skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any inevitability in the development of human culture (and technology), which is instead often perceived as such when looking backwards and not forward.

History could have been taken a million different trajectories and we, looking back at its course, would always be tempted to say that what's going on today was, overall, inevitable. If not for a very harsh winter decades ago, maybe German would be the lingua franca of today's Europe: "it was inevitable", many would say, "it all started with Bismarck".

And I don't see why the fact that we use the word "espresso" (or expresso :)) in the US should mean that, in the US, Italian, Greek, or French words should be used in official documents as liberally as English words are in other non-English speaking countries' official documents.
Why should it be acceptable to use "governance" instead of the Italian words "governo" or "amministrazione"? Why "fiscal compact" instead of "patto di bilancio" where both combinations of words express the same concept but one in a foreign language and the other in the official language of the country?

Using "espresso" and not another (equivalent) English word makes sense, because the Italian word also denotes the origin of the product. Using "hip hop" makes sense in non-English speaking countries, like "rock" for the music (but not the stone). "Schadenfreude", on the other hand, still sounds quite ridiculous when said by non-German speaking people, a bit like using "I went to the Ville Lumière" instead of "I went to Paris, oh those croissants, mon dieu!".
That language should not be regulated by any government, the ridiculousness of its use should just be common sense, which is unfortunately as scarce today as it was in the past. But a woman can dream.

Which brings me to the another component: concepts expressed in English tend to appear, in non-English speaking countries, as more respectable, more serious. "That's how they do in the US, the wealthiest countries in the world!".

But this is just smoke thrown into people's eyes.
SSDs generally need parallel accesses ("queue depth" greater than 1) to get high performance but most software generates serial I/O.
Is that the best TCC could have done here? It's easy to write this in C, which is one obvious reason for TCC to do it, but it's not at all clear this is the best way.

What TCC is actually storing in TokenSym (which you've named "Node" in this context) is four pointers to other information about symbols, a unique ID, and a string.

If we used a compact inline string (like CompactString) we can squeeze all this into 60 bytes unless the string is more than 24 bytes in length such as TCC's own warn_implicit_function_declaration or is_compatible_unqualified_types which would need a heap allocation like they have today, for the string itself.

If we do that we can build a linear probed open addressed hash table and avoid paying for the extra indirection any time the symbol names are 24 bytes or shorter in length, I'd expect this is markedly better.

But it's a lot of work in C, so it isn't a surprise TCC doesn't do it.
I think this is an interesting comment because it seems to try to re-locate agency back onto the manager. Ie. It’s not that the other manager was better, it’s that I somehow earned the better management. Correct me if I’m misinterpreting you.
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I’d guess that starting to run while obese would indeed do substantial damage to the joints.
> Honestly, part of the reason trump is relevant is because the left hates him.

Isn't that a bit reductive? Americans can run their country as they chose, but, it sets a dangerous precedent to not be accountable for crimes bordering on high treason.

For my own mental health, I stopped caring. But, the bits and pieces I hear, still paints a troubling picture.
Maybe make Italian better instead of just a Spanish knockoff then ;)

Man, after the ChatGPT ban, looks like they're firing on all bad cylinders now!
A quick Google told me that photosynthesis uses 45% of the daylight spectrum. So I don't really understand this article, especially since it talks about photosynthesis being 100% efficient, when it is actually quite low:

"Photosynthetically active radiation (400–700 nm) constitutes only 45% of the actual daylight. Therefore the maximum theoretical efficiency of the photosynthesis process is approximately 11%. In fact, in any case, plants don’t use all incoming sunlight (due to respiration, reflection, light inhibition and light saturation) and do not convert all harvested energy into biomass, which brings about a general photosynthetic proficiency of 3%–6% based on total solar radiation. "

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-a...
The made a good point on the current trend of artificial stupidity
OPEC is a cartel, they openly say this and determine production quotes. There is no law that will stop them from doing that.
In the not too distant future cities will ban large vehicles EV and ICE from the downtown core. The automotive market will then split into small city cars and bigger highway cars. In the city core roads will be covered (because no poisonous exhaust gases).
Thinking about a standard computer, accessories and concepts, there are no common Italian words for computer, mouse, touchpad, touchscreen, scanner, web, link, app, database, word processor, bit, byte and the defunct floppy disk. Everything else is commonly named in Italian. Keyboard, memory, disk (in general, but hard disk is in English), screen, pen drives, power unit, mother board (this is maybe 50-50), folders, icons, programs, processes, windows, buttons, sort, filter, search, rows, columns, cells, sheets.
That is one of the reasons that important government projects often involve multiple contractors in multiple states; it ensures that the project won't be cut during the next budget talks. It's not efficient but it is expedient.
He was also referencing a specific piano, an old Yamaha piano in the gymnasium of Miyagi Agricultural High School, which had been damaged by the tsunami. It seems very unlikely that a high school Yamaha grand piano had ivory keys.
It's not a version of USA culture (not American), it's the propagation of Capitalism, of the "american" dream, of USA exceptionalism.

The idea that their army is the coolest and will save us from aliens, that their bilionaires (oligarchs) are secretly superheroes, that foreign leaders are crooks secretly plotting to conquer the world and so on.
In Japan there's no public trash cans. To my astonishment, I quickly adopted to planning my day around whether I'd need to carry trash around with me. It actually worked out fine. In this same way, adapting our lives to whether we'll be carrying around utensils or a tupperware is also fine. From my experience, it doesn't make life miserable.
Part of the value in what is written is the author behind the writing and our understanding of their life and experiences.
This isn't what they meant, but I suspect you know that.
If anyone thinks this, I sincerely hope you re-evaluate. The difference between doing sports and exercise and doing none is often being disabled or in pain in your 30s and 40s, versus being in near peak physical shape. I meet too many people who assume that debilitation comes with being aged 38-50.
An Northern dialects, too.
The hell is he talking about? Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 are way past the golden age of gaming. They have nothing worthwhile to contribute here.

It's reminiscent of mobile game designers from the 2010's, and how they were making "engaging" games. Lots of presentations about making engaging experiences that immerse players into the lore of the game world. Actually, just mediocre manipulation tactics pushing people into skinner boxes.

It's all bullshit, and indie game devs would do well to stay naive and simply try to make fun games.

If anything, a much better example of this stuff is in Disco Elysium.
Not adding tagging is basically a negligence crime. That feature isn't that expensive and it could have saved most of the security issues that have happened to last 20+ years.
> This is part of a trend that's far from virtue signaling.

I would argue that signalling fascist virtues is still a form of virtue signalling. It just depends on what you consider to be a virtue. But yea, any attempts at cultural renaissance are vulnerable to nationalist and even fascist tendencies.
Using the cheapest possible hardware and investing the bare minimum in software, and good engineers aren't choosing to work on HP Inkjet DRM software.
If you own a parking lot that is too small, you can go around booting or towing cars that "don't deserve" to take up your limited parking space. That can get you an awful lot of money, which can get you an awful lot of lobbying power.

Big structures are expensive. Who is going to fund them save for the people who are incentivized not to?
The openly racist, climate change denying, far right Alternative for Deutschland party won almost all districts in the last federal elections. It was the launching pad of the anti- Islam PEGIDA movement, and had the lowest covid vaccination levels and consequently the districts with the highest number of cases.

The economy isn't great either. Geographically it's kind of a dead end, and transport links are fairly poor, so few companies want to locate there.

Would you want to live there?
I consider this like drinking water. It's a no brainer that you should drink water, but some people need reminders because mentally they are getting caught up in other stuff.
The Java-Everything trip Sun went on was truly horrific. Both in terms of technical and business results.
Many managers fail to bring out the energy in the people they “lead”. Some people are energized by autonomy in their job, some relatedness to others or the work itself, and some competency in their skills or career progression.

Work is getting more personalized every year and modern management cannot be a one sized fits all approach anymore.
I've had several fitness trackers that never convinced me I needed to exercise more. But when I paired that with a Constant Glucose Monitor, that made a huge impact.

You don't need to push hard all the time, in fact most of your exercise should be in aerobic mode, very little in anaerobic high bpm range. Getting 45 minutes of moderate movement 4-5x/week will improve your glucose management.

This is important because poor glucose management is a root cause of deterioration. Diabetics are the extreme example, but wild glucose swings are also causing deterioration in non-diabetics.
Laws are enforced by violence. No violence, no law.
I'm not astonished any more, you see the same attitude with all these new open source but not really software licenses people are coming up with (of both the restrict big business usage and restrict usage for "evil" purposes variety). People want the goodwill and potential free labor that comes from being open source without the actual requirements of being open source.
ukraine was and is a european country. it wanted to be allied to the west and nato though
I don’t disagree with any of what you’ve said, but you haven’t addressed the issue.

The issue is that anyone unable to intuit what has been said in this HBR rag has no business directing the work of another human being.

No amount of difference in “mindset” or “context” can account for the sheer obviousness or what is being said, nor can it justify passing this off for expert analysis.
How do you call the working class defending longer working hours/lives ? They're literally proles, by definition, and are pushing for things which aren't in their own interests

It reminds me of "socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
if companies try bounties, are satisfied and would like to utilize them at a bigger scale, we offer the option to pre-pay fees at a discount for a bounties budget of their choice.

there's definitely room for experimentation here. that being said, we do not think the Algora 20% fee (+3% Stripe fee) is unreasonable, especially when we offer discounts upon request & are happy to accommodate non-commercial projects.

perhaps "non-commercial" (no monetization / financial backing) is a more appropriate term here?
> because they are not contested in europe, only in the US

every single one of those issues gets discussed in Europe. The US does not have a monopoly on social issues, I fear you are just showing the limits of your perspective.
I like simulation-like open world games, but Witcher 3 was one of the very few games with a good story. To be honest I think the only one that I cared about. Especially the bloody baron questline was amazing storytelling. Heart of Stone was also great story based on Polish ballad Mr. Twardowski.

Cyberpunk is unfortunately nowhere near as good in terms of the story as the Witcher.
1. night currently isn't a significant problem. there's usually lots of wind, businesses aren't open and people don't use a lot of electricity when they're asleep. this may become worse overtime with increasing numbers of EVs charging at night.

2. this is the hard part, but there is good news.

solar and wind over large areas are fairly consistent and with HVDC you can transfer power 1-2 thousand miles with low losses. there's also a small but rapidly growing amount of storage on the grid. right now, we treat hydro as primarily generation with a side benefit of storage, but it's shifting to primary storage with a side benefit of generation. doing so gives most grids a decent ability to scale up and down renewable generation at will. lastly, you can use fossil fuels when everything else isn't giving you enough. a fossil fuel plant that runs a couple times a year for a few hours is a lot better than 40% of the grid being fossil fuel year round.

there's also a decent amount you can do in terms of demand shaping as the grid gets smarter. electric hot water tanks can be used as batteries where you set them up to turn on when there's excess power. you can also do things like make agreements with energy hungry sectors (like ore refining) to throttle output when necessary (compensating them for the lost revenue).

3. this is easy. refill batteries, smelt aluminum, turn off generation.
Most likely it's a feedback loop that goes both ways. Generally healthy —> activity is easier and more pleasurable —> exercise makes you healthier —> being healthy makes exercise more viscerally rewarding, and so on.
I'm Basque but have lived outside the Basque Country for a long time. I actually now find the cultural efforts of the Basque government to have been beneficial, even if most people I know would call them onerous. I think it has played out well for the Basque Country to emphasize Basqueness (whatever that can mean) as a way to distinguish a place that may otherwise have stood out even less on a global stage.
For me, everyday.
It is a Hyper-V backed VA backed VM.
It shared memory with the host in the same fashion that WSL does, as opposed to carving out physical memory.
We have some additional optimizations to make it snappier than running a full vm.
and so are Italian and Finnish cultures. But inter-USA cultures are as differnt as local cultures are within a single european country.

Would be interesting to have a distance metric for cultures , however
My takeaway from this post is more general and somewhat different.
Everything dies, which is really fast in the case of software systems. The programming framework you have chosen, the note-taking software you use, and your friendships will go away someday. It's a sad reality, but it's the truth. So should we stop using things that will end anyway?
No! Of course not. You just have to be aware of it and be able to do something when things or people go away.

Regarding the topic of this post, use social media, blogging platforms, your VPS, etc. Just keep in mind that things die, and you should be able to recover from them. I am not suggesting any particular way for the way you share your writings; do what works best for you. However, I suggest not going to the extreme and abandoning everything that ends. Think of how you can make use of these mortal platforms and have a backup plan for when they eventually die.
I must have listened to this piece like 2000 times
Sweden is such a weird experience.

On one hand there seems to be a strong sentiment of what swedish culture is and is not, on the other there is also an unusual higher permeability to american culture compared to other EU countries.
This is an interesting point and may be part of the factor. I.e. There are two variables, and chances are that playing with either affects the outcome - experience and self sufficiency of the hands on person, and experience and self sufficiency of the manager (plus, I'll argue, other variables like maturity of processes, and client relationship / management state, etc). There is an inclination to focus on one variable only.

Fwiw. I've been a hands on techie for 20 years, then ops manager for 5. I've certainly been an Inexperienced/been a bad manager at times (especially as for a while, highly functional specialized vols reported to me as well), and I'd like think I'm becoming a decent or even good manager. But even still, there are definitely teams and individuals that I will feel the need to manage and focus ; vs others that I feel I can let prioritize and self manage.

(In the ops, of course, establishing formal urgency levels and resulting comms expectations and paths, can reduce stress on EVERYbody)
These batteries will target the aviation market which will be willing to pay much more than the automotive segment. EV's need a certain weight for safety and once a battery pack goes lower than that weight the incentive for buying lighter batteries quickly fades.
Examples of passing and failing responses?
> This doesn’t happen when developers have trust they’ll be allowed to refactor although sometimes it’s a case of learned behavior from previous employment.

To my surprise, this is not always true. Some engineers do things because they have fun, even senior ones, and they will keep on refactoring things until there is a hard stop.

Best is to never generalize. It may depend from team to team, etc.
I would argue that your innovation center should be staffed primarily focusing on productivity rather than scale. You can always add scale as needed but you can’t add productivity once you’re at scale
So it becomes a lake an average every 20 years. And still people manage to forget it?
It's not enormous, but it's good for the simplicity and would probably be sufficient for quite a number of use cases. And I'd guess that it's also probably more than what many programmers get by Lego stacking 14 different abstractions.
It works fine on chrome and firefox for me
The crypto crowd is something else. While I’m sympathetic to the foundational ideas, wishing for the destruction of the national currency and the pauperization of tens of millions just so your magic internet hashes can be worth more is just…awful, awful behavior.
It seems like a pretty standard (and simplified for HN) classification of employees who are and aren’t able to prioritize well.

Employees who can prioritize well will naturally be given more independence to make choices than those who don’t.

This of course assumes the management is able to make good decisions about prioritizing but I think the commenter should be given benefit of the doubt here.
Most of the components don't have a meaningful "maximum load". There's a load with 40-year life, a load with 10-year life, and a load with 160-year life (and obviously this is a continuous curve). It's okay to spend some time at 10-year life load if you can spend more time at the 160-year load than the typical model expects.
But where is the imminent danger? It is still limited in many ways. For example, it can be turned off or unplugged.

Is it because CAPTCHAs won’t work anymore? That sounds like a problem for sites like Twitter that have bot problems.

Is it because it may replace people’s jobs? That comes with every technological step forward and there’s always alarmist ludditism to accompany it.

Is it because bad people will use it to do bad things? Again, that comes with every new technology and that’s a law enforcement problem.

I don’t really see what the imminent danger is, just sounds like the first few big players trying to create a regulatory moat and lock out potential new upstarts. Or they’re just distracting regulators from something else, like maybe antitrust enforcement.
This is how the US interfere in others countries' affairs through layers of NGOs, foundations, offering sabbaticals, fellowships, etc. Good to see that they can apply same techniques to their own population.
It was stolen... what are you thinking?
Orion browser supports extensions
> Your claim is that any activity that can or does produce even statistic differences in outcomes for different genders is discrimination.

No, it's not.

> Good chat.

No, it wasn't.

Every "chat" you have seems to end up with some variation of the sarcastic "have a nice one". Don't you ever tire of that outcome?

> I do try my best to fight the Dominant Narrative™ on this topic

It does feel like you're talking to an abstraction (maybe talking to yourself?) rather than talking to me. That would actually explain a lot about how these chats go.

I am not the Dominant Narrative. Neither are you the Lord-selected savior from the Dominant Narrative. We're just two guys talking on the internet. Do you want to have a real discussion, or just pound keys and chests like monkeys?
No idea why this is on the front page. Doesn't seem like anything special. People seem to blindly upvote anything "with Rust", and I've no idea why.
What laws? USA or European laws have no effect on OPEC+ countries.
You go to the archived site and add it to pocket.
Metabolism is genetic, Diabetes is too. You need to include genetic factors.
That sounds very interesting. Anyone know where I can find more on this story?
Both! (Festen is great.)
Oh that sucks. Only 71... I was listening to Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence just yesterday in the car. Amazing music and a pretty good movie too, if you have the stomach for it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/

More and more of my musical heroes are dying and I'm well aware of the fact that they aren't all that far ahead of me.
I’d really discourage browsing random websites with a browser that is years out of date.
The prioritization of refactoring is strongly context dependent. A small startup with a fast moving product trying to acquire and retain customers cares much more about serving said customer right now than an established business who has more freedom and engineers available to dedicate time to forward thinking projects like refactoring.
> Try asking _anyone_ who doesn't have English as their first language in a serious context how they feel about their language and you'll struggle to find someone without a genuine fondness for it.

Well. My first language is Polish, and there are some of us who call it "superpowers". If you go to a conference, you can be quite sure no-one understands you apart from your friend who you are talking to, and possibly that one passer by, who is also Polish or Ukrainian.

That is, unless we start to curse. Then we are probably well understood.
I've found this too. It confidently generates something for you... which turns out to be no good if it's in any way different from standard stuff. And making that leap from just a mash up of copy-pasta code to actual understanding... is huge. It wouldn't be an incremental upgrade, but a fundamental change in approach.