skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The languages do not die in one day. In 30 years, maybe there are some people writing new code in C++38... and of course the immense code base already existing will stay for decades.

What happens, is there is a steady descent in the number or people using it. I think it has started.

I know even C++ fanboys/lawyers, that are having a lot of trouble to keep up with all features from present and past... And 99% of developers I know, even very good ones, speak of "my 20% C++". So my feeing is 17 is the last version which some people can use 100% of.
They have a lot of variability. It's the difference between predicting the weather and predicting the average weather (that is, the climate).
> “Anyone here have any anecdotes where you had that same experience?”

I actively engage with strangers in public. I do so in ways that match our current activities.
What this looks like:
Last week I was grocery shopping in the freezer section. The place I pick up tortellinis from had moved them, so me and another person were searching through the freezer cabinets. After a fruitless moment I asked them what they were looking for in the hopes during their search they had spotted the tortellinis’ new location. They mentioned they were also on a hunt for tortellini. I mentioned to them in passing that when a store moves something a note or something similar would be helpful to tell shoppers the new location for the item.
We then continued talking about shopping experiences at other places, and some how wound up talking about our favorite dishes.
In the end my new shopping acquaintance found the tortellinis and asked me how many bags I wanted.

Most experiences occur in shared events, such as standing in line for something, waiting after for an order to be fulfilled, or simply overhearing a conversation in a shopping center and commenting about my experience on what they mentioned. All these interactions, from my recent memory, have been positive.

I like speaking to strangers. I feel uplifted and I depart conversations feeling like I participated in something societal.
At the base, speaking to strangers has also taught me a crap load of stuff too.
Examples: how to hang a nearly squirrel proof bird feeder, how to cook lamb better, how to wire a lamp, where good restaurants are, how to put a post in the ground more securely but with less concrete, etc.

And, yes, I like humanity more because I talk to strangers. I see my appreciation for others happen when I become angry at people. I find myself asking “well they’re doing this for a reason, I just haven’t asked them their reason, yet.”
Any liquid fuel is cursed by the tyranny of the wagon equation (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735688 ).

At the price a liter of any fuel gets at the end of the supply chain, a lot of things become economically viable: beamed energy from space, for instance. One advantage of this is that, contrary to liquid fuel or solar panels or even portable nuclear reactors, the enemy cannot capture your source of power (unless the war reaces space, of course)

Edit: found a source https://afresearchlab.com/technology/space-power-beaming/
> Essentially, any advertising that shares a domain with content cannot be blocked by a DNS-level blocker.

Does this mean AdGuard Home can't block CNAME cloaking? I think pihole supports deep cname inspection.
I think you are over dramatizing the importance of Twitter just a bit here
> Inflation is a tax on idle money. Inflation is generally around 3%, so it costs 3% of your money for it to be "liquid" (idle).

I hear this all the time. Inflation measured by CPI is not a tax on the cash held by the rich. The basket measured by CPI is a rounding error to that level of wealth. If you held even $1 million in cash, you need to look at the things you buy with that cash as investments and compare how those values have been changing.

For example, if you were a tech investor, you’ve seen far greater than CPI level inflation in the assets you buy over the last 5 years, so holding as cash wasn’t very smart. But if you blindly dumped cash into tech this year to avoid “inflation tax” then you missed out on massive deflation in the asset you buy.

Zooming out to the wealthy, consider commodities, real estate, bonds, stocks, etc. most asset classes have crashed, so holding cash isn’t necessarily a bad idea (at least, it certainly isn’t a bad idea because “inflation is running hot”).
You're talking more about standard procedure after an acquisition. The new owners come in and look for redundancies and try to cut there.

This was a change in ownership, not an acquisition. There's an assumption about a lot of dead weight at Twitter. There certainly may be, but it's not simple redundancies (ie, you don't need 2 accounting depts.). Instead they'll have to figure out if Twitter really needs that many people.

My guess is Twitter isn't as over-staffed as people think. Content moderation and multi-country policy likely require a lot of staff. To quote Scott Galloway on his attempted company take overs, "I often find out I'm not as smart as I thought I was, and the existing management isn't as dumb as I thought they were."
I wouldn't be surprised if there's an update that removes PS2 emulation very soon. Small blast radius anyway as it's unlikely there are many users who use this functionality.
Good, that's much less surprising than the opposite finding would have been. It indicates that these fish leverage a mixed strategy, which is an evolutionary advantage more often than not, both in terms of direct payoff and in terms of evolvability.
The times I've come across this I've been able to just go to the restaurant website and download the menu PDF normally from there.

Even when the QR code brings you directly to the website it feels like a clunky experience, so I've gotten in the habit of checking out menus before going to the restaurant if I can.
But we're not talking about speech, we're talking about tolerance. Speech is just the medium. And lack of tolerance is a threat to one's life and property: men did not tolerate women receiving an education so that they could have a career; redlining housing developers in the US did not tolerate black people buying homes in white neighborhoods; Nazis do not tolerate Jews to live. Intolerance is not "just" speech, it is speech as a direct encitement to actions that are intended to have negative consequences for the targeted party.
Manual fingerprint comparison is also deeply unreliable tbh
also carbon, which is brand new.
With his Type 1 and Type 2 ambitions, the author has stumbled upon the established SCARF model, which involves five domains of human social experience: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness.

You can apply this to a lot of things: ambition, leadership, engagement at work, etc.

In this case, through their ambition, Grisham seeks autonomy (and to an extent certainty) and Crichton status.
It doesn’t even attempt to answer the question posed by the title, except through vague platitudes.
For a historic wreck, the location may be kept secret to protect it from scavengers. But then fishing boats don’t know to avoid it and their nets get caught, damaging the wreck and making future preservation more hazardous. There is some debate now which threat is worse.
Things like this are always context sensitive or it becomes a race to the bottom where only the people in the worst condition have the right to complain.

You think manual labor is hard, try living in a Ukraine war zone, you think a warzone is bad, try living as a forced prostitute etc.

And according to Dante there are seven circles of hell and if someone t plunges your future into uncertainty it's a valid kind of hell, just not the worst kind.
If people can figure out which names resolve to ads and block them, people can figure out which names resolve to tracking pixels and send it to a server that will hand back a pixel.
There are plenty of ways I can think of to make Twitter profitable, but none of them are ethical. There is no good that will come from this.
I've inadvertently tried this mode yesterday, even before the announcement was made, but found that something weird was going on:

- it eats tons and tons of CPU, like this is a common picture

6568 root 20 0 7357216 3.2g 20072 R 109.6 1.3 6:10.60 mitmweb

- lots of packets dropped, sometimes at a considerable rate

[14:38:33.501] Dropping incoming packet, TCP channel is full.

This isn't me running some http-hungry application, just immediately after the phone restart. I'm running mitmproxy 9.0.0 installed through pip on Linux with python 3.9.2. Unfortunately it's not easy for me to try any other mode - i've first tried setting up transparent proxy on MacOS, but ssl bindings crash on M1.
> Twitter's core userbase appears to be press people, marketing professionals, celebrities and politicians.

Sounds a lot like Ark Fleet Ship B.
It seems much easier to develop a extension than, say, a full desktop app or an website with a runtime you have to maintain.
I think a lot of that is delivery. In a society like the UK (where I currently live) where there’s a deep and heavy cynicism and sarcasm in the cultural dialog, most people assume you’re taking the piss unless you really can convey you’re not - not that this is a good reason not to complement people if you think it’s warranted.

In NZ the culture is a lot more earnest, so it’s a bit easier.
Ok I'm gonna come out guns blazing saying this is absolute bs and the telcos just want more cash.
Squint
Not directly related but anecdata. We migrated for chart.js to plotly.js to finally bite the bullet and plonk down the $$$ for highcharts.

Highcharts is no panacea, but at we just hit performance and capability issues really quickly with all the free stuff out there.
Try non physical complements, eg. I really appreciated the conversation you started on x, I like that we can really go deep and get into the weeds on topics, or even it's cool that you really know who you are.
And as someone who got an ASD and ADHD diagnosis earlier in life (which doctors are now unable to reproduce), this couldn’t be further from being spot on.

So much unnecessary bullshit I had to go through because shrinks were too eager to label me as a kid. In the end my only fault was a general aversion to authority, only further intensified by this experience.
Yeah, I was looking for it too under bar and column charts, and didn’t find it. Found a closed Github issue instead. :-)
As a transplant from the Midwest to the North East, anecdotally, this matches my experience. Even after many years and friends, I still feel an outsider here. My wife and I often lament it. There is no sense of community to speak of, just thousands of ships passing in the dark.
I'm at a point in my life where I value what I do more than I value money, because I don't need more money to sustain my lifestyle.
A bit of a stretch to call it “unpatchable”. The end of the article concedes it’s more that Sony doesn’t seem interested in patching it, presumably they don’t think it’s a sufficient threat (I tend to agree).

Yes, the PS2 emulator is bundled with the game but given most are digital downloads, it’s trivial to patch those. If Sony wanted, they could push firmware updates to block the few disc games from running without downloading the latest patched version.

So yes, it’s unpatchable if by that you mean there’s no way for Sony to force their way into your home and patch it if you’re willing to live with a console disconnected from PSN. Enjoy running that N64 emulator on your now mostly useless PS5 - I guess.
With an API you can publish a new endpoint (/v1, /v2 etc). It’s normally reasonably easy to maintain an old API even while you add features to the new API, and the runtime penalty is minimal because clients would be expected to call just one version of the API for any given event. (You can also see who’s calling the old API and ask them to change)

But this is not true for events. If you change the body such that you now need to maintain two versions of an event, then you have to publish both events simultaneously, which means double the server side effort, storage etc for each event version. It’s pretty inefficient, and painful. You can work out who subscribes to the old event but there is still a big efficiency hit.

You might be right about many reads per event in a simplistic way; if you have a lot of clients then it could be expensive if you don’t have a server side cache. But there would typically be a lot of temporality in such a system so it seems like an easy problem to solve for most use cases; you don’t have to cache for long, but caches are of course tricky if your use case is not very simple. That said, if there is already a HTTP connection open then the additional latency and bandwidth hit cause by this events are going to be minimal in most cases, and probably drowned out entirely if you need to push multiple versions.

As I said in another thread, I should have said that thin is my default. There are cases when fat makes more sense, but normally I’d start with thin and see if I need to flesh it out. Whenever I’ve started fat I’ve ended up reverting.
Time to put a safety glovebox crowbar in your center console.
Arresting people for going into a local park is considered to be more left wing? Locking down people is considered to be more left wing? The draconian, authoritarian measures taken in Australia surrounding its covid response were truly shocking.
Other than multiplugs I haven’t seen plugs that don’t confirm to CEE 7/7 in a long time.
In practice, UK plugs will glitch out if they are not asbolutely, positively all the way in. We're talking sub-mm precision here.
Not for use in motor vehicles. Very good for infrastructure though.
You have some good points. It won't be easy. However, most DAO's the creators of the DAO usually hold the most tokens/voting rights. The DAO itself can be deployed in several different structures which will take a few first movers to lay the framework for what works well. Regarding payments it could be pay to vote or other models which I have seen out in the wild in Web3.

I can envision a proposal mechanism which pulls funds from the DAO pool to fund development for a specific feature.
Which proxies break encryption for you?
Sticking a metric ton of (what is effectively) rechargeable AA batteries into a car-shaped thing is ridiculous.

We're only doing something so insane because we have existing car-shaped infrastructure.

But the future isn't that. The future is mostly one- and two-wheeled personal transport on top of walkable cities.
Nice graphics is useful for marketing and sales, Crysis is the best example.

But otherwise it's obvious that they don't matter once the player actually buys the game and starts playing. Proof: Minecraft, World of Warcraft...
Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day!

Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.
Excellent idea, with BOT replies disabled by default please. Mostly people don't want BOT posts.
What's "the original" article? You mean the website that's referenced in this post?
> presumably to prevent a kid with a butter knife or paper-clip touching the hot conductor on a half-inserted plug

Correct! That said, I don’t know how regulated it is since I have quite a few IEC cables without that insulation.
As a Brit I always used to interpret "Smart Quotes" with the old-fashioned definition of smart that some people still use here, i.e. presentable, nice-looking, clean-cut.
Please provide a mechanism by which a person can amass $200B in wealth from the general public via non-smart behavior.

Note: not all smart behavior is programing, engineering, or even product design.
Don't they all shred the same?
If it's as efficient as plastic recycling there's little benefit

Recycling is not a 0 or 1 operation, the rate is not as high as people think, and there are other hidden impacts (energy, resources used by factories, transports, etc)
I drive a 2001 Corolla and have wondered the same thing. From watching a lot of Australian Dashcam Owners YouTube channel I've picked up a few defensive driving habits like checking for cars driving through red lights or avoiding driving beside semi trailers. I also wear prescription polarised sunglasses glasses while driving to bring my eyesight from okay to perfect. Polarised removed any distortion from the old front window.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855476
I’m not colour blind and it is unreadable for me!
that's because wether instant apps works is wildly inconsistent across phones. we learned that the hard way.
In my car they're mechanical, as I assume they still are in most modern, non-hyper-modern cars (like Teslas) so my curiosity was more of a "is there an exit strategy if the child locks are on and it's not possible to exit through the front doors"?

There's no mechanical override inside the boot (trunk) that I'm aware of and the mechanical child locks also have no internal override (that I'm aware of).

I guess in case of emergencies, the windows are the best exit strategy in such a hypothetical situation.
Our perceptions differ markedly then.

I have a fairly plausible mechanism behind my observation: Getting your thoughts published and disseminated used to require buy in from a wide range of people, the publishers essentially.

Publishers edited and moderated what they published so they could gain a reputation as trustworthy or sensationalist. Maintaining that reputation was essential for the business. Who would buy a newspaper with a reputation for false reporting?

Removing the publishers at replacing them with algorithms designed to maximize engagement removed this intermediate layer of reputation checks. Further as the infrastructure is paid for exclusively by ads and those can be targeted fairly well, engagement is far more important than platform reputation. This has reduced the level of public discourse markedly and wrong and discredited opinions can gain substantial audiences and establish strong societal narratives with no "human editor in the loop".

This we are seeing an influence of conspiracy theoretical thinking on advanced democracies that would have been unthinkable even in the 90s.
Good to mention Microsoft is also depending on Clang for a lot of things (Microsoft is also quietly pushing devs to use Clang-Cl, as MSVC has really showed its age and is still notorious for bad error messages and subpar compiler optimizations…)

Some console vendors are also depending on it as well (Sony, Nintendo). Clang really is the most important C++ project of all time, because it’s the only compiler that’s truly cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, game consoles, etc…) And recent failures in it catching up with C++20 should be very alarming.
A report from a team of reviewers from Tesla, presumably.
>As a straight white guy, I recognised from the outset that my interactions with strangers can be less fraught than they are for people who aren't straight white guys.

Classic BBC, everything is race and gender nowadays. Do people really live like that? Sexuality would be the last thing I think about when I talk to a stranger that I never see again in my life for 30 seconds

> Additionally, I strongly suggest men in my position be mindful of this when chatting with strangers themselves.

“in my position”? So straight white men shouldn’t talk to strangers, got it. Other races have to be mindful too?
> Anyone have experience working with their software?

I never used it, for my purposes QGIS was good enough.

And I am willing to put up with a lot to avoid vendor lock-in. See recent story how opening old Adobe files will cause loss of colour info, unless you pay licensing fee to Pantone.

I strongly encourage the same and to consider donating some part of saved funds to QGIS, possibly earmarked for something you want.
Twitter has always been somewhat, let's say not tech IQ in code and tech infrastructure.

I am sure many of us remember some Twitter higher-up claiming Ruby was all they needed only to be let go after they changed the backend to stop using ruby as the back end!

And keep in mind Elon has to answer the US Congress questions about security issues which does in fact require an outside code audit in the first place. It's a good indicator of Elon's true intentions to get a more safe twitter for everyone.
A truly confidence-inspiring move, to have Twitter developers work on safety-critical Tesla subsystems. Bravo!
I'm happy for you that cost is not something you need to focus on. For many people, they don't have as much savings or an income that is high enough for them to not focus on cost.
What the heck does "GFCI is a no true scotsman" mean? That the Scottish don't need no stinkin' GFCI?

(You repeat "is no true scotsman" in a reply, so it's not just a typo...)
Well, yeah. The reason I didn’t include Carbon in this list is because even the first draft isn’t complete right now.
There is a Nio battery swap station next to my nearest Tesla station (Lier South, Norway). No idea how well it works, but it certainly does work. According to Nio they had four million battery swaps in China by the end of 2021. Of course they don't say how many problems occurred.
Self-delusion?

"It's not a lie if you [the teller] believe it". -Seinfeld/David
It's fascinating to me how so many of these pieces have emerged.

Normally this sort of admission comes after the fact. Decades later when everyone who was there is dead, we would learn that the British, Americans, and probably other NATO countries were all-but pressing the button on the war against Russia.

But now we seem to be openly bragging, daring Russia to retaliate against the actual powers fighting behind the thin veneer of Ukraine. Poke, poke, poke, the nuclear bear.

At the same time, I would not be surprised if in time we'll learn that many of those "accidents" in key American industry this year have been successful Russian-aligned cyber attacks. But note that the Russians are not openly bragging and advertising it.
That's it isn't it; by the time my children are old enough to be able to do this, the child locks won't be on. I guess that's when they're old enough to be told not to open the doors "until it's safe" and actually listen and understand.
And calling it too high.
Don't blame GM for something Tesla popularized...
> I think the concept of grid scale storage is misguided Fission (and hopefully fusion) can provide base load at all times, with as much wind & solar as needed to provide for variable load.

Where is the uranium coming from? Commercial fast breeders are as mythical as a 10000Wh/kg AlS battery. All nuclear reactors that aren't fiction are just a small multiplier on the U235 supply including DT fusion.
> You can persist data with localStorage/IndexDB, can't you?

I guess so, but given the situation that I'd already be using WASM SQLite in the client's browser, then I'd have to implement that part myself, or use something like Absurd SQL. I'd rather use the implementation made by the creator of SQLite.

> There is nothing in the article about syncing.

Correct, that's something I'll have to do myself. I don't see any issues there though, I'd just need to verify the user is authorised to make those changes, which in my specific use case seems pretty trivial.
Worth noting that that round knob, where it exists, has lost a lot of functionality:

1. Setting volume to 0 will pause the recording, even though I sometimes want to silently forward through some unwanted parts (intros or ads in podcasts).

2. These knobs are also infinity knobs, I liked to have fixed start and end position with an indicator how loud it's going to be when I switch on. That last part has been taken over by software and probably can't be done reliably any more.

3. On the leftmost, zero position that round knob was also used to switch a radio on or off. It is very convenient to have a single movement to switch music on, and with the same movement adjust the volume, or to lower the volume and while doing so, maybe decide to switch it all off entirely.