skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that so many people choose to live in suburbs, or the "sticks", suggests that there is something desirable to _them_ about living there.

A major reason for the preference is the lower price per square foot in the suburbs than in higher density areas. They can't afford that much space in the city, which in turn is so expensive because the amount of high density housing is artificially limited by zoning.

You have to let the market decide how much high density housing there should be before you can score "the market has decided" as a point.
Don't forget graphene os [0]. It is only for google pixel devices but they have the newest phone supported.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
This feels like it might be selection bias. I’m cautious to say that with more certainty, I hope my caveat below makes that clear.

No doubt these people exist, and I’ve worked with people who were similarly quick to stop debugging and come bother me with their problems that had nothing to do with whatever underlying thing I’d built. But the vast majority of my users have not come to me at all, because either they haven’t had any problems or they’ve done the appropriate legwork to investigate their own stuff first. A few come to me with legitimate bugs.

Caveat: these relative proportions have varied a lot depending on context, of course. But I can’t think of any context where the worst case was even conceivably close to average.
Correct, the UK left the Single Market in 2021.

Money? France is the only European country that spends anywhere close to the amount required by NATO on defence. European countries rely very heavily on the US. If we were in the EU, Europe is still not going to spend enough.

OneWeb merged with Eutelsat. Iirc, the UK invested in OneWeb at a £1bn valuation, and the Eutelsat transaction valued OneWeb at just under £3bn. The UK govt gets a stake in the largest satellite company in Europe, it does so at a lower price by making a shrewd investment in a company in bankruptcy, and all outside of the EU.
Ask HN: Is your company considering “exiting the cloud”? If yes, why?
No mention of Lichtenstein when it mentions The Emirates, Norway or Luxemburg.

> In contrast, the persistent backwardness in British productivity, which never reached the American level, is usually attributed to the historical weaknesses in the educational system.

The British state getting rid of grammar schools is often highlighted, but during the 70's and 80's the old rote ways of teaching were scrapped, but continued in overseas territories and the results spoke for themselves, higher literacy and education were achieved on average in these overseas territories than back in the UK.

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

"However, advocates of traditional education have criticized the new American standards as slighting learning basic facts and elementary arithmetic, and replacing content with process-based skills. In math and science, rote methods are often used, for example to memorize formulas."

This US driven process based thinking, is an attempt and demonstration of the US' desire to have everyone in front of a computer where they can be monitored surreptitiously.

Something else not mentioned is the difference in the US diet compared to the European diet.

If you need a diet to boost GDP, to constantly stimulate then the US diet is it, but it will burn people out more quickly with ill health.

The European model with higher food standards currently is a good standard, especially when comparing how the Chinese have been taught to eat anything that moves, hence their diverse range of palatable foods.

This blog, could enhance its credibility by taking into account factors like diet and health care, instead of just muddying the waters.
I have access to the radioactivity diagrams for a 10 year old spent fuel bundle.

Needless to say it is rather radioactive...

But it is easily contained by the water in the pools, and then the dry storage casks it is moved to once it is no longer "thermally hot" and needs constant cooling.

This guy is just your typical anti-nuke posting the classic talking points about all the billions of tonnes of used fuel?
Ah, the "common consensus" (i.e. you) has spoken.
In LLVM-MOS, we mainly struggle with its register allocator; the rest of the backend is really quite reasonable.

The "Greedy register allocator" in LLVM is a just finely tuned priority allocator with nice live-range splitting. It works great for zero page cache locations, but it's just not tuned very well for tight register classes like those involving the processor's three architectural registers. I've half a mind to implement Hack's SSA-based register allocator in LLVM to use on A, X, and Y; this would clean up the oodles of spurious copies LLVM-MOS spits out in the worst cases.
Parent comment is just wrong. The COR (Conseil d'Orientation des Retraites, meaning advisory board on retirement to the French Prime Minister) says this clearly: the current system is sustainable and does not need to be reformed. https://www.cor-retraites.fr/node/595. Or in video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsL1wT8jxVU (subs auto-translated to English are available).
My experience with Amazon is that the quality of their offerings and service have fallen significantly over the years, to the point where there is no longer any reason for me to use them.

So I don't.
On one hand, given the inherent scarcity of "good schools" any concession will likely be paid for by students at large in the form of tuition increases.

On the other hand, tuition increases were going to happen anyway, so you might as well get something from it.

In any case, it's good to see people standing up for themselves. Your move, USC.
The world has had "zero energy" homes for like fifty years now in the form of earthships, but government entities have prevented them from reaching a wider audience because of laws which prohibit most non-stickframe homes.
(Uninvolved growth-stage CFO perspective)

The IRS mandates that stock option grants expire after 10 years. My best guess is these early employees are quickly approaching those grants' 10 year mark, and face an exercise or "lose it" situation.

If you exercise, you have to pay the gain. For early employees, this could/would be a massive bill -- probably well into the 7-8 digit range for some early hires.

Stripe seems to be teeing up a secondary sale of these stocks themselves -- where Stripe is offering to buy some of their shares back from those early employees, allowing the employees to exercise ('buy") all of those early options and (at least) pay their tax bill.

Usually, a company will limit the # of shares eligible for a secondary purchase so current/former employees can buy all the stock, sell enough to the company to cover that person's resulting tax bill, and keep the remaining stock until IPO. By limiting the # of shares they will allow to be purchased via the secondary, Stripe will almost certainly make sure the secondary does not create post-tax cash gains to make people wealthy!

It doesn't have to be that way:

Stripe could allow ANY investor to buy the shares directly from those employees -- but guessing Stripe has a blocking right on stock transfers-- so they have, and will continue to block early employee sales to new investors. Stripe and many companies have these transfer "veto right" to make sure they can control their ownership ("cap table") and also to make sure early employees don't get rich before the IPO.

This is my best guess-- I am not familiar with the Stripe's situation.
No - Social Security for the people who are already retired is paid for by the people who are currently working. Nobody is "paying into" anything.
If we removed the electoral college in the US, or if voting day were a national holiday, all those issues would automatically be addressed.

The old and conservative make too powerful a voting block, and it perpetuates every corporate, oligarchic, xenophobic greed cycle one could point to as a rot in our system. I don't think old people are bad because they're just taking government money and have big fancy houses, but largely they do vote the same way and that way they are voting is causing problems.

> First of all, you don't freaking need your own new house to start a family. In most countries most people never buy a new house.

It's important to understand the similarities and differences between "need" and "precipitates conditions that massively increase the chance of", when it comes to demographic trends.
> Most processing of audio isn't CPU performance limited

Processing, mostly true (though there are still some reverbs that can chew an awful lot of cycles).

Synthesis, however, is a different story. That is definitely CPU performance limited once you get into substantial numbers of voices/tracks/synths.
I've already integrated ChatGPT into my workflow

And your line of work is?
I don't fully disagree with you, but it's not so simple. I only paid $10, but I've paid $0 to all the others. Same for the people I know with one exception. It's got to be a small number of total users that spend thousands in a game, so it seems reasonable to think that the revenue could be comparable when everyone pays something.

Would be really interesting to get some hard data
Firaxis provided the source for the core DLL for modding. Don't recall exactly when, but it may have been with the Beyond the Sword expansion.
"Programming" here seems to refer to configuring routing/topology stuff on the network. So the "programming cycle" is the loop of computing and deploying that configuration.
It's great to play the predecessor to Supaplex
The problem with gov't regulation is that the pages have a good chance of not being within the jurisdiction of what ever gov't is trying to do the regulating. So unless someone like Uncle Sam is going to say that ISPs must not peer with known places, there's no way that blocking access to these out-of-jurisdiction pages can be stopped.
> In practice, I find it is usually something like 'UnvalidatedCustomerInfo' being parsed into a 'CustomerInfo' object, where you can validate all of the fields at the same time

In my experience you usually can't validate them all at the same time. For example, address. You usually don't validate that until after the customer has selected items, and then you find out that some items won't deliver to their area, so whereas you previously had a Valid basket, now it's an Invalid state.
The Algebraist is one of my favorite books. I can especially recommend listening to the audiobook.
But what about 10-bit bytes* on a serial port?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-N-1

* words
It won’t unlock the MacBook if the watch is taken off your wrist though, the watch will lock.
> HTTP requests are not things that humans discovered in nature. They are abstractions, created entirely by specification.

They're created by something, but that something has more to do with a million blog posts and hallway conversations than it does with the formal RFC process. Certainly for most specifications of this kind, the working code came first and the specification was based largely on discovering what existing implementations did. If what the specification says is different from what HTTP clients send and HTTP servers understand, so much the worse for the specification.
Construction quality in China is generally bad, especially in lower tier cities. Those buildings and infrastructure aren't going to last.
I've actually read the full comment you're referencing and your take absolutely mischaracterizes what was said. Whether your take is malicious or merely reckless, I don't know, but I do know your take is the precise opposite of what was said.

Others can read the entire comment themselves[0], but the pertinent part re: this individual discussing 'unsafe' can be found in the second graph:

"[W]hen you're learning new things and thus reading introductory material, you'll often see pithy statements that you may interpret as being commandments or something that is supposed to always be true, but in reality they are imprecise statements because it is just impossible to explain everything up front."

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11eyu50/i_love_rust_i...
Any rise which is below the inflation is actually a shrink. You can tell by having a %10 rise in your salary but the meal deal in Sainsbury's going from 3GBP to 4GBP. Guess what happens if EU sells it's 5GBP wines for 7GBP and UK sells it's 3GBP cheddar for 5GBP? Trade increase!

EU Agreeing to everything? Like giving access to the single market? Nope, that't didn't happen.

The City of London not losing its business to Frankfurt etc. is true though.

Also, some bureaucracy jobs are probably created to deal with all the compliance requirements for selling to EU through the new free trade deal.
> pretty heavily subsidize

Is a pretty general term that's hard to respond to.

Yes there are rural subsidies, but I'm unconvinced that the per-capita subsidization of rural and suburban dwellers is so much greater than their urban counterparts.

You may have a very good argument, but I don't know the numbers, and I haven't seen anyone provide the numbers for this yet either.
Because the county and city government budgets are public. We get no direct money from the nearest urban core and the only method of transfer would be through the state. We get very little of our yearly revenue through the state general fund, and we pay enough income(and other) tax to completely offset it.

We're self-sustaining primarily through property taxes and have been that way for more than a century.
That increased demand for extra space I’m sure was bolstered by the pandemic and ongoing wave of WFH. The downsides and annoyances of small houses/apartments become much more evident when you’re staying home all of the time instead of only being there at nights and on weekends.
But are the ten thousand people he employs getting good wages because of his actions? Would they be making comparable salaries if he had not started his companies? He is not paid for productivity, he is rewarded for taking the initial risk and investing his own money.
It's been tried and failed.

https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/education/2021/02/11/le...

What’s more, it led to an exodus of France’s richest. More than 12,000 millionaires left France in 2016, according to research group New World Wealth. In total, they say the country experienced a net outflow of more than 60,000 millionaires between 2000 and 2016. When these people left, France lost not only the revenue generated from the wealth tax, but all the others too, including income tax and VAT.
There is a part of the app that extracts and parses a database log. There is C, Java, Perl, Go, and bash scripts all over the repo. The bootstrapper is written in Java, but the core work is done in Go. Commandline arguments that are documented in comments may or may not even work. The Go section is one big state machine.

That's just to take a database log, put it into JSON, and zip it up.

That all for just one step in the data pipeline. The others are slightly less hairy, but 75% of this pipeline is literally just moving data around. It goes from JSON to MySQL to Postgres to Parquet. There is no data enrichment at all during these steps. It literally just unpacks from one format, packs to another and repeat.

The whole fucking thing is just one big masturbation circlejerk for a bunch of engineers that have thankfully been RIFed/forced out...
In the 80s/90s, on Dutch TV we'd have daytime deodorant commercials on public channels featuring naked women applying the product.

Wasn't even considered sexual content, and in no way shielded from kids either. The context isn't sexual, and it's a perfectly normal body part.

The sexualization of the human body is nothing but a cultural invention.
Do note that I was talking about essential complexity, not accidental. The latter can and should indeed be dealt with.
This should really be at the top of the thread, since it is fundamentally a commercial version of (and which also substantively predates) the project in TFA. Note that most of the technology in a mod is FLOSS (if not all of it).
I get the desire here, but it feels like there's so many scary reprecussions to limiting cert lifetimes so much. Someone's out using an offline-capable map app on an tablet, then 2 months latter it breaks.

There's WebBundles which allow for interesting sharing. But it turns out there's some random cybersecurity document saying DNS data should never be cached for more than 7 days. So you can share a website with someone for n days, and they'll be able to use it for 7 - n days.

None of these high security minded folk ever think even for a second about putting in escape hatches for the potentially affected users. We shouldn't make forcing the world to be always-connected like we are. But that's what these security trends have turned into.
I don't understand your facetious and, frankly, spurious attempt to dismiss this report from Derek Lowe. Lowe has spent decades informing lay audiences about pharmacology and biochemistry. A facile dismissal of his reporting as "not scientific" is not a credible counterargument.

The core finding, which is what you are ultimately trying to find fault with, is this:

In 1,157 patients volunteers undergoing three-year longitudinal evaluation,
the patients in the highest quartile of plasma erythritol concentration were
very strong outliers for CV events. That correlation holds up after
controlling for all sorts of other dietary and physical variables (weight,
age, gender, known cardiovascular risk factors, and more). And on top of
that, the authors demonstrate a surprising but extremely plausible
explanation for these findings: erythritol, in both in vitro and in vivo
assays, enhances platelet aggregation.
I don't think it is a good long term plan to subsidize poor retirement savings strategies at the cost of affordable housing. This is why we need to provide safety nets, in case people paint themselves into these corners. But we don't need to bend over backwards to make those bad ideas passable ideas, the cost to society is too great.
I see you what you mean. Yeah, I suppose if you are writing a library you might want to be more deliberate in the error set. Maybe explicitly writing out the error set is what you want in that situation. Rewriting the example:

fn someFunction(a: usize) MyError!usize {
if (a < 10) return error.LessThanTen;

const b = try anotherFunction(a);

return 2 * b;
}

fn anotherFunction(x: usize) MyError!usize {
if (x < 20) return error.LessThanTwenty;

return x * 3;
}

const MyError = error {
LessThanTen,
LessThanTwenty
}

> That feels very limiting, I often use error types to e.g., attach data about the error. Is there a more general mechanism for sum types for when this shorthand doesn't apply?

I agree it's limiting. It obviously is going to depend on your application, but I have largely done without annotating errors with extra information (that maybe speaks more to the seriousness of my zig projects than to that approach to error handling as being sufficient!).

One pattern I have used (in e.g. a parser) is additionally passing in a pointer to a sum type:

fn parse(allocator: *mem.Allocator, tokens: Tokens, parse_error: *ParseError) !AST

The `parse_error` can be set if an error condition occurs. I concede that that's a little clumsy
That’s what made svn:external so useful; it was just a “subversion symlink” that could point to any path in any repo at any commit or tag.
Exactly. Most startups fail well before they run out of money. The money just keeps them on life support for a little bit longer.

Cash management is obviously important but it isn't going to save your startup. If there isn't product market fit, competent leadership, good engineering, marketing, sales and the rest then you are done either way.
..and when you've added a couple dozen of these you're sitting at half a second.

Indeed, I guess we just develop different classes of applications. I don't know what a "generic web app for Internet things" is.
I just asked ChatGPT, "What is an Outlook OST file?" and it told me.

Wow, I'm happy for you.

You realize though that the kinds of questions academic research tries to answer are a bit more nuanced than that, right? And not only that -- almost by definition -- when doing this kind of research, you don't just want to copy-pasta whatever turns up on the top of any automated search you do (whether it be through a search engine, or a chatbot).

Right?
The market has decided. High-density is better. If it weren't, then it wouldn't be so much more expensive.
PulseAudio is an audio server aimed at desktop applications. It has nothing to do (or offer) low latency audio work, and would never be used for it. ALSA is the driver layer on Linux, and it can go as low or lower in latency terms as the audio driver layer on any other platform.
> If the individual cost of buying a house "in the sticks" was reflective of that, people might start to think twice.

I don't buy that subsidization is what makes buying a house "in the sticks" so much cheaper.
I'm not alluding to a specific case, but I think it's a pretty good analogy for how contracted government projects are run in general (at least in the UK, but I don't see why it would be different elsewhere).
Nothing needs to be reformed. The system is sustainable (https://www.cor-retraites.fr/node/595 if you can read French).
If you think about it, younger market participants are being effectively priced out with just about every expense set against that generation. Even if they feel/think ( depending on philosophical bent in that area ) they need X, they may not simply be in a position to do that.

I am obviously biased given that I currently exist in a suburb.
> On one hand, given the inherent scarcity of "good schools" any concession will likely be paid for by students at large in the form of tuition increases.

> On the other hand, tuition increases were going to happen anyway, so you might as well get something from it.

Your second point completely nullifies your first point. If this causes tuition to rise to the same level it was going to reach anyway, students are paying nothing for this.
I do not believe this is a significant factor and if it is you can ask them to cut it for you.
An Amazon HR executive hints at rehiring employees who were laid off
Going in to a mortgage without a plan for the market tanking and being upside down means you shouldn't have gone into the mortgage. They can stay in the house and continue making the payments they can afford. They can afford the payments, right? Right??

If they can't then they fall back on some social safety net that prevents bad decisions from being ruinous. Our lack of these mechanisms is why we have to keep propping housing up. The problem is we can't keep doing that.
I like end to end security more than zero trust as a term.
That applies to a physical SIM card, but why is it needed for some eSIM/iSIM that can't be physically separated from the device? At that point it should be done entirely in software.
You seem to be making an assumption that rich old people can consume their wealth. I suspect the reality is that they cannot and in many cases are obligate savers. This creates a problem for the economy as individuals may lack the capital to start new businesses, innovate, or grow the next generation.

Having a nation of renters renting from rich old oligarchs is not efficient. some redistribution may be necessary.
Or... Twitter will be fined and Musk will refuse to pay?
Tax capital and property owners.
Corporations extract value from countries in the form of labor and resources. It's in their best interest to pay for pensions to sustain the populace.
They could also offer complimentary priority ad space for non-profit open source projects (even if only projects heavily targeted by malvertising), so their information appears before the spam, maybe with a prominent special tag. I don't know if that would noticeably harm their advertising revenue.
Stop convincing them to want it