skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the chances that Google starts charging $2/month (maybe lower in certain markets) for Gmail? I imagine there would be plenty of takers. Maybe not 2 billion takers, but quite a few.
Through your browser, it's playable using this Archive link:

https://archive.org/details/duke-nukem-forever-1996-side-scr...
> rust

The first break in this bootstrap chain is mrustc, which is 11 stable versions back. Hope you've got a couple days if you need the latest stable release of rustc.
there is a feedback loop between animal sexuality, its (alleged) preference for symmetry, peacocking, flowers, mimicry (like the orchids which look like bees), plant sexual selection, and back to animals. Beauty is whatever increases the rewards of this cycle for both animals and plants, humans are just the animals that found a word for it
Like gaslighting people into thinking FBI requested suppression of the Hunter story (they didn’t), or that the FBI == the Biden team (it’s not), or that the FBI was suppressing COVID stories (it wasn’t) or that Twitter felt compelled to satisfy all Biden team or FBI requests (it didn’t)?

That sort of gaslighting?

Or maybe the implication that Twitter will henceforth not allow government or govt affiliated entities to request content moderation (they will) or that they won’t give such requests preference (they will) or that they shouldn’t give such requests preference (a matter of opinion, but not crazy to believe they should).
Globally, countries with presidential systems are much more likely to devolve into dictatorships than those with british-inspired parliamentary systems.

There's pros and cons to each system of course. The American "checks and balances" results in complete inability to act a lot of the time. See the frequent budget shutdowns, or compare and contrast the ability to legislate for issues like "maniacs are shooting up our schools".

The downside of course is that the great "freedom of action" of a british government can result in self harming or ill considered policies being rail roaded through. See something like brexit: it is doubtful that many countries with "checks and balances" would be able to muster the political will and broad agreement to do it in the first place. But a british government can just go YOLO.

I think a parliamentary system is better despite this because it puts the establishment in control. To become PM, you have to climb to the top of a party first (which requires many years of dedication). Some war hero, billionaire, or other radical can't just waltz into the position from nowhere. And then a PM is at all times beholden to the support of their party, which can be removed at any time if they turn out to be an idiot (see truss - nobody had to put up with her for 4 years).

The danger in britain is the move to more "democracy" in choosing PMs. If it were left to the establishment (ie MPs) things are more boring. But when it is "democratised" to party members that's when the crazies come in - the corbyns and trusses. This is an unfortunate decline of elite control in Britain which hopefully will be rolled back now that everyone has seen the unintended consequences.
They did not abandon France, they followed their national (and perhaps the individuals in power)'s interests by reconciling with the UK.

As Charles de Gaulle answered to a question regarding franco-american friendship: "people have friends, nations have interests".
Aren't all of their services already just using your allotted Drive space? You get 15 gigs for free and it's shared with mail, photos, etc. At least I can clearly see my mail data digging into that number.
> I learned about how traffic light green times (how many seconds a signal stays green for one direction vs. the cross street) usually have a "right answer" from an engineering standpoint

There's a "right answer" but only with respect to what kind of traffic you care about. Most cities default to prioritizing car throughput, which is about the most spatially inefficient way of moving people.

Some traffic lights don't even detect waiting bicycles. You have to wait until a car comes up behind you, otherwise it will be red indefinitely.
The fruits of our cave years were small and unappealing. Our modern fruit is 100% bred to be bigger and tastier looking. But these are wholly alien looking things from a historic standpoint. So we bred them to look delicious to us, humans.
They have a handful of games that they can remake until the end of time, but for each of them there are probably a dozen games that they’ll never bother with.
You "remaining factual" actually smells of deliberately downplaying the issue, for some reason. What that reason might be, is open for discussion.
My Mom does this wherever she lives. She feeds as well as puts bowls of water for birds and animals. And if there are regular visitors then she talks to them. The trick is to be as natural as possible and consciously avoid threatening tone or body language.

Having watched this since my childhood I too had once befriended, in my case Cows and Sheeps from the nearby fields, while on my daily walks few years ago. I use to sing songs and they use to gather around me. It was so amazing to watch. Afterwards even if I did not sing they use to gather around just after seeing me. The sad part was some of these animals were raised for slaughter and I thought making them believe in humans was not the right thing to do. It use to be a dilemma for me whenever I saw them on whether I should engage with them.

Having communication with animals and seeing them respond back is one of the most amazing experiences. Most pet owners will understand this.
> carmakers must achieve a 100% cut in CO2 emissions by 2035, which would make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the 27-country EU bloc.
Yes, we are relics of a bygone era. I really enjoyed my HP48 as a child.

I don't think anything since had the same ability to rapidly script operations.

<< 1/ SWAP 1/ + 1/ >> 'PAR STO

.... and 11 keystokes later, I had an operation for computing parallel resistors with one keystoke.

The HP48 series was the peak of good design. Unfortunately, in 2022, it feels obsolete. Each new calculator took away as much as it gave. Added were faster processors and more functionality, but the level of design, polish, and attention to detail just wasn't there any more.

In 1990, when these came out, engineers used calculators a lot. In 2022, most engineering work is done with a computer, so perhaps there wasn't market share to sustain HP. Even for my computer, I still wouldn't mind a modern "numeric keypad" that had the whole HP48's worth of operations: one-touch access to most math operations would be nice. Ideally, it'd have Bluetooth and be Python-friendly too.

My ultimate device:

- HP48-style microswitch keyboard

- RPN entry

- Modern CAS and plotting

- Able to use both Python (or Julia or similar) and RPN locally, with integration between the two

- Touchscreen for plots. High-resolution high-fidelity display.

- Bluetooth + USB + 802.11 (and, perhaps, a few GPIO pins). Can take an external keyboard, monitor, mouse, stream in data, stream out data, or talk to a computer. It should be able to output results or keystroke as a USB HID.

- SD slot

- Programmable, hackable, and relatively open
Care to spoil the book and summarise its take? (Taleb, I promise your book is in my wishlist and I'll read it soon. Just not today.)
That is not entirely true. There is the „Verfassungsbeschwerde“. There are limitations in place that boil down to three criteria that have to be met. The complainant has to be personally, currently and immediately effected. The later is the criteria that is fulfilled if you were convicted. That’s why a lot of decisions of the court are part of an ongoing process. However a decision of a lower court is not the only way to fulfill that criteria. A recent example is the decision regarding the climate protection act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verfassungsbeschwerde
The whole dating app game makes me shudder.

The goal is to get someone's Snapchat?

Why on earth would either of us want that? We're talking over tinder why should we start in Snapchat!?

What next tiktok?!

Full disclosure I've never used these apps having been in a relationship since before they started. I'm totally screwed if we breakup...

Surely the fact that we don't meet people in our lives without apps is a social catastrophe?
Your comments are anything but rational and I am not disregarding the fact that alone the existence of two unwiped devices is absolutely repulsive. I am just arguing for a factual discussion and the actual representation of the information at hand instead of making assumptions and insinuations like you do. The only thing that will come from being dishonest and passive aggressive is that no one will take you seriously.
I have a simple conjecture - software is a new form of literacy, and it is often useful to cast new tech ideas in these terms - for example

"A tool for people who cannot read or write, that generates work emails and policy documents for them"

Sometimes the road ahead is not going anywhere useful.
One thing I've noticed when changing TV channels was that I never seem to hear a half-word. I always seem to just register the first full word I hear, and my brain doesn't even pass onto the concious layers that incomplete stub of the word I caught in the middle of being spoken.

There must be some word boundary, that is hard to define though.
Reading Kleppmann's book and finding projects that are trying to implement some of the concepts there is a good idea, regardless the language and tool.

I'm just doing Python/Spark/AWS related tools. Most of my time is trying to break the bureaucratic ice between multiple layers from insane devops requirements to missing documentation on several "hidden requirements" (the ones that you find during the development process). So not much different than a lead role.

It's definitely different from a pure dev experience because it's expected that you lead changes inside the organization to make the pipelines work consistently. Without that (just plumbing) you can rely on "regular" backend devs.

This is obviously a high level data engineering perspective, not a low level like DB hacking or hyper optimizing existing pipelines and data transformations.
An interesting thing is that it should be the other way around.

Repository packages usually are signed with GPG. You can even use HTTP - it does not matter. And GPG could be used to sign packages on another machine, may be even on offline machine with HSM.

Things like pip or curl rely only on HTTPS. There are many agents between developer who built a deliverable artifact and your machine. There's WWW-server. There's some CDN with HTTPS termination. There's NSA which can issue fake certificate and MITM attack you (mostly imaginably threat for sure, but still).

And hacked WWW servers already happened. Transmission website was hacked and their binary was infected.

Now I don't claim it to be a big issue. Malevolent developer is much more dangerous and much more likely to happen. But if we want to compare those two methods - I think that repositories with proper signatures are safer.
Yeah even going so far as replying “Epic thread!!” to Medvedev’s propaganda tweet thread with 2023 predictions like “the US will experience civil war and Musk will win the presidency in states that have been given to (?) the GOP.”

4 hours later he tried to backpedal, which is perhaps the only move more pathetic than having boosted the propaganda in the first place.
Today's kids are going to pay for your healthcare and pension when you'll be old. On average, 50% of an individual's medical spending is spent during the last 6 months of its life. Add around 30-40 years of retirement income, it's an enormous burden for the society.

Even if you're (very) rich and saved for it, the fact that less and less young people are available to create wealth means that the economy becomes inflationary, or has to use immigrants, depleting the other poor countries of their skilled workforce.

Unfortunately, a volontary "child-free" or rather childless, it's not a disease, thanks, is a kind of freeloading. Politically it's very destructive, as people without children don't want to fund infrastructure or services for them, aggravating the problem.

If you want an example, Italy is a great example of a dying society due to the lack of reproduction and the State' disinterest for it.
Your Google account can be tied to any e-mail account already
consider the broader class of attack this article is demonstrating: stealthily delivering different payloads to different requests. i don’t know about rpm specifically, but most new-ish package managers do actually ensure this more strongly than any curl-based approach: a hash of the 3rd party content is provided through some more secure chain (e.g. directly in your OS’s or language’s package database, or signed by some key associated with one of those and which you’ve already trusted).

yeah, if the package is delivered through the same channel as the bash script, and not anchored by anything external, you lose those benefits. but even hosting the package contents through pip or cargo or AUR or just unaffiliated and manually synced mirrors is a (relatively easy) way to decrease that attack surface.
You might also see ideas in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147636
I miss the old days when Apple and Microsoft had teams of people user testing every new feature instead of just following the whims of their designers
Not entirely - one problem I had with piracy, and I did it from the 90’s on, was finding new music. Spotify opened up catalogs with algorithms that piracy never could. Short of going to Strawberry’s and looking around… for cds to copy from friends, piracy never really had that same Spotify algo service that said “if you like this you’ll like that.”
You can start with your own domain and forward to your gmail. Do regular takeouts and you are then effectively using gmail as a reader and can dump it when needed (or if they dump you it will be less painful!)
The sad part is I imagine the more dating apps become the normalised way to meet.

The more deskilled society becomes in socialising.
Yep. Often the case with links on hacker news people don't realise that at least 50% of the time we're looking at it through mobile
I think your best option right now is to ask your previous employer if they will have you back.

What type of visa did you have. If you had a Blue Card, you are typically allowed 3 months to find another job. Maybe HN can help find you another one quickly.
I think that there is a possible misconception, that evolution allows (or results in) only in necessary features and thus all phenomenons must be a consequence of evolutionary advantage. Yet, if genetic changes are random (at least some of them), some features could exist just because there was no evolutionary pressure to lose them.
As is yours!
> for the same price

Yeah it's kinda ludicrous that 32G of DDR4/5 costs more than the CPU you'd pair it with. Supply chain issues I guess.
We meet again, Doktor Jones.
I won't, unless I'm the customer, and get to speak to a human when my email is down.

Right now I'm the product and so I have no expectation of customer service. When I'm paying 1 dollar a month I'm holding someone liable if I lose access to my account.

And, legally, I can reasonably take Gmail to court for monetary loss and f I am a paying customer. 200k people going to small claims court for whatever will completely wipe out any profit that alphabet hopes to make of Gmail.

So, yeah, it's cheaper for Gmail to provide free accounts with no liability than to get caught up in mandatory customer protection laws.
> Why focusing on transistors count then?

I did not say transistor count, I said power density due to transistor scaling. There is a difference, transistor counts have continued to increase since 10 years ago for other reasons, but it no longer comes with the implicit power density and switching speed improvements of dennard scaling underlying the original moors law projection. It also doesn't have the same road ahead of it since transistors are no longer uniformly scaling, and dies can't grow exponentially.

> First one has 98k points, second one has 8k points.

Why do you think that is?

What are "points", how have CPUs changed since 2012? and How did 2012 CPUs change since 2002? i.e what are the qualitative differences between these periods that are made opaque by "points", and which are key in indicating improvement projections.
FWIW I've found a lot of value in learning Typescript this year and interacting with the AWS CDK to build infrastructure as code. Upskilling my AWS knowledge also massively paid off, especially networking which I never truly understood before.
If heard of PCem bit not 86Box. Likely there are people out there into the emulation scene bit not deep into it (I assume people with a deep interest are already well aware of this tool) who are in a similar position, for whom the context is useful in assessing whether playing with this is worth it or not to their interests.
I read “us law” to mean “a law somewhere in the us”, not specifically a federal law.

Kinda like I think of apple being a US company, even as it’s probably Californian, and even private.
At the risk of pointing out what I see as the obvious, but you’re focusing on different attacks. It’s a lot more nuance than “it should be the other way around”. A very valid argument can be made that it’s more likely that you’re installing a dodgy package rather than being subject to some sort of MITM attack.
Wonder if it's any good. I bet it'll be just fine as supportive counselling it seems to have picked up toxic positivity.

Although it's latest iterations are distinctly more robotic.
There was a juvenile magpie on the balcony handrail outside the large office kitchen / lunchroom space. I went out and left the corner of a cheese biscuit on the balcony floor just to see what it would do. It didn't show any interest until I went back inside, and it spent a couple of minutes looking at the biscuit, looking at the door.

I then had to go back to my desk, not knowing the end result.

A couple of hours later we had our monthly all-hands meeting in the kitchen / lunch room space.

For the full hour of the meeting, there was a juvenile magpie standing on the balcony floor, at the door, looking inside and warbling.

I'm assuming it liked the country cheese sample.
CCC Decentralized Year-End event streams
> I was quoting you.

No you were not. I did not write "everyone is equal" anywhere in the post you responded to. In fact, I neither wrote 'everyone' nor 'equal'.

> Speak to women who are in tech, ask them what their experience was like.

Anecdote ≠ data and is not evidence for anything "systematic".

> I haven't got any studies for you I'm afraid

Because there aren't any that show this, because it's not an actual thing.

> we're debating in experiences

I am debating facts, you are debating what appear to be anecdotal experiences and subjective evaluations of those experiences from which you then extrapolate mightily.

If I told you what my experience has been in tech, you probably wouldn't believe me. And if I were to present my personal experience as that of a woman, you would think it proof for the systematic discrimination against women in tech. Except that it isn't, of course, because it all happened to a man.

Anyway, people have studied this empirically, and this is what they found:

"Our early analysis suggests that men and women actually appear to leave engineering at roughly the same rate and endorse the same reasons for leaving."

https://sites.uwm.edu/nsfpower/gears/

And of course this is why "just ask <group x>" is not a valid method for ascertaining discriminatory practice. You also have to ask other groups to see if the practices differ based on what group you belong to.

In tech, they don't. In fact, women in tech generally report slightly better treatment than men do (different survey). Tech is a shit show for everyone.

A very well-compensated shit-show, mind you.

(And since men are und greater pressure to earn, they are probably also more likely to tolerate a shit show if the pay is good).
Edit: okay, the docs show cases where there are no side-effects. For me it’s completely obvious not to use a hook for that…

Aren’t useState and useEffect the two main building blocks for hooks (besides useContext)? Everything is derived from those two.

So I don’t get how it would be wrong to handle any of those things with useEffect. It may not be the most easy to read code, but in the end it’s all useState and useEffect under the hood.
Hence I wrote “in most cases”.

Note that the Verfassungsbeschwerde in the climate protection case argued that the state failed to create sufficient laws to protect constitutional rights (sorry, edit, I recalled that wrong): the challenge was actually directed at a specific law, arguing that the law is insufficient to protect constitutional right. It was partially successful in that regard.

https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...

This, however, is unlikely to be a successful line of arguing here: A law exists, and I doubt the affected afghan people would like to challenge that law’s constitutionality.

(Sidetrack): there are more cases where you can appeal directly to the Verfassungsgericht. A relatively common case is when the police forbids or severely limits demonstrations and time is to short for a regular court to make a decision. This is still similar to going through the ordinary courts, because you’re challenging the constitutionality of a state-actor decision.
Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever devised (2014)
The Bitmap Brothers, one of the finest games developers of all time, I'm of an age to remember Xenon 2 and Speedball 2 on the Atari ST, total classics.
There is an important aspect of culture that you're missing here.

If the government simply recommends to follow certain protocols for the health of the community, a Japanese person is culturally inclined to do their duty.

In contrast, a lot of red-blooded Americans are going to yell "socialism" and emphatically refuse to do anything that would benefit their neighbour, in some cases even if it would also benefit themselves, as we have seen.
Yeah, without knowing much about Rust, I’ve decided from these types of posts that I should gravitate toward “app I use but now it’s in Rust.” I use plenty of Rust programs simply because people seem excited about it.
Maybe I missed it in the article, but my main explanation for this phenomenon is based largely on me waking up before the set time and looking at the clock. I assume that I would adjust my slumber to the remaining time before the alarm. I don't need to hit 8 hours ahead, just one. Indeed when my sleep phases are deeper and longer, it's unlikely for me to wake up just before the alarm.

Seeing this tied to a stress hormone makes sense. It is intriguing to think that we can set an internal alarm. On the other hand, I would assume that this too is regilated by external clues. I remember how I could gauge morning progress just from the noise level when I was living close to a street.

I do wonder what is healthier though: preparing to get up by lightening our sleep ahead of the alarm, or getting more deep sleep but ripped out of it suddenly.
February 29th 2020 was "pretty late in the ordeal"?
Also, I’ve repeatedly come across date fields that force me to enter the month in two digits, i.e. 01 for January. What’s up with that?