skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Showing someone the door" is just indicating that you would like them to leave. How much authority do you need to do this? If you believe the person being shown the door should have the right to say whatever they want, do you believe the other participants in the conversation don't have the right to say they would like to stop hearing from him?
Broadly yes, C++‘s vector is the equivalent of JS arrays.

But the javascript array type is much more complicated. It intelligently changes its internal structure based on how you use it - which is pretty wild.
Thanks, interesting comment.

Thinking along, could we perhaps rather vote on things that worry us, instead of people (or sometimes just a color) that may (likely not) do something about it? E.g. salary of teachers, climate change, etc.

And then every law/change has to be derived from that “wishlist”. Because political programs, while originally similar, have been misused greatly. It is still prone to abuse, but perhaps it would increase accountability of politicians and decrease the amount of laws that are only meant to distract the public from something much worse in the background. But surely everyone wants “free beer and immortality” (the program of a joke party where I live), so it would likely fail for other reasons, but a more direct democracy also has the shortcome of.. well, dumb people.
Thanks! That does seem up my street.
Linked lists are one of those things, like textual protocols, that people reach for because they're easy and fun but, from an engineering standpoint, you should never, ever use unless you can provide a STRONG justification for doing so. The locality of reference characteristics of vectors mean that, except for extreme cases, they beat linked lists almost every time on modern cached CPUs.
AIUI, GhostCell and related patterns can be used to implement doubly linked lists in safe Rust. These patterns are quite obscure and hard to use in practice, though.
Just because there is a cartel that has been operating for decades on these terms, that does not mean that new competitors should use the same playbook.

In contrast, Google Fiber does not have data caps.
Most successful system on the planet.
He did so on 60 Minutes about a month ago:

https://youtu.be/HfNnuQOHAaw?t=15
I'm not a journalist and my comments are not an attempt to be. On what word to use, I would use "54%" or maybe "roughly half." Either paint an accurate picture to the reader of the reality.
> one of the newspapers that I trust the most

One of the newspapers that I ... might possibly occasionally distrust a tiny bit less than some other inaccurate, biased and misrepresentation-laden newspapers and media sources.

I frequently notice major errors and misrepresentations in the NYT and elsewhere, so I can only assume that it's a general property - even in stories where I lack the background information or expertise to identify them immediately.
Imagine owning property.
This should not be a surprise to anyone who has been reading the New York Times' technology journalism for the past several years.

In fact, I'd argue that even before any such "directive" was made, the bias in high-profile papers was already predominantly anti-tech, except in rare circumstances where praising a technology sector or tech company served the overarching political narrative of the moment (e.g., then-nascent social media was a good thing when Obama leveraged it to success; and a toxin when later less palatable politicians did the same).

This is not limited to the New York Times. Even tech-oriented journalistic venues such as The Verge have a decidedly snarky and grim view of many technologies. And they are effective at steering discourse, even among notionally technology-savvy people. Consider, for example, how antagonistic coverage of autonomous transportation by major media outlets has yielded widespread pessimism and doubt. Presently, you have non-trivial numbers of otherwise intelligent technology-forward journalism consumers convinced that autonomy is an unsolvable problem.
Yes, where would businesses be without a fleet of energy sucking middle managers.

I don’t like EM at all, but truth is internet companies are making so much goddamn money, they have employee pools absolutely full of turds.
It's explicitly a less real type of cost.

If you have a bank account with $100 in it, a $10 daily expense will deplete your account in 10 days. A $10 daily opportunity cost would never deplete your account.
Considering that unsafe rust basically just allows raw pointer access (see link below) which is already a thing you can do normally in C, I do not see how that's a very good argument against it honestly.

As for the Option type, it is exactly what it says. It's an optional, non-nullable node generic over type T. I suppose generics, optionals and the idea of non-nullable types might be exotic at first, but this is not a problem with Rust as much as it's a problem with C not being able to express these concepts in the first place and instead expecting you to spray null checks all over the place!

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html
I think him telling the military he doesn't want to pay for it anymore privately would have done the job. It's not like they're short of cash, $44 billion has been allocated to UA's defense.
Obviously in reality Musk has done nothing to be compared to Hitler, however as far as how much hate he gets in 2022, I would say he easily surpasses Hitler by at least a factor of a thousand. Very few people even talk about Hitler anymore, so it doesn't really capture the sense of hate either.

I think a good comparison in the US would be Trump and I think more people hate Trump than Musk.
I've used RSS to follow all media for the past 2 years (FreshRSS+FeedMe, I have a guide here https://soapstone.mradford.com/hn-rss-guide/). It's been the single best thing I've done to reclaim my attention. Here's a couple of other random thoughts:

- Being able to dismiss articles where the headline is the story is really valuable. For example, I just dismissed "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun (techcrunch.com)"- it's not worth my attention.

- It's possible to accrue a large backlog of unread "semi-interesting" items that may or may not be valuable. In this sense, there's still a FOMO aspect to RSS, and you have to be aggressive in dismissing articles. For exmaple, a few 2-week-old backlog titles in my feed include "SHA-3 Buffer Overflow", "Show HN: Restfox - Open source lightweight alternative to Postman", and "Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain". These are semi-interesting, but really I should just dismiss them.
Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything
Should we “go against nature”?
Some Snapchat users could be owed money in a $35M settlement
Sorry for my ignorance – linked list matching the performance of vector is something new to me. I would like to learn more. The best way to prove your point is to show us a benchmark. However, I couldn't find one with a quick google search.
I have somewhat mixed feelings on WASM... you can't "peak" into it nearly as much as JS... but even JS has gone past the point of being really decipherable by humans in production sites for a while.

I know there's some boundary issues with performance and hope that it can be worked out in a meaningful/reasonable way. I think WASM gets much more interesting in server hosted platform environments. You get largely portable code that can run wherever (x86, arm, risc-v, etc) and is in a secure environment, read-only into itself.
I don't think anyone here is calling for the government to restrict the NYT's editorial tone. They're saying that this behaviour is unbecoming of a newspaper of the NYT's reputation, and that their trust in this institution has been damaged as a result.
"But any restaurant would require me to scan my QR code, risking a repeat of the whole affair."

Then GTFO of there!!!!
10-day imprisonment for being at a Restaurant
ffs
Nice way to do business ? Scam people ?
They just write it off.
https://archmission.org is doing something like this. It's a super cool project, and they work with the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, etc.
pcie resizable bar also works only on intel hardware despite being standard pcie feature available for ~5 years now (Zen 1).
While I agree with you, I think it is easy to think of ourselves as “we are not the ones that are emotional, we think logically”. But the thing is, human beings are just emotional to the core and every sensory input is sensed as per the actual emotional state we are in, biased towards our inherent biases.

Party alignment has unfortunately devolved into this “us vs them” pack mentality, and at this point I honestly question the point of parties at all. Why don’t we instead vote on individuals only, and make parties straight up illegal?
I think the tech page used to look more like the travel page today

https://www.nytimes.com/section/travel

If you take a look, its not doing investigations. Its just talking about cool places. Tech used to just be talking about cool gadgets.

I believe them when they say it was "top down" but also it was self-evident that this would happen if tech companies went to a small part of the economy to the biggest in the world.

You can talk about the rivalries between NYTimes and FB/Twitter - but ultimately it just seems like they decided to treat it like a serious matter which was predictable/good. If overnight the airline and hotel companies became the most powerful in the world, then I think the travel section would be more critical and it would have nothing to do with NYT trying to get revenge.
Let me know the answer. Because I feel like that should definitely be part of it. Though there's some very concerning aspects of lack of defense for national infrastructure things like power grids. So I doubt it is being taken seriously, or as seriously as it should be.

I really do think a country should be proactively red teaming its own infrastructure and repairing any holes it finds. But it doesn't seem like the best interest of people who are more focused on offensive techniques.
Not sure that this is entirely a bad thing. I would read any glowing article about a tech company suspiciously (was it a paid placement?)

I wonder though if this was fallout from the media's fawning coverage of Holmes pre-Carreyeou, and Facebook's fall from grace with the Cambridge Analytica story.
The sheer volume of text you have written about this is very strange. You may want to seek guidance on how to interact with other people. Have a good weekend.
But they aren't going to tell the truth. Republicans don't respond to Biden's policies with sober recitations of well-sourced factual criticism, but the kind of paranoid partisan hyperbole you'd find on Fox News, because their goal isn't truth but keeping and maintaining power in an age where voters primarily react on emotion, not logic and reason, within bubbles of manufactured hyper-reality. Misinformation from one side doesn't just cancel out misinformation from the other.
G7 agrees to price cap on Russian oil
I love Quarto! It's so much more pleasant than writing LaTeX, but you still get professional-looking documents with Python graphs that update themselves!
Where did I say I believed it? I said many people in my country believe it, and that it's okay to question such things. Nobody should have to accept a questionable election.

Remember, such questioning is being literally censored and supreme court judges are publicly saying the results are "unquestionable" and anyone who spreads suspicion will be treated as anti-democratic criminals. If you really believe censorship and judiciary dictatorship is okay I really don't know what to say anymore.
I am also skeptical of it. I think the idea is that if you have pervasive microtransactions, and smart contracts which can participate in them, then you can easily create web applications where revenues are shared with users, in a transparent and predictable way.

Consider Facebook. Facebook is an advertising platform: advertisers pay money in exchange for users looking at ads; users look at ads. But the users don't receive the money! Facebook keeps the money. A Web 3.0 version could pass some fraction of the advertisers' money on to each user; the amount passed on could be based on various aspects of the user's activity, to incentivise them to do things which increase the value of the ads (looking at ads, attracting other users to the site, etc), and to not do things which decrease the value of the ads (driving other users away from the site, posting naughty content, etc).

The fundamental theorem of Web 3.0, as i understand it, is that this is both better for users (they get paid), and also better for site operators (users will be attracted by the prospect of getting paid).

There are problems with this, even on its own terms. Firstly, every site now has to be structured around some sort of transaction, where somebody is prepared to pay. You can't just have people hanging out aimlessly. Now, maybe that just means that Web 3.0 isn't universal, and there are sites where it doesn't make sense. But the best places on the net have always been places where people hang out aimlessly, so this seems like a substantial lacuna. Secondly, detailed, mechanically applied incentives often end up driving behaviour that isn't what the setter really wanted; you end up with everyone breeding cobras etc. Web 3.0 sites might end up not being better for users or operators. Thirdly, a Web 3.0 site will be less profitable for its operator than an equivalent Web 2.0 site, so it will (often) be less attractive as a thing for an entrepreneur to build. I suppose the theory predicts that Web 3.0 sites will outcompete Web 2.0 sites, so entrepreneurs won't have a choice.

Then there are problems where the theory interacts with reality. We already have transactions, without using cryptocurrencies, and as long as users are happy to batch up payments and withdrawals, transactions on sites themselves can be arbitrarily micro. We don't have smart contracts without blockchains, so users would have to trust operators to apply incentives fairly; but people already trust all sorts of companies to do that (credit card rewards, supermarket loyalty points, MMORPG XP, etc), so this isn't a real obstacle. If we wanted to build sites like this, we already could!

And then there are the general cryptocurrency / blockchain problems. For every one genuine and sensible attempt to build a site like this, there will be a hundred which are genuine but ill-conceived, and ten thousand which are scams. This is pretty much a market for lemons.

So i'm not sure there is any reason for anybody outside of the crypto scam sphere to care about it. It won't take off, and if it did, it would be crap.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/fmcce

Extract:

"The international perspective is striking. Over the past year, one in six UK adults has had a pressing need for medical examination or treatment and been unable to get access, with almost half of these cases due to the length of waiting lists. This is the highest figure out of 36 European countries and almost triple the EU average."
If I had planned and written those two characters, I would have appended a comment like yours and any sensible engineer would have praised the solution.

It’s fairly obvious their metric isn’t «number of lines of code».
Not at places I've worked. The first to get laid off are low-performers that everyone knows is a low performer and no one likes. The unproductive lifers usually have built a system or two, and they're just coasting on that while doing as little as possible.
Globally? Vs chopsticks?
In my experience, since I have 3 side projects going on at the same time I'm employed full time, the best possible scenario is to have the worst technically able manager possible. For the last 3 years, I've been allocated to 3 different projects (on my full time job), all under the same manager. The guy is clueless, and I and my team members can give any estimate whatsoever for a task completion, it's always accepted. On top of that, I'm full remote since the start of the pandemic. Life is great and I've never been so productive... for me and my projects of course. On the other hand, the company that employs me is the one that suffers. Twitter seems to be just like my company, and at least my employer has the excuse of being a typical government owned inneficient piece of garbage.
Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) [video]
Denver firefighters declared a living woman dead without assessing her
That's because in order to interact with pointers you need unsafe, and not using unsafe in Rust requires a single ownership tree or reference counting. If you're not keen on either of those solutions, you shouldn't be writing a Doubly Linked List in other languages either (because they will have either pointers or reference counting/GC).
Or... Why roll out to residential users when there are RVs and planes still without service?

Anyway, any residential ISP advertising "unlimited" is almost certainly full of shit. They shouldn't be allowed to advertise with this sort of language when there are in fact limits imposed. Leading people to believe otherwise has always been unfair.
> Population was decreasing prior to mass layoffs.

Only since the pandemic cut immigration, and only slowly (though there was more intrastate redistribution.)

But even so, that (and the net outmigration to other states that had been going on for decades even while international migration offset it) waa largely due to affordability concerns resulting fron inadequate housing supply.

> Now we're just forcing inorganic increased supply; dropping property values.

Since the mandates mostly favor multifamily homes, including by redevelopment, and undermine zoning restrictions, this probably raises value of existing properties (allowing more units on existing land increases land market value, reducing the proportion and absolute number of properties above a given size increases the improvement values of those larger properties.)

It decreases the average price of a “housing unit”, but that people own concrete properties, not generic housing units that morph over time to whatever the current average unit is.
Yeah given the context I think it is obvious that he got fired for advertising an extension that makes it easier to download your emails.
Alrighty then. I'll look into multipath.
Am I the only one who sees a strange distribution of cables around the globe? A bunch in California, 1 in South America connecting maybe Buenos Aires and Rio, and zero in Oceania.

Also interesting to note the Bering Strait is not used, despite it being the only land almost connecting the West and the Far East.
Former NYT writer here.... NYT, as far as I know, has always had a "top-down" directive that coverage be critical. That's, you know, the job of journalism and all. Non-critical pieces are opinion, not reporting.
This is actually something I like. Our experiences are the same but my preferences are for Microsoft. The admin side of MS365 is far better to my tastes and use cases than Google Workspace. Not that I enjoy the game of constantly changing control panel locations, but I like where MS365 is headed generally.
Journalism is supposed to be critical, no? Otherwise it is just rehashed press releases.
How about “Although a majority of funding came from Canadian sources, nearly half (46%) came from foreign donations.”

Seek the whole truth, don’t settle for media narratives.
I think politicians are entitled to contrast what they’ve done to what their political opponents would do. In fact I think that’s like 90% of political campaigning. Here’s Obama getting loads of media coverage for exactly the same argument 4 days ago https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
The Dangers of LSD: A Personal Story
I think the parents point is that starlink has an actual reason to cap usage (because launching satellites into space is expensive), much more so than traditional providers anyway.
Trust in Musk or go federated with Nextcloud Social
There were arguments made for its non-inclusion[1].

[1]: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/sixth.html
It's the difference between a movie critic who carefully critiques movies honestly and one that decides to write a negative review before even seeing the movie. Both of them are being "critical", but in very different ways. I think the NYT probably wanted to be the former but drifted into becoming the latter.
The blue not-really crossing out of the data of the other persons involved is great. My god, who wouldn't love to work with such an individual.
37signals' two co-founders discuss a Basecamp pricing experiment [video]
Language wars, editor wars, and now data structure wars. What random technical thing will people go to virtual blows over next?
If I read 10 or 20 books about a topic and then go teach that topic to others, do I have to attribute each thing to all the authors from where I learned it? And what if I come up with my own interpretation of a topic, do I have to trace it back to all interpretations of all the authors that influenced it? Even more, do the previous authors also have to do that and do I have to quote all the chain of references? If not, why an ML model that is supposed to learn how coding works, not memorize pieces of code verbatim, should have to “because of copyright laws”?
Why are we seeing inflation?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1250636/global-container...
well said.

It's the same people that demand data before you can conclude that a quadriplegic is going to finish a 40 yard dash behind a non-quadraplegic.
The Intel cards are not good

In MW2, released few days ago, the card shows pretty poor performance compared to 3yo AMD GPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4JDDCnOi0
You're definitely correct, and in the cities where Google Fiber operates, conveniently, other providers do not have data caps as well. The solution to this problem is to encourage more things like Google Fiber and break up the horrible monopolistic system we have now.

I just think, if anyone should get some understanding for the situation, it should be Starlink, based on the constraints of their tech.
No one needs to -- the Free Speech Debate is not really about the government, is it? Elon didn't buy Twitter to protect it from the fed. He bought it to protect it from what he calls a "woke mind-virus" -- aka, progressive politics.

This article is trending because -- and I'm generalizing here -- HN skews center-right (what I like to call 'business-right'.) As a result, it has fallen prey to the false narrative of corrupt left-wing mainstream media unfairly maligning good honest billionaires.
Trip over a sufficiently shiny rock and you'll discover that it has value (to some people) even though you put no labor into it.
A good RSS reader is like a DVR for everything else (text, images, audio).
Active scans by government seems a bit like domestic intelligence collection.

This is like saying foot patrols are a bit like SWAT raids. They are, a bit, but they are a lot more than a bit entirely unlike them.
Understanding, and even sympathizing, with the machine's toil re: vectors vs manual linked list can separate a good engineer from a great one. We learn linked lists, assembly, and even machine code in Computer Science majors so that we know what's happening under the hood and can more easily surmise the runtime effects.
I understand that's the current thinking in journalism, but I actually disagree with it. I think giving people free license to editorialize is harmful. Even given that it's true that it's impossible to be bias free, I think it's important to try to be bias free. When you stop trying things get even more biased which is exactly the problem with journalism today.

It is highly biased and inflammatory and actually encourages people to be more tribal rather than try to come together and compromise despite their differences. I'm ok with not agreeing with the journalism industry here. I think they had it right 20 years ago.
That doesn’t mean they’re wrong: it just says that other people scan the internet, too, which nobody would argue.