skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram consumes up to 50% of battery charge on iOS, with practically zero daily usage, all energy saving settings enabled, and a single followed channel, whether or not I force close the app or reinstall it. I gave up on trying to make it work, merely installing the fucking app ensures my phone is dead in the morning.
The problem with autoincrement in this context is you can’t reproduce the right value when replaying the input streams for your stream processing job. Hashing some combination of values and using that as a primary key solves this problem nicely and, when you’re using bitemporal data modeling, makes it easy to correct mistakes. The point of standardization is compatibility, not standardizing the sequence of keys used.
I was going to write a guarantee that engaging in local politics will be more effective than writing about it on a message board, but engaging with local politics often is exactly that: message board discussions with your neighbors. So a first step I'd offer to finding those pressure points: figure out where your neighbors talk about policy (and other stuff), and post.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34904207/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825214/atorvastatin-out-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825187/lininopril-out-of...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825259/albuterol-out-of-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825193/levothyroxine-out...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825244/amlodipine-besyla...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/822626/gabapentin-out-of...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825200/metformin-hydroch...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825281/losartan-potassiu...

These are some of the most prescribed drugs in America, the trend is quite clear. Every drug except albuterol and levothyroxine has decreased dramatically in price. Levothyroxine's patent expired this year so there will be some time before prices go down. Albuterol is expensive because the inhaler had to change the propellant to remove CFCs and there is a new patent on the hydrofluoroalkanes (HFAs) that has yet to expire.
The Killer (Chow Yun-Fat by John Woo) There was a box in the Blockbuster that said, "This movie used more bullets than any in history!" There are multiple stories pulling in different directions, not just action.
Nice. I have a blog, but, I never expect I'll have any readers. Good to know there's good humanity out there online, I see it in the real world. Digitally it's really overshadowed by a mainstream, paywalled, everything is a service and costs money.

I'm always checking out the blogs I find on here though. I should interact more with them.
Like the Russians who are invading Ukraine? I mean yes, everyone is a citizen of somewhere, that's how we've structured global society but I'm not sure what your point is.
Static projectile motion simulator and calculator built with Nim
Or he's trained in the art of lying

"At St. Petersburg State University, Mr. Durov studied linguistics. In lieu of military service, he trained in propaganda, studying Sun Tzu, Genghis Khan and Napoleon, and he learned to make posters aimed at influencing foreign soldiers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/technology/once-celebrate...

You really think the FBI would casually go to Durov and start telling him which libraries to deploy in his software.

This "They're trying to influence me that means its working" 5D-chess is the most stupid way to assess security of anything.

There's nothing to backdoor because it's already backdoored:

Code does not lie about what it does. And Telegram clients' code doesn't lie it doesn't end-to-end encrypt data it outputs to Telegram's servers. That's the backdoor. It's there. Right in front of you. With a big flashing neon light says backdoor. It's so obvious I can't even write a paper about it because no journal or conference wouldn't accept me stating the fucking obvious.
If you're not distributed, use an incrementing integer.

If you're distributed, look into vector clocks[1] or snowflake[2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock

[2] https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake/tree/snowflake-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID
The UK leads in Europe for start up founding…

Almost nobody in the UK works for the same company for 50 years and this used to be a thing in the US too.

Canada has similar laws/issues.

Social mobility is also higher in the UK than the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Now I don’t trust these indices tbh, but I trust them more than a nice sounding anecdote.

There is a class divide in the UK but it's more complex/nuanced than what is described in this comment.
Basically all filters work l, they just need to be big enough. The largest air purifier from Xiaomi is okay, ones from ikea are a little small but nicely made
love the use of QBE for backend here. will be interesting to follow and see any comparisons against rust with llvm! good luck!
What stops my employer from potentially disciplining or firing me is first of all, that I am good at what I do, and second that I negotiate from a position of strength.

If my employer wants me to work off hours, I mean maybe I will, if I don't have anything going on, and I'll take some time the next day where I won't work as compensation for doing that, I won't ask permission.

If I do have something going on, I'll say, "Can't do that. Have something going on". They're fine with it. They're reasonable people. Why would I work for unreasonable people? I would work for someone else.

If they actually did fire me? OK, maybe I look for another job, but probably I'm retired. I saved my money. I negotiate from a position of strength.
What's the framerate like?

I'm also working on a project rendering video to the terminal, and I'm having some performance issues, especially in large panes like the one in your screenshot.
v5... I use them all the time.
Gormless contrarians in VC conveniently found the US DOD teat to latch on to to make up for a lack of returns. Ethics? lol.
This is incorrect - we live in an increasingly peaceful world.
Its not just book lists. "40 under 40" and other list cancers abound. 10 places to see before you die (which are mostly the obvious candidates).

Lists, along with "life hacks" are pre-digestion. Lambs tales from Shakespear. Brodies Notes. Readers digest.
I built the easiest speech-to-text dictation Chrome app
I've been using dictation apps like Dragon NaturallySpeaking for years now, and I finally built one for myself, that works on Windows, Mac, & Linux, because it's just Google Chrome =)

I'm using the Web Speech API. It's free, and the same thing you use when you click the microphone icon on Google, or on your phone's keyboard. It works great!
The overwhelming majority of it were pyramid schemes that lured people in during covid when folks were desperate and interests rates were low. It was never sustainable and interest naturally waned after a few years. The final nail in the coffin was when AI took all the investment dollars and compute.
We live in the most peaceful world ever, and within the last 30 years the US, which is where Ares and Y Combinator is located, has been the most belligerent state by a country mile.

Si vis pacem, par bellum does not really apply to the United States. The US is bellum paratum enough for war to be it's own election, and it has elected for war enough to know that making more weapons for the US won't being any peace.
There are a set of words you can't utter on these sites or your content gets removed. That's not moderation, that's censorship.

And they love that it's not actual moderation.
Okay I'll revise my statement

A big feature of compilers is to find optimizations you wouldn't think of. I tried to make the point that compiled output is typically not read by humans
You can't gift doctors a paid vacation, there are rules and laws already in place. Also, MSLs are not simply "salepeople". They often require a PhD so their job description is more about "spreading knowledge" than "advertising" a drug.

Like it or not, having an expert in the hospital who know everything there is about a specific drug is a lot more effective than requiring every doctor to read about every new drugs. By your argument, this type of job should be removed and doctors are responsible for finding out about new drug themselves.

Maybe that is better, maybe not. But the first thing that would happen is adoption rate of new treatment would drop and people who would otherwise recover may die because their doctors were too busy trying to treat people instead of reading journals.
The United Nations deserves credit for this as much as anything.
Critically, if the government gives you immunity, your 5th amendment protections vanish, and you can be compelled to testify.

Since police officers enjoy blanket qualified immunity they absolutely do NOT have 5th amendment protections when it comes to their jobs.
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Medina is special. It’s hard to understand that this guy hasn’t been fired already. Instead they just gave him a 100k SUV. It always amazes how low the standards for police are in the US and the things they get away with.
Go to college and get an education so you ~~can make a good living~~ have the opportunity to work more hours.

I understand this should hopefully help low wage earners that are taken advantage of. That’s great. The US, my country, could really take some inspiration here. But why are we rolling back the achievements of the standardized 40 hour work week for a certain group of people?

It feels like this is pitting the poor against the middle class. All the while the wealthiest of wealthiest are relaxing in yachts complaining that their grocery baggers can’t be called in to work overtime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Not every case will fit the parent’s criteria but it’s important to understand how the US’ realpolitik has affected the world. We (the US) are not always the white knight.
People in Brazil were convicted for money laundering related to buying votes for Rio 2016. The US refused to submit a bid for the 2020 games because the IOC was demanding more money. Tokyo, which had the strongest 2016 bid according to the IOC grading process, took 2 runoffs to win the bid for 2020 with some pretty shady voting patterns.

So yeah, it’s no surprise that hardly any city wants to bother with the IOC.
Alburquerque: #7 in the country for police shootings in 2020.

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/10/05/cities-where...

More recent data here: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
Hypothetical Planet X
If everyone in America thought that, most of us humans would be dead and the remnants of our species would speak German, Japanese, or Russian only
Yep! It just wasn't healthy at all. I hate the saying "touch grass" but damn if it actually wasn't the fix for this person. As a friend, I wish I could drag them outside and say we're just gonna sit here and people watch.

They visit that r/news subreddit and find the worst articles about conflicts, disease and disaster... its like dude just close the laptop! Frustrates me. You do not need to "identify and label triggering content" you need to get out!
Another 'good in theory' idea. Trying to run a business in Australia is 'death by a thousand paper cuts'. Far too many rules. Letting individuals interact freely creates good outcomes 90+% of the time. Most of these rules are cost-benefit negative because the administrative burden of adherence exceeds the benefit of the new rule. Politicians and govt departments like them though; they get to put a dot-point on their list of achievements.

Unfortunately Australia has become a business-backwater (the upper bound of our capabilities is to dig stuff out of the ground and ship it overseas).

Sorry if this sounds negative, but every rule - however well-intentioned - steals attention and creativity away from entrepreneurs, slows the economy, drives up prices, reduces customer service, and benefits large incumbents who can withstand the burden.
not being a criminal is really good, I don't have to worry about any of these stuff
Well, is not that good, i am using `tct` so yeah, you zoom out for higher quality and you get a slide-show
Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors
Bingo. Cops are people too. They want power over _something_ and money to support their families.

All that other nonsense about protecting people, laws, safety... it's in pursuit of more power and more money.
>One cannot legally run a hosted, unmoderated content platform in the developed world, one will always be required to remove illegal materials and turn over materials in cooperation with law enforcement.

One can. I think you're confusing censored with moderated. Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc. aren't moderated. They're censored. They refuse to moderate or not moderate. Censorship is a form of moderation, but it itself isn't enough to be considered moderated. Censorship is enough to make it not unmoderated though.
YC showing their true face by working for warlords. Same as always, just now they stopped hiding it.
VCs don't see an ROI on developing peace.
Intel losing design talent to startups.
I don't think anyone is arguing that many nations, including democracies like the U.S., are infallible and haven't done awful things in the past (and probably are doing some awful things now and probably will in the future), but I can tell you that I would much rather live in a world where the U.S. and countries with similar democratic values and at least some measure of accountability have the tools needed to stand up to dictatorships and authoritarianism. We can see how bad those societies are not just for the people that live under them (ex. however flawed the American political system, I appreciate being able to have a real choice when I vote instead of a phony election), but for how they try to force their will on the rest of the world (Russia in Ukraine being the most obvious example). I hate that we need weapons and force to protect our values, I really do, but I just don't see any real alternative to being able and willing to fight when necessary.
Pprof shows where allocations happen, which doesn't tell you why an object is still present in memory, who is holding onto it. I've had to trawl through lots of third-party code to figure out who was holding onto some strings, for example. "Who originally allocated X" and "who is holding onto the last reference to X" are not directly linked concepts. Especially in a language that is happy to leak an entire array if a slice is holding onto three elements of it.
Sounds like you live in a world of incredible privilege. Not everyone is so lucky.
I work in the defense industry as an engineer, for one of the larger defense companies, a few thoughts on this:

- The defense industry is ripe for disruption, defense contractors are very top-heavy, siloed, and bureaucratic, and incredibly inefficient. However, there are structural issues to getting new companies started, and I don’t see anything in Ares that inspires confidence that they will succeed.

- Cash flow is a big problem for small government contractors. Although there are funding initiatives, such as SBIR, to encourage small entrepreneurship in government contracting, it’s generally difficult to transition out of that because the government can take an inordinate amount of time to provide the funds that they promise to a contractor. You can, of-course, get a loan from a third party to fill your funding gap, but that will eat into your profit margin. Size is a form of protection here because other contracts and programs can buffer against cash flow problems in one program.

- funding mechanisms, and laws surrounding them, the FAR in particular, incentivizes against non-traditional corporate organizing and being effective in execution. If you’ve made the transition to being a more established company, you’re getting bigger contracts, you will be following Earned Value (EV). This is required for contracts of a certain, agency defined, size. EV more-or-less requires you to follow waterfall development. It means you effectively cannot do agile development, although you can find examples of contractors using SAFe and other forms of Dark Agile, these are merely waterfall down poorly with extra steps. EV is a large bureaucratic undertaking, requiring certified earned value management systems and dedicated professionals, such as CAMs, planners, quality engineering, and contracts managers. This in service of being accountable, and making sure tax payer dollars are spent wisely, but it takes money to do this. You can’t capitalize on the benefits of being flexible and innovating with government funds because you need to report metrics as if you’ve laid out your entire plan at the start of the project.

- Defense startups effectively have one customer, the US Federal Government. Although it is true that foreign military sales (FMS) happen for a variety of defense articles, all of these sales need to be approved by the US State Department, meaning you are entirely dependent on the executive branch to give you business. How many investors would like to invest in a product that is limited by one party in determining how much you will grow?
Silicon valley’s foundation is building tools of war to defeat fascists. Today we face a new revisionist expansionist ethno state, and their tech companies are lock step with their government in matters of military and espionage. We can choose to either defend our democracy and the world’s most diverse nation or not.
So they take theatrics over logical evaluation of the situation. Cool. Tell them Durov could have locked himself out of their data and spared himself the trip to behind bars.
Yes, totally 1984. They are in bed with the villains
Silicon Valley was basically built thanks to the defense industry. https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
For better or worse, your license is as good as your wherewithal to enforce it. This is a matter for your lawyers.
There are people I know who genuinely rely on crypto for their survival. For them, it’s the only way to send money abroad to support family in certain countries, or to access their own funds when they move.

As the world becomes more fragmented, with financial and cyber spaces becoming increasingly isolated, crypto is often the only tool left to maintain personal financial freedom.

So, in the long run, I believe crypto will be just fine. The trend isn't likely to reverse anytime soon.
My bet is that within the next year, people will coalesce around uv.
Maybe we should think of these things as employment flags?

There's no right-to-disconnect in my country, but sometime this year my boss started putting "I don’t expect a response to this email outside of your normal working hours." on the end of his email signature.

I might not be earning FAANG money, but it's just another sign I'm working for a 'good' company.
Bullshitters making it into the higher ranks is another thing altogether. That's an unfortunate side effect of 'promotion of the uninvolved'. Look at google now. Their project management is based on this system: https://en.wikimannia.org/Six_phases_of_a_big_project
They absolutely should and it's a real failure when criminals anywhere aren't head to account.
You can now have trustworthy Rust compiler binaries, through the work of the Bootstrappable Builds community, which found a way to build a C compiler without having C compiler binaries yet.

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/
That's mostly because submarines operate in water that is on average 4℃
> - Partner countries like Israel (however you feel about that) will eventually use whatever we make. America will not be sole user.

Regarding second-order effects, I take great comfort in that. Once upon a time people were able to discriminate between a country which uses violence to achieve goals (say kidnapping, murdering, and raping 1500 youth attending a concert) and national defense.

The US funded internet research and promoted its deregulation internally in belief that promotion of American values was something worthwhile. Post-Soviet era US tech was not conflicted in promoting a set of values in line with both its cultural and economic interests.

I see this as a small step in that direction, however tepid it may be.
> "the crud app you support fell over" is not an emergency.

I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed to learn that situations impacting business-critical operations would be considered emergencies.

The assumption that Australia just outlawed the concept of having an on-call rotation is not supported by the article.

The article says requiring an employee to be on-call 24/7 for general purposes would indeed be illegal.

There was another example that someone could not be required to come in for a surprise shift with only a few hours of notice overnight.

But completely eliminating planned on-call rotations is not part of the goal.
This is accurate. I'm an OS/kernel developer and a colleague was given the task of porting rust to our OS. If I remember correctly, it did indeed take months. I don't think mrustc was an option at the time for reasons I don't recall, so he did indeed have to go all the way back to the very early versions and work his way through nearly all the intermediate versions. I had to do a similar thing porting java, although that wasn't quite as annoying as porting rust. I really do wish more language developers would provide a more practical way of bootstrapping their compilers like the article is describing/attempting. I've seen some that do a really good job. Others seem to assume only *nix and Windows exist, which has been pretty frustrating.
They have a right to not be hired/remain employed if they're not going to comply with workplace rules and regulations.
I have to agree here. Feels like pure marketing/selling blogpost. I was not convinced.
You can’t have secret chats for groups.

For desktop secret chats you may use Unigram client (although it’s hard for me to justify a potentially non-mobile secret chat).

The rest is trivial and isn’t that hard unless you contact hundreds of new people a day. In that case, I’d already thought of using ahk automation or a full-blown telethon bot.
I don't want to be that guy, but... Is someone who lives on the street really the best person to ask about who should be running the country? Where exactly do you consider a person like that to be a resident, given that they don't have a residence? With no ID, can't they vote in many different areas, or are you going to fingerprint them to ensure that they don't vote again and again?

Given that an ID has no monetary value, I think it would be relatively easy for a homeless person to hang on to it. They ought to carry it at all times separate from the rest of their stuff, because it's so essential. Then once they get fingerprinted and register in a central database, they can pick a location to reside and vote there in person.

I'm not trying to say that the problems you've mentioned are completely insignificant, but they are relatively rare problems that affect a tiny percentage of the population. Those problems also affect people who live out of vans and travel all around the country. We have much bigger issues than these to worry about.