skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 1. specifically, I like this quote from Jeff Bezos:

> I very frequently get the question: "What's going to change in the next 10 years?" And that is a very interesting question; it's a very common one. I almost never get the question: "What's not going to change in the next 10 years?" And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two -- because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. ... [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection.

> It's impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, "Jeff, I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher." "I love Amazon; I just wish you'd deliver a little more slowly." Impossible.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/20-years-ago-jeff-bezos-said-...
Can you point to a good updated census of the population showing this "fast rise" event?
Doesn’t beating the average require above average developers according to that article?
+1. I always recommend starting with the foundational document, Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener (and the companion title, The Human Use of Human Beings).
There must be a price that the fire department could theoretically charge if they were gonna always charge on the spot, and still make a profit, as long as there is some minimum number of fires.

Also it says that this TN guy had insurance. I wonder if it would have been worth his insurance company's while to make sure that $75 was always paid, either by paying it themselves, or making him pay it, or paying it and sending him the bill, and somehow making it a condition.. to protect themselves from having to pay out... as the London article is about insurance companies starting fire brigades themselves for that very reason
It looks like it, but looking at the code more closely, I do not believe this to be the case; I think it was deliberately written like this, and obfuscation might not be its primary intention.
Oh! That's quite handy indeed.
> Or the part about There are "no mental health facilities in the small town where I live"

HN is hugely biased towards people who live in cities. A lot of the posters simply do not understand how a lot of us outside the cities live, and the resources they take for granted that we don't have access to.

For me the drive to the nearest therapist is measured not in minutes, but hours. That's impossible for someone who has to work full time.
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It wasn’t the Trump administration but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals which struck down the mandate as unconstitutional and being liberal and a supporter of health care reform I think they had a point. I can’t see in the constitution where the federal government has the power to force me to buy health insurance. I like my constitutional rights being protected even when the thing being compelled (me having insurance) is a good idea. It means that things which are not quite so good of ideas have less chance of being forced on me later.
Wednesday's the best thing I've seen on Netflix for a while. But, yeah, they have just enough good exclusive content to keep around for now. I'm sort of in the same boat with HBO Max.
> What if 100 mil users want to move?

Some of the new users will have to run new servers.

For example if public officials are moving to Mastodon, I expect the state to run their own servers. It was never a good idea to allow Twitter to be a platform for (semi-)official communication.
I started blogging in early 1998. Originally my goal was recording what I did so when it went wrong I could describe what I had done when seeking help. Now I write so I document want I did so I can do it again when I need to repeat it. That 'what did I do wrong'-aspect is there there and still heavily used.

How do people find me? Search engines I think. Many times I have encountered an obscure error message, searched for it on the webs, and found it documented in my own blog post.

Write what you're doing and how you're doing. Document the errors and the solutions for that error. Don't restrict your blog post to a list of steps. Things can and will go wrong. Document them too.

I read the mailing lists looking for answers and from time to time I would see someone had asked a question which I knew the answer. I would post the link to my blog post.

Start off by documenting everything you do as you do it. When you're replacing old SSDs with new and faster SSDs, write about that. Document each step. Someone else will be grateful that you did. Likely, that person will be you when you do to do it again a few years later.

One of my most popular blog posts is how to untar a tarball.... Do not underestimate what others will find useful.
Are you currently producing these at home for personal consumption?
Hundreds of thousands of people screaming at each other.

It really needs a better model because the idea of scaling up the town square is just a terrible idea.
IANAL, normally it's better to delay incorporation as long as possible, until you have either significant sales, outside investment, or some large spending (i.e. on patents, contractors, large cloud bills, etc.)

But since you already have a cofounder, it's better to incorporate as a DE C-Corp right away. And of-course hire a startup lawyer to set up all the standard protections in place, i.e. cliff, vesting, etc.

Also you will quickly see how serious your cofounder is.
I second all the recommendations to seek a mental health professional and to connect with others as much as possible.

In today's world, fewer and fewer are interested in religion and don't see it as a practical solution for life's problems. But I've found what I believe to be truth that provides me with all the hope, peace, change, joy, and guidance that I need in my life (which has its fair share of problems in my early 40s).

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has that truth and the teachings that can bring you peace and explain the purpose of life. Two volumes of scripture--the Bible and the Book of Mormon--together explain the purpose of life and how to find God and his blessings. These teachings have brought me tremendously good things, helped me to change, and provided me with sustained peace amidst the chaos of life.

I highly recommend taking a look: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Q typically used for MCF does not count the energy in neutrons, only the alpha particle energy.
This is incoherent. Every site has a TOS which is violated by those who were banned.

Imagining a fake 'contract' exists because you viewed ads is 'dubious'
It looked like you were calling the whole sentiment wrong, not just the first half (and ignoring the word often). Okay then.
Allow users to signup in 3 seconds without "choosing a server".
That's hilarious -- I didn't even realize Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul were AMC shows, since AMC+ isn't advertising them on their own streaming site (presumably because they sold the streaming rights away?)

But yeah, exhibit A in "don't execute poorly" -- maybe don't give away your most popular show to your biggest streaming competitor.
it's the Section 230 platform/publisher conundrum, which itself is kind of just a moral-positioning smokescreen for "we want advertisers to buy ads on our website and advertisers don't want their ads to appear alongside objectionable content".
And C++ (as of C++20) exposes this and more in the header <bit>.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/bit
One major concern with these type of safety functions is that you have to explicitly opt in. If you are actually thinking about the need to call these function, you are already thinking about overflow.
Ah, that’s an important detail since it makes it a lot easier to fit into an existing pipeline then.

How’s the escape hatch if you need Terraform features which Wing doesn’t already support?
AMC's current streaming problems are emblematic of its inability to create and popularize content that enough viewers want to watch. But this has been happening for the better part of a decade now, even before streaming hit critical mass.

This is an interesting history of how AMC essentially invented prestige TV (outside of HBO) with Mad Men, followed it up with the mega-hit of Breaking Bad, and then the monster that was The Walking Dead, but failed to continue its success afterwards (and also touches on why TWD became a creative disappointment relative to the prior two). Subsequent original series like Halt and Catch Fire were also not marketed successfully, though I heartily disagree with his take that the title was bad. Any machine code reference in the title means your show is worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhTJhMYsD60
If they do have that cash laying around, hopefully it's not stored on-premises.
I got one of those for free in the late 80s when they were decommissioned from my school. I wrote a few programs on it, and sold it decades later. Very beautiful and interesting machine, but definitely way too bulky for someone living in a small apartment.
Your point is well-taken, but please be less of a jerk about it.
The public key is publicly available so the signature can be verified. But when you rotate keys, what do you do? Post a list of formerly valid public keys? Are all public keys derived from one master/root key? And then you don't rotate the master? So then the rule is rotate "almost all" your keys. But then that rule goes out the window of master/root key is compromised.
Is there an example in mathematics of a once in a lifetime dazzling discovery that doesn’t change anything?
The Evening Standard (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rwanda-asylum-deal-uk-asy...) quotes 200 people from the Rwandan Government, "but that it could be scaled up".

A research briefing document from the House Of Common Library (https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-...) states that the Memorandum of Understanding on which the scheme relies states no upper limit on the amount of people that can be sent to Rwanda.
Elon’s Claims of Jet Account Helping His Stalker Turned Out to Be Bogus
Other comments here say that the feature is available to any developer and any app may go around the default route and use the cell connection directly.
It's not an unreasonable decision for an OS vendor to occasionally say that a certain level of processor is necessary for future versions of the OS. Apple does it with MacOS. I have a 2013 Mac Mini that is going strong except that it doesn't run the latest version of MacOS. The only real problem I had with it is that Safari for a long time didn't support WebP on that version of MacOS which kept me using JPG images for a while.

The trouble is that Intel's rollout of the future has been shambolic at best. Potentially revolutionary extensions such as TSX and SGX failed. It is still too early to require AVX-512 which could speed up and reduce power consumption of your web browser since many of Intel's "latest and greatest" client CPUs don't support it. (Don't buy the false claim that AVX-512 is a power pig: sure it will consume a lot of power running at full clock because it is doing a lot of work... AVX-512 helps "atom class" processors quite a bit because it avoids instruction decoding which Intel is bad at.)

It's not clear that Microsoft's new line in the sand is going to buy them very much extra functionality for Windows.
accounts like yours, on the other hand, are obviously low-effort and should be removed.
How do you calculate the "full cost" of having staff on call 24/7, well maintained equipment that's regularly inspected, building inspectors to verify that fire code is being met to keep usage down to sustainable levels, and so on? The full cost isn't $10k in salary and gasoline and foam, it's millions.
It feels like top money is in DevOps / Blockchain + Crypto (not graphy) right now

I'm not a fan of any of those :D
It will be interesting to see what happens when larger commercial services like Tumblr and Flickr enter this space. There's a good opportunity for startups to experiment with social apps and sites that would have previously struggled to build a large enough network to be useful; support ActivityPub and you have a network.
This is exactly it, but executives keep thinking they can make streaming into cable, because cable worked for them:

"But that is not enough to solve a bigger problem: The money that the company makes from its streaming business, including AMC+, is not making up for the loss of revenue from its traditional cable channels, as people abandon their cable subscriptions and advertisers pull back on spending."

Naturally, the solution is to spread IP even thinner, license more Walking Dead merchandise, new spinoffs, games and whatnot and, clearly, not trying to create a digital library with other IP holders so that customers can have access to everything they want. Gate keeping is that important.

<< Nobody cares about the network—they only care about the shows.

I will add one more thing here, because some executives seem to miss this point. I did enjoy Breaking Bad and their other shows, but I can easily live without them. It is not a necessity. I might care about their shows, but there is a limit to the amount of hoops I will jump through. The cable days are over. I am not going back to ad infested and ad interruptions ( my wife might ). I am an adult.. and I do have other entertainment choices ( and failing that, numerous obligations my entertainment choices prevent me from completing ).
Somebody is earning money selling it.

Californian condor was almost extinct by poison and rescued at the last second, but we don't learn anything valuable it seems.
It doesn't help that AMC+ provides possibly the worst user experience of any of the major streaming apps I've used. Constant crashes, failure to resume where I left off, and just straight up "not working" is a total killer when there are a dozen other apps I could be using to watch other (admittedly non-AMC) content.

Feels like they were banking on exclusivity of AMC content and put not enough effort into the technical and UX aspects of their service.
Exercise, sleep, diet, and hydration are definitely important first steps. However, I felt a unique sense of pain when I was doing all of those things and still feeling empty, miserable, and angry.

I guess what I'm getting at is: don't beat yourself up if you go through the checklist and still feel bad. That's a sign that there are other external or internal factors that exercise won't address, and that therapy could help with.
I do think people that identify as incredibly niche sub types are doing something dumb. Similar to the vast majority of people that do this for other dimensions of their identity or attempt to do it for others’ identity.

But believing this to be the case isn’t incompatible with respecting that they feel different from the “normal” archetype or just generally acknowledging their preferred identity as it’s the closest thing they’ve got to describe themselves.

Most people aligned with a given label are pretty reasonable and won’t demand you do anything too out of your way. Yes there are many exceptions but such is the case for every dimension of identity. This one is just a dimension that many people are eager to assert doesn’t exist.; Sometimes asserting that if you can’t cleanly identify as something easily defined that you’re just making up your differences which is of course also incorrect reasoning.

People suck at such types of thinking and most cultures encourage against it to empower in group unity.
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Can you elaborate? I haven’t followed Haskell for some time, and would really appreciate some highlights!
> That's exactly what it is. In fact encryption is even more secure than a normal written signature.

No, certainly not.

The biggest issue is that you're conflating a human concept of a signature and the cryptographic one. This is obvious from your second paragraph.

> I can sign a piece of text put it here -- sign it with my private key -- put it on HN with my public key and everyone can be sure I wrote it.

Cryptographically maybe, legally no. We lack crucial information about who can use your keys, there's nothing that says you can't share a random keypair that has no legal backing. We also don't know if your keys are valid at all, maybe you're underaged? Do we know if your keys were valid during the time of signing, maybe you were underaged?

It's way more complex than Sign(text).
Same here, I relatively recently* upgraded from my OC'd first gen i7, that thing was great for a very long time.

*Good lord, has it been 3 years already?
This is, as the kids say, cap.

Popcorn works because the outer hull is strong enough to hold together until a critical mass of pressure builds inside to rupture it. At that point the starches, which have liquefied under pressure, explode and unliquify rather suddenly.

White rice and pearled barley have their hulls removed. You can see in the picture that the barley has split, but not popped, and the rice just looks a little blistered. These will never pop like popcorn.

It is possible to pop some other grains like popcorn, but none of the ones listed here, at least not using the methodology described. Puffed rice and wheat are done in machines that lower the air pressure to create the same conditions as popcorn.
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The author is "Former volunteer for Crisis Text Line. Terminated for questioning data ethics and monetization." Per their Fediverse bio:

<https://tech.lgbt/@holdspacefree>
I'm confused why it matters. If I heat something with 2J of energy and it released 1J of energy, it's like the matter has been heated with 3J of energy. If I can extract heat energy with 80% efficiency, I can extract 2.4J, more energy than was put in.
I think only around 200 people for now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_asylum_plan#:~:text=The....
A libertarian scheme would look like what neighboring counties in Tennessee do, which is to charge you an hourly rate per truck if you didn't pay the subscription fee up front. This is a case where clearly no one thought about how to handle the free rider problem beforehand. I believe they've changed the policy since.
It's an error to treat the Fediverse as you would treat Twitter, where there is a singular platform in some way external to its users. Fediverse is a mesh network with single-user instances being feasible. If a single node has problems scaling, split it up. If a whole network has problems scaling, add more nodes. Fediverse is not yet at levels where the whole network is congested, either.
Thank you!

What does "component sizes" and "fill-tube size" refer to, BTW? And the quality of a shot thing you mention in the last line? Sorry for all the questions, just curious
I think something like this would handle it

const std = @import("std");

fn snoob(x_: anytype) @TypeOf(x_) {
const T = @TypeOf(x_);
const U = comptime std.meta.Int(.unsigned, std.meta.bitCount(T));
const x = @bitCast(U, x_);
const tz = @ctz(x);
const pc = @popCount(x);
const L2U = comptime std.meta.Int(.unsigned, std.meta.bitCount(@TypeOf(tz))-1);
if (tz + pc == std.meta.bitCount(T)) {
if (pc == 0) {
return 0;
}
return @bitCast(T, (x >> @intCast(L2U, tz)));
}
const smallest = @as(U, 1) << @intCast(L2U, tz);
const ripple = x + smallest;
const ones = ((x ^ ripple) >> 2) >> @intCast(L2U, tz);
return ripple | ones;
}

pub fn main() void { std.debug.print("Hello, {d}!", .{snoob(@as(u32,5))}); }

In addition to the stated problems with wraparound and zero (claimed fixed here) the implementation in this header file seems to have some potential correctness issue if you pass in a signed type and end up performing right shifts on values with the sign bit set and your compiler decides this means you want sign extension.

Edit: translation back to C++ using other functions in this header and assuming that a bt_unsigned exists which is similar to the already included bt_signed:

template <typename T>
inline T GetNextWithEqualBitCount(T x_) {
bt_unsigned x, smallest, ripple, ones;
int tz, pc;
x = (bt_unsigned)x_;
tz = CountTrailing0Bits(x);
pc = CountBits(x);
if (tz + pc == sizeof(x)*8) {
if (pc == 0) {
return 0;
}
return (T)(x >> tz);
}
smallest = ((bt_unsigned)1) << tz;
ripple = x + smallest;
ones = ((x ^ ripple) >> 2) >> tz;
return (T)(ripple | ones);
}

runnable demo: https://www.sololearn.com/compiler-playground/c6iz3kHpZ3zP
This is a place where people actively choose not to pay taxes instead of paying and receiving services.

“Unincorporated land” means that the landowners have chosen not to incorporate (create) a municipal (ie city/neighborhood) government.

It’s “rugged individualism”.
> We can call this the "occupying government" (OG) theory of ownership.

Let's not
This model seems more sport oriented so the people targeted at are probably more concerned with speed, handling, etc than charging, range, etc. Price is universal concern though.
There was already a relatively popular compiler called Pascal-2 back in the day from Oregon Software. It was a heavily extended Pascal for the PDP-11 and some other contemporary platforms. I doubt that would have stopped Wirth from calling it that if he wanted to, but it was called Modula-2 instead for other reasons.
> And, on the non-technical side, it has a disorganized anonymous set of moderators you've never met or ever heard of, with no particular guiding philosophy or rules, and these guys have total access to your profile and they can do anything they want.

Didn't you just describe Twitter?
> They will save your life. They won't treat your trick knee, erectile dysfunction, or failing vision.

I thought in the US, hospitals were only required to stabilize, not treat, non-paying patients. For example, if someone has cancer, they are not required to perform surgery or chemotherapy, just stabilize their symptoms at the moment.
I can’t speak to the problems you alluded to since the system works well for me, but my pushback on the superiority claim is really just that I don’t think a ton of people have this problem. I think the average person is fine with the streaming services.
> But apps are a hassle.

Apps mean your project suddenly requires an Android or IPhone smartphone, where before — if I understand correctly — only a modern browser was required. Is it worth it to limit your project to just smartphones?

As long as the project runs in a desktop browser, screenshots are possible of course, regardless of whatever you do with an app.

Aside from that, it depends on what your audience is. Do you want to sell a service to people who need to tick boxes for the tools they use? Go crazy, introduce pointless features that harm productivity, and ultimately don't solve the problem (even if only the analogue hole remains, but I suspect taking screenshots is possible on most devices), but which allow them to say that they've taken additional measures to prevent leaking.

If you want to provide the tool to people who actually take privacy seriously, a hack like this is just going to make people doubt your technical skills.