skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those of you who are against air travel for climate reasons, can you share a source that has convinced you that it is a real problem?

No, because it is obvious that flying less is better for the planet. Replace “flying” with “eating meat”, “driving”, etc.

The problem is that all the research in the world won’t get people to change their behavior. The incentives are too strong (it’s fun to go on vacation, meat tastes good, I can make money by selling cars) and the disincentives are too weak (some fish I’ve never seen goes extinct, 50 years from now Miami will be fucked, some people halfway around the world will die, etc.).
> Spain who is self sufficient on food will post between 7,5 and 10 inflation this year.

That range is significantly lower than 16.2%.
My personal take is opposite of yours. No matter what amount of chemistry and compatibility I’ve built on text, it might go down the flush the moment I see you, or within first few seconds. And this happens most of the time. So yeah, that “texting period” is a waste of time; at least personally for me.
They have no need for glitzy smoke and mirrors. Love it.
I don't love the US system but our NHS isn't anything to shout about, I got quoted a 4 year waiting period just to see an ADHD specialist.
The more you go into the past, the better technical documentation you will find.

The documentation from the nineties of the 20th century was much better than the later documentation, and that from the seventies and the eighties was probably the peak, e.g. the various manuals of the Hewlett-Packard instruments, and also various manuals from DEC, IBM, Tektronix, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, Fairchild and many others. Also many European companies had excellent technical documentation, e.g. Philips, Thomson, Siemens, SGS-ATES and many others. Many ancient manuals have been preserved at bitsavers.org and at a few other similar sites.

I believe that the FreeBSD manual from 1995 was better than any later operating system manual from the point of view of the completeness of its coverage of the existing features. The Gentoo manual before 2005 was also excellent. Both FreeBSD and Gentoo have good documentation even today, but nevertheless their manuals have not been kept completely up-to-date, so now they contain various holes about features that are not covered, unlike in the original complete manuals.

Before the Internet, for those who were not living in USA it could be very difficult to obtain many of the manuals and datasheets published by US companies, except perhaps at their booths at some international trade fairs.

After the Internet appeared, I was very happy that suddenly it became trivial to obtain any technical documentation, even if in the beginning that was done by FTP on dial-up modems at speeds as low as 2400 b/s.

Unfortunately, the time when it became easy to obtain technical documentation has coincided perfectly with the time when there was a tremendous decline in the quality of the technical documentation. Now it is easy to obtain technical documentation, but its content is much less valuable.

In many cases, e.g. for embedded processors and various complex interface integrated circuits, until you perform some tests on development boards you cannot be completely sure about how certain things work, instead of being able to predict any behavior based on the documentation. Moreover, if a company provides some example programs, they frequently contain valuable information that is missing from the manuals or datasheets.
This is mostly my opinion but I think an overlooked reason for the death of the LAN party was the shift to console gaming during this time. This was a dark time in the PC gaming world. Console use was rising exponentially with some dev shops completely dropping PC support in order to focus solely on consoles. It took in my rough estimation, over a decade for things to balance out a bit and PCs once again be prioritized for game development.
Clearly fake; did not include the word "orthogonal" anywhere.
This is a critical piece of the future. Apple ids and google chrome ecosystem are totally vendor locked and they have been willing to use their power to lock out developers, users and people in general who do things they disagree with. Regardless of moral reasons, this is a problem. Bot apple and google have targeted developers and users who are flagged by mistake or for criticizing these companies.
And TIS-100
I always wondered if a chess engine would learn better/faster if the opening positions and piece movement rules were randomized. Has anyone tried this?
Exactly, that's specifically why I pointed out the issue of Germany's poor energy decisions. Germany is getting killed due to their decision to hook their wagon pretty much entirely to Russia for energy, and their inflation rate of 10.4% in October still was lower than the UK's.

The UK is simply doing worse WRT inflation than any comparable country, and nobody, not even Conservative UK politicians, really debates this.
Even if the functionality is in binary blobs, can open source drivers still take advantage of this?
Presumably these sinners: https://www.wakecap.com/
Let me applaud you. I’m 43 years ald autodidact. And it’s only last month I started to take some note in a notebook about my reading. I feel this simple thing missing in my life had a huge negative effect.

So many content I read, watch and my brain is never full of new things new topic new understanding but the biggest difficulty is recalling things when needed. Taking notes, summarising key points, and being able to reread it has a huge power to structure though and articulating idea between them. Also it’s avoid thing to stay in a vague memory in the brain.
Also I use my notebook to write down any idea that cames to my mind anytime. Cause the brain is never stopping working, while I pop, while I walk the dog out, while I shop. Anytime I feel I have something interesting showing up I my mind I write it down.

Since almost 2 months. And I can say this simple act was the missing piece in my life.
> To the person, what they perceive as their gender is a very real thing

To a schizophrenic, their delusions are very real. At a what point, when reality does not match a person's perceptions, do we judge their perceptions to be delusion, hallucination, or some other mental illness?

I don't know the answer to that question. There is probably not a clear dividing line, sort of like the heliopause at the edge of our solar system. But to declare these things as hard, clear facts is not correct.

> transsexuals would still opt to transition

We should be very clear about the results of transitioning. It does not result in female anatomy by an regular definition. It is a physical state that imitates the <female/male> anatomy, very superficially, with long term health consequences and perpetual maintenance. I suspect that this terminal state does not achieve the goals of trans folks, and is likely a major source of the ongoing emotional disturbance so commonly observed.
I'll have to disagree. Many things about it are a constant source of annoyance for me, such as the fact that function arguments and return types aren't listed in a standard format with a short description of each and instead they expect you to read the entire (often quite large) paragraph of text below each function to find that information, and the fact that a lot of information isn't found in the page you'd expect it to be in (for example, the methods available for the list type aren't in the Built-in Types page even though lists are mentioned there, nor in its own dedicated list page, but are instead in a "More on Lists" section in the Data Structures page which apparently isn't linked in the types page at all)
You mean it's not a perfectly solved problem, which is true.

But there ARE solutions that don't involve allowing someone else to be able to hold your identity hostage.
How many times do you open HN each day?
I open it maybe ~10 times on average. Happy Sunday!
Since it's using keyboard keys I'm guessing it doesn't have any analog touch sensitivity (?) Not sure if that would be even needed on this type of instrument though.
The World Of C++ (1991, Partial)
What are the colors of the nodes representing?
One can put a disclaimer in the README to mitigate this saying "I wrote this when I was twelve", then future employers may forgive that your game code isn't optimized for 64 bit multi-core CPUs and your comments don't compare favourably to Fred Brooks' comments (may he Rest In Peace).
Games explicitly allowed you to play in like 3-4 using the same CD code.

Now you need all the friends to buy the same (usually expensive) game.
> unless you make everyone you meet drop pants and show off their genitals

What's the obsession with this phrase, as if everyone is going to say "Oh no, we can't try to prevent rape anymore because we'd have to look at people's genitals to accomplish it. haha, silly us."

For one, we had a solution to this. It was your ID which listed your sex.

And two, if people screw with ID laws enough that it can't be trusted then you will be required to go to a doctor and drop your pants down to have your biology categorized as a requirement to enter female spaces and events.
This happened due to Brexit, voting in Tory's again and again, a broken media, a starved educational system.

But voting to put trade barriers on oneself.. to stop immigration... Is going to lead to pain, no matter what way you cut it.
Did you replace them with something else?
I've got a good one. I was working a "tip of the spear" job in threat intelligence (I suppose I was always on call). One of the things we monitored was DNS.

It was always noisy. If it's not the miscreants, its the normal stupidity (DNS is so amazingly survivable of misconfigurations, some of them become folk wisdom; like disabling TCP/53, but I digress).

Othodox Easter Sunday morning. Really really early in the morning, like I can't remember if it was light out yet (US Pacific coast time). The SOC calls me. Nothing is happening.

Nothing is happening. There is no noise. So they've been looking at this, and everything is working. So they called me. At dark-thirty on Sunday morning.

I confirm everything appears to be working correctly. I repeat diagnostics, do ad hoc stress tests, everything. About two hours later the normal crap starts coming back.

We have to conclude that the miscreants, as well as the sysadmins, had taken the morning off.
I have a similar problem, but I don't think lack of lip reading is the problem for me. I think a lot of people simply mumble when they have a mask on. Something about the sensation of the mask on their face has them start slurring words and speaking softly.
Pandas - https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/
When I first heard about the issue, I changed the system clock to one day before 2038. Once day later, all sorts of things crashed. It's amazing how dependent we are on these things. Hopefully, we'll get it fixed, we've got less than 26 years...
One of the biggest mental blocks people have in regards to climate change, is not being able to separate carbon emissions from general environmental angst. In short there's nothing stopping us from converting our civilization to being carbon neutral, but our very existence will always have some environmental impact there is no getting past that.

Aviation in particular will be carbon neutral either through synthetic hydrocarbon fuel (Prometheus Terraform), new hydrogen engines, or a network of shorter hop flights with battery powered aircraft (Eviation). In fact it may turn out to be one of the easier industries convert to carbon neutral. If you're really worried, you can work on one of these. If you don't have the skills or the time there's always politics, since you approaches like this will face regulatory and political hurdles that are at least as big as the technical hurdles.
Michael Bloomberg Apologizes for Boris Johnson Criticism of China
Quote: "4. Flexible array members ..... int elems[]; // <-- flexible array member"

TIL that a dynamic array is also called flexible. This generation, out of boringness, is trying to redefine well established paradigms? Because, for me, a 90's formed developer, "flexible" means maybe inheritance, or even better polymorphism. There is nothing flexible about a dynamic array. Its structure is well defined in the stack/heap, and with current compiler optimizations can even be demoted to a simple static array for faster access within CPU registries.
I heard about cheap LTE, in a few countries. But I thought it was mostly the city (no safari ;-). So I looked at the coverage maps in a few countries and coverage seems to be quite sparse.

I'll be working remotely, so I thought starlink would be a very worthwhile investment. Even though it's still booting up.

Btw, keep the tips coming, I'll need them :)

Africa is our future.
the 'content ratio' column made my brain fly

this is something we should reward, less chrome, more ideas and expression (unless said chrome is also partly that)
Although not the same as a LAN party at a friend's house, I've quite enjoyed Insomnia in the UK a few times. Still some great LAN party vibes with a group of friends!

https://insomniagamingfestival.com/lan/
OP of that thread here. Wanted to say that the first paragraph of your reply is the perfect encapsulation of what I wanted to get across in that post. It's not about the disaster scenarios, it's about the fact that these scenarios every web-scale company faces every day become a hell of a lot scarier when you just lost >50% of the company without an orderly transition
it can be twice more or twice less, it doesn't change the answer you got above "Everything is only a small amount of the problem" or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
https://archive.ph/rLsBh
"If it bleeds, it leads".

The red political establishment loves things that make people recoil at the complexity of the real world. Even twenty years ago it was the prospect of artificial wombs and men having babies. Today it's humans with penises using the same bathroom as your daughter, amongst many other tempests in teapots.

Similarly, the blue political establishment loves vibrant examples of injustice, doubly so when that addressing that injustice doesn't rock the corporate order. So someone having what is essentially a rare medical/social condition, getting singled out and dumped on by the red team for political purposes, resonates strongly.

And thus is our hyper partisan world. It's not enough to ignore the topic because you don't actually know anyone who is transitioning, have it be fine to make some faux pas like when any cultures mingle, and rely on the general good faith of shared humanity to come to an understanding.

Rather, you've got to proactively stake your stance as some obtuse pro/anti, reject or "accept" an entire abstract group, and then conspicuously demonstrate your stance to the rest of your tribe.
Actually yes, oops :)
Toyota can make Corollas and Camrys cheap because they can produce en masse.
No new industry can scale to that size quickly enough to replicate that production model. Even legacy auto makers are struggling to scale and produce EVs cheaply. Expecting Tesla to do that right away is ridiculous and unfair. And the only reason regulators as well as automakers moved to EVs was because it was shown to be possible and really, really popular. Tesla did that.

And voting in public officials who will implement mass transit is not Elon's job. It's ours. He's busy doing the things private industry can do, despite criticism and naysayers. Maybe we should get on our part.
That is what I came away with as well. We just went through a pregnancy and the last thing we had a problem with was inclusive language.

Also for non native speakers, we have non native websites and youtube channels which provide a lot of material.
>You should get out more. No offense.

This is an unnecessary comment.

>Incremental pain, delivered early, is both corrective and less expensive over the long run. If you need to remain version-locked for a specific reason, that reason is likely to be locally scoped rather than global, in which case TFA describes an attempt to address your problem.

This rests on the assumption of a relatively homogenized software development industry without any consideration for, at least, critical systems building. There's a broad range of disciplines in this industry which do not -- and cannot -- adhere to the practices you mention.
Air travel is a necessity for many, and has quite significant benefits.

Goong abroad and learning about people, cultures, and yourself is a difficult thing to quantify but it absolutely pays dividends later in life.
I use it on both client and server. A easy way to get excellent security in the server is to run inside AWS Lambda or similar FaaS that uses strong VM isolation; ideally with a lambda instance per user.
I was referring to the (awful) supreme court Citizens United decision.
It’s really insane to me that they target directly to hardware. Especially as a GPU vendor, they’re among the most aware of how much variances there are between different GPU designs.

Pretty much every other GPU targeted language either does a runtime compilation from source or IR.

This has been a known problem+solution for ages and their approach to ROCm is flummoxing.
The contact option on the site is broken. I wanted to know if grila supports ics imports?

Because if yes I'm gonna get it ;-)
"~2% of total emissions" .. "not that much"

Do you have an idea of how many giga tonnes of CO2/year we're talking about here?
but their annual meeting is five hours :-)
It really sucks. Last year I discovered I hadn’t read Surface Detail, which came as a real shock as I was sure I’d read everything he’d written many times.

Considered never reading it so there’d always be a new Ian M Banks, but the temptation was too great. Glad I did too as it was excellent.
I volunteered at a Ukranian refugee camp in Warsaw. You don’t want to go there, see the despair, the frightened children.

I hope you’re trolling.
So you’re happy to have reduced your audience and reach by 80%? Literally 80% of your followers are no longer following you. This isn’t a win. You just marginalized yourself.
If you are underwater too long, you know exactly what you want: air.
If you are very hungry, to the point of it being a health issue, you know what you want: food.
If you are desperately poor, to the point that you have to worry about getting food and shelter, you know what you want: income/money.
If you are desperately lonely, you know what you want: companionship.
Etc.
At some point, your basic needs are met. If you don't know what you want, it's because there is no longer one overriding need that needs to be met. Thus, the difference between getting one thing vs. another is not as large. So, one will have to use some willpower/mental tricks/etc. to stay on task, because there is not one overriding need. Control circuits have to do something similar when, for example, they are very near the setpoint temperature, otherwise it will cycle back between heating and cooling way too often.

If you don't know what you want, you have most of what you want, so one will simply have to pick up an aversion to switching objectives too often, just like that thermostat's control circuit.
Cloudflare network performance update – November 2022
The UK has only existed for about 300 years, so "millenium" is an exaggeration.
But just because the Microsoft API documentation is always very meaningless. This could be from their docs:

class SomethingProvider: "Provides functionality for communication with something"
property string SomethingUrl: "Gets/sets the URL for the something endpoint"
function Initialize(string[] roles): "Initializes Something-Provider with the given roles"
"Indeed, anything legal would be a wild escalation."

I think a lot of the tech companies deserve a wild escalation for ignoring customer service. It can be infuriating if you have a problem with Paypal or Google and they either blatantly ignore you or have focused all their UX skills on making it as hard as possible to find a way to contact them.
There are GPT-3 generated subreddits

They are pretty spot on and could do this with hackernews
for whom is this unintuitive?

pick two random numbers whose sum is 0.
It depends on the organization. In one organization, HR has a purely administrative/staff role, in another they own and run the entire hiring process.
Certainly more spotty than pre-covid, but mostly back to normal. The only thing I can’t find is English imports, like Wensleydale cheese.

Eggs got expensive here but it’s generally been in stock.
And I just realized “root|parent|prev|next” despite being ride or die with [-]
Single common thread has to be poor governance. Certainly in politics and the civil service and also, from what I hear, amongst business leaders. They are mostly selected from a very small pool, ie public schools via the class system, so it makes intuitive sense that those chosen would on average be less talented / capable (and even motivated) than other countries. Certainly many of those I know who went to private school were not as competent as their grades or standing would suggest.
Add to that a lack of life experience (career politicians, sheltered lives, oxbridge bubble) then it’s hard for them to even know what the real problems are, never mind caring or have a vision for fixing them. Simple examples: the productivity gap, the state of infrastructure, chronic underinvestment in the north at the expense of where the upper class live, etc
Fallback has been decades of “managed decline”, which is actually - kicking the can down the road to maintain the status quo for as long as possible before people realise the state of things. Thatcher saw the city and selling off national assets as a quick fix, Blair pumped student debt into the regions to borrow from the future. Combine that with infighting and the Tories’ destruction of industry and local government for class war purposes.
I don’t see a way out beyond a revolution, but that will take surely many more decades of decline. Best hope is break up of U.K. perturbs the political sufficiently to open it up to the rest of the country. Things are realistically ok for most people (but not for millions living in poverty and literally relying on food handouts to live), but far more worrying is the trend. It’s plain to see things will get very very bad without wholesale reform and long term vision.
Are there sound samples anywhere?
Honk definitely sounds made up.
i think u can re-edit the title after posting?
> I don’t look at people in the eyes because I can sometimes see that they’re lying to my face.

Ignorance is bliss I guess? I prefer to know. Usually I don't call people out, but I still prefer to know.
It seems the keyboard is pressure sensitive (reference to a pressure sensor in the HW section)
The legendary In-N-Out smack dab in the middle of California
You don’t need a list if you do it as soon as you think of it!
We swapped ~300 million EU citizen with similar (often greater) workplace rights and living standards for a soon-to-be trade deal with India that will only happen with the mass migration of far poorer Indians to the UK. Indians which are used to much fewer workplace rights.

The working visas that are created for this will remove the rights UK citizens have to make the visa holders "more attractive" to employers.

Good luck to native workers in the UK competing with an Indian on a work visa that has no working time regulations, holiday allowance, etc. and very little leverage to complain in case their visa gets revoked.
Jesus your personal site makes pretty much every developer site I've seen look like geocities. Hats off.
> Very different place in the world and very different internal politics.

it'll be exactly the same an England is essentially the UK (which is the SNP's problem with it)

this is explained in one very simple chart: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-96b10105bd7d45574f1b5...
I’d rather a page that loads in 500ms and be done than either of those.