skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that it’s never been easier to be a full stack developer. You can manage all this complexity with one programming language, Typescript, with some HTML/CSS sprinkled in. You can literally define your infrastructure using AWS CDK in Typescript, write your backend services as lambdas, write your frontend using React, and you’re good. Compare that to 20 years ago where you were manually managing a server (probably physically setting it up as well). Maintaining a bunch of magic bash scripts to handle spinning up different services. Maintaining a backend written in a different language then your frontend. Managing a bunch of complex ORM garbage as a result of using bespoke backend language and having to convert it into usable data for the frontend. Also still learning JS, HTML/CSS for frontend. And don’t forget some jquery if you need some interactivity without a full page reload.

I can literally spin up a globally replicated service with as much scalability as I need using 1 programming language within an hour today. I doubt that was possible 20 years ago.

We used to have to pay 5 developers to maintain all these moving pieces, but now it only takes 1 developer to maintain all this stuff because so much of it has been simplified.
Something about 5% of things can’t be parallelized which then ends up dominating performance after the 95% of things that can be parallelized are.
For people (like me) who are wondering why a kernel needs to boot in under 28ms: It's for virtual machines that get launched on-demand in services like AWS Lambda. https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecrac...
A 100x increase is a 9900% increase, not a 100% increase.
“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
- Mark Twain
I got mine because I like them a lot. Not American though. I think here in Spain the number is even higher than 32%.
You're misreading 100x as 100%. 100x is 10,000%.
"We have now discovered that the probable cause affidavits were not filed with the District Court until three days after the illegal searches were executed. While the affidavits purport to be signed before Magistrate Viar on the day of the illegal searches, no explanation has been provided why they were not filed prior to the execution of the illegal searches."

"The affidavit from Cody goes on to accuse Phyllis Zorn, an employee at the newspaper, of downloading Newell's information from a state website, something Zorn admitted to doing by using her own information."

Story containing links to primary documents:
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/investigations/breaking...
Are you completely ignoring cable news networks and their decades-old rating mechanisms. Mass-media polarization started decades ago, what the internet made possible was to target the long tail of niches. 40 years ago, a conspiracy theory targeting Jordanian bakers[1] would have fizzled out after the first print-run of flyers in a small town, but today, it can be a self-sustaining forum with members all around the world egging each other on in their echo chamber.

1. As a random example
Why does everything need me to sign in and create an account with my google/github/etc just to look at it?

Oh right, so I can receive a deluge of marketing emails even after un-subscribing because my email address is sold to countless other marketing entities at 0 benefit to me.

Love it.
So if you have something that takes 1 second out of 10 seconds, you can't improve the overall system more than 1 second (by removing it entirely).
non xitter mirror: https://nitter.net/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772
Search engines can handle synonyms like that quite easily. You wouldn't confuse any of those with something else easily.

But Go is easily confused without additional terms to disambiguate.
Ask HN: Career Advice for a Directionless Dude?
Currently in my senior year of college. There are a lot of esoteric topics that I just want to self study on my own. I have a year of free time basically so that's all good. But I don't know how to proceed out of college.

Here are some ideas I came up with, but none seem to work when I play them through to the end:

- Industry: I know that if I work hard and smart enough, I will eventually find a project that is interesting, but you can't really call that the same as self studying - I'll always be guided by business needs, I'll inherently gravitate towards certain solutions instead of others, so I lose out on really investing myself into random endeavors.

- Startups: Nope

- Working on the side: I'll probably just get burned out from overworking on two different projects at once

- slacking off: This might actually be viable, but I don't know if this is the move for my personal developemnt lmao

- Grad School: To be honest, even for grad classes I feel bored out of my mind, I don't think lecture formats suit me. But on the other hand, I don't really have a desire to create new knowledge anyways, so I don't think I'd succeed in a PhD (assuming I can even get in lol)

Hopefully the post at least got the feeling across of what's currently going in my head. Given that, what would your advice be for me? Does anybody else feel the same way? What did you do?
Spot on. This hit me a few weeks ago when I was considering a long workout class ln Peloton. I was hesitant to hit the start button because it was late, I was tired, etc. Then I realized that it was genuinely harder to hit play than to actually do the class.

Literally I've done thousands of workouts and have never regretted one, yet every time there's this negotiation to not do it. I am connecting that to your "reality is different 100% of the time" point.
Totally agree but the title makes it sound like it’s 100x at init. I know you didn’t write the title…
>It's a misquote of the common idiom "let them eat cake"

Ironique, no?
No good reason. It would just require something fiddly with the linker / build process. This is good enough.
100x not 100%. 3,000 km/h takes 1.2 minutes to go 60km.
The vapour absorption cycle is similar in that it requires no moving parts. It's commercially used in caravan fridges, where propone is burnt as a heat source.
Unix is both a technology and an idea
2009 Twitter was a special time on the internet, for sure.
In other words, no longer cool.
Dude, learn to read. I highlighted the important bits to make it real easy.

She wasn't even elected into her magistrate position. Holy fuck, I'm done with this useless conversation.
Two reasons: First, it's not worth screwing with the linker to save 20 microseconds. Second, you need to merge lists anyway because kernel modules.
I noticed in Ireland many people still have this attitude towards body tattoos. They're really normal in Spain. So it depends on the culture too.
Gotta love those unblockable neonazis.
Just like Trump's followers who think the election was stolen, there are a lot of Sanders followers who think the nomination was stolen, despite the votes going massively against him. The difference is that Trump is telling his followers that this nonsense is true, while Sanders supporters are making their own conspiracy theories.
The number of atoms is finite but the number of states of those atoms is infinite. And the combinations of all those atoms in different states far exceeds the number of atoms.

What probably matters more than the number of atoms is the useful work that can employed in order to arrange those atoms in useful configurations.

The upper limit of economic growth is probably limited by the amount of computation that can be done before the end of the universe.
If it's a one-off you can just use http://borischerny.com/json-schema-to-typescript-browser/ or https://transform.tools/json-schema-to-typescript (they both use the same library).
I think your units are mixed up. I think you mean megawatt-hour and dollars per megawatt-hour?
Some thoughts from someone who has been in the security biz for a while:

1. Security is more a mindset than anything else. Get used to finding the edge cases. Think "how can I break this..." or "how can I get around this restriction..." Many security folks I know started actually by exactly what you mentioned- figuring out how to bypass copy protection on games, how to bypass client-side checks in multi-player games, ... and so on.

2. Many pure security folks are very poor developers. You'll have a unique skillset here if you can apply it. Most security oriented folks use Python for quick scripts. If you already know python, great; otherwise, learn it and use that as a marketable skill.

3. I'm not sure about jumping head first into a consultancy. I'd recommend getting some experience in a security field first. It's hard to have credibility without some experience first.

4. Don't bother with security+. If you want creds, go and take your favorite cloud provider's security specialist exam. Cloud security is still relatively new, in high demand, and can get you immediate credibility with employers or clients.

5. I'm a big fan of real-world experience. Set up your own Linux server and try to attack it. Learn what some of the real world attacker techniques are. See some of the following:

Learn the Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) outlined in the MITRE ATT&CK matrix (https://attack.mitre.org/).

There are a LOT of "Capture the Flag" (CTF) events and writeups out there. Search for ones in a subfield you find interesting. Security is a HUGE topic. You'll need to specialize. Do you want to reverse engineer code? Secure cloud applications? Help companies define their identity and access management strategy? There's a CTF for all of those and then some. Do some googling around.

I have a lot more tips, so if you're interested just reply to this comment with a way I can get in touch and I'll reach out.
I can't edit my comment, but I agree with you that my advice is dated and bad.
You're trying really hard to redefine a bunch of words, yet the set of people you can meaningfully communicate with using your alternative language is small, so what is the point?

It's on you to lead your texts with a disclaimer of what various words mean to you if you're not using them as they're commonly understood.
Options for sorting algorithms are severely limited when (a) you can't use malloc, (b) you don't have enough stack to recurse, and (c) you want a stable sort.

(The first two limitations are because this happens very early in the boot process.)
This is just tedious. The electro-chemical map of the brain that is built and used to study it, is so primitive.

Almost certainly, "the brain" tunes itself to its environment and inner states from a preformed inner structure through evolution. A lot of what is in the brain, is not actually to be found in the brain, or by studying it materially. The "formwork" that formed it, is lost in evolutionary time.

Unfortunately there is no way to impute the formwork from the form, like say it would be possible to (mostly accurately) impute what formwork created a square column or cast a piece of iron.

"The brain" is not in any way shaped like a physical object, and the formwork that formed it is infinitely complex.
Way to go.

Do you know how fast Linux starts up? I found the number 125ms but that’s a 4 year old number.

Just curious how similar they are. This is the first I’ve heard of Firecracker.
That's the texas grid method.

Many other grids directly pay for spare capacity all year long, instead of paying entirely via pricing spikes.

You might still need some surge pricing under such a model, but it's a lot less intense.
> First, it's not worth screwing with the linker to save 20 microseconds.

...yet. Certainly not when boot is 28ms; might be worth it when boot is 1ms.

> Second, you need to merge lists anyway because kernel modules.

Does FreeBSD have the equivalent of a non-modular kernel build, for kernels where you know every piece of hardware it'll ever talk to?
Postal delivery is a government service legally required to provide coverage for all citizens including areas private delivery services don’t operate due to the cost of delivering to those locations.

Cell service is private and there are certainly places, even places near major cities, that don’t have cell coverage. The western US is full of areas with no coverage whatsoever, even on highways.

There are plenty of utilities that aren’t universally available (water, sewer, phone, cable, Internet, etc.) and are, in fact, limited to populated areas.
For $30, you can get an RTL-SDR dongle and get a pretty good slice of the spectrum. It's amazing how much you can get with a simple antenna and the cheapest possible receiver.
Genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry
Constitutional monarchy is a very broad term, covering everything from the present UK, where the monarch's power is purely theoretical or ceremonial, to Germany before 1918, where the monarch's power was almost unlimited. The Kaisar appointed the head of government, was the commander in chief, and could (and did) dissolve the parliament. The main limit on his power was his own incompetence.

Yes, some of the small states in the empire were democratic, but that only added to the instability of the whole after 1918 as the Weimar Republic struggled to unite people with very different histories.
Many things carry small health risks. Being obese is probably a lot worse. It's not as if I lead a super healthy life. It's not really worth worrying about IMO.

And feeling better is also important. Stress can also cause major health issues, and it interferes with the enjoyment of life.
Your last paragraph is basically saying that private utilities aren’t revenue or profit maximizing, which is a pretty extraordinary claim.
A lot of open source sucks. Think about it. The model is a mirror of how government works. Either you only only solve specific bullet points instead of a holistic solution(many open source apps being more convoluted to use vs closed source competitors) or you suffer from the "too many cooks" problem and you end up with a mess of a project (eg. Desktop Linux and all its problems)
Funny thing is that I can guarantee it will increase inequality.

I will make sure that my kids take extra private math enrichment classes so nothing will change for them. But for others who were relying on these to be provided by school, they will be left behind. Those who would have been left behind before, would still be left behind. So net effect would be opposite of whatever the intent may have been.

I hope UCs will not be changing their requirements in response to this.
So You Want to Study Mathematics
Semantic search over 2000 news stories
I believe they just mean that they aren’t directly quoting the club.
Thanks! I completely forgot about the malloc/in-place aspect.
To a point. Drumming requires a lot more stamina than other instruments, so after a certain point, drummers have a hard time playing as well as they did when younger. We're seeing this now with Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain, who's over 70. It's not like this for guitars/bass, but again with Iron Maiden, people are saying that they aren't running around the stage they way they did in the past.

Age isn't Lars's problem though.
It depends what tattoos you have. I only get once-off designs made by artists I like. Most people I know do the same and it's great admiring them.
Some customers. Very, very, very, very few.

Griddy had at its peak like 29,000 customers. There are >9M households in Texas. 29,000 / 9,000,000 = 0.0032. So like 0.3% of households in Texas were Griddy customers, by far the biggest provider of these spot market based plans.

Its insane to me how blown out of proportion those stories were received by people outside of Texas. An extreme minority of people directly faced those kinds of massive bills. The real story was more like how were the co-ops and municipal power companies going to handle the bills they faced, which actually does impact a number of consumers down the line, but everyone focuses on a tiny handful of people that got $20k bills because they gambled on the market.

But hey, as evidenced here tons of people outside of Texas really think that's how electricity works in Texas. People in this thread, that some massive chunk of households actually pay spot market rates. Which now its really pretty much 0%, as for regular household plans that style is illegal, so you'd have to do some weird tricks with the power company to get on some kind of spot plan in your home.
bit + vampire... Get it ;)

Anyway I was born in Gdańsk so now I'll be self conscious about yet another thing I mispronounce in English.
I was lazy so I just did:

import itertools as itools

xs = [f'{i}-{j}' for i in range(30) for j in range(12)]

ys = ['b', 'g']

zs = list(itools.product(xs, ys))

boys = [z for z in zs if z[1] == 'b']

len(boys)/len(zs)

----

gives me 0.5, or 1/2.

The moral of the article is to set up your universal set correctly and do not throw out any information, now matter how irrelevant.
On that note, it's somewhat remarkable that The Band managed to find success under that moniker.
I believe Linux is at 75-80 ms for the same environment where I have FreeBSD booting in 25 ms. That comes from a Firecracker benchmark which I think is an apples-to-apples comparison with what I'm measuring in FreeBSD, but I'm not 100% certain. Once FreeBSD support is merged into mainline Firecracker (it's currently in a feature branch) I'm going to see if I can apply their performance tests to FreeBSD.
>I rarely go to gigs now as the atmosphere has changed from when I first started gigging back in the 20th century. People increasingly seem to go for something to do and a place to be check in on social media, not to appreciate a band they love. People talk over the music, video pointlessly on their phones, heckle, etc...

I've been to a not-large number of various metal shows in the 21st century, including in the last 5 years, and this isn't my experience at all. except for the video part: some people are using their phones to record the show, or take photos. But certainly no heckling, talking over the music (pretty hard when it's that loud), etc. Generally crowds are very respectful in my experience, and are there to listen to the music (and remember it with their phone recordings too apparently).

Maybe this shows a big difference between genres?
Memex, as proposed by Vannevar Bush, updated slightly for the modern era.

A proxy that sits between my browser and the internet, and records everything into a huge disk buffer (perhaps using GIT as a storage engine?). It would allow annotation of anything seen on top of the page, without altering the source. The default policy would be to then keep all the pages, images, etc.. for at least a year, and anything not annotated, bookmarked, or otherwise linked to could be safely purged.

You should be able to select a trail of documents, and create a zip file of everything needed to view them, so you can share your stuff with friends.
Anyong
This is just normal random fluctuation.
Yeah it's very telling of the power this industry has that smoking is still not banned in most countries. And that new techniques with no existing user base like vaping were not stopped before they ever started.
sure, but bubble sort is trivial to write. they may have figured they'd replace it when they needed to. they may have figured the particular usage was so trivial they would never need to.

grabbed the source and git blamed the file before the patch to see when the original code was from.

94e9d7c12 (Peter Wemm 1998-10-09 23:42:47 +0000 157) * The sysinit table itself. Items are checked off as the are run.
94e9d7c12 (Peter Wemm 1998-10-09 23:42:47 +0000 158) * If we want to register new sysinit types, add them to newsysinit.

So the section was written in 98 and had some bits modified in 2001.

The time wasted during boot here was probably irrelevant next to a hundred other things the project has worked on since.

the bubble sort was good enough that 25 years later they replaced it to save only 2ms during boot.

seems reasonable to me.
That's why 'probably' ;)

(But you should think twice whether working for a legal entity where no people know legal stuff is a good idea)
Wow, nice summary. Exactly what I feel about Deno although Deno has standard tooling for formatting/linting to make the story a bit better.
Not sure about your individual situation, but I bet American businesses are better at engineering satiety than Chinese ones, because they've had more time to apply more expertise to it.

What does it mean to engineer satiety? An example is Doritos, they are a food which has been very effectively engineered to compel more consumption without making you full. More consumption and less satiety equals more revenue. Lots of American junk food is engineered with this principle in mind.

A roast duck with some rice and vegetables or something at a banquet will have much better satiety per calorie than Doritos and Hot Pockets, or most typical fast food meals, probably even fast casual meals etc.
> Cell therapy repairs cornea damage with patient's stem cells gives trial results

This modified title needs some fixing
It doesn't even make sense anyway. If the cacheable content was encrypted with a per-device key it wouldn’t be cacheable, obviously.
If I get the entire kernel boot down to 1 ms I might take another look at this. ;-)

You absolutely can compile everything you need into the kernel -- in fact for Firecracker you have to since you don't have a boot loader handing you multiple kernel modules. But I needed to write the code to support more than just Firecracker.
It's not clear what the idea is here. Which is why all the questions. I suspect, as you said, that a much more complex data structure would be required to encode all the various aspects of production into its constituent elements and the relations between the elements.

I would guess, that the first step would be to establish how the process of production (screenplay, scenes, camera angles, locations etc.) relates to the final product: scene frames. Each scene must have many shared elements as well. That would have to be encoded too.
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'verified using "CLEAR"'
The K-T bolide scattered iridium dust. The YD bolide scattered platinum dust.
Tell HN: The lock icon is back in Google Chrome
From the department of "changes no one asked for", in the latest version of Chrome, Google appears to have silently reverted the controversial decision to dump the lock icon from the address bar in favor of a "tune" icon.

This appears to have been done quietly as I cannot find it mentioned anywhere, despite the initial change being publicized with great fanfare.

Possibly in response to Microsoft keeping the lock in Edge, wanting no part of this avant-garde nonsense to avoid pissing off its enterprise customers.

Possibly due to Firefox taking the ultimate politically correct path - and adding to further confusion - displaying both a lock and (sometimes) a "tune" icon in the address bar, each with its own menus and actions.

Help desk technicians the world over will rejoice.
Was the drone picture in the top of TFA taken legally? I'm confident the FB sign is less than 5 miles from Palo Alto airport.

I checked and it's 4.3 miles by car, probably more like 3 or 3.5 miles as the crow flies, making this flight a violation of Federal law.
Half life (1998) also had an OEM version called "Day one" containing the first half of the game along with some slightly last minute changes missing from it, compared to the released version (different handgun ammo count etc).

Wondering why oem versions were dumbed down pre-releases
I'm not sure about Powerwall, but in general LiIon batteries can survive being heated to 100C. You can boil them, and they will work fine afterward (provided they stay sealed).

And I'm pretty sure that your house will be long gone if battery cells reach 100C.
Not to mention all the content about "postgre".
The post links to a followup post where he discusses this point further: https://www.cold-takes.com/more-on-multiple-world-size-econo...