skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we really needed to, we could compress assets a lot, eg with procedural generation. (Including the neural network kind.) But that would be a lot of hassle, and would probably trade run time for space.

As for code: I think shaving of bytes isn't all that important, especially compared to assets; but simplifying logic can give various benefits. However, that also takes time and is probably not worth it for many applications.

A distinction I like to make is being careful to distinguish between bloat that worsens throughput and bloat that worsens latency.

Throughput still gets better almost for free over time by general hardware improvements. Latency still requires attention.

An example: an early word processing software (I think it was part of GEOS for the Commodore 64) paid a lot of attention to keeping the latency between you pressing a key and a letter appearing on the screen low. By today's standards, the Commodore 64 was slow as molasses, so when you typed quickly GEOS eg temporarily disabled breaking wrapping words at the end of the line and just jumped to the next line in the middle of a word.

After you had finished your burst of typing, GEOS would go back and calculate proper line breaks.

Compare that with textfields in modern websites, which sometimes have a noticeable delay before a letter shows up.

GEOS's code for such latency reduction was probably incredible convoluted and messy (I am just guessing here) and made it hard to a nightmare to add new features, but was worth it back then. The modern bloated website can probably sustain a higher throughput, even without no one taking any care to optimize that. But latency is horrible.
The funniest part about the phrase "don't reinvent the wheel" is just how often, like, actual wheels get reinvented. And for good reason - imagine sticking bicycle tyres on the landing gear of a 787 just to avoid "reinventing the wheel"!
My comments regarding nearlyfreespeech.net were attacked using the flag mechanism-

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37375866

I didn't violate any HNNews rules and would appreciate you unflagging it so people can see my comment and rebuttals.
possibly attempted astroturf...
Seeing people still argue about the legitimacy of the crypto space, after FTX, after so many hacks and rug pulls gives me more hope for the future of this space than anything else.

Actual developments in the space are quite technically dense, so I don't expect to see those discussed in HN.
> Today’s models predict 1.5°-2.0° C by 2040

From when 1990, or 2023?
But the article isn’t about human drivers hitting pedestrians. There is already much written about that.
Gold is great as a hedge for many things, and that is exactly how I use it. However, I am not suggesting all people have to have a physical supply. There are 3 ways at least that it is regularly used as an investment

Physical Gold

Gold via a fund e.g. SPDR (GLD) https://www.spdrgoldshares.com/

Gold mining stocks e.g. SPDR (GLDM) https://www.spdrgoldshares.com/

Gold does work as a hedge against sustained inflation, but not momentary blips in inflation
https://www.investmentnews.com/gold-standard-fight-inflation...

Gold also works as a hedge against currency hyperinflation

First of all, most fiat currencies don't last very long.
https://medium.com/@bewdliberty/on-a-long-enough-timeline-th...

2nd, diversification across asset classes still makes sense
https://www.morningstar.com/portfolios/why-portfolio-diversi...

In the case of a weakening dollar, sanctions as weapons, and the potential rise of a new basket, or reserve currency, there are many reasons why gold may make sense to add to a portfolio.

>Gold is an unproductive asset

Anecdotally, my gold hedge via GLD is up >20% per annum in capital gains.

If the US dollar is debased more through excessive printing, it will go much, much higher.
A similar data-structure that is also very useful uses sparse-dense arrays but encodes a free-list in the unused memory. It's an ideal data structure if your access patterns are sporadic reads/writes bookmarked by frequent complete iterations of the dense array. You can insert and remove (swap 'n' pop) in O(1) and iterate in O(n) without polluting your cache and skipping over empty slots.

It's frequently used in Entity-Component Systems (ECS) which introduce safety by associating a counter with each entry in the sparse array (usually called a "generation") and incrementing them on deletion. You can also verify cross-linkage between the sparse and dense arrays like the data structure described in the article, but that comes at the cost of another indirection and fetch from memory.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's been an influx of users since the Reddit snafu, I think they're just settling in. Might just be my perception, but I've seen the tone of the average comment shift a bit.
http://archive.today/wQbAN
And most of the time that's the right trade-off.

Not all the time, though. Eg consider a video game: the image frames have to be pumped out on a tight time budget every couple of milliseconds, but the logic to decide whether you have finished your quest can afford to run for a few seconds in the background.

Even though the latter is much simpler and could probably be coded up to run on even the Timex m851 in fractions of a second.
Drug addicts was a side effect. It was to target, well it's no secret now...

> “You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

> We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

> Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
I'm just not that interested in short-form content... in those spare moments I'm not even that interested in my phone.

The real aggravating part is that Google has tried nearly everything, short of switching videos under my cursor, to sucker me into this instant-gratification loop.

I'd be way less frustrated about the existence of Shorts if Google hadn't been so ham-fisted about them
Part of the reason why we have many of these regulations in the first place was because rampant industrialization in the pre-modern age lead to many foods being adulterated with many unsafe replacements or poor food standards quite literally poisoning people. The goal of any company lobbying to reduce limits isn't for the safety of the consumer, it's for increasing profit margins even if it has bad downstream effects (because slight increases to cancer rates or whatever would not have a measurable effect on a company that will be dead in 10-20 years). Things like nutritional value or health concerns are secondary to making money.
Speaking of HN's rules, please follow these:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Is your service a replacement for services such as RiiConnect24?

> No! This service is designed to be a companion to RiiConnect24, providing exclusive Japanese and streaming services, though some channels will be able to replace them (such as Mii Contest Channel and Everybody Votes Channel)
Everyone go plant based boom climate crisis averted lol
Proto Suburbs did exist, sorta, but the nascent middle class was so small as to be meaningless
It's not a competitor to RiiConnect24, but they have been working on a small number of WiiConnect24 channels, such as Forecast Channel, and News Channel. I use the WiiLink Forecast Channel, as it supports my city, and has a larger support of cities than RiiConnect24. For everything else, I use RC24. Too bad they decided to rerun Nintendo's polls. I wonder what would happen when they run out...
I didn't make that connection until you mentioned it, but it makes sense. I bet you're right.
There's an opportunity cost to everything, so time spent writing for my blog could be spent elsewhere. Seeing friends, meeting new people, writing code, putting time into my job, researching whatever interests me... but it's my time, and I get to choose what I do with that time. You may not want to have a blog - it seems like you're asking for reasons not to have one. You don't have to have one if you just don't want to. You don't have to justify that decision to anyone but yourself.
Not the OP:

I'd like pot smokers to stay away from my neighbourhood, just like smokers of any other kind. But that's just because of the smell. If they want to eat their cannabis or vape their tobacco etc, I don't mind.
Why is the bank doing this for you? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
> I let them know who I am

It's striking to see an argument from authority, against the dominant narrative, deployed in service of dismissing those who purportedly aspire to "rewrite history to fit a narrative".
Revisit:

The Floppy Disk Museum on a Bootable Floppy serving from a 286 PC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350158
And the counterpoint to that is that it’s searching for profits that push for greater efficiency in the presence of competition. They aren’t searching necessarily for larger profit margins, just more profit. Sure if they have a monopoly either in practice or classically they’ll just pocket more of the money, but ideally someone will realize they could make even more money by lowering prices. Ryanair is successful not because they have a huge profit margin, but because they move a lot of people.
It’s not really low risk to the employer - with all the employees and projects it’s guaranteed to hit and the company has to pay out.

Of course, recognizing unexpected success just is what profit sharing is designed to do.
Can someone explain how I’m what universe this takes 20,000 lines of code?
“ Conflict of interest statement

CZ and SH were employed by Tsingtao Brewery Co. Ltd. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.”

From the study:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37560062/
Out of sight, out of mind.

I say that unironically. I don't care what my neighbours do in the privacy of their own home, as long as it doesn't affect me. (Eg as long as tobacco or pot smoke doesn't waft over to me.)
This seems to be a complication to haskell to fix a performance problem that is only in haskell.
The soundtrack was so eclectic and spacey. Checkout the soundtrack, especially lonely rolling star. it was one of my favorites.

Lonely Rolling Star
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7_QydNXI_ok

The Moon & The Prince
https://youtu.be/pUJeiEva0Hw

soundtrack is oddly not on Spotify.
I don't see how this is worth discussing. The environment isn't safe now, when we do have laws.

To me it's plain and obvious: The general set of systems that allow environmental destruction on this scale... those same systems are the bedrock of law. It all boils down to the ability of some people to subjugate others.

The environment won't be safe until we rid ourselves of authority, law, subjugation, etc.
Tyler Cowen gave a great TED talk on a related topic: "Be suspicious of simple stories" (2009)

https://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_simpl...

(Because it's such a great story I still remember the talk a decade later.)

"""

So if I'm thinking about this talk, I'm wondering, of course, what is it you take away from this talk? What story do you take away from Tyler Cowen?

One story you might be like the story of the quest. "Tyler was a man on a quest. Tyler came here, and he told us not to think so much in terms of stories." That would be a story you could tell about this talk. It would fit a pretty well-known pattern. You might remember it. You could tell it to other people. "This weird guy came, and he said, 'Don't think in terms of stories. Let me tell you what happened today!'" And you tell your story.

Another possibility is you might tell a story of rebirth. You might say, "I used to think too much in terms of stories but then I heard Tyler Cowen and now I think less in terms of stories!" That too is a narrative you will remember, you can tell to other people, and again, it may stick.

You also could tell a story of deep tragedy. "This guy Tyler Cowen came and he told us not to think in terms of stories, but all he could do was tell us stories about how other people think too much in terms of stories.

"""
Yep. The quality used to be good, but not anymore.

Instead of trying to fix it, I have traded the phone (got a low value exchange offer) for an OnePlus Nord CE Lite.

I don't want to spend my time with Samsung as it is not worth it.

I value my precious time more than the poor quality Samsung device and made a vouch that I will never use their products again.

Thanks for the time in replying to the thread.
This is great. Just as easy to fake as an expensive watch, but more to the point. You can also add your dick measurements to it while you’re at it.
I did a bunch of psychedelics when I was in my 20s, and the further I get away from it, the more ridiculous the pretentious pseudo-mystical crap people spout about it gets to me. There is a lot to learn from and LSD trip, but it's not magic, you're not seeing other worlds, it's not a goddess or an alien from another dimension.

Your mind is a network of neurons, psychedelics make those neurons fire in unusual ways, that's it. What you should be learning from it is that your _ordinary perceptions of the world_ are nothing but a very convincing illusion created by your mind, and that you should not entirely trust what you believe you are seeing and hearing and feeling, because in a very real sense -- _none of it is real_. What you should _not_ be taking away from it is that anything you see
or feel or think during a trip is the _true_ reality, any more than your ordinary waking life is.

Walk away skeptical, walk away confused, don't walk away from it thinking you've discovered the meaning of life. Everyone you know that doesn't do drugs will think you're being silly, because you are.
> in the 90s it was all like that, just amen break over really dark metal/industrial kind of sounds

not to mention whole ragga jungle which quite often was mellow, happy stuff on top of fabulously cut-up amen:)
YouTube and other Google-operated services should do their best to crack down on piracy, such as the uploading of television programs. It's ridiculous that they only show off their "justice" that no one asks for on sites that they can't monetize.
There are various sites that do it (with more or less SEO garbage and fake answers, mind you) - but it’s surprisingly hard to find something definite.

You’d think some group of obsessives on some forum somewhere would be compiling a database.
> I liked them for hobby components.

Can't you find those at places like Mouser? I thought there were better options for everything than at Radio Shack before they went under.
What literature? The article just says this is based on a private report that the regulator didn’t even see. Is there published science that backs up your assertions? Would love more information either way.
The article implied a causal relationship (blue partisanship causes higher life expectancy) but overlooks relevant changes in partisan alignment. For example the article shows that life expectancy in the tidewater region is higher than yankeedom. But Virginia was solidly red from 1950 until 2008. By contrast, Appalachia was mostly blue from the FDR era until 2000. Look at the counties that voted for Carter twice and then for Clinton.

Meanwhile, most of these life expectancy patterns existed before these political realignments. For example, West Virginia had low life expectancy in 1990 as well, despite voting for Dukakis by almost the same margin as his home state of Massachusetts.

Even just looking at the current statistics it doesn’t map cleanly to partisanship: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/life_expectancy/li.... Idaho is about as deep red as it gets. It voted for Trump 2:1 and hasn’t voted democrat since LBJ. So is Utah. But both have high life expectancy, similar to Oregon or Vermont.

Also, the whole exercise is meaningless without adjusting for race. Race gaps are bigger than state gaps. California does artificially well because Hispanics and Asians live longer than whites. Using 2012 data, whites in California have a lower life expectancy than whites in Idaho or Iowa: https://www.livescience.com/18835-race-lifespan-states.html
It's funny, I spent a good long while in gamedev with various visual tools(UE3 Kismet[1], node/UI editors in Maya/MAX, etc). The parallels between PLC workflow and those are uncanny.

Might be one of the few industries where I've seen visual hot-code reloading on-the-fly in production scenarios used at scale. The visual debugging of ladder is really similar to debugging tools we had, heck FBD[2] comes really close as well. Kind of an interesting covergent evolution of two different domains coming to very similar tools.

[1] https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/KismetUserGuide.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_block_diagram
I miss those 3.5" disks (not the storage capacity, but the physical size).
Does that put you on any lists?

(Local ISP seems to know a lot of what folks look at even when using https and an encrypted bittorrent client.)
I get the whole site is designed in a very cool (and creative) way but it feels so draining to read.

- Everything is green, WHERE do my eyes go?

- Oh, I have to click to go to the next section. Instead of scrolling.

- Fat dickbars on the top of the page. In fact, dickbars on the side too.

- I get the feeling the author is using a large monitor because on my 13 inch laptop the sentence "The core purpose of graphics in a GUI is not to be pretty" written in a big font doesn't all fit on my screen. Also, the font is so horrible to read it didn't even register in my mind until I copy pasted it here and could see it in a normal font.
I think that’s the thing, actually; everyone needs something different, by their nature, how they were raised, and so on. Combine that with a deep sense of the grass being always greener on the other side, and it becomes super important not just to find happiness but to know it when you’ve found it.

My ex will never be happy, as she is unable to recognize happiness when she’s there. My wife, on the other hand, enjoys the moment, despite her ambition. It’s a huge part of why I married her.

I, too, have dreams of escaping to a log cabin in the woods, with nobody to tax me, nobody to bother me, and nobody to get in the way of the exciting things I want to do. Of course, if I did that, I’d quickly dive deep into depression; I’m an extrovert, who am I kidding?

But the dream remains all the same. :)
> holdouts can capture excess payouts

Isn't that capitalism working as intended? If you have a desirable asset then why shouldn't you charge more for it?
It's cool, while you waste time wading through a sea of SEO spam, you'll look at plenty of ads.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ304/pdf/PLAW...
Chandler didn't pee on Monica, Joey did.
Bringing an item to UPS for free returns is totally fine..!
No-one says you cant. I just think tech $ could do better spent on public transportation.
Also extra energy lost by accelerating/decelerating the extra mass. Even with regenerative braking this surely adds up to a lot of wasted energy.
> The Kingdom of Prussia in 1842 introduced a law forcing municipalities to provide social welfare to permanent residents without citizenship. As a consequence, there were attempts to prevent Yenish people from taking permanent residence.[6] Recently established settlements of Yenish, Sinti, and Roma, dubbed "gypsy colonies" (Zigeunerkolonien), were discouraged and attempts were made to incite the settlers to move away, in the form of various forms of harassment, and in some cases physical attacks.

A law meant to help a group lead to more difficulties for said group. Why does that sound all too familiar?
I agree. It's too easy to lose a thumb drive, even easier to lose an SD card.
The number of millionaires will exceed 85M in 2027
Having a (relatively) successful blog deprived me of the opportunity to understand earlier that I was just faking it and that tech wasn’t a career I should go after.

Lesson learned: sometimes feeling hurt or lost or out of place is much better than faking everything is ok.
The claim via Bloomberg is that it took only seven lines of code to integrate Stripe into your website and for you (as a developer) to start accepting payments.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-b...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902696
Says the person who missed the point… would more money in public transportation not help your concern?
Interesting. It sounds like club bridge has changed a lot in the last 20 years (since I stopped playing).

The technology bit seems a little ridiculous, young people can and do respond to email just fine, I don’t think trying to move to Discord is a good use of anyone’s time.

But when I was a player (and struggling to get anyone to use email), everyone was unfailingly nice.
How about an example of the USA going beyond detention and straight to extra-judicial execution?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...
You could get involved locally but just be aware that whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting.

Loopholes like that are intentional.
Just disable autocomplete already
Yes but a key assigned to apparatus like fire will fix that concern. We already have keys to buildings in the trucks, basically. This is no different.
At the time, in my circle, the Adaptec cards had high geek cred. Adaptec meant you were graduating to SCSI. SCSI meant you could use cool disk drives, and tape drives, and CD-ROM drives, and plotters, and .. and .. it’s SCSI! The world is my oyster! The USB of the early 90s.

Sure everything was more expensive, sure you probably never used it to it’s potential. But SCSI was good Gear. Geeks dig gear, the potential with Gear, the endless possibilities with Gear. And, of course, the posing and preening that goes along with Gear.

“Oh you got a tape backup? Is it . . . SCSI? You know with SCSI the drives can stream simultaneously with less bus contention via DMA while the drive is seeking, improving throughput and utilization on the channels with the daisy chained devices. You know that’s cool, right?”
I kept waiting for some mention of ritual use.
Yeah, because what is a world without racism and sexism. That just isn't fun. Amiright?
Yes, and also you can sometimes select tax lots that minimize or completely eliminate the net tax exposure. This does have practical limits though e.g. if the portfolio greatly exceeds income or all of your tax lots of consequence are deep into positive territory.
https://www.thx.com/deepnote/

https://www.thx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Deepnote-Pane...
German Wikipedia has a lot more https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenische

You can use https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jenische?_x_t... if you don't read German.
And their impact on climate change is probably larger than that of the other 8 billion people…
And removes them from saved links

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-sites-from-us...
Or Cache Oblivious Lookahead Arrays which considered to be an alternative to MergeTree (LSM), but not used anymore: https://github.com/giannitedesco/cola