skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we did (northern Italy, 1996-2010) was take an old storeroom, fill it with old desktops that would get cycled as technology got better, and have a permanent setup that capped out at 8 computers. The two most popular games were DN3D and Starcraft, with NFS2SE being added once we got eight voodoo cards. Great times, great memories, I'm still in touch with about half the people who showed up :) basically it was like having a little arcade, except free. House rules were no smoking (lots of smokers in Italy) and you're expected to contribute by buying sodas and snacks for the fridge, and donating old parts.
Exactly. All of Europe, and the world really, has had to deal with the pain (both economic and in lives) of Covid and the war in Ukraine.

But the severity of UK's problems are solely of their own making and are pretty much entirely due to Brexit, and the fallout from Brexit that caused by a string of ill-prepared "leaders".

That said, one reason I'm hopeful about the UK is that, compared to US politics, there is much less "tribalism", much more fluidity among how people will vote, and more willingness in your parties to vote for pragmatic policies when strict ideology fails. In the US most voters couldn't conceive of voting for the opposite party, such that most elections in the US come down to turnout and a small sliver of maybe 10ish percent of "swing voters".

In the UK, by comparison, after the sheer idiocy of Liz Truss, she was quickly canned, a much more realistic/pragmatic PM was installed (even if one disagrees with his overall political stance), and policies quickly changed. Also, at least in polling, there were huge swings in sentiment against Conservatives and towards Labour because Conservatives were (correctly in my opinion) being blamed for their massive fuckup.

I can't see the equivalent happening in the US.
> all the undefined behaviour added for high performance computing

UBs were added for cross-incompatibilities, where operations were too "core" (and / or untestable) for IBs to be acceptable. The reason was not performance (aside from not imposing a runtime check where that would have been possible) but portability:

> 3.4.3 undefined behavior behavior, upon use of a nonportable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous data, for which this International Standard imposes no requirements

Those UBs were leveraged later on by optimising compilers, because they provide constraints compensating for C's useless type system.

So you can just use a non-optimising compiler or one which only does simple optimisations (e.g. tcc), and see what the compiler generates from your UBs.
The old ok cupid had a bunch of quiz questions that it'd match you for, both similarity and dissimilarity weighted by self reported importance.

Then Match Group bought them out and mostly gutted that system and turned it into another swiper :/

There's still eharmony, but I think that's just for white Christian boomers mainly.
Sorry; it was me. I ruined dating apps.

In all the years I had a profile, I never actually intended to meet anybody. It was a great profile. I told jokes, I admitted things I’d never tell anybody in person. I was simultaneously boastful and shameful. I laid bare my greatest desires and insecurities. It was everything interesting about the person that exists beneath the factual history of my life. I almost never wrote first, and most of the messages, I ignored. Sometimes I had great conversations: funny, shocking, sometimes charming, never with any semblance of topic or direction. The people had fascinating and explorative internal lives. I thought they must be rock stars and startup gods, but they weren’t. They were the same decaying cerebral material as everybody else, living lives of quiet desperation behind the sanitized facade of career and relationship in serial attempts. Kind of like me. No; I’d never match up to that in real life. I can’t imagine the person with that sort of introduction to me, being then forced to watch me sit with my face slung down into my hands listening to somebody tell me what to do, some senseless thing in inane corporate babble through my laptop speakers, and then to hear my plead for rationality, ignored. That’s my real life, and it’s embarrassing. I could never keep somebody’s interest for more than a few weeks. They’ll just end up dissatisfied, longing for more, and feeling guilty about the whole thing. No thanks; I’ve already played this game, many times before with the same outcome. Someday I’ll be ready: rich, dynamic, in charge of my life, leader of men and captain of industry, admired by all. Then it will all work out, right? Staring down into those happy beaming eyes, sparkles on her 20th anniversary dress, children, friends and family cheering for everything we’ve accomplished together. Not right now though, because, you know, things are a little busy, and I should really just focus on the project at work to get it done with, and bonus season is coming up, and theres a lot of things I need to fix about myself. Yeah, definitely not ready.
I think the handling of Covid-19 (and there plenty of varied, legitimate criticisms to be made about that) is definitely a UK-specific issue. Not that the mistakes made by the UK weren't also made by other governments, of course.

As for fears for the rest of Europe – I don't doubt that the rest of Europe has problems. My worries are confined to the UK because that's where I live. (To be clear, this isn't me saying I don't care about other countries. But there's only so many problems a person can concern themselves with.) I think the country could very well cease to exist unless we figure a lot of problems out.

The three reasons I listed are the ones that people keep citing. I actually suspect that the UK's problems are longer term and more fundamental. I don't think it's related to either party, either. The Conservative Party of the last few years has not been good for the country, but I'm not convinced Labour will be able to fix our deep, societal problems, either.
That's a really fair point. I support you could do something like:

i82020GEM or i82020NNN

so you have intel 8 core, 2020, GPU, ECC, multiplier or without... then we're back to really bad clusters of numbers and letters, but at least in that scenario it has meaning.
Because this is a major cause of overdoses. When the potency is that high, and you have sketchy clandestine labs and criminal gangs cutting other drugs with it, the amount of fentanyl becomes a (very dangerous) unknown. People cutting fentanyl into other drugs are not known for a doing a laboratory job of mixing it.
Tories did end up supporting May's compromise, even some members of the ERG.

It was blocked by Labour and other parties.

It would have been the most practical way forward at the time. It would have been softer and better planned and with a better working relationship with the EU.

It would also have meant that Labour would have been in partial control of parliament for another 3 years as May's majority relied on people who hated her and was never going to last for every vote. Then we would have had another election this year not in 2019.

I honestly don't know what people were thinking at the time. It was obvious that not compromising would end in chaos.
mp3 killed the video star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPHLSC635CM
Anyone who judges someone else based on the quality of code they wrote 15 years ago is not somebody whose opinions you should respect.

Honestly, judging anyone else by the quality of the code they have shared is pretty poor form - unless they explicitly say "this code is amazing and you should respect me because of its quality".
> In martial arts when I was younger, we spent at least a few sessions just staring at each other

This seems… not right.

I’m guessing your martial arts teacher was not traditionally trained, but I could be wrong.

In pretty much every sport that I have played in which I engage in some way with my opponents, it’s pretty much always best to focus on the hips, since all major/significant motion starts there.
Are they? I can’t say I’ve noticed it at all.
It's not ethereum, it's some other bespoke blockchain to issue NFTs on.
Also missing:

How does this compare to X? (where X is an obscure project on github with no documentation of what it's feature boundaries are, has at best 1000 stars and further internet sleuthing suggests its at best only tangentially associated with the original comments domain.

The end result being the author feels obliged to figure it out and reply incase not doing so seems arrogant and/or poorly educated in the domain)
I’m very skeptical that Brexit’s negative consequences will ever be so unambiguous that people admit them. There will always be some non-Brexit excuse. Equally, remainers are too keen to blame everything on Brexit.

Reading the UK personal finance subreddit is really sobering. Most people’s idea of a high salary (even in good industries) is less than a mediocre junior dev salary in the US.

I feel extremely fortunate to have moved into tech when I did, but even there only American companies offer top tier wages. Are there any British companies competing with FAANGs on salary?

On the plus side, maybe inflation is good for indebtedness?
The original topic that you cited is symptomatic of ineffectual autodidacticism (knowledge management) and analysis paralysis.

As for the former, I recommend taking notes diligently while studying/learning new topics and filing these notes appropriately where you make consulting the original material be it YT videos, online tutorials/posts, articles or books unnecessary since your notes are more than enough and are kept up-to-date accordingly; adding, removing or archiving as you deem necessary.

As for the latter, I struggled with this lately but I think that I made some progress to overcome this roadblock by making snap decisions on the spot by resorting to the old trick of "heads or tails" everytime I start to overthink a solution, and for more overwhelming alternatives, I built a custom randomizer that's fed a list of choices, and then spits the decision that I should make, and I comply with its wish enthusiastically every time.

I wouldn't say that this is the most efficient decision making process out there but for me action is always far better than inaction, and I don't think that perpetual state of deliberations and contemplation was any better as it hindered any progress to be made in the name of picking the most rational or efficient course of action to be taken which it didn't seem to emerge no matter how hard I tried to think a way out of it.
1. Patient’s life is so chaotic and devoid of meaning that they seek out powerful drugs to live in an alternate reality despite the fact that it’s slowly killing them.

2. Society says “Oh no, you are suffering, let us help you”.

3. Instead of fixing society’s ills that caused this person’s suffering (too hard right now), society says “Hey you know that medicine you take all the time? We’ll inject you with this and then it won’t work any more. Now you can enjoy reality!”

4. The doctors leave and the patient is once again alone. Patient kills themselves.

5. No more suffering! Society solved the problem!
There was computer vision stuff in the missile's head (for target tracking), which is where the code was used.
Sympathy, charity and considering them idiots aren't mutually exclusive feelings.
I was scrolling for this. I always forget the URL and when I find it I'm saddened to find no updates :\
Don’t be a donkey https://sive.rs/donkey (Focus on one thing at a time, knowing you can do the other stuff afterwards.)
pyenv will solve your multiple python on one machine problem :)
So is this so fast and easy currently?
Take pictures!
Can't remember, so if I did, it was a long time ago. This story happened around 2010.
If the business I start takes money from my mother in law for an order, and someone within the business steals the money, I'm paying her back out of my own pocket if necessary.

I'm not saying it's his fault that it got stolen, I'm saying it's his fault that his MIL never got reimbursed.
The more one reads about IQ from serious statisticians, the worse the story of modern psychology becomes.

There is a "pseudoscientific tradition" of statistics wherein one assumes systems are linear, one uses only linear models, and wherein one reports only associations on non-experimental conditions. This tradition was invented by psychologists, for psychology, and it's had horrific ethical consequences. I'd go so far to say that any system or results obtained by this method should now, a priori, be regarded as pseudoscience and should require a massive cross-disciplinary consensus to be regarded otherwise.
Actually the body switches to using Ketones (Fat) as fuel instead of Glucose/Sugar/Carbohydrates. Its a completely different system OP has switched to now.
Locks in real-time audio processing
>the majority of its users (developers) want rolling updates for their tooling.

I haven't met a single software developer who wants this. That's not to say your statement is incorrect -- I have no evidence stating otherwise -- but the idea boggles my mind.
Edit: the estimates were way off!
NS was not on russian territory, it was sabotaged in international waters just a few km outside of danish territory
It’s worth noting that for a long time, food prices in the UK have been significantly lower than in comparable countries in Europe. I go to France and Germany quite regularly, and to do a supermarket shop in either is significantly more expensive.

My wife and I do online shops at Waitrose (which is probably the most expensive supermarket) and at a local butchers and don’t particularly try and save money on food. We spend about £100 a week on average including the delivery cost.

Where I’ve noticed increases this year it’s been on milk, butter and some basic vegetables like potatoes. But at the same time - there’s been articles about how dairy farmers were under such competitive pressure in the UK that they’re closing and going out of business in the last couple of years, so to some extent, price rises in that area were inevitable.
You try retool? Feels like it fulfills your criteria but could get expensive with multiple admin editors.
I think it's being pursued aggressively in the US. WSJ reports that the Manhattan US Attorney's office is investigating[1]. The US and the Bahamas are discussing extradition[2]. The House Financial Services Committee is having at least one hearing[3].

And unsurprisingly there's already at least one class action lawsuit.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-sit-in-the-crosshairs-of-u-s-prosecutors-11668398012
[2] https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-may-extradite-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-collapse-investigation-report
[3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-to-probe-ftx-collapse-e2-80-98expects-e2-80-99-sam-bankman-fried-to-testify/ar-AA14bt9d
For about twenty years, 1992 through 2012 or so, there was an invite-only "LifeCA" Conway's Life mailing list where a lot of the in-depth research and collaboration tended to happen. That was certainly a good surviving pocket of Life-hacker subculture.

The point of keeping the LifeCA list private was to dodge spammers and keep the signal-to-noise ratio high. This very successfully avoided the terrible drowned-in-spam fate of the Usenet group comp.theory.cell-automata, so that was good -- but it made it quite difficult for newcomers to figure out who to talk to, or what interesting problems had been solved or were still open.

When the conwaylife.com forums showed up in 2009, it turned out that there were much better ways of suppressing spam, and a lot of new energy entered the field.
> You could power the earth exclusively on the smug

I would like to learn more about smug-powered systems. Do you have some links I should read?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgtFRj38fEw
There's an aspect of quality vs quantity. At this point, most of the people I'm actually bothered about following are on Mastodon (this may a feature of my bubble, of course, but it works for me). There are, granted, a lot fewer first-name-bunch-of-numbers weirdos hassling people in the replies, but, I mean, I can live with that.
>But the severity of UK's problems are solely of their own making and are pretty much entirely due to Brexit, and the fallout from Brexit that caused by a string of ill-prepared "leaders".

The leaders weren't just I'll prepared with Brexit, they head-on despite the consequences, since they were chasing the "EU-bad" popularity votes by pointing at the EU as the scapegoat for the UKs own self inflicted internal issues. Now the leaders have no more outside scapegoats other than COVID and Putin.
I have an account and could try filing a ticket for you.
Sorry to be so direct but exactly the things on which you expanded here are a very large part of my deep skepticism about SerenityOS.

All that NIH without improving anything on the status quo is imho pure insanity!

But OK, the project is mainly meant as a "therapy" for some mental illness, so this "makes sense" actually… (Just coding without thinking or carrying is quite some fun and liberating, indeed!)

Besides the crazy amount of NIH the rate at which this project evolves is another very bad sign. (Reminds me strongly of "80% boy & his Redux OS"…). If you rush everything there is no time for planing or evaluating ideas. OTOH this is of course not needed if you do not intend to innovate on anything—and just rebuild once more things that already been built hundreds of times.

I think alone scope creep will be deadly to this projects in the long run. For example one of the strongest reasons for Linux's success is imho that Linux concentrated solely on the OS. Where you end up when you want to do everything at once (especially without any research projects backing that effort!) at least I'm quite sure to know.

Alone building a serous programming language is a life's work! (But OK, once again, Jakt isn't serous. It's not going to be even competitive with Carbon, as I see it, which itself isn't of any interests at all besides "Google is selling" it. Jakt is just the next fun NIH project, "because we can").

Regarding the community: Well, this dude attracted quite some attention with his personal life story. People seem to feel compassionate about him. So there is a lot of momentum. And sure, he's a nice guy. Only that he's quite off to when it comes to what he's producing. (Which is once again a very good prove of the fact that social circumstances have much more weight than any technological considerations; people care in the end about people, never really about the tech).

Bottom line: I came to my conclusions about SerenityOS because I've looked at it.

I try hard to not have any opinions on things I don't at all know about.
> Most US homes actually do receive 240v, it's just done in an unusual biphase configuration with two "hot" phases 180 degrees apart. If you connect a device across the phases it will receive the full 240 volts, which is often done for cookers, clothes dryers, and EV chargers.

It's technically a single phase with two hot legs and a center tap for neutral, also called "split phase". From the neutral to either leg is 120V, from leg to leg is 240V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power

It would technically be possible to have a reverse-Y extension cord that plugged into two outlets and gave you a 240V circuit. The two outlets would have to be on different legs, of course. This is basically what a 240V breaker is doing. I've contemplating wiring up one of these for home and buying a British tea kettle, but the aesthetics got my plan vetoed.

Something like: https://www.nooutage.com/images/adaptor-wye.jpg
Same here.

I tell my wife that Matchbox are the "proper cars" and Hotwheels are the whacky lumo-plastic monstrosities.
It's not just that. I'm 10ms from most CDNs on a 1.2gbps connection and half the sites I use load instantly (within a couple of refresh cycles on a 120Hz monitor) while the other half take several seconds. The number of round trips the latter sites need just to load some text is insane. Same goes for the 95%ile latency of their servers. You really need to fuck up both parts to achieve such high average latency.
> Social media as we understand it is really algorithmic feeds with ads in between.

From the article:

> Many people blame "the algorithm" for making Twitter unpleasant. I don't believe it's the algorithm, as I've always used the reverse chronological feed exclusively.

I personally used a 3rd party client and an ad blocker in the browser, so I never saw the algorithm or the ads.
Suddenly, everything makes sense
Well there are many reasons, but one of the major ones is that the last time the ruling party in the UK won a majority of the popular vote was, drumroll... 1931.

The FPTP system essentially means that elections are decided by a small number of people living in marginal seats, that usually straddle poor urban and wealthy rural areas and so that is who (successful) politician's messages and policies are targeted at. It's also how you get the weird situation that on a lot of social and economic issues both major political parties are often to the right of the public.

Add to that the dominance of the Oxbridge PPE brigade in both parties, and you end up with them all drawing on a small, outdated set of policy options (basically what they were taught as undergrads), that don't really work in the modern world.

Finally we still have a monarch, and it turns out the last one (God bless 'er) had a large number of kaws modified in her and her family's favour.

So yeah. Sclerotic socio polotical system
I fear that this time it’s terminal. I’ve been advising my friends to leave the UK for over ten years. To paraphrase Peter Hitchens, “I’ve never seen a more doomed society and I lived in Russia during the fall of USSR”
In a discussion that started with "hotel staff in the stairwell", which of your two examples do you think is more representative?
"8th gen" is indeed an extreme case, with a very large number of slightly different microarchitectures being covered by this name, due to a chaos at Intel, caused both by the failed 10 nm process and by the Meltdown and Spectre bugs.

Nevertheless, all the "Kaby Lake" proper are "7th gen", not "8th gen".

Among the "8th gen" there are only "Kaby Lake R" (R from Refresh) and "Kaby Lake G" (G from GPU, i.e. discrete AMD GPU on package).

There are also 2 kinds of CPUs that have been weirdly branded as "8th gen", but which, both based on the date of their launch and on their features should have been branded as "9th gen", together with Coffee Lake Refresh: Whiskey Lake U and Amber Lake Y.

The remaining CPUs branded as "8th gen" were Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake U.
I think it's mostly code for he's an idiot who is in over his head
Oops, looks like there was an invalid character in one of my posts. Should be fixed now — thanks for the kind words and for subscribing! :)
> I frankly don't care about the donations. What matters is the sheer scale of the fraud

They're connected
LOL.

A serious post (I know, it's hard to tell at this point, isn't it?):

Why does HN need the karma points system at all? Downvoting is hardly used on other social networking sites any more, which should tell you something. Getting one pedantipoint has to be a motivation for "I have stuff to say about JIT." posts.

Blocking & muting people is quite effective on Twitter, for example. The dream of a civil discourse with people disagreeing politely was obsolete before the Web was invented. There are a lot of accounts which someone here would rather never see, so why not just let those people erase them, just for their own TL?

Automatically downvoting anything you don't agree with is, basically, "Lord of the Flies" behavior. It leads to brigading.