed, but a blessing to senior staff now avoiding spending half the day reverting garbage. ;)
if you're paranoid don't use a 4 digit PIN. use a passphrase. problem solved
> you guys really should invest in dynamic charging using electrified roads

The state of our roads is already atrocious. Electrifying them would make them worse (installing any significant amount of road would take away from repairing the existing issues), and also dangerous.
Are you absolutely sure that this is still the case? You say you "used" to work on it, but modus operandi for these companies is rugpulling protections like this as soon as nobody is looking
Except constantly running can’t benefit from time of day pricing. Essentially it needs to be some 15kWh load that only needs to run for 6 hours per day.
> Not everybody gives clear signals and not everybody is good at interpreting signals.

This is literally what I said. Being good at interpreting signals is attractive. Giving clear signals is attractive.

> If a guy doesn’t kiss a girl at the end of the night her impression is that he’s weak.

Sorry but this is some redpill bullshit.
I think if you work on the iPhone/iPad, (or for that matter, on other email clients or email sending devices), there's probably an exemption from it being as tacky to advertise the device you're using
Here's my issue with UB in C/C++ (and I think it agrees with the article): I would much rather have direct compiler directives over the compiler being clever in a quiet way. The first example in this article is very good -- get_unchecked avoids undefined behavior (well, outside of accessing out of bounds), but still provides the wanted optimization. If something goes bad in your program, one of the first things you're going to suspect is functions with _unchecked at the end of them, so the developer ergonomics are great.

My main problem with undefined behavior is that it's rare to know when it's happening. I would much rather give hints to the compiler than having it "prove" something very subtle underneath the hood using UB, because then I understand where those things are happening. And it's not even like it's a rare thing! My C++ is littered with "const" and "[[nodiscard]]" and #pragma pack and all sorts of other things that don't change the behavior of the program but do indicate something important to the compiler. I want more of that, and less subtlety.
I had a good experience doing the test app with fly, I’d definitely consider it for something internet routable and non-complex like a bot or something. Very excited for when I can run more complicated workloads such as workloads started with Docker Compose, without having to implement all the Docker Compose functionality myself.
This debate is pretty old already. The analogue to electric companies is ISPs, not social media companies. Social media companies are analogous to appliance companies. GE or Whirlpool are within their rights to stop selling you fridges because they disagree with you politically.

ISPs aren't treated as common carriers at the moment, and these laws were enacted by the same political party that treats this as a free speech issue. So I have trouble taking seriously any politician who supports such laws. They're hypocrites; pure and simple.
It's not just the driving on the left that gives away that this is not in the US, but also the fact that there are lights along the highway and reflectors dividing the lanes. Ha, safety precautions!

I hate US highways at night, they are so dark, sometimes I feel I might as well have my eyes closed.

Rant that no one asked for over.
Alternate take: by the time BigTech salaries had gotten so out of whack from none BigTech salaries that the cost of living differences between moving to the west coast made sense, I already was in my mid 30s, newly married with the big house in the burbs with two (step)sons and it just wasn’t appealing to me.

By the time my youngest graduated in 2020 and I again had the opportunity and willing spouse to get a job at BigTech as a software developer and move across the country, I still wasn’t interested.

I kept talking to the recruiter and she suggested another software engineering adjacent job that ended up paying 20% less, but was permanently remote, I jumped at.

I have an entire room in my own house dedicated to cardio equipment and weights and my wife has another room dedicated to her dance studio and workout area. Why would I care about a “free gym” and “free food”? I don’t need “free laundry service”, the only time I dress in anything approaching business casual is when they fly me out to a customer site or a team meeting.
Ah, parent already corrected their mistake. The comment I was responding to was saying 16*1024*1024*1GB.
Strangely enough: Windows.

Yes, I fucking hate Windows 10/11 for several laundry lists' worth of reasons, but you know what? At the end of the day, Windows is the only desktop OS that enables me to use my computer to do the shit I need or want to do.

So long as that fundamental principle as a tool is not violated, I will forever be thankful for Windows regardless what criticism I might have for it.
All the regulation being in French, and the translated versions not being considered official is such a hindrance to doing anything in Quebec. Everything becomes substantially more complicated, involves a lot more people, and it is disjoint with the entire rest of Canada and the US in terms of your compliance and your staff. You can see why companies would avoid it even given the rather incredible cost reductions their power cost would offer.
Cool! Which ones?
What about spell-check data?
It's not unlike wearing a giant designer label. Except that everyone and their uncle, from trailer park to penthouse, has an iPhone.
"Referencing your XXber XX, 2022 communication, I understand that you have unilaterally reduced my compensation package. I understand this to be an act of constructive dismissal. I therefore acknowledge that you have terminated my employment as of XXber XX. I will be seeking unemployment benefits and all other legal remedies for this termination and I look forward to your cooperation in securing me the same."
In the 90s, the Internet was seen differently. The core functions - email! Shopping! Message boards! - were thought of as the pillars of what made up the World Wide Web. And so AOL and Netscape and others bundled the software into suites, where you got all your Internet stuff done. Mozilla used to be this way in its early days, before the web browser branched to Firefox.

Opera did it, too, and Vivaldi is a spiritual successor to Opera.

I switched to Vivaldi on Android because I didn't want to use Chrome, but Firefox on Android was doing two things that annoyed me: Reloading tabs when I navigate back to them after a long time ( which is a delay at best or loses the page state at worst) and as of six months ago, the screen would stutter when scrolling through pages like the New York Times.

Anyway, I tried Vivaldi mobile and liked it, then decided I might like the sync features between desktop and mobile, so I now use it on desktop.

And then I decided to try their mail client, which "just works" for me and my light usage. I already have the browser up all the time, so I hit F4 and check my mail.
Do you have the setting that turns on end to end encryption? I thought by default it was off (and always off for group chats) ?
Thanks for your comments.

Just movies for now, that's correct. Media Hoarder will evolve organically and it was never my goal to compete in all features with the solutions already around. Else it wouldn't have seen the light of day today or even the next years ;)

Thanks for the hint about the forum, I reverted the "must approve" setting.

Also thanks for the kudos regarding the browsing experience. Your critique is noted.
I don't think the analysis went far enough. Consider this:

What happens if you don't walk enough to maintain your health, say, heart health? What's the CO2 footprint of all the imaginable health interventions you might need?

Seems to me the linked analysis is far too weak to be of much value.
That’s how we do it in Denmark. We have hourly prices on electricity, so for me it’s cheaper to start the dishwasher outside peak hours. In some areas they are experimenting with car chargers hooked up to this electricity price info, so it charges when it’s cheap.
Maps of Subjective Feelings