skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few weeks ago I built a primitive DNS server in Rust with the help of a few online resources to learn more about the language, systems programming and low-level networking. Check out the repo on GitHub!
> what is considered a luxury good is pretty strange

Considering a tasty Western meal in Beijing was about 100 RMB, a nice Chinese meal about 50-75 RMB per person, and Peking duck at a fancy place was 250 RMB, I’d say a pair of jeans for 600 RMB is fairly luxury. Especially since Levi’s in the US only cost 1-2 normal meals. (This was about 2012, not sure how inflation has been) But then, I’d also say that a $100 pair of jeans is also luxury in the US. (And a poor deal if they’re already fashionably pre-shredded)
One idea, the cells of your body probably communicate with little DNA packets called exosomes and “we” as in humanity writ large have yet to pick up on the importance of this cellular internet (oops?)

Or not. Maybe the cells don’t send exosomes of dna to each other. That seems like a missed opportunity in a world of words!
The pandemic revealed the degree to which any respectable field can harbour extremely dangerous kookery without realising it.

For example, Western health authorities used to be absolutely certain that viruses could not be airborne (outside of very specific medical procedures), even though they did not have any good reason or evidence to back that up: it was just an old idea that happened to fit in with their priors, so generations of experts kept parroting it until horror unfolded.
The people that "call the shots, outearn and get credit for other peoples work" want this polarization between men and women. While i dont think the approach in this article is no where near great, bluntly disagreeing is no better either. Maybe 'life' wouldnt be so 'selfish' if everyone realized that sometimes you need to support one another to get your own way.
If you're not wearing a seatbelt and have a passenger in the car, you are highly likely to kill the passenger, especially if t boned.
Amusingly, I keep hearing from a loud minority that return to office is required because it will magically enhance productivity.

They never provide numbers.
Depends on if you’re paying cash or not. If you’re using credit to buy the car, expect to show ID.
WASM is a stack based "CPU" and arguably the future of the Web. So is Python's. I think also Java and Erlang, but don't quote me on that. A stack based CPU is very easy to implement (or rather, registers are very complex hardware-wise) and a stack-based VM is relatively easy to optimise for a register CPU.

Seems to me registers are a fancy hardware implementation detail, that software at higher abstraction can and should avoid unless maximum performance is required. It was surprising for me to learn recently that on modern x86 CPUs, named registers actually reference hidden, dynamically allocated physical registers, a bit like virtual memory is an indirection layer over physical memory.

It's levels of indirection all the way down...
> I think some of the pushback you receive is because you're calling it a mistake when you yourself just admitted that you can't know if it's a mistake because of our incomplete knowledge of neurology.

I'm not the one making the affirmative claim absent evidence. I'm the one pointing out the lack of evidence for the claim.

If someone says "there are aliens on the far side of the moon," it's not a mistake to say "there is no evidence for your extraordinary claim".

> On the other side of this, there are straightforward arguments that there is some deep connection here.

No, there isn't.

Humans can perform math. Computers can perform math. No one would claim that's evidence computers think like humans or vice versa.

> they are in a real sense building a statistical model of how the human brain processes language.

And there you go, making exactly the kind of claim I'm talking about.

I'm going to make this very clear: there is absolutely no evidence that supports this claim. Period.
So I agree that the two things are not the same, but also, there is a (much weaker) argument against #1 from a personal freedom perspective that has nothing to do with "companies are individuals".

By forcing manufacturers to put seatbelts in cars, you are, in essence, forcing individuals to buy cars with seatbelts, regardless of whether or not they want them.

Even if you didn't have #2, if you have #1, you are forcing someone who doesn't want to use a seatbelt to pay for a seatbelt.

Like I said, admittedly a much weaker argument than that against forcing people to wear them, but there is a personal freedom argument against #1
Just had a flashback to a bunch of people being really dumb and upset about the seatbelt laws. A lot of people saying they'd basically just push against the steering wheel to prevent them from flying through the windshield.

Vividly reminds me of a lot of anti-mask arguments today.
I used to be an AMA member because of the roadside assistance until I realized that they spend a ton of their membership dues fighting helmet laws. AAA has great motorcycle and car assistance too for about the same price.
> If I was hiring for a web dev role and saw this I would just think you're not that suited to my specific role.

I agree with your point. Again, my post was not a job application, just a brain dump of skills learned and applied over the years.

I have applied to engineering manager positions where working with multidisciplinary teams was a requirement. This, I would have though, would be where everything I have done would be of value. Never got a response on any of those. I find this amazing, given that I have worn every hat in a typical tech product design and manufacturing pipeline, have had 30 or more engineers working under me and have manufactured millions of dollars in product. In that context, it is hard to understand why someone might not be curious enough to at least want to have a conversation.
Why? People don't know what they want. If they know, they don't know why. Almost never.
That doesn't make it any less accurate.
I'd strongly welcome this, based on both size and profitability (which should also include money going to salaries above some level per employee, as well as accounting profit, dividends, etc.).
GKE runs every kubelet in its own gvisor-like userspace hypervisor.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
Yes, I agree a demo would be good.

I have to catch some sleep, but I will address your questions as good as I can later. In the meanwhile, you might want to take a look at how Xanadu addresses the problems of stale links, and maybe some of your other questions will be answered.

[1] https://xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html

Also, I highly recommend reading Nelson's 1965 ACM paper I mentioned to better understand the problems hypertext tries to solve and the limitations of classical word processing (which also expands to Google Docs).
The “not harming anyone else” argument comes across as very inconsiderate as soon as you take traumatised paramedics/first responders into account.
Maybe a link or two to help other gamers make informed decisions would be a helpful addition to this comment...?
Wrote Hacking Healthcare, healthcare executive for 20+ years...

About 10 years into my career we had already been managing some very large hospital groups but ended up with a mangement contract for a diverse group health system that through accidents of history including some dental clinics. ~50 suites across several sites/brands. I had had some exposure to dental clinics and generally had not been impressed but not overly concerned either.

First meeting we had with the senior staff across the clinics set my hair on fire. It was one of the most callous, fraudulent and shocking things I had ever seen in my career. Dentistry does not have a notion or ethical obligation of "first do no harm...". The entire agenda of the strategy setting meeting was how to trick "patients" into unecessary procedures, generally defraud insurance companies (especially breaking things across many visits that could easily be done in one) and every other deceptive way to inflate profit at "patient" expense that could be conceived. There were quotas for procedures, something unimaginable and defacto illegal in a healthcare setting. Needless to say we divested the dental clinics as soon as possible. I came to find in later years that those modes of operation are more or less commonplace in the industry.
i actually agree with this sentiment quite strongly. part of the reason gender identity and dysphoria, queerness, and fluid gender roles are so despised by conservatives and religious fellows, especially when it comes to masculinity, is that it threatens the dominant power structure of the last few thousand years.

sex work, and women’s empowerment is especially looked down upon. what else is labour but selling your body, yet somehow a woman is a slut to be shamed, and simultaneously the object of sexual desire.

men need these latent structured in place to remain a) powerful and b) keep their sense of worth and identity.

why else is being gay or “throwing like a girl” insults every western boy heard in the 90s?
If you don’t want to wear a seatbelt you’re a complete and utter moron. Why are trying to preserve these people? Scrape them off the road before they can pass on DNA.
Yes this is definitely true.

I did get the Hyundai battery down to 40 or 50% (when there was a > 1 day power failure, and I didn't trickle charge the day before; https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/07/15/quebec-without-power...). I didn't remember being particularly surprised by any changes in the estimated range.

I didn't take it further than the South Shore to Laval, so obviously there might have been problems that I am unaware of when taking it to Ottawa. It also did not have Autopilot, nor could I easily figure out how to set up the adaptive cruise control.

It wasn't a perfect car, but I never felt any range anxiety driving it.
I had assumed that some governments would take on responsibility for identity management, and things would grow from there. It seems somewhat odd that companies such as Google and Meta are now providing this service, but these companies are more at ease with globalization than the nation states are.

In Europe, there is eIDAS [1], but for now this seems limited to governmental organizations, and well, to Europe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS
True. Mandatory seatbelt laws are an insult to all the people that died needlessly preventable deaths. No price is too high for Freedom™.

Thank god we learned our lesson when it comes to dead school kids.
Honk Kong, Taipei, Beijing or Tokyo have top notch subways, but people there are very respectful and organised, which is quite different than Europe or the US, for instance . Also, they built their network very late, and weren't constrained by the existing infra.
I am a very picky reader, and I rarely say this, but this is an exceptionally well written piece.

The pacing, the wording, the sense of atmosphere, and what to say when are just incredibly well done.

This is what writers should aspire to.

Also, great hook (we are all animals at night).
So the remaining traffic would be all expenses, no profit? Doesn't sound like capitalism anymore then, more of a public service.
I remember when the law went into effect- I was in Florida visiting my grandparents and there was an article arguing against seat belts- saying, in particular, that in case of a crash, a person not wearing a seatbelt could be "thrown free of the crash".

No, that's not how it works. In 99% of cases, being thrown free of the vehicle is a terrible thing to happen. It kind of reminds me of the various "arguments" being made against vaccines- the ones simply ignorant of physics, chemistry, and biology.
> if there's too much info on the resume, I don't know what YOU want to do. I don't want to hire someone that may be bored with this job

That's good insight. Thanks.
Rear seat without a seat belt becomes a danger to people seating in front, for example.
Because ML facial recognition training sets are notorious for being biased in this way. How a law enforcement organisation and judge could set bail on a person from a biased ML algorithm alone is asanine.
Scorched earth. Forcibly dissolve Alphabet.
As an American who lived abroad, I feel the opposite.

Corruption is incredibly common overseas (yes, Europe too). Privacy laws regarding law enforcement are much worse.

There’s a really good video on YouTube called “Never Talk To Police.” It’s a law professor and police officer explaining to law students why they should instruct their clients not to talk to police.

The police officer compares American and foreign practices, and emphasizes US police use deception, but foreign police use force.

I’m sure bad and good police agencies in America and abroad. The best PD I’ve interacted with is in a mid-sized UK city. The worst I’ve seen is in a major American city.
Not quite. Passengers without seat belts are a hazard to other individuals in the vehicle too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y3InF19dzlM
Being annoyed at your job is not burnout.
> If you are a professional there is little excuse not to have a desk and fast Internet at home.

Jesus Christ, here’s my excuse: Before the pandemic I didn’t work at home. After the pandemic, I work at WeWork.

WeWork is $150 a month btw and includes free coffee and A/C in the summer (my apartment doesn’t have A/C) as well. Plus I can walk there in 30 minutes so the dollar-cost of commuting isn’t an issue.
If you need someone to physically check on you to keep you accountable, you have a problem and should definitely work at the office.

Don't poison the lives of the ethical workers that are productive from home.
You say that like there isn't a big old demographic on this site who has been rate limited in how often they're allowed to post. ;)
Quit then. Do what you want.
FTA: “In C, the following declares x to be a pointer, but (surprisingly at first!) y to be a normal integer:

int* x, y;

Whereas the equivalent in Go does what you’d expect, declaring both to be pointers:

var x, y *int

”*

I don’t see how that’s an argument in favour of `age int` over `int age`. Both C could easily have picked the alternative semantics. Go could have, too:

var x*, y* int; // two pointers
var x, y* int; // x is an int, y a pointer to int

or

var *x, *y int; // two pointers
var x, *y int; // x is an int, y a pointer to int
An exaggeration on my part. At the end of the day it did take an arrest, and two court appearances for the case to be dismissed - despite the difference in pregnancy and looking nothing like the matched photo. It's the same underlying broken mentality of closing a case at all costs, even if the cost is miscarriage of justice.
I'd love to hear more about your side projects if you wouldn't mind.
If you're claiming that dark matter is superior because it is a fundamental theory, I fail to see why a fundamental theory that's empirically wrong is supposed to be better than an effective model. Rather than propping up dark matter, astrophysicists should be focusing on novel ideas that reproduce MOND, like superfluid dark matter, or at GR modifications in the MOND regime.
> and Facebook doesn't want to follow them. No one is forcing Facebook to operate in Canada.

OP's article seems to indicate that Facebook is already following these rules without issue.
Imagine a government creating a search engine as a public service.

... Oh wait, that's actually a great idea and I want to see that happen.
They would just have to divest portions of their product.

It’s painfully simple and we’ve done it a million times. Breaking up AT&T is probably the most obvious example.

They could split up the search and ads business and maps and Google local search and so on.

It would be fine. We’d be fine.

Also if you work at Google can you tell us if anyone has noticed that the supposedly “equal/superior service” has degraded so badly that it’s barely fucking usable a lot of the time?

Which is, of course, relevant.
Translation translation: someone has leveled valid criticism about a nationwide problem in a country that propagandises itself to be the best in the world and I've drank the koolaid so now I need to be super touched about it
https://youtu.be/Vou2xlJkuoU

This desoldering component technique video is well worth your time. Of all the basic electronics skills, doing this has always been challenging, particularly on older equipment where the copper traces will tend to peel up.

Having that happen is not the end of the world because a simple bodge wire is not hard to do in most cases.

But, there are times when a failure like that can really matter!

A flyback with the high voltages can be one of those times when you just want a clean replacement.

This guy shows you how to use wire to desolder many component pins at one time.
Well no, 8% is percentage of prisoners being locked in private prisons.
https://nicic.gov/weblink/private-prisons-united-states-2021

Percentage of private prisons is 24%.
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/csfacf19st.pdf
So we agree: that was my point. China is not a competitor for western markets, meaning the argument that "If we don't do it, China will" is fucking ridiculous, as China doesn't have access to the data necessary to make things that WORK for the western market.
I think you don't understand how much work is involved in just building the techniques and expertise to pull some experiments off (let's not even talk about the equipment).

Even if someone meticulously documents their process, it could still take months to replicate the results.

I'm familiar with lithography/nanofabrication and I know that it is typically the case that a process developed in one clean-room can not be directly applied to a different clean room and instead one has to develop a new process based on what the other results.

Even in the same lab it can often happen that if you come back to a process after a longer time, that things don't work out anymore and quite a bit of troubleshooting ensues (maybe a supplier for some chemical changed and even though it should be the same formula it behaves slightly different).
> Because it's a pretty strong form of controlled economy that distorts the market.

Would be trivial compared to how Google and Microsoft have distorted the markets over the years.
The problem isn't that people don't realize the behavioral issue here, it is that "we" can't decide on out to best mitigate the costs. People don't really seem able to address this as absolutists keep dominating the discussions not allowing any progress as that invariably requires compromises they are unwilling to make.
my HN client doesnt have notifications. You havent been to 'every corner of Reddit' if you are making this claim. Especially around the 2016-2018 mark, there used to be horrible subs. The far lefters overtook (mostly), for sure, but Reddit used to be (maybe still is, i dont know) the front for recruiting new misguided teens for those forums you mentioned.
ha, I'm old and I remember this shit. I also remember the armageddon of indoor smoking bans, which as predicted ended the entire restaurant and bar industry. You kids are really missing out on the sight of dirty ashtrays at every table, and your laundry smelling like a pack of stale marlboros after a night out on the town.
While this does seem like it's true [0], at least in that case the other passengers know whether or not you are wearing a belt, and can, in extremis, choose not to ride with you (I'm going to ignore minors for the moment as that is a different and much more nuanced topic). When it comes to drunk drivers, other people on the road don't even know they are taking the risk. And of course, that ignores the fact that seatbelt laws do not differentiate between when you are driving alone (extremely common in the US) vs. with passengers.

[0]https://glofin.com/blog/consequences-of-not-wearing-a-seatbe...
Somewhere in NOPD, “Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.”
1000% they have optimized for the things that they see often and most of the times they don't even consider what else could be going on (even if they maybe know about it). Ultimately it's on you to understand what they are saying and to decide if what they're saying makes sense. When in doubt you should never ever be afraid to ask for a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and so on opinion.

Don't even get me started on diseases where we have medication that sort of works with tons of side effect where no significant progress has been made for decades. If you're alergic to the said medication or your side effects make it a no go, tough luck!
Related video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSDniOoR3Lw
Sure, stagnate at 1 or 2% for a couple decades.

That's both bad for china, while also not a literal revolution.

> That's ridiculous for a growing economy.

It is low for a normal growing economy, sure. But China has a lot of problems, which is the entire point.

If you want to call low and stagnate growth as something that is very bad, sure.

But most people, when they are objecting" to the term "dying" are simply objecting to the idea of a sudden collapse, which is it not likely to happen.

Instead was is likely is very low growth for a long time.

Which you are free to call very bad if you want, but that's not the same definition as what other people are referring to.
The article even starts out with a description of how her job worked: controlled by the pimp at the front door. The women didn’t get a say.
If anything it seems the only ones to trust are the students.
....what? Which century are you living in that China does record people's conversations?
Which informed folks? Can you provide any study about this, because I haven't heard of any.
on the other hand, I often wonder if the Americana attitude towards war and violence is different from Europeans who can still very immediately see effects from world war 2. Americans haven’t been touched on continental soil, but you can still see bullet holes in some buildings in Germany from WW2. That’s gotta change the perception of things at some level, imo.
fusion.net doesn't work for me, but I found
https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...
Banning anti-competitive behavior (which is what antitrust laws are for in the first place). For instance: a company actively blocking competition (e.g. coffee machine manufacturers that make it impossible for people to buy pods from another brand).

Again, I am probably biased here, but I don't see much anti-competitive behaviour in the search engine space. If people have a clear superior alternative to Google, then by all means please share it here.

Even during the brief period where I used duckduckgo, I was constantly finding myself typing "!g" to get results from Google as they were just consistently more relevant.
A choice is being imposed on citizens and private companies by the government, for the benefit of organizations that are influential with the establishment.

An experiment is when you have a hypothesis about something that could be improved or optimized, test the hypothesis with a subset to find evidence or observe unintended effects of the change, replicate the finding, scale up, or revert depending on the outcomes observed.

A national policy by fiat is somewhat the opposite of what I consider an experiment to be.
Not many people are saying that, but there's a few cases it could make sense. Like if you want to setup something on an embedded machine with no/restricted internet, then bash scripts will be easier.

Some people also like not having to do extra installs to run something simple.

And some scripts are simple enough that it's just easier to use bash.

But I agree, these cases are pretty obscure and most of the time the benefits of using a real language is worth the investment.
You realize picking a nearby office of your choosing is nothing like coming into the office right. You selected it for proximity to obviate 99% of the downsides of the office and if you don't like the situation you can pick up and change it without changing jobs.