skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This ownership model doesn't necessarily give the government access to the contents of your communication. It could be gov-owned dark fiber, rented and lit by private parties at each end.
If we’re talking ISPs specifically, I’ve definitely had better customer service in Germany, Sweden and the Czech Republic than I ever had in the US.
I continue to get puzzled with leetcode type things. Will coding exercises like this become obsolete someday or will the old guards continue to push for such things to be used during interviews? Today coding Copilots can easily replace leetcode "winners"
Depending on what you consider criminal that's basically everyone with more than a million dollars.

And it's also everyone who doesn't vote to actually enforce and improve tax laws and tax brackets.
Counterintuitively, no. People by and large are buying a token for a build site. Look at any zoning area for SFH and a massive portion buy the least acreage they have to.

By creating far more tokens the price spirals down, even though utility rises. The utility of land actually has a pretty weak link to its price.

Take at the extreme of housing fitting into a pinpoint. No one even needs to buy your land even though it now has infinite housing utility -- even though essential it is abundant so it becomes cheap like water.
The government could own the physical fiber without controlling the crypto at the endpoints.
diamond pickaxe, obviously.

But what will we do about our new existential crisis...
If we no longer need to dig for diamonds, why would we dig at all?
I might be mistaken about cars requiring no input, but isn't just steering sensing a problem? The car does not know if it is you or a weight on the steering wheel. Or if you are on your phone touching the wheel with your knee.

According to the NHTSA, Tesla was forced to enable driver monitoring via a camera because sensing driver steering input was insufficient.

So, without a doubt, 10s of millions of cars have "insufficient" driver monitoring while having "level 2" capability. Should those cars not be recalled and the feature be disabled (or updated to more aggressive monitoring if appropriate hardware exists)?

To be clear, I fully support driver monitoring for ADAS to whatever extent regulations require. But picking and choosing who to enforce the rules suggests they aren't working for the general public's best interest.
I subjectively disagree with your sentiment but can objectively show you are not accurately quoting your sources. Source [2] and [3] show nothing about $2-$5 trillion dollars being laundered globally. [2] links to an article written in 1998 presumably re-published in 2015 because of the number's presence in the url path, and [3] links to the 'GDP, current prices' of the IMF. Maybe your estimate for the amount of money laundered globally is factual, but your links definitely don't show that.

Also, nothing is "curious" about you adding rough estimates together and getting a random percentage of something else.
That’s not really how patents work, unless this hypothetical is they are testing exactly the same substance?

More likely they are two different treatments that maybe take the same general approach. If the publicly funded one is available at cost, the private one would have to be significantly better to make any money.
I fear the flagging is most likely by people who sympathize with Balaji's worldview, and don't like reading the comments criticizing it.
Somewhat related: a few weeks ago the "Amigo" software sampler plugin was released and it has been a minor hit among music producers. It has nostalgic 8-bit graphics and it emulate's the Amiga's sound pretty well. If you're into music production, it might be worth checking out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT4V4dhef64
Another option: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE

And a similar project for Photos, also end-to-end encrypted: https://github.com/ente-io/ente
In Los Angeles, CA, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is pretty brutalist:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Cathedral+of+Our+Lady+of+the+Angel...

https://www.olacathedral.org/overview

A favorite part of mine are the tapestries:

https://www.olacathedral.org/tapestries
Its a crypto grift
Many replies here argue that there are plenty of choices today for the hacker-inclined, many more than 40 years ago, which is true, of course.

But I think what your post implies is that regular computers back then invited you to hack them. It might have awoken a curiosity that could have otherwise remained latent in many of us.

A anecdote from the other side of the fence: Apple used to ship an app called ResEdit whose sole purpose was for you to hack with your Mac. Change strings, menu shortcuts, images, sounds. I had my own localized and rebranded version of Eudora and many tiny modifications to games. Can you imagine a first party hacking tool like that today from the fruit company?
I remember the Amiga 500 being extremely cool in the UK, the essential gift for teens in xmas 89/90. So I'm curious about the context where for Dominik Diamond it was uncool.
Bootstrapping Research and Dynamicland, Dec 2019 (Bret Victor) [video]
I'm using one in a workstation setting with 1 big curved widescreen monitor and a multitude of keyboards and pointer devices, and it's great. It's fine in the workstation setting, you're holding it particularly wrong somewayhow
Check out this fun map curtesy of NYC who do a pretty good job exposing a lot of these type of data https://maps.nyc.gov/sandbox/poletop-finder/
> The Pharo folks live in their sandbox, eating their dog food, making Pharo more Pharo than ever, but it seems to only be uplifting folks making Pharo.

Some of this is just down to the philosophy of Smalltalks. To program in a Smalltalk is to make Smalltalk. You can't really separate the creation of the system from the creation of the application(s).

With that in mind, it's hardly surprising that few people who aren't contributing to Pharo use Pharo—it may not be just that it hasn't found mainstream appeal (which is true) but also that most people who pick it up and start using it seriously end up becoming contributors.
There is nothing stopping governments around the world from spending money to do their own R&D and conduct their clinical trials.
> this house will be purchased by a developer & razed, and they'll build a new 4000-sqft 2-story which will be listed for $5M+

Reminds me of this empty lot that sold for about $4M https://archive.is/z9tru , if you believe Zillow/Redfin, they claim the property is now worth $12M.
I have a personal experience that is literally the polar opposite of everything you just described. Atypical, yes, but on the other hand, testimonials about life in most other software teams describe an unnecessary mess of middle-management and bureaucratic cruft. I'm sure at many companies there are many roadblocks in the way between their developers and a better product, but my company doesn't have them. Not a startup, either. A 50-year-old engineering company that learned hard lessons after 20 years of stagnation.

I'm not going to be very sympathetic to counter-arguments about what "proper" practices we "should" follow, because quite frankly we're delivering features and value for our clients and catapulting back to the leadership position in our industry. Programming as a studied profession is barely half a century old, and the current zeitgeist of "best practice" is younger than some peoples' stints at the company they still work at. I'm very inclined to believe none of it is correct. No structural or architectural approach is one-size-fits-all and everything will be contingent on who you have and what you're trying to deliver.
Crazy how we all never really do anything about this.

The wealthy and powerful certainly do have us all thoroughly distracted with our race/sexuality/immigration/etc wars don't they.
Boeing’s decline was Jack Welch-ism played out over 2 decades: Just fire people.
> but when was the last time memory safety was actually a big problem in games? Unity uses C# which is garbage collected, Godot uses its own scripting language which makes it nigh impossible to leak memory, Unreal AFAIK has its own tools that makes memory management trivial.

So.... Sounds like memory safety is indeed a problem? Otherwise why do so many solutions exist for it?

Yeah, Rust definitely is not the only solution, or perhaps not even a good solution to this problem in the context of game development. But let's not pretend the problem itself doesn't exist?
Do you have any citations for those claims? While Apple does have excellent build quality across the board, I struggle to see how the lackluster and overpriced 8GB models would ever be considered “the best laptop computers.”
I remember that one series of Gamesmaster that wasn’t presented by Dominik. It was so bad it was borderline unwatchable.

Whether it’s writing or presenting, Dominik definitely has a presence that’s hard to replicate.
It’s happened before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=manchester+united
Interesting abstract.
Publishers Pivoting to Live-Service Games Have Most Devs Worried
I'm no physicist, but I'm inclined to try some contextual napkin math, and hopefully I won't botch it too badly trying to work on my phone as opposed to proper spreadsheet.

If we assume a 1m³ vacuum container at sea level, that's displacing ~1200g of air. So that's the upper mass limit on the diamond container (or foam) for it to be neutrally buoyant.

Let's assume the density of diamond is 3.5 g/cm³, which means the volume of diamond "skin" we have to work with is something less than 342 cm³ for whatever gets built.

A sphere with a volume of 1m³ has a surface area of ~48,300 cm², which means we can't go thicker than 0.07mm. The most common thickness for mechanical pencil refills is 0.50mm.

That said, I'm sure there is some square-cube law business in favor of much smaller chunks, like a bubble-foam of smaller vacuum-cells.
50+ years and people still fail to grasp this.

You have to put something (an optional, or a default constructed object in a useless state) and all you did was to skip the null check. In case of optional, you introduced a stack rewind or a panic. Everything else stayed the same. Maybe that default even deleted the hard drive instead of crashing.

Coding is hard. "just don't code" is not the answer. You can avoid something, that doesn't mean it won't show up in some other fashion.
This looks cool, thanks for sharing
But when you look at the disaster that was c++ for cloudflare, and the switch to rust.

This is precisely the argument given against rust for video games: too much typing induced by memory safe, which is too restrictive.

Is there any use if your c code works, the advantage of rust over wasm is the easy-to-use packages (which is a pain in c++), and the ease with which you can make a wasm project with wasm-pack that generates the wasm, js and ts interface.

There really are a lot of libraries that support wasm, it's even a problematic point raised in the article on bevy, with wasm support (so webgl) limiting the api.
This was not at all a small public ISP. And it was managed by the city power company, so it had the economies of scale already.

There's a lot of nitty gritty policy weeds of what went wrong. But the main one was that after the public ISP incorporated in the 90s as a complimentary service to a public cable network, the state passed a legislation regulating public utility rates. Good for power/water/sewer/cable customers. But it meant that the city could not charge customers differently even with wildly different internet speeds.

Going into the 90s, as the internet aspects became more important, they couldn't keep up with upgrading the lines, especially given the costs would be born by all customers regardless of what speed they were getting.
Aren’t cities in Texas more or less governed by Texas state law? I’m not sure if call that left-leaning, exactly.
They want to build an even bigger one, apparently the ice is more clear than expected so they think they can get away with wider spacing:

https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/beyond/

> IceCube-Gen2, a ten-cubic-kilometer detector

> The incredible clarity of the Antarctic glacier, revealed by the construction and operation of IceCube, will allow the spacing between light sensors to exceed 250 meters, instead of the current 125 meters in IceCube. The deployment of sensors on strings with larger spacings will enable the IceCube-Gen2 instrumented volume to rapidly grow at modest costs.
Finding seven potential tau neutrinos must have been a good day for him.
>> It is not impossible for a government to act as a mafia (see Russia)

I'm reading the Black Book of Communism and that's my exact impression of the Bolsheviks.

From Goodfellas: "If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again".

That was the Bolsheviks circa 1920.
> (Pro feature) Sheet collaboration

yeah..
Which is an overall terrible idea since passwords saved by browsers are saved in plaintext and are very easy to get to.
> Like the Spectrum before it, the Amiga allowed people who couldn’t afford a PC to play games on a computer. Then the PC killed it: microchips got cheaper, Amiga didn’t move fast enough, and it seemed to die really quickly.

TFA's author must be from a parallel world. I remember actual businessmen (friend's father and friends of him) having "PC"s at home. Monochrome piece of mediocre underperforming slow pieces of shit they were. 286 crap.

While us on our Amiga could run typesetting programs, edit videos (try that on a PC from back then), "digitize" audio samples (we had "digitizer" allowing to transform an analog audio source into digital files), run countless intros and demos and games as good as those in the arcades.

Games on the PC back then were pieces of turd written in BASIC.

> uncool

Yeah. But no. Not in this world. In this world the Commodore Amiga was one of the most badass, coolest, machine ever which was half a fucking decade ahead of its time. It was the coolest thing around and it deserves the scene and following it still enjoys.

P.S: I don't always flag submissions, but I do I do it about obvious pieces of trolling
I feel sad thinking about Ukraine for similar reasons. Even after they kick out the invaders, they're going to have so much messed up land.
Sure, but they aren't really writing what I would consider a script/program under typical usage. Obviously that's a fuzzy definition if you start piping things together, but I'm talking more about control flow / parsing argument / etc. Doing that in bash correctly does require arcane knowledge and skills. It is immensely difficult to not shoot yourself in the foot.
Literally 1 month ago: Kaiser lays off IT workers for a second time in 4 months

Maybe they kept the wrong ones haha
Ask HN: Avoiding print-on-demand textbooks/technical volumes
I quite like having hard-copies of textbooks/technical volumes, but it seems that most academic publishers have switched to print-on-demand, as least when buying in the UK.

The print is generally atrocious: they typically look like a laser print of a photocopy, complete with scanning artefacts, rather than a clean print from the master. Pages start to fall out pretty quickly, and, despite the hefty premium over softback, the "hardbacks" are generally glue-bound in the manner of a softback; stitched lay-flat bindings seem to have completely vanished.

Oxford/Cambridge/Springer all seem to have fallen into this; MIT is one of the last I've found that doesn't do this (yet), but unfortunately you can't pick your publisher when buying a particular book!

It used to be the case that buying on Amazon would get you a print-on-demand (with "Printed by Amazon" in the colophon), but it seems even buying direct from the publisher isn't enough to escape these days. In the UK, Ingram Content Group, Printforce and CPI Anthony Rowe seem to be the usual suspects doing the actual printing, regardless of who actually sells the book (Amazon/Waterstones/Publisher).

Is there a way to buy properly printed and bound copies of texts, or is this a thing of the past? Should I stick to second hand where available?
It's more like showing someone holding the iPhone taking a picture.

Unless you're saying the way it crashes is qualitatively different now, in a way that you can see just looking at the car afterwards? They're not showing it in action.

Also that's an Autopilot crash, not FSD.
Pretty neat. Could you do this outside of a pressure vessel by filling the balls with water and hitting it with microwaves? Then we can get crawling terminator fluid.
A nerdsnipe led to a fast implementation of Game of Life
The US would have lots of constitutional problems enforcing rules that we like ISPs to enforce.
Discord Shuts Down 'Spy Pet' Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages
Solar fences: https://next2sun.com/en/solar-fence/
William James and Consciousness (2021) [pdf]
Why bother - there are no aliens? Or... Are there?
Dominik was a games journalist back then (still is now to be fair). Back then games consoles were the cool thing and home computers weren’t exactly uncool but definitely a slightly adjacent scene. A little like PlayStation vs PC gaming in the 00s to present day.

You also have to bare in mind that home computers are more likely to have been “cool” (which, after all, is a subjective term) to people within the HN echo chamber than it would have been to the average person.

It’s also very likely that Dominik is talking about the Amiga being uncool just to wind a few people up. He is infamous for being a windup merchant. You only have to watch a few episodes of 90s Gamesmaster to see that.
Yeah that's a very fair point. My original point is that the municipal government tends to be run by left leaning people but your point about the state laws sort of invalidates my point.
For people who went through this know how painful a non-compete agreement is, it has cost several years in many peoples life.
I just remembered replacing the Netscape “N” comete with my own GIF. How cool was that?
I remember back when I lived in the US, I got daily spam calls. I never get spam calls in Europe. I wonder why that is and if that's still the case (lived there between 2014 and 2018)
Author here and there's nuance here but as a rule of thumb data size is a decent enough proxy. Audience here isn't everyone and the goal was to give less experienced data engineers and folk a sense of modern data tools and a possible approach.

But what did you mean by "Read the first paragraph of the `Cost` section"?
> "Leftism is defined by a goal of communism or socialism"—but that is just communism. No other ideology seeks communism as a goal, and socialism is just a stepping stone to communism, or at least that is what they taught me in my Soviet high school.

Outside of communist thought (wherein socialism is a stage on the route to communism—and the only concrete stage to which there is a roadmap in most communist thought, though different schools of communism have different maps), socialism is a thing sought in its own right by socialists who are not communists.

Obviously, its unsurprising that a Soviet high school would only teach the dogma of the particular brand of communism then currently held to be orthodox in the USSR, but that's a rather limited view.
The return for participating in your community is participating in your community. The return for opening a store and serving your community is the revenue you get paid for serving your community.

Note that you can do NEITHER of those things and get far more returns than someone who does both, if you merely buy land early and sit on it. In fact you get to extract wealth from the people who do either/both in perpetuity. If they find more ways to be more valuable to the community, good news for you: you get an even bigger paycheck for doing literally nothing.

So yeah, if they did x y z things in their community, they got all the returns of x y and z… and the returns of simply owning land.

Not to pattern match too much, but the person who winds up with a shack sitting on a $2MM lot in an ultra-high COL area is almost certainly not a major contributor to community thriving.
poor quality Windows software to do stuff it's not suited to

Depends how wide your definition of "poor quality" is. All powershell files (ps1, psm1, psd1) are assumed to be in the local charset unless they have a byte order mark, in which case they're treated as whatever the BOM says.
actually, from pharo's perspective the goal was to remove bloat, things that didn't help active new development. as a result pharo images were smaller, and didn't have to support lots of old legacy code or objects.

another problem that squeak had was that it was built on top of old images, containing objects that date back to the beginning of squeaks history, and possibly even older than that, and because of that it was (at least at the time) not possible to verify the ownership and license of all the source that the image was made of. for some objects the source was even lost altogether. this made squeak incompatible with FOSS licenses and it was a reason why it was not included in linux distributions. which is one factor that limited its spread among developers.

one of pharo's goals was to remove those old objects and unverified source and make it possible to build new images purely from a verifiable source.

from a certain perspective, the inclusion of those old objects creates a certain sense of awe, considering who were the people that worked on smalltalk that created these objects, whereas pharo in that respect feels more sterile.
Guns aren't a good analogy and the arguments against guns making a meaningful difference for a non-violent minority don't make as much sense. Money separated from state at least prevents the non-violent minority from having the fruits of their labor power those who might end up oppressing them.
Perhaps it's a case of just returning the books you find to be printed on demand. You have reason to for poor quality. I've returned a book to Amazon due to atrocious looking, blurry print and poorly printed cover, that I assume was printed on demand.
Just wanted to say that this is a really beautiful landing page - way nicer than I expected for a product focused on Leetcode ;)
Depends on the target architecture. Some GPUs have used vectors in the past, and some people try to run shaders on CPU. (like for OpenCL or for emulation)
Resilience? Exactly the thing which is being optimized out of much critical infrastructure.
I guess all doctors should be cosmetic surgeons then?

Seriously, the argument is that drug companies should only do the most profitable thing? If that's the case, they deserve to have all subsidies removed, and be regulated into oblivion, because they will serve no purpose, but profit.

Just see what happened with the opioid epidemic. If you're only looking at next quarters profits and destroy public trust, while skirting the legal boundaries you'll make bank until you're not.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60610707
my man? i aint yo homie stranger
Isn't it what happened after a river contamination/Chemical spill scandal in WV?

The company declared bankruptcy rather than pay the cleanup bills, but the owner and executives just started a new one, hired the same management, and everything is fine (for them), since taxpayers paid for the cleanup?

I think the name of the company was "Freedom Industries", which makes it even more of a typical american "urban legend", but it is actually true.

[edit] just looked it up, its called "Elk river cheminal spill" on wikipedia, and the exec actually used the same address and the same phone number to set up Lexycon LLC, the new company: they know they'll get away, they don't care to hide anymore.
love cDc but they drop more projects than google - people just remember the ones that stick/stuck
but all that land...
What exactly about shell scripts do you find legible? Control flow and error handling in shell scripts is a complete disaster.