skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention operations at the refinery level. Cad, process simulation, and operations monitoring are huge users of compute.

At the retail level. The analytics to track sales and optimize distribution marking sure fuel trucks arrive as needs to tip up supply is massive.
Good.

When we're constantly adding more data transfer functionality and power capabilities to USB-C, I don't buy the "but muh innovation" argument.

The magic of USB-C isn't in the physical interface, it's in the chips that connect to the interface (both in the device and the cable). And if those chips want to change the pinouts after bootstrapping via the current pinout configuration, they can and will.
The positions at big tech are limited. The vast majority of engineers work for "regular" companies who can't compete with the massive profits and easy money. The risk of losing people to big tech is relatively low.

We've had about 35ish% turnover during the last two years. This is multiple times higher than normal. We still managed to retain the other 65ish%. I worked on a team that had over 100% turnover during that time (half lost externally and half moved in the company). You know what, that manager didn't care. She told me they expected to burn people out in 1-2 years and weren't going to compete with companies offering 50-100% raises. So it wasn't a big deal because they expect to lose people, won't compete, and they still retain the majority of people because the availability of better places to go are pretty low.
Climate change seems to me to be the "gotcha" of liberal democracy. The timescales involved in democracy are so short that there's little incentive to do the things that would improve the situation, since the pain is felt now vs the (greater) pain in the future of climate change.
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I think the primary thing keeping Metaverse from actually working is the device.

If you never used the Quest VR devices, they are both amazing and disappointing all at once. In terms of the actual performance, amazing. It is just much more immersive than I had initially thought it could be and you can forget your surroundings in the physical world quickly. With that being said, the weight of the device sets in after 30 minutes and after 1 hour of continuous use I hate the thing. My neck is tired, my eyes are dry, and I just want it off my face. On top of all that, you just feel like a dweeb with a 90s alarm clock strapped to your head haha.

I think the form factor is really the thing holding it back from mainstream adoption. As soon as its more akin to glasses, I could definitely see widespread adoption by the casual users. Until then, VR is just a niche.
They might not compromise on encryption, but they have no intentions of open sourcing their censorship module either: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/90490c9c8485...
I'm so excited for this. I was about to buy a new iPhone, but with this news I'm going to wait another year just so I can get USB-C
> As for lettuce I am allergic to it. I will literally die if I don’t remove it.

If you're allergic to lettuce, it's very risky to eat a burger that has previously been contaminated by lettuce. Perhaps consider eating anything else?

I think the ad situation is much more complex than your hypothetical, and blocking ads for accessibility reasons is fine. But calls for everyone to block ads, even if they aren't "allergic", are calls for an end to free ad-supported things online, which includes the website we're currently using.
The Language of Loneliness and Depression
Even further, consumers are content with being "the product".
> If you want to be a “hotshot” and triple your pay working for Amazon, then go right ahead, the people recall him saying. “Good luck to you.”

Yeah! Shame on you for not believing in the company VALUES and wanting to make more money. Greedy drones!!!1
It is exactly how supply and demand works, lithium refiners are making huge profits, which causes more investment in refining capabilities which unlocks larger economies of scale.

If you don't understand this please just circle back to this thread in 5 years, and I can show you what actually happened.
I don't understand why the Tik Tok challenge came into the original story at all.

From what I understand, these people stole a car using information from a video that dared others to try it. Then, later, they crashed it. The headlines make it seem like the challenge was involved in the crash.
Block chain anti-censorship is a lot like cryptography. It makes you look for other places to compromise and in this case it's browser vendors or major network operators. Your ad blocking list isn't gonna be useful when the browser with 90% marketshare says you can't install an ad blocker.
> Note to readers: On December 1, 2020, the Libra Association was renamed to Diem Association. This report was published before the Association released White Paper v2.0 in April 2020, which included a number of key updates to the Libra payment system. Outdated links have been removed, but otherwise, this report has not been modified to incorporate the updates and should be read in that context. Features of the project as implemented may differ based on regulatory approvals or other considerations, and may evolve over time.

https://developers.diem.com/docs/technical-papers/the-diem-b...
I'm curious about what your other examples of that happening are. I'm trying to think of one where VR is at least sorta parallel.
I think it's more generational than anything. Gen X and elder Millennials both shared this attitude when we were younger, but I don't think it applies to our younger counterparts.
> you don't have the right to cost that website money

Hilarious. They should be glad I'm running uBlock Origin and not AdNauseam.
Used to be Slim, but I haven't used it recently (2-3 years). Worth to take a look.
That's not how it works. The number of high paying jobs is low compared to all the "normal" jobs out there. Keep in mind that average US dev makes about $110k. We can't all be in the top of a distribution.
Use MPC instead? Sadly there are not enough mature open source projects around: https://github.com/ZenGo-X/multi-party-ecdsa and you can always take a look at https://github.com/rdragos/awesome-mpc

Sadly companies like Unbound were acquired by Coinbase and the OSS codebase is not longer maintained: https://github.com/unboundsecurity/blockchain-crypto-mpc
Quite a few things can't be disabled; for example AFAIK it doesn't offer a way to disable the autocomplete altogether, or the "fuzzy" matching. I really dislike these things. Fish is a great shell, but very opinionated which is great if your preferences align with that, and not-so-great if they don't. Which is fine because it makes the project better for those who do want these things, and not every project needs to cater to everyone.
This is really cool. In a sense, this is also the approach we took with Darklang. We are running the runtime layer (http servers, DB drivers, OS runtime, etc) so all that needs to be deployed is the core of your app, as opposed to your app plus your language runtime plus your OS etc etc.

I'm curious what shuttle does once your app is deployed? Is a container cloned with the app injected, then connected to a load balancer and left running? In Darklang we just keep the AST in the DB and fetch it each request, but at some point we'll want to do better.
In the previous round of this discussion I tried to flesh out the lettuce analogy more, and make it more similar to online ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32766236
So then is increased length of validation for non-compliant transactions the only tangible drawback?
Sorry if I misinterpreted. That's why I am asking (and you moved into personal).

Is "Option<&T>" possibly overflowing the stack by at least one byte? You said "maybe?".

And also you said: "the specification (or Rust?) it does say that Option<&T> is the same size as &T".

So???

Is "Option<&T> is the same size as &T" ALWAYS or not???

If it's not, then what I said in my previous comment applies. Otherwise, please be clearer.

> You can explicitly assert claims about the world in your code if you believe they are true but there seems not to be official specifications saying so. Then the code doesn't compile if the assertions are wrong.

"if you believe they are true" is kind-of shifting the blame on me.

> In some cases you may find the Rust language team can explicitly clarify something which troubles you, especially if you believe it isn't documented and yet would concern other people too.

Yes, this is the Github user(s) I mentioned earlier. Is not good enough for an automotive/aerospace/industrial/railway/white goods/etc industry.

> This is especially hilarious

Fine. Where can I get the official PDF with the Rust specifications?
Couldn't agree more. I don't understand why the HN crowd is so supportive of government telling people what to do, as evidenced by your rapid downvotes. I don't use an iPhone but I'm disappointed Apple caved.
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Not having children makes your carbon footprint miniscule compared to everyone who does, so you're still doing the right thing.
Is there any non invasive way to see the interior of the chamber? I hope we are aren't gonna leave it be.
Why Does Nobody Want to Learn Java in 2022?
1. it requires that all your users churn their codebase for something which doesn't directly add value

2. it introduces errors which can remain latent or unfound for a while, especially when you're just changing the parameter ordering of a function in a dynamically typed language
I’d fire the worst 90 and then do something real with the others.
Lightning? Certainly at the time it was released it was a far superior connector than the alternatives. USB-C wins out IMO but only because of its now-ubiquity. Lightning is still, I think, a slightly better connector for a handheld.
> Does paper have any advantage over vellum ("sheep skin") other than being cheaper?

Ink takes far less time to dry on paper as opposed to vellum from my understanding. It's also thinner and easier to use in printing presses. Paper also can be produced in various thicknesses/with various textures to allow for different kind of work. (Think newspaper paper vs. watercolor paper). Paper is also recyclable - you can break down paper and use it to create new paper.
Use PHP 8.1 with typed properties and parameters, PHPDoc, PHP Storm with xDebug, unit tests, code review by peers, Composer, and declare(strict_types = 1);
"$43.5B on Lightning cable sales alone" ~ https://medium.com/swlh/the-real-reason-apple-doesnt-want-to...
One way to work around this is to serialize the argument to harden back to source, eval() it and then harden, which will prevent the captures from working.
> Clearly Republicans have benefited greatly from the electoral college lately. Whether that is good or bad depends on your political leaning.

It actually is possible to have an opinion about the electoral college that is grounded in principal, rather than how your favored political party is benefiting.
It's sad that it took legislation to make this happen, but I can see why.

I worked in a pseudo-Apple-store during the height of the 30-pin dock connector and I sold so many cases, speaker docks, charging cables, and all sorts of weird accessories that were built for the 30-pin connector.

Then Apple switched to Lightning. It was better in every. single. way. And yet people got burnt. There was so much hardware that was now incompatible that people understandably didn't recognise the benefits of the Lightning connector.

This mattered far less for other companies because of the lack of brand recognition. If someone switches from one non-Apple device to another non-Apple device, they don't necessarily expect to keep using the same cables, and back in the day every manufacturer had their own. The expectations of Apple were higher only because of that brand recognition.

Sadly, the fact that so many got burnt in the Lightning transition means that there is _still_, a decade later, a resentment among many. I've spoken to so many people who don't like Apple devices, who when asked why say things like "they're always changing their cables". It's obviously not true, but to most people who aren't familiar it might as well be.

I think this even burnt the MFI manufacturers. 30-pin compatible speaker docks and other accessories were very widely available, but there are far fewer devices made for Lightning. There are other factors here like the rise of Bluetooth and Wifi enabled devices, and the demise of the iPod, but I think manufacturers also knew customers didn't want Apple specific connector hardware anymore – I know I didn't.

Ironically, the long-delayed USB-C transition has probably had the opposite effect. In attempting to compensate for the public view of Apple changing connectors, they've become somewhat known as being the company with the wrong connectors. It's sad, given Apple's core role in defining the USB-C spec, but it's understandable.

I look forward to a USB-C iPhone. It's a shame it took legislation to make it happen, but I understand why given how long customers' memories are about the 30-pin connector. As much as we'd like to think USB-C was the "right answer" several years ago, it's a bit more complicated than that.
The societal 'culture' has changed so rapidly that you'd hear cries of racism, bigotry, ignorance, etc. if you even suggested slowing/stopping immigration to the current party in power.

I get we've got low birth rates. Maybe encourage the people that are here _now_ to procreate instead of forcing both care-givers to slave away all their hours to their employer instead of using the time for child-rearing?

I get that people don't want to work for low wages - maybe we can stop bringing
or severely limit the amount of immigrants for a bit (all avenues of immigration, education - and it's associated literal immigration mills and foreign housing investment schemes; refugees - that somehow are still refugees when crossing by land from USA into Canada, that are happier than ever to come to the country and make minimum wage because it's MUCH more than they made overseas - which they're now finding out is completely untenable in today's Canada, and some are even choosing to leave the country they immigrated to!)

I'm definitely _NOT_ claiming immigration as the sole cause of all our problems, but when Statistics Canada says a quarter of all people in Canada are immigrants or permanent residents, maybe we need to slow things down a bit for a little while to let things settle.
Doing that, maybe with some inline concatenation to make a new structure, and this are about all I use:

Printing based on another field, example gets UIDs >= 1000:

awk -F: '$3 >= 1000 {print $0}' /etc/passwd

It can do plenty of magic, but knowing how to pull fields, concat them together, and select based on them cover like 99% of the things I hope to do with it
> That would help, I would argue, with killing many of the PHP-specific criticisms

I don't see why appeasing critics should be the goal of PHP.

Removing $ and ; signs doesn't help me at all. I actually like the "$" sign. Maybe little bit less ;, but I don't really notice it.

But I would certainly notice the mess of splitting language syntax into two separate branches.

Breaking changes in language are not fun to address and take away the time from building features.

I would be a lot more happy with generics. Or scalar objects, something like:

$string = "abc";

var_dump($string->length()); // int(3)

var_dump($string->startsWith("a")); // bool(true)

https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects

That would make PHP standard library a lot easier and fun to use.
Add that you've got a lithium battery pack pressed against the back of your head -- those things don't have a perfect safety record. If it blows up in your laptop, you probably won't be permanently disabled.

Or that excessive use of the device will probably have long-term consequences for your eyes. As a long-time user of smartphones, I am beginning to wonder if staring at a small screen has accelerated aging in my eyes. I can only imagine the damage from poorly calibrated VR glasses.
Like tornado cash right?
you may not buy the "but muh innovation" - its also sad that that passes for discourse for you - but it is economic fact.

whats your opinion on "muh regulatory capture"? what about lightning vs microusb?
Juliane Koepcke also credits the Peruvian forest trees as one of the reasons she survived her fall from an airplane.
> It does not generate a GIF file,...

Although it's separate, the creator(s) does provide a utility called `agg`[0] to convert asciicast files to GIF. The GitHub appears to provide prebuilt binaries in Releases, but it's easily built using Cargo/Rust too.

0: https://github.com/asciinema/agg
Interesting. I'd imagine here most of the apps people use for that (Cash app, Zelle, etc) are just frontends for Paypal.
>> includes non-monetary activities, which you seem to be ignoring.

sure. Except those non-monetary activities don't pay the bills. I suppose I kinda fell like they have value, but on the other hand the business has to pay bills and salaries first. If that isn't done then the non-monetary value is, well, meaningless.

And of course, if there are specific users who are contributing materially with code etc then nothing stops them from getting a gratis enterprise license.

I think it's also worth noting that the "community" consists of two groups - those that are contributing to the project, and, well (your word) the moochers. Yes, even quiet users have some "value" - but it's really tiny. The ones that are contributing code and so on, obviously they have real value.

I certainly don't want to minimise the value of active contributers, but at the same time I don't want to over-value the contribution of "n anonymous users". Yes, there's a business model built on acquiring some huge number of users, then selling them on to some big corporate (like GitHub did), but I'm no sure that's in play here.

>> Nevermind the fact that the so-called consumers are the whole reason why Gitea is in the position it is today.

I'm not sure they are so-called - they clearly are consumers. And that's great for a small fledgling company starting out. But there comes a point where the bottom line has to be fed, and they aren't the ones doing the feeding.

This is obviously not a new thing that Gitea invented, we've all seen this play out a million times with startups. It's all free all the time until the money runs out. Then something has to change to make it sustainable.

>> The other side of the libre software coin is that the users have the right to fork the project and take it in a community-driven, non-profit direction if they want to.

Of course yes. If there are some group of developers who want to work on features, they are of course most welcome to do so. That is quite literally the whole point of an Open Source license. But you say this like it's a bad thing? Like it would somehow hurt Gitea if this happened. I'm not sure that's the case. (you'd just have a new set of developers with the same financial problems, and Gitea would have gobbled up some Enterprise mind-share in the meantime.)
Have you looked at Slim (PHP microframework)?
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Morals are not defined by respecting the wishes of other people either. You’re right to pivot to common expectations, that’s closer, but when you examine the actual expectations of both the public and the advertisers, you find that it roundly undermines your choice of framing here.

Restaurants are a false analogy. There is an explicit agreement known in advance by both parties, a legal contract with a restaurant when you order, and leaving without paying is a crime. There is no such expectation with ads.

This is cringey and goofy. It’s not a moral issue, you’re really stretching. Even if it was a moral issue, the global known public expectation of ads is that they’re sometimes tolerated and on the whole not preferred. You’re choosing to prioritize the viewpoint of advertisers over respecting the wishes of the public, while if you look at it from the public’s perspective, ads have never been the “moral” choice.

Your argument, of course, is also wearing blinders to the many ways that ads can be actually immoral, for example as a soft bait-and-switch, by offering one thing to entice while delivering something else with an agenda, and the ways ads are often directly immoral by using misleading or untrue information, selling goods and services that are overall harmful to the public, from excessive sugar to payday loans to expensive pharmaceuticals to politics.
Yes, taxes pay for most roads.
vim does support python plugins, not just vimscript...
I don’t disagree with your overarching analysis, but:

> And finally there is the metaverse. Technically we all live in the metaverse already. I interact with people I don’t know across forums and social media.

Meta properties are already a huge share of this activity. Think FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, …
> s I've increasingly leaned to the view that these rights are mostly a legal fiction

Ultimately all constitutions are just ink on paper (or parchment depending on age) and are only as good as the people who govern.

> things that are supposedly rights are highly subjective political footballs.

The fabric of society is a pitch where political football is played. The US Constitution is a product of the times when it was created, and so our pitch was created to balance the power of populous states vs. rural states with proportional representation (House) and fixed representation (Senate) and the electoral college. It took great pains to prevent rule by fiat of the executive because of the lesson from English rule. It's surprising it has held up, but a lot of the pressures that existed when it was created are still present (red state/blue state is really urban/rural) in the US today.

> From that point of view, the US Constitution is an awful constitution.

If a slow, plodding government that is largely effective only when faced with unifying crisis or there is a very high level of consensus is what you want, then the US Constitution works.
They made their own bed through their election interference and the obvious bias of their “truth police“ and are now feeling the bite. I deleted my account but recently recreated it because in my area they are the best source of information and alerts during local emergencies and events. But yeah my posts are occasional sharing of meaningless content.This may be more or less of the affect than the bite apple took out of them but cumulatively they are feeling the affects.
There's a lot of not wealthy people who are polarized in that direction as well though. It's not simply a matter of sending a few oligarchs to the gillotine. In the short run, basically everyone in North America and Europe benefit from out destruction of the climate, and most people in other countries too.

To put it another way, the people who control the oil supply aren't simply wealthy because they pillaged and stole a bunch of people's stuff. The product they supply is extremely convenient and popular. You'd probably have an easier time fixing a world where everyone's a methhead than fixing the current problem.
1.5° C Was the goal of the Paris Agreement and is important because it's (somewhat arbitrarily somewhat backed by models) the point where we go from bad but not disastrous to we're going to have serious climate impacts.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1052198840/1-5-degrees-warmin...
One day someone is gonna make a machine learning thing that kills all forms of advertising in real time. Including brands in videos and other hardcoded stuff.
OTOH, broadcast TV does not incur increasing costs on the part of the producer when an additional watcher tunes in.