skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that nicespeak is nothing more than our culture's embodiment of courtesy, or etiquette. Our society self-consciously strives to be egalitarian, so formality and honorifics sit poorly with us. However, unscripted social interactions are fraught with danger. They can easily become awkward or lead to misunderstandings. Etiquette provides a framework a person can operate within wherein you don't have to worry about what the other person will think or feel. This is particularly valuable in a business context, so our institutions strive to fabricate this framework.

There's nothing wrong with this, as long as everyone recognizes it for what it is. We harmlessly exchange stock phrases, like "how are you", to which the proper responses include "fine, and you?", or "not too bad, yourself?" or the like. The person who says "oh, terrible" and proceeds to tell you about it has violated the social contract and imposed a burden on the other party. The person behind the counter at the fast food restaurant doesn't want to have to think to say "I hope you enjoy that milk", or find some other way to close the conversation, so they're just as happy to say that stock phrase "enjoy your meal" and be done with you.
Plus having bulk CO2 around is handy for welding, aquarium keeping, and grow ops.
Dozens of new privacy laws have been passed in the last few years. In some cases, there are now severe financial penalties associated with non-compliance. This has started to empower internal teams within companies (who want to do the right thing) to actually do the right thing, and follow both the letter and spirit of these laws. I'm part of a project to build a global "delete me" button so I have insight into a range of different responses. Most companies still tend to be maliciously compliant or they simply ignore the request, but I'd be comfortable sending them my data. There are definitely bad actors out there for whom you're probably better off not sending them any request at all. Progress is slow but it's headed in the right direction.
I think it depends on the kinds of projects you’re working on, and your developer workflow.

For small→medium projects I agree that Rust compile times are fine
>I'm not familiar with the architecture of OpenBSD, does it run it's drivers in userspace?

No it's the BSD without modules.

>Example of microkernel: QNX.

Yes and minix, hurd and TrueUnix64 just some other examples.
if I invest for say 10 years with a conditional exit/hold strategy at tne end (i book profit and exit if I am in green, or decided to wait up to 5 more years till i turn green / with a minimum threshold) ...would that flexibility in investing strategy bump up my annualized returns (and presumably significantly reduce negative returns)?
Apparently no relation.
I sometimes check and close dozens of the old tabs because it turns out that my interests have shifted or that they lost their relevance otherwise. So it wouldn't be much of a loss. Most of the information I could still find again, given that I remember the right keywords.

I grew up with an OS clipboard that can hold exactly one item and can perfectly live without a clipboard manager. I guess it's mostly habits?
Synaesthesia: Some people experience reality differently
Yea, comparing C++ build times and Rust build times seems to ignore the practical workflow differences between writing the two.

Also, I think it's a little silly to say that Rust build times scale poorly (even if it isn't quite as good as C++). 100k LOC in, what, 6s at the end there is not so shabby if you're typically never building all of it.
On days I don't work from home, I try to always use the bathroom at the office instead of at home because the bidet makes it so much nicer. It's a small thing but it makes me feel like royalty.
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I am also good at complaining! We might make good friends.
Sorry, I thought the comment was associating politics with environment.

Utah is already one of the most urban states (90%). And "conservative technocrats" mostly run things at the state level (SLC itself is very Democrat), so I'm a bit surprised the governor comes from a farm.
> ...as it should be. If the privileged keep playing their privilege games while neglecting equity, society does not work.

Society isn't a game of wealth transfer. Equity is the goal for one ideology, not for the vast majority of Americans. It's fine for that to be your goal, but you should understand that it isn't for most others and that they're going to act accordingly. When you aim to take away from them and their children, even if it's well intentioned and justified by your belief system, many are going to flee.
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Comes to Guix Containers
Yes, I resonate with this a lot. It’s one thing to have time to capture information but a whole other thing to have the time to extract the essence out of it. I still haven’t figured out an answer yet though.
Huge fluffy wool slippers that go up past my ankles: $30

I used to feel cold in the winter, no matter how high I set the thermostat. Now I feel cozy with the heat barely running. I even think they cured my winter gloom. Turns out I was just loosing a lot of energy through my feet.
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The Church and Utah governments are also the biggest waster there too. That is also political.

The whole messaging around this is disingenuous. Urban water usage is a small subset, and even within that category individual citizens are a small subset, but yet most of the PR/"make changes" have been focused on a minority of a minority.
> Can you give an example or provide a citation to this?

It would look something like this:

trait MyOperation {
fn run(&mut self, a: T, b: U, c: V) -> R;
}
impl<F> MyOperation for F where F: FnMut(T, U, V) -> R {
fn run(&mut self, a: T, b: U, c: V) -> R { self(a, b, c) }
}

fn my_api<F: MyOperation>(f: F) { ... f.run(a, b, c) ... }

struct MyFunctor { ... }
impl MyOperation for MyFunctor { ... }
my_api(MyFunctor { ... });

That is, when defining `my_api` and you would like to accept both lambdas and functors, instead of using a `Fn` trait bound directly, use a more specific trait which has a blanket impl for lambdas.
Scala has it easily beaten in that regard.
So… empires can’t retain territory over a month away from its capital, unless it’s populated by people loyal to the empire?

Isn’t the point of the month rule that it’s hard to maintain a loyal population at that distance? So this amounts to saying ‘well the rule doesn’t apply to Canada because the rule doesn’t account for Canada’.

Right. So it’s a bit of a rubbish rule then?
Not 2022, but in 2021 I switched all of my clothing to synthetic including socks and underwear. This made living in a high humidity area (90+ pretty much every day) soo much more comfortable.
I think a useful analogy for engineers is that companies are machines, a black box that takes some amount of resource as inputs, and turn it into some outputs.

If we collapse the vector of those inputs (such as labor, materials, capital) and outputs (products, services) to a single unit such as "dollars" by which we measure those things, then any sustainable (i.e. profitable) business creates more output than input.

Personally, I like owning companies, because I like owning black boxes that take money in and produce more money out. :)

I do think the long-termist view, which this page promotes, raises several questions:

Do you believe that companies will, on average, continue being profitable in the long term?

Or do you believe that in the long term, profit margins drop to zero?

If capital is abundant, can companies remain profitable without there being a positive return on capital? (I.e. do those profits flow to entities other than shareholders?)

Does a "steady state economy" exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy And if so, are steady-state corporate profits zero? Is there a "tendency of the rate of profit to fall" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit... or is this in some degree compartmentalized with the turnover of industry over time?

I do appreciate the graphs on this page, especially the rolling 5/10/20 year ones. When I get some free time, I may adapt that concept for my side project https://totalrealreturns.com/ which lets you graph the inflation-adjusted, dividend-reinvested returns of any publicly traded stock, ETF, or mutual fund.
My totally anecdotal sense is that at least casual Frisbee(tm) use has declined a lot. I don't have a big data set but I just don't see them being tossed around as much as I used to in parks and so forth.

It's interesting how recreational activities can go out of style for no particular reason. Rollerblades/inline skates is another one in the US. It was popular for a period and you rarely see anyone skating any longer.
Pi-hole runs just fine in Docker [1]. You don't need a Pi to run it.

[1]. https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/
Soft-Bodied Aerial Robot for Collision Resilience and Contact-Reactive Perching
On the one hand, fair, I hadn't considered that eventuality.
Still, I can't imagine a scenario where, "I need to be able to guard against [cloud provider] blobs being left unencrypted for the long-term" that doesn't also include "and protect against two of their internal services being co-compromised".

If I can't trust blobs in a landfill, I wouldn't trust blobs in a landfill that are decrypted by another blob in the same landfill. Just feels like smoke and mirrors that is purely about chasing CTOs and "CYA"-type decisions.
Something to stress is that the article is not just about compile times. It’s about compile+test times.

If Chrome were written in Python it’d be hella slower iteration times
I understand the first one may be a genuine pptimization needed.

But for the second one: when a file is striped across different physical disks with possibly different characteristics, how would you defrag it without knowing the read access pattern?
I would say that Canada managed to stay loyal to the crown because for two major reasons. The first being the founding "myth" of Canada being the British loyalist colonists of the US migrating as a result of the US' revolution. Them fleeing north to a major seat of political power likely had a strengthening effect on being a willing subject to the crown than most colonies.

Secondly, Canada is something of an imperial power unto itself. There are countless stories of armies marching under the crown violently clashing with nations that existed on the continent prior to European colonization. Likewise, even other European descended colonist as well as the Métis were subjugated by British rule as the Anglophone powers expanded across the continent (e.g. Queen Anne's War, Red River Rebellion, and Fenian raids). Gaining the ability to exploit the natural resources that these other nations and colonies held.

The crown was a convenient way to gain both legitimacy from the British loyalists who settled in Canadian territory and a reliable trading partner to receive resources from in the British Canadian bids for expansion. Compared to the US, who used democratic rule to gain its own legitimacy; and who's natural resources were abundant enough to be a valuable trading partner.
Why was that the thing that kept you off? I have not played in a while, is it that impactful?
Your argument is flawed. Reactionary firing tends to be inefficient, but makes shareholders happy on the short term.

Should a company prioritise shareholder happiness over efficiency is the real question here. Their losses don’t originate from these employees nor initiatives; it originates from market conditions.
The crux of the argument is OGL section 9's use of "authorized":

> 9. Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated versions of this License. You may use any authorized version of this License to copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under any version of this License.

And 1.1's rumored revocation of that authorization. And no matter how clear in common sense it might be that Hasbro shouldn't be able to do that, I don't think we're going to find out exactly how that falls apart until it's ruled upon in a court.
America and Americans are not the same thing.
Not really, they are somewhat correlated, but they are not completely correlated. Duration has a lot to do with it as well. Look up Long Term Treasuries(TLT/EDV are funds that hold these) and compare that to US stocks like VTI.

Bonds are like buying future cash-flow, stocks are about future growth.

i.e. if you buy a bond that's paying you $25k/yr, then you will get that $25k/yr regardless of what happens to the NAV until maturity(and/or bankruptcy obviously).
California isn't one region, and the monsoon season does the same thing to Arizona as it does to Southern California. The opening of dams to support sports is usually a bipartisan decision (conservatives as well as liberals like their electorates to be happy).
And yet Sweden has less foreign ancestry today than it did during the Viking age, interesting.
I couldn't help but think of one of Carlin's acts while reading this - Advertising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtK_YsVInw8
Not sure which those are, but all the J/N 4000 series CPUs are only rated for 8 GB, yet I never heard of anyone having issues with 16, though not always at the maximum supported frequencies.
> Howabout Rust implements my favourite concurrency-related safety mechanisms, so I don't need to ever know about atomics or locks.

How on earth are you doing concurrency without touching these two key primitives at some point? Lots of lockless?
I am not American, and I think America is a very, very special country. See this article: https://acoup.blog/2022/07/08/collections-is-the-united-stat...

> The result of all of this is the bizarre situation that the world’s foremost land power is also the world’s foremost naval power, which is also the world’s foremost diplomatic power, which is also the world’s foremost economic power, entrenched in the high ground of most of the world’s international institutions. One may of course argue that this situation is changing, albeit slowly, but at the moment the contrast is startling: the sphere of Russian influence does quite reach Kyiv (about 150 miles from the Russian border) and the sphere of Chinese influence does not quite reach Taipei (about the same distance, but over water), but American influence evidently reaches both despite the former being 4,300 miles and the latter 6,500 miles away from American shores.

> That has never happened before; it may well never happen again. We have seen regional hegemons similarly dominant in their local neighborhoods (the Roman Empire, the Han Dynasty, Achaemenid Persia, etc.) and to lack peers locally, but the United States is the first and only country to have done this on a global scale and to lack true peer competitors anywhere. Even as the ‘monopolar moment’ seems to be coming to an end, the United States’ position as ‘first among equals’ among the ‘great powers’ is historically unparalleled; no state has ever been so clearly without peers influence and power except for maybe – wait for it – the Mongols.
Beyond some differing features and interface, there wouldn't be much difference.
Just like shaking hands was a tradition to show that you hold no weapons, speaking nicely is a social signal that you mean no harm.

Both peace signals can be ruses, but if you approach with a closed fist or a sharp tongue, it makes a peaceful interaction more challenging.
I've never had salo, but tried several types of słonina (Romanian, Polish, and a weird Siberian brand I found at a Slavic store in... Porto). Looking at the wiki page for salo, it's very close to the PL/RO snack.

You're right that boczek has more flavour, esp. the home-made version if you can find it (super difficult, imo). Usually the home-made boczek will be meatier/more smoky/more garlicky than, the store bought-stuff.

Słonina has little flavour, besides slight smokiness + saltiness. Normally it's used to highlight the flavour of the next dish or as a snack served with vodka. Similarly to lard, you'd serve it before the main dish to make the palate more sensitive towards any fat-soluble flavours. I'd say słonina is 90-95% fat plus a barely noticeable amount of meat.

The Siberian one I got though... had waaaaay more garlic and a little bit of pepper. It was lovely, but something I'd eat at the "caviar serving" amounts.

Useless trivia #123: it's likely a coincidence but in Polish "słonina" literally means "elefant meat" ("słoń" /swoń/, comp. the suffix -ina w. "wołowina" for beef, "wieprzowina" for pork).

> Maybe I need to work on my tofu this year

Smoked tofu is sooo good. I have some good kimchi + gochujang I want to cook tonight with pork belly, but now you made me think of replacing the meat with some smoked tofu I bought.
It seems Google Cloud Storage introduced it in August 2013[1], enabled by default.

[1]: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2013/08/google-cloud-st...
Don't know how big of a home you have but I've been pitched mesh wifi but I realized I didn't really need it (~3k sqft home). My ~$150 Netgear router works perfectly fine. My recommendation is to see if a regular router works for you before you invest in mesh.
Mostly objective, but slightly misleading. I'd be interested in counting how many times a developer runs `cargo build` compared to `make` and `cargo check` compared to `I don't think there is a c++ equivalent`.

I imagine the total time spent compiling Rust to be much, much lower.
Copying entire compositions is different from references. I'm case you're unfamiliar, artists usually have a few images off to the side of their workpiece to look at for inspiration and to reference colors and image elements.
I can agree with that. Right now going live is all that matters.

To add to your point: I chose the most popular stack with the biggest mindshare, just in case something goes wrong, I’m a one man shop, but why fight against it.

I’ll try Ngnix…
If OP is anything like me, they 'manage' the old tabs by thinking "Oh that's neat I'll leave it open so I can come back to it' and...never do that.
> The question is whether the power and influence of the U.S. will grow similarly over the next 150 years as it has over the last 150.

> To invest mechanically without thinking about what’s actually happening in the world is cargo cult behavior.

This is why it's suggested that unthinking mechanical investors invest globally, not just in the US. For example, VT, a single set and forget index fund has 40% international exposure. That's to speak nothing of the S&P 500 companies that do business internationally.

https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/vt/portfolio
While D&D has an unfortunate cultural monopoly in terms of general public mindshare thanks to a network of media deals that have basically turned D&D into a brand more than a game… it has so much competition in the marketplace of traditional style pen and paper role playing games that the very notion of it having a monopoly worthy of antitrust action is laughable.

It might sell the most right now but if this truly is WotC slicing off their own nose to spite their face with overly aggressive legal tactics to extract money and control the market for D&D related goods, and as a consequence the community turn away from them… there’s a huge sea of available options that are completely unrelated to D&D, Champions, Rifts, Genesys, Feng Shui, Fate, Numenera, the plethora of hand that are Powered by the Apocalypse… there’s not just a sea but entire oceans of RPGs out there that don’t descend from D&D in any way and most of them are just plain better RPGs! If the community leaves D&D behind they will find so many better games to play that honestly… I’m starting to hope WotC are about to accidentally cripple the D&D brand. It might just be the best possible thing for the RPG industry and the player community as well.
> setting up C++ tooling requires non-beginner level skills.

I've taught C++ beginners to use a C++ compiler, linker and make with no problems, and earned quite a bit of money while doing so.
Sure, it's a fun toy to play with, I don't deny it.

Like a kaleidoscope, it can be fun to recognize familiar patterns and beautiful colors, but it's nothing more than that: a toy.

What I look for in art is intent and human passion; for me, the excitement of suddenly getting a nice number out of a PRNG or a cool story out of GPT is a very different from experiencing a story passionately crafted by a human.

When I read an amazing story like the Iron Widow, I feel respect towards the skills of the author, excitement for her future plans for the sequel; I follow the author on twitter and maybe interact a bit, because I appreciate what that human made me feel.

I can't do the same for a GPT story, because even if it was generated from multiple human stories, there is no actual human intent behind it; no one to thank, and no one to blame in case of messups: it feels like an empty shell.
Of course, those are cherry-picked selective endpoints used to make the point look more extreme than it is. Look at any other 17-year interval, or better yet the average of all of them, and you will see that the expected value of growth is indeed solidly high.
The alternative to pursuing excellence is not usually pursuing second-rateness, but simply not pursuing excellence. It's a lack of effort, rather than misdirected effort.
We grabbed a soda stream at the thrift store. The expense of the canisters is bad, but if you go to a welding & gas supply store they'll refill the canisters for much less than soda stream charges for a fresh one. We also noticed that soda stream will happily give you expired canisters.
> Addressing security/privacy at this level is a very Apple thing to do.

So the user can sleep well when Pegasus gets all his data. Charming. /s
Smart people invest globally. I have no illusions that American billionaires care about borders or governments.
Sure, yeah. I doubt most knitting forum moderators wake up thinking "gosh I'd better get to that knitting forum to prevent the Nazi camel from getting its nose into the knitting tent," but I don't know any knitting forum moderators.

The comment I was replying to - "all individuals of class X are motivated exclusively by vicious desire Y" - isn't a truth-seeking comment, and I think we can do better.
> The way the empires get around this problem is by putting people who have drunk the kool-aid in positions of power.

I always understood the aphorism as taking delegation of power into account — it's "one month of travel" not because of the needs of top-down command-and-control, but rather because delegated power that's more than a month away falls past some threshold of latency required to "keep them in hand."

The aphorism might make more sense flipped in perspective and inverted: as a magistrate/governor, if you see your colonists suffering under the tyranny of a remote power, you'd better be at least a month away from that power to be able to quietly rebel under the nose of that remote power. Otherwise a quiet rebellion will never work — any closer, and they'll be constantly watching/auditing you. At a closer distance, if you want to rebel, the only option is an active, bloody rebellion — and if that's unpalatable to you, then you'd better just not rebel!
You're right about the sporting uses... it's just absurd given California's dry history.

However, the lack of sufficient reservoirs is indeed a real problem. The population and it's water needs have greatly eclipsed the state's storage capabilities, which creates a negative feedback cycle during dryer seasons/years.
Yeah, I guess the court will be the real test of what is allowed here.
The comment I was responding to was about the case where person X uploads code to GitHub, and that code contains code from person Y whose license to X does not give X permission to grant GitHub the rights that GitHub requires from the uploader, and so GitHub's use of Y's code is without copyright permission.

I believe GitHub would likely be seen as an innocent infringer in that case.