skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's internal build system is called Blaze, and (as I understand it) it supports tons of use cases that the Go tool doesn't:

* Distributing build jobs across clusters

* Targeting any arbitrary platform, architecture combination

* Supporting multiple languages and toolchains

* Arbitrary build-time script execution (e.g., code generation)
> If I interpreted "man-child" correctly it is meant as an insult towards a person behaving immaturely, like a "child". Not quite sure how this relates to the "toys" in the background of his posted image.

I assume something is being lost in translation here.

> Though personally insulting Elon Musk is not really productivie criticism anyway. Neither is insulting the author of the post.

I'm responding to a criticism made in a trending article. If it's ok to post it's ok to challenge, and it's certainly productive criticism because it helps paint a more complete picture of the author, whose credibility we're being asked to accept.
The Vampire Survivor game loop isn't terribly novel.

There's more to a good game than just the core loop. If I had a dollar for every game loop I've come up with that was also used by an actually successful game, I'd have like over $10.

There's art, music, level design, gameplay balancing, etc that all go into it.

The core loop just kind of defines the type of game you're making.
Database as a Symbolic Form – Manovich
1) You are the only one here arguing about race-based policies. Neither I nor the passage you quoted by Ibram X. Kendi make such an argument (if Kendi makes the argument that racial discrimination is necessary, I don't agree with that. But the passage you quoted isn't making that point). I don't know if he makes that argument elsewhere, but as far as this discussion goes, that's something you're arguing against, not what I'm arguing for. In that sense, this argument of yours is a continuation of your strawman argument from before.

To be clear: not all discrimination is racial discrimination, and you don't need to racially discriminate to fix the effects of racial discrimination. Saying we need discrimination is not the same as saying we need racial discrimination.

2) Although this discussion surrounds race and focuses on rectifying past racial discrimination, we don't have to turn to future racial discrimination to rectify it. The point is that we do have to discriminate, however. I believe even you recognize and admit the need for that, because you suggested as much in your earlier post.

For example, we can recognize the impact racist policies like redlining had on minority communities. We can fix this past discrimination by investing in those areas, which of course involves discrimination. We don't have to decide who gets those dollars based on race, but we are basing who gets those dollars on past racial discrimination.

3) If you want to implement a policy based on race, obviously you can just ask the person what their race is. It's okay to let people self-report sometimes. Or market the program to people who are in the specific community you are targeting and ask for proof of residence. There's lots of things you can do, but literally no one has color swatches or endeavors to implement such practices. That's a strawman.
I think you misinterpreted 20x as 20%. CDC say smoking increases your chances of getting lung cancer by 15-30 times[0] vs someone who doesn't.

[0]https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm
Show HN: Twitter as a “CDN”
Seems like twitter is experimenting with increasing the character limit to 4k.

Seems like I beat Elon by two years with this extremely hardcore solution and I’m very proud of myself.

The article attached on the tweet explains how this works.
It just shows that life is a long sequence of being lucky. It bet during the course of a week everybody does something that may get them killed if unlucky. Most people are lucky but a few aren’t.

I can relate to the shock story. In a school lab I managed to lean on a exposed 220V cable. I remember my arm shaking and hearing a low hum but couldn’t figure out what’s going on. It felt like an eternity until I pulled my arm away but I bet in reality it was just a second.
That's not the kind of acid they're talking about ;)
This is a bit funny. I like anyone hate when rules change, but it's good because it keeps people on their toes. Sports (and human games in general) are weird, and somehow never really about the best person winning.
This is also used by some payment processors (probably belongs to banks).

I can relate as I was in Korea some months ago and in order to buy some concert tickets the platform required me to install that shitty thing. I end up not buying the tickets as it was not possible to me to install anything in my corporate machine.

As you said, my friend point out people don't have it installed in their personal computers but use a third party one which brings more insecurity.
Show HN: Sexmachine; A zero dependency, pure Go package for classifying names
Keto and intermittent fasting have changed my life. Over the past several months I've gone from 285 to 250 pounds and feel amazing. I don't feel hungry and meals satiate me enough to forego snacking. I feel mental clarity while coding, but can burn out if I over exert myself exercising (probably due to a lack of glycogen stored in my body). I like to think of it as a cleaner sustained burn rather than on-demand raw power.

Is there a lot of hype around this? Yes, but everyone's physiology is different, and this combo for whatever reason agrees with my body far more than eating high amounts of carbohydrates at random times throughout the day ever did.

edit:
I can't understand why someone would downvote this. I'm just trying to share a positive anecdote about my life.
I'll be honest, Vampire Survivors didn't really click with me. Maybe I'm just bad at it -- I can't seem to beat the first stage, and progress through permanent upgrades and unlocks is very slow. If I don't find garlic as my first weapon I may as well just quit and start over, but garlic starts to suck a third of the way through, so ...
> I wonder if wasm3 is using musttail with opaque function calls in the instruction handlers. It will demolish performance, which is why I am only using computed gotos in mine (when available). Even switch-case is faster than musttail when you have to leave the tco-jumps.

This doesn't match with my experience. After working on this problem a lot, I came to the conclusion that musttail with opaque function calls is one of the best ways of getting good code out of the compiler: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
The bigger story is that we're entering a world it is becomeing harder to know the difference between what is real and what isn't, and that foments distrust.
> but note that 4GB per day is 0.3704 Mbps

That's per Go repository. That's a non-trivial amount of egress data and probably adds up to thousands of dollars a month.
In fact recent genetic research shows that the "chicken" derives from jungle fowl with genetic diversity centered on the eastern Indian / Myanmar region. So the Turkish name is in fact accurate, with respect to the probable origin of the bird (in a Turkish domesticated context). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806553
presumably the proxy backend is stateless
Terminator 1 is absolutely amazing.

Terminator 2 is great, but it's no T1.

I recently wrote a longish post about it: https://blog.habets.se/2022/11/Terminator-1-is-the-best-Term...

But long story short is that 1) T1 terminator is uncanny valley, and T2 is not. 2) T1 is a perfect time loop, and T2 is not.
These questions are such typical American logic and why the internet sucks: There exists a thing and so something needs to be done about it. What if they use it to impersonate/phish/etc gmail? It has to be given to google! It happens that some four letter word is my brand, they can't just hold the domain, they have to give it to me! And the old adage "politics is not the solution" really does fix it: domain names are a misconception, use public key based addresses instead. Then there won't be typo squatting, bit squatting, anything. *queue barrage of typical "but what about the dumb user public key is too hard" stuff which all has already been answered ad infinitum*

But you could put ads on it! It's really dumb how people set out to make a blog, then choose one of the free blogging offerings, and since the web is just a bunch of commercial crap, they of course get a commercial platform (instead of how things should be which is something like Freenet and no JS), and then the tutorial tells them how to put ads on and they think "sure why not". That was 10-20 years ago. Of course now if anyone wants to make a blog it was already for profit. This is why the internet is dying and it will be illegal to make a replacement: All these little American-dream people that think its their right to profit off mediocre content are gonna defend any case against the new internet such as "CP" and "copyright" (and any other fabricated "problem", they will just agree with it because they want the new internet dead).

TL;DR the medium is broken and the new american digital worker will legally assault any alternatives
Cynically, we also need to ask if this is merely a feel good bill that was introduced knowing full-well the Senate was never going to pass it, much less deliberate on it.
Predictions 2022
Doesn't matter, cryptocurrency won apparently.
It really only goes that fast on even stretches, of which there are plenty in northern & east Germany, and you literally need minutes to get there - downhill you can go a bit faster, but that gets scary quick. As soon as there is even a slight incline it starts to slow down, thats true. And I'm talking about the LPG version with 90 PS! Thats why you want to floor it: "Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt."
There were even two other "people stuck inside simulated reality" SciFi films released within two months of The Matrix (Existenz and The Thirteenth Floor).
According to https://www.anandtech.com/show/17641/lighter-touch-cpu-power... Intel is much more power sensitive than AMD is. In other words, limiting Intel power consumption will hurt performance a lot more than limiting AMD power consumption does.
If we broadly include tree shaking (aka dead code elimination) in minification, then yes. They are often considered distinct transformations.
I can tell you about the system here in France - when you apply for a loan, the bank asks for some information (your salary, marriage status, kids, etc.) from you to see what you're capable of to spend monthly, and checks with the national bank what loans you have/had, and if you've defaulted on any of them. That's it, they don't need to know more, and the national bank doesn't keep track of everything, only very basic loan information (and of course they have no for profit motive), and nobody outside of a bank where you're applying for a loan uses this information to define your worthiness as a tenant or employee.
"The more surprising thing should maybe be that this is all you need and that adding more features does not buy you any additional power."

The "additional power" is what questions such as P-completeness and NP-completeness is about, right? Turing-completeness, as you say, is just a very minimal set of requirements on which additional requirements are added. Otherwise we'd all just be using massively parallel arithmetic calculators as our computers.
Which is also an excellent counter-example to almost every other action movie which all rely on almost completely CG everything. No that MM:FR didn’t have its share of CG, but the practical effects create an authentic anxiety to much of the action.

Also: Top Gun: Maverick
I guess an edge-case benefit is that when these cars come on to the used market (after the 2-3 year lease ends), the next owner can spec the car as they wish by enabling certain features.
Powerwash Simulator was such a good podcast game. It's a shame there aren't more levels.
Cutting out carbs will drop a lot of water from your system (from my layman's perspective). Drinking more water won't fully replace it b/c of loss of sodium (again, from a speculative standpoint).
On the other hand though, it looks strange. That sharp sleeve angle, Two (not one) eyes of sauron randomly in the sky?

Can we at least agree that it looks very unconventional?
and we have to mention https://filmschoolrejects.com/terminator-2-helicopter-stunt/ 'With a lot at stake and not a lot of room for error (quite literally), as Tamburro, himself put it: “If I made a mistake, I would be killed.” The stunt was so obviously dangerous that the scheduled camera crew tasked with shooting the close-ups refused to take part in it. Proving that he’s not one to ask of others what he isn’t willing to do himself, Cameron said “okay fine, I’ll shoot it” and shot the stunt with the help of a very courageous insert car driver.' Oh and he did it twice.
Quadratic strict weak ordering check to catch bugs in sorting
Same topic, hopefully will be merged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307286
I think this is a great question to keep asking, but unfortunately I don't have a good answer. I pose it as, "How can we make 1000 year software?" My observation is that as the rate of change of software accelerates, the maintenance burden for applications accelerates because the environments that your programs run in changes more often. It's kind of like the core problem of big slow orgs (too much communication/alignment work) but encoded in software -- a macro version of Conway's Law [0].

Some quick ideas I've been brewing on...

## Product strategy ##

- Keep it simple and focused. Each line of code and each dependency is a maintenance burden.

- Building open source is not necessarily an antidote to this. Other devs might help develop but opening the floodgates to community dev can also introduce feature complexity that your app perhaps doesn't actually need.

- Minimize service dependencies. Only use services that are commodity (e.g. 3rd party SMTP provider but not GPT-3).

## Software stack ##

- Choose tools that have a big community and multiple corporate users funding them.

- Choose stacks that are established. I often fail here because I want to live on the bleeding edge, but there's a reason it's called that.

- Choose tools that are open source (one company dying will not kill it).

- Choose tools that are cross-platform (the complexity of making a change to the tooling because of the diversity of clients is actually a pro for you, it won't change quickly). Also you want your tools to do as much of the heavy lifting around platform compatibility as possible. An iOS app written today will not work in 4 years without changes. A web app almost certainly will.

- Use as few tools as possible.

- When in doubt, go with the lindy option [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
The requesting computer has a bit flip and requests the wrong domain. It even is not stopped by HTTPS depending on where the bit flip happens and how the software is written.
I find it kinda similar to:

-USA tax system where Turbofax created a niche for itself and fights hard to keep the system as convoluted as it can be to detriment of everyone

-USA healthcare insurance system where insurance companies do the same

Seems like best way to profit is to become a parasite that does not fix the problem but just defends the current situation.
If you intermittent fast on a regular schedule, then your meals will still be regular.
Ask HN: Is it wrong for Canadians to enjoy a mild winter due to climate change?
Or maybe it is only wrong to say so in a public forum?
I've been in a similar position, a couple times in my career. I think its a natural trap to fall into when you are the kind of person that is good at bootstrapping projects to the point where they need a team to grow further, but not interested in management.

A newsletter article (not mine) that helped crystallize my thinking around this, and helped me to explain it to non-technical folks in my current organization is this one: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/engineering-leade.... Unfortunately its pay-walled, but Gergely (author) put some of the content in a tweet thread that is worth reading (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1473353064358756352). If you look at the venn diagram posted in that thread, it sounds like you fall squarely in the "beware!!" zone.

If you are like me, you fall into that zone, at least in part, because you are clinging to the some technical duties that you could give up, but since they are the foundation of why you enjoy your job, refuse to do so. Understanding this and your own strengths and weaknesses clearly, can really help frame possible solutions for you. I would spend some time reflecting (and it sounds like you already have) about what you want out of this job and your career in general.

Perhaps you can propose to your management that you want to move into more of a "staff engineer" role. This may or may not work, and in the end, depending on the management at your company, you may have to move on to find what you want, but being clear about what that you want, is the first step in that direction.
Virgin Orbit to launch first orbital spaceflight from UK tonight
An exponential improvement in GPT along the same axis will still not achieve human-like understanding. It's a very useful tool with the potential to augment or even replace human knowledge workers in many fields. But to achieve true AGI we're going to need to go in a completely different direction.
Are gruvbox[1] themes paying homage to these amber monitors? I've never seen these before but it immediately reminds me of Gruvbox colors.

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/67771985/119880097...
Oh I definitely believe you on that. I haven't taken semaglutide myself but from what I've read it seems to increase satiety by slowing digestion, which is why it has nausea as a side effect, and I can't imagine that that's the same as the normal feeling of satiety you get from eating reasonable amounts. Did it make you less hungry in a sick way rather than a neutral way, maybe?
It seems like any decent plot succumbs to soap opera writing. e.g. Raised by Wolves season 2. I thought the SCC was a lot of fun for about 6 hours. Then it waned… Sometimes I’ll see a different “written by” on sci-fi credits and think “ahh,
that’s the reason!”
Yes, Google staffs its Go team, but the original comment invokes Google's vast wealth as though its entire market cap is available for the development of Go, which is of course absurd. Google probably spends single-digit millions of dollars on Go annually, and it seems they've determined that supporting Drew's use case would require a nontrivial share of that budget which they feel could be spent to greater effect elsewhere.

Go is not only a "side project" at Google, but one of its most trivial side projects.
Any parenting books you recommend? Thanks!
Note that most dietary fiber comes from carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, seeds). Fiber is largely carbohydrates (and some proteins) you can't digest. Focus on soluble fiber. You could try a Phyllium supplement. Also important to feed the bacteria in your gut - they need carbs.
Answer: boring tech. These days I'm going with Django and Unpoly. Some go with htmx and AlpineJS. In both cases, frontend is backend agnostic. These JS are 1-file dependencies.

Django is being actively mantained for 17 years now.
Parenting books are the worst. I read one of the pro "cry it out" books on the recommendation of friends and at one point the author had a chart of how the rise in juvenile delinquency corresponded to rise in attachment parenting.

The funny thing is that the friends who recommended it to me are both engineers but IME even a lot of smart people don't question "scientific" studies. Parenting books in particular rely on a whole lot of readers willing to take everything at face value.

Aside: I knew a women who had a PhD and studied sleep patterns. Her pediatrician told her she needed let her baby cry it out. When she asked for justification they handed her a study that she had participated in, it was about mama cats and their kitted - completely irrelevant to any sort of human behavior. She was pretty upset by the whole thing. How many parents had been convinced by doctors completely misinterpreting her research?

A lot of justified scorn was thrown at the anti-MMR vax crowd, particularly pre-covid, but I think it's hard to understand how many people just don't have the background to look at a bunch of charts and numbers with a skeptical eye. I don't know how we are going to manage it when these days everyone can find a chart somewhere justifying everything that they already believe.
Yeah, the Genisys trailer was pretty bad. The twist was pretty predictable, but I rember watching the trailer and thinking oh, [the reveal], and then they showed the reveal and I was like ... well, I guess I don't need to watch that. Although, I didn't remember that that was inline with the franchise trailer history.

I think the most deceptive trailer ever was for The Fountain. You see the trailer and think oh, here's some cool stuff, but it's kind of disjointed, but it's a trailer; but then you watch the movie and it's just as disjointed.
Maybe the solution is to add anti-right to repair as a major indicative element to the monopoly legislations (ie if indicated it reduces the hurdle of the other elements that must be proven dramatically). Forcing repair lock in should be indicative of monopoly behavior.

Something needs to change where the perceived "cost" of building out repair lock in revenue is much higher than it currently is.
Overall, of course greater efficiency will ultimately yield greater prosperity. But this article skims over the details of how that prosperity is distributed, which is where the vast majority of the political disagreement lies. Contrary to the tone of the article's last few paragraphs, not everyone thinks unemployment benefits, earned-income tax credits, and higher minimum wage are good ideas. On the other hand, everyone supports greater employment. That's why you hear politicians talking so much about job creation, it's the one thing their voters all agree on. In the US at least, the hard part isn't job elimination, the hard part is getting the government policy in place to mitigate job elimination and wealth inequality.
you're right, I kinda skimmed the article but I see what you mean now.

I am a bit sensitive when articles like this even refer to "the left" or "the right" because I'm so conditioned to think it's another misconstruction intended to create blame and hate instead of awareness and healing/resolution. I should've have commented if I didn't have time to read it all carefully though
I disagree with the better ways used elsewhere, as a French citizen who has worked abroad all his life, I can barely get anything. When I came back to France for a year due to my father's health issue, it was difficult getting an apartment because I had proof of income for more than 3 years in France (the current income I was declaring of 150k usd a year working remotely from France didn't count). People in France who have a CDI (permanent contract) can easily get mortgages and everything but entrepreneurs, people on fixed term contracts, etc... have a very hard time getting anything.

With a US social security number that I got as a student and good management of my credit card accounts that I kept since, I have a good US credit score and can easily get a mortgage in the US. Of course, it's possible to game it, but you can also get a very decent score by just managing your finances well.

So from my perspective, I think the US system works much better. Does it have issues? Yes, there's data leaks, there is some gaming of the system (by the way, paying off the mortgage won't tank the credit score, it'll lower it yes by a few points, but that's mostly inconsequential)