skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>, but this is a big reason why I use C: I will have a hard time bloating my software.

Your perspective is interesting because I'm old enough to remember when the C Language was considered bloat compared to just writing it in assembly language.

Examples of 1980s programs in assembly was WordPerfect, Lotus 123, MS-DOS 1.0. SubLogic Flight Simulator (before Microsoft bought it) was also in assembly.

Back then, industry observers were saying that MS Word and MS Excel being written in "bloated" C was a reason that Microsoft was iterating on new features faster and porting to other architectures sooner than competitors WordPerfect and Lotus 123 because they stayed with assembly language too long. (They did eventually adopt C.)

I see this "bloat-vs-lean" tradeoff in my own software I write for my private use. I often use higher-level and "bloated" C#/Python instead of the leaner C/C++ because I can finish a particular task a lot faster. In my case I'm more skilled in C++ than C# and prefer leaner C++ executables but those positives don't matter when C# accomplishes a desired task in less time. I'm part of the bloated software problem!
happens in suburban, exurban, and rural areas too

unless urban was supposed to be an antiquated (but always) out of touch reference to a style, in which case I would say “nice try” and hit the flag button for that reason alone
I think you’re right that there’s a fundamental tension between those three factors but it’s begging the question of whether we’re seeing those fundamental limits versus something else. For example, I’ve seen multiple teams deliver apps using React frameworks which have no advantages in any of those points - they’re notably slower than SSR, use more resources on both the clients and servers, and don’t ship noticeably faster because while some functions are easier that’s canceled out by spending enough time on toolchain toil to make a J2EE developer weep.

That suggests that while those three factors are part of the explanation they’re not sufficient to explain it alone. My theory would be that we’re imbalanced by the massive ad-tech industry and many companies are optimizing for ad revenue and/or data collection over other factors such as user satisfaction, especially with the effects of consolidation reducing market corrective pressure.
I read a good book that says the US has many socialized medical systems. Medicare for the old is similar to Canada’s system. VA for veterans is similar to England’s system. Most salaried workers insurance is similar to Germany’s system, except the German insurers are all non-profits. (In the US, the insurers were all non-profits back in the 1970s.)

I started in tech, but went back and got an econ degree. A market for insurance works well for unpredictable things, like broken legs. But it doesn’t work well if some can predict their need, like life-long conditions. So, there is a role for non-market solutions. At that point, you need to address how to keep patients from consuming “too much” healthcare, because they’re not paying the full cost.

Many countries spend less and have longer lives. But it is hard to get the US to implement one of those systems when healthcare companies spend more than $1 million per member of Congress on lobbying and campaign donations.
Talking about shopify has anyone seen a worse careers page than this? https://www.shopify.com/careers/disciplines/engineering
Very interesting concept! I've cycled a fair bit in NL and it's so fun; literally puts a smile on my face.

I'd love to see a Dutch style transformation of my village. It's full of traffic, the paths are narrow because the road takes up so much space, and it's a very popular location for people to visit. The main street is perfect for pedestrianisation as there is an adjacent road that cars and buses can use. It's actually often quicker to drive down that road, but people don't, because it's slightly longer, and instead use the main street, which is a bit annoying.

Unfortunately the immediate area is very hilly, so cars dominate, and the topography isn't changing any time soon.
I don't get it, how does this help? Is it common for people to have a favourite n letter word? I don't.
Cool tool to reimagine what an street from Google Streetview might look like remade in the Dutch style to be pedestrian friendly. Giving it the address (6607 US-19, New Port Richey, FL 34652) of one of the notorious "stroads" in America really pushes it to its limit.
Actually, it is quite alarming if the Arctic is turning green. That itself is sensationalist. One of the primary ways our planet cools itself is by reflecting heat back into space. A white arctic is very efficient at reflecting heat. Green is not so good at that.

In terms of shifting biomes -- there used to be alligators that lived in the arctic. We seem determined to make that possible again. Such a world would be drastically different than the one we live in now. Such possibilities are indeed alarming.
You can't chat over wifi, unless the person you're chatting with is in the same house, unless your wifi is provided by an internet gateway.
Namespace security issues on who gets access to various physical memory available (and/or remote access) in multi-user environment usually handled by OS/supervisor program such as init.

Everyone at work (tech & non-tech) does not need full root access to work server.
Why do interviewers believe they are psychologists?
The 'institutions' consist of the Parliament (directly elected, but with limited powers), the Commission (effectively the Civil Service, develops policy but has no power other than what is delegated to it), and the Council (where each country is equally represented, and is the real decision making body of the EU).

So in fact the institutions are entirely democratic, and arguable more democratic (and less dysfunctional!) than their counterparts in the US and China (the other two super blocks).
If they have a 3% interest loan and their assets grow at 5% per year, then no, they never need to repay the loan.
I'm glad you mentioned that you had your wife confirm, because I'm convinced my wife sees more colours than I do, and I can't be the only one. I've had this exact discussion.

What colour is this? Blue.
No, can't you see it's green? Maybe it has some green in it
Okay, so is it blue or green? Yes!

Why did you ask me then?
"Corporate headquarters are easily moved, and Corporate income is easily shifted between corporations and individuals in different tax jurisdictions all over the world."

This is a consequence of policy choices, not some inherent natural law.
Any favorite examples?
And considering how much vegetation was burned away this year in forest fires alone, I'm curious to see if there will be any regrowth.

"You have so much land, Canada, why is everyone huddled along the border?" Maybe one reason, not exactly an intentional one, is that it benefits us to have has much untouched, forested and wild lands as possible?

Maybe we should be building fewer roads that cut migratory paths and disrupt forested regions, fewer suburban communities, and manage forests and vegetation better in this crisis. Dunno, maybe living in urban neighbourhoods is better for us and the environment?
> I think we need to start treating indiscriminate internet commenting as a mental illness.

The damage caused by indiscriminate internet commenting is negligible (excepting the click-bait magnifying effects of certain social media networks). The damage caused by wealth hoarding is tangible and leads to corporations acting against the welfare of humanity in their pursuit of greed.

> You state that we should treat extreme wealth hoarding as a mental illness. Well, who are you? A mental health expert?

It's concerning that when posed with an opinion, you jump to an Ad Hominem point of view. Who I am is not important, and you should judge my comment on whether it raises an interesting point worthy of discussion or further consideration.

> Who did Warren Buffet exploit? What malfeasance did he do?

I don't know about him apart from what I just saw on Wikipedia, so I can't help dissect which people have been disadvantaged to gain him massive profits. There is mention of him being a philanthropist, but he is shown as sitting on a net worth of $117billion which can surely be put to better use than just him hoarding it.

However, your language indicates that you are trying to pick an argument, despite not actually providing any counter-argument, so I shall say "Good Day to you"
It does have a cost. But maybe the cost isn’t worth it sometimes. I’ll take the 4K screen please. I’m willing to pay for those pixels.

But animations for no reason other than to make it seem like waiting for something is less of a chore? Nope.

Unicode is something I’m willing to pay for.

But we should be able to draw the glyphs on the screen in single-digit ms like we did in 1981. Yes more pixels and more glyphs but it’s possible just not a priority.
The year of Linux desktops already happened in 2020 when people had Chromebooks foisted upon them in light of the pandemic. Most of those Chromebooks are now in landfill too, I’m sure.
I'm so oblivious and literal that I would likely not laugh.

I sometimes wonder if people have no internal thoughts in their head other than what someone else is saying, many times, even in high stress, I will be thinking about how to respond after I have gathered the essence of the argument.

Long lists generally lose me two items in.

There's never been more evidence that cops need a psychology degree with deference to questioning their own judgement.
According to the article, this man that I've never heard of essentially created the software industry outside of the hardware manufacturers like IBM.

The software industry has provided a great way of life for me and my family. By allowing people who came from virtually nothing (like me), who lived a generation after him, to have a better life, even absent a diploma, and whether working in someone else's company or starting one.. I owe him a debt of gratitude and thanks.

Rest in Peace, Martin Goetz.
Porn driving a lot of the things on the Internet (which isn't quite the same sentiment) long predates Avenue Q and almost certainly the Web. There was a fair bit of porn on many BBS systems as well--not video obviously.
I wouldn't expect to find many telling people not to believe in the American dream after having lived it themselves.

You could surely find some saying that they achieved the dream but that's not what people want to hear, therefore not "quotable".
EVs don't outperform in the total cost of ownership yet. Sure if you buy new cars they do, but you can't buy a 7 year old EV for a few thousand and and drive it 100k more miles. I 5-10 years that will change, but right now EVs are mostly for people who can afford a new one.
Yes - I don’t want to condemn it entirely but it can’t be the only way to work.
Maybe so but it wouldn't be the case if the other parties did their job and denounced the abuses from the EU when those happen.

Instead, it leaves the parties on the fringe as the only ones doing the criticizing.

Why should it be controversial to say that the EU is not perfect and that leaving it could work out better for certain countries?

Instead it's like no one can imagine a time where the EU did not exist and it's almost like we have forgotten that the EU is not the end all be all of everything.
A better version of this is: "my attorney has advised me not to answer your questions without her being [physically] present." I believe it is more polite and indicates better that you actually have an attorney (even if you don't).

Before driving off, you should always depart any conflict with "am I still being detained or am I now under arrest?"
In 2021, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of it, in part because the court found that Congress was activly looking into it. According to the court, in 2020 a congressional commission tasked with looking into it advised eliminating the male only selective service.

Congress almost did so, to the point where both houses of Congress approved a draft bill that would; however the provision was dropped before a final version was agreed to.

For a country that has not had a draft in half a century, that is a suprising level of controversy.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-928_new_i4ek....
But: still downloaded anyway even if you select a limited bandwidth network...
Hold on. This isn't ideology. These are just points and I have nothing against men. It's just facts. Just because I say these things and just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I hate men.

It's unfortunate that these things are happening to men but that's just reality.

Please be logical and rational rather than accusatory.
Why bother. Just bring a dog. It can't testify in court and your interspecies hearsay about its thoughts are the rubber stamp for a warrant and RAS.

Good fucking luck cross examining a dog.
I got my genome sequenced
Why Ten Billion Snow Crabs Disappeared Off the Coast of Alaska
The Greaseweazle can directly read/write KyroFlux stream files as well. The KryoFlux files are my preferred "archival grade" backup format because they also store multiple reads of the disk tracks in each file to get a consensus on a "good" read.

You can easily convert to other formats with the HxC Floppy Software.
Kind of off-topic, but "you'll be reminded of each regular expression every time you look at your laptop" reminded me of something:

Does anyone know of a good open-source (or just free to use) flash-cards app? I want to be able to download a bunch of images and create a deck from those images. The front of the card would be an image and the back would be a text description, all created by me. If the decks could be created from a file such as csv or json, it would be great, so I could automate the process of downloading the images and creating the descriptions.
Yes and no, 1200km charged in 10 mins is somewhere around 1MW of peak load. that's manageable and readily available using off the shelf distribution equipment, but it is a lot. The equipment is by no means cheap and large charging sites would almost always require upstream distribution and transmission upgrades, but this is something utilities are planning for. I suspect we'll also start to see on site energy storage to help offset the demand charges that these sites could see.
Virtual memory and paging isn't just about protection/security/process isolation. It's also about making the most effective use of physical memory -- process virtual usage can exceed process RSS and not just because of swapping -- and providing a set of abstractions for managing memory generally. The OS and the allocator are working together, with the OS having a lot of smarts on machine usage in order to make that Fairly Smart in the general case.

So I don't think there's an automatic win in terms of performance by ridding yourself of it. Especially if you're running through the (pretty slow) WASM VM layer anyways.

For some applications (e.g. databases), running unikernel or closer to kernel and having direct access to the MMU could be a big win (e.g. see https://github.com/tuhhosg/exmap & https://github.com/viktorleis/vmcache & https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/fileadmin/w00cfj/dis/_my_direct_up...).

For general applications esp those written to a POSIX standard or making assumptions that the machine they're running on looks like a typical modern day computer? Dubious. You'd end up writing a bunch of what the VMM layer does in user code.
There are lots of little issues I have with the new Task bar, like for example why does the calendar only appear when you click the clock on the primary monitor? Windows 10 any clock I clicked would give me a calendar, now in win 11 it is only the primary
Chrome will be shipping it in the next version: https://chromestatus.com/feature/6062715726462976
> Only the one out of the box is included with macOS

1. one too many. 2. What about all the other non-removable wallpapers, apps and other useless-to-many OS components and data like graphics drivers for graphic cards that you'll never have on your locked down laptop?

> Actually, it's been widely reported that Windows 11 take-up is widely exceeding Microsoft's projections.

Actually, the author is not required to use MS's projections as the basis for his own judgement
That's a really stupid interview question. I would be angry to have wasted my time with a company that asked me that.
Back in the 90s I was doing work at an NCR facility and one of the corporate culture bits I never could get the hang of was referring to a 3.5in floppy as a "flex."
Because no one of appreciable intelligence and morals would take the job. It's the last resort for people who are otherwise unhireable.
Because clowns also wrote the law.
"Stop." Doing this.
Zinc-air batteries show commercial promise
Hey! Thanks for showing :)
I work on a full remote team and we've been using Gather for our virtual office (https://www.gather.town/). We love customizing our space, tables, chairs etc but they lack your "smart" blur part (if that really works?) and health tracking part.
It will grow without bound because software is a stack. It grows higher and higher and the bloat is from all the layers underneath constantly trying to adapt the "cruddy, ugly, gross" stuff below into "nice and clean" abstractions for above.

Which of course would be good, if that's what the stack does. But the stack doesn't do that. The stack constantly introduces new, crappy abstractions that eventually no one wants to use directly anymore, and people build new ones on top. Eventually, the new ones on top start to resemble the ones below, until we end up with a cycle. This mislayering is known as "abstraction inversion"--the abstractions at the top end up being crappy and slow reinventions of abstractions deeper in the stack.

It won't ever stop because people keep fancying themselves the most awesomest library designers ever and keep coming up with new crappy ways that clearly not everyone likes. It's an endless game of promising the world but delivering a spray-paint job over someone else's world.
Those kinds of questions are so that it’s easier to deport because lying on those forms is a very direct path to deportation.
There are a lot of really good cops out there, but when I hear of police boasting about their ability to "read people" I get scared because to me this is no different than thinking you are psychic.

As a neuro-atypical person (likely aspergers / high functioning autism), I most likely will not "get" that you are joking. I will be extremely pissed off that you interrupted my routine and are taking up my valuable time. I will want the encounter to end as quickly as possible. I'm probably also nervous because I watch an unhealthy amount of YouTube videos about traffic stops gone wrong. So yeah I'm not likely to see the humour in the situation. I'm just hoping that I did everything that was expected of me, that I don't say anything stupid and can get the ticket and move on with my day already.
I would mention, package transactions can be surprisingly efficient

Most of what's fetched/installed replaces bits... and the package caches can trivially be cleaned after (if not implicitly; I haven't looked close).

Windows installations in my experience have grown rather unbounded by comparison.

I can upgrade Linux with 5% disk free - on Windows I'd have anxiety.
I'm trying to desensitize myself by looking at COBOL.

Well, really to understand the fundamental relationship of programming as serving the reporting function of a business.

But desensitization would be nice. It hasn't worked so far; fortunately, there's no such thing as visual tinnitus.
Yes, I know what ocean acidification is.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/ocean-acidification-what-you-ne...

Note, the first link mentions a 30 percent increase in the average acidity of seawater.

So if the ocean is around a pH of 8.1 and is heading south due to absorbing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, doesn't it stand to reason that more pollution -> more co^2 -> lower pH over time? Eventually, we could reach acidic ocean temperatures everywhere which would be catastrophic, no? And it already is catastrophic in ways we've measured, for example its impact on coral reefs which are some of the more delicate habitats in our oceans.

So my claim that our oceans are "slowly becoming battery acid" isn't far from the truth if you look at the data and stop to consider what's happening.
There are no national standards, so every city, county, and state get to determine the requirements for being a police officer. There's typically no educational requirement beyond high school. The prospect of being able to legally bully people obviously attracts some amount of people of a certain mindset. So if you don't try to filter for that, you get this situation. There's several other factors, like our concept of "qualified immunity", "thin blue line" attitudes, and powerful police unions that contribute to the environment where you can do whatever you want with impunity.
> they have a badge and a gun

... and immunity from persecution for shooting you.

... and a statistically vastly higher chance, compared to the average population, to desire committing murder and hurting other people.

Bad mix. Police (in the US) is fucking scary.
This format was great initially, but it was hopelessly undersized after around ten years. It was a shame there was never a proper successor. The 1.44 MB double density were simply too little after many years, it wasn't even enough for a single DOC file with a few images. This created the situation where for a long time, it was a major pain to exchange small-to-medium sized files. A successor format with 10 to 50 MB capacity would have alleviated a lot of this pain.

There were eventually "Zip disks" with 100 megabytes, but I think those were proprietary Iomega products and rather expensive, so normal PCs didn support them by default. Only when CD recorders became common, there was a replacement for floppy disks. But even these were suboptimal. They required cumbersome special software just to "burn" your CDs, since Windows didn't support them natively for several years. Moreover, it wasn't a format you could arbitrarily read and write data on. So it wasn't possible to just edit a file and save the changes, like on a floppy disk.

And of course USB sticks often weren't a good solution either, since you wouldn't simply give your expensive thumbstick completely away without having to expect it back.

Even emails were not a proper replacement. Initially free providers only supported sending/receiving emails with 1 to 5 MB attachments. To send and receive data, the smaller value of the sender/receiver was the bottleneck. (I think even today, Gmail only supports something like 50 megabytes.)

Much later there was the so-called DVD-RAM, which worked similar to a floppy disk (arbitrary read/write), but it wasn't really a "DVD" -- normal DVD drives couldn't read it. So again no standard PCs supported it. I think it was also not exactly cheap, no doubt due to its unnecessarily large capacity of over 4 GB.

Eventually the problem of exchanging files was solved again, after having been temporarily solved in the 80s with the 3.5 inch floppy. The solution today is uploading files to a free cloud provider like Google Drive, sharing the link, and deleting the file afterwards. It only took a few decades.
You need a dashcam
One of the key differences between art and engineering is that the former eschews compromise while the later requires it. An engineer that over-indexes on a single dimension of what they are working on is seldom a good engineer.

Efficiency is one dimension. If I couldn't run calculator on anything but the latest Pixel / iPhone, that would be clearly insane. But it's not the sole dimension - if my ambition is to create something that works well for millions or billions users, hand-crafting Assembly may not be the right tradeoff.
The quote leaves off the punchline, which is that the person did have drugs and a firearm in the vehicle.