skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been a bit of a fan of debounce for this but many of the obvious implementations are cache based which is essentially inviting people to do the thing I just said I hate.

The cost of counting upvotes or logged in users is not worth the incremental value it affords the user. These are examples of situations where 'eventual consistency' can be embarrassingly easy. If you split the source of truth (SoT) from the system of record (SoR), then the cost of updating the 'truth' can be amortized across the writes to the SoR. The reads do a straight lookup from the SoT, which was the truth at some point but is now the fiction everyone is agreeing to. The distinction is that everyone agrees to the same source of truth. Nobody ever goes asking the SoR for a second opinion, except the SoR, which updates the SoT when appropriate. The SoT is dumb, the clients are dumber, only the code that manages the SoR has any smarts to it.

Read traffic can escalate pretty high in such a system without much stress.
Occam's Razor, it's because his name is super long.
>Lots of people have been banned from platforms, rightly or wrongly. You can't get banned from email. You can't get banned from having your own website. You can't get banned from the telephone system. If you don't own your own data, you are at the mercy of those who do.

If there's anything to be learned from the KiwiFarms saga, it's that these statements are no longer true.
> Isn’t that why Joe Rogan is more popular than CNN?

How is Rogan an an example of good journalism? He doesn't do background research or push back on guests.
I think Unsplash was kind of like this until they were bought by Getty Images. Really loved they're way of presenting ads.

On a personal note, I tried getting into ads for one of my personal projects (a map of recycling points for my hometown), but Google declined my application because it doesn't have much content on it — though it's kind of absurd because people use my web app, to find locations on the map, not read content. I ended up not doing ads for now, and keep receiving "buy me a coffee" donations.
It seems the only difference between conspiracy theory and accepted fact is about 18 months now.
It's slightly outside my knowledge are, so I'll try my best, but it may have some errors. Oversimplifying_

If you join two molecules of nicotinamide riboside with a phosphate you can make one molecule of NAD+.

When your cells burn sugar, they actually transform NAD+ into NADH, and later the NADH is "burned" with the oxygen to produce back NAD+ and make a few ATP molecules.

The ATP stores the energy for a short time, until that energy can be used for something useful, like moving your legs or making proteins.

The easy version in school is

sugar + oxygen -> CO2 + energy

but there are like 50 intermediate steps to capture as much of that energy in a useful form. One of the intermediate steps uses NAD+, that is formed by two copies of nicotinamide riboside and a phosphate.
The reverse is the case. In what way do you think this is stupid? It enables very cheap renewable energy to exploit its huge levelized cost advantage over nuclear yet still be able to cover the rare dark/calm periods the nuclear stans like to angst about. The key observation is that a simple cycle turbine power plant is about $0.50/W, some 20 times cheaper than a nuclear power plant. The fuel is of course much more expensive, but for backup supply that hardly matters.
Equities are not currency. Equities have value because of the dividends they pay (or retain).

Gold has value because it is scarce and can easily be verified, and has industrial uses. Moreover, you don't need a third party to check for gold. It is straightforward to ensure that gold is real if you have basic tools. However, if gold brokers did not exist and gold were not also easily divisible, gold would have little utility.

Bitcoin has value because of the exchanges. If there are no exchanges, then it has no value.

But, what all three of the above have in common is that the only reason they currently have any value in our markets is because they can be exchanged for pieces of paper that governments will throw you in jail for should you fail to pay them upon transfer of any of the above assets.
Alpine towns in Europe have long ago solved this problem. Those roads have a 90kph speed limit that abruptly changes to 50kph or less for a few hundred meters through a town, then goes back to 90kph.

As you can imagine, people speed. A lot.

So towns started adding a gratuitous sharp turn at the entrance into town. You fly in doing 90kph, slow down for the turn, and are greeted by a 50kph speed limit. You won't speed back up because why would you.

Portuguese rural towns, I've seen, have a similarly brilliant solution – a stoplight outside town. If you approach at speeds above the speed limit, the red light comes on. Forcing you to keep stopping outside very tiny little town. You quickly learn it's faster to just go the speed limit.

Another good solution I've seen from little alleys in San Francisco. The speed limit is whatever, but you really shouldn't drive more than 10mph there. Such nice straight road though ... so they stopped being straight. The 1 lane of driving and 1 lane of parking switch sides every quarter block. Forcing you to slow down.
> but it puts a lot more pressure on the GC than simple local stack variables.

Do you have evidence for this claim? AFAIK the Go compiler does escape analysis, and allocates pointers that don't escape on the stack.
The decline of an idea should not be blamed on a single service. Why did no one else make some better service for webrings?
If any other website disabled SMS 2FA HN would drown it in praise.
Agree. Everything I've read (mostly from Reddit) about Twitter and Musk has been silly.
To be honest, I read this article and it looks like a nothingburger. No evidence of anything illegal is actually presented, it all relies on "the government can pressure the company to release data." Nothing special about this, so does every other government.

I guess when it's the military it makes sense to take precautions, but nevertheless this just seems like a way to make Americans afraid of the scary Russians.
"Children are not dying from covid." Is a strong claim.

And it would be just as backed up as if I were to say "Children are not dying from covid vaccines."
The French aren’t gonna change their language over an emoji picker. :slightly_smiling_face:
My impression is not that swipe typing is the winner, but because of configurability of the keyboard (different language layouts) and the option to use the screen estate for other purposes (e.g. when watching videos). The latter is particularly important, as the screen-to-body ratio is critical in those devices.
Oh shit here we go again...
Good luck finding a solid definition of that term that excludes them without excluding a whole class of other, more traditionally recognized stuff.

Tokens, etc. are easiest to think of as securities (aka stock) generally, albeit securities in a more abstract thing than a company.
> The performance issue here is not value semantics

There's no performance cost to value semantics, so of course not.

> The copy is cheap. The lifetime tracking is not because it forces a heap allocation and creates additional GC pressure. In fact, assuming Rule is small, if Match returned by value, the code would be similarly as fast.

I'm referring more to how this stuff seeps in without the programmer realizing it. It's the implicit nature of all this behaviour that is the problem.
Oh yes.

> in the case of crypto, the asset never represents anything but itself.

This is the foul taste of all crypto "assets". They are not assets because they have no intrinsic value for anything.

The nearest real economy analogy is the art market, which is hopelessly inflated, utterly riddled with fraud, and with very little intrinsic value.

But you can hang a painting on a wall and look at it. Even if it is a fake it still looks good on the wall.

Crypto has none of that. All it has is the scam, the fake, the hope of a bigger fool.

Shame on us for letting this happen. It gives a bad name to geeks in general and cryptography specifically.
SpaceX buys ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink
Would be interesting to see cash flow, which is probably more relevant when comparing against capital raised. If this is EBITDA, then included in those losses for these companies is a ton of stock based compensation which really has zero effect on cash flow.

Also, if we are talking EBITDA, Snap did hit a positive GAAP net income for a single quarter: https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/03/snap-finally-did-it-yall/
Great question!

While we'd love to be the best solution for every problem, it turns out the HTML-based web has been highly optimized for decades for text-heavy, linear, reading experiences.

So we're staying focused on the places where Flutter does the best job: interactive, non-linear, more-create-than-consume.

So our sites use HTML & CSS: flutter.dev, dart.dev, pub.dev

And our devtools are built in Flutter Web: https://docs.flutter.dev/development/tools/devtools/overview
Along with web experiences from rows.com, reflection.app, rive.app, supernova.io, and many more.

FYI: I'm the product manager working on Flutter and Dart web tech at Google

(edit: fixed domain, mis-added one app)
I'll reiterate my comment to the original OP. Billionaires donating may generally be legally doing their business. That doesn’t make it moral or ethical or completely legal. If the entire billionaire system is corrupt, pointing all fingers at the corrupt Dem party when the Repub party is just as corrupt, if not more so, is weird, uniformed, and biased. Are you spreading election misinformation?
"No upside" is not accurate. Hospitalizations from COVID are quite rare in 15 year olds, but not remotely as rare as these cases of myocarditis.
Do you consider a news website with 150k impressions a month small or medium?
what do you mean by "than during Covid"?
are you trying to imply covid have been eradicated ?
>A modern solution is simply to have non-breaking space easily accessible in your keyboard layout

An even better solution would be --for grown up people who have progressed beyond cave-painting and want to communicate using, you know, actual words-- to be able to disable emojis completely.

Fucking moronic shite that they are. I've seen people on Twatter and FB have entire conversations in bloody emojis. Talk about reverse evolution! Why don't we just go back to grunting and gesturing and have done with it?
I have an uninsured friend who just gives them a fake name. Seems very non-confrontational to me.
Knight Capital was traded (so taking other people's money).

Let's also try not to conflate "blowing up" with actual fraud. Traders are free to lose all of their own money, and doing so is not fraud
Nobody wants to hit pedestrians, pets, bicyclists, or other road users.
Most people drive at a speed at which they believe they are still in control of their vehicle.

We overestimate ourselves.
They do however have a short term effect on the income of a particular counties law enforcement.
The actual "correction" thread:

https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15919687831489208...
Is we wanted to remove the revenue aspect, we could eliminate fonts and court costs for traffic violations and just rely on license demerit points. If one accumulates enough demerit points within a given time frame, then their license is suspended. If they're caught driving on a suspended license, then they're arrested and remain in jail until trial.
They also get to check if you have warrants out for your arrest. Cops LOVE this one weird trick!
New York University (NYU) requires boosters for all students: https://www.nyu.edu/life/safety-health-wellness/coronavirus-...
I hear a lot of anti-vaxy stuff about how the spike protein is damaging in itself (implying that you shouldn't get the vaccine because you'll have spike proteins flowing around in your blood), but they seem to ignore the fact that when you get actual covid the virus is multiplying in your cells and spike proteins are more widespread and more numerous.

I see the argument here in this thread that the vaccine isn't really preventing you from getting covid at this point (which is probably largely true) but shouldn't being vaccinated mean that you'll have a lower viral load and shorter duration of illness?
I think artwork also works this way. I have 10 piece of art drawn by Mr. Artist. My friend buys a piece for 1 million dollars, I now have ~9 million dollars of "assets".

These shenanigans have been going on for a long time in wealthy groups.
It also had stylus and a kickstand! It could broadcast in FM!
SMS.
But we don't drive like that
I've never been in the situation, but from what I gather then both things happen. Sometimes your are given notice (and pay) but access revoked. But its also my understanding that in many cases, maybe even most, the employee works in the 3 months. The employer may even be a bit more lax with time off so the employee can do interviews with other companies. I know in most cases the notice period is used for handing over projects/work to another employee at the company, so stuff doesn't just get dropped. I get the security aspect, but from my experience its just not something an employee usually does. Maybe some other Danes can pitch in with their experiences.

I think its b/c getting fired is bad ofc, but not bad like in the US. I mean we have universal basic income, free healthcare etc. So I just don't think people feel pressured in a way that drives them to exploit access even after a notice, or get mad at the company in the same way. I'm just speculating. Again, there are companies and positions in companies where its a no brainer that access is revoked for security reasons.
> I am an AAA PC Gamer, but why are PC games requiring 16GB of System Memory minimum on top of 8 to 16GB of GPU Memory?

I'm a console gamer but I think it's to do with things like textures and other game assets need to go to system RAM before GPU, so it's not quite as efficient as they unified RAM on consoles.

I think this was an issue with the PS3 vs Xbox 360. PS3 had 256MB of system and 256MB GPU, vs the 512MB unified in the 360. This resulted in memory heavy games like Skyrim running worse and having more bugs on the PS3 version
To be fair, there's no value in stuff like Twitter, stamp collections, the US dollar, etc unless you coax other individuals into them (in some cases by using armies).

It's a function true of pyramid schemes and any system that relies on network effects to be of any real value.

Not that I care about Bitcoin one way or the other.
haha I never thought of that.
> But for some reason the EU is still hooked on neoliberalism and anti-protectionism, even when it has ravaged the continent with the energy crisis and the US monopolising the Tech industry, etc. (remember that the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Acorn, ARM, Linux and Nokia were all European once).

So the EU and it's consumer/people right's over company rights caused Russia to invade Ukraine and therefore decrease the supply of energy causing an increase in prices??? This is one of the craziest, nonsensical takes I've ever read.
I'm an atheist like you, and there is one book that clicked for me: "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching" by Thich Nhat Hanh.

It has an excellent part about "rebirth", illustrated by waves and water. I now look at the world through different eyes. That is to say, I'm still atheist, love science, and that book never conflicts with reality. But I admit I was wrong on how I saw the world, and now I see it differently.

Zen Buddhism for me is a different way on how to look at the world.
I wouldn't trust that situation even if I got everything in writing.
Ezekiel 4:12-15 applies:

’Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.’ ... I said, ‘Not so, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself.’ ‘Very well,’ he said, ‘I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.’

We could be dealing with worse shit, however shit remains shit.
Funny, email is the example I give of why it doesn't.
Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_...
Not bought by Musk yet :)

Seriously though: Making your fork "unhooked" from its parent is not very difficult, it only takes one support request and they usually get back to you within the week.

Independently of that, yes, search should find forks too.
> How can you have a conversation if so much time is spent not saying things?

Slowly, in carefully written form reviewed by people with the right training.

Unfortunately, in the middle of an emergency with the bodies of voting-aged people piling up... Not at all.

(Although, I guess not going to the other extreme of "having this conversation in bits of 140 characters among strangers with advertisers at each corner" did not help much.)
I believe it's simply because people like to speed, so they will vote against speed enforcement they don't think they can avoid.
Our (Northern Canadian) municipality stopped doing speed traps near school zones. Instead, they now have an automated radar that just tells you what your speed is.

It seems to have solved the problem. Most people will slow down.

They still do photo radar speed traps on the highway, but it's not really a deterrent or safety thing. More like an automated toll booth for people who insist on speeding.
I could be remembering it wrong, but I'm pretty sure Google's webscraper was far superior to basically any other search engines, and that along with it's ranking algorithm killed whatever need for webrings there were. I remember having to tell Yahoo about my website and they said their bot would look at it in a couple of days.
The few times I've driven in italy...
Average speed cams from toll to toll booth would be only half the fines collected for tailgating....at high speed.

Many drivers would defeat the average by blasting along at their regular 180kmh, stopping for a thimble-full of coffee that somehow takes an hour to prepare and two hours to stir three grains of sugar into and then off again to the next toll booth flashing lights at anyone in their way doing less than 200kmh - to make up for lost time.

Come on Meloni - legalise cannabis and average speed cams...all bills paid and no tax hikes.
Mostly privacy.

License plates could be stored to track you
WTF?

> If real-time or near real-time is the expectation, then avoiding the cache usage

Because looking up a precalculated result in a hash table is so much slower than not looking it up? And what, recalculating it instead is faster than an O(1) hash table lookup? If so,why are you caching?

I am just getting more confused by what people are saying here.
Topology, a Categorical Approach (2020)
I think I'm referring to M-pesa, but I'm pretty sure implementations and uses existed in this system before app stores existed, ie before 2007
The point of this whole process is to bypass the gatekeeping recruiter.
Nothing you store in the Cloud is yours.

If you want something of yours in the Cloud to remain safe, you have to host it yourself in a computer that you physically control.

It's the same advice I give others about wealth. If you can't hold it in your hot little hand or touch it, it is not yours. Electronics numbers in somebody's else's computer, doubly so.

I learned a hard lesson many years ago when DropBox and I were both a lot younger. Probably (almost certainly) my fault, but I lost several gigs of files when those files were deleted from my 'master' computer instead of being copied to an 'underling' computer.
It's great to hear Nim in production stories!

> I feel like Nim made me fall in love with programming again.

Same. It's just so frictionless and productive, and you know your code will run on basically any platform in a nice, efficient, self contained executable.

For me it's a language of sensible defaults. Speed and safety first, and opt-in machine level control. Want to target that obscure microcontroller? No worries: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel.

Want to use Unreal? Sure: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE.

Want to target the web? Native React support with https://github.com/andreaferretti/react.nim or web apps with https://github.com/karaxnim/karax.

The list goes on! https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Curated-Packages

But, what if you want to use that battle tested C++ library? Nim can compile to C++ so you have native ABI FFI!

There's also a lot to be said for automation with AST macros.
The language is built around them, they're not just a tacked on after thought.
As a result, it's very easy to do everything from removing boilerplate copy pasta errors to creating mini languages or even generating APIs from data. This can give you new paradigms in approaching solutions for things that are quite painful in other languages.

I feel like this language could be a weapon of mass production for many businesses once they dip their toes in!
There are some hidden assumptions, including the idea that consciousness is a continuous phenomenon and/or experience. Our brain is amazingly good at making up retroactive explanations to match our observations.

Also, our thought processes are sufficiently chaotic that no amount of inspection can catch all the starting conditions, so any model has to be statistical in nature.
According to these studies, section speed cameras can reduce the number of accidents by 30% on average, compared to 20% for conventional speed cameras. Even better: section speed cameras reduce the number of serious accidents by 56%!

Better, the study highlighted a "contagion" effect: the average speed also dropped in the areas located before and after the controlled section.
Finally, the speed seems to have become more homogeneous, and the band changes less frequent in the studied area.

https://www.touring.be/fr/articles/radars-troncons-et-securi... (in french)
For many years ST is my daily driver for writing notes, research papers (in Markdown), zsh scripts and coding in Julia. ST (plus Sublime Merge) is just.. sublime :) I've tried vim, nvim, been a hardcore emacs user for half a year and I always return to ST.
> Crypto turned into a haven for replaying every form of financial fraud ever invented on an epic speedrun against retail "investors", and a whole lot of powerful people and institutions have dirty hands. The idea all of this could be adequately explained by stupidity rather than malice strains credulity.

This was clear years ago. That is why I've been avoiding crypto like the plague.
If you fail to put a space before a colon when writing in French, what happens next? Do people point and laugh? You get disciplined? Or would French speakers accept this as a better way to use the colon character?

It looks like this rule is based on old typographic considerations. Much like the Spanish Royal Academy's rule that capitalized letters carry no accents (unlike the opposite French rule that capitalized letters do carry accents!), which stems from typewriters not having accented letters, so one would type a vowel, backspace, then an apostrophe to make an accented vowel, but for capitals there's not enough space so you couldn't and wouldn't overstrike them.

Users and language academies should distinguish typographic from non-typographic language rules, and typographic rules should be context-specific (well technology-specific, since technology is the context).
For the best and brightest, there are always green pastures.