skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. Reformat (clean install) machine every 1-2 months.

This drove me crazy when I developed on Mac. It must be a combination of Homebrew issues and MacOS idiosyncracies, because there's no escaping the feeling of a "dirty" machine. A few good months of MacOS dev work can make a formidable machine feel like a decades-old UNIX environment.

If you do general-purpose development on MacOS, I beg you: please use Nix. The dev experience is head-and-shoulders above Homebrew or MacPorts, and the package selection is immense. Learn Flakes, and your cross-platform dev experience will feel downright magical.
There is at least one language-enforced performance improvement: C++17 enforces some amount of RVO. Thus some stuff that would have been copied in previous standard is now not anymore. More standard types supporting move semantics & such also mean that generic code which correctly calls std::move / std::forward may do fewer copies the more recent standard you use.
That makes sense, but I didn't see the thrust of the article as a history lesson, it seemed to be recommending Puritan methodologies outside of their religious context.
Can you describe your experiment in more detail? Even with more detail, this seems like too anecdotal and not controlled to draw meaningful broad conclusions that you seem to be drawing, but regardless sounds very interesting.
Do GNU/Linux phones have open source drivers for the hardware components?
Love that the UNIX compatibility layer is called Don Quixote, and how the document reveals the way UNIX was always seen from Apple glasses.

> Don Quixote is not intended to be a replacement for a standard full-featured UNIX system -- rather, it is a reduced-complexity UNIX for "the rest of us" who want some or all of the capabilities of UNIX but don't want the difficulties associated with a standard UNIX.

> ...

> Both NeXT and A/UX are using this approach to attempt to turn a relatively traditional UNIX workstation into a personal computer. The "wrapper" approach does not address the fundamental problem -- the complexity of UNIX.

Taken from UNIX Adapter chapter
Apple Watch uses the iPhone’s gps when the phone is close by.
Out of curiosity, how did you solve the issue of extracting text from the pdf, error free? Or did you use another package?
These jobs allow something like 60-100M households escape poverty every year. That's a good thing for everyone (except the Earth).
Use more pay more is pretty simple and implemented - and the lowest tiers are really cheap.

The complicated one is daily tiers - when power is more or less expensive at different times.
Convenient that you don't have any examples of your point whatsoever and just lean into a thinly veiled insult to try and cover that up. The point stands, this content is by no means ubiquitous or even remotely close to frequent enough for your use of 'often' to be correct with even a charitable interpretation.
Ask HN: We are getting close to Russia using nukes and few people care. Why?
Russia may use nukes in Ukraine soon, which could trigger World War III with conventional weapons and later with nukes.

Shouldn't everyone be scared now?
Companies are increasing prices now. If they could have profitably increased them before, why did they wait until now?
How would printing your own money work in Monopoly? Since the objective is to bankrupt all opponents, there is never an incentive to accept their currency as payment.
Tangential:

Some time ago I built an automation [1] that identifies whether the given PDFs contain the specified keywords, outputting the result as a CSV file.

Similar to PDFGrep, probably much slower, but potentially more convenient for people preferring GUIs

[1] https://github.com/bendersej/pdf-keywords-extractor
Show HN: Stable Diffusion with Nix
Honest question: is it easy to find good C++ programmers these days?
NyQuil chicken is not a thing that people are actually doing, just like the "tide pod challenge" or any number of the completely bullshit moral panics that the news makes up for eyeballs.
For example, I work at a company (a company you hear about daily here on Hacker News) that has a compiler generating linear algebra kernels.

The compiler is a huge assemblage of C++ templates, stitched together with a little Python.

The generated code is in an assembly language for a highly parallel machine, and needs to be heavily optimized down to the cycle.

But the compiler itself does NOT need to be so minutely tuned. It needs to be maintainable and it needs to allow easy development of complex code generators.

Go would be a great choice for the compiler.

Instead, we struggle with C++ templates, CMake'ing our code slowly and with absurd complexity, modifying the compiler slowly and with great difficulty...
Some don't drink for financial, health or religious reasons. I don't really care about any of those. I found I just don't like to be in an altered state. I will have a single drink every now and then if the cocktail looks tasty or a beer brew looks interesting, but getting buzzed has no appeal.
"I never tried a thing and so it's dumb!"
Does it use real slide positions? I'm guessing not. (The slide is only long enough to change pitch by a small amount. Lip tension is used to select a resonant mode at each slide position.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc1EPud2VAQ&t=8s
"a flow of love that moves from one person to the other in the presence of suffering"

This is a circular definition of compassion, according to Buddhism. Rather, Buddhism defines compassion as the wish for others not to suffer, and loving-kindness as the wish for others to have happiness.
Since wage hikes historically have not matched inflation, I don't see anything wrong with hikes that surpass inflation rates.

We have a lot of catching up to do, and incumbents designed this system so that healing the gap hurts the bottom line of voters, so there is simply no painless way out of it. We've all been paying towards a debt that is about to be realized.
Except the public sector, especially at the local level, only has a pot of money as big as the voters approve. You can pay more for fewer people (and it's often hard to layoff people) or pay less for more. So you can decide to pay more but that means hiring fewer people and doing fewer things (like filling in potholes) or staffing a DMV location.

Private companies have constraints too of course but generally have more flexibility in dealing with them--which can of course be to decide that some job isn't worth it if they have to pay $X to fill it.

We do this all the time at a personal level. While there are some service people who I would pretty much have to grin and bear it. There are plenty of other things I'd just let go, do it myself, etc.
Someone drinking scotch at their table doesn't cause me to drink it second hand across the room, and stain my clothes, furniture and hair.

If smokers could do it without contaminating their whole environment no one would care.
Big tobacco had a large portion of it's money and power taken away. Politicians probably also know what happened last time with alcohol prohibition and thus just toss it on the pile of things to hard to solve for now.
Would have been nice to have some examples showing it in action.
The big difference of course is tooling (CAD tooling) ten years after that I was knocking out that many timed gates a year myself, 5 years later, maybe 5 times more again - that world has changed a lot from the 6502 which was done with litho and modelling knives
Yeah what worked for us was limiting the kind of requests you could make - no “show me all
Your cards” type and more “we need to defend X who wants to do that” type.
Remove the print key binding and bind quick open to cmd+P
That person said, paraphrased, that if a drunk woman cheats then the woman gets blamed for infidelity (implying it’s somehow someone else’s fault, maybe her partner or the person she hooks up with?). Yes, if you cheat, you are a cheater. Guess I’m too old to follow her reasoning beyond that.
The French horn is a popular answer to "what's the hardest orchestral instrument?".

It has longer tubing and therefore a lower fundamental frequency than a trombone, but typically plays in a higher range.

The higher above the fundamental frequency of a brass instrument you play, the more notes can be played with a single fingering. So the French horn requires very precise lip control to get the right note.
I always hated alcohol consumption and what it did to me if I abused it. But I'm really starting to see the benefits of alcohol sometimes.

I have issues with anxiety and depression. I have seen a psychiatrist and all the medication he ever prescribed to me had side effects worse than my actual condition. The only thing I noticed that could take the edge off without any major side effects were a couple of pints of beer.

Also, I'm trying to date after a brutal relationship breakup followed and a long dry spell, and Tinder makes me even more miserable and depressed so I deleted it, but I noticed some pubs in my city have lots of girls hanging around and sometimes looking at me. Without alcohol I probably wouldn't have the courage to talk to them as the anxiety would kill me and they probably wouldn't have the courage to stare at me. Alcohol seems to be this lubricant of social interactions. As a good friend of mine put it: "if it weren't for alcohol, half of us wouldn't be born and we wouldn't be here today", and he's right lol.

Us humans have a very long relationship with alcohol from the tribal days. Even animals love getting drunk eating fermented fruit.

Sometimes, if I have to make a very difficult life changing decision that triggers my anxiety like signing the contract of a new job or a lease, I think about it once sober, and once drunk, and if the decision of sober me and drunk me are the same, then it means it's the right decision for me :)

So if some pharma company could make a medicine that does what two pints of beer do, please let me know, as I'd like to invest.

YMMV of course, this is not professional medical or life advice.

And I do see the negative sides as well, where people with mental issues instead of seeking professional help or moderating their consumption, look for the solution at the bottom of a bottle, ending up as addicts and ruining their lives and those of others. To me, Japan, Eastern Europe and Scandinavian countries seem to have a real problem with alcohol abuse.
> Mostly deprecations mean something was deemed to be a bad idea

"Most" maybe by count, but I'm not sure if it's "most" by usage frequency. There have been & will be lots of nonsensical deprecations that are much more common in existing code than "putting volatile on an object argument" (which I've honestly never even seen anyone do in my life)... like static (which was undeprecated, thankfully, but how were people supposed to know this ahead of time?), std::aligned_storage, std::bind1st, std::iterator. They're frustrating as heck, have questionable merits to begin with, and working around the deprecations in existing code provides practically zero business value.
Quick example of how it looks:
https://jsfiddle.net/n8Lqypb7/
I remember back in the days when I went to art school parties showing up to a party sober and finding everyone incredibly annoying. Then I… took steps to align my serotonergic system to the mood of the room (I showed up 45m late) and it turned into a great night with amazing people.

Alcohol was present but only in casual quantities… we weren’t getting drunk.

Sobriety is where it’s at though.
Then tax the wealthy and put that money into the hands of people who actually need it.
You shouldn't be scared. The U.S. and allied governments have the situation under control. Mutually assured destruction remains in effect. A Russian nuclear attack on NATO would be met in kind.
What I worry about is that the same people who call for more immigration also call for higher wages and better working conditions for blue collar labor.

Increased immigration from poorer countries only results in lower wages and less leverage to negotiate for the most vulnerable. Regardless of whatever laws you try to bring forth to counter this, you’ll be fighting a permanent uphill battle against physical reality.

The modern progressive attitude is to simply be for everything indiscriminately, without regard for the contradictions.
It’s really weird how a generation that is more conscious of the downsides of alcohol is somehow portrayed negatively. Are people really that insecure about their personal choices in alcohol consumption?

I don’t see why a more deliberate approach to alcohol is problematic.
Of course it does. You have a naive view of wages. You do not increase minimum wages and not have wage compression elsewhere in the workforce.

Increasing the minimum wage has the most dramatic impact on increasing the demand for goods because it impacts so many people. Increasing the maximum wage has little if any impact on broader demand for goods because it impacts so few. Unless your supply chain can keep up with the demand surge through raised wages, you will see inflation, which is our situation today.

You might naively assume the solution is to introduce price controls but the general outcome of that is the economy shifting transactions to barter-based, black markets, and non-denominated currency exchange, which causes more economic upheaval as GPD and tax revenues drop. There are many examples of this in the last 100 years, Venezuela being a recent one.
Smoking indoors has a direct and significant effect on people who have no choice in the matter. The “gross and trashy” attitude for an occasional smoker doesn’t really exist all that widely, but a few people are really into it.

The weird binge drinking attitude of Americans needs to be toned down but it’s really a cultural thing encouraged with the high legal drinking age and various inhibitions against, say, a beer at lunch. For most people there’s nothing at all wrong with light or occasionally moderate drinking.
As someone who doesn't drink alcohol, I'm quite happy with my life.

I'm not sure you could say anything took the place of it. I work in computer security (lots of alcohol use there). I go to furry conventions (lots of alcohol use there).

I live with the same group of friends I've had for 10+ years. None of us drink alcohol. We all have our own careers but none of us overwork.

The only notable difference between us and the social alcohol drinkers is we save a few hundred dollars a month that would otherwise go to a bar tab.
It depends on what you define as useful. 90's style personal websites/Usenet/BBS forums can be useful. People certainly gathered there to make significant things happen and to create useful resources. That said they're still pretty infotainmenty, the signal to noise ratio is still pretty low compared to a focus on an actual topic of interest that comes through deeply engaging with the literature and/or delving into making or building things with it. We have to keep to the logic that the internet is a conduit towards real life actions and the internet of the 90's already cut into that. In a sense, being bothered by the SEO means you are still in an infotainment mindset anyway or at least surfing the shallower waves.

Today's internet has astoundingly accessible resources on all sorts of things. A motivated person can still sidestep all of the crap with relative ease. Or to put it another way, if they get lost in the shrubs, they weren't gonna make it in any case. Motivated people now have many more tools and platforms at their disposal to gather alongside one another and make things happen. The pre-September internet was more private, yes, but that was actually a massive flaw in an absolute sense. Now you can have a bright middle class Mongolian kid become an electronics expert on his own and the greybeards aren't barred from finding their watering hole either.
Let's hope they succeed. Good luck
Compassion felt towards people who share your genes or people who will likely reciprocate is adaptive.

Compassion felt towards animal prey and enemy tribes is maladaptive. We had to eat and be able to kill others in a skirmish.

So it's no wonder people can switch it on and off in the presence or absence of contextual cues. It's in essence a thing that's designed to be self-serving.
Check out NASA's latest image of the bands around Neptune
Repairing a multimeter by replacing its chip
> it wasn’t until 2003 before Apple was able to shipp an OS remotely embodying anything here for most end users

Perhaps I wasn't most end users, but I was able to leverage a Mac 8500 from 1997 with an upgraded dual G4 450MHz daughter card to run Connectix Virtual PC and Windows XP on 10.0 Cheetah in 2002 (daughter card would not support newer OS versions) in order to attend remote online A/V Blackboard courses for a semester at my alma mater. The virtualization was a lame dog, but somehow it worked well enough for me to complete the courses, and I can only assume the base Cheetah operating system performed far better on contemporary Mac hardware (which would have been the 2002 Quicksilver, G4 800MHz up to dual G4 1GHz).
'Baby' island appears in Pacific Ocean after underwater volcano erupts
According to duck duck go, multiple people complained about Spotify auto installing on their windows box two days ago.

I completely stopped using windows in the 8.1 days (forced telemetry was the last straw). I can't imagine dealing with the sorts of gaslighting you are experiencing.

Happily, a combination of steam proton and dosbox run dos / windows games on my Linux desktop more smoothly than native ever did, and that was my last missing use case.
Sounds a bit like what you love is feeling superior.

I’m unsure if you intended for your comment to be condescending, but it certainly came across that way. I very rarely drink these days, but I also don’t judge other people for doing so.
rsync.net is my off-site/cloud of choice. And they keep your bits on ZFS.
She did phrase that poorly, but starts with "you get a harsher punishment for poor decisions", I assume she means in comparison to men.
I have no idea why you were downvoted for the obvious answer.
The bigger question is why isn't sobriety viewed as the default position rather than the exception?

I mean, nobody would ask why young people are saying "no" to crack cocaine.
Also contrary to popular belief, it was not that the Puritans genuinely thought themselves to be better than everyone else. Their writing indicate they were all too acutely aware of their sinfulness. They knew of the difficulties in steering clear of it. When you are starving and you find bread, it is only natural you want to inform others how they too can find it. This is probably the root of their overzealousness.
I'm from Long Island and clearly remember this. This is a pretty shocking possibility.
In my experience, I have found that, for me, anger is really fear. People don't like thinking of it, that way, because angry people are "strong," and fearful people are "weak."

But I have had to face these types of things. Long, sad, story. Bring your hanky.

In both cases (fear and anger), the feeling needs to be temporary, if at all possible, because they are protective armor, meant to gear up our bodies and brains for a "fight or flight" scenario.

When I am fearful (including angry), my brain doesn't get "stupid," but it gets "binary." There's no "gray areas," or calculation of long-term cost. Only "No Threat" or "Threat." Bad decisions get made, very quickly, when we are on a fear binge. That's one reason why "managing by fear" is a pretty bad idea for knowledge workers. Soldiers and first responders train on how to make decisions under fear stress, but they know their limits, and their decisions are very much "short term."

Demagogues have known for centuries, that, if you get the people scared, you can make them support pretty much anything that you want. They know how to guide that "binary" thinking.

Compassion is important, and one way (in my experience) to learn it, is to work with people that are hard to like.
I don't know if you've read the benchmark code from The Benchmark Game, but anyone who has looked at the code takes those results with a grain of salt, or discards them entirely.

For example, the C/C++ implementations use arena allocators, and they could do the same for the Go implementations, but they don't.

The Benchmark Game is a joke. Here it is, for anyone who wants a good laugh: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
The pub scene got boring quickly after the initial thrill, and then my 30s hit and even 1 drink had miserable gastrointestinal consequences.

I can't really think of any cherished memories formed with the help of alcohol, but I have plenty without it
There are no "special" persons or superheroes. It is all about time + money.

If a tech giant wants this to happen - e.g. because memory un-safety is mostly the root of all evil - they can use people from the current team and throw a few millions on hiring new talent.
Current context determine brain actions. That's a emotion machine theory by minsky
I disagree, as a network engineer the edge devices (e.g. firewalls/routers) that I manage in my company are 100% internal infrastructure. If you go by Netflix's own architecture diagrams, they do have a local presence at colo facilities:

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/#sample-architectures

If one of these appliances installed in an ISP's cabinet dies, content to end users will get served directly by an appliance within Netflix's infrastructure.
Fails on Safari on iPadOS 15.6.1 too.

edit: another commenter says ad blockers are the culprit.
There were / are many theological concepts in the West that diverge from what the early Church taught due to the Schism of Rome, so I view some of that as symptoms of working within a broken chain of knowledge to begin with, but I do agree that the idea of Predestination as rigidly defined within Calvinist tradition undermines the notions of free will both of humans and of the Creator Himself.

That being said, of all the Western Churches, it was the Puritans (specifically John Winthrop) who had the intelligence and courage to secure the Massachusetts Charter from King Charles I, providing both the intellectual and legal basis for liberty from the Continental monarchies.
It's okay, they're just mimicing Apple's development philosophy.
I know there are many happy people not drinking or using drugs and that’s great. I wish I would’ve been one. But of all students, 1/3rd seems very hard to not have any (most or significant) of those 100ks in the article to do something else that’s addictive and unhealthy; eat, dope, etc.
In iOS 16 it’s tap on the workout, then anywhere under Workout details and scroll a bit. That is really no discoverability issue, because there is even a show more button next to it, that has the same function.

But maybe it changed on iOS 16?
Most adults and I could not tell you where their water or electricity come from besides “the utility company”, not much more informative in my opinion.