skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting question, but way too simplistic.

In his great book "the myth of digital democracy", Matthew Hindman pointed out what most people don't get: The web is becoming more centralized AND more spread out at the same time. Popularity is a scale-free distribution that gets more extreme over time.

So we have counterculture, it's just not the large homogenous blobs that we were used to.
I implemented it for the path finding of zombies in my game. However, it was a little overkill for what were supposed to be brain dead zombies so I have since gone with something simpler and less optimal.
We will see what the judge decides, but one thing is clear, this case isn’t going to trial for years.
Why use a bandaid when you can get proper tiling in a bespoke window manager on Linux/BSD.
No, and I have no idea why you're failing to understand me.
I have a sudden urge to play Half-life 2 for some reason.
WASM compression benchmarks and the cost of missing compression APIs
i'm pretty sure superstition about haunted locations doesn't come from people repeatedly getting leukemia
It could be correct in base-11: ISBN-10 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN#ISBN-10_check_digits) actually uses digits 0-9 and then X (rather clever use of Roman numerals, it of course means 10) due to then-limited understanding of check digits when it was first standardised (the Luhn algorithm was not invented yet).
Does it fix the well known DNS problem? https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/9/2/limitations-split-tunne...
Yup, all the years of incremental improvements have really made the whole experience amazing. I switched from MacOS a few years ago and never looked back. It's been amazing. Fedora 36 + i3wm and Steam+Proton for gaming. It's as close to the perfect workstation/gaming/fun environment that I can think of.
You phrase this as if this were a physical necessity, and not a situation
purposefully engineered by human beings to be so.
I do have to admit there are effectively no "dark corners" anymore. The percentage of the population that can be involved in a new cultural movement without its details becoming common knowledge is getting smaller and smaller.
Yeah? where? I think its a unique opportunity to work with rust at this point in its life. Just not so interesting that I'd take a pay cut to do it.
As a longtime pocketknife enthusiast one search criteria I would love to see is a way to filter by rear flipper, thumbstud or thumb hole opener. I spent an hour last week trying to find a Kershaw that doesn't have a rear flipper tab as they tend to open in my pocket. It seems like almost all their models lately have rear flipper tabs but I would prefer a thumbstud.
In the end, Erdogan's opposition to Sweden is mostly related to Sweden granting asylum to Kurds, and Sweden can't (and won't) extradite them because Swedish law forbids them to.

And if the opposition candidate wins, he will be busy repairing all the mess Erdogan did to Turkey's foreign relations - even if the nationalists in the coalition will whine, they can't afford wasting more political good-will for a couple hundred Kurds.
Yes, it is IMO the second most important part of the article, it seems like a good idea and it would be nice to see it in the standard.
> Without DRM, there would be no digital distribution the way we know it today.

That's the point. We want digital content without DRM that is not locked to players approved by the distributor.
Plasma on Wayland is a late beta yes, because Wayland itself is a late beta. I'd not use Wayland, yet if I want to use KDE, and if I need to install Wayland, I'd use another desktop environment.

I never restart KDE on my system, unless I upgrade my kernel, and restart the whole system.
Hans Reiser already tried and failed. Also the Silk Road guy. Would not recommend.
I think you're right. This essay, like so many of PG's, has the exact hallmarks of a smart person thinking for themselves about a topic.

If you "think for yourself" when confronted with a problem like this (a problem at least three millennia old! People have been arguing about effective writing for a long time), you'll inevitably retrace some steps—good steps—of smart thinkers that have gone before you. But you won't be able to think deeply! PG, like some many smart people who embark on criticism, don't imagine the responses-to-their-response (which are, historically, also by clever and independent thinkers), and the third order responses, and so on.

This essay is shallow because it has no reference to, and no argument against, the generations of writers who thought "perhaps complexity or even obscurity has an essential and unavoidable place in our writing" and wrote persuasively to advocate for the need complexity in writing.

This (like so many of PG's essays about things that aren't programming), is armchair philosophy about a contentious and deep topic that doesn't consider the very real problems of writing. PG (by virtue of his position) doesn't have to, and therefore cannot, steelman his arguments. While you're right that this essay isn't in any way "dumb", unfortunately the comment you're responding to was right! This is pseudo-intellectualism.
I hate bookmarks because they clutter my browser status bar and I tend to save a lot of them, so… I am building an app (iOS only atm) that stores all your links conveniently, plus you can tag them, put them in folders and attach notes to it.

It’s currently in beta but I’m planning to release it to public in a couple of months.

You can check it out and join the beta at https://ulry.app.

Feedbacks are welcome!
I'll bite.
Fines and fees are a difficult topic.
Fines and fees should never be used to fund the government.
They are a perverse incentive.
We have seen over the years how horrible politicians try to "lower taxes" by shifting the cost of running a town to people who can't fight back.

For traffic management, I like the idea of roundabouts and twists to control speed better. Red lights and stop signs have inherent deficiencies and we should phase them out. I'd argue that drivers should feel they are going to fast and need to slow down by cues like narrow streets with no onstreet parking, not four lane stroads with 30mph plastered on a five mile perfectly straight stretch.

Most importantly though, we need better public transit or any public transit. Ideally free of cost for the riders and paid for by taxes.
Is it? I would rather say it is maybe too democratic. For an EU law to pass, both the EU parliament and EU council need to approve. So that means people vote for parties, that in turn are the EU parliament. Plus the EU council, which consists of the heads all the EU countries. That is a double layer of democracy.

The only real difference is that EU gets very little media attention.
There were rumours of an Isreali F-35 targeted and damaged (but survived) by some old Russian AA system, maybe BUK? This was based on observed events and movements. Of course, we would never know, which is correct and appropriate.

The topic of "spectral stealth" is complicated. It is vulnerable to systems of networked radars, among other things. It is one feature that may be very useful, but it is not a "panacea".
I'm going to query the phrase "common knowledge". To mutilate Gibson I think that common knowledge is not evenly distributed.
Ask HN: Why is number of Node.js jobs contrast to any development metric?
According to Linkedin search, worldwide location:

Nodejs: ~100k
Rails ~20k
Django ~20k
Laravel ~14k

This question aims at web development scope.

I have read all the nodejs downside, lack of establish frameworks, fragmentation, mess, relatively less feasible for business compared to other frameworks.

What's their technical leads thinking about?

Note that numbers might not be that accurate depending on Linkedin search algorithm.
> "The search crews have quite literally found the needle in the haystack."

Apart from flagrant abuse of the word "literally", this was an interesting read.
I must have misunderstood, thank you for the clarification. I thought that having no size specifier in the array declaration turned it into a VLA, which could have repercussions when embedding structs, e.g.:

struct
{
int a;
/* ... */
int b[];
} foo;

struct
{
struct foo;
/* ... */
int c;
} bar;

I would expect to have issues when trying to access the other members of struct bar like c.
Anti-cheat is a) only neccesary for for competitive games, which is only a fraction of possible games and b) only needed there because publishers want to remain in control of the servers instead of letting the community run their own. With community-run servers the admins can kick disruptive players wether they are cheaters or not, no spyware needed. You could even require your own spyware for your server and let others play on servers that are more reasonable. And for tournaments the organizer should control the hardware and software anyway to make sure there is a level playing field.
>Yet we keep flying it in the face of repeated attempts to retire it, with the USAF even going on the record that the A-10 will be kept in inventory "indefinitely"[1]. The A-10 is clearly not obsolete and continues to proudly serve the USA and its friends and allies, and enjoys much adoration from its pilots, mechanics, infantrymen, and civilian fans.

Because the US has, in the past decades, not waged a war against a near-equal opponent who could have held together any kind of air force or air defenses for at most the first few days of a US invasion. In all of the US wars since the A-10 might have been obsolete against a near-equal opponent, it was more advanced than the mass of opposing tech, and could be used well. For counterinsurgency, the cost of actually modern tech is more of a problem, given that the cheap old stuff is still far superior to anything a Taliban commander can put in the field, and given that guerilla warfare has as it's aim not tactical victories, but increasing the cost to the bigger party into politically untenable regions.

It is very much obsolete in the sense that the US also requires air capabilities for large, near-equal conflicts, and there is no unsurprising way for A-10s to be useful there. In summary: keep enough A-10s around for CAS against outclassed opponents, but don't plan on having enough to take on China, seems like a wise strategy.
And of course https://m.xkcd.com/1866/
I think it depends on how much radiation leaks through the shielding and how sensitive the Geiger counter is. I'd expect that the goal of the shielding would be to reduce radiation to safe levels, which may still be high enough to detect. But honestly, I have no idea if that's the case.
At that age the distro probably does not matter all that much. If whatever you choose doesn't work too well, you can install something else together. And cheer at the new selection of wallpapers during or after installation. But since mimicking dad's work is important, try to make it look & behave somewhat similar to your computer :)

(My sons used OpenBSD from ages two to four or five---I don't think they even realized that it was there, or what it was. They were more intent on playing gcompris, watching cartoons by way of a helper script I put on the desktop and experimenting with whatever piqued their interest at the moment.)
There are more dark corners than ever... and they are as dark as it gets. You just don't want/know how to look for them and they are also as private as it gets.
In the present moment, the counterculture is always hard to find and identify. That's what makes it the counterculture.

Now you can read and listen to the Beat poets anywhere, but that would have been challenging in the early '50s. You had to go to the right coffee shop on the right night and if you went and saw what was going on you might question if these were geniuses pushing the frontiers of expression or a bunch of degenerates exploiting impressionable young people.

You can still have that experience today, probably easier than ever.
Well, I'm pretty aware that you know current experience way better than all of us, combined.

On the other hand, our parents, partners and non-technical friends use their Linux systems without ever calling us, the venerable yet dumb as a dead tree "Linux folks".
They have literally found the metaphorical needle in the haystack.
i admit to being too lazy to read the paper, so maybe you can answer this: does this work on weighted graphs too? by that i mean what if movement costs differ from distance?
this is cool, but try C (modern, C99) instead: all I see in this C++ version is obsfucation and confusingly named things...

(sure, for an "industrial strength" version C++'s features are worth the cost, but for learning/education I never saw the appeal of classes and objects and smart pointers and stuff)
So the main solution would be not forking, but cloning and straight create a separate project? Will it work?
If you look at the list of fabs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
you'll see that of all the modern fabs, about half of them are in China already.

You still got the top 2 in Taiwan and Korea, so they won't be able to produce iPhones or Macbooks. But the rest is there already. Even Samsung has a few fabs in China.
Worked example, albeit simplified:

If you use, say, 1 kilowatt constantly, then the minimum you need overnight is a 12 kWh battery, while a battery that lasts a week would be 168 kWh.

Let's say that particular battery lasts exactly 1095 complete cycles. The 12 kWh battery gets replaced every 3 years. The 168 kWh battery gets replaced every 42 years.

The cost per night is the same.
It seems to be hard to find an explanation for the lease gravity nuclear weapons strategy for Germany.

I presume that they require US launch codes (and the F35 has a kill switch?). So what is the use for Germany?

The fear in Europe (confirmed by Westpoint graduate Mearsheimer long before the Ukraine war) is that if Russia strikes a single city in Europe, the US will get second thoughts and not retaliate. Germany then cannot retaliate either, so what is the point?

This is the reason for France to have its own nuclear arsenal and fighters.
Not everyone uses or wants to use Linux. Or they prefer to keep a macOS system alongside their Linux system(s).

I don't see value in showing the other side of the fence when someone doesn't interested on the other side.
Having your prey defy gravity while you plunge to your doom off a cliff doesn’t help either.

I guess the SBF analogy would be something about other shitcoins staying afloat during a wider crash.
It probably depends a lot on your circumstances, location and other factors!

In my case, in Rīga (the capital of my country, Latvia), it was approximately:

- leave apartment at 7:45
- walk to stop in around 5 minutes
- wait 5 - 10 minutes for a trolley bus
- ride in it for 20 - 30 minutes
- walk from stop to work for 10 minutes

I think it averaged out to around 40 minutes per trip, and 1 euro per day, given a monthly ticket: https://www.rigassatiksme.lv/en/tickets-and-e-ticket/types-a...

With a car, the same trip would be around 20-40 minutes.

For comparison's sake, walking would mean upwards of 100 minutes for that trip.

Regardless of whether in a car, or using public transportation, coming home in the evening often included waiting in traffic jams for close to an hour. In comparison, when coming home before 4-6 PM, the streets were relatively empty and there were no such traffic issues. Fewer cars, fewer issues of that sort.

But what holds here true doesn't hold true elsewhere and vice versa. Once you go past a certain scale of the city in question, transfers and other complications become unavoidable. Just how much of an issue it is, depends on many other factors as well (car ownership cost, possibility of accidents, the disadvantage of not being able to easily transport things when not owning a car and so on, lack of freedom without a car, especially when you want to visit less popular rural areas).

Neither beats rolling out of bed at 8:45, turning on the computer and brewing some coffee or tea, doing a morning shower and "being at work" 10 minutes later, though.
If we can have a common grammar of movements, independent of languages, thanks to tree-sitter, then we'll probably have improved editor experience a lot for the common years, it's exciting!
I appreciate that, thanks for the explanation. I understand the difference between hugepages and transparent huge pages, I just don't understand how not using hugepages was impacting the parent's Postgres, or causing OOM errors.

@menaerus actually has a great comment on this that digs deeper into it, looking forward to seeing what comes out of that thread as well.
Reaching your users is even difficult for me, building internal tools. We use a multi-pronged strategy. The only way to be sure is to have a popup in the app, although tbf this annoys people so care should be taken to minimise the nuisance.
Reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioacetone

> In 1889, an attempt to distill the chemical in the German city of Freiburg was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in an area with a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory due to the smell.
Seems to be conflating the distribution of culture (via social media, google and the internet at large) with the culture itself.

But then, if a counterculture falls in a forest and nobody was around to hear it, did the counterculture really exist? Could be a valid argument too. Maybe
Yes, and it's also funny that they will re-pave the street, and then few months later it turns out that some water pipes need to be replaced, so the freshly re-paved street is torn up again. Then, few months later, new fiber cables needs to be put in the ground, so guess what?. Re-paving becomes one of the best businesses in such town :)
> The Ukraine war will be won through stocks and new production.

Or on the diplomatic table. While I agree it is a good thing to send Ukraine all we reasonably can, it is a nonzero probability Putin gets into hot water and ousted - bad health, pissed-off bureaucracy, domestic protests once he's forced to conscript people in central (ethnic) Russia.
I think there never was stronger counterculture than today - but the platforms for this changed. A few decades ago an avant-garde film or student project could make ripples in the film industry and gain a cult following. However, I think that anyone under 20 (possibly under 30) sees cinema as far less important than the previous generation. YouTube (and TikTok) stars became bigger than movie stars, and more young people can tell you who the top streamer is for Valorant than who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.

The "criteria" mentioned in that post assumes the importance of cinema, radio and television is static, but in fact all of traditional content mediums are just a small detail in the peripheral vision of a younger audience, and they are pushing their values and ideas harder than it was ever possible before. There's culture and counterculture online. It's just not taking place in the same space as before, leaving the old mediums to corporations trying to maximize profits.

Kids and teens don't dream about changing the world through cinema anymore, but rather Twitch, YouTube or TikTok, or if they're really ambitious, a game.

Edit: forgot to mention Discord.
See how funnel analysis can help with your app growth.
No because exporters of these types of things are very wary of getting sanctioned for doing so if they’re caught.
I don’t think they stopped. I bought a relatively new Switch game recently and (for science) checked the card, and it was in fact bitter.
Counting second order effects of government spending, the US government probably already controls most of the US economy. The bar for China being a more effective free market is lower than you might think, in practice.

They've achieved remarkable results by focusing on making things the world wants, and upskilling. It could plausibly go either way on the chip thing.
I wouldn't call Slate Star Codex complicated, to me it's more like having some of fun along the way instead of being straight to the point like Paul Graham. That fun, to me, keeps me engaged and allows me to read long articles easily. Now, maybe that fun is what causes the length in the first place, but some also comes from quoting studies, analyzing them, adding examples, caveats, more than in a regular PG article.
The Petition of the Candlemakers
by Frederic Bastiat, (1845).
Russia or similar invaders didn't roll a "single S-400" into Ukraine. Nor would they in any similar invasion.

They'd bring in the whole shebang.

So my rhetorical question to you would be: why would you not buy a system with a reduced radar footprint, advanced avionics, advanced weapons control systems and advanced networking? Even if it's only for defensive purposes.

Heck, even if it's for flying strictly over territory you control. Advanced radars cover hundreds of kilometers as do modern anti-air missiles. They can shoot you down without even going near their direct airspace. That's what Russia is doing right now, they're taking down Ukrainian aircraft at no risk to themselves launching a bunch of R37s from deep in their territory (50-100km) from Migs Ukraine can't reach or even see.
> The professors concerns seem to be that students think that the class is an uncomfortable environment, not that student are dating or that heterosexual students are trying to hook up.

Based on the evidence of what the professor typed, she's going too far beyond what should be her professional limits. Her job, in addition to teaching the subject, should be noticing and addressing any actual violation of school rules and policies.

A student in her class can feel uncomfortable, demoralized, or disgusted by the color of clothes someone chooses to wear, the way someone walks, or that a person stutters when they talk. Someone's preferences or feelings about another doesn't mean a violation of school rules, policy, or law.

It is also not for her to presume what people might be thinking, to automatically assume guilt without evidence, to be preoccupied with the possible dating and sexual lives of her students outside of her classroom, nor attempt to forcibly interject herself or any prudish beliefs into the private lives of her adult students.
Complete nonsense.

There are no alternatives to F35.
Ugh :)

Sounds like an opportunity though…
Blaming customers for companies malfeasance must have been one of the greatest deflection tactics ever invented and it saddens me deeply when it gets parroted verbatim by the general populace.
> Add in a few other similar tuning settings

Have you ever written up some of the things you do to improve performance, or is that something you're unable to share?
I only have ever had XM when it came with the car for a year intro period. Seriously the best "I just want tunes" radio!
> we have a counterculture — many of them, in fact — but they are systematically excluded from seeping into the mainstream

I don't understand this and by extension the entire article. Counterculture is by definition outside of mainstream. It would just be culture and not anti otherwise. This sounds like semantics but then that is what I think the entire article is, and imho it is wrong.
The radical moral implications of luck in human life (2020)
And my argument is that meanings are fluid and "from scratch" is something a reasonable programmer should understand in this context.

For example, for me someone writing a new editor not using advanced components such as existing programming editor components counts as "from scratch".

They don't need to use magnetic needles to shift individual bits on HDDs.
> As if users stealing your content is not disrespectful to the owners of it.

a) Copyright infringement is not theft.

b) Copyright holders do not own the content, they hold a temporary monopoly over it.
The article was updated to say the serial number was confirmed, it took about three hours after the news first broke. Seems fair, probably took that long for the Australian Defense Force to get to the capsule.