skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrote a lot of term papers in Word Writer (printed on a Star NX-10C). This is a delightful thing to see.
That line spacing is obnoxiously big tho
Under Preferences > Locations you can make DerivedData relative to each project and I recommend you do that so different apps you work on don’t force you to wipe all the artifacts from all apps when you clean it manually.

As for removing old simulators after you remove an old Xcode, run

$ xcrun simctl delete unavailable
"You think books having a cost is a restriction of your freedom? Why? And why books, but not your work?"

"Because copying information from one computer to another costs nothing (except for the electricity and internet access). Any attempt to restrict that capability is restricting your freedom."

Why books, and not his work?
I recharged my Pebbles while I was in the shower, since they usually took less than 15 minutes to top up after ~24 hours of usage. I've found my Apple Watch (it is an older model, though) to need too much time to recharge, however, so rather than building a different habit around it I recharge it overnight.
Agreed.

What I will say however is what I tell my team…

1) Our organization does not pay you for your time. It pays you for your expertise.

2) Automate all the things and accomplish our organizational goals efficiently to maximize your time.

3) If you work 4 hours a day and want to speed the rest with your kids, dog, partner OR just reading, learning, rock climbing, moonlighting, traveling then fine

4) BUT when there’s an emergency the team expects you to be both immediately available and productive.

5) If you break this trust within the team, we will let you know quickly and will help you move on to another organization
Stephen King, On Writing. No matter what your writing style is or what your subject matter is, be it fiction or not, this book will turn any writer into a better writer.

Note that I didn't say it'll turn any writer into a good writer. It'll turn them into a better one. A good writer could become great and a terrible writer can become slightly less terrible. It's all subjective.

One thing I've learned is that some people have a way with words and some just don't. And there's nothing wrong with that. But all of us need to write at some point and that book will definitely help because it helps the person focus on what's most important to the story rather than what's the most important to the writer.
I feel like this comment points out the tradition of being contrarian on HN, and it would be foolish of me to question it.
One benefit of a NAS: my data's robust against any single drive dying, which is something that's happened to me, friends, and family.
Will you kindly share with us a copy of all your computers, devices and digital records? Copying those files doesn't hurt anyone.
I noticed that this became more and more common back when ACA was passed. It's cheaper to hire a lot of people part time than it is to hire fewer full time people because of the benefits they would be required to cover
Sometimes tradition is smarter than you are. Sometimes tradition is brain-dead.

But we are very prone to assume that tradition is always brain-dead. That's a very dangerous assumption...
The negative performance impact of GC in performance-engineered code is neither small nor controversial, it is mechanical consequence of the architecture choices available. Explicit locality and schedule control makes a big difference on modern silicon. Especially for software that is expressly engineered for maximum performance, the GC equivalent won't be particularly close to a non-GC implementation. Some important optimization techniques in GC languages are about effectively disabling the GC.

While some applications written in C++ are not performance sensitive, performance tends to be a major objective when choosing C++ for many applications.
> I disagree with this. This might be fair and technically correct on paper, but we don't use paper anymore.

here's a simple case you may have encountered yourself: you order a shopping cart of a fair amount of stuff (not even that much) from Amazon, and click purchase. Later you're wondering about an Amazon charge on your credit card so you look in your emails from Amazon and you log into your account on Amazon, and you can't match the charges on your card with any of your shopping transactions with Amazon, the numbers bear no resemblance to one another. Amazon is not bookkeeping in a way that's at all useful to you. Since you are the consumer of the data, they're not fulfilling their accounting obligation which is clear presentation of the record.

I have no doubt that their calculations are correct, but just as computers can free us from the burden of adding up numbers correctly, computers can also do other tasks we find burdensome, like double entry bookkeeping. When as a programmer I used to resist writing code that seemed inelegant, my old boss used to remind me that the computer was the drudge, a mere servant to the whims of the various humans using it. If Amazon wants to rejigger your shopping carts with respect to backorders and shipping, they could easily do it in a way that allowed you to reconcile your statements simply.
Your commercial product looks very cool, but my use case is in creating an offline-first local document storage system (data never reaches a cloud). I'd like to be enable users to search through all documents for relevant pieces of information.

The templates sound very cool - are they essentially just using a preset list of (natural language) queries tied to a particular document class? It seems like you're using a version of donut for your document classification?
There exist at least on entity that will bulk upload them to Libgen.
Ok, but what does that actually mean?

The reality is, unless the Iranians themselves replace the Ayatollahs, it would require a foreign sponsored coup or outright invasion to meaningfully change the status quo there.
From the looks of it, this chap was travelling around in first class. Which would probably give a slightly different impression of train travel... I suspect he also wasn't travelling at peak times when trains are at their busiest and most unpleasant.

To some extent, I agree that trains get a lot of criticism, and only some of it is deserved. But some of that criticism is very deserved...
Writing gets better the more you do it. And many writing styles people have initially complained about turned out to be wildly successful. See Karl Ove Knausgaard.
> because it shows/teaches people what high-usage is.

Consumer awareness of what appliances use the most power should really be a lot higher. It's actually pretty simple too - devices that generate a lot of heat are the ones consuming a lot of energy. That includes devices whose purpose may be to keep things cool - your fridge and A/C still generate significant waste heat even in the latter case it's vented externally.
A rare exception would be a car-battery charger, which can obviously draw significant power but the heat is generated later when the power is drawn from the battery and in a dissipated fashion that's hard to detect directly but is still significant.
Yeah there are airplanes, and maybe the adversary makes better airplanes sometimes. So supposedly that never happens, but with rockets it totally did, Soviets had way better rockets for decades. Until like 2010 or something, Spacex, apart from that.

Like if you want to talk about the unknown designation, whatever unidentified, whatever, you're supposed to start by apologizing for talking about it. Come on. The Manhattan Project was big into aliens and talked about it a lot, we landed on the Moon and intend to land on Mars, so we're already attempting to be aliens for other cultures. Really the aliens were Francisco Pizarro, Hernán Cortés and Hernando de Magallanes. That's alien contact, that's space travel, that's time travel, travel to the past, past meeting the future. I have yet to see an alien movie not informed by the Spanish Conquest of America. The line "take me to your leader?" Vasco da Gama upon arrival in India, killed the leader and ate his heart, "now I'm your leader.". You can't make this stuff up. So they don't, they just paint the Hispanics green, they glow and shit, yeah. Water the story down. Never outdo them. Never get even close to the amount of gold Pizarro tortured out of Atahualpa (not that the Kechwa were even 1% better, they played the Game of Empires, as the Xauxas and Aymaras say, for those tribes the Kechwa were aliens too). To a much lesser extent Alexander of Macedon, nobody cares about his saying that Europeans and Asians should intermarry and blend, as he did with Roxanne.

Like do they screen for Americans that have seen alien movies for those jobs? Know the definition? It used to be aliens were from a different country, then a different continent, then a different planet in the Solar System (eg Martians or Venusians) then when that was ruled out Europa (the moon of Jupiter), microbes on Mars with systems tested in the Southern part of the Kechwa empire (the Atacama, big NASA presence because of its sterility), and finally, looking out to other star systems. Finding inhabitable planets, that does get a budget in NASA, SETI, presidents of America have seen alien movies and read science fiction, Strategic Defense Initiative had Robert Heinlein on its board, science fiction writers are hired by DoD, there's a market for science fiction per se, science fiction is restricted in torture wards along with religious texts, all because they're worth something. And some science fiction technologies have come about, like telescreens, and "new drugs" (Huey Lewis and the News) "New Drug", not all of them but that is how it must be. So really science fiction is what someone does when she has a good idea but doesn't have all the money and all the theory needed to develop it, so instead of taking it to the grave, what does she do? Write science fiction.
That genocidal maniac is who unites the EU today. If you no longer blame Germany for Hitler you can't in any kind of good faith blame Russia for Soviet Union's pact with Hitler.
Based on what evidence do you think companies aren’t flush with cash? Every indicator shows US companies have cash reserves vastly above historic levels.

This isn’t about year to year changes. Start looking back to say the 1990’s and the difference is huge.
Survived? How can I tell? Ok, 30 yards then.

As one who was like 30 yards from a 60’ lone maple tree in an open field, the thunderous crack of the trunk split open in half by a lightning strike. No warning whatsoever (other than full cloudy cover).

Weirdest part is that my deafness made me rather immune to being startled toward such loud noises. Your body feels it all over. If a rave is your thing, this is THE thing.

My gaze zoomed in at the long field grasses that had started to straighten upward and starting outward from the base of that tree.

Felt like it was the longest 1,000 yard stare but a myopic gaze of a lifetime. It was then when the hairs at the back of my neck stood up violently straight out and alarmingly so.

Even weirdly so, the grasses started to straigten up in an ever rapidly expanding concentric ring from that spot. Like that reticular shockwave after a bomb exploded but it wasn’t at speed of sound, much less at speed of light.

I started staring at the edge of a single undulation ring of straighten field grass as it rapidly approached me; that is one fast approaching ring-of-SOMETHING (at what seems to be about 14 meter per second). Intense fear rushed over me.

My instinct? Jump over it as the ring passes under me and timingly so.

Felt nothing.

Just then noticed the smoldering wood splinters at the base afterward.

Did I escape the electric charge? I will never know.
So, go to moon. No real need to go to another planet just to irradiate some astronauts and in case shit hits the fan they have chance of surviving
Had the StrongARM processor come out a little earlier you could just about imagine an alternative where Apple had picked it over the PowerPC. DEC released the StrongARM in 1996 and it was faster and far lower power than Intel's Pentiums of the time.

The StrongARM IP ended up with Intel as XScale when they bought out DEC's semiconductor manufacturing operations as part of a legal settlement. But the lead of Digital's design center that built StrongARM went on to form PA Semi, who Apple bought in 2008. The first Apple-designed ARM chip was released a couple of years later with the iPhone 4 in 2010.
> discouragement of / being against...

I know lots of liberal elites, and don't know any who are actually against two parent households, kids after marriage, following the law, being drug-free, going to college for a career, etc

This is a ridiculous assertion.

But I know many of these same people who believe in not judging those who do not follow all of these ideals, and want systems in place that support, say, single mothers or whatever.

This is very different.
They are in public, and if an expert in body language and facial expressions were sitting next to them paying close attention, he could monitor those emotions just as well. So one cannot say they have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" for their emotional state, and therefore this is not an invasion of privacy even according to US law.

Or perhaps the "reasonable expectation of privacy" is used in an utterly insane manner in US law. One or the other.
Not a bad idea, just with a longer break-even point than many people can stomach. If you treat it as a long-term investment it still performs well enough with very little risk.

It wouldn’t help in the case of these energy shortages though, unless you’re fully off-grid, as by law grid-tied inverters must shut off in the case of a black out, in order to prevent feedback to the grid.
That is a pretty low effort list.

I have read dozens and dozens of books on writing, and for non-fiction nothing beats Writing with Style by Trimble.
"What do you mean we need some NVIDIA cards to run our job scheduler ?"
Generally you should assume that tradition/status quo is always right until proven otherwise (=a logically compelling argument against, backed empirically).
"(of course, neither GCC or clang could _ever_ beat ICC at some of my tests.. grumble)"

They never tried, honestly - ICC had plenty of defaults that were targeted at performance above correctness.

That's fine - but it wasn't what either clang or gcc was going to go for.
Even when trying to compare apples to apples, folks often compared them by trying to get GCC/Clang to emulate the correctness level of ICC (IE give GCC/Clang more freedom), rather than the other way around :)

Which, again, similarly understandable, but also a thing that you'd have to spend a while on in GCC/Clang to get to a reasonable place)

Small-number-of-target compilers like ICC are also fundamentally easier. Lots of techniques (IE optimal register allocation[1], etc) that add up to performance gains are a lot more tractable to really good applied engineering when they don't have to be so general.

Similarly small-target-market compilers are also easier.
Over time, high performance was literally ICC's only remaining market. So they can spend their days working on that. GCC/Clang had to care about a lot more.

[1] This happens to now be a bad example because advances finally made this particular thing tractable. But it took years more, and feel free to replace it with something like "optimal integrated register allocation and scheduling" or whatever is still intractable to generalize.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

So in this study, a fan reduced SIDS as much as forced back sleeping. Again, the point is they don’t know why backsleeping reduces SIDS. One theory is it puts the baby’s face higher up. The fan seems to support this.

I’d be curious to interview parents of kids with autism and see how militant they were about back sleep and if their kid slept well. Some kids seeming don’t mind backsleeping but others hate it. And you can tell by simply letting them tummy sleep for a night or two and seeing if they sleep longer.

If this hypothesis does pan out, it’s not unlike doctors advice to avoid peanuts leading to a huge increase in peanut allergies. Only for them to later say, whoops.
Compiler optimization at this point is probably pointless. If you're running an interpreted language than your JIT is more important than your compiler tricks (although you could argue your JIT is your compiler).

If you're on a multi-core or multi-threaded systems then memory/cache behavior is more important...and out of your control.

Nobody cares about CSE, constant hoisting, anymore, because speculative execution will obviate that.

For consumer stuff, you're waiting for the user for 99% of your cycles, so who cares.

For processing environments, overall throughput is more important.

IMO, compiler optimizations these days should mean outputting simple, straight-ahead code that's speculative execution friendly and accesses data sequentially. Work with the branch predictor and with the cache behavior of the CPU. Anything clever will founder at the chip level.
To the contrary, it would be foolish of you to not question me.

Question Everything, Even This (but not too much because that's overthinking).
Plenty of people seem to have it.
That is the same issue with the idea of keeping the German reactors running. Everything has been planned with the scheduled stop of operations at the end of the year. After politics is now considering to keep them running, the whole technical challenges come to the the light. Take the one reactor operating still in Bavaria: the fuel rods are so weak that after November the plant cannot be restarted with these fuel rods. Also, there is a leaking valve which soon has to be repaired. Only optinon now is to shut the reactor down, repair the valve and restart ist. But even then, the operation isn't guaranteed, as reactors often have to be shut down for small incidents. But any of those would mean the stop of the operation of the reactor.

One way or the other, the next time this plant shuts down after November, it stays down. So there is no big hope of this plant operating for much longer any way you turn it. Of course, new fuel rods could be ordered, but probably that would take over a year, as far as I know. Which means, it will not be part of the energy supply for the next 12 months and whether the investment into getting new fuel rods and keeping the plant ready for service for another year is worth it, is another question.
Sorry about the issue. There was a time recently where we broke the re-connection logic as we were adding support for multiple devices connected at the same time. The issue has been resolved and connection is stable as it used to be - considering Android's and mainly different vendors' battery killers and Bluetooth stacks... so you may try to update to recent version and see if this helps you.
The article is incredulous at times, I'm not deny that or trying to defend it.

However, I don't understand why the author needs to have a solution to present? You wouldn't ask the person running into your burning home to tell you and your sleeping family that the house is on fire for a solution, would you?

People need to sound the bell.
I answered this elsewhere in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32973663
It means: 1) publicly condemn the government 2) recognize that this government doesn't represent the people of Iran 3) don't give money to this government.
What kind of fence is it when you think you know why the fence is there but you're obviously wrong?
> In real terms

Nominally they are increasing, that is a component of inflation. Inflation-adjusting the nominal rise of prices that are causing inflation just hides the inflation. You can't analyze it that way.

> For some reason that's unacceptable.

I'm not the Fed, I don't support what they're doing, I'm just explaining it.

EDIT: research from the Fed:

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

Wage growth is over 6%. The fact that inflation overall has been running higher than that so real wage growth has been negative doesn't mean there's been no wage inflation.

Inflation is just the rise in prices. You're thinking about the overall effect on society, but that is second/third/fourth order effects.

Nominal wages rising 6%, even though real wages are rising 0% still means an environment with 6% overall inflation, which exceeds the Fed's target of 2%.
I tried for years, didn't work for me (Apple Watch 2). I mow have a Garmin Fenix 7 which lasts 18 days without recharge, buy has much more limited features (which is fine for me).
My Parents Are Hackers Out of Necessity
I think someone needs to point out that 20% is a very different number than many people were sold a vaccine under.

How did we drop so far from the 90+% “effectiveness” claims at the beginning? Feels like there needs to be a massive postmortem on the approval process here.
I got my hands on that book as a approx 10 year old. My friends and I had great fun building the deadfall tripwires around our tree house although with bags if wet leaves rather than tree trunks.
Yep, I agree. There definitely seems to be a subtext here of "the fed is super antsy about being up against the zero interest rate 'bound' and now that it has a chance it's going to push as far away from it as it can get before the next big thing hits". Controlling inflation is obviously front and center but the Fed needs to get back to a little more historically normal interest rates too.

Is it entirely the fault of the 2019 rate cuts? No, but, we'd have been starting the 2020 games from a position of at least 2.25% interest (perhaps more like 3% if rate increases had continued) instead of 1.5%, that's 50-100% more room for the Fed to maneuver. What's more, it was a blatantly political and obviously stupid move even at the time, and widely acknowledged as such even at the time. There was no need for stimulus in 2019 when the economy was already roaring and it was "pro-cyclical", ie the opposite of the usual "anti-cyclical" policy.

(Also there's technically no reason that zero has to be a bound... the fed can pay you to take money, if it comes down to it. But all kinds of weird things start happening near zero and I think nobody really wants to fuck around and find out there.)

Anyway, we can also blame congress... the Fed has been begging for a decade for more active fiscal policy from Congress rather than forcing everything to be done via monetary policy. And that means more spending when times are tough, and less spending when times are good. When you're in the situation we were in 2008, it's irresponsible not to spend and leads to overexertion of monetary policy to compensate. But absolutely everything was stonewalled during the 2008-2016 period besides military spending. If Congress had engaged in more sustained stimulus and infrastructure spending during that period, the rates probably could have been pulled up a lot sooner (which is of course the balance to the spending).

And in contrast right now is probably not the ideal time for tons of spending either... but I think we are going to get the wonderful experience of "stagflation", inflation during a recession, so addressing one problem worsens the other. And there's really not any obvious tools to deal with that combination, besides just slowing the economy and letting inflation burn out.
You're hardly the first person to moan about that, and you won't be the last. Your moaning won't make the slightest bit of difference, though. The vast majority of the world already uses the word "piracy" to describe copyright theft.