skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But that Euros were some especially brutal oppressors/conquerors compared to the whole of human history?

Kind of. It's like when historians delineate historic genocides with Nazi genocides. Or slavery vs chattel slavery. Functionally they're mostly the same, but the latter was also something new, and possibly worse. Historically, non-european expansionism/colonialism due to large power asymmetries were regional neighbourhood affairs that ended in mass assimilation within a few generations. European, post age-of-sail conquest/oppression was uniquely brutal in suppressing/eliminating indigenous peoples globally, for hundreds of years without any real effort at integration. Generally Mongols worked with traditional administration systems of territories they conquered, if only because it's easier for nomadic culture to embrace settled people's cultures. Post Mongol conquest, Chinese, Central Asian or Persian empires were basically the same "empires" but administered by Mongol Dynasties - they typically levied tax and drafted troops but didn't intervene much in domestic affairs or customs. European colonies expansion was built on proselytize/imposing continental culture, and deliberately avoided integration in their colonies, stretching out a few decades of bloodshed into a few centuries. IMO that makes Euros "especially brutal oppressors/conquerors", not because Euros are inherently more savage but the logic of certain forms of conquest (made possible by confluence of factors) is sometimes bloodier than others.
Nobody wants YouTube “shorts”, it’s a colossal mistake for them to prioritize that. It’s eBay wanting to be Amazon so bad they failed at being ebay.
No not seriously. The big instances restricted account creation so people use lower trafficked instances
The archive link is how I read it. Puzzled by why the account is suddenly suspended. It looks like the author is essentially the driver of the website. Too much traffic from the Hacker News link?
I agree with your entire comment, as another neo-luddite, but take exception with:

> Technology creates more boundaries, rules and bureaucracy, not less. Technology controls us, rather than the other way around.

Technology how it's wielded today, by lobbyists and government, controls and rules over us. But technology is a tool, and there is an unexplored problem space of using technology not to separate us from nature into rigid control structures, but to enhance our lives, to actually let us live longer, in harmony with nature.

Technology is neutral, but has mostly been used against us and this is becoming unsustainable and unacceptable.
They said that each Oauth based auth user/key will have 100 requests/min.

So is it not possible for third party apps to create a process which generates Oauth token for each user when they sign up/join in via their app ?

In that manner, each user have their own token and each user can have their own 100 req/min, which should be sufficient for most if not all users.
Mercedes plays tic-tac-toe while Tesla plays Chess. It's just not comparable.

Tesla is taking a radically different and open approach to autonomy compared to every other player. That opens them up to intense criticism though as there are thousands of videos online, with successes and failures. When close to a half a million people are using an autonomous system across the full ODD and all of the US and Canada it's going to be very easy to compile a collection of critical failures. But IMO this is the best way to make fast real progress in this space and not just a limited Disney ride.
Prompting Techniques That Squeeze the Best Out of Your LLM
I think if you're in the market for 32TB drives, you're already using 20TB ones instead of 8. With 8+2 at 20TB you pay for 200TB and get 160TB usable. With 7+3 at 32TB you pay for 320TB and have 224TB available. That's 160% of TB paid for and only 140% of TB usable. HMR will need to be a sizable 12.5% discount per terabyte just to break even there.

If you only do 5+3 to keep the same 160T available, it's 256TB or 128% paid for and the same 100% usable, so an even steeper 22% discount to break even.
Make backup of your all Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally
Understanding DeepMind's AlphaDev Breakthrough in Optimizing Sorting Algorithms
You just repeated a mantra without thinking through it. Regulation is whatever it is made to be.
Right now, its just social media and word of mouth
Wait what, garages are required by low in US houses?! Doesn’t that piss off people that don’t own one? Do they cheat, like building without the garage but saying daughter’s room is the reconverted garage?
So, what is the battery life on that device? One hour? Two hours?

Could you get twelve hours out of it? Eighteen?

And what is the resolution on that screen? Anywhere close to 2880 by 1864?

You have failed to deliver a system that actually meets the specs of the MacBook Air 15" that you are comparing against, and then declaring yourself the victor because your machine is marginally faster.

You fail to grasp that you have actually proven my point for me.

Apple is designing their machines for real people in the real world who may not be anywhere close to a power outlet for a long time. Or, who may not want to tie themselves down to needing to be close to a power outlet all the time.
Haven't heard this one.

Do you have a name or source or something? Can't really google that.
Base, without equity
Seemingly he only replied 14 times. That was all he posted
This stat likely includes just base salary and not stock compensation.
Irving Finkel made a video with Tom Scott, playing the game of Ur. I enjoyed the interaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I

I'm sure he has many other even better videos, but I will have to yet get to them.
2TB for 16 years of reddit comments. I would have thought larger.
It's "interesting" that he pushes Intelligent Design, denies climate change, supports Donald Trump, and defends birtherism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelernter#Positions_on_s...

The Washington Post, profiling him in early 2017 as a potential science advisor to Donald Trump, called Gelernter "a vehement critic of modern academia" who has "condemned 'belligerent leftists' and blamed intellectualism for the disintegration of patriotism and traditional family values."[29] Shortly thereafter, The Atlantic published a rebuttal of The Washington Post profile, saying it was "hard to imagine a more misleading treatment" of the "pioneering polymath" Gelernter.[30]

Gelernter has "expressed skepticism about the reality" of anthropogenic climate change,"[31][32] rejecting the overwhelming scientific consensus in the field.[33]

In July 2019, in a review of Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, which Gelernter wrote for the Claremont Review of Books, he also rejected the scientific consensus of evolutionary biology.[34] On the other hand, Gelernter stipulates he "cannot accept" intelligent design either, saying that "as a theory, it would seem to have a long way to go."[35] In "A Response to David Gelernter's Attack on Evolution", Patheos, August 26, 2019, Bob Seidensticker writes: "Let's subtitle this story, 'Guy who made his career in not-biology is convinced by other not-biologists that Biology's core theory is wrong.'"[36] Computer scientist and mathematician Jeffrey Shallit wrote: "Gelernter's review was not published in a science journal, but in a politics journal run by a far-right think tank. His review cites no scientific publications at all, and makes claims like 'Many biologists agree' and 'Most biologists think' without giving any supporting citations. So, not surprisingly ... Gelernter makes a fool of himself in his review, which resembles a 'greatest hits' of creationist misconceptions and lies."[37]

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/una...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/david-gelernter-...
It sounds like you've got a working solution already - is that right? If so, the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies.

Beyond that, if you're looking at whether to use these technologies in enhancing what you've got or solving problems that you have or expect with high confidence, then there are clear wins to be had.

Automerge and y.js are absolutely great for collaboration on blocks of text or structured documents (or anything that can be modelled as such). They are purely for conflict resolution, so if you don't have conflicts, or your use case manages to make the impact of conflicts negligible, don't bother with them. They are very easy to implement if you do need them - the barrier most people face is understanding them enough to decide if and how to use them. Just keep it simple.

Hypercore is a p2p solution for synchronising streams of data. It can be used raw, for streaming updates, or you can use the abstractions over it to keep filesystems or databases in sync. There's a significant difference between the decision about hypercore vs CRDTs - hypercore can potentially remove the need for you to maintain and operate a specific server, allowing all clients to be servers. This also reduces the dependency of the user on infrastructure - your servers, the Internet, a friendly government, etc. If that might be useful to you or your users, it's worth considering. Unlike PouchDB, it's a low level abstraction that can open up really new ways of thinking about shared information. PouchDB by contrast is 'just' a p2p syncing database. Also important: hypercore doesn't require its own process - you can roll it into your code directly, or have it in a separate process if you want.

Of all the things you mentioned, I'd say that hypercore is the only one worth diving into regardless of whether you seem to need it. You'll be a better systems designer and engineer once you understand it, and will have an expanded landscape of possibility when you can leverage it.

As for php vs node etc - that hasn't been an issue for a long time. Node is supported everywhere.
> Banning COVID skepticism is commercially pretty easy

That wasn’t “skepticism” - it was outright denial of high-school-level biology facts, and it all gets worse from there.

> commercially pretty easy

I doubt it’s that easy - considering Facebook’s inaction.
Ask HN: As a developer, do you consider the carbon footprint of your apps?
Hi there,

I'm terrible at addressing the current environmental challenges.

This morning, I discovered the Website Carbon Calculator [0] and tested all the websites I've created. To my surprise, some of my websites turned out to be disastrous.

Until now, I hadn't been concerned about the carbon footprint of my apps, but having access to this information encourages us, as developers, to take responsibility for the performance of what we build. This article [1] details how to reduce this footprint when building websites, serving as a great starting point for considering how we can minimize our impact (e.g. using less JavaScript)

I don't want to engage in the cliché of “greenwashing”, but rather aim to make a positive impact as a developer.

What are your thoughts? Were you already aware of this?

[0] https://www.websitecarbon.com/

[1] https://www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/website-energy-efficiency/

(I'm not affiliated with any of the website I quote)
Would you mind sharing some resources from your deep internet dive (if you still have them at hand) or maybe even just sharing the Vans model? Thanks.
Makes sense! I on the other hand prefer more "human-like" syntax like Python and elixir provide, though I really dislike Python being so sensitive to whitespace (especially tabs vs spaces sensitivity)
Reddit costs are not low, running the organization costs at least 400M per year. You might state that they’re doing many things that are not core to running a community backend, but you can’t separate the core business from the supporting activities. They would have never reached their current scale if they hadn’t invested in marketing and ads for revenue. And that would reduce the value of the backend.
It’s possible aliens came from space and dropped the virus off to see how we would handle it. How much effort should we put into preventing that pandemic path?

Nearly every airline regulation that results in air travel being so safe today is because we spend such an enormous amount of resources investigating the root causes of accidents with the NTSB. Try suggesting to them “it doesn’t matter why the plane crashed, let’s just push for generic improvements to planes”. You’ll get (rightfully so) laughed out of the room.
"There's often no point in attempting to find reasons for why someone is evil. "

You mean it is easier to just jail or execute them?

Short term, sure, but if we want to solve murder in the long term, or just enjoy a stable society, held together by free choice and not fear or domination - then there is really no other choice in trying to understand what makes people go boom, so we can prevent that.

The alternative would be living in fortresses and going out only heavily armed.

Also, do you have a clear definition of "evil" at all?

I don't and I think it is kind of complicated. Starting with the old paradoxon: murder many people while you are in a army and you are a hero. Murder them on the street and you are a villain. So some say, all soldiers are evil murderers (and leave open the question on how to deal with the situation when they come for them or their children). Some say states are the evil. Others say stateless is the root of evil, etc.

And the Unabomber believed he did god, as he tried to end suffering. From a pure philosophical point of view, I can accept that there is a hypothetical chance, that he might be right.
But in all practical matters he was a crazy, dangerous fanatic (something I translate to "evil").

But the thing is, many people think actually like him, even though most don't act on it. But they might soon. So now is a time, when one can still reach them. But that only works, when you try to understand their motivations.

And understand why they got there.
> Wikimedia Foundation does well financially

The ever present nags to donate would beg to differ
Sure, not by accident, hopefully we have learned something in the years that have passed, though seemingly UEFI malware is a thing even today.
It's technically possible to play Apex Legends on the browser
I think Microsoft did it better back in 1993. They’re also using 64-bit numbers for datetime, but these numbers are integers, expressed in 100 nanoseconds ticks. That representation is used in NTFS, other components of Windows kernel and userland, .NET runtime including the modern Linux-running version, and quite a few other places.

Y2038 is a non-problem, the representable range is about ±29000 years around the epoch. The extinction of the dinosaurs is not representable, but I think it’s OK in practice, only a small minority of software needs dates that far in the past or future.

Accuracy is 2.5 times better than FP64, and is equal over the complete range.
> TL;DR: Most New Yorkers do not own cars, much less drive to work. And the households that do own cars earn a significantly higher income than the ones that don’t. Making it easier to drive, at the expense of transit improvements, does not help the vast majority of New Yorkers and especially not the least affluent.
Dependency injection is a powerful design pattern that allows you to decouple your code from its dependencies. This will be one of the most used design patterns in your code throughout your career and the most asked question in technical interviews.
How about "email"?

Do people forget it's a common protocol that isn't monopolized by anyone and is the widest prevalent even today, perhaps because of it?
Interested in moving from Engineer to Manager because I hope to do less work. Happy to do a few meetings, send a few emails, rather than actually having to build stuff that i don't care about.

It's even better if as you say the success is determined by the team, because then also the failure can be pushed on the team.

Edit: FWIW not that I want to be a bad manager. The environment is what shapes your incentives and behaviours.
> WTF the CIA was doing in Brazil in the early 2010s! Wasn't the Military dictatorship in Brazil enough!

Not to justify the CIA or anything, but that's exactly where I would most expect them to be actively conducting covert operations
Show some love for archive.org for WBM:

https://archive.org/donate/
i am wondering the same thing...
Towards the end (~2004) television centre was looking pretty dilapidated. A friend and I managed to sneak into the production gallery — he played the role of tour guide and I was a visiting dignitary from a prominent equipment manufacturer — and we had a good look around the back of all the cable routing racks.

My goodness! Some component had been leaking an oil mist over everything for years and that had in turn picked up all the dust and hair etc that wafted in and out all day and night. It looked like a student kitchen cooker hood.

I don’t know why it was allowed to get so dirty. Perhaps there just wasn’t any capacity to have downtime on these cabling units to clean them, or maybe someone tried once and took BBC1 offline?

Interesting fact (or perhaps urban myth?) about Television Centre is that it was built in a circle so that the cable runs from each studio would have the same path length:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/medias.photodeck.com/b1226a66-e42d-1...
Not all high-traffic websites are comparable when it comes to sustainability. Comparing reddit and Wikipedia is definitely an apples and oranges situation. The software, data model and infrastructure are wildly different.

Just the simple fact that most of Wikipedia can largely be cached long(ish) term via CDNs reduces the capital needed to keep it running. reddit on the other hand, has constantly changing content, user configured listings, threaded discussion, media hosting, etc. Caching those types of things is a lot more difficult.
top of org charts?
This is a weird take. The command is obviously useful in the context it's useful in. To point out that it's less useful outside that context is not very meaningful.

It's like saying ls is the wrong command, because "what you want is a full file manager, with thumbnails and drag and drop and whatnot". Well, if that's what you want, you're obviously in a different context than the one you're in when you're reading the man page of ls, no?
That pretty much describes my Tcl experience in the first Internet wave, to the point I only care for languages with good JIT/AOT tooling in the box, leaving the rest for scripting activities.
I've been very happy with YT premium until recently I've found myself misclicking and being trapped in the Shorts, swiping left does not always guarantee exiting from shorts, sometimes it doesn't work.

I've seen enough dark arts and its patterns. This time I find myself shortlisting the creators I watch frequently and find other places I can subscribe to, like CuriousityStream, Nebula, Patron(1$/mo), or even Spotify.

After all I only have two reasons to subscribe to YT Premium:
- remove the increasing seconds unskippable ads that r*ping my attention
- support the creators

Certainly I can enjoy the same content elsewhere without shorts .
No you can’t. A day wage can be hourly for some. The table shows a mix of values that are meaningless.
Same here, I just need to work on my sophistry skills, and learn to make loyal friends in the right places.
MonoRuby: Ruby implementation with yet another JIT compiler
I think a big difference here is Linux distros don't include an active anti-virus while Windows does.
Future transport is unlikely to be single mode - it’s almost definitely multimodal and will include both cars (why not self driving?) and rail.
Nice to see that people were interested in Stabel :D

I got a bit too ambitious with the type system, I think. At the very least, I got to a point where I got discouraged because the type system I wanted was difficult to implement, and I started to realize that there were a few problems with the design. At the same time, I was starting to feel that this may not actually be something I'd want to use in production.

On the flip side, I learned a whole lot about web assembly that I hope to put into Gren. I also felt a lot of pain with the lack of FileSystem APIs in Elm (which Stabel was implemented in). In a way, my work on Stabel triggered the work on Gren.
Then she should be able to write an absolutely amazing book about behind the scenes at Taxi!
"Self driving cars are much more likely to be public transport than individually owened"

I've only seen this as a 'just so' greenwash pr story from the automotive industry to offset the projected 300% increase in total road miles driven anually. Please explain why peole would be compelled to ditch their multidude of private cars just because they now come with a 24/7 free driver included?
"The cost to get driven around or have things delivered would be less while demand would stay the same."

Demand might also go up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
It also converts 'tu arrives' into 'tu suces'... so yes :)
Makes you wonder how many things being explained as „religious rituals“ or „holy sites“ have actually just been something entirely trite, banal, or people messing with each other.

I had to laugh big time when I learned about the sheer amount of dick graffiti and explicit scenes in ancient caves or buildings, and how historians have attempted to purge all naughtiness from the records.
There was a big duopoly in the Finnish market, between the K chain and the S chain. But then Lidl (Aldi) (German chain) moved in and shook things up.
Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT
Why buy "self-drive", when you can already pay a human to drive for a tiny fraction of the price?

I haven't driven a car for over ten years, and I don't miss a thing. No traffic misery. No parking misery. No government misery (tickets etc). No spending on never-ending this and that. No getting angry about roadworks or other people cutting me off and other nonsense.

It's absolute bliss.
> mental illness as an excuse for simple evil

It's not an excuse, it's an explanation for simple evil. At times I feel like people confuse these two.
Success and failure are determined by the team. You as a manager would be responsible for the outcome.

The thing being managed is the performance of the team. Bad performance == Bad management.
Exactly. It was an exercise in making everybody hate you instead
Revolut is nationwide, but they're more known in Europe. They're one of those "modern finance app bank/not-bank" services, similar to Wise, etc., but Wise has much better service and accountability. Allpoint is an ATM network that many of these non-bank, or smaller banks use to allow them to adopt an ATM network without having to create their own.

Yes, others have been impacted as a Google search quickly reveals. Skimming is rampant in NYC so can be hard to get press attention for something so common, and frankly the whole process has been exhausting. Even filing a police report to get the police involved required an absurd number of steps and games of precinct hot-potato as they all say "Not it". Is the precinct where the card was skimmed, the card used, or where I live responsible? Ultimately (after numerous treks to the different precincts in different parts of the Borough) the NYPD decided it's the precinct where I live despite it being neither where I was skimmed or the fraudulent transactions took place.

Will reach out to the banking authorities and local press after I get the latest update from the NYPD. Again, just exhausting.